Spyke
Sippy Cupreply
lemmy.world

It's not 80's enough to have a cool cyberpunk aesthetic, but if they leaned in to that they could have made something that looked really cool to me and the 12 of us that like that look.

But then the clean interior would immediately lose us. Gotta have a bunch of crap, buttons and nobs and stuff all over the interior. With no less than 4 screens giving you information at any given time.

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ttmrichterreply
lemmy.world

Work with me here. Picture something like this as the general aesthetic of the car.

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Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! THAT is what anything named "cyber" should look like!

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Jerkfacereply
lemmy.world

CRTs, every one of them. With those old curly phone-cord looking cables coming out the side.

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And they function as patch cables to let you pick what displays on each of them by hooking them into the designated port "on the mainframe"

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Cable management is the only way to tell what's stock and what's mod, man. That's the look I want.

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Kowowowreply
lemmy.ca

Ya I'd love something like the cybertruck but not at that price, maybe mix it with a borderlands out runner

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Sippy Cupreply
lemmy.world

I mean, you can get a truck chassis at a you-pull and fabricate your own cyber body if you have the space and sheer force of will...

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Shit they only made 200 thousand of the things, what a great little truck though. I think I saw one for sale in the last 5 years locally and they wanted 15k. Not exactly the hobby truck I'm looking for lol

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JeeBaiChowreply
lemmy.world

From this angle (no pun intended) it looks like the nose fell off.

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lemmy.world

Elon told you that this car will win any argument with another car. If a car full of teen showed you disrespect you should track them and ram them at high speed with your powerful torque. See their crummy car be flattened by your invincible steel battleship. You are the elite, the king of the road, don't you dare forget it or everything falls apart.

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lemmy.world

To be fair, the thing is still probably going to fall apart anyway if past Tesla weld quality is any indication.

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varjenreply
lemmy.world

But not before passning all that impact energy goodness to the passengers due to the lack of crumple zones.

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and pedestrians, and the people in the other vehicle.... I suspect this thing is going to be a lawsuit factory for Tesla.

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habanheroreply
lemmy.ca

If a car full of teen showed you disrespect you should track them and ram them at high speed with your powerful torque.

You can do that already with a GMC Sierra

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funniest part to me is this thing is going to cost owners so much money on body work. Any dent, ding, scratch etc. is gonna JUMP out on those clean steel panels, body shops aren't going to be able to hammer out (would leave impact marks all over) or fill and sand (unless you like that bondo patch atop SS look lol) - or purchase entire replacement panels from Tesla, if they make any (and have the excess production capacity for spares) available.

Oh and the lawsuits for making vehicles designed to slice through other vehicles - stainless doesn't have the crumple / impact absorption modern vehicles are designed for.

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sh.itjust.works

There's an Easter egg in Satisfactory (3d base building/logistics video game) where you can craft a "Cyber Wagon", which looks exactly like a Cybertruck but with square wheels, and has the highest fuel consumption rate of any vehicle aside from the personal jetpack. It also handles like absolute shit on account of the square wheels.

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lemmy.world

When i look at it, i start thinking I am a great designer!

While in fact, i am a backend developer

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You lost me here. I strongly disagree, the Multipla is and still remains the ugliest car in car's history!

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The people who buy this won't be in debt. It will be their new iwatch for a year, maybe two, then resold at half its price because half the touch buttons or little motors for the bed cover stops working.

I really liked the review by Marcus, what happens when the door ices over, will that push open solenoid actually be able to open the door?

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sh.itjust.works

When the cybertrunk was first announced I kinda liked it. I'm utilitarian and don't care what I drive looks like. The explanation I heard for the looks was because it was supposed to be really cheap to manufacture. So, a cheap ass EV pickup sounded pretty cool to me. Unfortunately, it's not going to be cheap :(

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ohlaphreply
lemmy.world

I wish they would make like generic vehicles. Like, basic shit. Give me that nokia brick vehicle that I can drive forever and is dead simple to work on.

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lemmy.world

Too bad it's gotten huge like every other car. I had an '86 Corolla and it was a good 25% smaller than the Corolla now. It was a really great car though.

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Miatas are not much bigger.

