[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't forget the Saudis! They'd love to entice Trump with a tacky golf resort in the middle of the desert in exchange for some more environmental deregulation and looking the other way on human rights violations

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Another adjacent life hack is when assembling flat pack furniture, use a quality wood glue on all the joints and connectors, but especially those little wood dowels. It won't make it indestructible, but it'll hold up far better over time.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago
[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Latine is at least pronounceable, and doesn't sound like you're describing your former spouse from South America.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Definitely should share what gym so people can avoid it at all costs

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Or are just straight up propaganda accounts, which seem to be more than a few of them

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Because it makes the longstanding sexual themes of vampires way funnier when he has to say "no homo" every time he dines

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Not only that, but took out the radar, which while it has its own flaws, would have had no issue seeing the train through the fog. While they claimed it was because they had "solved vision" and didn't need it anymore, it's bullshit, and their engineering team knew it. They were in the middle of sourcing a new radar, but because of supply chain limitations (like everyone in 2021) with both their old and potential new supplier, they wouldn't continue their "infinite growth" narrative and fElon wouldn't get his insane pay package. They knew for a fact it would negatively affect performance significantly, but did it anyway so line could go up.

While no automotive company's hands are particularly clean, the sheer level of willful negligence at Tesla is absolutely astonishing and have seen and heard so many stories about their shitty engineering practices that the only impressive thing is how relatively few people have died as a direct result of their lax attitude towards basic safety practices.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

I can tell you, knowing people who worked with the guy since the original launch of the Model S, he's always been like this. He's always been a loud mouthed idiot, and he's always been insanely unpredictable. The only thing that changed has been his PR team and personal handlers, and how much the news media is willing to focus on how much of a POS the dude is.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

Sandy Munro lost all credibility when it came out that, while going on about all these wild claims about Tesla's incredible manufacturing prowess and how everyone else was shit, he held a fair bit of Tesla stock and even went on to gloat about how much he made off it during 2020.

Absolutely zero integrity and no reason to trust a single word he says anymore, because not only has he shown that he won't disclose serious conflicts of interest, but that he'll also gladly abuse them for personal gain. He realized he can make way more money shilling Tesla and selling merch than he ever did with his normal business, and rides off his company's past reputation.

Even if you ignore that, his analyses are basically entirely cost focused, and having seen some of the reports on projects I personally know quite well, he takes an incredibly simplistic view towards component design and focuses on almost entirely on cost/simplicity, with basically zero regard for longevity, function, NVH, etc. Which, for the massive 500+ page reports that are purely for cost and build analysis, is totally fine. However, he then spouts it to the public as if everyone else is an idiot for not wanting their cars to be rattling shitboxes.

He'll praise things like Tesla re-using the suspension from the Model 3 1:1 onto the Model Y because it saves on manufacturing costs and such, but will completely ignore that, until some fairly recent part changes, the Y had literally one of the single worst rides of anything on the road today, because they added 100s of pounds of weight and didn't even bother to change the spring rates.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

I can tell you right now, personally knowing people who worked with him way back on the first Model S, he has always been an absolutely unhinged shithead of the highest degree. He loved going into an absolute berserk rage dropping tons of F-bombs in conference calls, all because someone gave him an answer he didn't like.

otherwise your initial employees and partners are going to walk out the door and leave you with nothing.

Yeah, there's a reason the original people at Tesla all left, and he was kicked out of PayPal. Literally the only reason anyone tolerates him in any way is for the financial incentive, and that's the only way he's kept people around.

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