Elon Musk admits he has this secret account on X where he ‘pretends to be a child’
hindustantimes.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14173417
Elon Musk admitted to using two secret alternate accounts on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a deposition for a lawsuit against the billionaire. He said that he used some accounts on the social media site outside of his main public account when he was asked to clarify if he used an account on X that had been linked to him by several users on social media. Some users posted a screenshot of his X interface last year in which the additional account appeared to be visible.
So this guy is the CEO of like 5 companies and he still has time to pretend to be a kid on Twitter? Is he really working that hard? Is he working so much harder that he's worth 20,000x the average worker?
CEOs don't work hard. They delegate the hard work and they have fun, go to lunch with other assholes, etc.
They also love to talk about how hard they work at those lunches
I'd like to live in a world with a 1000x pay scale.
Whatever the richest person makes, the poirers must make at least 1/1000th of that amount.
I'm ok with this.
Spewing bullshit as consistently as he does while still being believed by your core base is a rare skill set.
he's worth 20,000 of your children
yours personally
just for asking that question
No that would still make my kid worth $9.8 million. My kid will be lucky if he’s worth 1/200,000th of that asshole (not accounting for inflation).
He’s worth the money because he owns the stock.
He isn’t as much of a worker as he is someone who owns a lot of the company.
Personally I think he’s outlived his usefulness at Tesla. X has become his passion project.
I’d like to see a new ceo at Tesla. Great cars. He hyped them well then lost interest.
Doubt.
Do you own one? I do. Best car I’ve ever driven. Elon didn’t design it or build it himself. You can dislike Elon but still like the cars.
I guess they're fine when they aren't killing people or issuing massive recalls or deploying the breaks spontaneously or facing build quality concerns or trying to blame customers for defective parts but hey, at least they're not quite the worst in terms of reliability.
or blatantly spying on your users
The recalls are normally OTA fixes.
Never had a mechanical issue with mine.
I always think it’s funny when people try to tell you your experience. I own an Audi and a Tesla. The Tesla is the better car.
Lol no one's trying to tell you your experience, they're trying to tell you the experiences reported by everyone else. That's the difference between anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence.
Everyone I know loves their Tesla. It’s why their satisfaction rating is so high.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/study-excluding-tesla-few-ev-owners-would-go-ev-again/#:~:text=More%20than%2070%25%20of%20Tesla,another%20Tesla%2C%20the%20study%20found.
Telsa owners remain more loyal than owners of other brands’ EVs
Tesla is similar to Apple in the regard that owners of their products are something of a cult following and their satisfaction is not based on the quality of the product, but possibly other psychological factors such as being part of what they perceive as an exclusive "in group".
Or we are just pleased with the product. I’ve had fewer issues with my Tesla than any other car.
That’s pretty bad. I had one in five years. All my friends are the same. The paint is 100% garbage. Otherwise we’ve all been issue free.
Oh please. You think Trump was a great president. I wouldn't be surprised if you thought a shit sandwich was tasty if it was packaged in right wing ideology.
Unfortunately I’m on the other side of that, my family has a Tesla which has been to the shop more times in the 2 years we’ve owned it than our past 3 cars combined needed to over more than 20 years. We have genuinely researched lemon laws it’s so bad. The windshield wipers hit each other and broke, the windshield stress fractured for no reason, the camera was full of water when we drove it off the lot, the side fender fell off on a country road 2 weeks after that… I could go on for ages.
I think the earlier models when Elon was less of an unhinged arrogant asshole doing his best to follow Kanye’s arc and wasn’t inserting himself into the design process randomly (make the steering wheel square, make a space truck no one needs, make it have stupid windshield wipers, etc.) were much better.
My family needed a loaner while our car was in for one of the many repairs and they gave us the previous model of our same car, made 2 years earlier, and it was much better. Other people I know with older models haven’t suffered from the same issues.
To me it seems that Elon’s leadership is now actively harming the company and making the cars worse, they have serious quality control issues which are leading to out of control repair and service expenses for the company, and are designing features based on what an out of touch billionaire manchild thinks would be neat instead of what any sane average consumer needs from a vehicle.
Things like the turn signal being on the wheel making signaling 2 turns back to back in opposite directions extremely difficult, making the horn a tiny off center button with no ability to feel so you have to take your eyes off the road to find it, glove boxes that won’t open unless you navigate to the right submenu of a terrible ui, gullwing doors that don’t open all the way reliably, a steering wheel that isn’t round and makes driving less comfortable, the deep flaws in optical only self driving, a work truck that can’t actually accomplish work, etc. are all glaring issues which should become clear in user testing, but as the famous “bulletproof” window smashing demo indicated: Tesla either doesn’t do adequate or even baseline testing, or (as I believe) Elon is just too arrogant to listen to the smart people around him who might point out those issues and has created an echo chamber of yes men afraid to point out obvious problems
Agreed. His time has passed. My issue was the paint fell off in the car wash. Otherwise it’s been a nice car.
I’ve heard some of the new design choices are questionable. Gears being moved to the screen or something of that nature. The yoke instead of the wheel.
Why id like to see less of him at Tesla. Let him go play on x and let someone fix Tesla. I think his antics are scaring buyers off.
Totally agree, I remember how amazed I was the first time I rode in a Tesla and the first time I got to drive one. The car is so fun, I especially love being able to stay warm sleeping in the car on snowboard trips or winter camping. The core is there it’s just crazy the little user experience and quality control things are starting to slip more and more.
Not sure how you revolutionize the industry and develop crazy battery tech but are stopped by windshield wipers, turn signals, and suspensions. I hope they can replace Elon and get their focus back, but I hope he finds a nice bounce castle or something to fuck with rather than shifting his focus to ruining twitter lol
Exactly. The car is a blast to drive. For long distances autopilot works an amazing.
