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

[pbsmooth]

Well at least Tesla's honestly developing electric cars.

Ah ...

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

Scandalous. But that sort of shit is just considered fair game nowadays in the business world.

 

[a_chap]

More bollocks from Musk.

Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses

Elon Musk says X will support those treated "unfairly" by bosses due to behaviour on Twitter - now X.

www.bbc.co.uk

Twitter paying people's legal bills will never ever happen.

It's no different from him claiming

• he knows more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth
• that "X" will become half the global financial system
• that he'll put a man on mars in ten years (a quote from 2011)
• that Tesla cars have full self-driving
• that brake pads on a Tesla literally never need to be replaced for lifetime of the car
• that he would fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels#
• that he'd secured funding to take Tesla private
• the the Boring Company loop will "have high throughput at high speed. Target is 4000 vehicles/hour at 155mph"

etc.
etc.
etc.

 

[NoXion]

More bollocks from Musk.

Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses

Elon Musk says X will support those treated "unfairly" by bosses due to behaviour on Twitter - now X.

www.bbc.co.uk

Twitter paying people's legal bills will never ever happen.

It's no different from him claiming

• he knows more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth
• that "X" will become half the global financial system
• that he'll put a man on mars in ten years (a quote from 2011)
• that Tesla cars have full self-driving
• that brake pads on a Tesla literally never need to be replaced for lifetime of the car
• that he would fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels#
• that he'd secured funding to take Tesla private
• the the Boring Company loop will "have high throughput at high speed. Target is 4000 vehicles/hour at 155mph"

etc.
etc.
etc.

Another item to add on the growing list of things Musk has promised but hasn't delivered.

 

[two sheds]

What do you mean promised but not delivered?

We have a test case



"Carano got the boot from Lucasfilm & Disney+'s original "Star Wars" spinoff series earlier that year after months of controversial social media posts that peddled whackjob conspiracy theories & half-assed pseudo-science while finding ways to insult the very fanbase that actually allowed her to collect a paycheck from "The Mouse" had a whole lot to do with that. It culminated in an Instagram Stories post where Carano supported comparing the "persecution" that she believes conservatives were enduring (especially with the COVID pandemic) with what Jewish people suffered in Nazi Germany."

Elon Musk, Twitter X Free Speech Legal Offer Hit with Gina Carano Fans

Elon Musk & Twitter X will fund legal bills for being "unfairly treated by your employer" for Twitter activity, making Gina Carano fans happy.

bleedingcool.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

What do you mean promised but not delivered?

We have a test case

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"Carano got the boot from Lucasfilm & Disney+'s original "Star Wars" spinoff series earlier that year after months of controversial social media posts that peddled whackjob conspiracy theories & half-assed pseudo-science while finding ways to insult the very fanbase that actually allowed her to collect a paycheck from "The Mouse" had a whole lot to do with that. It culminated in an Instagram Stories post where Carano supported comparing the "persecution" that she believes conservatives were enduring (especially with the COVID pandemic) with what Jewish people suffered in Nazi Germany."

Elon Musk, Twitter X Free Speech Legal Offer Hit with Gina Carano Fans

Elon Musk & Twitter X will fund legal bills for being "unfairly treated by your employer" for Twitter activity, making Gina Carano fans happy.

bleedingcool.com

Sounds, >ahem<, rather haywire

 

[two sheds]

When I first saw it I was actually hoping it was one of the people Musk sacked because of something they'd said on twitter.

 

[gosub]

Tesla CFO, 'Master of Coin' Zachary Kirkhorn steps down | TechCrunch

After 13 years at Tesla, chief financial Zachary Kirkhorn is stepping down to be replaced by Vaibhav Taneja.

techcrunch.com

 

[edcraw]

Love this community note on an advert!

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation quits X, describing it as 'toxic'.

ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X

The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts

www.theguardian.com

 

[gosub]

Elon Musk's Chinese double is in training should he be asked to fight Mark Zuckerberg

Elon Musk is busy “lifting weights throughout the day” to prepare for his touted cage fight against Mark Zuckerberg – and he’s not the only one getting ready for action. In fact, his Chinese doppelgänger is also preparing himself in case, for some reason, he’s called upon to take his place in...

www.indy100.com

 

[Yossarian]

Not sure how the blue ticks will react to news that Musk gave federal investigators records from Trump's Twitter account, though the company did drag its heels for long enough to get fined

Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Twitter’s initial resistance to complying with the warrant resulted in a federal judge holding the company in contempt and levying a $350,000 fine.

www.politico.com

 

[xenon]

I used to use an app called Tweetings. That broke a few weeks ago and I’ve not been on since. I was never a big user but if you just keep breaking things and driving people away, you are left with the cesspool that seems to be coming. Fuck Twitter.

