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

do tell

curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. I also think the "open source" thing is pretty silly since it's not like code where an individual can make some kind of improvement and test it out to see if it works. I guess an open source design is an interesting idea after the fact if he actually gets it working and other people want to build his design, but it still seems basically irrelevant.

Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?
I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"

It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project

^^^

A key part of his criticism of the other rail plan is that it's "more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized)." I'd like to see some more detailed numbers on that though. Why would we count the cost of unsubsidized rail against air travel which is heavily subsidized? All that really matters is cost to the traveller, and unlike airlines, I'm assuming the high speed rail system is not going to be run as a for-profit business. He also makes no comparison of the environmental costs of air flight vs. the planned high speed rail system.

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

― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, August 12, 2013 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm generally contemptuous of futurists, primarily because they seem to think energy and climate change problems will just sort themselves out, but a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing. I looked at the first two feeds you suggested and they seemed to just be saying this is just a toy for rich people, which is afaict completely unsupported by his proposal. He's not suggesting a magic carpet for billionaires; it's mass transit that uses solar power. This is a good thing! Maybe it's completely impossible hogwash, but I'd like to see actual engineering criticism of it instead of casual dismissals based on suspicion of ideas from rich people.

the main challenges are not engineering-related, their political

anybody who is over the age of 25, has lived in a city for any length of time, and paid a modicum of attention to the world around them knows that these kinds of massive public works projects tend to be underbid by shady contractors and then they go wildly over the original schedule and budget. so the fact that he's coming in saying he can do it so much cheaper with a totally new and untested technology is a huge red flag. to me it immediately suggests that the whole thing is not serious.

if he honestly thinks this is a feasible plan he should raise some funding and build a private line from LA to Vegas.

It's transparently unserious in that he doesn't want to do it himself and "regrets even mentioning it"

right, that aspect has been p funny

haha, I missed that part

ya seems like he said something offhandedly then realized abt his celebrity

a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing.

people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though. i have a hard time believing a transit system would fill the role of the 5 freeway. it's mostly trucks anyway.

You know what would do really well in transportation corridors like that? Plain old freight trains.

I swear, the interstate highway system and the fact it's mostly used for semi truck freight is the biggest money hole in our post-WW2 car-dependent wonderland

there already are freight trains

people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though.

?! they most certainly do. there are these things called commuter flights, they are booked solid all the time.

there are a lot more trucks xp

what exactly are you proposing?

a solar powered superhighway paved with bitcoins duh

that we subsidize more public transport of freight in addition to passengers? or at least reallocate money away from interstate highways

idk, iatee and his ideas about gas prices to thread

HOOS otm

ah, ok. I thought maybe there was a problem with CA's existing freight lines. I don't really know anything about them but I do see freight trains going up and down the state all the time.

If this thing actually worked the political will would develop pretty quickly. If the Acela line was shipping people 400 miles in 30 minutes every state would want one.

Which is why yeah, he should just fucking build one. I wonder what a good demonstration distance would be.

L.A. to S.D.?

http://www.humancannonball.us/IMAGES/photos/017.jpg

what are the possible operating failure modes on one these loops

giant pillow deployment

halp im stuck in a tube inside of a tube

*giant sucking sound*

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/rsjem23/HomerWaterslide.jpg

homerloop

i don't understand why this would be a good alternative to commuter flights

I'd rather see the money spent on suburb-to-city trolley lines

commuter flights are very carbon-intensive, for one thing

There are ways.

http://opinion-forum.com/index/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/airplane_hybrid.jpg

wouldn't even a dependable normal rail line be comparable to commuter flights by the time you figure in airport screening and boarding times and shit?

n/m, I am being way optimistic about rail speeds

there is a rail line that runs the California coast, it's called Amtrak

http://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train

best described as "leisurely"

kind of forget the massive size of California, from now on I'll think of the distance from LA to SF being about the same as the distance from me to Chicago

about distance from the border to austin! i didn't realize it was that far.

now we've got some common terms here

mostly slow because they have to give freight trains the right of way or something like that iirc

yep. it's an enjoyable ride, but not for commuters, it's way too slow. granted I haven't ridden it in 25 years

so the freight lines are pretty congested, you're saying

they're full of hobos

if planes are carbon intensive why not build solar planes? about as doable as a solar rail vacuum tube

I agree that the major problems with implementing his proposal are political, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea!

Invent a solar plane that generates as much thrust as burning a bunch of jet fuel and you'll have everything solved. xp

why not build wind powered planes with propellers that are also windmills?

http://trollscience.com/image/f/full/3778286b17bf40dc45d98c31c99ba016.jpg

Guys we'll have nuclear fusion by 2025 chillax

http://trollscience.com/image/f/full/8dff6ab64e09451e30476175170f9ec0.jpg

i've always lived the idea of giant solar-power helium dirigibles for freight transport

LOLLLLLL

I agree that the major problems with implementing his proposal are political, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea!

uh whut

i think there's the major technical hurdle of building the giant vacuum tube

stick all of these ideas in a pdf and send them to the cologne tycoon

anybody who is over the age of 25, has lived in a city for any length of time, and paid a modicum of attention to the world around them knows that these kinds of massive public works projects tend to be underbid by shady contractors and then they go wildly over the original schedule and budget. so the fact that he's coming in saying he can do it so much cheaper with a totally new and untested technology is a huge red flag. to me it immediately suggests that the whole thing is not serious.

I can't find the specific economist or businessweek article that talked about this but in the US consultants who put the bid together for the state/county/city are not barred from bidding and often end up on the winning bid team.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-superfast-transport-system-powered-by-passenge,33468/

I'm pretty sure ross perot was trying to warn us about this giant vacuum tube 20 years ago

what's that giant sucking sound?

This sounds neat. Anyone speculating as to whether it will work or not right now is completely full of shit -- you have nothing to base your opinion on yet.

One thing I do wonder is whether it will have stops along the way or just be a bullet shot from LA to SF -- there's a big difference in the effect and in the target demographic of a train that's just LA to SF vs one that has intermediate suburban stops. True "commuter" transportation is normally built on a suburbs-to-city model, where people can save money on living expenses and/or have more land by living outside the city and use the transit to get to their jobs. The kind of person who would "commute" from LA to SF or vice versa is more likely someone in a high-powered job travelling back and forth for business meetings and the like -- I don't really see a lot of people living in one city and making a daily commute to an office in the other.

you have nothing to base your opinion on yet

I mean, outside of scientific studies, existing forms of similar transport, use patterns of public transport in that region and regions with high-speed rail, and studies on the efficiency of public project implementation

what I want to know is if they can team this Musk guy up with that Dyson dude so we can make sure this new rail system never loses suction

i have a plan for affordable teleportation. anyone who says otherwise is basing their opinion on nothing and is therefore full of shit

you mean buzz bissinger? xp

high powered boozenass

why everybody want use internet why nobody read deh booehk

i think there's the major technical hurdle of building the giant vacuum tube

― the late great, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:57 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it doesn't involve a giant vacuum tube, tho, is the thing

I thought we all switched to transistors

no? i thought that's how they got around the air resistance.

it doesn't need to be airtight though. something to do with fans & pumps

I mean, outside of scientific studies, existing forms of similar transport,
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plz elaborate

see: Simpsons s04e12 and Futurama opening titles

yeah, it's a low pressure tube, not a no pressure tube.

