A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.

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    6 months ago

    On this planet, we have a concept called ‘humor,’ which involves exaggeration and absurdity for the purpose of getting a laugh. I hope this comes to your own world someday.

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      5 months ago

      repeat falsehoods often enough and people believe them, even if you originally mean them as a well-intentioned and obvious joke

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        5 months ago

        Sorry… are people repeating the falsehood that Cybertrucks catch fire if you throw a water bottle at them?

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              5 months ago

              you may have INTENDED to imply only that, but you did imply both unfortunately. I agree with you on the cyber truck part, but I deal with a lot of slightly more rural folks and the big fear RN with electric vehicles is somehow battery fires. which is crazy since they don’t happen anywhere near as often as gas vehicles. so I’m just trying to say we should be careful to avoid that particular cliche (the battery fire part) since it misleads people