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GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Jabor posted:

should be able to claw that back from executives and shareholders, imo

Literally, with claws

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Osama Dozen-Dongs
Nov 29, 2014

Synthbuttrange posted:

almost, if by someone and 'rescue guy' you mean 'internet randos'

The rescue guy part is at least part true, although Musky is the only one saying he was the leader.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

starkebn posted:

He "helped" build some huge storage batteries in South Australia recently

for hundreds of millions of dollars

Cite for him reneging on his promise? He said that if they delivered it in under 100 days it’d be free, and they did it in about 60.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/23/16693848/elon-musk-worlds-biggest-battery-100-days

And the installation is already having hugely beneficial impacts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.7bdf56f46d31

You can hate on Musk for the dumb poo poo he says and does without making GBS threads on the things that he actually delivers on.

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Phanatic posted:

Cite for him reneging on his promise? He said that if they delivered it in under 100 days it’d be free, and they did it in about 60.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/23/16693848/elon-musk-worlds-biggest-battery-100-days

And the installation is already having hugely beneficial impacts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.7bdf56f46d31

You can hate on Musk for the dumb poo poo he says and does without making GBS threads on the things that he actually delivers on.

I was being cheeky, of course it's something he did and kept to the contract, but the idea of Ol'Musky just trying to help out is laughable. It's his business.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://i.imgur.com/LPVY2QN.mp4

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Don't post my ETS2 gameplay videos

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
You know what would be interesting, is if next time Old Musky decides to help somebody he does it anonymously without tweeting about it constantly and just let his actions speak for themselves, if he's such a good person.

Hahahahaha!

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



I noticed my neighbors got new cable boxes installed on the side of their house.

Then I remembered my friend told me my neighbors have asbestos tiling.


If you are the Spectrum cable man, and you are mounting and drilling new holes for the lines, do you think you have training to identify those siding tiles?

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
The tiny oasis spared wrath of Hawaii’s volcano

glynnenstein
Feb 18, 2014


KoRMaK posted:

I noticed my neighbors got new cable boxes installed on the side of their house.

Then I remembered my friend told me my neighbors have asbestos tiling.


If you are the Spectrum cable man, and you are mounting and drilling new holes for the lines, do you think you have training to identify those siding tiles?

Beyond whatever OSHA 10 hour or 30 hour they might be required to take, I would assume no.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/11/627916837/pump-fails-at-thai-cave-hours-after-soccer-boys-rescued

Close shave, there.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


The pure road. Thomassoned by mother nature.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
https://i.imgur.com/6NqU899.mp4

I guess that once he's turned into a skeleton the water's mostly OK to drink?

My nephew once explained to me how he pulled the hair of a pretty girl because he liked her (primary school). Bunch of the incessant posters endlessly going on and on about Elon Musk (but not the OSHA aspects of his businesses) in this thread has a similar vibe to it. Just hit him up on twitter and gently caress already.


KoRMaK posted:

I noticed my neighbors got new cable boxes installed on the side of their house.

Then I remembered my friend told me my neighbors have asbestos tiling.


If you are the Spectrum cable man, and you are mounting and drilling new holes for the lines, do you think you have training to identify those siding tiles?

My last house was fitted with fuses, and was being re-jigged with circuit breakers and a solar feed-in meter. I told the electrician doing the work that the millboard had been tested and was 100% death-on-a-stick-grade asbestos. When I got home from work, the old millboard had been broken up into about 10 pieces and put in my domestic bin, unbagged. Some people haven't been trained to know, and some people are just complete morons who really should get the death penalty before they hurt too many people.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

we're on a road to nowhere
come on inside
taking that ride to nowhere
we'll take that ride
i'm feeling warm this morning
and you know
we're on that road to paradise
here we go, here we go

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012




Did the submarine survive????

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Phanatic posted:

Cite for him reneging on his promise? He said that if they delivered it in under 100 days it’d be free, and they did it in about 60.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/23/16693848/elon-musk-worlds-biggest-battery-100-days

And the installation is already having hugely beneficial impacts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.7bdf56f46d31

You can hate on Musk for the dumb poo poo he says and does without making GBS threads on the things that he actually delivers on.

Musk triggers people who have accomplished literally nothing with their lives, it's sad to watch : (

Crash_N_Burn
Apr 19, 2014

Synthbuttrange posted:

Its full of harrowing accidents involving bombs and nuclear material. Fun ones include an airman stumbling around the bomb bay and trying to keep his balance by gripping a nearby handle.

