Elon Musk

teslas biggest problem doesnt really have anything to do with musk its other car companies releasing electric cars, theyve basically had the segment to themselves to do whatever dumb weird things they wanted

he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing

YES, this sums up whats been bugging me about all this. If he's decided to pivot to this crowd, what the hell for? They wont give a shit about either Tesla OR spaceX.

elon doesn't give a shit about crypto but he knows his audience

I don't think it's a shrewd or calculated move to pivot to the right wing/crypto crowd it's more a matter of him desperately wanting to be liked by someone and it's pretty easy to be popular among those people if you just whine about the right things

theres that but he is also actually a shithead its not a random choice of people to cater to

I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about such a deep boredom with being alive that they've opted to plunge headlong into chaos in an effort to feel something about literally anything. What does the richest man on earth have left but to burn the entire earth.

The ratchet effect seems to be real with the Rogan/Musk/Taibbis - they only get positive praise for something from the right and being dumb guys who desperately want to be seen as geniuses lean into it.

I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about...

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 4:04 PM (six minutes ago)

???

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

lmao i guess i'm not getting the $2k of 2022 401k match they owe me then.

lot of choice tidbits in that article

He’s not the richest anymore fwiw

lol @ telling everyone they have to come in and then not paying rent

nothing in that article seems too good jeez

the posts are obviously embarassing on their own but seeing them all together like this is really just astounding pic.twitter.com/EBylL5kjS1

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 13, 2022

wonder how long til they miss payroll

it is very odd that theyre doing things like selling the kitchen equipment

Probably wants to move to Texas

what a wanker

One message focused on first principles thinking, a worldview based on the teachings of Aristotle to reduce assumptions to basic axioms, which Mr. Musk credited with helping him make difficult decisions.

must have skipped that step when he offered to buy twitter for three times what its worth

Thought I heard that all the top Tech Bros, toxic and otherwise, were into Stoicism and such.

that would make sense

It’s like What’s Your Sign for them.

Stoicism is the new Mindfulness

Reminds me of when the Top Mathematician would poke fun at his nemesis R. L. Moore, who had his charges in his fiefdom at UT Austin apply the Socratic Method to Point Set Topology, “which produced brilliant but quite ignorant students.” Replace “brilliant but” with whatever you want.

tl;dr but maybe something interesting here: https://medium.com/@markdery/how-stoicism-became-broicism-123f3aae6aba

Repeating “woke mind virus” to myself in a South African accent.

why has no one trained an AI with Leo's Blood Diamonds accent

stoicism is good not bad. these bros will fade as others have faded before them

stoicism is when you grow the philosophers beard

broicism is pretty clever

C/D: Bands performing albums in their entirety

When confronted with a band playing an album in its entirety, stoicism helps, yes.

Counterpoint: Mission of Burma playing Vs.

Longtermism is the driver behind all of this. Stoicism is just a side-effect.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23298870/effective-altruism-longtermism-will-macaskill-future

Worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy. https://t.co/cWEM6QBobY

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 2, 2022

such a dipshit.

I don't want to edit everything into 280 char chunks, so here's the rest: https://t.co/eWVwDFxq7e

— jack (@jack) December 13, 2022

He (Jack) claims he volunteered at Gilman Street but nobody remembers him

lol that's so bad xp but of course

So this longtermism is an offshoot of so-called effective altruism, but instead of assisting people in the present it promotes the idea that "the best way to help the most people was to focus on humanity’s long-term future — the well-being of the many billions who have yet to be born."

So, you get to think you're a philanthropist while throwing masses of money at things that you believe will be good for humanity sometime in an imaginary future. How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?

a went to neighboring nerds imag tea party but she didnt pay actual cash screw that

How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

Has the imprimatur of academic philosophy’s best-compensated utilitarians

My imaginary friends' tea party doesn't tell me that my greed is good because eventually one day when I'm bored of cocaine and hookers I can donate my wealth to a family foundation to combat... stuff.

"How dare these workers unionize, can't they see that I'm trying to save civilization?!" plays well to Musk's (or other social darwinists like him) own messiah complex.

Feel free to substitute in "how dare Ukraine fight back, don't they know that a European war is bad for civilization?!"

...what the fuck is he talking about people using bitcoin in Africa to fight censorship??!?

It's a weird inverse mirror of the strain of dominionist and dispensationalist theology that is argues that if god didn't want us to burn up all the natural resources then why did he put all that oil in the ground. Besides, jesus is coming to take us all home so fuck climate change.

Why conservative Christians don’t believe in climate change
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340215599789

Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/scott-pruitt-has-laid-bare-the-growing-environmental-schism-within-christianity/

Often wished I could be playing Elden Ring as I'm driving to work

You can play Cyberpunk, Elden Ring and 1000s of other games in your *car* with an epic sound system!! https://t.co/F25Qu6HJ63

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022

epic

He's definitely not a crypto true-believer - the only relatable thing he did this year was refuse to turn up to a half hour meeting with SBF to secure $15b funding for Twitter in case he'd have to hear about blockchain.

pic.twitter.com/iwMNvoStrf

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 14, 2022

he may not be the richest man anymore but he's still the most cringe

Oh man that would be an epic troll!!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022

So epic.