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#30701
12 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

... my kids and their friends think the parents having a Cybertruck is a flex and is cool and rich.

The people who buy them suffer from the same misguided thinking. 

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#30702
2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Now I know what happened to this guy when he "grew up"

 

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Reminds me of the idiot kids racing up and down Lime Creek Road in their daddy-purchased sports cars.   

#30703
14 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

You live in Anna?

Haha, don't put that evil on me ricky bobby. But might as well be.

I imagine the whole state of Oklahoma thinks cybertrucks are the highest form of wealth and status symbol flexing too.

#30704
12 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Haha, don't put that evil on me ricky bobby. But might as well be.

I imagine the whole state of Oklahoma thinks cybertrucks are the highest form of wealth and status symbol flexing too.

Dude.  They feel that way about ANYTHING with wheels.  Including houses.

#30705
19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Want to send that to some of my “we are a Christian nation” relatives and talk about how great it was that Elon cut those kids off with Trump’s authority and that maybe said relatives would stop calling us a Christian nation.

You’re funny 

#30706

the 3rd party thing is working out as well as the cybertruck did, except this time he's pulling the plug early

 

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The billionaire Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a political party, according to people with knowledge of his plans.

Musk has told allies that he wants to focus his attention on his companies and is reluctant to alienate powerful Republicans by starting a third party that could siphon off GOP voters.

Musk’s posture marks a shift from early last month, when he said he would form what he called the America Party to represent U.S. voters who are unhappy with the two major political parties.

As he has considered launching a party, the Tesla chief executive officer has been focused in part on maintaining ties with Vice President JD Vance, who is widely seen as a potential heir to the MAGA political movement. Musk has stayed in touch with Vance in recent weeks, and he has acknowledged to associates that if he goes ahead with forming a political party, he would damage his relationship with the vice president, the people said.

Musk and his associates have told people close to him that he is considering using some of his vast financial resources to back Vance if he decides to run for president in 2028, some of the people said. Musk spent close to $300 million to support Trump and other Republicans in the 2024 election. 

 

 

 

#30707
1 hour ago, Chopper said:

the 3rd party thing is working out as well as the cybertruck did, except this time he's pulling the plug early

 

The hilarious thing is that the Republicans are going to fuck Tesla over pretty damned hard, both in the rebate stuff, but also working against Tesla's large-scale storage batteries.

And the world's richest man is afraid of them.

#30708
6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The hilarious thing is that the Republicans are going to fuck Tesla over pretty damned hard, both in the rebate stuff, but also working against Tesla's large-scale storage batteries.

And the world's richest man is afraid of them.

Going to? Those dudes are fucking toast.

#30709
9 hours ago, Chopper said:

the 3rd party thing is working out as well as the cybertruck did, except this time he's pulling the plug early

 

No shit, it was an empty threat that was never going anywhere. 

#30710
10 hours ago, Chopper said:

the 3rd party thing is working out as well as the cybertruck did, except this time he's pulling the plug early

 

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He would have to use his own money for a third party.  Cybertruck was funded by a ponzi stock scam.

#30711
23 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

He would have to use his own money for a third party.  Cybertruck was funded by a ponzi stock scam.

Technically his stock scam isn't a ponzi scheme, it's a pump and dump, but they are still well into the pumping phase.

#30712
2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Technically his stock scam isn't a ponzi scheme, it's a pump and dump, but they are still well into the pumping phase.

Also well into the "taking a dump on us" phase

#30715

Elon has a such a depressing online presence. He’s retweeting fake images of child happiness that never happened and perving out over his new online waifu. It would be really sad if he wasn’t so damaging to everyone else. 
 

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#30716
26 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Elon has a such a depressing online presence. He’s retweeting fake images of child happiness that never happened and perving out over his new online waifu. It would be really sad if he wasn’t so damaging to everyone else. 
 

Long press on any image on 𝕏 to turn it into a video in about 17 seconds

 

It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen.

That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot 

#30717
26 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen.

That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot 

He should just hire the underemployed human racists.

#30718
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

 

#30719
18 hours ago, Captainant said:

It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen.

That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot 

Elon's gotta shit-post 24/7.

Said it many times, but Musk is a teen-aged early 1990s BBS Sysop.  These data centers are just additional telephone lines/nodes.

