I heard the "go fuck yourself" comment in the headlines, but the context is actually fucking amazing there. Everyone on Earth will know, because we will document it. What kind of incredible swollen head do you have to think that everyone on the planet owes you (or cares if you have) a solvent company? Everyone will stop buying Apple, Disney, etc. if Twitter dies? Tech companies die sometimes. Life moves on. I know these CEOs often feel insane amounts of self-importance. But sometimes it still stuns me to hear them say it so clearly.
It really is amazing. His thought process is that if you stop advertising, X will die, it will be publicly documented, and your customers will know and will blame you for killing X, and will therefor boycott and kill your companies. It's delusional.
If you go on social media right now his cult insists that he is being blackmailed, that he is the victim, and they’re somehow going to boycott these companies. While typing these complaints from their iPhones.
I had a coworker of mine who used to say he was a "Musk fanboy." He owned a Tesla and made his wife buy a Tesla when she got a new car. He talked about how Musk was a visionary and one of the "best engineers the world had ever seen." I'd ask him what he thinks about the Twitter takeover, but he's in jail for child porn now.
That’s how he started off for everybody— an incredible inventor and engineer, but then he started opening his mouth too much. Lots of people start off strong but fade in the stretch— Like Germany in the early 1900’s. Or the reason why we met each other, Tucker Max— I doubt we’d guess he’d wind up some sort of insane weirdo trying to re-educate children with his own school or whatever the fuck he’s doing now. The people who you avoid are the ones who will always stick to somebody no matter what. That’s how the sycophancy of Trumpism came about, and it’s incredible how far they will move the goalposts to keep lying.
I haven’t seen the alleged ant-Semitic tweet he liked or whatever, so I don’t know what initial outrage was about. As for this clip, I guess I didn’t put that much thought into it. I just saw a guy with “fuck you” money doing, or in this case saying, just that publicly.
Yeah, I was a fan with his rockets and SpaceX/Starlink, and thought he was pretty smart about that stuff. Because I don't know anything about those things. Then he got into Twitter and made a bunch of public statements around software development, that I know a shit-ton about, that made it quite apparent he's a blathering idiot who has no fucking clue what he's doing... despite having a background as a programmer... but he's saying that stuff with the same conviction and confidence as he was the SpaceX/Tesla stuff. I therefor assume he knows the same level of shit for those other endeavours... which is fuck all. That being said, I'm a huge fan of SpaceX and Starlink... and do not paint those entire companies with my thoughts on him... I respect the fact that he's got smart people in those companies that are executing well, and I will continue to support them. If anything, I'm quite happy that he's consumed with this X and CyberTruck bullshit so that he can leave those other companies alone so they can just focus on doing what they do.
Final run of the training block done and dusted. Marathon day after tomorrow. biggest takeaway from 4 months of training is how your perspective on distance and effort changes. 3 miles/5k used to be my max race distance. Now it’s the “pre race warmup” distance (and what I did today). 1 mile used to be my “fun race distance;” yesterday I signed up for a half marathon in two weeks for funsies. and yes, I still have the dad bod
My buddy has been running for 40 years and still has a dad bod- always did. Decades of marathons, triathlons, half marathons, ultra marathons and trail running did little to keep the belly away.