Just remember: Tesla vehicles are surveillance machines, and the cops have access to facial recognition software, so I will not be surprised if whoever did this is caught.

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    Probably a faulty battery. Seems to be happening a lot lately. Sounds like Tesla should pull these off the market.

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    In positive news… I think the iridescence caused by the flame really makes that back panel look pretty. Overall an improvement on looks.

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      Imagine getting to experience the color change up close! It must be a beautiful final moment to watch as your shittily-made Swasticar changes colors while trapping you inside…

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    The cops’ facial recognition tech: palantir.

    Peter thiel’s most wide spread project. Peter thiel, the man who funded JD Vance. Peter thiel, the man who became a billionaire with (f)Elon at PayPal. Thiel, the man who decides who is invited to and what subjects are discussed at the bilderberg meetings.

    Peter thiel is the most dangerous person nobody talks about.

    Also, balaclavas and ski masks, my friends. And walk differently from your normal walk. Gait detection is also a thing.

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      Well, you see, that’s because a material doesn’t need to be at melting point to lose its structural integrity.

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    Back in the early days of Tesla when they still had the only cool car they ever made, the roadster, they were so proud of their near fireproof battery with lots of smaller cells. I never heard about a Roadster fire, and the first few model Ss were the safest cars on the road. I guess Elon’s “fire everyone and save money” strategy took a few years to show through.

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      Remember he came in after they already existed, was just an investor that demanded he be retroactively called a founder. All their tech up to the CyberCuck were iterations on the original, (sans his corner-cutting you mentioned, which was also terrible).

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          I am blind - my mind converted Honest to Innocent. My point still stands - it’s hardly an honest profession not at all like piracy.

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            Just for reference, while it has been edited, the comic is by Stan Kelly, The Onion’s resident cartoonist. Kelly is fictional, a satirical stereotype of a right-wing newspaper cartoonist. His signatures are over-labelling everything, gratuitous self-inserts, and framing the wealthy/other advantaged groups as morally upstanding patriots unfairly victimized by their inferiors. The latter is usually accompanied by them crying a single tear.

            All that to say, in the context of a Kelly comic, “Honest Tesla Salesman” is definitely meant ironically.

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      Just a fun fact, the Tesla showrooms aren’t owned by a third party like a dealership, they’re owned by Tesla, so there’s no “screwing over a local business owner” here.

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    to the facial recognition; you need a library of past videos/photos to compare it to. You’re driver’s license is not enough on it’s own, and masks and such like, even ‘disruptive’ make up can render it useless.

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      Be careful, it is getting better. I’ve found my own face on the Internet with just a single (unobscured) image upload. And that included finding faces in a different orientation. Masks probably still defeat it, but it’s not as data intensive as it once was.

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    Didn’t Elon Musk do this by releasing a shitty product that keeps exploding left and right? When four explode at the same lot, you know you’ve got a safety issue on your hands.

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    I find that being incinerated has made the one depicted in the article considerably prettier. At least it has both curves and some color now.