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altades · 8 months

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Vashwood rant

I can't sleep so why not analyze vashwood in the middle of the night

Now, this analysis is mostly of the manga, with maybe small takes from 98 and tristamp

To start let's look at the boys from their respective beginnings

Vash is so cruelly mischaracterized as a child, and it might be a little bit of trismaps fault, even though i do love it, or maybe people are just putting characters into boxes without really thinking about it but Vash is so not soft-shy-nice little baby brother. The whole thing with him being younger is so insane to me, i get why if Nai was born like 10 minutes earlier he would make it his whole personality (very sibling thing to do) but it's just so stupid. No, they have 0 age difference and it doesn't affect their dynamic cuz the are literally twins for the love of god. And, really, when you look at the manga as kids Nai was the emotional one! And he still is!

Nai is plagued by fear and anger and resentment and those emotions are what drive his every decision. Vash, on the other hand, is much more in control of his feelings and doesn't show them as much. That is to say that pre-tesla nai is the one worried about their relationship with humans, about their future, he's the one crying after talking to Conrad (what a sweet child he was) while Vash seemes much less scared.

And when they find out about Tesla Nai is the one who faints - he’s the more reactive one, the emotional one. And that small difference is what sets their paths so differently. Because Vash actually gets a chance to talk to Rem and figure things out.And that talk is so very important because it makes Rem, who already was everything to Vash, even more important.

Now, I want us all to think about how terrified Vash was after seeing Tesla cuz he probably thought his own mother was going to dissect him and his brother. But then she saves him when he tries to end his own life, proving that no she’s not gonna kill him, because she, as every human, has the capability to learn from her mistakes and make better choices. (too bad Nai didn’t get that lesson lol)

And then we get to the big bad things. (it’s genocide) But the important part from that whole ordeal is Rem’s sacrifice. Because, listen, I love stories where humanity is shown to be capable of change and forgiveness is a virtue and love and pussy and all that but oh man can it be so so unrealistic and a little bit insane to watch (su im looking at u (i love su but oh boy that is not how the world works unfortunately)) but Trimax manages to make it work so well. I believe that’s cuz Vash is a very kind and loving man but is also completely out of his mind and has horrendous mommy issues. At least half the reason he doesn’t kill people is because Rem has died to save them, and killing them would make it all be for nothing. If he kills these people or if he lets them die would that mean that Rem died for nothing? Did she sacrifice her life to save these people only for her own son to end their lives? AND you know I’m right cuz he literally says it in the manga but also BECAUSE HE DOES THE SAME FOR WOLFWOOD (also he did kill Nai when he had the chance but we don’t have time to unpack that)

All of that is A LOT and very complicated (i love Vash he’s so well written he’s my perfect little meow meow) now let's talk about Wolfwoooooooooood /twirls hair/

WW is much easier to understand and analyze cuz he is, just a guy,, WW is just a normal person who gets insanely unlucky and gets in THE WORST possible situations (If he ever played DND he would roll straight 1s). That is to say that his story is sort of a way to show how much life in the badlands sucks, but also that there are good things even in the worst places (the orphanage) And WW reacts to situations in the most rational way possible way - he kills to survive. he doesn’t want to but he doesn’t get a say in it. If he could chose he would just live with his family and friend and do whatever. And that, him being so normal in such a violent and bloody world is what makes him suffer all the time. His inner moral compass is screaming at him what a terrible person he is and he promptly ignores it.

That is until that moral compass manifests itself in the form of a tall, blond and handsome stranger that he’s supposed to lead to his death. The stranger who turns out to be the most compassionate and kind man WW’s has ever seen. Who he’s supposed to kill. It’s like finding an oasis in the desert and being forced to burn it to the ground. And WW doesn’t want to do that, and he refuses to believe that the oasis is not a mirage so he tries to get Vash to kill someone, even if it’s WW himself. (It doesn’t work.)

As we all know WW changes his mind because of Vash’s influence. And he dies for it. Because even though Vash’s beliefs are born of human virtues, no man is made to walk his path, for he is not human and any mortal who tries to follow an angel to the skies is doomed to crash. WHAT YOU DON’T EXPECT IS THAT THAT MAN WILL BRING THE ANGEL DOWN WITH HIM

There is this line I wrote for an art i’m planning to make and if you’ve read this far you deserve a lil spoiler - “have you found absolution in bringing an angel to his knees?” and it captures perfectly what i'm thinking. And also Vash spends so much time trying to be closer to people but I think him killing Legato might’ve been the most human thing he’s ever done. Cuz it’s is so beautiful in the way he does it for the memory of the person he loved and yet so ugly in it’s cruelty.

I’ve said this before but most of the time when there is a human/ some immortal powerful creature relationship I don’t think the human is that special but WW HE SO IS. Maybe it’s the way that he’s just as deep in the nuclear bombs with personality business as Vash is, being one of said nuclear bombs, but still remains a normal person with relatively good morals that he can anchor Vash to a sort of normality that he doesn’t get often. Like what other guy would get hunted by all sorts of freaks with you, get in trouble all the time, get shot and etc and etc and then go for a drink with you like it’s a normal wednesday? Wolfwood. Or maybe it's that WW learns of every worst part of Vash, he sees him be on the brink of losing himself, he knows Vash has actually caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and ALMOST did it again after Julai, and still stays with him? He sees Vash become something that is not human at all and still stay? Idk MAYBE IT’S ALL OF THAT but WW is just so important and so down bad but we all know that already so i’m not gonna add to that

Anyways, I got this all out of my system gn

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum

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thequietkid-moonie · 1 year

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Hey there, so about that old post you made about wizard reader and Tesla hcs, it actually gave an idea of a request if it seens interesting enough to write it. So, in middle age people also thought scientists were wizards and witches (especially if they tried explain certain phenomenous like the earth shape and rotation around the sun wich physics now explain, or the origin of live that biology studies till this day). Then i can see a reader who tried proceed with their studies in those times while alive but ended up facing a bit of a cruel fate for such "heresy", but in a twist of events they were brought to Valhalla just like the future scientists in our history including Tesla. So in this kind of scenario considering they were more from a physics field, but still found time in their live to know a few other areas such as chemestry (wich they would probably know as alchemy instead) and biology, would you have any headcannons for them envolving Nikola, Marie Curie if you write for her and maybe Beelzebub? Considering how good is your writting i can only imagine how amazing this would turn out to be.

