Colm O'Regan: How can we trust Elon Musk when his laptop is so manky?

“Long hours at high-intensity” a lot of the time just creates a load of shite that you have to spend other long hours at high-intensity fixing.

Colm O'Regan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Elon Musk – he just doesn’t sound real. First the name, it doesn’t sound like the name of a real person. It seems fictional and futuristic. Elon Musk is the name of an outlaw who carries out daring raids on thorium transportation convoys in the badlands of Jupiter’s moons. “Musk cradled his ion-gun as the dust clouds harbinged the hovertrucks’ arrival. ‘Like takin soy-chocs from a baby’, he laughed”.

But it’s actually harder to believe why the richest man in the world would be on Twitter arguing with people or agreeing with dodgy types. He fires rockets at the moon for goodness sake. I still can’t get my head around the fact these people have smartphones and then write the first thing that comes into their heads. Billionaires are simply not what they used to be.