Submitted 4 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
Remember when Elon moved Tesla Engineering to Texas, then moved it back to California since he couldn’t get enough people to work in Texas?
Tesla Will Move Its Headquarters to Austin, Texas, in Blow to California - Oct, 2021
Tesla Shifts Its Engineering Headquarters Back To California - Feb. 2023
Boy is it easy for him to do stupid shit
When asked about his estranged transgender daughter in October 2022, Musk told the Financial Times “Can’t win them all,”
The guy is just an absolute monster. I think this much of a wealth gap for one person would bring out the worst in anyone. His worst is just really really bad. Never click on X links people please. It’s a small thing, but it’s the right thing.
Take it one further, don’t use starlink.
Absolutely never going to. Even if it’s the only internet left post apocalypse.
What a fucking chode
you think this guy can love every single one of the many children he’s had?
That’s something.
The kind of decision making others feel worthy of an over 50 billion pay package.
Fuck Elon, and fuck the board too. Never buying one with him involved.
I will also never buy a spaceship /j
Maybe if you stopped eating avocado toast and made coffee at home.
Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elon’s pay package, unfortunately.
I feel bad for the reasonable employees at SpaceX - this sucks for decent people.
I don’t. Look, we already had this discussion years ago. You don’t feel bad for the stormtrooper, or their families when you blow up the deathstar. They knew what they were getting into.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who started at SpaceX before we all truly knew the monster is. Also, the work they are doing is incredibly important. It’s hard to give that up. It shouldn’t be this hard to empathize with people
But they didn't. The guy had me in the first half when he cried because Buzz Aldrin didn't like him. Elon wasn't always so obvious with his bullshit. There was a time when he looked minted as a purveyor of a bright future - the mask slipped.
I mean, the stormtroopers were largely either conscripted, or they were clones who were raised in it. Very few were actual mercenaries or people who had a choice to join or not. I still feel bad for them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6SFL5fCCg
they built another deathstar right? the first one was completed and fully operational before the rebels >destroyed it up and the second one was still being built when it was blown up
the first death star was manned by the imperial army only people on board were stormtroopers dignitaries >imperials so when they blew it up no problem evil punished
the second time around it was not even done being built yet was still under construction job of that matter >would require a hell of lot more manpower than the imperial army had to offer
bet they brought in independent contractors in on that thing plumbers aluminum siders roofers
in order to get built quickly and quietly they would hire anyone to do the job you think the average >stormtrooper knows how to install a toilet main
all they know is killing in white uniforms
all those innocent contractors brought in to do job are killed casualties of a war they had nothing to do >with
alright look you’re roofer some juicy government comes your way you got a wife the two kids in suburbia
this is a government contract with all sort of benefits and along come these left wing militants and blast >everything in a three mile radius with their lasers
they did not ask for that they had no personal politics they were just trying to scrape out a living
Stormtroopers is fair. What about maintenance staff?
What about prisoners?
I’m curious, is it reasonable to blame employees for their employers actions like this? I mean to a certain extent perhaps, depending on your position in the company (like if you are part of upper management then you are more responsible obviously).
Many people are just trying to get by and getting jobs is not easy. Is it okay to blame a person for working somewhere if they don’t have much other choice? Capitalism kinda forces you to work within the system like this.
Maybe 5 years ago. They’ve had plenty of time to see reason and jump ship to anyone else.
People hate switching jobs.
True, but I don't know everyone's situation.
if you’re working at spacex or tesla you’re not reasonable.
If you’re working at one if his companies at this stage you probably already know about his management “style” and you’ve either already updated your resume or you’re just cool with it.
Let’s not forget the Golden Handcuffs. Although given what was reported from Twitter, I’m not sure that applies.
Oh look… Apartheid-boy is moving his company to a more overtly white supremacist location and blaming his daughter for it.
I am so surprised.
He wanted to go Texas for the taxes for quite some time now. All he needed was a lame excuse to blame his own cheap decision on someone else.
So maybe I’m stupid but… Why? Why does he feel he needs an excuse beyond “taxes are cheaper in Texas”? Like, it’s understandable that a business owner wants to reduce costs, and reducing your taxes is one good way to do it. The blowback from saying something relatively mild like “I want to pay less taxes” is going to be way less than the blowback of saying “I want to leave California because trans people have too many rights here” right?
