The Edison of our era indeed

Thomas Edison a horrible racist and antisemite is a perfect comparison for president Musk

and both of them ALSO use Teslas name for their benefit!

And even this comparison is a bit too mean towards Edison.

Man really named it DOGE. How much divorced aura can a single man put out?

>Imagine $2T in savings

https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/print_document.cfm?document_id=1948

Edison who electrocuted an elephant to ‘prove’ the dangers of Tesla’s AC? *That* Edison?

Just shows how much Americans still suck the dick of Edison.

What I want to know is why Benioff is cozying up to Musk

The $2t is more than the entire discretionary budget. So you have to zero out all spending (i.e. take the military to zero) and then still reduce social security or Medicare a little after that. What a clown.

Elon is gonna electrocute an elephant isn’t he?

Mark Benioff is the nepo-baby cousin of David Benioff, the nepo-baby who ruined Game of Thrones. It’s a big club and we aren’t in it.

That squidward meme is amazing, does anyone have it

As someone that is contracted at spacex, this is incredibly true! Whenever I go there I see people burnt out and hating life.

If Edison cosplayed as Tesla

There’s so much misinformation on this site about both Edison and Tesla….

Edison was a POS but kinda deserves his recognisability in history as his teams were behind a massive amount of inventions/innovations that we use today. Yes he now gets credit for things he didn’t actually build, but we also talk about Bill Gates as if he still writes all the code for Microsoft or Hans Zimmer even though “music by Hans Zimmer” is merely a brand, a lot of compositions and work assigned to him is actually being made by underlings below him and he’s merely helping or signing off on it.

Tesla contributed very little to science in reality. It’s not “oh the real genius is Tesla” at all, he was a mad recluse that discovered DC but then proceeded to repeatedly acquire funding by over promising and making unscientific claims (remind you of anyone…?). He made claims about death rays and magical weather systems but in reality, it was daydreams from someone that seemed to have a poor grasp of the science required.

Tesla was a mentally ill recluse that fell in love with a pigeon. In some ways a modern comparison would be Steve Jobs – involved in a technological advancement and worshipped as a mad genius, but yet thought he could cure cancer by eating nearly nothing but fruit.

It’s a bit like the “Frankenstein wasn’t the monster, but wise people know he truly was the monster” – people here claim to be intelligent by writing off Edison and praising Tesla are just showing their ability to parrot info they’ve never actually read into. Part of me wonders if it’s just trendy or perhaps The Prestige film has helped encourage the myth

If you wanna worship a genius, look at people like Bohr, Linus Torvalds or Archimedes. You know, people that are actually well revered and brought innovations to their industries. Worshipping Tesla based on some vague notions about him is absolutely the same as worshipping someone like Elon Musk. It’s unfounded and there’s little evidence for them actually understanding any of the technology they claim to/are involved in. Tesla conned money out of people based on bullshit just like Musk does

Edit: some hyperbole from tbf, Tesla definitely had intuition and some good ideas – but he’s credited for lots of ideas that were being worked on by others/there’s little evidence to suggest he even succeeded. Tesla is more comparable to Da Vinci where the idea of him being this genius that touched everything is a nice myth, but in reality, we can only really attribute like one thing to them (Da Vinci really only contributed modern medical diagrams, most of his ideas were discovered centuries later in his notebooks – ie, he made little actual contributions to science and they were instead invented by others without knowledge of his work)

How does the guy not see the irony of comparing someone leading a company that is literally called Tesla as an Edison? Makes me wonder if being a dilettante is the key to bluffing your way to “success”.

Have they discussed at all where the money will go after all of the cuts? Will it be diverted to social support programs? Or will it result in lower taxes?

TBH, Edison actually had to get his capital throught work and the actually heroic act of unstucking a toddler with his feet stuck in the sleeper ties from the railtracks, and he never had the money to get the education to do the things the guys he contrated did until he was pretty old

Musk meanwhile had money since the start

Has no one ever taken economics? Seriously, Elon is one of the reasons we have the debt we do.

This is just making him more rich.

Edison ws a dirtbag loser that used the people that worked under him. It is so sad that the creators of Tesla actually let him into their company.

JFC DOGE isn’t a real thing. it won’t be a real thing. Even a MAGA controlled congress knows better than this idiocy.

I’m sure we’ll all remember that guy for his tweet