I’m sure there are plenty of disgruntled former and current employees that would love to take a pop at Elon Musk. Maybe not murder but a solid wallop to the face. It amuses me to no end that he has the self-awareness to realize he’s given lots of people a motive to hurt him, but not enough self-awareness to stop being…

So how’s that whole Mastodon thing working out for everyone?

One of the replies suggested the bodyguards aren’t for the Twitter employees (if software engineers really want to fuck up your life, they’re not going to do it physically anyways) but for the Saudi investors whose money Elon is essentially lighting on fire by running Twitter into the ground.

so funny! just wondering how you got hold of them pics. someone photographing an old man running naked sounds weird. well, no offense, bro. just my two cents. 

Im sorry, but this tesla tank and those ex-container-water-retainers are not the same. One is a tank of water, one is an inviting pool. Maybe once the Tesla one is filled to the proper level? But really i feel like it should be at least partially buried and/or have some sort of decking.

Yes, in Houston even the white bottomed pools are very very warm right now and it feels like bath water. Cool is definitely better. I know some people who have pool chillers, but those are very power hungry.

It’s 105 where I live today I absofuckinglutely want a cold pool LOL.  Besides depending how deep the line feeding the hose is, that cold water might not be all that cold.  My straight cold water is warm enough to use to take a shower lol.

Reminds me of the swimming pool we had at the ranch growing up:

Yeah, shipping container pools are a thing, too. And not cheap either.

It appears to be fed by a garden hose, which would be connected to a cold-water tap. Perhaps you would like to sit in a massive box of cold tap water; I would not. :-)

A warm wet dumpster is better than a cold one, I guess.

If there’s one thing I always do on my cross-country road trips, it’s keep my swim trunks handy for a quick dip in a weird pool. Do they have a Tesla branded changing stall made out of cardboard refrigerator boxes?

I mean, in-ground pools are just wet holes in the ground. What a weird take.

It’s definitely a shipping container - and they’re typically designed to be partially buried so you end up with something that looks like any other in-ground pool.

I’m as critical of Tesla as they come, but this is silly.

Personally I would have preferred “people before cars” but no one made me the marketing director of remaking America.

I love my car but I would bike/ride/walk to work way before I drove, if possible.

all true, and most of this is correlated to a problem that goes way beyond the car industry: wage stagnation. to make a long story very short, young unencumbered people (who have traditionally been the target market for enthusiast cars) can’t afford impractical playthings, so automakers move their enthusiast offerings…

a lot of times, the dominant term for any movement is coined by its opponents. so you either end up picking a term nobody has heard of, where people don’t associate your chosen term with the shit your opponents are saying about you, or you co-opt the term and stay in the conversation. there are pluses and minuses to…

He looks more like an android than androids look like humans.