#elon musk hate

[the-new-city-editorial]

[thicc-astronaut]

Thinking about The Boring Company’s transport loops tick me off so much from an engineering standpoint. Just that it is basically just a road for electric cars (because gasoline cars would fill the tunnel with fumes)

Like gee. You want to reduce automobile traffic by building underground tunnels for electric vehicles? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC WITH UNDERGROUND TUNNELS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES?????

OH YEAH. A TRAIN. NOT ROAD VEHICLES. Electric trains been around for a hundred and thirty years and nobody at The Boring Company asked why cities use these rather than building extensive underground taxi routes. Or, more likely, somebody did ask why, and Elon Musk had them demoted. 

I think what ticks me off the most is that the vehicles they use unmodified Tesla Model 3′s. Because it makes it obvious that this is just about the tunnel. If you want to use road vehicles to travel directly place to place with no intersections, you can make an expressway with a turnaround at the end. 

The core idea is just bad. Everything it tries to accomplish has been done before, and better. Underground electric mass transit has been done before. Car-based instant transit has been done before. They made a suckier version of the subway and had the audacity to appropriate the name “Loop” from Chicago’s Public El Trains.

[sleephead00]

Shit, i think i might actually need plan b.

(The joke is that my tumblr bio is “plan b in case twitter fucking dies”. Twitter is fucking dying lmfao)

[catgirl-soup]

“haha, nooo elon, the deep sea is totally safe! surely YOUR submersible will make it to the sea floor and back!! we can’t let little hang ups like those other ones get in the way of progress!!!”

i’m also open to the idea of elon getting crumpled like a tin can in the vacuum of space

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

[jerrycummblr]

It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

[eckswizi]

one thing that is often lost on modern audiences watching the Back to the Future series is that, in 1985, the DeLorean was well known for being a shitty car. The only reason the DMC DeLorean is remembered fondly today is because of BTTF; had the movie never happened, it would’ve been one of those fancy cars lost to time and remembered only by car nerds (trust me, there’s examples of this). Potentially the primary reason for choosing the DeLorean to be the time machine is because of how notoriously bad it was. We even see Marty question Doc’s choice to use a DeLorean, and at the climax of the first movie we see the car fail to start when Marty is lined up to drive towards the wire. The DeLorean was known for being overly heavy, clunky, prone to breaking down, and annoying to maintain.

Basically, what I’m saying is, if Back to the Future was made today, they’d use a Cybertruck.

[clubpenguist]

[ID: Tweet from Elon Musk edited to be the first part of the “Down with Cis” post. It reads: “Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there. Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this but screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and” The rest of the text is cut off. /End ID, thanks to @seven-saffodils for captioning!]

[legally-not-guilty]

We’ve reached a point where tumblr’s checkmarks (which were advertised openly as a scam) officially mean more than twitter’s checkmarks

[smak-annihilation]

people seem to enjoy this one

decriminalize killing people criminalize elon musk

[thicc-astronaut]

[ayo-edebiri]

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[pearwaldorf]

Do not register to vote anywhere other than your state's website!

If you need to register or check your registration do it at vote.gov!

Elon Musk has formed a PAC to harvest information from voters in swing states:

The ad then displays a website for a group called America PAC. The website says it will help the viewer register to vote. But once a user clicks “Register to Vote,” the experience he or she will have can be very different, depending on where they live. If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they’ll be prompted to enter their email addresses and ZIP code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign-up section. But for users who enter a ZIP code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different. Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cellphone number and age. If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.

[teal-sharky]

The literally only impressive thing about SpaceX Starship test is that it shows how incredibly dumb the audience is at this point.

People keep comparing Starship to SaturnV, because tentatively, if it ever became a space worthy vessel and orbital delivery vehicle (it's not); it'd be the largest and most powerful one in history, with SaturnV its only near peer (sorry, N-1, you really didn't qualify).

And the first "integration test vehicle" (read: the actually whole complete thing, that's literally the point of that kind of test; it's meant to be all the pieces, already tested and proven on their own, finally assembled into the final thing to make sure everything plays nice when together)

So lets see how did Saturn family development go in comparison? How many "integration test vehicles" did the Saturn project obliterate in the process?

ZERO. They blew up ZERO Saturn first stages, ZERO Saturn second stages, and ZERO Saturn payloads.

It's not fucking normal to blow up rockets this size and complexity, because they're expensive and dangerous! You build SMALLER, SIMPLER prototypes, you test those, you do all the "risky" tests on your separate parts of the system, and test the integration at less ambitious scales and stress levels. That's how you do rocket science. Iteratively, yes! But the iterations must make sense!

And let me stress

They got Saturn to moon and back in the SIXTIES, when simulation was in diapers (partially, literally invented within projects like the Saturn series).

SpaceX exists at a time where they can (and should) do 90% of the raw, grueling development with lot of painful failures in digital simulations, or tests where you build a small, simple thing and enhance the simulation based on what you learned there.

And the worst of it all is that another thing that Elongated Muskrat has at this disposal is all of the Saturn research. It's been DONE.

Saturn and other projects paved the worst of this goddamn slog. They did all the dirty, awful work already. They literally gave us the textbooks that you study from if you actually get a science degree (Elon does not have one).

And again, the most embarrassing thing isn't Musk and his poor, toxic, overworked circus that's SpaceX. The most embarrassing thing is the "space science enthusiast" crowd that's cheering on this launch as some sort of tentative success.

The king is fucking ass goddamn naked, and you all yes-men are an embarrassment to this doomed goddamn species. You're not supporting the effort to give Humanity a "chance at survival", you're hooting and hollering around a basementman dumpster fire that's literally immolating what's left of the scraps of natural and human resources we have left.

[slutdge]

i always think musk cant get any lamer but i stood corrected once again today when someone told me that the reason he keeps jumping in the air at all these events is because hes trying to make an X with his body

[ceevee5]

Richest man in the world gets owned by a cat.

[thephoxborohottubs]

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