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Holy f*ck. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/news@hexbear.net
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I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.

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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (24 children)

He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.

What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    bUT hE a gEniUs

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  • [+] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    The most obnoxious Tesla stan I've seen in the federated space so far has also gone full bootlicker in the thread about Youtube taking aggressive measures against adblockers. Paypiggies gonna be paypigs; they're empty inside and the consumer identity markers are all they got.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they're technically a private company. Which is as it should be.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    But then why involve SpaceX in the first place? Unless the point is to just funnel public money into a private corporation?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    As crazy as it sounds, SpaceX is the best option out of a bad bunch.

    Something that a lot of people might not know is that NASA, except for prototyping, does not and never has built rockets, or crew or cargo vehicles. They build the payloads (like space probes) or supply the astronauts that go into or onto those rockets and crew vehicles. The alternative to the fixed-price contracts that SpaceX now gets are the massive-cost-overrun cost-plus contracts that have historically gone to defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, Northrop Grumman, etc.

    NASA has historically provided the designs that those defense contractors have built, and sometimes owns the end products (like the space shuttles). This US government aerospace contracting arrangement goes all the way back to the post-WW2 days when the US Army paid Chrysler (yes, the car company) to reverse-engineer captured V2 rockets.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    IIRC that was the direct result of Elon demanding that they ignore certain safety procedures or something. Can't remember the details though but I read it somewhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    They wanted to see if they needed an active water-deluge system for fire/debris control when a Starship booster launches. Turns out they did. They installed one as part of the repairs to their Starship test pad, so that the next prototype Starship launch has a better chance.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Remember when users on this site were theorising his purchase was a conspiracy spurred on by Peter Thiel in order to deliberately destroy twitter because leftists used the site to organize? I think there is an impulse to want our oppressors to be smart, so when they do dumb shit, it can't actually be dumb

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don't listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago*

    This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.

    And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y'know,

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