• SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Sure, but Hyperloop could have carried 10x more people at 1/10th the price and for less energy than it takes to flip a quarter. And we can do it today.

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              11 months ago

              Have you met a tesla bro? I know one guy who insists Tesla’s are the best cars ever made. You can hear him driving in a mile down the road from the body work whistling like a stuka siren.

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                11 months ago

                I have bought drinks for Tesla engineers and have known that they were a terrible company with spit and chewing gum holding them together for years now. I think the point that broke Elon’s brain was the Model 3 shitstorm that could have cost him almost everything. I believe he admitted to Kara Swisher that he was sleeping at his desk for half an hour per night for weeks on end because of the amount of speed he was doing. He was always an asshole, but it was after that incident that he just went completely unhinged.

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                  11 months ago

                  he was always uhinged, though. what changed was the PR filter that kept him looking like a genius.

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              11 months ago

              It really should be taken as way over the top, but with shit like this said all the time without an ounce of irony… It was impossible to tell

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          11 months ago

          Given that things like tone that are normally used to show sarcasm dont show through text, the only way if one doesnt explicitly state something to be sarcasm to tell if something written is sarcastic is if the statement seems so absurd or obviously wrong that nobody could seriously believe it. However, people have a seemingly limitless capacity to believe things that are factually untrue, and what is and is not absurd is to some extent in the eye of the beholder, so ultimately, one should not be surprised if one’s written sarcasm is taken seriously, if you dont include some kind of signifier to replace the cues normally given in speech.

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            11 months ago

            Are…are we not eating children? Hold on, I need to make a few phone calls…

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          11 months ago

          The passenger volume, cost, and build-it-today claims are I think in line with theirs. The only outlier is the energy claim, which is so absurdly false that it falls into puffery (think ‘red bull gives you wings’) and is again believable.

          It’s clear HSR costs, and infrastructure in general, are getting out of control in the English-speaking world. It’s not clear how to fix this, but moving from proven and understood technology to Muppet technology doesn’t seem to be a good option.

          :(

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      11 months ago

      That’s bullshit and you shouldn’t be this ignorant this late into 2023.

      Edit: this was supposed to go under that guy pretending to be the tesla bro. I totally missed the sarcasm as I know IRL people who still worship Musk.