Elon Musk

Musk kind of seems to me like someone who rides high on the backs of the truly intellectually gifted minions

so high

"If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on th backs of giant reefers"

dipped in synthetic novelty psychoactives

also please delete my last 150 tweets thanks

elon not doing great these days

there is a gondala idea that is kind of wacky but approximately 10000x better than this tunnel thing.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 2:00 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ever take the roosevelt island gondola, p cool

i support both the los angeles dodgers gondola and the Bosch season about the los angeles dodgers gondola murders

Exclusive: Tesla violated U.S. labor laws when Elon Musk tweeted about employees losing their stock options if they unionized, the NLRB alleges in new complaint. https://t.co/tRqGkmhZ73

— Ryan Felton (@ryanfelton) August 29, 2018

the NLRB alleges

alleges? uh, that is straight up intimidation and coercion. how can it not be a violation of labor laws?

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/08/teslas-affordable-model-3-costs-a-bundle-to-insure-study-claims/

Last year, AAA said premiums on Tesla vehicles would likely go up 30 percent after reviewing data from the Highway Loss Data Institute. At the time, Tesla said the analysis was “severely flawed and is not reflective of reality.” But the auto club stated the HLDI’s findings matched its own research, as well as numerous other sources.

“Looking at a much broader set of countrywide data, we saw the same patterns observed in our own data, and that gave us the confidence to change rates,” said Anthony Ptasznik, chief actuary of AAA.

The contributing factors to the brand’s above-average insurance rate are twofold. For whatever reason, Tesla models are subject to an abnormally high number of incidents that result in insurance claims, but they’re also more expensive to fix. “Teslas get into a lot of crashes and are costly to repair afterward,” explained Russ Rader, spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which operates as the HLDI’s parent organization. “Consumers will pay for that when they go to insure one.”

For the Model 3, the result is tragically high premiums. A recent study conducted by Gabi Personal Insurance Agency Inc. and posted by Automotive News shows the EV’s average insurance cost across 150 ZIP codes is $2,814 per year. That’s $35 less than the cost of insuring a Porsche 911, using the same metrics.

“In the last month we had more and more people coming in with Model 3, and they were all complaining about high insurance costs,” said Gabi CEO Hanno Fichtner. “We found cheaper deals for them, but not as cheap as we thought they would be. We even had customers tell us they are returning their Model 3 due to the high running costs.”

More on the Unsworth lawsuit:

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/08/elon-musk-just-might-get-his-libel-suit-wish/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/the-british-diver-elon-musk-called-a-pedo-threatened-to-sue

https://urbanize.la/post/elon-musks-solution-dodger-stadium-traffic-full-holes

A friend of mine just picked up his Tesla, which he first ordered in the spring of 2016, this past Saturday. He's so proud.

Tesla only hope of survival is to be bought by General motors

a co worker just got one and sent out a FAQ to the entire department. uguhghghghghh

haaaaaaaa

When are you getting your Tesla?

I am scheduled to pick it up on September 12th, 2 years and 5 months after putting $1,000 and two months after putting $2500 more down.

Are you excited?

Yes, very much so

Can I have ride?

Sure we can work that out.

Can I drive it?

Unlikely.

Am I afraid it is going to catch on fire?

Internal combustion engine cars are filled with flammable liquid, so no I am much less concerned it going to catch on fire then my Impala.

it goes on and on and on

does he mention the insurance payments? (see link above)

one funny thing is teslas are low quality cars

which didnt really matter when it was just a second car for status seeking rich ppl but now

Aspie monty burns will just keep responding to reportage of his latest crime with inane shit like “nope. Try again, gremlin” and all his abject cultists will be like “epic clapback, sir” in their best smithers - this will keep happening and it’s funny but also a nightmare?

I'll take this nightmare over the one in DC, this one's fucking hilarious and there's no nukes (yet)

yeah but if there are nukes then its the greatest story ever told

Holy hell, the lede on this new WSJ story... 🤯 https://t.co/vzsAZVR30b pic.twitter.com/KlIiNKoDG3

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) August 31, 2018

jfc wow

you'd think the guy would be more protective of his hair plugs

still, 'my ponzi factory isn't maiming workers fast enough!' is a great look for a ceo participating in a tour of his facility

I was freaked out when the driver seat moved in reverse when I placed the car in reverse. That is a serious glitch. I will only be happy if I get a new Model 3 or a refund now. Please help @elonmusk No one should feel afraid of their car.