I’m not trying to defend Musk or anything here, I’m just so confused why he’s going this route
He can farm hay on the SpaceX property and pay farm taxes in Texas. There are several mega factories down there that do this same thing.
Ah yes Texas, a bastion of freedom for Trans people.
He really hates his daughter
No no no, when you’re this conceited, you care more about how your perfect gene pool could ever have spawned such an abomination. Then you use your insecurity to do something you were planning on doing anyway due to taxes to appease your conservative fanboys.
And I don’t really agree with the law either. I don’t like the government telling children it’s ok to lie to their parents. I can imagine an enthusiastic extremist counsellor convincing a kid their feelings mean they were meant to be the opposite gender when they really weren’t.
I can imagine an enthusiastic extremist counsellor convincing a kid their feelings mean they were meant to be the opposite gender when they really weren’t.
Probably has never happened (although I will conceded that there are probably some counsellors who have made a mistake and maybe pushed it too hard), but what I can say for certain is that extremist parents have done exactly this, many times, over and over. Which is why the law exists and should exist.
I can’t believe reddit used to love this dude.
I actually used to admire this guy, based on the image he had created for himself (self-educated in rocket science, which I highly doubt) but the Thai cave incident and calling one of the divers pedo, opened my eyes.
Same here, I used to have this image in my head of a eccentric entrepreneur pushing technology to the max with ‘fuck you money’.
Sure he said some crazy shit sometimes, but it kind of felt like he didn’t have much of a filter.
Around the time of the Thai cave thing this started to change, but I still gave him the benefit of the doubt until that point.
After that, things just went down hill…
I think kinda everyone did. I never loved the guy, I got weird vibes and thought he was majorly overrated, but I thought he was fine, and I respected the work he’d attached his name to.
Hell, I still respect the hell out of starlink, as someone who had dial-up or old style sattelite with 15GB/mo limits until I moved out of my parents house 6 years ago. That shit’s cool as hell, I would’ve killed for it as a kid, and my dad did shell out for it when it became available.
I don’t really attribute anything cool that’s come out of Elon’s companies to him any more though, in my mind all the credit goes to the talented leaders and engineers that are “under” him. There is something to be said about that, I suppose, but I don’t think it’s as noble a mission as we all once thought. He just wants to be liked by people and make money.
He lied about his education. If you read a Wikipedia article on the Apollo engine you now know as much about rocket surgery as Elon.
It’s the same type of “I’m smart” that Trump has.
Pretty sure most people had some admiration for him. I, for one, admired the whole thing of him selling flamethrowers. Things change when you learn how much of a scumbag someone is.
There was that moment it time when he was the underdog doing cool stuff. It seemed like he couldn’t screw up, because his companies were hitting the ball out of the park one after the other.
Then the pedo guy debacle taught us who he really is.
Yes, that cave incident proved who he was to those who did not know his racist apartheid background
All media gave him free uncritical publicity for decades. Now they know the monster they created, but it is too late :/
Space X is a technology company, why wouldn’t it be posted here?
The media doesn’t give a shit. They’re doing trump AGAIN, same exact way they did before.
Profit has killed ethics in so much of journalism.
It’s almost funny really. Way back when, his goals were commendable. The proliferation of electric cars was an Eco-friendly dream. Tesla battery projects were poised to expand renewable energy source utilization. Basically everything SpaceX was doing with reusable rockets was just really cool to the nerd demographic. All he had to do was shut the fuck up, let the work speak for itself, and people would still like him. Not without black marks on his record, of course, but on balance, people would probably like him.
But no. Elmo couldn’t shut the fuck up, a problem he continues to have at every turn, and people learned who he really is. His electric vehicle baby stopped being the scrappy upstart with teething problems, and started being a manufacturing disaster that had loose production tolerances matched only by the loose tolerances on what qualified as acceptable working conditions. SpaceX decided that cluttering orbit with thousands of disposable satellites was cool, and the environment and astronomy could fuck off. The only stories about Tesla Batteries that followed were about how quickly they lost their capacity and how expensive they were to replace. And Elmo himself bought a globally known communications company, immediately obliterated it’s value, and turned it into a cesspit of literal Nazis. And this is the abridged list.
