• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Tesla just issued a recall for over 11,000 Cybertrucks over a windshield wiper issue. The recall includes all model year 2024 Cybertruck vehicles manufactured from Nov. 13, 2023, to June 6, 2024, which is pretty much all of them given that the Cybertruck deliveries started in Nov. 2023.

    Elon earning that BILLIONS of dollars. 💁🏽 Sir, I salute you. The largest grift ever. I don’t feel bad for a single person that lost money.

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      The largest grift ever

      All of his work has been grifts from the OG X to PayPal and beyond. He just seemed enigmatic or inspired to some people for a time, enough that kool-aid was drunk. (South Africans do have a way of mesmerizing people though, must be the accent.)

      That some good technology happened to pop out of it along the way had less to do with him, and more the engineers tasked with making it happen.

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        Folks are mesmerized by South Africans? Whenever I here one I just here the Anglo-sphere equivalent of the middle of nowhere Nevada truck stop accent.

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        I don’t know about South Africans, but he definitely mesmerized Peter Thiel, who has spent years crushing on him. And I am convinced it’s not a platonic crush, or at least didn’t start out that way.

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      I was just thinking the OP article’s author missed an opportunity to mention that for this quality of product delivery, Musky believes he is worthy of a $44.9B payday.

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        Like you can’t even be mad at this point. He ripped them off to their face and they said YES! This should be the death nail in the cryptobro era but its not.

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          One can be mad for this way he increases his power to scam even more people and disrupt meaningful things by hyperlooping public transportation and teslaing EVs’ reputation.

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      They voted to give him all that money again after a judge tried to save them. I don’t even understand. No one is worth that kind of money.