Richard Branson hates public transit? Cause it’s his company that shut down, Virgin Hyperloop One.
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Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So the guy who notoriously despises public transit failed to come through on his promise to revolutionize public transit?
Wow.
I mean, who could have seen that coming?
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 6 months ago
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes its Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality its Branson’s imbecilic project.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Isn’t hyperloop like the opposite kind of transit to your typical public transit of the type he hates? Like, the only thing it can really compete with is airlines for long distance rapid transit.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.
chitak166@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, imagine if all the taxpayer money he got to build a useless tunnel in Vegas was spent on something, you know, useful.
What’s sad is, we will never see musk supporters come out and admit they were wrong. They are all gung-ho before the money changes hands, then when the grift happens and we have nothing to show for it, they all ~disappear~.
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Hamas has built more tunnels than Musk. Let that sink in.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 6 months ago
I’ve built more tunnels than his company.
And most of those were just fucking around because I could, not even for a specific purpose.
Lpt: don’t dig without telling someone exactly where you are,and without a noise maker.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Hamas is rather good at building tunnels in the hostile environment of sometimes being bombed. If they’d have funds and modern tech … ah, well, they’d embezzle the funds and use that tech for something destructive, but if they wouldn’t, they’d be great tunnel makers.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People who support musk probably aren’t big fans of public infrastructure and probably would have derogatory shit to say about people who are