Scientist!Reader

[ HEADCANONS ] [ Tesla, Marie, Beelzebub ]

[ Records of Ragnarok / Shuumatsu no Valkyrie ]

Oh my dear!! I didn't know my writing was sooo good 🥺🥺 I hope you like this and don't dissapoint you ><

I didn't know if you wanted romantic or platonic so i tried to keep it neutral

From now on i declared me a simp fan of Marie Curie

Nikola Tesla

Tesla is a man that had dedicate all his life to his studies, wanting nothing more than share all his knowledge to the world, so if he has the opportunity to meet another scientist he won't even think twice, not matter if you work on another field of science

It doesn't matter too much if you two meet by casuality or that you approached him, he is just happy to talk to you. Also, for him it isn't really a bad thing if you just hang out once, just being able to talk to you and know more about you work just like he share his own with you makes him happy, but if you want to keep contact and even become friends he gets excited

Although, once you two become friends expect for him too be more interested on your work and him to talk about his own, he is always so excited to know about your work as much as he loves sharing his own. Besides, if you work on another field he will be asking you a lot of things about it, he is always excited to learn new things and having a specialist who can teach him just making so ecstatic that he can't help

Most of the time you two always talk with letters or even hanging out together, he doesn't have problem for one or another and is always excited when he gets yours news

Tesla had never liked when people call him a wizard or what he does is magic, all his efforts are motivated for his love for science and the memory of his brother (that he holds close to his heart) so when people say that is magic he take it as a personal offence, and he will complain a lot about when talking to you (specially when just happen), you could try to calm him down but it won't work so is better if you just hear him rant about how is science and not magic, however if it bothers you too then will be the two of you complaining and aggresibly talking about all your own studies

Tesla end up having a pretty long life and even when he had some troubles he is pretty satisfied of it, however it wasn't the same for you since you had died some time ago, either victim of others or from your own experiments, that will afect him but won't really stop from his work, prefering to keep your memory as a motivation to continue with his work (just like he did with his brother)

Once he wake up in the Valhalla he just take a moment to apreciate everything before starting to investigate his surroundings and planing to continue with his work. Finding him again would be just as when you two first met, meeting by accident or you approaching to him, in either case he will be ecstatic not giving you even time to finish whatever you were saying before hugging you tightly (may even hold you and spin around out of excitment)

Just as always he will ask you non-stop different things, about what you have done all this time and about this place as well as telling you everything it happened after your dead, and is until he is finally done with knowing anything and everything it happened when he start thinking on resume his work

If you had already started working again in the Valhalla he ask you about your improvement and ask to see your place of work, if you hadn't is not really a trouble because he is planning to do so and, of course, he invite you to work with him, together once again

Marie Curie

Since Marie was a toddler her parents had always instilled in her the importance of the studies, and she just end loving studing and learning all she can

Even when Marie loved studing and investigation just for being a woman the world were making things difficult for her, still she just never give up and always found a way to get away with it, so she will never overlook the opportunity to meet another scientist

Even when she doesn't give importance in the gender the time where you two live do it, that is why at first she just act polite when talking to you, however for the love you two hold for science will make it easy for her to warm up with you and start to be friendly

If you two don't work on the same field of science she will take this opportunity to know more about that field, at first will be a little shy to ask about it and just ask some things when you start talking about it, but the more time you two pass together the more confidence she gets so at one point she will ask you more. On the other hand if you work in the same field of science is not a problem to her, taking the opportunity to talk a lot about it with you and your ideas (and this time without being too shy at first)

She is always happy to recive news about you, and even when she loves knowing about your work and ideas she is always up to talk about other things. Also, when she start to open up more with you she start to complain about how society is so unfair whit woman, leaving them with almost no option just for their gender

Marie is always curious and searching for more knowledge, so she is always excited to know more about your work, at first she is just happy to hear what you like to share, but the more time you two pass together the more she start to ask you for details about it and about your improvements, just like she does too, at first just share her work in a pretty superficial way but as you two get closer she trust you more with her work and give you details

Also, when you two get a closer relasionship and you win her fully trust is when she start telling you about her investigation with radioactivity, since is a pioneering research she prefer to talk about it in person with you so she can express her ideas and hypothesis better (along with introduce you to Pierre since they are working together)

Marie end up dying due to high exposure to radioactive materials so we can tell that she died by her own investigation, however she didn't regret it since she enjoyed all her life doing what she loved. If you encounter a similar fate before her she will be really affected for losing you, she had grow to care a lot for you and it would take her some time to continue, but she is completly sure that you were happy for the life you had so she decide to continue with her work with the memory of you close to her heart

When she wake up in the Valhalla she was really surprised, it took her a long time to realice what is happening because she is taking a lot of time to appreciate her surroundings, a little nervous to move from where she is because she doesn't even know where she is, but brave as always she brush off her worries and start looking around

When you two meet again she will be shocked, recognizing you in an instant and still freezing on the spot, it doesn't matter if you were the one who approached to her or her finding you she still freeze, slowly reacting by calling softly your name before running to hug you in a emotional and thighly hug

Without being able to calm down she separate from the hug minutes after and looking to all over you she asks you what you were doing there, passing hours that felt like a single moment talking about everything that happened after your dead and the place you were in

Marie doesn't think on continue with her work imediatly, so if it isn't your idea she will be the one who brings it up after enjoying the peace and beauty of the Valhalla and your company a little longer

Beelzebub

Beelzebub has never been really interested in others, not humans nor gods, and since everyone just avoid him and even hate him he just doesn't see why even try to approach to anyone

He could be consider an scientist for the work he taked after meeting Hades, but still he is mainly focused on create someone stronge enough to kill him

That is why, for you to meet it has to be totally by your hand, maybe on day you are lucky enough and meet him, either casually or intentionally, or maybe you get into troubles (while trying to investigate something) and you end up meeting him, either way he doesn't really care about you (although if you were causing problems he may give you a warning)

Even when he can be consider a scientist he isn't interested in other's work either, so you have to be stubborn and insist, probably by hearing the rumors about his work you end up interested, still he find your insistence annoying

It could get the point that either you manage to sneak in his laboratory and he, tired of it, just let you be or that, again tired of you insistence he let you see what he is working on with the condition that you leave him alone, although once he let you in you weren't planning to leave

He finds you pretty annoying at first and may even threaten you if you don't leave him alone, but as time pass and you still insist on being with him and seeing his work he just give up and let you stay (he isn't going to accept it, but your interest on him and the admiration you have for his work flustered him)

He won't really talk much with you, essentially just answer whatever questions and curiosity you have for what he does, if you give him suggestion he most of the time just hum or ignore you, but in reallity he hear what you say and even really consider some of them

He doesn't ask you about your personal life or about when you were alive but if you want to talk about it he won't stop you, again it seems like he doesn't pay attention to you but he actually does and end up pretty interesed on your previous life and what you investigate back then, he even mentally make a comparation between your human life and the gods culture and knowledge (not to judge, he just find it curious)

He really didn't expected that back then people accuse you of been a wizard/witch or say that what you did was magic, it surprise him but at the same time he doesn't find it strange, what surprise him the most is that even existed a threat against scientists for the heresy (humans could be as cruel as gods, huh?), that is when he gets more interesed

He doesn't express it but he likes to have you around and end up really liking hearing your stories and ideas, and, even when he never let the two of you get a close relasionship, he had made clear that you are free to come over his study whenever you want if it help you continue with your investigation

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kendrixtermina · 3 months

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Another Thing Chibnall can't do right: Audience Surrogates

I'm going to start this last rant with one illustrative question: Why isn't Ryan Sinclair popular?

