Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
I’m so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet
same. i’ve been downvoting any posts about him because it’s always some bullshit. it’s never anything good.
This is him getting loudly and publicly booed, which I personally consider good.
I agree that I like him getting booed, but my preference with narcissists is to completely ignore them. They like attention, good or bad, but cannot stand being irrelevant. Since I can’t stand narcissists, I make them irrelevant to my life.
The sad part is, I think that’s what he wants. He seems to be a believer in the whole any attention is good attention.
I saw someone posit that he might have a humiliation fetish. It’s the only explanation I’ve seen that seems rational.
He’s got a sick addiction to playing the heel it seems, except people sort of like heels but musk has get off the planet go away heat.
What he wants is immaterial. This isn’t a good sign for him and the BS contrarian “bad things said about or happening to are actually good for instert-right-winger-here” is delusional coping
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you got it, dude 👶👍
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Wow. I did not know about that. I understand that 1984 was a major contribution to society, but I have trouble reading because it’s so depressing. I even tried to watch the movie, but couldn’t pay attention for long.
Yeah, same here, I downvote Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump posts.
This addon helps a little bit but it’s not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.
Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.
that doesn’t make any sense
Yup. He just generates too many clicks.
Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw
Yeah him and that orange one. So so tired.
Don’t let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.
If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing
We should take everything.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.
Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.
Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?
The cheapest dishwashing soap you can find mixed with water, maybe?
Definitely rotten veggies over eggs. Have you seen how much eggs cost these days?
Very true. Eggs are a bad idea. Maybe some of that artificial rotten egg smell stuff?
Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of “sustainable transportation” and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he’s supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a “hoax” repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!
Ehz he didn’t built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive.
…I mean, I love my Tesla, and most people I know with one feel similarly. I’m not a fan of the way the company is run, and association with Elon makes me want to hurl these days, but I have no qualms with the cars themselves.
I don’t love your Tesla, because they keep almost running me down because their self-driving bullshit doesn’t know what a zebra crossing is.
So I’m not saying FSD is any good, it’s incomplete beta software on public roads, but considering not even a fifth of Teslas have FSD, I’d be willing to bet you’ve just encountered some bad drivers with a nice mix of confirmation bias…
now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive
By whose metric? Tesla owners have a 97% approval rating. I know tons of people that drive Teslas and they have zero maintenance other than tires and windshield wiper fluid. Hate on Elon all you want, but to assume the cars are shit because he is shit is just juvenile.
hilarious you’re so heavily downvoted for this. there are some rabid people on here who can only see negatives. I agree Tesla’s are great to drive and I know plenty of peple who own them and love them and have had zero issues, and also saved a tonne on fuel, and maintance. trying to dismiss all Teslas as garbage is just utter stupidity and honestly sounds like sour grapes to me.
Elon is a awful human and I wish with all my heart he’d have a sudden TIA. but tesla cars are not Elon musk.
ps your downvotes just serve to make my point 💪 stronger.
Maybe they’re being downvoted for the ludicrous claim that a car, even an electric car, has zero maintenance issues other than tires and wiper fluid. It’s not like it has zero moving parts.
No, it has about 20.
All of which will likely need maintenance at some point.
How often do you replace the steering column, wheel bearings and electric motor bearings? Basically never.
How about the transacle assembly? That’s rated for 1 million miles.
These cars need very little maintenance compared to an ICE car that needs bi-annual oil changes.
Also, anytime when “97%” of people agree on something it’s the same as “97% of people voted for Putin, they all love him!” and you know it’s pulled out of some ass or another
Would love to know where you got the 97% approval rating.
His ass
But why does your finger smell like his statistic?
I’m a plate of chicken and rice mate. I don’t have any fingers
I mean I will readily accept that the internet is a fickle place and nothing is ever as black and white as it would seem but there has been a metric fucktonne of examples lately for why Teslas are just straight up bad cars. Cheap materials, poorly wired electronics, broken features, etc.
Like just casually scroll through any car subreddit or other online forum and you’ll see people recording their Teslas just breaking down.
My BIL just bought one, gas is around $6/gallon in Hawaii and there is basically no mass transport. He tried to buy another EV but there was a 6-8 month wait-list. He loves the car, it is what it is. QC has improved over the past few years.
But yet they keep selling a shit ton. And if you talk to an average owner they love their Tesla. It’s almost as if you are looking at a biased sample that is not representative of the vast majority of owners.
ikr who would have thought a person who had zero issues with a car would go on a car forum and complain about it? google literally any car and you’ll see forums of people complaining about them. does this mean All cars are demonstrably shitty? by your metric it does. which is stupid.
lol your point is actually the opposite logic. You’re so close! Only reading about complaints makes you think that car is shitty. I’m actually saying that reading about complaints on forums is a horrible way to assess car quality regardless of car make.
oh you’re so close too! I was actually agreeing with you. try lowering your defensive level 5 points and read it again.
I mean either way you aren’t getting the representative opinion. Both of them are just anecdotes.
Well the model Y is the most popular car sold world wide so it’s hard to argue that they are “shit”.
Zero maintenance is a bold claim. They have repair people that go to your house to replace parts when they break.
