Elon Musk

His bootlicking cult is SO weird. Has anyone seen the woman who keeps trying to gift him crystals?

A person with any self awareness would feel ashamed about Trump managing to respond more appropriately ffs.

No, it means I created jobs for 50,000 people directly and, through parts suppliers & supporting professions, ~250,000 people indirectly, thus supporting half a million families. What have you done?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

tbf abt 95% of the hot stanning is elon himself imo

yegads

has anyone noticed that all of Elon's adventures line up with stories in this kids' series? pretty sure this latest chapter covers both the time they built a submarine and the time people were lost in a cave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Scientists%27_Club

LOL what a prat.

did Elon just add 50k and 250k and come up with a half million xxp

I think his assumption was that every one of the 250,000 was married with a family, which somehow seems even worse to me

wait even that's wrong, lol

really cannot wait for whatever accounting scam theyre running over there at tesla to be exposed

otm

isn't there a kickstarter or something for the Tesla whistleblower? I oughta throw some $$ at that

I wonder how often Elon would rather be a physics engineer, or lead technical designer instead of having to carry the label of billionaire. Regardless of whether or not the capsule ended up being feasible, the man sprung into action to help people he’s never met. #ThaiCaveResue

— Blake Kistler (@blake_kistler) July 10, 2018

What a burden.

Ironically, the “billionaire” label, when used by media, is almost always meant to devalue & denigrate the subject. I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size, but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before. Just the scale has changed.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

to answer my own question

https://www.gofundme.com/Tripp-vs-Tesla-help-fund-the-fight

can we just shoot Elon Musk into space now plz

I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size,

like... the billion dollar valuation size?

but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before.

none, because you're not an engineer or scientist?

I like him for entertainment value.

surely his bloated corpse orbiting the moon would be entertaining

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

By sending a submarine to Thailand.

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 5:38 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the infrastructure in question is digging a series of tunnels connecting elon's house and workplace and some other places he'd like to visit from time to time without sitting in traffic.

excuse me billionaire is a slur. blocked

if only there were some way to not be a billionaire oh well

Imagine trying to coax one of the kids into that terrifying floating coffin after they've spent two weeks in a cave

do you think the team working on it had to keep reminding each other not to call it that?

can't believe elon hired that man who put his boy in a balloon to lead his engineering team

on the plus side he can repurpose those coffins to re-create The City of Freedom from the Holy Mountain

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75a2BH0nUlA/SumXdfoFbII/AAAAAAAAANw/xYPyKv1Drzk/s640/mt4.jpg

self-clowning

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/elon-musk-queries-expertise-of-thai-cave-rescue-officials

turns out complaining about elon musk on the internet might bring some people in flint some water?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-11/musk-pledges-to-pay-for-clean-water-to-homes-in-flint-michigan

so wait, was he actually asked to do this?

This reaction has shaken my opinion of many people. We were asked to create a backup option & worked hard to do so. Checked with dive team many times to confirm it was worthwhile. Now it’s there for anyone who needs it in future. Something’s messed up if this is not a good thing.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2018

I honestly think he completely made that shit up.

the important thing is that his opinion of many people has been shaken

One might even say he has been shook

ain't no such thing as halfway musks

Update on @elonmusk’s promise to “fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels”.

He now says “most houses in Flint have safe water” and he will “add filters” to the houses he describes as “outliers”.

💦🤔💦

cc: @LittleMissFlint pic.twitter.com/sLtKArGlNf

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 11, 2018

yeah I mean the trick is, as I have learned, a bunch of older homes have lead supply lines. under normal water flow, with the protectant additives, they don’t leach enough lead to be a problem — under EPA regs

but there’s non-lead (fine), lead that never had corrosive water and had protectants (mostly ok), and those that had corrosive water with no protectants for months but are now back to baseline (flint)

I think the latter is bouncing around EPA acceptable on the bad side and Elon stuck his foot in mouth

honesty I had half my supply line replaced this year and the under-street part is prob lead but not leaching and I am starting to really look into it

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/12/1531368000000/A-brief-history-of-Tesla-and-the-number-500-000/

Catching up on this, and now imagining an Ace In The Hole remake centering on a fictionalized Musk in Douglas role.

feel like when Elon Musk's story is written it'll pinpoint the article calling him the "real life Tony Stark" as the exact moment everything went downhill

I would pay good money to see him try to fly around with rocket boots and no safety harness

everyone knows the true real-life tony stark is that guy who built a backyard rocket and blasted himself towards the stratosphere so he could prove the earth was flat

still pretty sure he just grifted the flat earthers in order to build his rocket. respectable grift imo

musk is the rockwell character tbh

xp

Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.

darragh otm

Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC https://t.co/3bLF6yzTMR

— Salon (@Salon) July 14, 2018

one weird fact about the billionaire environmentalist

Is it possible to put the thinky face emoji in bold type

you have to admit that musk is in the ninety-ninth percentile as a self-promoter. he has the knack for making pronouncements just weird enough to get big play in the media, not so weird he loses the faith of the investor class, but which generally hit the sweet spot of "brilliant eccentric"

it's almost as if the media is easily gamed by billionaires

Potentially a positive development if disillusioned groupies start thinking critically re hero worshipping obscenely wealthy entrepreneurs

elton johns