Elon Musk

Jobs was just making phones and computers though, not things that explode or crash

The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad.

He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly.

It's his fault.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023

why is he so brainless

feel like the business guy who dares to demand more has to go back before steve job, and tbf it kind of works but its a dangerous game, has prob killed more businesses than its made but you dont hear about them

elizabeth holmes vibes

the thing about steve jobs is he actually was a great product guy, and obvs a great salesman too, which are real skills, a little different than some over confident dumbass just being all you have half the time to do twice the work

like musk does the same shit but has no feel for product and hes also unserious about doing quality work

exactly - that's what they're all aiming for and no one else can really do it

good time to mention I was actually in a Tesla last week and while the car was impressive in terms of pure horsepower (it was so fast it made me want to throw up, actually) it also had some remarkably stupid design "features" like putting the gear shifter and wiper blade controls on the touchscreen and the turn signals on the steering wheel. the guy who bought it said even after a year he still isn't used to how counterintuitive that is. Steve Jobs I think at least understood the psychology of things that work like you expect them to

most companies that make great products arent lead by charismatic visionaries theyre just good companies but thats not as interesting to weird wannabe business guys

i think what i'm trying to say is that musk (and holmes and a bunch of others) learned the wrong lesson from jobs which is that you just have to be INTUITIVE and INNOVATIVE and DEMAND NOTHING LESS THAN PERFECTION and that you don't really have to know anything technical or practical or listen to anyone with actual technical/practical knowledge

the whole thing with electric cars being extremely fast and heavy is not great its unsafe

free speech

Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.

I didn't.

Most likely Elon.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 26, 2023

Good morning, Elon Musk has been ordered to give a deposition in a trial because Tesla has been claiming that his (many) public statements about Autopilot's capabilities might have been deepfaked.

Seriously.https://t.co/iVmwaj5HFa pic.twitter.com/r1sTqBqZ1L

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 27, 2023

You don't have to be a sociopath to be a billionaire, but it helps.

lmao I had a feeling he would be the first to try to use that defense

lol thats such weak shit they could have been deepfakes well were they

tbf r kelly did it first i mean it was before deepfakes but same diff and it worked despite be preposterous

I could tell you, but how would you know "my" telling you wasn't also a deepfake?

what's even more despairing is the typical Elon nerds jumping into threads about this with constant tweets saying, "what? are you alleging that it is impossible for Elon to be deepfaked?"

Elon Musk is more of a shallowfake, amirite?

a snowfake

You don't have to be a sociopath to be a billionaire, but it helps.

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019

idk if you have to be a sociopath but you prob have to be a least a lil socipathish

I do think you have to have at least some level of disregard for most other people on the planet.

I do think you have to have at least some level of disregard for most other people on the planet.

Sorry for the double post

the money/success/power tends to amplify those tendencies too, which is why billionaires shouldnt exist, for the good of their mental health

unfortunately money starts to pump up sociopath tendencies at like a vacation home level of wealth lol

Do we want to wager if/how much he’ll lie on the witness stand or in desposition?

There are something like 450 billionaires in America alone. The ones we can name I assume are among the worst, but I really have no idea how many I could name. Some of them are sociopaths like Musk, some of them are, like, Springsteen or something.

ok

Springsteen is definitely a sociopath

It was the title of his second album

The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Sociopath.

he stopped eating dinner to delay his aging

he wears bolo ties

almost a Musk

cannot believe i had to FP you all for the Springsteen-Musk comparison

they're the same guy

the e in e street band stands for elon

It's OK I checked and Bruce's net worth is variously estimated at $650-$700 million. He doesn't even have ONE billion, much less multiple billions. Still just a blue-collar guy.

Basically he is exponentially closer to all of us in net worth than he is to Musk.

i mean ive got like $400m but with inflation whats that even worth these days

Not what it used to be I tell you what

Springsteen stopped doing an equal split of concert revenue, now he really is The Boss

Hey little dolly with the blue check on

What a desperate dipshit:

Elon Musk sent an email earlier tonight to Twitter employees encouraging them to subscribe to creators on the platform and then expense those costs back to the company.

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) April 29, 2023

Apparently he was also on Bill Maher's show last night talking about "the woke mind virus".

i'm starting to think the woke mind is a virus. the word woke used to mean something positive and now it gradually evolved into something representing ignorant reactionary fear that is working its way through the minds of millions of people who never would have touched the word in its form from just a few years ago

Lol seems like a ponzi scheme