I didn’t claim anything about zero maintenance? Lol
The comment above yours did I meant to click on their comment but did yours instead.
I assume the cars are shit because they spontaneously combust.
gas cars do this an order of magnitude more though.
You got a source? I’m willing to believe the strength of the explosion is greater, but not that gas vehicles spontaneously combust more frequently.
you can believe what you like but you’re still incorrect. that’s the neat thing about facts.
770 fires per million ICE vehicles (2)
6 fires per million EVs (1)
Weird how you used a dead link to try and make your point.
Teslas are awesome to own and drive. It’s an annoying checklist that takes an hour when you first get the car to make sure your car isn’t one of the ones with the bad panels, doors that don’t close nicely, etc., But you can decline the car if it has any of those things, or they fix it right away. Once you are through that part it’s really a great vehicle, especially if you have a charger at home. Gad stations are super inconvenient if you think about it.
Until you get into a fender bender. I’ve seen a few too many reports of people having to spend thousands for spare parts that should be hundreds top.
Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.
Elon didn’t even found the company. He just sick’d his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the “founder” title.
Keep your friends close.
Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.
Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.
How many of them are actually buying Teslas?
I don’t have access to that data. And I don’t won’t to be misconstrued as promoting Elon or his activities (not that you’re doing that but I see the downvotes).
I’m just explaining what I think he’s doing. It’s what I’d pitch personally if I noticed red voters trend and visibly meme anti EV and I had obligations to shareholders I had to keep.
People are better off buying EV anyways. ICE vehicles are disgusting. I think people just like to assign large structures like businesses and folks like Elon to their political idealogies. Businesses and governments have to be larger than that because they need to serve people at the end of the day with either product or policy.
But if he’s doing what you’re claiming he’s doing, won’t all the people on the left who bought Teslas jump ship when it’s time to get a new car? Even if you’re right, he’s still an idiot.
He moved production to Texas for tax reasons. That’s it. He’s not a fantastic businessman; he just hates paying his fair share.
Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.
I’ll call him apartheid boy faster than anything, but this claim is largely inaccurate and needs to stop being repeated, because the truth is bad enough.
He got rich by scamming Compaq and thanks to Peter Thiel, gay fascist, kicking him out of control at PayPal.
Not only did his own father call Elmo out on his fake “rags to riches” story, by throwing a bag of unrefined emeralds on the table.
Elmo even went as far as to state his father had a stake in an apartheid emerald mine in an interview in Forbes of 2014.
He tried to get the interview removed of course, but it still is on the Wayback Machine.
Excerpt:
JC: How do you handle fear?
EM: Company death – not succeeding with the company – causes me a lot more stress than physical danger. But I’ve been in physical danger before. The funny thing is I’ve not actually been that nervous. In South Africa, my father had a private plane we’d fly in incredibly dangerous weather and barely make it back. This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”
Elon sold his first company, which basically just owned a single useful program, to Compaq for $300 million, riding the .com bubble.
Errol Musk’s net worth is $2.5 million.
His affluence gave Musk his start but it isn’t why he’s a billionaire, that’s due to dumb boomers paying too much for funny numbers and Peter Thiel realizing he’s a moron that can’t be trusted to run a company based on public perception of trustworthiness.
Bennett Tomlin investigated the emerald mine claims. It’s really interesting: https://youtu.be/4oNoy7Ay-yU?si=Y4-2_nCk73sWHmhW
Not only did Musk’s father own part of an emerald mine, but he was given that part of ownership after allowing shady people to use the family plane to transport things without asking any difficult questions.
The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding
the corporate ownership of formerly-essential social media giant
Savage
The truth hurts.
This case is more like picking off a scab and it’s actually kind of a relief.
I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol
Imo the biggest problem is that it’s way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better
Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.
It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it’s death is a bad thing.
Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.
I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.
But a lot of people use it to organize.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
What about Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon?
he’ll make exceptions for his own toys.
It was awful. This is worse.
Is it worse than tiktok?
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TikTok isn’t even that bad
I beg to differ
I beg to differ
Beg, then.
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the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All sorts of people who don’t know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.
Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.
Nothing > Twitter > X
Let’s bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.
X is more likely to become nothing than Twitter was.
Let’s keep X unsolved
It’s big brain time
Having X is the fastest way to deleting it. Let it die
But not the best way, since it gives unrestricted voices to horrible people.
I’d rather it has a slow capitalist enshittification, than a fast fascist one.
The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.
Do you guys think there’s a part of him that realizes that people dislike him for a legitimate reason? I mean, he started out being the darling of the internet, when he was in the early stages with SpaceX and Tesla. His cult of personality was pretty large. Obviously he still has fanboys, but he has to realize that he ended up on the fringe, right? Right?
Not if he’s surrounded by yes men, which I’m sure he is.
He’s surrounded by his own, privately owned and operated, yes-social media platform
He’s basically Darth Vader at the end of the prequel series.
I think if it took him as long as it did to figure out people liked him, it’s going to take at least that long for him to realize they don’t.
Then again with the obvious ego boost of the first part of that, the question then becomes: even if and when he does realize it, will he care?
