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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

That's just the drugs talking.

Don't listen to old men on drugs. No good will come of it.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I thought they didn't believe the climate could be changed...

[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 10 points 10 months ago

No sun for the poors

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can we just launch elon into orbit? Preferably from a cannon.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

Get fucked, Nazi

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

He just keeps getting more idiotic

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

... He does realize they can't just shit on international organizations like the UN and USAID and expect the rest of the world to follow them tow in line, right? Specially given this will affect those regions for whom climate change would actually be beneficial.

Anyway, this sounds more like a bullshit excuse to do nothing about the causes of climate change. This would have excessive costs of the solution and the maintenance that would likely have to be footed by society and not the people who do everything to avoid taxes like Musk. This would give polluters an excuse to pollute more and a way to put even more chokeholds around societies.

But even more fundamentally, climate change is due to things like carbon dioxide basically reflecting heat back onto the planet. Dampening sunlight doesn't just block heat, it dampens the entire electromagnetic spectrum. For a speculative solution you would be adding additional problems ecosystems would have to deal with.

How about narcissistic self-obsessed psychopaths stop trying to milk society for all they have as fast and much as possible? They can start by paying taxes and not engineering entire political programs to subvert democracies for personal gain.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

The scale of this sort of thing is laughably huge. He's an idiot.

[–] aarch0x40@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

SPOILER ALERT: In a shocking twist, Musk ends up propelling the Earth directly into the Sun.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Nice. Some shade to choke to death in.

[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Someone just watched Geostorm while on keta

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Oh so the thing right wing loons like to say the Jews already do?

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

"Elon, where do you get your brilliant ideas from?"

"Well, they just come to me. Because Im so brilliant."

"So not from other people that you then repackage ?

"No."

"You dont just buy companies, and slap an 'I made this' sticker on it?"

"Not from popular cartoons from over 20 years ago?"

".... go fuck yourself!"

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE CONTAINS POTENTIALLY LETHAL AMOUNTS OF SARCASM:

I’m sure this will be a complete success, and I see no downsides.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why save Earth he's going to live on Mars anyway. Can he just go already?

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hopefully someone will take him out. He should be on next starship.

[–] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

no. just.. no.

(fuck)

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Suffocating the planet to keep rich people from being tried for crimes against the earth. Sure is a new spin on boiling us frogs in the kettle.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

I guess I'll go get ready for the eternal eclipse...

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

Maybe the best example of someone who needs a Walter Sobchak in his life.

Just a big guy who won’t go away and keeps telling him to shut the fuck up.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the hell is that thumbnail. That's nightmare fuel.

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[–] DeadWorld@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

If he does this he will only be trapping himself on the planet with the rest of us. We must make it as hard on him as possible

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like the illustration. it's like his head is exploding out of sheer stupidity

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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, as in launching a bunch of exploding space-shuttles to obscure the sun? Got it.

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