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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] aramova@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

A penis almost as big as his President's.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

He is a scammer, thats called a scam

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

Yeah, there's a loooooong list.

https://elonmusk.today/

[–] db2@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 3 points 1 month ago

No no, they meant first of many unfulfilled promises.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] fluxc0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Just make cars that work and stick to it.