I don't think the majority of our skepticism is in the particular technology, only that this particular technology might have implementation issues, having not been used in this type of situation before, and there are existing high speed trains we can study for the rest -- passenger usage, patterns of usage, etc.

New technologies need to go into effect and their costs may vary, but the costs of implementing for the first time are fairly predictable based on past ramp-up and production of technologies? If that makes any sense.

still some pressure in elon musk's tube

so basically take the costs of a monorail, the costs of a vacuum system to keep it at low pressure, and the fudge factor of it being something new

still some pressure in elon musk's tube

it has to be kept up artificially though from what I hear

I don't think the majority of our skepticism is in the particular technology
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:52 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well ok then

so is this supposed to replace driving or flying or both? because even if the cost is somewhat lower than flying it seems like the capacity would not be nearly enough to make any sense at all? like, a detachable quad chairlift moves like 2400 ppl/hr.

maybe la-sf needs a subsonic detachable quad.

"The total trip time is approximately half an hour, with capsules departing as often as every 30 seconds from each terminal and carrying 28 people each. This gives a total of 7.4 million people each way that can be transported each year on Hyperloop. ... total of about $20 USD (in current year dollars) plus operating costs per one-way ticket on the passenger Hyperloop."

so is this supposed to replace driving or flying or both? because even if the cost is somewhat lower than flying it seems like the capacity would not be nearly enough to make any sense at all? like, a detachable quad chairlift moves like 2400 ppl/hr.

maybe la-sf needs a subsonic detachable quad.

― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what

Will these things have bathrooms?

yeah, but don't flush

the whole experience is like being flushed amirite

I assume it would primarily replace flying plus some driving and rail. According to my quick googling, 7 mil per year is way more people than make the flight every year.

if he could actually make a system that would take people between SF & LA in a half hour for only $20, and he's not going to spend all of his energy on that then he's a dick.

yeah, i think the flight figure is ~6.x mil. still, that sounds very inflated. it assumes 840 ppl/hour- 24 hours a day. no downtime? no maintenance time? i have no idea how many ppl drive it/day, and part of the traffic will transfer from there. if it's truly like $50/30 minutes, many more people will start to do it.

but i think it's a cool concept, hope it works someday.

i mean, the hyperloop capacity sounds inflated.

you could always build a second parallel tube amirite

yeah but I think the total flight numbers are only like 1.x million

there are probably at least a million people each day commuting into LA and SF combined right? an affordable half hour hyperloop trip between the two (not to mention connectors to other less expensive cities) would lead to a lot more commuters.

is there space for segways in it?

driving segways into the hyperloop with my google glasses

I think it's very healthy to be skeptical of all new technologies. The idea is not to shot down anything new for the sake of it, but to remain cautious of the implications and in this specific case, the feasibility of the new technology.

there are probably at least a million people each day commuting into LA and SF combined right? an affordable half hour hyperloop trip between the two (not to mention connectors to other less expensive cities) would lead to a lot more commuters.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You mean people actually living in one and working in the other on a daily basis? I doubt it, only because both are such expensive cities, so the main reason to choose living in one and working in the other would be taste. The commuters from the valley etc aren't going to pack up and move to SF just because they can tube to work.

well it opens up the possibility. the valley is probably way cheaper than anywhere in the bay area, so if somebody there gets a job in San Jose and they can get there in almost the same amount of time it takes to drive downtown, then why not?

HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2)
Posted: August 13, 2013, 7:17:15 PM
This sounds neat. Anyone speculating as to whether it will work or not right now is completely full of shit -- you have nothing to base your opinion on yet.

where as yr opinion is based on the fact that it sounds neat lol

lasertrain sounds neater, so basically musk can gobble these

i'm not speculating as to whether it will actually work

there's way neater completely untested ideas out there

having a press conference to present a scifi idea is what people are making fun of

he even pretends to know how much it will cost

lol

i blame snowden

Guys, I have this awesome idea and am pretty sure I can put one in every major airport for like $40-50 tops.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01729/star_1729224c.jpg

i already made that joek

HYPERCUBE

funny how billionaires always end up in hubris

i've drawn a big elastic band that will be able to shoot people across country at Mach 4 let's do this

there's way neater completely untested ideas out there

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like what

who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project

he's no ilxor that's for sure

well i haven't FP'd him yet so

oooh i bet he could come up with a better system than fp

like it would only take like 2, 3 tops to ban a fucker

say what you want about this guy, at least he made the hyperloops run on time

who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project

admittedly it's impressive that he's had success in software, auto manufacturing, and aerospace, but isn't a massive public works project like this a different thing altogether?

Don't forget solar.

I think it was entirely reasonable for him to give a cost estimate at this press conference xp

i'm not sure the tesla and space x count as engineering triumphs

dude is a genius entrepreneur, not a genius engineer

well i guess space x is pretty cool but not cheaper or better than nasa, the tesla is like 100k

I think it was entirely reasonable for him to give a cost estimate at this press conference xp

I think it's pretty reasonable to be skeptical of a figure that's almost 1/10th of what's being spent on actual proven existing technology.

Well ya thats why he thinks his idea is better

Cracking up at article that bolstered dudes cred with "Tony stark is partially based on him in the popular im movies!"

Well ya thats why he thinks his idea is better

yeah, make believe ideas do tend to be better and cheaper than messy reality.

Wwtsd

wtsiw

well i guess space x is pretty cool but not cheaper or better than nasa, the tesla is like 100k

Actually SpaceX is considerably cheaper than NASA. NASA even agrees: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/586023main_8-3-11_NAFCOM.pdf

that's because they're organizationally leaner, not because they've invented a cheaper spacecraft

http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/

well sure that's fine for elon

who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

estimate

lasertrain will only cost $1 because light is free

lose organizational fat with this one weird trick

i admit the only reason i'm in this thread at all is i love saying Elon Musk in my head after every post

no one's real name sounds more like a cologne

ELON MUSK...by fabergé

Two weeks before his Hyperloop announcement, Musk quietly met with the founder of ET3, an even-faster, already patented tube transport system.

