Elon Musk

As the review/essay and its citations argue, a big part of that is because every take has to be filtered through the perspective of an extremely rich, petty, fameo-loving man with multiple servants. Plenty of other humans are able to come up with funnier, deeper takes in a shorter timeframe.

As for non-news-based material, Bob Odenkirk argued in the '80s that writing every sketch in three days while sleep-deprived - then throwing away anything that didn't get approved first time - was a bad way of developing material, and proved it by rewriting and developing rejected sketches into an admired show with a better hitrate in the 1990s. Tim Robinson rarely got material onto SNL at all after being demoted from cast member to writer, but five years after that was able to use his rejected material in the most acclaimed sketch show of the last, oh, five years. For the last three years, John Mulaney's guest-hosted episodes of SNL have been widely noted as the best, and in each of those he has used his position to mount sketches that had been rejected during his five years on the show, five years earlier.

Norm's monologue summarizes it pretty well. "See, they fired me because they said I wasn't funny. But now, this is the weird part, it's only a year and a half later, and now they ask me to host the show! So how did I go, in a year and a half, to not even being allowed in the building, to being so funny, that I'm now hosting the show? Then it occurred to me: I haven't gotten funnier, the show has gotten really bad! So yeah, I'm funny, compared to...well you know, you'll see later"

xpost - it's almost as if Lorne's gut reactions to draft skits are uniformly terrible

ok folks lets get back on topic

pls stop the future i want to get off this ride pic.twitter.com/AO4XeMCGe1

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 8, 2021

well another thing is SNL skits last like 6-8 minutes, once the joke is revealed there's little for the characters to do but just yell at each other and start throwing shit. last time I watched a full episode there were a couple where I thought "did this end 2 minutes ago and they're just improvising to fill time?"

there must be an snl thread

there is but fuck Elon Musk, we can discuss anything that sucks in here

michael o'donoghue would've told musk what's what!

i love elon musk erasure

always, don't wanna be with him

muskerasure love

who is Elon Musk

I believe he's a wacky one-note Jon Lovitz character who quickly outwore his welcome, like Master Thespian

Loads of wasted hate on SNL that would be better used directed at Elon Musk.

We have plenty of hate to dispense like Pez

Elon Musk......you look marvelous

*abandons failed autonomous-driving program*

"I HATE when I do that!"

turns out the autopilot may not have been to blame in the recent crash. instead it seems like a terrifying design flaw that seems related to the fact that ... you can't open the rear doors when the car is one fire because they require power?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/ntsb-finds-no-reason-to-suspect-autopilot-in-fatal-tesla-crash/

As for why the driver was not found in his seat, one troubling possibility is that the front door was inoperable or obstructed and the driver died while trying to escape from the rear of the Model S. Unlike most cars, Tesla uses IP-based electronic door locks that fail if the car loses power (as it would have in this crash). Although the front door handles will continue to work in an emergency that cuts power to the car, under such conditions the rear doors of a Model S can only be opened using a plastic tab found in the rear footwell.

But it's ok the autopilot works

yes, let's trap those in seats typically reserved for the most vulnerable passengers

gets lost in all the hubbub that teslas are poorly made cars

like tesla wanted huge dashboard screens but there was nothing that big available in automotive quality so they just used regular screens and now they break at an insane rate, tons of stuff like that thats the result of doing startup culture to a car company

im sure ive said this before but a lot of its been papered over by the fact that teslas have always been expensive toys sold to rich people who own more than one car, but now theyre selling ~$30k cars that people need to drive every day

When I think about Tesla engineering I remember Chris Lattner left after just six months:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15844280/tesla-autopilot-software-chris-lattner-ai-quit

“Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all,” lol

Tesla reporting is a useful reminder that the technology press has no relationship with technologists.

yeah its pretty much just straight business or consumer reporting

elon is unstable

Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021

hahahahahaha omg

haha

🧐

lol he really is just joker mode and fucking with the world

hey good for them but uh I suspect there's a more uh...legal reason for this decision

lmao that one tweet wiped out like $10 billion in value

haa

maybe it was a big mistake to base an entire financial system on this man's ramblings

maybe not, though!

hey good for them but uh I suspect there's a more uh...legal reason for this decision

And that alone is deeply amusing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1OHVudWEAE7ddZ?format=png&name=4096x4096

buy the dip!

i think levine is right about what he's up to here

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-28/elon-musk-made-tesla-some-money-on-bitcoin

I think that, if you can reliably do that — if you are Elon Musk and you can make Bitcoin go up by tweeting about it — you almost have an obligation to do it? Perhaps a fiduciary obligation to your shareholders, but at least a sort of aesthetic obligation to comedy. If Bitcoin wants Musk to manipulate it, Musk really ought to manipulate it...

Musk is in the nice position of being able to spend billions of dollars buying assets in liquid anonymous markets, and then make those assets go up just by tweeting about them. If you can do that, you should! If you can buy a thing secretly, announce “I own the thing,” reliably cause the thing’s price to go up a lot, and then — if you want — sell the thing secretly, then that’s a great business right there. Talk about clean energy; that’s a perpetual motion machine.

except that he seems to have opted out of the rinse and repeat cycle of it, tho you never know with old elon, also some ppl seems to think there may be be regulator issues at play but idk what those would be

theres also this theory

People make the faulty assumption that @elonmusk is not trying to blow up the system and there are too many absolutely fucking insane people and they are not allowing him to do it.

— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) May 9, 2021

ethereum dudes are in heaven right now

Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money https://t.co/Nrz4jFO0op pic.twitter.com/0oDDbL8VgQ

— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 12, 2021

ethereum dudes are in heaven right now

this pains me

we really should bring out the guillotines just to shut these guys up

We at https://t.co/VUydpLFzGh will continue to accept BTC/Eth/Doge because we know that replacing Gold as a store of value will help the environment https://t.co/bs7NvnJY8A and https://t.co/ELhbuLOBRV shrinking big bank and coin usage will benefit society and the environment https://t.co/zu08F0STEQ

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 12, 2021

love when all the crazed rich guys are competing to see who can be the most jokered

I think it's good to have a currency system fluctuates based on how good Saturday Night Live is