Actually, Elmo didn’t found Tesla.
Didn’t he in fact sue the actual founders to be allowed to be called a founder?
I thought he paid extra to be able to tell that lie.
I believe the lawsuit was settled. I don’t really remember the details, but sounds super-Musky that that would be part of the terms of the settlement.
I replace your reality with my own, using the legal system.
*money through the legal system
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Paying a Lawyer to make the others agree is kind of the same thing, right?
It’s exactly the same thing, except for being more scummy and entitled.
Par for the course with that guy
Given his history, if he had to sue someone to be able to use a title, it’s probably not a legitimate title.
I love how this could be a quote from a Crusader Kings community.
Only needs a little more Byzantium bashing and incest and it’s archetypical 😁
I asked grok and it said he did. It also said earth was cylindrical.
Are you sure you spoke to grok? Did it mention white genocide or mechahitler?
That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.
i prefer Felon Stank
phoney stark, dorkmaga, space karen.
That’s an insult to felons and the concept of odors.
For real tho.
I was never exposed to the show (etc.) actually & still find it terribly insulting.
also how could steve jobs be visionary if he needed glasses
Checkmate presbytarians
His only vision was profit.
Needed glasses to count the profits in cents.he couldnt see that his pnet(pancreatic) cancer was a rare type, and it was slow growing compared to usual one( usually metastic by the time of diagnosis and pretty lethal). he went on all fruit diet to treat until it was too late.
My university textbooks said he did. I was dumfounded when I saw that.
Hopefully they didn’t charge you absurd prices for those shitty books, but i already know they did
steve jobs sued and stole his way to apple.
Elon musk didn’t found tesla. He’s also an idiot nepo baby, not a visionary.
Elon to my knowledge hasn’t been the founder of a single project he’s been part of. He’s bought everything.
Who founded SpaceX, then?
Thomas John Mueller
His initial lottery ticket of a business Zip2 I think he was fairly a founder.
I know next to nothing about it because no one ever heard of it before Compaq had a huge case of dot-com FOMO and paid $300 million for it, where it promptly went nowhere like it already was.
Ohh, so like he’s the Tommy Tallarico of tech
Did… did Joey Kuras found Tesla too?
everyone’s a joey if you’re tommy enough
Wait, didn’t he contribute like 100 lines of code to PayPal?
Isn’t he the founder of SpaceX?
I think you’re right about everything else though.
More delusional than visionary.
One out of three ain’t bad.
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Why is everyone so hung up on a side character
Elon is not the founder of Tesla. He sued the actual founders to bury that fact.
much like many of his other “projects”, he’s not the founder. He bought it with his inheritance, then trashed the product.
Sounds like a constituion/lawmaker problem to me if he won/settled (i.e. paid to win).
No dispute on my end but the fact remains he’s a unfitting example for the meme as he was the fourth CEO in the company’s history and wasn’t in the picture when it was founded.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberhard-marc-tarpenning-on-elon-musk.html
doesn’t change the fact that he’s not the founder.
Okay funny, but yeah Tesla on here kinda fucks it up because Elon is not a founder of Tesla, and he’s not visionary unless you count finding new ways to make it worthless. Elon is not visionary in any of his businesses, he just has money and pays people under him to try to make him look good. Emphasis on try
He is an asshole though, I’ll give you that
Oh, but Elon is a founder, he paid enough to retcon himself as such, so he is.
Can’t argue him being a ‘visionary’ though, unless you count ambitions that are vague enough so they are not actually actionable and obvious enough that pretty much any random person would be predicting the same thing.
Paying to say you are something doesn’t mean people need to accept it. He’s not a founder of Tesla under conventional understanding and he never will be. It’s as simple as that
All we’ve got to do is forget how it went down and ask Grok to tell us instead…
Instructions unclear, grok is now shouting about Hitler.
Instructions clear, but grok is still shouting about Hitler.
Eh, calling Linus ‘quiet’ kind of cancels it out.
Until 2015 or so he did look good. Whenever the divers debacle was.
'member r/enoughmuskspam ? Reddit was blowing him so hard there was a sub asking to please tone it down a little.
That sub was literally spamming the most tho
Gives musk too much credit
Way too much. FAR from founder, fucking Nepo baby that acts like we’re all shitty because we weren’t born with a silver butt plug.
Pretty sure it was a blood-diamond butt plug.
Emerald butt plug in Musk’s case
Oh crap, you’re right!
Many are still stuck in the snake oil he manufactures as his main source of income. China socials particularly because of the information gap. Keep making his image in the mind of the people harder to believe, just ask thunderfoot, it’s working
VisionaryAssholeFounderThe AHole down a KHole…
And Jobs
Woz was also a founder.
But not an asshole founder.
Elon didn’t found shit
and he isn’t visionary. that’s 2 out of 3…
I’ll allow asshole but it’s still a bit too flattering for him.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning 4 lyyyyyfe
Musk bought it not founded it. There needs to be a whole nother column
Pretty sure Elmo isn’t one of the founders of Tesla. And calling him a visionary is pushing it.
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I mean, I don’t doubt that he sometimes has visions with all the ketamine he takes.
