My city refuses to even consider buses so we have 12-16 passenger van city-sponsored rideshare bullshit instead. It's the worst of all worlds - small and inconvenient without regular stopping points, drivers who aren't professionals at moving people around. I get passed by the vans doing 15-20 over on semi-residential streets regularly.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
wait don't go that way i know a better way
I mean as a passenger I have certainly been in Lyfts that took a very bad route because the algo instructed them to, presumably the auto-driven cars would do this as well
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
yeah I mean you what the app tells you to, I've also had people who insisted on a different route that was an absolute clusterfuck
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
at the end of this the bottom car disgorges like 20 people
lol yeah theres like no rhyme or reason to the #s of people exiting those cars, 15+ passengers exit at least 3 times by my count
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
inching closer to mass transit imo - sounds like a dead end project!
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
SpaceX Mars prototype blew up during a test flight today. This is considered a success, due to Musk's policy to "embrace mishaps during the early stages of new spacefaring technology development."
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
EGG on Musk
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
would actually pay for an Elon-breaking machine
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
Has this guy invented a space bus that runs on earth highways yet? How about terrestrial boats that drive (on wheels!) through tunnels *under* the water's surface rather than float over the top?
Sad to say that Elon probably missed his opportunity on this, thoughhttps://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_3bb6e264-6eb6-4e8b-8723-64334ea568a5?wid=325&hei=325&qlt=80&fmt=pjpeg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
musk's genius brain coming at us with SpaceMall
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago:
Belly flop, engine restart, flip, and boom.SpaceX’s Starship SN8 rocket spectacularly guided itself back to a landing pad in South Texas after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday, but it couldn’t nail the touchdown.See our video of the entire flight: https://t.co/fUlhxwYevv pic.twitter.com/1odZgAS3R1— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 10, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
trying to observe that from the perspective a future archivist/researcher.
the people of earth...are cheering for the test of a self-landing reusable rocket...they cheer for it as it deploys its automated systems and seems to be landing correctly...and then when it crashes and explodes...they cheer with even more enthusiasm
...unclear what 2020 people want or think
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I think multi-billion dollar space ship crashing to earth pretty much sums 2020 up.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I love that this billionaire dumbass with unlimited resources keeps trying and failing to do something NASA did in the 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
i believe nasa had some crashes back in the day as well, though! rocket science is probably pretty hard
and i think the idea is to continue the idea of reusable components that nasa had partially accomplished (the space shuttles)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
karl, this thread is for posting stuff like "can this guy even wipe himself?" after somebody links a tweet
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago
this was almost certainly me misreading something late and tired, ty for video
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Has Elon Musk thought about radically disrupting the personal fragrance industry? Because that really seems like what he was born to do.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/qbNT1dUsED— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2020
in the thread's defense, it is p hard to believe this guy can wipe himself
― loose Orwellian mobs (rob), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
richest person in the world as of today
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
i find that bizarre
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
and sickening, obv
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
both are valid responses
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
I don't see why we call a person "rich" when all it means is that some object he holds claim to has been arbitrarily assigned a larger number, it's not like he's going to sell it. If somebody lives in a house that shoots up in value, they're not a millionaire unless they sell it, and if the house goes back down in value, they never were.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
I mean I'm not saying Musk isn't rich, I'm just saying the temptation to declare that "the current price speculators are paying for a thing" represents its actual value is to be resisted.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Pretend value behaves like real value, I suppose.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 5:21 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is literally the definition of value
― dean bad (map), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
what is to be resisted, imo, is "rich people aren't that rich because they don't have a bunker full of cash"
― dean bad (map), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
all that is solid kills versus maims
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
listen, i know you're saying this ps5 is $400, but that's just speculation
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
it is a very bad way to think about value imo, but i recognize it is popular
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
The problem is mostly that the bunker full of cash has disappeared into an asset that will provide nothing to no one, except Musk, for the foreseeable future.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
― dean bad (map), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:26 PM (four minutes ago)
otm. cash also fluctuates in value iirc
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
'Tesla cranked out about 500,000 cars last year, about as many as General Motors makes in a month. But despite that, Tesla is worth more than Ford, Honda, BMW, General Motors, Daimler, Volkswagen and Toyota put together.’ From CBC.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:20 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you know that money changes in value as well? if someone has 10 million dollars are they not rich because hyperinflation could happen and their 10 million may not be enough to buy a a 1990 subaru forester then?
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
Musk's wealth also feels a lot more.. tenuous than Bezos. I mean, Tesla still seems constantly on the edge of losing their market share and SpaceX is probably a couple exploded rockets away from falling apart.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
1st gen Teslas are exploding so there's that...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
Also afaict Bezos has yet to tweet something out that manipulates his stock price.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
It's just a bubble.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
i was under the impression that spacex was doing really well and that they are maybe NASA's biggest contractor? or is it Boeing, still? plus, beyond delivering payloads to space stations and making the re-usable crafts for NASA, i'd assume that there will be a neverending series of rich people who are willing to pay $500K to fly in low-orbit space for a few hours
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Most of Musk's wealth is tied in Tesla, SpaceX moves the needle by 5% of his total worth.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:28 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
How do you define value?
Because if people are willing to spend 5% of their savings on one stock, that's value to them, and Musk's worth (mostly) is an addition of all those investments.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
if he tried to wield power consistent with his paper wealth, other rich people and nations etc. would laugh at him.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
also tesla stock isn't bitcoin, but it's not like he can sell it and get dollars equal to the number of shares * current price. obviously this is true of anyone paid in stock, but it's particularly true of tesla.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
The amount power he yields is not inconsequential in that millions of people now have money tied to his fortunes. He can also use Tesla's cash flow to buy whatever he wants for a long time now.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
i'm not saying he's not rich and powerful!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
starting to think the rocket nonce may be dud
― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
I guess I am just resistant to a rigid definition that says e.g. the "value" of a person's labor, if they don't have much power, is the pittance they can be forced to accept in exchange for it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
I know there are 10000 theoretical books about this I haven't read so I can just excuse myself
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link