Elon Musk

idk that back plate looks around 11 microns off to me

idk, i heard that it was an 11 micron measurement that made Grimes leave him

I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 6:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

esports at least in the u.s. (korea is probably more stable just due to the history there) it kind of a financial house of cards, it's really been decimated recently

just showing receipts cuz this is ilx

i dunno if it's joy div as much as it's

https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/public_image_ltd_metal_box.jpg

cold metal
when I start my van
cold metal
in my garbage can

I repeat, how is that a 'truck'

its very big has a flatbed 4wd high clearance etc

tho it does have a unibody which is anti truck, elon was claiming it was going to have a unique "exoskeleton" construction but that like many things he says turned out to be a lie

Esports is quite one of those things I cannot wrap my mind around

idk I'll watch people try to speedrun Mario 64 for an hour so I kinda get it

yeah i’m just deeply not a video games person— my main interactions have been with either the first two Mario games for Gameboy (the original) and Mariokart for N64. I like playing the latter but the whole thing— watching other people play video games— feels so abject and horrible to me, even in theory.

i mean, i like foosball way more than esports, but i don’t care about either, really.

I’m more fascinated by whether esports are easy to rig for gambling, because that seems like the real money?

Does that cybertruck have duck tape holding two panels together?

kinda looks like it! maybe that's an optional extra

gotta pay your monthly fee or else Elon will sneak into your garage at night and rip the duct tape off

Tryna figure out who thinks that looks ok. Like it looks neither next level or quality. Like some kind of joke i just don’t get.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4zry0PX0AAeokP?format=jpg&name=medium

lol

hope it's flex tape at least

they look like they're always gonna be kinda grubby

I think DeLorean clear-coated the stainless just for this reason

This car is never going to production

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 11, 2023

In repsonse to...

Oh come the fuck on https://t.co/tdkwY6VINK

— Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerRIP) July 11, 2023

This car is never going to production

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, August 30, 2023 7:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i wonder if those big stainless steel panels will even meet the gov standards as far as crumpling in a crash and so forth, regardless pretty sure the shape with those sharp corners isnt compliant

how dare you question innovation

you know it was the last thing i wanted to do

The thing is, that stupid truck think is so totally Homer's dream car, but that is so otm and on the nose that we're all just wishing there is a better comparison, but no, that truck is akin to one of the (fictional) dumbest things of all time, but real life.

Such a dolt. His existence is embarrassing on a global scale, a species scale.

Meanwhile, Rivian just rolled out their dual-motor truck today. Overall a better alternative to the quadmotor Rivians and certainly far more useful than Elon's dumb truck.

next they should roll out round headlights haha i joke but seriously they should

world historical cringe

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F42SKW8WMAABqJi?format=png&name=medium

poor volkswagen its tough out there, maybe stop doing fraud idk, but then u look at tesla and think maybe do more fraud

make self-gaslighting your brand

my former coworker juiced VW so hard on trade-in when that fraud thing came through

they practically paid him to accept a new gti by the time the deal was done

only do cool fraud

Tesla superchargers on I5 powered by a diesel plant.

“One of the real tragedies of Tesla, in my personal opinion, is the extent to which well-meaning people were convinced that this company whose mission is in fact extreme wealth generation by any means necessary is somehow a force for good, to be supported like one would a real mission-driven nonprofit,” the investigative journalist wrote SFGATE.

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php

article does make it clear that all of this energy just goes into the grid in CA, and that these chargers aren't only powered by the energy source that was built to help support them, but the journalist's point there stands, I think.

ah, but maybe it was biodiesel! (not likely)

fwiw, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard system is mostly gamed by swapping credits in a Musk-like fashion. most of the metrics mention the fuel is nearly all produced outside of California, but as far as I know, it’s also sold outside the state.
so someone incentivizes the production and sale of biodiesel or gasoline blended with ethanol and it’s produced, sold, and consumed elsewhere but a CA company buys the renewable energy credits and claims compliance

Edward Niedermeyer is great on Tesla smoke-and-mirrors stuff - really enjoyed the War on Cars ep with him on.

yeah def the most knowledgable tesla expert out there, including understanding the politics

this is frankly why any sort of shaming over EVs or etc is utter bullshit— such scolds should go work in a lithium or coltan mine.

I'd been following a solar electric car company called Aptera for a bit, who seem to be actively encouraging comparisons to Tesla (probably to gin up investors), which makes me wonder if their claims of moderate commutes being totally powered by CA-level sunshine is similarly Musk-esque bluster.

Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)

— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) May 3, 2023

why do you need Kanye when Elon's around

Dragging all your former advertisers into discovery is totally going to win them back! Excellent move, sir pic.twitter.com/3TvdsrLvyL

— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) September 4, 2023

I wonder where Elon got the idea to shut down Starlink on the frontlines? https://t.co/i6LzgJwqSg pic.twitter.com/t5sAWITWNa

— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) September 7, 2023

where's the malay wet-ops arm of the cia when u need it most

release the ants lads

jfc

To everyone arguing against Tesla removing the gear shifter: what looks easier to you? pic.twitter.com/DwkmnAdv6D

— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 5, 2023

wait, is that how you change gears in a Tesla?!? Swiping on a screen?