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Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama

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Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Food Boner posted:

:elongate:

gently caress wait for it

also mods make this bigger pm me for larger version

Should have made his nose grow in opposite timing of his eyes.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

cumshitter posted:

Musk: Why are factories horizontal? Imagine how much more quickly a car could be produced if factories were vertical. You drop the first part of the car, and then it gets built on the way down. We would actually be harnessing air resistance to heat the paint and slow its descent toward the end!

jesus I actually read this like three times before realizing it wasn't a real quote

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Stefan Prodan posted:

idk I think model 3 looks like garbage in front, the side profile is basically the same as the S which I think are both "fine" and the X looks like garbage all over

I feel like it looks like a slightly less inspired Mazda 6 or something.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Bushiz posted:

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama



jhahaha she truly is futurama mom!

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Uhh... having 4% of your workers suffer from serious injuries still seems pretty bad overall for the entire industry.

also lmao at elon mom

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Bushiz posted:

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama



STECK A BOESTERD IN IT YOU CRAEP!!!

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




gotta move fast and break things bro

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Bushiz posted:

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama



:elongate: lolin so hard @ elons evil sci fi mom

wtfffffffffff

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
more like CAR citizen

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe
Cruella de Musk.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

bring back old gbs posted:

:elongate: lolin so hard @ elons evil sci fi mom

wtfffffffffff

Also remember the story how Elon's dad banged his 30 year old adopted daughter?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/102564433/elon-musks-dad-has-baby-with-stepdaughter

quote:

Tech Billionaire Elon Musk's father has had a baby with his 30-year-old stepdaughter.

The news might explain the feud that has engulfed one of the world's richest families.

Errol, 72, was branded "evil" and "a terrible human being" by the Tesla Motors chief Elon, 46 ,who said his father had done "almost every evil thing you can possibly think of".

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010


"Now I'm off to some charity BS for knocked up teenage sluts"

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

me 'ole femily is fickin wecko

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

etalian posted:

Also remember the story how Elon's dad banged his 30 year old adopted daughter?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/102564433/elon-musks-dad-has-baby-with-stepdaughter

:barf: yeah unfortunately elon's dad watching his 4 year old stepdaughter play in the yard and thinking "one day this will all be mine" is the absolute first thing that comes to mind whenever i picture elon musk. the man was not raised right

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe

neat

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

bring back old gbs posted:

:barf: yeah unfortunately elon's dad watching his 4 year old stepdaughter play in the yard and thinking "one day this will all be mine" is the absolute first thing that comes to mind whenever i picture elon musk. the man was not raised right

The best part is that even though he's a loving insane creep and probably a raging pedophile he managed to be right about elon

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

I love the casual dropping of the DNA test being done like it's totally normal

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



WampaLord posted:

I love the casual dropping of the DNA test being done like it's totally normal

"to ensure he was mine" yea super normal yeesh

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Krankenstyle posted:

"to ensure he was mine" yea super normal yeesh

WampaLord posted:

I love the casual dropping of the DNA test being done like it's totally normal

in my own cautious way, he frames it perfectly innocently, i dont get why u goon s have to read into every little detail

lmao if u didnt read in my own cautious way in the most delicately bourgeois accent u are capable of putting on. god drat

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
its code for "hail mary pass to see if i could justify dumping the whore i knocked up"

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

cumshitter posted:

its code for "hail mary pass to see if i could justify dumping the whore i knocked up"

hoping not be responsible for a autistic son

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
in my own cautious way, whenever i have unprotected sex with women who i assume sleep around and it results in surprise bastards, i

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

WampaLord posted:

I love the casual dropping of the DNA test being done like it's totally normal

don't forget he's wealthy they're all greedy and insane

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Yeah it clearly means she forced the DNA test to make him take responsibility for loving her

gross old racist capitalist weirdo (are there even scales on which he is not the worst?)

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Bushiz posted:

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama



Elon how much can a banana cost? 10 dollars?!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

don't forget he's wealthy they're all greedy and insane

Elon Musk made sure his first wife Justine got nothing using the old pre-nup process.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



H.P. Hovercraft posted:

don't forget he's wealthy they're all greedy and insane

the classic:

quote:

Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306667/

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Bushiz posted:

this thread moves at the speed of light these days but I want to call back to this thing about talulah riley's hair, because musk is constantly trying to turn his significant others into his mom, who's entire thing is being Mom from futurama



lol she certainly has the villain look down

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Aoi
Sep 12, 2017

Perpetually a Pain.

Duscat posted:

in my own cautious way, whenever i have unprotected sex with my daughters who i assume sleep around and it results in surprise double bastards, i

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Grahms left Musk after he refused to stop headbutting her when she didn't move fast enough.