Daryl Oster and five people from his company ET3 made the trip to 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne, California, the headquarters of SpaceX. Its CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk had invited the engineer and former stockbroker over for a chat. Musk was interested in Oster's idea for an Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) system that he said would let people travel from New York to L.A. in 45 minutes.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3015704/futurist-forum/how-much-did-this-hyperloop-lookalike-inspire-elon-musk

dang 45 mins

eat the rich

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 23 Aug
Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium

http://i.imgur.com/5pGi2W7.gif

hahaha

lol

nice

http://recode.net/2014/04/03/at-hbos-silicon-valley-premiere-elon-musk-is-pissed/

He is REALLY into Burning Man

“The parties in Silicon Valley are amazing" lol i dont believe u

I was just having a meeting with my information security team, and they’re great but they’re pretty fucking weird — one used to be a dude, one’s super small

what the actual fuck is this shit

imagining musk getting continuously blown away by everyday sights

sounds like he was stoned, like whoa these guys work for me crazy and wow one of them is tiny and another one is pretty radical and were having a meeting this is so weird im kinda freaking out imna text sergey no dont text pay attention what are they talking about shit this is so fucked up

oh hey lets create a spacefaring civilisation oh look a squirrel

There's speculation of an interesting horizontal integration aspect to this project - namely, that the hyperloop stores energy in excess of what it needs to operate. The thought is that this energy can be funneled to various spots along the loop where electric car recharge stations would be placed. That helps alleviate one of the chief concerns with another of Mr. Musk's businesses, the relatively short range of electric cars (I.e his Tedla models) to travel highway distances.

That's nice

Yeah actually if he's just wasted it doesn't sound weird at all

hey man i'm too wasted to be aware that describing transgendered or less-than-average-height people as 'fucking weird' is nagl

Isn't the story all about how pissed he is?

You mean, like, drunk?

I ws thinking "Holy shit that guy's wearing a HAT, woah" type wasted

Outside on the street, actor T.J. Miller was having a cigarette. Was he having a good time at the party?

“Yeah, but, and I’m not gonna name names, but if the billionaire power players don’t get the joke, it’s because they’re not comfortable being satirized,” said Miller, who plays a buffoonish character named Erlich, who owns the hacker house. “And they don’t remember that to be a target of humor is an honor — you have to be venerated to be satirized. Like, I’m sorry, but you could tell everything was true. You guys do have bike meetings, motherfucker.”

Burn.

fwiw the trailer for this made me laugh

I feel like with Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani on screen and Mike Judge involved it will probably not be terrible.

I'd watch a Martin Starr one man monologue movie, a la Spalding Gray.

it turns out i know somebody who's just agreed to be, essentially, husk's PA.

i mean musk.

please get them to start a 77 thread for us

also, maybe see if there are extra burning man tix so I can hang with the muskster

As I kind of expected, not amazing overall, but I laughed pretty much every time Nanjiani or Starr opened their mouths. Relied a little too much on obvious/well-worn tech company gags.

another space x launch later today

it turns out i know somebody who's just agreed to be, essentially, husk's PA.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 4, 2014 3:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean musk.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 4, 2014 3:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Musk Musk

calling him "husk" is p lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCIYlRRw_o

I keep thinking of Aeon Flux.

thanks jordan. i have no idea what that is, but thanks.

only 90s kids

i was born in 1987

maybe I should say only 90s teens

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/11/watch-hyperloop-hits-400mph-in-2-seconds-flat/

thats... not inside a tube?

the cult around this guy is baffling, except for paypal i've yet to use anything he built.

What u haven't been to space lately ur not srs?

my friend works for SolarCity, which he strongly corrects me about. it's not run by Musk, he says. it's Musk's cousin.

Elton Musk

I see at least 1 Tesla per day

And there's usually only 3 parked at the dealership

I don't know what I'm getting at with this

idk, the cult of Musk makes a lot more sense than the conventional tech wisdom that the uber dudes are visionaries. i mean, he's trying to get to space and build a train that goes 800mph, the appeal of these things seems obvious even if you don't share it.

Teslas aren't sold from the dealership. You order one, they build it and deliver it to you.

Elon Musk is a living indictment of our broken economic system

yeah idk there is no tesla dealership, maybe you saw a place with free charging stations

I think my friend with a Volt has been optimizing his routes to be able to charge his car for free while drinking

I mean, ducking in for a drink. Probably not a good idea to drive too close to him, just in case

There's Tesla showrooms in a few places. There's one in a mall near here. On one of the upper floors, no less, which just seems weird.

“As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, ‘I am the alpha in this relationship,’” Justine, who was wed to the mogul from 2000 to 2008, wrote in a Marie Claire article. “I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement . . . Elon’s judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking,” she continues, saying he told her, “If you were my employee . . . I would fire you.”

Sort of what I'd expect from a billionnaire called "Elon Musk"

if this isn't technically a dealership, it is at least surrounded by dealerships and occupies a space that was previously a dealership
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tesla+Motors+Santa+Barbara/@34.4336131,-119.747588,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80e9151f819505f7:0x4e0b1a589e5a265c!8m2!3d34.4336131!4d-119.7453993

but yes, they seemed to only have one of each model type available for test drives or something. which is a bit hilarious because the lot is huge.

musks brother has a restaurant empire in colorado and hes a bigtime thought leader

http://i.imgur.com/6bH7YH0.jpg

tomato signal is strong

im against gmos personally

fwiw i agree that food is def the new internet

i just emailed an ice cream sandwich to my face via my hand

"What time is it? No time to look back. Food is the new internet."
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/08/Byrne.jpg

all I do all day is facilitate gmos

www.wired.co.uk/article/hyperloop-hype-machine

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/elon-musk-has-delivery-issues

the cult around this guy is baffling, except for paypal i've yet to use anything he built.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't even build this - it already existed at another company that his company (X.com) merged with.

Toupee-pal more like (he wears a wig or has implants or something)

T MINUS TEN MINUTES!

https://www.facebook.com/Floridatoday/videos/10155860010880937/

or try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c

pls tell me someone strapped Musk to the nose

isn't there a left wing podcast you should be listening to?

pls tell me you have better things to do than harsh my buzz, comrade

idk I think it would be a win-win

okay that was fucking cool

the car + the 'don't panic!' thing was a little gross but w/e

the boosters just coming back home to their own separate landing pads was the best part imo

Welcome back lil guys!

yeah the booster landing was amazing, the live footage from the rockets themselves was boss

coworkers were watching this across the row from me.

main comment i heard was "lotta white dudes"

as much as i loath this kind of thing as an early example of advertising/marketing in space, i have to admit this is kind of riveting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/ZZ_Top_-_Afterburner.jpg

are we sure spaceX isn't just faking all this footage? when the boosters re-landed, i don't know, looked pretty fake to me

that really is something, though, when it happens at about 38:00 into the video the late great posted. that's just fucking amazing.

