Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[SquishMitten 10373]

On 8/26/2024 at 2:23 PM, immamac said:

Mark Zuckerberg would immediately be arrested if he declined to cooperate with international authorities and X recently had one of their lawyers arrested for the same thing in some country. It has nothing to do with the actual content it has to do with not cooperating and having their intentionally complex/convoluted private key storage 

For the record, I will fully cooperate with all federal and international authorities. Love ya, Imma, but I’m not ending up in a gulag for you!

[Captain Ron 12722]

https://jalopnik.com/teslas-optimus-robot-cant-even-compete-at-trade-shows-1851631782

The meat of the article is this video:

 

 

[High Plains Drifter 10937]

2 hours ago, Mittens said:

 

 

Wait, did the crap just slide out the back, or did the tail gate actually collapse?

[Captain Ron 12722]

19 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Wait, did the crap just slide out the back, or did the tail gate actually collapse?

 

It slid out the back. He didn't secure it at all - bigger pictures on these posts

 

On 8/27/2024 at 7:07 AM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Pulled from Reddit:

 

 

 

 

On 8/27/2024 at 9:43 AM, Captain Ron said:

Funny, I saw the first picture without seeing the 2nd picture and I thought "Gee, I wonder if that guy properly secured down that load?" Then I saw that 2nd picture. Just proof that guys who own CT's are not truck guys.

It also makes you realize how many people don't really understand loading a truck. I am pretty sure those are 10' boards, that bed is only 6' deep at best (the bottom 6" of the bed maybe) and then it comes in quickly. So you have a lot of boards hanging over even with the tailgate down. Even tied down I wouldn't do that at all.

This also made me wonder if the bed does have tie downs, it does. But it wouldn't have shock me to see that skipped or ignored in the design.

There is another picture posted by someone else that drove by and saw the aftermath, snapped a number of the boards in the failure process

 https://imgur.com/OCTEa2f 

 

 

[High Plains Drifter 10937]

 

Also, no red flag tied to the end. Somebody gonna get decapitated when they misjudge the distance while stopping behind that dipshit. 

[Captain Ron 12722]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 20599]

lulz.  The CT in its natural state; on the back of a flatbed. 

[Sawbonz 26904]

When is the spacewalk of death set to go down?

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4 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

IDIC would be too woke for Elmo.

[atomheartbevo 89054]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

When is the spacewalk of death set to go down?

Well.....about that.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/science/spacex-falcon9-rocket-grounded-polaris-dawn/index.html

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SpaceX’s prolific Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded for the second time in two months after federal regulators said they wanted to review a wayward landing attempt that occurred Wednesday morning. That makes the Falcon 9 rocket unable to fly with two key human spaceflight missions on the horizon.

The company is slated to launch a daring mission called Polaris Dawn as soon as this week, and next month it’s expected to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on Crew-9, a mission that — after a months-long rotation — will also bring home Boeing Starliner’s test flight crew. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been in limbo on the orbiting laboratory since their Starliner flight in early June.

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Wednesday’s incident involved the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket — or the bottommost portion that gives the first burst of power at liftoff — which failed to land upright on a seafaring platform and exploded. The overall mission, however, appeared to go off without a hitch, safely delivering a batch of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites into orbit.

Still, the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, said it would investigate the mishap.

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Wednesday’s announcement, however, could greatly complicate SpaceX’s plans to get Polaris Dawn off the ground. That mission, carrying a four-person crew, was set to take off early this morning, but was delayed because of weather forecasts. The company would have been able to try again as soon as Friday.

It’s not clear how long the Falcon 9 will remain grounded. After the mishap in July, the rocket was taken out of flight for a couple of weeks.

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But the second stage of the rocket, which is designed to fire up after the first stage falls away and power the satellites to their final destination in orbit, failed abruptly. SpaceX later revealed there was an oxygen leak on that second stage. (Liquid oxygen or LOX is a commonly used as an oxidizer or propellant for rockets.) That led to what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described at one point as an “RUD” — or “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” a phrase SpaceX typically uses to refer to an explosion.

The FAA said July 25 that it had determined there were “no public safety issues” involved when Falcon 9 failed in orbit on July 11, paving the way for the rocket to make a rapid return to flight.

 

 

[Chopper 16692]

Elmo is addicted to polluting the environment with dangerous chemicals and doesn't gaf about any permits.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/28/musk-xai-accused-of-worsening-memphis-smog-with-unauthorized-turbines.html

tldr - xAI is pumping tons of nitrogen oxide into the air in Shelby County, TN and obtained zero permits for the source of the pollution, gas turnbines to provide power to his shitty AI company.

Spoiler

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is being accused by environmental and health advocates of adding to the pollution problem in Memphis, Tennessee, by using natural gas burning turbines at its new data center, and doing so without a permit.

