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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 203 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 89 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 10 months ago

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?