this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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[–] miz@hexbear.net 83 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

can I nominate an image for a site tagline?

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[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

Please, put him out of his misery. And ours.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 61 points 6 months ago

Imagine self styling yourself as being a le epic memelord and you’re stuck in ancient ass Pepe and kek and doge shit that already were stale when the alt right glommed onto them in 2016.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 59 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would you be a billionaire if you won't pay a guy to hand draw your pfp? Isnt the whole point of being rich to get people do things for you?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because he's sunk billions into his shitty ai service and he's hellbent to use it even if he's the only person on earth doing so.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Because he's sunk billions into his shitty ai service and he's hellbent to use it even if he's the only person on earth doing so.

The image generation is either just base Flux (open source model developed by a completely unrelated research team) or some in-house finetune of it that reasonably wouldn't take more than a hundred thousand between buying the equipment and paying one person to poke at it and feed it training data (shitty memes posted to twitter, presumably), but knowing who we're talking about he's probably been throwing millions at some lucky grifters for work that a single hobbyist could do with a few thousand dollars worth of server time from a service like civitai.

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

It's bad even by AI standards.

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 55 points 6 months ago (4 children)

elon replying to his alt account about his based trolling

[–] blame@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

doesnt he have like 5 companies and a government agency to run

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

He's integral to their operations and provides millions of times more productivity than the average worker. Also there was some reddit thread about how he's paying a dude in Hong Kong to play his character for him.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago
[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"hardcore PoE" seems like a good way to accidentally fry boards

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta hand it to him though him and his buddies have proven we don't live in a meritocracy and that the myth that the best and brightest rise to the top in capitalism is just that, a myth. But who am I kidding, no one really gives a shit and they'll just pour another billion on him to blow up a rocket and be racist on twitter.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You do not, under any circumstances, "Gotta hand it to him"

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 6 months ago

What if "it" is a pipe bomb?

Theoretically in minecraft

[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this a bit or is he unironically this cringe?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

This is his desperate bid to win back the groypers and convince them he is in fact, based and trad pilled.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

It is not a bit.

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Why are all the modern day fascists such fucking losers/dorks? Especially this rich motherfucker. Death to 4chan, reddit, and all the dumbfuck memes these losers orgasm to.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

They were losers back in the 1940s, too. There was a large number of high ranking nazis who would shit and piss themselves around women or who were failsons. Hitler himself is a prime example: dude was shit at painting and got rejected from art school for lacking creativity.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

ohnoes

*pepe, roman, gamer

need to insert anime tbh, does elon have some feeling about anime?

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

more like Dorkus Maximus

boom, gottem.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Maybe Trump will die of the cringe.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

God this is embarrassing.

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's no way this can be real disgost

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Entrusting the Mars colony that's humanities lifeboat off a dying planet to a man who's been divorced 3 times for being abusive and spends all day retweeting fbi crimes stats and making alts to agree with himself.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

I was laughing at how cringe it was yesterday with a friend.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

launch this asshole into the sun

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"People called Romani they go the house?"

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

man I'm so glad we have this guy instead of like, a system structured around caring for and enriching as much as possible the lives of every person living within it

the bootlickers are right, this is actually much better

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What do you think the Gilded Age robber barons would think about this I wonder

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[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bro has 200m followers and only 180 people are willing to give him $5

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[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

how is this real

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

It only cost him about $200 per follower on Xitter.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

“How do you do, fellow kids?” final boss.

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

He's so fucking cringe

[–] jack@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

it does bring me some joy to see how absolutely miserable this wretched creature is

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