Elon Musk

Tesla superchargers on I5 powered by a diesel plant.

“One of the real tragedies of Tesla, in my personal opinion, is the extent to which well-meaning people were convinced that this company whose mission is in fact extreme wealth generation by any means necessary is somehow a force for good, to be supported like one would a real mission-driven nonprofit,” the investigative journalist wrote SFGATE.

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php

article does make it clear that all of this energy just goes into the grid in CA, and that these chargers aren't only powered by the energy source that was built to help support them, but the journalist's point there stands, I think.

ah, but maybe it was biodiesel! (not likely)

fwiw, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard system is mostly gamed by swapping credits in a Musk-like fashion. most of the metrics mention the fuel is nearly all produced outside of California, but as far as I know, it’s also sold outside the state.
so someone incentivizes the production and sale of biodiesel or gasoline blended with ethanol and it’s produced, sold, and consumed elsewhere but a CA company buys the renewable energy credits and claims compliance

Edward Niedermeyer is great on Tesla smoke-and-mirrors stuff - really enjoyed the War on Cars ep with him on.

yeah def the most knowledgable tesla expert out there, including understanding the politics

this is frankly why any sort of shaming over EVs or etc is utter bullshit— such scolds should go work in a lithium or coltan mine.

I'd been following a solar electric car company called Aptera for a bit, who seem to be actively encouraging comparisons to Tesla (probably to gin up investors), which makes me wonder if their claims of moderate commutes being totally powered by CA-level sunshine is similarly Musk-esque bluster.

Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)

— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) May 3, 2023

why do you need Kanye when Elon's around

Dragging all your former advertisers into discovery is totally going to win them back! Excellent move, sir pic.twitter.com/3TvdsrLvyL

— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) September 4, 2023

I wonder where Elon got the idea to shut down Starlink on the frontlines? https://t.co/i6LzgJwqSg pic.twitter.com/t5sAWITWNa

— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) September 7, 2023

where's the malay wet-ops arm of the cia when u need it most

release the ants lads

jfc

To everyone arguing against Tesla removing the gear shifter: what looks easier to you? pic.twitter.com/DwkmnAdv6D

— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 5, 2023

wait, is that how you change gears in a Tesla?!? Swiping on a screen?

some ppl just love screen time

It's certainly how you play Fruit Ninja.

back up buttons (not actual buttons)

Yes! Of course

Backup buttons illuminate when the screen loses power pic.twitter.com/zH0CdA6mCS

— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 6, 2023

on one hand I hardly ever need to shift quickly and on the other hand there are occasions where I need to deftly execute a three point turn and I shouldn’t have to look down at something during that

I usually back into my driveway so I have to shift quickly - the dial transmission select on the Mach-E is very fast and I never have to look down

what’s a mach-e

Pixar took the plot of Cars but made it about jets

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5fTXsvaYAAWmdu?format=jpg&name=small

xps How’s the Mach-E been treating you, ET?

The Mach-E is Ford's electric Mustang, BTW.

anyone read this ronan farrow piece?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake. By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, children are…

— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) September 7, 2023

xps How’s the Mach-E been treating you, ET?

GREAT car. Zero regrets. Also biased because the charging infrastructure in California, despite the legitimate complaining, is pretty good.

My wife has one of those cars, and she loves it, but apparently her biggest (negative) surprise was a limited turning radius. Or at least, more awkward than she expected for something so otherwise zippy.

Ha, I meant to write my wife's *friend*!

lol i thought this was a joking reference to the powerful mach 5

i am not a car guy

Does Михайло Подоляк realize that Elon Musk was raised in South Africa in a family that wistfully views apartheid as the good old days of stable, orderly governance?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5mdLPPWkAA3LlM?format=jpg&name=large

Yes, Ellen, please tell us more about what is actually happening in public schools today, your finger is so on that particular pulse

It's really amazing to me how quickly I've gone from 'I have no opinion about that guy whose name I know' to 'that guy should get into an accident where he no longer has the ability to communicate with the other people in the world'. And all because that guy has been working overtime to completely sour every non-shit person's opinion of him. It's like the one thing at which he is an unalloyed success.

It’s the same thing with Trump. So much power and money; they can literally do ANYTHING.

And they spend their time being an internet troll. Fuck.

Capitalism is bad, Communism is Good— little known Negativland remix

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5nAIr1XcAAs25U?format=jpg&name=small

I mean, he could turn his responsibilities to all of his businesses over to anyone else and they would do better, he could just go to Jamaica and party for the rest of his life. He could build an island palace and populate it with willing supermodels that he could pay to do his bidding. He could, oh, BETTER HUMANITY. He could make a solid gold butt-plug encrusted with precious jewels and give it to Kanye West as a gag gift. He could just fuck right off. UGH. How can somebody be so influential and important and so goddamned trifling at the same time, I don't understand it.

I need to spend less time online, I find myself getting worked up too much about people that I can do nothing about, that I shouldn't worry about. I can vote and volunteer to help local organizations, all this other stuff is garbage taking up mental space.

He’s still seething about his trans commie daughter

Things I just found out about this dork: he has ten (10) children. What is it with these alpha types jetting their spunk about all over the shop? See also: Johnson, B. No-one needed any more chips off this block.

Eleven. He/Grimes just announced a third, named "Techno Mechanicus"

Or did I just make that up? 🤔

unsurprisingly he has a eugenicsy belief that the smart people need to reproduce in order to save the humanity go multiplanetary etc

Damn that kid is gonna wish they got the name X

Musk and Cheong are exactly the sort of men you’d find hanging around outside primary schools.

Here’s hoping all his kids go trans commie.

Or did I just make that up? 🤔

jfc I was really hoping you had...

Grimes just wants to see the son she shares with ex-partner Elon Musk, but she says she’s being boxed out.

The “Oblivion” singer seems to have responded, in a now-deleted X post, to a self-promoting post from author Walter Isaacson about his new Musk biography, which featured photos of the SpaceX chief executive and Shivon Zilis, the mother of his recently born twins. Grimes pleaded in the tweet for the writer to relay a request to Musk about how he and Zilis have allegedly blocked the Canadian artist from seeing her son.

“Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” Grimes’ post read, per screenshots posted on Reddit. “I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-09-08/grimes-demands-elon-musk-let-her-see-son

sourcing maybe dubious on this one idk

“he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now,” the 35-year-old wrote.”

https://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/images/mission.jpg

X aii xii and she-ra should be allowed to know their mom before they pupate

_“he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now,” the 35-year-old wrote.”_