BossDj 71 points a year ago

He's also shit all over Grok

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Kyrgizion 45 points a year ago

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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Diplomjodler3 20 points a year ago

If they lobotomize Grok into spouting nothing but far right propaganda, it'll also completely trash whatever commercial potential it might have had.

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atomicbocks 6 points a year ago

I am sure the likes of Trump Mobile or NewsMax would be happy to have it.

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Zink 11 points a year ago

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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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 6 points a year ago

the products start blowing up even more than usual.

yeah i've been watching starship launches too

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Zink 3 points a year ago

The Cybertruck and the Starship are some incredible shiny metal pyrotechnic wonders he has given the world!

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sturger 2 points a year ago

I read a quote somewhere to the effect, “The successful politician knows the exact time to step in front of the parade and pretend they’re leading it.”

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Analog 14 points a year ago

He personally does, but Grok calling him out on his BS makes Grok look better in my view. Still not going to use any product remotely associated with Musk though

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Regna 7 points a year ago

I grok you, but nobody groks them, as they’re incomprehensible and incompetent.

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MushuChupacabra 36 points a year ago

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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TehWorld 8 points a 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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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 3 points a year ago

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

He's had too many Right people around him.

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MushuChupacabra 3 points a year ago

Your wordplay pleases me.

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DragonTypeWyvern 29 points a year ago

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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Raiderkev 14 points a year ago

I've always suspected he bombarded the wallstreetbets threads with bullish sentiment as well.

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al_Kaholic 9 points a year ago

That would make sense.

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supersquirrel 20 points a year ago

Hey at least we eloctrocuted an elephant!

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Stubb 21 points a year ago

Electrocuting elephants has gone out of fashion, now it's killing monkeys with brain implants.

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Hideakikarate 8 points a year ago

Shit, after the first episode of the newest Black Mirror season, I would very much prefer no implants in my brain.

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hakase 18 points a year ago

Edison didn't do any damage to Tesla's name (he was more than capable of doing that himself), and by all contemporary accounts the two men seem to have supported each other the brief time they were together and parted ways amicably. (Also, Edison personally had nothing to do with electrocuting Topsy the elephant - see 4:09:00.)

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Klear 7 points a year ago

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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turmacar 2 points a 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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ech 16 points a year ago

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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sugarfoot00 15 points a year ago

I enjoy the fuck out of him being trolled by the Canadian electric truck manufacturer Edison Motors as well.

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TownhouseGloryHole 5 points a year ago

And their prototype "Topsy"!

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Grandwolf319 6 points a year ago

Before the cars became popular, yes, now when you say Tesla, people think cars.

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lime 5 points a year ago

funnily enough there was also a car brand named Nikola. they turned out to be a huge scam.

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aeharding 12 points a 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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Meltdown 7 points a year ago

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Yermaw 2 points a year ago

Even the memory of the nasally whine of AWWW Topsy is enough to trigger a minor migraine

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Grandwolf319 4 points a year ago

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