The company said it was opening the data center in June in a former Electrolux factory, shortly after announcing it had raised $6 billion at a $24 billion valuation. In a post on X last month, Musk boasted that xAI had begun training its AI models at the facility using 100,000 of Nvidia’s H100 processors.

The Southern Environmental Law Center sent a letter this week to the Health Department in Shelby County, where Memphis is located, and to a regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of several local groups, asking regulators to investigate xAI for its unpermitted use of the turbines and the pollution they create.

The letter notes that xAI “has installed at least 18 gas combustion turbines over the last several months (with more potentially on the way).”

The company has been using the turbines to power the facility, but its long-term plan is to use power from the local utility, Memphis Light, Gas and Water and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

MLGW told CNBC that it started providing 50 megawatts of power to xAI at the beginning of August. However, the xAI facility requires an additional 100 megawatts. The utility has installed more circuit breakers, and started making improvements to transmission lines in the area to prepare for the added power consumption by xAI, as well.

Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media company X, started xAI in 2023 to develop large language models and AI products that aim to compete with those from Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. The company’s initial product is a chatbot called Grok, billed as a politically incorrect alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI models generally require massive amounts of power for data training and processing.

“This plant requires an enormous amount of electricity,” the advocates wrote in the letter.

Some of the 18 turbines are visible from the road around the property and, according to the advocates’ letter, emit air pollutants called nitrogen oxides (NOx) that add to a longstanding smog problem in the area. Shelby County has been given an “F” grade by the American Lung Association for its smog.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, even low levels of nitrogen oxides in the air can irritate a person’s eyes, nose, throat and lungs, causing them to cough, experience shortness of breath, tiredness and nausea. Breathing high levels of nitrogen oxides can cause “rapid burning, spasms, and swelling of tissues in the throat and upper respiratory tract,” and other serious health problems, the agency says.

Businesses in Tennessee are typically required to obtain permits to operate the types of turbines used by xAI. The permits would establish the allowable concentration of emissions, and determine efficiency requirements for the engines.

A permit would also mandate air quality testing to make sure users aren’t polluting more than they had planned to in the area due to issues like poor engine maintenance.

“The overarching concern remains that there has been very little transparency and opportunity for public input for the xAI project,” Amanda Garcia, a senior attorney with the Tennessee office of the Southern Environmental Law Center, told CNBC. The added concern, she said, is that it’s “already having significant health and environmental impact on the surrounding community.”

The groups wrote in the letter that the xAI turbines already in place have the capacity to emit an estimated 130 tons of nitrogen oxides annually, which would rank them as the ninth-largest source of the pollutants in the county. Their combined capacity could power around 50,000 homes.

Musk-led companies have a history of building facilities or operating high-emissions equipment without obtaining permits first.

CNBC reported earlier this month that SpaceX operated a water deluge and cooling system at its launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, repeatedly discharging industrial wastewater there without a permit, a violation of the Clean Water Act.

Musk’s tunneling venture, The Boring Co., was also fined by Texas environmental regulators for a similar issue — discharging wastewater into the Colorado River in Bastrop, Texas, without applying for permits or installing appropriate pollution controls.

Tesla was cited by a California air pollution regulator in 2021 for installing and modifying paint shop equipment that emitted hazardous air pollutants, without a permit and reviews as required by the Clean Air Act.

The Shelby County Health Department and EPA regional office covering Memphis didn’t respond to a request for comment. Nor did xAI.

 

[Brian Fantana 6618]

On 8/25/2024 at 2:36 PM, Captain Ron said:

 

He must think he's like Kirk, manipulating the algorithm for your own benefit somehow = free speech warrior.

[Captain Ron 12722]

6 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

He must think he's like Kirk, manipulating the algorithm for your own benefit somehow = free speech warrior.

[Chopper 16692]

Tesla FSD is meeting expectations* in the Boring Co's one-way Las Vegas tunnel

 

*does not include the delusional, gullible and feeble-minded among us

 

Edited August 28 by Chopper

[gofuckyourself 8066]

5 hours ago, Da Fino said:

Spotted a few on the way to work this morning. 

 

 

If 33% of their vehicles are actually operational, things are looking up for them.

[Captain Ron 12722]

Since we're on the Star Trek theme.

 

[atomheartbevo 89054]

1 minute ago, Captain Ron said:

Since we're on the Star Trek theme.

 

Only a hardcore Trek fan would get that.

[BurntEyes 5654]

1 hour ago, Chopper said:

Elmo is addicted to polluting the environment with dangerous chemicals and doesn't gaf about any permits.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/28/musk-xai-accused-of-worsening-memphis-smog-with-unauthorized-turbines.html

tldr - xAI is pumping tons of nitrogen oxide into the air in Shelby County, TN and obtained zero permits for the source of the pollution, gas turnbines to provide power to his shitty AI company.

