• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I’d pay five thousand dollars for one. Round off the sharp corners and put a Honda sign on it and BOOM I beat capitalism.

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      1 day ago

      I wish the article would tell us how many units instead, for this very reason.

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        1 day ago

        Last I remember they sold for $80k, plus that makes the math trivial, so… 10000 vehicles?

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          Wow that has so much more impact to me, I can really visualise the endless parking lots full of them.

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          23 hours ago

          Just looked again and you’re right lmao. I did read it, but somehow missed it.

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          24 hours ago

          No, we don’t want the article to make us read. We want the article to grab our heads, pull our ears out and talk the information directly into our faces. You know, “tell us.”

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      14 hours ago

      I was gonna say. Doesn’t seem right that they can just add up the MSRP like that and claim it’s millions worth of something if nobody’s buying. Plus, I’d wager the manufacturing cost of all that is significantly lower.

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        11 hours ago

        I’d love to know how much it costs to build each cybertruck, and visualise the other revenue loss of storing these, designing the machinery to build this shit and anything other costs that were factored into sales.

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          The big 3 used to need to sell something like 1/2 million cars before covering R&D costs. But that was also back in the 60-70s when they sold a million cars a year and designed it all on paper.

          The cyber truck’s design was so stupid that it may have approached that level of r&d costs. Since bonding and forming such thick Stainless steel isn’t trivial.

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      1 day ago

      $0 worth

      I’d be willing to pay that for a cyberdump. Wouldn’t mind the pubic lovingly trashing it either. It even traps passengers while burning like a complimentary self-cleaning oven feature. The disposal fee might be a bitch.

      On further thought, it might not be worth it.

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      22 hours ago

      I guess they’re worth the money spent to make them? But yeah, it’s just a pile of trash. I can’t believe I still see so many on the road. I do live in a reddish hell though

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    21 hours ago

    All those preorders cancelled bc they lied about the price and the quality doesn’t match. Tesla was doing fine until the CEO got involved. Idk why those assholes wanted to give him billions of dollars as a bonus. Just absurd.

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      18 hours ago

      they probably want his name to be still have some recognition, because Xitter is a very useful tool for the right to control the supporters, that is more valuable than tesla.

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      23 hours ago

      The stock price isn’t an accurate representation of the worth of the company. It’s an accurate representation of the amount of bullshit the company CEO is filled with.

    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      The economy is based on vibes and not the true value. However that doesn’t mean they aren’t allowed to borrow against those vibes, to avoid taxes.

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      20 hours ago

      So did other stocks. The Dotard flip-flopped on tariffs again.

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    1 day ago

    waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.

    Please, nobody insult the DeLorean this way.

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    Tbh I’d take one for free. It might look kinda cool in my garden with plants growing out of it.