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Ohhh, Fisker the Car company not Fiskar the scissor company.

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Fiskars the blade company also makes Gerber products. The knives, not the Baby food.

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Babies can eat knives if they’re brave enough

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17 points

You can eat anything, once.

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8 points

Have you met babies? They’ll eat anything, period. Except their food. That’s half the challenge in parenting.

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Anything’s a baby if you’re brave enough?

Amidoinitright?

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6 points

Knives, the cutting implement? Not The Knife, the Swedish electronic band?

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4 points

and Gerber the knife brand used to be an absolute seal of quality but now the majority of their items are cheap chinese-manufactured garbage. Only the top dollar knives are still any good. It’s quite sad really.

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2 points

Everything has worsened, Leatherman isn’t the company it used to be either.

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36 points

It’s Fiskars

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29 points

I bet they’d make a sharp looking car

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13 points

Really cutting edge.

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10 points

In the irradiated wasteland after the climate wars there will be a blacksmith somewhere stamping Fiskars on the crude sheers he uses to shave his two headed sheep.

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24 points

Then he will be zapped for trademark infringement with an orbital laser operated by the space oligarchs.

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8 points

TIL it’s spelled Fiskar

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7 points

I was pretty worried about that TBH. I don’t buy them frequently but that’s because they’re usually good tools that last.

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6 points

They also make wonderful axes and mauls I use to abuse trees and let all my anger out. A by product of this behavior is I also get to heat my home in the cold months.

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2 points

Their lawn weed puller is legit also.

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3 points

Phew! Close one.

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84 points

And all it took was scapegoating a reviewer kid. (Don’t look at the stock prices before that, please)

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Fisker found out Brownless got the car from an outside source

That typo is hilarious

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2 points

I don’t get it

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“The company is Fisker’s second automotive startup. His previous startup, Fisker Automotive, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013. Fisker launched his second automotive company in 2016.”

Actual picture of investors of the second company: 🤡

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39 points

And I didn’t really think his review was all that scathing.

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27 points

Marques is actually very balanced even in his critical reviews.

Even with the Humane AI pin, he did commend them on their physical build quality, even if the rest of the device was practically useless, he never outright said that, just points out the flaws.

Although I do wonder sometimes how much he tries to hard to be balanced, as some products, especially cars due to the price, don’t deserve kind treatment for noticeable faults.

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6 points

The video’s title “worst car ever reviewed” was not as balanced though :D

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15 points

It wasn’t. Fisker’s shitty response is what made it an even bigger deal.

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3 points

I agree, but to be fair the title was a little clickbaity and was seen by a whole lot of people who didn’t watch the video and just scrolled past it.

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It wasn’t really. It certainly didn’t make me want to go spend $70k for one, but I wouldn’t have entirely dismissed the brand as a whole for one of their first forays into both auto engineering and EV production. If I got one for free, I’d drive it. By the time I need a new car, it would have been worth looking into again.

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Yeah… if the car wasn’t shit, the review would have been more positive. It’s not the reviewer’s fault the car sucks lol

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In this case yes but as an example Linus Tech Tips has put companies in trouble by botching their reviews: using the wrong GPU with a prototype cooler (despite being provided the GPU…) and not removing the protective film on a gaming mouse.

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14 points

30 year olds are kids now? This is big

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Well tbf a lot of people have been following him since he actually was a kid. He started the channel when he was in high school.

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2 points

Ask the Fisker technician who called the guy who rented out the EV to Browlee.

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60 points

Likely well deserved — but still unfortunate. The EV space only benefits from more options and more competition.

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Competition is great, a company that can’t produce a quality product and ships a CAR with beta level software that can’t update OTA is NOT competition.

The auto industry is highly unfavorable to startups, the competition you want will come from the old ICE OEMs.

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7 points

My wife was thinking between the Rivian s3 and the Fisker as our next vehicle.

This makes me sad to hear.

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23 points

but the choice is easier now

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2 points

Yeah, just get a Cupra Leon FR PHEV

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Rivian has been doing layoffs at their BloNo plant recently. I’m not sure if it’s just like everyone else in the tech sector or if demand is down.

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13 points

Demand is down because these vehicles are pushing $100k and interest rates on car loans are 7-8%. They did recently announce some new, cheaper models in the near future so it may turn around for them.

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Fisker said it hired a Chief Restructuring Officer in the hopes of staving off bankruptcy.

Ah yes. No better way to reduce costs than hiring another C*O.

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Only reason i clicked this post

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