Don’t forget that he also didn’t found Tesla
RIP in pieces
Submitted 1 year ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Igloojoe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Correct! He sued his way into being called a founder.
I cant say I know what this shithead has contributed to society if anything but a place for toXicity to grow.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Apparently the ghost of Elon doesn’t like this, telling from the downvotes
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We don’t have to do this. Not everything is black and white. Tesla would not be where it is today without his intervention. I expect SpaceX wouldn’t either.
He’s also a Nazi enabler and promoter.
A person can do both good and bad.
toffi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I think he contributed to how we see billionaires now. The little money grabbing idiots which contribute nothing to society.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
He’s not really dead. Made me look though.
tubaruco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
thank you ivwas looking through comments to check
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeeeah had me in the first half, ngl
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how dare you give me false hope
Conyak@lemmy.tf 1 year ago
I would prefer to read that he loads all of his money and is now homeless. I’m not a fan of wishing even the worst people dead.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Prefer dead. Estate taxes would be a field day
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, fuck that.
Some people, the greatest gift they can give to society and the species, is their removal from the gene pool.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Down for an equitable & fair (based on societal support of/contributions to his empire) redistribution of his wealth especially if it comes with a significant deplatforming, since he can’t stop spewing such vile opinions.
He can have a one-bedroom apartment no problem, heck even a house if he decided to ever see any of his million kids.
Certainly not a desirable fantasy, jumping straight to wanting somebody dead, unless that were the only way someone’s brutality could conceivably be stopped.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s sad is that even if he’s gone in body or in wealth, some other jackasses will still be around to ruin everything for us.
Fallenwout@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a shit community this has become when hoping someone is dead has this much upvotes.
Strykker@programming.dev 1 year ago
The man is an asshole and stain on society, his death would likely marginally improve the world’s future outlook.
Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
What a shit guy who cares more about people who live in thousands of years than people who live today:
netzpolitik.org/…/longtermism-an-odd-and-peculiar…
aeon.co/…/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dang…
Why do I think this ideology is so dangerous? The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death. Consider that, as I noted elsewhere, the longtermist ideology inclines its adherents to take an insouciant attitude towards climate change. Why? Because even if climate change causes island nations to disappear, triggers mass migrations and kills millions of people, it probably isn’t going to compromise our longterm potential over the coming trillions of years. If one takes a cosmic view of the situation, even a climate catastrophe that cuts the human population by 75 per cent for the next two millennia will, in the grand scheme of things, be nothing more than a small blip – the equivalent of a 90-year-old man having stubbed his toe when he was two.
Bostrom’s argument is that ‘a non-existential disaster causing the breakdown of global civilisation is, from the perspective of humanity as a whole, a potentially recoverable setback.’ It might be ‘a giant massacre for man’, he adds, but so long as humanity bounces back to fulfil its potential, it will ultimately register as little more than ‘a small misstep for mankind’. Elsewhere, he writes that the worst natural disasters and devastating atrocities in history become almost imperceptible trivialities when seen from this grand perspective. Referring to the two world wars, AIDS and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, he declares that ‘tragic as such events are to the people immediately affected, in the big picture of things … even the worst of these catastrophes are mere ripples on the surface of the great sea of life.’
This way of seeing the world, of assessing the badness of AIDS and the Holocaust, implies that future disasters of the same (non-existential) scope and intensity should also be categorised as ‘mere ripples’. If they don’t pose a direct existential risk, then we ought not to worry much about them, however tragic they might be to individuals. As Bostrom wrote in 2003, ‘priority number one, two, three and four should … be to reduce existential risk.’ He reiterated this several years later in arguing that we mustn’t ‘fritter … away’ our finite resources on ‘feel-good projects of suboptimal efficacy’ such as alleviating global poverty and reducing animal suffering, since neither threatens our longterm potential, and our longterm potential is what really matters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism
He does not care about us, why should anyone care about him?
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
The absolute beauty of this: readers adding context without denying the actual content of the message. Glorious.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Remember in grammar school when your teacher told you that Wikipedia is not a valid source? I’m sure they’re saying the same thing about AI right now.
uzay@infosec.pub 1 year ago
The difference being that on wikipedia you could use the sources on there while AI makes those up as well
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, and I have to practice mental arithmetic because I won’t always have a calculator in my pocket.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He is also not the founder of Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I saw a presentation from one of them about the founding of Tesla, impressive stuff. Elon just takes their talking points, that’s why he can’t deviate far from a couple points.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh how I wish this was true. Would have made this world a better place.
Ohi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No doubt he’s a egotistical dick, but to say the world would be a better place without him is categorically false on many grounds.
- The man popularized electric vehicles like no car manufacturers have ever been able to do.
- SpaceX’s achievement in reducing the cost per pound and reusable rocket tech will have profound implications on our species survival over the long run.
- Starlink coverage now provides relatively affordable internet to far more remote areas of the world.
