Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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Alyssa Milano Throws a Virtue Signaling Fit at Elon Musk, and He Has Thoughts
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/11/26/alyssa-milano-throws-a-virt
ue-signaling-fit-at-elon-musk-and-he-has-thoughts-n664366
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Sleeping in the office is making a comeback? Elon Musk would approve – but what about having a life?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/sleeping-in-the-
office-is-making-a-comeback-elon-musk-would-approve-but-what-about-having-a-life
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Elon Musk says he’d support Ron DeSantis in 2024, wants someone ‘sensible and centrist’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/27/elon-musk-says-hed-su
pport-ron-desantis-2024-wants/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doge-surges-speculation-elon-musk-ether
eum-vitalik-buterin-working-together-110407259.html
Crypto Currency Dogecoin surged over 27% in the past week
Doge surges over speculation of Elon Musk and Ethereum co-founder
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Numberonecatwinner wrote:
I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company — after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.
Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.
Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture. Even I, as a lowly intern, would hear people talking about it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas in a way that would resonate with him, they knew how to creatively reinterpret (or ignore) his many insane demands, and they even knew how to “stage manage” parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal to Elon.
The funniest example of “stage management” I can remember is this dude on the IT security team. He had a script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that would output random garbage, Matrix-style, so that it always looked like he was doing Important Computer Things to anyone who walked by his desk. Second funniest was all the people I saw playing WoW at their desks after ~5pm, who did it in the office just to give the appearance that they were working late.
People were willing to do that at SpaceX because Elon was giving them the money (and hype) to get into outer space, a mission people cared deeply about. The company also grew with and around Elon. There were layers of management between individual employees and Elon, and those managers were experienced managers of Elon. Again, I cannot stress enough how much of the company culture was oriented around managing this one guy.
Twitter has neither of those things going for it. There is no company culture or internal structure around the problem of managing Elon Musk, and I think for the first time we’re seeing what happens when people actually take that man seriously and at face value. Worse, they’re doing this little experiment after this man has had decades of success at companies that dedicate significant resources to protecting themselves from him, and he’s too narcissistic to realize it.
This post is long so I’ll leave you with my favorite Elon story. One day at work, I got an all hands email telling me that it was Elon’s birthday and there was going to be a mandatory surprise party for him in the cafeteria. Presumably Elon also got this email, but whatever. We all marched down into the cafeteria, dimmed the lights, and waited. Elon was led out by his secretary (who he hadn’t fired yet) and made a big show of being fake surprised and touched that we were there. Then they wheeled out the cake.
OK, so, I want you to imagine the biggest penis cake you’ve ever seen. Like the king of novelty sex cakes. Only it’s frosted white, and the balls have been frosted to look like fire and smoke. This was Elon’s birthday “rocket” cake.
For as long as I live, I will never forget the look on everyone’s face — in that dark room of mostly-male engineers — when he made a wish and cut into the tip.
https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Have you heard?
Alyssa Milano's vagina smells like cat piss.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Kanye West’s final tweet isn’t why he got banned, explains Elon Musk
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/12/03/kanye-wests-final-tweet-isnt-why
-he-got-banned-explains-elon-musk/
Why Elon Musk has banned Kanye West from Twitter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11493895/Elon-Musk-sanctions-
Kanye-West-tweeting-picture-swastika-inside-Star-David.html
Kanye West banned from Twitter over 'incitement to violence', Elon Musk says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/twitter-suspends-rapper-ye-over
-swastika-post/101730238
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Elon Musk is not a narcissist. He admits to being bipolar. Just as Trump isn't a narcissist. He has a galloping case of adult ADHD.
It's not bad being a bit manic. In fact, it's highly productive. But when it veers into full-on delusion it's problem.
The way I read the Twitter story- and I haven't been following it closely - acquiring Twitter was a Musk enthusiasm. Until he found out that they were cooking the books and it wasn't as profitable as they said.
So he tried to back out if the purchase at the promised stock price. Failing that, he promised to be such a PITA to TPTB that he was hoping his purchase would be blocked. But the courts frog-marched him into it anyway. A promise is a promise after all!
IDK what's going to happen with Twitter. Most of Musk's projects are attached to one government teat or another.
Solar City?
Panel subsidies, $3000/ install!
Tesla EVs?
Government subsidies $7000!
SpaceX?
Government contracts!
Hyperloop?
That would be govt contracts too!
The only two projects that I know of that weren't/aren't govt connected are PayPal and Neuralink, and it's possible I just haven't sussed out Neuralink's funding yet.
Possibly Musk is trying to make Twitter profitable by courting a previously derided market (conservatives, MAGA, and alt-thinkers). Or possibly he's just trying to make Twitter such a a PITA to TPTB that somebody will buy him out and remove him from the controls, which is how he made $$ with Paypal.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Elon Musk went to war — then made up — with Apple. Here's what happened.
https://sports.yahoo.com/elon-musk-went-war-then-123000085.html
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Elon Musk suggests Sam Bankman-Fried should go to prison, saying he needs an 'adult timeout in the big house'
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sam-bankman-fried-prison-ftx
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Quote:Tesla is being sued because Musk made maniacal promises, predictions, and forecasts.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
He has a galloping case of adult ADHD.
It's not bad being a bit manic. In fact, it's highly productive. But when it veers into full-on delusion it's problem.
Dec. 8, 2022 1:25 PM PT
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology may be a failure, Tesla lawyers admit — but it’s not a fraud. Ha-Ha!
The electric car company is facing a class-action lawsuit from Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology customers. They claim they were ripped off, duped by statements from co-founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk and marketing materials from Tesla over the last six years suggesting full-fledged autonomous driving was imminent. No Tesla on the road today is capable of full self-driving, and yet Tesla sells what it calls a Full Self-Driving Capability for $15,000.
In its defense, Tesla lawyers said that “mere failure to realize a long-term, aspirational goal is not fraud.” That argument is contained in a motion to dismiss the case that was filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
The main plaintiff is Briggs Matsko, a resident of Rancho Murieta, Calif. If the case goes forward, it could lead to deposition of Tesla employees who helped develop the technology and reveal what Musk knew and didn’t know about its true capabilities when he made numerous forecasts over the years — including the prediction that there would be a million Tesla robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020, that customers could make $30,000 a year hiring them out, and that their cars would appreciate in value.
Tesla lawyers are attempting to prevent that information from going public. The motion to dismiss the case rests mainly on Tesla’s contention that the papers customers signed when they bought their cars obligate them to individually file claims through the private arbitration system.
A public trial allows for customers to file as a large group, known as a class; arbitration means each customer would be on his or her own. While a public trial could reveal testimony from current or former Tesla employees on the state of Tesla’s automated technology development at any given time, arbitration would keep that testimony secret.
The FSD fraud suit runs through a litany of claims and promises made by Musk and Tesla about automated technology that will be familiar to anyone who closely follows Musk.
They include a 2016 video that purports to show a Tesla driving itself through the streets of Palo Alto with complete autonomy. Before the video rolls, with the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” as background music, a message reads, “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not driving anything. The car is driving itself.”
Tesla workers later revealed that the video was fabricated, done in multiple takes, with the driving system’s failures removed, including a crash into a fence. The video remains on Tesla’s website.
The lawsuit highlights the multiple revisions of Musk’s statements over the years that full autonomy would be achieved in three months, or six months, or the end of the year (in any given year) or the next year.
In its motion to dismiss, Tesla lawyers note that Musk often has said regulatory approval will be necessary before actual autonomy can be deployed. But neither Musk nor the lawyers say which regulators they’re talking about.
“Tesla would need no federal approval to deploy an automated driving system in its current vehicles,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor who specializes in autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolina. “Tesla would need state approval in California and a small number of other states, but it has not sought that approval. Tesla would need approval in Europe, but it has not sought that approval.”
California DMV regulations on autonomous vehicles include rules that bar a company from marketing a vehicle as autonomous when it’s not. The DMV began a “review”
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