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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Tell your first grader that the world’s richest man has jerked off into test tubes to father kids rather than doing the supermodel circuit.

His dick don't work. And he likes getting pegged. Allegedly.

 

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38 minutes ago, Deej said:

Looks to me like someone put on a suit of armor because they are scared of getting fucked up by a cat. 

Must be planning to give it a bath. 

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33 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off

Latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the electric pickup

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/16/musk-forced-halt-cybertuck-deliveries-as-parts-fall-off/

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From the article:

Electric vehicle-enthusiast website Electrek said the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim and panels “flying off the supposedly ‘bulletproof’ electric truck.”

One such problem is afflicting the pickup’s cantrail, a decorative trim part that follows the edge of the Cybertruck’s roof from back to front.

The latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the pickup, which entered production in 2023.

While Tesla has made great play of the Cybertruck’s ultra-high, stainless-steel exoskeleton in reducing chips, most of the visible panels are attached rather than being part of a combined body and chassis as they would be in a traditional car design.

Tesla has had to issue a number of recall orders for the Cybertruck, including one last year that concerned the detachment of a cosmetic exterior panel glued on to the vehicle.

Owners have reported that the issue is more acute in cold-weather conditions, suggesting that the low temperatures may be affecting the adhesive used.

Had to look up what a cantrail was; looks to be this bit:

Tesla Cybertruck deliveries are on hold as trims are flying off the  'bulletproof' truck | Electrek

 

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2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I knew a SOF trainer doing his rotation at the Pentagon when I lived in VA.  He once told me that if you believed all the stories that those guys tell, the Ayatollah has been killed about 50 times over. 

Well, the SEALs apparently get book contracts the moment they graduate BUDs, and apparently the training is catered towards future writers.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off

Latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the electric pickup

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/16/musk-forced-halt-cybertuck-deliveries-as-parts-fall-off/

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A reminder that he promised all the fucking dorks and Nazis that the Incel Camino would have an “exoskeleton.”  And they couldn’t do that, so now they just have a regular unibody, except the panels can’t be welded or bolted on so they glue them. Total shit construction. 

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On 3/16/2025 at 3:05 PM, Captainant said:

Pretty good bit of real world proof on LIDAR vs cameras from YouTuber Mark Rober

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Lede burried. We all know Tesla self driving is bullshit. Rober lidar mapping space mountain and haunted mansion with a chest worn device was fucking awesome. 

My kid loves him and we have the crunch labs subscription. I highly recommend it if you have kids in that age range. 

I have nothing to say about musk. Fuck that twat. 

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5 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Have you ever met a cat before?   

Yes, and I never approached that abomination.

 

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18 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I’m with you, man.  In my early 40s there’s a few things I can do with the best of them.  Put a football through a tire at 30 yards with a tight spiral.  Sling 90 mph heat in the zone for at least three innings before my arm tires.  Rebuild a Weber carb.  Speak six languages (well, and I’m also fair at reading Latin and a Greek).  
Keep beautiful women hanging on my every word through dinner, take them back home, and leave them aching but wanting more the next morning. 
 

But yeah, video games. My Achilles heel.  I was just spending too much time working on my sub-4 mile and summiting all the 14k peaks in the Western hemisphere. 

 

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Inside EVs again with more bad news for swasticar owners.

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At the center of the freefall is the Tesla Cybertruck, which has fallen a massive -58% year-over-year.

 

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Grok gets it. First, it says there's a 75-85% chance Trump is a Russian asset. Now it says Leon is one of the largest spreaders of misinformation on X.

Elon Musk’s own AI chatbot has turned on him and says he’s spreading misinformation

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One of Elon Musk’s own AI chatbots has identified him as being one of the largest spreaders of misinformation on X.

Musk has repeatedly touted his own AI system, Grok, as the best source for information, at one point suggesting users should ‘Grok it’ rather than ‘Google it’.

Grok has quickly become one of the most used AI apps in the world, with Musk calling it ‘based’ and the world’s ‘smartest AI’.

In 2024, he wrote: ‘Perhaps it is now clear why Grok is so important. It is far from perfect right now but will improve rapidly… Rigorous pursuit of the truth, without regard to criticism, has never been more essential.’

But the world’s ‘smartest AI’ – which Musk helped create – has said that the Tesla boss is one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation on X, which he owns.

In a separate post on X, Grok reiterated that Musk was one of the ‘top misinformation spreaders on X’, putting Donald Trump in second place.

Metro also decided to ask Grok who the biggest spreader of misinformation was on X (owned by Musk), and was told: ‘Based on available reports and analyses, Elon Musk is frequently identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X.’

Grok cited Musk’s ‘massive following’ which amplified his posts, including misleading claims about elections, conspiracy theories and incorrect information.

‘His role as the platform’s owner further magnifies his influence, as his content often escapes the same scrutiny or moderation applied to others,’ Grok added.

