Why Utility Grids are Afraid of Elon Musk

[OxQQme]

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[FreepFryer]

1. Lol musk is a dumbass. These pro Musk posts like the OP are plain BS, Obvs he needs good press NOW.

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FEB 18, 2022

Elon Musk deletes tweet comparing Canada’s Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler

Elon Musk deleted a controversial tweet that made a satirical comparison between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Adolf Hitler.

Musk, 50, was replying to a post by cryptocurrency trade publication CoinDesk about Trudeau’s emergency orders aimed at cutting off funds to protesters who have blocked border crossings and camped out in Canada’s capital. Musk tweeted a photo of Hitler with the text “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau” at the top, and “I had a budget” at the bottom.

The tweet generated backlash from groups such as the American Jewish Committee, an advocacy organization, which called on Musk to apologize for making reference to the dictator who oversaw the genocide of millions.

“Once again, Elon Musk has exercised extremely poor judgment by invoking Hitler to make a point on social media,” the group said in a statement earlier Thursday. “He must stop this unacceptable behavior.”

The controversy comes as Tesla faces complaints over racial discrimination and harassment. California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued Tesla last week for racial discrimination and harassment after finding a widespread pattern of mistreatment of Black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco.

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/02/18/musk-tweet-comparing-canadas-trudeau-to-hitler-was-deleted/

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Musk stans out in force today

I wonder why...

[Raster]

5. And let's not overlook the fact that Tesla fell seven spots in consumer satisfaction

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/tesla-tumbles-in-consumer-reports-ranking-after-design-changes

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-consumer-reports-ranking-51645124445

https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1135097_subaru-climbs-tesla-falls-in-consumer-reports-top-brands-of-2022

[paulkienitz]

7. The paradox of Musk is that he may be a bullshitting asshole but his innovations are the real deal.

As much as you'd like to blow him off, in the end he may have actually accomplished more to combat global warming than anyone else alive.

One way he's going wrong, I suspect, is that he's now proven himself enough that people don't make him prove himself anymore, so when he gets a bad or dumb idea he's allowed to run with it. In the past we only saw his good ideas because the bad ones didn't become public, only the ones that proved out. Now we hear every thought that pops into his head, no matter how asinine, and plenty of people are willing to congratulate him on being brilliant no matter how stupid a notion he mouths off with. He needs to get put back in a position where he has to prove his ideas, because Elon with no reality check is embarrassing.

[FreepFryer]

8. BS. What innovations did he create, versus buy? He is empty, hence his behavior. (Nt)

[paulkienitz]

9. innovations

The biggest personal innovation is reusable rockets. Their availability today was completely driven by him, not by anything he bought or anyone he made a deal with. But his most important innovation was just the mass manufacturing of electric cars. He singlehandedly forced the entire car industry to go semi-green against its will, just by refusing to treat electric cars as boutique products and always pushing for a massive scale of production.

[FreepFryer]

10. Neither of those are his doing. Thanks though. (Nt)

[paulkienitz]

11. Actually, they are

in the sense that nobody else was willing to pay engineers to get it done.

Well, Bezos made a try at it, but he lacked followthrough.

Saying Musk didn't do the innovating personally is like saying that Steve Wozniak was a bigger innovator than Steve Jobs because he's the one who actually built machines. Jobs was only a "visionary" who told other people what to do, rather than a hands-on creator, but the fact is that Woz only made a big innovation once, and Jobs disrupted his industry four or five separate times, so that competitors were forced to imitate him. Doesn't mean I have to like Jobs better than Woz -- I don't -- but calling out the ways he was an asshole does not take away his tremendous impact.

[Gore1FL]

3. Everyone should be afraid of Musk. He is unhinged, powerful, and has a cult-like following. nt

[Raster]

4. Just another asshole with too much money and too little common sense.

Musk fanboy go home!

[GoneOffShore]

6. There will posts soon touting crypto and NFT's