cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/25971320

Is this a joke? What else could be under that tarp? It even has a little flap for the plug.

I feel my ability to understand satire is being attacked by reality.

And I checked the comments and its a mix of musk riding:

“I don’t understand how people get so easily manipulated into hating someone that has done so much to change our life’s. Elon is great man and is doing great things for our country and uncovering so much corruption and honestly he needs more credit”

or thinking this is a joke:

“That’s not hiding the fact that there’s a swastikar under it”

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    Take it as a cautionary tale. Even though depraved money demons control every major aspect of social and news media and you are surrounded by a constant ear-splitting blare of fascistic brown-note, nobody will ever be better at lying to you than yourself.

  • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Finally something in which I can flex my specific knowledge of the human world!

    It is a joke: the shape of the truck is quite peculiar and covering hides none of its typical features.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    107·
    2 days ago

    If you can tell what car it is even when it’s under a tarp it’s a bad design.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        My point that nobody seems to be able to actually get is that if you are making a car it should look like a car.

        It shouldn’t look like a weird art installation because ultimately it has to work as a functional vehicle first and foremost. And part of that is not being in death trap to everyone in the local environment. There’s some reason these things aren’t sold in Europe.

        If a car is unsafe then it has failed in its most fundamental aspect of being a useful vehicle. Because a unsafe car is not a car that you can use.

        The only reason these things are allowed on the roads in the US is that the US don’t actually care about their own citizens well-being.

    • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      2 days ago

      That’s just false. Some of the most beautiful cars ever made have such distinct body lines that most car enthusiasts could easily pick them out even when covered in a tarp.

      Yes I picked one that is comically easy because of the giant wing, but I’m using it on purpose. Simply because a car can be identified while coverd doesn’t mean it’s bad design.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      I hate Tesla as much as the next guy, but recognizing a thing with just a silhouette doesn’t mean it’s a bad design, it just means it’s unique and memorable

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        38·
        2 days ago

        Cars shouldn’t be memorable at least not by their silhouette. Cause all the shape that they are because that is the shape that is optimum for a car to be. So if a car is memorable by its silhouette then that means it’s not an optimum shape.

        Whoever designed that vehicle doesn’t have a grasp of the aerodynamic concepts, so I assume it was Elon himself.

        • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          2 days ago

          Usually I’d let this go but by all principles of design and all historic reality you’re just wrong. You want “optimum shape” wtf are you even talking about? Optimum for what? You talking aerodynamics? Because newsflash, check last 30 years of F1 with as optimized aero as it gets and it’s a spec car … yet they still have brilliant unique and recognizable designs. Idk what a designer did to you to be so salty about this but you’re just wrong and it’s a very weird hill to dig yourself onto

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

            No I’m talking about how it doesn’t conform to safety regulations which for some bizarre reason appear to be optional in the United States.

            Cars have to conform to certain requirements in order to be a functional vehicle part of being a functional vehicle is to be a legal vehicle. If it’s so goddamn angular that you would cut a pedestrian in half upon impact then it isn’t functional.

            Racing cars aren’t really relevant because racing cars aren’t meant to be around the rest of the public so they can do whatever they want.

            • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              If you want to launch into a completely different and separate conversation about safety and street legality of the cybertruck here we can but the short of it is - I agree that swastikar shouldn’t be road legal.

              HOWEVER, your initial claim was about how the design should not be recognizable under a tarp and that it’s a bad design if it is. That’s just objectively false.