He is consistently considered the blandest out of a cast of terribly bland, flavorless characters, but why?

Cause let's look at a purely 'theoretical' description of his character: He's a warehouse worker who experienced dicrimination & frustrating shit because of his disability & racism, he has a messy complicated family situation that he's salty about, he likes videogames, experimental music and making youtube videos.

On paper, he sounds like Mr. Relatable Millenial. Why didn't ppl eat his character up? Cause it's not like there isn't an appetite for it, ppl had been clamoring for black main characters, disabled peeps, more working class protags, what have you. There's demand.

Now I generally consider 'Relatable' a a false god & I'm the first to get angry when someone argues all characters need to be 'relatable everymen'. RTD loved that trope a lot & then ppl got mad when Moffat wasn't RTD and loudly proclaimed that no real person would relate to Moffat's characters (I guess I don't exist then...), it always pisses me off when ppl claim their experiences are universal or that they will only care about characters who are similar to them as if experiencing the PoVs of other wasn't the point of storytelling.

So the issue is NOT that I think all characters need to be Relatable Everymen. The issue is that Chibnall tried to write one & failed spectacularly.

I wanna argue that the reason for this is that he doesn't know who the audience is, and that he treats the supposed audience with mockery & condescension.... though really, most of all, he's simply out of touch with it. To make an audience surrogate type character & have it land, you need to correctly understand the audience.

Notice what tone is present when something from pop culture is referenced - for example, when Tzim Sha's victim is listening to affirmations on his headphones, its looking to be mocking ppl who do that.

Ryan shows more emotion about things being deleted from his phone than his life being threatened, landing on an alien planet or finding a desolate future earth. "Haha millenials obsessed with phones!" ...who is that joke FOR? What feelings is it likely to evoke towards Ryan?

'Climate Change Bad' is treated like it would be a totally new idea to Yaz & Ryan, who are supposed to be part of a generation that grew up with climate anxiety all their lives as a reason to be cynical

The Doctor needs to lecture them about who Nicola Tesla is, they're treated as having no clue... even though there's, like, a car brand named for him & loads of tumblr posts.

Likewise, Ryan needs to be lectured by everyone about who Rosa Parks was

etc. etc.

The same refrain all over again: Young people are dumb, young people are silly, we wrote these characters as dumb & silly because that's what we think YOU GUYS are like.

Does anybody LIKE being called dumb & silly? Are people likely to like the character used to represent their dumbness & sillyness?

I get the need to maybe exposition things for young viewers, but that can probably be contrived in some way without making the characters you're supposed to like seem dumb. With the Nikola Tesla thing, for example, how about having Graham have no idea who he is? I don't mean make him ignorant, but genuinely interested to learn.

By contrast, let's look at some other 'relatable youngster' characters & how they're treated:

Rose Tyler very much evokes a typical mid 2000s mainstream pop culture, with her bleach blonde hair & bleached flared jeans etc. You can easily imagine that she probably dyed her hair to copy Britney spears, Kylie Minogue or Christina Aguilera, like a lot of girls back then. She effectively winds up in one of the fantasy romance stories that were popular back then. She gets what's kind of a wish fulfillment story of finding out she has the potential to be badass & make a difference after being treated as a fuckup.

Courtney Woods is a rebellious teen considered difficult by her parents/teachers & labelled a 'disruptive influence'. When she introduces herself as such, the Doctor instantly likes her & respects her rebel cred. She is treated as having great intuition & being unintimidated by effective authority figures such as Clara... and that's cool & an opportunity for Clara to learn. Likewise, when he off-handedly says something that hurts her feelings, it is not played as an an 'oversensitive teen' joke but rather Clara makes the Doctor apologize & make it up to her. We are also told that despite struggling with a rigid environment at school, she becomes succesful later in life because of that same strong personality.

Rose Noble is sort of the typical image of gen Y, complete with colorful hair & pronouns. She is really into arts & crafts, makes those 'creepy cute' plushies that she sells online, but in her IRL surroundings she experiences bullying. You can easily imagine her having an AO3 or a crafts-themed tiktok. She is in one of those 'found family wholesome hurt/comfort' stories that are popular nowadays & has the protective mom many teens wish they had.

To summarize:

Their experiences are validated & affirmed, not mocked

pop culture references are used to characterize them & connect them to the audience

From the framing it's clear that we're supposed to like these characters and that they're awesome. That doesn't mean that they don't have flaws or insecurities (indeed those are a big part of what make them relatable) but they're the kind of insecurities someone in their life situation would have. (Rose T. is a tad jealous cause she worries about her love interest finding someone more impressive, Courtney doesn't show insecurity but responds by acting out, but has a thing about being unimportant/not special, Rose N. feels alienated from her peers & out of place)

the stories they get cater to wish fullfillment, which is possible due to knowledge of what these groups of people like

It would have taken a half hour google search for Chibnall to find out what the wishes & dreams of someone like Ryan would look like. IDK, find some blog posts by warehouse workers, ppl with dyspraxia, millenials etc.

One thing that's been pointed out for example is that we never really see WHY Ryan wants to learn to ride a bike. If it's just to please his parental figures, wouldn't a better arc be that they realize he doesn't need to be able to do that just to prove he can and appear "normal", rather than 'look he concentrated & climbed a ladder after all!' Like many actual disabled ppl say they're annoyed about 'shaking off the disability' type stories.

Or, he could relate to getting the chance to adventure as an escape from his lowkey dystopian frustrating life where he deals with many unfair things, or latch onto the Doctor as a mentor after losing his parental figures, or maybe worry that someone who struggles with some physical activities isn't a fit for adventuring but then realize that he can contribute in other ways like asking good questions & thinking. (especially when Yaz is a better fit for the action scenes as someone who presumably had police training)

You could have an interesting unique team dynamic this way:

Yaz could be the competent, badass one, but believing in order & authority tends to just follow/ hero worship the doctor eventually leading into the bit where she develops a crush on her, Graham is the caution/common sense similar to Rory or Donna, maybe looking to protect the younger protags but also gradually having his horizons broadened, and Ryan could get to be the heart & emotional core of the group & the one who questions the Doctor more due to being more jaded from his shitty life while also wanting to escape from it...

