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For those who aren't familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn't be believed, or being influenced to believe something that's not necessarily in your best interests.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Elon Musk in his early days. He was fresh, convincing and his ideas sounded good. It turns out they sounded a bit too good. With hindsight he really is the world greatest con-man. Why this still goes on its beyond me, though.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

In early days of Tesla I felt pretty sure a Tesla was going to be my first car. Now, I’m kind of just happy not having a car at all.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I remember when Reddit was in love with him. I never really engaged with him either way. It's probably indirectly thanks to him that my opinion on self driving cars has soured, and I theoretically stand to gain the most if it ever becomes a thing since I can't drive. We shouldn't try to make a machine learn the messy landscape of roads designed for humans, we should develop better rail and bus infrastructure and make cities more pedestrian-friendly.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

wild to think that whole house of cards of his collapsed because his PR person wanted a raise and being the greedy little ratfuck he is he refused.

cleanly they earned it

kimd of makes me wonder who all else out there is a complete piece of shit but we just don't know/realize it

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard about this. Do you have a source I can get some further reading on this?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

don't have any links off the top of my head but it should be easy enough to find.

it could just all be coincidence but the timing of public-facing downfall and that event seems too good to be true imo.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok I'll have a look. Thnx for the interesting info

Report back. I remember somethingabout there being a musk cleanup team who followed him around and put right everything he meddled with. But internet search is so shit now that this is the best I can find. SpaceX employees denounce CEO Musk as 'distraction' in letter

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I knew of Tesla and SpaceX and I'd vaguely heard of him but didn't really care so I wrote him off as another rich asshole immediately. Then I had some friends raving about him going to Mars and saving the world. I almost bought in but within a few weeks of that happening he called the guys who rescued the kids trapped in a cave a pedo just because he couldn't use his sub. That started my hatred of the man.