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is being accused by environmental and health advocates of adding to the pollution problem in Memphis, Tennessee, by using natural gas burning turbines at its new data center, and doing so without a permit.

The company said it was opening the data center in June in a former Electrolux factory, shortly after announcing it had raised $6 billion at a $24 billion valuation. In a post on X last month, Musk boasted that xAI had begun training its AI models at the facility using 100,000 of Nvidia’s H100 processors.

The Southern Environmental Law Center sent a letter this week to the Health Department in Shelby County, where Memphis is located, and to a regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of several local groups, asking regulators to investigate xAI for its unpermitted use of the turbines and the pollution they create.

The letter notes that xAI “has installed at least 18 gas combustion turbines over the last several months (with more potentially on the way).”

The company has been using the turbines to power the facility, but its long-term plan is to use power from the local utility, Memphis Light, Gas and Water and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

MLGW told CNBC that it started providing 50 megawatts of power to xAI at the beginning of August. However, the xAI facility requires an additional 100 megawatts. The utility has installed more circuit breakers, and started making improvements to transmission lines in the area to prepare for the added power consumption by xAI, as well.

Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media company X, started xAI in 2023 to develop large language models and AI products that aim to compete with those from Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. The company’s initial product is a chatbot called Grok, billed as a politically incorrect alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI models generally require massive amounts of power for data training and processing.

“This plant requires an enormous amount of electricity,” the advocates wrote in the letter.

Some of the 18 turbines are visible from the road around the property and, according to the advocates’ letter, emit air pollutants called nitrogen oxides (NOx) that add to a longstanding smog problem in the area. Shelby County has been given an “F” grade by the American Lung Association for its smog.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, even low levels of nitrogen oxides in the air can irritate a person’s eyes, nose, throat and lungs, causing them to cough, experience shortness of breath, tiredness and nausea. Breathing high levels of nitrogen oxides can cause “rapid burning, spasms, and swelling of tissues in the throat and upper respiratory tract,” and other serious health problems, the agency says.

Businesses in Tennessee are typically required to obtain permits to operate the types of turbines used by xAI. The permits would establish the allowable concentration of emissions, and determine efficiency requirements for the engines.

A permit would also mandate air quality testing to make sure users aren’t polluting more than they had planned to in the area due to issues like poor engine maintenance.

“The overarching concern remains that there has been very little transparency and opportunity for public input for the xAI project,” Amanda Garcia, a senior attorney with the Tennessee office of the Southern Environmental Law Center, told CNBC. The added concern, she said, is that it’s “already having significant health and environmental impact on the surrounding community.”

The groups wrote in the letter that the xAI turbines already in place have the capacity to emit an estimated 130 tons of nitrogen oxides annually, which would rank them as the ninth-largest source of the pollutants in the county. Their combined capacity could power around 50,000 homes.

Musk-led companies have a history of building facilities or operating high-emissions equipment without obtaining permits first.

CNBC reported earlier this month that SpaceX operated a water deluge and cooling system at its launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, repeatedly discharging industrial wastewater there without a permit, a violation of the Clean Water Act.

Musk’s tunneling venture, The Boring Co., was also fined by Texas environmental regulators for a similar issue — discharging wastewater into the Colorado River in Bastrop, Texas, without applying for permits or installing appropriate pollution controls.

Tesla was cited by a California air pollution regulator in 2021 for installing and modifying paint shop equipment that emitted hazardous air pollutants, without a permit and reviews as required by the Clean Air Act.

The Shelby County Health Department and EPA regional office covering Memphis didn’t respond to a request for comment. Nor did xAI.

 

The corruption and disfunction of Shelby County (Memphis) is really only surpassed by Cook (Chicago) and Orleans Parish. 

That this was even caught tells me a bag man got fired or he came up short on a delivery.

[Captain Ron 12722]

37 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Tesla FSD is meeting expectations* in the Boring Co's one-way Las Vegas tunnel

 

*does not include the delusional, gullible and feeble-minded among us

 

This really doesn't take much to realize why they have an issue with this. Using vision only, the cars probably can't pick up any sort of depth information from the tunnels. This probably is a lot like the first few accidents where the Tesla didn't see the semis crossing the street. And people here wonder why so many say FSD isn't anywhere ready for prime time.

