Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

[BrawlMan]

Regarding Nazis, so was Arnold’s dad, and however outspoken he’s been against it will never change that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to be a good and better person. Elon Musk fucking didn't.

Point is, if we start funneling our worldview into only what fits neatly inside of a confirmation bias lens, then we’d ultimately have to give up a lot of that which and take for granted.

Not my point, and he can still fuck off. Yes, the Nazi did some useful stuff, but it was succeeded by mostly decent people or people trying to do the right thing. Musk don't give a fuck about anyone, but his fucking self. Not trying to be rude to you, but I don't hear anything else about what "good" he brought. It was either incidental or he only did it for the money/vanity. Not because it was the right thing to do.

Yes, because he's a fascist moron, it's not that big a mystery.

Arnold may have spoken out against it, but Fuckwit von Kunthead sure hasn't, he's doubled down on minimising nazi crimes.
So fuck elon musk I hope he loses everything and dies horribly.

You're telling the ultimate truth!

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to be a good and better person. Elon Musk fucking didn't.

Not my point, and he can still fuck off. Yes, the Nazi did some useful stuff, but it was succeeded by mostly decent people or people trying to do the right thing. Musk don't give a fuck about anyone, but his fucking self. Not trying to be rude to you, but I don't hear anything else about what "good" he brought. It was either incidental or he only did it for the money/vanity. Not because it was the right thing to do.

He donated 500 Starlink units for NC hurricane relief, a million dollars to schools in Flint during the water crisis, has companies heavily focused in renewable energy, rescued stranded astronauts from the ISS, etc. I’d say that counts for something.

Now, what if Musk was the nicest person on social media but chose to do none of that. What would be preferable?

But people only focus on some bs he says on social media. It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion. Although he does still show it in his own way where he thinks it matters most.

Yes, because he's a fascist moron, it's not that big a mystery.

Arnold may have spoken out against it, but Fuckwit von Kunthead sure hasn't, he's doubled down on minimising nazi crimes.
So fuck elon musk I hope he loses everything and dies horribly.

Although more recently he pointed out that while Tim Waltz was overjoyed at the sharp decline of Tesla stock, he didn’t seem to care that his state’s pension fund is also heavily invested in them, or how that affects those people, including himself until someone pointed it out.

Tim Walz does a U-Turn on his 'Tesla stock joke' after Shark Tank investor calls him to check his Portfolio and Pension Fund - The Times of India

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz apologized for his recent joke about Tesla stocks, which sparked criticism. He clarified that it was meant as a joke and continued to criticize Elon Musk for his treatment of employees and his role in the Department of Government Efficiency.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Thaluikhain]

It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion.

Oh, can we not use autism to excuse Musk being a terrible person?

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Oh, can we not use autism to excuse Musk being a terrible person?

Pointing out a reality ≠ excusing anything.

 

[BrawlMan]

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Yeah, no, the discussion is over. And let's not make autism as a fucking excuse. That is all you're doing. The man is a literal Nazi teamed up with other Nazis and the KKK his entire life. Fuck him and fuck your pathetic excuses trying to defend him.

 

[Casual Shinji]

It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion.

How about you fuck off with this shit right now immediately!

 

[Bedinsis]

It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion.

I'd like to challenge both these statements.

Pragmatism is a focus on the practicality to determine what actions to take; one behaviour of autistic individuals is repeated behaviour and associated discomfort in sudden change in plans, another is correcting people due to technically incorrect word usage even though in the grand scheme of things that is not the most important aspect of the communication. Neither of this spells pragmatic behaviour.

Regarding lacking compassion: the problem isn't a lack of emotion for other people's emotions, it's a lack of understanding of other people's feelings. That is not a lack of compassion, that is a lack of understanding, and Mr. Musk is an adult man with an entire entourage that could help him if he has any struggles.

 

[Hades]

But people only focus on some bs he says on social media. It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion. Although he does still show it in his own way where he thinks it matters most.

