Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Jacob]

I suppose I can see why Musk has a problem with anti-fascists

[HisMajestyBOB]

Wasn't he supposed to be a free-speech absolutist?

It's like he wants to bully brands into buying ad space on twitter lol. That's not how any of this works, buddy.

Promoting anti Semitism is free speech, but pointing out how he's promoting anti Semitism, or disagreeing with it, is beyond the pale.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Wasn't he supposed to be a free-speech absolutist?

It's like he wants to bully brands into buying ad space on twitter lol. That's not how any of this works, buddy.

Promoting anti Semitism is free speech, but pointing out how he's promoting anti Semitism, or disagreeing with it, is beyond the pale.

Well yes. That's being a leftist snowflake.

[PDH]

It's a good thing personal wealth equals morality or he would have a harder time with all this.

[The Minsky Moment]

He jumped pretty deep into a pool he knew very little about, and the results are unsurprising.

Some men at Musk's age spend ridiculous amounts of money on a sports car or some other pointless and expensive hobby.  Musk is spending about the same proportion of his wealth on his hobby as others do, it just comes out to a lot more money.  He didn't buy Twitter to get rich.  He bought it to have his own sandbox to play in, rule over his twits with a mighty hand to the delight of sycophants and the tsk-tsking of his imaginary woke adversaries.   Whether it makes any money is besides the point.  His new friend Donald can tell him all he needs to know about all the different ways you can screw corporate creditors.

[Josquius]

He jumped pretty deep into a pool he knew very little about, and the results are unsurprising.

Some men at Musk's age spend ridiculous amounts of money on a sports car or some other pointless and expensive hobby.  Musk is spending about the same proportion of his wealth on his hobby as others do, it just comes out to a lot more money.  He didn't buy Twitter to get rich.  He bought it to have his own sandbox to play in, rule over his twits with a mighty hand to the delight of sycophants and the tsk-tsking of his imaginary woke adversaries.   Whether it makes any money is besides the point.  His new friend Donald can tell him all he needs to know about all the different ways you can screw corporate creditors.

It does make more sense with this outlook.
But its not how he presents it. And it does make for a deeply disturbing image.

[Grey Fox]

He did try to get out of it.

[crazy canuck]

He jumped pretty deep into a pool he knew very little about, and the results are unsurprising.

Some men at Musk's age spend ridiculous amounts of money on a sports car or some other pointless and expensive hobby.  Musk is spending about the same proportion of his wealth on his hobby as others do, it just comes out to a lot more money.  He didn't buy Twitter to get rich.  He bought it to have his own sandbox to play in, rule over his twits with a mighty hand to the delight of sycophants and the tsk-tsking of his imaginary woke adversaries.   Whether it makes any money is besides the point.  His new friend Donald can tell him all he needs to know about all the different ways you can screw corporate creditors.

You are forgetting that he bought Twitter because he was forced into it through court proceedings he finally realized he could not win. 

[Zanza]

Just read that the Cybertruck apparently has no crumple zone.  I feel sorry for the people inside and outside that will die for this.

[Barrister]

Just read that the Cybertruck apparently has no crumple zone. I feel sorry for the people inside and outside that will die for this.

I am highly skeptical of this.  Cybertruck has to pass a number of crash tests in order to be certified for sale.  Those tests pretty much necessitate a crumple zone of one sort or another in order to pass.

Now I am curious how Tesla does this, since Cybertruck was supposed to be based on it's stainless steel "exo-skeleton" rather than a traditional unibody frame.  And maybe Cybertruck will have pretty crappy crash-worthiness.  But it's not going to be a death-trap - NHTSA and other agencies won't allow it.

[HVC]

I just can't get past how ugly it is.

[Barrister]

I just can't get past how ugly it is.

I still want one (although after buying a F-150 this past summer I aint getting one any time soon).

[Zanza]

I am highly skeptical of this.  Cybertruck has to pass a number of crash tests in order to be certified for sale.  Those tests pretty much necessitate a crumple zone of one sort or another in order to pass.

Yes. Although I have seen doubts that it can pass European pedestrian safety regulation.

Now I am curious how Tesla does this, since Cybertruck was supposed to be based on it's stainless steel "exo-skeleton" rather than a traditional unibody frame.  And maybe Cybertruck will have pretty crappy crash-worthiness.  But it's not going to be a death-trap - NHTSA and other agencies won't allow it.

There were body-in-white pictures a while ago that looked like the Cybertruck has a traditional unibody, just with flat instead of curved panels.

[Iormlund]

Pedestrian safety guidelines ask for a curved surface of the bonnet, that should be able to deform and absorb the impact of the person hit.

To say that an angular steel shape doesn't seem ideal would be an understatement.

Plus it's high enough for kids to crush their thorax and hit their head on the leading edge of the bonnet.

[Barrister]

Pedestrian safety guidelines ask for a curved surface of the bonnet, that should be able to deform and absorb the impact of the person hit.

To say that an angular steel shape doesn't seem optimum would be an understatement.

Plus it's high enough for kids to crush their thorax and hit their head on the leading edge of the bonnet.

I don't know the intricacies, but regulations are different for trucks than for cars.  My F-150 obviously doesn't have the extreme angular shape of Cybertruck, but it also doesn't have a curved bonnett and is really quite high.