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"US worker safety officials fined Elon #Musk’s SpaceX $3,600 this month after an accident at its site in Washington state led to a “near amputation" ...

A Reuters investigation late last year found that Musk’s rocket company disregarded worker-safety regulations and standard practices at its facilities nationwide. Through interviews and government records, the news org documented at least 600 previously unreported injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014" https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-fined-near-amputation-suffered-by-worker-records-show-2024-02-13/

Feb 13, 2024 at 6:10pmWeb
Show threadPlantingTrees😷🇨🇦🌻👠Feb 13, 2024

@GottaLaff

Ouch. How will SpaceX go on? The humanity!

Life is cheap.

Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@JaneDoeTheFirst Which is why he keeps on doing his sick thing
Show threadrandom thoughtsFeb 13, 2024
@JaneDoeTheFirst @GottaLaff Missing 6 zeroes.
Show threadWagesOfFeb 13, 2024

@GottaLaff "found that Musk’s rocket company disregarded worker-safety regulations"

How are the managers at the plant not guilty of attempted manslaughter for this?

Show threadAndreas KFeb 14, 2024

@WagesOf @GottaLaff Yeah, criminal liability for the managers or at least the C-level responsible, would be a start.

Although career criminals like certain geniuses will simply find straw men to take the fall for them.

Before you say, it's prison time. Yeah, and we'll make sure your family has a nice luxury life outside, and can forget about food stamps.

Show threadRoryFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff Wow, they fined him a whole $3,600... That'll deter him from violating safety regulations in the future... Just like the previous $50,000 plus in fines did.
Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@customer228 And that's the problem. That's why he does what he does.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Feb 13, 2024
@customer228 @GottaLaff he'll spend that on ketamine for a single weekend, it's nothing to him, 'the price of doing business'
Show threadLittleGoatGirlFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff I am sure that will really deter 🙄 him...
Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@aliza Yeah, bet he's real scared now
Show threadrandom thoughtsFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff $3600!!! That'll teach him!
Show threadDavid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB they/themFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff WTH?! $3,600 amounts to "legal for a fee." Why even bother with a fine if they’re not going to be serious about it?
Show threadGreetings From Out Of the BlueFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff and he wants to plant his electronic devices in our brains now. What could possibly go wrong?…
Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@GreetingsOut It's all so insane.
Show threadGreetings From Out Of the BlueFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff @GreetingsOut All of the nuts falsely worried about devices being planted in them by the covid vaccine are happy to line up for an actual brain implant by the fascist Musk.
Show threadKris Sargent, MDFeb 13, 2024
@GreetingsOut @GottaLaff ...whose primary two technologies are known for exploding shortly after takeoff and spontaneous combustion, respectively.
Show threadGreetings From Out Of the BlueFeb 14, 2024
@KSargent @GreetingsOut @GottaLaff yep. What could possibly go wrong?…
Show threadLeeFromVT 🌎🌌🐈♂️♏🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Feb 13, 2024

@GottaLaff

Needs 6 to 8 more 0 in that fine before he even pays attention...

Show threadJustin MacleodFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff Man I would be forever chastened if I was fined an equivalent percentage of my wealth. 🙄
Show threadSteve's PlaceFeb 13, 2024

@GottaLaff Fining billionaires so little is insulting.

He spent $44 billion for Twitter. Assuming he rakes in at least $3.6 billion/year, that's 0.0001% of his income. If you make $36,000/year, that's the equivalent of $3.60.

It's not a fine with any meaning, and I'll bet he makes more money annually than that.

It's frustrating how many laws brutalize the rest of us and how few ever soil the white gloves of wealth.

Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@steter Well also, this is why he keeps doing bad things. He knows he can.
Show threadSteve's PlaceFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff We need tort reform, once the cry of Republicans. All they did was make themselves immune from monetary damages in any way that matters. I might be grumpy about this.
Show threadLaffyFeb 13, 2024
@steter you SHOULD be
Show threadPaul ChernoffFeb 13, 2024
@GottaLaff Perhaps we need to cut off one of Musk’s fingers every time one of his companies is guilty of a serous safety violation.
Show threadL EllisFeb 14, 2024
@GottaLaff A fine is a price. He could find that in his couch cushions.
Show threadDale EmeryFeb 14, 2024
@GottaLaff Now we know that “an arm and a leg” means ~$7200.
Show threadAndreas KFeb 14, 2024

@GottaLaff $6/unreported injury.

That's cheaper than a big latte at Spacebucks.

Show threadC. LambethFeb 14, 2024

@GottaLaff The fine against SpaceX should have been 3.6 billion. Maybe that would have gotten their attention.

$3,600 is not even going to inspire a shrug from Musk's irresponsible company. 😔