Elon Musk

[Fake Messiah]

Let’s Break Down All the Lies in Elon Musk’s False Tweet About Noncitizens Voting

On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a lengthy diatribe about Democrats being the real “threat to democracy.”

In his tweet, Musk claimed that Democrats are flying “asylum seekers” to swing states (this is not happening), fast-tracking them for citizenship (asylum seekers are not fast-tracked), and ensuring said noncitizens can vote (noncitizens cannot vote in federal or state elections). (In the tweet, Musk also lists Ohio as an example of a swing state; it is not.)

In short: Almost every claim in Musk’s rant is factually incorrect.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/202...formation/

[Thumpalumpacus]

Let’s Break Down All the Lies in Elon Musk’s False Tweet About Noncitizens Voting

On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a lengthy diatribe about Democrats being the real “threat to democracy.”

In his tweet, Musk claimed that Democrats are flying “asylum seekers” to swing states (this is not happening), fast-tracking them for citizenship (asylum seekers are not fast-tracked), and ensuring said noncitizens can vote (noncitizens cannot vote in federal or state elections). (In the tweet, Musk also lists Ohio as an example of a swing state; it is not.)

In short: Almost every claim in Musk’s rant is factually incorrect.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/202...formation/

That's because he's a lying cunt.

[Paleophyte]

Mars is a very cool place to explore but rubbish for colonization.

In terms of exploration there are all sorts of fascinating questions that we could try to get answered, many having to do with the origins of our solar system and life. Actually getting there and back wouldn't require any tech that we haven't had for 50 years now. It's largely a matter of scale, money, and political will. As useful as remote exploration is, it suffers from serious downsides when you have a minimum 4 minute speed-o-light lag.

Morons like Musk who want to colonize Mars, and ruin a lot of the exploration potential in the process, simply don't know what they're doing. Colonization to preserve our species suffers the very simple flaw that we're our own greatest threat and there's nowhere that we can send people that we can't send weapons. More importantly, any Mars colony wouldn't be anywhere near self-sufficient for centuries, if not millennia. But the real problem is Mars itself. With neither a magnetosphere nor significant atmosphere the radiation levels at ground level are lethal over the long term. Any colonists would become troglodites and they'd almost certainly have to live deep. Food would be even more problematic, trying to soak up half the sunlight that it's used to while succeeding in soaking up cosmic rays. The low gravity would almost certainly play havoc with human physiology. Energy is a real bugger, with solar being 50% less efficient when there aren't multi-year global dust storms (bad for those crops too), wind doesn't do jack due to the pitifully thin atmosphere, no fossil fuels, and nuclear requires a handy place to dump the heat that doesn't exist on Mars. But the real problem is location, location, location. Mars isn't anywhere useful for anything, so it's a lot of effort to live in the boonies of the solar system.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Yup. There’s only one viable piece of real estate in this solar system, and we happen to be standing on it.

Boru

[Jackalope]

^Yup. There’s only one viable piece of real estate in this solar system, and we happen to be standing on it.

Boru

I look at it this way - whatever tech it would take to make Mars or any other planet suitable for human colonization would be better serve humanity applied to solve human issues here on Earth.

Corporate exploitation of space seems more likely to produce a dystopia than anything else.

That aside, I don't think anyone is setting foot on Mars in my lifetime.

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk to attend Trump rally

Elon Musk said late on Thursday he will attend Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania later this week, an event which will mark the former U.S. president's return to the town where he survived an assassination attempt in July.

"I will be there to support!" Musk replied, opens new tab to a post by Trump on social media platform X saying he was returning to Butler on Saturday.

"Unless something is done about the bureaucratic smothering of America, humanity will never reach the stars," Musk wrote. He emphasized his belief that re-electing Trump is crucial for preventing "continued expansion of oppressive big government, making progress impossible."

Musk further elaborated on his stance regarding space exploration and humanity's future. "Unless we become multiplanetary, it is simply a matter of time before a natural or manmade calamity destroys life on Earth, just like what happened to the dinosaurs," he stated. "This election is existential for life as we know it."

"The Kamala Dem machine wants to legalize all illegals, which would turn all swing states blue immediately and ensure permanent one-party rule in America!" Musk said.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-atten...is-1963692

[The Grand Nudger]

"If I don't get tax breaks and more government contracts I wont give you a totally real mars colony that is in no way a simple grift engine!"

[Ivan Denisovich]

Elon Musk to attend Trump rally

Elon Musk said late on Thursday he will attend Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania later this week, an event which will mark the former U.S. president's return to the town where he survived an assassination attempt in July.

"I will be there to support!" Musk replied, opens new tab to a post by Trump on social media platform X saying he was returning to Butler on Saturday.

"Unless something is done about the bureaucratic smothering of America, humanity will never reach the stars," Musk wrote. He emphasized his belief that re-electing Trump is crucial for preventing "continued expansion of oppressive big government, making progress impossible."

Musk further elaborated on his stance regarding space exploration and humanity's future. "Unless we become multiplanetary, it is simply a matter of time before a natural or manmade calamity destroys life on Earth, just like what happened to the dinosaurs," he stated. "This election is existential for life as we know it."

"The Kamala Dem machine wants to legalize all illegals, which would turn all swing states blue immediately and ensure permanent one-party rule in America!" Musk said.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-atten...is-1963692

One fascist blowing another, Rohm would be proud.

[Angrboda]

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) remains on the hook for an approximately $400,000 fine after failing to respond to an Australia eSafety Commission 2023 inquiry, which largely sought to probe measures X is currently taking to combat an alleged proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platform.

To void the fine, X tried to persuade Australian Judge Michael Wheelahan that X had no obligation to comply with an Online Safety Act notice issued to Twitter because Twitter "ceased to exist" a few weeks after receiving the notice—when Musk merged the app into his company X Corp.

Wheelahan summarized X's argument as saying that "X Corp was not obliged to prepare any report in Twitter Inc’s place, as X Corp was not the same person as the provider to whom the notice was issued."

But Wheelahan ruled Friday that the fine should be upheld, rejecting the "bare premise" that X assumed no legal responsibility to respond to the notice after Twitter ceased to exist.

X's argument failed because Wheelahan found that under Nevada law, merging Twitter into X turned Twitter into a "constituent entity," which then transferred all of Twitter's legal consequences to X Corp.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024...ore-fines/

[Fake Messiah]

Lying liar is lying again.

Buttigieg counters Musk claim of Fema blocking Starlink from hurricane relief

Musk had spent several hours on Friday raging on X against Fema over what he called “belligerent government incompetence”. Posting texts allegedly received from “a SpaceX engineer on the ground”, he accused the federal agency of blockading the disaster area and preventing private helicopters from delivering Starlink terminals, which connect to satellite internet service, and other supplies.

Musk wrote, “SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals & supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and @FEMA is both failing to help AND won’t let others help. This is unconscionable!!”

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, shot down criticism by Elon Musk on the government’s handling of Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

“No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights. If you’re encountering a problem give me a call,” Buttigieg wrote. Musk replied that he had seen hundreds of such reports and would phone.

Fema issued a statement similar to Buttigieg’s: “The claims about FEMA confiscating or taking commodities, supplies or resources in North Carolina, Tennessee, or any state impacted by Helene are false.

Still, Donald Trump amplified Musk’s claims on his app Truth Social. Musk said he would join the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...ane-helene