• buzz86us@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I wish the US had viable alternatives to Tesla… Most mass market cars here barely match the tech, and still want $$$.

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      13 hours ago

      What are you talking about? Ford has better battery chemistry, Chevy has better interiors, Rivian makes a better truck, and those are just American brands.

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        Took Ford 4 years of production to swap to heat pump, Chevy’s tech is completely laughable it would be a 500% improvement if they just removed the screen, and did carplay only

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          How could you do carplay without a screen?

          Frankly I don’t need my car to have a gaming system bolted to it. I prefer carplay for music and navigation, and physical buttons for climate control. I think a lot of ‘high tech’ Tesla design decisions are actively hostile to the driving experience.

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      11 hours ago

      There’s loads of electric vehicles on the market in the US with similar tech to the Tesla. What tech do you want anyway, the most useful thing that Tesla has a reverse charging which is not at all unique.

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    11 hours ago

    The Nazis didn’t use the ‘Swastika’ per se, they used a specific type of swastika called the hooked cross or hakenkreuz. Calling the Nazi cross a swastika brings confusion and disrespects many cultures where the symbol has a meaning diametrically opposite to that of nazi ideology.

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      In english the Hakenkreuz was always called swastika. That’s the common usage and calling that wrong is pretty pointless.

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      10 hours ago

      You make a very good point that i have not considered yet. Thank your for bringing this to attention.

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      Indeed. Most people don’t know what a real Swastika is because of Nazi fuckheads. They don’t deserve to be able to continue using the term.

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        So yes that is all true.

        However, the mental link of the name “Swastika” with the Nazis has had 90 years of reinforcement in popular culture.

        If you want to perpetuate a meme that annoys Elon and damages the Tesla brand (because I think they still spend $0 on marketing) then:

        1. “Swasticars” is a very good phrase because it’s a portmanteau and everyone (in WEIRD nations) can work it out, have a little giggle, and then spread it as a meme.
        2. Explaining that it’s technically incorrect by going “well actually… (Pushes glasses up)” is not going to help spread the meme and is just being a bit pedantic.
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      I’ve been practicing dharmic religion for many years. Swastikas are used pretty heavily in dharmic spirituality to represent wisdom, or divinity, or the sun. I understand and have even used the symbol for its intended meaning.

      The symbol the Nazis used is a swastika. It’s okay and correct to call it one.

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    You guys are just giving him ideas on how to build better a better cybertruck swastikar.

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    AI shit. The weapon of our enemy. We don’t need it. We don’t use it.

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      FWIW I didn’t use AI to generate the meme, I stole the meme that someone else used AI to generate.

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      Ai is a tool for anybody, but not anybody can use this tool efficiently yet…

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      13 hours ago

      And why would you use it to make the fugly cybertruck look cooler than it actually does? In a post satirizing it? Weird approach.

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        I think the point is that literally anyone and apparently even non sapient entities, can make a better vehicle than musk can.

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        VW means people’s car.

        That’s not wrong, but Volk is more nuanced than that. Think somewhere between folk and ethnicity, so it’s still fascist.

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          Not entirely true

          Substantiv, Neutrum [das]

          1. durch gemeinsame Kultur und Geschichte [und Sprache] verbundene große Gemeinschaft von Menschen “ein freies, unterdrücktes Volk”

          2. [ohne Plural] Masse der Angehörigen einer Gesellschaft, der Bevölkerung eines Landes, eines Staatsgebiets “das arbeitende, werktätige, unwissende Volk”

          1. Many people who’re connected through similar history and culture, “a free people”, “a suppressed people”
          2. [without plural] Members of a society, the inhabitants of a country, “the working people”, …
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            No, it’s definitely not a comprehensive definition, I was going for the meaning in context of VW. The correct response to pedantry is pedantry, though :)

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    I’m swastisure he doesn’t give a fuck. This is peak slacktivism, on par with sharing a meaningless chain post on Facebook.

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    Fair. I’ll stop calling Swastikars Swastikars, or was it Swasticars? I think it’s Swastikars.
    Anyway, someone cooked up the word Hakencruisers and I really loved it.

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        Better, I’d imagine.

        “Oh, here comes a hakencruiser…”

        “A hack and what?”

        Versus “look at that fucking wankpanzer. Fucking wanker.” Can’t go much simpler than that.