Comment on Mmusks new ideas

• FirmRip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But what if he’s just a fucking idiot?

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's possible that Musk is good at some things and not good at others, but his success at those things he's good at have caused him to think he's good at everything.

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    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Becoming a billionaire requires winning so many dice rolls that it’s difficult (impossible?) to really understand that you can lose sometimes.

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    • instamat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s the Techius Bromus Effect. They get too much smoke blown up their asses that they eventually believe they’re capable of solving every problem.

      I made up the term but the idea is true.

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  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hanlon’s razor is reserved for people without a life long rap sheet of blatant malice.

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    • ellesper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, I think Elon is both evil and an idiot.

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      • sol@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Evil yes, so much that he’s making you believe they are just some idiot

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  • 4am@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t think it takes a fucking idiot to be forced into spending 44 billion dollars, some of it other people’s money, to purposely destroy a social media platform because you (and the people who’s money you used) were upset how critical said platform was of you?

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  • BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then it’s unintelligent design.

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  • sol@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They wouldn’t be the richest men in the world then.

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• squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ever since he bought it and started basically wrecking the place, I've suspected that his goal has been to reduce the usefulness of Twitter to non-conservatives. Obviously he has a incredibly massive stick up his ass regarding politics, and Twitter failing would mean basically nothing to him personally.

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• aruraios@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It just works.

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• curryandbeans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For what purpose?

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