• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t know if it was always like this, like pre internet, but I remember when I first started hearing people concerning themselves with the profitability of corporations online.

    It was somewhere around the start of the eternal September (I was one of the unwashed tech illiterate masses), and I witnessed people having the most furious debates about video game company / console profitability, and it just never ended.

    I wonder if it was just my first encounter to seeing so many Americans in one (virtual) place, or if it was the latent tribalism of the internet, or just nerds having fun crunching their nerd numbers. But I still see way too much of it.

    It has got better in some of the chiller places on the internet, though. Which are about the only places I frequent.

    Curious to hear other people’s perspectives on this kind of parasocial relationship with corps / brands.

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      7 hours ago

      I think it was a different flavor.

      You’d have your fave department store, mall, multiplex, fast food joint, TV channel etc

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    13 hours ago

    Is this the legendary free market when you must buy cybertruck or mElon will be sad?

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    13 hours ago

    this is yet another example of a second generation billionaire thinking that all the ideas that his brain produces must be phenomenal.

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    17 hours ago

    Everytime I see a cybertruck, It makes me think of the “Fighting Polygon Team” from Super Smash Brothers N64. Each polygon character is a essentially a weaker knockoff of an actual character from the game. I haven’t played that game in years but I seem to remember it was my least favorite level from single player mode.

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      3 hours ago

      Your comment is selfish, really. How does this comment support our mission to achieve global market domination? You need to sleep in the basement until your reprogramming session is complete. Enlightenment is earned.

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      17 hours ago

      All of these people from Muskrats to Trumpers are all looking for simple answers and solutions to how fucked up our world is from whoever will give it to them.

      They want to be in a cult ever if they don’t realize it because then they have an authority to make all the decisions for them

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        10 hours ago

        Daddy issues. All of them. Hell, Trump and Musk both have had terrible fathers. Much more then the regular “elite” shitheel.

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          8 hours ago

          Sins of the father is a powerful literary theme for a reason, daddy issues have cause a significant amount of damage to the world

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    20 hours ago

    I had the displeasure of seeing one of these contraptions in person for the first time recently. Pictures do not adequately convey just how ugly these abominations are.

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      18 hours ago

      I live in a major city in America so sadly see them daily… I’d say around 70% have a custom vinyl wrap or are painted instead of being left stainless steel tho.

      One store near my work is a retro games shop, they bought one and wrapped it in their colors/logo and I think it’s funny since my wife often says the truck looks like Laura Croft’s tits

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        I live in California and see maybe 20 every day. It never gets old laughing at them. Had a customer yesterday who owned one as well as a model s. The S was in his garage but not his toy truck. He was a douche so I fucked with him.

        “How do you like your truck?”

        “Love it, it’s so sick bro”

        “How come you don’t park it in your garage with your car? Will it not fit?”

        “No, it just barely fits, but I like having it outside so people see it.”

        “Aren’t you worried about people fucking with it or it rusting? Heard they rust easily”

        “Where did you hear that? This baby is stainless steel!”

        “Literally everywhere on the internet, that’s why so many people get it wrapped apparently. Also, have you taken it in for any of the recalls?”

        “It hasn’t had any recalls bro, this thing is perfect”

        “Hmm. I heard it had like 5 recalls already, you should look into it.”

        “That’s just haters taking shit dude it isn’t true.”

        “Yeah, you’re prolly right. This thing gets a lot of hate from like everyone for being ridiculous and impractical, but Elon musk made it so it must be awesome.”

        “Bro literally invented spaceships dude he’s a legit genius.”

        “Pretty sure he didn’t invent them. He just owns the company.”

        He proceeded to explain that he may not have made the first one but he’ll be the first to get man to Mars and spaceships weren’t cool until he made them that way. He used the truck as evidence of his genius and how he will be humanities savior. I was fucking speechless honestly. The only thing genius about this is he cornered the fucking enormous douchebag market so well they gaslight themselves into believing that we’re all jealous and or too poor to understand. I spray for bugs for a living. This guy got water sprayed on his property and I don’t feel even remotely bad about it.

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      17 hours ago

      I just realized. It has size of a bus and capacity of a car.

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      19 hours ago

      I didn’t realize how big they were until one of my kids ran over to “the fortnite truck”. Massive, ugly, and expensive.

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      19 hours ago

      There are at least 4 different ones around where I live. I know, because they are all wrapped in different colors. One unwraped, one blue, one red, one white, and one black. Its astounding that many people bought it out around here