It all started when he invented the Emerald Mine...

I wouldn’t doubt that Elon designed the Cybertruck. I mean just look at how ugly and impractical it is. He probably drew it on a napkin or MS Paint or something.

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Ironically I'd buy the Cybertruck because its design reminds me of the polygonal models of my gaming youth, but... it's too expensive...

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Honestly it might have been fine if he managed to keep his public image under control or it was not so tightly coupled with Tesla's brand. Most large trucks and SUVs are suburban grocery getters or used to take Timmy to soccer practice so they don't actually have to be practical at all.

I honestly like the blade runner look. At least it's a little different than the ubiquitous cross overs that all look the same. I would never buy one though because Tesla has shit quality and Elon is a wanker.

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- Indeed, what Tesla's REALLY selling isn't an electric car, it's the idea that Elon Musk is this ubermensch, the real life Tony Stark... he's the mascot so to speak.
  
  This is the problem with having your mascot be a real person in the social media era.
  
  Tony The Tiger can't go on a drunken twitter rampage about how we need to make America GRRRRReat again. Colonel Sanders can't ruin KFC's image because he's fucking dead.
  
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- I was his fan at the time and at the reveal and it still looked like a joke to me. He also didn't deliver on range and price.
  
  The only people that got interested in it are those that wants to get attention, because the shape provides it. It doesn't look like the car provides anything else.
  
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- I won’t ever win a wank mobile, but some of the components and castings are really high quality. Some are really fucking poor design decisions too though.
  
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That's the thing. Design implies engineering decisions. Decisions requiring huge amounts of expertise, talent and work. All Musk did is get in front of his lead engineers, handed a crudely drawn triangle on a piece of paper and said "It must look like this, make it happen". He did the easiest 0.001% part of the job of coming up with an idea for something that he thought looked cool and the rest was done by people who are far more intelligent and talented than him. And yet he is the one giving himself all the credit for it. This undeserved self-praise, stealing of credit (and wages) from other people's work and the sheer arrogant intellectual dishonesty of believing that he is as smart and hard working as those people who are actually making things happen is why I can't stand Musk.

The fact that the Cybertruck is a stupidly flawed, barely functional monstrosity with tons of production issues and insane price tag are side effects of all the compromises that had to be done to fulfill Musk's demands. It is literally Musk's equivalent of The Homer car from the Simpsons.

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- I know there's a lot of reasons to hate about Steve Jobs and I'm not contesting those, however what you said reminds me of this quote:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Yow6rd-lw
  
  where he talks about taking an idea to product
  
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It's definitely his Homer Simpson car. I bet he drew it in crayon with his tongue out.

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Watch Aliens. The armored personnel carrier is clearly the inspiration for the cybertruck. https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/e0d0yc/teslas_new_cybertruck_looks_familiar/

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- Huh, I thought its inspiration is the lego car I've built when I was 3. They didn't quite manage to capture the more intricate details of my magnum opus tho.
  
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- I consider this an insult to one of my favourite Sci-fi vehicles. The one from Aliens looks much better, much more practical, and much more like something humans should try to build.
  
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Musk is only good at one thing, which is play investors like violins to generate hype and secure more investments for the company. The rest of the company's success is owed to the extremely competent and talented engineers and workers making those extremely ambitious projects a reality.

Every time Musk tries to pretend he's an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.

I'm going to keep repeating it until it becomes common knowledge: When Musk stole the company from its original founders in a board coup, he specifically demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles despite his engineer's objections. Reinventing the door handles was excessively time and cost prohibitive because of the crash safety requirements involved but Musk would hear none of it. And it was. It nearly bankrupted the company early on and it was only saved by government grants from the Obama days.

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Every time Musk tries to pretend he's an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.

I read a comment somewhere by someone who worked at SpaceX, and they said a crucial part of the job was tactfully distracting him while he was in the facility. Otherwise, he would make nonsensical design suggestions and expect them to be implemented.

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- This is there title from a Blomberg article:
  
  SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell
  
  She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk.
  
  I think it's that, she is one is there most influential person that made SpaceX successful.
  
  Cybertruck is what happen when people don't say no to Musk.
  
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It saddens me our government has been funding this foreign apartheid bastard piece of shit this whole time.

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Oh fElon woulc have hated that: a Black guy bailing out an apartheid guys business.

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He is a good marketer and salesman. If he hadn't been born rich he would some schlub somewhere selling timeshares to old people.

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I think this is the best take, just like Trump he's willing to say any old bullshit to get his way. I'm unwilling to call it charisma, I'd rather go with mythomania.

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Apologies for being completely off topic. But I have a theory that if he'd been born a pleb he'd have "taught" English in some country where a white person doesn't require any kind of teaching qualifications beyond the ability to speak their first language. He'd be regaling everyone who'll listen with his judgy observations about the local culture and teaching wrong grammar rules "because that's just the way we say it." That's who I'm pretty sure this twit would be. Would definitely have a blog called something like Korean Musk.

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It's missing that Musk was fired for incompetence

It's missing that Musk paid twice the value of twitter, then tossed it off a cliff making it worth only 20% from the original value. Basically he just pulled a joker and burned a huge pile of money for shits and giggles

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Musk has gotten his money's worth, and thensome, from Twitter.

Just because it went down in monetary value doesn't mean he hasn't benefited in other ways. He most definitely has.

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- I mean, he could've had both the influence and the money if he played it smart.
  
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- That depends on whether you think Twitter swung the 2024 election.
  
