• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      I bought into Tesla at below the $100 mark because I genuinely believed that Tesla, SpaceX, and yes, Elon would bring about a new tech revolution and allow us to start leaving the past behind.

      That’s what hurts the most. The absolute waste of potential. He could have done so much good but alas, down the shitter it all went.

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      6 months ago

      Does your son realize that Elon is not an engineer? And he has never produced his own invention (the shadow shape of the cyber truck does not count as an invention).

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          I twigged when a puff piece about his engineering bona fides mentioned him using epoxy on a conveniently cracked housing during a press tour.

          Sure, bud. That’s proof of him being Chief Engineer like writing that article was proof of you being a journalist.

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          I swear Android autocorrect has a sense of humour. I swiped shape but it wrote shadow. OK the last two sets of keys are adjacent but I did not pause over d.