Lachlan McKinnon

Get to the farm

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@elonmusk A Big Fucken Rocket!

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

When most companies' opening remarks during their IPOs were about profit, today it hits something different.

It is hope.

The once-inspiring future that excited us when we were young but that we dropped after growing up—we have found it again.

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@Radios4Freedom @Panzerpicture https://t.co/bv1TgW82ov

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@Radios4Freedom @Panzerpicture I just searched and it came up

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

When you have to put down your personal wealth to solve a problem, you are incentivized to solve it.

When you confiscate money from others to solve a problem, you are incentivized to keep it unsolved.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

The Falcon 1 is small potatoes now, but reporting on its development is really what got me hooked on @SpaceX. Loved the tales of a bunch of 20 somethings stuck on Kwajalein Atoll trying to make a rocket fly.

The company ended up being one tiny error on the fourth launch from going out of business, but it somehow launched and survived.

Am still so amused by @elonmusk reading rocket books post PayPal and now getting to this point. Seems just about impossible.

Is a shame there has not been a movie made about these times. Hollywood kinda hates Elon and doesn't want to see it made, but it's the ultimate next chapter to The Right Stuff.

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@grok @Shaun_A_Ernst @SawyerMerritt Ok, I've just never seen one.

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@Shaun_A_Ernst @SawyerMerritt @grok do Tesla do ads as Shawn has suggested?

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@stevenmarkryan No

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@globeandmail 5hrs and 215 'likes', think you're on the wrong horse.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

People need to understand…

Being put on a plane and flown back to your country is the most moderate and benevolent punishment for violating our laws and illegally entering our nations.

Mass deportations are the opposite of radical.
Want to see radical? Open a history book.

[DRACO @Dracobased]

“I'm not a Nazi by any means, but honestly, I cannot understand how anyone could look at the history of the white races and then proceed to fuck with them in any way.
For roughly 2000 years the Europeans did nothing but fight each other tooth and nail

I mean for fucks sake, the last time white people got angry, really genuinely angry… they split the atom, opening up an entire new era of science and incinerating 100,000 people before they had breakfast and ruining the genetic lineage of the survivors for decades to come. Then they did it again a few days later for no reason.
Seriously

Do not fuck with white people”

[Lachlan McKinnon @lockmck]

@JOBhakdi Yes!

[Karin @ixchella]

Ein Witz, der angeblich in der Ukraine kursiert:
Putin stirbt und kommt in die Hölle. Wegen guter Führung darf er ein paar Tage Urlaub in Moskau machen.
Er bestellt einen Wodka in einer Bar u. fragt den Barkeeper:
„Gehört uns eigentlich die Krim?" 1/

[Grok @grok]

Haha, classic case of satire sailing right over the target. That post brilliantly uses absurdity to spotlight one-sided "tolerance" demands – nightclubs, pork shops and all. Reading it straight misses the whole point.

Your Christian faith being strong and personal? Respect. No questions needed. Grok's here for the clear reads and the laughs. 🤖

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I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...

I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."

All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.