Your response indicates you’re actually not as completely uninvested in Musk as you claim to be.

You should look up what the person who created Godwin’s Law has to say about the current political climate.

What does this have to do with FAA regulations?

Regulations are written in blood. 

BEFORE* buying the thing. Musk was a known shithead by the time the Cybertruck was announced. Anyone who bought one knew what type of man they were supporting. And again, boo hoo, you buy an attention machine, it is kinda your fault if you get attention. You don’t get to control whether it’s negative or positive.

It’s rare that such open hubris results in exactly the type of ending you expect. It should happen more often. Feel bad for the kid though.

Funnily the wraps themselves do their own damage to the finish, so you gotta keep it perma-wrapped, like a dashboard cover hiding a cracked dash on a 1985 Porsche 944.

That’s the gist, yes.

Love that these guys just do things that actively hurt regular people and directly make their lives worse but hey, it’s not like they’re expecting to have to win another election.

Depends on the grade, Cybertruck apparently uses a lower grade stainless, and since it lacks any kind of clear coat, any corrosive substance that manages to touch the exterior will cause corrosion if not immediately removed. This is why Tesla recommends immediately cleaning any bit of material that touches the truck,…

The point remains basically the same. He’s at best, a self-aggrandizing asshole. He wanted attention, and now he’s mad that the monkey’s paw curled its finger. You don’t wrap your attention golf cart in gold plating if you don’t want it to make a statement. He just didn’t get the reaction he hoped for. Boo hoo.

Remember back when Tesla tried to say if you wanted to sell a Cybertruck, you HAD to give Tesla rights of first refusal at MSRP? We’ve come a long way, they were originally worried about people flipping these things and now they realize nobody fucking wants ‘em. Of course Tesla doesn’t want it back; they’ve got…

I dunno man, at this point getting the official Tesla attention machine is a pretty tacit endorsement of Musk and his attitudes. He wrapped it in gold. He clearly wants the attention, but he thought it was going to be of the positive ilk. Turns out he was wrong.

Mr. Musk, please, my attention machine has garnered attention! I was assured this attention would be only positive. 

Is that the line you’re going with? Elon Musk found the magic coffers that prop up sites like uhhh...Jalopnik? Because that’s pretty sad and pathetic dude...like, really sad and pathetic.

It is indeed easy to frame things in a way that someone would be outraged by when you are willing to completely lie and make things up.

I have enough experience with Trump and Elon to know that it’s not good to let them near any government agency, and that most of the things they say are obvious lies that are easily disproven with even a small amount of research.

The guy who is currently sending his army of Zoomers to gut and dismantle every government agency whose stated goal is to end all regulations just happens to love dumping rocket debris on poor people.

Actively destroying the country. And people voted for it.

What I’ve read is that the tower did not have appropriate staffing at the time, and a single controller was responsible for the copter and the plane, whereas normally there would be another controller to share the load. It seems like a case where the ATC is not necessarily at fault, they did all they could, but there…