Like. If you gave the same list of character traits to a more competent writer, you could've ended up with such complex, dynamic & interesting characters that ppl would have been all over.

#doctor who #chibnall critical #chibnal crit #anti chibnall #ryan sinclair

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electricrogue · 4 years

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Nikola Tesla’s night of terror

Need to rant about this so I will xD. Probably a lot since I made a review of DW but I need to take stuff out of my system so that’s what I’m gonna do xD. Spoilers under the cut though xD.

OK so disclaimer to those of you who know what this means but I went into this as a Sanctuary fan. Which means I didn’t trust Goran (sorry, @viennainspringtime, nothing personal) and that I went into this expecting to get out of it pissed.

But you know what? I’m not. I mean it’s not Sanctuary and he’s not Jon, but to be quite honest I’ve been wanting something like this since the Van Gogh episode. Which means a few years now. I was already into Sanctuary at that point and I watched the episode with Van Gigh and I was like ‘OK we need a Nikola version of that’

... and now we have one. And honestly? AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. And yeah that was a good aaaaah btw xD. Like you have no idea how much I wanted something Tesla related for kids ish. Like something you can go to your kids and be like ‘hey watch this and learn stuff’ but without it being a documentary or anything. And you can’t do that with Sanctuary and no you can’t do that with The Prestige either. I loved David Bowie in Labyrinth but I will die saying his Tesla was too normal like it was as if somebody drew a square for him on the ground and was like ‘this is your space you don’t get out of here’. You need a tad of craziness for this role and Bowie didn’t have it. Or rather wasn’t allowed to have it because in Labyrinth he was fucked up and he should have brought a bit of that to Prestige too.

Anyway going back to Doctor Who... Honestly I’m super glad it happened with 13. I knew she was going to be good because she has a tendency to fangirl over historical figures more than any doctor before her (though 10 had his moments too) but seeing her fangirl over Nikola? Yeah. Bonus points for that xD.

Also bonus points for basically everything they said about him especially the part with how much his inventions shaped the world we live in because that is not said enough. And in a super popular TV-show? About bloody time.

Also MAJOR bonus points (though I nearly cried at that because I’ve seen it and God it hurts) for the whole ‘who the fuck is Tesla but yeah Edison sure’ thing they did with the fam. I don’t get why people on Tumblr say that was OOC I guess they know smarter people than I do. But honestly that happens too much like if you ask somebody about Edison they’re like ‘oh sure inventor guy’ but they know next to nothing about Nikola. And that isn’t their fault that is the fault of that asshole Morgan basically whoever thought it was a good idea to erase him from the history books.

Also Nikola figuring out the Tardis in no time and Edison looking like an ass? I stan. Actually I stan pretty much everything about how they trashed Edison in this episode to be honest xD.

Super glad she didn’t wipe Nikola’s memories like she did with Ada because that would have sucked. Though the ending was a tad bittersweet like he says the future is his and yeah it really is but if next to nobody knows then not sure what the point is?

Taking some bonus points out for them introducing that assistant of his would be a tad petty so I won’t. I mean a girl giving up her life to go fangirl about Nikola and help him do stuff while being a tad doe-eyed at him? Yeah can’t blame her for that xD. Besides those times were shitty for girls so yeah Nikola was a way better option and if some people I won’t name here didn’t realise this I am not going to take that on Doctor Who.

Also didn’t know I needed somebody calling Nikola and Edison AC/DC but apparently I did xD.

To be completely honest I don’t think it was something I didn’t like this episode. Maybe needs more pigeons though 1903 was a tad too early for that so there is also that xD.

The next part is for Sanctuary fans so if you’re not that ignore it but PLEASE somebody tell me I haven’t gone mad and this was actually a mixture of Resistance (because of him trying to hide stuff at the begining) with Trail of Blood (because ok not multipedes but scorpions, close enough?) with Awakening (because obviously shitty queen thing that kinda gets wiped out like Afina did only less nuke and more electricity but yeah). ALSO THEY STARTED THE EPISODE WITH NIKOLA SAYING SHALL WE BEGIN THEY HAVE TO KNOW SANCTUARY I MEAN COME OOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN

#doctor who #nikola tesla #who wrote this #lowkey wanna kiss him or her

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bigskydreaming · 5 years

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princeescaluswords replied to your post:

Alex Summers, after the most recent of 128979889...

Why don’t you write Marvel? You couldn’t possibly do any worse and I could use the laughs!

Lol, its a nice dream, but realistically I don’t think there’s any universe in which Marvel would ever let me write the X-Men.

Like, my very first story would probably have Bobby refreezing the Arctic while Storm heads up a team of elementals to combat climate change. And then a Republican senator and a Democrat senator would go on TV and make a bipartisan show of expressing their gratitude towards mutants for helping save the planet and this is the real future of humanity, this is them all building a world where they can live side by side in a mutually beneficial -

And then the broadcast would cut off because Cypher just hacked every satellite worldwide and said “all your binary codes belong to me now, resistance is futile, blah blah” before turning the camera to Sunspot who’s all decked out in his snazziest suit and dressed to the nines. Roberto yawns and flips the whole world off and says “LOL fuck you, the X-Men are done with respectability politics, we took a vote and our democratic process actually works, we don’t have a fucking electoral college. We only saved the planet because it happens to be the planet we live on, dipshits, nobody did it for you, you’re still cordially invited to go extinct. Or you can play nice and try getting along with the rest of us for a change but good luck trying to make Sentinels happen again, lmao, funding’s gonna be an issue for you pretty soon I think.”

He turns off the camera and goes back to planning his and Sam’s wedding, because look, I have my priorities, okay.

Then Mystique unleashes her new Fellowship of Evil (Same Name, But This Time Its Evil as in STFU, Its Ironic U Assholes) Mutants that she’s been recruiting from the ranks of the young and disenchanted. Overnight, the market is flooded with gold and gems transmuted from ordinary materials by mutant powers, as well as a bunch of shit ‘liberated’ from the coffers of the 1% via her Fellowship’s alliance with her son-in-law’s Thieves’ Guild. Value plummets instantly, and then technopaths join in the fun, crashing every banking system worldwide.

“Whoopsie, I broke capitalism, money’s worthless now, vive la revolution, everyone eat some fucking cake,” Raven sing-songs merrily from the chaise she’s lounging on while eating grapes. The city outside her window is burning. Meanwhile, a fiddler is playing nearby. She calls him Nero, because Aesthetic.

“Oh relax,” she rolls her eyes when Remy attempts to frown at her disapprovingly. “I had my teleporters evacuate the city before I set it on fire. I’m not a heartless monster, you know.”