I don’t think the third booster made it? No footage was shown.

a billionaire putting a car on mars in an age of record inequality is very "Whitey's On The Moon" imo

xp

Yes nothing was heard or seen of it, don't know tbh

otm xp

Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone

you're a flying bone

Tracer OTM. I appreciate the scientific accomplishment here, but it's a douchy thing to do and I'm afraid we'll see way too much of it in the coming years. Sending a car into space huh? What's next, sending a monkey into orbit? (j/k)

Like this fucking guy. It's a very vain way of polluting space.

ugh I thought LBI's gizmodo link was an Onion article, and I appreciated the effort of setting up an external website, but thought it possibly a little on the nose that they picked a real company name

literally did not realise my mistake until I'd read the entire article and scrolled back to click on the link

back to today's launch, twin landings cool, anything to do with the car ugh

haha wow, well I can't blame you for mistaking it for the Onion. All too real though, sadly.

Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.

I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/

guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip

seems aspirational when you write it like that

he died doing what he loved fucking a rocket and dying

that flat earth dude wherever, isn't that the thing

afaik that guy wants to die in a halfassed rocket launch and has appealed to flat earth people in order to fund his suicide rocker. good grift really

lol check this shit out, what cant elon musk do

The curvature of the Earth got people talking as photos and videos were shared of the SpaceX #FalconHeavy launch. https://t.co/Cod7JFblSI

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) February 6, 2018

thank u elon for finally proving real ppl and not government shills can show the earth curvy

real earths have curves

Elon and Tesla are doing its best to ensure my work days are never dull. But this is pretty awesome, I’ve had starman gently spinning all day long on my second screen, it’s very relaxing.

#imwithFET

Wow, lots of activity since last night, as though a) this is the first time anyone pointed a funny lens at the earth, or b) the imagery in any way contradicts modern FET. If it were that simple, who wouldn't already be convinced?

— Flat Earth Today (@FlatEarthToday) February 7, 2018

What do they regard as a "funny" lens, I wonder? Non-rectilinear? The long focal length lenses folks shoot with from the ISS are rectilinear. I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole (which isn't a hole, it's a disk), but if I shoot a flat horizon at sea level with a 400mm lens and then I shoot with the same lens from 500km up and the horizon is curved, what then? Someone with more patience than me is having this discussion with them right now on Twitter, right?

http://www.in5d.com/images/5d-agharta.jpg

i assume all is now clear

Gotcha.

like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day

I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.

if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer

I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.

(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)

yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone

i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about

back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)

anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale

I dunno, most of space is kinda empty and dull. Gotta fill it with something wacky hey.

What's the plan for this car then? Is it just going to eventually crash into the sun?

"i thought it was crass and self-promotional"

I mean... it can be more than one thing. Unfortunate side effect of having space exploration headed by a private company.

The amount of debris in space may not be a pressing issue yet, but it soon will be. http://stuffin.space/

Shooting disco balls into space because you're a dumbass billionaire doesn't sit well with me at all (but I'll concede it's different from Musks effort here)

disco balls would be better imo

"Musk occasionally performs a ritual called anointing. When the he encounters a new scent, he will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. The purpose of this habit is unknown,"

Elon Musk Hedgehog -photoshop experts please produce this!

Sounds like something really weird I used to do with stacks of Doritos in middle school

Where is that quote from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

Isn't the car going to end up in orbit around Mars? I was thinking if all went right, that's where it would end up.

Got to figure if ends up in a stable orbit and he pulls off some of his schemes, he'd eventually pick it up to complete the stunt.

That disco ball in orbit I guess has ticked off the antenna folk as since its highly reflective if it comes onto the line of site its light reflection is bright.

apparently it's 'blasting' star man at top volume which seems like obnoxious and almost like pollution

https://imgur.com/gallery/DWTOb

He migth as well send his dick to mars what a braggart

fuck this guy

xpost luckily there's no sound in space

which reminds me, i really want to know what sound sounds like on the edges of the atmosphere, just before there isn't sound.

(apparently it sounds like this: https://www.livescience.com/50721-near-space-sound-recorded.html)
(although that's kind of cheating because the recording "instruments eavesdropped on atmospheric infrasound, or sound waves at frequencies below 20 hertz. Infrasound is below human hearing range, but speeding up the recordings makes them audible.")
(i want to hear the last audible gasps of sound still within the human hearing range. i guess i could just simulate this on my laptop, though)

flat earthers gonna hate!

elon musk go to mars bitch

now if George Clooney was in the spacesuit instead of a mannequin, well all right

He's gagged up in the boot

i want elon musk to move to mars and try to stay positive while it dawns on him how bad it sucks, also i want him to get stuck there

Holy shit, did the flat earthers unionize? pic.twitter.com/hTrQ7bwLqf

— Nora Blake (@NeitherNora) February 7, 2018

mars: also flat, bitches

day 300: finally weve reached our destination, mars! (and its dick shaped?)

A local politician is found blasted into space in a car atop a heavy lift rocket. Suspicion falls on a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, angry that an unreliable power supply might threaten his plans for world domination of the electric vehicle market.

— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) February 7, 2018

real earths have curves

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I like my planets fat and not flat

I love big buttes and I do not lie

I'm in love with my curvy planet

oops

https://i.imgur.com/JX3iSXT.png

http://www.audibletreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A_1_Unpredictable_The_Repo_Man.gif

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 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Convinced this will happen some day.

what a loser, tried to send his car to mars ends up in ASTEROID BELT - dick!

great guy

https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Elon-Musk-promises-frozen-yogurt-roller-coaster-10966087.php

actual "frozen yogurt roller coaster" would be legit breakthrough

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/12/elon_musk_invents_bus_stop/

“elite projection” is my favorite term of the day and I’m gonna use that piece in a talk I’m about to give. Thanking u

humantransit.org is a gift

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-hires-several-pastry-chefs-away-from-entenm-1823807651

Can we use this thread to track the impending implosion of Tesla?

He bonds they sold last August are now trading at 88c on the dollar, their debt is rated barely above junk, people are leaving left right and centre.

New car, new production techniques, new factories, it’s starting to get very ugly.

But he put fake man in car in space. Going in wrong direction, sure.

If the point was making huge profits, then yes, it's failing, but the whole "disrupting the industry" strategy + opening minds to the possibilities of electric cars = success.

the famous business strategy

Who Killed The Self-Driving Car?

