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
yes i guess it's deliveries not sales
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:25 (five days ago) link
also stock just dipped below 148
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:27 (five days ago) link
it should go to zero thats what id pay
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:29 (five days ago) link
tesla as the plucky underdog penny stock of the future
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:30 (five days ago) link
Trump, he used to have this vague liberal veneer to him
I’m sorry, what
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 19 April 2024 19:49 (five days ago) link
(stock might end the day below 146 lol)
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 19:50 (five days ago) link
Trump used to be a Dem donor who would sign his name to climate pledges and the like lol
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 19:51 (five days ago) link
(nope there was a late little rally 👎🏽)
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 20:05 (five days ago) link
Musk OUT wouldn’t help Tesla. A new CEO isn’t going to make FSD real and if one came in and actually made the real world product better it would still be valued at car company prices instead of tech unicorn prices.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:13 (five days ago) link
Everybody dunked on his compensation package but without his relentless lying and hyping it would be a $35 stock so maybe he did create all that “shareholder value.”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:15 (five days ago) link
It would help Tesla but it would destroy their stock price. People buy Tesla because Musk.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:16 (five days ago) link
People buy Tesla because Musk.
I said to my wife over lunch that the fact that the Cybertruck recall impacts fewer than 4000 vehicles means that the Musk cult is a whole lot smaller than the press a) realizes or b) is willing to acknowledge.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:17 (five days ago) link
People buy tesla *stock* because musk, I should have said.Fwiw though for now at least they’re selling cybertrucks as fast as they can make them. The fact that they have not sold many is evidence they have not made many, not that musk is or is not an unusually popular CEO.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:57 (five days ago) link
elon made a website asking for his fifty billion dollars back https://www.supportteslavalue.com
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:01 (five days ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 21:14 (five days ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, April 19, 2024 3:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i mean what's tesla without the musk cult? makers of kinda boring looking and somewhat overpriced EV cars and potentially one of the biggest disasters automotive history in the cybertruck?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 21:15 (five days ago) link
when they originally agreed to give him the $50b it was tied to extremely unlikely future stock gains, then the stock went nuts, now he wants that money straight up, why would anyone agree to give it to him its very silly hes trying to extort them by saying hell work more at his other companies if he doesnt get it but hes already doing that, if owning 10% of the company already doesnt motivate him to actually work there why will another fifty billion, the whole situation is absurd, they should just give me the money to work on secret projects
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:30 (five days ago) link
rip institutional bulls. just the cranks now.
We were correct to reduce our $TSLA position from 12.2% in Sept 2022 to 2.7% today because of our concern about deteriorating fundamentals. In hindsight we should have sold our entire $TSLA position rather than kept a small % of it. We were right that cutting prices wouldn’t… https://t.co/bAP97xDIdO— Gary Black (@garyblack00) April 20, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 April 2024 20:24 (four days ago) link
thats good the cranks can buy all the stock then vote to give elon his fifty billion back
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 April 2024 20:32 (four days ago) link
We don’t care about reality, we believe
After all those hours of conversations with bulls, you still don't get it, Gary. It's not that you're wrong, it's just that those things don't matter much to us.True bulls are invested for >10-20 yrs. We are not traders, we are investors in the greatest entrepreneur of all time.— Val 💃 (@ExcusedEarly) April 20, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:49 (three days ago) link
For over a decade Bernie Madoff looked like the smartest, most successful investor on Wall Street and wealthy people clamored to be allowed to participate in hedge fund. It was like owning a license to print money.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:41 (three days ago) link
All the crypto HODLs said exactly the same thing
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:54 (three days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/leFmrNv.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:34 (two days ago) link
you to love to see it
https://i.imgur.com/tzu9dtO.png
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:39 (two days ago) link
dipped below 140 briefly :)
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:40 (two days ago) link
that's https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-21/tesla-cuts-china-us-prices-after-sales-slow-inventories-rise
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:03 (two days ago) link
deliveries down (by 20%? time) to cut the workforce (also by 20%)!
*invoices for $56b*
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:15 (two days ago) link
*some of that's for editing my own posts*
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:16 (two days ago) link
we shuold see if we can sell ilx to elon for $44b
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:27 (two days ago) link
more like $44burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:37 (two days ago) link
$77B
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:15 (two days ago) link
Is Tesla inflating odometer to show more range, ding lessors with over miles and duck repairs under warranty? As I return my leased Model Y I noticed the odometer is off by 20% vs my Lexus RZ. Turns out other Tesla owners have a similar concern. Is Musk gaming the Tesla odometer? https://t.co/jM8Pmf6U1D pic.twitter.com/h4BB0iiar6— Facts Chaser 🌎 🤦🏻♂️ (@Factschaser) April 22, 2024
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 23:58 (two days ago) link
thats really messed up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 00:00 (yesterday) link
if true at those inflation rates that’s funny for simply being so obviously catchable. i mean car nerds can be pretty merciless with their personal data capture imo. in fact one reason i def doubt these q’s is that it woulda been caught long ago?
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:40 (yesterday) link
could be new
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:41 (yesterday) link
the stupidest possible explanation is that its tracking kilometers and calling them miles
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:43 (yesterday) link
hmm. that wld be dumb. remember that mars probe that crashed because its measures calcs had inconsistent imperial/metrics standards? the possibility of a km/mi problem at tesla is somehow proof that elmo should def keep his sights aiming for his personal mars mission or whatever.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:49 (yesterday) link
tesla earnings call today; excited for new lies
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:56 (yesterday) link
elo "x" musg currently having a public spat with the Australian Government re defending Twitter's right to circulate video of a stabbing in a church
there will be no winners here, the govt will accuse him of being a lousy corporate citizen, he will get a little elon hard-on about it and cry 'censorship' & 'freedom' - perhaps statistically insignificant number of bozos might decide they want him to be next President of the USA
but the main effect will be to render the Tesla brand even more fucking toxic
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:25 (yesterday) link
oh lol I just saw that tweet about Australian sales figures quoted above, maybe he was just looking to act out and this gave him an opportunity
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:26 (yesterday) link
One of the EV YouTube channels I follow posted their "we lost Cronkite" video on their dismal cybertruck experience. Yeah, sure, a software update will suddenly give your CT locking differentials.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:30 (yesterday) link
maybe teslas are measuring every bump in the roadlike the freshmen physics troll of measuring the land-sea boundary
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:45 (yesterday) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/tesla-stock-in-no-man-s-land-after-43-rout-ahead-of-earnings: "The company’s shares are weathering the longest rout since late 2022, tumbling nearly 19% over the past seven days" (posted a couple of hours before the stock market opens; sub needed for further gems)
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:07 (yesterday) link
here you go https://archive.ph/V1Kcc
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:08 (yesterday) link
👍🏽😇
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:28 (yesterday) link
meanwhile enjoy it while it's pure
https://i.imgur.com/QxQlnAC.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 13:44 (yesterday) link
she got all made up for this, sad
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izxpomdyri45gzhppiiyattq/bafkreier4eicstowsic7mv2rjndsoo2mkosv2klwuwpybnhiuyqeq5gquy@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:35 (yesterday) link
I'm going to guess Taylor's people didn't return his call
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:44 (yesterday) link
I checked and she's still with ornaldo bloomps and probably not having surrogate children with Elon but who can tell
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:08 (yesterday) link