The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

Apparently all Musk wanted to do with this was undercut any attempts at high speed rail in California.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    231·
    7 months ago

    Huh. Surprised they just closed it on its own. I would’ve thought there would’ve been some massive disaster, like the tunnel collapsing or catching fire or something.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
        61·
        6 months ago

        He can’t fail, he can only be failed. Like when his space X rockets blow up on the launchpad, his fans will declare that because this one lasts 0.004 seconds longer than the last one, it’s “great progress”

    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      6 months ago

      I was so hopeful some really angry train nerd would try to find a random unguarded section of the tube and shoot at it with a handgun, causing billions in damages.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
        101·
        6 months ago

        I’m surprised how little anti-capitalist gun violence there is in the US. Why aren’t corporate boardrooms the targets of mass shootings?

        • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          6 months ago

          I believe part of the reason is that effective leftist (non-anarchist) gun activism mostly revolves around self-defence organisations (think BPP or AIM) rather than combat or terrorism. And history has shown that even the slightest signal of successful organisation from marginalised groups in the US having guns will trigger the most violent of reactions from the State and bourgeois media.

          Another part is how hard it is to have access to the ruling class or their lackeys. You’ll probably never run into a board member of Amazon or Lockheed Martin on the streets (and they’re usually not very well known). My hypothetical train nerd would have a lot of trouble trying to locate and enact the Trolley Problem on US Secretary of Transportation (and Mayo) Pete Buttigieg, even after the East Palestine derailment earlier this year or strike block last year.

          But it’s always worth remembering that the USA has enacted the most all-encompassing surveillance state in history, even if they sometimes suffer from the typical imperialist incompetence form hubris. Most adventurist plots are probably silently caught before the plans are put into motion.

        • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          6 months ago

          i always wonder the same… like why shoot up schools, bars, marathons, etc when there are fortune 1000 companies everywhere

          also nobody would be too upset if someone took a politician or two with them if they were just going to off themselves

    • neocamel@lemmy.studio
      18·
      6 months ago

      smartphones, space travel, organ transplants, & instant global communication have entered the chat.

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
        91·
        6 months ago

        1. Smartphones were not invented in one go. They were the result of decades of advancement in computer technology. Each step along the way was useful for something.

        2. Space travel was funded by the space race, something into which the 2 world industrial powers put a substantial chuck of their economy into. It was also done for a military benefit and again, was done in multiple steps. Hyperloop, despite being a harder thing to create, was funded by a few private capitals.

        3. Organ transplants aren’t infrastructure. They aren’t even remotely comparable to hyperloop.

        4. “Instant” global communication has been possible for a very long time. The first transatlantic cable was laid down in 1858. The only thing different today is the number and speed of cables.

        • neocamel@lemmy.studio
          16·
          6 months ago

          My point (which everyone seems to be missing) is that all of these things were once considered to be impossible, until they weren’t.

          • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
            7·
            6 months ago

            This literally means nothing, it doesn’t mean you can just ignore any potential problems with a concept and just try to build it anyway

            And even if Hyperloop is possible, it still doesn’t make sense to do, because high speed rail already exists and makes a lot more sense, the US should start building that instead