Dennis Guilder

they are facing another Moody's downgrade very soon iirc

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-shifts-model-3-production-lines

I fear for their poor workers, but I won't be able to deny the schadenfreude if Musk goes down.

it's clearly rich guy on rich guy vengeance, this is what happens when you shut down your corporate facebook accounts

ballistic: musk vs. the zuck

trying to think what Musk’s businesses’ actual recent successes are and if they’re at all notable

rocket stuff: pretty good? more showboating than innovation
cars: driving tech ahead of most competitors, pushing battery industry forward through demand. actual car production sucks, QA on car assembly is bad

solar company: not any better than any solar company doing the subsidy/home install game. might be a front to sell batteries

mass transport company: they’ve dug some holes in the ground and are selling gimmicks for publicity

branding game: relatively strong

the real coup de grace was the car company purchasing the struggling indebted solar company imo

its all pretty funny imo except the mass transpo company which seems just another obvious attempt to undercut public transpo with a car dependent future

not even sure he even believes he can build his tunnels and suction tubes might be purely an attempt to inject chaos into the public transpo planning process

stando evil industrialist scheming

pushing battery industry forward through demand

But not fulfilled with Tesla/Panasonic batteries. Elon makes all the noise but LG and Samsung make all the sales. Even the 120MW big battery in Australia is full of Samsung cells. It keeps my day interesting that he keeps sprinkling the tech but it’s it where the money is going.

they’re not doing much research overall, right? they’re an integrator/reseller

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/img/bills2.gif

heh heres the article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash

The thing that really annoys me most about Elon is his name. I really want him to be called Elton Musk. Like a seedy jazz saxophonist from the 70s.

spending a shitload of money and going massively into debt is a total alpha move

will his personal life implode before Tesla does?

looking at his twitter is the most annoying thing

he tweets some shitbag stupid ass shit like "I'm going to create an amphibious moped then shoot it into space" and there's a zillion responses from a bunch of dickriding wanna be Pied Piper ass motherfuckers like "OMG you're my hero"

Awesome sauce!

'everything is awesome', enjoyed without irony

a month ago i thought about buying a share for the first time, risking it on tesla even though i knew there was a high chance of them going bankrupt. now i'm glad i held off.

A week's worth of URL titles
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/elon-musk-hung-up-on-ntsb-chief-during-call-about-tesla-crash-probe/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-05/musk-is-super-super-serious-in-attacking-buffett-s-candy-moat
https://pagesix.com/2018/05/05/meet-elon-musks-new-love-interest
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-shareholders-will-vote-on-booting-elon-musk-as-ch-1825598148

Anyone with an over-under on a final public meltdown?

yeah he seems unstable

"I am super super serious," Musk said of his candy idea. He also tweeted a movie clip from the animated "Trolls," with characters dancing to Justin Timberlake’s song "Can’t Stop The Feeling!" Musk didn’t provide an explanation for the video.

Thank god he stopped short of saying "super cereal"

uh

https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musician-grimes/

lol

“Elon was researching the idea of joking about Rococo Basilisk, and when he saw Grimes had already joked about it, he reached out to her,” says the insider.

oldest trick in the book

they said roko's basilisk would retroactively punish humanity but they could never foresee how

lmaoooo

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 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jumping in before nickb gets credit for muskrat an all

lolz

your rights are my rights are our rights tom get out and march

this is how much i never want to hear grimes

https://voices.clickhole.com/i-never-want-to-understand-sand-1825124083

grimes is pretty good!

https://artofstyle.club/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/elon-musk-casual-style-art-of-style.jpg

learning of the existence of that clickhole blog jed posted is the best thing to come out of all this

my favorite headline of the day: Musk's Stock-Option Tweet May Invite U.S. Labor Board Complaint

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/musk-s-stock-option-tweet-may-invite-u-s-labor-board-complaint

Many Silicon Valley companies give employees shares that fully vest over a four-year period, which has made equity in fast-growing companies a critical part of employees’ compensation packages. The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union.

“This is an interesting example of an employer using social media for purposes of campaigning and sharing its views with employees before they vote to decide on representation,” Steven Swirsky, a former NLRB attorney who’s represented companies including Volkswagen AG, said in an interview. “I can foresee the union claiming that this is a threat that the company will discontinue this benefit if the workers chose to be represented.”

Musk would have been on safer legal ground, Liebman said, if he had just described collective bargaining as a give-and-take proposition and warned workers that they may lose benefits in the process.

a genius unlike any other

wow, there is no elon musk news

Well, he's having quite the day on Twitter there.

I was just coming over to say, it just keeps going.

PRAVDA

*kisses fingers*

[texting]

GRIMES: 🌞 ¡good morninggg! 👻 xDDDD

MUSK: hello my evropa, my sparkling summer solstice of sweet sherry. no-gods do i love alliteration

GRIMES: what R U doin todayyy 🧠👀

MUSK: methinks at precisely 22:35 on the dot i shall tonguepunch your delectable twatterino ;P

— erica ✌️😉💜 (@babyfacepop) May 22, 2018

Thing I’ll be thinking about all day today: people offering hugs to Elon and buying Tesla stock in response to people roasting Elon Musk about not liking unions pic.twitter.com/G3pRJXu9Jr

— alan (@ActionAlan) May 23, 2018

he’s really owning the Gavin Belsen resemblance

Was his calling it Pravda some weird irony, or is he just stupid?

if nothing else, musk deserves the guillotine for further encouraging peter daou

https://i.redditmedia.com/CKxDpPvOIhr-Cz5UZgtp9RIzCi_3DZS2uGtZDX0o_IY.jpg?w=1024&s=1cfc619f2506d689b1b300ffafdf9c92

I'm sure the people who are motivated to evaluate the 'truth' of an article will be untainted, dispassionate defenders of 'verity'.

that daou tweet made my day, just beautiful stuff

so he's just putting the struggle to combat lies and fake news with the pure authorized TruthTM "on hold" to work on a book?

this book will be nothing but lies.

I think he might even be lying about working on a book! Oh my gosh.

well well well

May 24 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers International Union (UAW) has filed a complaint accusing Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk of illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union.

The UAW, which is seeking to represent workers at Tesla’s facility in Fremont, California, filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board late Wednesday.

Musk in a tweet on Monday said there was nothing stopping Tesla workers from joining a union, but “why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”

https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-union/union-accuses-tesla-ceo-musk-of-threatening-workers-idUSL2N1SV1DT

That tweet katherine posted above is my least favorite thing I've seen on the internet this year.

if I had to see it so do you

(texting)

https://theoutline.com/post/4662/elon-musk-business-ideas-pravda-candy-company-flamethrower?zd=2&zi=rasxm6k5

A great judge of the press.

This analysis is excellent. Applies principles of https://t.co/pLVH45gvOM https://t.co/EfAEPmH454

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2018

Hey buddy. Don't do this. You're making a terrible mistake. https://t.co/SxqsYh8V1s

— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) May 26, 2018

Uh-oh, Elon Musk has caught a Twitter-specific mental disease. You've seen it before. Someone or some group on here has owned him so bad that he is re-aligning his whole life and worldview to prove them wrong. Happens all the time, but only Musk may blow up a planet as a result

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 23, 2018

Non-trivial part of my timeline alternating between "Elon. Please. Stop Talking." and "only following @spacex now" performative outrage.

