IBroughttheFunk posted:

This kind of nonsense almost gets me mad.

priznat posted:

Crosspostin from the Trump thread:

Lmao elon is a simp for trump who thinks he is a tool

Zakutambah posted:

This kind of nonsense legit gets me mad. Cause like his Hyperloop brainfart, it ends up causing funding to be diverted from public transit.

This is a solved problem. It's called a train and/or tram.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Never forget that that's entirely on purpose; Hyperloop and the Boring Company aren't meant to solve traffic issues, their purpose is to sandbag public transit projects that would actually do so.

JustCallMeDC posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671364025773326337
https://twitter.com/kwmarkoff26656/status/1671364438090211328
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671364992665264131

That's what started this poo poo

kazil posted:

only way this is true is if it's someone manipulating Elon into this position. Elon is too dumb for a master plan and genuinely thinks his tunnel idea is cool

kazil posted:

only way this is true is if it's someone manipulating Elon into this position. Elon is too dumb for a master plan and genuinely thinks his tunnel idea is cool

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Never forget that that's entirely on purpose; Hyperloop and the Boring Company aren't meant to solve traffic issues, their purpose is to sandbag public transit projects that would actually do so.

lmao remember when he immediately complied with Modi and Erdogan's calls to ban political dissidents, even though OG twitter had faced no consequences for telling them to piss off, and got real salty when people booed him because he of course had no choice in the matter

If only there was a pattern as to when he chooses to uphold "free speech" as a principle, but, no, the guy is just so mercurial and inscrutable.

JustCallMeDC posted:

I have some if you want

morningdrew posted:

Pleeeease let a community note pop up on this saying zuck never declined

smoobles posted:

Elon getting wrecked by the community notes will never not be hilarious

Mistle posted:

With 43 billion dollars, you can execute the most elaborate and wacky of Victorian-age pranks, complete with period dress, and steamworks-grade materials. Dirigibles, penny-farthings, sepia-toned glass print photos, just living the life of an eccentric, in almost anywhere in the world.

You could do funny things and make people laugh at the funny thing you did. You could do serious things, and have people take you seriously.

You could fake your death hundreds of times, turn it into a quarterly event. People would line up around the block to be the next "dr_rat's daring defiance of death," just giving away their post-mortem existence for the chance at being the cadaver used for "shot out of a circus cannon and into a pool of wet cement 40 stories below" or "underwater mine defuser gone wrong" or "faceplanted onto the moon in a cowboy outfit."

There's no end to spending billions just goofing off and loving around without becoming a laughingstock or completely disconnected from reality. And yet people with that kind of money somehow always end up a laughingstock and disconnected from reality.

grobbo posted:

There's something grossly and genuinely wrong about watching a grown man with far too much wealth and power to ever get a genuine comeuppance, delivering a bragging replay of his own childish behaviour to his online friends with the sweaty, obvious dishonesty of a nasty little boy of 11 or 12 relaying to the other boys how he totally owned some rival in the playground.

Cringe is too small a word.

quote:

To be clear, both of these men are wretched cowards. Zuckerberg has chosen the higher ground here — to not mercilessly beat a jelly-like cretin into a pulp simply because he was challenged to do so — but has walked away from the only opportunity anyone will ever have to inflict physical pain on Elon Musk.

While there is a chance that Zuckerberg’s respect for martial arts and serious training is such that he wouldn’t take on an unprepared opponent, Elon Musk has spent his entire life bullying and threatening people, and has never once been shown the consequences of his actions. Zuckerberg had the chance to make this a less serious bout — a charity boxing match, a cage match where he acknowledged the difference between them and still obliterated him, and so on — but chose to take “the high road” against a pig that always seems capable of finding mud to roll in.

Kat Abu’s post of a classic It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia scene nailed what should’ve happened. Zuckerberg should have gladly accepted the bout and then publicly punished Musk. It doesn’t matter if Musk is sufficiently trained, or “prepared,” or “ready,” or whether it’s “fair,” because this is Elon Musk — a career charlatan that continually gets himself in too deep and then uses the power of money and status to escape consequences, with Twitter being one of the few cases where he failed to do so.