The new design choices seem more about Being edgy.
Make Elon the cto or something and hire a real ceo. Label him the chief hype officer but get him away the design.
Ironic to have someone named after a cyberpunk book simp so hard for a megacorp. Yuck.
I am doing no such thing. I like my car. It’s a good car. All you tears won’t change it’s a good car
I work on Tesla's. They are not great cars.
Well that puts you in a minority who feels that way. Good for you.
If we assume @Marcumas@lemmy.world isn't lying then you're in minority as an owner of Tesla as compared to someone who has worked on Teslas.
That’s make zero sense. The majority of Tesla owners are happy with their car and would buy again. The higher rates for EV. So try again
You've been already told why that data is biased because of cult of Tesla, much like cult of Apple.
Uh huh. Doesn’t change 70% would buy again. The highest of any EV.
Yeah, cause they're in a cult. Which includes you.
Go choke on Trump's dick while giving handy to Elon.
It doesn’t change they have the third highest approval rating of all cars. And so weird when you are getting all rabid over Trump when I never mentioned him. That’s really weird behavior
Ah yes, my passion too is a dumpster fire. Love the smell!
rofl as if he was ever good for Tesla... Outside of strongarming the few government contracts, he's been an overtly negative impact onvthe brand and now everyone laughs at Teslas instead of viewing them like the iphone of electric cars.
... but you go off about how he's good for ANY company...
They kinda are the iPhone of electric cars.
Twenty years from now idiots will be telling me 'I know you think they're overpriced and locked down but my apps carry over and I just don't have the time to learn something new!'
Yea but normies still think iphones are decent, for the most part. Now even Tesla owners admit they're shit.
That's quite a big difference when it comes to the health of a company.
Sadly it's only our bubble where we see tesla owners hate on them, normies posting on Facebook and tiktok still drool over them simply as a symbol of wealth.
So his regular account?
you know what they say about rich people using their time more efficiently and effectively? this is what that means
This is just weird.
I would be much more impressed if he an account where he pretended to NOT be a child...
You. Fucking. Weirdo.
Instead of pretending to be his own infant son (which is really, really weird) , it would be much funnier if he made an alt account pretending to be a bad impersonation of himself, if he has a sense of humour, that is.
That way, he can say things without having it link back to him and stay under the radar, after all, who in the right mind would ever expect an unverified "Elon Musk" Twitter account to be ran by the actual Elon Musk?
That is essentially the Adrian Deitman account. He is pretending to be a loser who is obsessed is pretending to be Elon.
It is really quite pathetic.
I don't understand how he even have time to be so terminally online when he's running like 5 different companies.
yeah its almost like CEOs don't deserve the pay they get for the "work" they do and everything is a lie
Given what I've read about his management style, the more time he spends on Twitter, the better it is for his employees.
If Elon Musk had had the misfortune to be poor, he would have been institutionalized by now. But since he's rich, the media just fawns over all his whacko bullshit.
Idk I think he would be just a normal guy. Maybe he would work retail or something and be miserable. I still think that would be better haha.
He’d be a retail manager who meets up for abdl role play. Which honestly idgaf if everyone is a consenting adult, my issue would be the retail manager part and possibly him still being a raging bigot
How you know you’re a good person
But his official account isn't secret, is it? 🤷
That's the one where he pretends to be an adult.
He's doing a shit job.
I thought that's why he had his main account.
Oh yeah I forgot about the whole "baby account" thing. Man why are rich people so weird?
Because they are psychopaths who really only triumph because their mental illness allows them to bypass social norms and expectations.
Because they know they can get away with being their true selves?
His regular account also behaves like a child, but he isn't pretending.
This is a deeply wounded and developmentally stunted man, and the power he holds is terrifying because of it.
What did you expect? He has autism
Autism has nothing at all to do with what I said.
Autism doesn't turn you into an unempathetic megalomaniac.
Being a billionaire does.
So do I. This has more to do with being an terrifying entitled, out of touch billionaire. Who also happens to be autistic.
What a fucking weirdo.
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It's weirder. He pretends to specifically be one of his kids.
Oof that is really off. What a gross human in so many ways
What a fucking cooker.
Musk is a wallfacer
"Pretends"
Depends on whether you mean physical age or mental age
Mental. The guy is still living his childhood as it was in south africa
so he's collecting pictures of dicks
Sounds like okbuddyretard
It’s goofy and not “professional”, and so on, and i really dislike ol’ Elmo, but I don’t think this is the paedophile honeypot account it’s heavily implied to be.
It’s just him goofing around as if a 3-year-old him has an account.
TL;DR: Meh
Fuckin weirdo
He's really, really good at his pretending.
that's no secret
Pretends to be…?? He IS..
the 21st century Howard Hughes.
I feel like people downvoted you, not realizing that Howard Hughes was the "I keep all my piss in jars to inspect" dude.
Secret?
Okay, why is this exactly news? He's just testing what it's like to be a child, many adults probably so this on social media or at least want to.
Musk has done many terrible things to the platform but this is not one of them.
Okay, now I feel bad for him? I feel like maybe people are making fun of someone who is emotionally stunted (maybe because of trauma?) and so has a need for attention. I get that people want to criticize him (rightfully so) for his callous attitude towards vulnerable people. I feel like he hasn’t heard of the term, or doesn’t care for it if he has, “nobless oblige”. In fact, many people in positions of power, authority or influence should reflect on it. Sadly, often people who reach such positions are incapable of such reflection. It’s a beast that feeds itself.
And he also has his official account where he pretends to be a conservative