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Clickhole is the best.
Jul 20, 2018 12:35 AM
InfocalypseRising
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Clickhole is the best.
onemogtorulethemall
What a pedo
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
He's only the second mad scientist with a doomed submarine.
Phantom664
CheeseborgarSoop
Think he's gonna crack soon?
thompaul4127001
Ask his opinion on south Africa before 1994
PoliticalWanderer
"Instructions unclear, somehow became a car salesman." - Musky
DukeDarkwood
*slaps roof* You wouldn't believe how much this can fit into a rocket.
bwizzle360
Maybe thats why his company has failed to ever end a fiscal year in the black...
df9909
Musk is a pedo
SuperBeetle76
Hey Elon Musk I bet you can’t give me a million dollars, it’s impossible.
Daniferd
man his eyes are messed up. but girls will easily not notice that considering hes a billionaire
picardsaysengayge
this is fake?
df9909
So many sheep support this scammer. PEDO!
Rodreko
Someone should tell him taking $4.9 Billion in tax payer money is not how making a profit works. Good companies stand on their own.
ch3burashka
Better ingredients. Better cars. Papa Elon's.
insertclevertitlehere
Literally no one calls him that
DahPrincess
Well now we do
SpecialLeprechaunFlute
papa musk
DukeDarkwood
Welcome to 2018: Virtually everyone calls him that.
crankyoldgeezer
Imgurians have for a while now.
clamorousanemone
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theonion.com/literally-no-one-calls-me-that-or-has-ever-called-me-t-1819592848/amp
crankyoldgeezer
+1
ErectileFunction
iamwang
What fucking reference
ErectileFunction
This fucking reference.
iamwang
Oh THAT fucking reference
cancerriddenlung
The imgur circle jerkers do
ScootinNtootin
Ah, insulting the users of a site that you're a member of
cancerriddenlung
fe1od1or
Or has ever called him that
Tafkam96
pwnnubz6
Okay, listen here you little shit. You remove that tag.
Modsquad
I swear I thought he was blinking. I had to take a few double takes.
IsaacNuetron
Is this the pedo?
ChesterChihuahua
They call him Pedo Boy
ashteatime
Yes. This is a pedometer.
Schitzoflink
Well his dad is married and having a baby with his step daughter he raised since she was 3. So maybe its Papa Musky
crankyoldgeezer
Oh the irony
wantondisregard
And he's being sued for referring to one of the divers in the thai rescue as a paedo
crankyoldgeezer
Think of how imgurians get their panties in a bunch over improbable fake rape charges, now multiply that by 10 in being labeled a pedo.
crankyoldgeezer
Nah, Elon called a rescue diver that bc he felt insulted nobody on the ground in Thailand wanted his publicity stunt of a rescue diving pod.
TheGreatLemonWheel
To be fair, it sounds a bit better than "tranq'd then dragged two miles on a stretcher under water."
DinoKebab
Yeh but tranq'd sounds a lot better than being put into a sub that couldn't navigate round the tight corner underwater and u suffocate.
bobbyp21
The guy said stick it where it hurts. I guess some people think that is an insult insinuating getting f*cked in the ass. I see it that way.
crankyoldgeezer
Diver on the ground hears some billionaire is offering a silver bullet, I can see the frustration. I don’t understand why he’d say pedo
IsaacNuetron
Oh, no! Poor Elon...is he going to be ok?
LordDebuchan
This nigga launches rockets (and his car) to space that land themselves. You think he needs more publicity? lol
mcbotulism
Clearly HE thinks he needs more publicity...
rezpawner
Yes.
storebrandproductmascot
You sound like the people who said Trump would never be corrupt because he has enough money and doesn't need more.
IsaacNuetron
Yep.
BruceJi
Yet another person whose heart turns out to be a complicated shade of grey rather than black or white.
Traja01
He's more petulant and childish than anyone I know including my 7 year old nephew. His behavior isn't normal or acceptable stop excusing it.
Thebaelish
Meh, when he stops making significant advances in technology ill stop endorsing him.
Traja01
As long as we can distinguish between his industrial contributions and who he is as a person. That's all I care about.
