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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 171 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a fucking moron. This is the guy whose self-driving car you trust?

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope. Once upon a time long ago I thought I wanted a Tesla. Now? I'd rather drive a Ford Focus.

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd rather drive a Ford pinto.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

For real. I love those ugly things.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah man, I love the Ford [Dick in Portuguese]

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather drive an old lada made out of depleted uranium than a Tesla.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I'd rather ride a bike

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

I feel personally attacked here.

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

Well, I drive a Kia Soul, so I'm probably not one to be throwing stones.

[–] archon@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Luckily, he's not the one making them!

[–] sky@codesink.io 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, just the CEO of the company that has regularly overridden the decisions of his engineers, driving anyone with any actual experience away.

Autonomous vehicles built by hundreds of first-year software engineering graduates seems like a good idea though.

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

But but, it makes fart sounds!! /s

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Saeveo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Teslas have an "Emissions Testing Mode" on the centre console that's just a fart sound generator.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Hs still impacts critical decisions. He needs to be kept very far away from money and business.