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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • My FIL’s Corvette has the exact same style of latching. It has a manual override, but I’d challenge someone to find it without googling it, especially if it’s dark. But that cars made by Chevrolet, so we don’t do them dirty, now do we!?

    Also they hit a cement barrier after bouncing off a guard rail at over 200km/hr. So I mean yeah, don’t think those doors were opening even if the latches were made of Oreo cookies. Not to make light of what’s obviously a horrible event that resulted from some shitty choices made, but there’s also pictures being used in all the press articles that show a side view of the car that’s pretty clearly being used to add to this all. It’s pretty clever framing, until you look at this car from the front and realize more than half of it is squished/missing.

    It wasn’t until after I owned a Tesla that I realized just how bad this shit is when it comes to the press articles about them (ignoring the fact that gigachad Elon is currently acting like a skid). Let’s also just completely gloss over the fact that someone survived this accident (with relatively light injuries), which is sort of a miracle considering this vehicle was estimated to be travelling in excess of 200km/hr at accident beginning. Wonder what the results of a fossil fuel burning domestic car in the same situation. I mean let’s not actually find out, but just food for thought.

    Just for the record, my model Y had fully functioning manual overrides on all doors, frunks, trunks and even the charging port. The back ones are actually a pretty stupid design, no denying that, but they are there.



  • This was Elon’s one big opportunity to square things up, and it was a flop. He’s a terrible speaker. Clearly riffing (no wonder he’s hanging up his hat with Trump these days). Vague details. I mean the market has spoken today, what did the stock fall like 10%? I’m clearly not the only one that feels this way.

    It’s time for a rethink at Tesla. The company is stuck in day-to-day delusion, and has no clear focus. Instead of the robots and the taxis and all of that, they should be fully focused on getting FSD figured out. THEN do the taxis and the Robovan and the robots. After all no FSD, no cybertaxi. This year for sure, nine years in a row. Meanwhile the product is clearly light-years away from any sort of autonony. All talk, no substance, and the market will show you that. Tesla just reached its peak this week, and my prediction is a slow decline until Tesla sorts it’s shit out, and clears house of people that clearly lack focus.


  • We can fight them, but ultimately these companies have the control. They can enrich and empower, and there’s probably not a lot we can ultimately do about it. When the chips fall, I’d rather they just stay on a sub and endlessly echo chamber themselves into oblivion. Some will come here, but it seems like most will stay there until something ultra stupid forces them here. And I mean at this point, even ultra stupid hasn’t, so yeah. If they have to collect somewhere, I’d personally rather it be there than here. I think that’s the main point I’m making.