Elon Musk engaged in extensive drug consumption while serving as one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, taking ketamine so frequently it caused bladder problems and traveling with a daily supply of approximately 20 pills, according to claims made to the New York Times.
The world’s richest man regularly consumed ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms during his rise to political prominence, anonymous sources familiar with his activities told the Times. His drug use reportedly intensified as he donated $275m to Trump’s presidential campaign and later wielded significant power through his role spearheading the “department of government efficiency”, or Doge.
Somebody who was using that many drugs and who wasn't a billionaire would be residing in either rehab or prison. But Trump let him destroy our government.
But he's rich beyond belief, an asshole buddy of the FLOSS and a nazi to boot. It'll be a long time until people stop calling Teslas "Swasticars". Not to mention every driver of a Cybertruck is advertising that they have more money than brains.
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My wife and I saw a Tesla truck today, in my small city in Muskegon, a strange thing. They have to be the most ugly looking vehicle that has ever been conceived.
I once saw a Delorean when I lived in my even smaller hometown of about 1,000 people. The Tesla makes a Delorean look like a Rolls Royce.
It being ugly is a style comment. That it repeats the Delorean body issues like marks from fingerprint oils and dents a body shop could
not handle. Things that don't work or work very poorly and quality
issues from sloppy testing or maybe none at all. And the list
goes on. What it was said to be and what was delivered was
damn near fraud and the cultist groupies keep saying
"the fixes are coming".
No its a rolling disaster and belongs in the dumpster it happens
to look like.
Eck!
"Pet the cat, you'll feel better" from a fantasy with a talking cat...that pretty much only ever said that. But good advice when the world has gone insane and is fervently trump-eting the righteousness of that lunacy.
I think that eventually the marketplace tends to shake out the chaff and keep the wheat. Meaning that while the concept of all electric "smart" cars and the push to be at the front of technology may be a worthy goal, ultimately what will be the difference between pass and fail in pretty much any consumer product will be how they actually work for the people who purchase them.
We all can probably come up with examples of solutions in search of a problem that ends up in the dust bin of history. The thing that I ask myself in regards to electric vehicles is just what problem they seek to solve.
If it is just to cut down on noxious emissions from burning fossil fuel, then I have experience on that point. I bought a brand new Plymouth Colt, a Mitsubishi import with their own 1.5 litre engine and a 5 speed manual transmission.
I was both playing music and working in a steel making facility at the time, and between the 2 different jobs I put over 80,000 miles on the car in around 2 years. I traded it for a minivan when I married my wife and we needed the extra room for hauling my 3 kids from a previous marriage and the 2 of us around.
The Colt got an honest 40 plus miles per gallon in combined fuel efficiency. This using a 4 cylinder gasoline multiport fuel injected engine. When you consider the price that I paid for the car against a Tesla or such, the cost savings on the small car made the choice of what to drive a no brainer.
By being so fuel stingy I also contributed less greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than an all electric car if you consider the energy consumption used in building the two cars.
I do have to admit that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and some people might love what a Tesla looks like. But I think that by pricing the electric vehicles so outrageously instead of building a quality electric that is affordable in the real world, electric cars have become a status symbol instead of a legitimate option for someone concerned with the environment. Were a major car manufacturer to come out with a solid, good driving and modern electric car for the $30,000 range they would likely get a much larger portion of the marketplace than what we so far are seeing.
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