Elon Musk

Wait what are you leasing caek? My teenager desperately wants us to get a Tesla and I am keen on an EV but don't know the landscape.

it also helps with recruiting. people think working for elon musk means something because they know of his asshole antics.

yes, I don't see many engineers with previous work experience falling for it. But I imagine it's big for the poor lads that do work there.

I think my friend is still in software development at one of these places and should check in

I think he was doing some internal apps last I checked and nothing production specific so it was less drama overall

hey caek: we got a Kia Soul last fall (they had just started rolling out the 2020s), base model, and love it. Part of it might be that it’s our first new car, but really it’s a charming and useful machine in many ways.

why don’t you drive an EV?

drama in the musksphere today

I wrote something on @ElectrekCo that is sure to be controversial but that's not the goal. I truly think that @elonmusk's feedback loop has been corrupted - resulting in some questionable actions. You can disagree but my criticism comes from place of love https://t.co/H8pOXsZzZ1

— Fred Lambert (@FredericLambert) May 12, 2020

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In light of the ongoing Tesla Fandom circular firing squad, I thought I would share this story again and add that in spite of all this I actually prefer Fred and Electrek to the up-and-comers who are helping bring his adventure to its inevitable conclusion https://t.co/1dbc09XSvW

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 13, 2020

who are the musk superfans

engineers, libertarians, SETI users, apartheid fans, environmentalists, incels, vc's, pedo guys?

forgot 'guys who have a john galt reference on their license plates'

space colonizers, grimes superfans

people who think elon musk builds the cars

apple superfans in search of a new home

reddit posters

that guy freds writing def has the weird manic superfan tone, its wild people wld willingly read that shit

a lot of idiots who are like "oh that guy seems smart"

feel like dudes who make things in their garage that they don't really need to make are at least musk-curious

https://i.ibb.co/Ny6hJb6/3211b2393a6a4195b5d0ab7a408e0f47.jpg

I kinda feel like painting the entire www.instructables.com community as musky is casting too wide a net.

think it's mostly teenagers

Older dudes who like to tinker and have a rain gauge in their backyard.

Richard Heene

My son is a teenager and finds Musk intriguing. It’s kind of heartbreaking and I don’t have it in me to tell him what I think.

lmaoo

My legacy is probably going to be carpal tunnel in my right arm from doing the jerk-off motion for 12 consecutive hours while weirdos with "Entrepreneur / crypto" in their bios pile into my replies to gush about Elon Musk. https://t.co/AopXgiVmPe

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 12, 2020

King

local hero Ken Jennings

he's more likely to get tennis elbow from that tho

depends on how you learned to do it

or how you inherited said knowledge from your dad.

Looks like Tesla is being sued over early touchscreen failure in Model S and X. This might be a good time to revisit my story about those screens, some of the reasons they fail, and why no other automaker has 17 inch screens in their vehicles https://t.co/ZnaN8mRQ9o https://t.co/e8SCZLakhP

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 14, 2020

I will never ever stop laughing about Elon Musk stealing an image from Buca de Beppo so he could fake eating out during a pandemic while he has a newborn at home pic.twitter.com/jWDoiGYzX5

— Molly Shah (@MollyOShah) May 13, 2020

lmao

this is the guy many people think is the worlds #1 genius lol

his defenders are saying he didn't literally meant he went to Buca to eat that Sunday even though he p clearly implies that in his follow-up posts.

see i wldve gone with he was just havin a laugh

there is a massive closed and abandoned buca de beppo in my town which everyone hates b/c no one is taking care of the building so it has an extra layer for me

this is hilarious

I thought he was referencing jail and scorsese

Listening to neon neon and tried to explain delorean as like musk, thought i was being all crazy insightful lol, but thread was on it. years ago. btw that album is still fun.

delorean actually was very good at making cars to begin with tho, no? just not when he branched out alone

i told my kid that my recall was that he was trying some different design stuff (didnt the car have different sized wheels or something?) not to mention facilities location. You’re right tho he was at least a car guy making cars.

first you monsters deny elon the title of 'engineer'. now you would take away 'car guy'? And after previously awarding that title to a poster that admits to not even owning a car!

https://mixmag.net/read/grimes-elon-musk-baby-name-burial-archangel-news

Well said! Please run for office. The politicians & unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered & thrown out of town!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2020

so I had a short stint at a small stealth-mode cybersecurity startup once. my boss told me he had heard from one of the Y Combinator founders at a party that Elon Musk believed in Bostrom's simulation argument, but with one small amendment: that he, Elon Musk, was Real

— biz malarkey🌹 (@uhshanti) May 7, 2018

there is a massive closed and abandoned buca de beppo in my town which everyone hates b/c no one is taking care of the building so it has an extra layer for me

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:39 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

You probably ought to check whether Elon Musk is hiding out in there

oh good pic.twitter.com/CBigbC8ffE

— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) May 17, 2020

I love that these conspiracy nuts still overwhelmingly like to adopt the hip lingo of a 20+ year old movie and haven't found anything else to latch onto in recent years

nothing else has utilized the duster as effectively

funny thing is if there was ever a pill you could take to go under and live in a dream world and have lots of money and sex these would be the first people to sign up for that shit

*morpheus voice* in a sense thats what theyre doing

delorean actually was very good at making cars to begin with tho, no? just not when he branched out alone

Yeah, because he was an idea guy at Pontiac, which was GM's 'engineering' division where a lot of concepts got tried out first (mid-size performance cars, rubber bumpers, hidden wipers, optic cable radio antennas inside windshields etc.), and things started downhill for when he was promoted to the more conservative Chevrolet.

After he broke loose, his own company had a lot of problems getting started (among other things, coming along after a number of similar other failed 'performance/safety car' startups littered throughout the 70s didn't help), and when production finally began, they made the mistake of using underpowered Renault engines.

And then, yeah, cocaine...