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Cheen
Apr 17, 2005

This is the thread where we do a retro on humanity's protagonist: Elon Musk

What went well?

What wen't poorly?

How can he improve?

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Cheen
Apr 17, 2005

What went well:
got a new job
got little freaking robot dudes
car can drive by itself

HamAdams
Jun 29, 2018

yospos
he looks well fed

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

eagerly awaiting the elon musk post mortem

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

ty for doing the needful, the hellworld thread (which i do follow) was harmed quite a lot by the closure of the dumbest-man-in-the-world-lives-rent-free-in-my-head-and-i-must-post-about-it containment thread (which i didn’t follow and will now go back to not following)

Truman Peyote
Oct 11, 2006


i gave this sprint a 2/10, i'm not sure i really agree that those things went that well, i was personally distracted by a lot of unplanned bullshit, and i don't think i'm the only one

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

Official Carrier of the Neil Bush Torch

qirex posted:

eagerly awaiting the elon musk post mortem

root of all eval
Dec 28, 2002

2031: a space eulogy

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

Official Carrier of the Neil Bush Torch

Truman Peyote posted:

i gave this sprint a 2/10, i'm not sure i really agree that those things went that well, i was personally distracted by a lot of unplanned bullshit, and i don't think i'm the only one

yeah there was a lot of scope creep

value-brand cereal
May 2, 2008
I am bizarrely obsessed with the ethnicity of authors. I mean for real I'm about to start doing phrenology on Paulo Coelho.
when musk named his AI after a plushie toy his then girlfriend had made and voiced. kinda cringe to steal your gf's original OC.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
lord willing the latest* twitter controversy will finally cause a critical mass of people to shift off of it and onto anything else, and help accellerate twitter's drive into a firetruck

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster


"this will make me stop using twitter"

   -- millions of people who absolutely will not stop using twitter

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

Not sure if I should pinch it or keep pushing?
https://twitter.com/DOGE/status/1857076831104434289

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

quote:

We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.

the richest man in the world wants you to work 80+ hours saving him money

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

Official Carrier of the Neil Bush Torch

polite requerst to please keep hellworld content in the hellworld thread

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine

HamAdams posted:

he looks well fed

qirex posted:

eagerly awaiting the elon musk post mortem

Raged
Jul 21, 2003

A revolution of beats
We can all rest easy at night knowing he will never have the true heart of a poster and will always be a reply guy.



Also his children and the women who gave them to him will never love him.

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


ill make the wiki

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

why is he so obsessed with miserable 80+ hour work weeks

Cactrot
Jan 11, 2001

Go Go Cactus Galactus





Roosevelt posted:

why is he so obsessed with miserable 80+ hour work weeks

A genuine non-transactional interaction with a human is a terror to this man.

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

Not sure if I should pinch it or keep pushing?
very smart high IQ people love working long hours for the sake of it, more so than normal people who merely accept it, this is known

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster


very smart people do not drone on and on about their IQ

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

official yospos cat censor

Roosevelt posted:

why is he so obsessed with miserable 80+ hour work weeks

so he can put in 80+ hours a week into diablo 4.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

Official Carrier of the Neil Bush Torch
https://i.imgur.com/k0VzJPW.mp4

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Roosevelt posted:

why is he so obsessed with miserable 80+ hour work weeks

no time to unionize if your only life is working

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

Not sure if I should pinch it or keep pushing?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1858097995050319941

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

fear of musk’s seed

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

lol yeah let’s go back to everybody having nine children eight of which die you stupid motherfuckers

Roosevelt posted:

why is he so obsessed with miserable 80+ hour work weeks

he like all these dumb rich assholes, thinks he actually a) works and b) works 80-90 hour weeks

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
i really hate that man

nobody is teaching "fear of pregnancy", it's more that people like elon musk and his new friends are creating a future i wouldn't want my children to live through. plus it's incredibly difficult to even afford having children unless you're upper class

on the trajectory climate change is accelerating at poo poo is going to be loving awful 20 years from now, and we've blown past any chance of easily reversing it. that's ignoring other policy decisions like eliminating the concept of public health, the incoming trump administration likely eliminating vaccines and regulations on food quality, republicans pushing to eliminate child labor laws, the republican project to eliminate public schools and heavily regulate what is taught in ones that remain, so that they don't learn anything useful, etc. etc.

i could go on but i'm depressing myself

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

mediaphage posted:

lol yeah let’s go back to everybody having nine children eight of which die you stupid motherfuckers

they are in fact working very hard to go back to that

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


Elon stanning the boomers.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

Dwesa posted:

Twitter is dying

comparison of engagement numbers on some #sports posts on bluesky and xhitter





good

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Cheen
Apr 17, 2005

Please keep posts to the retro format, incremental change is hard and we had a terrible burn down last sprint

Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

qirex posted:

eagerly awaiting the elon musk post mortem

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

Not sure if I should pinch it or keep pushing?

so many good lessons about how you're a special smart boy in that video game

Dijkstracula
Mar 18, 2003

You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!


retro elon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mczdODqzo

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

rowkey bilbao posted:


so many good lessons about how you're a special smart boy in that video game

i wonder what it's like

to still make a "that's what she said" joke in 2024, and think it's funny

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

rowkey bilbao posted:


so many good lessons about how you're a special smart boy in that video game

the joke is the one thing elon actually made/did himself in that tweet

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mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

is this the one he immediately wrecked and (regrettably only) almost killed thiel who was riding with him

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