Elon Musk

how come he's gotta wire it into my skull, how could it be so great if his goal isn't to put it in his skull first

Gotta say that I'm glad bezos and musk are Culture fans. IMO the best utopian sci-fi.

You wait until these fuckers have knife missiles, then you'll be sorry.

lol this asshole

I just learned that Elon Musk flies in a $70 million private jet. Mostly to commute from LA to the Bay. Sometimes from Van Nuys to LAX -- literally across town.

— Leighton Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) January 31, 2019

To be fair he’s not actually on the jet on those intra-LA flights. He’s having someone move it so he doesn’t have as far to go to get to it.

More here https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/elon-musk-private-jet-flew-150000-miles-in-2018-washington-post-reports/

remember when people thought this dude was gonna be a pioneer for climate change

i mean he's right at the cutting edge of personally contributing to climate change

doesn't even have an electric jet project in the works smdh

just think, if he'd flown that jet 150,000 miles into space he'd be 0.001% of the distance to mars by now

'The Long View' on Radio 4 is this programme that compares an historical event or figure with one from the present day and seeks to point out how similar they are. This week was isambard kingdom brunel and elon musk, the first 3 mins was some railway fellow giving the background of brunel and what an innovative engineer he was, his background on the railways and the idea of an atmospheric railway and what a pioneer he was etc. Then the presenter lists elon musk's accomplishments paypal etc then goes something like "so isambard kingdom brunel giant of the railways and cutting edge engineer back then and elon musk groundbreaking engineer now" only for the technology contributor also on the program to cut in with "elon musk isn't an engineer, he left after 2 days of classes" lol

Well.....

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1PY00J?__twitter_impression=true

oh, alllison
my twitter impression = true

Apparently he arrived in Ostend (belgium). An acquaintance's brother is working for Tesla here in Belgium.

if you read this thread you probably already read matt levine, but today's is good on musk

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-20/elon-musk-can-t-help-himself

He’s also claiming (in Wired) that they will have FULL self-driving cars by the end of 2020, where the driver could take a nap while the car drives the whole trip.

elom nusk

lol

joer ogan

making outlandish claims that never prove to be correct and fabulous promises he never keeps are almost his entire public relations playbook

Promise kept: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245165/tesla-model-3-price-lower-cost-elon-musk-news

well... i mean the promise hasnt been kept until the cars have actually been delivered. at the moment this is just another announcement.

he also accepted pre-orders for the self-driving option... which hasnt happened

I can't figure out who does more goalpost-moving, Musk, or the people in this thread.

your blind uncritical loyalty is far more offensive, you really should just read through this thread again if you're having trouble understanding why so many people hate him

lol "blind uncritical loyalty"

i hate him cause hes bad but hes also very stupid

DJI you're not exactly uncritical, no. but your posts itt are kinda odd, like you've listed things that should be heinous dealbreakers ("I know he's a union-buster" or whatever) but they then don't... break the deal. like is there nobody else working on solar stuff to champion, instead of the guy where that's like the one tiny crumb of goodness to weigh against all the shit?

i admit tho that partly this is coming from the internet being so full of uncritical musk stans who say a lot of similar things and maybe my radar is extra sensitive, idk

guy literally thinks going to mars is good when it so obviously sucks shit

We can go to mars in like seven hundred years it’ll still be there

the guy launched his car into space, like how dumb is that

He only does dumb things, and does them in the most obnoxious way.

confusing science fiction for science is thing that annoys me about nerds

the whole thing of canonizing the underdog tesla too, also while actually behaving like edison

like grow the f up jeez

We can go to mars in like seven hundred years it’ll still be there

we won't, tbf

thinking abt the time he cried on national tv cause the government said he cldnt post lies about him company anymore lmfao incredible

never go to mars mars is bad

my car is in the shop after a dude hit it earlier this week and it’s paid off

should I buy the new tesla so we could have a tesla guy on the thread

when I built a new garage by my house I had it wired so I could put an electric car charger (or arc welder) in it fwiw so my infrastructure is ready

Get an electric car made by a company that knows how to build cars imo

pretty sure in current weather my battery life would be faring insanely poorly

when I built a new garage by my house I had it wired so I could put an electric car charger (or arc welder) in it fwiw so my infrastructure is ready

― mh, Friday, March 1, 2019 4:38 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So you could use an electric kettle in your garage?

never go to mars mars is bad

― lag∞n

go to barsoom instead

go to.....heck

xxp a real european 220v one? maybe!

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Yeah Josh - you're right. There is enough bad about Musk that I guess he's inexcusable? I guess I'm (somewhat) giving him a pass because I like that he has taken on bigger, more pressing problems than just the typical amass-enough-MAUs-to-get-bought-by-Google "entrepreneurs," or the lazy, rent-seeking behavior of the dinosaur capitalists.

Electric cars, self-driving cars, low-cost space travel, solar tiles - I really like all of these ideas. And while you can debate hype vs. reality, I don't think you can just wave off all that he and his companies have done in those domains. Sure he's almost always late, but after spending a long time in tech, I think that overpromising is often a successful tactic used to get things done as quickly as possible, even if it drives observers (and engineering teams) crazy in the short-term.

the planet is is dying and suburbia is causing a health crisis in the meantime. and a lot of it is on cars. electric cars and self-driving cars are bad ideas.

they're also not ambitious. they're "what if cars, but electric" or "what if cars, but you don't hold the steering wheel". they're the ideas you come up with if you take the "snakes on a plane" approach to movie ideation and apply it to physical infrastructure.

so just to be clear: i'm not waving off his accomplishments. i'm saying they are bad.

driverless cars just equals a whole lot more unemployed truckers and farm workers right?

they're the ideas you come up with if you take the "snakes on a plane" approach to movie ideation and apply it to physical infrastructure.

otm. succinct. witty, too. should be plastered all across the internet.