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BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation. This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
This is what happens to your launchpad when you think it would be funny to launch to the world's largest rocket on 4/20, instead of when it's ready.It will probably be at least a year before the FAA will approve another Starship launch. pic.twitter.com/tXytW309a6— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Pshh. Guess the FAA is gonna be losing its checkmark... we'll see who cancels who, woke safety regulators..
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad.He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly. It's his fault.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
And because of this decision, the launchpad was blasted apart and debris slammed into the engines at the bottom of the booster, damaging them.Ultimately resulting in the spectacular cartwheels and explosion that we saw just moments later.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
and yet there are hundreds of weird nerds absolutely fuming into their keyboards all day today about how we're all just too stupid to appreciate his genius
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
extremely low qual religion
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
elons sock
omg I found his burner https://t.co/xDHDt2X1VV pic.twitter.com/qlfzw2DjrL— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) April 24, 2023
It’s definitely him pic.twitter.com/PGqoucEyo1— The Flying Morgan Wallendas (@BlastArrow4) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
Musk responding to himself with an alt account pic.twitter.com/IgXHZttZbz— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
I think that's actually the cringiest thing he's done yet
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/GhbhS04T/5-B5-C08-FD-00-BB-4-BEA-B1-B2-86104-F920-ED1.jpg
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link
Hope someone’s on the blower to child protection services
― michel goindry (wins), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
wait, if that's elon why is he paying attention to his child
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
imagine Lion King if Rafiki got so distracted he dropped Simba over the cliff
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
was it steve jobs who created this poisonous concept of the innovator as an individual with no actual tech knowledge but who makes big, bold decisions and demands unrealistic time frames etc etc? i mean that's what musk is obviously shooting for and failing dramatically, right?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
neil breen perfected it
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Jobs was just making phones and computers though, not things that explode or crash
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
why is he so brainless
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
feel like the business guy who dares to demand more has to go back before steve job, and tbf it kind of works but its a dangerous game, has prob killed more businesses than its made but you dont hear about them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
elizabeth holmes vibes
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
the thing about steve jobs is he actually was a great product guy, and obvs a great salesman too, which are real skills, a little different than some over confident dumbass just being all you have half the time to do twice the work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
like musk does the same shit but has no feel for product and hes also unserious about doing quality work
exactly - that's what they're all aiming for and no one else can really do it
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
good time to mention I was actually in a Tesla last week and while the car was impressive in terms of pure horsepower (it was so fast it made me want to throw up, actually) it also had some remarkably stupid design "features" like putting the gear shifter and wiper blade controls on the touchscreen and the turn signals on the steering wheel. the guy who bought it said even after a year he still isn't used to how counterintuitive that is. Steve Jobs I think at least understood the psychology of things that work like you expect them to
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
most companies that make great products arent lead by charismatic visionaries theyre just good companies but thats not as interesting to weird wannabe business guys
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
i think what i'm trying to say is that musk (and holmes and a bunch of others) learned the wrong lesson from jobs which is that you just have to be INTUITIVE and INNOVATIVE and DEMAND NOTHING LESS THAN PERFECTION and that you don't really have to know anything technical or practical or listen to anyone with actual technical/practical knowledge
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
the whole thing with electric cars being extremely fast and heavy is not great its unsafe
free speech
Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.I didn't.Most likely Elon.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
Good morning, Elon Musk has been ordered to give a deposition in a trial because Tesla has been claiming that his (many) public statements about Autopilot's capabilities might have been deepfaked.Seriously.https://t.co/iVmwaj5HFa pic.twitter.com/r1sTqBqZ1L— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 27, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
You don't have to be a sociopath to be a billionaire, but it helps.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
lmao I had a feeling he would be the first to try to use that defense
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
lol thats such weak shit they could have been deepfakes well were they
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
tbf r kelly did it first i mean it was before deepfakes but same diff and it worked despite be preposterous
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
I could tell you, but how would you know "my" telling you wasn't also a deepfake?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
what's even more despairing is the typical Elon nerds jumping into threads about this with constant tweets saying, "what? are you alleging that it is impossible for Elon to be deepfaked?"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 April 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is more of a shallowfake, amirite?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
a snowfake
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
idk if you have to be a sociopath but you prob have to be a least a lil socipathish
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
I do think you have to have at least some level of disregard for most other people on the planet.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
Sorry for the double post
the money/success/power tends to amplify those tendencies too, which is why billionaires shouldnt exist, for the good of their mental health
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
unfortunately money starts to pump up sociopath tendencies at like a vacation home level of wealth lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
Do we want to wager if/how much he’ll lie on the witness stand or in desposition?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 27 April 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
There are something like 450 billionaires in America alone. The ones we can name I assume are among the worst, but I really have no idea how many I could name. Some of them are sociopaths like Musk, some of them are, like, Springsteen or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:38 (one year ago) link
ok
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
Springsteen is definitely a sociopath
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 April 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link
It was the title of his second album
― Vinnie, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link