I'm 100% with you though. Even mini coopers are bigger than sedans used to be.

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Venat0rreply
lemmy.world

Or nissan leaf, for electric, or Toyota prius phev, for phev

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Soviets did that, they had a few types of vehicles that were cheap to make and that ran forever. some likely still running now. Really great stuff. ( I'm not a tankie I just like Soviet history.)

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You mean the one without a crumple zone that is deadly to any pedestrian?

I rather want one that is safe for humans than for the car itself.

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zepporeply
lemmy.world

The unibody is neither cheap nor easy to manufacture, and repairs are going to be a nightmare. The explanation is basically “Elron thought it looked cool”.

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they are going to be totaled for stuff that's a few K to repair on other cars.

They will also never be street legal in the EU, that fucking front looks like it's designed to kill pedestrians, they couldn't have made a sharper edge if they put a knife there.

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wiesonreply
lemmy.world

Utilitarian and pickup truck don't fit in the same philosophy imo

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Well, everybody can't be right all the time ¯⁠\\⁠_⁠༼⁠ᴼ⁠ل͜⁠ᴼ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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31337reply
sh.itjust.works

Meh, fair enough. I drive a Leaf, but have an old F250 that I use at least a couple times a month. I'm either hauling firewood, mulch, compost, rock, lumber, flooring, siding, appliances, large tools, junk, etc (I live in an old house that needs a lot of work, heat solely with wood, and make furniture and garden as a hobby). Not sure I would want to tow much with my little Leaf. I guess could rent a pickup a couple times a month, but that would be pretty inconvenient.

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wiesonreply
lemmy.world

Good point, owning it as a side vehicle like an old tractor makes more sense.

My gripe with pickup trucks is more when they appear in traffic, in parking lots sticking out at every corner, in too narrow streets, around children who they can't see cause they have their eyes 5 yards in the sky and a bonnet obstructing everything apart from the horizon, having a fuel economy and co2 emittance of a lorry without the contribution to our essential goods infrastructure.

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Haywirereply
lemm.ee

Thanks Obama and the EPA. Bring back baby pickups!

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lemmy.one

They do. As someone who goes camping often and also takes care of a yard in America, I would never want to put mulch in a van. But let’s say I did, I couldn’t stack as much inside the van. A 4 wheeler doesn’t fit. It makes perfect sense for its use car just like every other object invented

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wiesonreply
lemmy.world

Imagine driving everyday to work and not taking the trailer off the hitch because you need to get mulch two times a year and transport your bikes three times a year.

I need to own a school bus as a personal vehicle because sometimes we like to travel as a group of 12.

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lemmy.one

I load it into the bed of the truck, I don’t own a trailer. I’ve moved tvs, a piano, mattresses. These things don’t always fit in a covered location with a finite amount of space. Do you genuinely hate all pickup trucks?

I can’t move a piano with a sedan. I could maybe hitch a trailer and move mulch or do that thing where you pop the trunk and lash it down

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wiesonreply
lemmy.world

Yeah I honestly hate all pickup trucks. I don't hate you, though. From what I know, in your country most sensible cars have a very low towing capacity on paper. And although they could tow a trailer with a piano in other countries, they're not allowed to in the US. So even for towing trailers, most people use pickup trucks, if I'm not mistaken.

In my country, I would tow a piano with a sedan, station wagon or a compact car. If I owned none of that but like a Ford fiesta or something small like that, I would hire a moving company for that one trip. It's still cheaper than maintaining a truck 365 days a year.

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Fair enough. I can’t vouch for the legality, but you are not mistaken. I would rent a uhaul if I found it necessary to move a piano, but I’ve used the bed of my pickup an awful lot. Most recently to bring in the Christmas tree. But I do a LOT of work around my house so I know I’m in the minority here. But being from rural-ish America I find that there are people who have a stock pickup that they use frequently as a pickup.

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It looks as if they missed the stop line at a red light and can't see out of the rear window to back up safely.

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feddit.nl

Where I live you could buy a very decent RV for the equivalent of $100k. Hell even the $60k variant gets you quite a bit.

I'd much rather have that and be able to work "from home" from the south of Spain rather than drive a geometric shape.

