My friend’s father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer’s gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn’t gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.

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    11 hours ago

    He was always a grifter type. He created an entire company “Boring company” just to undermine the highspeed rail projects.

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      11 hours ago

      Same deal there. Back then the Boring Company seemed misguided, later it was shown to be actually malicious.

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        9 hours ago

        Misguided? Right… “lets put self driving cars in a tunnel”… you mean like a subway invented 100+ years ago?

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          The original concept was a train in a vacuum tube. There are massive challenges with maintaining the vacuum, especially when letting passengers on and off, so it’s quite unrealistic. But eliminating air resistance would be cool in theory.