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1457 points kwindla | 3 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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theshrike79 ◴[26 Apr 25 08:41 UTC] No.43801919[source]▶

And the worst thing is that Elon could've been a living legend by building/funding colleges and schools focused on the tech his companies need, software development, robotics etc. Or even given out million dollar scholarships for the very top students.

And he still would've been worth over 250 billion easily.

Instead he chose to buy the president and start "optimising" the government with AI.

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le-mark ◴[26 Apr 25 11:39 UTC] No.43802715[source]▶

>>43801919 #

Elon has proven to truly be the dumbest smart guy ever. He alienated Tesla’s core customers; tree hugging liberals, and anyone who cares about sustainability. The GOP nor their voters care and never will. I called this Tesla stock crash months ago; did not act on it though.

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skellera ◴[26 Apr 25 14:23 UTC] No.43803884[source]▶

>>43802715 #

I think less people care about it politically than you think. Most people I know who have Teslas stand by the product even through Elon’s dumb shit.

I think people care more about their own convenience. There’s nothing else in our market that’s even comparable. People talk a lot of shit and it wasn’t great to start but FSD is on a different level now, especially on newer cars like the new Model Y. Having a car that mostly drives itself is the best purchase I’ve ever made.

It doesn’t seem to be slowing down sales in Seattle. New Model Ys are everywhere here.

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isoprophlex ◴[26 Apr 25 16:52 UTC] No.43805198[source]▶

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1. tomhow ◴[27 Apr 25 14:46 UTC] No.43812328[source]▶

>>43805198 #

Please don't comment like this on Hacker News. It breaks the guidelines badly. Please review them and keep to them in future:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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2. isoprophlex ◴[27 Apr 25 19:51 UTC] No.43814599[source]▶

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Apologies for my shitty comment; too much doom scrolling and too much crappy 30 year old hiphop. And apologies for writing something that sparked more than a dozen child comments full of divisive crap. Looking back i wasn't really doing the HN comment vibe I'd like to see myself, indeed...