Good job, dumbass.

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[–] 70 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

He's also shit all over Grok

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah because Grok keeps calling out his damn lies lol. Not for very much longer obviously but the gaffes published so far have been very entertaining, if not depressing.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s in line with the one “skill” musk seems to have: find promising teams to “lead” and take the public credit for their work, then when the great teams’ work gets attention, that confirms musk’s idea that HE is the key creative and technical force, then he starts forcing the company to do things HIS way and the products start blowing up even more than usual.

    So we should be right about at that enshittification inflection point on Grok.

    (I guess it’s not really “enshittification” since it’s done for megalomaniacal reasons and not for profit-driven ones, but I liked the sound of it)

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Elon could have benefited from having the right people around him.

    It seems like a million years ago, but he used to troll the Right by noting how popular Tesla was with LGBTQ community.

    He's losing money, but he still has plenty. If he had the right people in his ear, he could really powerfuck the Trump regime.

    If he played his cards right, he'd probably make a fuckton of money doing so.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I’m not so sure about that. Elon already walked back his attacks on Trump, and the Democrats won’t take him in after the Nazi salute and having him turn to trump in the first place means that he can’t be trusted.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What if I were to tell you that the Tesla love that splooged all over Reddit was the product of his PR team in the first place?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey at least we eloctrocuted an elephant!

    :(

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not sure if the video you linked addresses is but I want to add that the whole Edison vs Tesla internet thing was started a The Oatmeal comic, which was packed with inaccuracies, exaggerations and outright lies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Popularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla.

    Tesla's been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Do people associate the car with Nikola? I've never really conflated the two. Though the bitter irony of the modern day Edison abusing the name is not lost on me.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    So fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again
    You promised you'd be Tesla, but you're just another Edison
    'Cause Tesla broke a patent, all you ever broke were hearts
    I can't believe you tore humanity apart
    With the very same machines that could have been our brand new start

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I bet Elon would look up to Edison and how he was able to fool history about being a genius.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    No one cares IMO and I don't even feel pity for him.

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