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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.
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
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?
His degrees are in physics and business.
No collusion. It was just fake news all along. Spread by retards with an inability to think for themselves.
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?
> 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."
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