• riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    tesla is not elon

    But they pay him tens on millions as a bonus for being an idiot

    Edit: yeah it’s billions. The amount of money they waste on this cocksucker is incomprehensible.

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      Calling him a “cocksucker” is frankly insulting to people who perform the act of sucking cock. Musk is way too selfish to perform the generous and loving act that is fellatio.

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      after paying him tens of millions, they did it again a thousand more times because thousands of tens of millions is billions. tens of thousands of millions of dollars. It’s an insane amount of money.

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    They missed a trick by using paint, when a spray of salt water would have done the job at one more subtly and more permanently

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      while at the same time by-design cloaking it as pure bad quality could actually cause way more longterm damage than a little bit of paint.

      on the other hand the paint could also be just a marketing strategy depending on what they smoked to get new ideas

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    Without justifying this really dumb act, because there’s no justifying it, […]
    How about we just don’t vandalize private property. That’s a good standpoint to build on.

    Wow, how unbased can an article get?

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    Good. Fuck that fascist and his companies. The only sad part of this story is that they used paint and not something that would etch or scratch the stainless.

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    @return2ozma Older Tesla’s one can give the owner the benefit of the doubt that they purchased it before Elon showed his true colours. No Cybertruck owner has that defence.

    They are lucky it’s just paint.

    I’m sure paint comes off ‘stainless’ steel real easy…

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    “It makes no sense to vandalize Tesla’s property because you dislike Elon”

    Bahhahaahha. Bet.

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    “Yes Mr. Crowler we hear what you’re saying, but unfortunately spray paint voids your warranty.”

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    This is why the planet is fucked, you all whine that climate change is scary but then you cheer on people attacking electric cars just because Twitter man bad. You’re all desperate for tesla to fail because Elon upset you, someone doing something petty that’ll have zero effect on Elon but will negatively affect a regular person fills you with joy because it’s a way of hitting back at the bad man. Totally childish and pathetic.

    Spend that energy learning about and praising positive things, don’t win by tearing your opponent down win by building yourself up.

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      All of the vehicles in the article were pre-delivery. As they were still owned by Tesla, it falls on the company to repair them.

      I’m not justifying vandalism, but the impact to the buyer is a delayed delivery vs a monetary and PR impact to Tesla.

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      Ok… I’ll take the bait, can you please share links that show how the Cybertruck is actually good the planet? I didn’t actually read technical review about it. I mostly see silly (and sometimes fun) memes. I also recently read that EV in generals don’t have the same impact as electrical bikes, e.g https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions , but maybe I’m misinformed and this vehicle by Tesla, despite its size, it’s actually helping. Can you please share a link to such review and/or studies with e.g Life cycle assessment (LCA) / ISO 14040?

      PS: to clarify I don’t mean articles about how it’s “changing mind”, I mean numerical estimations then comparison between one mean of transport, e.g non EV vs EV, or this EV vs other or this EV vs random electric bike.

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      Its paint. They can still drive them. Stop being a little baby.

      Also, i don’t know about a single nice person that bought this low poly piece of shit.

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      Tesla is synonymous with climate destruction and if you believe otherwise demonstrates that you have grossly bought into their propaganda.

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        Their work sharing battery tech was monumental in starting the market and they’ve continued to really push things forward.

        I understand you have an emotional response to a distasteful man but ignoring reality makes you seem totally unserious and frankly absurd.

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          Right, I’m the one seeing things through a funnel of “emotional response” and ignoring the rest of the EV market because of nostalgia and a sense of devotion …

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      No matter what cars will be shit for the environment in some way, things like pubic transport, bike infrastructure and more walkable cities are things that actually help

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    I forgot how cancerous this site was. This place is such an echo chamber that the users are actually defending crimes

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            Protesting what exactly? Protesting for the sake of protesting is just meaningless. I still fail to see the morality here. What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?

            Also this notion that protests are only effective if they’re disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would’ve led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would’ve led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would’ve led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would’ve led somewhere… but they haven’t. All they’ve done is lead people to resent them.

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              Protesting what exactly?

              Protesting monster trucks becoming the default go-to vehicle to go run an errand or drive to work. You don’t need a “child-destroyer-3000: now Electric!” taking 3 lanes of width, weighing 20 tonnes, and occupying 4 parking spots, to go to your bakery or pick up the kids from school.

              What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?

              If certain vehicles end up costing more to manufacture/protect/repaint than the revenue upon sale, the company will stop manufacturing them. Same idea as deflating SUV wheels which are parked on the street: make lives for SUV drivers inconvenient so people won’t want an SUV.

              Also this notion that protests are only effective if they’re disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would’ve led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would’ve led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would’ve led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would’ve led somewhere… but they haven’t. All they’ve done is lead people to resent them.

              “What did the resistance to Nazi occupation by the Polish people lead to? It didn’t work, genocide happened anyway, and all they did is making Nazis resent them”.

              I’m sure you’re aware that people engage in challenges they don’t know for certain they can achieve, right?

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      the real crime here is this death trap being allowed on the road in the first place.

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    They should have aimed at the non-stainless steel portion. Pretty sure you could wipe this up easy with some acetone or gasoline as a solvent.