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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 50 points 11 months 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@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months 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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months 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.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months 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?

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 11 months 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?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months 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".

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

man he is mid life crisising hard.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

The grifts must go on

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How to Mall Ninja University.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It only offers one major: The Blade

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Underrated comment

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Trump already did this. More than once I believe.

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

South Harmon Institute of Technology

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

S.H.I.T sandwich for life!

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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?

[–] Froyn@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

They plan to be the Trump University of online schooling.

[–] iterable@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Musk University! The jokes write themselves!

[–] Whatevster@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

Bovine University?