Article from 1.5 years ago but this techbro was recently featured on MSNBC.
It gets worse with every sentence
Hydrogen weapons? Like a water gun?
It is genuinely closer to a potato gun Like if you’ve ever launched a potato out of a tube with a spray can and a lighter you’ve got the gist down.
Literally just give that money to the guy on youtube who 3d prints toy cannons powered by hho gas. That guy has already figured out 3d printed electrically ignited gas shells, and last I saw he was printing fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds as well.
Every time I hear about something from the MIC and cost, I always think I could do it cheaper
Dihydrogenmonoxidegun
Give literally anyone on hexbear that money and you’ll get the same end result of Jack shit, but at least it’ll be for a better cause of getting people out of the hole
My proposal is to put people into a hole
I’d be able to buy so many funko pops with that money, that alone would contribute to 5% of communism
He’d do away with the U.S. military’s centuries-long reliance on gunpowder munitions by developing an array of hydrogen-powered weaponry.
Lol, what an incredible way of phrasing things. Journalists gotta add a spin/framing to everything, even statements that don’t need it. This early in, gunpowder is being framed as a “reliance”, meaning a problem to be solved, rather literally just what fucking everybody uses for munitions.
began R&D work on an artillery that could be replenished by hydrogen generators deployed on the frontlines, claiming it would give the military a critical battlefield advantage.
Did you not bother asking him how this is an advantage? Are the bullets made of hydrogen? Can you replenish them on site?
Three months later, Bedrock’s managing partner Geoff Lewis led a $79 million series A investment, valuing the nascent startup at more than $300 million.
These guys have so much money they don’t know what to do with it, so between rounds of cocaine and hookers, they play games with their colleagues to randomly decide which toilet (startup) they will piss money into.
Thornton was miraculously unharmed, but a colleague helping with the test was rushed to the hospital with hundreds of pieces of metal in his body. (The employee recovered, though some of the shrapnel remains.)
The capitalists are literally absorbing the luck of their employees through black magic rituals. That’s the only explanation.
Mach is part of a new cohort of defense tech companies, led by young, patriotic entrepreneurs looking to build businesses serving America’s national security interests.
Back in my day, we’d call em war profiteers who are trying to profiteer off a military currently committing genocide.
They’re driving a defense tech boom engorged with VC funding; between 2018 and 2023, $100 billion in venture funding poured into the sector, per Pitchbook.
Told you. Pissing gold between rounds of cocaine.
“Today, I write this from our 115,000 sq ft factory, where I work alongside people I deeply admire to develop world-changing products for war-fighting customers.”
They want to change the world by killing more people in it. What a glorious dream!
Thornton wrote in his blog last week, adding: “Between investors and recruits, I received far more traction than I expected.”
More proof that the bourgeoise are fucking stupid.
a $79 million series A investment, valuing the nascent startup at more than $300 million.
These guys have so much money they don’t know what to do with it, so between rounds of cocaine and hookers, they play games with their colleagues to randomly decide which toilet (startup) they will piss money into.
tbh buying like 27% of a company that seems purpose built to grift the MIC and never fail is lol. what shit fundraising
they’ll keep throwing money at stupid shit like this until one of them figures out how to directly fire VC money from a gun.
Meanwhile, Mach employees struggled with Thorton’s cavalier leadership style and puerile sense of humor. At one point, a TV in the Austin headquarters’ main foyer displayed a timer called “Time until Taiwan Invasion” which, according to one photo seen by Forbes, estimated a Chinese attack would occur in 1800 days — the time by which Mach must be ready to deploy its product. “I was in the Taiwan Strait while there was civil unrest in 2008, and he was probably still in middle school,” said McManus. “I found it very offensive.”
NCD cringelord meets actual veteran
Meanwhile, Mach employees struggled with Thorton’s cavalier leadership style and puerile sense of humor. At one point, a TV in the Austin headquarters’ main foyer displayed a timer called “Time until Taiwan Invasion” which, according to one photo seen by Forbes, estimated a Chinese attack would occur in 1800 days — the time by which Mach must be ready to deploy its product. “I was in the Taiwan Strait while there was civil unrest in 2008, and he was probably still in middle school,” said McManus. “I found it very offensive.”
also lol @ the ‘middle school’ thing. no dude, he wasn’t even in school, back in 2008 he was 4. pre-school at best
Doesn’t seem like the genius dudebro in question ever truly left preschool:
The tests that did happen did not go well. During a jet propulsion test last year, Thornton attempted to hold a drone down with his hands while it was at full throttle to help steady it for launch, according to interviews with multiple people who were present. Senior employees were dismayed; among many risks, the drone could have tipped over and effectively become a projectile, endangering everyone on the test range, three ex-staffers told Forbes. Range administrators shut the test down, they said.
“Mach Industries” is the world’s most expensive adult daycare with only one attendee.
The 53763737th talentless mediocre techbro dropout somehow wound up with a few hundred million dollars to find new ways to get himself killed with.
And exactly what are this guy’s qualifications? What has he ever actually accomplished himself? Does he have literally any experience? Why is he at the top calling the shots considering he wouldn’t even qualify for a Research Assistant position? Has he had a single actual job in his entire life? He’s literally just your average STEMlord except he couldn’t even get halfway through school.
he borrowed $200 from his parents in high school to build a rudimentary gas gun using “deer feeder batteries and an electrolyzer.” After a stint as a mechanic in high school, he attended MIT, where, he claimed to TechCrunch, he assembled a team of undergrads and tested a “large, mounted gun under the railroad tracks near Charles River.”
Oh I guess he did some stuff that maybe would’ve won 4th place in a Middle School science fair. A real brain genius here
During his time at MIT, he convinced a team of hydrogen experts led by Erik Limpaecher from the school’s military laboratory Lincoln Labs, to leave their posts to work on his vision of replacing gunpowder, founding the company as Trident Industries at the end of 2022.
How? How did some random dipshit undergrad convince “a team of hydrogen experts” with cushy gigs to drop everything to join his babykilling startup? How did he even get them to respond to the inquiries of some random dipshit undergrad?
Thornton, who was named a 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 and Thiel Fellow last year
Oh I see it now. Thiel 100% made this guy one of his blood boys in exchange for a couple million and a team of slaves to help him blow himself up in a looney tunes industrial accident. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is how he dies:
after reading the selected quotes, my conclusion is it would be funny and just if he killed himself with a potato launcher backfiring his ribcage open
your average STEMlord except he couldn’t even get halfway through school.
STEMlad
STEMesquire
30 under 30 to early grave or prison pipeline
also lol @ the ‘middle school’ thing. no dude, he wasn’t even in school, back in 2008 he was 4. pre-school at best
He’s a troop, if he knew how to count he wouldn’t have been in the Taiwan strait in 2008.
bro im breeding innovation bro im
You simply cannot compete with the visionary wisdom of a mediocre teenage techbro
i’m up innovating my shit rn i got visionary ideas on my slidedeck
Straight up innovating it silly style, and by it, let’s just say my Thornton
“I’m innovation”
Hindenburg industrial complex
It’s shit like this that gives me faith this rancid empire will die in this century
Mock Industries
my cult’s ‘what is a cult’ whiteboard is raising a lot of questions already answered by the whiteboard