I think there’s another Twitter user who is actually much more likely to blow up earth as a result

Amazon has to ship to every military PO, right? Jeff decides to sneak an explosive in all the packages going to US bases worldwide

No way does the Trumpster have that pull

Anyone want to bet he’ll address the absolute flood of antisemites supporting him in the replies here?

Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2018

Or is he going to be crying about the unfair media covering stuff like this?
http://www.thejournal.ie/tesla-autopilot-crash-4038417-May2018/

It don’t take long to get to a pro-Assad anti Semitic Pepe the frog and that was enough.

Revolting.

lmao

Marx was a capitalist. He even wrote a book about it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2018

Came to post that, hehehe we live in a fictional narrative this world isn’t real

I'm... pretty sure that has to be a joke. Even hating Elon Musk, I'm willing to extend credit that far.

Yeah he’s trying “humour” and it’s coming out exactly as you’d expect

he was just researching humour

so yeah how many billions has Musk personally siphoned from public coffers?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/19/technology/tesla-fire-musk-note/index.html

...the Tesla employee had confessed to "quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations." The email said the employee made changes to the computer code of the company's manufacturing operating system. The employee also exported large amounts of highly sensitive company data to unknown third parties.

wreckers, comrades!

it reflects so badly on the impressive heads down type Stakhanovites who just love nothing less than making rich ppl much richer!

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/elon-musk-lauds-new-temporary-assembly-tent-as-factory-2-0-awaits/

"Not sure we actually need a building. This tent is pretty sweet."

LOLOLOL

the fake saboteur is responsible for that tesla catching fire for sure

also the final mix of realiti

"Not sure we actually need an album version"

charges filed today, but only for stealing date, no sabotage

so basically some employee tried to leak documents about this guy's collapsing house of cards, is what I think

braver than the troops

date = data

nearly every article about this is picking up on it, but it's worth noting that any time any of Musk's ventures has had a setback he's immediately jumped to the "sabotage!" angle

in 2016 he was convinced someone was firing a laser at his rocket from a neighboring building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-avaa9a_HU

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/elon-musk-farting-unicorn-mug-cartoon-tom-edwards

Was actually someone else’s drawing of a unicorn on hidden Tesla sketch pad app & we gained no financial benefit. Have asked my team to use a diff example going forward. He can sue for money if he wants, but that’s kinda lame. If anything, this attention increased his mug sales.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2018

this guy sucks

"Elon Musk has shown up with his mini-submarine and left it at the site, but the rescue chief has said it’s not of any use" #ThailandCaveRescue https://t.co/mxvo3jkYNn

— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) July 10, 2018

major whitey saviour fail, lol!

Elon Musk in Gazza/Moaty scenario.

except gazza with his chicken and chips and a fishing rod might actually have been more useful in this case

I'm sure American ILXors are dying to contribute to this conversation.

huh? in what way is Gaza connected with Musky?

moaty spent five days living in an underground sewage pipe iirc, gazza like musk turned up unbidden to offer his unsolicited assitance to the authorites who were trying to get him out

Indeed, tragic steroid-deranged wife beater and murderer or some schoolkids stupid enough to climb into a cave, I know where my sympathies lie.

i was feigning ignorance there, for once!

I thought you were impersonating an American ILXor, though the fact that you didn't start your sentence with, "Excuse me, sir...", threw me a bit.

in fairness to musk, maybe he'd just misunderstood what subbing players was all about

lol i came to this thread to report that i've now seen this identical joke emerge spontaneously/independently at least five times on twitter today -- well done everybody

so many people praising him for his selflessness "even if it didn't work"

ppl who defend musk in the comments are frickin wild man what a world

"I went to the hospital where a child was having open heart surgery. I brought a bowie knife and a wrench and was asked to leave. But the important thing is...I was there."

"I left the knife and wrench there should they ever need them!!"

yes i've seen that exchange half a dozen times too

"lol elon musk always a twat"
"SO WHAT DID YOU FUCKIN DO TO HELP ASSHOLE"

not gonna link to hardtimes but I did chuckle at the parody headline "Elon Musk and Bono team up to invent world's first self-praising car"

did he also leave a sub captain or instructions?

you know that a tesla submersible would be an utter fucking death trap too

xp it's self-driving iirc (j/k)

Gazza is a fucking hero.

I've done plenty to help asshole

read a blind item on crazy days and nights that was talking about how "unnamed tech ceo" with popstar gf is a huge coke head and a lightbulb appeared above my head. explains so much of his behaviour - firing a car into space and arguing with randos on twitter especially

nm should probably take that to the rimming thread xpost

saw a tweet reply literally all "musk doesnt care about good publicity hes a billionaire" lol

lmao

also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"

had dinner w/my friend who works at tesla over the weekend and he's completely a non-cultist and was like "well, I've worked here almost two years, time to start hunting around"

also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line

lol

also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"

― mark s, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:10 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes the very same person in fact lol

also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line

lol

― mh, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

incredible

well the good news is if anyone goes in that cave again and gets stuck there’s an unproven submersible no one knows how to operate made quickly by a man whose cars spontaneously combust ready to rescue them.

also it's too big to make it up and over a curve in the cave iirc

you can uh ride it halfway in

there will be a video game made about Musk's heroic venture

Doing the classic bum roommate move of leaving his shit behind in case anyone wants to use it huh

i have an otherwise reasonable friend who admires musk and is taking the "at least he's trying to help people" line. "Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"

it's frustrating.

people need to understand that hating musk is fun and good

"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"

By sending a submarine to Thailand.

acquaintance of mine who snidely said he didn't think 'burger flippers deserved $15 an hour' and regularly posts "Be like Elon" memes that are riddled with factual errors also started a GoFundMe to repair his car after an accident (while not answering the question of why his insurance wouldn't be taking care of it).

Here he is claiming to have helped out in Flint - someone queue up the Simpsons Spock gif

Already have

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

found it

It's crazy to hear that people think he's doing this for the attention, do you honestly think the man that sent a car to space needs attention?

— TreyPenninger (@SSYGrunt) July 9, 2018

incredible

Can't get this out of my head now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz7OEtaY90

His bootlicking cult is SO weird. Has anyone seen the woman who keeps trying to gift him crystals?

A person with any self awareness would feel ashamed about Trump managing to respond more appropriately ffs.

