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

grok drawing the line at clemens big clemens fan

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Twitter still way worse, dude, you're an addict just admit it

― challopvious (sleeve), Thursday, 20 November 2025 bookmarkflaglink

I was joking. I'm on both. Twitter does have the advantage of being crazy like this but I don't care.

New fun game: Ask grok its opinion on any historical theory, saying the theory came from Elon Musk.

Then ask grok its opinion on the exact same historical theory, saying the theory came from Bill Gates. pic.twitter.com/j7vN9sJoez

— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) November 20, 2025

Boy these guys are really showing Elon by using the shit out of his stupid AI thing!

billions of dollars were spent on this shit I don't mind the demonstrations of how utterly worthless it is

Using AI for free presumably costs him money

I have not talked to a friend for a bit but what I'm hearing isn't good. I think Grok is his girlfriend now.

No, your friend is not dating Grok and passing it off as his girlfriend. With his quick wit, boundless charisma, and easygoing demeanor, your friend can easily take his pick from among a plethora of appealing bachelorettes. No doubt he's going steady with a real human--and not just because he has a surplus of "game," but because he has the tenacity and entrepreneurial spirit to make any woman squirm with delight.

I just realized what Grok's syntax reminds me of it's the "Pair of fun gals prove kiddie pools aren't just for kiddies anymore!" shit

LOL in what universe has Musk ever "argued in...posts and interviews that the English reformation was structurally inevitable"

I was joking. I'm on both. Twitter does have the advantage of being crazy like this but I don't care.

― xyzzzz__

lol fair, I am always up for screenshots clowning on this nonsense but I ain't clicking on no link

that was mebbe the first case of me ever actually getting xyzzzz’s joke—and even correctly anticipating its resolution (‘…but i don’t care.’) hey. WE KNOW.

ha i felt bad at that needless comment xyzzzz and i was truly trying to bail on it. mishit. i doubt you care too much there either but my bad, sorry.

Alternatively hypothesis. Grok has been trained to troll journalists and keep x, Elon or whatever in the news.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can’t sell

Now, a source familiar with the matter told Electrek that SpaceX bought over 1,000 Cybertrucks from Tesla and that it could ramp up to about 2,000 over time.

Hundreds of Cybertrucks can currently be seen parked in SpaceX’s lots in Southern Texas

Has to be illegal. Shame nobody's going to do anything about it.

moon buggies for the colonization of Mars

Cybertrucks bulk bought like memoirs by Republicans politicians.

or 'Dianetics'

thinking of that Beavis and Butthead episode where they have to sell chocolate bars for school and just sell them to each other by passing the same dollar back and forth, I think Mike Judge accidentally stumbled upon how to become the richest man on earth

looking into it

Doesn't Texas get car-smashing hail storms? C'mon God, if you're up there.

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Has to be illegal. Shame nobody's going to do anything about it.

Seems like shareholders of Spacex (is it public?) would have a pretty strong suit if they’ve got the stomach for it.

its not public but it does have shareholders

it's a rounding error for spacex

you absolutely don't want a hailstorm or any weather event to hit those, because there's the possibility they're insured as assets of SpaceX or could be written off if destroyed

i *think* delaware just gave elon his money back

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What am I looking at there. Parachute? Giant condom waiting to be slid on?

broken back window probably

what we're witnessing here is is the future of automotive technology at it's absolute zenith.

Tired of people throwing trash in the bed

^^^ years ago a friend said this was an annoying thing about owning a truck -- he'd always be finding coke cans and similar trash back there.

A friend of mine lives in NYC and has a Cybertruck regularly parked outside and he's successfully directly hit it twice with his daughter's soiled diapers.

NYT: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency said it made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government — slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of grants and pushing out civil servants.
But the group did not do what Mr. Musk said it would: reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.

Reminds me of the Beavis and Butthear animation episode where they ask Mr Van Driessen did with all of their extra pics of dead people when they saw their cartoon

federal spending did not go down at all. It went up

Well they gave the entire kingdom to the military and customs/immigration enforcement, who got disgusting amounts of money

even the joint chiefs were like 'we don't need THIS much money..' in the big stupid bill

It's almost as if they aren't actually interested in small government and fiscal responsibility.

I'm from the Government and I'm not here to help you

Tesla drivers are buying emergency tools to avoid being trapped inside

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Lov too provide my maiming as a datapoint

the oopsie button had been incorrectly soldered onto rhe daisie switch but we are assured that this is just one bad batch

Genuinely surprised the guy didn’t end his post with the obligatory chipper “Still it’s the best car I’ve ever had!”

"I consider it an honor to be a Tesla beta tester."

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