Good job, dumbass.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah because Grok keeps calling out his damn lies lol. Not for very much longer obviously but the gaffes published so far have been very entertaining, if not depressing.

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        If they lobotomize Grok into spouting nothing but far right propaganda, it’ll also completely trash whatever commercial potential it might have had.

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        It’s in line with the one “skill” musk seems to have: find promising teams to “lead” and take the public credit for their work, then when the great teams’ work gets attention, that confirms musk’s idea that HE is the key creative and technical force, then he starts forcing the company to do things HIS way and the products start blowing up even more than usual.

        So we should be right about at that enshittification inflection point on Grok.

        (I guess it’s not really “enshittification” since it’s done for megalomaniacal reasons and not for profit-driven ones, but I liked the sound of it)

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          I read a quote somewhere to the effect, “The successful politician knows the exact time to step in front of the parade and pretend they’re leading it.”

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          the products start blowing up even more than usual.

          yeah i’ve been watching starship launches too

          • @[email protected]
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            The Cybertruck and the Starship are some incredible shiny metal pyrotechnic wonders he has given the world!

    • @[email protected]
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      He personally does, but Grok calling him out on his BS makes Grok look better in my view. Still not going to use any product remotely associated with Musk though

    • Regna
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      I grok you, but nobody groks them, as they’re incomprehensible and incompetent.

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      Electrocuting elephants has gone out of fashion, now it’s killing monkeys with brain implants.

      • @[email protected]
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        Shit, after the first episode of the newest Black Mirror season, I would very much prefer no implants in my brain.

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    Elon could have benefited from having the right people around him.

    It seems like a million years ago, but he used to troll the Right by noting how popular Tesla was with LGBTQ community.

    He’s losing money, but he still has plenty. If he had the right people in his ear, he could really powerfuck the Trump regime.

    If he played his cards right, he’d probably make a fuckton of money doing so.

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      Elon could have benefited from having the right people around him.

      He’s had too many Right people around him.

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      I’m not so sure about that. Elon already walked back his attacks on Trump, and the Democrats won’t take him in after the Nazi salute and having him turn to trump in the first place means that he can’t be trusted.

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      Not sure if the video you linked addresses is but I want to add that the whole Edison vs Tesla internet thing was started a The Oatmeal comic, which was packed with inaccuracies, exaggerations and outright lies.

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        Popularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla.

        Tesla’s been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.

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    So fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again
    You promised you’d be Tesla, but you’re just another Edison
    'Cause Tesla broke a patent, all you ever broke were hearts
    I can’t believe you tore humanity apart
    With the very same machines that could have been our brand new start

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI

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    Do people associate the car with Nikola? I’ve never really conflated the two. Though the bitter irony of the modern day Edison abusing the name is not lost on me.

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    No one cares IMO and I don’t even feel pity for him.

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    What if I were to tell you that the Tesla love that splooged all over Reddit was the product of his PR team in the first place?