Thebaelish
I can agree to that, I'm hoping that it's just the stress of working with so many business ventures that's causing his episodes. Hopefully..
Traja01
I imagine the dude has quite a bit on his plate. He's far from a bad guy, but I haven't liked what I've seen. But I'll keep an open mind.
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
I always saw the shades of grey because the dude made his fortune working with Peter Thiel.
RyanAndTheQuestForWorldDomination
It’s almost as if the world isn’t as simple as good vs evil or something.
BruceJi
It is! Because of that, it's always worth withholding your judgement somewhat.
RyanAndTheQuestForWorldDomination
So what does that make Elon then???
BruceJi
Oh, when I wrote ‘it is’, I was agreeing with your ‘it is almost...’. Yeah, he’s done some cool stuff but now we see he’s not perfect.
crankyoldgeezer
I find it more interesting how people want a perfect person to follow and will do logic gymnastics to justify when their leader messes up.
disguisenburg
Hes a true genius but we should all be scared shitless of him. If he felt like it be could take over the planet and batman cldnt stop him
Metalhead47
Maybe that would be a good thing.
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
Hey what could he do worse than what's already there?
MockingBirdd
disguisenburg
You realize I'm talking about the actual definition of the word genius right? The extremely high IQ people. He definately qualifies.
MockingBirdd
No, it’s because Batman is the worlds worst superhero, Also DC’s sucks sweaty gouche. Chose Ironman instead to do battle with Capt. PayPal.
rezpawner
I'm guessing you struggle with day to day activities, huh.
disguisenburg
You realize I'm talking about the actual definition of the word genius right? The extremely high IQ people. He definately qualifies.
rezpawner
I suppose you have some sources for that? Clinical tests that prove that he IS in fact a genius? You wouldn't just assume shit, right?
disguisenburg
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Elon-Musks-IQ
rezpawner
You've never been near an institution of higher learning, have you? You just linked me an assumption made by a third party, you idiot.
SundaysBreast
Lost respect for him after their last earnings call. He berated analysts asking questions and threw a tantrum. Can’t do that as a public CEO
Mondvogel
whats the problem with berating analysts. they are use and clueless
jamil1234567891
Dude with the other shit Ceos have been doing recently, this is definetly not as bad.
confanity
So? You call out bad stuff and ask for it to be made better. We aren't required to fix things in order from worst upwards.
keybladers
When they screwed reservation holders on the tax credit by opening up the pricey model to everyone is when I lost the respect
GoAwayOrIWillTauntYouASecondTime
BORING!
craigbuckie
I think it's a scam, TESLA stock is like a yoyo, I bet he's profitting off of it somehow, especially considering it's cause of stuff he does
MundaneFinality
Did he try accusing them of having sex with children? Thats seems to be his go-to when he loses an argument.
cassiewithaie123
Right on
alecdshope
Yeah. You have to be POTUS to do that.
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
got a link to that?
Seekinginward
That’s cool. Congrats on being level-headed and perfect your entire life.
ILoveSpicyPeople
He’s the first super hero, or so he thinks, he can do what he wants!
RampantWolf
He's just acting like the president. No biggie, chill man.
txtmylife
Trump did/does the same. Maybe ease up on the self righteousness.
PecsPewper
Yeah, fuck this dude.
23472903489345
I agree. but TBH. I think he's suffering from stress and possibly exhaustion. He should step down for at least a while and chill off.
Traja01
He's suffering from narcissistic personality disorder and should probably just retire to a lab and work on hobbies.
toxcrusadr
Probably been grabbing pussy too!
toxcrusadr
Probably works 100 hour weeks. He did say that's the way to get ahead. A vacation at least would do him good.
Walrusth3Cat
you have a youtube clip?
dvdwlsh
https://youtu.be/8zlVFHj4E0M
ConvenientTruth
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-03/musk-s-tesla-tantrum-costs-him-300-million-as-carmaker-sinks
gordolio
It’s recovered since then and will continue to climb.
ConvenientTruth
It’s great they recovered, but it would’ve been better if they didn’t lose 22% of their market cap in the first place
gordolio
I agree. It’s probable that he’ll do something else stupid. The last few weeks indicate that. Hopefully he reins himself in.
