mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
It makes me feel sad when I see embedded tweets or anything else that boosts his platform here.
Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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It makes me feel sad when I see embedded tweets or anything else that boosts his platform here.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Yes, anyone who uses X is boosting a platform that spreads racist propaganda.
skyscraper101
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
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andysays
Love and solidarity
You probably could but, as someone who has never been a participant on any social media platform, I get the impression from what I read on Urban that Musk-owned Xitter is now qualitatively worse than social media platforms of, say, a decade ago.
It does seem slightly odd and more than slightly disappointing that so many Urban posters still regularly post links, and (without understanding what the technical limits might be) that Urban is still set up to allow Twitter links.
You've rightly decided not to allow any sort of advertising here editor, and I'm sure most of us are hugely grateful for that. Maybe it's time to seriously consider making Urban Twitter-free as well as ad-free.
PTK
Paul Kegan
The owner of X/Twitter incited racist riots in this country. He made comments that were incitement, and he re-posted the most vile racist posts. By having an account with Twitter, people are actually enabling this racist. His income stream depends on people engaging. The advertisers would not advertise on X is there were no posts and no-one had an account.
Being on Twitter is like funding a fascist magazine. Would an opponent of racism and fascism subscribe to a fascist magazine on the grounds that it occasionally published their letters?
JimW
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Plus c&p the text for people who use screen readers.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Following that logic to its conclusion is an argument for paralysis at best and collusion at worst. A line should be drawn somewhere, and I think X would be a good place to start.
Personally I would get rid of Facebook shite too. But it's editor's call with regards to this site.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
In support of BigMoaner ’s ongoing documenting of Musk’s terminally online subjectivity.
www.theguardian.com
145 tweets in the day the journalist happened to document, mostly during about 4pm to 2am and 8am to noon. Just a basement dweller constantly hitting the dopamine button.
A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis
A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is
145 tweets in the day the journalist happened to document, mostly during about 4pm to 2am and 8am to noon. Just a basement dweller constantly hitting the dopamine button.
BigMoaner
We will all go together
I get the sense that it's more important to him that almost everything. To be seen as the edgy man of the (right wing) people.In support of BigMoaner ’s ongoing documenting of Musk’s terminally online subjectivity.
A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis
A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is
145 tweets in the day the journalist happened to document, mostly during about 4pm to 2am and 8am to noon. Just a basement dweller constantly hitting the dopamine button.
so much is lost, really. you can go very deep wtih this, with musk, especially co-opting someone like Heidegger, or the contemplative traditions, all sorts. And what is equally as fascinting is that he has the means to actually live pretty much any existance he wants. When you break it down it's super weird to be drawn back to a machine over and over and over, day after day. When you think of all the other things onecould be doing (and thinking). Just to return over and over, day after day, year after year. It is teh exact opposite of idle, wondering, aimless, purposeless thought.
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
$7000 electric car Tesla Model C
It's got a decent amount of tech. Uses lithium phosphate batteries which are allegesly longer life and more stable. Tesla is Committed to battery life of 1 million miles.
The video shows one of Teslas Giga Factories powered by renewable energy....solar and wind... They make everything onsite for these cars. Which keeps costs down.
Have to say..I am impressed... much as I dislike Musk...I am impressed at what he is trying to do with cars.
You can subscribe monthly for the car and either buy outright after a few years or trade back. He wants people to also rent out their cars when not in use.
Pretty good safety features.
Steel frame though...so...hmm.. rust?
Will it change the world?
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
$7,000 would be an insanely low price, so I looked it up, and the proposed price - it's not due out till next year - is $20-25,000 for "basic trim." That sounds pretty good if basic trim does mean usable rather than it being Ryanair-style pricing or having a subscription on top. We'll have to wait and see. Not that I'm going to be biting a car anyway, but subscriptions would definitely put me off if I were.
The article I looked up though had this line, which confused me:
"According to a Tesla Engineering HQ video, teams of people and robots will work on fully assembling separate parts of the car and marrying them all together at the end in one go, meaning the whole car is only fully built once."
Er, is the implication that cars are often built more than once??
The article I looked up though had this line, which confused me:
"According to a Tesla Engineering HQ video, teams of people and robots will work on fully assembling separate parts of the car and marrying them all together at the end in one go, meaning the whole car is only fully built once."
Er, is the implication that cars are often built more than once??
editor
hiraethified
Interesting piece here. All those billions and he chooses to spend most of his time tweeting right wing shit and loon conspiracies.
www.theguardian.com
A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis
A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
It would be really cheap. I could not believe it but after another look online here are a few more tiny electric cars (not tesla) that start in the range of $7000 up.
Never thought there could be such a price for a new car..
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
The first two "cars" (quadricycles, legally) aren't a good solution. For 90% of people, it would be impossible for them to be a primary car. They make great second cars, but I don't think encouraging multiple vehicle ownership is a good thing.
The Fiat 500e is great, but it's a fuckload more than $7k usd.
The Fiat 500e is great, but it's a fuckload more than $7k usd.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I imagine they will in due course, because they find his posts interesting, and will want to just ask questions
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
word!
teuchter
je suis teuchter
What exactly is it that he is trying to do with cars that you are impressed with?
BigMoaner
We will all go together
That c bomb is one of the best I’ve ever seen. The comma beautifully placed before it.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
For comparison, BYD are offering their Dolphin electric family hatchback for £26 grand. If you really want a small, cheap electric vehicle, then Micro offer their Microlino which is so small that the Lite version is not even legally classified as a car, and can be driven on an AM licence. That costs £17-18 grand depending on version.
I believe that small, cheap electric vehicles are a significant way forward for the future of personal transport. But Musk is full of shit when he says that Teslas will be sold for 7 grand. The only way that could ever happen is if Tesla are going totally bankrupt and having a fire sale, and given how network-dependent Tesla vehicles are, one would have to be a complete idiot even to accept such a vehicle for free.
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krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
He was just "joking", apparently
“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he later wrote. “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
White House blasts Elon Musk for X post about Biden and Harris assassination
‘No one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,’ X owner tweeted after apparent Trump assassination attempt
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
But really, yes, yes he should build one for Trump, using Tesla Armour Glass:
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