Tesla erases history, silently removes key climate manifesto written by Elon Musk
Tesla erases history, silently removes key climate manifesto written by Elon Musk
He only wrote that to improve image and sales. He still knows it's the right thing, but he never cared about that.
Remember when Elon started leaning into being an internet sensation and memelord? I think that's when his campaign for more power started. Economic power is no longer enough.
His interview with Trump shows nothing less than Elon trying to get himself in good standing with the MAGA crowd. I guess he decided that conservative and reactionary politics are best for amassing power.
Wouldn't surprise me if Elon runs for president or some other influential position once Trump is gone. He clearly wants to be perceived as a younger, smarter, more moderate Trump.
Thankfully, he can't run for president. And he's doing the exact same thing as Trump who even said publicly that he would become a Republican because they are easier to grift.
The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen" and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning.
Don't be too sure. This particular SC might allow Elon to run because...reasons. And by reasons, I mean free chartered flights anywhere in the world, brand new RVs, and paying rent for justices' mamas.
Thankfully, he can't run for president
Oh my God, thank Christ.
Doesn't have to, he can buy trump.
Almost all "altruism" and "philanthropy" is just whitewashing/ego stroking some Capitalist's ill-begotten gains.
Yep. He has an interview in a movie called Racing Extinction, and it was watching that that made me realise he only cares about money, he didn't do it to improve anything.
He only wrote that to improve image and sales.
Along this line of thought, what are the chances he’s being (more of) a right-wing chud in order to sell more of his stupid pickup truck?
Low. He's a right wing chicken because of the tax cuts and all the other benefits the rich get from that party
I hope I live long enough to see Musk bankrupt
I'd love that, but the way our stupid society works I think it's literally impossible to lose that much wealth
He'll become the Edison from our era, and I'm just want to stop hearing his name.
It's probably too "woke" for Musk's new fanbase and he doesn't wanna look like he got hit by the "Woke Mind Virus".
Btw, I love the guys over at Edison Motors, who got fed up waiting for an all electric hauling truck, so they're retrofitting their own, under the slogan "Stealing Tesla's Ideas".
Here's a fun fact
Thomas Edison was one of the first people to speak out against putting radium in fucking everything. When everyone was going absolutely nuts for radiation, Edison refused to join the craze and wouldn't work with radium or polonium after watching an assistant develop a skin condition after working with X-rays.
I think it's funny and pretty clever that they're sort of turning the Edison name on its head
So long as we're talking about Tesla knockoffs, gotta love Nikola's attempt to fake it til they made it with absolutely no tech, rolling the prototype down a hill n hoping no one noticed.
I noticed something stupid while on the interstate yesterday and passing or passed by multiple Teslas: they don't tell you which model they are on the back. If you see a Tesla you like and want to know which Tesla it is, I guess you'll have to figure that out for yourself.
They only have 4 models (not counting the cyber dump truck) that are pretty easy to tell apart. Small sedan or big sedan, small SUV or big SUV. Then basically do they have a dual motor badge and is that badge underlined (or does it have a plaid logo on the back). There you go. Almost literally all the permutations of Teslas.
My car doesn't have the model or engine size written on the back either, this is not exclusive to Tesla (although, depending on the make it might be an option to remove it when buying a car).
The manufacturer badge is usually enough, in my opinion. If you can't identify the model on the spot, as long as you can identify the brand and want to learn about the specific model you saw, you'll hit their website or dealership and identify it there. And with a brand like Tesla, that only has 5 fairly distinct models, it should be fairly easy to retroactively point out the model you saw - compared to a brand like BMW for example.
Occasionally they will have the model on a license plate frame.
I don't think I've had any cars tell you which model they are on the back. It's usually opt-out for most brands and for every car I've owned, the first owner has opted out. Maybe my first car, an Audi 80, had a model designation. If not, it had an engine designation at least. But the rest haven't had either.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Other than Teslas, I almost never see a model of car that doesn't tell me its model:
This is a BMW i8. I can tell, because it says BMW and i8 on the back:
This is a Honda Accord. I can tell, because it says Honda and Accord on the back:
This is a Tesla. I can tell because it says Tesla on the back.
