The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
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A social media use-case that’s somehow far creepier than Zuckerberg’s original purpose for Facebook.
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I wonder what’s up with the crayons.
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Like a toddler in a nice restaurant, it is what they hand Musk when he enters the Space X or Telsa offices. 
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Yeah, but somehow he managed to draw up the blueprints for Starship and Cybertruck with them.
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They taste good?
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Tesla roadsters were quite cool, and they are pre-musk involvement if that soothes your heart 
They used a lotus chassis and basically offered a speedster car without the gas-guzzling that usually came with the performance. Also because they were more of an experiment than whatnot, they were quite geeky, built on a semi-open platform (the second generation Roadster, with full musk adquisition, were closed as his mind), and decent price (for a high-end sports car).
Given that these were more or less an experiment to gauge the interest for an electric car, i though it was a good initiative.
Unfortunately we now know the unintended consecuences of liking things musk is involved…
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Fascists fuck up everything.
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In three CA cities, I heard:
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And wasn’t that before Mosk was even invloved with/bought the company?
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Again, I wasn’t much of a fan of any of them… 
But for me, the height of a “cool car” is a VW Bug (original version, just about any year)… I’ve never been much of a fan of the whole “sports car” or “luxury car” style of vehicles.
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VeeDub, FTW!
always fond of the bus, though, having owned two.
my HS GF drove a bug. her father and i fixed it up and painted it her favorite color purple. yes, my GF drove a “slug bug” (IYKYK).
no Tesla will ever be that cool.
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I will never understand why they decided to give the new electric version squinty angry looking headlights. It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to alienate their potential customers who are nostalgic for the original. What’s wrong with a friendly looking face on a car these days? Almost no manufacturers are making those.
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And part of what made Bugs and Buses cool was the ability to fix them up when they had issues. You need computers for almost all modern cars, but especially Tesla. Yes, it’s an EV, so less maintenance over all, but we’ve seen all sorts of problems with Teslas that force you to take it to the dealership every time, same with many modern cars. It’s taken choice away from the consumer, and that’s not just a Musk/Tesla problem. It’s the industry seeking to curb the rights of the consumer.
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Aerodynamics? Fashion? Market research?
Re faces, who can resist the jolly mug of the 1963 Wartburg 311 Model. Manufactured in East Germany… behind the ‘Iron Curtain’, so ya gotta flash that toothy chrome smile!
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I’ve driven them twice, Model 3, loaners. Fast… noisy… unrefined…JUNK.
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The Roadster was released in 2008, around the time Musk took over the company (but he was involved long before then). Maybe his fingerprints weren’t all over the development of the Roadster, but I developed a bad opinion of him early on when he (unsuccessfully) sued Top Gear after they did a relatively negative review of the Roadaster. (Top Gear was also banned by Tesla from testing any of its products, a ban that held until 2016 when Clarkson/May/Hammond left the show.)
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How does that work? If a reviewer wants to review something, they don’t need permission. Just buy it and review. Are the laws in the UK different?
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