jaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoNikola Tesla would hate to see how his name is being usedmessage-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down11
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareNikola Tesla would hate to see how his name is being usedjaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squaremimic_kry@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·14 hours agoYea I feel really bad that his name was stolen by a talking pile of shit that’s literally the polar opposite of what he stood for in life. Honestly feels pretty terrible.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·12 hours agoIt’s real sad because I was super stoked for Tesla Motors like 20 years ago.
minus-squaremimic_kry@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 hours agoHonestly me too. I remember seeing one of their earlier iterations on the street, shaped like a lotus supercar. I had hope then
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·12 hours agoIt was easy to have hope for the company before Musk “founded” it
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·12 hours agoI mean, the first roadster was a Lotus.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agodamn, not 10 years but 20 years ago. You’re an OG
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 hours agoI was a young Nikola Tesla stan. I knew EVs were inevitable, and the early roadsters were excitingly (in an adoption sense) sexy.
Yea I feel really bad that his name was stolen by a talking pile of shit that’s literally the polar opposite of what he stood for in life. Honestly feels pretty terrible.
It’s real sad because I was super stoked for Tesla Motors like 20 years ago.
Honestly me too. I remember seeing one of their earlier iterations on the street, shaped like a lotus supercar. I had hope then
It was easy to have hope for the company before Musk “founded” it
I mean, the first roadster was a Lotus.
damn, not 10 years but 20 years ago. You’re an OG
I was a young Nikola Tesla stan. I knew EVs were inevitable, and the early roadsters were excitingly (in an adoption sense) sexy.