Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Rob Ray]

This stuff about him "just being weird" is for the birds. He's been confidently doing public speeches for decades, he's not an idiot and even if he were, how many idiots can you think of who have done chest-thumping seig heils at rallies in the last ten years, outside of actual Nazi ones?

 

[teuchter]

This thread is going the way of the Trump one.

 

[xenon]

This stuff about him "just being weird" is for the birds. He's been confidently doing public speeches for decades, he's not an idiot and even if he were, how many idiots can you think of who have done chest-thumping seig heils at rallies in the last ten years, outside of actual Nazi ones? TBF. and I’m not disagreeing with your broad point. But he is a terrible public speaker. I know, i’m just being a bit pedantic. As you were.

 

[edcraw]

I don’t have much time for cats but I’m not sure they are all fascists.

Cats and cat owners are definitely fascists

 

[Santino]

This thread is going the way of the Trump one.

Here's teuchter with 8 minutes on the orange thing

Spoiler

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[keybored]

She’s knows him better than you or me

Does she? As far as I can tell none of his kids wanted anything to do with him since they turned 10 years old or so.

 

[two sheds]

Does she? As far as I can tell none of his kids wanted anything to do with him since they turned 10 years old or so.

demonstrating that she knows him better than we do.

qed

 

[Smangus]

I expect it will take some people to see Tesla Tiger tanks rolling off Musk production lines before they acknowledge the obvious.

 

[pesh]

at least we won't have to worry about those ones.

 

[edcraw]

If your kid hates you you're obviously a twat.

 

[Artaxerxes]

at least we won't have to worry about those ones.

Much like actual nazi tanks they'll be talked about as cutting edge but break down and randomly explode within a few miles of driving.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Really think Tesla are fucked. In the UK anyway. This shit won't be going down well at all with a big chunk of those who can afford them and are motivated to get and electric car. And the toxic masculinity Range Rover/ that weird Merc jeep thing crew who might at least tolerate this are a small market and don't seem to like Teslas anyway.

As far as I can see, most of the new car market is driven either by finance or double boomers who've paid off their own mortgage selling their dead parents house, and they seem to get fuck off massive SUVs or that new electric VW bus if they think the're a bit more classy but still want to take up a shitload of space in a dangerous and ostentatious display of wealth.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

And that's before people start bricking them, keying them, lentiling them and generally more actively laughing at them.

 

[MrCurry]

I think this addresses that point.

Doesn’t seem to add anything new to the discussion at all. Maybe you missed the previous pages of this thread.

Anyway this is tiresome now, I’ve explained my viewpoint and the reasons for it, others are very much entitled to their own interpretation. Overall I expect we all agree about a lot more than we disagree about and for the record, I hope Musk’s rising influence gets curtailed very soon.

 

[teqniq]

Well if you will pay $44 billion (not $44 million as the article mistakenly says) for something that really obviously isn't even worth close to that and then make decisions that really fuck it all up and cause major advertisers to leave in droves:

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Admits Defeat on Twitter

Twitter's financials are still looking pretty dire — as owner Elon Musk himself admitted in a January email to staff reviewed by the WSJ.

futurism.com

Wall Street banks plan sale of X debt at a discount | TechCrunch

Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 million in 2022 including $13 billion in

techcrunch.com

 

[Elpenor]

And that's before people start bricking them, keying them, lentiling them and generally more actively laughing at them.

Can you explain lentiling please?

 

[two sheds]

And that's before people start bricking them, keying them, lentiling them and generally more actively laughing at them.

Although most people who have bought them did so before musk came out as a nazi supporter. Might be better just to have easily removed stickers/leaflets tucked under the windscreen wipers (do they have windscreen wipers or do they have some revolutionary system using jets of air that only work when it's not raining) and shamed on the web.

 

[zedr]

Can you explain lentiling please?

I think its to do with deflating the tyres.

