What...is it about Elon that people Believe in so much?

There's quite a bit of proof that the guy...Almost has no idea what he's doing and yet alot of his fans believe in him.

"He's gonna make [Insert Coin Here] fly to the MOOOON"

"He's gonna revolutionize [insert tech field here]"

"HE'S GONNA SEND US TO MARS!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!"

I feel like alot of people have fallen back into a mind set of "Wealth Means Know-How" as in "Hey he's financially successful no dummy could do that!" except most of that money wasn't made by him, he's from a rich family that own emerald mines. He didn't MAKE most of that money, he just has it and honestly that should probably piss more people off then find him endearing.

That not to say he doesn't make a bit of money. I mean the guy co founded Pay-Pal! Well, co founded a thing called X[dot]com which was this online bank, of which he was ousted from because the investors regarded him as inexperienced and put Intuit CEO Bill Harris at the helm. Which later X[dot]com would merge with a different online bank, Confinity, to avoid competition, mainly because the PayPal service was far more popular and then Elon would return as CEO, cause a rift in the company due to his preference to Microsoft over UNIX. which would then make Confinity's founder, Peter Thiel, to resign. And the company suffered technological issues and the lack of a cohesive business model. So the board ousted Elon and replaced him with Thiel again. who then renamed the company PayPal and then said company was bought by e-bay later. Elon would still be a shareholder and in 2017 would receive $175.8 million in stocks and then would buy the X[dot]com domain from paypal so that he can make "X the everything app".

But he's the co-founder of Tesla!

...nnnnnnnooooooo...

Testla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003 as Tesla Motors, Inc. where was Elon during this? In February 2004, the company raised $7.5 million in series A funding, with Elon paying $6.5 million. Which was probably from the $100 Million he got from selling his interest from PayPal two year ealier. So he became a Chairman of the board of Directors and largest shareholder of the company. in 2009 in a lawsuit agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla would sign on himself, Tarpenning, Wright, Straubel and Elon as Co-Founder of Tesla.

Elon would then lead the board to ask Eberhard to step down in august of 2007. he took the title "President of Technology". Tarpenning would later leave in january of 2008 amd then Ze'ev Drori became CEO and President which he'd be succeeded by Elon in October 2008.

So I wouldn't call him a founder, more of a head investor.

what I'm saying is the guys knows how to spend money.

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He founded Space X

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pretty sure you know what happened recently I don't HAVE to go too much into detail about that...

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Speaking of Space he wants to go to Mars. he wants to go there, colonize it and terraform it.

lemme...lemme break down WHY this is super unnecessary.

First off: Mars is far, FAR Away with very few windows to actually get there and if something goes wrong it'll take Months into a YEAR for assistance. meaning the people going there or even are there would be FUCKED!

There's also the fact that Mars is an Irradiated dust ball. because the planet no longer has a magnetic barrier to protect it from being blasted by gamma radiation! so anybody there would run the risk of radiation inducted cancer!

It's also fucking cold!

also blasting it with nukes wouldn't warm it up. rather it would introduce more radiation and bloat out the sun more! more than the duststorms even! so less sun would mean Nuclear Winter! And isn't the goal to make Mars habitable? blasting it with Nukes certainaly won't do that!

And even without nuking Mars. and not taking the present radiation issue into account do you how isolated it would be? Like people would be depressed, drunk and would probably more akin to zombies.

add to the fact that the windows to send supplies to mars are few and far between. those people would probably be dead long LOOOONG before help would arrive meaning Elon probably wouldn't see his Mars City in his life time!

Ontop of all of that is one major thing wrong with this.

There is no real reason to go to mars and terraform it, no really there is NOTHING of real interest to anyone on Mars! No Mars Ore, No Mars Oil. it's just a radiation blasted dust ball orbiting our sun!

But he still WANTS to go there and people want him to take them there too!

crypto?

Yeah the guy most likely understands Pump and Dump and uses his fame to Pump up a coin, dump it and then shift the blame while he nets a cozy sum for himself.

soooo I'd have to say that Elon talks the talk but when it walkin' the walk he stumbles and stumbles baaaad!

just look at his most recent acquisition, twitter, and how THAT thing is falling apart. And rather then having it be a functioning site he'd rather have it be a cesspit! And roleplay on a burner account where he's a baby.

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No I'm serious twitter is burning down and and he's there roleplaying as a baby version of himself!

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if you want to take solace in something know that he has lost ALOT of money recently and is no longer the richest man. Instead that title belongs to Bernard Arnault of LVMH.

But he still has his fans and he's still pretty rich. buuuut, he might lose it all if he keeps faking it where he can't make it.

So! look forward to that!

i'm glad studio orange showed off the models not just bc it's really cool but also because we can see the skin tone they chose for wolfwood without any environmental lighting and see that it’s almost the exact same as tri98 wolfwood’s. which proves my theory that it’s not intentional colorism on their part but just that their lighting system desperately needs to be improved to make it so he doesn’t look like a sickly victorian boy when he’s in the sunlight

post ep 11

SEEDS Security Codes and Why They Matter

So, I've been thinking about one of the details in Trigun: Stampede that was not present in either '98 or the manga. In '98, Knives just hacking into the SEEDS codes was left as-is. He walked up to Captain Joey and shot him and apparently took his pilot's seat. Did the Captain have the navigation open at the time? Was it closed and Knives had to do some hacking? Anyway, there, he did it on his own. Now, in Trigun Maximum, which treats Vash and Knives' childhood differently (just Rem there raising them), there is a foreshadowing of what is to come. In Volume 6, Rem is depicted waking up to an emergency signal in the middle of her sleeping-hours. (Aw, she sleeps in her regular clothes, mom-jeans and all...). Panicked, she yells at Knives for him and Vash to lock themselves in their rooms and not to come out or speak up for ANY reason, even if they hear voices outside. She tries to handle the situation, but it goes from bad to worse and the automatic crew-wakening protocol goes into effect, which she is very concerned about (for reasons that we who have read the manga know about)!

