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Musk's new idea (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BlackRose@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
 
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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

on purpose. by design. with intent.

[–] FirmRip@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But what if he’s just a fucking idiot?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 20 points 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.

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 12 points 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.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ellesper@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sol@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 5 points 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?

[–] BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Then it's unintelligent design.

[–] sol@thelemmy.club -4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

Some people would call that a conspiracy theory or cite maxims such as 'never attribute to malice what could be attributed to incompetence" but I could find some counter-maxims I bet.

[–] aruraios@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

It just works.

[–] conductor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No way he lost all that money on purpose. He’s just arrogant and makes stupid decisions.

[–] curryandbeans@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For what purpose?