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The Management posted:like all billionaires, whose greatest threat is now their unstoppable aging and death, you can bet elon is throwing money at all the things he thinks can extend his life. They all do this, but they all do it in the laziest most rich guy way. It's all like virgin blood transfusions and growth hormones and designer brain drugs and oxygen tents and poo poo. You never see a billionaire who's like "yeah, I want to live forever, so I eat healthy vegetables and do a bunch of cardio and spend quality time with my family and try to lead a relaxing, stress-free lifestyle." Maybe the people with that mindset are healthy enough to realize that they can't live forever, so they don't frame it that way. Or maybe they're healthy enough to never become billionaires in the first place.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i think the reason why billionaires like musk and bezos have hardons for space stuff is so they can attone for all their ill-gotten gains by 'saving' humanity when we move out of our dead planet some day. either that or they genuinely think they'll somehow make money off human trips to the moon/mars. No, it's because they only feel special when they're doing things that other people can't afford to do, and by the time they're in their fifties, most billionaires will have run out of expensive things to do on Earth.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:even these twisted fucks feel somewhat bad for doing horrible poo poo to other people to amass all that wealth. No, they don't. Not consciously at least. Wealth hoarding is a brain disorder that is inherently intertwined with a lack of empathy for others. Go read about the Berkeley wealth studies -- it begins to take effect at a surprisingly low dose. My favorite example from their studies was that they put a bowl of candy on the reception desk, and as the person was signing in for the study, they said "you can take a piece of candy if you want -- we're going to give the rest to the children in a study later today." The receptionist observed what the person did and they later correlated it with their wealth. The poorest people took no candy People with average incomes took one or two pieces People with high incomes took several pieces or a handful
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Someone once posted on these forums "there is no one on earth with as much contempt for the human form as a British cartoonist." I got to say I really enjoy this particular depiction of ol' musky.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:well i mean she's obviously hotter than grimes but that doesn't make her hot Everyone has their own idea of what hot is. There isn't an objective standard. You can just say she isn't your type.
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I suspect that these days he's loving no one
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:imagine becoming the richest person on earth and still no one likes you lmao As we've discussed in this thread many times, having an absolutely vile personality is simply a prerequisite to becoming extremely wealthy. Anyone with a normal level of human altruism and empathy would just never do the things that you need to do to become a billionaire, or if they lucked into it somehow, they would be giving all the money away. I've made the analogy before, but it's like if you had a monkey in the zoo who ran around screeching and stealing all the bananas from the other monkeys and hoarding them in the corner in a giant pile, only eating the minimum he needed to survive and letting the rest rot, watching the other monkeys starve but still compulsively stealing every banana he saw. The zookeepers would separate it from the rest of monkey society and then probably some scientists would put electrodes in its brain to find out what the gently caress was wrong with it
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Also Mom is a shrewd and competent businesswoman and engineer. Maye Musk is just a part time fashion model who married rich
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Beeftweeter posted:lol @ the thought of a musk feeling Tbf the daughter is probably going to be raised entirely by the Grimes family. Musk in name only
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That's still only 0.3 percent of their total assets. CalPERS is huge.
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There's no such thing. It's just engineering (Venus landers, turbine engines, airbags) or fake engineering (Twitter, etc)
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Beeftweeter posted:the guy is probably the worst bullshitter out there and it's infuriating he keeps getting rewarded for it 
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He has never cooked in his entire life. I bet that in college he did some Ted Cruz 200 cans of soup thing (that was Ted Cruz right?), lived on takeout until he sold his first company, and has had a private chef ever since.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i lived in phoenix as a child, and my mom paid the bills by selling dashboards to folks who's dashboards cracked to all hell. it gets hot there I also used to live in Phoenix, and my little Ford Escort had no problems at all from the summer heat unless you count regularly burning yourself on the seatbelt buckle. Certainly nothing in it melted. In fact I think it ran better in the heat in some ways because all the rubber bushings were soft and the fluids flowed freely. Also even if the dashboard plastic starts to crack from the sun, that's a far cry from the adhesives holding the critical (only!) driver information display together liquefying and dripping out into the cabin.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:im just saying that TikTok dude should probably protect his poo poo if he cares about it Do you understand that it is not reasonable to sell an automobile that self-destructs after one day of normal summer temperatures in a major city? This isn't like your example of the dashboard plastic gradually failing after years of heat cycling and UV. This is "we didn't use an adhesive rated for the sort of temperature vehicles experience in Phoenix, a city where people have owned and driven automobiles for like a hundred years." Yes it's an extreme condition. It's also a highly predictable extreme condition experienced by millions of people in the American southwest. You can't put this one on the owners.
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My car doesn't use any energy at all after I turn it off.
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I still want to get an electric motorcycle, but the local company that makes them (Zero) has a pretty extensive recall record of its own, and the only other options are the Italian electric bike that nbfknkvbl also owns which was in the shop for months, or a $30,000 Harley-Davidson Livewire. Not really ready for prime time
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I want an electric Honda CB400, not a goddamn racing Ducati. Jesus
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They are both such awful hateful people.
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As the richest person alive he is effectively the king of the planet, so it shouldn't be that surprising that this one man's personal behavior can gently caress up everything for everyone. We've had demented kings forever.
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the most sustainable way to go fast is probably like...a hydrofoil sailboat or something. or a kiteboard.
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hm yeah i guess a hang glider would be a fast sustainable mode of transport too. or skis
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infernal machines posted:they wouldn't but they could so you'd forever have a tesla branded sword dangling over your business also if you used a free tesla patent you permanently waived your rights to sue tesla for infringing on any of your patents. so GM builds a car that is compatible with the supercharger port, and now tesla can just steal everything that GM has ever patented forever. obviously the GM legal team looked at that and said lmao no loving way. just galaxy brain poo poo.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:spoiler 2x battery use with an empty trailer, 3x with a lightweight car on the trailer yaar. the laws of science be a harsh mistress
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i saw a crashed tesla today with the hood all buckled up from rear-ending a truck. so i guess the auto braking doesn't always work
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i don't think it's necessarily super-wealth. she is just an art school weirdo loser/poser and was that well before she got with elon. q.v. her houseboat trip on the mississippi, q.v. eating nothing but plain spaghetti until her hair started to fall out, etc. then again her parents are some kind of lawyer/banker couple so.
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Moo Cowabunga posted:when does @realdonaldtrump reactivate? i put my money on before december 1st.
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So are the yospos twitter defenders gonna finally admit the place is poo poo
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Honestly we've questioned for years why Twitter needs 4,000 engineers for what amounts to a blog host so Elon is probably semi-correct to trim the fat. Those people were doing poo poo-all at best. You do not under any circumstances etc
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elon: okay let's start at the beginning. does anyone know what #include means?
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rotor posted:python Who'dve thunk
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Cerv posted:doesn't twitter still have thousands of engineers? should've locked Musk in a room and forced him to go through with the printout meetings with every one of them. no take backs. Who exactly do you think is doing the "forcing" here? Twitter is now a private company and Elon Musk is the sole owner
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