De-Muskifier: Firefox add-on to replace all instances of Elon Musk with raccoons
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Pathetic man-child who's lucky he has people like Gwynne Shotwell who are both excellent and don't seem to mind being out of the limelight.
Maybe that's his talent. Money and cloud cover for others to let their talent shine. The devils deal there though is that he'll never credit them either!
Add a few more aholes that we can select and that'd be just perfect.
Thanks!!!
23 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
That cracked me up!
Back in 2016 he was selling this lie that by 2018 you'd be able to summon your car from New York to Los Angeles autonomously [0]. Well, it's 2025 and he still hasn't done anything even close to that, not even as a proof of concept. If their autopilot is actually that great, prove it by having the car autonomously drive from one end of the country to the other, even if it's done under supervision.
Most recently, Elon has been caught lying about something as petty as being good at a game called Path of Exile 2. He pays someone to boost his account to a really high level in hardcore, and then pilots it for a few minutes on a livestream. Something has to be wrong with him, to think that he can fool people into thinking that he somehow grinds insane hours as CEO of multiple companies while somehow also grinding the insane number of hours that it would take to reach the top of the leaderboards in PoE2. There's just not enough hours in the day... If someone is willing to lie and cheat over something as mundane as a video game ranking, do you really think he wouldn't lie about something when there are significant resources on the line?
I’m holding out hope that he will come around. Maybe he will need to take a crash course in advanced POE gaming, Billy Madison style, and apologize for hopefully the right reasons.
But he’s in even bigger trouble now it seems. Elon has now retaliated against Asmongold, leaking private DMs and taking away his checkmark. Elon needs to get himself under control as this could get much worse. It’s an embarrassment to the country, frankly. Imagine if this had happened in October instead.
> He can't help but speak opinions that people don't want voiced.
That's not a "truth teller", that's a shitposter, at best.
The guy's an insufferable manchild with no more actual tech chops than the average boomer, made all the more dangerous by a severe case of Dunning-Kruger. He can't distinguish between reality and sci-fi, and goes around and buys companies that he thinks will make him look like real life Tony Stark.
Every tech company he owns, he bought. He doesn't do any of the engineering. The only genius he possesses is in creating public hype for products he has invested in. It is 100% persona.
Man is completely deranged.
Expect a lie, but no, this time, it is actually the truth. Expect the truth, but no, this time, it is a lie.
Can you point out some of the "truths" that he is telling?
Do you think he's a good and loving father to his twelve+ children?
Musk is more politically active than Zuck, especially recently. Politics cause hate.
Musk is loud and provocative, sometimes insulting for no good reason, and has an opinion on everything. Zuck is a bit of that too, but Musk is much more.
So general idea is that out of the two, Musk is seen as the bigger asshole. A productive asshole, maybe, but no matter how productive they are, people usually don't like seeing assholes.
[1] https://medium.com/@mspies28/worst-dedicated-fan-base-tourna...
Anti-Muskers are an even more obnoxious fanbase
> Anti-Raccooners are an even more obnoxious fanbase
Let's say that's true. When raccoon is lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are mentioning it, it fires off a provocative tweet to get the internet masses talking about it. Sometimes for days at a time.
When I'm lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are talking about me, you'll never know about it. Along with the majority of every other person annoyed by raccoon's endless antics.
The difference is reach.
one cannot avoid seeing Tesla vehicles, and the sky is littered with Starlink constellations at night, and every media outlet in the world reports on just about every SpaceX launch.
Elon Musk isn't only quarantined to social media company he bought and the occasional congressional appearance.
p.s. isn't it weird how everyone is on a first name basis with Elon Musk, and gave Mark Zuckerberg the pet name 'Zuck'?
..Maybe people with mononyms or near-mononyms should just be avoided all together..
Every single excuse is fake. No you aren't getting breaking news, you are getting literal propaganda and explicitly rage inducing lies, precisely because the blue check and payment system enforces it.
You are an addict.
What's really needed is better social media tools that allow you to follow specific creators regardless of what platforms they use. There's some ongoing work being done for that with video creators, but I'd love a generalized version for other media.
I also follow artists on alternative sites when they make an account available, but it's clear that for many creators the primary platform where they make big announcements is on Twitter.
Millions of us never used it and never missed out on anything. Stop falling for FOMO. It's insane to me how many of the people who say "but I can't get what I get on twitter anywhere else" are objectively just "always online" style people, who have no life other than posting on twitter. People like Hank Green who I consider a good person and worthy of respect but who won't get his ass off twitter because he's addicted. He mostly admits this, but it's just silly.
Getting rid of social media addiction isn't trivial. When I was 16 I had to block all of reddit from our firewall so I could self-intervene in a burgeoning reddit addiction. I'm very lucky that worked. But I didn't go around telling people "but where else will I get my techsupport horror stories?!", I just had to suck up and admit that not reading tech support horror stories for 4 hours a night wasn't going to hurt me.
Like, imagine someone claiming that they can't stop using Linkedin. There is objectively content on there that doesn't happen anywhere else, but using that as an excuse to not stop reading Linkedin posts I would hope would be seen for the nonsense that it is.
IMO "short form blogging" is a harmful medium full stop, but that just doesn't matter because twitter doesn't own a monopoly on short form blogging and never did.
No one will be hurt by missing a tweet. Especially not nowadays, when government entities all over are transitioning to bluesky. If something is so damn important that you need to see it, it WILL escape twitter. If you want to stop seeing Elon, priority number one should be to reduce the effectiveness of twitter as a platform by getting the hell off it.