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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Let's be honest Osha does not have a gun. They have a bubble wand at best.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

you haven't read the msds on what's in those bubbles

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

And every dipshit in the country complains about them trying to stop this exact shit.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Near future tweet?... "I own three Teslas. I know from experience that if you keep your windows up everything is guaranteed safe. People don't have any idea how good Tesla filtration and ventilation systems are..." And the comment goes on for hundreds more words of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

How many Elon fan boys are real and how many are bots? We may never know

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

"I love tesla but it's uhh very very not cool that my legs rotted off below the knee from driving in their tunnel, hopefully Elon fires whoevers responsible"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if we kissed 😳🙈 bathing in the flesh-melting ooze in the Musk tunnel?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

KEEP YOUR ARMS AND LEGS INSIDE THE VEHICLE AT ALL TIMES

you have been warned

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

up to TWO FEET? where is this shit coming from? this reads like an SCP

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

According to the article, it's not the completed tunnels, but rather, the dig sites. It's mostly normal digging byproduducts (silt, rock dust, sand, water), but also chemicals for making/setting grout. All of that stuff is "normal", but the outrageously lax safety standards have let it build up rather than be dealt with.

"Elon Musk Tunnels Oozing with Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge" is a sensationalist clickbait take. "Elon Musk's Tunnels-In-Progress Full of Improperly Stored/Disposed-Of Dangerous Chemical Waste" wouldn't spark the imagination so hard.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

the fact that it's "normal" due to corner-cutting would be really bad if we lived under an economic system that incentivizes corner-cutting agony-deep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You just said literally the same fucking thing and think that's supposed to make it better?

...Fucking redditors man

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, it's not supposed to make it better. It's worse. "His tunnels are oozing with sludge" is mysterious, meant to draw readers in. The truth is, like every goddamn thing he's ever done, he's mismanaged it so hard and cut so many corners that he's caused yet another entirely predictable, entirely preventable industrial disaster.

I can hate Elon Musk and clickbait at the same time, mate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Alright fair enough, it came across to me like trying to make a bad thing sound reasonable by making it sound mundane which is a common tactic of his supporters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He's never going to even know your name, much less love you.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, did you think that was meant to be a defense of the man? Do you think his fanatics would ever describe him as "outrageously lax"? Read, mate, read.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It really doesn't read like a defense, not sure what these replies are on about

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

People here see a chance to try to crucify somebody they perceive as an imperfect leftist to show they're the one pure socialist and that takes precedence over reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Correcting misinformation is good actually.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

this reads like an SCP

The Boring Company dug too greedily and too deep.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Vegas Loop is the Dark Souls of tunnels.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It even includes a poison swamp!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Blighttunnel

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

He’s just trying to make Fallout New Vegas real because he loves video gaming like a boss

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This was during construction only and it was only because of the caustic concrete mix.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I say as the psycho-reactive slime from the ghostbusters sequel slowly fills my tunnels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I call it Ubik

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Normal Day In Vegas

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Oh cool, I always wanted to drive through the real-world equivalent of the Star Lasso Experience.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

This cannot be real

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Why do his fans not realize that he is very obviously trying to kill them with every single thing that he makes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Common sense tells me to stay out, but jrpgs tell me there's good loot if I defeat the sludge

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“and the walls will ooze green slime?!?”

“oh wait they always do that”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I had to click through to the Bloomberg article just to confirm this wasn't satire.

I'm sure mixing this stuff with 1/2 ton lithium ion batteries in a tunnel underground is going to be a fantastic combination.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

He's just a performance artist at this point

my-hero

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Emerging from the tunnel looking like the Trashcan Man from The Stand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Looking into it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Teenage mutant neurolinkers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Peep the Sludge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Why did I first think of Ghostbusters 2?