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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.
Well thats not completely true, he personally helped design the Cybersuck
And it fucking shows
I hear its the fascist thing on wheels :3
According to some graffiti, that's true!
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.
~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~
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/
Thank you for actually fact checking it - I stand corrected!
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.
Gwynne* Shotwell, but yea, she built the company.
I also spelt Mueller wrong. I'm not a rocket appliances.
Musk = POS Nazi.
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?”.
Sounds like a keeper!
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I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.
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.
Bringing down a superpower is pretty big. Something to brag about I guess.
Musk is a sleazy salesman. That's all he is.
Perfect company for Trump.
A sleazy salesman who was built up by his dad as some kind of messiah.
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.
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.
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!!!
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
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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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.
And that’s exactly how newspapers should phrase it:
Musk, who won the right to be called a cofounder of Tesla in court, …
His base would applaud that he won that right
His base doesn’t give a fuck if he founded Tesla though
Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things
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.
He actually did invent that one game in the 80s, his only positive contribution to society.
Oooh, is it that game where you have to guess a number? I mean he didn't invent it but I'm sure he wrote it at some point.
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The poor Karens being genocided at home and being used as an insult in the West
Last year SpaceX received government subsidies totaling $10 million per day. Without government welfare he is worthless.
Even when he bought Xitter he was like two years behind the times on edgelord memes.
You can’t buy being cool or actually likable ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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