I also hate verifying my sources

We should act like it’s a rallying cry to support him. “No no, Elon, we’re not telling YOU to go fuck yourself when we all shout it at you wherever you go. We’re just sharing our support of free speech... GO FUCK YOURSELF!!”

Making your face the brand identity, and then making “scumbag” your brand, really working out well for Elon and Tesla. Totally worth those billions.

I am unlikely to buy a Tesla in the near future because its CEO is a modern day Henry Ford, and there are numerous issues with the EV’s themselves.

The funniest part of the GFY remark is he clearly delivered it expecting a wave of laughter and applause that never came

The Charger has always been a heavy dude. Why would this be a problem now?

Advertisers choosing not to advertise on Twitter is a form of free speech, and Elon should respect and support that. (Then again, Elon Musk doesn’t support free speech -- and he either doesn’t understand it, or acts deliberately obtuse so he can get away with the lie.)

I mean, Lightning.

Delivery driver: “Ok, that’s $60 for 5 pizzas, delivering to xxx address. I’ll be there in 30 minutes.”

Based on the number of paranoid wack-a-doos in my neighborhood, I see this definitely being adopted.  One house I pass by when walking my dog says in a very loud automated voice “YOU ARE BEING RECORDED” and I’m on the opposite side of the street.  It is so weird, this paranoid, fear-based right-wing bubble so many…

Is this some kind of joke?  I can see that bullshit going sideways.  the liability on something like that is enormous.

Got to be honest, I don’t think most advertisers care about whether Musk is contrite or a complete jackass. twitter is a shitty platform, and gets shittier every day. It’s filled with crypto scammers, porn bots, and completely unchecked extremism from super far right nutjobs that have verified badges. It’s no longer a…

Buick Electra, if they ever do it.

Its a premium channel — to a very specific consumer demographic. Unfortunately for this free speech absolutist*, the people who remain engaged in his cesspool are worth far less to the advertisers who spend real ad dollars than the prior twitter audience.

I declare that there cannot be a more aptly named EV vehicle than a Charger.  Fight me.

“a deep and fundamental misunderstanding of how Perplexity and the Internet work,”

Agree on doing the paint right, but this almost looks deliberate. Every single thing I can see on the car, door jambs, underbody, etc, is painted, however the engine bay was left cream. It doesn’t look shocking to me.

They were not survivable back then either. “Unsafe at any speed” springs to mind.

That won’t matter, any accident involving a modern vehicle is going to turn the occupants of cars like this into paste anyway. There are a bunch of cars like this I’d want to own, a Big Healey comes to mind, but I just don’t think they are survivable anymore on today’s American roads. Really disappointing.