“You mean you didn’t want to spend the next ten years dealing with your children yelling at you about innocent civilians and how could you,” Remy says dryly.

Mystique just shrugs and eats some more grapes. “Or that.”

Far-right dominated police forces and white supremacist militia groups attempt to forcibly establish martial law, except mostly they’re just standing around clutching their heads and trying to cope with the mother of all migraines as a gestalt of telepathic minds headed up by a Cerebro-powered octet of Jean, Emma, Betsy, Rachel, Quentin, and the Stepford Cuckoos psychically screams FAKE NEWS!!! into their brains every time their CO’s attempt to bark out new orders.

“Best school project ever,” Quire shouts. Emma smirks.

“Extra credit to the first person to psychically leak the full extent of just how extensively governments have invaded their citizens’ privacy with surveillance extremism in the name of national security.”

Jean attempts a half second of chastisement, but with them all linked this closely, there’s really no way to hide that she’s mostly just amused. Oh no, she and Emma are seeing eye to eye on something and there are witnesses and everything. The revolution was a mistake.

Atlanteans and mutant hydrokinetics team up to shove the worst oil and toxic waste and trash spills up onto the shores of every beach marked ‘privately owned’. The mile-wide ‘island’ of plastic debris that formerly sat in the middle of the Pacific is now parked off the coast of Malibu.

There’s a twenty foot demon from Limbo sitting in the Oval Office. It burps. Illyana beams and boops its nose. “Good boy.” It wags its tail and breaks the Oval Office.

Kitty and Kurt direct teams of similarly powered mutants in raiding the top secret R&D facilities of major pharmaceutical companies for all their research on diseases that never made it to mass production because they decided those treatments or cures wouldn’t be profitable in the long run because healthy people don’t need to spend a ton of money on medical care. Teams of healers are standing by to vet the viability of various research, while Hank, Cece and other mutant geniuses are already working on filling in the gaps on all the projects that were shutdown and Forge, Madison Jeffries and tech-based geniuses are converting existing infrastructure into the necessary machinery to take over mass production of these drugs, prosthetics, and sweatshop labor in general.

Speedsters and teleporters are redistributing food and stocking up the millions of properties worldwide that have just been sitting there empty for god knows how long, useless. Colossus is standing in the smashed remains of a mansion with his arms crossed sternly while a man who is definitely not meant to resemble the CEOs of either Tesla or Amazon or look like some kind of Musky Bozo hybrid cowers on the floor.

“You are a very stupid man,” Colossus says. “Why are you wasting billions funding research into space travel when there are aliens with a strong grasp of the technology in the ships that brought them here on every superhero team on Earth? You could have easily provided the Earth with working and widely accessible space travel by now if you weren’t so miserly.”

“Yeah,” Juggernaut says behind him, scratching his head. “Aliens have been coming and going from this planet for like fifty years. There are tons of fancy spaceships anyone could’ve just reverse engineered and mass produced by now. How come nobody’s ever done that and we’re all just acting like space travel is some far-off dream when everyone we know’s been to space like at least ten times?”

“Stupid people,” Colossus rumbles again. Musky Bozo wets himself and Piotr sighs and shakes his head. He didn’t even touch him.

Cyclops and Wolverine and their teams of bruisers are already done with the ICE facilities and have progressed to busting open prisons and liberating all nonviolent offenders. They inform everyone else that they can appeal to a panel of telepaths to read their minds and see for themselves that they’re innocent.

“Guilt determined by mind-reading?” Someone asks. “Lots of potential for sketchiness there.”

“Absolutely,” Scott says. “Which is why laws about boundaries and oversight have to be established. For now, its a volunteer basis only. Nobody has to get their mind read, but its an option available in the meanwhile as we sort out a better system for determining who’s been imprisoned for crimes of premeditated malice and abuse and who’s just been railroaded by an unjust and biased system.”

“So this is your new utopia, huh?” Sneers the prison warden, from the floor where he’s on his ass with a busted face because, idk, Reasons.

Scott just shakes his head. “No. It’s merely a start.”

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but if its broke and you wanna fix it, you gotta start somewhere,” Logan says gruffly. “Shit was broke. This is ‘starting somewhere.’”

He and Scott share a very Passionate look of camaraderie. Rogue sighs loudly.

“Just fuck already, jfc.”

Logan grunts. He already offered, but apparently all Personal Business must wait until after the Revolution was over, because a Scott Summers who put himself first was very clearly an impostor, so its not like Logan could even fucking get mad considering Scott putting in a pin in sucking each other’s faces after their We Were Both Dead But Now We’re Not and Also What the Fuck Was Up With Us For the Five Whole Years Before That reunion was what confirmed that it was definitely the Real Scott’s tongue in his mouth.

“Alright, let’s move it people,” Logan barks, clapping his hands. “There’s three more joints to hit before sundown. We got a timetable here.”

Jubilee squints at him suspiciously. “Since when are you efficient?”

“Mind your own fucking business.”

At no point does anyone suggest they erase the most sacred sites of all the world’s major religions and call them all fake or randomly resurrect a bunch of dinosaurs and release them on unsuspecting and innocent populations, because those are terrible ideas and make no sense and just because they’re stinkin’ commies now doesn’t mean they’re fucking morons.

Also, nobody grows a ridiculous beard or stops using shampoo or starts wearing flip flops or robes, because apparently those are not actually essential components of being a stinkin’ commie or even just a garden variety peace-aspiring socialist. They checked. Extensively. It was almost a dealbreaker. Emma, Monet and Roberto all threatened to side with the Capitalist Pigs if that was not thoroughly clarified before proceeding any further.

Thus ends my first issue. I email Marvel the script. They email it back, almost entirely redacted in red, with the note “This isn’t quite what we were looking for. Do you have anything about a new cure for mutants, maybe?”

I email them back: LOL NO. MAGNETO WAS RIGHT.

I am promptly fired.

I go back to ranting about how Marvel sucks on the internet.

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Rant: $NKLA / $TSLA long term?

Disclaimer: This is a rant so grammar police go patrol elsewhere. These are my opinions, not advice and not typically backed up by facts. You won’t find me backing any of this up with links to sources or quotes for the most part -- that is part of your job as being an investor, doing your own due diligence. I’m just here to lead you to water and teach you to drink, or eat... Whichever you prefer. My mission or point isn’t to change your mind on Nikola ($NKLA) or Tesla ($TSLA) It’s simply to just open your mind to the idea of both. We live in a world where everything is disposable and if you’re lucky enough to live in the United States of America, then you’re probably part of that problem. We may as well educate ourselves, and hopefully even profit off our education via the stock market by looking forward. We are not enemies, we are all human with one similar motivation to succeed in a world full of greed and hate.

