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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • I mean, it sucks for the cat and the neighborhood, I’m glad that where I live there are a few very friendly outdoor cats and I’ve always seen people nail the brakes to avoid them the few times they cross the road.

    I also understand that autonomous cars kind of need more work, but real drivers also really suck at driving. I wonder if the ire here is more at “who do we blame if no driver”

    Also also, I wonder if electric cars are going to cause a lot more issues for outdoor animals who to some extend get trained to listen for a Hrududu which the electric motors don’t make.


  • The neighborhood I live in has maybe 200 houses (this is all my eyeball, napkin math, butthole statistics), of those 200 houses about 30% of them are by appearance alone people of non-European ethnicity. There are maybe 15 Teslas in the entire hood, and all but about 2 of them are owned by PoC households.

    Generally speaking the hood is pretty left-leaning, though not extremely most of them don’t put up any political affiliation propaganda. I have long since though that most people have to see Tesla as a societal status mark more than anything else. People talk about owning a Tesla the same way they do a Rolex or Louis handbag. It isn’t that they are bad brands or badly crafted object, but they are not worth the cost of materials.

    So I can only think of the ratio of people in my area that own Teslas as essentially an attempt to, crude as it may sound, “Force the feeling of ‘Being American’”