seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Who he?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Suk Lemon
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude owes his company's survival to gov programs butsays it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promiseto obliterate them all.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so hyperloop huh
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:
1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people
2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there
3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude
still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.
There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.
Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad.
who do you follow?
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow
unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
cool monorail bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
even i can afford that
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I meant 94% sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
LOL "elon musk"
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?
I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Bad connotations...
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.
Lol
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.
Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.
*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
he might do this
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it
(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.
nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
my last old banger had an "automatic" hand-brake that was just the biggest pain-in-the-ass, burned out a clutch trying to find the bite point with it while doing a hill-start, a manual hand-brake would have been so much better.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 10 May 2024 07:48 (one week ago) link
everything in a car doesn't need to be automated imo
― bae (sic), Friday, 10 May 2024 08:52 (one week ago) link
Our kids are old enough now that it’s less of an issue but power tailgate was absolutely one of the reasons we upgraded a trim level, and we used it a lot when they were smaller.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 May 2024 12:52 (one week ago) link
my dad's old and got shoulder pain so closing the liftgate isn't fun for him
― 龜, Friday, 10 May 2024 13:33 (one week ago) link
the only downside our autoliftgates is that sometimes the safety and locking systems are inscrutable and i cannot get the back up without like, turning off the car. but not always. i'm sure it's in the manual, and there's some toggle somewhere, but what a stupid pia.
in this old's opinion you should be able to open the liftgate while doing 75mph on I70 so your accomplice can push the body or contraband out the back without stopping or slowing
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:53 (one week ago) link
so I guessed the stock market would do two dumb things following the news that Tesla had bought some lidar units from a smaller vendor:- that vendor's stock would jump for the day, then settle back down after people realized it's just a small company and there wasn't that much money involved- the larger lidar vendors would then go up a couple days later, after people remembered lidar is a thing and some larger companies actually sell a lot of the tech
no way am I going to start regularly day trading but... yup
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:02 (one week ago) link
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶out on the road today i saw a deadhead stickeron a cyber truck🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶(field report c/o t.volk) pic.twitter.com/U9gcKKjaq2— joel berk (@pfcidb) May 8, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:55 (one week ago) link
obvious shop
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 11 May 2024 15:47 (one week ago) link
Don’t stare too long or you’ll die of the cringe
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53WgcFMVNf/?igsh=MXNjcHZ6ZWRrOTYwdw==
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 May 2024 11:14 (one week ago) link
(xxp) don't look back you can never look back... because there's no rear visability in these things
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2024 11:20 (one week ago) link
my friend has a Tesla and just started using the self-driving and he brought me and another friend in the car while it drove us to a destination 5 minutes away.
it did ok, I never felt my life was in danger, but it definitely got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link
it did have the wheel nag and he even talked about it but fuckin christ even w/ that I was a little on edge lol.
wish Musk would just go into a coma or something
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:20 (one week ago) link
wow i don’t know how i would handle that situation“got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was”daaaah wes joe biden driving you ppl dont have a problem when it’s him daah
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:35 (one week ago) link
sorry i need a break from like everything
i think stopping in the middle of the road qualifies as putting yr life in danger
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:41 (one week ago) link
well in that moment, not so much as it was a road with no vehicles traveling on it on a weeknight. but certainly if it HAD been a weekend, yeah, different story.
anywho now that I appeased him w/ that I will never get in that car again lol
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:43 (one week ago) link
co-lol
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:54 (one week ago) link
other than the random stopping, I think they're also still good at turning on to wide shared bike/walking lanes parallel to the road
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:21 (six days ago) link
If cyclists and pedestrians don't want to be hit by cars, they should move to states without roads or pavement.
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 May 2024 15:31 (six days ago) link
was this posted yet? (insider dunking from former employee) https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1cpyi2j/i_was_in_tesla_design_studio_back_in_20162017_i/
― mark s, Monday, 13 May 2024 16:49 (six days ago) link
“Typically at Tesla the driver was considered the priority, they would only try to comply with the absolutely necessary standards required for everyone else sharing the road.”well, yeah
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:28 (six days ago) link
Motorists do not have a constitutional right to not be run over. Seriously look it up guys.
Our cars are returning things to the way the Framers wanted it
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:50 (six days ago) link
tempted to gis “suv horse drawn carriage” but nah
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Monday, 13 May 2024 18:00 (six days ago) link
Head of cybertruck production is out:https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-head-of-cybertruck-manufacturing-out/
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 May 2024 22:52 (six days ago) link
haha good luck to everyone
Tesla’s automotive business, including charging and manufacturing, as well as new product launches, took the biggest hit as Elon Musk appears to be transitioning Tesla away from its EV manufacturing roots to focus on autonomous driving products.
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 May 2024 22:55 (six days ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/
...lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 13:40 (five days ago) link
wonder how much extra tesla are having to pay the sacked supercharger team to come back after shitcanning them so ignominiously
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 13:51 (five days ago) link
elon musk really is the devil in the sense that people have made a deal with him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 13:57 (five days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3YuyqfD.png
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:09 (five days ago) link
gotta have a based robot in there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:13 (five days ago) link
Almost forgot not all his tweets are just quote-replying 'True.' or 'Interesting.' to whiny white supremacist grievances and completely made up allegations against political opponents.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:15 (five days ago) link
concerning!
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:17 (five days ago) link
lol... now who would do such a thing?
Several vehicles at the Tesla factory in Fremont have been vandalized, according to the Fremont Police Department. On Monday at around 2:30 a.m., Fremont PD were dispatched to a location on the 45000 block of Fremont Boulevard where the factory is located.
There were reports, police said, of numerous vehicles having been vandalized. At the scene, officers learned that several parked vehicles had sustained damage to their tires.
Fremont PD is actively investigating the incident.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:23 (five days ago) link
shoulda just put them all in carwash mode
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:25 (five days ago) link
Ooopsies. Funny thing is, it's not just the ex-employees who would be motivated to do this, but like the entire population of the Bay Area
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:55 (five days ago) link
Yeah, hopefully he puts up a big whiny stink about this and inspires even more people to vandalize teslas
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 00:50 (four days ago) link
Keep Bender's name out of your fucking mouth, Elon!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 05:32 (four days ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 05:55 (four days ago) link
The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.
After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.
The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:16 (four days ago) link
that seems less like bad business acumen and more like someone on a bizarre drugsblasted business holiday
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:22 (four days ago) link
I don’t see why there has to be an exclusive binary there
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:44 (four days ago) link
DJP 1 Hunt3r 0
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:49 (four days ago) link
does he actually have a plan here or is he just winging it day to day?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:53 (four days ago) link
some Roman Roy shit
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:08 (four days ago) link
of course he has a plan he wants a sassy robot
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:19 (four days ago) link
why care about charging business fundamentals when you're fun and mental
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:38 (four days ago) link
tha based business boi
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:00 (four days ago) link
this uh seems very illegal
I’ve been stating this for years 🙃autopilot disables 1 second before impact by design.Anyone on the internal autopilot team would have known this as far back as 2020. https://t.co/SpMQC7uQx1— Aiaddict (@Aiaddict1) May 7, 2024
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2024 03:47 (three days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MYyOosz.png
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:41 (yesterday) link
this bullshit again huh
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:59 (yesterday) link