Elon Musk

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

#420 #blazeit #muskonskunk

Elon Musk’s campaign to persuade investors he is out of his mind continued late Thursday night when he took a hit off a joint during a live podcast https://t.co/IxdUYK4HGn

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 7, 2018

Pre-market shares down 5%.

moaning that you work so hard you never see your kids then hanging out with joe rogan for 3 hours

god can you imagine spending time with five little elon musks? i'd be choosing to get high af with joe rogan too, it's maybe the best decision musk has made in months

oh god, there's such a specific awkwardness to this

not enough abt elon's impressively evil dad in this thread

oh i suppose you think he's evil just because he was an apartheid-era south african property magnate who dabbled in the diamond industry and, at 72, fathered a child with his 30-year-old stepdaughter, do you

who's the real sick man in this so called society

BREAKING: *TESLA SHARES EXTEND LOSSES TO FALL 10%; BIGGEST LOSS IN 2 YEARS https://t.co/lTUIJkAgWZ

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 7, 2018

https://i.imgur.com/4xMgwkD.png

blessed thread

works with anything pic.twitter.com/IYNk7uQS5z

— meth lab for cutie (@AliceAvizandum) September 7, 2018

I've got a good friend who isn't allowed to invest in Tesla who nonetheless was going on and on about visionary this and steve jobs and amazon that and tesla's going to be a 25000 stock and the future and whatever. It all made me wish even more for this whole endeavor to fail just for me to be able to tease him for drinking the electric kool aid.

lmfao u have to inhale it genius

Musk subsequently said that he rarely smokes weed and it doesn’t affect him much. It is certainly the case that he sounded just as high before he smoked as he does now. pic.twitter.com/fWEoYu0OCZ

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) September 7, 2018