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    6 months ago

    That’s a lot of CO2 not going into the atmosphere anymore from burning hundreds of thousands of liters of jet fuel, nice!

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      I can smell a certain musky stench from here, I hope it panics them to their core.

      He’s not panicking, he’s got better things to do! Like getting those wax wings a little closer to the sun!

      Edit -Fixed weird error.

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    Delicious schadenfreude. This has it all: A dead billionaire; relation to a Republican ghoul; it was a fucking Tesla. They even gave us a throwback to OceanGate with the water death.

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    Instead of celebrating the death of a billionaire who is related to a politician you don’t like, can we just bash the politicians that allow billionaires to go untaxed? One dying doesn’t solve anything. And also, it’s really not cool in my opinion to be happy that somebody died just because they were rich. They might be rich but that’d be okay if they all paid taxes and we used those taxes to feed hungry children etc

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      Fuck em both, eat the rich. I’ll celebrate anytime these motherfuckers are killed by their excess. Reminds me of the Disney exec a long time ago that died in a helicopter crash. Among a few things that suck about being an atheist is realizing there’s no hell for them to burn in for all time, because I really wish there was. That’s where they deserve to be, burning in agony and torment.

      [Edit] I feel real strongly about this. The wealth inequality is one thing, but their interests also put in place a great deal of suffering via apathy. They are so disconnected from the problems underneath them for the common person, and they have such a severe lack of empathy or sympathy for others I really don’t give a fuck about the families. How about the families of the working class who make so little they depend on public assistance? How about the families of their employees that generated their wealth, but can barely afford their bills and can’t save? How about all the American families who’s parents are going into “retirement” with less than a third in their 401k’s than what they’ll need to live out their last days?

      You wanna talk about the suffering of families? I place the suffering of many globally at the hands of these greedy fucking billionaires to the point they have literal blood on their hands and they don’t give a flying FUCK about any of it. So hell yes I’m going to celebrate this death. Fuck that entire notion, they’re disgusting people and they fucking deserve much worse.

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      Yeah, people here are a little extremist/fucked up.

      People can do shitty things, but it doesn’t immediately mean they deserve to die and we should celebrate.

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          The psychopaths are the billionaires hoarding giant piles of money while the rest if us destroy ourselves just trying to survive. I feel as sympathetic for dead billionaires as they feel for the millions of families they fuck over each and every day.

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            I don’t think you know what psychopath means. Unless you’re a millennial or zoomer who thinks words can mean whatever you want. Becoming as wealthy as possible isn’t psychopathic behavior. That’s what 99% of the planet would do if they could.

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      By definition, a billionaire is a bad guy. You don’t get there without doing bad things to good people. There are no ethical billionaires.

      If nobody needs that much money to live, even in extreme comfort. Anything they own beyond 100-150 million is pure vanity. Nobody needs more money than this.

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        I think this is often true, but not always true. I struggle to see what MacKenzie Scott did to deserve my disdain, for example. I just think she should be taxed more.

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      If you think it’s unacceptable to be happy about the deaths of evil fuckfaces who have brought nothing but agony and suffering to this world and have made little to no positive contribution to this constantly self-destructing rock despite having massive opportunities, then respectfully, fuck you. Don’t gatekeep happiness

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      If they paid taxes and used those taxes to feed hungry children then they wouldn’t be billionaires.

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      You don’t need to be smart to be a billionaire, just need billionaire parents.

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        Yes, I was being sarcastic.

        Because you can be a fucking bag of rocks and be a billionaire. You can be Elno Muskrat and be the richest person in the world even!

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    One 86ing themselves by drinking Musk’s coolaid is just… chef’s kiss

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    This was literally the first thing I said about the “unbreakable windows” for the cyber truck. That is NOT a good thing in an emergency. This is just one example.

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      Was it a cybertruck? That’d be even funnier. Pretty sure that breaks safety regulations in a lot of countries, just like a lot of other aspects of that pile of shit of a car.

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      They keep people in the car better during a rollover event. No idea if the gains there are worth the increases risk of not being able to quickly escape.

      Lots of car manufacturers recently are switching to laminate windows.

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        They keep people in the car better during a rollover event.

        Even more effective is a little known technology called a seat belt. Windshields have been laminate for a while. Side windows are supposed to be tempered so that shatter into tiny pieces.

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          seat belt

          Unfortunately a large part of the world treats this from optional to straight up hostile towards the idea of using it.

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            So instead of fixing the issue of people not wearing seat belts, car manufacturers should start acommodating them?

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      The glass on the x is breakable. The issue if your car goes into water, most people panic and you have only a few minutes to get out. We had training in the army for this and I died almost every time. Doesn’t help that I’m just an ok swimmer

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      do they even have a mechanical latch on their doors?

      i remember something about them being electronic only?

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        You literally have to disassemble part of the door card to access them on some models. It’s ridiculously unsafe.

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        To be fair even purely mechanical ones would be extremely difficult to open once water is even part way up the doors. The pressure difference inside & outside the car only grows higher as the water level gets higher. That’s why it’s always a good idea to have a tool Like this nearby that can both break the glass and cut your seatbelt.

        Check out the Mythbusters and other sources if you think you can open a car door from an even a partially submerged car…

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    It’s being investigated as a criminal incident in order to rule out criminality despite Chao making a phone call and explaining that she accidentally threw it in reverse, meanwhile if us normal folk call in a break in cops are like ‘just come in and file a report so we can throw in the trash can alongside the rape kits’

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      I have heard they lazily deal with all crimes unless it’s interesting and something can be easily be resolved and give a lot of political capital.

      They might go a little further than a report, but they’ll lazily report it as accident instead of murder, even if it was a complicated murder.

