he will send boxes of short shorts to hospitals with a note that says "i heard there is a shortage"
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
He will make 2 ventilator prototypes and claim a promise has been fulfilled
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheriff-quashes-elon-musks-aim-to-keep-tesla-production-humming-11584503047
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
You doubters. Bet he's adding vents to the sides of all his submarines as we speak.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
guessing these ventilators are going to wind up killing the patients as soon as the cell service goes off
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
Must be hard for him to realise he’s not needed. Again. Though ironically his one car per mile tunnel might be the solution needed.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
sounds like our hero picked up some cpap machines wholesale
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
if you slap a Tesla sticker on, cpap becomes a ventilator? blah
― mh, Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
at least elon isn't 'known for his signature cowboy hat' i guess
At Kimbal Musk's restaurants workers were told community mattered, that they were family. They contributed money out of their paychecks to an emergency fund for workers. Then COVID happened, and the family fund was suddenly unavailable. Read: https://t.co/YTyQdTX7Mi— Emily Peck (@EmilyRPeck) April 7, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
This fuckin guy
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
getting nervous that this prediction may not in fact turn out to be true
Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
FREE AMERICA NOW— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
jesus this relentless dullard
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
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― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
FREE GRIMES N...EVERMIND, YOU CAN HAVE HER
― 🔫 (peace, man), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
AM CONSIDERING FREEING AMERICA NOW. FUNDING SECURED.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
$420 per american
― silby, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
My gf @Grimezsz is mad at me— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
― Number None, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
gah, that was meant to be this tweet
I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
anyway, he's on one
i wonder if his gf grimezsz got mad at him before or after he decided to sell almost all of his physical possessions and own no house
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
I would like to see a Musk-less Tesla in the same way we now have a Charney-less American Apparel. I realize that they aren't the same kind of awful, but still.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
a Musk-less Tesla would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho nu?
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
oh I see he's a corona skeptic.
to be fair to him he's clearly high on uppers all the time and probably doesn't get much sleep so that can't be that great for cognition
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
Also clearly a born dipshit tbfttl
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
I furiously judge anyone who ever liked this guy
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho
I don't know about this. I've been pretty impressed by the Tesla when I've been in one as a passenger.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
i've never liked this fuckhole
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
yea Teslas are pretty impressive though they're annoying for a lot of reasons and the interior design is pretty fucking awful
worth mentioning that Tesla existed before Elon bought it (and erased the real founder from memory) and almost certainly would be delivering a higher quality product without him
― frogbs, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
Musk brought in silicon valley principles like "not trying very hard"
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
from building a useless contraption that provided no benefit to saving those people trapped in the mine, bragging about it and saying "what have you done?" to some internet rando, to this, to his weird sporadic Twitter meltdowns....
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
I'm assuming he came through with flying colors on his ventilator promise though, yes?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
about that
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ventilators-california/index.html
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:11 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
gotta think well see this eventually one way or another guys like him tend not to stick around, unless he manages to just totally drive the whole business under, but even then youd think one of the big companies wld want to scoop tesla up
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember when market manipulation like this would earn you a perp-walk into federal custody.
Tesla stock price is too high imo— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
ref: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerstmanipulhtm.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
the last time he tried this, he only had write a check for $20M and step down as chairman of TSLA:
https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/29/technology/business/elon-musk-tesla-sec-settlement/index.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:24 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the big issue with them is they have a lot of defects and build quality issues, which is something you wld expect from a young quick growing company, where the big boys are mature and put a ton of effort into limiting stuff like a glove compartment handle snapping off on a six month old car, and tesla has of course been accused of juicing their stats on this sort of stuff
theyre in an interesting spot as theyve produced expensive novelty second cars for rich people their entire existence and are now trying to switch to making cars that people who only own one car can buy, its a huge lift and its gonna be hard for them to get it right all the manufacturing stuff theyve been fucking up on both quality and efficiency levels will just be amplified by trying to make more cars and selling them to people who are really depending on them
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
Nothing to see here just Elon Musk embracing the support of a climate change-denying Infowars loon as well as noted shit peddler James O’Keefe pic.twitter.com/VUDulpo0FO— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) May 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
the biggest thing id give tesla credit for is recognizing the performances advantages that electric vehicles have and leaning into that, because an electric engine immediately delivers max torque the model 3 can accelerate like a nice bmw for half the cost, where the rest of the industry has been making dinky nerd electric cars even bmw lol, undoubtably that tech will change the performance segment of the whole damn industry before too long, theyre also way out in front as far as how they do the computery stuff always pushing new features in updates, and that youd think will also become industry standard too
so they def have innovated meaningfully but i but i have a hard time seeing them being logistically sound enough to really scale up, getting bought out by a company who already knows how to make cars good seems like the most likely path forward
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
or those companies could just make tesla like cars tho they dont seem to really want to prob cause it represents such a small % of the industry, but on the other hand theres not a car company on earth that hasnt given lip service to electric being the future, mercedes even said theyre going to stop doing r&d on gas engines which is pretty wild
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
porsche the drivers car of drivers cars even has an ev now that everyone hates
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
so tesla might have to actually compete at some point...
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
but sales of evs just havent gotten to the point thats forcing the big players to actually take them very seriously
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
if he weren't evil scum I might find it sympathetic and relatable that he appears to fully lose his mind once every few months
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
lol true
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
for now
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
if they manage to maintain that condition i will respectfully doff me cap to mr elon
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
Need all roads converted to giant Qi charging pads before electric becomes adoptable by renters and people in apartments
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
yeah
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link