I don’t think Linus Thorvalds is either very stylish or really an asshole. He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.
Eh, he’d probably agree that he is a bit of an asshole.
He’s definitely a bit of an asshole. I appreciate his propensity to talk shit to people, I enjoy that myself, but he equates intelligence with technical skill and tells people they just need a thicker skin if they don’t like his abuse.
A bit asshole I see.
Eh - I mean, I’m not an asshole all the time, but I can be occasionally. I’m also not very stylish.
Wait…am I Linus Thorvalds? Nope.
Too late. You outed yourself, Linus
I think he’s an asshole¹ but he’s not nearly on the same level as Elmo or any other billionaire. Between actually working and contributing, not being as hardcore exploitative capitalist, and not having nearly the same level of hoarded wealth², there’s just far less potential for assholery.
1: Mind, I still value his work, but the way he sometimes treats people reaches into asshole territory for me.
2: A superficial search suggests a net worth of $50 million. In perspective, that’s $0.05 billion, compared to the late Jobs’ $10.8 billion (0.5%) or Musk’s ~$400 billion (0.01%)He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.
He’s short fused with volunteers who are donating time to his project, which makes him an asshole.
The kernel group is not your next corner charity and it’s members are highly qualified devs - all of them knowing where they are and the majority paid very well for their work by their employers. Also, it’s not that Thorvalds ever arbitrarily picked on someone or kept on picking on anyone because of personal antipathy as assholes use to do. Any of these events was caused by a specific fuckup by the very person that got addresses and they all did the same thing (fuck up, refuse to fix,. let someone else take the resulting damage) they were explicitely warned not to do. I do have quite a lot of understanding for individual fuckups - they just happen under the right combination of shitty circumstances but I’d be the last one to complain if I’d get F-bombed if I’d be the one to blame. Interestingly none of the addressants complained either. It’s always been third parties/media to scandalize these for their own reasons.
I would have figured the three Linuses would have been like:
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Enthusiastic loud mouthed young Linus arguing with Tannenbaum.
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Aggressive Linus with no filter at all slapping maintainers upside the head.
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Aggressive Elder Linus with a personal insult filter applied still slapping maintainers upside the head.
I laughed too hard
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You may not like it, but this is what the peak full stack dev looks like.
Replace “Visionary” with “Infamous” and musk photo with that one goth photo that he was trying to hide.
You can hear his trustfund sing
Is there any evidence that he’s ever done anything to try to hide it? I’ve only ever seen that claim as an engagement-bait caption on the photo itself, to coax people into sharing it.
There’s never any details of exactly what steps he’s taken to erase it from the internet, and in fact when I searched it just now one of the top results shows that he literally retweeted the photo himself. I mean, fuck Musk and all, but also fuck clickbait.
Lost Stallman…
To be fair, none of this would have happened without Stallman, and I understand the criticism. But let’s remember, there are things that he did that were very positive for computing. If it weren’t for Stallman it is doubtful that we would have a free operating system to this day.
I see it the same way you might give a loved one an occasional ribbing for something they have an ongoing hangup about, or even once yelled about several years ago.
It sucks for him and his recognition that “Linux” is such a good name that people use it for the entire OS. But the dude is basically still a hero. Anybody who helped really get the FOSS/GNU/Linux movement going is. We have a huge amount of the tech world that runs so well on free and open software, plus it’s well beyond the critical mass where it isn’t going anywhere and will be an option permanently (barring some event that also, you know, ends civilization).
There is a quote from a TV programme called “firefly” which I like.
“It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another. Ain’t about you. It’s about what they need.”
Quite fitting, wouldn’t you say?
Haha, very fitting and a great quote from a great show.
The criticism is pretty ridiculous. I can’t stand Stallman’s prescriptivist takes on language, but he was and is always right about the naming. I remember the people who insisted that it’s because the kernel was the most important part immediately called it Android and not Linux, then made a bunch of excuses.
Just be honest and don’t hide behind “I don’t use GNU so there!” kind of obnoxious stupidity. We say Linux because it stuck, not because the kernel is more important. Saying GNU or GNU/Linux or whatever was always a reasonable request that people rejected because they were either just too used to Linux or were actively worthless scumbag dumbfucks.
If Stallman had his way, the entire Linux ecosystem would be in the same state as GNU Hurd. His vision, work, and activism in the days of Unix was a massive benefit to free software at large, probably forever. Now he thinks Debian isn’t free enough because it offers an optional nonfree repository.
womansplained to death lmao
This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on Stallman and Linux lmao
I’ll never not upvote this.
RMS is the Woz of the Linux world.
You all don’t know what you’re talking about. Elon absolutely is a visionary. Who else could come up with the new Tesla Roadster with rocket thruster package (source)? Now, actually brining that vision to market, yeah Elon might not be your guy. Now that I think about it, his visions are more like delusions. Maybe let’s call him a delusionary.
Also gonna put this here if you would like to read more of his delusions. https://elonmusk.today/
if you would like to read more of his delusions
Shouldn’t the last Linux image be, like, a crowd of FOSS developers?
Also, the second image should be a penguin in a tuxedo.