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lemmy.world

I have spent less than that on my flat, and just about that on an older house.

car prices are insane.

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feddit.nl

Cars have become expensive, sure. But what I find crazy is people are so happy to take out huge loans on it.

You can buy a really nice and comfortable car for under €10k around here. Yet so many people have a car worth 2/3 of their gross annual income.

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absolutely, I have a used car myself,I will probably never buy new.

People also way overspend on cars then complain that they don't have money

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lemmy.world

It's been said before, and it's the kind of comment that essentially implies this community shouldn't exist, but it's extremely ironic for a community called "enough xyz spam" to essentially spam everyone's feeds with posts about xyz. Imma go ahead and block this community, don't take it personally peeps, I just actually have had enough of musk spam.

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Another person who didn't read the community description that's right over there to the right.

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The title is a holdover from reddit where for far too long people sucked this guy off in basically every thread that they had a chance.

I kind of wish that they went with a different title for Lemmy just to avoid the apparent contradiction of only posting about Elon Musk in a community called "Enough Musk Spam", but it is what it is I guess.

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feddit.de

These cars a made for the immanent apocalypse and you will see who has the last laugh.

You can probably attach chainsaws and shit to it but you need an app to open it (the app won't work after the apocalypse)

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replicatreply
lemmy.world

Everyone is talking about electricity going down but the real problem will be the Tesla DRM servers going down.

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on one of the IASIP podcasts Glen Howerton who plays Denis on IASIP tells his story on how he got his Tesla stuck in a parking garage, because there was no signal there, so he couldn't use his phone to open it, then called a tow truck after buddying up to the parking garage attendant, but that they couldn't do it, because the size of the tow truck to lift the heavy tesla couldn't fit into the garage.

it also inspired an episode in the latest season, brilliant stuff, how stupid it is.

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lipileereply
feddit.nl

I will def. have the last laugh: with no electricity (because remember, apocalypse), owners will starve or suffocate as they can't even open their doors DAYS before i die of radiation induced cancer, laughing

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Damagereply
slrpnk.net

Electricity is easier to source than fossil fuels; solar panels, wind power, you could even burn wood and use a steam turbine to make it

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CADmonkeyreply
lemmy.world

My 35 year old Samurai has already survived longer. And it has just as much cargo capacity.

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Suzuki Samurai are the best way to move on snowy roads, only the Panda 4×4 is better on account on the narrower tyres

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There are reasons why even the fucking base models of the G class are still trusted by the world's militaries.

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RGB3x3reply
lemmy.world

Oh sure, but just wait until they find out the apocalypse also means no electricity...

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jabathekekreply
sopuli.xyz

Not to mention for civilization to collapse a hell of a lot of people have to die; which probably means environmental collapse; which means the oceans are dying; which in turn means there's no oxygen being produced because the keystone species (phytoplankton, algae, etc) are mostly dead or switching to toxic modes of energy production. This means that everyone is dying, no matter if they have an ugly DRM controlled polywagon or not.

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ttmrichterreply
lemmy.world

You should look into how past civilizations collapsed. They collapse quite quickly without a lot of mass death (beforehand, I mean).

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jabathekekreply
sopuli.xyz

Past civilisations weren't even close to industrialised, nor did they span the entire globe. The closest was the Roman Empire of course, and they just sort of faded away over the course of a few thousand years if you count Justinian's Byzantine Empire as a direct continuation.

Our present situation is much more dire, with global consequences for reasons you are likely already aware.

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jabathekekreply
sopuli.xyz

Why? I'm talking about the collapse of environmental systems that support the life of every oxygen breathing species on the planet, not anthropology.

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CADmonkeyreply
lemmy.world

I remember the power in the eastern half of my state being knocked out because of an ice storm. I remember that a lot of gas stations were closed, because the pumps run on electricity.

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Yes and no. The pumps are just pumps.

If you didn't have to meter it and tie that to a credit card, you could pump the gas with a hand pump.

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Solar panels won’t just stop working, you know. I have a solar generator. Takes forever to charge but it does get power.

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Still convinced Elon made this for shits and giggles to see if he could make someone buy it.

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Like he did with Twitter. Except that was a drunk bet at a billionaire Christmas party.