I look forward to the day his story is a cautionary tale.
I would think so. But at this point, he has made his choice. Don’t think a baby face turn is in the cards. Might as well become Emperor Palpatine at this point.
If Musk is Palpatine, then is Zuckerberg Snoke? Does Musk have a jar full of Zucks like in that mess of a Star Wars movie?
No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don’t want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.
I’d take a billion dollars though. Live out my life without ever needing to worry much about anything.
It’s that egotistical need to use that money to exert power to control people that I’m not interested in.
A billion is way too much. 5 to 10 million is all anyone needs to retire. I can see maybe “needing” 25 million if your hobby is racing cars. More than that is just needless hoarding.
Yeah, but in real life I’m Nicholas Cage and I gotta buy a bunch of crazy shit. Couldn’t possibly retire on anything less than $800 million!
Agreed. Take the money and do your own thing. Or better yet, help people that want to be helped.
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With the tantrums he throws, I doubt he doesn’t care.
Pretty sure he employs a meme shitposter group that makes propaganda to make the internet like him.
I think he found out that all the money in the world doesnt make you happy.
This fucker could literally change the world for the better for all of humanity and he does nothing but grow his own wealth.
Hell you can figure that out by just making 6 figures straight out of college. There comes a point where you realize all you do is work because you’re too tired to do anything else, and your disposable income can’t get you anything meaningful to make up for it. I’m far happier for having quit and taking a pay cut for a remote job closer to my family.
I distinctly remember getting my hair cut when I was back home a couple months before I started working, and the stylist was someone in my high school graduating class. We chatted a bit and they mentioned money being a bit tight, and all of it just felt so wrong and gross to me. There’s no reason why I deserved more for my skillset than she hers.
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Haven’t drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he’s going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They’ll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.
Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.
Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!
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Are you suggesting that the front of Twitter is going to fall off?
Don’t worry, it’s been towed outside of the environment 👍
Yes, according to very rigorous maritime engineering standards…
Don’t use cardboard, or the back will fall off too. I won’t make that mistake again…
Only if it gets hit by a wave!
Wasn’t twitter coded so the front won’t fall off?
Well obviously not, because the front’s falling off.
It should have been built to
hardcorerigorous software engineering standards.
You don’t need drugs when you’re stupid.
But some drugs can affect your intelligence, and if he was intelligent enough to at least lay low and take credit for others’ work before, it appears he no longer has at least that baseline.
It has absolutely nothing to do with drugs. Not even in the slightest. He acted this way before he bought Twitter. He acted this way when he wormed his way into Paypal. This is just his thing. The only difference is people give him attention now. Iron Man, Rick and Morty, and the general Internet praise made him too comfortable.
I think the Rick and Morty joke flew over people’s heads tbh. He’s kinda portrayed as a useless dick, I mean his character just did what he does in real life. Let others solve the problem while he tries to take some or all credit.
Constant praise by sycophants and people wanting to believe in a better future at the hand of high tech billionaires also does the trick. It works like a pump for inflatable egos.
Good job gamers.
Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he’ll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol
That’d be fun, especially considering that he’ll have to pay big bucks to Tencent, who wholly own Riot Games. All discussion would quickly devolve into a anti/pro China flamewar
I wonder if Howard Hughes was met with boos when he went out in public, and is that why he ended up becoming a recuse?
Is Musk a germophobe yet?
“Hop in the plane, Smithers.”
“But sir-”
“I said hop in.”
The spruce moose!!
Howard Hughes suffered from really profound OCD and chronic pain in a time before effective medications for either of those. Arguably, effective treatments still don’t exist. He became a recluse because he wasn’t well enough to appear in public. I understand why the comparison might spring to mind, but I’m pretty sure Elon Musk is just an entitled asshole and not disabled.
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Check out these if you miss old web
- Melonland forum
- Agora road
Time to put my circa-2001 HTML skills to the test! Anyone got a lead on a good “Under construction” gif? Also who’s got the best guest book add-on these days?
Frames. Frames in frames in frames.
Don’t forget the visit counter!
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How do I make the mouse have trails? I want it to be rainbow trails!
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Definitely use the tags, I’m sure modern browsers still support them.
Now his acts will be even more stupid and attention-seeking.
Looking forward to several rounds of the videos getting banned on Twitter and Elon claiming he isn’t banning them the videos while also claiming the boo’ing was for something else
I bet he’ll wipe his tears with the thousands of dollars he made there.
How else do you propose hurting him, and he deserves to be hurt, other than bruising his massive ego? He’s never going to be anything but massively wealthy whether we like it or not.
I don’t think he really cares about random gamer nerds booing him.
I would think most people would not be in favor of a giant crowd booing their presence when they were there to enjoy themselves. Maybe that’s one of the ways Elon is special.
Thing is, Elon styles himself a gamer, so this one might sting a bit.
Then he’ll go roll around in his money and do some ketamine, so hey.
He styles himself with whatever is popular
He sure hasn’t been making money with Twitter, if that’s what you’re suggesting.
Twitter is just a toy for him.
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At least he puts them to use. I bet he’s sad all the time.
Yeah, crying in a pile of money. What a weenie.
