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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 251 points 1 year ago (9 children)

You can literally fit the entire text on your phone

But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can't serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he's determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives

The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (2 children)

musk is dumb as a brick

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.

[–] gullible@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.

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[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Capitalized

is... ...is that a pun?

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 140 points 1 year ago (5 children)

He sounds like some upper level management I've known. "Why does this cost so much, you're just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?"

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.

Sadly, management cluetards "think" otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 110 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn't he at least be aware of the operating expenses?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn't pay his bills. Problem solved.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1

[–] Elivey@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

That would require him being aware of anything that goes into running any of his businesses, and maybe not tweeting all day from his private jets to actually pay attention to them.

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[–] Nedlymandico@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fucking loser.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously. All that power and money and he spends 100% of his free time trolling on the internet.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He isn't trolling, he is just really, really dumb. If you ever heard him talk about something that you're knowledgable in, you instantly realize that he has no idea what he's talking about.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He never misses an opportunity to display how dumb is. Like, just shut up dude.

He has like 100 bajillion dollars he doesn't need to be in charge of Twitter why did he buy it? Oh yeah that's right because someone hurt his feelings and he thought the buying Twitter would in some way get back at them.

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[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.

This is the same guy who didn't understand why you couldn't just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you're moving into a college dorm.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9%3famp

I just don't understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.

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[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago

Here's the de-ampified version of that link:

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the "Readers added context" feature. Yet.

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I'm sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.

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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So, how long before the "Readers added additonal context" feature mysteriously vanishes?

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Attacking Twitter then and now attacking Wikipedia. You can tell he want so hard to hide information and with starlink in his control it might happen.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 55 points 1 year ago

Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?

[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude has become a shitty combination of Tucker and Trump

"Just asking stupid questions"

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[–] dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wikipedia actually strives to pay it's bills

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[–] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

thats a dog whistle.

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[–] Thebazilly@ttrpg.network 37 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks for reminding me to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago

Obviously he has an axe to grind with facts being easily available to regular people. He's trying to leverage his voice as a hated billionaire to signal maga conspiracy theories.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can he fuck off and stop mentioning Wikipedia

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I sincerely hope that in the future when peole look up the archaic expression of 'Dumb Fuck' they find a beautiful portrait of man baby Elon.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk is such a giant fucking idiot. It’s tragic that such dumb shitty people have all the money.

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[–] hogunner@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Musk was never meant to move beyond middle-management at a bottom tier MLM company.

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