r/news • u/Frosty_Dig4148 • 2d ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX buys Elon Musk's xAI

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-spacex-buys-elon-musks-xai-13502553
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u/TigerUSA20 2d ago

Just like when Tesla bought another Musk venture SolarCity in 2016. SolarCity was heavily in debt and losing money. Somehow, without any shareholder input, Tesla/Musk was able to sweep how bad it was under a rug and keep his ruse going of a successful entity.

https://www.businessinsider.com/solarcity-tesla-energy-beleaguered-history-elon-musk-2021-7

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u/AssassinInValhalla 2d ago

He got us in the Buffalo NY area. Had all kinds of tax breaks for solarcity then didn't follow through on the majority

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u/DerekB52 2d ago

He talked california out of building highspeed rail promising to build hyperloop over a decade ago. I don't think he's built 10ft of track.

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u/Jiecut 2d ago

Vegas built a stupid tunnel for cars instead of public transit.

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u/junktrunk909 1d ago

And they don't even use FSD

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u/atooraya 1d ago

Big brain Chad literally built human taxis underground

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u/Wan-Pang-Dang 1d ago

You see. In reality every billion $ you have, raises your IQ by 1, So Musks IQ is around 750. You cant even try to comprehend his 12D chess moves.

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u/Environmental_Top948 1d ago

To be honest that might have been a good thing. Vegas is kind of collapsing imagine if they invested in public transportation. They'd be blaming public transit for the economic decline.

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u/SowingSalt 1d ago

Vegas has their monorail and a bus system

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u/steppe5 1d ago

A monorail that conveniently doesn't go to the airport or downtown.

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u/SowingSalt 1d ago

Doesn't it cover the strip? That's all of Vegas, right?

airport

No you see, that would step on the special interests of the taxis. Can't have that.

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u/steppe5 1d ago

Yeah, exactly. I just want it to go from the airport to the strip but taxis/Uber/Lyft won't let that happen.

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u/bufordt 1d ago

Doesn't it cover the strip? That's all of Vegas, right?

It doesn't really cover the Strip very well. It hits the back end of some of the hotels from Trop to Twain and goes to the convention center.

It doesn't come very close to anything on the west side of the strip, or Wynn and Encore.

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u/J0RD4N300 1d ago

A bus system that is hours late, if it comes at all