In the beginning of Volume 7 the crew wakes up, there's a situation-update. The ships are going off-course and will collide if things are not corrected. They're working through the issues and suddenly, there's an unknown factor that kicks in to correct the course. Rem then gets the crew all settled back in again for nappy-time... And proceeds immediately to Vash and Knives, where she scolds Knives with (Rem's angry mom-face, my beloved)! Knives was playing around with the ship codes and systems. He'd apparently hacked his way into the system and was curious about SEEDS' functions. (One would assume that Rem changed some of the codes after this, but I bet they were in some kind of hacking-war, with her trying to stay one step above curious Plant-twins). Knives did not mean to nearly cause a catastrophe, but this shows that he can and is a foreshadowing to when he DOES mean to cause one later. Now, in Trigun Stampede, it is stated by Nai / Knives that Vash gave him the ship-codes, also that he spent a lot of time and trouble changing the codes for every human ship. (The manga lists the ship they are born on as the Mothership, presumably guiding the entire fleet, in Stampede, it is just Ship 5, which implies multiple guides with multiple navigators). I am wondering where Studio Orange is going with this. Will it be a situation like the manga where the kids are just playing around? Little prank-war with Rem? Maybe Vash is sharing a ship code innocently, as part of their games? Or is it going to be darker, more sinister? I wonder if Vash was originally of the thought of "maybe we need to crash the ships and kill all humans (except Rem) because they're scary and dangerous because of what happened to Tesla" and then had a change of heart and backed out of it? - I can see that happening... him having his cathartic alone-time with Rem as in the manga and then talking things out with Nai and thinking that they weren't going to go through with it. And then Nai betrays him. I've been wondering about the guilt Vash carries over the Big Fall in Stampede. Is it an unnecessary, undue guilt like he seems to have about a lot of things? Or is there a guilt born from "I had originally planned disaster / we had originally planned disaster" and it came true even after he'd backed out? It's just that... in both '98 and Maximum, he does carry his cross (that is not Wolfwood's), but he seems to feel less specifically guilty over this (the Big Fall). He's really more like "Knives, how could you do this to everyone / Rem?!" He just seems more guilt-ridden in Stampede than in the other media and I am wondering if there is a dark secret behind it. I can see it going either way.

Hmmmm stripper suguru

catch fire

I'm finally biting the bullet and making 2024 the year of my ocs. Prepare to only see these guys for a while

It only concerns me a little bit I haven’t really seen a written introspection on Stampede Knives’ character, specifically him. 98 is 98 and Maximum Knives has enough elitists on his case to cover him, definitely not a fan favourite but people have broken him down.

I’m aware of how disliked he is, Stampede that is, but it really is something. Could I write it, and could I kill an analysis of him? Most likely. I’ve been injecting the character into my veins, breathing him in and out for a year, every incarnation of him.

But I’m so curious to see someone else do it. Curious to see if someone else will do it…Maybe to convince myself I’m not a complete fool, or stuck in delusion. Maybe to find someone else that got it.

Hate and disdain, is something I’ll never protect him from. He’s an asshole. But man, even he doesn’t deserve the shallow reading of him that’s too widely accepted I think.

But who am I to say what is and isn’t…

✦ My webcomic finished this year ✦

It was a big sprawling project that I started 6 years ago (these first drawings are... very old now) but there are still old parts of it I like - this month I thought I'd do some posts reminding myself of them.

Here are some of my favourite panels: volume one

Listen I know people have already talked about this dynamic at length but I’m never shutting the fuck up about this scene.

This shit rewired my brain in middle school. This is, no contest, the flattest version of Knives, but the tension is delicious. “I’m scared, hold my hand, you’re the only one alive who could possibly understand You don’t understand at all, and I have to deal with you and your bullshit and all of the people you’ve hurt.” They’re nothing like each other and they are exactly the fucking same. They’re both so deeply fucked up that this is the only vulnerability they’ll allow themselves- there’s no way other people could understand it. A century is a long time. I have a lot of incoherent thoughts about it.

Thunder with Rain

Life's kind of Okay

Thunder and No Rain?

Life's a PAIN

the purposeful framing of this panel (and this entire scene of showing all the people who vash has met throughout the story) implies that wolfwood was AS important to vash as rem was. they both have had the greatest impact on him, so much so that their existence changes vash’s entire sense of morality. and rem and wolfwood, besides knives, are the only two people who vash really allows himself to love? people he wants to be with for as long as possible—when he’s so used to running away, used to going out of his way to avoid getting close to anyone. and it's just like idk *throws up violently*

Sirius wearing a skirt when he’s staying at school for Christmas holidays and nobody cares because the wizarding world doesn’t have gendered clothing.

vod of the day: Estes! he's Honeytone's twin. he is stockier than the rest of the clones :D!

estes CT-4666 (he/him) medic

one of cadavre's apprentices/shadows

-bunch of freckles -scruff -eyebrow scar -beauty mark/mole below lip

can beatbox a bit too well

e:"how the kriff do you keep getting into these situtions?" h:"I DONT KNOW!!"

comm always emits an awful static w/ words barely coming through half the time (sounds like a spirit box)

Suguru’s favorite way to make you cum is while he’s fully dressed and you aren’t. Just so you know

[ID: A Trigun panel of Rem waking up after her “blank ticket” dream. Her room is a mess-- discarded items are strewn across the floor and her disheveled bed, including multiple bottles at her bedside. Rem sits up with messy hair and a blank expression, backed by closed blinds. End ID]

Rem Saverem I love you forever.