I think people mostly focus on Elon maliciously helping the far right to power and abusing the power he gained by this to fire thousands of people who did nothing to deserve it, all the while weakening the state while doing so. His social media presence is cringe but the least of everyone's problem.

I always hated how people used Musk's autism or asperger to shield him from criticism. As if anyone with autism or asperger is just one powertrip removed from doing a Hitler salute and trying to overthrow democracy in favor of a far right oligarchy. Socially challenged they may be, but those people are not inherently malicious like Musk is. The idea that Musk's vile actions stem from him being autistic reeks of a world build solely for extrovert and where anything that deviates from that norm is cast under suspicion.

The reason for Musk being a piece of vermin likely stem far more from his upbringing as a rich kid from an apartheid regime, and how extreme wealth breeds delusions of grandeur.

The idea that Elon is a ''pragmatic thinker'' is particularly inaccurate. If he was a pragmatic thinker he'd never have ended up with Trump to begin with. You know, that trainwreck of a president that barely surpasses the likes of Buchanan. Nothing about what Elon is doing is remotely pragmatic unless it is only about his private power rather than the country he pretends to be doing it far.

 

[Silvanus]

He donated 500 Starlink units for NC hurricane relief [...]

The very first line on Starlink's own article about hurricane relief;

"As a reminder, hurricane relief service plans are scheduled to automatically transition to a paid plan at the beginning of January 2025."

Ah, so not entirely selfless: the ol' "free trial until automatic renewal with payment" approach.

a million dollars to schools in Flint during the water crisis [...]

Hmmm... yes, after he promised to fix the water for any house affected by the lead, and then reneged on that promise.

(Also it was 480k, not 1m)

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Yeah, no, the discussion is over. And let's not make autism as a fucking excuse. That is all you're doing. The man is a literal Nazi teamed up with other Nazis and the KKK his entire life. Fuck him and fuck your pathetic excuses trying to defend him.

You don't understand what a discussion actually is.

 

[BrawlMan]

You don't understand what a discussion actually is.

You don't know shit in general and like to please your racists an sexists masters so much. I know what it is. All you do is fucking goal post and make excuses for assholes in power like the coward you are.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[Trunkage]

He donated 500 Starlink units for NC hurricane relief, a million dollars to schools in Flint during the water crisis, has companies heavily focused in renewable energy, rescued stranded astronauts from the ISS, etc. I’d say that counts for something.

Now, what if Musk was the nicest person on social media but chose to do none of that. What would be preferable?

But people only focus on some bs he says on social media. It’s pretty typical for people with Asperger’s to be pragmatic thinkers and lack compassion. Although he does still show it in his own way where he thinks it matters most.

Wait.... you think people are complaining about Musk due to his social media posts?

Could you stop making strawmen?

 

[Phoenixmgs]

You don't know shit in general and like to please your racists an sexists masters so much. I know what it is. All you do is fucking goal post and make excuses for assholes in power like the coward you are.

I don't block people or refuse to talk about things.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Wait.... you think people are complaining about Musk due to his social media posts?

Some of his social media posts are in of themselves pretty bad. Saying that their trans kid was murdered by wokeness, for example.

 

[Kwak]

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning

The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

www.planetearthandbeyond.co

Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man. Indeed, Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions. But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief (including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable), as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit, many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine and its “iterative design process.”.

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But how did SpaceX get here? Why have they spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money on a concept that has such a fundamental problem?

Simple. Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design, and now SpaceX and NASA are facing a sunk cost fallacy.

You never achieve iterative design with a full-scale prototype. It is incredibly wasteful and can lead you down several problematic and dead-end solutions. I used to engineer high-speed boats — another weight- and safety-sensitive engineering field. We would always conduct scale model tests of every aspect of design, iteratively changing it as we went so that when we did build the full-scale version, we were solving the problems of scale, not design and scale simultaneously.

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If you have even a passing knowledge of engineering, you know this is what iterative design looks like. So, why hasn’t Musk done this?