• Gsus4@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    When do you think that might have happened? Because he’s been a documented dick for a long, long, longer time than most media give him credit for.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, this notion that Musk suddenly went off the rails is pure face saving fantasy.

      Like, no, Musk didn’t suddenly become an idiot. He’s always been an idiot. We just bought his hype, and the healthy thing to do is admit it and learn a lesson.

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        5 months ago

        pure face saving fantasy

        Yea, it’s much easier to fool people than for them to admit that they were fooled :/

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        5 months ago

        We just bought his hype

        That hype was useful when for cussed on a technology he is helping develop. We should never have listened outside that

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          5 months ago

          helping to develop

          This, my friend, is the hype. Musk has never helped to develop anything. He’s not an engineer or a scientist. He’s a rich asshole who buys his way into tech projects, all of which were either doing fine without him (Tesla, PayPal) , fail utterly (Hyperloop), or suck up resources that could almost certainly be applied more effectively by the government itself if they weren’t being funneled into a for-profit operation (SpaceX).