I think that's pretty hilarious. It has caught the ire of a lot of furious unhinged puritans too, which has actually been the funniest thing about it for me.
It doesn’t bother me because it’s lascivious, it bothers me because it’s the comedy equivalent of fart noises. It was one thing when he was just a user of Twitter, but now he’s in charge, and it seems like a tone is being set that’s not really the vibe I’m into. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
I would say fart noises are the comedy equivalent of fart noises, but in any case, I sure do love people getting upset by the comedy equivalent of fart noises. Speaking of which, I would actually pay Musk $8 if it meant he would post a video of himself doing the old underarm fart noise thing and I could see all the fantastic "well I never" reactions from everybody who got upset by it.
>It was one thing when he was just a user of Twitter, but now he’s in charge, and it seems like a tone is being set that’s not really the vibe I’m into.
What's wrong with the new owner of Twitter using Twitter in exactly the same way that a lot of other Twitter users use it for, memes and jokes?
I find that rather refreshing, actually. It's a variant of eating one's own dogfood.
It would be funny for Musk to share privately with friends. It is a deeply strange and inappropriate thing for the CEO of a billion dollar company to post publicly. Something is deeply wrong with Musk's decision making process.
His process tree has only produced private and reusable rockets, space internet, electric vehicles, and hundreds of billions in value. But he makes crude jokes like 90% of the men on the whole planet. Clearly there's something deeply wrong.
So if the people HE hired did those things, doesn't that mean HE put the team together, HE found the talent, HE set the vision, goals, and tasks, so HE led them to accomplish these things, along with funding them? It also means HE didn't design the SDS you claim to be defective, almost like such software is difficult to develop.
Is it strange and inappropriate if most people think it is a funny joke and laugh it off? Who goes out of their way to look at Elon posts just to be offended?
It is funny. I think it's hilarious and the fact he shared it in public makes it even more so. It's one of his most liked tweets, so a lot of other people also thought it was funny. Comedy is subjective, but if a lot of people think something is funny then it is objectively funny. And it is perfectly appropriate for public figures to reveal something of themselves and have some fun in public. Puritans will always be offended by this kind of sex joke, or by the gays being allowed to marry or whatever, but we laugh at them too, they make it even funnier.
In my opinion what would be inappropriate for a billionaire CEO, and reveal deep flaws in decision making process, and the decision making process of any government official or governing body who subsequently partners with that CEO, is to fraternize with the likes of Epstein after he was convicted, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-.... But I guess morality is also subjective so people might disagree with me there too.
He can get away with posting just about any silly thought because he has no board of directors to answer to and no one can fire him. Big difference when you are thinking of him as a CEO.
Lots of people are puritans, I was talking about the puritans making themselves terribly offended by that meme. If Musk is one too it doesn't mean they aren't, it's not based on some relative scale here. But I am using the lowercase puritan which probably doesn't fit him.
I didn't know that he lead an extremist cult though, not that I have ever cared to find out much about his life or beliefs. It wouldn't surprise me, I think a lot of the ruling class and ultra rich are terrible people who we should not be living under. That said I have noticed the claims of Musk's terribleness and extremism may have a tiny correlation with his unwillingness to toe the Democrat party line. Now quite possibly that's just a coincidence and there's absolutely no causation there, nevertheless if I were ever in a situation where that information would be important to a decision, it would behoove me to take it on its merits rather than on faith.
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