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Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com)
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Elon Musk is having fun on Twitter, where he's either promoting the new line of $20 "Boring Company" hats or trolling the media. "To preserve the transcendent majesty & specialness of The Boring Company cap, we are capping cap orders at 50,000 caps," Musk tweeted Sunday, adding "Almost there ..." Responding to a user who asked, "Is this really how you're funding the boring company??" Musk answered "Yes."
An hour later he tweeted that "Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy. That special hat delivery will take place deep within the real, but fictional (of course), tunnel we are building under LA while you drive the giant machine blindfolded. This will actually happen."
And then hours later, Musk shared a fresh insight into his thought process. "The *real* money comes from merchandising," he tweeted, adding "I learned it from this documentary," sharing a video titled "merchandising" which, on closer inspection, turned out to be a clip from the 1987 comedy "Spaceballs" starring Mel Brooks.
Ironically, George Lucas had only blessed Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars with one condition: that no Space Balls action figure merchandise ever be produced.
An hour later he tweeted that "Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy. That special hat delivery will take place deep within the real, but fictional (of course), tunnel we are building under LA while you drive the giant machine blindfolded. This will actually happen."
And then hours later, Musk shared a fresh insight into his thought process. "The *real* money comes from merchandising," he tweeted, adding "I learned it from this documentary," sharing a video titled "merchandising" which, on closer inspection, turned out to be a clip from the 1987 comedy "Spaceballs" starring Mel Brooks.
Ironically, George Lucas had only blessed Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars with one condition: that no Space Balls action figure merchandise ever be produced.
And build more cars.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
If you can't tell that from the screenshot alone, you're not a nerd.
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Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about. Building the Model 3 is one part of this, as is designing electric trucks and hypercars, pushing battery tech forward, working on forgotten areas of solar tech such as the aesthetics of the product, and building and designing even more epic reusable rockets. Oh, and seeing if anything can be done about the inefficiencies of tunnel building for solving transport problems.
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
Well, Elon has introduced electric cars to the general market after the big automakers had decided they didn't want to, and he's brought private enterprise into space.
So what are your accomplishments again?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
For some reason, Musk seems to incite a lot of rage among the "It'll Never Work" crew. When you're 40 years old and mom is still paying the internet bill, seeing somebody who has literally changed the world do well must hurt.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I wish you were dead. So, I think, do most people here. Now you're bragging about threatening and harassing people; I didn't think you could be more of an asshole. You're the worst human I'm aware of, and the planet would be vastly superior for your absence.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.