• djdarren@piefed.social
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    The moment he smashed the Cybertruck window should have been the point at which his grift fell over.

    He’d spent all that time talking up the Cybertruck, saying that it was damn near indestructable, that it was bulletproof. And to prove it he threw a huge ball bearing at the window.

    And it smashed.

    That should have been the point at which everyone said “Nah, this guy’s a kook” and walked away. But nope. They all rode along on the meme and here we are.

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      Honestly, it’s extremely funny, because of how shocked he was that a giant steel ball damaged the “bullet proof glass”.

      Bullet proof glass doesn’t just… shrug off bullets, it cracks and breaks without shattering and the bullets embed in it rather than passing through. The glass on the demonstration could very well have been “bullet proof glass”. The fact that he thought that meant “will shrug off getting hit with a shot put” showed how surface level his understanding of things are.

      Like he pretends to understand the businesses he owns, like he’s some how involved in the design and conceptualization of products. But’s he’s just a business idiot claiming credit for the work his employees do, and making everything worse when he does get involved.

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      Same guy trying to send rockets into space can’t make glass that doesn’t break…

      Cue “he just owns shit, he doesn’t do any of it” reply

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    They’ll ride the self driving Teslas we got in 2014 to the Mars base built in 2022.

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    All these ‘geniuses’ of the current age really make you wonder how many of the supposedly super intelligent innovators we learned about in school were just frauds taking credit for other people’s achievements.

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        He’s the same shameless marketeer, but Edison, while a “brute-force” guy rather than actually being insightful or visionary, actually did more than just steal the ideas of others

        He definitely stole plenty of the shit he’s credited with, but not everything like Elmo has

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    Modern day Edison.

    Edison wasn’t stupid, he could come up with good ideas. He was just better at making others do the work and come up with the ideas for him to take as his own.

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    i remember when hyperbole was seen as just that and often dismissed as braggadocio worth not even its breath. nowadays we give it more credence than it deserves

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    Weird, I would have thought Elon was more of a Decepticon kinda guy.

    Even their names fit Elon better. Megatron. Starscream. Dirge.

    Not a fan of the guy btw, in fact I’m saying if you’re the devil you shouldn’t call your new demonic general The Archangel Gabriel, ya know?

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      Nah, it makes sense. Religions weren’t invented to maintain power for the good guys. People carrying crosses saying they worked for the god of light and benevolence would then hang you by your feet and chop you in half. This is pretty spot on for an evil person.

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          The Hammurabi Code, The Pharisees, The Spanish Inquisition, etc. (I’m sure my fellow lemmings could go on and on).

          All of civilization has been: ‘jumping from one bullshit ghost story to the next to reinforce laws created by the rich’.

          Are you new?

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            That’s Lemmy’s resident Catholic apologist. They actually believe Christianity has been proven true. Don’t waste your time.

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            the Pharisees hated Christ

            “do not murder” is a commandment

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              Who cares how the Pharisees felt about Christ? They used religion to control people for the rich long before and after Christ. Then others did it in Christ’s name. All religions are dumb control mechanisms for the weak willed.

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                They are not

                you have no other sources than a few historical events

                and can I have a verse in the Old Testament used to “control the poor”?

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    When will people realize that Elon only has one trick: lie really baldly really publicly, pressure the shit out of a bunch of smart engineers until they get to their breaking point, and if it works you’re a “genius” — if it doesn’t, just throw it on the pile of other completely outlandish shit that you said that never mattered.

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      I ended up in a situation where I got picked up by a cyber truck of all things, and the current state of self driving is better than I expected, but I still don’t trust it. It drove weirdly aggressively and lurchy, even doing frequent lane changes to get ahead, and while the car and people detection worked, the render on the screen was concerning because everything wiggles creepily and disappears and reappears.

      Driving it manually seems like a terrible idea as well. No line of sight visibility at all behind and rear sides, way too much blind spot in the front.

      10 years after promised completion and it only feels like starting the ‘getting there’ phase.

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        Watched a buddy’s Tesla categorize my car + trailer as a car, car + trailer, and then a semi and back again every few seconds. Both cars were parked…

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        The visualization bugginess depends on model confidence thesholds, just because it isn’t rendered doesn’t mean it isn’t seen. I also wonder what aggression level it was set to.

        Honestly, it’s not terrible these days for 90% of the driving, but it will absolutely kill you or someone else if you think for a moment it can drive completely unsupervised - that’s the real danger imo.

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          I didn’t know it had aggresion levels but it was probably fairly high. I’ve been in some powerful EVs that were still smooth.

          The scary thing with the self driving is that it was stopping for people that I didn’t notice and even the human driver had to look at the screen to see it was a person out of view, so even with supervision if it missed something you might not be able to see it.

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        10 years post claim entering a getting there phase is good.

        For plasma fusion it took like 40 years post promise to the getting there phase, as long as the getting there phase means private investors are willing to fund

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      Soyyyyyyy… un perdedor!!!

      … so why don’t we kill him?

      Lyrically, of course.

      Like no really, him and all these fuckers have eggshells for egos… mock them relentlessly, gloriously, they will crack.

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          True, lol… but we need like anthems, albums, we need to be constantly topping the charts with songs that just take piss out of the pedophile owner class.

          We need shit that pumps people up, we need catchy tunes you can’t get out of your head.

          Like here, here’s a song that’s basically tearing apart a major concept that Elon relies on, that you can headbang to:

          Mars for the Rich

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    Elon needs all of his companies to stay in growth valuation mode. The moment people start pricing them like stable, mature companies (or worse) he’s kinda screwed.

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      Unfortunately, the stock market has been not been pricing stable mature companies. Only growth stocks get money.