#30720
Almost three years after mass layoffs began at Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/elon-musk-x-settlements.html

 

#30721

Shit could get very interesting in Austin, Travis cad is going to sue Tesla as they believe the appraisal review board ruled their value is too low. I’m eagerly awaiting the absolute shit fight that could result knowing how absolutely shitty both sides are.
AAS also had an article about folks pushing for teslas tax abatement deal to be removed.  

#30722
17 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Almost three years after mass layoffs began at Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/elon-musk-x-settlements.html

I’m pretty sure we can attribute this change of heart to finally winning whatever motion the employees were fighting about to gain access to all of that moron’s texts, tweets, and emails on the subject.    

You can prolly count on the fact that whatever he was saying in private was cringe worthy.  And like waving a red cape at a bull, screenshot blowups of Elmo’s mean girl thought nuggets about the lay-offs would result in a jury hammering him and finding in favor of the former employees at a more expensive lesson than the settlement.

#30724

Oh, I know Jack shit about that case procedurally - or the timeline of events.  And there’s a very good chance 100% of what I said was absolutely wrong.  I have no idea if they were “at-will” employees - or if they had some kind of contractual agreement on severance.  Or what state or country’s laws govern even.

Except the part about Elmo invariably saying lots of really embarrassing toxic shit that he would not disclosed in a hearing or a trial.. you know he can’t help himself.    It’s that he has so damn much money that when he pays somebody, I just assume the motivation is not the merits of the case - but perhaps more his childlike ego needing to be protected from totally justified criticism of his asshole-ish behavior.   I’m probably wish-casting.

I’m just glad they will be paid eventually.  

#30725
8 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Oh, I know Jack shit about that case procedurally - or the timeline of events.  And there’s a very good chance 100% of what I said was absolutely wrong.  I have no idea if they were “at-will” employees - or if they had some kind of contractual agreement on severance.  Or what state or country’s laws govern even.

Except the part about Elmo invariably saying lots of really embarrassing toxic shit that he would not disclosed in a hearing or a trial.. you know he can’t help himself.    It’s that he has so damn much money that when he pays somebody, I just assume the motivation is not the merits of the case - but perhaps more his childlike ego needing to be protected from totally justified criticism of his asshole-ish behavior.   I’m probably wish-casting.

I’m just glad they will be paid eventually.  

The settlement was reported to the 9th Circuit together with a request to postpone oral argument.  It appears that the original case was dismissed as not being covered by ERISA and not federal and that on appeal to the 9th Circuit.  Doesn't seem to be any real obvious connection to an immediate downside for Elmo.

#30726
On 8/21/2025 at 1:21 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Elon has a such a depressing online presence. He’s retweeting fake images of child happiness that never happened and perving out over his new online waifu. It would be really sad if he wasn’t so damaging to everyone else. 
 

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Obvious quesiton is obvious: who the fuck has 17 seconds to long press anything?

#30727
4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The settlement was reported to the 9th Circuit together with a request to postpone oral argument.  It appears that the original case was dismissed as not being covered by ERISA and not federal and that on appeal to the 9th Circuit.  Doesn't seem to be any real obvious connection to an immediate downside for Elmo.

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#30729
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
You’re unemployed in 2025? Tough shit. But we’ll definitely give all the unemployed people of the future free money. Because of robots or something. We’re still working out the details.

 

#30730

 The cybertruck becomes giant brick if you take it through the car wash, but you're going to spend 30k to buy a robot to mow your lawn, when the kid down the street will do it for 50 bucks. If Optimus gets caught out in the rain, buy another one. Makes sense.

#30731
1 hour ago, Colonel Sanders said:

 The cybertruck becomes giant brick if you take it through the car wash, but you're going to spend 30k to buy a robot to mow your lawn, when the kid down the street will do it for 50 bucks. If Optimus gets caught out in the rain, buy another one. Makes sense.

When you're generationally wealthy, your brain rots and you kind of lose perspective

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#30732

Gee, if only there was a man so obscenely rich that he could undertake these charitable, far-reaching humanitarian efforts and not even personally feel it. But alas...

#30733

LOL - I wonder how this is going to turn out?

Musk's xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI 

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Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of behaving like monopolies and claiming Apple deprioritized ChatGPT rivals like Grok in the App Store.

