Probably the best line I have read in any article this month:
I drove back and forth to a bookstore job in an ancient Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais so apocalyptically derelict that when I got pulled over for a busted taillight, the lady cop fixed me with sad eyes and asked "Is everything OK with you?"
This article is peppered with em.
The reason those companies, and not Tesla, know how to build cars that (in general) can drive from here to there without dropping a wheel or bursting into flames is not that they are staffed by a bunch of centenarian Lore Wizards who learned the secrets of auto manufacture back in nineteen-aught-dickity and now hide this sacred knowledge in a walled mountaintop abbey.
Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you'll find on the internet, my dude/lady.
It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.
I'd encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.
It pretty clearly states in the first paragraph that itโs a blog. Itโs okay to post blogs. Moreover, the author specifically encourages reading the quoted Reuters report:
The Reuters piece is quite long, and earns its length with an incredible wealth of damning receipts, including internal Tesla communications making clear that the company has known about its own shoddy work for a long time, even as it deceived investors, regulators, and drivers. I urge you to read it for yourself.
What amazes me is this is a luxury brand of car, which should have a higher quality of part. And its built like a badly assembled kit car.
โIโm just gonna make a car out of cardboard box cuz I refuse to be told how to do it by a b-b-b-BOOOMER!โ
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't know what your sarcasm is supposed to be implying?
Read the article.
I did.
They just felt like writing whatever they wanted for the headline huh?
How so? Doesn't seem like much of a disconnect with the article as sometimes happens.
Where is the "supposed to be glad" part in the article?
Last paragraph...
"Then the wheel falls off while you're driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you're meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You're helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car's descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won't that be nice.
*Assuming you lived through it."
But they're claiming this as being something said or insinuated or anything from Tesla themselves. Who is telling Tesla owners they're supposed to be happy when their cars have problems?
Do you struggle to comprehend simile, metaphor, hyperbole? Can you discern an opinion from a fact, or indeed an OpEd article from regular fact based reporting? Do you have difficulty detecting sarcasm and facetious turns of phrase? Does wit and creativity intimidate and confuse you? Are you secretly a Thermian from the historical documents chronicling the later adventures of the NSEA Protector?
This is neither simile, metaphor or hyperbole. If anything it could be a strawman, but more realisticly it's just rage-bait.
So basically its a work of fiction.
Tesla
Gimme a quote
Gimme a quote
Sorry it's 2 in the morning here and I've had some alcohol...
Found the fanboy
Yeah, that's literally how opinion pieces work! Would be pretty silly otherwise huh?
Teslas are known as the Panel Gap kings of the automotive industry, even in countries that still have clear memories of British Leyland where you were never even sure the doors on your car were actually meant for the model you bought.
At least that's just visual. Still shit for a car that expensive. But the welding and "engineering" holy shit these are crappy cars
Probably the best line I have read in any article this month:
This article is peppered with em.
This is a spam blog. The real report is here:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
Did you read it? It's an opinion piece that references the Reuters report, and several articles, and is an absolute BLAST to read.
How on earth did you reach the conclusion the blog is spam?!
They couldn't even be bothered to replace the default WordPress favicon
If you just go to any of the actual information pages about the blog, you'll very quickly see it's a genuine thing.
One would expect a spam blog to at least serve ads? Seems like a lot of effort to write an entire editorial without even so much as a revenue stream.
Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you'll find on the internet, my dude/lady.
It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.
I'd encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.
It pretty clearly states in the first paragraph that itโs a blog. Itโs okay to post blogs. Moreover, the author specifically encourages reading the quoted Reuters report:
Brutal op-ed
Brutal indeed.
Fuck me, thatโs good blogging!
What amazes me is this is a luxury brand of car, which should have a higher quality of part. And its built like a badly assembled kit car.
โIโm just gonna make a car out of cardboard box cuz I refuse to be told how to do it by a b-b-b-BOOOMER!โ
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't know what your sarcasm is supposed to be implying?
Read the article.
I did.
They just felt like writing whatever they wanted for the headline huh?
How so? Doesn't seem like much of a disconnect with the article as sometimes happens.
Where is the "supposed to be glad" part in the article?
Last paragraph...
"Then the wheel falls off while you're driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you're meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You're helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car's descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won't that be nice.
*Assuming you lived through it."
But they're claiming this as being something said or insinuated or anything from Tesla themselves. Who is telling Tesla owners they're supposed to be happy when their cars have problems?
Do you struggle to comprehend simile, metaphor, hyperbole? Can you discern an opinion from a fact, or indeed an OpEd article from regular fact based reporting? Do you have difficulty detecting sarcasm and facetious turns of phrase? Does wit and creativity intimidate and confuse you? Are you secretly a Thermian from the historical documents chronicling the later adventures of the NSEA Protector?
This is neither simile, metaphor or hyperbole. If anything it could be a strawman, but more realisticly it's just rage-bait.
So basically its a work of fiction.
Tesla
Gimme a quote
Sorry it's 2 in the morning here and I've had some alcohol...
Found the fanboy
Yeah, that's literally how opinion pieces work! Would be pretty silly otherwise huh?
Teslas are known as the Panel Gap kings of the automotive industry, even in countries that still have clear memories of British Leyland where you were never even sure the doors on your car were actually meant for the model you bought.
At least that's just visual. Still shit for a car that expensive. But the welding and "engineering" holy shit these are crappy cars
The unvarnished truth?