Twitter to X - the (interesting) Musk backstory...

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Buffoon

Reinvents payments. Reinvents Cars. Reinvents rockets.

He can be as buffoon as he likes and he has still got enough brownie points left to make us all look like a bunch of Oxygen thieves 😗

Dont worry, im wearing my protection

 
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I’ve not met the bloke so I can’t say for certain……but I suspect he’s a bit of a knob!… a clever knob, but a knob nonetheless!
 
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Reinvents payments. Reinvents Cars. Reinvents rockets.

He can be as buffoon as he likes and he has still got enough brownie points left to make us all look like a bunch of Oxygen thieves 😗

Dont worry, im wearing my protection

I guess if that is your only criteria...
 
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Reinvents payments. Bought a company that Reinvents Cars almost drives it into the ground with unneeded engineering changes . Purchases company in the process of Reinventing rockets and used other peoples money to keep it afloat till it succeeds.

He can be as buffoon as he likes and he has still got enough brownie points left to make us all look like a bunch of Oxygen thieves 😗

Dont worry, im wearing my protection


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I blocked him on Twitter.

Perhaps I am too stupid to understand his subtle jokes or not up to speed enough socially to get what it is he actually alluding to in his posts.

I use Twitter for crypto and watch porn only and spend my day blocking out the idiots and noise that fills that space.
 
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You missed the fact that this isn’t his first attempt at x.com, he tried to make it happen back in the day when his technically incompetent dump of a company merged with Confinity, then Elon drove it into the ground before Peter Thiel replaced him as CEO, canned the x.com garbage and renamed it PayPal.

Had Thiel not kicked that idiot out PayPal would never have existed.

This is the reason he still has the x.com domain, he’s owned it since he was fired as Ceo and had his ideas thrown away in the early 2000s.
 
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Bought a company that Reinvents Cars almost drives it into the ground with unneeded engineering changes . Purchases company in the process of Reinventing rockets and used other peoples money to keep it afloat till it succeeds.

Whilst I am no fan of Elon Musk, I am not a Twitter user (nor an X user), I respect results.

And these results, which have profoundly changed the way of our world/future, have not been achievable (or even believed possible) by States/Countries/Other-Agencies, with all their wealth, simply laugh in the face of whatever anyone has to say against them.



And I heartily agree, he is a buffoon, one that will be well respected into posterity.

But like I said, I am wearing my tinfoil hat 😀
 
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Whilst I am no fan of Elon Musk, I am not a Twitter user (nor an X user), I respect results.

And these results, which have profoundly changed the way of our world/future, have not been achievable (or even believed possible) by States/Countries/Other-Agencies, with all their wealth, simply laugh in the face of whatever anyone has to say against them.



And I heartily agree, he is a buffoon, one that will be well respected into posterity.

But like I said, I am wearing my tinfoil hat 😀
Is he involved with the guys building the "New" ISS ? they are called Axiom Space and highlight the letter X a lot.
 
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Literally LOL'd at this...

"He's doing the tech equivalent of drunk-DMing his highschool girlfriend to tell her she's still hot."
 
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Whilst I am no fan of Elon Musk, I am not a Twitter user (nor an X user), I respect results.

And these results, which have profoundly changed the way of our world/future, have not been achievable (or even believed possible) by States/Countries/Other-Agencies, with all their wealth, simply laugh in the face of whatever anyone has to say against them.



And I heartily agree, he is a buffoon, one that will be well respected into posterity.

But like I said, I am wearing my tinfoil hat 😀

I think my point is these companies succeeded despite him.

The Tesla is far from a miracle… at some point they will need to pay the piper on the fact self driving is never going to happen based on them choosing cameras and not LiDAR. Build quality on Tesla has never been great and appears to be going down hill. We also just found out they have been lying about ranges forever and that is a class action waiting to happen not to mention FTC fines.

and again as for Space Ex Elon has had zero input on the engineering he just brought in other people money.
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...for Space Ex Elon has had zero input on the engineering he just brought in other people money.

Part of me believes this, but part of me....

