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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is this before or after the teslas can drive themselves? /s

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
  • or before or after he builds underground tunnels for Teslas across country?
[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like a great idea. Much easier to block the ends and trap them all in there.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

And HYPERLOOP

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

Oh so the thing right wing loons like to say the Jews already do?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

An yes weather control satalites. Has he been reading too many comspiracies?

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Watched the None like it Hot episode of Futurama and liked Wernstrom's idea.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 7 hours ago

if einstein was still allive like in ra2, he wouldve created the weather machine.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 27 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He's cooked, pack it in. If we're lucky he'll fall in love with an AI pigeon and live out the rest of his days in squalor, which is the only part of Nicola Tesla's legacy he deserves.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

He's fucking Grok, isn't he?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

If he isn't yet, he's actively trying to figure out how.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes he is and if he isn't I don't care I now deem it to be the truth that he is.

That's amount of respect to reality that he deserves.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

Guess they figured out how to bring scarcity to the solar market.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This dude is like some drugged out crazy guy ranting on a street corner.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

Just some drugged out crazy guy manipulating entire governments to his increasingly unhinged whims.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's not how weather works you moron.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Technically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he'd have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

psst.. "climate"... and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate?

Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, I'm just here to ridicule it

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 points 23 hours ago

I'm here to turn a cart around in a narrow hallway

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Didn't MGT specifically make fighting this lunacy her cause?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

No, she's on a revenge kick because the rest of the neo nazis club she works for told her she's not allowed to run for Senate.

She's basically throwing a tantrum by being as "bad" as she can imagine, which ironically means doing her job to help the people she represents, but don't mistake it or empathy, she's just checking boxes

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Not really, she's just trying to capture maga cult members who are going a stray. She's still a racist piece of garbage no matter who she picks a fight with.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 12 points 23 hours ago

Futurama did it first.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Alternative title: Ultra rich billionaire makes another idiotic suggestion

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No, it will totally come. Right after his mars colony, self driving cars, hyper loop and robots. He could switch his drugs to crack to get even more done! /s

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 15 hours ago

But this is a bad idea that shouldn't happen

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I like the illustration. it's like his head is exploding out of sheer stupidity

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Nice. Some shade to choke to death in.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck off Elon. Nobody likes you.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't say that.

People constantly telling him that nobody likes him is how we got this megalomanic asshole in the first place. Like before he stole the idea for PayPal and was just getting in random fist fights with his brother, everybody seemed to hate him.

So like, it's true, but Jesus keep it down. He's probably got a ghost profile on Lemmy and uses it to virtually suck his own dick because it can't be done physically anymore.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're still paying attention to what this moron says?

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[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

"Elon, where do you get your brilliant ideas from?"

"Well, they just come to me. Because Im so brilliant."

"So not from other people that you then repackage ?

"No."

"You dont just buy companies, and slap an 'I made this' sticker on it?"

"Not from popular cartoons from over 20 years ago?"

".... go fuck yourself!"

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yes, why not let an emotionally fragile, egotistical maniac control the weather? What a good idea.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

He just keeps getting more idiotic

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago

We are going to build a wall around earth and make the aliens pay for it

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... He does realize they can't just shit on international organizations like the UN and USAID and expect the rest of the world to follow them tow in line, right? Specially given this will affect those regions for whom climate change would actually be beneficial.

Anyway, this sounds more like a bullshit excuse to do nothing about the causes of climate change. This would have excessive costs of the solution and the maintenance that would likely have to be footed by society and not the people who do everything to avoid taxes like Musk. This would give polluters an excuse to pollute more and a way to put even more chokeholds around societies.

But even more fundamentally, climate change is due to things like carbon dioxide basically reflecting heat back onto the planet. Dampening sunlight doesn't just block heat, it dampens the entire electromagnetic spectrum. For a speculative solution you would be adding additional problems ecosystems would have to deal with.

How about narcissistic self-obsessed psychopaths stop trying to milk society for all they have as fast and much as possible? They can start by paying taxes and not engineering entire political programs to subvert democracies for personal gain.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hey hey hey. Elon. 1-2-3-eyes on me. Ok? Listen little man. You have to put away all the toys you already got out before you start getting any more toys out. You made a big mess out there in low Earth orbit already, you need to help clean it up before you start any more games. Got-it got-it?

Yes, I know you don't want to, but sometimes we have to do things we don't want to. Yes, even if you took all of the play money for yourself.

Yes, I know your daddy owned an emerald mine. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to help keep this whole place usable.

Also, while you're doing your cleanup, there's still a hole you dug in Las Vegas that you forgot about, and you also need to apologize to the rest of the class for breaking the government services they all enjoyed, and help everyone put them back together.

I know it's not going to be easy to fix them. That's why we don't break things, right? That's right. Especially when....? When we don't know what they're for, right. But you can do hard things, especially if you have help.

I know you fed it into a wood chipper, Elon. We all watched you do it. No, I don't think it's funny or epic.

Ok. Well if you aren't going to help clean up, I think we might need to have a consequence, ok? ...no, the consequence can not be going to Mars.

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