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Tesla Cybertruck Musk: "Cybertruck pricing and specs will be different, but it will be a damn fine product." 1am41l



Elon tells us:

Give me your money? check
Is from another planet? check
Fathered many children? check
"Let me take the wheel?" check
Has an underground lair in Vegas? check
Wants to take us to space? check

yep, it's a cult
 

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So you were allowed to buy it and 90% of families had at that point, but your parents took it upon themselves to cheat?

O-o

-Crissa
Turns out tariffs imposed on imported appliances jacked the price up in Canada for imported refrigerators. Red River was hours on gravel north of where pavement ended. We would see Native Tribal Canadians in canoe traveling back from winter camps. Remote fridges just exceed the incomes up in those parts in early 60’s.
So my family smuggled in an American refrigerator and gifted that to our host. So my family skirted Canadian tariff and provided a US-made essential before they could afford it. If the history link is to be believed, 99% saturation for refrigeration was not achieved until 1976 in Canada. I can’t vouch for @LastStarfighter’s “everybody” had a fridge but the host was grateful and welcomed our yearly fishing trip until 14y.o., so for the next 7 yrs. The last several yrs. asphalt made the trip a cinch all the way north to town above RedRiver.

My parents cheated many times to the benefit of others. As a Shriner, a girl whose foot badly deformed from birth needed surgery if she was ever to walk heel-to-toe. All expenses paid, she was treated by Shriner Hospital. Mother from Po’folks, regularly went back to her small town Iowa helping families, once donating a school bus to get families to church. I’m sure that escaped taxes as a gift. Father kinda adopted a single mom’s adult son, counseling, providing work, getting him involved in Shrine who went on to found a successful company haul rolloffs. I have no regrets being raised by cheaters!
 


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yea, it's called differed gratification.......most millennials dont understand that concept......they want everything now.......houses, cars travel.....things that it took their parents a lifetime to obtain......nothing like being entitled......just wait to see what happens in the next 20 years......we will probably all be eating with something other than a fork and spoon
Here we go with the milennial bashing again. It's been proven time and again that is as hogwa
Bullshit.

Millennials are making less money and spending more money on the same basic things and getting less.

I am flat tired of the lying about this.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2011/11/07/chapter-1-wealth-gaps-by-age/

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You can't convince old man syndrome that they are suffering from old man syndrome. Just let them be.
 

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You can't convince old man syndrome that they are suffering from old man syndrome. Just let them be.
Wait... If it's a syndrome, you mean to say that I might have hope of a cure/intervention? Here I was thinking it was destiny to someday be sitting on my porch with a shotgun yelling at the youngsters to get off my lawn.
 

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Here we go with the milennial bashing again. It's been proven time and again that is as hogwa

You can't convince old man syndrome that they are suffering from old man syndrome. Just let them be.
yep let us be.......maybe if some of the thoughtful entitled youngsters grew up and got better educated the world would be a better place.....all of the entitled youngsters will never figure it out
 

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Its easy to lose perspective in single subject forums. This forum is conditioning me to pay way more for the CT than i would otherwise. My enthusiasm has kicked up a notch too 🤪
Tesla secretly funds this board. (their PR budget).
Getting their money’s worth it seems. Weird how perceived public opinion was pushing a (drastic, ridiculous) price increase before Tesla said anything, and they still barely said anything on price.
 


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yep let us be.......maybe if some of the thoughtful entitled youngsters grew up and got better educated the world would be a better place.....all of the entitled youngsters will never figure it out
Hahaha. Assuming we don't have education. I have 3 degrees (AS, BS, Masters degree).

Maybe part of the problem with broke ass millennials is their parents preached to them the importance of higher education based on their previous experience with higher education that was more affordable, and the average cost of college degrees more than tripled since the 70s when those assumptions were formed.

I did my time in higher Ed, racked up 200k in debt from all those smarts and now I have to bust my ass full time in one of the most expensive cities on earth with what would be a decent salary anywhere else, but have zero chance of buying a house anytime soon with that education debt. Instead must pay some of the highest rents for smallest places in the country while making every payment on time for student loans, and still most likely never see the end of those loans. Only to be told time and again.. I'm the problem with me. ;)

Tell me again where it's just not enough effort to get to the golden finish line that my parents generation seems to think it's still attainable for the average highly educated individual...

Btw, nothing unique about this millennials story. Ask around instead of preaching. I'm sure you'll find more than 1.
 
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Hahaha. Assuming we don't have education. I have 3 degrees (AS, BS, Masters degree).

Maybe part of the problem with broke ass millennials is their parents preached to them the importance of higher education based on their previous experience with higher education that was more affordable, and the average cost of college degrees more than tripled since the 70s when those assumptions were formed.

I did my time in higher Ed, racked up 200k in debt from all those smarts and now I have to bust my ass full time in one of the most expensive cities on earth with what would be a decent salary anywhere else, but have zero chance of buying a house anytime soon with that education debt. Instead must pay some of the highest rents for smallest places in the country while making every payment on time for student loans and will most likely never see the end of those loans.

Tell me again where it's just not enough effort to get to the golden finish line that my parents generation seems to think it's still attainable for the average highly educated individual...
why is it that everytime someone mentions education, people (older ones) think of college degrees.........I have 3 degrees also......education, electrical engineering and business........none of those were used in my lifetime after college.....I joined the Marine Corps, went to Perris Island as a private, then to quantico where I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt.....went to flight school and retired a Colonel.......

education can be anything from ditch diggers to electricians to plumbers.......so dont talk to me about your 3 degrees and you 200k loan and inability to buy a house.......I got married as a senior at GaTech and had one child when I was 24......I was able to make it because I made the correct decisions......I am not saying you made mistakes, but I managed to do it on my own......after service I got a job in quality assurance and retired as a director of a laser company's quality assurance organization.....the company is located in Santa Clara........I had an apartment there and home in SoCAl....commuted for 9 years and missed a lot back home.....but did what I had to do to support my family as you appear to be doing.....so good luck to you and keep up the hard work
 

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why is it that everytime someone mentions education, people (older ones) think of college degrees.........I have 3 degrees also......education, electrical engineering and business........none of those were used in my lifetime after college.....I joined the Marine Corps, went to Perris Island as a private, then to quantico where I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt.....went to flight school and retired a Colonel.......

education can be anything from ditch diggers to electricians to plumbers.......so dont talk to me about your 3 degrees and you 200k loan and inability to buy a house.......I got married as a senior at GaTech and had one child when I was 24......I was able to make it because I made the correct decisions......I am not saying you made mistakes, but I managed to do it on my own......after service I got a job in quality assurance and retired as a director of a laser company's quality assurance organization.....the company is located in Santa Clara........I had an apartment there and home in SoCAl....commuted for 9 years and missed a lot back home.....but did what I had to do to support my family as you appear to be doing.....so good luck to you and keep up the hard work
My point exactly. What separates your success from the lack of many millennials success is the economy of the time these efforts have been exerted. Not generic pull you bootstraps up, get some form of education and stop being lazy a cry baby (you didn't see me complaining about any of this.. Just responding to generic assumptions).

Btw, I'm glad you were able to provide for your family through so much effort! That's the American dream. I just wish more millennials could actually attain that same dream.

(End rant on topic. Back to prices, aliens, light bars, baw and the like)
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