Elon Musk

hes like, imitating poses from Marvel movies. its really embarrassing

I mean, I dunno. maybe it wouldn't be embarrassing if someone cool was doing it. I just fuckin hate this guy so much

He knows enough to keep smiling. That much has been dinned into him. The poses he strikes are silly and surely he could be coached better on this, but it's low stakes for him and he doesn't care enough to be good at it. Hard for me to care much either. He's an ass in so many other, more important ways that this particular asininity is trivial.

nah I think it's still a kinda important window into his mind, like the way he's just thinking epic memeface all the time no matter the situation. the fact that he wants to be the real life Doge meme informs most of his decisions first and foremost and has actually became a very good case study in how that turns you into a Nazi

he looks like a K'd up incel in an ill-fitting suit

Musk and Marvel movies occupy exactly the same cognitive space for me. I don’t think it’s that much of an insult to either since each is the shittest thing possible.

Musk is a racist transphobe who's squandering his cash to promote fascism and bring about a second Trump reich. I can understand your not enjoying these movies made for children but I don't really think they're equivalent.

he was probably like this when he just had daddy's millions but

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019

Actually I guess we know he was exactly this lame pre-billions, the McLaren story with Peter Thiel, his obsession x.com, etc..

obsession w/

Musk and Marvel movies occupy exactly the same cognitive space for me. I don’t think it’s that much of an insult to either since each is the shittest thing possible.

otm

Uh oh

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— Corey Cantor🌕 (@CoreyBCantor) April 15, 2024

"There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done.”

Imagine how terrible the situation must be there for someone to successfully convince Musk to do anything sensible.

Musk: Now is the perfect time to launch our self-flying car!
Exec: Elon, that was just a picture one of your kids doodled.
Musk: My child is a genius, like me. Start production now!
Exec: But Elon, there is no product.
Musk: Well, sell down-payments on my future flying car, let the people reserve one. How long until we can get one operational?
Exec: Back of the envelope ... 20 years?
Musk: Let's aim for 2026! How much will it cost?
Exec: We would need to hire thousands of people, and develop technology that does not exist yet.
Musk: Great, this is what I do! How much will that cost?
Exec: Magnitudes more than what we have. We can't even offload these Cybertrucks.
Musk: Hmm. What if we made the Cybertruck fly?
Exec: We just can't do that.
Musk: You're fired. You!
Exec 2: Me?
Musk: Can we make a flying Cybertruck?
Exec 2: Yes?
Musk: That is the can-do attitude we need! You get a big raise. I will transfer you novelty crypto.
Exec 2: I was looking at the books, Elon. And we're kind of in the red.
Musk: Red is cool!
Exec 2: Um, no, Elon, red is not cool. Black is cool.
Elon: That sounds woke. You're fired. Who else is here to say yes. Actually, never mind, fire 10% of everyone. We need to cut costs. And start work on the flying Cybertruck now!!!! And make it run on crypto! And have it emit fart sounds from the clouds! And use a stronger glue on the parts this time. And make it cost half as much, but make twice as much money. And send it to Mars! And make it submersible. But also AI, like KITT. And have it solve crimes, too. Not mine, but other crimes. Woke crimes. And do it now!

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-hCdpVXbN-subtitled.jpg

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-zEzmz2yj-subtitled.jpg

In Tesla news today - the Cybertruck's accelerator pedal falls off and gets stuck
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-accelerator-pedal-may-be-to-blame/

thankfully they haven't sold that many so the recall will be easy to deal with

Elon: Can't we just deliver this fix via software?

a good gas pedal that doesnt fly off your foot while youre driving

just stick it back on with some gum

funny thing about quoting the ITYSL sketch is that steering wheels have fallen off of Teslas too

also the fact that Elon truly has no good car ideas

drive them through tunnels isn't a good idea?

The sliding gas pedal is extra dumb on the Cybertruck - if any vehicle's design would justify some exposed rivets and bolts it's that monstrosity.

Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.

It's almost like Elon put the whole Tesla Corporation into the cargo bed of a cybertruck and then decided to test his claims about the cybertruck's amphibious abilities.

>Image of cybertruck jumping off canyon cliff thelma and louse style<

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have, like not company stock or corporate valuations but money in the bank or easily accessible low risk funds, blue chip stocks etc

Isn’t Elon basically homeless

Lives in a Cybertruck down by the river, IIRC.

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 15, 2024 8:53 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they have credit lines

i don't understand money stuff really

you pay less in interest on a line of credit than you would by paying taxes so all of your assets aren’t really liquid. the most common thing a normal person would get is a home equity line of credit, secured against your home’s accrued value. imagine that, but the security is *waves hands* all your assets

he did sell off Tesla stock to contribute $27B to the twitter sale but the bank loans were secured by the company, not him (https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover). so if twitter goes bust, it’s the other investors and the banks that take a bath. he already did his twitter money deal and if he runs it into the ground he can probably write it off as a loss on his taxes for the next decade

https://i.imgur.com/ORKd96p.jpeg

Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 15, 2024 6:20 PM (four hours ago)

18 years, that's crazy. his net worth is probably in the 9 figures. hard to feel sorry for him

what the fuck is he talking about

This guy is the dumbest motherfucker on earth pic.twitter.com/zhxfAHvqST

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 16, 2024

like he's invented a scenario in which AI is killing millions of people and the thing that terrifies him is that it'll kill too many white people

the ai designed and implemented a genetic engineering program so that now there are babbies with 13 or 14 or more fingers

Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.

Elon bought Twitter so he could essentially spend every day shouting via it, "I am the Emperor and I am naked as fuck"

lol @ the cybertruck message board there are so many damn issues with this thing

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/forums/issues-repairs-warranty-recalls.66/

Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:40 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think he is, a bunch of people got blue checks over the last couple weeks against their will

also one more thing that bothers me

https://i.imgur.com/kE5lGFn.png

"namespace" is a term which actually means something, anyone who's ever done any programming should be familiar with it, and he's using it to refer to the pool of available usernames on Twitter. like this comp sci shit is supposed to be one area he's actually competent in but all the evidence just points to him being a huge idiot there too. people are so eager to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's awkward and dorky, instead it's more like what if Sheldon from Bing Bong Theory was actually just a huge dumbass. I mean take it from me, I played Magic: the Gathering for 15 years, these people absolutely do exist. sometimes they have emerald mines and government contracts I guess.

bullies snatched my namespace

if only there was something that Elon Musk, owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp, could do about these "bot armies"

pretty funny how he claimed he was buying twitter to get rid of the bots

“if i did it (that is, added more bots to twitter)”

he also claimed he was making a car where the steering wheel did not just whiff out the window when you are driving

a great yoke that doesnt fly off your hand

Great user names like Cindy0737396354

odd that he didnt understand that firing everyone would effect things like controlling spam, sure you can keep the core product running kind of ok but all the other stuff is going to massively suffer, and those things matter people dont want pussy in bio in their replies