Elon Musk

Light as in permanently removed from CEO office, permanently barred from ever serving officer or director of a publicly trading company ever again, as well as multiple $20M fines.

i mean the eron guys went to prison

The Hobart Mercury reported on the opening of an EV charging station in Hobart, Tasmania today. It has nothing to do with Tesla or Elon Musk but they thought this was the best image to illustrate the piece with.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgd90g2grkrc5f2/elon.png?raw=1

Belongs on the claustrophobic movie posters thread.

For sure, it's like a cross between Back to the Future and Big Trouble in Little China. (Both by Drew Struzen.)

and santorum.jpg

Muskophobic.

Tunnels are the solution to traffic. You can have as many levels as you want. Usable tunnel depth far exceeds tallest buildings, so would work even for New York or Beijing.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 15, 2020

cool start workin

What does the height of buildings have to do with anything??

He is saying if we lower New York completely to the depths of its highest building all the original streets become low level tunnels that we can build upon without needing flying Teslas.

Elon's tweets work better in the context of imagining he just took a massive bongrip prior to posting.

"imagining" the "take stock private at 420" guy taking a bong rip

https://i.imgur.com/Vf3Hw8r.gif

the height of buildings matters because the only other viable alternative - flying cars - would be obstructed by them.

how you gonna get down to these tunnels? 600 laps down a corkscrew ramp? car lifts?

if only there were some preexisting system for transiting rapidly through cities, in tunnels

Yeah, but that approach is so modest. They should just scoop out the rest of the rock and dirt and make one *big* tunnel. Big problems deserve big solutions!

Did he ever finish his submarine? That, for those who don't know, is a machine that tunnels through *water.*

Can't wait to use the tunnels in New Orleans and Miami.

he just skip the prologue and just get straight to his tunnel from NYC - Shanghai project

just drop people in, fast commute!

what about a pneumatic tunnel that shoots people around without a vehicle

Or better yet, shoot people out to space!

shoot them to mars

seems like all of this could be done more easily with rope and elbow grease

a sling shot

I was thinking a rope and pulley system, but that could probably be enhanced with sling shot modules

a paternoster lift, but for cars

(i didn't mean paternoster, did i. what's the one where you step on and off every floor?)

That’s just a standard pre-bedtime routine to ward off spirits, I think

a paternoster lift, but for cars

― koogs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:14 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

(i didn't mean paternoster, did i. what's the one where you step on and off every floor?)

― koogs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:19 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's a paternoster

i called him a dumb fuck yesterday and it kinda blew up, had to mute the convo before the stans got there

Elon Musk-rats are some weird fucks

Kinda wish he'd get hit by a truck and have Guy Fieri bake him into some new Flavortown concoction

i called him a dumb fuck yesterday and it kinda blew up, had to mute the convo before the stans got there

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:35 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You’re not going to solve the problem by insisting that people use a form of transportation that is objectively less convenient than cars.

— Regyptian Slut (@RegyptianStrut) September 16, 2020

markets determine correctness; if there are enough rich people who want to drive, they should be allowed to turn the city into a honking traffic sewer for everybody else, there are no other options

The car is so convenient there must be tunnels under other tunnels to conduct them.

(a cursory glance at google was giving me a doorless lift that moved in a continuous loop and went over the top as a paternoster. not what i was after. which they used in mines...)

fuck cars. yeah, now and then I like going for a drive, but one of the things I love about visiting NYC is that I don't gotta rent one, the subways are easy to navigate, cheap, and hey, it's part of the experience.

all we have in Florida is the terrible Lynx bus system and the very limited SunRail. I wish I didn't have to drive.

but it's more important to get somewhere at 1:18 pm than a subway getting you there at 1:25 pm

lmao i love the idea that we can tackle climate change without any sacrifice convenience

clearly the best way to combat climate change it to keep pumping out $80,000 luxury sedans

serious question: is Tesla as a company even carbon neutral??

the car is so convenient, all it asks of us is the melting of the polar ice caps by its byproducts, decades of murderous imperialist policy to provide its fuel, the complete transformation of landscapes at a continental scale to create markets for it, and ongoing mass death caused by its operation by barely-trained amateurs. until you can answer to that unprecedented level of convenience, then *shrug* i guess there's a reason they call elon a genius and YOU'RE a nobody!!

I really believe that people who think “cars are convenient” have literally never had the chance to live anywhere that’s walkable, with limited parking and decent public transportation. Cars are astoundingly inconvenient and expensive to boot.

cars are in almost every way a huge pain in the ass

Cars are fun to drive, that’s about it

most of the time theyre not even fun youre just trying to get somewhere in a deadly machine that you control and theres a ton more deadly machines around too, and dont even get me started on parking!!

I own a car I bought before moving to a city, and when I even remember that it exists I mostly hope someone steals it

h8 cars so fkin much
h8 car culture
h8 how everyone in a car culture intense place talks about cars

h8 old cars, new cars
h8 car shows
also driving is so painful and hard on your body

last point so otm, I used to love driving when I was young and supple.

I would gladly sit on a bus for 30mins extra just to not have to deal with the sustained adrenaline-pumping stress of urban driving; hell even taking a cab/car can be terrifying

i have a hooptie right now so that probably has something to do with it but i swear more people drive like maniacs now than ever. feels like constantly dodging bullets out there!

what we absolutely need is dark tunnels full of computer controlled cars with nothing to anchor perspective, definitely the way forward

working from home has been such an unexpected joy, and a big part of that is no longer wasting 30 minutes a day on a highway, and saving $80 a month (at least) in gas.