The Boring Company's project in Las Vegas was supposed to be the first real demonstration of Elon Musk's vision for re-imagining public transportation in cities. Musk, who has criticized traditional public transit such as subways, contended he could do much better. He tweeted out visions in 2018 of glass pods, picking up relaxed passengers from thousands of stations the size of single parking spaces that blend into cities, and said it would look "a bit" like that. While more images are still to come, so far the rendered reality is turning out wildly differently.
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
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