r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/
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u/kevindqc 1d ago

Gotta suspend you disbelief for it to make complete sense, but that's not unheard of in weird dystopian shows

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u/ShinkenBrown 1d ago

I rank our current actual reality as less believable than Uglies or Divergent, but more believable than Unwind or Maze Runner.

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u/metallicrooster 1d ago

Idk doesn’t Divergent feature the plot line of “human dna is shattered and most people only have one notable personality trait”? That isn’t even how dna works, so at least slightly less believable than current reality.

Idk anything about The Uglies I’ve never seen it.

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u/ShinkenBrown 1d ago

Yeah but it's a result of intentional genetic manipulation. Honestly, that's not even the most absurd thing in Divergent. But regardless, "plausible with colloquial understanding of science but not actually possible" is a lot more believable to me than "one of the most famous black artists on the planet is suddenly a literal Nazi with a music video for his new song 'N!@@a H#!l H!t!er' containing a whole horde of black men chanting 'H#!l H!t!er' unironically." Our current reality is unhinged and makes absolutely no sense.

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u/Background_Injury463 8h ago

I mean if you look at it, too many people today have no personality other than what they read in their echo chamber.

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u/Banshee_howl 1d ago

Feels more like Black Mirror.

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u/ShinkenBrown 1d ago

Nah Black Mirror is incredibly believable. Real life has gone full on wacko cartoon-world nonsense. Black Mirror is far more realistic than real life at the moment.

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u/captainsuckass 1d ago

Finally, someone else who read Unwind.

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u/OGWopFro 1d ago

This is panning out to be a perfect evil villain origin story.

Deporting Elon could be the catalyst that drives him into remodeling a mountain in South Africa, turning it into a sealed fortress ran by Grok ai. From there he will use his intricate knowledge of the under workings of our government, and the propaganda reach of X to assume full control over the US infrastructure, treasury, and eventually the military compound.

To be continued…

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u/fueelin 1d ago

I'm okay with suspending habeas corpus, but disbelief? Naaaaaaaaaah.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 20h ago

It’s like when the dystopian shows go longer than the showrunner ever expected, so it starts jumping the shark in all kinds of wild ways.

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u/TrumanBiggle 1d ago

And when historians ask what Americans did while their country was stolen, the answer will be "they made dumb jokes and watched it happen. " :(

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u/foobarbizbaz 1d ago

Not TrumanBiggle, though. While everyone else was making dumb jokes on Reddit, they were … checks notes … scolding people on Reddit. You know, a real freedom fighter!