Elon Musk

he has got to be the most boring and awkward man on the planet. even Prince Phillip has more charisma than this guy. and I don't mean Prince Phillip last month

this is some exquisite torture

has Aykroyd really never hosted? I guess it wasn't ~expected~ of breakout stars to come back and bless the show in his day

I dunno, Chevy Chase came back. if he never did I bet there's a story there.

Ackroyd hosted in 2003.

Musk was painfully bad but Ill attribute his mannerisms to Aspergers which I honestly didn't know he had (not that it makes me like him any more; actually I don't hate him as much as everyone else, he's a billionaire fool who has some good tech and whose company would likely do better without him). I turned off after that Mario bit, wtf was that.

awesome to be one of the most powerful people in the world and never mention that youre autistic or try to improve the lives of autistic people in any way then bring it up to deflect the fact that youre going to suck on tv lol

one of my best friends guessed a month ago he figured Elon had Aspergers (he has two autistic grown children, so he's very familiar).

I thought Asperger's was no longer an existing diagnosis

Also, I've never heard this guy talk before, does he have a South African accent or does he not? He seemed to at first and then it went away?

seems likely this is a self diagnosis cause neither he nor anyone associated with him, a man who has multiple books and countless articles written about him, has ever mentioned it before, it wouldnt be a recent thing since its been defunct as an official diagnosis for the better part of a decade

he could just be lying for personal gain

yep

jfc

The defense calls Wario. pic.twitter.com/D2ANjRmbMO

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) May 9, 2021

Could be real, could be a way to shield himself from criticism for just being a walking cringe factory

some pretty bad tesla news recently that hasnt quite coalesced in popular perception, cld easily be more to come too

Babylon Bee should pivot to video and let Elon be their Tosh just to really put the nail in his cultural capital coffin

elon musk should become the editor of https://www.houstonchronicle.com/

not for any particular reason, it's just a really mediocre landing spot

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/06/investing/tesla-investor-sells-shares/index.html

this to me is the big one

Here's something I always like to share randomly at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT on a Saturday night — Elon Musk lied about Tesla's self-driving capabilities which artificially inflated the company's stock valuation and caused the deaths of several human drivers https://t.co/nF47ZnVZpI

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 9, 2021

lol wait is this what saturday night live is like?

yeah, every time i see a SNL clip i'm dumbfounded. maybe if they went every other week the writers would have time to come up with anything at all that is funny

the story thats been told around teslas insane valuation hinges on self driving, becoming new kind of company not just a one that sells cars to consumers, its been common knowledge amongst people who really follow this stuff that a. full self driving is an insanely hard problem thats not close to being solved and b. teslas approach to it is inferior to its competitors, but meanwhile elons been out there saying FSD is just around the corner for years, these documents surfacing right when there are deadly crashes in the news thatre probably self driving related... idk feel like there has to be a reckoning about this stuff at some point

tesla/musk just seems so shady idk! musk preparing to claim aspergers did it when a major scandal hits??

you have to understand accounting fraud is my special interest

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— oatmeal influencer (@acechhh) May 9, 2021

Might be cynical of me, but the Aspergers thing felt too much like a PR move to shift blame from his most controversial tweets and statements, or to excuse his generally narcissistic behavior.

Now whenever he is acting like an asshole he can just say “sorry, it’s my aspergers”.

Getting backlash from the r/autisticpride subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticPride/comments/n897kw/just_a_reminder_since_elon_announced_he_has/

He actively campaigns against labour unions. How evil can a person be without people excusing or vouching for him?

yeah, every time i see a SNL clip i'm dumbfounded. maybe if they went every other week the writers would have time to come up with anything at all that is funny

It had been four weeks since they did an episode.

so glad he wasn’t born here or he’d probably end up running for president

running

*being*

once again elon musk showed his uncanny ability to wriggle himself into a highly coveted position for which he has no demonstrated talent

It’s a real question whether or not he’d be the best Texas governor since Ann Richards if he ran for that.

looool fuck

but yeah true

Elton musk sucks and so does snl, never gonna watch the clip that confirms these two known facts

Elton Musk - Goodbye Yellow Doge Coin

I just saw the skit where they rebranded AAVE as "Gen Z-speak" so they could make fun of it and I'm extremely tired

GOP gotta be hoping they can become the party of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and their online standom, and not just one for Lin Wood and Lou Dobs and Marjorie Tay Tay Green.

Or shit maybe not. Or maybe both. Big Tentin’

Elon Musk is one of the biggest obstacles to the acceptance of a post-personal-car world, which is what we really need more than anything. Don't think he gives a shit about climate change, electric cars are just the new thing, if this were the 30s he'd be selling asbestos and CFCs.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, April 26, 2021 4:15 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is not me defending EM or cars. BUT

i think if you have to significantly reduce emissions in the next 10 years or else bad shit 4ever, theres a more realistic pathway in the US to doing this in that timeframe by electrifying as many vehicles as possible than focusing limited political capital on (and waiting on the completion of) absolutely necessary massive public transportation infrastructure. but then once that phase is done its back to banning cars.

wow sounds like someone who just bought an electric car.... very interesting

lol i did

bc my dumbass city will never build trains without helicopters full of federal money

the thing about musk FWIW is that hes actively advocating against public transpo and in fact trying to undermine it via the boring company and also the dumb vacuum tube idea (not sure if those are the same thing)

if he was just a simple electric car maker dont think people would be giving him shit in this case, but as usual with the ultra wealthy they got to be monkeying around where they dont belong

right. electrification of private cars (i.e. the short term fix) is happening without tesla in most of the world. if can happen without tesla here too.

AND

they are literally fighting the things that really will save us in the long term.

to clarify my position: fuck EM (and by extension tesla)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDVdwxBgwY

i hope tesla stops lying about it and i hope they figure out how to do it soon. that guy actually driving a vehicle may be even more dangerous

...
And that brings us back to our back seat Berkeley driver. One of the people who recorded one of his dangerous stunts attempted to contact either the California Highway Patrol or Tesla proper to hold the driver accountable—and was hugely disappointed. From SF Gate:

He purportedly provided the info to Tesla’s customer service, who told him to contact CHP’s Oakland branch. CHP allegedly told him that there was nothing they could do, and to contact 911.

He called CHP’s main complaint line, and the representative allegedly suggested filing a report in-person, with the caveat that it wouldn’t punish the driver. All it would do, he explained, is hit him with a proverbial slap on the wrist — a warning letter to not do it again.