You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?

Don’t get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX

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I’ve been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won’t ride in one.

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I’ve been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won’t ride in one.

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I’ve read that the build quality is pretty poor.

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That’s usually a reference to fit and finish, but there have been several of them that have caught on fire. But they basically require subscription fees and refuse to use physical controls for important systems.

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It’s worse I’ve heard the build quality is inconsistent. Some cars are perfectly assembled, others have dime sized gaps between seams.

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Norwegian Tesla owners had short hunger strike over it. Doors won’t open during the Scandinavian winters and wipers freeze shut and so on.

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Yeah, those stats probably need to be analyzed with more granularity.

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I could never understand what drew people to Twitter. I just want to stab myself in the eyes everytime I end up there.

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I feel like part of what caused it to explode is that some celebrities joined up early and it provided a tangible way for fans to interact directly with them. This was totally novel and completely unprecedented. Prior to Twitter you could watch Entertainment Tonight and read People magazine. Twitter let you directly contact celebrities.

I really couldn’t care less about celebrities, which I have always thought is part of why Twitter has always felt kind of pointless to me.

But I fully recognize that for some people that’s a huge draw and I do think it’s a big part of what makes Twitter popular.

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For a moment in time, Twitter livestreaming the Arab spring and other mass demonstrations was more effective than the CIA at toppling regimes

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This assumes the CIA wasn’t involved in it.

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It’s a toolkit that allows people to imagine themselves as an online celebrity. Or maybe a cult leader.

Lots of followers liking the things you say at the ready anytime you want to pretend that you have adoring fans.

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It’s the same thing that makes any social media attractive: everybody else is there and it’s where things are happening. This critical mass of users is the hardest thing for a website to gain and the hardest to lose.

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Each time a platform reaches enough popularity to attract an average voter, people starts to blame the platform for being stupid. I’m waiting for the day we collectively realize it’s not the platform we hate, it’s the average person.

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Solution: kill all humans /s

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We seem to be doing a pretty good job of that, too.

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Us meatbags had our chance

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When you have one guy in town that’s an idiot, that guy is the village idiot. The village idiot know he’s the dumbest guy in town and so will tend to listen to the people smarter than him.

But with the internet you’re getting a lot of people together and letting them find groups they fit into. That’s mostly a good thing.

But all the village idiots get into a group together where they only people they’re talking to are other village idiots. Then they start thinking their idiocy is right. And they stop listening to the people smarter than them.

Then you have a lot of confident idiots who bring everyone down to their level.

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The average person it’s fine, it’s when they’re in a group and you get the average of the average people that things get dumb.

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#Sorry, I couldn’t #read all of that. Too many #hashtags in the #way of the #tweet.

#Lemmy #FuckTwitter #PostedOnMyIphone #ihavenoideawhatimdoing

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#OK #Sorry #You #Can’t #Read

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Poster can’t read?

To limit data scraping and system manipulation.

Wait for it, coming to Lemmy soon… ('cos right now it isn’t interesting enough to scrape).

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