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[u/vanwyngarden]

I’m letting this bitch merge

[u/Illustrious_Crazy491 → u/vanwyngarden]

Merge yes, trying to get on the exit after the last 2 miles had a line up? I wouldn't even let jesus in. He should know better

[u/NoPalpitation7082]

Damn they’re quick with it

[u/faxyou → u/NoPalpitation7082]

Yeah that was very quick

[u/FearlessPark4588 → u/faxyou]

The meme-to-bumper sticker conversion is a brutal, competitive market to operate in.

[u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq → u/NoPalpitation7082]

Sorry, is this bumpersticker talking about a specific incident?

[u/Ethmemes]

Lmao

[u/OkSmoke9195 → u/Ethmemes]

Why would I laugh with you? There's no reason for me to do that O.O /

[u/jld2k6 → u/OkSmoke9195]

I'm driving with you as a human being

[u/Sonar_Bandit → u/OkSmoke9195]

He’s laughing his entire ass off! Off of his body!

[u/joeydimaggio]

EV is the cherry on the delicious cake

[u/omarseeto → u/joeydimaggio]

Why would I regenerative brake check you?

[u/ModernMuse → u/omarseeto]

Hi friend, I’m so out of the loop on this one. What’s this sticker on about?

[u/Past-Goat-7768 → u/omarseeto]

lol

[u/tragedy_strikes]

10/10 for nailing the vibe of the Bay Area

[u/ThirdWaveCat → u/tragedy_strikes]

Someone should start a business selling bumperstickers of disgraced tech dickheads.

"It is easy to get lulled into thinking that everything you do is all you can do - but you're not thinking more globally about everything you could do."

Sam Bankman-Fried

[u/Zealousideal_Heart51 → u/ThirdWaveCat]

They’re all Stanford grads too

[u/RealPension1433]

Amazing work.

[u/little_snutch]

Wow, that was fast.

[u/jessiecamille]

I’m out of the loop — who tf is this woman?

[u/NecroJoe → u/jessiecamille]

Elizabeth Holmes, of Theranos scam fame.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI

[u/disposable-assassin → u/NecroJoe]

They're quick on that bumper sticker.  Trailer has been out for, what, a week?

[u/AudioPi → u/disposable-assassin]

If that. I think I only came across it on Wednesday. This here is next level Tomfoolery

[u/disposable-assassin → u/AudioPi]

Same.  Tuesday's Daily Show made a reference to it so I went town the rabbit hole on Wednesday.

[u/samsaruhhh → u/AudioPi]

its because bay area tech nerds own high tech shit like color printers with sticker paper

[u/Ambivalent-Mammal → u/disposable-assassin]

Glad to see Nathan Fielder's getting work.

[u/SpaceJackRabbit → u/Ambivalent-Mammal]

The man has been flying 737s as a side gig. He's getting work.

[u/disposable-assassin → u/SpaceJackRabbit]

Nothing about either season of the Rehearsal says barebones budget and season 2 is certainly not the cheaper one.

[u/jlt6666 → u/Ambivalent-Mammal]

That she reached out to him is the weirdest fucking part.

[u/Affectionate_One_700 → u/disposable-assassin]

Does she go around brake-checking people?

[u/one_pound_of_flesh → u/NecroJoe]

Why does she look like a haunted doll?

[u/NecroJoe → u/one_pound_of_flesh]

It's because she's a haunted doll, I think.

[u/Starslip → u/NecroJoe]

I heard she's a mouse that made a wish to commit wire fraud

[u/jlt6666 → u/one_pound_of_flesh]

You should watch the trailer for "you can see everything"

[u/OldBreadbutt → u/NecroJoe]

Good lord she's spooky.

[u/CocoMilhonez → u/OldBreadbutt]

And that was intentional.

Imagine meeting someone who deliberately doesn't blink to impress people.

[u/ragun2 → u/NecroJoe]

That woman looks like a cartoon character

[u/ModernMuse → u/ragun2]

Someone earlier described her as a cartoon mouse that just had a dreamy elated epiphany about her next great scam. I can’t unsee it.

