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points by israrkhan 1 day ago | 0 comments

FYI, Model S, 3, X, Y is an acronym for S E X Y.

Lol feeling so dumb rn. How have I not noticed that before and how such an unserious guy is the richest man on earth?

The only hindrance for him was that Ford still held an automotive category trademark for Model E, hence Tesla had to go with Model 3.

[–] lambda 1 day ago

He is extremely unserious. Did you miss the part where he cheated at Diablo to try to seem to be some kind of dedicated gamer? Or, y'know, the whole Cybertruck? Or the "pedo guy" comment after his harebrained submersible idea went nowhere and a regular diver saved a bunch of Thai kids?

He's always been deeply unserious.

[–] abustamam 1 day ago

And DOGE

The pedo-guy comment though I think was him being serious, unfortunately.

[–] ben_w 1 day ago

And all the 420/69 references. And doing "let that sink in" as a live-action bit.

[–] MASNeo 1 day ago

Just that Z was on the market before 3 was, right?

[–] israrkhan 14 hours ago

do you mean X?

Fun fact. Model 3, was initially planned as Model E, but ford held rights to "Model E". They were also planning to release it earlier i guess but it got delayed. Took them some time to cut the cost

[–] lopotubez 1 day ago

Oh my god...I just realized SpaceX = Space Sex?

[–] p_l 1 day ago

Nah, Elon is well reported to have been crazy about "X.com" since ~2000 and thus it makes sense it got incorporated into SpaceX name

[–] TimPC 1 day ago

The original was that’s too lame for BitchX.doc and then it got replaced by all sorts of other things. Was an IRC meme before memes were a thing.