Don’t do that. Don’t get my hopes up.
Why not? Everyone else has been doing that to me for decades.
Don’t forget that he also didn’t found Tesla
Correct! He sued his way into being called a founder.
I cant say I know what this shithead has contributed to society if anything but a place for toXicity to grow.
We don’t have to do this. Not everything is black and white. Tesla would not be where it is today without his intervention. I expect SpaceX wouldn’t either.
He’s also a Nazi enabler and promoter.
A person can do both good and bad.
I don’t think it’s about whether what he did with Tesla is good (it is at least debatable whether it is unilaterally good given they are anti-competitive in the EV market). It’s rather about the pretense for the good thing. Elon isn’t driven to help the environment. The sum purpose of Tesla’s operations isn’t environmentalism, else they’d not be selling carbon credits to ICE manufacturers, incentivising them to avoid EV production.
And it’s not even just that “the good” was only to make money, it’s that it’s as a member of the landed gentry he had the opportunity to throw many things at the wall that failed before the Tesla takeover stuck; his ‘intervention’ is simply a VC success story by happenstance.
Taking this at face value, is what he did with Tesla really laudable at all? It is a lucky byproduct of elitism.
Add “born privileged, into wealth” to Nazi enabler.
You’re right to critique his motivations.
Privileged Nazi enabler & promoter L Musk has accomplished some genuinely impressive achievements in some of the worst ways for the wrong reasons
How’s that?
The Nazi enabler part being the bad side, you’re saying we should to reconcile this with the good side. I’m saying the good side is actually just some good shit that happened. Attributing it to Elon would be a mistake because of all of the times he did the same thing with the same intent and it never amounted to anything. For the truly good person, their opportunities to do good things would have been well exhausted before the Tesla opportunity arose. If we’re trying to balance the perception of how good we are it should be a function of the proportion of the things we do that are good vs. bad, not a function of how many things we have the means to try.
Fair point!
Tesla would not be where it is today without his intervention.
Yeah, I might have actually bought one without his intervention.
how dare you give me false hope
What a shit community this has become when hoping someone is dead has this much upvotes.
He is also not the founder of Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
Oh how I wish this was true. Would have made this world a better place.
No doubt he’s a egotistical dick, but to say the world would be a better place without him is categorically false on many grounds.
- The man popularized electric vehicles like no car manufacturers have ever been able to do.
- SpaceX’s achievement in reducing the cost per pound and reusable rocket tech will have profound implications on our species survival over the long run.
- Starlink coverage now provides relatively affordable internet to far more remote areas of the world.
So while I think recent years of criticism is fair based on his behavior (why the hell is he wasting precious time on Twitter again?) to say the world would be better off without him is to overlook the substantial contributions he has made towards technological advancement and global connectivity. It’s important to separate the individual’s personal flaws from the broader value of their work. Just my 2 cents.
Yay, electric vehicles are popular! Only bring loads of issues, cost a lot of rare earth metals which are mined by slaves and children, run on fossil fuel electricity (many coal plants and bio gas which are burned forests) and they are too heavy for the roads we have and electricity network, causing both to require many more replacements and maintenance, which costs loads of co2 emissions.
SpaceX is awesome! Costs less materials, so much easier to launch way more rockets into the sky! Like for starlink for example. Luckily the fuel used for it has zero emissions /s
But starlink is nice. Loads of space junk and coverage in most places is where already a different and faster network is, but it’s nice to have connectivity in hard to reach places. But is it worth all the emissions and space junk? And child labor for all the rare earth metals?
Can we please rebrand ‘X’ as ‘The website formerly known as twitter’?
Also, best post here in a while
Also, don’t get my hopes up -.-
edit: so no prince fans here then ^^"
keep deadnaming it until he stops deadnaming his kid
But is it a dead name? Last I looked, the URL was still “twitter.com”.
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No, just keep calling it twitter. Thats what it is. thats what it’ll always be.
“X” is such terrible branding that every news article always has to do what you suggest, otherwise people don’t know what the hell is being discussed.
If musk won’t recognize his child’s new chosen name, I won’t recognize twitter’s new branding
I like Xitter more, as in “shitter”.
I prefer “Twitter, temporarily rebranded as X…”
We could skip and just jump to using a symbol.
He was eaten alive by pigs with neuralink.
Neurapigs
Porkilinks
NeuraOink
That sounds like a breakfast sausage brand
Awww pigly.
He’s also not a founder of Tesla 🤷♂️
He’s the flounder of Tesla.
Nope. He was an early investor who sued so that he could call himself a founder.
He isn’t an original founder.
Have a closer look.
Woooosh
I’m sure there’s a deadman’s switch on all the Teslas, Neuralinks and SpaceX/Starlink so we’d all know for sure he was dead.
If we live that long.
They all just stop, let out a digital shriek, as all the LED’s turn blood red…
Prepare for the wreckoning…
When I become billionaire I also want to buy a company and become its founder. Wait, that’s not how it works
He certainly founded its downfall
However, that DOES give you money to sue people so you can have the court order them to recognize you as a founder.
I feel like we should have specific words to insult people that does that kind of things, like claiming tings they haven’t really done or invented. I think when i was young in the demo scene they were called lamers
He founded X which acquired Twitter. Or something like that. 🤔
Nah, he bought twitter and changed its name to something that looks like a placeholder
I knew it was a fake headline when it said ‘sadly.’
Just means he passed away in sadness
The life was the sad part. At least this way his atoms would have a chance of binding to new things to make something more useful. Like a slime mold or a meth rock.
If only…
Its only a heartbeat away
Im living do or die, what can I say?
For a moment I was very happy.
They really should have used the vampire picture for the obit.