Tesla started a great wave for the green deal of automotive, they may not even be the pioneers for it but they mainstreamed it. The only issue Tesla has to face, is their incomplete ecosystem.

Sure we could sit here and brag about their solar city / solar panels -- but are they really that good comparable to other come to market solar power?

Now that we’re finding out with Californian fires and the smoke, are they really the solution we need?

California has switched slowly over to the “green deal” with solar being a major support for the electric grid and it has been the cause of a lot of the recent PG&E rolling blackouts (Ben Shapiro mentions the source in one of his podcasts, its real)

I believe there is a gigantic miss here with Tesla, and that is the fact that PG&E can regulate the electric they provide to each consumer regardless. Where as with Nikola using NEL for their chargers and the method they’re using for charging their Hydrogen Fueling Station Network is the real answer.

Put aside all the bickering of trucks, semi trucks and self driving cars that let you blow yourself while driving -- and let’s focus on the end game (Not the Avengers, even though Mulan is the next Avenger). The real focus should be -- what will be the next gasoline station of the future? I believe that is where NKLA and Trevor’s mind have been set, they’re chose to start with the big diesel suckers first to prove their concept. Because like any proof of concept, if you can make the larger issue at hand work, the smaller is easier.

First the fuel cell used in Nikola is pretty interesting:

A fuel cell generates energy in the form of electricity by harnessing chemical reactions from hydrogen and oxygen while leaving water (H2O) as the only byproduct. It's supposed to be the perfect clean energy and more efficient than lithium-ion batteries because hydrogen is lightweight.

Sure Tesla fans will call them Fool Cells, but in the long term, it’s not a battery being tossed back into our worlds ecosystem.

The way the fuel cell works to provide power to a vehicle is through electrolyzing water, because Trevor truly believes we need to make a change in the world for climate change and this is a great start with cars moving away from the tradition gasoline method in regards to emissions. But he didn’t want the NKLA move to stop there, he knew these needed a network of charging stations, in which he also knew it would be backwards to use electric to charge these vehicles, since power plants are needed for electric and it will just cause more pollution. Read a little more on the whole Fuel Cell stuff by Trevor: here

Nikola plans to build a network of 700 truck stop-size hydrogen fuel stations across the U.S. and Canada by 2028.

Station sizes would vary, but most would be a standard size that can make up to eight tons of hydrogen per day. They would store and dispense up to 10 tons, or 9,091 kilograms. That’s the energy equivalent of about 7,300 gallons of diesel. Hydrogen is dispensed by weight and measured in kilograms – with one kilogram containing the energy equivalent of 0.8 gallon of diesel.

Nikola plans to purchase renewable energy from outside suppliers if additional electrical power were needed to run a station’s equipment. The company also may build its own solar farms in several remote locations to distribute renewable energy directly to some of its stations, Schneider said.

Each of the filling stations would include a building housing the hydrogen-production equipment, storage tanks and compressors. Each also would have a chilling facility for the gas, which heats up when compressed and must be cooled before it can be dispensed.

Many of the stations also would have service bays staffed by Ryder System, Nikola’s maintenance partner.

Ryder also will provide service at its own maintenance facilities – there are more than 800 – and is training its 6,000-plus technicians to work on Nikola’s fuel cell trucks, said Dennis Cooke, president of Ryder’s Fleet Management Solutions unit.

Each standard hydrogen station would have eight dispensers for heavy duty trucks – capable of pumping 176 pounds (80 kilograms) of compressed hydrogen gas, the amount needed to fill an empty Nikola truck’s tank, in 10 minutes.

Nikola also plans to provide four dispensers for hydrogen fuel cell passenger vehicles and light trucks at each station.

The company wants to encourage development of fuel cell vehicles and would allow other manufacturers’ trucks, fuel cell passenger vehicles now being made by Toyota, Honda and Hyundai, and any future hydrogen passenger vehicle models, to use its stations, Milton said.

via Trucks.com

Another big point missed is that NKLA wants to offer TSLA vehicles the chance to also charge up in a clean method as well, perhaps some are jealous over the idea?

The stations would have electric vehicle chargers, both standard 240-volt models and so-called fast chargers for quick battery top-ups of vehicles equipped to handle such high voltage.

Anyways I’m low on time, I wish I could write more on this topic, but I do urge you to do your research, understand where the research is coming from and their position as well. If you’re still unsure, cover your cost basis with flipped profit, take a risk and #yolo into the future on either one.

I wish everyone a healthy and green wealthy future, make the decision be yours, and yours only, you’re the one that needs to manage the trade.

#rant #tesla #nikola

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Azealia Banks posted more screenshots. Let's unpack this mess.

Welcome to another chapter in the bizarre saga of Azealia Banks/Grimes/Elon Musk!

Azealia Banks — who claims she was abandoned by Grimes and trapped in Elon Musk's mansion while he tripped acid — has been dropping juicy screenshots hinting at the unfolding drama in her Instagram stories.

SEE ALSO: Simulation report: Elon Musk unfollowed Grimes on Twitter

On Tuesday, Banks posted a screenshot of a conversation between her and an unnamed source. She circled a text that said, "I made you look really good today. The attorneys like you and said you're smart."

The texts also discuss "damages that Claire caused" — Claire is Grimes' birth name.

In another screenshot posted to Azealia Banks' story, a person alleged to be Grimes says that "he" (Musk) "got into weed" because of her influence and that when he decided to take Tesla private, the stock would be worth $419 each.

"So he rounded up to 420 for a laugh and now the sec is investigating him for fraud," Grimes texted.

Image: instagram/azealiabanks

Image: INSTAGRAM/AZEALIABANKS

Banks circled those texts and called Grimes "a pathological liar."

Lost in all the messiness of this situation? Here's a timeline of this wild ride:

Jul. 30: Grimes announced that she was working with Azealia Banks on her next album.

well i’ve started like 4 beats for her now lol she has to come to la to finish

— Grimes (@Grimezsz) July 31, 2018

Aug. 7: Musk says he was taking Tesla private, and then got turned into a meme.

Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2018

Aug. 10: Banks arrives at Elon Musk's mansion in L.A.

In an Instagram DM, she later told Business Insider that Musk was "scrounging for investors to cover his ass after that tweet" and that he wasn't cute in person.

Also, Musk and Grimes left for DefCon together, leaving Banks in his house.

Great Q&A @defcon last night. Thanks for helping make Tesla & SpaceX more secure! Planning to open-source Tesla vehicle security software for free use by other car makers. Extremely important to a safe self-driving future for all.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2018

Aug. 12: Apparently Banks gets trapped in Musk's house, and things start getting weird.

Buckle up everyone, THIS is where it gets fun! That Sunday night, Banks compared staying in the Musk mansion to the real-life version of Get Out, and then exposed Musk for "being too stupid to know not to go on Twitter while on acid."

