Good Riddance to the Cybertruck, the Chariot of the Dumbest Gods

(rollingstone.com)

42 points | by toomanyrichies 12 hours ago ago

16 comments

  • gnabgib 12 hours ago ago

    Discussion yesterday (1117 points, 2006 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391456

  • metalman an hour ago ago

    I need to do a deep dive into the drive train specs and see if it is a reasonable candidate as a doner for a work/farm truck build. Quick search shows a large semi official jailbreaking community, zombie cyber truck:)

  • davesque 11 hours ago ago

    So gods like Cryptolemy, god of crypto, or Elkleides, god of modern compound bow hunting?

  • furytrader 11 hours ago ago

    Rolling Stone doesn't realize it died 40 years ago.

  • dyauspitr 10 hours ago ago

    That’s harsh. Elon Musk went from being my hero to someone I wish wasn’t around anymore so I’ll allow it.

    • thatonehack 10 hours ago ago

      What changed? He is still Elon.

      • bdhe 10 hours ago ago

        I encourage you to read this entire section of Ken Paxton dodging his securities fraud indictment using the full weight of the power of the offie of TX AG.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#State_securities_fr...

        Then, imagine someone spending $200 million aiming to ensure his election.

        Not much you can respect in that someone doing such things.

        And this is only 1 bullet out of dozens more like this in the last 8 years or so. Elon was very different in the late 2000s.

        • applebottomjean 9 hours ago ago

          Nah, listening to the stories from his first wife, he was just better at hiding it publicly.

      • dyauspitr 10 hours ago ago

        The white supremacy stuff

      • jkestner 9 hours ago ago

        The 'pedo guy' stuff

      • igor47 9 hours ago ago

        I would have to say doge, that ill conceived "chainsaw" to the federal government that saved $14B, or 0.26% of the federal budget, but which according to the Lancet will result in as many as 14M additional deaths, including 4.5M children, by 2030.

      • piyh 6 hours ago ago

        Remember when xAI through Grok started generating child porn and non-consensual nudes? Remember when instead of turning it off, Elon praised the xAI team for the user growth and then paywalled image gen with the same broken guardrails behind an $8 a month X subscription?

      • lern_too_spel 3 hours ago ago

        He fired Tesla's PR department in 2020. They worked heroically to make him palatable to anyone who didn't look too deeply.

  • sirshmooey 9 hours ago ago

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  • aaron695 11 hours ago ago

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