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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The anti-EU narratives have been pushed so widely, also by Musk himself, that even comics like the one above are spreading them uncritically. The tethered caps are not about reducing carbon footprint but about reducing waste in our environment and high costs of cleaning efforts. Yet another EU myth, especially popular among tech bros btw.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah - they did a survey on european beaches and checked which plastic items they were finding. And then they tried to find a way to solve the issue by regulating the production. They did find a lot of bottle caps and plastic q-tips and then they did something against that. That is a really good way of doing things.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The attached cap is also really convenient. Never have to worry about dropping, losing, or dirtying the cap

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

anti-EU narratives

I believe this one is anti musk

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe so, but why is it spreading BS about the tethered caps then? The same way anti-EU memes from tech bros?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

Because ignorance? I guess when I weigh these two in my head, ignorance wins but idk

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk has perfected the art of bedazzling people with precision controlled compressed gaslighting.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 240 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

The caps are not attached to reduce our carbon footprint but to reduce overall pollution. I don't like when people paint over such issues with a too-broad brush.

Also what idiocy did Me-me-me-lon come up with now?

Car that breaks your spine when you drive it

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I like the caps being attached because it means you can't lose the cap. It didn't even occur to me that it might have to do with littering

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He built a wannabe K.I.T.T., I mean the jumping, no talking luckily. Also as fake as K.I.T.T. Its only purpose was to push the stock, like always and to do anything but a compact, cost efficient EV for the masses.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

No talking? All the new cars have Grok built in unfortunately. They do, in fact, talk.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

“Set the cabin temperature to 72 degrees.”

Car: “The holocaust didn’t happen”

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[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Some bored telsa engineers got drunk with space x engineers, then Elon found out

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[–] Varpeggio@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Is anyone else mortified by how such an obvious and blatant attention grab can so easily captivate the attention of literally every circle of the internet?

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I actually didn't see any news on this except for some coworkers asking if I saw it. First time I saw it was yesterday.. on lemmy. So maybe we should do better here and not talk about it, like at all? Delete this post and move on?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Everything I’ve seen has just been about how stupid this thing is.

[–] graycloud@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

I don't know, maybe all attention is good attention.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That thing uses nitrogen to do that silly bunnyhop, but compressing all that nitrogen is what has the carbon footprint.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could be done with solar power. Of all the criticism Musk deserves, the carbon footprint of a one-off show is not in the top 30.

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 99 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (29 children)
  1. Heard it was just compressed air?

  2. it's about plastic pollution not carbon

  3. But like, still, yeah... "pLaStIc StRaWs"

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 days ago (9 children)

It is just compressed air, though it's an insane amount of energy stored in that form. The number that will actually have that function will be so small that it probably doesn't matter, though the emissions of car-centric transport are absolutely crazy. give me more trains!

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 31 points 2 days ago

Sorry, best we can do is reinvent a bus for the 50th time and make it get stuck at a red light.

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[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Tesla flying car is clearly a Spectacle for Fools, but the gas being used is basically compressed air and doesn't contribute to our greenhouse gas problem.

There's plenty of other aspects to this to make fun of that are factually accurate.

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[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago

Billionaires have no fucks to give about anything except mean tweets. They weirdly seem to care a hell of a lot about those.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So this Tesla rocket flying car thing I'm hearing about is actually taken seriously?

Like, actual human beings with brains actually believe this shit will happen? I mean, come on now... You have a brain, evolution given, please, use it?

This is another musk thing. Elmo tells obvious lies, his groupies will repeat it as fact ad nauseum, the news sites will obviously publish said nonsense as fact because of course, and three weeks later people will have forgotten about the next bullshit lie from Elmo. Rinse and repeat, he has pulled this bullshit off dozens of times now and he keeps getting away with it. Other people would have been sued into the ground but Elmo? Nope. I guess the guy has charisma or something (the something doing all the lifting because claiming that musk has charisma is just idiotic)

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[–] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't get the point of this comic tbh. I'm no Tesla apologist, but it's compressed air. Besides we all know this is in no way really going to be widely available.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm also pretty sure the demo car doesn't have a heavy battery with the full range. Probably stripped down to the absolute minimum weight to pull off these stunts

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