The handle is the emergency bomb release. It fell on the bay doors and crashed through them, leaving the guy dangling on the handle while the Mark 6 atomic bomb fell onto Mars Bluff. It's unarmed but an unarmed nuclear bomb just means the nuclear detonation wont go off. Its still got an implosion mechanism made of regular explosives.

It falls onto a playhouse that three little girls are playing in then explodes, demolishing it and the house nearby and putting 6 people in hospital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

I know this is from forever ago threadwise but it is blowing my mind that we accidentally dropped more nukes on US soil than we dropped on purpose in Japan

Budgie
Mar 9, 2007
Yeah, like the bird.

Goon you are going the wrong way. You need to dig!

Don't Ask
Nov 28, 2002


I don't see the problem, wheels are chocked and secured. Didn't even need to get out of the cab to do it.

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

Musk triggers people who have accomplished literally nothing with their lives, it's sad to watch : (

If you let him finish in your mouth does he pay you more?

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

GotLag posted:

If you let him finish in your mouth does he pay you more?
Don't be silly, he pays Musk for the privilege.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Crash_N_Burn posted:

I know this is from forever ago threadwise but it is blowing my mind that we accidentally dropped more nukes on US soil than we dropped on purpose in Japan

It's gonna really bake your noodle when you find out how many we set off on US soil

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEGaBXG3Kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bumUw0lNOz0

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

quite stretched out posted:

he said he would do it for free if it took him more than 100 days or something, it was just another pr stunt because hes a giant child who loves attention
That was the battery which Australia really did need and as far as I am aware had no controversy. No cost overruns, no delays, no technical issues which is pretty remarkable in itself. Musk's boast which was made before the contract was signed. He more than likely knew in advance how much time it would take but was still a weird boast. It was these successes that has lead to the current state of Tesla and his increasingly off messages, chasing that high.

He is thankfully a lot more cagey about SpaceX, listen to his employees and willing to admit to difficulties rather than doubling down.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

Sagebrush posted:

It's gonna really bake your noodle when you find out how many we set off on US soil

Some other than Japan's soil, anyway.

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


IPCRESS posted:

https://i.imgur.com/6NqU899.mp4

I guess that once he's turned into a skeleton the water's mostly OK to drink?

No shoes, already dead. Shouldn't take long.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

This really doesn’t instil confidence in chocking wheels.

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

a mysterious cloak posted:

No shoes, already dead. Shouldn't take long.

This well is connected to the afterlife and he's coming back.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

There's some patches of road like that in the National park that were isolated in the 1960s lava flows. It's also a real relief to hike on a semi forested road for 100 meters after spending a few hours hiking on exposed lava fields.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

American tourist takes unexploded WWII munition to Vienna Airport as souvenir

:nono:

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Mozi posted:

You know what would be interesting, is if next time Old Musky decides to help somebody he does it anonymously without tweeting about it constantly and just let his actions speak for themselves, if he's such a good person.

Hahahahaha!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017149641991680002?s=19

:awesomelon:

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009

Holy gently caress. Just stop at the light like a reasonable human being. I admire the skill/luck involved here, but :stonk:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Platystemon posted:

This really doesn’t instil confidence in chocking wheels.

Chocks are supposed to keep a stationary vehicle from starting to move, not to stop something that's already in motion. They work for the former purpose about as well as parking against a curb (which is to say: quite well) and they also are about as difficult to drive over as a curb (i.e.: not very).

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I would be impressed if Musk ever uses his money for something other than vanity projects

his money is the only thing separating him from every other "ideas guy" ever

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


if he does this, that's amazing, an excellent mitzvah

he won't do it though

jsoh
Mar 24, 2007

O Muhammad, I seek your intercession with my Lord for the return of my eyesight
he elaborated further that if someone can show him a test with higher than approved ppm of dissolved solids he will have someone deliver and install a water filter, since according ot musk the water in flint is already mostly safe people just dont trust test results

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Note that he didn't say anything about giving people actual clean water. Just about making it meet FDA standards.

Which it's been meeting for two years.

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

violent sex idiot posted:

he elaborated further that if someone can show him a test with higher than approved ppm of dissolved solids he will have someone deliver and install a water filter, since according ot musk the water in flint is already mostly safe people just dont trust test results

I'm 100% sure the people of flint will all be sending off samples to approved labs to get verified test results for musk any day now

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

violent sex idiot posted:

he elaborated further that if someone can show him a test with higher than approved ppm of dissolved solids he will have someone deliver and install a water filter, since according ot musk the water in flint is already mostly safe people just dont trust test results

Also IIRC the government has already provided water filters

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