‘The subjective nature of “misinformation” and the lack of a universal metric make it tricky to crown a definitive “biggest” spreader, but Musk’s name comes up most prominently in current data and discussions.’

Ouch.

Musk’s AI has come to the consensus that he, despite touting truth and hoping to combat misinformation, is the source of a lot of it on X.

According to Grok, the AI system was trained on a ‘variety of data’ from publicly available sources and data sets reviewed and curated by AI Tutors, which are essentially human reviewers. 

Grok's full response to the misinformation question:

‘Based on available reports and analyses, Elon Musk is frequently identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X. His large following—over 200 million as of early 2025—and high engagement amplify the impact of his posts.

‘For instance, a 2024 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate noted that 87 of his posts about the U.S. election that year were rated false or misleading by fact-checkers, collectively amassing 2 billion views.

‘His content often touches on topics like elections, health issues such as COVID-19, and conspiracy theories, which contributes to this perception. However, the definition of “misinformation” can be subjective, and other figures like Donald Trump Jr. or entities like state-sponsored accounts from Russia and China also rank high depending on the context and timeframe.

‘Without a universal metric, pinpointing a single “biggest” spreader remains debated, but Musk’s prominence and platform ownership make him a standout candidate.’

Concerns over misinformation across X have been raised before. When Musk first bought Twitter and changed the name to X in 2022, he promised to provide a platform for free speech.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/18/elon-musks-ai-tool-says-spreads-misinformation-x-22741885/

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burning swasticars update

edit: FURTHER UPDATE. That's at a swasticar service center so those vehicles are likely individually owned. 

for no particular reason:

 

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49 minutes ago, Chopper said:

burning swasticars update

edit: FURTHER UPDATE. That's at a swasticar service center so those vehicles are likely individually owned. 

for no particular reason:

 

Sounds everyone's favorite bogeyman Auntie Pho is at it again amirite 

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So in one case in CA, a judge ruled to reinstate 24,000 probationary employees who were fired illegally (with back pay) and now this:

I just can’t get over how damn efficient this all is. Elon truly showing how brilliant he is in creating lasting change for the better 

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Who was it in this thread wayyyy back yonder, talking about the fine, upstanding and effective company, SpaceX? I have some questions.

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Firstly, engine shutdowns or fires shouldn’t cause a loss of communication. That is basic operational redundancy.

But also, fuel leaks are really common with rockets, and we know how to prevent them from happening. The fuels rockets use can escape through the tiniest of faults, and the complex fuel systems they use have numerous potential points of failure. As such, it is standard practice to find these potential leaks with intensive pre-flight checks to identify and solve these issues before they escalate into a catastrophe.

 

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I want to give you context as to how embarrassing this is for SpaceX.

Over 50 years ago, NASA was able to get its Saturn V, a rocket nearly as large as Starship, to fly without ever having a failed launch over its 13-launch, six-year operational lifespan. This was a rocket designed with computers less powerful than a Casio watch, built with far less accurate techniques and materials, with check systems and procedures infinitely less sophisticated than anything today. Yet, engineers were able to ensure it never had a launch failure, even during testing.

Technologically speaking, the Saturn V was a caveman rocket, yet it was infinitely more useful and reliable than the high-tech Starship.

 

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Even if SpaceX can get their Starship to work, their Falcon Heavy rocket will actually be cheaper per kilogram to orbit!

What’s more, if you actually look at how expensive Starship launches actually are, its kilogram-to-orbit cost is the same as Saturn V! (read more here).

So, basically, the NASA of over 50 years ago is beating SpaceX at their own game.

Starship is an embarrassment, not just for SpaceX, but for the US. It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that. It’s pathetic and dangerous, and we can do so much better.

 

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has-finally-figured-out-why

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He'll be on the NEXT one.

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NOTE: THERE HAVE BEEN EXACTLY ZERO POINT ZERO (0) MANNED STARSHIP MISSIONS TO DATE.

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On 3/16/2025 at 5:05 PM, Captainant said:

Pretty good bit of real world proof on LIDAR vs cameras from YouTuber Mark Rober

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I mean... y'all knew I wouldn't leave this one alone.  It was just a matter of time before this catfish ate the stinkbait.

I did take my time and watch the entire video and did multiple viewings of all of the actual tests.

You'll all be shocked to hear that I think the video is a bit disingenuous and manipulated to give pre-determined results.  Here are my observations that inform my skepticism:

  • Rober doesn't use any FSD build and limits his testing to EAB and Autopilot.  Yes, the sensor suite and hardware is the same, but the software is vastly different between autopilot and FSD 12+.  Rober pits the latest version of Luminar's system against an older generation Tesla system.

