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A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

It's like the opposite of early-2000s games, where the car models had an ever-growing poly count but the fire was still an animated 2d sprite.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks a lot like a trunk load of fireworks exploded.

Good video on the Guardian's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9_zvpamUk

Video on the YT channel of The Times. Don't know who is talking but they killed me: https://youtu.be/JrDnramp8i8?t=34

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CNN saying there were also gas tanks and camping fuel

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The glass doors right next to the vehicle look intact in the image, so I can't imagine that the explosion was very large.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't think it actually "exploded", just caught fire. So you know, standard behavior for a Tesla.

[–] kinkles 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There’s a video out now. It definitely exploded, but from my amateur digital forensics it looks like it was the result of a trunk full of fireworks instead of the car itself. I could be wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Says a lot that like nobody knew what to make of it until the propane tanks were found.

Its still unclear if the driver intended for it to explode or if somebody tossed a bunch of flammables in the back and the truck lit it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irony in the headline alone is enough sustenance to carry me through the lean months ahead.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Heh. Nobody is as mad as a betrayed zealot

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

It must be a metaphor of Trump/Musk presidency 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm making that image in the article the "hero" banner image in my Steam library for Cyberpunk 2077. It's just too damn perfect.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't care. Sounds like a problem for fascists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So lets see, a recall every few months, do not allow them to ever get them wet, dont drive them offroad, you're not allowed to sell them, and never use them to haul fireworks.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That entrance doesn't even look 2nd rate, it looks more like a 3rd rate hotel.
I thought Trump liked things to look expensive, but this looks like it's built with the cheapest of the cheapest standard parts available.

[–] atzanteol 8 points 1 week ago

I don't think he typically typically builds buildings, he just sells his name to put on them.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sounds like it's full of fireworks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Just found this

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Staying at the Trump Tower? Let's not give them much praise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

the fire was put out within an hour

How does that work? I thought that with electrical car battery fires, you basically just had to spray water to keep it cool until it was done with what it wanted to do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wasn't a battery fire is was a cargo fire.

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