Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[Red Cat]

Anyone who unironically calls other flesh-and-blood people "NPCs", is in my opinion engaging in the kind of dehumanisation necessary for mass murder.

Musk has previously professed the belief that we live in a simulation, which also another belief with seriously dodgy implications when sincerely held.

Its not clear to what extent he can step out of these views is it? I suspect he has quite an ironic take on things at times but is also vulnerable to being both very literal and obsessive. I think he might find any narrative that doesn't come from him too controlling, or that he perceives as not coming from him, he can't stand to be pinned down, or to be seen as the same as others. I'm not sure he'll ally himself with a group or movement, not consciously, he seems to like to dodge being classified.

But anyone who you can't say no to is potentially dangerous.

 

[pbsmooth]

He has a circle of people who are fully into this shit who have dragged him into the right wing meme world. To what extent he was there already/would have who knows but he is certainly mixing with a crowd who will feed him this shite.

 

[MrCurry]

Its not clear to what extent he can step out of these views is it? I suspect he has quite an ironic take on things at times but is also vulnerable to being both very literal and obsessive. I think he might find any narrative that doesn't come from him too controlling, or that he perceives as not coming from him, he can't stand to be pinned down, or to be seen as the same as others. I'm not sure he'll ally himself with a group or movement, not consciously, he seems to like to dodge being classified.

But anyone who you can't say no to is potentially dangerous.

He needs a good woman in his life who can just give him a big hug. That would likely solve a lot.

 

[Artaxerxes]

He needs a good woman in his life who can just give him a big hug. That would likely solve a lot.

Women shouldn’t have to fix a man’s shit for him. He needs to sort himself out

 

[Rob Ray]

ah so another word for Sheeple

Specifically aimed at liberals by the right, but same ballpark yes. They like to think of themselves as player characters by contrast, but I've always enjoyed that the more logical implication (given that most of them haven't any power to change things and tend to mindlessly follow bosses) is they're mobs.

 

[ska invita]

Specifically aimed at liberals by the right, but same ballpark yes.

probably some nietzschean uber-prat root to it then

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Anyone who unironically calls other flesh-and-blood people "NPCs", is in my opinion engaging in the kind of dehumanisation necessary for mass murder.

Musk has previously professed the belief that we live in a simulation, which also another belief with seriously dodgy implications when sincerely held.

A belief that you're the only real person and everyone else is just a projection for your benefit is one of the classic symptoms of a sociopath.

 

[two sheds]

He's broken yet another financial record

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion

Elon Musk was the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of more than $200 billion, breaching that threshold in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos.

www.ndtv.com

 

[ska invita]

play on player

 

[Red Cat]

He has a circle of people who are fully into this shit who have dragged him into the right wing meme world. To what extent he was there already/would have who knows but he is certainly mixing with a crowd who will feed him this shite.

Who are this circle?

 

[MrCurry]

Who are this circle?

Www.fundingcircle.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Who are this circle?

The king's advisors are reckless and godless men

 

[bimble]

i really dont think he's

mixing with a crowd

in any real way, looks to me like a pretty clear case of "radicalised online".

 

[pbsmooth]

Jared Kushnor, Matthias Dopfner, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis...

 

[Supine]

Showing off his customer relationship skills today

 

[kabbes]

Jared Kushnor, Matthias Dopfner, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis...

… your boy took a hell of a beating

 

[tommers]

LOL. LMAO.

 

[a_chap]

 

[Yossarian]

Showing off his customer relationship skills today

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If Brianna Wu and everybody else on the planet pays him $8 a month he could get that $200 billion back in a little over two years.

 

[Supine]

If Brianna Wu and everybody else on the planet pays him $8 a month he could get that $200 billion back in a little over two years.

If being an important word in that sentence

 

[Storm Fox]

LOL. LMAO.

As well as looking shit, there is a large panel gap between the front door and the rear door. Top build quality. Best seen at 5 seconds in.
Also, the rear tyres extend wider than the mudguards. This is illegal in the UK and many US states, according to a quick googling.
Lastly, the rear passengers are not going to have a lot of headroom. That's OK in a sports car where the point is the driving experience and most of the time only two people are in it, but this is meant to be a working vehicle travelling over rough roads. It's a shit design.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

For properly shit design look at the big semi truck. A nice, central driving position. What a good idea.

“Brilliant” say people who actually drive them for a living, “what do we do when we get to a toll booth”

 

[BigMoaner]

Showing off his customer relationship skills today

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Jesus.

 

[BigMoaner]

there's a great phrase in fishing circles for people with hugely expensive kit but are poor fisherman. "all the gear, no idea."

 

[BigMoaner]

Maybe there's some sort of deconstructing going on by him. He's deconstructing himself for the lolz. Doesn't sound like he has a very strong family life, so maybe money is all he can loose. This is the thing with this saga, it's not really clear whether he gives a fuck about anything or is secretly thinking "oh shit, someone put the breaks on!"

 

[alex_]

there's a great phrase in fishing circles for people with hugely expensive kit but are poor fisherman. "all the gear, no idea."

Also see any sport where you need more than a t-shirt and shorts, cycling being a prime example - eg fatties on a carbon fibre frame

 

[Jeff Robinson]

LOL. LMAO.

Probably just cheaper to get "I'm a total cunt" tattooed on your forehead than purchase one of those.

 

[DotCommunist]

you don't get many polygons for your money do you

 

[Sue]

Also see any sport where you need more than a t-shirt and shorts, cycling being a prime example - eg fatties on a carbon fibre frame

Triathletes are the worst. Three different loads of stuff/sets of results to bore on about.

(Used to sit next to one at work. Amazed I never strangled him.)

 

[bimble]

Jared Kushnor, Matthias Dopfner, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis...

Very happy that i only recognise one of these names. If these are elon musk's friends they are clearly rubbish ones though, because they're not doing any kind of intervention.