i think it's one of those things where like, yeah it could tow the space shuttle at walking speed for a few minutes. but any truck can do that
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
really, we should be bemoaning the fact that the cybertruck can't outpull this very strong human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGIjlK1nSs
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, January 4, 2023 5:34 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah im sure when normal companies talk about towing capacity they mean it in a normal way, who knows wtf tesla is talking about
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
apparently towing with an ev drains the battery like crazy too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
energy spent is energy spent!
this is good because i forget that twitter had some cheap debt they issued pre-elon that is now very expensive debt lol
Expensive Debt was an underrated Fela Kuti album
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
Tesla Miss Road
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link
Musk's ego has near infinite mass
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 5 January 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
"near infinite mass" surely video games bear some responsibility for this
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 4:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The only way to understand Musk is as a video game messages board troll circa 2000
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
his whole thing reminds me of how Michael Jackson "lost" his childhood, and so he spent his 40s trying to recreate it. in Elon's case I guess he never had the chance to be a cringey teenage shitposter so he's trying to live it now.
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
Ricardo is real!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
more funny graphs from the poster's poster:
https://i.imgur.com/O5A8A9M.png
― mark s, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Cybertruckesque
― nashwan, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk should— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2023
i think we all know how to vote here, folks
― 龜, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
He should aim higher imo
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
its so funny this is the thing he wants to do, a man with all the resources to actually do politics is totally gassed up on the power of memes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
It's because he's a moronic nepo baby
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
these nepos effin everything up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
Boebert starts grandstanding, gets told "VOTE!", and then votes for "a consensus candidate"...Hern. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
another vote for Hern, just now.
wait, i thought Donalds was the consensus candidate
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
a couple hundred representatives are googling "who the fuck is kevin hern" right now
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
wrong thread Karl
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
gentlemen you can't talk about incompetent morons in here this is the Elon Musk thread
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
smdh #onethread ofc
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
#elonethread
― more crankable (sic), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
lol oops sorry!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
Gaetz should nominate Musk next time.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
if it goes long enough, there is a non-zero chance that elon musk does get nominated.
we need outside of the box solutions
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
complete the triumvirate, nominate Kanye
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2022-12/221201-gop-kanye-tweet-mn-1415-5d8d24.jpg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. pic.twitter.com/I14fKiIh0f
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Thursday, 5 January 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
$200/month for an AI that thinks a daycare parking lot has the same speed limit as the adjoining street pic.twitter.com/9tB3MFcViG— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) January 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Per @josephmenn Elon Musk ordered Twitter to ban antifascist researcher Chad Loder https://t.co/tPBKAvWsbv As I reported, Loder's open-source investigations ID'd Capitol rioters but infuriated 2 far-right activists Musk admires, Andy Ngo and Chaya Raichik https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT https://t.co/7lDSJlq8c4 pic.twitter.com/tlGsiPCgKe— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) January 5, 2023
― Chris L, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
elon is broing down with some of the absolute shittiest people, and also hes one of them
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
feel like any self-proclaimed "centrist" who is also obsessed with being the smartest guy in the room goes down that path
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
also holy shit at that Dan Nguyen tweet, how is this even legal
so I totaled your caryou was using it wrong
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Is the Whole Mars catalog guy employed by Elon?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
He has similar brainworms
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 6 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
even Grimes has more dignity
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 6 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
Lmao how had I not heard he got this incredibly cringe photo removed https://t.co/HQ0PCBX77a pic.twitter.com/onO6gKiNqh— K. Thor Jensen 🐀 (@kthorjensen) January 6, 2023
― 龜, Saturday, 7 January 2023 04:03 (one year ago) link
narrator's voice: it was not popular with anyone
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 January 2023 07:43 (one year ago) link
Rich guys who are into S&M should be an exception to the "don't kinkshame" rule.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 7 January 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link
And in particular, he has become Lowtax. We’ll see if things end the same way of not
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, January 7, 2023 9:16 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
can they really be into s&m if they've never experienced full consent in their lives though
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship
I think a lot of it comes from the immediately Great Recession crash era, where you had a combination of social and political-economic factors colliding:
-tech interests coming into to start gobbling up all the capital spending that real estate couldn’t reliably generate profits from. - tech guys becoming savior-gurus to the level beyond the hype that guys like Bill Gates had in the 90s -the Obama Admin openly embracing and incorporating tech guys has the cool smart saavy technocratic leaders who will lead civilization into the next era because mass politics sure as shit wasn’t going to be allowed to do that -Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark being a bit hit and a useful fantasy of what a tech guy is and how this superhero was going to save us, and guys like Elon, Jobs, or Zuck paying a lot to promote that kind of branding for themselves -the western(or at least American) conflation of tech-progress with social progress, since that’s how a lot the second half of the 20th Century/Cold War was both marketed and perceived
So yeah, you have a certain kind of person who swallowed every bit of the STEM hype of the last 15 years and existing in a culture where the personal advancement of tech billionaires is conceived as Progress(and/or America) Marching Forward. I don’t think it’s surprising that this kind of parasocial relationship would form. Our culture is great at generating those
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
Relatedly, because every other institution and metric of modern life(or at least the perception of it) is getting worse, I think plenty of folks put all their hopes into one of those tech moguls innovating/disrupting/conjuring the genius solution to everything. Electoral politics has been deliberately drained of any ability to address the problem, so without those tech superhero figures to believe in, there’s be nothing but despair.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link
death/murder/suicide/dissolution of the labour movement seems to be lurking in the background here
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link