What a visionary.
just make a bullet train USA, stop believing in a snake oil salesman
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
Starting to think Americans don't actually want good things they just want to endlessly believe good things are coming.
Elon's so smart. I mean they're basically subways that carry fewer people, cost more, and are less environmentally friendly. What's not to like?
I honestly cannot fucking wait for this dystopian techfuedal future. All public transport will be ride shares and the government buying fleets of Teslas because, guess what, luxury electric cars aren't actually a good business model. Then they put teslas in large, rushed, shoddy vacuum tunnels. So people will suffocate in some cases. Teslas will overheat because they don't have air to cool them. There will be some sort of meltdown in the tunnels. People will die. So Tony Shart will start fucking with our dwindling fresh water supply to cool his tunnels. We'll get contaminated ground water and giant sinkholes. All so some fucking south african nerd doesn't have to come to terms with being a shit human being. When all that happens the government will decide that letting Uber own everything is easier. They'll buy out Tesla and Elon can move on to building a tomb on mars as his main grift.
Idk an electrical fire in a narrow tunnel deep underground sounds like loads of fun to me
I'm calling it now: the Las Vegas Loop will run for less than two years, because one of the Teslas (which are being driven 18 hours per day, I remind you) will catch fire in the tunnel during a major convention and it will be a disaster that results in at least a dozen deaths.
Right! And no consideration for wheelchair access and no thought on how not to allow unauthorized vehicles from just driving into the tunnels. Man, I love American exceptionalism
Sounds like a good opportunity to link Well There's Your Problem: Las Vegas Loop
When they go to the slide of what the station looks like, and it's just a glorified taxi stand underground, it is seriously one of the funniest things to ever happen on that podcast-with-slides, right behind when Roz found out that RBG just died.
It's insane the effort rich people will go to to never have to see a dirty prole.
It's supposed to be a vacuum, right? How could it ever be economical to pull the atmosphere out of an enclosed tube that stretches for miles just to travel not as fast as modern-day trains that already work?
The absolute state of American engineers.
If these things actually traveled 155 mph which they won't, wouldn't they need to change the tires like daily?
Thats probably a plus for them, like the whole point is to destroy Tesla cars (the only thing that can be used in the Tesla Tunnel) and make the buyer pay for new ones.
Elon Musk is the Donald Trump for nerds. Right down to sounding like a used car salesman and fluking his way into success based on the hard work of other people.
Anybody remember Dan Akroyd's Crystal Skull Vodka? Part of the sales pitch in the video he put out was that they filtered it through diamonds. Now, that would chemically do nothing to the vodka. Diamonds are impermeable. It was all just theater, no smoke and mirrors, just showmanship. It wasn't "we filtered it through a secret process" no it was diamonds. A thing everyone should understand is useless. It really was interesting to see such a bullshit pitch delivered with a straight face. I mean he's a total cryptozoological crank so it checks out with his personality but I still think of that to this day whenever I think of bullshit pitches by venture capitalist cranks like Elon Musk.
Thy were filtered through Herkimer diamonds, which he made sure to fully say every time he mentioned it in the ad, which I'm sure is because such an exotic and expensive-sounding gem must be a serious selling point. It probably isn't anything nefarious, like Herkimer diamonds actually being the nickname for a random type of quartz crystal, meaning he legally can't just say 'diamonds'. Nossir, Dan Akroyd is far more trustworthy than that.
what the fuck i had no idea that was dan akroyd's vodka brand lol. i didn't know it was "filtered" through diamonds either but the bottle is pretty cool and I always wanted to buy some just for that. but it's way too expensive for me
If the price was better I would buy it just for the cool bottle too. He should have just gone with that as his sales pitch, "this is good vodka in a kickass skull glass".
Obviously you don’t want the filter ending up in the drink lol. I think the argument was that diamonds were an especially good filter. Also the diamonds were quartz lol
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Its particularly annoying because the tunnelling tech he is working on is genuinely interesting and he is wasting it on worse trains rather than the literal thousands of better applications.
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