— LaLa (@McTweeterific) August 31, 2018

I have a 2010 Charger and apparently there was a minor problem with the airbag that caused some of them to inadvertently deploy. I think there was like 5 instances of this happening among 1.3 million affected cars, with no reported injuries. Dodge apparently tracked down everyone who owned one - somehow they found me, even though I bought it secondhand and moved twice since, I wound up getting a phone call offering to fix it for free, so I figured why not. This is not a cheap repair, by the way. I can only imagine how Tesla might handle a situation like this, given all the random faulty parts and the apparent shoddiness of the car's OS.

lol I was drunk last night (shouldn’t have said “aspie” btw, sorry) today I agree this is a very funny nightmare

You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:50 PM (five years ago)

did this ever happen? the first few posts itt are shot through with heart-piercing innocence

So many ppl have made this exact joke over the years it’s kinda wild that now it’s here everyone just calls it “the elton musk toy sub pedo controversy” https://t.co/ek6HLJPpXa

— Tyto Pollens #FBP🌮 (@TytoPollens) July 16, 2018

lol yes exactly

Azealia Banks teed this one up perfectly too

There’s some good stuff in that twitter thread mookieproof posted. Cars are incredibly complex and the fact that the auto industry can turn out millions that are (mostly) reliable and safe and without killing and maiming the people building them and doing so at a cost that stilll seems insanely cheap given the complexity. That musk wants to toss out 100 years of accumulated knowledge and best practice is a disappointing as it is unsurprising.

Elon Musk sent me an email last week. In it, he accused a British cave rescuer of being "a child rapist" who took a "12-year-old bride." He didn't provide any evidence of those claims.

He also called me a "fucking asshole."https://t.co/EIAjzEJXiY

— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) September 4, 2018

rarely in the course of human history has anyone been So Very Online

So Very Ondrugs

1) quadrupling down on a bizarre and completely unfounded claim
2) "people are saying" things that no one is actually saying and are demonstrably untrue
3) "attached, see this letter of a person praising me"

hmmmmm

Elon's Trumpin'

speaking of underrated aerosmith b-sides

I think I might be rooting for his life to be absolutely ruined almost as much as Trump's at this point.

IN the comments on that tweet someone points out that in the UK the libel laws mean spreading someone elses libel makes that person liable also, is that true!?

I hope Tesla survives his mismanagement and solves their production and design problems. Their firmware may be a disaster, but their drive train seems pretty decent. The more all-electric vehicles get into the market, the better.

Whenever I see Musk he reminds me of a humanoid assembled from meat, or perhaps a shapeshifter holding human form through considerable effort.

xp - ideally, he somehow loses his stake in Tesla and it goes on to be an enormous success without him as he has to watch by the wayside. Then he blows up in the first SpaceX launch with a human on board.

teslas life or death prob not gonna have much impact on the adoption of electric cars

I haven't been convinced yet that electric cars are a sufficient strategy for lowering emissions anyway

I have a friend who swore by a weekend Tesla driving experience, to which I responded: who the fuck cares? Luxury cars will always be luxurious. Right now I get John DeLorean vibes from Musk. Let me know when he perfects longterm energy storage and I'll be impressed. As for electric cars, companies like Toyota and VW are going to run with his ideas and make them cheaper, recognizing that the only luxury people really care is massive mileage in a low-cost car. You know, like regular cars.

Come on - Musk obviously has his faults, but I'd take him over pretty much any other celebrity CEO dickweed. If you think that other companies would be scrambling to build electric cars without Tesla, you are kidding yourselves. And the things that he's chosen to work on (electric cars, solar power, batteries, space travel) are so much more inspiring than the usual Valley gadgetry and eyeball-farming.

Oh, all agreed! I just expect others to take his ideas mainstream and leave him in the dust, charging things.

lol @ VW mention in your previous post

you do know what that automaker is most recently famous for, right?