How To Deflate An SUV Tyre

It's quick, easy and anyone can take part! Simply print out our leaflet and read on.

tyreextinguishers.com

 

[Elpenor]

I think its to do with deflating the tyres.

How To Deflate An SUV Tyre

It's quick, easy and anyone can take part! Simply print out our leaflet and read on.

tyreextinguishers.com

Aha - thanks! Can do a lot of cars with a a pack then!

(Checks cupboard)

 

[Maltin]

Well if you will pay $44 million for something that really obviously isn't even worth close to that and then make decisions that really fuck it all up and cause major advertisers to leave in droves:

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Admits Defeat on Twitter

Twitter's financials are still looking pretty dire — as owner Elon Musk himself admitted in a January email to staff reviewed by the WSJ.

futurism.com

Wall Street banks plan sale of X debt at a discount | TechCrunch

Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 million in 2022 including $13 billion in

techcrunch.com

$44 BILLION not million! Shocking that that TechCrunch article mistakes that in the article!

 

[teqniq]

$44 BILLION not million! Shocking that that TechCrunch article mistakes that in the article!

Thank you for the clarification, I thought it was wrong, i will correct it now.

 

[edcraw]

Doesn’t seem to add anything new to the discussion at all. Maybe you missed the previous pages of this thread.

Anyway this is tiresome now, I’ve explained my viewpoint and the reasons for it, others are very much entitled to their own interpretation. Overall I expect we all agree about a lot more than we disagree about and for the record, I hope Musk’s rising influence gets curtailed very soon.

Think it's a good summary tbh rather than scrolling through 50 odd pages. Like the bit at the end criticising people for not calling out obvious facsists as well.

 

[Rob Ray]

No office for Elon in the White House, looks like the apparatchiks are starting to slide him out of the conversation. Not surprising, it must boil a lot of piss watching Johnny-come-lately making it all about himself and causing loads of policy headaches.

 

[ska invita]

No office for Elon in the White House, looks like the apparatchiks are starting to slide him out of the conversation. Not surprising, it must boil a lot of piss watching Johnny-come-lately making it all about himself and causing loads of policy headaches.

That article says he is getting a DOGE office with 20 staff
“He’s getting an office for about 20 people that we’re hiring to make sure that these [savings] get implemented.”

 

[Rob Ray]

That article says he is getting a DOGE office with 20 staff
“He’s getting an office for about 20 people that we’re hiring to make sure that these [savings] get implemented.”

Yep, and I can tell you if I wanted to sideline someone I'd make sure to keep them busy in a nothing "advisory" job with minimal actual empire around it, while the real conversations happen elsewhere.

 

[ska invita]

Yep, and I can tell you if I wanted to sideline someone I'd make sure to keep them busy in a nothing "advisory" job with minimal actual empire around it, while the real conversations happen elsewhere.

sure but DOGE was always the brief - all the "real vice president" stuff was mainly social media posts

 

[Kaka Tim]

Definitely get the impression that musks attention seeking and lack of impulse control will result in a fairly short stint at the heart of the trump junta.
I'm going with escalating twitter spat between him and leading magas, trump weighs in, musk starts calling him a paedo, trump bans tesla cars and x. World laughs (cos what else can you do?)

 

[Rob Ray]

Oh th vice-president stuff was all waffle for sure, but I don't think Musk wanting a seat in the room and an office in the White House was. He's a congenital power hoarder.

 

[Yossarian]

That article says he is getting a DOGE office with 20 staff
“He’s getting an office for about 20 people that we’re hiring to make sure that these [savings] get implemented.”

20 people sounds pretty minimal - most of the 435 members of the House of Representatives have staff numbers close to that size, with senators it's closer to 35

 

[klang]

Definitely get the impression that musks attention seeking and lack of impulse control will result in a fairly short stint at the heart of the trump junta.
I'm going with escalating twitter spat between him and leading magas, trump weighs in, musk starts calling him a paedo, trump bans tesla cars and x. World laughs (cos what else can you do?)

Would love it if trump ends up getting him shit.