Sorry but the definitive song on Elon Musk already exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSJORwb134
― frogbs, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
ok
“I’m going to start something which I call ‘Truth GPT’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Mr. Musk said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” https://t.co/O5GyVTtAz2— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
gonna be two tomato cans connected by string.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
The Key to All Mythologies
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
"be sure to drink your ovaltinedrive your model 3"
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
i fucking love science
holy shit this is real?? pic.twitter.com/Wu6ZhbdA2R— 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 (@ass_beaters) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
all of those connected insurance things seem like an incredibly bad idea tbh
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
I'm sure Tesla is worse but Geico spying on me while I drive, no fucking thanks
god I thought the shit he said to Tucker was the most must've-been-high thing ever but now I'M high and it feels even dumber. ha ha ha yes lets teach the robots to love. the thing that can't distinguish between things that actually happened and things that only happened on the TV show M*A*S*H
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
im in favor of teaching the robots to love that sounds interesting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:31 (one year ago) link
I think he's just horny for Plankton's girlfriend from Sponchebob
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
people joking that the rocket launch was delayed yesterday because Elon saw an opportunity to do it on 420
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
circling back on this
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
Who gets the Musk Face?
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
circling back on this🐦[Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017🕸]🐦
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
"username checks out"
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
That's generally how the federal gov't works awards verbal contracts - they'll give you a thumbs-up which means "Go for it, you got this!" or a frowny headshake which means nope
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
username checks out
:D
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
xp the old system led to a lot of confusion, which is why most modern agencies now conduct contract acquisition via a voice vote, with everyone working on the same floor as the cube where the formal bid was emailed getting a say in the decision during an optional meeting held during the lunch hour on fridays
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Starship: The Starship has cleared the tower! An amazing sight as the huge rocket climbs away atop 16 million lbs of thrust (!) generated by the Super Heavy first stage booster's 33 methane-burning Raptor engines— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
Starship: Rocket appears to be spenning... and exploded 4 minutes and 2 seconds after launch— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
lmao
pic.twitter.com/mK6AuDz91J— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
Good day for everyone to lose their checkmarks
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
4 minutes and 2.0 seconds
― mh, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
"rapid unscheduled disassembly" incredible new heights in corporate speak
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
Xpost It got pretty high
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. https://t.co/aGvDQnKXZA— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 20, 2023
President Kennedy successfully visited Dallas— Upton Earl Sinclair (@howiehandupme) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
(points, laughs)
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
*very chris rock voice * ITS SPINNIN
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
I'm not a space guy, but the reporting on this seems extraordinarily deranged to me
NYT: "The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday."
"However, SpaceX has a history of learning from mistakes. The company’s mantra is essentially, “Fail fast, but learn faster.”Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly....SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly.
...
SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.
It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
I know I should be cynical about this by now, but wtf
― rob, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
I did manage to get to the bathroom and I successfully defecated, but I didn't quite reach my most ambitious goal of taking down my trousers first.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
just a minor systems failure, but the method is spot on - nothing to see here!
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
isn't SpaceX mostly funded by the federal government?
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
man imagine if SpaceX was the Challenger and Elon was also in charge then
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
"successful launch, just some minor sky detritus"
tons of Musk-ites complaining about the lack of nuance in the reporting on the 'explosion', when just about every article I've read expressed what happened pretty accurately and that this was always known as an expected outcome.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
i was watching a live stream of this where the announcer went “there goes the future of humanity!”then 2 minutes later it exploded in the sky https://t.co/66nL3ZdID5— 🍄😮💨 (@CinemaMonsieur) April 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
i would simply design a rocket that was not expected to explode
announcer technically otm
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
lol. Musk is obv racist and transphobic and a piece of shit so I don't care to defend him but it's almost like this dude hasn't heard of "4/20" before
Musk always celebrates 4-20 with events, "Coincidentally" it's is also Hitler's Birthday.https://t.co/zzTab39w3J— Eric John Diesel (@EricJohnDiesel3) April 20, 2023
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
it's hilarious that the new blowing up is "a rapid unscheduled disassembly"
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
expressions that express gratified anticipation:
https://i.imgur.com/dYdAOAy.png
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
happy bluecheck liberation day you pained motherfucker
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Eric John Diesel not an expert in the Sour Diesel.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
Dog has some thoughts:
i do not destroy my toys. they simply experience. a rapid unscheduled disassembly. this has nothing to do with me— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) April 20, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZ-FbCMIrUThe RUDs • (You’re) In a RUD (You gotta get out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it)
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
This is Major Lon to Ground Control/I'm here forevermore/and I'm tweeting in my stupid normal way/and my bullshit's very typical toDAYYAYYAAY
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
kinda shocked to learn that Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is actually a preexisting term that somehow never went full-on viral. if it had been coined by some establishment grey man in the 60s, it'd be on the level of "we had to destroy this town in order to save it."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
THE ROCKET LAUNCH WAS A SUCCESSPLEASE KINDLY IGNORE THE MESSAMANDA
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Like "terminate with extreme prejudice." (Which I have learned actually means to "use tons of careful judgment"). xp
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link