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[–] [email protected] 251 points 9 months ago (9 children)

You can literally fit the entire text on your phone

But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can't serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he's determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives

The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Capitalized

is... ...is that a pun?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 9 months ago (5 children)

He sounds like some upper level management I've known. "Why does this cost so much, you're just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?"

[–] [email protected] 110 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.

Sadly, management cluetards "think" otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (5 children)

A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn't he at least be aware of the operating expenses?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago

He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn't pay his bills. Problem solved.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago

That would require him being aware of anything that goes into running any of his businesses, and maybe not tweeting all day from his private jets to actually pay attention to them.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. All that power and money and he spends 100% of his free time trolling on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He isn't trolling, he is just really, really dumb. If you ever heard him talk about something that you're knowledgable in, you instantly realize that he has no idea what he's talking about.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He never misses an opportunity to display how dumb is. Like, just shut up dude.

He has like 100 bajillion dollars he doesn't need to be in charge of Twitter why did he buy it? Oh yeah that's right because someone hurt his feelings and he thought the buying Twitter would in some way get back at them.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.

This is the same guy who didn't understand why you couldn't just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you're moving into a college dorm.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9%3famp

I just don't understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

The key words there are supposed to be

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the "Readers added context" feature. Yet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I'm sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago (4 children)

So, how long before the "Readers added additonal context" feature mysteriously vanishes?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (28 children)

It's crazy how a few years ago Zuck seemed like the worst tech billionaire CEO ridiculed by his users, but Musk truly managed to take this title and surpass him to become the most hated man on the internet. He needs help

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Zuck is evil, but he doesn't seem to be stupid.

Elon on the other hand..

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There was this brief, beautiful moment when Musk seemed respectable. He was into renewables, and electrification, and investing in space. It sounded great. And then he opened his fucking mouth and just hasn't shut it since. Once he started talking, everyone else started noticing and publishing all the terrible shit that was there all along but no one either knew or cared about until then.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Attacking Twitter then and now attacking Wikipedia. You can tell he want so hard to hide information and with starlink in his control it might happen.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago

Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dude has become a shitty combination of Tucker and Trump

"Just asking stupid questions"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Wikipedia actually strives to pay it's bills

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

Ah, thanks for reminding me to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Can he fuck off and stop mentioning Wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Obviously he has an axe to grind with facts being easily available to regular people. He's trying to leverage his voice as a hated billionaire to signal maga conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I sincerely hope that in the future when peole look up the archaic expression of 'Dumb Fuck' they find a beautiful portrait of man baby Elon.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Musk is such a giant fucking idiot. It’s tragic that such dumb shitty people have all the money.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Musk was never meant to move beyond middle-management at a bottom tier MLM company.

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