granted it was kind of sick (positive) when people did that with the early paid verified tweets made to look like pharmacutical companies and lockheed martin were suddenly growing a heart and it made their stocks plummet IMMEDIATELY
"Musk is undebateably the planet's alpha tweeter." That's one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard. It makes all the embarrassing shit I've said seem not so bad after all.
right? heck of a self-esteem boost for someone (me) who spends hours obsessively fixated (me) on things theyve said in the past that might be embarrassing (its me i do this) to simply compare them to that sentence.
most of the fucking article read as if it was wrote by me writing youtube comments, only on weed. Almost every single sentence made me wonder "why the fuck would any journalism company ever hire someone like this".
The whole American liberal voter base, honestly. - my favorite celebrity can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad - my economic system can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad - the people and system that abduct, imprison, and/or kill “criminals” can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad - the products I consume can’t have a blood price on them, that would make me feel bad It’s the most basic kind of conservatism: “the status quo is comfortable enough for me that I don’t want to change it or think too hard about it”
The Elon Musk hype cycle: "Why are we still using boring light bulbs? Its so inefficient; I'm going to create controllable, light-emitting wallpaper and it will last 100 years, use no electricity at all and will cost 10 cents per square foot. Will be ready for sale next year" *One year passes* "Here is a prototype!" *shows a staged image of a room with the walls glowing different colours, rumours emerge it's just using light bulbs hidden behind furniture* *One year passes* "OK we're pivoting to looking at a design which uses LEDs to emit light, but it will still be way better than existing light sources" *One year passes* "Ladies and gentlemen: the Solaris Beacon!" *shows a strip of LED lights you attach to the wall that can change colour with a remote*
@@MateusAntonioBittencourt Indeed. Also forgot to mention that Elon releases some figures showing that the Beacon uses 100x less power than a regular light bulb by comparing the power consumption of one Beacon to the power required to light a whole office building with conventional incandescent light bulbs.
Very interesting that this guy hears "he mistreats employees" and talks about Elon like personally being rude to people instead of any structural and systemic mistreatment- which is. like. obviously happening. When he hears employee mistreatment he thinks of like. Iron Man Quips
He is both, i doubt its profitable firing that many people in important positions on a whim. Thats his touch, not the cooperation aspect, but he personally, doubles down too. If hiring union busting hunters is done over well making things a bit better for workers, which wouls be an incredible valuable investent in motivation for workers. That is him. Also his social media.
The thing about the Iron Man quips is like... Look at that character's arc. He doesn't start out his story as the good guy. But then, I guess this is what happens every time you have a piece of media where the main character is a shithead.
@@paulsmart4672 Yeah, he just looks cool when being an asshole, and those people just focuses on the cool parts and not the context surrounding it. Also, those characters' assholishness is cool because it's not directed at you
A former employer of mine made me feel "unsafe and triggered" when in reaction to me coming out as trans they moved my work area so I would be facing a wall for eight hours a day and then when I put up pictures of musicians, authors, pieces of art etc I was told to remove it all because "personalisation of your work area isn't permittable and some of your pictures have raised complaints". When I asked which pictures my supervisor told me that I needed to "stop asking questions and get on with your work, I want the pictures down first" before opening the door into the next part of the factory where I and anyone else could see a picture of a The S88 page three girl...of course when I later on complained about that picture I was chided for being prudish and only complaining because I had asked to remove the pictures at my work area. To add insult he then told one of the lads in that area that I had made a complaint and instead of that picture being taken down, more were put up and I was then subject to the the transphobic comments becoming increasingly nastier and harder to ignore.... How over-sensitive of me. So over sensitive I ended up in the local hospital having taken an overdose. UNIONISE.
