Yeah same.
A year ago I thought he was a weird little rocket guy and kind of a jerk, but probably a decently smart guy and an OK businessman maybe?
Now… Jesus,I could not have imagined anyone acting so stupid. John McAfee on bath salts would have done less damage.
I hadn’t heard about this one before; there was once I time when I was blissfully ignorant about Elmo. Looking it up, it speaks not only to how much of an asshole and a narcissist he is, it also doesn’t speak highly of his alleged engineering genius. I’m looking at our resident not an Elon Fanboy @Sam_Stone.
Is that…possibly redundant?
Well, his conclusion is not wrong, and most of us have known that ever since Twitter came out in the first place.
But still, damnit, dude… it takes something like this?
(and yeah… “wait, he’s got a contract that says I have to pay him HOW MUCH in Fuck Off Money???”)
Remember: This guy is a “genius”. Who fired a guy not knowing the repercussions for the meme lols. He’s the richest troll in the history of trolls and he got publicly pwned in a huge way!
Musk is a horrible human and appears to be an incompetent dipshit. And he still has his fanbois, including at least one on this board (who wouldn’t excuse his one mistake with hyperloop?)
Wow – I mentioned above that CNN had picked up the Halli story and it wasn’t just some obscure argument in the Twitterverse, but it’s now the #1 most popular story on CBC News!
In lighter news, Elmo has apparently been trying to sell Twitter’s office plants to the employees.
I hereby coin “Absolutely roasting your incompetent boss in public and them having to humiliatingly give you your job back knowing they can’t ever fire you” as “The Icelandic Dream”.
Shouldn’t he be cost saving by transferring the Twitter office plants to SpaceX where they can be used to generate oxygen for the 2024 manned Starship flights to colonize Mars? You know, by putting them in that compressed Mars atmosphere in the CGI city? That way he’ll have made one small step towards providing life support to his Mars colony.
He only wants the most hardcore of office plants; the hoi polloi office plants don’t deserve to be on that rocket to Mars.
Shit like this is why smart people are deeply skeptical about the “conventional established wisdom” regarding Musk’s character:
The man has spent his entire adult life aggressively massaging his history and manipulating his image to inflate or manufacture a perception of success, and to minimize and hide failures and transgressions.
Twitter is the first time he’s on the public stage without any kind of filter, and there is confusion about how this entrepreneurial titan could have turned into this incompetent whining joke of a human seemingly overnight. Evidently, either “something” has mysteriously changed that puts a hard boundary between past genius and current fiasco … or, he’s always been an overreaching dipshit asshole, per the above childhood story, and it just wasn’t previously visible behind the veil of PR.
Occam’s Razor makes the choice clear.
Someone needs to post the Throwintowel.gif meme.
A joke I read recently; the only time anyone ever told Elon “No” was when he asked his dad “Are you proud of me?”
Lifted my spirits this morning:
Fun thought experiment to do this morning: log onto Twitter, tweet “Hey @elonmusk, I’m locked out of Twitter’s systems, could you confirm whether I’m still employed?” and see if they panic-hire you to avoid any potential unpleasantness.
Hey now, say what you want, but there’s one Musk prediction that he absolutely delivered beyond anyone’s wildest expectations yesterday:
I’m curious about a few related issues:
There’s a non-zero chance that Twitter will collapse completely in the near future, in which case Halli will get nothing (or at least, less); if I were him I’d cash in, now.
1, this is in the hands of the lawyers. At this kind of price point, everything is negotiable.
2, I have no insight into Halli’s likely course of action, but I do know what I would do. “I’m giving you a choice. One, I am fired and you owe me a shitload of money as agreed, payable immediately. Two, I return to my job, along with everybody else at my acquired company who you fired in the same wave. All of these jobs are guaranteed for 24 months. In exchange, you will post to Twitter an apology, including a detailed confession of your stupidity, which I will write for you. You don’t delete it, ever. You don’t reply further to it to amend or undercut its terms, ever. It stays up, as-is, for as long as Twitter exists, or we go back to choice one and you owe me a shitload of money. That’s it. Pick one.”