God this would be so funny if it was true.

There’s one thing that may still work in Ukraine’s favour, and that’s that SpaceX got started because the Russians insulted Musk and refused to work with him.

Let’s hope Musk still holds that grudge.

An EV with a fake exhaust sound, no less.

My god how lame.

I can see why people thought 3d tvs were a great idea, until they actually experienced it for themselves. It also didn’t help that so much content wasn’t genuinely shot in 3d, either, but altered in post.

They’re already manufacturing armoured vehicles and other hardware, much of which is currently in use in Ukraine.

They never went away.

I gave up on doing that after a few bans, coming up with an original username was getting difficult.

On here, you have more faith that you will be using the same name for a while.

Oh, joy.

I’m not entirely sure targeting Redditors as new users is the best option.

Part of the problem is many of the users just don’t get jokes.

You can post something that is blatant, obvious satire, and no matter how obvious or ridiculous, someone will argue about it.

Much of the userbase is fundamentally unable to understand humour.

Or they upvote anything that aligns with their political views, regardless of quality, see the posts of Pizzacake comics as an example.

They’re utterly convinced 3x the cheapest vehicle you can buy is a luxury item.

Just think where you’d end up if you applied that logic to other products, everything you buy would be a luxury item.

They’re terminally stupid.

I’m not American.

https://www.moneygeek.com/resources/average-price-of-a-new-car/

The average price of a new vehicle in the US is 48k. That’s what most people would consider “normal price”

It’s also less than half the price of a 7 series BMW, which is a vehicle most people would consider a “luxury” vehicle.

If you told a Rolls-Royce owner that you owned a luxury car, and then said it was a Model 3, they’d laugh at you.

If we look at the times in recent history when a much larger country has invaded a much smaller one, Afghanistan (twice), Vietnam, Korea, and the Winter War, the conflict hasn’t ended in military defeat, it has ended when the larger country has decided they have lost enough and retreated.

The war in Ukraine will hopefully end the same way, with Russia deciding the loss to their economy is too great.

The model 3 was designed and marketed to be an affordable EV, and is still one of the cheaper options on the market.

Do you think any new vehicle is a luxury item?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

If only this was a joke.

42 thousand for a brand new vehicle, and you think that’s a luxury item?

Bear in mind, the idea of an electric vehicle is you pay more up front, and less in running costs.

Tesla is a premium product at best, they absolutely aren’t a luxury item. The S and X possibly, but most of the vehicles they sell aren’t particularly expensive.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought. Any criticism of Israel, and support for Palestinian civilians, will be “pro Hamas”

Anyone who actually is pro Hamas deserves everything they get, of course.