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DOGE will probably double that money the way he's planning to run it.

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- Oh absolutely. Trump found his Goebbels. And aside from that, he's talking about axing departments that effect him and his business. He's already talking about CFPB and he had been talking about making X into an everything app (including handling payments), which CFPB would absolutely oversee.
  
  I'm sure he'd be looking at NHTSA for Tesla and EPA for all the lithium he's gotta deal with, too.
  
  Who will benefit from this? Certainly not the X users who will get defrauded or hit with excessive fees. Certainly not the people who get hit by injured or killed by self-deiving Teslas that were prematurely approved, or people drinking polluted water from runoff from lithium mines.
  
  And there will likely continue to be no oversight over social media or any of the internet. Fake news will continue to spread virally with even more velocity than it does now. Probably exclusively on X, since Musk has known to have a long standing feud with Zuck, and will probably directly impair him. I have a funny feeling Meta will become an unlikely ally in the resistance.
  
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Modern day Edison extracts wealth from Tesla and tells everyone they're his ideas.

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This is exactly right. Musk is the Edison of the current era, and I mean that in all the worst ways possible.

He's just another trust fund schmuck with enough sense to pay someone smarter than him to do all the actual inventive shit, like Edison did (especially, but not exclusively to Nikola Tesla).

IMO, it's blasphemous that he owns a company named after Nikola Tesla.

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- Edison actually did some electrical engineering. He's not even as good as Edison.
  
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He's just a modern day Thomas Edison, the only thing he invented was a way to steal other people's credit.

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Nope, he stole that from Edison.

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Edison seemed to know it was important to leave science to scientists and engineering to engineers. Musk seems constitutionally incapable of respecting expertise.

I'm sure Edison interfered here and there, it's human nature to monkey with things.

But to the level of Phony Stark? No way.

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It's pretty clear he's had a hand in the ~~Canyonero~~ Cybertruck, and with Xitter's strategy - they're going great, right?

...Oh

...ohhhh nonono.

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12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

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Forgot to add in "Was fired for incompetence".

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Ever wonder why Musk's talks about Tesla are so stilted? Because he didn't do shit at the start, he doesn't know anything about how it started.

Listen to Tarpening and he talks in and out about EVs and Tesla's business model. He knows because he did it. https://youtu.be/JW95LCkxlb4

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Musk doesn't even have an imagination.

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His mind is the film Underworld on repeat, next to a bowl of pizza rolls, a PlayStation 2, and a stack of cyber-goth monthly with any attractive girl torn out and taped to the wall.

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- Surely PS1, or the Cybertruck could have had more polygons and the panels would line up because they didn't need their vertices rounding to integer pixel coordinates.
  
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FALSE! He dreamed up the Cyber truck. The most useful vehicle for mechanics.

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Elon also has never lead a government. In case he starts saying that after the orange hits the ground.

He is one thing and one thing only. A walking bankaccount that sells money for ego.

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I'll share this with my mom, she believes Space Karen is the new messiah.

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I you already know how that will turn out.

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He invented hyping companies to astronomical valuations based on nothing, or at least perfected it

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Even Steve Jobs beat him to that with his reality distortion field

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

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- At least Steve jobs had the biggest selling phone on the market, Tesla is not even top 10
  
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He invented modern day snake oil

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No Steve Jobs did that; while also buying a lot of it.

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He probably designed that stupid rescue pod for the kids who needed rescuing

It's obvious he's not an engineer because he obviously didn't even speak to the divers about the requirements before hand

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He’s the second biggest piece of shit on earth….Trump is number 1 for those keeping score. He’s a silver spoon fuckhead that has zero touch with reality. Money can buy anything apparently in this fucked up reality and sadly my children and my children’s children will think he did great things…but, but, but they say history is written by the victors. So, I’m hoping a cutely rhymed limerick is written above his grave about him being the ultimate piece of shit

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Money can't buy his children's love

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He’s the second biggest piece of shit on earth….Trump is number 1 for those keeping score.

American detected.

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- Yeah, he might be at least top 50 but there’s no way he’s second (nor is Trump first) with all the horrible dictators running countries around the world.
  
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more like silver shovel lmao

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And people were hating on Steve Jobs, at least that motherfucker knew how to sell a phone

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He also had vision. He knew what he wanted the experience to be and it became that for many people. Elon is a tool and thinks he can force his edge lord fantasy on people and it's cringe AF.

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You forgot he also invented the child slave labor to go along with that emerald mine...

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The Simpsons S26E12 is almost a decade old. It’s basically a depleted uranium lickspittle snapshot before his veil combusted.

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And jobs didn't helm the iPhone 🙄

The man has invested and profited an absurd amount. He has been the most successful tech entrepreneur of this decade.

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Surely full-self-driving next year?
Roadster?
Man on moon?
Semi that beats rail?
Mars?
Shitty tunnels?
Hyperloop?
X-everything-app?

Your idol is a fucking fraud and a moron that sumbled into some money.

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- Lololol acting like you'd be driving an EV right now or haven't used a pay pal clone . The man fucking dethroned Boeing inside of 10 years in fucking rocket flight 🤣 dragging then forward.
  
  Yes he exaggerates and lies. It doesn't make his investments and ability to pick out disrupters.
  
  Name a person who has been more influential over tech in the past decade.
  
  I think the really funny part is you've invented a story and background for me. You already have me pegged as some Nazi tech bro because I can admit bad people do amazing things. Your seething rage has blinded you.
  
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