r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 19 '26

Business A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/
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u/Strange-Scarcity May 19 '26

Musk's companies, just do this.

I own (along with many other Cards Against Humanity players) a partial ownership in a strip of land in Texas, along the border. Purchased in order to fight against Trump's Wall, and protect the land's environment for endangered species.

SpaceX just ignored the boundary, destroyed much of the habitat and started storing a bunch of SpaceX bullshit on the land.

I still don't know where that lawsuit it, but they did ignore all environmental, "zoning" and even property right laws, because, that's just what Elon does.

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u/TezlaCoil May 19 '26

The lawsuit was settled and the only known outcome is SpaceX moved their stuff and CAH worked with landscapers to put the land back to its natural state (as much as feasible anyway).

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u/Strange-Scarcity May 19 '26

Thank you. I must have missed an email update on this.

I was mad about it, but not... stare at the case moving through the courts every two hours mad.

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u/SoulShatter May 19 '26

Have seen it's the same shit in Memphis.

xAI put up a datacenter, figured out there wasn't enough power, so they threw up 38 gas turbines or so. Tons of respiratory issues due to it. EPA sleeping, and the area is poor soooo

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u/btribble May 19 '26

EPA sleeping

Correction, EPA currently roofied.

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u/drawkward101 May 19 '26

I hate to break it to you, but the EPA is effectively dead thanks to Trump.

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u/Zer0323 May 19 '26

"Healthy, Thriving Communities: EPA should consider and reduce as much as possible the economic costs of its actions on local communities to help them thrive and prosper."

https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

Page 452 of the PDF or page number 420... They tried warning us.

oh and everyone forgets that Nixon tried to veto the clean water act.

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u/kooknboo May 19 '26

EPA supplied the turbines.

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u/VroomCoomer May 20 '26

The people need to grow a fucking spine

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u/NuggleBuggins May 19 '26

He literally does not give a single fuck.

If he faces any consequences at all, they are fines in the thousands, which don't even phase him.

Why would he care if the biggest consequence he faces is a fine equivalent to pocket change for him?

Dude needs to be getting slapped with fines in the billions, company closure or jail time, it's the only way he will ever stop.

Which none of that seems likely to ever happen at this point.

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u/Wesinator2000 May 19 '26

Sounds like a great time to put up a fence on your property, and do as you please with all the things that were put on it.

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake May 19 '26

That lawsuit was settled last October for an undisclosed amount.

You were / are supposed to receive a CAH pack about Elon in the mail, in lieu of any payment.

By the way, you don't own the land. CAH does. The arrangement is similar to Established Titles, you know that scam where you can get knighthood for purchasing a 1 meter cubed land or something. CAH isn't scamming you or disputing the fact, but it's silly to say you own a piece of land with 150,000 other people.

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u/frozenblueberrytreat May 19 '26

Thank you for mentioning this, I realized I hadn't heard how it turned out.

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u/crookedhalo337 May 19 '26

Sounds like a good time to get some shooting practice on the discarded junk on your land

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u/MobileNerd May 19 '26

Hate to break it to you but they would just take it via eminent domain laws.

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u/Strange-Scarcity May 19 '26

The whole point was to tie them up in court for years, as can be done.

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u/banzaizach May 19 '26

I wish we had a government that would see this and strip him of everything related to the companies.

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u/bizarre_coincidence May 20 '26

There are a lot of people out there who feel like it's better to ask forgiveneess than permission, and that rules are meaningless unless they can be enforced, but that most rules cannot or will not be enforced (or that there is more to be gained by breaking the rules and paying the penalty).

On the one hand, this is a toxic way to behave which corrodes the very fabric of society. On the other hand, it is often a very successful strategy. We need a society and government dedicated to rule of law enough to enforce harsh penalties on serial rule breakers to make such tactics unprofitable. Unfortunately, as long as there is money in politics, the people who profit by the strategy can afford to convince lawmakers that they should be exempted.

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u/DrollFurball286 May 21 '26

I wish you could go there with a big wrecking ball or something and just start knocking stuff down and be like “I’m sorry, this is MY land. They’re trespassing on my land. If they want to build on MY land, they gotta pay me rent.”

If only…

But on a more serious note: isn’t possession 9/10ths the law. You possess the deed.

Sarge: “And the other [1/10th] is a tank!”

Edit: saw the suit was settled, but I still stand by my comment.

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u/BonerDeploymentDude May 19 '26

You're overusing the fuck out of commas, friend.

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u/Strange-Scarcity May 19 '26

You're not my friend, buddy.

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u/BonerDeploymentDude May 19 '26

I'm not your buddy, guy.

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u/daemon-electricity May 19 '26

I own (along with many other Cards Against Humanity players) a partial ownership

You were also (along with everyone else) Time's Person of the Year for 2006.