jaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoNikola Tesla would hate to see how his name is being usedmessage-squaremessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down13
arrow-up1178arrow-down1message-squareNikola Tesla would hate to see how his name is being usedjaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squaremimic_kry@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up37·3 days 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-up18·3 days agoIt’s real sad because I was super stoked for Tesla Motors like 20 years ago.
minus-squaremimic_kry@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days 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-up19·3 days agoIt was easy to have hope for the company before Musk “founded” it
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoI mean, the first roadster was a Lotus.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agodamn, not 10 years but 20 years ago. You’re an OG
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days 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.