I really hope young folks just discovering Leverage understand that in 2008 a Tesla meant basically the opposite of what it means in 2025. They were so exciting. We were so hopeful.
I was showing it to my roommate for the first time in 2023, and she was like “ooof, that aged badly”.
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Okay here’s some more context for folks:
Yes, the Tesla Roadster Sportscar was the first Tesla car. That was the whole exciting thing about Tesla: not only were they making an electric car, they were making an electric SPORTSCAR. Meaning they were making the idea of electric cars (and by extension renewable energy in general) COOL. Cool and exclusive and something rich people would want to get in on, not something for fringe eco nerds, so that then they would eventually have the funds and support to roll out electric cars that everyone could use. That’s why Tesla was cool. That’s why the joke in the show is “well it’s an electric car” — you expect something dinky, cause other electric cars were not powerful or cool— and then he rolls up with the super cool exciting Tesla sportscar.
And while it’s fascinating that Elon took over right at this time (Edit: apparently I reblogged the wrong chain, we talked about this on a different reblog) that does not mean that that perception changed instantly. People didn’t immediately know that he was bad news, the company did not immediately go to shit. That was a very gradual thing. It’s possible the showrunners were ahead of the curve and wanted to distance themselves from it, but I always assumed the reason the car only showed up once was much simpler: They were EXPENSIVE.
It sort of slipped by among all the other outrages. But I want to point that not only did the Vice President of the US say that his boss should intentionally violate court orders, he did it by quoting Andrew Jackson.
The context of that quote? The thing the Supreme Court told Jackson was unconstitutional, but he did it anyway? It was a Georgia state law granting the state legal control over Cherokee lands. The Supreme Court ruled that the United States only has exclusive negotiating rights with Indian nations, not political dominion over them.
Both Georgia and Jackson disregarded this ruling and continued the illegal takeover of Cherokee lands. Eventually culminating in the Cherokee removal, part of the infamous Trail of Tears.
So take it very seriously when Vance quotes this (most likely fictitious) saying. Or when Trump says Jackson is his favorite president. Especially when they’re talking about mass deportation, ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and the annexation of other countries.
when i first moved out and started cooking for myself i had a very poor diet. i think @lizardho has a picture of my fridge at one point, it was just various kinds of pickled things, and cured meats.
fast forward after like, three or four months of this, and i was at the dentist, getting my teeth cleaned, when the hygenist went ah, babs, your gums are bleeding. u need to floss more.
and i went i floss like, three times a day, and it always bleeds, and im always gentle, and you are lying bastard gum torturers. u can do what u need to, but dont stab my mouth and blame me when it bleeds.
the hygenist took exception to that. we didn’t really shout at each other, but it was a tense exchange and i was just much more crabby than normal. eventually he left to get the dentist to sort things out.
cue the dentist coming back. he checked out my gums, gave me a lookover, then said hey. babs. are your joints kind of achey?
and i went yeah, i’m kind of hoping for another growth spurt, i’m 5’11 and it would be nice to finally hit the ol’ 6’
and he went yeah, but you’re 21, so that’s not gonna happen. got any rashes? weird bruises?
and i had some decent bruises, and a weird rash on my leg, and he looked at them and we yeah you are quite vitamin c deficient. thats not easy to do in arizona. how much fresh fruit or vegetables have you had in your diet recently?
and i went does pickled count?
and that was his lightbulb moment. apparently pickling breaks down the vitamin c in things really well. he told me that i should just like, eat one or two raw bell peppers a day for a week and call him if that worked.
it did. my gums stopped bleeding, and my knees stopped hurting at night and my skin just felt smoother and nicer and i got a lot less crabby. no more mouthing off at dental hygenists.
i called him when the week was done, and i was embarrassed that i’d given myself scurvy like it was still the 18th century, and he said naw, not scurvy, but like. noticable deficiency. he said that it was a weird problem, but he’d run into it before – mostly with college students fresh out of the house. people trying to live off peanut butter and ramen for a few months at a time.
i took a multivitamin after that, but i also made an effort to try and eat like a normal human being. i failed occasionally but the effort made me feel a lot better.
my time in cross country gave me this sort of gnostic-feeling about my body. like it was a weak thing that i needed to overcome through will, and not like. me. at least not actually me. i think this was my first big wake up call that no, the body is not my enemy, i am my body, i am a physical object in this world, and if i don’t take care of myself i am going to be worse at everything, including moral tasks, like not being a dick to the dental hygenist.
so. yeah. tldr, please don’t spend months trying to live off pickles and salami.
im in physical pain every day because finnish tumblr users have the weirdest urls ever but nobody knows it because the urls are in finnish
seriously its shit like moomin-rectal-prolapse, jesus-spanker, foreskin-cum-burrito, turbo-bream-orgy and satan’s-titty-slurper and so on. and im not exaggerating at all. and this is not small minority among finnish tumblr blogs, its more like the standard to have urls like these. and none of you non-finnish-speakers have seen this mess because its written in finnish
i just spent a couple minutes going thru finnish tumblr tags. here’s a short list of some of my faves
roughly “chaotically fertilized” (or maybe inseminated? sikin sokin doesn’t really have a direct translation but it’s kinda like, willy nilly, disorganized, chaotic… like things can be “sikin sokin” (messy, disorganized, chaotic) on ur desk or in a drawer)
pourtmanteau of carousel (karuselli) and celery (selleri)
the lord’s vagina (vittu technically means like. the whole of the genitalia associated w vaginas not just the vagina, and is a curse word that has a denotion that boils down to abt the same as c*nt when used to refer to genitals, but with the severity/social acceptance level/usage of “fuck.” if you can put “fuck” there you can put “vittu” there. herra/the lord means specifically The Lord in the religious sense here)
foreplayground
satan’s pineapple
pourtmanteau of mental illness (mielisairaus) and dinosaur (dinosaurus)
extreme diarrhea
dick mountain
sex toy box
self-beer-er, roughly, but it’s a pun/joke on flasher (itsensäpaljastaja, lit self exposer) and beer (kalja)
I’m adding a few as well because I’ve loved these things since I joined Tumblr.
A portmanteau of umbilical cord and tightrope walker = umbilical cord walker.
The new shit house (outhouse), written in the style of 1500s.
The never-ending [state of being] fucking annoyed. Please refer to the entry “herranvittu” for the use of vittu.
I-won’t-give-up-beer.
Radical fuck satan.
Repe Sorsa is the Finnish name of Daffy Duck, so rebel-duck is not far off.
my translation skills might not be the best but let me add some:
onion of modesty
seashell fetish
broccoli worm
blueberry hater
gay drumming
brutal banana
ok first you need to know that the word “bead” is the same as “pearl” in finnish. so this could be pourtmanteau of analbeads and seashell, or anal pearl seashell.
Parsakaalimato, a portmanteau of paskakaali = broccoli and kaalimato = name of a well known online sex toy retailer (they have a ton of day time radio commercials)
When I see someone in a Tesla I don’t necessarily think “here’s a guy who loves Adolf Hitler” because they could have bought it several years ago before this stupid bullshit. However when I see a cyber truck I do think this.
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