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    Seen somewhere else: it’s really impressive that Tesla designed a “truck” so bad that when one explodes you can’t be sure whether it was a car bomb or just yet another design flaw.

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    Were this a painting, I’d accuse the artist of being lazy and not knowing how to paint a car.

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    My first thought was “this is the timeline where biff got the almanac” Doesn’t even look that similar to the movie(yet?), must be a similar feeling i suppose

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      Could be worse, it could be the future where President Lisa Simpson appoints her brother Bart as the minister of “keeping it real”. I heard they inherited quite the financial blackhole from President Tr- oh.

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      Doesn’t even look that similar to the movie(yet?),

      Isn’t this kind of what it looked like outside of Biff’s building? I’d say it looks pretty similar.

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    2020: The longest Decade.

    2021: 2020 Part II

    2022: Several Steps Backward

    2023: Return of the Financial Crisis

    2024: Fuck Around and Find Out

    2025: Just how bad can it get?

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      2023: Return of the Financial Crisis

      Did it ever really leave? as far as I can tell the funny numbers went back up but for most real people things have been pretty consistently downhill since 2008.

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        If you really want to have a migraine, read Hunter Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels.”

        There’s a passage where he talks about the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970.

        An Angel could work six months as a Union stevedore and earn enough to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could make enough to support herself and her musician boy freind.

        Then a guy named Nixon got to work…

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          Same with Thatcher in the UK.

          Post war recovery worked to a degree and had made life better but people screamed about it being a nanny state because people had the ability to explore the meaning of their own life without fear of imminent death and think of all the profit that was being missed out on because we were busy helping people.

          And here we are doubling down again.

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            Reaganomics failed during his administration.

            They’ve been running on its incredible success for decades.

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      It’s so weird that they’re unsure whether to call it a terrorist attack:

      • Luigi shot one guy = 100% terrorist.
      • Someone commits a car bombing outside of a presidential elects business = better find out what color his skin was before making snap judgments.
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        It’s a bit of a weird terrorist attack though. The whole thing about car bombs is that It’s supposed to be a portable bomb. The idea is you get out before setting it off.

        Also what’s the point of blowing up the outside of one of his businesses, it wasn’t like he was in there.

        So it doesn’t immediately feel like a terrorist attack.

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          Could be a form of self-immolation. If so, gotta give points for creativity.

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      The person who died was inside the vehicle, not that this makes it any better if it was an accident.

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          Dude was transporting fireworks in the car. They caught on fire. For whatever reason. Doors locked automatically. As designed. The guy couldn’t find the hidden release lever. And so he burned to death.

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            He was also transporting cans of natural gas and other fuels. Who loads their truck to the brim with fireworks and anything that is highly explosive and then “accidentally” detonates it at the entrance of a hotel?

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    Nov. 5, 2024 has been officially identified as the cause of the fire.

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      Or was killed by the awful design decision of AUTOMATICALLY LOCKING THE DOORS in the case of an accident. WITHOUT AN EASY TO REACH RELEASE MECHANISM INSIDE.

      This type of design should be illegal. Several people have already died because of this idiocy.

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      Was the person who died a bystander or a Musk fanboy? That’ll affect my level of sympathy for them

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    This Cybertruck and the F150 from the attack in New Orleans were both rented from Turo. Also the explosion was insanely large. I’m thinking this is likely not a coincidence and the two may even be related.