Elon Musk

my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy

lots of weird wired anecdotes

The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor.

So...$10m for? Musk's walking around money?

One of the things that makes his tunnels faster is that they are too small to put any useful in like a train or a bus.

isn't the aim that there'll be some kind of car-train in it though?

yes, so he’s building something that doesn’t exist and won’t efficiently move people, but he’s building it faster

https://la.curbed.com/2018/12/18/18147366/elon-musk-tunnel-tesla-test-opening-grimes

Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour. Comparatively, on-street transit like light rail or buses traveling in dedicated lanes can move 10,000 to 25,000 people per hour, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials.

this is so unbelievably stupid.

my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy

lmao

New Boring Company documents shared at the event showed not just a network of tunnels connecting Los Angeles destinations, but diagrams of dozens of tunnels stacked three to four levels deep.

It called to mind a phenomenon transportation planners call “induced demand,” where building more capacity, like adding lanes to freeways, ends up creating more congestion.

Musk was skeptical of the idea of induced demand.

“I think it’s a red herring,” he said. “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels... If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them.”

got this response from the GM of LADOT (i.e. not someone irrelevant to this project)

The cost of the tunnel is low because the tunnel is small. You need dozens of tunnels for non-stop A to B trips (and to solve for the “red herring” of induced demand what). At what point does the tunnel of tunnels reach the mines of Moria and the cost point of an actual subway?

— Seleta Reynolds (@seletajewel) December 19, 2018

this is dumb as fuck

i want musk to read power broker before he's allowed to talk to garcetti again

elon like fucken rocks hes the real punk rock for our generation

Slappa da basspic.twitter.com/pmTFPmfkNT

— ★★★★☆ (@petel) December 19, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duyu5WaUYAIVSHw.jpg

lol

worst ride in Disneyland tbh

Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour.

If UK Tesla drivers are anything to go by this will be 4,000 dicks going thru the tunnel because they can.

Need to wait for an hour to have the guide wheels bolted on.

Ha

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elon-musk-has-invented-the-world-1831210269

Whadda douche

tax writeoff

Are they made out of clean water

"A $480,350 donation by the Musk Foundation announced in October is now being used to pay for water filtration systems in all 12 Flint school buildings and the administration building.

School board members approved the purchase Wednesday night of water cooler/bottle filler systems from Industry, Calif.-based Murdock Manufacturing for $221,000. The systems include water fountains and water coolers for students.

A request for proposal for water system installation is set to come in early 2019, with installation expected to be completed by February."

more tax writeoffs

Do you know what that means?

But musk does. And he's the one writing it off.

IDGI Are you guys advocating for repealing the charitable tax deduction?

we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character

and yeah anyone who makes over a certain threshold should be ineligible for the charitable tax deduction (see: Bill Gates)

I advocate for repealing the charitable tax deduction and replacing it with a charitable 95% tax rate on unearned income

4,000 per hour? How small are these cars?

https://0419308.netsolhost.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shriners-parades.jpg

oh. sorry caek :(

we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character

― sleeve, Thursday, December 20, 2018 7:30 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not sure why I keep defending the guy, but I guess it's just because you guys are so quick to find some kind of evil motive behind everything he does.

When you donate to charity, you get to deduct it from your taxes. So, effectively, you are getting the government to use tax dollars to help fund some charitable cause. You don't get your money back! You don't then get to slip into some lower tax bracket (AFAIK). Not sure how paying for clean water for Flint schoolkids became some kind of diabolical plot in your mind.

i think the motive is usually intense stupidity rather than evil.

it's ok to donate money. as with all Big Philaonthropy, it would be better if he used his influence to advocate for a social safety net, better governance, and mass transit though. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy

xp a foundation donation is not the same as a personal one - foundations *have* to give a minimum amount away each year or get fined.

Ok...

elon musp

rode in a Tesla yesterday and the driver was very excited to show me an "easter egg" where if you crank the turn signal so many times it turns the road into a rainbow on the screen and plays the "need more cowbell" SNL skit for like 2 minutes

not only is that embarrassing I imagine it's somewhat of a safety risk? I mean if I was driving home at midnight and my car started doing that I'd probably drive right off the road

SIGH

the new Teslas can fart

Well, high emissions standards and all that.

Wait, that wasn't a joke!?!

https://humantransit.org/2018/12/elon-musks-tunnel-it-doesnt-scale-so-it-doesnt-matter.html

How much bitcoin for a zer0 day that will infect all Teslas and force them to autoplay the theme from Get Smart?

Not a joke

It is a near certainty that it’s possible to lowjack a Tesla over WiFi and take over the accelerator, it’s just a matter of research

Damn

silby driving cars

I mean like I have no knowledge of how to go about this it’s just almost certainly possible, because of how computers are

Did you know?

Evian, the first bottled water, is naive spelled backwards

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2019

They took their cue from Serutan, I guess.