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Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School (metrotimes.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the money-from-Musk dept.

An anonymous reader quotes the Detroit Metro Times: Tech billionaire Elon Musk surprised students at an assembly at Flint's Doyle-Ryder Elementary School on Friday, announcing the creation of a new STEM-focused junior high school and inviting some students to tour his SpaceX rocket factory in California... Students will be selected by the district based on academic merits, with funding for the trip provided by the Musk Foundation.

"My hope is to inspire the students of Flint to want to make things, just as I did as a child and as a young engineer," Musk said, according to the statement. "I want students to know that through hard work and a belief in themselves, they can pursue and achieve the unimaginable...."

Musk became involved with Flint thanks to Twitter trolls. After Musk tried, and failed, to develop a miniature submarine to rescue a soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave last summer -- Thai Navy SEALs beat him to the punch, rescuing all of the party -- Twitter users goaded him into doing something to help Flint.

50 comments

  1. they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they need clean drinking water and a non-corrupt government

    this is like sending creimer to a famine area

    1. Re: they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      are druggies even allowed on school grounds?

    2. Re:they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you are so desperate for creimer's attention, check out his new video and article. Leave a comment!

    3. Re:they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      still far too verbose like the undiagnosed autistic you are

      You are correct. His blog post has a 12th grade reading level. He should be writing at an 8th grade reading level for a North American audience.

    4. Re: they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      technically, to be successful like him, they need to be part of the initial team of a financial company that ignored all regulation, and got lucky to be used by all illegal drug sellers of the early internet.

    5. Re: they don't need tesla you fraud by buck-yar · · Score: 1

      No collusion. It was just fake news all along. Spread by retards with an inability to think for themselves.

    6. Re: they don't need tesla you fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Technically, to be successful like him, you need to commit fraud, try to ruin the lives of whistleblowers, wire tap, stalk and harass staff, not allow unions and pretty much treat your business like the underworld. Heâ(TM)s winning and successful if that is the aim. Personally iâ(TM)ld prefer to be a good person.

  2. Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let's see how he manages to bungle this.

    Unrelated:

    "I want students to know that through hard work and a belief in themselves, they can pursue and achieve the unimaginable...."

    I hope he realizes that coming from his white male ass that doesn't mean much to a little dark skinned girl.

    1. Re:Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I love that "hard work and a belief in themselves" trope
      conveniently forgetting "good connections to rich people"

    2. Re: Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not his fault the kids were raised to be racists. If you can't accept what is being said because the person's skin color doesn't match yours, you have bigger problems.

    3. Re: Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A little dark skinned girl only needs to get average test scores, and will get into any college of her choosing for with a mountain of scholarships.

      Affirmative action means she only has to put forth effort.

    4. Re: Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If that were true then Elon would have no problem bringing his top black female engineer to the school to say as much. Oh he only has white males and white or lightskinned size 0 females with large chests? What a coincidence.

    5. Re: Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I said she'd get into college basically for free. I never said she was going to graduate top of her class and be an incredibly motivated engineer.

      Do you think Musk is racist? I think if a dark skinned girl was better than a white male engineer, he'd hire her. I think any employer would. Turns out a ton of white males go into STEM, so a good amount of them are really smart and good at their job. Turns out very few dark skinned girls go into STEM, so the ones that are good are super rare.

      If you're talking about lightskinned size 0 secretaries, yeah, that job is all about employer preference. I would hope any girl going to college isn't trying to be a secretary, though.

    6. Re: Break out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also forgetting that you need to commit crime and act like an a all round villain. Also, date a woman who looks like a methhead troll and acts 5.

  3. That's the right way to handle trolls by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The best way to handle trolls is simply by living successfully and happily, and improving the world around you...

    I think at the root of things some people cannot handle others being happy so they try to drag others down - anyone they can.

    Simply being able to ignore people like that is a powerful force for success in your own personal life - as is the ability to resist inclinations to doubt others. Let others try what they will and succeed on merits, rather than pre-judging what you think of as crazy or strange.