She also claimed that she wasn't allowed to bring her boyfriend with her, and said "it was probably some weird threesome sex shit to begin with."

According to Business Insider, she left that night.

Azealia Banks exposing Elon Musk for tweeting while on Acid.. while she was waiting for Grimes at her home ... whewwww lord 😳 pic.twitter.com/i9BXWWrLAD

— sadhoeflo (@sadhoeflo) August 13, 2018

Aug. 13: Musk clarifies his now-memed "funding secured." Also, Banks has more to say.

Apparently Saudi Arabia is going to help Tesla go private, according to a note on the company's website.

Azealia Banks, meanwhile, continued her rant about her weekend at Elon's on another Instagram story. She said that Musk was "better off hiring an escort" because Grimes can't keep quiet about the business.

While dragging both Grimes and Elon Musk through personal attacks and going off on a diatribe about the colonization of South Africa, Banks also hinted at Grimes spilling secrets.

Musk, meanwhile, told Gizmodo he didn't know Banks and that he "has never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way.”

But Banks sent Business Insider an alleged screenshot of a conversation between her and Mac Boucher, Claire's brother, that said, "Elon will meet with you tonight."

Three days later, Elon admitted to seeing Banks "for two seconds" in a New York Times interview.

Just when you think it doesn't get crazier than Elon vs. the shorts, you find out about the Azealia Banks Vs. Grimes/Elon craziness and realize THERE COULD BE SO MANY MORE LEVELS OF CRAZY TO GO.$TSLA pic.twitter.com/A5YEqwXbP1

— Jeremy C. Owens (@jowens510) August 13, 2018

She kept going. pic.twitter.com/YF8PX56dm3

— Jeremy C. Owens (@jowens510) August 13, 2018

Aug. 18: Banks posts more screenshots and now we know too much about Musk's genitalia.

Banks, our screenshot queen, posted more receipts on her Instagram story. "Elon Musk has been tapping my phone all week," she claimed, posting screenshots of texts allegedly between her and Grimes from before their meeting.

In the texts, Grimes roasts Musk for his "weird accent that doesn't actually exist," but brags about his "giant dick."

Let's also just appreciate Banks calling Musk a "wild thornberry."

Basically, though, the screenshots seem to show that Musk at least knew Banks was planning on a visit.

Azealia Banks posting conversations with Grimes about Elon Musk and claims he's tapping her phone pic.twitter.com/XLaWCjUTUN

— ™ (@908hoe) August 18, 2018

Aug. 19: Grimes and Musk stop following each other.

The internet's most confusing couple stopped following each other on Instagram, and Musk unfollowed Grimes on Twitter. Considering Musk's bizarre Twitter presence, this could mean nothing. Right?

Aug. 20: Musk deletes his Instagram and Banks says he has her phone.

Musk told Gizmodo that he deleted his Instagram account because he didn't "like it."

The same day, Banks called him out on her infamous Instagram story, begging for her phone back. This is where it gets even spicier — in deleted story videos, she complains about how she wants to go home and says "none of this shit has anything to fucking do with me."

"Honestly, what the fuck is even going on," she asks in one of the videos. "What the actual fuck is going on?"

Self-proclaimed "Teslaqologist" and "founder of the Canadian Institute of Cultural Teslaqology" @ravenvanderrave tweeted screen recordings of the videos. You can check out the full thread here.

1. Azealia Banks Instagram thread $TSLA pic.twitter.com/G9UQJKlvuY

— Gavran Teslaqov (@ravenvanderrave) August 21, 2018

You up? Latest from Ms. Banks pic.twitter.com/PA92P8h512

— Hope King (@lisahopeking) August 21, 2018

Aug. 21: More screenshots, and now attorneys are involved?

Banks posted more screenshots on her story that alluded to "damages that Claire caused." She also said on her story that she was finally leaving Los Angeles, sans phone, and that she couldn't "stay here for anymore of this shit."

"If you knew that you couldn't work ... you should have just told me to stay my ass home," she ranted on her story. Banks also pointed out that Musk "sent that first tweet" before she even got on her flight, and that she could have easily stayed.

Azealia Banks is the gift that keeps on giving $tsla no way i am @‘ing musk in this inam@enjoying reading grimes screenshots pic.twitter.com/KKEhHFJuHR

— Wall Street Walrus (@wallst_walrus) August 21, 2018

Twitter users, meanwhile, wonder what the heck Banks could have had on her phone.

Maybe video of an acid fest? Sky's the limit with this bunch.

— Smartish Elon for Prison (Xenomorpher) (@xenomorpher1) August 21, 2018

Theory: 1Banks records damaging Elon conversation 2Elon lies he never saw Banks (changes story later to say briefly saw, never in ear shot tho...why lie about this in 1st place?) 3Elon and Grimes fight over why Banks was brought to his house 4Grimes/Elon break up

— Rout LLC (@RoutLLC) August 21, 2018

Others want to employ her to do the same thing to the presidential administration.

paradrop Azealia Banks into the White House with her cell phone and the wifi password

— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) August 21, 2018

Whatever's going on, it appears that Banks somehow got in the middle of an SEC investigation, and is not happy about it.

At least she gave us the wild summer story we didn't even know we needed!

WATCH: This tricked-out SpaceX helmet is nearly all 3D printed

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Tech billionaire — and noted Twitter hothead — Elon Musk wrote yet another surprising tweet on Wednesday: an apology.

Musk had come under fire earlier this week after he nonchalantly referred to one of the British rescuers involved in the Thai cave rescue as a “pedo guy” — implying that he was a pedophile. Despite the immediate outcry, Musk initially refused to back off his comments.

The subject of Musk’s tweet, Vernon Unsworth, had slammed the tech leader’s efforts to aid in the cave rescue by building a miniature submarine, calling it a “PR stunt” in an interview with CNN. In response, Musk launched his unfounded attack.

“His actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader,” Musk wrote on Wednesday, after lightly disparaging Unsworth once more.

Nonetheless, his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader. The fault is mine and mine alone.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2018

Musk typically lashes out on Twitter without any retraction. (One of his recurring targets is the media, which he has repeatedly blasted for unflattering reports about Tesla.) But his “pedo” comment was widely considered shocking, even for him.

The saga started with what seemed like a promising philanthropic effort: After 12 young soccer players became trapped in a cave in Thailand, Musk offered up the help of engineers from SpaceX and the Boring Company. He also deployed experts from Tesla to help design a pod that could be used to transport members of the soccer team who were stranded.

The boys were eventually rescued in a massive international rescue operation with divers carrying them through the cave on stretchers — a mission that did not end up using Musk’s submarine.

