• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    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.

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      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?

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      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.

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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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            I mean the guy may have been at the end of his rope for multiple reasons. I mean fort bragg/liberty has really high levels of lead in their water, mold in their facilities, etc., plus whatever PTSD he may have had. Who knows. However, being trained, he should have known this wasn’t going to be some massive explosion, that it was mostly just going to set the truck on fire.

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              This is beside the point of course, but I just want to point out that while I do think renaming facilities that were named after confederate soldiers is overall a good idea, in Bragg’s case they should have made an exception. Through incompetence, he accomplished more for the union than for the confederacy.

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              You would think a little homemade thermite would be enough to reach the batteries and set them ablaze

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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          That looks nothing like a DeLorean, except they are both stainless steel. The Cybercuck looks like someone took a three year old’s drawing and brought it to life.

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          I get it as far as “they both have angles”.
          But one actually looks like a car.
          The cybertruck has everything up front. Like they designed something, then had to concede that people have to use it, tacked something on, and didn’t bother hiding it.
          The delorian looks like it was designed with the fact there would be people in mind

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    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.

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        Hey, it was supposed to look bad. A dystopian future where the entire earth was basically a third world country where all the good stuff was manufactured for the off world colonies.

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      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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        I’d been comparing them to the models for the Quake mod Quake rally some time, I actually went to verify that I was remembering Quake Rally correctly and now I have to stop because the 90s video game mod had higher poly counts.

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    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.

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    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

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      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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      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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      Which is a weird fucking thing for a cop to immediately say when police also said explosion included “an electric vehicle” that they wouldn’t specifically identify right away.

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

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    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.

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      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?

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        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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          I hope it’s not as bad

          If the stop the steal people and the flat earth people all appreciate being a part of an “in group“, I wonder what the liberal version is

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      Made? Probably not. But I’m sure he’s responsible for pushing them out onto the streets knowing what potentially dangerous garbage they are.