Elon Musk, who's spent years engaging in questionable public advocacy, just said he wants to "control" an "enormous robot army."

I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, who have no f**king clue. I mean those guys are corporate terrorists. Lemme explain the core problem here, so many of the passive funds vote along the lines of what ISS and Glass Lewis recommend. Now, they have made many terrible recommendations in the past that if those recommendations had been followed would have been extremely destructive to the future of the company. Now, If you’ve got passive funds that essentially defer responsibility for the vote to Glass Lewis and ISS, then you can have extremely disastrous consequences for a publicly traded company if too much of the publicly traded company is controlled by index funds. It’s de facto controlled by Glass Lewis and ISS. This is a fundamental problem for corporate governance, because they’re not voting along the lines that are actually good for shareholders. That’s the big issue, I mean, that’s what it comes down to. ISS Glass Lewis corporate terrorism. -Elon Musk, Tesla Q3 shareholder conference call, October 22, 2025

  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    This guy is so desperate to be called the first trillionaire, it’s just really pathetic.

  • amos@mander.xyzEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I just want this guy to die. Oh, I will be so happy when it happens.

    And all the other ones as well.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        27 days ago

        hes a negligent, absent father, he only cares about breeding to sire male children, because of his eugenics fetish. he doesnt care for them otherwise, remember the kid he was using as a human shield for a few months? where is he now.

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      28 days ago

      I don’t know, the point of the so-called self driving Tesla is to not kill you or other people, and it fails on that.

      So they might be able to fail creating a deadly bot army, so you’ll have armless bot on war fields and killer cars on your road

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Fortunately he isn’t going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can’t imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they’d probably fall over.

    There has never been another individual who’s ability and ego are so at odds

  • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I fucking hate this guy got off the hook. He fell out of the media so fast it makes me sick to think how complete the ruling class’s power is.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    28 days ago

    LOL

    Elmo Musk literally is not an engineer or even understands basic engineering. All the real world engineering done at his company is done by actual engineers

    What is his part in all those processes at jos companies, you ask?

    Lying.

    Literally lying. Its the only talent that Mr. Elmo has. Its the one thing he constantly does, at levels comparable to Trump.

    Most claims he makes about any of his companies products are just plain lies. Tesla full self driving? Not even close, and by now i wonder if they’re actually capable of getting a Tesla off a parking lot without crashing it, let alone do a full cross country.

    Same for SpaceX, where we definitely will go to Mars!never mind that reaching low earth orbit is about 1% of that task and he still can’t do that without blowing up his starshits. Hey, at least they blew up a banana over the Indian ocean.

    Wanna know what Elmo’s contributions are?

    Cyber truck.

    Launching the car that was supposed to be for the founder of Tesla into low earth orbit just to he an asshole

    The “idea” to use intercontinental ballistic rockets to transport people to the other side of the world “in 30 minutes”. This one I really really really do want him to try because tickets are CEO only expensive and nothing would make me laugh more than a bunch of stealing assholes all paying a million or so to just blow up on the launchpad.

    Talking about launchpads, remember that Florida launch with a starship with a boat load of engines that also failed was a complete success because “it left the launchpad” and anything beyond that was extras? Yeah, that launchpad was absolutely obliterated, cars parked various kilometers away got pelted by concrete debris, an ecological area got polluted, and the launchpad was left in rubble because Elmo decided that flame diverters, you know, those things used since like the sixties of the previous century really weren’t necessary.

    That is of course keeping in mind that he US tax payer paid 3 billion to take the US to the moon and well, that too is about at 1-2% mission completed, there is nothing remotely ready.

    Do I even have to mention Hyperloop? “Its just another air hockey table, its not that hard!”

    Meanwhile he keeps asking Tesla for a trillion dollars as well, even though he just got a gold package from Tesla that was light the highest payout in human history, even though Tesla makes a fraction of the cars that large brands make, ans even though he sent the extremely overvalued company (overvalued thanks to his constant lying about aaaalll the great things that are right there ready, just around the corner if you only pay me more money!!) right of a cliff with his Nazi antics combined with the laughable Nazirustbucket he designed…

    This is the guy asking for just a trillion dollar bro, I will make this work, bro! TRUST ME!

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days ago

      You forgot to mention, that was was fired from PayPal(?) for being incompetent.

      And the engineers he hires are either not that great, or (more likely) are having to play fast and loose due to unrealistic expectations. Like the original hyperloop demo that was setup years ago for a competition, instantly rusted and was secured poorly. It’s since been destroyed.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Yeah he did, I thought I mentioned it but there is so much to say about this horrible man…

        The Hyperloop thing was never ever going to work as even high schoolers could have seen the long list of practical issues with it, prohibiting it from ever getting even in the direction of being real. It’s a fundamentally flawed project

        Making a (partial) vacuum machine 3-4 meters in diameter and 600km long? Won’t happen, we can’t even do a fraction of a % for that

        Having a 600km tube in the sun will move your endpoints around by hundreds of meters throughout the day due to the metal warming up and expanding

        That same tube will also be warmed up more on the top than the bottom, causing that tube to try and warp itself into a circle

        So you do have your 600km partial vacuum tube? Awesome, now how do you get that pod train in there, or how do you get the people into that train (or out of it) without breaking your vacuum?

        Even with a partial vacuum, when moving that train over 600km will cause a pressure buildup in front of it what will become a problem

        This entire design is a terrorists wet dream. I need one rifle of sufficient force to puncture that metal tube and the next train that comes in will end up hitting a hammer.

        And there is lots more but I will try hard not to make this post too crazy long

        Meanwhile we could have had normal trains but without having a source for it, I do recall reading multiple times that musk didn’t wanted trains because they’d compete with his shitty Tesla cars, and that being the reason why he whipped this up. So now over the past two decades, China has been building railways like there is no tomorrow and now has. Huge network of high speed rail while the US (and Canada, Mexico) have basically and practically nothing. But they have cars, yaaaaaayyyy…

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Sociopathic Oligarchs have a serious form of OCD/ Hoarding Disorder, that makes them crave even more money, no matter how much they have.

      If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.

      But if they are hoarding money on a historically mind-blowing scale, they call them a successful businessman, and give them government grants and tax breaks.