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Elon's mad because its only one car on the assembly line going through over and over again and it just keeps getting more and more messed up every time it goes through

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Siljmonster posted:

Elon's mad because its only one car on the assembly line going through over and over again and it just keeps getting more and more messed up every time it goes through

same car falling down the stairs forever. it just keeps happening.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

etalian posted:

Elon Musk made sure his first wife Justine got nothing using the old pre-nup process.

not even, it was a post-nup

and when she fought it he told her that she would've gotten more if she'd just agreed to its terms

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

not even, it was a post-nup

and when she fought it he told her that she would've gotten more if she'd just agreed to its terms

Reposting this link since it has so many weird horrible Elon Musk vignettes

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/

quote:

Still, there were warning signs. As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, "I am the alpha in this relationship." I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious. He had grown up in the male-dominated culture of South Africa, and the will to compete and dominate that made him so successful in business did not magically shut off when he came home. This, and the vast economic imbalance between us, meant that in the months following our wedding, a certain dynamic began to take hold. Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. "I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee."

"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye


Nice. I used to read a lot of Niedermeyer Sr.'s blog posts. This family knows its poo poo re: cars

FistEnergy posted:

The market is so stupid

Should have been sub 200 weeks ago

Reminder that Ford, the most successful domestic automaker, fired a CEO because despite succsess everywhere he didn't move the company toward "being more like Tesla" enough

At one point in stock terms, Tesla had the same value as Ford


This reminds me a bit of the "sales bank."

So there was this guy named Lynn Townsend, he was an accountant who in the late 1950s became comptroller for Chrysler and its stable of brands: Dodge, Plymouth, and De Soto and I guess maybe Imperial. Back when Detroit was something like silicon valley in the public imagination (an endless font of prosperity where the best and brightest went) Townsend was initially seen as a genius. He was also Trump-esque in his insecurity, needing to belittle and humiliate anybody who questioned him. Unlike Citizen TUMP, however, he at least understood accounting. He cut poo poo and pulled a Hyundai, offering a comprehensive 50K mile warranty on all its products. This managed to pull the #3 "big three" automaker through its early '60s slump.

Being a finance guy, he was really into making the stock look good, so he really concentrated on making smart short term moves to impress shareholders. This lead to the 'sales bank.' OK, so car companies have two basic things going on in their production: they have these factories and workers that they want to get the max ROI on. They also make (among other things) consumer products that 1) are very expensive and 2) actually have a limited shelf life before they are no longer "new" IE this year's model. This has lead car companies to be fanatical about producing enough cars to meet demand while making good use of factories and their workers - basically without a dealer order, they are not making a car or truck.

Townsend - well, ok, he didn't literally start butting cars with his goddamn head on the assembly line, that's ridiculous - but keeping in the "make short term decisions" he began running off extra cars without having a buyer. This was a positive for making maximum use of factories, but then you needed to sell the things to dealers. So cars were being completed without buyers. Completing the basics of the vehicle, and then waiting for an order to come in and giving the specified options would have been comically inefficient by mass production standards, so cars were completed, sometimes with random and unsalable option combinations, and then sent to a series of parking lots Chrysler had. Storing a 'new' car through the Michigan winter this way is - not ideal. 1966 saw the Sales Bank holding 60,000 cars; by the start of 1969, it was 408,302. Mopar salesmen constantly tried to unload these unwanted cars onto dealers, who in turn would firesale them to customers. The dealers soon became savvy to that if you waited until the mopar salesmen were desperate, you could get the cars for a steal. Cars that couldn't be sold this way would be 'sold' to a shell company of Chrysler's, thus showing up on the books as a 'sale.'

This poo poo eventually unraveled when the 60s were over and the '70's oil crisis happened, with stagflation. Townsend would resign in 1975, but not before putting in a few years of eccentric behavior, including all night drinking/strategizing sessions with his executives and including random joes in these sessions and then getting vicious at them if they had any criticism of how Townsend was rolling

Actually, what Tesla is doing and these abandoned cars is even worse - the sales bank was a shell game but eventually most of those cars were sold. All of those cars Tesla has abandoned are now literally worthless to the company. Let me show you why: This article got posted in the OSHA thread. While somewhat 2008 macho employment porn, it's about a car transporter that almost sank with $100 million in Mazda cars. The ship spend several days at a 45 degree angle, and while 99% of the cars took literally no visible damage, Mazda decided the liability risk was too great, and had the entire shipment of cars mashed into scrap.

Nebakenezzer has issued a correction as of 01:10 on Sep 1, 2018

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Nebakenezzer posted:

Actually, what Tesla is doing and these abandoned cars is even worse - the sales bank was a shell game but eventually most of those cars were sold. All of those cars Tesla has abandoned are now literally worthless to the company. Let me show you why: This article got posted in the OSHA thread. While somewhat 2008 macho employment porn, it's about a car transporter that almost sank with 100 million in Mazda cars.

The ship spend several days at a 45 degree angle, and while 99% of the cars took literally no visible damage, Mazda decided the liability risk was too great, and had the entire shipment of cars mashed into scrap.

That salvage story was a great read.

The other funny leaked info was how Tesla has 14% FPY while the industry benchmark is >80%.

I'm sure the whole 5000 a week target led to even more rush and QC problems just so Musk could brag about reaching a arbitrary goal.

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

over a lifetime of "unsurprising scientific studies" this one definitely ranks near the top

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

shiksa posted:

over a lifetime of "unsurprising scientific studies" this one definitely ranks near the top

The Corrective Action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

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