I’ll share this with my mom, she believes Space Karen is the new messiah.
It’s missing that Musk was fired for incompetence
It’s missing that Musk paid twice the value of twitter, then tossed it off a cliff making it worth only 20% from the original value. Basically he just pulled a joker and burned a huge pile of money for shits and giggles
Musk has gotten his money’s worth, and thensome, from Twitter.
Just because it went down in monetary value doesn’t mean he hasn’t benefited in other ways. He most definitely has.
I mean, he could’ve had both the influence and the money if he played it smart.
True but through buying Twitter he also obtained the ability to suppress other people. Xitter hasn’t been replaced as the global town square. It’s starting to become obvious that a lot of the accounts of people who directly criticize Musk, or say things he and his buddies don’t like will be suspended. There’s no way he could keep his money and stifle other people’s free speech, because that’s what he bought. He didn’t buy Twitter, he bought complete control over the ability to suppress speech in the global town square.
It’s pretty clear he’s had a hand in the
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I wouldn’t doubt that Elon designed the Cybertruck. I mean just look at how ugly and impractical it is. He probably drew it on a napkin or MS Paint or something.
Watch Aliens. The armored personnel carrier is clearly the inspiration for the cybertruck. https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/e0d0yc/teslas_new_cybertruck_looks_familiar/
I consider this an insult to one of my favourite Sci-fi vehicles. The one from Aliens looks much better, much more practical, and much more like something humans should try to build.
Its really impracticle. Its riding so low to the ground. What kind of combat terrain could it possibly be useful in othet than a perfect undisturbed urban street?
Canonically, this is the lightweight model meant for flatter ground, roads, and the insides of spaceship corridors, and it was deployed to a colony with paved roads and indoor corridors, so it had its adjustable suspension set to minimum ground clearance for better handling. Obviously, this was retrospective to explain away the exact point you’re raising after they’d already made the prop and possibly released the film, but being a sci-fi vehicle, adjustable suspension, something that’s available in cars you can buy today, would be something safe to assume it must have just from watching the film and noticing the lack of ground clearance.
Thats a clever way to explain away the flaw. Ok ill buy it. Its scifi afterall. I can suspend my disbelief
It’s obviously for a perfect undisturbed urban street with aliens on it.
Huh, I thought its inspiration is the lego car I’ve built when I was 3. They didn’t quite manage to capture the more intricate details of my magnum opus tho.
Honestly it might have been fine if he managed to keep his public image under control or it was not so tightly coupled with Tesla’s brand. Most large trucks and SUVs are suburban grocery getters or used to take Timmy to soccer practice so they don’t actually have to be practical at all.
I honestly like the blade runner look. At least it’s a little different than the ubiquitous cross overs that all look the same. I would never buy one though because Tesla has shit quality and Elon is a wanker.
I was his fan at the time and at the reveal and it still looked like a joke to me. He also didn’t deliver on range and price.
The only people that got interested in it are those that wants to get attention, because the shape provides it. It doesn’t look like the car provides anything else.
Was that the reveal where he said the windows were indestructible, then proceeded to smash one on the first try?
He kept boasting that it was “bullet proof”. Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof
Guess what, turns out it’s not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.
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You can taste the embarrassment in this photo.
Apparently he has a bad habit of telling the engineers to do things that are literally impossible, and then firing them when they can’t do it. So they actually have a guy who’s job it is to distract Elon Musk so he never talks to the engineers, because it’s either that or keep hiring new ones.
Indeed, what Tesla’s REALLY selling isn’t an electric car, it’s the idea that Elon Musk is this ubermensch, the real life Tony Stark… he’s the mascot so to speak.
This is the problem with having your mascot be a real person in the social media era.
Tony The Tiger can’t go on a drunken twitter rampage about how we need to make America GRRRRReat again. Colonel Sanders can’t ruin KFC’s image because he’s fucking dead.
Ironically I’d buy the Cybertruck because its design reminds me of the polygonal models of my gaming youth, but… it’s too expensive…
He’s just a modern day Thomas Edison, the only thing he invented was a way to steal other people’s credit.
Edison seemed to know it was important to leave science to scientists and engineering to engineers. Musk seems constitutionally incapable of respecting expertise.
I’m sure Edison interfered here and there, it’s human nature to monkey with things.
But to the level of Phony Stark? No way.
He invented modern day snake oil
No Steve Jobs did that; while also buying a lot of it.
Musk is only good at one thing, which is play investors like violins to generate hype and secure more investments for the company. The rest of the company’s success is owed to the extremely competent and talented engineers and workers making those extremely ambitious projects a reality.
Every time Musk tries to pretend he’s an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.
I’m going to keep repeating it until it becomes common knowledge: When Musk stole the company from its original founders in a board coup, he specifically demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles despite his engineer’s objections. Reinventing the door handles was excessively time and cost prohibitive because of the crash safety requirements involved but Musk would hear none of it. And it was. It nearly bankrupted the company early on and it was only saved by government grants from the Obama days.
