That Tesla Diner in LA is rousing some controversy. There’s an apartment building right next door, and as this article describes there was a long period of loud construction, and even now there’s traffic noise. It has movie screens set up around the restaurant, which are actually gigantic electronic screens with loud fans whooshing noise at the building. It’s so unpleasant that residents have moved out, which is good evidence that the diner is not a good neighbor.
Except the article found one guy who is pleased to have a garish loud business next door.
“We see these people at 10 p.m. at night,” he said, “just happy, having their burger, putting some light show on in their Tesla and seeing some old school film. I mean, how can you not like that? This is the pinnacle of happiness and excitement.”
How can you not like a business next to your home that is open 24/7? I’m kinda doubting the honesty of this one guy. But you know what really bothered him? The protesters picketing the place.
The construction hadn’t bothered him either. “It was peaceful before until they showed up,” he said, indicating to the protesters, “I cannot sleep with this. And luckily, this is just for a short time.” He hopes the diner will bring more tourism to the neighborhood. “I’ve never seen so many happy kids and so many happy families,” he said. “I’m actually closer to buying a Tesla than I was before… Not because of Elon, but I saw the joy over here.”
What kind of clown wants more tourism to a residential neighborhood?
Think someone is sucking up to Elon hoping for a Cybertruck discount.
Given the large number of unsold Cybertucks, I think that Cybertruck discount is going to become whatever the opposite of an oxymoron is.
It’s a cult, and Musk is shitty. That said, I live near it and think this is a silly article.
This is a mixed use neighborhood. It is very close to West Hollywood and the LGBT center, so it is very touristy already. Most of the places in California that people want to live have been paved over already, so construction noise is part of being part of a big city. One of the proposed ways to lower rents and to increase places for people to live has been to redevelop, and all cities have been forced to do this by state law.
If they are talking about the apartment building next door it is very new. (It is deliberately mixed use and not just residential) The lot that they were next to where the Tesla was built was a derelict pizza parlor. This neighborhood has old old soundstages, perverted sex clubs (even if you are very sex positive as I am), and storage rentals, and was grungy and never swank. Although you wouldn’t know it from their marketing :) Santa Monica Boulevard is very noisy as it is a main street here.
Los Angeles, for a big city, tends to roll up its sidewalks at around 10 PM. Apparently, this 24 hr is a well-liked idea among the people who run the place? Who knows. What I do know is that West Hollywood allows electronic billboards so bright that they rival Hong Kong for sheer light pollution and are visible miles away. Anyone who lives in this new apartment complex can see them? WeHo is just blocks away so anyone on in that building is already subject to light pollution. The fans sound like they’re awful to live next to, but SMB is also very noisy to live next to. What I do know is that charging stations are in short supply as our state is attempting to switch to no new ICE engines (the other bad ICE) by 2035, so the demand to have charging available at all hours should remain high.
“This is the pinnacle of happiness and excitement.”
And here I thought my life was boring and uneventful…
Rigging the reviews too – https://protos.com/is-the-tesla-diner-rigging-reviews/
Do you have any distant relations that could ring at the guy’s door in a month from now? I’m very specifically not suggesting that anyone will open…
@#4-unclestinky
Elon Musk would never stoop that low.
@#1:
“Tautology,” perhaps? Or “pleonasm,” though that would be kind of obscure.
Reminds me of the hired protestors in Avenue 5.
That reminds me: When am I going to get my check from that George Soros guy wingnuts are obsessed with?
@7, Ambrose Bierce defined a pleonasm as “an army of words escorting a corporal of thought.” In its sense of redundancy, I suppose it fits, as does a tautology, but perhaps just “redundancy” works as well.
[good grief! Such ignorance! No!]
None of those are apposite, either as an antonym or an opposite in some other sense.
Two apparently contradictory terms vs. overt redundancy. Right?
There is no such term. One could make a neologism, but no.
(I just checked)
John Morales …OT
Do you have any idea when “gift” became a verb?
All over the intertubes there are people who “gift” a gift to someone…
someone has been “gifted” a gift.
Yes, I know language changes.
But this seems childish, or double plus ungood.
chigau, alas, https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/gift-as-a-verb
It’s attested.
(I quite dislike the confusion between ‘loan’ and ‘lend’, mind you)
Thanks for that comment on gift, John Morales. I suspected that the usage derived from legal terminology and referred to a formal Deed of Gift…. mind you, I can’t help remembering the German ‘Gift’.
There seems to be a lot language dumbness going on these days. Canadian car ads describe vehicles as “most awarded,” by which they mean they’ve won lots of awards, not that Big Car Company has given lots of them away as it should mean. Save on Foods promo for their Touchdown and Win contest uses shop as a noun to describe a trip to the store. “Each shop gives you bonus entries.” Then there’s the dumb replacement of request with ask. “We have an ask for 50 thousand extra dollar for the paving budget this year.”
At least they don’t have to put up with roaring and revving engines.
This country is run by plutocratic, fascist cults! They are succeeding with the drooling imbeciles of this of society by winning the wars on science and education.
@14 submoron wrote: I can’t help remembering the German ‘Gift’.
I reply: It is a noun. Unless you part of the war on intelligence, where language is used as a sledgehammer. If I remember correctly, the word ‘gift’ in German means poison.
You can’t imagine anything happier or more exciting than a half-assed drive-in theater, serving hamburgers?
That’s the saddest thing I heard all year and I work in an elder-care facility for people with dementia.
A patio covering at the Tesla Diner just fell down, knocked a young mother briefly unconscious, and missed her baby by inches:
https://futurism.com/tesla-diner-patio-accident
After the couple alerted the diner’s staff, video footage of the incident was reviewed and they confirmed it to be real, which is apparently how they handle customer service and safety at the “epic bacon”-peddling restaurant…
Oh, and if seachange wants to make excuses for this place, they should read this article first…
In interviews with 404 Media, people who lived near the retrofuturist restaurant on Route 66 said they have for nearly two years dealt with everything from massively bright floodlights and illegal middle-of-the-night construction to destructive guests and protesters alike.
Kristin Rose, a former resident of an apartment building next door, told her building’s management company back in February 2024 that living next to the Tesla Diner construction felt “like we’re at the world’s worst rave” due to the bright strobing lights going off at the site all night. She told 404 it was “absolute hell” to be near, which is why she no longer lives in her previously well-located building right by LA’s famous Santa Monica Boulevard. (Tesla, naturally, didn’t respond to 404’s request for comment.)
In the end, the Tesla Diner serves as a metaphor not just for the way the company builds, but also for the way it handles issues: by building an eyesore, operating outside legal boundaries, and without any consideration for the people who have to deal with it.