re: Twitter Purge continues, Offices Locked Down Until Monday?

Wish he could buy DC and do this with Congress

Leftards on this board have literally no idea about any of this technology and how its maintained. You could easily run it with 100 employees (or less).

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The dude built a company that can literally land rockets on a barge in the middle of the ocean and reuse them but you think he can't figure out a social media app?

He's also currently digging transportation tunnels and is about to own the largest ISP in the world with Starlink but he can't figure out an app.

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I think Elon Musk is a visionary and a legit genius. PayPal was revolutionary. Tesla has been revolutionary (jury still out on how things will go with all of the big auto manufacturers jumping into their space, but their diversification into home battery technology, rooftop solar, etc. has been pretty brilliant).

SpaceX is absolutely revolutionary.

The Boring Company? We’ll see. I remain skeptical. Not about their ability to corner the construction market, but about his vision for underground transportation.

That’s the thing though - am I an idiot for being skeptical here? Maybe. We are talking about the guy who founded SpaceX, after all. OTOH, history has shown us that even the greatest visionaries/businessmen rarely have a 100% hit rate.

Howard Hughes Jr. was a genius and a visionary. He made a ton of questionable investments. So did Thomas Edison.

It’s entirely possible that he knows exactly what he’s doing, everything is going to plan, and people questioning him turn out to be wrong. I think it’s also possible that he fricked up, has dug the company into a hole, and this turns out to be a massive failure for him.

I don’t really care either way. I hate what social media has done to society, and Musk will survive one way or another. I just think it’s a little silly to call someone “delusional” for questioning his decisions at this point.

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It’s entirely possible that he knows exactly what he’s doing, everything is going to plan, and people questioning him turn out to be wrong. I think it’s also possible that he fricked up, has dug the company into a hole, and this turns out to be a massive failure for him.

I don’t really care either way. I hate what social media has done to society, and Musk will survive one way or another. I just think it’s a little silly to call someone “delusional” for questioning his decisions at this point.

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Pretty much where I'm at.

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seems like he never got a degree and the degree he says he got doesn't even exist there. LINK So let’s walk through the evidence on his degrees carefully: 1) evidence from lawsuits (subpoenas and depositions), 2) Elon’s coursework, 3) statements from Penn, 4) false statements to his biographer. 19/ 1 - Lawsuits. Here’s the story of how we have Elon’s diplomas. In 1995, Elon interviewed at a startup, then ghosted them, started Global Link instead. The owner sued, alleging Elon swiped his business plan. The case hinged on deception, since borrowing ideas is legal. 20/ To get the interview, Elon said he was a Stanford PhD student, with degrees in Computational Physics & Finance. The plaintiff called that fraud & subpoenaed Penn. It seems Elon was indeed given two diplomas, but only in 1997, and the 2nd one has no department. 21/ Note that pulling strings at Penn’s Wharton School is not that big a scandal. Credentialing unstudious elites is part of Wharton’s game: Trump & Trump Jr are grads too. But Penn Physics is small, just a handful of graduates, and holding their reputation requires standards. 22/ Elon had to sit for a deposition as part of the 2007 lawsuit. He was grilled about saying “Computational Physics”, which doesn’t exist at Penn. When asked about the blank diploma, he evaded. Elon’s been talking his way out of situations for a long time. He won the suit. 23/ In 2009, ousted Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard also sued, & again attacked Elon’s Physics degree claim. Eberhard reused material from the earlier suit, and added lies found in official SEC filings. This time it seems it was successful, since Elon settled out of court. 24/ 2 - Coursework. We know Elon did try Physics, but was academically behind. That’s clear from homework he posted: he’s a 3rd-year in 2nd-year Mechanics. It’s a red flag for someone who skips a lot of class. Some prodigies can ace tests without classes - but they aren’t behind. 25/ 3 - Penn statements: Penn’s Wharton School regularly claims Elon, world’s richest man, as an alumnus, but the Physics Dept. seems never to have done so. In their congrats to 1997 graduates, there’s no Elon. 26/ Penn Arts & Sciences (which includes Physics), HAS called Elon a Physics alum, in one context: a bio for the “Elon Musk Public Lecture, made possible through a generous endowment gifted to the Center for Particle Cosmology in 2009”. Gifted the year of Elon’s deposition. 27/ 3 - False statements to his biographer. In 2015, Ashlee Vance put out a gushing bio of Elon. At some point he noticed that Elon’s degrees came 2 years late and asked about it, but then just accepted Elon’s strange answers, & shoved them in an appendix. They don’t hold up. 28/ Elon explained his delayed diplomas by saying he had a minor problem at Penn: he hadn’t fulfilled his Language and History requirements, and when those were later dropped he got the degrees. But Penn has not dropped its Language and History requirements. 29/

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All of that to talk shite on a Billionaire.

It's fascinating to see the opinions now that the roaches at twitter HQ have scattered.

Most left-leaning folks seem to assume the platform is dead and buried because Musk is a tyrannical idiot.

Everybody else seems to assume its demise has been greatly exaggerated (which is likely). Even if it is dead, good riddance then.

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Elon will have no one to blame but himself if this fails. What a complete shitshow.

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And meanwhile twitter is working just fine with the highest traffic it has ever had.

Some shitshow.

It’s so predictable how the OT liberals, who suddenly hate Elon despite Tesla, blame him when Twitter’s liberal employees sky scream and quit.

Zaid Rahman
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Number of software engineers at:

WhatsApp: 75
Instagram: 300 (at 1b DAUs, now ~1k)
Reddit: 600
Tesla: 200 (+100 on AutoPilot)
TikTok: 1,000 (outside China)
Zoom: 1,500
Twitter: 3,000+ (until recently)

(Rough estimates from LinkedIn)