Elon Musk

seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk

Who he?

It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."

Suk Lemon

ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space

it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered

seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?

His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.

You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

dude owes his company's survival to gov programs but
says it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promise
to obliterate them all.

lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.

so hyperloop huh

people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick

cool monorail bro

lol

i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

even i can afford that

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?

the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real

Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

I meant 94% sorry.

To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.

i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it

maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk

LOL "elon musk"

This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?

I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.

I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.

Bad connotations...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.

Lol

I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch

I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.

Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.

*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM

he might do this

is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it

(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)

he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

also the fact that Elon truly has no good car ideas

drive them through tunnels isn't a good idea?

The sliding gas pedal is extra dumb on the Cybertruck - if any vehicle's design would justify some exposed rivets and bolts it's that monstrosity.

Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.

It's almost like Elon put the whole Tesla Corporation into the cargo bed of a cybertruck and then decided to test his claims about the cybertruck's amphibious abilities.

>Image of cybertruck jumping off canyon cliff thelma and louse style<

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have, like not company stock or corporate valuations but money in the bank or easily accessible low risk funds, blue chip stocks etc

Isn’t Elon basically homeless

Lives in a Cybertruck down by the river, IIRC.

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 15, 2024 8:53 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they have credit lines

i don't understand money stuff really

you pay less in interest on a line of credit than you would by paying taxes so all of your assets aren’t really liquid. the most common thing a normal person would get is a home equity line of credit, secured against your home’s accrued value. imagine that, but the security is *waves hands* all your assets

he did sell off Tesla stock to contribute $27B to the twitter sale but the bank loans were secured by the company, not him (https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover). so if twitter goes bust, it’s the other investors and the banks that take a bath. he already did his twitter money deal and if he runs it into the ground he can probably write it off as a loss on his taxes for the next decade

https://i.imgur.com/ORKd96p.jpeg

Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 15, 2024 6:20 PM (four hours ago)

18 years, that's crazy. his net worth is probably in the 9 figures. hard to feel sorry for him

what the fuck is he talking about

This guy is the dumbest motherfucker on earth pic.twitter.com/zhxfAHvqST

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 16, 2024

like he's invented a scenario in which AI is killing millions of people and the thing that terrifies him is that it'll kill too many white people

the ai designed and implemented a genetic engineering program so that now there are babbies with 13 or 14 or more fingers

Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.

Elon bought Twitter so he could essentially spend every day shouting via it, "I am the Emperor and I am naked as fuck"

lol @ the cybertruck message board there are so many damn issues with this thing

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/forums/issues-repairs-warranty-recalls.66/

Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:40 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think he is, a bunch of people got blue checks over the last couple weeks against their will

also one more thing that bothers me

https://i.imgur.com/kE5lGFn.png

"namespace" is a term which actually means something, anyone who's ever done any programming should be familiar with it, and he's using it to refer to the pool of available usernames on Twitter. like this comp sci shit is supposed to be one area he's actually competent in but all the evidence just points to him being a huge idiot there too. people are so eager to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's awkward and dorky, instead it's more like what if Sheldon from Bing Bong Theory was actually just a huge dumbass. I mean take it from me, I played Magic: the Gathering for 15 years, these people absolutely do exist. sometimes they have emerald mines and government contracts I guess.

bullies snatched my namespace

if only there was something that Elon Musk, owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp, could do about these "bot armies"

pretty funny how he claimed he was buying twitter to get rid of the bots

“if i did it (that is, added more bots to twitter)”

he also claimed he was making a car where the steering wheel did not just whiff out the window when you are driving

a great yoke that doesnt fly off your hand

Great user names like Cindy0737396354

odd that he didnt understand that firing everyone would effect things like controlling spam, sure you can keep the core product running kind of ok but all the other stuff is going to massively suffer, and those things matter people dont want pussy in bio in their replies

what happened to his plan of charging all new users $1 to register?

xp He probably believed, and still believes, that the problem could be fixed easily by just writing the right magic code that will solve all the problems and Twitter employed all those humans because of woke or something. I’m surprised he isn’t babbling on now about how “AI” will fix everything.

He speaks like a midlevel manager who's picked up the latest buzzword round the conference table and starts using it every other sentence.

this giy is worth billions, this toilet gonna flush sooo long, or we can just say the serenity prayer for about 5 billion minutes

Another day, another cybertruck fail
"CT windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin, rest of vehicle seems fine. None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage but they had lots of dings in their body. Pretty disappointing, will let y’all know how much it costs to fix"
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1c07zlw/ct_windshield_did_not_withstand_a_freak_sudden/

Truck seems to be entering the league of the Edsel and the Pinto in automotive legend

ddr2sodimm
Wonder if flat shape and shallow angle makes it easier to break. Bad either way.

booboothechicken
If that theory holds true, the good news would mean that it’s much more resistant to the more common occurrence of rock chips being kicked up from the road. Just bad for the small chance of things falling from the sky.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/tesla-asks-shareholders-to-re-ratify-musk-s-56-billion-payout

would be funny if this failed. unfortunately it probably won't

aww

“Because the Delaware Court second-guessed your decision, Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years that has helped to generate significant growth and stockholder value”

the cybertruck can withstand gunfire but not the car wash

$TSLA Cybertruck owners ..

1) do NOT wash your car in sunlight and

2) do NOT tell Tesla SCs that you drove it through a car wash (like this guy) even if you turned on Car Wash Mode. They will void your warranty. 💀 pic.twitter.com/eXpaxlm2X6

— Stonk King (((🌕))) (@StonkKing4) April 16, 2024

How is Tesla not getting class action sued into oblivion?

I guess more to follow…

yeah gotta think it coming

well, they are like school in summer tbh

What's a Tesla SC?

Service centre?

Ah, that makes sense. They also have Super Chargers, and I was pretty sure it wasn't that.

real $TSLA-heads pivoting to the LIVER KING lifestyle (never wash yr ass, never wash yr cybertruck)

someone sent this to me and I'm fucking dying pic.twitter.com/LIj2F9OAwE

— mr pussy (@_mrpussy) April 17, 2024

lmao get em

Tesla should be renamed Douchewagon anyway, it would be more accurate.