This fight was the other. While Musk — regardless of the result — would clearly state that there was some sort of unfairness to the proceedings, Zuckerberg had the ability to physically humiliate and dominate a man that has eluded justice his entire life. Zuckerberg has candidly used this opportunity to rehab his image from “guy who worked with US government to spy on citizens” and “guy who used social network to antagonize millions of people” to “thoughtful and caring martial artist,” all while escaping the responsibility of taking the world’s richest and most annoying man to the woodshed. If Zuckerberg believed that it was unfair or a bad thing to do to use his training to make Elon Musk squeal like a freshly-born calf, he should know that it’s equally unfair and bad to escape the opportunity to show that actions have consequences.

Musk has spent the best part of a year destroying one of the world’s most crucial information sources, empowering fascists, and creating a hostile world for people of color on what used to be the world’s town square. He has spouted anti-trans rhetoric, perpetuated racism, and sued a hate-speech research group because it annoyed him that they were using a brand researcher’s account, while also promising to pay the lawsuits of anyone who got fired because of their tweets — another limp promise he’ll likely welch on. Hesued the law firm that closed the Twitter deal, and had to be sued to return over $735 million that he and the Tesla board were overpaid. He doesn’t pay his rent, or his staff, and uses his money and power to stymie regular people’s attempts to see justice — and it always seems to work. He is effectively untouchable — despite being extremely easy to upset based on almost every tweet he’s ever made — and will never be made to face any consequences for his regularly putrid and upsetting actions.

gschmidl posted:

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy gently caress, all these stupid weekend warrior billionares think they are Napoleon or Augustus

This is some Bond villain poo poo. You are not some Conqueror or General: you are some dipshit clown with way too much resource in an economic system that treats you as a holy figure because of it.

Shut the gently caress up

smoobles posted:

Elon getting wrecked by the community notes will never not be hilarious

sticksy posted:

Ed Zitron had a great write up as usual on this yesterday - an excerpt:

HamburgerTownUSA posted:

Good that there's screenshots, given his tendency to delete community notes when they're dunking on him.

gschmidl posted:

cant cook creole bream posted:

Honestly, whenever I hear about these hyperloops I need to do a double take, because it's so obviously stupid and impractical that I can't even understand how anyone would want that. So can someone sum up what exactly they do so I can have a sanoty check?

5er posted:

Good username for criticizing wannabe Caesars.

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy gently caress, all these stupid weekend warrior billionares think they are Napoleon or Augustus

This is some Bond villain poo poo. You are not some Conqueror or General: you are some dipshit clown with way too much resource in an economic system that treats you as a holy figure because of it.

Shut the gently caress up

sticksy posted:

Ed Zitron had a great write up as usual on this yesterday - an excerpt:
...
https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-cowards-octagon

sticksy posted:

Ed Zitron had a great write up as usual on this yesterday - an excerpt:

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-cowards-octagon

quote:

Zuckerberg has candidly used this opportunity to rehab his image from “guy who worked with US government to spy on citizens” and “guy who used social network to antagonize millions of people” to “thoughtful and caring martial artist,” all while escaping the responsibility of taking the world’s richest and most annoying man to the woodshed. If Zuckerberg believed that it was unfair or a bad thing to do to use his training to make Elon Musk squeal like a freshly-born calf, he should know that it’s equally unfair and bad to escape the opportunity to show that actions have consequences.

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy gently caress, all these stupid weekend warrior billionares think they are Napoleon or Augustus

This is some Bond villain poo poo. You are not some Conqueror or General: you are some dipshit clown with way too much resource in an economic system that treats you as a holy figure because of it.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ACXaFyB_-8s&feature=share8

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNzjk-kiUmQ&feature=share8

Rotten Red Rod posted:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ACXaFyB_-8s&feature=share8

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNzjk-kiUmQ&feature=share8

Rascar Capac posted:

This thread provided me with a Bluesky invite code, and now I have one to give back. Post in the thread if you want it, and I'll DM it to you.

Rascar Capac posted:

This thread provided me with a Bluesky invite code, and now I have one to give back. Post in the thread if you want it, and I'll DM it to you.