Oh fElon woulc have hated that: a Black guy bailing out an apartheid guys business.
Every time Musk tries to pretend he’s an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.
I read a comment somewhere by someone who worked at SpaceX, and they said a crucial part of the job was tactfully distracting him while he was in the facility. Otherwise, he would make nonsensical design suggestions and expect them to be implemented.
This is there title from a Blomberg article:
SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell
She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk.
I think it’s that, she is one is there most influential person that made SpaceX successful.
Cybertruck is what happen when people don’t say no to Musk.
It saddens me our government has been funding this foreign apartheid bastard piece of shit this whole time.
And people were hating on Steve Jobs, at least that motherfucker knew how to sell a phone
He also had vision. He knew what he wanted the experience to be and it became that for many people. Elon is a tool and thinks he can force his edge lord fantasy on people and it’s cringe AF.
And jobs didn’t helm the iPhone 🙄
The man has invested and profited an absurd amount. He has been the most successful tech entrepreneur of this decade.
Surely full-self-driving next year?
Roadster?
Man on moon?
Semi that beats rail?
Mars?
Shitty tunnels?
Hyperloop?
X-everything-app?Your idol is a fucking fraud and a moron that sumbled into some money.
Lololol acting like you’d be driving an EV right now or haven’t used a pay pal clone . The man fucking dethroned Boeing inside of 10 years in fucking rocket flight 🤣 dragging then forward.
Yes he exaggerates and lies. It doesn’t make his investments and ability to pick out disrupters.
Name a person who has been more influential over tech in the past decade.
I think the really funny part is you’ve invented a story and background for me. You already have me pegged as some Nazi tech bro because I can admit bad people do amazing things. Your seething rage has blinded you.
I can’t, these people…
“Yes he’s a fraud, but…”I mean, he wouldn’t be a grifter if he didn’t have gullible fanboys to grift…
It’s almost like you live in a world where someone can be more than one thing at once.
I know. Hitler was great at painting, but somehow people only remember the atrocities he commited.
That money that musk scammed people out of, could have done wonders in the hands of competent, intelligent, honest people.
Enjoy the landfill and the rocket exhaust, that’s as close as you’ll get to his ‘tech innovations’.
What money has he scammed? Cybertruck pre orders? I don’t think they word means it does. Nobody tricked or scammed PayPal users. Nobody was scammed into buying Teslas. He’s going to get sued on over promising self drive. That’s the only thing remotely close to a scam. Other than that you are just mad because he’s a successful asshole. Nothing about that is a scam.
Oh, so you’re just oblivious. I’m not going to google shit for you. Keep your ears plugged and your eyes shut, don’t look up!
Modern day Edison extracts wealth from Tesla and tells everyone they’re his ideas.
This is exactly right. Musk is the Edison of the current era, and I mean that in all the worst ways possible.
He’s just another trust fund schmuck with enough sense to pay someone smarter than him to do all the actual inventive shit, like Edison did (especially, but not exclusively to Nikola Tesla).
IMO, it’s blasphemous that he owns a company named after Nikola Tesla.
Edison actually did some electrical engineering. He’s not even as good as Edison.
I’m sure Edison did some good things, but I did say that I meant my comment in all the worst ways.
You can omit anything “good” that Edison did from my comparison, including any actual electrical engineering.
You forgot he also invented the child slave labor to go along with that emerald mine…
He is a good marketer and salesman. If he hadn’t been born rich he would some schlub somewhere selling timeshares to old people.
I think this is the best take, just like Trump he’s willing to say any old bullshit to get his way. I’m unwilling to call it charisma, I’d rather go with mythomania.
He invented hyping companies to astronomical valuations based on nothing, or at least perfected it
Even Steve Jobs beat him to that with his reality distortion field
At least Steve jobs had the biggest selling phone on the market, Tesla is not even top 10
Okay, I get that it’s fun to shit on Tesla and what not, but the Model Y is the top 4th selling consumer vehicle in the US lol. Also, Steve Jobs was holding on by an absolute prayer prior to the explosion of the iPhone. Apple was an absolute joke in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Yes because if you look at models Tesla has like 3 while the other brands have hundreds, look by brand instead and you will see that Tesla is 14th.
I guess if you want to add the qualifier of “best selling brand”, that’s fair. Nowhere did you say this was the case, however.
He’s the second biggest piece of shit on earth….Trump is number 1 for those keeping score. He’s a silver spoon fuckhead that has zero touch with reality. Money can buy anything apparently in this fucked up reality and sadly my children and my children’s children will think he did great things…but, but, but they say history is written by the victors. So, I’m hoping a cutely rhymed limerick is written above his grave about him being the ultimate piece of shit
He’s the second biggest piece of shit on earth….Trump is number 1 for those keeping score.
American detected.
Yeah, he might be at least top 50 but there’s no way he’s second (nor is Trump first) with all the horrible dictators running countries around the world.
