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.
Full self driving by 2016!!!!
Hey, Elon, you’re the world’s richest loser.
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.
Cultists do not like when you point out their fairy-deity is full of shit
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.
They'll ride the self driving Teslas we got in 2014 to the Mars base built in 2022.
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.
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
Considering the resource-raping and the complete absence of Asimov's Laws, we're better off without.
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.
I love that he goes after Elon etc really hard. It’s hilarious.
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.
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.
Well, 2026 isn’t over yet.
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
Weird, I would have thought Elon was more of a Decepticon kinda guy.
Even their names fit Elon better. Megatron. Starscream. Dirge.
Not a fan of the guy btw, in fact I'm saying if you're the devil you shouldn't call your new demonic general The Archangel Gabriel, ya know?
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