*Does not include the transit nerds, who always knew Elon was a dumbass. - ThreadSky

brooklynspoke.bsky.social • 10 days ago

*Does not include the transit nerds, who always knew Elon was a dumbass.

Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest

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brooklynspoke.bsky.social•10 days ago

(Shout out to the underwater cave rescue experts, who also knew Elon wasn't very bright.)

sodiumboat.bsky.social•10 days ago

That was after the hyperloop nonsense, that made physicists so mad that someone wrote a paper about the many ways it was stupid.

odouglasprice.bsky.social•10 days ago

TBH that one was high profile enough, and insane enough to have warned us all.

mclean.bsky.social•10 days ago

This is when I knew something was wrong

mateosfo.bsky.social•10 days ago

holy shit

mclean.bsky.social•10 days ago

In his only interaction with me, he made it clear that he understands how dictators operate. And around the same time he would’ve been in active discussions with China to build a factory there using their financing. He’s completely compromised.

dasdoak.bsky.social•10 days ago

The warning signs were there, and they were flashing bright red, but a bunch of people ignored them. Including basically the entire media!

cmatthewbrown.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even an EV pragmatist like me was pissed off by the decision to build an obnoxiously exclusive system of Superchargers

marclmoore613.bsky.social•10 days ago

The times of him just being an anti-transit techbro dumba$$ almost seem quaint now in comparison to *gestures wildly*

isomorphism.net•10 days ago

Rocket nerds knew something was up when he kept talking about going to Mars but also kept spending all his time and resources building reusable, effectively LEO-only, rockets.

You're likely never going to make a cost effective multistage reusable rocket that can break orbit, because math.

isomorphism.net•10 days ago

The rocket equation isn't even that complicated you can grok the implications if you know trig ffs.

warrenjwells.bsky.social•10 days ago

His "serial killers on the bus" is what lost me back in 2017.

geoffmen.bsky.social•10 days ago

Those people like to mansplain the advantages of solo cars as if they were insighful arguments! We all know that, dummy, but we go beyond the simplistic and selfish view and we see its (individual, social and environmental) costs and we're real enough to aknowledge the alternatives' advantages.