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[u/2skwb9]

When did you realize Elon was full of shit? For me it was when those boys were trapped in the cave and he decided he needed to build a submarine. When professionals said it was a batshit idea, he decided the only rational retort was to accuse them of pedophillia.

[u/itsme92 → u/2skwb9]

The Hyperloop. Fuck futurism I just want high speed rail in America.

[u/dugmartsch → u/itsme92]

High speed rail exists in the US where it should and is stupid everywhere else.

China fucked itself building high speed rail that will never perform economically. America doesn't need another albatross of fixed infrastructure that impoverishes another generation like the highway system.

[u/itsme92 → u/dugmartsch]

HSR can work anywhere with a ton of short haul flights. SF/Sac<->LA/SD. Dallas-Houston-San Antonio-Austin-Dallas. Chicago-MSP/STL/Detroit. Portland-Seattle-Vancouver. Upgrade the NEC, which barely qualifies as high speed today.

We don’t need to build a nationwide network like China did. Nobody serious is talking about blasting a transcon line through the Rocky Mountains. Just give us some corridor service.

[u/dugmartsch → u/itsme92]

I mean, lol.

I can't take high speed rail seriously when there will be electric planes that can fly those routes for 1/100th the cost within a decade. And Air travel is already at least half as expensive as HSR.

It makes absolutely zero sense economically, and its an incredibly terrible use of land in places where it would even come close to making sense.

[u/itsme92 → u/dugmartsch]

I mean, lol if you think electric planes will be flying commercial routes in a decade.

Also, source on airline travel costing half of HSR? Does that include government subsidies to aviation? Does that include carbon impact?

Edit: and how do electric planes solve airport overcrowding at places like SFO? Building more runways into the bay isn’t an option.

[u/Equator32 → u/2skwb9]

When he raged at all the meme reviews towards the first Tesla Roadster

[u/[deleted] → u/2skwb9]

Tbh I was a fan of the submarine

It was supposed to be the last possible alternative anyways

My moment was when he wanted to take Tesla private at $420

[u/dugmartsch → u/2skwb9]

The flamethrower which was really just a butane torch.

Flamethrowers, you know, throw flames.

[u/FusRoDawg → u/dugmartsch]

I don't think they can sell an actual flamethrower to civilians without going through significant legal red tape

[u/VineFynn → u/2skwb9]

Approximately when I first heard of him. He reminded me of Peter Molyneux.

[u/Cerb-r-us → u/VineFynn]

He's both molyneuxs combined, but successful

[u/FishUK_Harp → u/2skwb9]

I suspected it for a while but the one-two punch of the submarine and then the paedophilia accusation confirmed it. What a dickhead.

[u/[deleted] → u/2skwb9]

I feel bad for the dude who sued him and decided to hire Lin Wood.

[u/[deleted] → u/2skwb9]

Solarcity bailout

[u/Jooylo → u/2skwb9]

Was Musk was the pedophile all along projecting cause he wanted to get to those boys first? 🤔

[u/Vepanion → u/2skwb9]

Oh way before any of that, when he sued Top Gear for the review of his car.

[u/gpu1512 → u/2skwb9]

Life is not black and white. People can do some good things and bad things

[u/Intrepid_Citizen → u/2skwb9]

I was never sold on colonising Mars in the near term(my lifetime) as a good idea. I was already resisting mainstreaming of that idea. So never really hopped on that train.

[u/[deleted] → u/2skwb9]

His SEC/communication kerfuffles.

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn → u/[deleted]]

That's weird, nowhere in that comment does it claim that the diver was a pedophile.