hot new ceo trend: going on tv and bawling over yr bad tweets
https: //twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1071921788035190784
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
link intentionally fucked cuz ilx is giving me poxy fule errors instead of embedding tweets again and i just couldn't wait to share this hot #content with everyone here
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
I saw thatWhat a freak
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
He's still digging that tunnel to Mars, right?
― StanM, Monday, 10 December 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
@TCofHouseMooreWeird flex laughing at one of the most successful human being in the world. One who will never know you even exist. Whatever makes you feel good.
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
elon musk stans are among the worst people on earth, basically
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
it's so creepy every tweet is just these gross people kissing his ass
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
I wanna reply "he's not gonna venmo you dude" to each and every single one of these
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, December 10, 2018 10:19 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
funny thing is laughing at celebrities on twitter is prob the best chance they have at knowing that you exist and are laughing at them
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
As proven by that Dodger Stadium farce, they're all employees. I bet they clip each defense and submit it with their annual review.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
lol matt levine
I am not an expert in, like, journalism, but it does seem to me that “look at you” might be the best possible interview question to ask Elon Musk. If Musk is up for it I will happily interview him for Bloomberg and I promise that my questions will consist solely of saying “look at you” repeatedly; I bet it will break a lot of news.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Heh, that's funny.
Elon Musk just seems like such a dope. He's like the human version of those months of hype when they were teasing the Segway, which turned out to be nothing more than an updated version of a Rascal scooter.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
"look at you!" is what Howard Stern always leads with
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
the correct responce is "hiee"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
a well-timed series of air horn blasts always gets the room going
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
the Segway, which turned out to be nothing more than an updated version of a Rascal scooter.
Rascal scooters have 3-5 wheels and are huge. Kamen's self-balancing device still looks p much like witchcraft.
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah but the only people I see using them are tourists and traffic cops, which is a pretty lame use of witchcraft.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
the technology is impressive they look like a total dorkmobile tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
and are basically useless
still makes me laugh that the owner of segway died driving his own product off a cliff
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
the Weekend at Bernie's reboot will have a "Bernie on a segway" scene
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
i was just at the fete des lumieres in lyon and instead of information booths they had people stand totally still on segways with big signs that said INFORMATION attached to their heads.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Lyon? You mean The Future!
I remember the build up to the Segway (aka, It, iirc). Then it's revealed as something that will revolutionize travel from the guy who made a wheelchair that can climb stairs, which is super awesome. And then the Segway comes out, and it's about as awesome as those monkey shoes that show the shape of your toes.
Elon Musk, 99% of what I heard about him is that he wants to build all these hypothetical super-fast hyperloop tunnels or some bullshit. Tunnels to baseball stadiums, to space, to Chicago, to stranded Thai boy scouts. But all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what? As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.
this is otm, they are gonna be outpaced by conventional auto companies *very* quickly
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
its already happened tbh, tesla still has a glow for some ppl which is funny since theyre pretty shitty cars, making cars is very hard
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Yeah and the incumbent automakers also know how to acquire startups just the same as any other enterprise
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
prob tesla will just end up acquired by one of the big boys after losing 90% of its value and then disappear totally after some corporate restructuring down the line
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
I can see a few of Tesla's ideas being legit gamechangers but trying to buck 100 years of auto manufacturing practices in the name of "disruption" is so incredibly stupid that only a galaxy brain like Elon Musk could've come up with it
plus they definitely seem to be committing some sort of obvious accounting fraud. their "profitable" Q3 made no sense whatsoever.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
yeah theres no way they havent done a ton of illegal shit in a number of areas
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk, 99% of what I heard about him is that he wants to build all these hypothetical super-fast hyperloop tunnels or some bullshit. Tunnels to baseball stadiums, to space, to Chicago, to stranded Thai boy scouts. But all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what? As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sometimes good thread will forever be sunk by self-owning posts such as this one
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
afaict all the EV nerds who are not musk fans by the jaguar now?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
like he doesn't even have the luxury market
also looking forward to alleged public "rides" on the hawthorne test boring co thing next week.
Trying to figure out how I self owned. Is it because what I reduced his accomplishments to (spurring others to make electric cars?) can be construed a big deal? Like he's some electric car martyr who paved (har) the way for others?
Anyway, let me know when I can take a Tesla train cross country in an hour or whatever and, if any of us are alive then, I'll concede his genius.
I did hear someone talking on NPR this morning about how limited discussion of self-driving vehicles has been (to sort of change the subject). The most novel idea he offered was a self-driving ambulance with a host of automated diagnostic tools that you could call to your house in an emergency. Stuff like that. But nothing about tunnels, so I assume it was not Musk talking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
you have taken a very "skeptical asshole" posture toward something and then you offered "99% of what (you) heard about" it in a paragraph that was part joking sure but also, I have to assume, a good summary of what you actually know about it.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what?
SpaceX seems like an interesting company with several very impressive engineering feats to its credit. tbh, I doubt that Elon Musk has had much, if any, direct input on how these were achieved. At most he sets lofty objectives and his employees do the real work.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
they mostly buy scrapped Russian rockets iirc
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
I'll take Virgin Galactic over SpaceX tbh if only because Branson seems like slightly less of an asshole
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
lol no
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
um
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
guys they can both just be assholes ok its not an unpopularity contest
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
so true
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I bring up Branson in part to demonstrate that Musk didn't have any uniquely genius ideas, he had p much the same ideas other billionaires had
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
also VIRGIN GALACTIC just sounds cooler than SpaceX come on
(cues up XTC's "Another Satellite")
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
maybe if your a galactic virgin lol faced
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
damn
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
coincidentally ive been antagonized by horrible nerds on twitter for the last couple days cause i said going to space is dumb and childish
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link