Elon Musk

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

Musk said he got partly interested in the idea from a science fiction concept called "neural lace" that is part of the fictional universe in The Culture, a series of novels by Iain M. Banks.

This guy must get baked pretty much on the regular.

how come he's gotta wire it into my skull, how could it be so great if his goal isn't to put it in his skull first

Gotta say that I'm glad bezos and musk are Culture fans. IMO the best utopian sci-fi.

You wait until these fuckers have knife missiles, then you'll be sorry.

lol this asshole

I just learned that Elon Musk flies in a $70 million private jet. Mostly to commute from LA to the Bay. Sometimes from Van Nuys to LAX -- literally across town.

— Leighton Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) January 31, 2019

To be fair he’s not actually on the jet on those intra-LA flights. He’s having someone move it so he doesn’t have as far to go to get to it.

More here https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/elon-musk-private-jet-flew-150000-miles-in-2018-washington-post-reports/

remember when people thought this dude was gonna be a pioneer for climate change

i mean he's right at the cutting edge of personally contributing to climate change

doesn't even have an electric jet project in the works smdh

just think, if he'd flown that jet 150,000 miles into space he'd be 0.001% of the distance to mars by now

'The Long View' on Radio 4 is this programme that compares an historical event or figure with one from the present day and seeks to point out how similar they are. This week was isambard kingdom brunel and elon musk, the first 3 mins was some railway fellow giving the background of brunel and what an innovative engineer he was, his background on the railways and the idea of an atmospheric railway and what a pioneer he was etc. Then the presenter lists elon musk's accomplishments paypal etc then goes something like "so isambard kingdom brunel giant of the railways and cutting edge engineer back then and elon musk groundbreaking engineer now" only for the technology contributor also on the program to cut in with "elon musk isn't an engineer, he left after 2 days of classes" lol

Well.....

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1PY00J?__twitter_impression=true

oh, alllison
my twitter impression = true

Apparently he arrived in Ostend (belgium). An acquaintance's brother is working for Tesla here in Belgium.

if you read this thread you probably already read matt levine, but today's is good on musk

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-20/elon-musk-can-t-help-himself