Yeah that last part was oversensitive. I was given similar treatment in my workplace. Not because I'm trans, gay, black or anything. Just because the boss was a cunt. My response was always to just be a cunt back. They literally couldn't fire me for being a cunt. The whole "you can't personalize your workspace" thing. That's a suggestion. I don't have to follow it. You can fire me if it affects my work :)
Unionizing is nearly impossible these days, and you are actually proof of why. You were too chickenshit to do anything but take it. You were too subservient and obedient to stand up for yourself. I know for a fact resorting to outside means of justice never crossed your mind, like having his legs broken. And after you let some white trash factory hog invent rules over and over again, your solution was to OD instead of mixing your H in his coffee so he'd OD. And now you're on the internet shouting how WE need a union? I missed the part where you tried to organize a union at this workplace. Have you ever even been at a job where people were just trying to get cards signed to prove to the state a majority of workers support the idea so an election can be held? Just one of the many bullshit obstacles in forming a union designed to expose who is a union supporter early before the employees have any protection from retaliatory termination. Also, everything you claimed happened you should have been documenting it and you should have reported it to the Gov. Regulatory agencies for multiple instances of discriminatory behavior. So, even when well established, well known labor laws and employee rights with websites and phone numbers and detailed descriptions of those rights are literally hanging up on display at all workplaces because it is MANDATORY, ....you decided to instead OD rather than demonstrate and ounce of self pride. The other top obstacle/reason why unionization fails is because of people like YOU. People who let supervisors invent obviously fake policies (That they should be able to produce in written form and dated, and that you were oblivious existed which is not how policies work), and let management move their workspaces off into corners for no reason, and they don't even bother asking for a reason. These are workers who run off scared when asked to sign a union card, paranoid and afraid they'll "get into trouble" and are paralyzed by fear of any altercation. These are workers who quite frankly turn into company rats to save their skin, and will start naming names the second they're called into the office. And this cowardly, pathetic peasant mentality is why tyrants exist. Because these individual people would rather destroy hundreds or thousands of lives instead of risking 1% of the personal comforts they enjoy. These worthless people tend to be narcissistic, like the kind who will run over a bicyclist in their car, and then put on a hysterical show to "out victim" the person they ran over and hide behind mental/emotional issues that can't be proven in order to delay or avoiding taking any responsibility. A DECENT human being would immediately try to obtain a medical status/call for medical response, and be eager to offer comfort, not because its about who is at fault, but who was most affected and endangered. Those are the people who will support unionizing. Not self preservationist jellyfish. They have been and continue to be the #1 tool of tyrants.
@@TheSMR1969 I don't think that self-harm being a direct result of transphobia and discriminatory behavior in one's workplace is a good reason to laugh one's ass off.
It's so weird, because a theme of his books is people being stuck in mindless corporate structures. Bosses are by and large presented as mostly bumbling fools. There is a aubcurrent of liberal belief in "self made men", though. Still, I wonder how he can't see that Elon is exactly character with more mone than sense that is usually portrayed as the bas guy. Actually, he even wrote himself as the (sort of) bad guy in one of his novels.
but in terms of the service Elon provides these people, thats basically all they need. they use all these words to mystify the whole thing but they just want a guy they like to be talked about positively because they think similar behaviour will be rewarded in kind. (spoiler the system is random and your odds are based on parents wealth)
I listened to DC's Massey Lectures from 2010 on CD quite a lot when I's younger, and thought they were funny, smart, and mostly enjoyable if a bit misinformed. I'm really disappointed now.
The smartest person in the world is anyone who worked on the NEO: The World Ends with You OST. As for Elon Musk, just because Mr. Burns owns a nuclear power plant doesn't mean that he's a nuclear physicist.
A friend works at space X he’s definitely doing that toxic positive work culture thing. He’s admitted their deadlines make no damn sense from an engineering perspective (we’re both engineers) but he’s lied to himself it’s just that much more motivation and not that whoever is dictating the deadlines is either a moron or doesn’t care the deadlines are near impossible to meet.
Wait, what about this one early episode where Homer gets a hair tonic that actually works, and he's much respected by everyone in his life and is even given a big promotion at the plant? When he goes bald again Mr. Burns meets him privately in his office and pulls out a photo album of his life and in one of the pictures he's seen working in a laboratory. Maybe not nuclear physics but he has to have a background of scientific studies to get where he is.
That bit about IQ is hilarious. Dude goes on at length about how Musk has an IQ of about 155. *I* have an IQ of 155, and I spend all day sitting around in my pjs playing computer games. IQ is nothing special and means nothing.
alledgedly i was tested at like 184 or some crap when i was a child and i can confidently say that i'm the stupidest mfer ever to be born. i can't even do basic addition or subtraction, i forget my own birthday frequently. im dumb asf. none of this is a brag
my iq dropped ten points between 4th and 5fth grade, and rose 10 points by 7th grade again. that measurement was supposed to decide my education and future, and i couldve had a prestigious diploma if they had just accoubted.for me being a depressed mfer really, iq tests are like witch-"tests" of our generation
This goober isn’t even making his own argument well. He’s prefaced this entire defense of Elon Musk’s character on the basis that he’s the smartest man in any room, and yet a portion of his defense is that Elon Musk is an idiot who makes bad tweets and doesn’t know what he’s doing. An interesting choice.
