Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago#103,426
Elon Musk made an offer to purchase twitter for something like $45 billion. Why not? He can certainly afford it!
He apparently wants to get it back to its true free speech days again. He wants an open source for the algorithms being used so everyone can see what's being blocked and why.
I'm sure a lot of lefties will flee the site if he does take it over, but that couldn't help but make it a better place by default. Now left-wing reporters will have to go out and get their news off the streets instead of getting it off twitter. They're going to hate that since it means actually having to work for a living. Yeah, they wouldn't even bend over to pick up a dime off the sidewalk because that's too much work for a leftie.
Anyway, you can skip ahead to 11:44 to avoid that intro about Tesla cars.
Why Tesla or any other electric cars won't save the planet. There isn't enough electricity on our electric grid to handle everyone owning and charging electric cars. Biden can take that pipe dream and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Oddly enough, the guy below is a greenie and realizes renewable sources of energy just won't cut the cheese. He points out we need more NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS! Finally, a greenie that actually gets it! He must have read some of our posts!
He did bring up hybrids, but those are a total waste of time as well. With a hybrid one is sacrificing safety for mileage.
Correction, he's not the person who brought up the hybrids. That was apparently another video from a greenie pointing out electric cars are not the way to go.
It takes a certain amount of energy for a car of some given weight to go from Point A to Point B. It doesn't matter if it is a hybrid or not. The energy remains the same based on the weight of the car, and if that energy is coming from an internal combustion engine to keep the batteries charged up... well, point made.
Hybrids don't get better mileage because they are hybrids, but because they're generally smaller and much lighter cars. I could toss a thin plastic body on a go-kart and get 100 mpg without the batteries and electric motors. Just don't get in an accident with a hybrid, because the driver of a hybrid will no doubt get crushed to death between two heavier SUVs.
I'm not planning on purchasing an electric car today, tomorrow or ever. I have considered purchasing an adult trike and electrifying it, but mainly to save wear'n'tear on my car driving a mile up the road and back to purchase groceries. Short drives like that are murder on cars! I know I'm probably producing more CO2 doing that, because the coal fired power plant I'm getting my electricity from is producing more CO2 than even my car would generate, but it is just easier to add an electric motor to the trike instead of a gasoline engine.
No, I'm not going to purchase an electric bike. They cost too much for what you get. I can build one from scratch for a few hundred dollars by buying all of the parts from a salvage yard.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 27 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,166,934
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This was just for fun. I don't plan on building anything like what he built since he's into building all kinds of weird stuff. He even built an underground man cave you can enter through his backyard shed. As far as drifting trikes is concerned, I just don't need to be doing 360 degree spins at 50 mph. I guess when you have 12 million youtube subscribers like he does you can afford to build just about anything you want. lol
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 32 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,166,941
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During the mid-seventies three of us took a couple of weeks leave and drove down the east coast from Maryland to Florida. Disney was already too expensive from our point of view, so we didn't spend much time there.
I enjoyed Daytona Beach where one could actually drive on the beach. I enjoyed watching people park next to a pier where they would walk out to some restaurant to grab a bite to eat and a drink. I watched the tide come in and swamp all of those parked cars. One small group of dudes tried to move the cars, but the cars were locked up and in park or had their emergency brakes on. There just wasn't anything anyone could do but watch the cars get swamped. I wished I had a camera. When the ocean tide comes in, it comes in FAST! It wasn't long and a lot of those cars had water up to their windows. They definitely would have had water in their engines by that time. Since it happened while we were there on the beach, I assume it happens quite often.
𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕞 joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 9 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,166,982
> I have considered purchasing an adult trike and electrifying it, but mainly to save wear'n'tear on my car driving a mile up the road and back to purchase groceries. Short drives like that are murder on cars!