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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Yeah Teslas were pretty leading edge at the beginning. Then they started doing weird stuff like removing stalks and making triangular trucks.

Falcon 9 and Starship are obviously futuristic too.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (8 children)
[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

No not in the same way Tony Stark did. But Tony Stark is imaginary. Obviously nobody can build an electric car or a rocket in the same way that Tony Stark does.

Of all the criticisms of Musk this is the weakest. There are many way more valid ones... for instance:

  • He's an arsehole.
  • He straight up called that diver a paedo, and even paid a scammer to investigate him.
  • The scummy lottery thing for votes for Trump. I don't care if it ends up being technically legal, it's clearly immoral.
  • Selling the promise of FSD for hard cash when it clearly is never going to happen as he claimed. I still don't know why there's been no class action suit over that.
  • Backing proper insane far right groups in Europe. These people are worse than Trump. I wouldn't say he is backing neonazis, but he's certainly in the vicinity.

Despite all that he clearly has a pretty good handle on engineering and is definitely involved. He's not just a figurehead.

I know right, people are multidimensional. You can downvote if that blows your mind.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Didn't he buy Tesla? And isn't there a team on Space X just to prevent him from doing changes to projects? And didn't he say the government didn't use SQL?

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