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edhopper

(37,041 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:12 AM 6 hrs ago

Here's everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 - and failed to deliver

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises

People on Mars by 2025

Tesla robotaxis would cover half of the U.S. population

Fully driverless Tesla robotaxis

xAI would achieve AGI

A flying car / demo of the long-awaited Tesla Roadster

DOGE would cut $2 trillion in 'waste, fraud and abuse'
This one hurt us all in ways it will take years to work out.

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mwmisses4289

(3,176 posts)
9. Actually, what he wanted even more than the data- all the different agencies
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:02 AM
5 hrs ago

investigating him and his companies to stop their investgations.

Ol Janx Spirit

(644 posts)
3. He doesn't even seem like a real person. Are we sure he is?
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:26 AM
6 hrs ago

Sometimes we see him glitching out on live video.

And he certainly lacks a lot of the qualities we would attribute to actual human beings.

Who is controlling that clunky POS?

edhopper

(37,041 posts)
6. I have posted this Evelyn Waugh quote about Trump
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:50 AM
6 hrs ago

but it also fits Musk.

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”

sop

(17,354 posts)
4. Elon is still taking deposits on his long-delayed Tesla sports car that he promised would be ready in 2020.
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:29 AM
6 hrs ago

Many depositors are struggling to get refunds for their substantial payments of up to $250,000.

BootinUp

(50,847 posts)
5. lol. On AGI: "We'll report back at the end of 2026 unless Musk's version of Skynet has taken over."
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:40 AM
6 hrs ago

tinrobot

(11,944 posts)
8. Musk quote: "The ability to predict the future is the best measure of intelligence."
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:56 AM
5 hrs ago

If that's the yardstick he wants us to use, then Musk is officially an idiot.

Dave Bowman

(6,573 posts)
12. He sill really wants to pretend that he's that guy who can save the world. Well, all he has ever done was
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 02:23 PM
2 hrs ago

nothing at all. He's a a damn parasite.

snot

(11,473 posts)
13. I have to admit,
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 02:26 PM
2 hrs ago

it infuriates me that DOGE quit before getting around to the Pentagon (which recently failed its EIGHTH audit! Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse!)

edhopper

(37,041 posts)
14. If they did
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 03:44 PM
1 hr ago

they would have said the Pentagon needs to spend more. Mostly with Trump and Musk companies.

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