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i saw one IRL today for the first time. was walking past the dealership in Chicago and they had one on display

there's a Rolls Royce and Maserati dealer a few block away. what i thought at the time is that these are toys for the rich to show off, publicity for the South African, and nothing more

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Those bumper stickers are timeless. Imagine going back in time and putting them on model-Ts or Volkswagens.

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The Aztek was ahead of its time and stupid. "Van living" wasn't a good thing yet, and it don't do it very well.

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fsxyloreply
sh.itjust.works

I love them so much that I right click and save them all. I have 437 NFTs and I never spent a single penny.

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"The elites don't want you to know this, but the NFT's you encounter online are free. You can take them home. I have 458 NFT's."

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lemmy.world

I've never seen the cyber truck from behind. But is it just me or does it look like the cyber truck not have a bead. Is there just like a super stylish tano or is there seriously not a bead on the cyber truck.

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The bed... it can't even hold a bike. A BIKE. This thing is trash at everything it was marketed for.

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lemm.ee

That's the kind of car I'd drive if I had to travel to Detroit.

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HollandJimreply
lemmy.world

Ah, so you just copied someone else’s content. Duly noted.

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ttmrichterreply
lemmy.world

You mean the someone else whose Xhitter handler is in the bottom right?

Or are you too busy looking for reasons to be pissed off to actually look at things?

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I’m not the person angrily responding here.

But hey - at least you acknowledged it’s not your cleverness on display.

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TwoCubedreply
feddit.de

Lol, this guy takes notes of random strangers on the internet for doing things he doesn't agree with.

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HollandJimreply
lemmy.world

I guess it’s a generational thing, like the laziness in taking others work for your own, or the ignorance in not understanding what some words mean. Your generation continuously reveals itself to be as stupid as you are illiberal, as every downvote just reinforces how poorly you tolerate other opinions than the group think.

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TwoCubedreply
feddit.de

It's cool how you assume things. Maybe people downvote you because you're being silly? Maybe I'm closer to your generation than the one you're thinking of? Maybe you're the intolerant one? Just giving you a hint here, the OP posted something he found on the internet because he found it funny and wanted to share it on a platform that suits the content. Im not seeing the OP earning money off the back of someone else's work.

Anywho, maybe you should rethink some things.

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I think you’ve misunderstood one core point: I don’t care about downvotes.

It may be common currency to take liberally and promote yourself with others work, but it’s not honest or right. And that’s a point that’s irrefutable.

Off you go. Enough about this already-let’s get back to hating Musk.

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It’s like the G Wagon. Sorry if you like the car, but IMO it’s an overpriced ugly box that only shows off the fact the driver spent a shitton of money on an overpriced ugly box. But at least the G Wagon isn’t as stupid as this truck.

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lemmy.world

The G Wagon, as long as you don't lower it and/or fit stupidly skinny tyres to it is actually pretty good off road, unlike the Tesla. Sure there are better cheaper options if you going off road, but at least the G Wagon can do that.

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lemmy.world

Very right it can do what ever you would like.

  https://youtu.be/LtwKO3jIAdk
  
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That truck goes through so much shit. The thing just keeps taking the abuse. It shows that abuse. But I doubt the shiny door wedge would suffer even half of just this before catastrophicly failing.

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lemm.ee

the meme still pretends cars make sense. so buy some chinese byom to kill more uigurs or have a vw so we all die from diesel....yeah... cars are not the problem..customers are no matter which one they buy.

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

At the original 40k price on the low end, I'd actually consider it

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dynamojoereply
lemmy.world

My boss a long time ago drove an Aztek and I asked him if it bothered him that it was so hideous. He replied "When I'm it the looks aren't my problem." I can appreciate that.

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lemmy.ca

Looks better than your typical pick up

Looks magnitudes better than a raised pick up

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This is like saying the first Lara Croft with the polygon boobs looks better than any alternative.

Taste is subjective, but you're wrong on this one.

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sic_1reply
feddit.de

He's not conservative. People like Gates or Buffett are conservative. Elmo is batshit crazy.

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He's a straight up white nationalist by now, he's been radicalized by his own biggest fans

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