Lazy8 wrote:

I stand corrected

 Lazy8 wrote:
Ah, yes, Rudy "The Kip" Kipling.   The whole clip is pretty funny actually.

 haresfur wrote:
Wrong bridge, wrong country, but it is a thing.

 islander wrote:

Rumor has it they made steel rings for engineers out of some of the steel from Tacoma Narrows to remind them about humility and responsibility

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I never liked drawbridges. They probably don't build them anymore; inefficient multi-tasking.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I kind of like the ones that wave in the breeze.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

"Functioning" is certainly a characteristic of many bridges. I wonder if there are others?

Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance
Musk made hay of his legal battle against secret surveillance but continued selling X user data to a company that facilitates government monitoring.

Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild yesterday.I was on my bike and nearly rode off the path next to the road and into the trees I was laughing so hard. I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Elon's vision is the classic Soviet Union monstrous gray concrete Moscow apartment block of auto design. Dread Cthulhu, it's hideous. It looks like a high school parade float made out of salvaged plywood and tinfoil escaped from UFO Days in Roswell.Woman driving it was just so proud though.

~Jim Wright

Unstoppable
Elon Musk Rushed To Hospital After Attempting To Impregnate Toaster

See X's value plummet 72% in one chart
Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is now worth just $12.5 billion

Once buzzy startup Hyperloop One to shutter after its sci-fi transit project failed to get much momentum

Fortune:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wasn’t involved in the company, but a year before its founding in 2014 he had pitched the hyperloop concept, urging entrepreneurs to make it a reality. According to his biographer Ashlee Vance, the idea originated out of Musk’s “hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system.”

 Red_Dragon wrote:
All Hail to the First Amendment!

This was the first time ever, I managed to listen to Alex Jones for more than two minutes. I actually made it through the whole 91 minutes interview, and I even liked some parts of it, while some parts had me cracking up audibly. There's an online transcript of the interview, as well.

Make of it what you please...

Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones