ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude owes his company's survival to gov programs butsays it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promiseto obliterate them all.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so hyperloop huh
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:
1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people
2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there
3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude
still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.
There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.
Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
people on twitter so mad.
who do you follow?
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow
unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
cool monorail bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
even i can afford that
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
I meant 94% sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
LOL "elon musk"
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?
I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
Bad connotations...
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 06:23 (eleven years ago) link
Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.
Lol
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.
Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.
*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
he might do this
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it
(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.
nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
do tell
curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project
^^^
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
glenn greenwald in shambles
― mark s, Sunday, 22 September 2024 12:17 (six days ago) link
re: the super bowl of petty lil thin-skinned assholes, which elon musk won, i think most of the world sees a very pathetic man, but his simp alt right fan base sees someone who is like them. you can be the richest guy in the world and have whatever you want constantly, and still be whining and complaining constantly about your own unfair treatment. that's a goddamn inspiration to so many people
― z_tbd, Sunday, 22 September 2024 17:19 (six days ago) link
the idea of being truly content with what you have is terrifying and can never be confronted
― z_tbd, Sunday, 22 September 2024 17:20 (six days ago) link
whatever happened to gary cooper the strong silent type
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 September 2024 17:44 (six days ago) link
gary's fine, he reads but never tweets (vmic)
― mark s, Sunday, 22 September 2024 17:49 (six days ago) link
Elon doesn't wait for 4:20, he's High Noon
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 22 September 2024 19:59 (six days ago) link
David Attenborough describes the symbiotic relationship between the Cybertruck and the larger Flatbed Trailer species...
AI David Attenborough narrating a Cybertruck’s symbiotic lifestyle 😄 pic.twitter.com/t0ueSkUws6— Nilesh Trivedi (@nileshtrivedi) August 31, 2024
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 22 September 2024 21:17 (six days ago) link
^^^makes me want to repost:
Anecdotal data from my city, I've only seen 2 (TWO) Cybertrucks of ~10 that were not on the back of a tow truck = 20% not being towed (for being inoperable or parked illegaly, I know not).― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, April 19, 2024 11:13 AM (five months ago)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, April 19, 2024 11:13 AM (five months ago)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 23 September 2024 02:26 (five days ago) link
I see Cybertrucks during my commute from Oakland to Sunnyvale pretty much every work day
I'm probably in the epicenter of where you'd see them but they're out there
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 23 September 2024 02:30 (five days ago) link
I’m seeing about one on the road each day.
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Monday, 23 September 2024 02:54 (five days ago) link
ive seen one total
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2024 03:02 (five days ago) link
I've seen three and/but I don't know if I've seen the same one multiple times. I can be sure of having seen at least two, because I passed them both on the same stretch of road within a minute of each other.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 23 September 2024 03:10 (five days ago) link
i've seen (assuming the same) one parked on fifth avenue by my office a few times, love the idea of someone commuting in NYC and looking for street parking in it, real committed to the bit
― adam, Monday, 23 September 2024 09:55 (five days ago) link
a friend has kept me updated on the goings-on of a cybertruck owner in a nearby town who owns a salad restaurant. his previous claims to fame include being puzzled that his greenhouse-to-table produce needs to be washed before it's served ("but we use organic farming?!") and a highly suspicious break-in where nothing of value was stolen, but he decided to "forgive" the burglar with a public photo op where he then posted the purported criminal's full name and personal info
also the name of the business is "<name> farms salads" which I assumed was his last name. it's not, it's his first
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 23 September 2024 14:01 (five days ago) link
salad motif wrap on the cybertruck or no credit
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2024 14:05 (five days ago) link
mysteriously there is not a salad motif wrap. I will attempt to keep up on whether one appears and report back if the situation changes
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 23 September 2024 15:31 (five days ago) link
maybe you could pass on the salad wrap idea possible he just hasnt thought of it
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2024 15:33 (five days ago) link
there is one cybertruck in my neighborhood and i flip it off on sight
― ivy., Monday, 23 September 2024 15:36 (five days ago) link
driving a cybertruck full of salad down the Fury Road
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 September 2024 16:14 (five days ago) link
whatever happened to gary cooper the strong silent typehe’s Gary Cooper in the first Brackett/Wilder collab
― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Monday, 23 September 2024 17:01 (five days ago) link
must be weird to spend that much money on a vehicle, only to have the general public point and laugh at you
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 23 September 2024 17:55 (five days ago) link
Hummer stans understand.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Monday, 23 September 2024 19:07 (five days ago) link
update: there IS a salad decal on the salad man's truck
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 23 September 2024 20:04 (five days ago) link
Elon muskroutons
― Nudist Oudist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 September 2024 20:52 (five days ago) link
his previous claims to fame include being puzzled that his greenhouse-to-table produce needs to be washed before it's served
Why is this the most Musk-adjacently on brand thing ever. Gross.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 00:04 (four days ago) link
C'mon Elon.. I thought you liked warlords?
