this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

… he wants to call it The Foundation.

Dude legit thinks he’s a non-fiction modern-day Hari Seldon instead of a rich spoiled child with questionable taste in long leather coats who got the timing right in the .com bubble.

What the fuck is going on lmao

[–] FlyingSquid 23 points 1 year ago

Another one of his references to science fiction novels and films he references but has either never actually seen or didn't understand.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-torn-apart-bladerunner-drive-cybertruck

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-loves-hitchhiker-guide-224813701.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Is he going to hire Eliezer Yudkovsky as a professor and get him to teach The Sequences?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"SpaceX and Tesla have noticed a meaningful degradation in the capability of US college graduates over the past several years," Musk wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

You don’t even have an engineering degree.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He noticed a degradation in the applicants who want to work for him and perceived that through a narcissistic lens .

Maybe he can have Terrence Howard as a professor?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Coincidentally, back when Tesla was new and hit and before they had a reputation as an abusive workplace, they had a higher quality of applicants. Must be happening to everyone, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

He only ever got an economics degree.

He was too stupid to earn a physics degree.

He only got a physics degree 2 year after leaving the school, when the school got a huge "donation".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

man he is mid life crisising hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish i'd be more of an end life crisis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is an excellent term. Know that I plan to steal it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The grifts must go on

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't we just skip to the part where he and his followers drink the Kool-Aid?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, that’s like asking for a Coke at your last meal and getting Shasta…

[–] 800XL 11 points 1 year ago

Trump already did this. More than once I believe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I grow up, I'm going to ~~bovine~~ EM university!! - Ralph Wigam

[–] maxenmajs 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Harmon Institute of Technology

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

S.H.I.T sandwich for life!

[–] reddig33 4 points 1 year ago

Private schools are the new grift. First it was for-profit private universities, now it’s K12. Unfortunately for Elon, the school voucher bill in Texas didn’t pass, despite the efforts of his buddies in the Tx lege. so will he even bother with the project now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They plan to be the Trump University of online schooling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it almost worked for Trump...sure he was the one who suggested it to him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Elton’s university is likely to be a half-baked indoctrination center. Trump’s was just a straight up scam.

[–] ttmrichter 3 points 1 year ago

Musk University! The jokes write themselves!

[–] drdabbles 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How short a memory BI pretends to have. He tweeted about this moronic idea years ago and said he wanted to call it The Institute of Technology and Science because the initialism is TITS. He's a clown, and pretending that isn't still his main motivation lends him credibility.

[–] ttmrichter 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe he should open the trial run in Sachs Harbour to form the Sachs Harbour Institute of Technology.

It would be a proper appellation for anything he makes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bovine University?