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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago

never designed anything

i am convinced that he at least had a lot of say in the design of cybertruck. the sheer amount of design flaws on that thing is just too many to believe it was made by actual engineers without any input from a barely literate troglodyte.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well thats not completely true, he personally helped design the Cybersuck

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I hear its the fascist thing on wheels :3

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

According to some graffiti, that's true!

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago

I remember some article about SpaceX a while ago, where an engineer says that the work day grinds to a halt whenever Musk arrives at the factory because he wants them to work in a very specific way that isn't actually conducive to being a rocket manufacturer, but which he thinks is how rocket manufacturers operate.

[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just looked it up, it does not look like he made his degree up, but there was an issue where he was going to get his Economics degree in 1995, but stayed an extra 2 years to dual major in physics, then claimed he got the physics degree in 1995 instead of 1997 in business deals. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would argue Gwen Shotwell is to blame for spacex's success. Tom Muller made the engine, which is no mean feat, but Gwen built the company.

[–] alucard@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gwynne* Shotwell, but yea, she built the company.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

I also spelt Mueller wrong. I'm not a rocket appliances.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The other day I was talking about musk to my GF, Me: “Musk is such a poser, he buys successful gaming accounts and pretends to be a top gamer by claiming those achievements as his own” GF: “Well, yeah, that tracks. Isn’t that what he does with his companies?”.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

The old school MS-DOS gaming groups on Facebook all mocked it on how it looked like it was an early 90s PC racing game car rendered in real life. Plenty of other 90s gamers also made similar claims about how it resembled clunky primitive 3D graphics of the era.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

He just happened to get lucky and invest in 3 of the most influential technology companies of the past decade despite basically the entire planet telling him it won't be possible.

He just got lucky 🙄

This is a stupid fucking way to attack Elon. There are better ways to point out he's a drug addicted criminal.

[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 29 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

And also lucky to have been born in the right family.

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[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

People who defend him claim he's a super genius who invented electric cars and space shuttles straight out of his balls, so it does make sense to call out the fact that he himself didn't create any of these companies and he's not the one doing any of the development, all he has is money, all he does is shout and put his X on other people's things.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is what capitalism gets you. You don't get leaders who get where they are thanks to their hard work or that they're better at what they do than others, you get entitled shitheads who never work a day in their lives and get everything handed to them, with zero work ethics and zero knowledge of how to do anything.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

Bringing down a superpower is pretty big. Something to brag about I guess.

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Elon musk has a few patents. Nothing revolutionary and some not even related to his current venture. But his companies successes come down to his ability to promise completely unachievable goals.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

This is exactly how Trump built himself up. As early as the 1970s when Trump was just starting to do his own ventures New York newspapers and editorials would jeer at him for being the biggest damn blowhard they ever saw. Someone who would promise the world and deliver nothing.

Yet this attitude worked... he managed to built a brand around himself as the successful businessman who, ironically, had no businesses successes. By the late 80s he was actively mocked by so much media it wasn't funny. Everything from sesame street to the 87 TMNT cartoon to the infamous Back to the Future 2 portrayal. It didn't stop there. It continued into the 90s with the villain in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie being heavily based on Trump, as well as the villain in the 1994 movie Time Cop.

Everyone from playboy to a ton of other magazines. Despite all this he STILL managed to somehow maintain that image, and while it waned, the Apprentice somehow convinced people again that he was a business genius when he was the farthest thing from it.

He was not in isolation, of course. The libertarian movement had been growing and the idea that the US did not need a politician, but a businessman, as a president and that it needs to be run like a business and not a country had been building momentum for decades before his entry into politics.

If that movement didn't exist Trump would still be a failed businessman and probably have been thrown in prison a long time ago.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Musk is a sleazy salesman. That's all he is.

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[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can someone provide sources for the information? I'm not doubting it, just that relying solely on information from a meme without references is generally a bad idea

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

For PayPal he was actually fired, but still had a lot of shares. Musk was fired when the company he was CEO of (x.com), merged with Confinity. PayPal was a service of Confinity. Musk kept pushing his X concept, whilst the rest of the company wanted to go PayPal. Musk got pushed out over this and some other conflicts. Later PayPal made it big and the shares made Musk a bunch of money.

So for PayPal Musk had zero to do with it's success.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well with Tesla, that was a lawsuit. He was being sued and due to the outcome, board members became co-founders. Legally Musk is considered a co-founder of Tesla.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

And that’s exactly how newspapers should phrase it:

Musk, who won the right to be called a cofounder of Tesla in court, …

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

That's because xelon is a nothing, and has always been a nothing. Money does not make you something. All republicans/conservatives are just the uncool kids that will never be cool. They don't understand what "cool" actually is. And when they try to be "cool", it's just cringe, cringe, cringe!!!

[–] coolpup@cupoftea.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

@Sir_Kevin He does innovate new, and highly toxic, forms of BS. Does that count? 🤔

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's a perfect psycho business man. With inimaginable amount of money and resources. Greedy as a worm whole. You know like all most powerful few guys in the world.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

He actually did invent that one game in the 80s, his only positive contribution to society.

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