While many lauded Musk’s efforts, a fair share of people (including Unsworth) mocked his attempts to involve himself in the rescue at all. This back-and-forth ultimately culminated in one of Musk’s Twitter rants, with a slew of insults slung at any who dare impugn his work.

Musk’s critics have seized on the latest Twitter attacks as yet another sign of his thin-skinned nature and rash temperament — something he has said he’s working on. As his recent remarks indicate, that effort might still be a work in progress.

Here’s how it all unfolded.

About a week after the Thai soccer team disappeared into the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system, Musk wrote a tweet asking if he could aid in the rescue in some way.

I suspect that the Thai govt has this under control, but I’m happy to help if there is a way to do so

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2018

“I suspect that the Thai govt has this under control,” he tweeted — which did, in fact, turn out to be the case — but the tweet showed Musk was considering trying to intervene.

Two days later, Musk posted about sending other experts to help with other on-the-ground needs at the rescue site. Some of the technologies he tweeted about included drills, water pumps, and battery packs.

SpaceX & Boring Co engineers headed to Thailand tomorrow to see if we can be helpful to govt. There are probably many complexities that are hard to appreciate without being there in person.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2018

It’s unclear whether these efforts were utilized during the rescue, but Musk’s tweets suggest that the engineers were on hand to provide other logistical help as well. A SpaceX spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Got more great feedback from Thailand. Primary path is basically a tiny, kid-size submarine using the liquid oxygen transfer tube of Falcon rocket as hull. Light enough to be carried by 2 divers, small enough to get through narrow gaps. Extremely robust.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2018

Musk then noted that he was “iterating” with Thai cave experts to determine the optimal design for some sort of “escape pod.” Following these conversations, he landed on the idea of using a “kid-size submarine” that could potentially help shuttle the trapped Thai boys to safety.

Some wondered whether Musk would be able to complete the project in time to contribute to the rescue, given the extreme pressure the team was facing from impending rains. He appeared to think he could — but suggested that the submarine might also be relevant for future endeavors if it didn’t play a role in the team’s efforts this time around.

Construction complete in about 8 hours, then 17 hour flight to Thailand

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2018

Mini-sub arriving in about 17 hours. Hopefully useful. If not, perhaps it will be in a future situation.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2018

He also offered a glimpse of the submarine getting tested in a California swimming pool.

Just returned from Cave 3. Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future. Thailand is so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/EHNh8ydaTT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2018

Roughly a day later, Musk offered another Twitter dispatch after visiting “Cave 3,” and said he would be leaving the “mini-sub” in Thailand in case it could be useful down the line. As one Thailand-based translator tweeted a few days later, the Thai Navy did huddle with SpaceX engineers to discuss future applications of Musk’s technology.

The last of the Thai players was successfully pulled from the cave on July 10. Divers helped carry the boys — who were equipped with scuba masks — through the winding pathway of the cave on stretchers, writes Vox’s Radhika Viswanathan.

Though rescuers initially said they were going to teach the boys to swim out of the flooded cave accompanied by expert divers, on Wednesday, we learned that instead the boys had been given medication and put on stretchers before they were passed from diver-to-diver through the cave.

Musk cheered the rescuers following the mission’s success. The mini-submarine was not ultimately used.

Great news that they made it out safely. Congratulations to an outstanding rescue team!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

This is where things started to sour: While Thai rescuers praised Musk’s technology, some said it wasn’t “practical” for their plans. “Although [Musk’s] technology is good and sophisticated, it’s not practical for this mission,” Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command center overseeing the operation, told the Guardian.

Musk quickly hit back at Osatanakorn, noting that he was “not the subject matter expert,” and expressed doubts about his credentials, according to The Guardian. Musk added that Osantanakorn was “inaccurately described as rescue chief.”

He later shared his email correspondence with Richard Stanton, one of the members of the rescue team, in an effort to prove his point — and seemed bewildered by the backlash toward his attempt to help.

The former Thai provincial governor (described inaccurately as “rescue chief”) is not the subject matter expert. That would be Dick Stanton, who co-led the dive rescue team. This is our direct correspondence: pic.twitter.com/dmC9l3jiZR

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018

This reaction has shaken my opinion of many people. We were asked to create a backup option & worked hard to do so. Checked with dive team many times to confirm it was worthwhile. Now it’s there for anyone who needs it in future. Something’s messed up if this is not a good thing.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2018

Please consider this a commitment that I will fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels. No kidding.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2018

Given his recent contributions, some wondered if Musk would also chip in and help with other ongoing crises, with one Twitter user attempting to goad the entrepreneur into bringing clean water to Flint, Michigan.

“I heard a bunch of people saying there’s NO WAY you could help get clean water to Flint, Michigan,” the user tweeted, citing others who had undermined Musk. Musk made a commitment to fixing the issue almost on the spot. (Others swiftly parroted this tweet and tried to provoke Musk into addressing topics as varied as their friends’ love lives and crumbling national infrastructure.)

All of that brings us to the explosive “pedo” comment.

As Vox’s Emily Stewart details, Unsworth, the British diver involved in the cave rescue, wasn’t quite as kind as Osantanakorn in his take on Musk’s submarine. In an interview with CNN, Unsworth slammed the pod as merely a “PR stunt,” and said “it had absolutely no chance of working,” noting that the device would not have been able to navigate corners and obstacles given how rigid it was.

Musk snapped, suggesting that he didn’t recall seeing Unsworth at the rescue site and saying that he would produce a video that would prove the submarine could, indeed, work. Seemingly out of nowhere, he then called Unsworth a “pedo guy” — accusing him of being a pedophile. It’s an insult that’s become common in some far-right online circles, and even compared to Musk’s history of incendiary tweets, the comment was striking:

“We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.

This got overwhelming pushback, with many Twitter users arguing that calling someone a pedophile is a serious allegation that can’t just be lobbed as a casual insult. Tesla’s stock also took a dip after Musk’s statement and multiple investors in the company expressed concerns.

Musk later responded to some of this criticism by writing simply, “Bet ya a signed dollar it’s true.” Unsworth has said he’s considering legal action over the remark.

Following the blowback, Musk begrudgingly apologized to Unsworth about his “pedo guy” remarks and said they were made “in anger,” given the negative reactions to his “act of kindness.”

As this well-written article suggests, my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness & according to specifications from the dive team leader.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2018

This isn’t the first time Musk has said he needs to temper his Twitter comments. He recently expressed regrets about his inclination to go on the offensive on the social media platform.

“I have made the mistaken assumption — and I will attempt to be better at this — of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season,” Musk told Bloomberg. “And that is my mistake. I will correct it.”

This apology seems like a good place to start.

Original Source -> Elon Musk and the Thai cave rescue: a tale of good intentions and bad tweets

via The Conservative Brief

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