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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

musk also promised full self driving cars, and a mars colony by now

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Do we even know what he promised to all the women?

[–] aramova@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

A penis almost as big as his President's.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

A horse, that he wanted to offload anyway as he had a surplus of them from the ranches he purchased to cosplay as a rancher

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago
[–] garretble@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

Stock goes down, elon makes promise he can’t keep to try and make it go up. Rinse and repeat.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

He's always promising shit that never happens. He's just a stupidly wealthy pub bore.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

He is a scammer, thats called a scam

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, there's a loooooong list.

https://elonmusk.today/

[–] db2@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

He's not wealthy. He has credit and morons willing to give it to him.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Piss off, In 2016 Elon Musk promised full self driving would be ready by the end of 2017.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I cringe when I remember that I parroted the then current expectations on self driving back then.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I believed him too back then, usually if a CEO makes such a statement it's pretty solid. Because they are responsible to for instance stock holders.
How he can make all these false claims and promises, and still be rewarded by stock holder with a $55billion bonus, is a mystery to me, as I see it, he is liable towards both stock holders, and customers who bought stock or a Tesla under false pretenses.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

first of many

Humanoid robots exist. They just haven't yet found an application where the existing implementations are more-desirable than alternatives.

[–] CerealKiller01@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

No no, they meant first of many unfulfilled promises.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

An Elon Musk promise is about as valuable as a pocketfull of lint.

[–] fluxc0@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i’m about to just filter out the word ‘Elon’ on voyager now. nobody fucking cares about this shithead

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So they renewed their promise from… how many years ago with nothing to show for it?

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it won't have any of the defects of the cyberdumpster.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If he's going for the Cybertruck look, they will probably come out like this:

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Unlike Imperial Storm Troopers, they sometimes hit their target.

Judging by Musk's previous styling choices, may I offer this?

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Just make cars that work and stick to it.