ConvenientTruth
And saying it will continue to climb is a bit premature given TSLA’s cash flow issues, safety issues, and Model 3 production issues
gordolio
I agree they are issues, but I think they’ve turned a corner on production problems. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
hateanyway
he didn't berate analysts. he berated short sellers of the stock. I wouldn't take questions from someone publishing hit pieces on me either
Nikolai423
Found the Musk stan
Antelino
Oh no, someone has a different opinion than me! Better insult them till they think correctly!
ConvenientTruth
Found another
Antelino
Oh no! Someone pointed out my rude behavior! Better include them in my pointless comments!
ConvenientTruth
Analysts were asking basic questions about the company’s finances and he had a meltdown
LadyArwen
He isn't a God; But let's not be so self-righteous. Some stupid shit has been said recently, but he's mostly generous, innovative & funny.
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
TIL asking a CEO to act like a CEO is being "self-righteous".
TylersSenseOfEnnui
That hes not living up to the pedestal we decided to put him on. I bet its exhausting, he never set out to be a celebrity. 2/2
TylersSenseOfEnnui
Its the same thing with Neil degrasse Tyson. We turned him into a caricature of pinnacle humanity for fun and now we are getting annoyed 1/2
LadyArwen
Give the guy a break.
ilovecars
Exactly
Kitlia
Agreed. I'm watching his progress with enthusiasm. I like how he's very vocal, not many CEOs are like that. We all have limits
Traja01
Nah, the kind of tantrums he throws are unacceptable for normal people, let alone public figures. I don't know anyone who acts like that.
toxcrusadr
Literally no one. I do know an orange hellbeast who does but it's not exactly human.
manovsteele
Or for calling one of the Thai cave rescuers a pedo...
GunsGermsSteel
Not his best, admittedly. But full story here
00LimaRomeo
Yeh, this one took a lot of his cred away.
FLockwood
I don't care for that name calling crap. He's been hemorrhaging money thru Tesla, and gets crazy every time someone questions him
HeeeeyyyThatPrettyGood
Yeah fuck that pedo. Only if you’re under 18 though
KraeMoon
And all because he was butthurt that his idea wasn't used.
SelfPleasureRobot
That's not why you idiot. It's because the diver shit on his sub and told him to stick it in his asshole.
StealthyNinja7
After the other guy acted like a super jerk. Telling Elon he can shove his sub up his butt.
datguyjay
*insert Jared Fogle joke*
Pally01
Which doesn't justify calling him a pedo - people have been killed for being mistaken for real pedophiles, and Musk has a big audience.
RenegadeSci
He installed himself in a situation with a sub that can't go around corners. He then belittled the death of the Thai navy diver who died.
StealthyNinja7
He was the divers opinion it wouldn't work, the diver who didn't even participate in the dive. Elon refuted this and called him a name.
RenegadeSci
Elon then followed up that "the cave wasn't even that flooded". So, I guess the diver just died in a cave that wasn't that flooded?
Pally01
*Elon accused him of being a criminal, one of the worst types of criminal, in fact
CliffCarter
He's a very stable genius
ChesterChihuahua
Anyone who calls himself stable, must be very stable.
Walrusth3Cat
i have read and understood this reference
CatsIsTheAnswer
Hey guys, look at Mr. Big Shot here, he can read! Good for you and your fancy little meaningful drawings, you condescending sanctimonious 1%
Walrusth3Cat
ah mannnnn
ihopethisusernamewillbelongenoughsopeoplewillnoticeme
Didn’t he call the rescue guys from Thailand (that saved kids in a cave) « pedophiles » tho ? :/
Opii
I don’t think that even he can defend himself for that. I do feel like Elon got a lot of backlash for offering to help trapped children tho.
