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

Are these “dancing robots” the same ones that someone is obviously controlling from five feet away?

one would assume

Without Musk’s cult of personality Tesla is basically worthless so I guess they didn’t have an option.

well they couldve just paid him less

He said he’d take his ketamine and go home, making all their Tesla stock worthless.

did the board of directors change or is still musk lackeys?

such an obvious bluff if tesla stock is worthless or even just a normal price then elons entire empire collapses xp

due to everything being financed with tesla stock

when something absolutely horrible happens to this man the parties are going to be off the chain

this is so insane absolute cult shit but for stock market

e.w. niedermeyer niedermeyer.online‬

Optimus will overturn the fundamentals of economics to an extent that we may not even need money in the future, Musk says, and yet he still recommends people "hold onto your Tesla stock," which seems like a kind of mixed message.

https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3m4yl5x2dmc2v

He’s PT Barnum if Barnum really believed the Feejee Mermaid was real.

Are they even selling that many teslas? What is this stock valuation based on?

the idea that tesla will become the biggest company in the world due to elons genius

It’s all wishes and hopes and massive fraud

I think it's great they gave him this payout, drive the company right into the ground.

fwiw getting the trillion dollars is contingent on tesla basically becoming the biggest company in the world which is why they were happy to give him the contract, if he actually meet the contingencies its kinda worth it but hes not going to, of course thats what they thought about his last contract too, but this is an impossible task stacked on top of another impossible task so its not going to happen, not to mention that tesla isnt exactly moving in the world domination direction right now

i dont think lying about robots is going to get the job done this time, i fuckin hope not lol

Elon should wear a t-shirt with this guy's picture on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5PrFf5XMAAe2oZ?format=jpg&name=large

Truly a Superior Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEmJeojY0I

i love my greasy ai girlfriend

the fact that this man is unfathomably rich and can literally do whatever he wants free of any consequences whatsoever and chooses to do *this* makes him the biggest loser in human history in my opinion

otm

who are some of historys other great losers

Ron DeSantis

Jeb Bush - your dumber alcoholic brother wins/steals two elections and remakes the world, you get ridiculed by Donald Trump on your way to getting 50 votes in South Carolina.

Nixon?

Alexander Hamilton lost a duel

still better than being linked to Lin-Manuel Miranda for eternity

These younger kids are watching Arlo skate
And one said “Do you know 67?”

Whoops wrong thread

wrecked

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Couldn’t even muster a laughing crying emoji.

hes wounded

Firstly, you are one of my favorite authors…Bellefleur, We Were the Mulvaneys, etc…and ordering the hardcover of Fox 🦊 today!

Respectfully, I’d like to offer an alternative view on Elon (with Grok’s assistance).

@Grok
will you kindly reply with your perspective?

Me thinks if you and Elon had the opportunity to meet in real life, I think y’all would appreciate each other’s brilliance and life perspective.

To anyone that hasn’t had the pleasure of reading Ms. Oates’ work, check out her phenomenal stable of thoroughbred tomes!

I have blocked Grok apparently so I don't know if it responded with a picture of an oddly damp Grimes stand-in with massive honkers.

Grok writes like a sixth grader who just discovered a thesaurus.

"phenomenal stable of thoroughbred tomes" for 2026 WAYR thread title

Both a “methinks” and a “y’all”

Respectfully (with Grok’s assistance)

He is now posting about films.

She cooked him so fucking hard and he immediately started posting about movies to prove her wrong pic.twitter.com/qNFQbIxdbr

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) November 9, 2025

I’m sure it’s an erudite discussion of queerness in Douglas Sirk’s films.

lol best he can to is say great movie in regards to an admittedly pretty sweet tom cruise one

movies are 2 hours you could be spending getting mad online

Still going, give this guy an ILX film ballot

what’s his list?

Need to get his opinion on ‘Solaris’.

hes taking this hard

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Need to get his opinion on ‘Solaris’.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 10, 2025 12:48 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

good movie but when it come to Tarkovsky it's hard to choose a favorite from such an exceptional pantry of premium films. with respect, i will have Grok write a one-act play about how pleased the genius Tarkovsky would be to meet the genius Elon