What model Tesla? Well, guess I'll have to go look that up when I'm not driving.
Have you never seen any cars before. 99% of them have the car company and the model on them.
I struggle with my own mortality, but reminded by this asshat why life limits are a good thing.
Climate traitor
Tesla is going to release an ICE car, i guarantee it
But the only thing they have going for them is the electric side of things. If you put a combustion engine in a cybertruck it has nothing left.
Yeah... I doubt that.
There's just no reason to.
Why move backwards? Why give up the area where you have first mover advantage, making cars of the future, to instead try to compete with auto manufacturers who have been making that kind of car for the last eighty years. It's a losing proposition. It's not economical, it's not smart.
Well, for one thing, they've lost first mover advantage by squandering their lead. Every other company that makes an EV now makes one that works better, lasts longer and looks better than Tesla does. Besides which he's pandering to crowd that largely believes that their cock and balls will shrivel up and fall off if they purchase an electric vehicle.
Why move backwards? Why give up [...]
Why would you rebrand Twitter? You've got the largest and most recognizable website and logo on the internet, why would you want to scrap all that and start almost from scratch with a new name and nondescript logo that no one recognizes? First year marketing 101 tells you this is nearly the worst possible thing you can do with a recognized brand name.
Musk is most well known for bad business decisions. More than anything else he's done, he's famous for his ability to rampage through a previously functional company and burn it completely to the ground. Pivoting Tesla into creating an ICE vehicle is completely on brand for him.
Newest tesla will be run by using EXPLOSIONS!
Ooh, like a rotating determination engine, NASA has had some recent success with that.
Why would anybody buy a Tesla ICE?
My wife has a Model 3. The fact that it is electric is amazing and of course the performance is excellent. Other than that, it is a terrible car.
An ICE Model 3 would be an expensive, poorly built, uncomfortable, hunk of garbage.
Not happening.
Why would anybody buy a Tesla ICE?
Pro elon, Anti EV, chuds
Why does the whole world think Flanderization is a guide to be followed?
I've never heard that word before so I had to look it up. Because obviously my first thought was Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.
For anyone like me here you go...
Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain, over the course of a serial work.
Well, not only those cars suck but also he starts to ignore the ecology part 🤷♂️
Do they suck? Tesla is king when it comes to efficiency. I hate it, I'm in the market for EV and while I'm buying a car on paper of the same spec and at half price.... It is a worse car and I wish someone else did model 3 but not tesla.
Hopefully Lucid or Xiaomi (yes I'd sooner give money to them than Musk) come soon enough.
Well yes, especially when talking about reliability, they do not have very good scores.
They are just over complicated
The truck is shit, but I’m with ya on the Model 3. I have a friend with one and it feels nice to ride in. I like the air in front, you can have the air streams come out however you want. Whatever the “go from being stopped to INSANELY FAST SUDDENLY AAAAAAAA” mode is, blew me away. Both my partner and I shrieked—we had never felt that kind of acceleration before.
Dude still thinks the truck-o-sexuals are going to buy his car if he panders to the MAGAt crowd.
Manifesto LMAO, yeah he's exactly the type of toxic dude who thinks in Manifestos, like all the shooters and amok guys.
Tesla used git push --force?
-f is way more economical. So yes.
I hate Tesla as much as the next guy, but this article lacks any context and makes some assumptions about malicious intent. Are these the only articles removed, or did they purge a bunch of articles from two decades ago? Maybe these articles were stored in a legacy database and someone finally decided to clean it up, then the media is twisting it into "they're changing history!"
(Disclaimer: I'm speculating heavily here given my lack of context, so these may very well have been removed on purpose due to their content)
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Thankfully nothing is ever really removed from the internet.
Such as this picture
Lmaoo this is the picture ElMo doesn't want us to see