Maybe I’m overthinking it but it feels patriarchal. The man is smart and capable but also come on, he’s just a guy, guys are dumb idiots who can’t control themselves! But also they need to be in power because they’re so smart actually. And other cool social scripts that make sense
At least Edison’s petty, fraudulent dickery is broadly accepted to have been influential to society’s scientific progress. There’s nothing that Elon Musk is associated with that’s remotely new, or likely to impact society in a meaningful way.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick I was gonna say "someone whose name we'll never learn because they got completely trampled by capitalists" but you already nailed it.
As someone who owns a non-Tesla EV, the point about how he monopolized the infrastructure hits hard. You can't charge a non-Tesla car at a Tesla charger, but yet Tesla has installed chargers at most rest stops, hotels, etc., so then places don't even think about installing other chargers. Then, they come out with a product to allow Tesla cars to charge at non-Tesla chargers, further limiting the accessibility of non-Tesla EV's being able to charge and making it seem like the only way to feasibly go with an EV is to go Tesla. It can still be done with a non-Tesla, but longer drives are difficult because of the limited infrastructure that's been monopolized by one company.
Urgh, I don't drive at all so didn't know that this was a problem. I'm not hype for the future where we've got six different adaptors for all the various electric car brands and models in a cardboard box in the hallway like the tangle of redundant phone chargers in our bedside drawers.
Tesla talked to other car manufacturers so that they would adapt tesla charging networks but they declined. Also later this year tesla chargers will be accessible to other ev's
fun fact: Tesla, under Musk, literally set back electric cars by years. Under the CA law requiring manufacturers to sell a certain number of electric cars, electric car manufactures could (of course, praise markets) sell the credits for their "excess" electric cars above that quota to other manufacturers so they didn't have to - just like noted totally functional policy of carbon credits! Tesla, as a small manufacturer, got TRIPLE credits for these. Here's the super fun part: they were allowed to count (or just did and never got dinger) the *preorders* for their cars - which you might recall were sold *years* before they made a single mass-market car! So Tesla sold electric car credits to Ford and GM, enabling them to get around the California laws that were supposed to cause more electric car manufacturing, without even making electric cars themselves!
Someone always has to bring up the "But what if they're discussing Nietzsche?" response, as if: 1) Nietzsche's ideas weren't a direct influence on who and what came later, 2) We weren't all very aware of that exception anyway, 3) People who are red, black and white flags don't use that as a shield. Yes, we get it, there are contexts like discussing philosophy where using the term isn't a bad sign, but in pretty much every other context, including using the term to describe a living, breathing human, it is.
@@hughcaldwell1034 What's really ironic is that Nietzsche despised Germans and loudly proclaimed himself Polish at every opportunity, then he died and his sister, who was a hardcore German nationalist, edited and rewrote much of his works
Nietzsche: stop following slave morality. Recognize and embrace your inner strenght and value Musk's fans: he's the greatest man ever and we should follow him blindly
On the topic of his coding abilities: They had to bring in people to rework his stuff because it was such a mess. He knew how to code in the same way a teenager knows how to cook: technically edible but not ideal.
That's the thing about Elon, he's a savvy investor who knows that being a savvy investor isn't enough to establish a cult of personality. So he tries to be perceived as a super scientist while his actual scientific credentials are a Bachelor of ARTS in physics and a PhD programme he dropped out of on day one. At some point (or from the beginning) he also started believing that shit himself and now his employees complain about him weighing in on the technical side of things when he really isn't qualified to talk about it.
@@jonathanmarth6426 The Thing with the Supermodels? Holy cringe-sentence in heaven. Divine Penguin, stay with us and make the cringe-gut-feeling go away, please!!
That's exactly what he's doing to be fair. Successfully presenting something mundane as if it was a revolutionnary idea. Well I guess it does leave out the part where it ends up less functional than the original idea.