Rhulain
all I know is one of the divers said Elon’s idea was stupid and would never work, then Elon got mad, and insinuated he was a pedo
iamwang
Yup sociopaths get easily offended
eyesoftheearth
There was no insinuation, he actually called him a pedo because the diver said his offer of a sub was a stunt, which it was 1/2
eyesoftheearth
2/2 the insinuation was aimed at all expats living in Thailand, that they were all pedos. It was a viscous and stupid thing to say.
sexualcamel
Someone should tell him that he can’t develop a way to keep mosquitos the fuck away... then maybe he would
ensensu
Tesla coils that protect your fermenting alcohol from mosquitoes.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Out of all the hacks and old lady tricks i've read only one thing helps to keep mosquitoes away, hang a bag of blood at the neighbor's house
DarkBusterBaron
or you know eradicate the entire species because it would have virtually no impact on the eco system.
TheToofFairy
It’s already been developed. It’s a chicken. Louisiana man says so.
BigJewishHulk
But bats eat them. Then we would have less bats. Then who is going to protecht us from the joker?
SarcasticComment
Or his sub wouldn't work. Then he'd develop a way to call people pedos on the internet
HeraldOfTheBadger
Lasers. Look up the ted talk.
ABillionDucks
I thought Disneyland had a good handle on that.
ItWasCool
They did, that's how they managed to land a resort in a swamp
APenguinInATuxedo
Chicken
EasyBreezy99
I eat chicken all the time but I still get bit by mosquitoes!
xbolt
BenKingston12
SPQAAE
If someone told me there was a button to push that would kill every mosquito on earth at the cost of nearly destroying the food chain......
SPQAAE
I'd be very tempted to push it.
strideo
HTML5client
Elon Musk can't fix the leaky shower head in the basement of my house.
DuchessGummiBunns
Genius
Khrome
Well there’s this thing.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
sortbynewanddownvotedegenerates
There are these things called thermacells. They’re the shit. Try it out
ItWasCool
Disney already did that
DustyMcKnuckles
I thought Bill Gates was working on one of those to curb malaria in africa?
DustyMcKnuckles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser I was a but off, but this is still very cool, and I want one.
bobbus77
There's the laser you found, but there's also some sort of genetic thing they figured out that could make them extinct...
MERGATROYDER
It has to do with blocking how they see the carbon dioxide releasing from your body, yes?
dietderpsy
And then they mutate and shoot carbon dioxide darts at you.
bobbus77
But then the scientists asked, "but SHOULD we??" And got scared and buried it.
ChrisCopp
Yeah, because what if mosquitoes are food for bats and they die out, then spiders get more food. This is how we get giant spiders...hell no
ImNotRacistBut
1/ The genetic method is species-specific. There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, but only a handful transmit disease.
dreamerofskies
Youd be a jerk too if all you do is help people all the time and then all of a sudden out of nowhere people turn on you.
confanity
Pretty sure the backlash has to do with things other than the actual help he's given.
linustheman
yeah i mean he is a dick but he has done so neat stuff all the same
slappybobby
Preventing unionization, calling the man who rescued the children a pedophile, doesn’t investigate worker complaints, stole designs, 1/2
slappybobby
Has actually fired workers for complaining about conditions, attacked the press for investigating his companies and their loss/profits.
slappybobby
I don’t care that he wants to do cool stuff. He treats his workers like shit and he pretends that he desveles the praise he gets. Fuck him
SarcasticComment
"Help", take to minor criticism poorly, call someone a pedo on the internet, then finally issue one of the worst apologies of 2018
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
He spoke bad of the media once, so now they're piling onto him, one bitch claimed he was hoarding resources away from others by being rich.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Like, I get how that functions in an economic sense, but by her logic no one should allowed be rich, and our economy should go stagnant.
SarcasticComment
No. I personally have seen him to be a prick and laugh at the extent to which his fanboys will excuse his Trumpian behavior.
SarcasticComment
Let's not forget he had his people sue Top Gear for defamation after becoming upset over a poor review, ultimately losing in court.
confanity
This smacks of conspiracy theory. Since when is "the media" a monolithic hive-mind?
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Well, the American popular media more specifically.
confanity
Sure. Do you mean MSNBC, Fox, CNN, ABC, newspapers, news magazines, internet trends, or some other source? 'Cause they don't all agree.
Error404TrollNotFound
Help people all the time...?
ImNotRacistBut
"out of nowhere" lol
Foe1911
Well he helps himself to taxpayer money but I don't know who else he's helping.
rebelhobo
Well if I was a Lithium miner I'd sure be hap- oh wait..