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AP24230679286191-1724036909.jpg
Russian warlord and leader of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Elon Musk of "remotely disabling" his Tesla Cybertruck.
Kadyrov, who was installed as Chechnya's leader in 2007 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, first showed off his flashy ride in August. In a video he shared on Telegram, the warlord can be seen tooling around the grounds of his presidential palace in what sure looks like a genuine Cybertruck — except for one small difference: it's been turned into a technical mounted with a huge machine gun, which Kadyrov brandishes while garbed in outrageous bandoliers like the Bullet Farmer character in 2015's "Mad Max: Fury Road."
With it geared up for war, Kadyrov claimed that he'd sent the electric pickup to the frontlines of Ukraine, where it has since been "performing well in combat."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 24 September 2024 00:14 (four days ago) link
It probably just sucks in the same way all the other cyber trucks do
― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 00:30 (four days ago) link
There was a Cybertruck that I would see all the time on the way to my girlfriend's house, about a month ago I noticed one of the front wheels was suddenly massively fucked up. Apparently in the weeks before it was towed, people made it a landmark on Google Maps and started leaving flowers by it.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 24 September 2024 03:49 (four days ago) link
The one thing i will say in favor of Cybertrucks is that the headlights are set low on the front, almost as if the designers had empathy for drivers of oncoming vehicles and didn't want to blind them.
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 03:57 (four days ago) link
xxp that was my guess as well. cybertruck not working? it probably just did that
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 13:56 (four days ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, September 23, 2024 4:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
how big are we talking here starting to doubt his commitment to salad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 September 2024 14:08 (four days ago) link
the owner of the midwestern dairy queen where I worked drove a red corvette. the cybertruck is an innovative way for midwestern small business owners to tell on themselves.
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 15:48 (four days ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@kendahllandreth/video/7416094229593738539
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 20:38 (four days ago) link
Little CybertruckBaby you're much too fash
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 21:56 (four days ago) link
Owning a shitty place to work and driving an expensive car is already embarrassing enough. Fast food owners should be forced to drive the best car they can afford for minimum wage
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 24 September 2024 22:04 (four days ago) link
You have to give your employees something to shoot for (at)
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 22:43 (four days ago) link
My first newspaper job, where I got paid like $14,000 a year, the owner/publisher loved to park both his Jags in the two reserved parking spaces right by the front door. We all had to walk by them on our way in and out of the building. I’m sure he is dead now, but I bet his dipshit son who was the managing editor has a Cybertruck. Or at least wants one.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 23:04 (four days ago) link
the eponymous Jimmy John would visit new franchises of his chain when they opened (before he sold the company), often in his lamborghini
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 12:51 (three days ago) link
When I worked at Burger King, the franchise owner—who was amazing and became a legend in my neighborhood of Detroit—drove a barely functional Astrovan. It was filled floor to ceiling with stuff for his restaurants (but he was always able to carve out some space when he picked up workers who couldn’t find a ride). He parked it in the further possible parking space because he believed open parking spaces attracted more customers. He eventually passed away and his son and his son’s now ex-wife took over the restaurants and they immediately started driving an H-2 and a G-class which, as you’d guess, they parked in handicap spaces. I recently learned there was some success at unionizing the restaurants and the son shuttered all of the restaurants. This is especially frustrating since his dad was able to purchase his first franchise with money he made taking early retirement from his UAW job.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:10 (three days ago) link
accelerationism except it's just more of this: https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-denies-romantic-relationship-giorgia-meloni-new-york-lovefest/
― mark s, Thursday, 26 September 2024 13:00 (two days ago) link
Kemi Badenoch...
“I think Elon Musk has been a fantastic thing for freedom of speech. I will hold my hand up and say, I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk.”
― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2024 13:07 (two days ago) link
hes still got it!
― mark s, Thursday, 26 September 2024 13:41 (two days ago) link
I instant translate "freedom of speech" to "normalizing racism" in my head whenever I read these quotes now.
“I think Elon Musk has been a fantastic thing for normalizing racism." Translates much better.
― octobeard, Thursday, 26 September 2024 14:23 (two days ago) link
Kemi Badenoch is black though, if that matters, I'm not sure in her case tbh.
― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2024 14:30 (two days ago) link
given how homophobic and transphobic she is, you could say "normalizing bigotry" without even having to get into her ideas about wokeism, CRT, etc.
― rob, Thursday, 26 September 2024 14:38 (two days ago) link
Normalizing fascism/hate/bigotry sure. Black people can also be racist. Most people are.
― octobeard, Thursday, 26 September 2024 14:41 (two days ago) link