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[–] driving_crooner 222 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] driving_crooner 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but where is the short term ego boost in that? He needs his dopamine NOW!

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

I disliked the truth of what you wrote so much, I initially downvoted you.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] fox@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 6 points 1 year ago

There's a reason he lost that brand years ago