Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.

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• BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s also bastardized Grok

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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  • Analog@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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  • Regna@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always suspected he bombarded the wallstreetbets threads with bullish sentiment as well.

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  • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would make sense.

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• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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• hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Edison didn’t do any damage to Tesla’s name, and by all contemporary accounts the two men seem to have supported each other the brief time they were together and parted ways amicably.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey at least we eloctrocuted an elephant!

  :(

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  • Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I enjoy the fuck out of him being trolled by the Canadian electric truck manufacturer Edison Motors as well.

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    • TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And their prototype “Topsy”!

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Before the cars became popular, yes, now when you say Tesla, people think cars.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    funnily enough there was also a car brand named Nikola. they turned out to be a huge scam.

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• aeharding@vger.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI

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• Meltdown@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Edison:

  🎶They say "Thomas Edison🎵

  🎵is the man to get us in🎶

  🎶to this century"🎶

  🎶and that man is me.🎵

  Topsy:

  🎵They’ll say “aww Topsy” 🎶

  🎶At my autopsy🎵

  🎵And no one could be🎶

  🎶more shocked than me🎵

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even the memory of the nasally whine of AWWW Topsy is enough to trigger a minor migraine

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bet Elon would look up to Edison and how he was able to fool history about being a genius.

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