Elon Musk Is Not Your Friend
Scape @ Tue May 11, 2021 12:00 pm
Scape @ Tue May 11, 2021 12:01 pm
DrCaleb @ Tue May 11, 2021 12:27 pm
Haters gonna hate.
The man is still a genius. An asshole, but a genius.
Zipperfish @ Tue May 11, 2021 1:30 pm
Well I've got speeds approaching fibre optic in a rural setting through Starlink, so he's still on my Christmas card list.
raydan @ Tue May 11, 2021 2:13 pm
Why would he be my friend... I don't even know the guy. ![[huh]](./images/smilies/icon_scratch.gif "huh?"){kind=icon}
CDN_PATRIOT @ Tue May 11, 2021 2:47 pm
Me: "Elon Musk is cool because SPACE X ROCKS!"
Also Me: "Fuck you, Tesla. Fuck Elon Musk!"
He's not an in-between kind of guy.
-J.
herbie @ Wed May 12, 2021 10:08 am
PayPal. Actully built and sold 100s of thousands of electric cars. Tesla power units all over the place. Put the USA back into space. Starlink outperforming any other Internet.
And he's a but of an ass and I'm not but he's the one that's rich!
We HATES him!
bootlegga @ Wed May 12, 2021 12:32 pm
Given his refusal to follow public health orders last year, it was fairly obvious that he's not the friend of anyone who is not wealthy.
Sure he's built some big companies, but I don't see much difference between his business practices and Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or any other billionaire - they are all relatively predatory and aimed at building a monopoly.
Thanos @ Wed May 12, 2021 12:35 pm
I'm more disturbed by Bill Gates. I always sort of defended the guy for various reasons, mostly because I got exceedingly bored by the Apple fanatics sneering at anyone using Windows. Plus there's his massive amounts of charity contributions, where he donates more by himself than the rest of the tech elite put together. Finding out he was a friend-of-Epstein and possibly a multiple-time visitor to Lolita Island is pretty bad though, as the wife is indicating that he was doing as their divorce proceedings speed up. Sad! 
herbie @ Wed May 12, 2021 5:22 pm
Did any of these guys wet out to be wholesome role models, or did they set out to make money?
I might buy a new Mac, consider a Tesla SUV or use Excel to do a spreadsheet. I'd even vote for a politician with a mistress, more so if he had the guts to say "My wife doesn't give a shit so what's it to you?"
DrCaleb @ Thu May 13, 2021 10:12 am
Thanos Thanos:
Finding out he was a friend-of-Epstein and possibly a multiple-time visitor to Lolita Island is pretty bad though, as the wife is indicating that he was doing as their divorce proceedings speed up. Sad!
And that's the decision maker people want to trust to release particulates into the atmosphere to combat global warming.
herbie @ Thu May 13, 2021 10:51 am
Well Elon decided Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin due to concerns over it's environmental impact.
Now you can accuse him of being "wishy washy" too!
DrCaleb @ Thu May 13, 2021 11:43 am
I thought he was an idiot to do that to begin with. Now all the OneCoin speculators hate him too. 
Scape @ Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:51 pm
herbie @ Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:57 pm
What is it with pioneers in the car industry. Musk is as big of an asshole as Henry Ford was...