WoahMyDudeThatsCrazy
All of humanity, he's trying to lower damage being done to out planet while also developing a way to leave if it gets too bad
SarcasticComment
He's building a business built on potential of future earnings, not a charity. He's helping himself before the public.
SarcasticComment
Odd how no other CEO making their mark on the private sector with renewable technologies gets the position of "private sector Jesus"
Otterhendrix
That bastard!
DMGuy
I mean, he also donated shitloads to politicians that are actively ignoring climate change and making things worse. Not to judge him on (1)
DMGuy
political beliefs, but it's more than a little hypocritical to preach about the environment and then donate to the people destroying it. (2)
Diddykongkey
He’s basically the poster child for clean energy, but he’s a capitalist so he must go.
Error404TrollNotFound
You think a luxury electric car / space program CEO is the poster child for clean energy?
Diddykongkey
The electric car had to start out as luxury. It made electric cars sexy instead of nerd mobiles. It’s opened the market.
Error404TrollNotFound
You can make anything sexy with a 6 figure price tag. Their affordable electric car is not sexy, nor is it even widely produced.
Diddykongkey
He also has built a massive battery farm for Australia’s power grid. Is developing battery supply for home use. he hasn’t done nothing
aFadingMemory
According to his ex wife, he didn't care too much about helping her or their 5 kids.
Necropoledancer
Imma base my opinion of your character purely on what your ex wants me to believe, how dumb would I be iyo?
FloridaTurtle
His ex thinks he's a good guy, he's just not a family man. He's a freaking business savant.
johnnymauceri31415
Source? Or are we spreading internet bullshit?
krauraurgg
I wouldn't consider anyone's ex to be a reliable or unbiased source on them.
strideo
Oh boy, I have some personal experience on that. I have an ex who will straight up lie about me to make me look bad.
FloridaTurtle
He left them millions? He's got a lot on his plate and I agree with him that family comes second to progressing mankind past our boundaries.
dagg3r
I like him but i find it hard to swallow that 60-80 hr work weeks for his workers is normal. As a physicist i opt out of that
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Patttttttttttttt
Rare.
FloridaTurtle
What is mankind without progress
jhackofalltrades
Better off financially? Which seems to be what humans with families want to be?
MadMyrick
Single Bachelor-kind
CardboardStomach
What? In the article posted below she claimed they share custody and she doesn't regret the marriage at all.They just weren't right together
DetectiveSloth
Wait what
aFadingMemory
https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/
capnsebastian
I guess everyone's a donkey at something in their life.
CardboardStomach
This honestly just seems like the story of two people who rushed into a marriage without really getting to know each other emotionally 1/2
IzM26
See now the problem is you are getting your info from Marie Claire.
Donttouchthatwithoutgloves
Lady asked for over a billion dollars in just stock alone and didn't get it.
SederHishtalshelus
How sad
ChickensBeeQuackin
woman trying to get money?! WHAT
itsaworkinprogress
I read your article but I don't exactly see where he "didn't care too much." What her writing seemed to suggest 1/2
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itsaworkinprogress
No, fair. It was just from your verbiage that I didn't see the connection
itsaworkinprogress
was that she didn't receive any of what he built? Is that somehow wrong? And I'm sure those kids are well taken care of at any rate.
McDooglestein
There is a way to eliminate mosquitos. People are controversial about "playing god". They've done it a couole places already.
MikeStinse
Well, someone is gotta do it
NateintheNorth
Could we eliminate ALL of them? There's a lot. Like, a lot. *looks outside cautiously*
draxiom
NateintheNorth
Oh God
draxiom
Naw fuck those things. Got a source?
v
draxiom
coolranchchips
look up disney world mosquitos
SoraMarch
To expand further: If we eliminate mosquitoes, we eliminate the food source of anything that feeds on mosquitoes. And thus it snowballs.
Vaanhalen
Nah. They exterminated almost all mosquitos before. It was fine. They never finished after activists said ddt led to soft eagle eggshells.
GoodShark
I've seen Lilo and Stitch. They're an endangered species.
jhackofalltrades
I'm winning to chance it.
draxiom
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she’ll die.