These two videos demonstrate a more than superficial understanding of what's going on at SpaceX. He also claims to be in the room making engineering decisions, but this is not really possible to verify.



I am not trained in this or any engineering field, but he is unquestionably more than just a figure-airhead. If nothing else, he has an intimate understanding of the project, as well as an understanding of propulsion, engine design, rocket science, etc. And he can talk about this stuff at ease, on demand. Is the stuff he's saying the videos rubbish? Intuitively, I'd say no. But maybe others can chime in.
 
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I met him (or at least was in the same room with him.) years ago before anyone had heard of him. The guy who helped start paypal. Hard to believe the Silicon Valley rocket club I was once president of, and on the Board of directors has been around 30 years. We were the first group to fly a re-usable liquid fuel rocket with less than 24 hour turn around. Had things been a bit different our group could have been more successful, Or John Carmac's. These things are never really done in a vacuum.

Some of the other members have had more direct contact with Elon. The brits have a word for people like that 'Git.'

The Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein sort of predicted someone like Musk in the short story "The Man who sold the moon.' It really does take someone like that.

I have been to the Factory in Hawthorn. Quite impressive. They had the original Iron Man Suit on display. Elon does think he is a Super Hero/Villain like Tony Stark.

Personally I think he and the rest of the crypto speculators should stick to the tech stuff like Tesla and SpaceX. The financial/political stuff really is a waste of time. Just ask Alexander Hamilton and Arron Burr. (Oh wait, they are dead.) Still Musk thinks he can use Twitter X like an 18th century printing press.

Well it worked for Benjamin Franklin. (who liked to take off all his clothes and sit looking out the window of his London town home.) Franklin was also involved with anatomist and resurrection men. Franklin may even have been the inspiration for Mary Shelly's Victor Frankenstein. Ironically almost every thing in that book came true. Musk wants to put electrodes into brains. (and is quite far along in that research.)

Such people are best admired with a few centuries

I prefer my frankens to be watches.
 
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I think my point is these companies succeeded despite him.

And that point is merely speculation/hearsay - the fact of the matter is : he is the guy heading these companies. They have not gotten to where they are without him at the wheel. We unfortunately don't hold a portal-viewer to see into another universe in the multiverse where your point is an actual fact.

Another honorable mention : despite the light pollution for astronomers which is rather sad, Starlink is also quite a revolutionary success compared to the high-latency low bandwidth super expensive sattelite based internet systems that came before it. Another fact : also headed by Mr Buffoon...

These two videos demonstrate a more than superficial understanding of what's going on at SpaceX.

Heartily agreed.

PS: Steve Jobs was also quite special. He turned the world into a bunch of mobile-phone zombies (I too am guilty!)
 
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I think Musk is best summed up by his "involvement" in the rescue of the boys football team from a cave in Thailand. Thinks he's an expert in everything, won't listen to actual experts and then turns nasty and abusive when shown up to not be an expert by an actual expert.

I have no time for him. He may be an expert in raising money and convincing others to invest their money. The rest of his expertise I find questionable.
 
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I suppose If you have enough money you are bound to get somethings right.
 
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There are different types of people in this world, many different types and no one person can be them all yet to achieve new and or great things you need all aspects in play hence the evolvement of corporate or other shared endeavours.
All this hinges on one thing and that is vision, if you don't have vision all the rest is for nought.
Elon, love him or hate him has vision.
He needs to stick to what he is good at and go build tunnels on Mars ( or the moon for that matter) for all the rest there are Government departments, Quangos and the like.
 
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There are different types of people in this world, many different types and no one person can be them all yet to achieve new and or great things you need all aspects in play hence the evolvement of corporate or other shared endeavours.
All this hinges on one thing and that is vision, if you don't have vision all the rest is for nought.
Elon, love him or hate him has vision.
He needs to stick to what he is good at and go build tunnels on Mars ( or the moon for that matter) for all the rest there are Government departments, Quangos and the like.
The Boring Project is a joke and is doomed to failure.

To small, no safety exits, or ventilation, slower then existing public transit.... I am not sure he is good at building tunnels either...