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“On Monday, Musk thought it would be funny to expand the area covered by its three-week-old Austin robotaxi service to resemble a giant penis when seen on a map
by codechicago277 1y ago
“On Monday, Musk thought it would be funny to expand the area covered by its three-week-old Austin robotaxi service to resemble a giant penis when seen on a map.
“Harder, better, faster, stronger,” the $1 trillion company wrote on Monday, a double entendre referencing the synth pop track of the same name by Daft Punk, a duo appropriately known for performing as robots. Musk approvingly reposted the phallus-shaped service map, adding the fare would now be hiked to $6.90 per ride from $4.20 previously, both numbers the 54-year old often employs for comical effect.”
It’s amazing that anyone still takes him seriously. One of the first riders almost hit a train, and this is what he’s spending his time on. It’s inexcusable, but his fans lap it up.
- samrus 1y agohes always been like this. from faking video games to pushing memecoins. his being cringe itself isnt the issue. its the lack of EQ that leads to someone being a slave to wanting to be liked. it doesnt inspire confidence in his ability to think rationally. like how hes perfectly fine grifting and contributing to the decrease of trust in society. its messed up
- soared 1y agoHe was definitely not always like that, at least loudly in public.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHe lost me when he called (EDIT: REMOVED NAME) a respected cave diver a "pedo". (I guess 7 years ago now.)
- j-bos 1y agoThe man refrenced might prefer his name be continually indexed with said term.
- immibis 1y agoIf I were Vernon Unsworth I'd be fine with searches for "Vernon Unsworth pedo" coming up with discussions about how stupid Elon Musk is for calling me a pedo out of spite and how he really should be in jail for that absurd defamatory statement, but isn't because he's politically untouchable.
- hengheng 1y agoThat was the moment the veil was lifted. There's a model Y with The Sticker on it in my street, introduced years after he showed his colors like that. No, dear neighbor, when you bought that car, you knew.
- SonOfKyuss 1y agoI don’t think a majority of Tesla buyers knew about the “pedo guy” thing. His recent antics have been much more high profile
- rightbyte 1y agoI think you can estimate the later bound of his meltdown to when he called the rescue diver a "pedo"?
- Zambyte 1y agoHe made a space rocket company called Space Sex and your choices of Tesla cars are S3XY. Maybe he wasn't like that in the PayPal days, but ever since he has been loud in public, he has been like this loud in public.
- wat10000 1y agoThe difference is that it used to be combined with some pretty cool stuff. He was a loudmouth jackass but he was (running companies that were) doing neat things with electric cars and rockets. Now the cars and rockets are stagnant, his newer ventures are jokes, he blew up Twitter, and is making a decent attempt at wrecking the country I call home. The loudmouth jackassery was kind of amusing when there was cool stuff to go along with it. Not so much anymore.
- Grimblewald 1y agoHe wasnt running those companies so much as they were running him. These groups had dedicated soft protocls for handling elon's bullshit and disasterous influence. He's always just been the money guy. His ideas have always been shit, and the ideas he shared that were good invariably were ones he was handed and was repeating (often handling related questions rather poorly). just look at his consistent and extreme lack of comprehension of fairly basic engineering. The man is a talentless hack, who paid his way into fame and the appearance of success. His contribution to paypal was his money. When paypal and x (at the time elons online bank) merged, paypal's code etc. Weren't really infleunced by elon or even x. X was crazy unsafe and unreliable, and so merging really only brought together intelligent havenots with a decent product with an unintelligent nepobabies wealth. he didnt invent tesla either. He just bought into the company and bought the right to call himself a founder and marketed that angle aggresivley. elon is an idiot, and always has been. Idiots need symbols though, so other idiots idolize him, propping him up.
- wat10000 1y agoWas he just lucky, then? SpaceX and Tesla have both been very successful, with business models that looked pretty dubious at the time. Electric cars and rockets looked like good ways to turn large fortunes into small ones, not the other way around.
- tiahura 1y ago“One of the first riders almost hit a train“ How many human drivers almost hit something?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI wonder: when a human does it "we" have someone to blame. I think as a species we like that. When a machine kills someone do we go after … the company? (Maybe we should all be shorting robo-taxi companies.)
- steveBK123 1y agoIn the 1000s of miles I have been a passenger in Ubers, taxis, etc.. I have never had one try to drive through a railroad crossing.
- dmix 1y ago2yrs ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhyqKdhoYaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhyqKdhoYaM
- wat10000 1y agoWe need stats, not anecdotes. Last I saw, Tesla’s “full self-driving” required human intervention something like once every couple hundred miles. That’s absolutely atrocious. It’s probably better now, but still a long way from where it needs to be. For comparison, the average American driver goes around 100,000 miles between collisions.
- steveBK123 1y agoRight and if you remove elderly, drunks and teens, who are generally not your taxi driver of choice, the driving stats skew even better. So average driver is a low, probably incorrect bar to meet.
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- buran77 1y agoA decade ago his antics were seen as whimsical and perhaps funny, especially to his fan base. With that fan base ever shrinking his antics today are disgusting and trying to appeal to the crowd which still appreciates something this low-brow.
- whendiduassume 1y agoIt's like a different dumb jackass assumed that role some time ago. Why would they use what was a science role model that way?
- dylan604 1y agoWhy the boards of directors of any of his companies do not ban him from making social media posts from his personal account is beyond me.
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoNazi salutes won't be forgotten. On national TV. In a presidential inauguration. A permanent stain on US history.
- xyst 1y agoAll billionaires are permanent stains on US history. Musk is just the poster child for this behavior.
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- Bluestein 1y agoBusiness practices are being enshittified to the point of 4chan. Profit, for the lulz.- Not so long ago you'd gain traction through insight or depth. Now it's absurdity that wins the price, vanity upon vanity.- At some point the idiogarchs are going to celebrate (celebrate) their accidents and dead as a win. Lol.-
- fullshark 1y agoThey are "the men in the arena" taking chances pushing humanity forward, we are on the sidelines, doing nothing but criticizing people greater than us. Death is necessary for humanity to progress. Eleven workers died building the golden gate bridge, etc.
- wat10000 1y agoFunny how people who live lives of unfathomable luxury are the ones “taking chances,” while the people who literally die in the process are just the price of progress.
- Bluestein 1y agoI feared it sounded familiar. There it is.-
- queenkjuul 1y agoYou first then
- fullshark 1y agoWeird they didn't include a photo, tweet including commentary confirming the juvenile justification: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1944688226037325868 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1944688226037325868
- vigilantpuma 1y agoProbably because major news outlets are reluctant to include pictures of penises, even stylized ones, in their articles.
- vigilantpuma 1y agoMusk is a clearly brilliant man who does not know how to keep his mouth shut or not act like a teenager. I know he doesn't need my respect... But he's certainly lost all of it by now. And for people who are like "yeah but he gets results," are you really saying he wouldn't be getting more results if he didn't spend the last 10 years being an idiot online?
- simonebrunozzi 1y agoI'd agree with you, and mention that there's always the option to short TSLA stock, if you believe that the fans will stop being fans soon enough. A lot of people have lost a ton of money shorting TSLA. It's not a stock, nor a company. It's a religion. Quite hard to bet against a religion. You never know if it's the one that's going to last 2,000 years.