proudblond

@proudblond@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Doesn't look like anything to me.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kinda into pizza this way, sometimes. The frozen pizza I prefer has a thick crust kinda like this AI crust. But I 100% understand why people wouldn’t like it; I figure I’m in the minority. At least there’s enough of us that the grocery store sells a frozen pizza that I like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that. I had already been burned by VW with the TDI scandal, so I was pretty frustrated with car companies in general. Are any of them truly ethical or consumer-focused? We saw that Tesla was at least trying to make the electric car thing work and we wanted to support that movement—not because we think electric cars are the endgame solution, but because we think they’re a step in the right direction and we wanted to encourage the market to follow their lead.

  And buying a car is not an investment. It’s not like we own Tesla stock.

  One thing I did really, really like about buying a car from Tesla is that they don’t use a dealership model. What a breath of fresh air! I never want to buy from a dealer ever again if I can help it. But I think the next time we’re in the market, we’ll buy used anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a different position financially than where I was six years ago.

  Flooding the used Tesla market is not a strategy I had heard before you mentioned it, actually. Maybe if I was in the same position that I was six years ago financially, I would be making different choices. But I’m not.

  As for my soul, Lemmy talks a big game about focusing on the class struggle, but whenever I admit to having a Tesla, everyone piles on like I am the worst person ever. I got flat out scammed by VW and I certainly didn’t fucking know that Musk was quite as massive a tool as he has shown himself to be now. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention. But all I’m saying is that I’m not the real enemy here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I see what you’re saying about not trusting Elon Musk because he had promised something that thus far had not been delivered. And you’re right, we didn’t trust him and didn’t purchase the option. But we thought the car was still okay. I still like the car, for the most part. Does that make sense? The car and the full self driving option were two separate purchases, one of which we did not make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We did not purchase full self driving. My husband rightfully thought that it was a bit of a pipe dream. I’m too much of a control freak to allow a car to drive for me. Also six years ago was 2019 so if you think I fell for “full self driving by 2016” then I think you can’t do math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any car is sold at a loss. As someone who recently paid one of these off, I can’t stomach a new car payment in the face of our melting economy because six years ago I didn’t foresee the head of a car company turning out to be a freaking nazi.

  Considering my Tesla replaced a VW TDI, I’m feeling particularly salty and completely disillusioned about ethical consumption under capitalism, etc. etc. I wish people on Lemmy could have some empathy and not just assume that everyone driving a Tesla is sanctioning anything that Elon Musk does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine might be that we didn’t own an encyclopedia; I can’t remember if we did or not. But… I think we did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has always been my favorite frosting in a can. Can’t always find it though, and the only recipe I found for it online takes sooo much work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m so morally bankrupt that I am worried about how my headlights might blind other people. At least I’m not so morally bankrupt that I make other people feel bad on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I kinda wish I could, but financially it’s not in the cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Tesla driver (yeah yeah) I’ve noticed in my heavily-Tesla area that 80% of the time when I think someone might have their highbeams on but it’s borderline that it’s a Tesla. It makes me uncomfortable about how bright my own lights are to others. My only consolation is that my car is 6+ years old, so there’s a (slim) chance that the new cars that are being rolled off the line are more poorly aligned than my own. Anyway I don’t know what I could do about it regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just think skibidibi sounds neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ten year old and all of his friends say these things, but I think it’s mostly as a joke at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say we bought our Teslas “for the environment” in a way, though a bit roundabout. When we bought them (2018), it was after having previously leasing a Leaf which had shit mileage and poor performance over 40mph. We wanted to signal to the industry with our dollars that we wanted the EV movement to succeed. Because apparently money is the only thing they listen to. We knew full well that EVs were only a step toward a greener future or whatever but we wanted the industry to take that step and understand that being environmentally friendlier was important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nessie Soup Pot Spoon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this! We have a cheap plastic Nessie ladle but it’s the worst. Super flimsy. Yours is a huge upgrade!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think some of the right-wingers who decry climate change will adopt EVs via Tesla since Elon sucks up to their guy now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We just did. Only reason it took this long is because it auto-renewed this time last year for a year slightly ahead of when we thought it was gonna do that. Oops.