I mean this is the same bullshit that gets banded around anytime any toxic work place shit comes to light. "WHAT? Video game studios can be abusive to employees and often are when the employee is female? Well why would anyone work for them then? It's not like companies literally prey on peoples' passion and desire to not starve in order to build a workforce who will suffer almost any insult. I can't believe it." This fucking non-defense gets trotted out day in and day out to insist that abuse shouldn't just be over looked but that any damage caused was the victim's fault to begin with. Ya know, like Suk Lemon over here is a fucking wild bear and therefore can't be expected to have common human decency.
@@ConclusiveConfusion yea I really don't get how people working class people can defend such a argument, firstly you work to get money to pay the rent and buy food sure many of other passions and stuff that brings them to specific work places but the main reason to work is to earn money so we can't just jump ship if the work place is bad we need another ship to jump to or a life raft till we find a new ship that might be better secondly you might be bound to the company for X mounts by the contracts you signs and you most likely don't know how shitty of a workplace it is because workers are to afraid to speak up and might even have a NDA that prevents them
Okay but "He's naturally mean so that's why he treats his employees badly" is an argument that just... it's like an unholy creation that's barely clenching to life, begging for a quick end. It doesn't make sense, when you look at it further you feel a bit disgusted, and we all should just end it's misery and move on with our lives.
I mean technically from a logical perspective it makes sense, but it's not a good reason or even a passable excuse so it doesn't work in the context it's presented in. It's basically like saying an asshole acts like an asshole, just more subtle.
I like how he simultaniously argues that it's bad that no one can, apparenty, say anything nice about people anymore but it's also good that Musk is a huge asshole to people & it's pathetic that people don't like having their feelings hurt by him.
if i compare elon's accomplishments minus his money, he's basically just like any average dude i know. like you pursued coding, dropped out of school and then struggled to patch together a website with your friend. great. nothing superhuman about that. that's like 5 dudes i've known. but if you do it with apartheid emerald money it's suddenly considered "ubermensch" because money inherently makes you more valuable, literally ...
I think the guy meant "reinventing money" as in cryptocurrency, a lot of his fanboys consider him like the godfather of crypto which is a whole other set of cringe 😬
Yeah that was my first thought, too. Does the author think Elon created DOGE? Based on the other things with which Elon gets wrongfully credited, I wouldn't be surprised.
Real crypto dudes hate him though because he denounced bitcoin and plummeted the price. As if he cares about the environment at all. The only people who like him in the crypto community are cringey doge fanboys because he pumped up the price those few times.
14:31 His response to “Elon treats his employees badly” first is reciting his previous point that everyone can be a dick sometimes. Ah yes, who hasn’t accrued tons of labor violations every once in a while?
Among the not-nice people is Elon Musk. But that's good actually, not like the other *bad* not-nice people, because his boots taste so good and I love to lick them all over.
Oh dear, thot slime goes totally Affective Fallacy (also The Romantic Fallacy;:) An extremely common modern fallacy of Pathos, that one's emotions, urges or "feelings" are innate and in every case self-validating, autonomous, and above any human intent or act of will (one's own or others'), and are thus immune to challenge or criticism. (In fact, researchers now [2017] have robust scientific evidence that emotions are actually cognitive and not innate.) In this fallacy one argues, "I feel it, so it must be true. My feelings are valid, so you have no right to criticize what I say or do, or how I say or do it." This latter is also a fallacy of stasis, confusing a respectful and reasoned response or refutation with personal invalidation, disrespect, prejudice, bigotry, sexism, homophobia or hostility. A grossly sexist form of the Affective Fallacy is the well-known crude fallacy that the phallus "Has no conscience" (also, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do;" "Thinking with your other head."), i.e., since (male) sexuality is self-validating and beyond voluntary control what one does with it cannot be controlled either and such actions are not open to criticism, an assertion eagerly embraced and extended beyond the male gender in certain reifications of "Desire" in contemporary academic theory. See also, Playing on Emotion. Opposite to this fallacy is the Chosen Emotion Fallacy (thanks to scholar Marc Lawson for identifying this fallacy), in which one falsely claims complete, or at least reliable prior voluntary control over one's own autonomic, "gut level" affective reactions. Closely related if not identical to this last is the ancient fallacy of Angelism, falsely claiming that one is capable of "objective" reasoning and judgment without emotion, claiming for oneself a viewpoint of Olympian "disinterested objectivity" or pretending to place oneself far above all personal feelings, temptations or bias. See also, Mortification.
Yes, my middle class family also had an illegal Namibian gem mine that was worth billions and staffed by slaves, and we routinely sold the gems to American and European jewelry stores in violation of international law. Didn't yours?
