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Bhodi posted:and also $28,000 uh huh that's surely the only financial help Errol Graham Musk was born in 1946 in South Africa, to a South African father and British mother. Described as a swashbuckling, astute engineer, he became quite wealthy through his own Engineering Consulting practice/developing real estate (probably mining/natural resources related infrastructure), eventually retiring early. He was likely semi-retired by 1980, at 34, as he seemed to have a lot of time to spend traveling/for leisure. He owned thoroughbred horses, a yacht, a Cessna (he enjoyed sailing and piloting), as well as several residential homes. One of his houses was in the upscale suburb of Pretoria called Waterkloof, where Elon likely spent most of his childhood after age 9. Errol also had a stake in an emerald mine (near Lake Tanganyika, Zambia), where he would one day take his young sons Elon and Kimbal, so you can imagine the level of success/wealth he had - probably on the order of $20M USD.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:uh huh that's surely the only financial help
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i can easily believe that thiel is precious about his daily transfusions and allows his misogyny to dictate that no femoidblood shall ever be used to sustain him I bet there's a westworld-looking office where he makes candidates strip down and asks them weird questions like a horny voight kampf test
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:uh huh that's surely the only financial help Waterkloof sounds like some new and exciting furry fetish
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ate all the Oreos posted:one day elon will finally invent his crowning achievement, a robotic wife that doesn't talk back at him when he needs her to show up and be a pretty object to validate his self image Update: muskwife 3.0 keeps exploding during testing
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fishmech posted:im the bragging that a ticket to mars will only cost a mere half million dollars before lone skum dies you see, it will be such a valuable thing that people will gladly do whatever it takes for a ticket, much like old colonialism there will probably even be financing offered, perhaps with some number of years of employment for the financier at the destination, a kind of indentureship
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ate all the Oreos posted:Waterklurf
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:uh huh that's surely the only financial help jfc vince mcmahon had a hard life loving emerald mines really
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fishmech posted:Update: muskwife 3.0 keeps exploding during testing that scene from robocop w/ the prototypes but it's thiel and the musker in labcoats getting shot before muskwife robotically screams and tears its comically large boobs off
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lancemantis posted:you see, it will be such a valuable thing that people will gladly do whatever it takes for a ticket, much like old colonialism calling it now: the next bioshock game will be set on a martian colony
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exploded mummy posted:loving emerald mines slaves were on the bottom now we here
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ate all the Oreos posted:one day elon will finally invent his crowning achievement, a robotic wife that doesn't talk back at him when he needs her to show up and be a pretty object to validate his self image and when he gets tired of it, launch it into space
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 18:35 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:that scene from robocop w/ the prototypes but it's thiel and the musker in labcoats getting shot before muskwife robotically screams and tears its comically large boobs off
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exploded mummy posted:jfc come son, i will teach you the meaning of hard work by having you gather the precious jewels from the family treasure hoard
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haveblue posted:and when he gets tired of it, launch it into space i'm wondering if someone tried to tell him the story of that rich guy who said he'd bury a bentley to protest organ donation and everyone now thinks he's a good person with good ideas, but ole musky just got bored and wasn't listening to the middle part burying a car = famous for good people like space spacing a car = extra famous for good
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEweP2TiMk
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ate all the Oreos posted:but 0.99999... = 1 actually it's off by 0.0000.....001, important to be precise bc nothing travels at 1*c, it's a law in physics
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ate all the Oreos posted:come son, i will teach you the meaning of hard work by having you gather the precious jewels from the family treasure hoard alzo we don go into de mine that's what de blicks are for
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The_Franz posted:calling it now: the next bioshock game will be set on a martian colony red faction
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ate all the Oreos posted:come son, i will teach you the meaning of hard work by having you gather the precious jewels from the family treasure hoard i wouldn't be surprised if his "job" was being like a secretary more or less
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The_Franz posted:calling it now: the next bioshock game will be set on a martian colony i'd play that (it was called red faction iirc)
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ate all the Oreos posted:come son, i will teach you the meaning of hard work by having you gather the precious jewels from the family treasure hoard like vince doesn't not exactly like to make it public, but his dad (vince sr) divorced his mom right around the time he was born, and she got custody vince spent his early life growing up as white trash in trailer parks in the south and getting beaten by his step fathers and being sexually molested by relatives that's a hard life emerald mines loving really
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:actually it's off by 0.0000.....001, important to be precise bc nothing travels at 1*c, it's a law in physics *looks at photons*
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lancemantis posted:i wouldn't be surprised if his "job" was being like a secretary more or less i mean i think it says he was 9 at the time so probably more like "pick up the emeralds that fall out after this super low wage employee hits the rocks with a pick"
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exploded mummy posted:emerald mines it's cool though because he can say "i was the son of a miner" and be not technically lying working in the mine, owning the mine, what's the difference?
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exploded mummy posted:like vince doesn't not exactly like to make it public, but his dad (vince sr) divorced his mom right around the time he was born, and she got custody and now his wife is a cabinet member of the trump administration
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father musk was basically a James Bond villain as written by Fleming; Elon is a Bond villain who's only ever watched the movies
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that story makes me uncomfortable
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:and now his wife is a cabinet member of the trump administration technically the sba is only cabinet level also she's like the most invisible and one that has seemingly not hosed anything up so far
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cool startup feel posted:that story makes me uncomfortable it should, he's a loving weirdo he later would follow around amber heard (15 years his junior) for like 2 years until she gave in and married him, then divorced him a year later, then married him again, and now i think is getting divorced again, while he complains to rolling stone that he's just a sad sack who's unlucky in love another fun anecdote quote:According to Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she’d been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see whether she was critical to his success.
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exploded mummy posted:*looks at photons* actually you cant look at photons, they're way too small for light to reflect off of
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Sagebrush posted:another fun anecdote It's like they didn't get that the story of the Microsoft Secretaries* was a GOOD thing, for Microsoft and for everyone else. (I'd include the Google Chef here but that is actually inaccurate, he was Michelin-starred restaurateur and sushi chef when Google hired him.)
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also i just noticed that the chart says "building rockets from scratch" you know, from scratch meaning first trying to buy russian rockets and then when that fell apart, grabbing a bunch of experienced aerospace personnel in a timeline where NASA has been cut to ribbons Sagebrush posted:it should, he's a loving weirdo im sure his evaluation was based on "well I'm still working I guess and I'm not poor so I didn't really need that assistant"
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exploded mummy posted:technically the sba is only cabinet level administrator of the sba appears to have been made a cabinet member by obama thanks obama the only two things i can find is that she did a big tour touting the giant tax cut for rich people and has tried to have her hand in the botched disaster relief by pushing small business loans
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i also get the vibe that if a man in a similar position had asked for a raise, elon would have given it
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:administrator of the sba appears to have been made a cabinet member by obama isn't embezzling SBA loans a proud american tradition?
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Sagebrush posted:it should, he's a loving weirdo yeah e: “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
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FMguru posted:what was that line from count zero? where the art historian character realizes that the super ultra rich arent even remotely human? that's also a theme in the first altered carbon book that they tried to embellish upon in the new show quote:“Ah, go ahead. What the gently caress do you know about it anyway? Bancroft’s not people like you and me. He’s a loving Meth.”
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shaggar plz weigh in https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/BL-CIOB-13536
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cant read that article but I read it somewhere else. clothing telemetry alone is pretty weird but idk why you'd tie it to a crypto currency
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