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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Remember that non electric cars are still dangerous too. I saw a gas car wreck today on the side of the interstate that had 2 firetrucks, an ambulance and about 3 cop cars. That isn't going to make the same level of national attention as this is.

News sites like to over dramatize green energy dangers and will tell you that birds running Into windmills is a massive issue and ignore that statistically fossil fuels cause ~50x more bird deaths per unit of energy than windmills (iirc).

Yes, the cybertruck sucks and probably should be banned, but it's still green energy and you can't let it distract you from the benefits of all electric vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I saw a guy on Facebook who decided to load two kayaks into it. Like why would you think that was a good transport for kayaks? Looked ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This must be why Ben Shapiro never gets his wife wet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Huh, insinuating someone's spouse is shaped like a Cybertruck is quite the unique insult

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

To each their own I guess. Must have reached puberty during the original Tomb Raider period.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw a cyber truck with the default paint and it looks like a 20 year old car already.

The jet black painted ones kinda look cool, until I remember the car itself sucks ass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

default paint is none!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk made water catch fire?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you imagine being in the road with a hotie in you cybertruck thinking you won in life an then starts to rain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

[hottie] in [your] cybertruck thinking you won in life [and] then starts to rain

It's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.... (apologies to Alanis)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or she gets wet and you all catch on fire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A woman getting wet in a cyber truck??? Not possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure it's possible. For instance, the Cybertruck could run into a fire hydrant

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Fire Hydrant Turns Rolling Dumpster into Dumpster Fire

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

I mean, what do you expect? It's a fire hydrant.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to CyberTruck.

Caution: CyberTruck may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

CyberTruck contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.

Do not use CyberTruck on concrete.

Discontinue use of CyberTruck if any of the following occurs: itching; vertigo; dizziness; tingling in extremities; loss of balance coordination; slurred speech temporary blindness; profuse sweating or heart palpitations.

If CyberTruck begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.

CyberTruck may stick to certain types of skin.

When not in use, CyberTruck should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of CyberTruck, Elon Musk, and its parent company, Tesla, of any and all liability.

Ingredients of CyberTruck include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Do not taunt CyberTruck.

CyberTruck comes with a lifetime warranty.

CyberTruck! Accept no substitutes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The similarities between Happy Fun Ball and Elon's childhood car drawing are SHOCKING (because both will likely electrocute the user)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CyberTruck comes with a lifetime warranty.

We literally guarantee that Cybertruck will last for the rest of your life. You will assuredly die on or before the day that it stops working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

CyberTruck comes with a lifetime warranty.

Warranty lasts as long as cybertruck is working. After that - your problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This sounds like something that companies purposefully do.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sounds like the best possible place to have a fire. Isn't the only advice for putting out an EV battery fire "pour as much water as possible on it for several hours until it burns itself out"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I read on the news our local fire department had to keep one car in a special water reservoir for several days, because the fire kept reigniting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

One can also cover it with fire blanket and sing them goodnight tune.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes. Water doesn’t directly help it go out since the batteries are fine burning in water but if you carry away enough heat then you csn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, you don't need to douse it in a substance it readily reacts with... I don't know where this farce comes from, but it doesn't corport wirth reality unless the point is to literally burn the fire out by fueling it. Like putting a bellows on a coal fire...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is common practice to submerge EVs in water for several days in Germany, too. Remember that there is no elemental lithium (which would react with water) in batteries. As with every fire, the goal is to cool down the battery, so the fire doesn’t have enough energy to burn further. Unfortunately I only found German sources to back this up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can batteries be extinguished? I thought the whole point was they were self-fueling and burn at least until the charge energy is gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is my googled understanding, take with a grain of salt:

Batteries contain of lots of individual cells. If you short-circuit one cell, you generate lots of energy (from the short-circuit), and start a chemical reaction (fire) that does produce its own oxygen. Once that cell has lost all its charge, the reaction would stop, but until then the fire has compromised neighboring cells, which start the process all over again.

Water won’t stop the first broken cell from discharging, but it can bring the battery down to a temperature where the fire is too cold to sustain itself. It contains the damage to the cells that are affected already and prevents more cells from igniting. This is how you stop a battery fire.

The car gets put into a tank for several days to allow the broken battery cells to discharge safely, without overheating and causing another fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It bewilders me that such a vehicle made it out of testing and onto public roads with the sheer amount of poor design issues it has.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Trump deregulated the fuck out of things while president and this is likely one of the effects

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Regulation in the US appears to be nothing but smoke and mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

nothing but smoke and mirrors

Nope. Mirrors are optional.