Elon Musk

LEGO is designed and built to sub 10 microns accuracy?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 24, 2023 10:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah. Injection moulding is incredible.

Lego's injection molded stainless steel sets are amazing

a couple of months ago my daughter got a barbie-branded set of building blocks that were presumably created to be as close to lego as possible without being legally actionable and jesus christ they feel like absolute shit to play with, it really gave me an appreciation for the design of the real thing

anyway, fuck elon musk obv

why are people still calling her his ex-wife? of all the dumb things she did, oddly marrying him wasn’t one afaict

Elon's divorced energy is so strong that anyone who dates him becomes an ex-wife de facto

fair

It's not my wife, it's just my girlfriend I had two kids with

it's like Rumpelstiltskin. The monster makes the gold for the lady, raising her station. But in this case the monster doesn't want the baby. Also, the baby has the strange name.

Grimes' Tales for Young and Old

cool Bob Mould tune

that's the most Afrikaner sounding I've heard from him, she must've got under his skin

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, August 23, 2023 3:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I did love how the farrow article described him as growing up “under” apartheid

what is this thread?

you should all be embarrassed to post in this thread about a fucking needle dick dimwit

damn budo jeru dont say something youll regret

microns

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— Eric Hu (@_EricHu) August 25, 2023

That fucking thing still looks like a solar oven
https://www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-4.58.01-PM-1024x568.jpg

Or, like, a range hood
https://assets.wfcdn.com/im/17420943/resize-h800-w800%5Ecompr-r85/8926/89263482/36%22+Fabriano+600+CFM+Convertible+Under+Cabinet+Range+Hood+in+Stainless+Steel.jpg

Or maybe "Box" from Logan's Run

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/box.gif

how is that a truck

You know this has to be the inspiration:

https://i0.wp.com/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/review_damnation-alley.jpg

you should all be embarrassed to post in this thread about a fucking needle dick dimwit

― budo jeru, Friday, August 25, 2023 7:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is like when I didn't click on ILE for like 3-6 years.

cybertruck is now vaporware instead of vaporwave

Elon Musk and Y Combinator's CEO are trying to blacklist a law firm, because it does pro-bono work for the civil rights of homeless people.

The class war is real. pic.twitter.com/5aEMmcBj9W

— Y Dissasembler (@loomdoop) August 26, 2023

tbh it's weird seeing one of the largest and most profitable law firms in the world as the victim here

"I personally demand"

I've said it before, but the rhetoric around homelessness in this country is getting genocidal

Without context, it looks like that Garry Tan guy (whoever he is) is supportive of treatment programs/shelters which on the face of it seems reasonable?

I assume the issue (on a quick google) is that people just want tent cities obliterated but there's no other option for the homeless, despite Tan's suggestions?

I’m basically to: Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

xp His "solution" probably comes down to bootstraps and tough love.

DS9 prophetic

I’m basically to: Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

I've said it before, but the rhetoric around homelessness in this country is getting genocidal

Huge trigger for the disgust reflex in right-wing rhetoric. The dehumanization in the way they talk about homeless people is as bad as it is about trans people, and it really does sound like some Rwanda radio/Goebbels kind of shit.

And as always they don't want to "solve" homelessness, they just don't want to see it.

They want to be able to characterize it as a problem for liberal cities, caused by liberal policies.

Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

"Solved" might not be the best way to think of it, but people who are homeless need to be attended to. Most of them are in one kind of crisis or another — economic, most often, and also mental health and addiction etc. They're people who have for the most part fallen through every safety net. So yeah they need help, and housing is mostly the best place to start.

I know a guy who is probably the closest you could come to a real happy hobo type. He's real-deal hippie troubadour who writes poetry and busks on his acoustic guitar. He spent decades basically migrating back and forth from Tennessee to Florida, going south in the winters and for the most part living outside the whole time. He was a really experienced camper, he lived on what he made busking, and he says that he just really loved the life. But then he got older, everything got harder, being cold and wet was worse than it used to be, and so forth. He decided to get on the list for public housing when he was in his late '60s. He eventually got a little apartment. He still busks downtown and can't possibly have much money to get by on, but at least he's got a bed. Everybody likes to have a bed.

Speaking as someone with firsthand dealings with Garry Tan, he is absolutely terrible, he is a libertarian cryptodouche who thinks local politics can be solved by recalling school board members, the DA, the police commissioner, the board of supes, etc. Absolute racist trash.

lmao wrecked

Elon Musk getting booed at VALORANT Champs and the crowd starts chanting "bring back Twitter" lmao pic.twitter.com/lDoWse78YV

— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) August 26, 2023

"This crowd is funny."

Was that a crowd watching people play a video game?

I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.

I mean, watching eSports is no different than every fat fuck who watches football, so.

So it is a crowd watching people play video games

A friend of mine (former boss at Roadrunner Records) runs an esports empire (including the biggest gaming center in the southern hemisphere, apparently) in Australia. BIG money in video games, and watching other people play them.

fp'ed for fatshaming

Cute. Reminds me of that Fred Savage movie.

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lookin good very nice truck sir

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart_song.jpg

idk that back plate looks around 11 microns off to me

idk, i heard that it was an 11 micron measurement that made Grimes leave him

I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 6:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

esports at least in the u.s. (korea is probably more stable just due to the history there) it kind of a financial house of cards, it's really been decimated recently

just showing receipts cuz this is ilx