“This is a tale of two monopolists joining forces to ensure their continued dominance in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence,” the lawsuit alleges. “Working in tandem, Defendants Apple and OpenAI have locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing.”

Grok is currently ranked third in the App Store for free productivity apps—behind only ChatGPT and Gmail. The “uncensored” chatbot is also integrated into Musk’s social platform X, which is the number one free news app in the App Store.

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“This latest filing is consistent with Mr. Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment,” said OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood in a statement to WIRED. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-over-alleged-app-store-rigging/

 

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#30734
10 hours ago, Colonel Sanders said:

 The cybertruck becomes giant brick if you take it through the car wash, but you're going to spend 30k to buy a robot to mow your lawn, when the kid down the street will do it for 50 bucks. If Optimus gets caught out in the rain, buy another one. Makes sense.

Fuck that kid, I'll do it for $40.

#30736

Damn, I just realized I never posted my other article

Elon Musk’s Self-Driving Tesla Lies Are Finally Catching Up To Him
For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/08/20/elon-musks-self-driving-tesla-lies-are-finally-catching-up-to-him/

Forbes is pretty rough in this one with few punches pulled

 

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A federal judge in San Francisco just greenlit a class action lawsuit by Tesla owners to sue the carmaker for exaggerated claims by CEO Elon Musk and the company about the self-driving capability of its electric vehicles that stretch all the way back to 2016. It’s the latest blow to plans by the world’s richest person to reposition Tesla as a leader in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving amid a dramatic slowdown in its EV sales.

Nine years ago, Elon Musk told reporters that Tesla was taking a bold leap into the future by equipping its electric lineup with all the tech it would ever need to one day operate as truly autonomous vehicles.

“The full autonomy hardware suite will be standard on all vehicles Tesla makes from here on out,” Musk said. When fully utilized at some later date, as the AI-enabled software was refined, an array of digital cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar would give Teslas full “Level 5” autonomy – a designation indicating a robotic ability to drive under all conditions.

It wasn’t true then and still isn’t.

From hyperloops to solar roofs to trillion-dollar savings from federal budget cuts by DOGE, Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers. For years, that habit hasn’t been a big problem for his companies, his image or wealth, but it’s shaping up to be one for Tesla, already stung by a 13% drop in its global EV sales in the first half of 2025.

 

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“Right now, there are real robotaxis carrying real people on real roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an AV researcher and professor at the University of South Carolina. In July, Smith served as an expert witness for the California DMV in its case against Tesla. “None of them is a Tesla.”

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Smith, who recently published a study comparing the performance of robotaxis operated by Waymo in the U.S. to those of tech giant Baidu in China, noted that the persistence of Musk’s unrealized self-driving targets is somewhat unique. “There were lots of overly optimistic claims in the early 2010s,” he said. “But other companies have either delivered on or tempered their claims.”

In 2019, at Tesla’s “Autonomy Day,” Musk famously boasted the company would have a million robotaxis on the road by 2020. That didn’t happen, nor did his claim at the same event that Teslas with FSD would become more valuable over time, generating as much as $30,000 in extra income a year for owners who put their cars in a Tesla-run robotaxi network. In its latest monthly pricing reports, the car-buying site iSeeCars notes that used Teslas have lost the most value as a brand this year, falling 5.3% in July.

Musk also touted the Dojo supercomputer chip at the 2019 autonomous tech briefing that he said would give Tesla a big advantage over competitors for its processing power. This month Musk said the company has abandoned that effort.

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“Tesla wants to have it both ways,” said Missy Cummings, a George Mason University professor and AI expert who advised NHTSA on autonomous vehicles. She was also a witness or consultant on the cases in Miami, San Francisco and for California’s DMV. “They want to sell cars by telling people they can be driven on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, but then when someone dies, they want to say it was all the driver’s fault and that Tesla only ever claimed that the car was driving-assist” tech, she said.

 

There is a little more in there, but those are the highlights.

#30737
19 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
You’re unemployed in 2025? Tough shit. But we’ll definitely give all the unemployed people of the future free money. Because of robots or something. We’re still working out the details.