[Captain Ron 12722]

Just a reminder if you haven't read it, this article is a damn fine read:

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/

 

 

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It is hard to appreciate just how thoroughly one of the world’s richest men has been red-pilled until you actually follow along with his media diet. So that’s what I decided to do. Last month, I read everything Musk had to say on X for a week and tracked everyone he interacted with. He tweeted 389 times in five days. He posted the laughing/crying emoji 45 times. But there was a clear signal piercing through the noise. Musk is not a tech visionary with a side interest in politics these days, nor is he just another bored billionaire with a nativist streak; the political activism and the technological ambitions are inseparable. He believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a feedback loop that’s radicalizing him even more.

 

Edited August 28 by Captain Ron

[HenryJames 65567]

https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/cybertruck-on-fire-in-front-of-bass-pro-shop-in-harlingen/

[Mittens 8036]

 

[Ted Lange 15935]

[Ted Lange 15935]

Guys, why isn’t the news reporting on all the times a Nissan Sentra hit a fire hydrant and bursted into flames and after the fire is put out it just starts burning again 

 

[Goredho 17181]

1 hour ago, Mittens said:

 

[Chopper 16692]

Twitter and the govt of Brazil fight is ongoing and may result in the banning of Twitter in Brazil as soon as tomorrow

Reuters: "The Supreme Court posted a screenshot of Wednesday's court decision on its X account, tagging Musk's and X's Global Government Affairs accounts." https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazilian-court-suspend-x-brazil-if-musk-does-not-name-new-country-2024-08-28/

 

[Foosters 17638]

[Hefeweizen 5229]

1 hour ago, Chopper said:

Twitter and the govt of Brazil fight is ongoing and may result in the banning of Twitter in Brazil as soon as tomorrow

Reuters: "The Supreme Court posted a screenshot of Wednesday's court decision on its X account, tagging Musk's and X's Global Government Affairs accounts." https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazilian-court-suspend-x-brazil-if-musk-does-not-name-new-country-2024-08-28/

 

He should send them the poop emoji.

 

 Their reply: Vai tomar no cu, Elmo.

[Francisco 2.0 32225]

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He should send them the poop emoji.

 

 

 

Edited August 29 by Francisco 2.0

[Captainant 26927]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Ketamine abuse leads to loss of impulse control, you say?

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13485]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

"See? Not weird!"

[Captain Ron 12722]

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

Ketamine abuse leads to loss of impulse control, you say?

At this point I'm wondering if he's going to end up like Matthew Perry, Michael Jackson, Tony Hsieh (the Zappos CEO) or a unique way all his own?

Edited August 29 by Captain Ron

[hayden_horn 11311]

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

Ketamine abuse leads to loss of impulse control, you say?

wait wait wait wait are you implying that elon might be on some hard drugs

[Captain Ron 12722]

 

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/used-car-brand-reliability-a2811658468/?EXTKEY=YSOCIAL_TH

 

Brutal

[Braff Zacklin 13299]

The Ghost of Lee Iacocca weeps at seeing anything but a current or former Dodge/Chrysler brand on that list. Damn you, Tesla! Is nothing sacred!!!!??

[MissingInAction 24431]

2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/used-car-brand-reliability-a2811658468/?EXTKEY=YSOCIAL_TH

 

Brutal

[Guadaloopy 10803]

2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/used-car-brand-reliability-a2811658468/?EXTKEY=YSOCIAL_TH

 

Brutal

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

[safe sex 11608]

Billionaire defended

[Pescado_Rojo 19262]

16 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

Yea, looks like they've got all the issues worked out. 

[Foosters 17638]

22 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

[The Royal We 3051]

Hand-waving away all cars made for a 6 year period as "ehhhh, they were going through some things then" is pretty fucking astonishing. Even for a Master Billionaire Defender! 

[HenryJames 65567]

27 minutes ago, safe sex said:

 

[Deej 76219]

1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

Do you ever take Musk's cock out of your mouth?

[safe sex 11608]

37 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

Ty! Couldn't be arsed to find the image but felt the sentiment should be said

[Gene Parmesan 3953]

1 minute ago, Deej said:

Do you ever take Musk's cock out of your mouth?

Of course, how else would he eat his ass?

[royiv 9045]

1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

Like a moth to a flame.

[Guadaloopy 10803]

[Brian Fantana 6618]

5 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

It's honestly pathetic. You're so unbelievably earnest about defending him solely because you spent the money and no amount of evidence can crack that dumbass egg.

[wildcat09 28563]

1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sure... at first glance that doesn't look great.  Like all things, there is a bit of nuance to consider.  The vehicles that fall within the window for this survey were manufactured while Tesla was still finding its footing for producing vehicles at scale.  They window in question also saw Tesla implementing several pioneering technologies.  So yes, compared to traditional manufacturers and ICE vehicles, they come up wanting in the reliability for older vehicles.  But it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

 

We get it man, you want to fuck your car. But that’s the type of thing you really should keep to yourself.

[Captain Ron 12722]

21 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said: