The guy thinks that hiring a team of rocket scientists means that he is a rocket scientist himself and that it means that he already knows all there is to know about everything.
Never mind the fact that in the early days of SpaceX, there were people hired whose entire job was to distract Musk with bullshit work so everyone else that actually knew what the fuck they were doing could work around him.
I admit I don’t have a direct source for this one. You spend a lot of time reading things and learning things, it’s not really practical to bookmark every last thing you read or hear.
Here’s a little more context. Elon doubling down and linking Uncylcopedia, a crowd-edited satirical website, to support his stupid stance.
“Nano applies to everything and therefore means nothing. Definitely indicates bs.”
What? When will your companies switch from those bs nanometer scale transistors in their CPUs and use down to earth millimeter etching? Make it even more awesome! Centimeter wavelength!
Real men make their electronic components in scales that third world children don’t need microscopy to manufacture.
I’m starting to think this Elon guy might not be as smart as we all think he is
And here’s someone much cleverer than me explaining just a few of the uses of nanotechnology and why it’s not BS.
While I appreciate the effort (and the info!) I don’t think anyone in good faith actually needs to be told that nanotechnology is real and potentially very useful.
The first reply to this post was asking what nano was so I thought I’d add an explanation with added Musk nonsense. Yesterday I posted in !confidently_incorrect and found that some people didn’t know what “soup du jour” meant in English so I’m erring on the side of caution today!
How could anyone use uncyclopedia as a source for anything other than laughs? That’s ridiculous. Here’s their article on redundancy, as a reference to anyone that doesn’t know how intentionally and obviously non-serious the site is.
https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Some_Hippie
The “natural habitats” are those of me and my college roommate.
How is this man the guy who owns the most important, bleeding edge technology company in the world.
We need SpaceX to succeed but do we really want to give this dumbass that amount of power? Oof
Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I’d rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.
To be honest I love the idea of the government handling space exploration but (saying this as someone who works directly for a government body) the government is just too slow and ineffective to get space exploration online in the timeframe needed for it to generate new technologies that would help the climate crisis.
It’s mostly because of funding and ineffective bureaucracy not lack of talent or capable workers, but it’s a problem nonetheless.
In a better world…
I love it when “with all due respect” translates to “with absolutely no respect” 😂
The only circumstance it gets used, seems like.
I’ve never heard it followed by something that actually was respect.
Because you don’t need to clarify that you are provide all due respect otherwise.
“With all due respect, those are nice shoes.”
“With all due respect, I’ll have the waffles.”
“With all due respect, I think there are a few more jellybeans in there.”
It just isn’t necessary in these and other common situations.
It’s “proper” usage is preface for a statement whose interpretation is ambiguous or easily misunderstood as disrespect, not as a “you’re not allowed to be offended” preface for statements intended to be disrespectful.
What I was saying is that the latter use case is overwhelmingly the more common one.
Well, its ACTUAL intended use (and the most common one) is to say basically “I’m going to criticise you, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t respect you as much as you deserve”.
In some cases, including Musk, the amount of respect deserved is none and as such you can use the term correctly without respecting the person you’re addressing at all.
What it “ACTUAL” says is “no disrespect” not “no unintended disrespect beyond the disrespect you deserve” - the intended use case is clarifying statements that are ambiguous or could read as disrespect, but are intended respectfully.
I do not agree that it’s “intended” as a window-dressing disclaimer for open disrespect. Even if you personally feel that the target deserves no respect - just have the balls to disrespect them openly and without dancing about the matter.
Do you mean to tell me Elon Musk said something unbelievably stupid and arrogant?!
At this point its a surprise when the man says something that’s actually intelligent.
Elon is a Vim fan I guess.
