"runs"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/06/22/teslas-constant-turmoil-cant-hide-the-fact-that-solarcity-is-dying/
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Solar City itself was nothing more than a tax scam, maxing out customer roofs with extra panels they didn't need so the company could rake in that tax credit cash.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
and the roofing is a scam too, total vaporware
the fact that he has spent some of his mostly accidental fortune on green tech is just him grabbing onto a trend and trying to capitalize ahead of the rest of the market incumbents. It has absolutely nothing to do with him giving a shit about other people or the world.
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
yeah SolarCity is a disaster due to mismanagement/overextension (sound familiar?)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
So you guys are blaming Musk for bad public transportation and coal-burning power plants?
i guess i'm blaming capitalism for creating incentives to make a shitty situation worse.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I predict there will be a zipline from the top of the Sears Tower to Midway before there is a $25 hyperloop from the city to O'Hare.
All this dummy does is talk about hypothetical tunnels and tunneling.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Tunnels not his strong point. And mini submarines.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
we are trapped inside Cars 2
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Lightning McQueen is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
the pistachio ice cream was wasabi paste and we ate it up
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
― sleeve, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:05 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yuup does not actually exist, wed all be better off if the tech media only covered irl products not press releases
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
e.g. just today. pretty generous of the press to call this a "production vehicle".
this is literally an empty body shell. there's not even a working prototype of this thing yet and people are sharing spec sheets https://t.co/o3NLCPPdR8— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) September 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
lmfao
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:31 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:34 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really great 1-2 here
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
windshield sunglasses area: 10,000 sq. inches
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
my 6 year old cousin has this cool toy where you launch cars through a loop-de-loop and into a garage and all the cars look exactly like that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
hey man, as long as it's a loop.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
relatedly
Pleased my headline/image combo got through pic.twitter.com/T654peazLk— christhebarker (@christhebarker) September 4, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
epic burn
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
scream that headline while holding a thin slice of whole foods deli ham up to the store lights imo
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
it drives me nuts that in every article the media is not yelling about how all his tunneling/vacuum tube schemes are blatant ploys to disrupt in process public transpo plans
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 1:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
100%
Elon Musk's snake oil being sold so well is an indictment of tech journalism's inability to go beyond 'woah gadgets' and engage with the real world. Not that the real world did better, I remember he was on the Late Show with Colbert's and he talked about nuking the poles of Mars to make it habitable and people were like 'woooh genius' and no one dared asked if it made any sense.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
'the boring company' is a good name, gotta give him that
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
I don’t gotta do shit!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Even that's not original, lots of companies involved in boring are called some variation on Boring Company. My town used to have the Paisley Boring & Grinding Co - which used to amuse us greatly.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
my fave company ever was British Bacon Supplies. They used to have a very old fashioned, generic blue letters on white ad hoarding at the football ground for over a decade. Lots of people used to wonder if they actually existed and would stare at it and mediate on carcinogenic processed meat during dull L1 matches. I nearly shit a kilogram of streaky bacon when I started at a new electrical contractors, and their yard was right next to the by now massively legendary British Bacon Supplies building.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Crosspost to Real England
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
it probably actually belongs on a neo-fascist thread!
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6n6Z4VG.jpg
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
fuck
― crüt, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
as a child, I loved bacon. As an adult, my stance is that bacon is kind of bad.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
tastes pretty good, smells amazing cooking IMHO
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
you know what's even better than bacon, though
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
kfc double downing on your libel
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
(xp) Yes, black pudding.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Software update issue with the Model S today. Car is immobile at the moment. Tesla tech support and roadside assistance have been very helpful - we’re hoping to avoid the tow by forcing a new update to the car. pic.twitter.com/DSverfOkGE— Ryan Negri (@RyanNegri) September 5, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0RzNKmbLk
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
tesla bringing whole new meanings to the shopworn phrase "car crash"
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
ayy lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
he's doing a radio interview right now where he claims "I didn't see any other ideas for improving the traffic [in LA]."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
Like these mysterious things called trains, trams and light rail?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 September 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/StiHKiuMtG— Watergate Speedrun - 0.5X A Presses (Commentated) (@surfbordt) September 7, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
Live now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
Lmao at every second of this
― Post Alone (latebloomer), Friday, 7 September 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
#420 #blazeit #muskonskunk
Elon Musk’s campaign to persuade investors he is out of his mind continued late Thursday night when he took a hit off a joint during a live podcast https://t.co/IxdUYK4HGn— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 7, 2018
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
Pre-market shares down 5%.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 7 September 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
moaning that you work so hard you never see your kids then hanging out with joe rogan for 3 hours
― devvvine, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
god can you imagine spending time with five little elon musks? i'd be choosing to get high af with joe rogan too, it's maybe the best decision musk has made in months
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
oh god, there's such a specific awkwardness to this
― devvvine, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
not enough abt elon's impressively evil dad in this thread
― mark s, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link