Like Steve Jobs, are there any charities or philanthropic causes that Musk contributes to?
Jobs believe his greatest gift to the world were the products that you bought from him at full price
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
IDK, maybe he supports the indigent Afrikaners back home
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
crazy thing about musk is he has absolutely no personal charisma its just the idea of a visionary billionaire engineer that horrible nerds like
yea this is a big deal and why I don't think he's gonna have much success trying to walk in Trump's footsteps. he appears kind of witty on Twitter because he's just ripping off memes he saw and stealing replies he thinks are funny. as a speaker he's fucking awful. every time I hear him talk my first thought is "has he not slept in the last 48 hours?"
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
all these guys think they can be trump but none of them ever had a hit tv show is how i break it down
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
I don't think that bar is going to matter much longer. More dopes like Trump are coming.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
im saying trump has a talent its not that easy
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
I don't think that bar is going to matter much longer.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
public attention is limited and highly sought after resource
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
you can't really teach charm
― Clay, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
afaics, Musk is only engaged with politics insofar as he can use it to amplify his wealth and power. I greatly doubt he will run for office, because, like Trump, he would have no interest any position but the top job and he's barred from it.
He does like having a big fan club of adulators, so he spends a lot of time feeding and grooming them. Plus, they come in handy for all sorts of things that increase his influence. They are the sole reason why he got to host SNL, f'rinstance.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 20 May 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
I agree Trump has some animal cunning/sociopathic skill. I'm just not sure we aren't going to see more of that in politics.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
musk has been really successful from a pr perspective, getting the media to tell the story he wants, but hes never had to actually perform, and now hes contradicting the story he told by getting political fucking up the twitter deal and so forth, and now the bad news is starting
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
Trump has been really successful from a pr perspective, getting the media to tell the story he wants, but hes never had to actually perform, and now hes contradicting the story he told by getting political fucking up his casinos and so forth, and now the bad news is starting
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link
lol nah man trumps been happily on screen every chance he can get for 40 years see aforementioned #1 tv show
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:39 (two years ago) link
I am in no way saying Musk = Trump, I'm must saying don't dismiss him from whatever because he's not actually successful, an obvious moron, etc. etc. etc. He has resources (more than Trump). Like Trump he just keeps his name in the media on end and appeals to a certain demographic.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
must = just
not really sure what were talking about now but i stand by my statement that he has no personal charisma, and furthermore hes currently in a tough spot
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
Yeah the obsession w/ the media is a big similarity, iirc there was a story a couple years ago detailing just how hard he works at keeping any negative stories out of the press. Like he would personally hound and threaten reporters who had anything negative to say about him or Tesla, nearly everyone who works for him claimed they have to sign crazy NDAs, etc.
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link
Anyway he’s now trying to crowdsource a legal team through Twitter which I am guessing means a bunch more stories are about to drop
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
That would be great.
― PBKR, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
thing about musks media success is basically him and the business media were made for each other theres nothing they love more than the idea that enterprise will save the world, that was his sweet spot, he fucked up when he went full celebrity cause the celebrity media will eventually turn on you thats part of their practice, now this political shift is just very dicey, i mean unless he just wants to become some shitty right wing figure, but its not going to help with selling cars, theres a reason ceos usually dont do shit like this, theyre not trying to alienate half their customers
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
Tesla is building a hardcore litigation department where we directly initiate & execute lawsuits. The team will report directly to me. Please send 3 to 5 bullet points describing evidence of exceptional ability.just✧✧✧@te✧✧✧.c✧✧— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
weird dude clearly pretty unstable
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
he doesn't know how anything works and is tired of lawyers telling him things are illegal
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
wtf is he doing pretty sure he already has lawyers does he think someones going to read that and be all oh i better not fuck with him hes putting together a hardcore litigation team
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
he is planning to sue all of us for this thread
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
i welcome his cleansing lawsuit
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
damn elon is making litigation hardcore now? this is getting wild but what a visionary
― Clay, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
i've been watching succession season 3 this week and i can't help but think of kendall. *kendall gets owned* kendall: ok. ok, let's play offense. we need to dominate the conversation space, we're not even talking.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
lmao kendall is so lame, incredible portrayal of a weird useless rich kid
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
This is an On Cinema bit
― frogbs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
read a piece lil while ago about the resonance between succession and on cinema
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
which made sense to me as those are two of the only shows i watch so im always like yeah im getting [only other show i watch] vibes from this
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
is this the piece? https://www.polygon.com/22832955/succession-and-on-cinema-media
for some reason, i am a regular polygon checker, i'm not sure how i missed that
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
i dont remember but i cant imagine theres more than one of them
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
With subscriptions funded by the HEI Network, and supported by his loving wife Toni, Heidecker unveiled one tremendous plan after another — there were Hei Points, which Heidecker described as “the U.S. dollar 2.0”; Hei-lot Season, in which his various friends make pilots to run on the network; and perhaps most grandiose of all, the Hei Ranch, which at the moment is 25 acres of sand but will, after a 10-year plan, be a fully functioning society.
even just reading on cinema summaries is almost as good as the real thing. if only elon could be more like this, rather than like kendall
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
you both should watch more shows
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
Somebody's on another meth binge.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
i dont like shows theres too many shows too many episodes theyre mostly pretty bad too i cant be involved in all that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
shows, episodes, things of that nature
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
maybe you should watch less shows, ayoo
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
FEWER
:)
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
i take the stage. my red penis tip sticks out of my waistband; little bit of piss coming out. "I will end all politics-based attacks of me."— wint (@dril) May 21, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 May 2022 05:48 (two years ago) link
kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link
How hardcore are you, bro?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 21 May 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
kind of tired of people thinking individual elon statements mean something as if they’re not just part of him doing an ongoing bit
― mh, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
Tesla stock down another 8% today, lol
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
~$25 shy of where it was a year ago
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link