 

[xenon]

I mean he let that guy that posted a paedophile video back on. A literal paedophile video. They deleted it but the guy is still there posting I can’t recall his name.

 

[xenon]

He’s not funny. I wish you would just jump off a fucking tower block. Elon. Go away. it’s not entertaining anymore.

 

[Lurdan]

Perhaps we should give up social media and go back to human interaction.

private eye

 

[two sheds]

 

[Yossarian]

 

[AverageJoe]

Look what just landed in my inbox...

Called it months ago.

 

[High Voltage]

Look what just landed in my inbox...

Called it months ago.

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Well, that's me convinced . . . take my money

 

[AverageJoe]

Looks like he's going to build a Western version of weChat.

 

[gosub]

Looks like he's going to build a Western version of weChat.

Whilst his fans carry on calling him a free speech champion

 

[8ball]

Looks like he's going to build a Western version of weChat.

I'll hold on for the Country & Western version.

 

[pbsmooth]

Looks like he's going to build a Western version of weChat.

I think that has been mentioned once or twice...

 

[moochedit]

More bollocks from Musk.

Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses

Elon Musk says X will support those treated "unfairly" by bosses due to behaviour on Twitter - now X.

www.bbc.co.uk

Twitter paying people's legal bills will never ever happen.

It's no different from him claiming

• he knows more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth
• that "X" will become half the global financial system
• that he'll put a man on mars in ten years (a quote from 2011)
• that Tesla cars have full self-driving
• that brake pads on a Tesla literally never need to be replaced for lifetime of the car
• that he would fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels#
• that he'd secured funding to take Tesla private
• the the Boring Company loop will "have high throughput at high speed. Target is 4000 vehicles/hour at 155mph"

etc.
etc.
etc.

Yeah cos musk really cares about unfair treatment of employees how many people has he sacked so far?

 

[Dystopiary]

Yeah cos musk really cares about unfair treatment of employees how many people has he sacked so far?

Don't know but there's this...

Twitter has been sued by seven former employees who allege they were discriminated against on the basis of sex, age, race, and/or for taking medical leave.

and

It is the latest in a series of complaints filed against the social media biz by Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, a labor and employment law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The prior cases allege that following last year's layoffs, Twitter failed to pay promised severance, failed to follow layoff notification requirements, discriminated on the basis of age, sex, and disability, and failed to pay vendors and employee bonuses.

Shannon Liss-Riordan, attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Register in a phone interview... "We have more than a dozen class action cases we filed in court and close to 2,000 individual arbitrations," she said.

Twitter has refused to pay for some arbitrations, so Liss-Riordan said her firm has filed a petition to compel arbitration. "We're going to be shortly moving forward with a motion to force Twitter to proceed with those arbitrations and pay for them," she said.

Twitter sued yet again for discrimination after mass layoffs

 

[two sheds]

They can just send him their lawyers' bills

 

[teqniq]

Twat:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

I also notice today that rather than saying 'Retweet' when well, Retweeting Tweets, it now says 'Repost' Determined to kill the bird.

 

[a_chap]

Really???

Is Musk 52 or 12?

 

[teuchter]

I suppose all you Musk haters won't even like this, which is a nice cardboard house for cats. But you'll say it's stupid and be all negative about it, just because he's involved.

Tesla releases cardboard cat house informed by Cybertruck in China

Tesla is selling a flat-pack cat house made of corrugated cardboard in China, with an angular silhouette that was modelled on the car brand's controversial electric pickup truck.

www.dezeen.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

I suppose all you Musk haters won't even like this, which is a nice cardboard house for cats. But you'll say it's stupid and be all negative about it, just because he's involved.

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Tesla releases cardboard cat house informed by Cybertruck in China

Tesla is selling a flat-pack cat house made of corrugated cardboard in China, with an angular silhouette that was modelled on the car brand's controversial electric pickup truck.

www.dezeen.com

I could just go the local Tesco and pickup a cardboard box for free rather than spending ten quid on it