A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas

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    That entrance doesn’t even look 2nd rate, it looks more like a 3rd rate hotel.
    I thought Trump liked things to look expensive, but this looks like it’s built with the cheapest of the cheapest standard parts available.

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      this looks like it’s built with the cheapest of the cheapest standard parts available.

      That’s on brand for Trump. A thin veneer of flashiness hastily slapped onto a decaying carcass.

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      86 months ago

      I don’t think he typically typically builds buildings, he just sells his name to put on them.

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    I’m hoping the vehicle’s onboard camera views are released. Teslas have many cameras, including one watching the interior. They are all stored in the vehicle and unless all online activity is disabled are uploaded to Tesla for training the fleet and investigating failures

    Tesla almost certainly know who owns or owned the vehicle and has video of whoever most recently drove it, possibly including view into the cargo area which seems to have been filled with a fire bomb

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      Teslas have many cameras, including one watching the interior.

      “Honey, let’s fuck in the surveillance mobile.”

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        Tesla employees got in trouble years ago for sharing sexy videos their customers’ cars recorded

        The car also uses the internal camera to tell if you’re watching the road. I understand that can be defeated by sunglasses.

        They really are surveillance machines, and in Australia we can’t even take advantage of it to get cheap insurance if we’re good drivers

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    The weirdest thing about a cybertruck bomb is that the world has become so shit that it’s not even interesting. Like, I just cannot care because every day something insane happens.

    That’s the real fucking signal IMO.

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    The glass doors right next to the vehicle look intact in the image, so I can’t imagine that the explosion was very large.

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      I don’t think it actually “exploded”, just caught fire. So you know, standard behavior for a Tesla.

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        There’s a video out now. It definitely exploded, but from my amateur digital forensics it looks like it was the result of a trunk full of fireworks instead of the car itself. I could be wrong.

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            46 months ago

            The front door manual door releases for all current Teslas are on the door, right next to the opening button.

            You are right about the rear doors though - they are hard to find if you don’t already know.

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      They are really heavy-handed on the symbolism in the new season. And right in the first episode? Bold.

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      It does feel increasingly like we arent living in any sort of actual reality anymore. Maybe our universe really IS just a simulation. If so, the entities who made it should be ashamed of themselves. This is pathetic.

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        26 months ago

        They clearly need to just drop pre-tenses and start turning people into dragons. Personally I volunteer to be a thicc bbw milfy dragoness

      • Sabata
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        Boring game play, shit writing, toxic community, and all the content is pay to win. I want a refund.

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      136 months ago

      looks more like the explosion happened underneath and then went upwards through the rear of the truck, the first frame of it shows that the underside is engulfed before any of the windows even have a hint of a flame showing through them. Seems more like a dodgy battery blew up.

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      Cybertrucks have a window between the cabin and the cargo area. It looks like the window (all the vehicle’s windows) failed during the explosion and the fire in the cargo area exited through the cabin

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      Or the truck bed. Definitely doesn’t look like a standard battery fire. Either it was a really bad fireworks accident, or the driver just filled the bed with explosives and rigged it to blow. I guess we’ll know soon enough.

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          I mean, he is 78 years old, apparently never exercises, and eats McDonald’s on a regular basis…

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              Even the best health care is only as good as the patient’s willingness to listen to an expert. Unless there’s some poor intern being tasked with wrapping Donvict’s meds in cheese so he’ll swallow them, that might not matter.

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              He was almost defeated by a glass of water and a slight incline the last time he was president and his brain is pretty clearly Swiss cheese.

              Good healthcare has its limits.

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              16 months ago

              More money does not mean better treatment per se. The standard of care is the same for rich and poor. He may be able to get more doctor opinions and have an easier time getting meds/etc. though.

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                  “Oh, I see that you’re a rich - come with me to the executive wing of the hospital where we keep the cures”

                  No - the standard of care is not defined based on who or how much you have. You treat the same disease with the same treatment. Rich people can just afford treatments easier.

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                Per se is doing a lot of work there. Sure, if the rich person and the poor person chose the same insurance company and the company doesn’t deny coverage to the poor person (it doesn’t matter for the rich one, since they can afford it) they could get the same coverage if they have equal quality hospitals nearby and the rich person is happy to be treated by their nearest in network hospital

                But poor areas have worse hospitals

                And when the rich one is president of the united states that one also has a staff medical team, and access to military medical units, and a plane and helicopter on hand to move him

                Just regular rich have access to faster transport to better hospitals than the 99% can have

                But yeah, on paper, ignoring effects from socio economic status and where the 99% live versus where the 1% live, versus where the .001% live it’s all equal

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                  Per se is doing a lot of work there. Sure, if the rich person and the poor person chose the same insurance company and the company doesn’t deny coverage to the poor person (it doesn’t matter for the rich one, since they can afford it) they could get the same coverage if they have equal quality hospitals nearby and the rich person is happy to be treated by their nearest in network hospital

                  Thank you - that is my point and only my point. There is not “special medicine” that presidents get like all of Lemmy seems to believe.

                  The rest of your post is my third sentence…

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        The explosion looked like it included fireworks and the fire looked like a liquid fuel fire - movie explosions are petrol (gasoline) bombs

        The vehicle contained it all pretty well, with the main exit for force and fire was via the window between the trunk and the cabin

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          The vehicle contained it all pretty well, with the main exit for force and fire was via the window between the trunk and the cabin

          Engineered like a tank… but the tank is a T72