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Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows
Submitted 10 months ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.404media.co/police-really-want-a-cybertruck-email-shows/
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Anytime to justify running over even more pedestrians than they already do…
Dymonika@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Then they could do so with fewer emissions!
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Anyone who doesn’t think that the end goal for the Cybertruck isn’t military/police contracts hasn’t really been paying attention to how tech firms grow.
I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Overpriced and underperforming, so definitely military-grade.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.
They’re trying out in a feeder dystopia first.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Yeah, that seems about right.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Gangsters will rejoice thedrive.com/…/tesla-cybertruck-isnt-nearly-as-bu…
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Fascists buying crap from an oligarch.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I don’t think that PS1 model of a car will ever look acceptable to me. It’s not a design that grows on you or you get accustomed to. It’s just bad.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Hot take, but this police cybertruck looks pretty rad tbh, putting the obvious real life issues aside tho.
prole@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Looks like what “the future” looked like in the 80s. Like Total Recall or BttF Pt. 2
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Elon basically saw the Robocop action toys from the ‘90s and thought “Yes, I want that to be real”.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Eh. Looks like a generic sci-fi movie reject.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 10 months ago
Probably need them for off-roading on rural gravel roads.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I think you might be being sarcastic, but in Anaheim? That is where Disneyland is located. Not much rural there.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 10 months ago
It was more a joke about the people who keep uploading videos of them “offloading” in their cybertrucks (trying to justify their purchase) and it’s really no different than a whole lot of actual rural roads that people drive on daily with their 20 year old two wheel drives sedans.
pbjamm@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I am not even sure you could find an unpaved road in Anaheim unless it is part of a park.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I think they have speed bumps, don’t they? I know there are curbs just waiting to be run over.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
In other words, we have too much money.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
and this is why defund the police was such a hot topic. To those on the other side, they think we mean “Get rid of all police, zero funding, go away”
When in reality it’s “Uh, they literally have too much money, they’re buying literal tanks. What if we took some of that tank/cybertruck money and gave it to trained professionals who could help in conflict situations?”
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Honestly? Considering how little the police actually do to help anyone, versus the huge amount of harm they cause, I’m not entirely convinced that “Get rid of all police” wouldn’t be a good idea. And I’ve seen a lot of leftists who felt similarly. So “those on the other side” aren’t entirely wrong; they just don’t understand how incredibly bad police are.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It was literally “abolish the police”, but the shitlibs watered it down to nothing as usual.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 10 months ago
Or better training, so people don’t hat them. Though, there is laws too.
esaru@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Well I’ve heard Cybertrucks are getting cheap because not many people want them.