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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 54 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

"The last thing I would do is trust a computer program," says the owner of a car company developing self driving & rocket company building automation into rocket launches.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 34 minutes ago

not to mention brain chips. Remember, every accusation is a confession with the MAGA crowd. I bet we'd find a few gems in the code for tesla and twitter now

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Software that killed a pedestrian recently.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 52 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like dominion should sue musk too

[–] secundnature@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago

“The last thing I would do is trust a computer program”

What a weird thing to say from someone that sells a car he says will eventually drive itself.

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 65 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Friendly reminder that an Immigrant African American Welfare Queen, with numerous baby mommas and children he don’t even talk to, is a foreign actor attempting to sway American Elections by spreading fake news. Truly the enemy within that needs to be addressed, there is a reason he travels with as many as 20 bodyguards just to touch grass Source.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 hours ago
  • Children that won't talk to him.
[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

“The probability that a homicidal maniac will try to kill you is proportionate to how many homicidal maniacs hear your name,” he said. “So they hear my name a lot — I’m like, ‘OK, I’m on the list,’ you know.”

this makes it sound like high profile assassinations are caused by a bunch of “maniacs” pulling names out of hats

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

He watched the documentaries about The Jerk and The Terminator.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Considering the first attempt on Trump's life, and I hate to admit it, but he's not that far off. I can't tell you how large of a quantity it is, but trump sure riled up a bunch of mentally ill people who may or may not have a good grasp of their mental stability.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If the assassins weren't deranged, they would choose their targets better. If you want to effect political change through assassination, you don't target the puppet. You target the person controlling the puppet.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 78 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Didn't Dominion already win at least one defamation lawsuit because some jackass was spewing these lies? Gonna love seeing Elmo have to pay up, just a shame it won't cost him enough to make him shut the fuck up.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 hours ago

Fox News settled for $787 million.

I would love to see Musk go down like that.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 24 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Cost Tucker Carlson his job.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

that's ok, he works for putin now

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don't know, if they manage to get a judgment against him for a couple billion dollars, that's like 10% of his worth after he tanked Twitter.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

Bankrupt his ass

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 75 points 5 hours ago

Ohh please let this be actionable a la Fox News

[–] Linktank 28 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's like nobody is even trying to kill him.

[–] TammyTobacco@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It should be fully legal to kill billionaires

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 22 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

At some point of extreme wealth, you get declared a dragon and it should be perfectly fine to organize adventuring parties to attempt to slay you.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

I saw a comment a while ago where someone calculated the equivalent wealth of fictional dragons (e.g. by estimating the dimensions of Smaug's vast gold trove in The Hobbit) and determined that real billionaires are far worse hoarders of money. Like 1000x worse.

I should try to find that comment again.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 52 minutes ago

Okay but if I fond a magic ring that turns me invisible im fucking keeping it, its mines mines precious!

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 27 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Sue him for 99.5% of his net worth that should shut this cunt up

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

101%

He'll just pull himself up by the boot straps and billionaire work ethic

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they want all his debt?

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They wouldn't get the debt. He'd keep that.

However, I don't know why he should left with any assets to balance the debt. Organizations that loaned him money or products should suffer too.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 hours ago

My man loves a lawsuit. Can't climax without one.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Be me

A moth, chilling with my moth friends

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago

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