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Lest we forget: "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the wor
by ToDougie 1y ago
Lest we forget:
"The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."
https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-of-the-new-nikola-hydrogen-electric-truck https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-... - April 24, 2019
- bflesch 1y agoSomeone should be selling motivational posters with these kind of funny quotes from our dear "tech leaders". There should be a gallery of funny quotes to choose from so I can put them on my wall and feel better about myself.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoSame!! I'd definitely consider buying some for myself, and perhaps also as gag-gifts for other tech friends lol. I happen to have access to amazon merch from forever ago, which doesn't have posters, but does allow throw pillows.... I might spend the weekend playing with one lol
- pinkmuffinere 1y agolol Here's the throw pillow: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZPJDZ4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZPJDZ4
- nerdsniper 1y agoWow. Quotes like these really illustrate to me that I may have some massive blind spots and lack a lot of skills that help make people lots of money. This fellow is worth $3 billion and just spouts gibberish. What skills does he have that I completely lack?
- kibwen 1y ago> What skills does he have that I completely lack? As George Carlin would say, it's a big club, and you ain't in it.
- maxbond 1y agoMaybe what you have that Milton lacks is integrity.
- lostmsu 1y agoIs your tongue smooth?
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- tptacek 1y agoPoetry. The ability to be awed by the wonders all around him, and to transmit that awe to others. A true communion with the fantastical.
- takinola 1y agoThis is not even a joke.
- 0_____0 1y agoI think this is perhaps one factor that feeds into the "reality distortion field" I have seen around particular leaders. You don't feel like they're trying to goad you into seeing it their way, you just sort of naturally start to believe in their project (their? is our project, comrade!).
- kridsdale3 1y agoCharisma (or Riz, now, I guess) is just a naturally in-built trait in some segment of the population. We evolved to be collective and cooperative by following leaders. We have never had a meritocratic or scientific system for choosing who to follow.
- boringg 1y agoThat can't be real - wow. They were the company that rolled the vehicle downhill to make it look like progress right?
- paulpauper 1y agoyeah https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype-was-rolling-downhill-in-promotional-video/#:~:text=Nikola%20admits%20prototype%20was%20rolling,a%20two%2Dlane%20desert%20highway. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype...
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- Animats 1y agoBy order of Trump, that never happened.[1][2] Financial claims against Milton are now void. The Führer is never wrong. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-milton-ceo-securities-fraud-electric-vehicle.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-... [2] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1395001/dl https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1395001/dl
- ourmandave 1y agoThe founders argued over the presidential pardon having to much power, and decided that congress's impeachment power would prevent abuse.
- RealityVoid 1y agoHah! Guess they didn't see these voting patterns coming! They gave you “A republic, if you can keep it.” - I will admit, you gave it a pretty good run.
- pear01 1y agovoting patterns? The founders didn't want most people to vote.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoWow, this is like an instant cure for imposter syndrome. I might hang this on my wall.
- russdill 1y agovue, it's vue.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoAnd it receives data from a set of tubes which some experts call "internet"
- ManuelKiessling 1y agoThat’s so wrong that even the opposite of it is wrong.
- camdroidw 1y ago[dead]
- dreamcompiler 1y agoThis sounds a lot like Ted "The Internet is a series of tubes" Stevens. You can just hear the frustrated aide trying to explain a concept to him in the simplest possible terms and then he totally mangles it.
- metadat 1y agoAh, thanks, I thought it was a series of tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes