Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company’s recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

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    All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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      Don’t hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.

      (I’m still workshopping the “don’t hate the player hate the game” - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)

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        Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.

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            I suddenly realize why I was so good at bhopping without scripts. Haha I’d get banned for cheats and never cheated once.

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      And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.

      I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they’ll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can’t be solely ketamine.

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      I fucking hate this timeline.

      I keep seeing people say this. However, hate is what created this timeline. I don’t believe it’s what will get us into a new one.

      I mean no offense towards you; I want you to know this. I guess I just finally realized what it is that bothers me about that statement. In fact, I share your sentiment. Because not only are they poorly made, common sense safety measures are removed and replaced with poorly engineered crap that traps people, while other badly designed components catch fire and burn them to death.

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        First time I’ve used this phrase, myself. But I had such hope for the future and I guess I am finally admitting my hope is gone.

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          I think the answer is some kind of cynical optimism. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. You never know, they might all die tomorrow in a plane crash or something.

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            My cynical take on that stance is they probably overstaff the airpots they are flying through to ensure that doesn’t happen. But yea maybe they fall down an elevator shaft.

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              Somewhat ironically, they understaffed the airport they all fly through, and yet somehow it was innocent civilians that died.

              I detest this timeline. I am disgusted, really. I’ve never quite understood hate, though; to me hate feels like making a solemn vow that subject of my hate will always have power over me. Because hate is irrational. It overpowers reason. But it is only through reason and logic I find myself.

              The catch 22 is fear. Fear also deprives is of reason, but it also shames us, lessens us. Just as Yoda taught us, “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

              I don’t wanna suffer anymore. But I don’t want anyone else to suffer, either. Not even those responsible; I just want them gone from our timeline.

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                Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hateHate leads to suffering. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.

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          I do not blame you. I just happen to be the most stubborn idiot I know. shrug

          Edit: I go back to my feed and see this:

          Got a good chuckle at the bitter irony…