Elon Musk

arglebargle also acceptable

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(one that makes cars that are incrementally, not qualitatively better for the atmosphere, and are no better for the urban environment).

see, whether or not they are better qualitatively for the atmosphere depends on where they're drawing their power from on the grid. An EV in Alameda, which is served 100% by renewable power, is definitely reducing emissions, because that's one less car burning gas. But an EV in LA, drawing power from LADWP's bizarre ass mix of out-of-state coal and natural gas and god knows what else, is actually probably *worse* than a gas-powered car.

you probably know this

there is also the impact of pursuing policy that envisions a car-oriented urban environment, which A) facilitates the daily use of countless gas-powered vehicles that massively outnumber any electric cars on the road and B) is massively more carbon-intensive just on the sheer quantities of asphalt and concrete involved, even if the cars were all yanked from the road.

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right, LADWP is bad news, and southern california is in many ways an ecological superfund.

which makes the fact that musk concentrates his efforts here even worse!!

So you guys are blaming Musk for bad public transportation and coal-burning power plants? You know he runs a solar company, right?

I should probably just keep my mouth shut. He is obviously a jerk with a messiah complex - I get it. But, to me, he still seems like he's trying to change the world in a good way. I don't agree with a lot of things he's done (union-busting, starting dumb-ass fights on twitter, being, by all accounts, a total jerk boss), but I'm still happy that he's making things like electric cars and solar roofing and order-of-magnitude-cheaper rocket launches happen.

"runs"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/06/22/teslas-constant-turmoil-cant-hide-the-fact-that-solarcity-is-dying/

Solar City itself was nothing more than a tax scam, maxing out customer roofs with extra panels they didn't need so the company could rake in that tax credit cash.

and the roofing is a scam too, total vaporware

the fact that he has spent some of his mostly accidental fortune on green tech is just him grabbing onto a trend and trying to capitalize ahead of the rest of the market incumbents. It has absolutely nothing to do with him giving a shit about other people or the world.

yeah SolarCity is a disaster due to mismanagement/overextension (sound familiar?)

So you guys are blaming Musk for bad public transportation and coal-burning power plants?

i guess i'm blaming capitalism for creating incentives to make a shitty situation worse.

I predict there will be a zipline from the top of the Sears Tower to Midway before there is a $25 hyperloop from the city to O'Hare.

All this dummy does is talk about hypothetical tunnels and tunneling.

Tunnels not his strong point. And mini submarines.

we are trapped inside Cars 2

Lightning McQueen is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

the pistachio ice cream was wasabi paste and we ate it up

and the roofing is a scam too, total vaporware

― sleeve, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:05 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yuup does not actually exist, wed all be better off if the tech media only covered irl products not press releases

e.g. just today. pretty generous of the press to call this a "production vehicle".

this is literally an empty body shell. there's not even a working prototype of this thing yet and people are sharing spec sheets https://t.co/o3NLCPPdR8

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) September 5, 2018

lmfao

we are trapped inside Cars 2

― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:31 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lightning McQueen is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:34 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really great 1-2 here

windshield sunglasses area: 10,000 sq. inches

my 6 year old cousin has this cool toy where you launch cars through a loop-de-loop and into a garage and all the cars look exactly like that

hey man, as long as it's a loop.

relatedly

Pleased my headline/image combo got through pic.twitter.com/T654peazLk

— christhebarker (@christhebarker) September 4, 2018

epic burn

scream that headline while holding a thin slice of whole foods deli ham up to the store lights imo

it drives me nuts that in every article the media is not yelling about how all his tunneling/vacuum tube schemes are blatant ploys to disrupt in process public transpo plans

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 1:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100%

Elon Musk's snake oil being sold so well is an indictment of tech journalism's inability to go beyond 'woah gadgets' and engage with the real world. Not that the real world did better, I remember he was on the Late Show with Colbert's and he talked about nuking the poles of Mars to make it habitable and people were like 'woooh genius' and no one dared asked if it made any sense.

'the boring company' is a good name, gotta give him that

I don’t gotta do shit!

Even that's not original, lots of companies involved in boring are called some variation on Boring Company. My town used to have the Paisley Boring & Grinding Co - which used to amuse us greatly.

my fave company ever was British Bacon Supplies. They used to have a very old fashioned, generic blue letters on white ad hoarding at the football ground for over a decade. Lots of people used to wonder if they actually existed and would stare at it and mediate on carcinogenic processed meat during dull L1 matches. I nearly shit a kilogram of streaky bacon when I started at a new electrical contractors, and their yard was right next to the by now massively legendary British Bacon Supplies building.

Crosspost to Real England

it probably actually belongs on a neo-fascist thread!

https://i.imgur.com/6n6Z4VG.jpg

fuck

as a child, I loved bacon. As an adult, my stance is that bacon is kind of bad.

tastes pretty good, smells amazing cooking IMHO

you know what's even better than bacon, though

kfc double downing on your libel

(xp) Yes, black pudding.

Software update issue with the Model S today. Car is immobile at the moment.

Tesla tech support and roadside assistance have been very helpful - we’re hoping to avoid the tow by forcing a new update to the car. pic.twitter.com/DSverfOkGE

— Ryan Negri (@RyanNegri) September 5, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0RzNKmbLk

tesla bringing whole new meanings to the shopworn phrase "car crash"

ayy lol

he's doing a radio interview right now where he claims "I didn't see any other ideas for improving the traffic [in LA]."

Like these mysterious things called trains, trams and light rail?

pic.twitter.com/StiHKiuMtG

— Watergate Speedrun - 0.5X A Presses (Commentated) (@surfbordt) September 7, 2018

Live now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

Lmao at every second of this