Musk Droppings (3 Viewers)

[Huntn]

SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars

www.theguardian.com

The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.

 

[TampaJoe]

Nobody, but nobody here is against accountability. That’s simply false.

Good. Then we agree.

 

[nolaspe]

'Ol muskrat probably ate all of the ketamine during the trip...

Seth Meyers Mocks Musk’s Weird Behavior on Trump's China Trip

The late-night comic tore into the tech titan for pulling bizarre faces at a state banquet in Beijing.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Not my party. I have said all along that there is corruption on both sides of the aisle. You are the one who is less than neutral.

I’m all for accountability. For everyone.

You don't vote GOP?

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

I believe his father staked him at $28K in the 1990’s.

That's certainly how Elon "always exaggerating to make myself look great" tells it. His parents were not billionaires, but they were of wealth, privilege and access. Musk was no rags to riches story in any way.

Elon turned that into 500B to 700B in 30 years.

Left out a few very important steps and details there. It reminds me of this:

Between Phase 1 of Musk's career to Phase 3, he made the majority of the wealth as a secondary to others who were the actual innovators. His single ventures and the ventures he was the primary on have not been as successful as the ones he wasn't the primary on. The companies who took over have all slowly declined under his guidance, unless he brought in technological experts to get them back on track.

I can raise 28K. I could raise 28K in the 1990s. But that amount of money to me was significant as it is to many people and they are unwilling to either take the risk or assume the responsibility.It is true that Elon probably didn’t worry about the downside.

That makes him a gambler and a risk taker, not a genius or a visionary.

But fact remains, he took 28K and turned it into hundreds of billions in three decades.

The fact also remains you are Evel Knievel'ing over a whole lot of very important details that show Musk would not have been financially successful if he hadn't surfed on a whole lot of very famous and successful coattails.

Again:

Like him or hate him if you want,...

I always do what I want and I neither like him or hate him. I think he's a joke and get frustrated with all the people who have fallen for his conjob.

...but you can’t deny him credit for his success.

I just did deny Musk of the credit that he gets and gave valid reasons why.

He has been extremely lucky...

And that's really the Alpha and Omega of Musk. He's a big risk taking gambler that has gotten lucky and hedged his bets by latching on to highly successful people until he used them to hoard so much wealth that it's impossible for him to lose no matter how many times he rolls snake eyes. That's not a genius, a visionary, or technological innovator. The truth about the tech industry is that in the earlier days, the most tech savy people were not big wealth hoarders or gamblers, so they didn't rise to the top.

In the tech industry, the creme of the intelligence and innovative didn't rise to the top. The spoiled cream of the gambling, narcissistic and wealth hoarding crop rose to the top. That's why it's an industry run by mostly fascists.

..,but he was willing to take risks and put in the work.

The risks are obvious, but what "work" did he put in?

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

So if you are the person who has the idea or concept, you have a choice. If you don’t have the skill set to take things to the next step, you may have to give up some or all of the upside. It’s a choice.

That's not what happened with Musk. Musk used lies and dirty tricks to seize control of successful companies. The fact that keeps getting ignored is that after Musk seized control of companies, they started performing worse until he got someone to come in a save his arse, in a lot of cases it was the original founders that he kicked out.

Musk is a corporate pirate/parasite. Have has anyone ever thought, "gee that pirate surely is a great a successful businessman for pirating all that stuff" or "gee that leach really is smart and visionary for latching onto other animals and sucking their blood?"

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

this is in my email signature since 2003. It has never changed and has guided me since then.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives"

And explains exactly how i view who is/isnt successful.

Simple metric. No spreadsheets. No mathematics. No calculations needed.

Even just giving as much as you get is valuable, sustainable and perfectly acceptable. Imaging hearing a kid say, "yeah I'm going to get in line first and grab all of the cookies at lunch and them I'm going to make all the other kids give me all of their food for one cookie." No decent person would think, "that kid is a genius, visionary and really smart business person."

Why do we expect and demand better behavior from children, than we do from adults? It's absurdly irrational, and quite frankly. extremely stupid and bassackwards.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

No. It is not okay to break laws. It is not okay to ignore a duty to enforce laws. It is not okay to circumvent or bend laws to accomplish a political objective. It ALL undermines the rule of law and confidence in government.

So you think Musk should be arrested and deported with all the other immigrants that are being arrested and deported for breaking immigration laws like Musk did?

 

[bird]

So you think Musk should be arrested and deported with all the other immigrants that are being arrested and deported for breaking immigration laws like Musk did?

Well, I don’t think he should be arrested and deported.

I think he should be arrested, STIPPED OF HIS ASSETS, and deported.