ImNotRacistBut
1/ Except the methods used are species-specific. There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, but only a handful transmit disease.
ImNotRacistBut
2/ We're only killing the very small portion of mosquitoes that transmit disease. All the other species are still around for things to eat.
ElbowDeepInACat
Here’s a theory: we take a bit of forest, about the size of a city, and completely enclose it. We make the closest to a downscaled ecosystem
ElbowDeepInACat
As possible to mimic the one we live in, except no mosquitos. Then we see how it works for a few years.
CardboardStomach
It's very unpredictable. At the same time, we might also open up ecological niches for other insects that might replace mosquitoes as food
CardboardStomach
Some ideas ditch the "wipe out" idea entirely and instead attempt to make mosquitoes immune to/unable to pass on the diseases they carry
Euronyme
Can we get rid of their venom thing going on as well that causes the itching? Without the itching they can suck me dry, I won’t care.
SnivellusSnape
Nah. Lots of entomologist say mozzies aren't that integral and flow-on effects wouldn't be all that bad.
LapisScarab
This is a super funny Clickhole bit but the cult of personality around Musk ought to have died a couple days ago, dude's a prick.
cozzlecoz
He's not a prick any more than the vast majority is, so I can't really hold it against him that he said fk u to a guy who said fk u to him
MissGrangerIfYoureNasty
Personality cults in general are toxic. I try to appreciate a person's contributions while learning as little about the man as possible.
TChallaVanDam
Interesting point. But it reminds me of that old idea that “If you don’t know the history of the author, you don’t know what you’ve read”.
TChallaVanDam
An extreme but still a good example would be like trusting a Phillip Morris study about how cigarettes aren’t harmful.
TChallaVanDam
Sometimes I think you kinda need some understanding of the person(s) putting forth certain works/ideas/initiatives/info/studies/whatever.
TChallaVanDam
It may not matter, but it could really inform your viewpoint of their contribution. Which could be a good thing.
orangeisthenewbasic
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain." -Neil Degrasse Tyson.
richardson1701
Except it's a "Oh thank fuck someone is solving these problems" cult, not a personality one. He's the one forcing corps to do better.
Lambast
Musk: Lies about products, takes Govt money, ruthless & opinionated. The kind of guy you could barely believe is a business man in America!
DeathAnGravity
I sadly agree. Between right-wing support and calling a rescue diver a 'pedo'; his character is in question.
StealthyNinja7
You're making me like him more.
MadameDex
Whaaa????
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
I don't think wishing death on someone is warranted for calling someone a pedo...
pronoun
As a foreigner living in Thailand, I completely lost respect for him.
Revy106
Pedo
MardukRules
What’re you? Some sort of pedo guy?
StealthyNinja7
For the diver? Yeh his comments provoked Elon
pronoun
You probably don't realize it, but that statement disrespects Thai people here and is a pretty serious accusation.
StealthyNinja7
K the diver started it and Elon apologised and deleted the tweet. Did they guy apologise for all the crap he did? No? Didn't think so.
pronoun
He didn't accuse Elon of pedophilia...
DeathAnGravity
US military does annual joint drills in Thailand. Not every westerner their is a pedo.
railgap
You've met him? Know him personally do you? Or are you judging by his portrayal in the media?
gruntyherder
Probably judging by that less-than-mature Twitter post. TBF, Musk does have a history of lashing out via Twitter when he's criticized.
LapisScarab
It's not necessary to just worship him and defend him no matter what. It's super unhealthy for you *and* him.
LapisScarab
Y'all get that calling him an asshole when he behaves like an asshole isn't getting you less rockets, right? It's just being normal?
LapisScarab
Bud I don't need to have been at his fuckin sweet 16 to know that if you call someone who saved children a pedophile you're a jackass.
Nuttsy
doesn't write his tweets for him.
Vaanhalen
Youre a prick. Everyone is a prick. Henry Ford was a nazi & Hugo Boss designed SS uniforms. Worldwide Auctioneers just sold Hitler's Benz.
Bramomanceer
The SS uniforms were pretty fly though...