No, it means I created jobs for 50,000 people directly and, through parts suppliers & supporting professions, ~250,000 people indirectly, thus supporting half a million families. What have you done?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

tbf abt 95% of the hot stanning is elon himself imo

yegads

has anyone noticed that all of Elon's adventures line up with stories in this kids' series? pretty sure this latest chapter covers both the time they built a submarine and the time people were lost in a cave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Scientists%27_Club

LOL what a prat.

did Elon just add 50k and 250k and come up with a half million xxp

I think his assumption was that every one of the 250,000 was married with a family, which somehow seems even worse to me

wait even that's wrong, lol

really cannot wait for whatever accounting scam theyre running over there at tesla to be exposed

otm

isn't there a kickstarter or something for the Tesla whistleblower? I oughta throw some $$ at that

I wonder how often Elon would rather be a physics engineer, or lead technical designer instead of having to carry the label of billionaire. Regardless of whether or not the capsule ended up being feasible, the man sprung into action to help people he’s never met. #ThaiCaveResue

— Blake Kistler (@blake_kistler) July 10, 2018

What a burden.

Ironically, the “billionaire” label, when used by media, is almost always meant to devalue & denigrate the subject. I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size, but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before. Just the scale has changed.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

to answer my own question

https://www.gofundme.com/Tripp-vs-Tesla-help-fund-the-fight

can we just shoot Elon Musk into space now plz

I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size,

like... the billion dollar valuation size?

but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before.

none, because you're not an engineer or scientist?

I like him for entertainment value.

surely his bloated corpse orbiting the moon would be entertaining

"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"

By sending a submarine to Thailand.

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 5:38 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the infrastructure in question is digging a series of tunnels connecting elon's house and workplace and some other places he'd like to visit from time to time without sitting in traffic.

excuse me billionaire is a slur. blocked

if only there were some way to not be a billionaire oh well

Imagine trying to coax one of the kids into that terrifying floating coffin after they've spent two weeks in a cave

do you think the team working on it had to keep reminding each other not to call it that?

can't believe elon hired that man who put his boy in a balloon to lead his engineering team

on the plus side he can repurpose those coffins to re-create The City of Freedom from the Holy Mountain

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75a2BH0nUlA/SumXdfoFbII/AAAAAAAAANw/xYPyKv1Drzk/s640/mt4.jpg

self-clowning

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/elon-musk-queries-expertise-of-thai-cave-rescue-officials

turns out complaining about elon musk on the internet might bring some people in flint some water?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-11/musk-pledges-to-pay-for-clean-water-to-homes-in-flint-michigan

so wait, was he actually asked to do this?

This reaction has shaken my opinion of many people. We were asked to create a backup option & worked hard to do so. Checked with dive team many times to confirm it was worthwhile. Now it’s there for anyone who needs it in future. Something’s messed up if this is not a good thing.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2018

I honestly think he completely made that shit up.

the important thing is that his opinion of many people has been shaken

One might even say he has been shook

ain't no such thing as halfway musks

Update on @elonmusk’s promise to “fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels”.

He now says “most houses in Flint have safe water” and he will “add filters” to the houses he describes as “outliers”.

💦🤔💦

cc: @LittleMissFlint pic.twitter.com/sLtKArGlNf

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 11, 2018

yeah I mean the trick is, as I have learned, a bunch of older homes have lead supply lines. under normal water flow, with the protectant additives, they don’t leach enough lead to be a problem — under EPA regs

but there’s non-lead (fine), lead that never had corrosive water and had protectants (mostly ok), and those that had corrosive water with no protectants for months but are now back to baseline (flint)

I think the latter is bouncing around EPA acceptable on the bad side and Elon stuck his foot in mouth

honesty I had half my supply line replaced this year and the under-street part is prob lead but not leaching and I am starting to really look into it

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/12/1531368000000/A-brief-history-of-Tesla-and-the-number-500-000/

Catching up on this, and now imagining an Ace In The Hole remake centering on a fictionalized Musk in Douglas role.

feel like when Elon Musk's story is written it'll pinpoint the article calling him the "real life Tony Stark" as the exact moment everything went downhill

I would pay good money to see him try to fly around with rocket boots and no safety harness

everyone knows the true real-life tony stark is that guy who built a backyard rocket and blasted himself towards the stratosphere so he could prove the earth was flat

still pretty sure he just grifted the flat earthers in order to build his rocket. respectable grift imo

musk is the rockwell character tbh

xp

Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.

darragh otm

Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC https://t.co/3bLF6yzTMR

— Salon (@Salon) July 14, 2018

one weird fact about the billionaire environmentalist

Is it possible to put the thinky face emoji in bold type

you have to admit that musk is in the ninety-ninth percentile as a self-promoter. he has the knack for making pronouncements just weird enough to get big play in the media, not so weird he loses the faith of the investor class, but which generally hit the sweet spot of "brilliant eccentric"

it's almost as if the media is easily gamed by billionaires

Potentially a positive development if disillusioned groupies start thinking critically re hero worshipping obscenely wealthy entrepreneurs

elton johns

That’s no way to refer to grimus

it's almost as if the media is easily gamed by billionaires

― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, July 14, 2018 2:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"these billionaires sure are amazing at media" --the media

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thai-cave-rescue-elon-musk-mini-submarine-british-driver-tham-luang-vern-unsworth-a8447166.html

“The submarine, I believe, was about five foot six long, rigid, so it wouldn’t have gone round corners or round any obstacles.

“It wouldn’t have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt.”

The experienced cave explorer said Musk was “asked to leave very quickly” after he turned up at the caverns during the rescue operation on Tuesday.

Brit diver who helped locate the lost party says Musk can 'stick his submarine (which looks like an oversized suppository) where it hurts'

guy who helped save kids points out EM’s thing was an unworkable publicity stunt... EM calls the guy a pedophile. we are weeks away from “Enron Musk” headlines https://t.co/WArAW4Gxdb

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) July 15, 2018

starting to think this guy might be problematic tbh

Oh no this is gorgeous

His suckage gets more classic on a daily basis

Kinda strange to consider now that only a few weeks ago grimus fans were extremely betrayed that the empress of shitpostcore would deign to date him

Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves. Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

what a scumbag

that's gotta be actionable

Yes, have fun suing the insanely rich person.

Slam dunk libel case in the British courts.

Which drugs do we think he’s on?

mixture of cocaine and grown adults unironically calling him batman/iron man

Dragonambienergy

The thing that really bugs me about Musk is how unspecial he is. Union-fearing dweebs with either a serious coke habit, some freak diet, or both, along with reactionary politics, megalomania, and breathtaking self-regard are nothing special, esp in the tech sector. Really the only difference is his visibility, willingness to say stupid shit in public, and his immense army of extremely online sycophants.

Which drugs do we think he’s on?

― El Tomboto, Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:16 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adderall, paranoid about getting busted for accounting fraud

his immense army of extremely online sycophants.