The best part about the Tesla thing and Elon "single handedly" doing shit is the sheer amount of US Government handouts he got to do it. Musk is the poster child for Government free rides and it seriously bothers me.
Spoke the truth, got deleted. Elon musk is a stain on American Capitalism and he's hates The People. Otherwise he'd help fund the Monorail in Las Vegas or at least the government would. But instead we get a one lane tunnel that will cost much more than expanding the current system in place.
The leadup and punchline to that "we live in a meritocracy" joke is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel. Genuinely laughed out loud at that.
Meh.... I do like Rick and Morty, but not Elon Musk. But I do not think Rick is someone to aspire to be. And I do not think Intelligence make you cruel. People who do think that I often find are very un-self-aware and full of themselves and often not as smart as they think they are.
@@hartthorn Oh yes. I actually dislike all those types of fans. Especially since it makes me out as a hipster. Disliking a those fans because they do not get it sort of thing. But hay. That is what I am doing. I think Rorschach from watchmen is a other example.
I got to the "his Cybertruck launch was a disaster" and had to check the date this was uploaded. Amazing. Most of this article is indeed the most embarrassing thing I've ever heard, but that was spot on, and predicted the future too!
"Elon Musk is bad at manipulating the media," says a man supposedly voluntarily writing an article in Musk's defense on The Guardian, a website that was recently called the most widely used newspaper website and app for news.
Boy, I was saving my one yearly like for a video of a cat saving another, smaller cat from drowning in a flood...but you really deserved it for this video.
"He can destroy billions of dollars in wealth with a tweet, why would he bother manipulating the media?" Ah yes, I see we've taken the "evil villain is so powerful that he can do all of this, why would he NEED to do anything that's so BENEATH him?" approach.
and i love when he says "the internet gave us the last five years" instead of just saying the internet gave us Trump, which it did with the fake news bots, but i guess he didn't want to make a comparisson to Trump and Hitler easier, even if in that example it would be fitting any way, he uses it to deflect criticism against technology without acknowledging the solution, which is regulation, the thing billonaires like Musk hate technology can be good or bad, less fossil fuels is good, but not at the cost of exclusive charging ports that will limit competition
Actually it is. Hitler ran his own news network.... In which he told his listeners everything else was "fake news"..... So much of the followers of hitlers were fans of his news show. And that's how he got so many followers. Its how he developed his speaking style he was known for.
Elon thinks AI is going to destroy humanity because he's a yudkowsky dork. He's absolutely spent time posting on LessWrong and fully believes in Roko's Basilisk
Oh God, my husband used the same story about the supermodels to defend him too. I am an engineer. I work with lots of technologically smart people. Very few of them are actually dicks. It's possible to be good at technology and not a dick.
It should be pointed out that 1996 was about the last time Douglas Coupland mattered anywhere outside of Canada, so it is unsurprising that he would celebrate the celebrity interview culture of that time.
@@Mosstoad there might be a few words left or letters at worst for those further down in the tweet hierarchy. But noone should be sad because the alpha tweeter was the one who made it all possible in the first place.
I've never heard Musk say anything particularly intelligent, ever. I don't get what makes ppl think he's smart. No proof of his intelligence anywhere. When I think 'intelligence' I never think of businessmen, instead I think of artists, philosophers, writers, inventors, etc. Musk is a totally unremarkable intellect, worse than mediocre.
Some people have convinced themselves that being rich makes that person better than everyone else because they think that someday _they'll_ be the uber-rich.
He isnt hannah reloaded does streams on him , and some ex employees were there too in chat, no he isnt smart, he appearently asked the stupid questions, and what makes him really dumb, he doest listen to people who know their stuff. And being firehappy as he is, they are scared. Also yeah if i were the smartest person in the room, i would listen to criticism. And stiulating ideas and that. wouldnt i?! He isnt dumb but incredibly arrogant and sheltered that he behaves very dumb. I think he is average. And that doesnt care if he is not willing to improve himself really
@@yourex-wife4259 He very much wants the world to think of him the way people think of Einstein in casual conversation. Einstein had his flaws but he was a truly brilliant mind who was lucky enough to escape Germany before things got really really bad, and worked with many other brilliant minds on some very important concepts that expanded our understanding of the universe at large. He foresaw, like a few others, the future of nuclear weaponry, encouraged the Allies to look into it as a precaution against Germany, but refused to work on it himself as a conscientious objector. E=mc2. Five characters that sprang forth from his research are more famous, impactful, and meaningful to humanity than Musk ever will be. Musk showed up late to the dot com boom but lucked out on his investment. These men will never be comparable. And I hope it eats at him that no matter how hard he tries, only his weirdo fans will ever hold him in that high a regard.
