Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

That's very cool!

I have a vivid memory of doing my first piece of paid computer work (a shit load of typing for university lecturer the family knew) in Summer 1987 at the age of 6...the reason I remember it so well is because I had my Mum & Dads old black and white telly on in the background and remember Greg Louganis smashing his head on the diving board.

I received a cheque for £5 which was duly paid into my parentally supervised building society account. Didn't get the keys to that account until my 18th birthday so technically speaking I blew my earnings from when I was 6 on booze and fags.

My vote is for Danny Dyer to play you in the screen adaptation.

He went to the only US high school (private) to have a computer at the time.

Wasn’t this in 88? (Olympics and all that)

BURN HIM. HES AS BAD AS ELON.

You're right. Probably muddled by the trauma I still carry from the Great Storm

Man, I remember the great storm of 87. Fence panels everywhere. Trees rolling down the street. 7 tree hill in Lewisham being renamed overnight.

Foolish and stupid are not the same thing. Foolishness can make somebody look stupid in a given context or situation when they're smart in others. Musk's personality, privilege and delusional fan club give him wide space to be extremely foolish while insulated from real consequences. He indulges that freedom because he's a cunt.

In fairness instead of bunging money at projects he likes the sound of, he could pay his taxes instead…yanno do people don’t need charities

I think we might have different definitions of big money!

Or he could pay his workers a fair wage and not aggressively busy every attempt they make at unionising.

Lol, let’s admit it, none of these are “or” scenarios. The man has enough money to donate lavishly to charity, pay all of his taxes, and to pay his workers properly. That he doesn’t is just another argument in favour of Madame guillotine.

The problem with the "billionaires must be geniuses" is that many people think that wealth must be somehow proportional to intellect, i.e. the more money = the cleverer they must have been to earn it.

Many of the billionaires are just "not-thick" and were just plain lucky to be in the right place at the right time and had 4 or 5 consecutive bets come in. There are a whole load of cleverer people who made millions but didn't get the luck to convert this into billions.

lucky to be in the right place at the right time

Very much this. It's survivorship bias. Loads of lottery winners out there but it probably isn't you.

There’s an awful lot to be said for lizard brain and circumstances. Throw in a wealthy family safety net to make the risks easier to take and if you win another jackpot on top of the others that set you up in life, you’ll feel like your achieved this yourself

Should have put the £5 in bitcoin.

This 100%

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Bill Gates big win was his mum worked in Stanford(?) library/lab so he had unfettered access to a PC for weeks on end vs CS majors who had a couple hours a week.

He went to a quite fancy private school near Seattle. The school raised money from parents to buy a computer so the kids would have constant access to it as they realised it was what they'd need to know as they entered the workforce. So he had a wealthy family, a good school and all the advantages that go with it.

I don't think his parents gave him actual cash money, but obviously they gave a smart kid all the opportunities to succeed and a safety net if dropping out of Harvard hadn't worked out.

Tbf to Elon, not sure his dad gave him the best moral compass, seeing he had a kid and married Elon's step-sister/ his step daughter who he raised from the age of four

What’s with all the Elon apologists? Have you not all read the thread title?

Quietly enjoying all the anecdotal reports of T*sla drivers getting hate on the road from other drivers because of this prick
Actually surprised as a cyclist have anything in common with them
Feels.
Weird

They took a dozen normal spaces away from our local Park and Ride and gave them over to half a dozen Tesla chargers a year or two ago. I didn’t enjoy that at the time, felt like introducing VIP parking in a public car park. I’m enjoying it even less now.

Who wants to make me some QR stickers that say ‘Register now for Ultracharging Beta’ but link to this thread?

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Oh, and of course he tortures them before he kills them: https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animals-in-medical-research/pcrm-response-neuralink-claims

I think that image/headline is fake, at least I can't find the article. Don't doubt there's bad shit happening in any company he's involved in though.

Plenty of evidence to know that animal testing is happening in pretty bleak circumstances at Neuralink...it's just the 3200+ number that is dubious. Even the Daily Mail are steering clear if it.