Elon Musk

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TS: Large Graveyard filled with my enemies vs. Lonely Starbucks Lover

Imagine being the richest human on earth and spending your every waking moment showing all of the other people on earth the many many ways in which you are deeply + laughably pathetic. Like not just letting a deeply pathetic public moment happen and then hopefully fade from memory but every day being like 'oh, in case you'd somehow forgotten'

time to find out why the rockets have been exploding… all the way back to 2016: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23183/spacex-sniped-rocket/

It was really the second shooter from the grassy knoll.

what if no-one shot the falcon 9 and the rocket just did that

no way, that can't possibly it because of "an odd shadow, then a white spot", don't you see?

the space program is so doomed.

There's a piece on New York magazine's website today about the Cybertruck, and it's actually pretty good on the vehicle's many flaws and the fucked marketplace into which Tesla is vomiting it, but it starts like this:

In the spirit of disclosure, I’m going to admit that I think driving a Tesla Cybertruck would absolutely rule. It’s a fast, weird fantasy car — the kind of concept that usually doesn’t make its way off the Javits Center showroom floor and onto the road. Yes, it looks like something out of a 1980s Ridley Scott movie and it’s made by Elon Musk, but at least you can tell it apart from every other passenger vehicle. Part of what makes it fun is how ostentatious the thing is. It’s the opposite of the anonymous wealth signifiers preferred by the Succession class and the tech titans who control our lives. (Parking it, though, would be a nightmare.)

Dude (and of course the writer is a dude), you or someone looking out for you really should have cut that part.

Car nerds are weird.

I mean I don't necessarily disagree with that, I've gotten the opportunity to drive some oddly-shaped and extremely-modded vehicles and it is kind of fun. I can see it being cool to drive for a weekend or whatever. You'd certainly draw some attention I guess.

that said, the Cybertruck, much like Elon Musk's face, only looks good from one particular angle, and every time you see a shot of it in the wild it just looks incredibly stupid. also lol @ the video of it struggling to go up a small hill. I can only imagine the sorts of problems these things are going to have.

I love purpose-built projects that are specific to solutions, and they look how they look. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s less good. This, though, is awful looking, and doesn’t look like it can solve any problem. It’s like it’s meant for red carpet events or maybe the mall. What the fuck is it even doing?

there's a monkey's paw thing where imo it makes sense to wish car designs were more aesthetically adventurous/ambitious, but then the result is a clown car built by a nazi

You didn't bury those designs in the ... truck cemetery, did you?

Who made who?

Sometimes cars come back different.

The Keep but instead of a Golem it’s a hideous truck driven by a Nazi and the movie ends happily.

A weekend spent driving a Froot Loops donks would be way more fun than one in a Cybertruck

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otm

They should make an EV Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, that would be more appealing than this Elon monstrosity.

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I will be hornswaggled if Cybertrucks are actually street legal.

I wouldn't pull one over, who knows where Elon hid the epic ftw self-destruct button

They really do look like a VHS tape rewinder

except you know those things actually can go backwards

They should make an EV Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, that would be more appealing than this Elon monstrosity.

thought it was made out of metal not cardboard haha

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just a bit of freestylin' by the fabricator

imagine spending 80k on this thing

I was joking that I was going to buy one as a bit. Everyone at work groans when I pull into the parking lot

whoa — “go fuck yourself,” Elon Musk says to Bob Iger and others who pull advertising from X

at this point it’s almost as if he’s watching the old Iron Man movies and doing a reverse Tony Stark impression pic.twitter.com/csXxeLH2wG

— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) November 29, 2023

Quite a chyron there.

"ANTISEMITISM WAS NOT MY INTENTION"

GO FUCK YOURSELF

lol sorkin totally baffled

when elon said "fuck bob iger"

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linda yaccarino is basically writing her resignation letter right now isn't she?

love Elon's Final Fantasy leather jacket

xpost Nah I think she's on this train for good:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-x-advertisers-1235683997/

In fact, it’s unclear what Yaccarino thinks of Musk’s views; after his Nov. 15 tweet endorsing an antisemitic trope as “the actual truth,” she touted the site’s “efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.” (Her views on Donald Trump are much clearer. Associates say she was an enthusiastic supporter. She was appointed to the President’s Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition during his administration.)....

But an NBCU executive observing the chaos says Yaccarino’s see-no-evil stance is what he would expect. “In her mind, she’s committed to this,” he says. “I’ve seen commentary that she needs to leave. She’s not listening to any of that. She has this way of blocking out the negative and almost speaking her mantra until it becomes the truth. Or she thinks it’s the truth.”

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— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 29, 2023

Truly words of a scholar:

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“tell it to earth” — new borad descrip

elong looking to audience and desperate for their applause

silence actually literally deafening

lmao tell it to earth, good stuff

Earth to Elon: "Go fuck yourself"

whoa but wait they're gonna document it in great detail, yikes

cant believe disney would do this to twitter

is Ned’s NYT thing actually from an interview?

Yeah, he was interviewed live onstage by Andrew Ross Sorkin at some kind of NYT-sponsored conference.