seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Who he?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Suk Lemon
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude owes his company's survival to gov programs butsays it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promiseto obliterate them all.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so hyperloop huh
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
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?
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.
There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.
Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad.
who do you follow?
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
cool monorail bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
even i can afford that
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I meant 94% sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
LOL "elon musk"
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Bad connotations...
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
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, 13 August 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
he might do this
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
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)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.
nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
also the fact that Elon truly has no good car ideas
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:57 (three days ago) link
drive them through tunnels isn't a good idea?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:58 (three days ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 April 2024 21:39 (three days ago) link
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, 15 April 2024 22:20 (three days ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 22:41 (three days ago) link
>Image of cybertruck jumping off canyon cliff thelma and louse style<
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 15 April 2024 22:57 (three days ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:53 (two days ago) link
Isn’t Elon basically homeless
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:17 (two days ago) link
Lives in a Cybertruck down by the river, IIRC.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:25 (two days ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:27 (two days ago) link
i don't understand money stuff really
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:40 (two days ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:42 (two days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ORKd96p.jpeg
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:10 (two days ago) link
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
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:13 (two days ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:30 (two days ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:36 (two days ago) link
the ai designed and implemented a genetic engineering program so that now there are babbies with 13 or 14 or more fingers
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:47 (two days ago) link
Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 06:40 (two days ago) link
Elon bought Twitter so he could essentially spend every day shouting via it, "I am the Emperor and I am naked as fuck"
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 07:57 (two days ago) link
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/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:37 (two days ago) link
― 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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:45 (two days ago) link
bullies snatched my namespace
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:56 (two days ago) link
if only there was something that Elon Musk, owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp, could do about these "bot armies"
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:00 (two days ago) link
pretty funny how he claimed he was buying twitter to get rid of the bots
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:01 (two days ago) link
“if i did it (that is, added more bots to twitter)”
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:17 (two days ago) link
he also claimed he was making a car where the steering wheel did not just whiff out the window when you are driving
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:19 (two days ago) link
a great yoke that doesnt fly off your hand
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:24 (two days ago) link
Great user names like Cindy0737396354
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:25 (two days ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:28 (two days ago) link
what happened to his plan of charging all new users $1 to register?
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:46 (two days ago) link
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.
― President of the Canadian Council of Bassoonists (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:54 (two days ago) link
He speaks like a midlevel manager who's picked up the latest buzzword round the conference table and starts using it every other sentence.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:55 (two days ago) link
this giy is worth billions, this toilet gonna flush sooo long, or we can just say the serenity prayer for about 5 billion minutes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:04 (yesterday) link
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/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 05:55 (yesterday) link
Truck seems to be entering the league of the Edsel and the Pinto in automotive legend
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:09 (yesterday) link
ddr2sodimmWonder if flat shape and shallow angle makes it easier to break. Bad either way.
booboothechickenIf 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.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:12 (yesterday) link
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
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:19 (yesterday) link
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”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:26 (yesterday) link
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
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:33 (yesterday) link
How is Tesla not getting class action sued into oblivion? I guess more to follow…
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:48 (yesterday) link
yeah gotta think it coming
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:49 (yesterday) link
well, they are like school in summer tbh
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:50 (yesterday) link
What's a Tesla SC?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:02 (yesterday) link
Service centre?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:04 (yesterday) link
Ah, that makes sense. They also have Super Chargers, and I was pretty sure it wasn't that.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:18 (yesterday) link
real $TSLA-heads pivoting to the LIVER KING lifestyle (never wash yr ass, never wash yr cybertruck)
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:56 (yesterday) link
someone sent this to me and I'm fucking dying pic.twitter.com/LIj2F9OAwE— mr pussy (@_mrpussy) April 17, 2024
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:32 (two hours ago) link
lmao get em
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:33 (two hours ago) link
Tesla should be renamed Douchewagon anyway, it would be more accurate.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:01 (two hours ago) link