[Politics] Musk (real life Bond villain planning world domination) needs a thread.

[Dick Swiveller]

I asked Musk's AI and it refused as the question is too woke.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

 

[chickens]

Elon is a dickhead, but the extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese (lets ignore the human side of this for now as the slave labour and exploitation claims haven't been confirmed and neither have the long term health effects of mining these materials) shipping it half way across the world to process into anode and cathode electrodes for batteries, then shipped back again to be installed in EVs makes perfect sense.

Also we should be ignoring the fact that 70% of electricity produced globally to charge the EVs is from burning fossil fuels.

Not many EVs last past 10 years and the cost of replacing the batteries is uneconomical but yeah, twice a day...

Just to confirm, 2024 was the year that clean energy passed the 50% mark in the UK, at 50.8% despite fewer hours of direct sunlight than previous years. We’ve tipped over the halfway point.

If you consider nuclear as a low carbon technology (kinda, but not clean) then low carbon energy production was at 65%

 

[RandyWanger]

Just to confirm, 2024 was the year that clean energy passed the 50% mark in the UK, at 50.8% despite fewer hours of direct sunlight than previous years. We’ve tipped over the halfway point.

If you consider nuclear as a low carbon technology (kinda, but not clean) then low carbon energy production was at 65%

Globally*

 

[chickens]

Globally*

No, UK. You know, where we live and charge our cars.

 

[A1X]

 

[chip]

he's both bought and sold twitter now? Has he made a profit?

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn

Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power

www.ft.com

 

[Pevenseagull]

ChatGPT reckons e + 1
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The moon and back is about 770km so F is equally true(ish)

 

[Pevenseagull]

 

[beorhthelm]

he's both bought and sold twitter now? Has he made a profit?

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn

Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power

www.ft.com

reckon he got some backers to swap one stock for another, considered better, stock and cleared debt along the way.

 

[SouthSaxon]

(This meme got quite tired generally, but this one did make me chuckle)

 

[A1X]

 

[Mellotron]

Alongside Trump, he is also a deeply, deeply, deeply WEIRD man.

Possibly the best ever endorsement of the statement "money doesn't buy happiness", also.

He has unimaginable wealth, power and freedom - I would never want to trade places with him, not in a MILLION years.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

This guy could donate 5% of his wealth to charities and it would go down as one of the single biggest humanitarian acts ever but instead he spends his time playing videogames and getting trolled on his own website.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Alongside Trump, he is also a deeply, deeply, deeply WEIRD man.

Possibly the best ever endorsement of the statement "money doesn't buy happiness", also.

He has unimaginable wealth, power and freedom - I would never want to trade places with him, not in a MILLION years.

None of these people (Trump, Musk, Miller, etc) ever seem truly happy or able to have a laugh or a joke (not a normal one, anyway). Say what you like about Biden, but he would happily engage with people and actually LOOK like he wanted to be there and do the job he was doing. He also wasn't a complete oddball or downright rude or nasty to the press or people who didn't agree with him.

This mob just seem angry, frustrated and miserable. Especially Miller. Every time I see him, he's shouting at someone about something!

 

[The Clamp]

Ha!

But also, who ever thought what he did with this was in any way legal.

Of course it contravened all decency and legality. There’s no ifs or buts about it.

Insane that it was ever allowed to go ahead.

 

[BBassic]

None of these people (Trump, Musk, Miller, etc) ever seem truly happy or able to have a laugh or a joke (not a normal one, anyway). Say what you like about Biden, but he would happily engage with people and actually LOOK like he wanted to be there and do the job he was doing. He also wasn't a complete oddball or downright rude or nasty to the press or people who didn't agree with him.

This mob just seem angry, frustrated and miserable. Especially Miller. Every time I see him, he's shouting at someone about something!

Yep.

They're all f***ing losers. They always have been.

All these techbro weirdos were / are all absolute nerds growing up, probably carry a lot of anger and trauma and now they've got money they can use it to get hair implants and absolutely fist-f**k the poor into the dirt.

I mean Zuck created Facebook to rate the attractiveness of the girls on his campus. Again, an absolute f***ing loser.

If they didn't have money they'd still be the permanently awkward dorks they pay people to pretend they aren't.

 

[The Clamp]

Musk is a cautionary tale. Beware who you bully at school. The geeks shall inherit the earth. And maybe Mars.

 

[The Clamp]

Yep.

They're all f***ing losers. They always have been.

All these techbro weirdos were / are all absolute nerds growing up, probably carry a lot of anger and trauma and now they've got money they can use it to get hair implants and absolutely fist-f**k the poor into the dirt.

I mean Zuck created Facebook to rate the attractiveness of the girls on his campus. Again, an absolute f***ing loser.

If they didn't have money they'd still be the permanently awkward dorks they pay people to pretend they aren't.

I didn’t see this before I typed my last post. Absolutely, , hands down a perfect summing up of these nerds.

 

[The Clamp]

Yep.

They're all f***ing losers. They always have been.

All these techbro weirdos were / are all absolute nerds growing up, probably carry a lot of anger and trauma and now they've got money they can use it to get hair implants and absolutely fist-f**k the poor into the dirt.

I mean Zuck created Facebook to rate the attractiveness of the girls on his campus. Again, an absolute f***ing loser.

If they didn't have money they'd still be the permanently awkward dorks they pay people to pretend they aren't.

I didn’t see this before I typed my last post. Absolutely, , hands down a perfect summing up of these nerds.