• driving_crooner
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    8 months ago

    Elon Musk could have actually done something for humanity and build two of those instead of buying Twitter.

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      8 months ago

      Dude literally owns a boring company, he could have ate the cost of digging the tunnel to specifications and still have more money than buying xitter

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        8 months ago

        Yea but his boring company isn’t particularly useful for anything other than stymieing public transportation programs by acquiring contracts with cities and then doing nothing with them. Almost like he has an interest in selling more cars than expand public transit… allegedly.

        • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Not even allegedly. I could be wrong but I thought he admitted publicly at one point that was the whole idea behind The Boring Co. It might have even been on Rogan. Anyone remember or have a clip? Jamie, pull that up.

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            8 months ago

            I think was a biographer, who wrote that the “hyperloop” project existed only to sabotage California’s high speed train project.

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      8 months ago

      And he’s driven the value down below the price of one collider. He’s lost an entire super collider!

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      8 months ago

      You may not realize this, but the twitter money still exists. The former owners of twitter have it under their mattress right now, why don’t they build a supercollider?

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        8 months ago

        I agree, those dicks definitely could be doing better with their money and we should take it away from them for societally useful things.

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      8 months ago

      I mean we all know this, but if he wants his “brand” to be “Mr. Nerd Shit” why tf does he miss such obvious Ws?