• Lucidlethargy
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    10 hours ago

    Lol please, please, please use these, Putin. My goodness, the war would be over tomorrow.

    Can anyone ever forget hapless Elon breaking that window on stage? That’ll never not be funny.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Giving Elon too much credit there. He asked a professional baseball player friend to throw the pitch. There’s no way Elon could throw a pitch fast enough to break the window, probably why he thought it was bulletproof in the first place.

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        Unless I’m not misinterpreting, it was the chief designer who ‘threw’ (lightly lobbed) a metal ball at the window when it shattered.

        They did later throw a ‘baseball’ at it that very suspiciously bounced unlike any baseball I’ve ever seen. Surprise surprise the tennis ball painted like a baseball didn’t break it 😅

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          26 minutes ago

          Yeah it was a metal ball that was just barely tossed against the window. From what I heard, the engineers told him not to do that, but he still did. They got a bunch of free publicity out of it, which is probably why he did it.

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    7 hours ago

    I legit feel this was part of his design philosophy, to get some sweet sweet government money for a new lav. EU said they were going all electric by whenever the fuck. Man saw an opportunity and thanked it.

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      7 hours ago

      As far as I am aware the Cybertruck is too unsafe to be legal anywhere in the EU