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[–] wischi@programming.dev 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is Musks obsession with the letter X?

[–] Cube6392 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He's a stunted 8 year old who associates X with edginess. X factor. X Men. X Ray. X rated films. XXX. All super fucking cool

[–] chahk 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He originally wanted "Model 3" to be called "Model E" so that the three (at the time) Tesla models could spell out "SEX". Fortunately that name was already taken. He's a petulant child.

[–] CraigeryTheKid 16 points 1 year ago

I'll admit, BACK THEN, I thought it was funny and was sad E was taken. But yeah perspective changes when you realize how much worse he is/was/will be.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, he's an unoriginal dipshit. All he's good at is buying things and slapping his name on 'em, he's never had an idea of his own.

[–] nzodd 6 points 1 year ago

DJ Khaled Techbro Edition

[–] argv_minus_one 3 points 1 year ago

He's also good at investing his dad's slavery money.

[–] storksforlegs 11 points 1 year ago

I think you are actually correct about this, I dont think it goes any deeper

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 49 points 1 year ago

X.com is his product he owned, that is loosely associated with PayPal's success despite it having nothing to do with the tech that it was merged for.

By "absorbing" twitter with his original X company that is older than twitter, he can pretend to be the founder of the parent company X, like he pretends to be the founder of Tesla.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

He's emotionally stunted and stuck in the 90s.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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