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[–] [S] 93 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Yeah, being a CEO is clearly not the full-time job that requires marathon-level endurance that the Acela class likes to paint it as.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It’s always been about returning to the indentured servitude and elite wealthy man controlled world that was temporarily interrupted with an experiment in civil rights, workers rights, women’s rights, etc.

    They figured out all they had to do was pause progress in the economic sector for all the minority groups that benefited from those movements, and drastically and continually increase the funneling of resources and profits into the hands of the one group that used to control and own it all, making it only a matter of time until we returned to the good old days.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    He's the CEO of five companies. If he really works 100 hours a week like he says (and maybe ketamine does make that possible), that means being a CEO is at best a part-time job.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 month ago

    Yup. 100%. People have been saying for decades that being a CEO (often expanded out to CxOs, too) is like being some kind of super-star athlete and that people in those positions get paid many many many multiples of the average wage of employees they oversee because they are just operating next level and work so fucking hard and so many hours, too.

    Virtually every time Elon hits the news we are all reminded in quite stark terms what complete bullshit that narrative was.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    (and maybe ketamine does make that possible),

    Most certainly not how ketamine works. Would be the opposite, if anything.

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  • when given to healthy volunteers, the drug induced paranoia, perceptual changes and a wide range of other symptoms including disorganisation of thought, negativism, apathy, withdrawal, poverty of speech, perseveration and catatonic posturing.

    I dunno, this sounds like most of the CEOs I've interacted with personally.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Somehow Musk has time to shitpost on Twitter for hours, run the US military and be the CEO of like 5 companies. Guess he saves a lot of time by not spending any time with his children.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Why do you have to drag Acela into this?! It's a wonderful service! Why the fuck do Americans have to turn European levels of comfort, ease, and efficiency into an insult?! It's cheaper than flying, ffs.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    I've had relatives that ride it every day (their companies paid for it). I'm sure it works well. Honestly, I wish we had high speed rail all over the United States. It's rather embarrassing how far behind we are on mass transit.

    However, the way it is perceived, people traveling up and down "the Acela corridor" skew toward the upper class. So has the same color as those "Lexus lanes".

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Since the LAST Musk task force went so well…

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    The guy who claimed Stealth was obsolete because of LIDAR + AI.

    Yup, he forgot clouds exist and will now be predicting future military tech. I'm sure this will go brilliantly.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Because appointing him head of DOGE was so successful... This is the absolutely dumbest fucking timeline possible.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Pete faked benching like 300 pounds or something with some enlisted people. The weights were not normal but like ten pounders made to look like the big ones.

    Pete Hegseth, is a pussy bitch. Pass it on.

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    He stopped carrying his human shield kid around?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Dont they gave bullets that can go through concrete before hitting their target?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Well I don't think he was carrying the kid around to stop the bullets per se, more to deter anyone from shooting him in front of his innocent kid. Like he was kinda trying to guilt trip any potential assassins. Elon is not the brightest.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'd rather Elon be deported back to South Africa.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    A manchild with an inferior complex. What could go wrong.

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    Does this mean that the future of warfare is Ketamine benders and "Roman" salutes?

    Where have we seen this before...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    … thus proving he is both equally, and exponentially dumber than himself.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Great what better candidate for being in charge of warfare than a person who hires someone to play a MMORPG under his account so that he can impress gamers.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    gotdam, thought I bit the onion

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Not in this timeline. There is no onion.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    If I create an SAT analogy from that quote and the other Matrix quote that inspired the vulture capital firm Bending Spoons, I have a great idea for a company.

    We can call it Biting Onions. And instead of using capitalistic principles to enshittify, it will subvert capitalistic principles to block enshittification.

    For example:

    • Buy distressed patent assets or R&D explicitly to dedicate them to the public domain.
    • Counterbid evil investors for tools or platforms to avoid extreme harm from other bidders (e.g., imagine a counterbid for Twitter).
    • Seed-fund unions in underleveraged, corporate wage-theft-common industries, requiring only that the new unions to contribute parts of their dues back to the fund to accelerate more seed-funding of unions.
    • Venture capital tech startups with explicit caps on executive pay and barriers on anti-human/customer/citizen conduct (e.g., a lowest-to-highest-paid-employee metric or prohibiting SaaS/subscription fee business models baked into contractual funding requirements).

    Some of this requires altruism and is likely money-losing (I mean, Twitter was never worth what Musk paid for it, unless you factor in the "value" to an evil sociopath), but like Valve, I think companies that have a set mission and that reach stability would actually have competitive advantages. After all, "suck blood until host dies" is a model that is self-sabotaging in the end.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Elon bought NASA and now the US military.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Welp, guess that's gonna be bankrupt in 6 weeks or less. What a fucking friendless loser Musk is.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Gotta sell all those 'bulletproof' cyberturds somehow

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm not a scientist or politician or wizard or anything, but I bet Elon will manage to scrape up some products and services to help the USA with future warfare; very expensive products.

    I have a feeling that we will pay for those products and services for many decades with the help of Vanguard and JP Morgan Chase, and that we will appoint their staff to the Fed to control our monetary policy.

    I predict that those products and services will be unsatisfactory

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Th future of warfare is… the US losing yet another war!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

    Elon is the one with power and Trump is conceding to this fact.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    Also Palmer Luckey just flying under the radar (beneath the bloated corpse-like Hindenberg of Musk's profile).

    I suppose Luckey should have been the first horseman of the tech apocalypse, since back in pre-timeline-flip 2016 he was bragging about spending to elect Trump via shitposting, back when we all at least still thought Musk was sane( r ).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I am annoyed about this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Elon Musk knows about as much about war as I do about quantum physics.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    A drunk hiring a ket fiend, this is going to go well

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well finally!!

    It will be great to have those FSD Tanks on the battlefield and I’d wager that with fElon’s great brain it’ll be in only a year Right ?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    God damn it. Hegseth was too dumb and powerless to build skynet.

    Musk is actually capable of wielding his power to build hundreds of thousands of autonomous murderer drones that roam the planet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    This country gets more pathetic every day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Cool so funnel taxpayer dollars into musk companies, musk installs backdoor order 66 into weaponized ai and robotics systems that are mass produced, musk replaces US with the garbage empire and installs himself as emperor.

    Am I missing anything?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You missed the part where he kills most of humanity before there is a position of empire to claim

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Sneak peek at Elon: "More bots on twatter is the future of war! US government, please buy my bots. "

    US government: OK, here's like 8 Billion dollars.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    ....smh our military is doomed why are we going to war instead of defense we do not want war we want to defend homeland.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    There's an ancient proverb that goes like: "If your Senate is made only of warriors, it'll be a rule of idiots. If the army is made only of philosophers, wars would be fought by cowards. Both must have both."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Just when you thought he was done, Musk comes back to take whatever is bolted down.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    i guess those 'ai' doomsday predictions are gonna come true.

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    Can we drop some of those new Ukrainian ground drones at his house for testing?

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