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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

The old school MS-DOS gaming groups on Facebook all mocked it on how it looked like it was an early 90s PC racing game car rendered in real life. Plenty of other 90s gamers also made similar claims about how it resembled clunky primitive 3D graphics of the era.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The other day I was talking about musk to my GF, Me: “Musk is such a poser, he buys successful gaming accounts and pretends to be a top gamer by claiming those achievements as his own” GF: “Well, yeah, that tracks. Isn’t that what he does with his companies?”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

That's not exactly a high bar to clear

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Musk is a sleazy salesman. That's all he is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Perfect company for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

A sleazy salesman who was built up by his dad as some kind of messiah.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Last year SpaceX received government subsidies totaling $10 million per day. Without government welfare he is worthless.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have a feeling he designed the cyber truck and that's why it sucks so hard

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, he didn't do that either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

never designed anything

i am convinced that he at least had a lot of say in the design of cybertruck. the sheer amount of design flaws on that thing is just too many to believe it was made by actual engineers without any input from a barely literate troglodyte.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well thats not completely true, he personally helped design the Cybersuck

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

I remember some article about SpaceX a while ago, where an engineer says that the work day grinds to a halt whenever Musk arrives at the factory because he wants them to work in a very specific way that isn't actually conducive to being a rocket manufacturer, but which he thinks is how rocket manufacturers operate.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I would argue Gwen Shotwell is to blame for spacex's success. Tom Muller made the engine, which is no mean feat, but Gwen built the company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

So the Credit goes to Tom Muller, without engine you cannot go to space.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

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