• breezeblock@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Don’t forget all those TikTok videos from gun nuts shooting at their Cybertrucks’ side panels to “prove” it was bulletproof and having them go clean through

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        True, because it’s too easy to subvert them surreptitiously, and yet the present plan of openly seeking world domination, starting by running over schoolchildren and telling teens to commit suicide, is worse.