Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?
He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.
I think that not being able to be funny is one of the eternal thorns in musk’s side that his billions of blood money can never buy him. His stupid twitter quips, dumb sight gags like walking into the office holding a sink… he knows he’ll never be able to become funny and it eats at him.
Also since he can’t keep his giant dumb yap shut people who had a good image of him 10 years ago as a guy trying to help the earth now know that he’s a huge piece of garbage. Money can’t buy his legacy, no matter how many fanboys impotently scream on forums.
He is a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine. Can you tell if the following quote is by him or I made it up?
“I’ll give them a million dollars if they change their name to ‘Dickipedia’.”
So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]
He’ll just be screeching “Dr Fauci” in a bird voice next. I hear that’s what passes for comedy on the right.
It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.
This is the same guy who didn’t understand why you couldn’t just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you’re moving into a college dorm.
I just don’t understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?
Here’s the de-ampified version of that link:
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
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He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.
He’s the richest man on Earth, for a con man that qualifies as decent at least.
It’s no feat for a rich guy to make money, cons or not. At a certain level of wealth society is designed so you essentially can’t lose money (unless you directly transfer all of your assets to a Bernie Madoff type or something similar).
A real con man has to have some level of skill, but Elon never had to learn to do anything competently in his entire existence.
So, how long before the “Readers added additonal context” feature mysteriously vanishes?
Kinda surprised it’s still there, honestly.
I could’ve sworn it had already been disappeared. I guess I’m misremembering.
Can he fuck off and stop mentioning Wikipedia
I’m guessing he tried to edit his own wiki entry and it got reverted immediately.
For someone claiming how much value each minute of his work has, it’s funny how much time and effort he spends on bullshit.
Maybe his minutes of work are valuable because they’re rare.
He sounds like some upper level management I’ve known. “Why does this cost so much, you’re just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?”
He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.
Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!
He is literally that guy
You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.
Sadly, management cluetards “think” otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.
I don’t think you necessarily need to know about the IT aspect if you have enough knowledge in some of the other aspects of running the business. However, if you don’t know the IT aspects, you should absolutely have a right hand person who is very familiar with the IT aspects and manages that and updates you on that side of things.
Musk has fired enough people who voiced criticism that I think he is only left with yes-men, not experts who can freely offer meaningful guidance and be taken seriously.
A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.
“Make it look like google.”
Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.
Don’t forget to mention said resource was unable to get hired at a job that paid better than your company… (which, no offense, isn’t likely to be very good if you’re having this kind of conversation)
We tended to have very expensive engineers and very cheap designers. That was emblematic of where customers placed their value and, thus, where management placed their priority in hiring.
That said, of the four designers… one went to NASA, one went to Amazon, one went to McDonald’s (leading global service design research) and then to Lyft.
They were very talented folks
The UI design of Google isn’t very hard to emulate, even by a junior frontend developer. It’s the backend that’s the really compel stuff.
I think you’re vastly underestimating the amount of research and work that goes into making Google products so easy to use.
UI isn’t just a front end development mashing their keyboard with HTML, CSS and JS. It’s hours and hours of observation, research, prototyping, pattern identification, prioritization of information, experimentation and then you create a simple white screen with one input box that does a million things.
The insane thing to me is that even if MediaWiki shut down completely with no warning, I bet we wouldn’t lose anything. We got people backing it up instantly
But you would need a new foundation, or those copies will stop being collaboratively updated. In addition, it would be difficult for people to access the information again, without a new website.
As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn’t he at least be aware of the operating expenses?
Technically his website doesn’t make any money
Technically his website makes money but loses more money
He really is exactly as stupid as he looks.
Come on, he can’t be that ignorant about how websites work, if he would Twitter would… okay, NVM.
It’s crazy how a few years ago Zuck seemed like the worst tech billionaire CEO ridiculed by his users, but Musk truly managed to take this title and surpass him to become the most hated man on the internet. He needs help
There was this brief, beautiful moment when Musk seemed respectable. He was into renewables, and electrification, and investing in space. It sounded great. And then he opened his fucking mouth and just hasn’t shut it since. Once he started talking, everyone else started noticing and publishing all the terrible shit that was there all along but no one either knew or cared about until then.
Twitter killed (the image of) Elon, and now Elon is dragging Twitter to the grave with him.
Zuck is evil, but he doesn’t seem to be stupid.
Elon on the other hand…
Exactly. Zuckerberg is just an immoral fuckface. Musk is malicious and incompetent.
He wrote the first iteration of Facebook in PHP. The Musk of programming languages.
Why do people have beef with PHP? It’s just a programming language for crying out loud
Yeah PHP’s parents never owned an emerald mine.
At least i can respect Zuck. Hes the evil guy and hes good at it. Musk is just an idiot.
Have we already forgotten the whole Metaverse initiative? That was plenty stupid.
True but maybe he wanted an evil empire. Idk what these guys do in their free time.
Hated mostly by the left. Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
Like the totally normal shooter whose Twitter account views were more than half dedicated to musk… Along with literally every right wing extremist for the other half. Also America has no left.
Have no idea what you mean, please cite reliable sources
Yeah, right. As if you respect reliable sources. Prove it by giving sources for “normal people respect” him.
The recent mass shooter in Maine liked and shared posts by Elon Musk. https://crimedoor.com/articles/robert-cards-twitter-feed-under-scrutiny-for-clues/
I don’t care to put in that much effort for a guy that can’t understand why his kids hate him or the shooter that worshipped him. You can probably find it by searching for: Elon scrubbed shooter Twitter/x account, but I honestly doubt you care beyond finding some way to continue to simp or white knight for ya Xdaddy.
From where you’re standing, everyone is left.
How so
Today people that praise Elon Musk are often far-right reactionaries, or at the least very much not of the ‘left’ on the political spectrum.
Hated mostly by people who actually think for themselves, and don’t mindlessly worship the rich.
Prove me wrong.
Hated mostly by the left.
Yes.
Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
Well, eh, not really.
Normal people lmao
If you still respect Elon Musk after every obvious display of stupidity and incompetence he’s shown, I think that says a lot about how willing people are to kiss the ass of billionaires on the right, and that’s just sad. Musk doesn’t give a fuck about you.
Please give specific examples, cite sources
Username doesn’t quite check out
Edit: Want an example? Just scroll to the top of this thread and you’ll find one. Need something bigger and more concrete? Try justifying the whole blue checkmark ordeal.
Check out his profile. He’s a walking MAGA meme.
Oh dear… and his instance just allows that?
Is there a problem with that?
Yeah, your supporting a traitor that should be behind bars for life not running for president of the US
Who is a specific normal person that has written anything praising Elon Musk? He is respected by some but I am concerned by what you would define as a normal person.
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It’s really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the “Readers added context” feature. Yet.
It’s been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I’m sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.
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An annoying thing about authoritarians and right-wingers is that the context doesn’t matter. People trying to have a rational discussion care, but reactionaries trolling on twitter are trying to inflict damage.
Ah, thanks for reminding me to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.
thats a dog whistle.
Well the Wikimedia foundation does indeed not need this amount of money for wikipedia.org alone, they have copious amounts of money and their “asking for donations” is in some countries straight up “Wikipedia will shut down if you don’t pay” and seeing that as questionable behavior is absolutely ok.
However… WE WITNESSED A MURDER.
I endorse this post.
Wikipedia is great, and they do have real operating costs, but hosting all the data is about 2% of their budget. All the admins and editors and contributors are volunteers. Most of the money is spent on projects not related to the encyclopedia and donations to miscellaneous social groups.
Their accounting is public: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
