Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

My 1983 Cavalier Station Wagon (Front Wheel Drive, 2.0 Liter Engine!) was awesome in the snow. I still remember plowing through a plow-created median snowberm that had caught itself a timid jeep driver. That was fun.

 

Lord Igthor would totally drive a cyber truck, while Toadwort and company are dragging the truck along because it can’t handle off-road.

 

Maybe not record of the year but in the running for song of the year.

 

The theme to The Gummi Bears is a fantastic earworm.

 

I can't wait to see the gritty hellscape where it conquers rough roads, out accelerates the rape gangs, and is proof against the shrapnel of improvised explosives and at the same time you have a safe place to park it overnight while it recharges on the still working electrical system.

 

@Belgian guy @The Jitty Slitter @Dead Fingers
Are you guys still playing around with AI image generators? because, I think we need this.

 

As long as there isn't a slight incline or a bit of slippery surface otherwise it's toast.

 

I've mentioned before about my first job being in an arena parking lot from 05-07. The amount of Hummers I saw

There's a freeway in Detroit called the Lodge. The Lodge is quite frankly, close to the Mad Max experience driving wise.

I don't think that that car would survive the Lodge, let alone 696 where Formula 1 drivers might be a little intimidated.

 

Not sure if it's any good. But the commercial cracked me up

 

It comes with a 600 watt amplifier to produce all that noise.

 

Yeah, but you need an extra battery to power that.

 

And people made fun of Elysium when it came out...

 

Didn’t watch. How was it?

 

It's an example of how The Algorithm is destroying culture. Grievance generates clicks, so people create grievance out of nothing.

 

I get why Clyde would feel inadequate compared to Handsome Jack, villain of Borderlands 2 and a corporation president who wants to take over an entire planet (sound like anyone we know?), but who is actually very funny and charismatic.

 

Which is hilarious because the playable characters in the first game were two black males, a Jewish male, and a white woman. Lol

 

Suzuki bike vs Tesla Plaid in 1/4 mile

 

I ran past a parked one yesterday. They don't look better up close. This one had an olive drab wrap which did not improve its looks. It had Texas tags.

 

Oh, just realized the complaints about a brown, bald woman is actually about another game called "Intergalactic: The Heretic Profit". A fictional character, set in a fictional universe, that is centered around a fictional religion from one of the most successful game developers out there. Naughty Dog is the developers behind Crash Bandicoot, Last of Us, and Uncharted. They have generated quite a bit of controversy in the past with Last of Us where they had one of the main characters be a lesbian, another being an absolutely jacked female, and a trans secondary character. If you had to point at any one event that started the current freak out culture over diversity in gaming, Last of Us II is likely the origin. It got a lot of clicks and people realized they could make a lot of money out of rage baiting over diversity.

 

It's not going to be winning any awards. It's right down the middle, except for FX and sets. Those are A+.

I enjoy watching it for what it is, but I don't go out of my way to watch it.

 

Read this on the BBC the other day and wondered how that's supposed to work...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp555xy5ro

The description of how the algorithm works in this, (at 1:20), has always seemed pretty accurate...



If you allow the corporations that operate a system that passes information among individuals, to base their systems purely on the profit motive, no amount of news coverage will be able to compete with it.

 

WSJ on how SpaceX's lawyers recommended that senior executives not get Musk security clearances for some of their more sensitive contracts with the DoD. With the number of contacts he has with foreign persons and his drug use, they didn't think that he would be approved and wanted to avoid that PR hit.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-spacex-security-clearance-secrets-b9774346