― Simon H., Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:19 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suspect many of them may be controlled by a pr firm, theres something uncanny about how they all pop up saying the same shit

he's actually rich enough to have a cocaine habit

He’s definitely petty enough to hire a pr firm to stroke him off on Twitter

less stroking off, more stroking out pls elton

elon musk go to mars bitch

That may be so re his Twitter fluffers but the uncritical cult is real, I have encountered them

yeah hes def actually popular irl but just something about the pattern on twitter makes me suspicious

Elon Musk more like Noel Skum

damn

It's comforting to think the lackeys are paid/controlled but no, a lot of people really do just admire him and will defend his honor against fiendish literal hero rescue divers. People say the same shit a lot cause they're dumb and parrot the same shit, no different from people who @ commies and socialists with posts that literally just say "Venezuela"

yeah hes def actually popular irl but just something about the pattern on twitter makes me suspicious

― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, July 15, 2018 12:05 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It’s funny when you see on Twitter someone is arguing with some dumb as a bathtub maga chud & then someone else runs their posts thru a bot checker & it’s 90% and they’re like aha! but it’s like... stupid people post like that

(This isn’t arguing against your post lagn, no need to c&p again)

one of the things about musks fans that set off the —alarm— is theyre not generally rude or mad theyre more "wow what have you done to improve humanity like this great man" i mean its def within the realm of possibility that he just has the most boring fans of anyone in the world but i just wldnt be surprised if when this scam all shakes out that theres not a story about payments to a shady pr firm

Elon Musk has definitely jumped the shark lately, no? I'd expect people to jump ship sooner or later, but I'd thought the same about Assange and Greenwald at this point, so what do I know.

Elon is developing a new kind of shark. What have you done?

lol

is he really jumping the shark? clowning on this guy for not being progressive has always been in fashion. look at this thread, it's all about highlighting sycophants and then complaining about their influence. the Elon PWN Cycle is simply compounding at an exponential rate, vis a vis the brain dead ease of Fandom Shaming.

Being popular with isolated sociopaths doesn't equal being IRL popular, fuck this protoplasm.

I think Fred is referring to him calling a random rescue worker a pedo and insisting he will prove his useless mini-sub could have saved the kids that have already been saved

he will prove his useless mini-sub could have saved the kids that have already been saved

good. it will keep him occupied and off the streets. unless, of course, he doesn't follow through with his announced plan. but when was that ever true?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCze4CNEms

Really hope Unsworth takes Musk to the cleaners for that disgusting slur.

lol nice try losers!!!! pic.twitter.com/SFbZ4VSjuJ

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) July 15, 2018

I guess you could argue that billionaire cretins function more as torches than sirens

I think Fred is referring to him calling a random rescue worker a pedo and insisting he will prove his useless mini-sub could have saved the kids that have already been saved

― El Tomboto, 15. juli 2018 19:13 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, that and a bunch of other stuff these last few weeks. He seems to spend more and more time shouting at random people on twitter.

clearly a presidency bid

tweets all gone now. Liked the comment that he catches fire as fast as one of his cars.

Everybody goes so hard on Elon Musk because if you dunk on, like, Cruz or McConnell nothing happens; they don't care. It's like punching the wind. But if you make fun of Elon Musk, there's at least a 93% chance he'll see it and turn beet red and steam will shoot out of his ears

— brans💋n reese (@bransonreese) July 11, 2018

heh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiLOWZ3W0AAbQp_.jpg

OK I was convinced before, but that dude is totally on the payroll.

Gritty remake of Iron Man where Tony Stark spends all day fighting with random people on Twitter before getting in trouble for making unfounded accusations of pedophilia.

— Murtaza Mohammad Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 16, 2018

heh

🖼

Gotta give it up for the musketeers, “Latin for foot” is some “German for the bart the” shit

I suspect "pobudz" might be on an ironic tip with that reddit comment fwiw. It is really Poe's Lawish tho.

Soon all musk defenders will be doing it ironically

musky tears

ew

Keep skipping Grimes tracks when they come on in the car because of this asshole.

Really hope Unsworth takes Musk to the cleaners for that disgusting slur.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Reportedly considering this - hope it’s true.

Elon Musk is the Finchy to his fans' Gareth.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUymt9NCEAALj4z.jpg

damn
https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-insists-he-d-be-much-more-innovative-pedophil-1827630054

i missed that ppl thought he was some beneficent post-Christmas Scrooge

British caver 'could sue' Elon Musk over Twitter attack

He should crowdfund his legal fees, should get as much as he needs within half an hour.

This chrome plugin which replaces 'Elon Musk' with 'Grimes's boyfriend' is making the internet slightly more fun today

typically weaselly words from the Musk rat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44870303

I was re-telling this incident to this posh bloke in a pub the other night, and he was absolutely incredulous about the Musky pedo slur - "no no no, he is a very important guy and wouldn't do that". My first encounter with an irl musketeer, no less!

tbf i think a lot of longterm musk hatewatchers were also startled by it

I thought the capacity to be startled by an American billionaire acting like a complete cock might be a bit reduced in recent times!

also, he's apologizing by ... running some kind of cryptocurrency promotion?

I know that sometimes people can get angry and voice an opinion that looks aggressive. Reacting in the way I did was not a good thing. As such I thought of a cool way to make amends with anyone who feels offended.
A way to get yourself free crypto. How does it sound?

Conditions are pretty simple. Just visit:

musk-official-giveaway.com/btc/ - for free BTC

musk-official-giveaway.com/eth/ - for free ETH

P.s. If you send in 3 BTC or 30 ETH, you will get the Grand Prize: a customized Tesla 3 model, delivery included. Limited to one participant! DM me on Twitter if you did that and we will sort everything out.

Thanks,
Elon.

sorry, that is from a fake Elon Musk twitter account. this one is from the real Musk, though:

As this well-written article suggests, my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness & according to specifications from the dive team leader.

i was fully ready to accept the crypto competition as real tbh, seems like exactly the kind of thing he'd do

Telling Musk to “stick his sub where it hurts” is not necessarily the same as suggesting he “engage in a sexual act”.

It is for this sub-fucking degenerate

And to think he wanted to shove kids in there before fucking it. Shameful

he's sunk to new depths

TS: sexual acts with submarine vs. sexual acts with children.

grinding nemo

lol!

my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub

lmfao

gonna be the new kanye stage rant

(sex) toy story

think i might be detecting some attempt to present an equivalency between submarines and children here, elon sees the sub as his child perhaps

seems more like a straightforward sub-dom relaysh to me tbh

ayy lol

I mean, the whole sub idea does seem like something Musk just pulled out of his arse.

Something something up periscope.

jacque cousteau could never get this low

the life erotic

yes

spelunking
the act of exploring for the missing condom after deep penetration
The next morning, "Oh yeah, we never found it. Better get out the head lamp so we can go spelunking."