Yeah by his own PR team, mostly, but it was a pretty easy fascade to see through when you actually listened to the man speak. Still don’t forgive Dan Harmon for letting him shit on R&M with the eLoN tUsK bullshit. Or Star Trek Discovery for that matter, which happened much later after he had already shown his true face to the world. I know Harmon got paid because he’s talked about it, but I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.
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9point6@lemmy.world 1 day agoRemember a decade ago when he was being lauded as our time’s Einstein?
… Hahahahahahaha
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
See also: Iron Man 2
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one where Tony blew him off and made him look a fool?
SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.
From what I have heard, that line was not even scripted. The actor ad libbed it, hoping that might lead to him being gifted a fee Tesla vehicle.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Damn, that’s somehow so much worse!
Forgot about the Musk jr high 🤦🤦🤦
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My head canon is that in universe Musk Jr. High isn’t a real school and it’s just an edgy joke… the space version of saying you went to the “Adolf Hitler School for Tolerance and Friendship”
You say it for a laugh when you’re 14 or acting like it on Space 4Chan
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Yeah I realized it as soon as I heard him on Joe Rogan. I was like “oh, this guy is actually not a super genius at all.”
Now I think he’s kind of a moron actually.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I knew it was a grift from the start because people who are kind and wise don’t spend millions purely to make sure I know how kind and wise they are.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A friend of mine has head canoned that the guy from Star Trek was joking about being from Elon Musk University and that it’s the old “Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance” gag but in space.
I’m just gonna go with that because fuck it’s the equivalent of listing Deepak Chopra as one of the greatest philosophers of the 21st century in your hard sci-fi setting.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was also an episode of Young Sheldon where Sheldon had sent equations for reusable rockets to NASA, and at the end of the episode it showed Elon buying the equations from NASA.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
He was also in South Park, and Rick & Morty. He had a great PR team considering what they were working with behind the scenes. They dressed him up real nice.
Then he fired them, because he didn’t like having to wear anything in public. Metaphorically-speaking.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And I am proud to have called bullshit on it from day one.
Whoever leads us to the promised land isn’t going to have a for profit LLC
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well done. I’m like most people in that I didn’t spot it until he started talking about a subject I knew about. The first Tesla Roadster looked amazing^1^, and then the hyperloop sounded like a cool idea^2^, and then oh wait what’s he saying about software development now?
^1^ because its body was made by Lotus
^2^ except it doesn’t work
Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Yeah, he’s like LLMs in that regard. Sounds plausible until it’s a subject you don’t have much knowledge of, then suddenly turns into a dribbling twat when it’s one you do understand.
Then you realise he was an idiot all along.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
It wasn’t anything specific, it’s just… the idea of this guy being the real life Tony Stark didn’t pass the smell test. Not because he didn’t seem bright, but because I couldn’t believe ANYONE lived up to the hype that Elon had.
That and… well… the idea of the Private Corporation coming to save the day and guide us into a Utopia sounded way too much like a Libertarian Fantasy.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I still cringe at him being mentioned in Star Trek Discovery…
SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Luckily that was evil mirror universe Lorca that said it, so it fits.
Sequence5666@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Which episode was this
SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Season 1 Episode 4
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I’ve heard Tony Stark but not Einstein. I’d be insulted for Einstein.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
Disco was the worst Trek
mothersprotege@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Common Disco L.