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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 358 points 1 year ago

Actually, Elmo didn't found Tesla.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 174 points 1 year ago

Didn’t he in fact sue the actual founders to be allowed to be called a founder?

[-] db2@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

I thought he paid extra to be able to tell that lie.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

I believe the lawsuit was settled. I don’t really remember the details, but sounds super-Musky that that would be part of the terms of the settlement.

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 year ago

I replace your reality with my own, using the legal system.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

*money through the legal system

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[-] bisby@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Given his history, if he had to sue someone to be able to use a title, it's probably not a legitimate title.

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[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 year ago

I asked grok and it said he did. It also said earth was cylindrical.

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 30 points 1 year ago

That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.

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[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago

My university textbooks said he did. I was dumfounded when I saw that.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they didn't charge you absurd prices for those shitty books, but i already know they did

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[-] tourist@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

also how could steve jobs be visionary if he needed glasses

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[-] Schwim@lemmy.zip 171 points 1 year ago

Elon is not the founder of Tesla. He sued the actual founders to bury that fact.

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[-] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 120 points 1 year ago

Okay funny, but yeah Tesla on here kinda fucks it up because Elon is not a founder of Tesla, and he's not visionary unless you count finding new ways to make it worthless. Elon is not visionary in any of his businesses, he just has money and pays people under him to try to make him look good. Emphasis on try

He is an asshole though, I'll give you that

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Oh, but Elon is a founder, he paid enough to retcon himself as such, so he is.

Can't argue him being a 'visionary' though, unless you count ambitions that are vague enough so they are not actually actionable and obvious enough that pretty much any random person would be predicting the same thing.

[-] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

Paying to say you are something doesn't mean people need to accept it. He's not a founder of Tesla under conventional understanding and he never will be. It's as simple as that

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[-] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 107 points 1 year ago

Gives musk too much credit

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Way too much. FAR from founder, fucking Nepo baby that acts like we're all shitty because we weren't born with a silver butt plug.

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it was a blood-diamond butt plug.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Emerald butt plug in Musk's case

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

~~Visionary~~ Asshole ~~Founder~~

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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 year ago
[-] pyre@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

and he isn't visionary. that's 2 out of 3...

I'll allow asshole but it's still a bit too flattering for him.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Musk bought it not founded it. There needs to be a whole nother column

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are the founders.

Instead of having them as the face of American EV innovation, we have some guy who's talent is being born with money and then getting lucky in a business venture.

There's hundreds or thousands of these companies which were founded by innovative and creative people that were bought out and absorbed into some giant corporation so that it doesn't ever have to compete with anybody.

[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure Elmo isn't one of the founders of Tesla. And calling him a visionary is pushing it.

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[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 39 points 1 year ago

I don't think Linus Thorvalds is either very stylish or really an asshole. He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 36 points 1 year ago

Eh, he'd probably agree that he is a bit of an asshole.

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

He’s definitely a bit of an asshole. I appreciate his propensity to talk shit to people, I enjoy that myself, but he equates intelligence with technical skill and tells people they just need a thicker skin if they don’t like his abuse.

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[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

You may not like it, but this is what the peak full stack dev looks like.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Replace "Visionary" with "Infamous" and musk photo with that one goth photo that he was trying to hide.

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[-] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

To be fair, none of this would have happened without Stallman, and I understand the criticism. But let's remember, there are things that he did that were very positive for computing. If it weren't for Stallman it is doubtful that we would have a free operating system to this day.

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[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

RMS is the Woz of the Linux world.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I came here to point out that Musk didn't found Tesla, but I see that this is basically the entire topic of the comnents section 😂

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You all don’t know what you’re talking about. Elon absolutely is a visionary. Who else could come up with the new Tesla Roadster with rocket thruster package (source)? Now, actually brining that vision to market, yeah Elon might not be your guy. Now that I think about it, his visions are more like delusions. Maybe let’s call him a delusionary.

Also gonna put this here if you would like to read more of his delusions. https://elonmusk.today/

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

if you would like to read more of his delusions

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