SatoriEnlightenment
I am actually kind and not a prick, fucktard.
DuchessGummiBunns
DuchessGummiBunns
Lol
SatoriEnlightenment
Yeah. I was gonna just say the first part. But the last part came out for humors sake.
Vaanhalen
Apple is a prick, Microsoft practically invented being a tech prick, Google got fined 5B for being a prick, and it doesn't stop there.
johnnymauceri31415
Google wasn't being a prick though. At least not in that case, they required their software to include... Wait for it... Their software!
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LizardsInTheSky
We can treat people's individual actions separately, though. We don't have to say "Well I guess supporting Hitler is the price of advancing
LizardsInTheSky
technology." We can say "Hey, Ford, Boss, y'all got some great products there, and your support of Hitler is awful." The statements don't
LizardsInTheSky
contradict each other.
Vaanhalen
Exactly.
storebrandproductmascot
He's on the Neil DeGrasse Tyson popularity trajectory now, and it's past its apex.
LapisScarab
Sorta, but Neil's only problem was being kinda smug when he shouldn't be, not Musk's weird tantrums.
Samiinthehood
Neil took 80 k for a high school event, gave zero face value and was an ass
definitelyNotTheIRS
I don't think that was his only problem
Vaanhalen
The difference is along the way, Musk has a business employs people and tries to make the world a better place. NDT not so much
sbzleon
Bro do you even read? Or watch Cosmos on Netflix for that matter?
Vaanhalen
Do u do anything but watch Netflix and dork around on imgur?
storebrandproductmascot
So educating people doesn't make the world a better place?
Vaanhalen
Dont be dumb. No one is taking your ridic position. NDT spare time he is a douche. And Musk even founded a school in his off time. NDT is a
Vaanhalen
Tool
TheN8
Not in 'Murica. They like to keep their piglets fat and stupid.
CoatHanger
It's ok to despise him as a person, but what he's doing as an engineer isn't negligible.
TheGreatAku
He's not really an engineer, though. He's an investor that has ideas and tells people to make his ideas happen somehow.
oStaiko
From what i know he wrote software at first, so he did something at least
CoatHanger
He's definitely an engineer, but I understand what you're saying. He's certainly more of a figure.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
LapisScarab
Sure. Calling people pedophiles isn't part of his engineering though, and that's what makes him a prick, that's what I'm talking about.
Totorodroppings
Agreed. No need to get nasty just because his little publicity stunt didn't work. Want an arse hole.
CoatHanger
Ah. See I don't really care about that if technology is furthered.
LizardsInTheSky
It doesn't have to be either or. You don't have to shurg and say "well if that's the price of progress I guess he can call whomever he wants
LizardsInTheSky
a pedophile." You can say "I like the advancements in the field of engineering he's making, AND he's a dick that gets weird tantrums."
LapisScarab
I mean, Elon's not actually building these rockets himself in a garage. We all know he's not really Tony Stark, right?
LapisScarab
He funds them with his company, which is good, I'm glad he uses his money for great things. That doesn't make this okay.
TChallaVanDam
Yeah, I feel like that’s fair.
LapisScarab
Also he uses his money for some fairly shitty things, which I think undercuts his generosity a little.
TheEchelon30
He's a visionairy. If you want to applaud the engineering, you should credit his employees.
Talligan
*he's a billionaire. He has a vision, I guess, but the difference between my vision and his is a few billion
TheEchelon30
Why not both, maybe that makes you one as well. I'd say the difference is that he has a knack to turn those visions into reality, somewhat.
SirGrimble
No, he was a visionary long before he was a billionaire.
AncientSeraph
He had several visions, one of which made him a millionaire.
CoatHanger
Fair. That was my intention though. There are no employees without the employer.
FeWill
When it comes to engineers though, if they weren't working for him they'd work for someone else, no shortage of jobs.
AncientSeraph
Still need a person with vision and daring to initiate new projects, though. They might've gone to work on a new type of container crane.
CoatHanger
Then why didn't someone hire those engineers before? Additionally, Elon's projects are the culmination of specific engineers intellect (1/2
CoatHanger
Any separation of core engineers would likely result in an entirely different product (2/2)