Branding

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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 87 pts · 224d (13 replies)

I remember when Ford blocked Tesla from using the name "Model E" and elon was visibly upset, like the mental 6 year old he is, that the best he could do was S3XY. I chuckle about that pretty much every time I see a model 3.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 224d (4 replies)

He is certainly stuck in a teenage mindset. Like trump wanting Greenland because he didn't get his Nobel peace prize.

Seems to be a billionaire trait of being a wounded child and never getting over it.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 224d (2 replies)

In the case of Greenland, I suspect Miller and Thiel want it for their own purposes and Trump is so far gone they're just telling him something that will stick in his demented brain.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 223d

This is absolutely correct. Billionaires stroking the ego of a fucking narcissistic racist dipshit president to amass more is definitely going on.

user_name@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d

Miller probably wants to build a gulag system with non-citizen and, let’s face it, probably a sprinkling of black and brown citizens as well, to do some slave labor resource extraction. Somebody read the One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and took it as a handbook and not a warning.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 224d

People stop growing once they gain enough power or ability to avoid it. Elon seems to really resonate with the people who don't have friends and live in their parents' basement because both have an adulthood defined by not needing to mature as an adult and not having the internal drive to do it anyways. Nobody can make him feel ashamed for acting like an 18 year old because even if we shame him he can look at his wealth and justify why he's better than us.

CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 223d (3 replies)

is.. that why they are named that?!?!?

The model s, the model 3, the model x, the model y.... REALLY!>!>

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 pts · 223d

It is at least why the model Y and the model 3 got their names. I think the model S was named by Tesla's founders and the X may be just because musk has been obsessed with naming things that since PayPal (if not before).

snooggums@piefed.world · 22 pts · 223d (1 reply)

The 3 was supposed to be an E but but Ford owned the naming rights.

CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 223d

But the goal was to make.. the naming was supposed to spell out SEXY... that's so embarrassing.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 223d

he "peaked" as a 12yo.

Harvey656@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Its not terribly often that I agree with Ford... Jesus Musk sucks.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 220d

these decades will be remembered as "that time when merely being a soulless corporation was a good thing"

cRazi_man@europe.pub · 4 pts · 223d

"If Books Could Kill" podcast has 2 episodes looking at a biography book on Elon. Its amusing to listen to.

Episode 1

Episode 2

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 66 pts · 223d (7 replies)

This is almost worse than people with Monster Energy logos on their chest. Almost.

I cannot fathom why anyone would want to put corporate slop on their body. What a way to show everyone around you that you lack any sort of clue.

neo2478@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 223d (4 replies)

This is definitely worst. It's glorifying the business of a literal Nazi.

J92@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 223d (3 replies)

Oh I don't know this. Who is this?

DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 223d (2 replies)

The tattoos are of the Tesla logo, which is owned by Elon "does nazi salutes during his speech at the podium during a presidential inauguration" Musk.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/is-elon-musk-a-nazi-and-can-he-get-european-far-right-hardliners-elected

J92@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Sorry, I thought they meant the monster energy company also had a nazi. That is my bad, I apologise.

Thank you for providing sources, though!

BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 223d

And I used to think this was horrible.. But some people (Reddit) thinks it's a fun and unique way to advertise

zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 223d

You'd have to be pretty stupid to mess with a coupla guys like that....

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 223d (4 replies)

About ten years ago I was going to get that one One Piece tattoo with a very close friend because we had bonded over the show and wanted to be close for life. It was a simple “X” on the forearm.

He kept laughing it off when I tried to actually coordinate getting it done, then one day he showed up and had it done alone because “he didn’t think I would do it”. Clearly didn’t want me to follow suit either.

It’s probably for the best because now it would make people think I simp for twitter and Musk. Also that guy turned out to be a real piece of shit and we no longer speak.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Just claim Xorg is best window manager!

steeznson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d

Xorg is a display manager; emacs is the best window manager, email client, irc client, web browser, tetris implementation, elisp runtime environment/dev environment... it might edit text too but idk.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d

You'd also have everyone and their mom asking if you were straight edge.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
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lena@gregtech.eu · 29 pts · 224d (4 replies)

branded for life

This is so weird, they're not livestock[^1], are they?

[^1]: I'd just like to clarify that branding animals is a disgusting practice that should be banned

Viceversa@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 224d (3 replies)

I'd just like to clarify that branding animals is a disgusting practice that should be banned

There's cold branding. It's painless.

lena@gregtech.eu · 13 pts · 224d

TIL, thanks. Hot branding should be banned then

Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -3 pts · 223d (1 reply)

The animals getting murdered isnt painless though

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 220d

when done right it is, bolt straight to the brain killing them instantly.

like come the fuck on, why would you complain about the slaughtering process rather than the abjectly miserable conditions the animals are kept in? They spend their entire lives in agony, and you think the moment they're finally granted the mercy of death is the problem?

No, this stinks of either stroking your own ego or outright being astroturfing.

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 223d

Bad taste, bad execution!

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 22 pts · 223d

On their right arms, too, so the tattoos will show when they do their “Heil Hitler” salute!

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 224d (3 replies)

Ew.

Can’t decide if this is better or worse than matching swastikas.

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 224d

Pretty much equal

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 224d (1 reply)

Worse. Swastikas were legitimately used by some people. It may be acceptable for a buddhist living under a rock to tattoo a swastika

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 223d

No one's that ignorant. I think you'd be surprised not about how people outside of Europe and the Americas just don't care, which is fair enough I suppose, but how often Indians in particular will just straight up praise Hitler.

lividweasel@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 224d

If I met one of these in real life, I’d tap the hamburger menu to see more options.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 224d

Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 224d

Please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 223d (1 reply)

When you want the world to know you're a Nazi.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 223d

Carve a Swastika into their foreheads.

mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 224d

Oh, nice, with it under the arm so you can see it properly when heil:ing. Nice touch /s

mcqtom@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 224d (1 reply)

I love Tesler!

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 224d

It's all computer!

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 224d

Those are certainly some permanent life choices. I bet they can forget about those tattoos if they take enough ketamine.

TomMasz@piefed.social · 2 pts · 223d

Hey ladies, if you're not doing anything with your uterus, Elon could use another baby mama.

whitecollarcry@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 223d
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