Meme Thread... no politics

1988RedT2 said:

David Elfering said:

 

Isn't that the uber-rare limited edition Prosciutto Barbie?

So bacon isn't good on everything...

In reply to Steve_Jones :

Racist trope much?

Stampie said:

In reply to Steve_Jones :

Racist trope much?

I know plenty of white guys that borrow the baby-momma car. Seems to me you're the racist one since you assumed a certain color based on that. Be better. 

In reply to 914Driver :

Missing from that (Russsian created?) meme is the following: 

• The truck has the ability to turn its wheels 90* to move sideways and get out of a traffic jam
• The truck has the ability to raise itself to get over earthquake debris
• Berlin recently completed 440 runs with its Rosenbauer RT, using electric power 99.81 per cent of the time. In four months, the truck used just eight litres of diesel
• That $300k increase is from $1.2m to $1.5m. 25% increase, which certainly isn't nothing, but over the life of the truck insignificant. 
   

In reply to mtn :

Not to derail the meme thread, but Items #1 and #2 are agnostic of the type of propulsion (i.e. a diesel truck could have the same features), #3 Berlin *equals not* Vancouver, and #4 is inconclusive, since life cycle costs are the more relevant metric.  Likely the electric truck requires less maintenance, but the diesel won't require a new battery pack at x-years.  So, more data is needed.  

Also not sure why Russia would have created the meme, except that everything now has to be blamed on either Russia or China.  More likely it was just some hick in his basement who had access to 5 minutes worth of googling and has a grudge against Tesla owners.  

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

#1 and #2 might  be dependent on having electric hub motors, so there is no drive shafting required.  Being unfamiliar with the vehicle in question, it's a thought.

volvoclearinghouse said:

In reply to mtn :

Not to derail the meme thread, but Items #1 and #2 are agnostic of the type of propulsion (i.e. a diesel truck could have the same features), #3 Berlin *equals not* Vancouver, and #4 is inconclusive, since life cycle costs are the more relevant metric.  Likely the electric truck requires less maintenance, but the diesel won't require a new battery pack at x-years.  So, more data is needed.  

Also not sure why Russia would have created the meme, except that everything now has to be blamed on either Russia or China.  More likely it was just some hick in his basement who had access to 5 minutes worth of googling and has a grudge against Tesla owners.  

Bolded part are relevant to the "$300k more than the diesel model". Those sound like $300k features to me. 

As to the Russian part, these types of memes often get spread via echochamber type groups. It has been proven time and time again that quite often the origin of these memes (anything that has a general dividing line between the two factions) are from Russians looking to sew dissent among Americans and further divide us. 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/russian-social-media-posts.html

Definitely could be a redneck who dislikes anything electric though. 

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volvoclearinghouse said:

In reply to mtn :

Not to derail the meme thread, but...

Too late