So while I think recent years of criticism is fair based on his behavior (why the hell is he wasting precious time on Twitter again?) to say the world would be better off without him is to overlook the substantial contributions he has made towards technological advancement and global connectivity. It’s important to separate the individual’s personal flaws from the broader value of their work. Just my 2 cents.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yay, electric vehicles are popular! Only bring loads of issues, cost a lot of rare earth metals which are mined by slaves and children, run on fossil fuel electricity (many coal plants and bio gas which are burned forests) and they are too heavy for the roads we have and electricity network, causing both to require many more replacements and maintenance, which costs loads of co2 emissions.
SpaceX is awesome! Costs less materials, so much easier to launch way more rockets into the sky! Like for starlink for example. Luckily the fuel used for it has zero emissions /s
But starlink is nice. Loads of space junk and coverage in most places is where already a different and faster network is, but it’s nice to have connectivity in hard to reach places. But is it worth all the emissions and space junk? And child labor for all the rare earth metals?
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 year ago
Broke his back trying to suck his own dick. Sad.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That shit’s serious, LA’s local sexpot suffered the dame fate
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He should have just got that surgery that Marilyn Manson got lol
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Ah yes, the infamous rib removal. That’s why he doesn’t walk anymore, he just kind of stumbles in the direction he’s currently flailing in.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Made me check, even though I knew it was a shitpost.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Made me
checkhope, even though I knew it was a shitpost.We still doing ftfy?
MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Made me
checkhope, even though I knew it was a shitpost.ftfy
ftfy
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can we please rebrand ‘X’ as ‘The website formerly known as twitter’?
Also, best post here in a while
Also, don’t get my hopes up -.-
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 year ago
keep deadnaming it until he stops deadnaming his kid
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But is it a dead name? Last I looked, the URL was still “twitter.com”.
_g_be@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If musk won’t recognize his child’s new chosen name, I won’t recognize twitter’s new branding
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, just keep calling it twitter. Thats what it is. thats what it’ll always be.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
xitter, shitter because that’s what it feels like walking under
TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“X” is such terrible branding that every news article always has to do what you suggest, otherwise people don’t know what the hell is being discussed.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
The dumbass bought a thing that the strongest and most valuable thing it had to offer was brand recognition and immediately eliminated the branding.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like Xitter more, as in “shitter”.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
Nice. This thought was going through my mind as well
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I prefer “Twitter, temporarily rebranded as X…”
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We could skip and just jump to using a symbol.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
He was eaten alive by pigs with neuralink.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Engineers warned him that the pigs couldn’t be trusted with a built-in weapons link, Elon said “I’ll be just just like the heros of Deus Ex and Cyberpunk, the CEOs!”
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Awww pigly.
root_beer@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m hearing this in Dana Carvey’s Tom Brokaw.
“And he was delicious.”
suckmyspez@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s also not a founder of Tesla 🤷♂️
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
For that matter, he’s also not a founder of SpaceX, and even calling him co-founder of PayPal has a lot of clarifications around it. If PayPal had gone ahead the way Musk had wanted, it could easily have sunk the company into another joke of the excess of the dot-com boom of the 90s.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Among all of Peter Thiel’s sins, propping up Musk’s ego by forcing him out of the company to save it is one of them
rainynight65@feddit.de 1 year ago
As much as I am loath to say anything about Musk, but he did actually found SpaceX - although that’s probably the only company he founded (that still exists).
debil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A founder of shit, like most of us. Only with gigantic funds.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s the flounder of Tesla.
suckmyspez@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope. He was an early investor who sued so that he could call himself a founder.
He isn’t an original founder.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sure there’s a deadman’s switch on all the Teslas, Neuralinks and SpaceX/Starlink so we’d all know for sure he was dead.
If we live that long.
muse@fedia.io 1 year ago
Exactly like Mr House in Fallout NV. everyone will know
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll have to try it, I love retro games.
taanegl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They all just stop, let out a digital streak, as all the LED’s turn blood red…
Prepare for the wreckoning…
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
To think I found out about it this way - in a shitposting community that regularly posts absurd lies.
SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
Wait i thought that was only a shit post… I gotta google something real quick
WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Wikipedia hasn’t been updated, confirmed definitely not dead
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
But you’re not supposed to trust what you read on the Internet!
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I looked just now it said he did actually die, so maybe it’s a developing story
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I become billionaire I also want to buy a company and become its founder. Wait, that’s not how it works
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He certainly founded its downfall
sxan@midwest.social 1 year ago
A little late for April Fools.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I knew it was a fake headline when it said ‘sadly.’
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If only…
frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For a moment I was very happy.
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m willing to say he’s founder of X. This is not a compliment.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They really should have used the vampire picture for the obit.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Its only a hearbeat away
essell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One day when he dies, no one will believe it and that will be his fault!
_lilith@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So sad to see that impostor account on x pretending to be him, just tasteless really
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hey I recognise him! Baggy Trousers was my favourite one
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 year ago
No! Not rest in pieces! It took me soo long to realise that rip stands for rest in peace and not rest in pieces
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t do that. Don’t get my hopes up.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not? Everyone else has been doing that to me for decades.