this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
845 points (93.9% liked)

Technology

59594 readers
2961 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No idea how people are still buying and riding in this guy's cars after seeing how badly he runs a website.

[–] spacel0rd 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Badly is a vast understatement. There isn't a word that describes blowing 44 billion. Maybe 1 Musk can be a new unit of idiocy.

[–] Thaurin 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“Damn it, Jim! You just lost the company 100.000 dollars!”

“How big of a failure are we talking about here?”

“It’s about a 0.00000227272 Musk! You’re fired!”

[–] madcaesar 4 points 1 year ago

What does that convert to Shrute Bucks?

[–] quantum_mechanic 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"He really Musked it this time".

[–] mr_tyler_durden 9 points 1 year ago

What?

Musked it. It’s just this thing people say around your office all the time. Like when you screw something up in a really irreversable way, you Musked it. I don’t know where it comes from though. You think it came from Elon Musk?

I don’t know. Who knows how words are formed.

[–] daninet 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not trying to protect him he is an idiot. However he is trying to find monetization and profitability other than filling the site with ads. It is really hard in 2023. He is going to drive twitter into the ground but it is not going to be because of his monetization or staffing decisions but because of his stupid i-know-it-all attitude.

[–] 2ez 6 points 1 year ago

What's his strategy? Leroy Jenkins?

[–] pexavc 6 points 1 year ago

to be honest, its kind of a great time for future social app start-up founders to use his expensive experimentation as learning observations.