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  On 10/11/2022 at 4:55 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

that Putin was “prepared to negotiate,” but only if Crimea remained Russian, if Ukraine accepted a form of permanent neutrality, and Ukraine recognised Russia’s annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

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If you wanted rock-solid confirmation that Elon Musk may be an interesting strategic thinker re technology and such, but is dumb as a box of fucking rocks when it comes to business, look no further.  He just characterized "side A gives side B literally every single thing that it has ever demanded" as a "negotiation."

Imagine someone saying "Hey, Brisket, that guy who said 'give me all your money, your house, disarm yourself, let me rape your wife and murder your kids'.....you should give him all that stuff, and maybe he'll let you live!  That's my recommendation!"....and Brisket says "cool, that sounds great, where do I sign?"  Your only question would be which one of us is more abjectly stupid.  And it would be hard to measure, because we'd just proven that the intelligence of each of us is pretty close to 0 degrees Kelvin.

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Posted
  On 10/11/2022 at 9:59 PM, Hefeweizen said:

Apparently Elon is about to lawyer up for Logan Act violations.  Shit is about to get really fucking visionary.

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How's this for a contrast.  Dennis....motherfucking....RODMAN.....managed to actually interact with a hostile foreign leader and accomplish a bit of statesmanship without running afoul of the Logan Act.

Elon Musk isn't as smart as DENNIS RODMAN.  Chew on that.

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There's pretty solid evidence he's blocking Starlink units from accessing the internet in Crimea at the behest of Putin.  Dude is swimming in water he's got no business in.  His twitter escapade will look like child's play before this one is done.

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I always guessed Elon was a busy guy, but apparently he will just reach out directly to let each user know what is expected of them. Goddamn, its gonna be funny once this choad gets ahold of twitter and realizes that there are very solid reasons for content moderation on a commercial platform that he just paid $44 bil for. 

https://qz.com/don-t-worry-elon-musk-will-talk-to-antisemites-on-twit-1849643084

 

 

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Looks as though some of Elon's backers for his Twitter bid that pledged back in the spring are now having cold feet:

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/investor-that-agreed-back-elon-musk-twitter-bid-wants-out-2022-10

 

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With Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition looking like it's barreling towards a close, he will soon have to come up with $44 billion dollars — a lot of money even for the world's richest person.

About $7 billion of that sum is expected to come from a group of VC firms, asset managers, and wealthy individuals who made equity commitments earlier this year. With the bill coming due however, at least one investor is balking at the price tag.

"We're all trying to get out of it, to be honest," said Andrea Walne, a general partner at Manhattan Venture Partners.

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Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 5:15 PM, Samson's Wig said:

This is why engineers shouldn't be allowed to run companies, or or manage anything, or even speak to the general public.  Of course an engineer will end up siding with authoritarians, it's the clean, efficient, and simplistic to the point of stupid way of running things.  Democracy is messy and unpredictable,  requires imagination, compassion, and compromise. 

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Engineers are sociopaths, it is known.

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Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 6:36 PM, SydneyCarton said:

I'm pretty sure Ditch Diggers are the modern day version of ditch diggers. Lets not get completely insane here. 

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The point was that both have very specific functions and aren't capable of contributing much else.  The difference is that ditch diggers understand this, for the most part.

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Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 5:55 PM, Pods said:

Elon is not an engineer. He's just an asshole. His undergrad degrees are in Physics and Economics. 

His "big ideas" are someone else's ideas he bought, because he was rich from South African apartheid fueled emerald mines. 

 

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Reposted for emphasis. Stop saying he’s an engineer. 

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Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 7:04 PM, Bateshorn said:

Reposted for emphasis. Stop saying he’s an engineer. 

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This.  He's a "tech bro with so little social skills and human empathy that he excuses his conduct by saying 'I'm on the spectrum,' and the key to him being a tech bro was that he started with family generational wealth."

It has nothing to do with engineering.  It has everything to do with being an entitled asshole who started out on third base.

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  On 10/13/2022 at 5:15 PM, Samson's Wig said:

This is why engineers shouldn't be allowed to run companies, or or manage anything, or even speak to the general public.  Of course an engineer will end up siding with authoritarians, it's the clean, efficient, and simplistic to the point of stupid way of running things.  Democracy is messy and unpredictable,  requires imagination, compassion, and compromise. 

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When I was working with an Analytical team looking into the background of terrorists we stumbled on something. A lot of the leaders were engineers and doctors, people who see black and white, and not color. Check out the masterminds of Al Qaeda. Most fall into these categories. Che? Doctor. etc. Sure, it is not perfect science, but what a smart dude from Oxford came up with is they can only see right and wrong, black and white, not color in between. They are inspired by poets, authors, etc for sure and form the concept of nice stuff like Jihad.

Now, they are not the ones detonating, those are the poor masses. 

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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 12:14 AM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Haven't seen this reported elsewhere, so grain of salt, yada.

 

 

 

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He's usually always under investigation for something, because like most egomaniacs/narcissists he doesn't believe rules apply to him. Laws are only for the common stiff.  But because he has so much fucking money, he's pretty much right.

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Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 11:24 PM, freyguy said:
That may be so.  But without us engineers, you stupid illiterate fucks would continue to crank out dogshit in any manufacturing line.

It’d probably be easier to work on if y’all left it alone though.
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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 3:36 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
I fucking hate the guy but don’t see why his company should be footing the bill. That said, this was about the best advertising possible for starlink.

Don’t see why he should foot the bill? I admittedly only follow his dipshittery here, but if he stated one of his companies was going to give something away for free, why the heck should someone else foot the bill?

Or are we talking about something else?
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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 3:55 AM, Jkwellborn said:


Don’t see why he should foot the bill? I admittedly only follow his dipshittery here, but if he stated one of his companies was going to give something away for free, why the heck should someone else foot the bill?

Or are we talking about something else?

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I don't think he thought it would be ongoing with no end in site. Yes the terminals were mostly donated, but the day to day services costs he's eating is getting really large. Something has to give as Starlink is far from profitable currently. (With or without Ukraine use)

Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 3:55 AM, Jkwellborn said:


Don’t see why he should foot the bill? I admittedly only follow his dipshittery here, but if he stated one of his companies was going to give something away for free, why the heck should someone else foot the bill?

Or are we talking about something else?

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Um, yeah, about that.... USAID paid for the service. You, me, even his fanboi's paid for that. So fuck him. he wants to cut off the country we are supporting? And we are paying you? We purchased your services? Cool, go sell your Teslas in Siberia. Free market and all that. 

 

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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 4:21 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

I don't think he thought it would be ongoing with no end in site. Yes the terminals were mostly donated, but the day to day services costs he's eating is getting really large. Something has to give as Starlink is far from profitable currently. (With or without Ukraine use)

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It's a fucking war that's been going on for less than a year. Wars are not events that end quickly. It seems more like Musk put his company in a position to become a critical resource knowing that he could eventually tap into taxpayer funding. The dude has been binging on government money for years, it's what he does.

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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 4:34 AM, F250 said:

It's a fucking war that's been going on for less than a year. Wars are not events that end quickly. It seems more like Musk put his company in a position to become a critical resource knowing that he could eventually tap into taxpayer funding. The dude has been binging on government money for years, it's what he does.

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It was a couple weeks after invasion when he sent the first units. I don't think most people, experts included thought it was going to last very long.

I get why Musk haters pile on him, heck prior posts take about him "taking sides" with Putin, but let's be real. If he doesn't get Starlink setup quickly for Ukraine and continue its service, Ukraine would have lost this war long ago. It's been vital for their survival.

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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 10:59 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

It was a couple weeks after invasion when he sent the first units. I don't think most people, experts included thought it was going to last very long.

I get why Musk haters pile on him, heck prior posts take about him "taking sides" with Putin, but let's be real. If he doesn't get Starlink setup quickly for Ukraine and continue its service, Ukraine would have lost this war long ago. It's been vital for their survival.

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I think everyone acknowledges Ukraine needs the service.

But he or the people who work for him knew there was a way to announce they were super great people and then hold our their hand for our money before long.  

Put him on the bus.

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Posted
  On 10/14/2022 at 11:06 AM, Bullneck said:

I think everyone acknowledges Ukraine needs the service.

But he or the people who work for him knew there was a way to announce they were super great people and then hold our their hand for our money before long.  

Put him on the bus.

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So his company should now just eat $10s of millions in service costs each month indefinitely?

Posted
  On 10/13/2022 at 11:16 PM, InkaUtexas said:
When I was working with an Analytical team looking into the background of terrorists we stumbled on something. A lot of the leaders were engineers and doctors, people who see black and white, and not color. Check out the masterminds of Al Qaeda. Most fall into these categories. Che? Doctor. etc. Sure, it is not perfect science, but what a smart dude from Oxford came up with is they can only see right and wrong, black and white, not color in between. They are inspired by poets, authors, etc for sure and form the concept of nice stuff like Jihad.
Now, they are not the ones detonating, those are the poor masses. 

Always ask an engineer to name the most famous engineer. The answer is Osama bin Laden.
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