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    While this sucks for the family involded, I wouldn’t blame a car maker or anyone else if I accidentally reversed my car into a pond and drowned in it. Rescue attempts were pretty feeble, and if you take a minute to think about it, none of the people at the premises did jack shit either.

    It’s a loss for everyone involved, but a cautionary tale as well: don’t dine and wine and hop in your car.

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      Seems like a lot of contributing factors:

      • The private ranch seems remote and has tough terrain, which impeded rescue response, delay and limited resources
      • The fact the Model X “shifter” is touch screen based and Tesla has an ‘auto-decide reverse or forward’ feature might have contributed to her confusion
      • It is likely the electronics disengaged, making the exterior door handles unworkable, so the only door handles that could have worked would have been the manual release inside
      • She might have panicked and forgot or did not know about the manual release, since the usual way is to press a button, because buttons are… cool I guess?
      • She might have done the manual release but it failed to open because of the weight of the water. Once water got in she might have not thought to try again, or she was somehow incapacitated at this point
      • The glass was evidently not easy to break. The rescuers tried and failed.
      • Tow truck driver was afraid of the electricity

      The people on premise seemed to try, but given that even with trained rescuers with equipment they failed to extract her, I can’t say they did “jack shit”, there’s probably nothing the people on premise could do, except maybe tell her to let some water in quicker to open the door at the right time.

      So:

      • As you say, even if on private property, don’t drive impaired (although it’s not stated whether she was drinking or not)
      • Beware that a remote property might be great for showing off you have a lot of land, might not be so great if you ever need help, it will take a while and be of lower quality
      • Tesla’s “button and emergency release as wholly independent controls” is a bad idea
      • Tesla’s “touch to override, but otherwise let the car decide if you want to go forward or backward” is a bad idea
      • Drivers should be reminded about how to open the door if water is outside (try to let enough in to open, before you get too deep).
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        • Tesla’s “button and emergency release as wholly independent controls” is a bad idea

        Definitely

        • Tesla’s “touch to override, but otherwise let the car decide if you want to go forward or backward” is a bad idea

        Almost certainly

        Sound like the two biggest parts of the story

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          There was a time when I wanted a Tesla, but these days I’m more and more happy I still have my decade old car with mostly all physical controls

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            Killing you is one thing. It’s a small maybe. Almost everybody will get lucky.*

            The spyware aspect? The multiple taps to do anything and everything? Those are guaranteed for everybody.

            Eventually somebody will have to manufacture something reasonable:

            1 - Hardware based physical connectivity disconnection toggle, & strong privacy policy for drivers who want their connectivity enabled

            2 - Physical controls

            3 - Reasonable price points

            *this is still bad :)

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          I don’t know why the auto industry is so enthusiastic about weird new shifter designs, and I don’t know why the USDOT even entertains allowing them.

          Remember the guy who played Chekov in those Star Trek fanfics made by JJ Abrams? He ran himself over with his car because it had a weird confusing newfangled gear shift.

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            2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee “e-shift”. Fix the next year due to “customer satisfaction“, not manslaughter.

            The NHTSA investigation ran for seven years and just closed a month ago! Wow.

            Kinda found nothing wrong. Some changes made, complaints and accidents reduced.

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              What substances are automotive engineers exposed to in college that makes them design cars the way they do? Because I’m from the aviation industry and I FUCKING WANT SOME.

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        To add to this PSA, on most cars the windows are breakable and if you remove the headrest there’s two metal prongs that can be used to break open the window and escape. If you’re ever in a situation where the only way out of the car is to break the window, remember the headrest behind your head can be used for this.

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    Well… if there’s one thing that hasn’t been thrown at Musk with killing intent yet, it’s another Billionaire.

    I do hope to watch them fight. If there’s one force on earth that might actually be able to extract legal repercussions from him, it’s whatever army of lawyers a rival billionaire can summon from hell.

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    I dunno guys… this seems a bit crazy. I’m not quite a conspiracy theorist but I don’t think billionaires die in accidents like this…

    This is the sister-in-law of an extremely influential person who just relinquished one of the more powerful roles in government. The timing of all this is really suspect.

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      “Not QUITE a conspiracy theorist” My guy, you’re the epitome of a conspiracytard. Rich people die, all the fucking time. A lot of the times they even live much more dangerous and / or unhealthy lives than regular people, making it more likely that they die before them. And what timing please? Why does her senile brother getting ready for elderly care mean that someone murders her? Did you even try to think about this ridiculous shit for a minute?

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      Electric vehicle designed with extra difficult to break windows traps driver when submerged in water. Seems pretty straight forward to me. I get that it’s tempting to think something nefarious and suspicious is happening, but I’ll take poor planning and lack of thought around safety almost every time.

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        I mean… that’s what they want you to believe so it makes sense. Any good hit is covered up with the same kinda reasoning that you’ve been paid to proposition.

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      She died February 11th, he announced he was stepping down February 28th. Not everything is a conspiracy.

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        Not everything is… but this is!

        If he didn’t step down…was his wife next in line? I’ve got a call into Epstein’s guards to see if they can cover Mitch until this settles down!

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    I guess people’s lives don’t matter to the people of Lemmy unless you’re a Palestinian kid, huh?

    You leftist idiots are no better than the conservatives. You just think you’re morally superior.

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      Your comparing apples to oranges here. Children fundamentally cannot choose to participate in a war. This stupid bitch bought a shitty car that ended up killing her, imagine if it was a Ford Pinto because thats what Teslas are dangerous under engineered pieces of crap.

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      Billionaires only exist via exploitation, Palestinian kids exist in an apartheid state. Extremely different situations.