Isn’t there some kind of synthetic pot that makes people go bonkers instead of chilling out? Maybe he hoarded the wrong substance.
Went to high school with a young man who was arrested for smoking leafy green substances with his pals on campus…turns out he had a nice stash of oregano.
No idea what kind of effects they experienced from that though.
Today, he tweeted that he’s suing Alameda County (Tesla’s main plant is in Fremont, in Alameda County) because the health authorities are preventing the factory from reopening. He also tweeted that he’s going to move the headquarters out of California (the HQ is in Palo Alto) and possibly even move the factory. I don’t understand how the board hasn’t fired him yet. (Or why NASA gave SpaceX a contract.)
I am at a loss as to how the Securities Exchange Commission hasn’t gone after him for clear violations of his agreement to have Tweets regarding Tesla stock valuation and production forecasts vetted.
However, it is pretty clear why both NASA and the USAF have issued contracts to SpaceX; they have (after some initial hiccups) provided a reliable launch vehicle that is cost competitive with the existing EELV vehicles (Atlas V and Delta IV/IVH, albeit both are contracted on a FAR Part 15 basis, and both NASA and the USAF have paid additional tens of millions of dollars to get the necessary documentation from SpaceX to perform independent verification and validation for mission assurance and independent risk analysis). Given the reliance of Lockheed Martin for Russian RD-180 engines, and the cost of LOX/LH2 on the Delta IV, the American-sourced Falcon 9 and Heavy using LOX/RP-1 is a sensible move. It is also the case that Elon Musk has little involvement at this point with the day-to-day operations at SpaceX involving NASA and USAF programs, and SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell is capable of behaving like a responsible adult human being.
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He’s providing a strong case that billionaires are, as a general rule, inhuman scum.
Yea, a human scum who helped solve the payment problem on the internet, has done more than anyone to popularize electric cars, who has revolutionized the rocket industry, and who may soon bring universal internet access to the poorest people in the world - one of the largest step changes in history in terms of bringing education and access to markets to the 3rd world.
What a monster.
Non sequitur. I hold no brief for the innate inhuman-scumminess or otherwise of billionaires in general or Elon Musk in particular, but the fact that a businessman ran a successful money-transfers company (for about six months, before being ousted as CEO) does not automatically preclude his also being inhuman scum.
Heck, notorious inhuman-scum businessman Martin Shkreli founded a company to create treatments for rare diseases, which on paper sounds pretty darn philanthropic too.
Also not intrinsically incompatible with inhuman-scumminess, so again, non sequitur.
See above.
:dubious: It’s kind of adorable how you imagine that a billionaire’s business venture that he’s openly pursuing for the sake of large profits and taxpayer funding ought to be preemptively regarded as a sign of his nobly altruistic nature.
Maybe. Despite your own most cherished ideological convictions to the contrary, being a massively wealthy and successful anti-government (but simultaneously tax-revenue-milking) entrepreneur is not automatically incompatible with being a shitty human being.
Musk is behaving like someone who realizes his company’s not as financially strong as he’s leading people to believe.