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[–] 150 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Ah good, a mail service that scans your mailbox, determines if you're left leaning, and then doxes you to the Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/etc. Fantastic idea.

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  • [–] 120 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Is it just me or is Elmo now just announcing random shit and hoping that by magic it just instantly exists?

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    In 2013 he said that his cars would be self-driving by 2016 and has been promising that it would finally happen "by the end of this year" or "next year" ever since.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Offering email isn’t exactly like offering self-driving. Any moron can standup an email host in hours / days.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But have you considered that he's not just any moron? He's a special type that will somehow make it suck.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Other than paying much smarter, more skilled, and generally better people to do stuff and take credit for their work, throwing out random shit and demanding that others make it happen is literally ALL he's done professionally since he made a Space Invaders clone as a kid. That and self-promoting.

    He's the richest man in the world and also the perfect example of the fact that the ultra-rich don't become ultra-rich because they're smarter or more talented or because they just work really hard.

    Being rich already; ruthless opportunism at the cost of the health, happiness, and often lives of others; and shamelessly relentless propaganda is how billionaires are made.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    That's hilarious and depressing.

    The author of that page gave up in May 2021. I'm guessing that they sold their Tesla shares in utter disgust at that point.

    Pretty sure that it still hasn't happened today in Jan 2025, despite people making adult movies in the front of a "self-driving" Tesla. Something that seems like a life limiting choice if ever I saw one.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Email would be monumentally easy to offer. Setting up an email servers is easy AF, and if he wanted to, he could chuck any number of free web clients on it.

    My guess is that this is a fast and easy way to feed his LLMs with more content.

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Gmail rival

    It's called an email provider and there are already a million of those. Don't act like it's some fancy high tech stuff

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think you forgot who the target market is...

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago*

    Damn. Imagine an email service that makes actual emails impossible to find, but constantly bombards your inbox with the most hellish cringest spam imaginable.

    He's reinventing Yahoo Mail. Real "Return To Tradition" hours. It'll be like the 90s all over again.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Rephrased: Elon Musk would like to scan the emails of gullible conservative’s to feed his LLMs.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd rather keep my food in Jeffrey Dahmer's fridge than my mail on Elon Musk's server.

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is zero chance that people will create filters that automatically delete anything with an xmail domain. Nope. No chance whatsoever. Anything coming from someone who uses xmail has to be worth reading, right?

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    Makes it trivial to spam filter it.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Fuck big email providers. All my homies use proton mail 😎

    We always have to remember that e-mail is a decentralized protocol. If so many people use one e-mail provider then e-mail will be less of a decentralized protocol and can be monopolised. I will hate it.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Stop giving this fuckhead attention for vapor ware.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Is this the greek X? Because then it would be Chi-Mail (aka Shemale)

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    This dude is fully losing it. I’m predicting some kind of massive meltdown very soon.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    I'm not so sure. I reckon he's using a Trump-style strategy of just constantly doing and saying outrageous rubbish in order to dominate people's attention. i.e. He just wants people to be paying attention to him, and thinking about him, and writing about him, regardless of whether it is positive or negative.

    I believe he is doing this as a deliberate strategy, knowing that even if a lot of the reaction is negative, it still means that he has the attention of the world - and that people will listen to what he is saying.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Also his ultimate goal is to become a trillionaire. Because he thinks we live in a simulation and that he is the main player and he wants to beat the high score. And he found out the best way to achieve that is to create a cult around him. Tesla stock only soared to those heights because of him as a person not because the company’s performance. People are buying Tesla stock like it’s a tithe to the Elon church. And to keep people in the cult of Elon he sows division. The more negativity surrounding him from outsiders the more his cult followers will dig their heels into the ground and buy more of his stocks and products.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    I swear to fucking God, I will auto report every fucking email from their email server I get.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Gmail is arguably the last good thing Google still has going for it.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Yes, but this meme (somehow) needs an edit featuring Willam Defoe's character from Boondock Saints:

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    If it does not ask for a phone number, it could be a good alternative for temp email.

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    [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Melon musk, the Stevia Jobs of Tesla. Owner of X, X, X and another thing called X

    I don't think I wanna be provided a service that I know edgelord in chief will fuck with when he's salty.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    First thought is how bizarre.

    Second thought is he's desperate for payments and/or data mining.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    nice litmus paper for forever ignoring people

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Obviously. Because buying twitter was a great idea.

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