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[–] PurliWhite@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

watching the flames reach new heights on this continually evolving dumpster fire keeps me warm at night

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

He is really good at bringing twitter down.

[–] dq9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Another unnecessary bandaid to Elon's massive problems. I'd say he should quit while he's behind, but I love watching him fail.

[–] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

A ditch would make a much better logo, indeed.

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

LOOOOOOL. Did he just snag the dated and always terrible logo from Xorg and think it was cool and modern?

[–] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do I ‘get lucky’ too with becoming a billionaire like Elon randomly did??????????????????????????????????????????????

[–] ilovetacos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

And are you willing to pay workers shit, force them to work in life threatening conditions, and pay off governments and gangsters to prevent them from organising?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thing is, he didn't just randomly get lucky. He put in a huge amount of work and actually had a lot of good ideas. People love to hate Elon Musk, and when you hate someone you're loathe to admit to any positives about him, but he actually is smart in certain fields. It's not sheer coincidence that most of the companies he bought or started before this Twitter debacle grew immensely and made great advances. You can say that's because he "hired the right people," but that itself is a skill - knowing who to hire and what resources and projects to give them.

Unfortunately, I think Musk has been so successful for so long that he's become convinced he's good at everything. And as we're seeing now, he seems to have found something he's really not good at. He's new at running a social media company and this is the first time he's bought a really big pre-established company with a different culture than he's used to and there's clearly some trouble there. But I guess time will tell just what happens to Twitter in the long run.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain anyone with enough startup capital, heck even just a safety net, can make it big. The issue is most people don't have either.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Millionaires are actually pretty common.

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[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This.. Is an ex.... Parrot.

[–] Umbra@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think we are in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of mental illness, and even the wealthiest and most powerful are not immune.

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