 

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#30738
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.0yRw.B-PJ1MUPS4Hw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

#30740

We don't have many BYD cars here, because we have a protectionist market for EVs.  Was just in London, and one of our Uber rides was in a BYD Atto 3.

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It's around a $40k car, from what I can find (that's not the US price - our pricing is all skewed because of tariffs).  It was....excellent.  Good build quality, everything was nice and made sense, was plenty zippy getting on the motorway.  Really anything you'd want from a small-midsize SUV EV.  And yes, it looked, felt, and drove better than any Tesla I've been in.

Put a Tesla head-to-head against a shitload of other EVs, and the Tesla is going to get its ass kicked, I think.

#30741
47 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.0yRw.B-PJ1MUPS4Hw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

As awful as this is and it's fucking awful, it's just a drop in the bucket. 

#30742
3 minutes ago, F250 said:

As awful as this is and it's fucking awful, it's just a drop in the bucket. 

Elon Musk was allowed access to all Federal Government information and data -- all of it, every single 1 and 0 -- and to the extent that he could, he expropriated it for profit, weaponization, power, to trade for power/favors, or for all 4 reasons.  There it is.  That's the entire story on Elon's access to our data.

#30743
2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon Musk was allowed access to all Federal Government information and data -- all of it, every single 1 and 0 -- and to the extent that he could, he expropriated it for profit, weaponization, power, to trade for power/favors, or for all 4 reasons.  There it is.  That's the entire story on Elon's access to our data.

Also, if you or I put the SS database on a cloud we’d be in federal prison 

#30744
7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon Musk was allowed access to all Federal Government information and data -- all of it, every single 1 and 0 -- and to the extent that he could, he expropriated it for profit, weaponization, power, to trade for power/favors, or for all 4 reasons.  There it is.  That's the entire story on Elon's access to our data.

literally to feed it into an LLM, I would imagine. Considering he's spent tens of billions of dollars on hardware to do just that sort of thing

#30745

Role playing... "As a surly libertarian, I umm... for reasons think this is a good idea. Yeah. I can't explain why, but it's good. It's BAD if Democrats did this. But for some reasons it's good now."

#30746
29 minutes ago, YChang said:

Role playing... "As a surly libertarian, I umm... for reasons think this is a good idea. Yeah. I can't explain why, but it's good. It's BAD if Democrats did this. But for some reasons it's good now."

It's hard to imagine a group that has beclowned itself more in the past decade than "libertarians."  From "Don't Tread on Me" to "Tread on me daddy, hand over control of the government to corporate oligarchs with no limits or checks, and let's go ahead with governmental ownership of private enterprise too."  

It was never an ideology.  I have no idea what in the fuck it was, other than dipshits biding their time until they found just the right flavor of fascist authoritarianism.

#30747
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

It was never an ideology.  I have no idea what in the fuck it was, other than dipshits biding their time until they found just the right flavor of fascist authoritarianism.

Whatever values it holds as a personal code of conduct has grossly corrupted their virtues or views when it comes to living and functioning as part of society. It doesn't seem like society exists past the doorsteps of their home anymore.  

#30748
22 minutes ago, YChang said:

It doesn't seem like society exists past the doorsteps of their home anymore.

The thing is, it DOES, just in a negative sense.  Their ethos is not "leave us all alone."  It's "leave ME alone to do whatever I want....but by all means, oppress the fuck out of everyone not like me and also take over private enterprises, just not mine."

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#30749
1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

It's hard to imagine a group that has beclowned itself more in the past decade than "libertarians."  From "Don't Tread on Me" to "Tread on me daddy, hand over control of the government to corporate oligarchs with no limits or checks, and let's go ahead with governmental ownership of private enterprise too."  

It was never an ideology.  I have no idea what in the fuck it was, other than dipshits biding their time until they found just the right flavor of fascist authoritarianism.

Literal decades of crying about government regulating capitalism and how we need guns to protect against an occupying federal force on radio, tv, and the internet. 
 

And now with the government taking ownership stakes in Intel and US Steel (with plans for more) and deployment of actual soldiers to US cities under the barest pretext…. just crickets. Or probably more accurately, cheers. 
 

We are nearing a dangerous escalation point I think - especially with the attempt to take over the Fed. I will say only this: those who disregard constitutional order cannot claim its protections. 

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