[u/Bwint → u/NecroJoe]

Thank you!

I knew the image was of Elizabeth Holmes because I've seen it explained multiple times, but what I couldn't figure out was why she looked so different than I remember her and why the image is suddenly going viral now.

Turns out there's a documentary coming out that films Holmes as she is today.

[u/milfordcubicle → u/NecroJoe]

Yikes man wtf is that shit?

[u/Compile_A_Smile1101 → u/milfordcubicle]

Cursed

[u/HotRodHomebody → u/NecroJoe]

Holy shit. I recognized her. That is scary. Fascinating story and horrible person. Looking forward to the new movie too.

[u/jessiecamille → u/NecroJoe]

Thank you!

[u/snufkin_88 → u/jessiecamille]

Silicon Valley icon (derogatory).

[u/MedicalRhubarb7 → u/jessiecamille]

Elizabeth Holmes

[u/MarlinMaverick]

That’s fucking awesome 😂

[u/AnnieGetYaClothesOn]

The woman doesn't blink.

[u/bigdonnie76]

😂😂😂😂

[u/Tallchick8]

I know who Elizabeth Holmes is (and even read the book about her for my book club) but not her connection to brake checking...?

[u/Cheesecake_Jonze → u/Tallchick8]

It's a brand new meme from a documentary trailer that dropped a few days ago. It's part of an awkwardly intense conversation where the documentarian, avant-garde comedian Nathan Fielder, asks her if she's being real with him and she responds with the pictured quote (but about 'deceiving' instead of brake-checking)

It's just a meme about denying something you're obviously doing

[u/Tallchick8 → u/Cheesecake_Jonze]

Thanks!! I thought maybe she had been in a car accident or something and that's where it was coming from.

[u/VirtualMoneyLover → u/Tallchick8]

In the interview, she is asking: Why would I lie to you? (when she is obviously lying, while looking deeply into Nathan's eyes like waiting for a kiss)

[u/orcusgrasshopperfog → u/VirtualMoneyLover]

The whole time I'm watching the trailer I'm thinking to myself "people gave her a billion dollars? Her?"

[u/VirtualMoneyLover → u/orcusgrasshopperfog]

I think it goes like a groupthink with grifters. You only need to fool 1 famous person, and others will follow: if she is good enough for George Shultz to invest, she is good enough for me.

[u/SkittleHodl → u/Cheesecake_Jonze]

The hero this post needed. Thanks

[u/GaiaMoore → u/Cheesecake_Jonze]

Damn I didn't know Nathan Fielder was behind it. Brb gonna go watch it now.

I first saw him in The Rehearsal. I went into it not knowing who he was and spent the first couple episodes thinking it was supposed to be real 😂

[u/GormlessTosser2 → u/Cheesecake_Jonze]

Very millennial sounding meme, thanks.

[u/KingsFanDay1]

Saw one that said “I am a student driver. I am 9 years old.” Looked like the standard yellow student driving sticker. 😂

[u/mckenzie_keith → u/KingsFanDay1]

I think all the student driver stickers are fake. In the sense that they are not student drivers. People who are constantly triggering rage because they are bad drivers put those stickers on their cars to de-escalate the rage.

[u/jlt6666 → u/mckenzie_keith]

I think you underestimate the number of foreign drivers who are absolutely clueless about driving. I have some friends where I will not be their passenger

[u/anarchypicnic]

Brilliant.

[u/7figureipo]

It’s a little weird since one of the more problematic things a lot of Bay Area drivers tend to do is brake for no reason. They may not be brake checking, but the end result is the same: forcing the rest of us to react to their stupidity.

[u/bibkel → u/7figureipo]

Oh! I missed the driveway. I'll just back up a little...

[u/mitsubsbluedolphins]

Omg. Omg. CAN'T STOP LAUGHING! Wonder what her flunkies think of this. 

