More likely they will move final assembly to Mexico or Canada.

Yes, there is nothing surprising about this.

Followed by his Starlink connection dropping out.

Yup. Wasn’t even able to show off his product effectively.

Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream, which he later deleted from X

The whole thing was a stunt to promote Starlink.

That’s exactly how it works, and the dealer usually gives you a decent deal on the trade in, to make a sale.

It saves a huge amount of hassle for the buyer.

They’re still up 25% year on year.

That was an insane rally and crash though.

Probably not, the Delorean was pretty cool even when it was new, I believe.

Also, a Cybertruck is massively complex, so keeping an old one running would be difficult.

Musk has quite famously admitted that robots can’t do everything, and humans are extremely good at problem solving.

Pick and place machines are one thing, but plugging in tiny connectors, screws that need a little wiggle to go in the hole, things like that are a different story.

Apparently jobs like that, which require fine motor skills, are extremely difficult to automate.

Politics affects everything, including tech.

Car part that meters fuel, mostly replaced by fuel injection.

They’re quite notorious for getting clogged up with old fuel.

Golf isn’t spectacularly expensive if you play the same way normal people do, IE at your local club.

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No, because it devalues their click through, as no sales will result from those clicks.

It’s kinda like printing money, there’s more of it, but the overall value hasn’t increased.

Couple of issues I’m wondering about…

First, wouldn’t clicking on everything just make you easier to track?

Second, how much bandwidth would all this use?

It’s weird being almost a day ahead of most Lemmy users, it’s 3pm on the 2nd over here.

I’d hope there are severe penalties for abusing the process.

Well, that’s somewhat reassuring.

Still reprehensible that it’s being used that way, of course.