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RULES:
The moment he smashed the Cybertruck window should have been the point at which his grift fell over.
He'd spent all that time talking up the Cybertruck, saying that it was damn near indestructable, that it was bulletproof. And to prove it he threw a huge ball bearing at the window.
And it smashed.
That should have been the point at which everyone said "Nah, this guy's a kook" and walked away. But nope. They all rode along on the meme and here we are.
Way before that. The cave diving tantrum showed everyone he was a pampered asshole.
Honestly, it’s extremely funny, because of how shocked he was that a giant steel ball damaged the “bullet proof glass”.
Bullet proof glass doesn’t just… shrug off bullets, it cracks and breaks without shattering and the bullets embed in it rather than passing through. The glass on the demonstration could very well have been “bullet proof glass”. The fact that he thought that meant “will shrug off getting hit with a shot put” showed how surface level his understanding of things are.
Like he pretends to understand the business’s he runs, like he’s some how involved in the design and conceptualization of products. But’s he’s just a business idiot claiming credit for the work his employees do, and making everything worse when he does get involved.
Everything is herd mentality identity politics now. There is no undersranding. Understanding is for heretics.
Same guy trying to send rockets into space can't make glass that doesn't break...
Cue "he just owns shit, he doesn't do any of it" reply
The fact anyone believed this shit is evidence of shallow understandings of, like, everything. Of fucking everything. It's so stupid. Its so violently stupid.
i remember when hyperbole was seen as just that and often dismissed as braggadocio worth not even its breath. nowadays we give it more credence than it deserves
When will people realize that Elon only has one trick: lie really baldly really publicly, pressure the shit out of a bunch of smart engineers until they get to their breaking point, and if it works you’re a “genius” — if it doesn’t, just throw it on the pile of other completely outlandish shit that you said that never mattered.
You missed the critical middle step of pumping up market valuation so you can borrow against the hype.
Surely there is a dump step following the pump?
Or is it pump, borrow, repeat?
Full self driving by 2016!!!!
I ended up in a situation where I got picked up by a cyber truck of all things, and the current state of self driving is better than I expected, but I still don't trust it. It drove weirdly aggressively and lurchy, even doing frequent lane changes to get ahead, and while the car and people detection worked, the render on the screen was concerning because everything wiggles creepily and disappears and reappears.
Driving it manually seems like a terrible idea as well. No line of sight visibility at all behind and rear sides, way too much blind spot in the front.
10 years after promised completion and it only feels like starting the 'getting there' phase.
Watched a buddy's Tesla categorize my car + trailer as a car, car + trailer, and then a semi and back again every few seconds. Both cars were parked....
It's shape based. And since there's no longer a lidar and shape is estimated from cameras...
Who needs lidar
Hey, Elon, you’re the world’s richest loser.
Soyyyyyyy..... un perdedor!!!!!!
... so why don't we kill him?
Lyrically, of course.
Like no really, him and all these fuckers have eggshells for egos... mock them relentlessly, gloriously, they will crack.
Cultists do not like when you point out their fairy-deity is full of shit
Most people don't like when their ego is threatened. They'll make up any excuse to protect their flimsy sense of self worth.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
Elon needs all of his companies to stay in growth valuation mode. The moment people start pricing them like stable, mature companies (or worse) he’s kinda screwed.
Elon Musk is the personification of a moron’s hallucination of a genius.
All these 'geniuses' of the current age really make you wonder how many of the supposedly super intelligent innovators we learned about in school were just frauds taking credit for other people's achievements.
Thomas Edison ❌ Nikola Tesla ✅
Elon Musk is the Edison of the current age.
That's deragoratory to Edison, who's a piece of shit.
He's the same shameless marketeer, but Edison, while a "brute-force" guy rather than actually being insightful or visionary, actually did more than just steal the ideas of others
He definitely stole plenty of the shit he's credited with, but not everything like Elmo has
Not true. Edison was quite the inventor in his younger days. Elon is just a leech.
They'll ride the self driving Teslas we got in 2014 to the Mars base built in 2022.
Putting up "Datacenters In Space!!"
Another moronic idea.
Given the way he's talked about these robots in the past, I'm fine with them not being ready yet.
“If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army?” he told investors. “Not control, but a strong influence… I don’t feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/elon-musk-remarks-robot-army
Eeegh shit I don't like it
[ Everyone disliked that. ]
Modern day Edison.
Edison wasn’t stupid, he could come up with good ideas. He was just better at making others do the work and come up with the ideas for him to take as his own.
Well. He's not complaining about paying Elon Musk via subscription.
It makes sense, as this guy apparently has a business to promote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JerryRigEverything
But still.
Considering the resource-raping and the complete absence of Asimov's Laws, we're better off without.