All Elon Musk had to do was shut the fuck up and people would have liked him. Just goes to show that “Just be yourself” is really shitty advice for some people.
There were a lot of engineers making noise about Elon being a complete fucking idiot a long time ago. People were dismissing it as jealousy, but it was one of those quiet industry secrets.
Lo and behold, Elon was never accepted into a doctorate program and there is a bunch of shady shit about him even having a B.S. in physics, looks more like he failed out of the program and got the degree after a large donation from his father.
Elon started believing his own bullshit and exploded himself for being a fucking loser rich kid who has done nothing but funded some projects smart people told him to fund.
Let’s not pretend it was just Reddit. The man literally got a shout-out in Star Trek. He had a lot of people fooled.
Gee… a capitalist world fawning over capitalists?
Who woulda thunk it?
Yeah, let’s be clear here, in NuTrek. That’s not exactly a mark of quality.
it wasn’t just reddit, it feels like half the world saw him as that iron man dude
Everyone would have still loved him had he stayed away from Twitter and worked with a low profile. But he uad to toot his own horn at every chance and let his true self get exposed.
I used to love that dude, too. I also used to go on Reddit though. Thankfully, I’ve outgrown both.
Only 7 years ago!
There was a time when I… well, I didn’t really follow him all that much, but I didn’t have any reason to dislike him. That changed when he tried to back out of buying Twitter.
At the time I was unhappy with how Twitter was handling its problems. I was hoping things would improve with new ownership. When he backed out, I started to see what kind of person he really was: someone who thought he could do basically whatever he wanted.
By the time he actually did but Twitter, I was glad the government actually stuck it to him and made him go through with the purchase. And I’m glad Twitter is failing because of his own blunders. I’m hoping it eventually dies (I’m already trying to move on to other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon. Just waiting for people I follow to move to them.) and that he’s still left with money he hasn’t made back after that purchase.
How completely insecure must you be that you’re so afraid of trans people that you move entire factories to other states? That’s the noise of a fragile man baby.
Usually you move factories for tax breaks. You can say whatever you want for the reason, though this reason just makes him seem stupid and hateful.
I hate this clown
That’s insulting to clowns.
“We have to move a rocket company because of trans highschool kids” wtf
He’s literally evil towards his daughter. He said “can’t win them all” when asked about her. Wtf.
How fun would it be if the next Texas power grid failure manages to cause serious damage to Apartheid-Baby’s pet project?
Imagine there are still people chilling for this Nazi piece of shit. And I don’t use that word lightly. He has done enough to be getting this label.
You got my upvote, fuck this trashbag-ass scum wipe with corresponding intellect.
He would have done it anyway.
This is hilarious. With the Texas electrical system, there’s going to be days when they cant operate.
My company cancelled opening up a campus there because of that issue!
There are a million reasons to move out of California but there are a million reasons to not go to Texas.
… What? The final straw was … not having 100% up-to-date information on the gender expression of every child in the state?
The fuck?
If SpaceX moves, and it’s worker’s are unwilling/unable to move; does that grant them severance?
I’d take that out.
Is it because his wife left him for a trans woman?
What an utter twat
If they can keep the power on, I am sure this will work out great for you.
Look at how much power he gives all those trans folk.
I think it’s a great idea to move to the #1 ranked Texas! /s
What a vile, lying, manipulative piece of shit 🖕
Doesnt he have a fiduciary responsibility to the share holders? How is this unnecessary move going to help increase their value?
Please lets think of the shareholders!
Remember when Boeing opened up plants in the South to take advantage of worse labor laws? Worked out great for their passengers yeah?
I feel like these headlines only appear on our feeds, never on republicans’
Too many politically charged comments, locking. We are a technology community, if you want to talk politics please do so in the appropriate community.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there’s something else going on.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
elon despises his daughter.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t know how much it’s he despises her, vs how much he despises what he thinks woke people and the woke education system did to her.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bullshit.
He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…/ar-BB1q5TOi
Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities as well as Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.
forbes.com/…/a-billionaire-backed-texas-stock-exc…
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we can’t go to space anymore!
LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But who the fuck knows what planet trans people are from?!