• Doolbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    8 hours ago

    Buy the car that has more fatalities than the Ford Pinto had.

    That will get those libs.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.ca
    60·
    16 hours ago

    I firmly believe some MAGA somewhere is out there right now expecting a loan approval to buy the most expensive Tesla out there, not knowing an unemployment letter is already being typed out.

    One can hope for such poetic justice.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
      14·
      15 hours ago

      not knowing an unemployment letter is already being typed out.

      Probably being typed out by a DOGE staffer because they’re a government worker.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        14·
        15 hours ago

        typed out AI generated, because it’s far more efficient to burn electricity so that Grok can help in dismantling our government; Formulating the first “AI destroys humanity” plot that sci fi always warned us about, but decidedly more boring

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          6·
          13 hours ago

          Formulating the first “AI destroys humanity” plot that sci fi always warned us about, but decidedly more boring

          Really a shitty version of it. No sentence. No reasoning ability. Just algorithmic predictive text with a massive data set that manages to sound “intelligent” enough to fool the credible.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    18 hours ago

    What’s fucking hilarious is Tesla is running a 0% down 0% apr loan…

    Before the auto industry stopped doing those, they were sometimes referred to as a “crash out loan”.

    Because you can get a brand new car for $0 for the first month, and collections move slow. It could be 6-12 months before repo even starts.

    That’s not even getting into how common “thefts” of those cars happened as soon as they left the lot.

    But even if it’s not nefarious, trumpers believe any day now they’ll be millionaires.

    Best case scenario Tesla’s going to have a huge used inventory no one wants for a couple months payments.

    Even if someone pays it off on time, Tesla still loses money on the financing. This is classic death spiral and it being a meme stock might not save it.

    Quick edit to add:

    People are protesting stores still, they need to protest factories. With a bloating inventory and no sales, Tesla is going to do stupid things to keep production online, be cause if they shutdown it’s a lot harder to start up when they still can’t sell any.

    Factories shutting down even for a week or two could legitimately kill the company.