Elon Musk

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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?

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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.

elon musk is kum noel spelled backwards

irl lol

I know Twitter is limited to NYC/DC concerns but I can't emphasize enough that this is a *real map* of what El*n M*sk is proposing for Chicago and it literally runs parallel to a train that costs $2.25 and leaves every 7 minutes.

I am not kidding, this is it. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/rWAzYagBVt

— Ed Burmila (@gin_and_tacos) January 8, 2019

my man doesn't even have the decency to propose a route that at least forms the outline of a dick, the numbers 69 or 420 or a pentagram ffs

I was just turning this over in my mind and realized how insanely fucked the perception of public transportation is in this country

i'm all in favor of calling elon's plan "the vroom vroom tube" though

the transformer tube, as it only carries special cars that transform into tube-pods

Huh, that is real real dumb. Assuming this comes to fruition, I'm super glad I no longer live anywhere near that route.

It's difficult to understate just how relatively hassle-free that particular train trip is. Like if I'm going to that part of the city on the CTA, I will sometimes make the seemingly-unintuitive move of first taking a straight shot south to downtown (I live within walking distance from the northern Chicago border) just to take the Blue Line back northwest rather than deal with the many other less convenient travel options available.

Musk u dumb.

i'd written out a post on how that particular route is insanely dumb even from my "visiting chicago" perspective but tbh it is so incredibly-self-evident the post would be worthless

the one thing that'd make this even dumber is just adding (or adding more) loop->o'hare express trains that skip most of the stops. i accidentally (!) got on one on the way to midway once and ended up at the airport so fast

somehow I missed this laughably stereotypical awfulness:

A Future with Elon Musk’s Neuralink: His plan for the company is to ‘save the human race’. Elon’s main goal, he explains, is to wire a chip into your skull. This chip would give you the digital intelligence needed to progress beyond the limits of our biological intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink

lol this guy