Elon Musk

Was tempted by Starlink, but don’t want to support any of his endeavours.

A mate bought one for work.  And then sent it straight back: apparently it has to be located in the same postcode as the billing address…? And since the billing address was an office in England, but the starlink was in Germany, it refused to connect. So that was a bit of a waste of time

And since the billing address was an office in England, but the starlink was in Germany, it refused to connect. So that was a bit of a waste of time

Odd – they are quite heavily promoted for campervan/van life. Perhaps its a different package – or you have to do the initial setup at the postcode area. I mentioned it when I was in India and apparently its very popular in Ledak and Kashmir…..but subscriptions rates are less than a fifth of the UK rates so I guess they are going to protect that different worldwide pricing somehow.

I did consider it here for a few nano seconds as we operate off a 4g router as no broadband to speak of. And then I remembered Musk’s oh too punchable face and forgot about it.

Didn’t he visit the border wall a while back? Is he setting himself to replace the aging Trump??

He wasn’t born in the USA was he?

That was why Arnie never ran.

He wasn’t born in the USA was he?

That was why Arnie never ran.

not only that, but his paperwork was not in order.

Odd – they are quite heavily promoted for campervan/van life. Perhaps its a different package – or you have to do the initial setup at the postcode area

I would imagine it’s a different package, yes – he said it was about £1,000 a month, which wouldn’t really align with Vanlife! TBH I didn’t actually know there were consumer level options.

I think that postcode thing above for Starlink is absolute nonsense as the one I used certainly wasn’t registerd to a postcode where we were

Apparently, Musk blames his son’s gender transition, which he blames on the ‘woke mind virus’, for his own transition to right wing douchebag.

Guardian article

Novichok canapé and blame it on Vlad.

It’s best all-round.

I’ve sat in a desert on a moonless night and watched his stupid starlink light up the sky.

it was very upsetting

This has only just occured to me — is Musk’s own X feed subject to the same algorithms as every other user? If so, does this mean his own algorithms are sending him ever-deeper into this conspiratorial rightwing rabbit hole?

That is quite fascinating if so.

s a different package – or you have to do the initial setup at the postcode area

I would imagine it’s a different package, yes – he said it was about £1,000 a month, which wouldn’t really align with Vanlife

It’s not that much….. Nearer 250€ a month. Easy to cover, but **** him.

Had a contact with illiad that costs 14€/month (although I’ve had a year and they’ve screwed up as I’ve still got 50€ credit in my account) and reception in Italy is very good.

sat in a desert on a moonless night and watched his stupid starlink light up the sky.

it was very upsetting

For sure….. The night sky is much more impressive than il Treno di Musk.

I would imagine it’s a different package, yes – he said it was about £1,000 a month, which wouldn’t really align with Vanlife! TBH I didn’t actually know there were consumer level options.

yeah, the story you were told doesn’t really stack up – although realising Musk was involved so sending it back is perfectly legit!

There is a monthly subscription which depends on where and how you want to use it from a domestic install at “one” location for £75/m to a business user with 3TB/m traffic at £300/m to get to £1000/m fees you need to be doing superyacht stuff with 1TB/mo connection or doing very remote land access stuff globally in difficult locations where you want your data to have priority – eg news reporters or aid agencies in difficult areas…. These are prices advertised to U.K. customers.

Now picking a fight with the EU

Musk has replied to the above EU letter in the manner you’d expect

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg

Sounds like the Trump “interview” is going well.

The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster: 

Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

Should imagine that it’s the ramblings of two mad men.

Two hours of those two insane meglomaniacs having a love-in?

No thanks. Surely that falls under the UN description of cruel and unusual torture?

Yeah, not going to watch that.

It looks like the whole point of the interview, apart from the usual opportunity for Trump to spout fantasies unchallenged, was for Musk to invent a job for himself in the Whitehouse and for Trump to sleepwalk into offering that job to him.

So there you go – thats how democracy works.

2 rich weird guys desperate to be loved/relevant/powerful

Sounds great ?

he relies on coming up with ideas

mostly stolen ideas

then gets others to actually make something useful out of them.

and shouts them down/sacks/sues them when they point out how what they’re doing is illegal/dangerous/ill-advised.