 

  • In each test where the screen is visible (except for the EAB test), there is an out-of-focus warning notification present prior to impacting the dummy or the wall.  Anyone who uses the Tesla TACC, autopilot, or FSD system will tell you that if you have the accelerator pressed and are going above the set speed, you get the following warning:  image.png.d0715c7ff9482cc3ab207878aa4e5f94.png          Even EAB will keep going when the accelerator is pressed, which is what appears to happen in the video.  It won't give the visual warning notification, but it will give an audible alarm which you hear about two seconds prior to impact in the EAB test in the video.  To my eye, it looks like Rober is pressing the accelerator and not actually allowing the driver assist systems to maintain speed on their own.

 

  • In the raw footage that Rober released in response to criticism, rather than setting the autopilot early in the test which is easily doable, he waits until very late (<5 seconds) to attempt to engage FSD and fails on two attempts to engage before getting it to engage on a third attempt.  There's no reason he couldn't have engaged autopilot much earlier.  It's just really shady and looks like he is intentionally engaging late to confuse and cause errors in the system. https://x.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

 

  • The "fog" test was not fog, but smoke.  LIDAR is significantly degraded in actual fog when water in the air scatters and absorbs the lasers.  Credit to the LIDAR system for "seeing" through the smoke, but that is an extremely uncommon scenario for actual driving (no safe driver proceeds at full speed into an obscuring smoke cloud) that was engineered to give the LIDAR system an easy "win" in this comparison.

 

  • In the "rain" test, which did not simulate a realistic rain scenario that one would actually drive in, the LIDAR system stopped because it read the significant water spray as a solid object, not because it saw the dummy.  Judge's review does not award the point to LIDAR in this comparison.  LIDAR is degraded in rain just like in fog due to attenuation.

 

 

  • The CEO of Luminar (the LIDAR system featured in the video) is present in the video and is a previous collaborator and admitted friend of Rober.

 

For posterity:  Motherfuck Elmo for being a nazi asshole.

You may now proceed with the knob-slobbing gifs.

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1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:

I mean... y'all knew I wouldn't leave this one alone.  It was just a matter of time before this catfish ate the stinkbait.

I did take my time and watch the entire video and did multiple viewings of all of the actual tests.

You'll all be shocked to hear that I think the video is a bit disingenuous and manipulated to give pre-determined results.  Here are my observations that inform my skepticism:

  • Rober doesn't use any FSD build and limits his testing to EAB and Autopilot.  Yes, the sensor suite and hardware is the same, but the software is vastly different between autopilot and FSD 12+.  Rober pits the latest version of Luminar's system against an older generation Tesla system.

 

  • In each test where the screen is visible (except for the EAB test), there is an out-of-focus warning notification present prior to impacting the dummy or the wall.  Anyone who uses the Tesla TACC, autopilot, or FSD system will tell you that if you have the accelerator pressed and are going above the set speed, you get the following warning:  image.png.d0715c7ff9482cc3ab207878aa4e5f94.png          Even EAB will keep going when the accelerator is pressed, which is what appears to happen in the video.  It won't give the visual warning notification, but it will give an audible alarm which you hear about two seconds prior to impact in the EAB test in the video.  To my eye, it looks like Rober is pressing the accelerator and not actually allowing the driver assist systems to maintain speed on their own.

 

  • In the raw footage that Rober released in response to criticism, rather than setting the autopilot early in the test which is easily doable, he waits until very late (<5 seconds) to attempt to engage FSD and fails on two attempts to engage before getting it to engage on a third attempt.  There's no reason he couldn't have engaged autopilot much earlier.  It's just really shady and looks like he is intentionally engaging late to confuse and cause errors in the system. https://x.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

 

  • The "fog" test was not fog, but smoke.  LIDAR is significantly degraded in actual fog when water in the air scatters and absorbs the lasers.  Credit to the LIDAR system for "seeing" through the smoke, but that is an extremely uncommon scenario for actual driving (no safe driver proceeds at full speed into an obscuring smoke cloud) that was engineered to give the LIDAR system an easy "win" in this comparison.

 

  • In the "rain" test, which did not simulate a realistic rain scenario that one would actually drive in, the LIDAR system stopped because it read the significant water spray as a solid object, not because it saw the dummy.  Judge's review does not award the point to LIDAR in this comparison.  LIDAR is degraded in rain just like in fog due to attenuation.

 

 

  • The CEO of Luminar (the LIDAR system featured in the video) is present in the video and is a previous collaborator and admitted friend of Rober.

 

For posterity:  Motherfuck Elmo for being a nazi asshole.

You may now proceed with the knob-slobbing gifs.

Lol 52-80 just posted a TLDR in the business board about 5 minutes before your post. Did the newsletter just go out or something?

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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Lol 52-80 just posted a TLDR in the business board about 5 minutes before your post. Did the newsletter just go out or something?

Nah...  Just took my time looking at the video.  I watched a couple of other analysis videos from yesterday, but they weren't all that compelling.

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