• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Near future tweet?... "I own three Teslas. I know from experience that if you keep your windows up everything is guaranteed safe. People don't have any idea how good Tesla filtration and ventilation systems are..." And the comment goes on for hundreds more words of nonsense.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      "I love tesla but it's uhh very very not cool that my legs rotted off below the knee from driving in their tunnel, hopefully Elon fires whoevers responsible"

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days"

      You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever

    • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      According to the article, it's not the completed tunnels, but rather, the dig sites. It's mostly normal digging byproduducts (silt, rock dust, sand, water), but also chemicals for making/setting grout. All of that stuff is "normal", but the outrageously lax safety standards have let it build up rather than be dealt with.

      "Elon Musk Tunnels Oozing with Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge" is a sensationalist clickbait take. "Elon Musk's Tunnels-In-Progress Full of Improperly Stored/Disposed-Of Dangerous Chemical Waste" wouldn't spark the imagination so hard.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        the fact that it's "normal" due to corner-cutting would be really bad if we lived under an economic system that incentivizes corner-cutting agony-deep

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        You just said literally the same fucking thing and think that's supposed to make it better?

        ...Fucking redditors man

        • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
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          8 months ago

          No, it's not supposed to make it better. It's worse. "His tunnels are oozing with sludge" is mysterious, meant to draw readers in. The truth is, like every goddamn thing he's ever done, he's mismanaged it so hard and cut so many corners that he's caused yet another entirely predictable, entirely preventable industrial disaster.

          I can hate Elon Musk and clickbait at the same time, mate.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            8 months ago

            Alright fair enough, it came across to me like trying to make a bad thing sound reasonable by making it sound mundane which is a common tactic of his supporters.

      • ped_xing [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        He's never going to even know your name, much less love you.

        • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
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          8 months ago

          Sorry, did you think that was meant to be a defense of the man? Do you think his fanatics would ever describe him as "outrageously lax"? Read, mate, read.

            • Adkml [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              People here see a chance to try to crucify somebody they perceive as an imperfect leftist to show they're the one pure socialist and that takes precedence over reading comprehension.

        • Egon
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          3 months ago

          deleted by creator

    • SSJ2Marx
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      8 months ago

      this reads like an SCP

      The Boring Company dug too greedily and too deep.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    The Vegas Loop is the Dark Souls of tunnels.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    He’s just trying to make Fallout New Vegas real because he loves video gaming like a boss

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    This was during construction only and it was only because of the caustic concrete mix.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Why do his fans not realize that he is very obviously trying to kill them with every single thing that he makes

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Common sense tells me to stay out, but jrpgs tell me there's good loot if I defeat the sludge

  • GenXen [any, any]
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    8 months ago

    I had to click through to the Bloomberg article just to confirm this wasn't satire.

    I'm sure mixing this stuff with 1/2 ton lithium ion batteries in a tunnel underground is going to be a fantastic combination.