• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      At least Howard Hughes at the decency to lose his fucking mind in isolation. That and also contribute actual advancements to cinema and aerospace.

      It’s tragic though that likely Musk will ensure his name is plastered on a thousand different agencies, institutions, foundations, statues and bidets all over the world and people growing up in several generations from now will largely assume he was some great inventor or hero along the lines of great pioneers of the past.

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        do you think Hughes Aircraft people ever referred to jorkin’ it as “sprucing the goose?”