this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He doesn't want to understand it. He wants to break through it and some sleazy and/or desperate engineers are telling him everything he wants to hear. They understand that it's impossible but they also understand that if they don't cater to his fragile ego they'll be looking for a new job and no job will ever pay more.

Elon legitimately believes that nothing is impossible because his entire life he's been able to pay other people to fix his problems for him and he can't handle the idea that he's not the most special important smartest boy.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for him, ambition is all well and good but we obey the laws of physics in this universe.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The funny thing is I'm pretty sure he could have achieved a lot more with the space stuff if he wasn't so deadset on grandstanding and picking up irrelevant bullshit.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Exactly, he actually kind of was heading in the right direction but when you end up mentally stuck at age 12 it will never be enouh.