No. Everyone who doesn’t have money for him to grab is fucked.

That’s just eating at McDonald’s with … less steps.

The same thing, from the Silmarillion:

The love of Finwë and Míriel was great and glad, for it began in the Blessed Realm in the Days of Bliss. But in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living. And when she had named him, she said to Finwë: ‘Never again shall I bear child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into Fëanor.’

[They try to heal her and even the gods fail at it]

‘It is indeed unhappy,’ said Míriel, ‘and I would weep, if I were not so weary. But hold me blameless in this, and in all that may come after.’

She went then to the gardens of Lórien and lay down to sleep; but though she seemed to sleep, her spirit indeed departed from her body, and passed in silence to the halls of Mandos.

Translation: This little shit has sucked the life from my soul, peace out.

Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for “just wanting a fiscal conservative” in office. (The guy in the pic, not OP)

Try contracting in your spare time to get some variety.

Try contracting full time If you want to fast forward to that next life.

Could be a turd wizard, in which case it’s both!

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You think circuits are your friend? By the time I was old enough to convince my parents to buy me a soldering iron I was already a man.

I completely agree with you. I’m not defending Elon here, but I want to expand on your conclusion.

Electric car companies from the last 20ish years:

Polestar Fiskar Faraday Karma Rivian Tesla Canoo

Only Tesla is profitable. The others are defunct, funded by private equity and operating at a loss, owned or partly owned by a different company, or are basically stillborn (not dead, but not doing much of anything). Even if his only contribution is throwing money at Tesla, that seemed to be enough to keep them going until they could stand on their own. Keep in mind, all these other companies had money thrown at them too.

I think the same goes for space x. I’ll give the bastard credit where it’s due: he didn’t stop throwing money at Tesla and SpaceX even after all logic and reason said he should stop, and now they’re successful. Maybe he had vision, maybe he got deep into a K-hole and had a vision, I don’t know. I don’t think anyone else would have kept them afloat by any means possible. If anything, legacy auto, Boeing, etc were waiting for Tesla and Space X to fail so they could buy them cheap and absorb their talent and tech.

So no, he didn’t found these companies, and I don’t believe a single word of his claims that he contributed in any meaningful way to their engineering or tech, but I don’t think they’d exist in their current successful state without his money.

To put this another way, he deserves recognition for his stubborn insistence that these companies should continue to exist.

Along the same line of thinking, Twitter’s current state is 100% his doing. He was very public about exactly what he was doing after he was forced to carry through on his lies and buy it. He very publicly killed that company, and is using his money to fuel the necromancy keeping it going.

I can only hope that SpaceX and Tesla eventually find themselves out from under his influence.

With names like those, could we have expected anything else?

It took me a year but I broke my team of this habit. The trick was to remind them that the parking lot shouldn’t be scheduled. The whole point is that you continue conversations organically so that it’s more like the beginning of a working session instead of the end of a meeting.

I am a secret third thing.

I think someone needs to update that old “if programming languages were weapons”. JavaScript is a cursed hammer.

Whelp, I’m dead. GG hippo.

Lineeses.

Looks like that’s a beach towel or a bedsheet maybe

It was very much a product of its time. It was alright.

Oh for sure, and some of those are not ok with swapping the interpreter out 🤣

It is, and it’s a valid complaint. Go and Rust have handled it differently than Python or JavaScript, and all of them have their faults and bonuses.