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Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School (metrotimes.com)
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.
"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.
they need clean drinking water and a non-corrupt government
this is like sending creimer to a famine area
Let's see how he manages to bungle this.
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"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.
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
Elon always pretends he is an "engineer" in order to fool the tech nerds who have a lot of money into thinking he is one of them. In reality he is just a guy with a degree in economics from an Ivy League school who is good at raising money. His "engineering" ideas come from companies he acquired after getting pushed out of Paypal.
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!"
sounds like something a pedo would do
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.
Actually he did.
http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/...
Next bullshit point?
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.
No coincidence that NZ is the shortened form of "Nazi".
Almost the entire right support Israel and jews generally. Again, for anti-semitic hatred you can look almost everywhere on the Democrat side of things now.
Too bad there is zero chance of a white male of any dirt getting to be the Democratic candidate.
Me: Pours contents of beaker over prone scientist, storms out of room.
That's the real problem with society and especially with liberals today, they cannot separate sex from ability. It's why they also shamefully attack sex workers and slut shame women left and right with the slightest pretext
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.
Put up or shut up you PEDO.
LOL. Exactly this.
Exactly, the modern day PT Barunum
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.
And a PSA for the parents in Flint: do not allow your children to go on overnight trips with strangers.
They got the guy who hosted meme review. Can they get blue shirt kid next?
Type44Q couldn't help but dream about Elon's foreskin.
First Thailand and now elementary schools. I think that diver needs to flip the accusation around.
> 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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