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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 146 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.

Then video came out and there's colorful lights and we still weren't sure.

It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ' Is there a believable source for

A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.

B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Duh the actual target was Terrorism.

Since that word had lost all meaning like I said it would once they stuck it to Luigi.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terrorism lost it's meaning in America long before Hero Luigi.

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

New years fireworks probably .

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m still not sure if it was an intentional car bomb or if he was transporting fireworks to use later that night and something about the car set them off.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

A fully enclosed in non-air conditioned truck bed with a black lid in Las Vegas heat perhaps?

Is still probably intentional, otherwise it’s one of the more epic Darwin Awards.

Edit: Autocorrect stole my un from air conditioned.

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[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was shot in the head prior to the explosion going off. Seems unlikely that sequence of events was accidental.

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[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL

FSD=Fully Self Detonating.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trekkies everywhere: Did somebody say....self destruct sequence‽

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Happy Shaxs noises

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually, genuinely thought it was an accidental fire.

Speaks to the shit reputation those shit trucks deservedly have. But also how dumb of a location for an intentional fire.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See that's the thing.

Is a trunk/bed full of fireworks and gas average cyber truck stupidity or a real lazy attempt at arson/terrorism.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I think it might have been more about the message a burning cybertruck, in front of a trump hotel, right by the trump sign, sends, than it was about the violence. Especially since the person is military trained and knew this wasn't going to go all OKC federal building.

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.

Cyber trucks being POS deathtraps that basically fall to pieces when you breath on them, their inability to do anything a normal truck can do, and the fact they make you bleed touching an door alleviated that completely.

So thanks for making them embarrassing junkers, Elon.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.

I almost agree with you, but the subtle changes made from the concept to reality make it not even look cool like it could've

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

For the comparison.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you can compare the two really.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Certainly not for use case.

One was a sports car

One is (supposed to be) a pickup truck

But it's clear to me what they were going for asthetically. There's a bunch of people who already did BTTF prop time machine conversions.

That said, I wouldn't buy a cyber truck because they're poorly built, poorly engineered, and unsafe.

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Gosh it missed the design mark so bad. It looks like a PlayStation 1 era car.

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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

My first thought was literally "was it a bomb or did the batteries ignite?"

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cyber truck is exactly what I would expect from someone whos only job experience is memes and shitposts. A rolling dumpster fire, mocked by everyone.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh, my kids think they're cool, so they have the K-6 market cornered.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No offense to your kids specifically, but children are dumb as fuck.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 1 year ago

Self controlled IED

[–] TwoFacedJanus1968@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"The future should look like the future." - Elon Musk

The cybertruck future looks like 1982's Blade Runner.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's highly insulting to Blade Runner, which had very stylish vehicles.

It looks like a shell on an El Camino in a straight-to-video 1980s Mad Max ripoff.

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now please all aboard the SpaceX rocket everybody! A 6 barrel revolver with a single bullet is added for a fun game of Russian roulette. Just to out your mind at ease, the gun is not the biggest threat to your life.

[–] theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

SpaceX hasn't killed anyone, incidentally it's also the company musk has the least power over.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't necessarily call those two facts "incidental". I'd be pretty confident calling it "cause and effect".

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

akchually this can be legitimately spinned in favour of tesla

police are already saying that the explosion wasn’t as bad because it went off inside a cybertruck

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cops will say any damn thing that lets them lick the boot

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Cops and simping for the rich, name a better duo

[–] ray@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it would have been worse if it went off inside something valuable

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pedestrians should be thankful that the windows gave out so easily, otherwise the body panels might've turned into giant shrapnel.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except in the case of an accidental fire, apparently the doors lock down and trap the drivers? That’s what I took away.

How is that better?

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If Trump were already in office I would still think they were covering it up with the claims of explosives.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

conspiracy in my opinion: that guy was shot in the head and dumped into that car and then blown up for threatening to out Trump or Musk for some dirty dirty shit.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone threatened a powerful person and then the powerful person made sure to retaliate in a highly public way which would link their own brand to the murder?

[–] butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes I wonder why my conservative family thinks that liberals are just as conspiratorial as conservatives, then I come across the comment you responded to and go "yeaaaah still don't agree but I see where you would think that" lol

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I WANT to give him that credit, but he's never made anything in his life.

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