Elon Musk is a twat

Elon Musk is still a twat, but if he was trying to do a Nazi salute, he did an appalling job of it. The angle was all wrong and everything.

Please, people: it is possible to have a very low opinion of someone and still not jump to the worst possible conclusion about everything they do. You're not a 12-year-old bully so stop acting like one.

I feel like some people want it to be a nazi salute but I'm not convinced at all. I think he's an interplanetary scale bell end but not a nazi, no.

Agree. He’s no genius. But he is power hungry. How do we protect our institutions from people like Musk.

I can’t believe how many people / organisations (👀 ADL) are desperately trying to make out he didn’t perform a nazi salute. This would be funny if it weren’t so despicable.

And Elon paid some other REALLY clever men to do everything he is credited with achieving, and some really young boys mined all that lithium out of the ground, for those Tesla batteries.

Another thing that makes me dislike him. He tries to project himself as a genius and great thinker, a mover and shaker. He also brags that he is the best player in the world at Diablo v, a grindy video game. Fact checkers have shown that whilst not the best, he is in the top hundred or so players in the world. Since how good you are is directly based on what gear you have, this is not primarily a skill based position, it reflects having no life and spending all your time grinding on a video game.

He is just a rich version of a basement troll. He doesn't spend his life having big ideas, he spends vast hours of it playing online video games and dick swinging about how good at pvp (player versus player) he is. However immature you thought this man was, you probably underestimated it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7errxp5jmo
One wonders where America will be in 4 years (and Germany, but that's not the topic of this thread).

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"Interesting"

I've met some grade A c*nts in my life, but enough about my sex life...😏

Sorry if this comes across as prudish or Victorian or something, but I really really don't like the word cnt being used as an insult like this. Twat is similar but not everybody is aware of what it actually refers to.
But we all know what a cnt is, and thankfully it is nothing like an Elon Musk!

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Bit of a tangent, but more evidence of Musk's c*ntiness.

He's apparently going to force all public sector workers back into the office full time. He confidently expects that to cause mass voluntary resignations.

As well as damaging public service, I predict this will disproportionately affect women, who are more likely to have roles of carers that make it harder to work in the office. What happens to those women then? At least some will claim welfare. The country loses productive workers. Families slide into poverty. But all Musk cares about is numbers. He's a grade A c*nt.

Women are as high IQ or more IQ than him. Reality is mothers give the IQ to their progeny, it isn't the male who does that the sperm doesn't carry the iq. So any man gifted with a high IQ needs to be grateful to their mothers. So if a man says woman can't have such an IQ they are only demonstrating their brains aren't computing despite of the gift of IQ from their mothers.
👌totally true

Bump

Musk's rockets are just willy waggling

They are different processes. But done by the same sorts of people!

I'm shocked by his tweet to TS. It's the type of comment you'd expect from a teenager in the 80s.

I love it when people say Elon Musk isn’t very bright

it’s birdseye potato rofls

He said it was an interesting observation, not interesting theory. He's either not very clever and struggles to articulate his thoughts, or he thinks the theory in question is observable fact.

A someone who has done both philosophy, and been an over-thinker, I would say these are really quite different processes. Whether it's men or women doing them.

They don't even feel like they are the same part of the brain.

I noticed some years ago that I had some pretty significant differences in my work when I was at the higher testosterone phase of my cycle. I don't know if I was less risk adverse, but I was absolutely more energetic, or maybe decisive - action-oriented is how I'd describe it.

I'm right now in terrible hormonal fluctuations with menopause but I am kind of hoping the productivity increase might be at the other end of it.

I also used to find some of the hormone action around caring-mothering quite overwhelming. My youngest was born when that had abated somewhat and interestingly I think it made for better parenting. It reminded me a lot of what you see with livestock. A young first time mother cow or sheep can often be quite anxious, whereas an old mother is pretty chill, but in the end often a much better mother.

Someone wrote about their theory and he said it was interesting.

Is that what you're referring to?

Because you made it sound like his theory and I wondered if you were unused to how quoting works on social media.

To be fair the guardian presented it as his theory too, but ... well it's the guardian. It's not been reliable for some time now.

They need to be mined, and they need a lot of them. Mining them is no more environmentally positive than other forms of mining, it devastates the landscape - there are proposals now in Canada for mines for EV minerals that are tarsand scale, in sensitive ecological areas.

And these are heavy cars - sometimes twice as heavy - that use a lot of tires and do a lot of damage to roads and infrastructure.

Reducing environmental questions to carbon emissions is incredibly reductive.

Interesting. It's probably why women get to a certain age and stop giving fucks about stuff too.

I actually have PMDD so very aware that hormones affect me/other women.

The part I don't agree with is the value judgement. I'd argue mens hormones affect them just as much. Look at the number of men who lose their careers, relationships and status because their penis takes over their capacity for rational thought.

Thank you! and it's funny you said 'good fun irl' because I was just thinking that my urge to post something funny regardless [well, not quite regardless, I do have a glimmer of self-awareness!] is typical of where I'm from irl - IRL.

Humour is used in the oddest of settings in Irish life - I've had really funny interactions with friends even at my parents' funerals, and I knew that their humour was a sign of affection and support, not disrespect. And that my parents would have laughed too.
Having lived abroad, including the UK, for years, I'm aware that not everyone shares the broadness of our definition of appropriate humour, so I'd hate to come across as trivialising a serious subject with a funny post.

And yes of course I'm a laugh a minute irl, never a dull moment..😏