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Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event (www.theguardian.com)
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So this article just popped up on my guardian feed…wild stuff. I’m not a fan of Musk but you gotta admit this is pretty interesting.

“I’m not sure it’s necessarily legal in all jurisdictions,” Musk said, adding that the prototype was “not necessarily a safety optimised car but it takes the fun meter to 11”.

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[–] [S] -2 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Ohh agreed…this looks like a spinoff project for his starship/rocket ambitions kind of like the space balls lexus scene lol

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

    There was a week about six or so weeks ago where there was a new bad story about Elon every single day, and I made a video about it for my channel, as even though he's a piece of shit and his tech is shit, it's rare that he gets a new headline every single day.

    Researching that video opened my eyes a little about the fact that he may be the most confidently incorrect person on earth, and people just ignore it. Not the kind of person you want to trust your safety to for sure.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Wild, I wonder if that falls under the firehouse of shit we have seen from certain media organizations where any news is seen as a positive as long as you are in the news cycle being discussed despite how horrible that news maybe. It seems to work on simple minded/smooth brained folks.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    From what I can tell, Elon just doesn't speak to anyone who actually challenges him in any meaningful way. I had a chapter in my video that was just a laundry list of all the shit he's been wrong about, whether it was the number of cybertrucks Tesla projected to sell, putting a base on other planets/the moon, or putting a million robots in his factories.

    He's basically always wrong and every podcaster and media personality just gushes over him and pretends he's a special personality, when objectively, he's a dumb motherfucker who's exceedingly confident and great at taking credit for other people's ideas.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Excellent points. The submarine in the Thai cave incident is when the aha moment clicked in my head that he is just a vocal khole addict that pays people off to promote his propaganda. Its non stop…just like trump, they can do no wrong likely because they are paid to spin it in a positive light regardless of the topic.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    It took me longer. The moment it clicked for me was the incident where he carried a sink around Twitter's offices.

    That really made it apparent that he'd become radicalized to a moronic point, and then he goes and drops two Nazi salutes on national TV. I legitimately hate that man and I hope, when the AI bubble pops, that it severely harms his finances and his psyche.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yah well good on you for recognizing and adapting to new information. Nazi’s deserve no sympathy.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Thank you.

    I really liked Twitter pre-Elon, but the upside is I found the Fediverse.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    😊 Yah never got into the whole microblogging self imposed character restrictions, spent a lot of time on reddit back in the early 2010’s but left before the 2020’s. Now ive found the fedi, lots of cool and unique people here. Feels like home lol. Cheers!

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