Just what you've been waiting for: the Muskbrat has filed to open a STEM school in Texas!

[thewayne]

Yep, another celebrity opening another vanity school project. Exactly what the country/world needs.

The paperwork for a non-profit school was filed with the IRS last year and received its tax-exempt status in March. Apparently he is negotiating with a college conference to take it all the way to the university level.

WHEEEEEEE!

He's committed $100,000,000 of his own money to the project, which will focus on STEM.

Lots of amusing comments on the article, I especially liked the one suggesting it be named the Certified University of North Texas, which would be right on-brand for the Muskbrat. Consider that his space company sounds like "space sex" when pronounced and his car models spell "s 3 x y" when you list them out. The idiot is a frat boy, born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his dad's opal mine in South Africa.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-is-reportedly-launching-a-new-university-in-t-1851097464

Comments

[silveradept]

He didn't seem like the kind of person who can successfully manage his image and legacy, no, but sometimes people get scared that they might be known as a terrible person and start trying hard to make themselves seem better.

[thewayne]

Ah, the Scrooge Turn!  I'm not sure he's capable of this, he definitely has the undeserved makings of 'smartest guy in the room' because of his money and the success that he's bought with it.  He hasn't done much in the way of inventing, just gotten in as startup investor and made a big splash that way.  I will give him clever, but I don't know that I can give him much beyond that.