this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this meme is 100% correct - it's the electric edsel, right up there with the homer car.

billions in the hole for 'freedumb of speech'.

it's good to see his bullshit finally catch up with him. Hope his failure doesn't take out spaceX tho, reusable rocks (not his idea) are a winner.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the better thing you could hope for is that the bankruptcy comes swiftly, he's forced to sell off the IP, and all the engineers who actually built the damn things move to a company with saner leadership and continue on.

Else it'll always be at his whim.

[–] hamburglar26@wilbo.tech 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That Polycom triggered PTSD for me.

[–] Vamanos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oof. I didn’t even notice it until I read your comment

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Ooh! Looks like 9 muskrats who pre-ordered the stupidtruck ended up here by mistake, instead of on X.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Designing bullet holes is a very Elon thing to do.