Elon Musk

braver than the troops

date = data

nearly every article about this is picking up on it, but it's worth noting that any time any of Musk's ventures has had a setback he's immediately jumped to the "sabotage!" angle

in 2016 he was convinced someone was firing a laser at his rocket from a neighboring building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-avaa9a_HU

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/elon-musk-farting-unicorn-mug-cartoon-tom-edwards

Was actually someone else’s drawing of a unicorn on hidden Tesla sketch pad app & we gained no financial benefit. Have asked my team to use a diff example going forward. He can sue for money if he wants, but that’s kinda lame. If anything, this attention increased his mug sales.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2018

this guy sucks

"Elon Musk has shown up with his mini-submarine and left it at the site, but the rescue chief has said it’s not of any use" #ThailandCaveRescue https://t.co/mxvo3jkYNn

— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) July 10, 2018

major whitey saviour fail, lol!

Elon Musk in Gazza/Moaty scenario.

except gazza with his chicken and chips and a fishing rod might actually have been more useful in this case

I'm sure American ILXors are dying to contribute to this conversation.

huh? in what way is Gaza connected with Musky?

moaty spent five days living in an underground sewage pipe iirc, gazza like musk turned up unbidden to offer his unsolicited assitance to the authorites who were trying to get him out

Indeed, tragic steroid-deranged wife beater and murderer or some schoolkids stupid enough to climb into a cave, I know where my sympathies lie.

i was feigning ignorance there, for once!

I thought you were impersonating an American ILXor, though the fact that you didn't start your sentence with, "Excuse me, sir...", threw me a bit.

in fairness to musk, maybe he'd just misunderstood what subbing players was all about

lol i came to this thread to report that i've now seen this identical joke emerge spontaneously/independently at least five times on twitter today -- well done everybody

so many people praising him for his selflessness "even if it didn't work"

ppl who defend musk in the comments are frickin wild man what a world

"I went to the hospital where a child was having open heart surgery. I brought a bowie knife and a wrench and was asked to leave. But the important thing is...I was there."

"I left the knife and wrench there should they ever need them!!"

yes i've seen that exchange half a dozen times too

"lol elon musk always a twat"
"SO WHAT DID YOU FUCKIN DO TO HELP ASSHOLE"

not gonna link to hardtimes but I did chuckle at the parody headline "Elon Musk and Bono team up to invent world's first self-praising car"

did he also leave a sub captain or instructions?

you know that a tesla submersible would be an utter fucking death trap too

xp it's self-driving iirc (j/k)

Gazza is a fucking hero.

I've done plenty to help asshole

read a blind item on crazy days and nights that was talking about how "unnamed tech ceo" with popstar gf is a huge coke head and a lightbulb appeared above my head. explains so much of his behaviour - firing a car into space and arguing with randos on twitter especially

nm should probably take that to the rimming thread xpost

saw a tweet reply literally all "musk doesnt care about good publicity hes a billionaire" lol

lmao

also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"

had dinner w/my friend who works at tesla over the weekend and he's completely a non-cultist and was like "well, I've worked here almost two years, time to start hunting around"

also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line

lol

also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"

― mark s, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:10 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes the very same person in fact lol

also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line

lol

― mh, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

incredible

well the good news is if anyone goes in that cave again and gets stuck there’s an unproven submersible no one knows how to operate made quickly by a man whose cars spontaneously combust ready to rescue them.

also it's too big to make it up and over a curve in the cave iirc

you can uh ride it halfway in

there will be a video game made about Musk's heroic venture

Doing the classic bum roommate move of leaving his shit behind in case anyone wants to use it huh

i have an otherwise reasonable friend who admires musk and is taking the "at least he's trying to help people" line. "Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"

it's frustrating.

people need to understand that hating musk is fun and good

"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"

By sending a submarine to Thailand.

acquaintance of mine who snidely said he didn't think 'burger flippers deserved $15 an hour' and regularly posts "Be like Elon" memes that are riddled with factual errors also started a GoFundMe to repair his car after an accident (while not answering the question of why his insurance wouldn't be taking care of it).

Here he is claiming to have helped out in Flint - someone queue up the Simpsons Spock gif

Already have

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

found it

It's crazy to hear that people think he's doing this for the attention, do you honestly think the man that sent a car to space needs attention?

— TreyPenninger (@SSYGrunt) July 9, 2018

incredible

Can't get this out of my head now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz7OEtaY90