lol i came to this thread to report that i've now seen this identical joke emerge spontaneously/independently at least five times on twitter today -- well done everybody
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
so many people praising him for his selflessness "even if it didn't work"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
ppl who defend musk in the comments are frickin wild man what a world
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
"I went to the hospital where a child was having open heart surgery. I brought a bowie knife and a wrench and was asked to leave. But the important thing is...I was there."
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
"I left the knife and wrench there should they ever need them!!"
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
yes i've seen that exchange half a dozen times too
"lol elon musk always a twat""SO WHAT DID YOU FUCKIN DO TO HELP ASSHOLE"
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
not gonna link to hardtimes but I did chuckle at the parody headline "Elon Musk and Bono team up to invent world's first self-praising car"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
did he also leave a sub captain or instructions?
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
you know that a tesla submersible would be an utter fucking death trap too
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
xp it's self-driving iirc (j/k)
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Gazza is a fucking hero.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I've done plenty to help asshole
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
read a blind item on crazy days and nights that was talking about how "unnamed tech ceo" with popstar gf is a huge coke head and a lightbulb appeared above my head. explains so much of his behaviour - firing a car into space and arguing with randos on twitter especially
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
nm should probably take that to the rimming thread xpost
saw a tweet reply literally all "musk doesnt care about good publicity hes a billionaire" lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
lmao
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
had dinner w/my friend who works at tesla over the weekend and he's completely a non-cultist and was like "well, I've worked here almost two years, time to start hunting around"
also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line
lol
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:10 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes the very same person in fact lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
incredible
well the good news is if anyone goes in that cave again and gets stuck there’s an unproven submersible no one knows how to operate made quickly by a man whose cars spontaneously combust ready to rescue them.
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
also it's too big to make it up and over a curve in the cave iirc
you can uh ride it halfway in
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
there will be a video game made about Musk's heroic venture
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Doing the classic bum roommate move of leaving his shit behind in case anyone wants to use it huh
― badg, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
i have an otherwise reasonable friend who admires musk and is taking the "at least he's trying to help people" line. "Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"
it's frustrating.
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
people need to understand that hating musk is fun and good
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"
By sending a submarine to Thailand.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
acquaintance of mine who snidely said he didn't think 'burger flippers deserved $15 an hour' and regularly posts "Be like Elon" memes that are riddled with factual errors also started a GoFundMe to repair his car after an accident (while not answering the question of why his insurance wouldn't be taking care of it).
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Here he is claiming to have helped out in Flint - someone queue up the Simpsons Spock gif
Already have— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
found it
It's crazy to hear that people think he's doing this for the attention, do you honestly think the man that sent a car to space needs attention?— TreyPenninger (@SSYGrunt) July 9, 2018
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Can't get this out of my head now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz7OEtaY90
― mick signals, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
His bootlicking cult is SO weird. Has anyone seen the woman who keeps trying to gift him crystals?
A person with any self awareness would feel ashamed about Trump managing to respond more appropriately ffs.
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
No, it means I created jobs for 50,000 people directly and, through parts suppliers & supporting professions, ~250,000 people indirectly, thus supporting half a million families. What have you done?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
tbf abt 95% of the hot stanning is elon himself imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
yegads
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
has anyone noticed that all of Elon's adventures line up with stories in this kids' series? pretty sure this latest chapter covers both the time they built a submarine and the time people were lost in a cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Scientists%27_Club
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
LOL what a prat.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
did Elon just add 50k and 250k and come up with a half million xxp
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
I think his assumption was that every one of the 250,000 was married with a family, which somehow seems even worse to me
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
wait even that's wrong, lol
really cannot wait for whatever accounting scam theyre running over there at tesla to be exposed
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
otm
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
isn't there a kickstarter or something for the Tesla whistleblower? I oughta throw some $$ at that
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
I wonder how often Elon would rather be a physics engineer, or lead technical designer instead of having to carry the label of billionaire. Regardless of whether or not the capsule ended up being feasible, the man sprung into action to help people he’s never met. #ThaiCaveResue— Blake Kistler (@blake_kistler) July 10, 2018
What a burden.
Ironically, the “billionaire” label, when used by media, is almost always meant to devalue & denigrate the subject. I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size, but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before. Just the scale has changed.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
to answer my own question
https://www.gofundme.com/Tripp-vs-Tesla-help-fund-the-fight
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
can we just shoot Elon Musk into space now plz
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size,
like... the billion dollar valuation size?
but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before.
none, because you're not an engineer or scientist?
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I like him for entertainment value.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
surely his bloated corpse orbiting the moon would be entertaining
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link