The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

  • @aeronmelon
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    81 hour ago

    Elon Musk is a wannabe fanboy of Tony Stark, per Iron Man 2. It’s MCU canon.

  • @T156
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    583 hours ago

    The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

    They’re not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

    I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I’m not holding out much by way of hopes.

    • @Windex007
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      493 hours ago

      Considering he asked twitter programmers to print out their pull requests Im not even sure he’s not cosplaying a programmer

  • @[email protected]
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    62 hours ago

    Clicks link

    The very first word in the article is a glaringly obvious fucking typo. Why on earth would I want to read anything that website has to say?!?

  • @Subtracty
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    32 hours ago

    His cameo in the 2nd Iron Man movie always felt so cringey to me. I don’t know how it came about, but I like to imagine Musk asked the production for the role. It is so clear to me that he desperately wants to be seen as the man who will single handedly save the world. His companies do incredibly impressive things, I cannot discredit the work of SpaceX, but the more he speaks, the more I am convinced that he is just an egomaniac cosplaying as a genius.

  • @Okokimup
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    144 hours ago

    Tony Stark created likeability with a box of scraps in a cave!

    • @Cocodapuf
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      43 hours ago

      Well he’s not Tony Stark…

  • @[email protected]
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    626 hours ago

    Hey vocal.media why not proofread your articles a little better? The first letter is a typo, never seen that before.

    Un an interview that’s got everyone talking, Robert Downey Jr has finally addressed the elephant in the room; those persistent comparisons between Elon Musk and the character Tony Stark.

  • @[email protected]
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    326 hours ago

    Elton never invented anything, he’s skated on other’s success. He’s more the evil partner from the first Iron Man using others’ inventions.

    • @[email protected]
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      185 hours ago

      Now now, Elon does technically have one patent to his name personally.

      Its the shape of the charging port for Teslas.

      He patented this with the idea that if he ever did actually build out that massive EV charger network, he would basically be owed royalties if it successfully became the USB C of EV charging ports, so himself personally would be owned royalties if other car companies wanted to use that charging port shape.

      But that was like a decade ago, and last I heard he fired the entire team at Tesla dedicated to the charging network.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 minutes ago

        Tesla’s NACS charging standard is now the charging standard for most car companies operating in the USA.

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t see it. Elon is a sociopath and doesn’t care about people at all. He is autistic as well. The man would easily sacrifice others in a crisis, not fight for them.

    • @rottingleaf
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      32 hours ago

      Autistic people are generally the opposite from sociopaths, relative to norm.

      However, we do, existing with ratio of like 1 in 200 people, get the experience with non-autistic people that makes us think of them similarly to how non-autistic people think of sociopaths.

      As an autistic person, there are many cases about which I’d say that if I had the opportunity to press the red button sending nukes, I would press it, but in fact I most likely wouldn’t, because autistic people are generally less compromising on justice and honesty. The decision to, say, sacrifice one good person to punish 1000 bad people is much harder for us than for “normal” people.

      “Normal” people usually consider this trait a weakness, but then have the gall to accuse us of lacking empathy.

      Also autistic emotions are stronger too - we just learn to control them, because otherwise it’s be impossible to function. When you read something about homeless people, you just add that to your inner narrative of how your group is good and the other group is bad, you generally don’t think about the matter itself. When we read something about homeless people, we feel ourselves on their place and temporarily lose the ability to eat, sleep and enjoy life.

      However, getting back to your point - in things requiring one to be a better person autistic people are almost always better. It’s a fact of the “you’d never have thought” genre exchanged in autistic communities that there are, in fact, bad autistic people. That’s how rare it is.

      I hope I have educated you.

      • @[email protected]
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        153 minutes ago

        Thank you, but is it really fair to say they all autistic people are like you describe? Just like non-autistic people, there should be a a variety of behaviors in autistic people as well?

        I was talking about Elon Musk here, not all autistic people.

    • @TheRedSpade
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      34 hours ago

      And he’s incapable of creating anything. And he has zero charisma.