Elon Musk

the story thats been told around teslas insane valuation hinges on self driving, becoming new kind of company not just a one that sells cars to consumers, its been common knowledge amongst people who really follow this stuff that a. full self driving is an insanely hard problem thats not close to being solved and b. teslas approach to it is inferior to its competitors, but meanwhile elons been out there saying FSD is just around the corner for years, these documents surfacing right when there are deadly crashes in the news thatre probably self driving related... idk feel like there has to be a reckoning about this stuff at some point

tesla/musk just seems so shady idk! musk preparing to claim aspergers did it when a major scandal hits??

you have to understand accounting fraud is my special interest

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Might be cynical of me, but the Aspergers thing felt too much like a PR move to shift blame from his most controversial tweets and statements, or to excuse his generally narcissistic behavior.

Now whenever he is acting like an asshole he can just say “sorry, it’s my aspergers”.

Getting backlash from the r/autisticpride subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticPride/comments/n897kw/just_a_reminder_since_elon_announced_he_has/

He actively campaigns against labour unions. How evil can a person be without people excusing or vouching for him?

yeah, every time i see a SNL clip i'm dumbfounded. maybe if they went every other week the writers would have time to come up with anything at all that is funny

It had been four weeks since they did an episode.

so glad he wasn’t born here or he’d probably end up running for president

running

*being*

once again elon musk showed his uncanny ability to wriggle himself into a highly coveted position for which he has no demonstrated talent

It’s a real question whether or not he’d be the best Texas governor since Ann Richards if he ran for that.

looool fuck

but yeah true

Elton musk sucks and so does snl, never gonna watch the clip that confirms these two known facts

Elton Musk - Goodbye Yellow Doge Coin

I just saw the skit where they rebranded AAVE as "Gen Z-speak" so they could make fun of it and I'm extremely tired

GOP gotta be hoping they can become the party of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and their online standom, and not just one for Lin Wood and Lou Dobs and Marjorie Tay Tay Green.

Or shit maybe not. Or maybe both. Big Tentin’

Elon Musk is one of the biggest obstacles to the acceptance of a post-personal-car world, which is what we really need more than anything. Don't think he gives a shit about climate change, electric cars are just the new thing, if this were the 30s he'd be selling asbestos and CFCs.

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this is not me defending EM or cars. BUT

i think if you have to significantly reduce emissions in the next 10 years or else bad shit 4ever, theres a more realistic pathway in the US to doing this in that timeframe by electrifying as many vehicles as possible than focusing limited political capital on (and waiting on the completion of) absolutely necessary massive public transportation infrastructure. but then once that phase is done its back to banning cars.

wow sounds like someone who just bought an electric car.... very interesting

lol i did

bc my dumbass city will never build trains without helicopters full of federal money

the thing about musk FWIW is that hes actively advocating against public transpo and in fact trying to undermine it via the boring company and also the dumb vacuum tube idea (not sure if those are the same thing)

if he was just a simple electric car maker dont think people would be giving him shit in this case, but as usual with the ultra wealthy they got to be monkeying around where they dont belong

right. electrification of private cars (i.e. the short term fix) is happening without tesla in most of the world. if can happen without tesla here too.

AND

they are literally fighting the things that really will save us in the long term.

to clarify my position: fuck EM (and by extension tesla)

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

i hope tesla stops lying about it and i hope they figure out how to do it soon. that guy actually driving a vehicle may be even more dangerous

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And that brings us back to our back seat Berkeley driver. One of the people who recorded one of his dangerous stunts attempted to contact either the California Highway Patrol or Tesla proper to hold the driver accountable—and was hugely disappointed. From SF Gate:

He purportedly provided the info to Tesla’s customer service, who told him to contact CHP’s Oakland branch. CHP allegedly told him that there was nothing they could do, and to contact 911.

He called CHP’s main complaint line, and the representative allegedly suggested filing a report in-person, with the caveat that it wouldn’t punish the driver. All it would do, he explained, is hit him with a proverbial slap on the wrist — a warning letter to not do it again.

'Back Seat Berkeley Driver' an underrated 69 Love Songs track

he runs some really great companies:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-spacex-is-reportedly-trying-to-gobble-up-thi-1846850735

there's an even better WSJ article about this, but it is paywalled.

Roughly 14 people not connected to SpaceX currently live in Boca Chica Village and the surrounding area, according to the Journal. One local, Celia Johnson, told the outlet she started having issues with SpaceX employees after rejecting the company’s offer to purchase her two properties located near the launch facility. One of her homes, a rental property, had a 1,600-gallon water tank suddenly vanish in 2019. A few months later, she arrived to find its window shattered by a brick and evidence suggesting that someone had been sleeping there. When she and her neighbors accused SpaceX workers of being the culprits, the company denied responsibility but reimbursed her in both cases.

However, in the meantime, Boca Chica Village residents are apparently getting screwed. Explosions from failed rocket tests have broken home windows, rained down debris, and started brush fires, according to residents who spoke with the Journal. Leading up to launches, locals say SpaceX workers leave them fliers advising them to vacate their homes in case of a potential malfunction. The company has even offered to put them up in a hotel during launches, albeit one 40 miles away (gas and food expenses not included).

Elon Musk sounds like a shitty cologne scent you get in a dollar store

That SNL skit is execrable. Why is that show still so popular?

Inertia. Also most popular shows are pretty bad.

yeah kind of hard to judge the Elon stuff. maybe the show is just that fucking bad now. at least they didn't do "Woke James Bond"

Here’s some good SNL discussion

Brilliant: he was invited on air to talk about Elon Musk and instead called out Newsmax for its election lies.

“Newsmax lied to its own viewers and had to settle that lawsuit...Are you still telling that lie or are you telling new lies?”
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— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) May 10, 2021

theres no way all of snl can be as bad as that wario sketch

The show is really, truly, deeply, almost unremittingly bad.

everything was fine until g.e. smith left and the saxophone guy took over

It was all over when Chevy left.

I sometimes wonder if I've missed out on anything after I stopped watching when president dumbfuck hosted but I never wonder for very long.

feels like this current shitty era has far outlasted the dark ages of the early 80s. I basically started avoiding it oh idk some time in 2016 and can’t say I’ve missed it a bit.

Just read in the Washington Post how NBC was happy with how well the show did in digital media, including social media. Which is funny, since the Post always puts a goddamm recap of every episode with Youtube clips on its front page every Sunday morning.

I don't even click on the twitter links anymore. I see that Wario screencap and think, yeah, I'm pretty sure I can grab the gist of this.

you should watch it its shockingly bad!

couldn't bring myself to watch that one but I saw two minutes of "Gen Z Hospital" and it was straight up the worst sketch I've ever seen and I've watched a dozen episodes of Mad TV

like it sucked so bad it that wound up becoming racist

"Here, smell this milk! I think it's gone bad!"

you should watch it its shockingly bad!

i don't think it's more shockingly bad than a recent simpsons episode to someone who stopped watching around season 10. the idea that SNL was ever good seems to be what the newspapers here call a "falsehood".

im not an snl fan or as you say it across the pond supporter but that wario sketch is like barely even recognizable as tv

*i do like the sketch "the californians" lol

I've heard of warioware, but wario wear?!