I’d buy a Tesla made in Berlin, no  qualms.

I’d not buy one at all, ever. I’ve seen what goes into them, both code and hardware. Unlike Musk i actually do know a little bit about automotive engineering. And i know some of the people he’s sacked/shouted down (but no one he’s sued).

maccruiskeen

It looks like the whole point of the interview, apart from the usual opportunity for Trump to spout fantasies unchallenged, was for Musk to invent a job for himself in the Whitehouse and for Trump to sleepwalk into offering that job to him.

So there you go – thats how democracy works.

He used to have a job in the Whitehouse, business advisory board or something I think but sacked it off after a few months.

Marina Hyde’s take on it is absolutely amazing:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/13/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-twitter-politician-tech

BBC spotted a couple of errors

BBC News – Trump’s chat with Musk on X fact-checked

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jpn2q76n1o

I look forward to the conversation with Kamala Harris where she is given similar treatment.

How did I miss this first time round?

Elon Musk denies his sperm will seed Mars colony

😀

Elon Musk interviewing Donald Trump, in case you missed it. pic.twitter.com/cxLfNZMSnu

— Parody Keir Starmer (@Parody_PM) August 13, 2024

pic.twitter.com/Oe0HQZSXjj

— Cold War Steve (@coldwarsteve) August 13, 2024

And in today’s Space Toddler news, Brazil’s Supreme Court has shut down X access there – this is/was X’s 6th biggest user base.

I have decided to post a thread to explain the current situation to BlueSky users outside of Brazil.

— Sophia com PH ? (@sophifn.bsky.social) 2024-08-29T04:40:41.000Z

Also appears Bluesky embedding works here, which is nice.

Not sure what’s going on with him, but someone needs to take the electronic devices away from him, for a smart guy he’s saying some silly things!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74882jq39vo

I have a strong suspicion he is high as fk most of the time he tweets

for a smart guy

Who said he was a smart guy?

Always blaming others https://t.co/cFavqtpliO

— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) September 17, 2024

He is having a bit of a dingdong with his first born apparently.

He is saying some dangerous stuff around the election on Twitter

Just checking in to see if he’s still a despicable ****.

Yep, all in order, carry on people.

He is having a bit of a dingdong with his first born apparently.

Isn’t this a regular thing? It probably tells you everything you need to know about someone that not only do all his own  children think he’s a total ****, but they’re all quite happy to go public and tell everyone, on the record,  just how much of a **** you actually are

How much money does it take to distract from the reality that the people who should love you more than anyone, actually absolutely despise you?

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He is having a bit of a dingdong with his first born apparently.

I wouldn’t put it past him but his firstborn died at 10 weeks. Famously he invented a story about holding him while he died and feeling his last heartbeat, which was all very humanising and sad and turned out to be bollocks, his mother actually did but he just liked the story so he nicked it when it was convenient.

It’s usually Vivian that he embarasses himself over now- having literally declared her to be dead and then done a load of tweets in which it became completely obvious he didn’t know how four year old children behave because he’s never spent any time with any of his ~12 kids, and then got her confused with her twin.

Honestly when he said “I’ll give Taylor Swift a child” lots of people assumed he meant “I will make you pregnant”. But it seems way more likely he meant “I have if I remember correctly about dozen neglected kids who I have no interest in and can’t even tell apart just taking up space, I’ll send you one in the post. Child number 7, whatsyourname, you won’t remember me because I’ve barely seen you for the last 4 years but I am legally at least your father, now get in this bag”

How much money does it take to distract from the reality that the people who should love you more than anyone, actually absolutely despise you?

$252.8Bn seems to do the trick nicely apparently… His current net worth according to google.

Though I’m not sure that’s the threshold… Pretty sure he was a **** to all of his kids before he evn became a Billionaire, so he might have been over egging the pudding somewhat recently!

Excellent name for a book about his buying himself a midlife crisis Twitter and then wrapping around a tree on the way home

Excellent name for a book

I would be feeling hugely happy with myself if I’d come up with that title