Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[teuchter]

I’m fairly sure that the Airstream caravan is covered in treated aluminium not stainless

Ah yes, it looks like you're right.

Here's a stainless steel caravan:

 

[two sheds]

Did that not have a protective coating of any kind?

 

[Monte]

There's quite a long history of stainless steel bodied vehicles ... what's different about the Tesla one, or is it just that the owners are too fussy?

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Airstreams are aluminium.
Why not just paint your Cybertruck?

 

[PR1Berske]

X/itter is beyond broken

 

[Yossarian]

Matt fucking Taibbi? Fucking grifter who’d be lucky to get a column on Spiked over here.

The Taibbi-Musk bromance didn't work out so well

Taibbi questioned, “Elon, I’ve repeatedly declined to criticize you and have nothing to do with your beef with Substack. Is there a reason why I’m being put in the middle of things? This really seems crazy.”

“You are dead to me,” replied Musk. “Please get off Twitter and just stay on Substack.

.....

Taibbi criticized Musk in several other Twitter posts on Thursday, calling the social network “worse than ever.”

“Supposed free speech champion @ElonMusk has decided to suppress this account forever, instead of just talking to me,” protested Taibbi. “@ElonMusk is uncomfortable around people who aren’t afraid of him, and wants to prove he can hurt my business instead of just talking to me, even if it means suppressing access to news he thinks is important.”

‘You Are Dead To Me’: Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi Posts Unhinged Messages from Elon Musk

Journalist Matt Taibbi posted screenshots of unhinged messages he received from billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk.

www.mediaite.com

 

[NoXion]

"I've repeatedly declined to criticize you"

This man thinks of himself as a journalist.

 

[two sheds]

He's gone woke now



he'll be giving it pronouns next

 

[two sheds]

aaaaaaaaaaaaand ... said trolling

 

[BigMoaner]

Speaking of tech

 

[Artaxerxes]

He's gone woke now

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he'll be giving it pronouns next

This him?

 

[two sheds]

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests

These numbers are legitimately shocking.

mashable.com

According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake.

SEE ALSO:Elon Musk’s X comes out in favor of pro-censorship law

"I've never seen anything even remotely close to 50 percent, not to mention 76 percent," CHEQ founder and CEO Guy Tytunovich told Mashable regarding X's fake traffic data. "I'm amazed…I've never, ever, ever, ever seen anything even remotely close."

CHEQ's data for this report is based on 144,000 visits to its clients' sites that came from X during Super Bowl weekend, from Friday, Feb. 9 up until the end of Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 11. The data was collected from across CHEQ's 15,000 total clients. It's a small portion of the relevant data, and it's not scientifically sampled, but it nonetheless suggests a dramatic trend.

CHEQ monitors bots and fake users across the internet in order to minimize online ad fraud for its clients. Tytunovich's company accomplishes this by tracking how visitors from different sources, such as X, interact with a client's page after they click one of their links. The company can also tell when a bot is passing itself off as a real user, such as when a fraudulent user is faking what type of operating system they are using to view a website.

In our conversation with Tytunovich, he referenced an often cited stat that roughly half of all internet traffic is made up of bots,

<looks round at urban posters suspiciously>

although

and how he's long been skeptical of that data based on what CHEQ itself sees.

 

[two sheds]

This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

Who knew stainless steel might not be such a good idea for the exterior of an electric SUV? The entire automotive industry, that’s who.

www.wired.com

Posting on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, a user named Raxar risked the wrath of the Tesla faithful—already exercised by the Cybertruck's numerous alleged design flaws—by stating that when they collected the $61,000 truck, "the advisor specifically mentioned the Cybertrucks develop orange rust marks in the rain."

In a separate thread, the user vertigo3pc reported that "corrosion was forming on the metal" of his Cybertruck after it spent 11 days in the rain in Los Angeles.


Raxar, who also lives in California, posted what appeared to be close-up, rust-flecked images of his truck after driving it for two days in rain.

The Cybertruck does not ship with clear coat, that outermost layer of transparent paint that comes as standard on almost every new motor vehicle on the planet. Instead, each Cybertruck owner has the option to purchase a $5,000 urethane-based film to "wrap your Cybertruck in our premium satin clear paint films. Only available through Tesla."

Who knew untreated stainless steel might not be such a good idea for the exterior of a motor vehicle, especially considering that cars typically get left sitting outside in all weather for 95 percent of their lives? The whole automotive industry, that's who.

 

[SpineyNorman]

You have to be a special kind of fuckwit to make a stainless steel vehicle with a rust problem

 

[two sheds]

Was wondering about the problem with rainwater - I assume quite a few places in the US will suffer from acid rain so not really surprising. Let alone pigeons

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

They do exist.

 

[gosub]

| ⚡️TESLA MAFIA🦈 | teslamafiaclub · Original audio

. teslamafiaclub · Original audio

www.facebook.com

 

[bcuster]

Tesla placed a $16K bakery order for Black History Month — then suddenly canceled it, the bakers say, costing them thousands

A Black-owned bakery says Tesla placed a massive Black History Month pie order, causing a scramble — only to cancel after it had spent a lot of money.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Yossarian]

Elon Musk: I am the technological genius who will take humanity to Mars

Also Elon Musk: I can't figure out how to set up this dang new PC, are you listening boss of Microsoft? HELP!

 

[Kaka Tim]

 

[gosub]

Alleged arson attack knocks out power at Berlin Tesla plant

Left-wing extremist group claims responsibility, says goal is to 'bring Tesla to its knees'

www.theregister.com

 

[Orang Utan]

I foresee a bad ending for Musk, perhaps similar to the one meted out to Upson Pratt in Creepshow

Spoiler: Ugh

 

[Rob Ray]

Twitter being sued for letting "verfied" users break copyright.

New video call feature comes with free giveaway of your IP address

Laid-off Twitter execs sue for $128m

Judge Approves Racism Class Action Lawsuit For 6,000 Black Tesla Workers

Tesla Inc. is currently involved in a significant lawsuit involving nearly 6,000 Black employees from its California factory.

peopleofcolorintech.com

Busy week.

 

[Artaxerxes]

He’s fucking lost it

 

[hitmouse]

I dunno, he seems to be doing pretty well, seems like a very healthy man as far as I can tell:

 

[Orang Utan]

I dunno, he seems to be doing pretty well, seems like a very healthy man as far as I can tell:
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This is why embedded tweets > screenshots cos that’s not him

 

[NoXion]

This is why embedded tweets > screenshots cos that’s not him

Oh it was a real Xhit that Musk took, he just deleted it (archive link) like the cowardly piece of dog-molesting shit that he is.

 

[NoXion]

He just keeps fucking lying about hateful shit:

Did Biden commit treason? Dissecting Elon Musk's public meltdown

On Tuesday, billionaire Elon Musk told his 175 million followers on X that President Biden had committed "treason" by "secretly" flying "320,000 illegal immigrants" from Latin America to US airports. It is quite a dramatic claim. The only problem is that nearly everything Musk said is a lie.

popular.info

If you haven't deleted the Xhitter app and stopped using your account yet, now is always better than never.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Buyer beware...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Lawsuit to keep an eye on.

https://archive.is/x0lvr

Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast. Could they help her?

Over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his wife, and then paramedics, and firefighters and sheriff’s deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows, find an escape hatch or any way to get Chao out of the car. Somehow an executive who made her living on the sea was drowning in a stock pond within sight of her home.

 

[teqniq]

Oops.

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