    My hat is off to you Musk, and to the rest of the people promoting positive energy and improving the world around us, in whatever ways makes sense to them.

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:That's the right way to handle trolls by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 1

      The best way to handle trolls is simply by living successfully and happily, and improving the world around you...

      That's literally what trolls aim for.

  4. Elon Musk meets the 99% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Elon Musk visits Flint, MI, meets poor people for the first time. "Wow, I didn't know people lived like this! If only they had a shiny new Tesla to lift them out of poverty!"

  5. Re: Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This.

  6. Re: Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are many kinds of engineers. People like Jobs and Edison that assemble engineers, finance them, and take credit for everything they do...society deems them the greatest engineers of all.

  7. Man visits elementary school, surprises children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    sounds like something a pedo would do

  8. I wonder if he brought a few cases of clean water? by Archangel_Azazel · · Score: 1

    Maybe some new filter tech? No? Huh.

    It's as if nobody really gives a fuck these people can't drink their water or something. Weird since this is supposedly "teh bestest kuntry evar."
    Fucking Murika.

    --
    Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's been opened.
  9. Re:I wonder if he brought a few cases of clean wat by EnsilZah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually he did.
    http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/...

    Next bullshit point?

  10. Selected by MERIT? by ScentCone · · Score: 0

    Some students will get to go to visit SpaceX, and will be selected based on merit? What? There is no merit! Your bitter clinging to that racist trope is just pure Jordan Peterson Nazi Misogyny! In fact, the only students who should be allowed to go visit SpaceX are those the least capable and interested in anything that would come out of it, thus making society more fair. Or something.

    --
    Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
  11. Re: Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If there's one thing we all have in common it's a butthole. You're born with it, you live with it and hopefully you die with it still (mostly) intact. Such an observation should bring us together no matter how far apart we may otherwise be.

  12. Re:I wonder if he brought a few cases of clean wat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He did. But he and his crew drank most of it themselves and used the rest in an ad hoc swimming pool Elon had the kids build so he could freshen up.

  13. Still No Clean Water Musk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Put up or shut up you PEDO.

  14. Re: Man visits elementary school, surprises childr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LOL. Exactly this.

  15. Re:Engineer? Hardly by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    His degrees are in physics and business.

  16. Re:I wonder if he brought a few cases of clean wat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He's scouting for a location for the first Tesla Service Depot in Michigan once the law protecting Big Auto gets over turned...
    Clean water can come later.

  17. HEY! PEDO!! LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And a PSA for the parents in Flint: do not allow your children to go on overnight trips with strangers.

  18. Re:Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He also has an applied physics degree, not just economics. It's not an engineering degree but you made it sound like he didn't know anything to do with science because he's an economics guy.

  19. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They got the guy who hosted meme review. Can they get blue shirt kid next?

  20. Re:Engineer? Hardly by mspohr · · Score: 2

    Actually, degrees in economics and physics but don't let that get in the way of your rant.

    --
    I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
  21. Re:Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually, Undergraduate degrees in economics and physics but don't let that get in the way of your rant.

  22. Re:Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Applied physics is a degree you get when you’re too dumb to get a real physics degree.

  23. Re: Engineer? Hardly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And a mechanical engineering degree is what you get when you canâ(TM)t get an applied physics degree. See, I can do it too!

  24. Type44Q was seen there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Type44Q couldn't help but dream about Elon's foreskin.

  25. Is that guy projecting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    First Thailand and now elementary schools. I think that diver needs to flip the accusation around.

  26. Classic by rainer_d · · Score: 1

    > through hard work and a belief in themselves,...

    and investing early in a successful start-up like paypal.

    When Jean-Paul Ghetty was asked how to become a successful business-man, he once responded:
    "Get up very early in the morning, work hard the whole day until late into the night. Dig oil."

    --
    Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
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