this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

1-2-3-putsch

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Someone went thru the process of building digital artwork of a swastika to denounce a political figure.

Just so we're all on the same page.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

An unelected South African billionaire that made a Nazi salute on stage during the inauguration, has inserted himself into the US federal government, making him a de facto "political figure." Something he has no business being and would be in prison at the very least in any sane world.

Just so we're all on the same page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

pOliTicAl fiGuRe

Fash detected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I think it's just a good photoshop. The diffuse reflection in the metal part of the stick doesn't match the grooves.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Getting on the highway and shifting from third to fourth reich 😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I always drive in Maximum Over-Reich to conserve gas

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

This fucking killed me.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wasn't aware Tesla made reich-hand drive cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

This is pretty fucking funny. Nice work.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That joke went far-right over me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I did nazi that coming

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But EVs don't even need more than one gear ratio because of how the motors...

What's that? Musk designed it? Ah sounds about right, carry on

[–] anomnom 3 points 6 hours ago

The Porsche Taycan has a 2 speed electric gearbox for better efficiency at freeway/autobahn speeds.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IIRC there is actually some benefit to having a low gear and a high gear, because the electric motor works at any speed but can't give the best power output if it's too slow or too fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Iirc that’s how the porsche taycan works.

Pulled up an article to remind myself: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28903274/porsche-taycan-transmission/

It’s on the rear axle, and it looks like it can go into neutral for some high efficiency fwd cruising.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the gear selector for reverse, drive, hardcore, plaid mode and far right.

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

Some Tesla's even come with ludicrous mode.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk put the drive selector on the cyber truck on the roof so that you gave to heil whenever you put it into drive

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Credit to them it's recycled from a model T

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Elon personally ensures that each transmission can be shifted without using his hands.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Please stop confusing the buddhist swastika with the N*zi cross, you're just spreading a harmful view of this religion symbol that almost got banned once somewhere in the EU.

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

Unfortunately the Nazi one is also called a swastika because they appropriated the symbol, and just rotated it 45 degrees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

The rotation isn't actually a required part. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise is, quite frankly, probably a gaslighting Nazi. You'll find it on various military vehicles in the 90-degree orientation quite a lot. Propaganda use typically has the tilt but, again, not having the tilt doesn't mean it's not Nazi shit.

The symbol was also used well beyond India. They actually co-opted the symbol after its popularity in Europe grew from the discovery of Troy:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-swastika-an-ancient-symbol-of-good-fortune-used-around-the-world-became-the-nazi-logo-180962812/

There are other reasons of course, but I just think that's kind of neat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I agree, plus the Nazi version would possibly be easier to shift.