Lol, I’m confused. Tesla is Musk in these analogies, right? A guy with a lot of fanboys who overstate the man’s (limited) accomplishments?
I think so.
Except Tesla was actually personally brilliant.
But, and this may be the relevant part, was also a terrible businessman and at times a crackpot. And, yes, lots of fanboys who overstate his (still impressive) accomplishments.
I see what you did there.
Just checked, and I’m still getting no Muskity tweets in either feed, just my usual follows, thank goodness.
ETA: This is on a laptop; maybe it’s different on a smartphone or tablet.
I don’t use Twitter much, but I keep getting a floating blue notification at the bottom that a user I’ve never heard of has been muted. There’s a button on the notification that I can click on to ‘undo.’ This button doesn’t change anything…
I’m definitely getting a “Bananas” vibe from Elmo
How am I just hearing about the Dunning-Kruger times now?
I only heard about them while fact-checking the (unattributed, of course) story which popped up in my Facebook feed today.
Well, in my analogy, Edison is a bastard that steals other’s ideas and tells everyone they are his own, and tries to silence anyone that says different, and inflates his own reputation.
So, both of them are Musk.
So Agile!
At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers.
“We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform,” wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging “[at]here” in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post.”
When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Biden’s.
Biden’s tweet, in which he said he would be supporting his wife in rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, generated nearly 29 million impressions. Musk, who also tweeted his support for the Eagles, generated a little more than 9.1 million impressions before deleting the tweet in apparent frustration.
See? There is absolutely no chance that creature is going to allow anyone to upstage him on his own platform.
He is the main character, and we’re all just NPCs who have to do whatever it takes to make his game work the way he wants it to.
I’ve blocked him, so I rarely see his stuff. For the first time on any message board, I’ve begun to block anyone who supports Elon or Putin or Trump. It’s just not worth the aggravation and there is no reasoning with them anyway.
nm, wrong thread
Hey, not _ , can you see me?
I’m jumping as high as I can, waving pennants (UW-Madison and UW-Seattle for that attention-getting red and purple thing) . . .
I figure if you can, it means I’m on the right side of history.
This site is more broken by the day. IDGAF about Tesla’s stock price, there’s so much capital in the world that I’m not too sure if equity valuations mean anything anymore. And while I respect SpaceX and what it does/implies, I have zero faith that it is immune to the managerial foibles which is destroying Twitter and leaving Tesla exposed to a raft of regulatory and legal issues.
When you get down to it, I have every expectation that… if it gets this far… a group of SpaceX tourists will die screaming as the oxygen escapes from the ship because of a design error which came from his chaotic management style.
I see you digs. I’ve never blocked anyone on the dope, yet!
But on twitter, the trolls are so bad that I just decided to block them. They’re really not worth it. They sing the praises of fascists in the most stupid ways and it makes my head hurt.
Agile breathing.
Same for me, on Facebook. Profile pic shows someone with MAGA gear? plonk Profile pic takes an obvious dig at Biden? plonk Muskrat praising him when he’s not the subject of a thread? plonk Etc. etc.
Oh, so you mean it was all about his ego?
It all makes sense now. He believes you can buy love, wit, sense of humor, hapiness and popularity.
I find it hilarious that nobody dares to contradict him.