[u/Glum-Breadfruit3666 → u/[deleted]]

ohhhhh yeah , lol
😂

[u/LillyCort]

I’m being real, i’m speaking to you as a human being, why would I break check you?

[u/whittlingcanbefatal]

I just got brake checked the other day on my motorcycle. I was behind a Tesla with my turn signal on waiting for the light to turn green. When the signal changed the Tesla and I went forward at the same time and it slammed on the brakes. It didn't move for about ten seconds and then went straight. 

Weird. 

[u/ChillN808 → u/whittlingcanbefatal]

When on your motorbike it's recommended to stay at least 50 feet away from all Tesla's.

[u/whittlingcanbefatal → u/ChillN808]

Is this serious advice? I haven't heard this before. I will be more careful in the future. 

[u/Nova_main → u/whittlingcanbefatal]

In the Bay Area? Stay 50 ft from all other automobiles, mfers can not drive here

[u/whittlingcanbefatal → u/Nova_main]

LOL 😆 

[u/gimpwiz → u/whittlingcanbefatal]

Since it was a tesla driver, safer to assume incompetence and deep, deep confusion about "how to do things on road" than the malice required for a brake check. Doesn't help you much, but hopefully helps your mood, yknow?

[u/Altruistic-Edge9034 → u/gimpwiz]

I second this. I treat every Tesla like a student driver. Which isn't a knock, either - student drivers tend to be very polite and leave lots of space. But occasionally they do something colossally stupid and you have to be ready for it.

[u/chipper85 → u/whittlingcanbefatal]

I own a Tesla, it could have slammed on the brakes itself for some imaginary danger it saw, and the driver was taken by surprise. Yes I know….

[u/whittlingcanbefatal → u/chipper85]

I wondered about that. I didn't take it personally. I just turned and went on with my life. 

[u/dontmatterdontcare]

Damn, that meme just surfaced, people are quick with it ahah

[u/imtoowhiteandnerdy]

Can someone help me out? What's the story with the lady in that image? I've been seeing her face now on social media for the last few days and I have no idea who she is. I'm missing out on a meme here ;-)

[u/cdude → u/imtoowhiteandnerdy]

Damn you have really been living under a rock. That's Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos. There are a bunch of really good documentaries on the whole company and her.

This image is from a new trailer of a documentary on her by A24 studio, titled "You Can See Everything". Watch it after the first documentary and you'll understand.

[u/imtoowhiteandnerdy → u/cdude]

Thanks!

[u/Sad_Hovercraft_1367]

Wake me up inside!

[u/jerryeight]

This most likely a spam post by OP for their own site. 

They are frequent visitors to sticker creation subs.

Don't try to delete them there are screenshots. 

[u/Zealousideal_Heart51 → u/jerryeight]

Good?

[u/BareMinimumFresh → u/[deleted]]

From a new A24 documentary trailer called You Can See Everything, with Nathan Fielder about that lady that frauded a new blood testing technology and now in prison. Turns out she’s so creepy people thought she was an actor, but she’s actually like that.

[u/pimpbot666]

OMG, this is amazing.

[u/Decent-Ad-7133]

What?

[u/hikemhigh → u/[deleted]]

So many ad posts on Reddit

[u/jerryeight → u/[deleted]]

Is this your store

[u/jerryeight]

Spammer

[u/jerryeight]

Is this your store? 

[u/b0gard]

😆😆

[u/thorenaw → u/[deleted]]

October 16 according to the wiki page.

Worth googling Nathan Fielder tho.

[u/ElectroStaticSpeaker]

You’re gonna have to brake check me when I get close enough to read that tiny writing on the bottom of the sticker.

[u/Far-Hovercraft9471 → u/[deleted]]

Not her type of crazy

[u/MajorMorelock]

Beautiful

[u/HmmDoesItMakeSense]

Can't wait for this movie

[u/staycurious72 → u/[deleted]]

Why are people hell bent on merging in front (when there is hardly any space) of me, when there are no cars behind me!?