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I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.
Surrogate father for 20yo hustle bros.
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Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…
I suspect this too, Haraldur seems like a smart dude who's been stewing about Elon's mismanagement and assholerly for a while
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Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…
Watching Elon makes me think about the things for which a large portion of the public made fun of Jack Dorsey. Regular meditation, month-long meditation retreats and emphasis on regular exercise or alternative measures are probably needed to keep operating at that level. I know I get in a much worse mental state without physical exercise and journaling or meditation.
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It doesn’t help Musk’s case that he appears unaware of typing-by-dictation software, which is efficient for prose but not necessarily for coding
Speaking of audio to text, how does one insert a full stop to separate sentences? I tried once to use Siri to voice-to-type - got stuck on this and never used it again.
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Maybe I'm just a effeminate big-city lefty liberal but it seems like the stan culture for Elon is the same as for Trump, Desantis, Joe Rogan, and all the other guys who peddle easy answers for a difficult world.
Only somewhat more seductive, because for a while there Elon was actually involved in some very cool new technology development before he totally went off the rails, so there's still some latent "hey isnt he the guy that landed a rocket" psychological/cultural energy.
Making spaceflight exciting again was huge and it must have taken an incredible engineering effort to get semi-reliable high-definition live streams from multiple angles on and around rockets.
And then Twitter brain.
To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242
To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242
That site really doesn't play well with screen readers. When I clicked the link for the first time I was severely confused. I had to come back here to read that I had to scroll, and when I did, sometimes some new text showed up, and other times it didn't. This is just an observation. I understand that some people love making lovely things, and that sometimes those things are at odds with being accessible to some peop…
There's a image of the dining area of the restaurant at the top of the page once you scroll enough. It's daylight, and it seems to be lit from the windows to the right. It's very white/beige. The room reminds me of the bridge of the Enterprise on Star Trek: TNG. There's a part in the center with pink-padded bench seats placed around an area full of plants. These tables have wooden chairs with soft-looking pink seats like the rest of the tables around the room. There's a nook thing at the back center with a shelf of pink cups against a frosted glass backing with a light behind it and a cluster of old-fashioned light bulbs with huge, bright filaments. The bulbs hang from white rods.
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Ukraine wants to use Starlink to make war, so when Elon intervenes to prevent the use of Starlink for certain applications in making war, he is making Starlink less usable for Ukraine. You're raising an argument for why it is in your view justifiable for Elon to do this, but that doesn't make the basic elements of what the commenter above said false. Nuclear weapons are far more destructive, and indiscriminately dest…
It's not "less usable for Ukraine". It's working perfectly fine for Ukraine and Elon is going through massive efforts to ensure this. It's less usable for weapons . What the parent comment said was outright misleading to the point of basically being a lie. > Ukrainians will die because of this decision And Russians would die if he made the other decision. Even if Russia is on the wrong side here, killing a bunch of 2…
No, because Ukraine needs to kill russians and destroy their war machine. Musk's actions prevents this.
>And Russians would die if he made the other decision.
Great!
The thing I don't get is "why"?
Did he really have to try and fight the guy over twitter? Why couldn't he say, "thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it", and let that be the end of it?
He was being cruel and childish so his fans would think he's funny.