When I was 10, I remember reading about DC having retconned Luthor to just be a businessman instead of also a scientist, and I didn't understand because I thought "Well if he runs a tech company, doesn't that mean he'd have to be not only a scientist, but like, the best scientist?" Whenever I see people stan Musk, I remember that thought, as I'm pretty sure they're stuck in that same mentality. They don't see "businessman" because they don't understand how someone who's just a businessman could run a tech company.
"Dear God, is this what our society has been reduced to?" Split-second shot of Mildread getting ready for a reply before an ad overtakes the video by starting with a loud shush noise. Amazing. Even the ads don't like the article.
Oof, I'm not so sure. I feel like he would talk a big game going into it, maybe act super tough or clever or confident at first. But once you actually get him cornered, I fully believe he will just fall apart, start crying and begging for his life and soiling himself as he grovelled on the ground. He would take all the fun out of it, and the kill would feel hollow and undeserved.
Rogue AI is a genuine concern in AI research, but it's the kind of thing that will be *caused*, not stopped, by someone arrogant and attention-seeking like Musk, given his track record of ignoring safety concerns.
@@ExtremeMadnessX that's just it: "evil" is human morality. An AI programmed to be as efficient as possible at achieving some goal may take "evil" actions because they are optimal. It's not a case of an AI being evil so much as it lacking a concept of mortality.
@@davidmurray3542 I didn't think evil in literal sense, but also wouldn't truly sapient AI also developed some kind of moral and concluded that harming people isn't must logical solution.
@@ExtremeMadnessX You'd have to program something like that or at the very least socialize the AI the way that humans are socialized. It would have to understand how things like ethics works and then you'd have to be sure that it didn't reason the same way that humans often do, that losses are acceptable. In short its a lot of complex programing with massive room for things to go wrong or not even wrong, but in ways that we humans, don't expect. And that is even before you then give x or y AI access to power or information that then means reevaluating all of that over again. If you make an AI of suitable intelligence or ability, you are effectively creating a person, but a person with experience and mental capacity far beyond that of any other person that ever has been, and their outlook is going to be utterly unique from any other person that has ever been as well.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Logical conclusion for what? Morals are developed for a purpose, if sapient AI doesn't need morals to reach it's goals it would not have any morals.
Funny that you'd facetiously compare him to Iron Man as someone who engineers everything, when the whole premise of Spiderman Far From Home was that a disaffected worker was angry at Tony for taking credit for his work. One can imagine this problem is endemic to the fictional company.
15:30 "it makes sense to be cruel to infants because infants are stupid and incompetent" is a pretty accurate summary of mainstream American child-rearing.
@@LupineShadowOmega ...and because the prospect of "being a great man" just by throwing money at ideas that thousands of people are already working on and then being able to demand credit for those ideas appeals to the lazier sort of golden-calf-worshippers.
"commenting on other's content is really lazy" Hey, Thought Slime. I really disagree. I love when you do that stuff because you add a lot to it. It's only lazy when people do essentially reaction videos saying "Wow! That's crazy! So bad! ... Like and subscribe!"
"I've read 'Ready Player One'. ...This is MORE embarrassing." ... I got to the part where it was revealed that Artemis was scorchingly beautiful, but for her wine-stain birthmark and, I'll say it, I just hated myself. I just hated having made it that far into something that hijacked the worst parts of my nerd culture. Embarrassing it is. Very embarrassing.
No, she wasn’t scorchingly beautiful, she was…rubinesque…. She was FAT! Nobody other than a perfect holy enlightened nerd man could ever look past a small birthmark and a little bit of weight to see beauty (/s)
@@Forestfreud honestly I think the guy who wrote the books based on his “poetry” thinks mildly curvy women are fat and he’s enlightened to find said mildly curvy women attractive. He still wants the cool girl who does performative femininity for him but just what he personally finds attractive.
And then Ready Player Two... which I only read to participate in the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back's hate read of it and OOF! It's clear Ernie cosplays as Elon Musk... in Elon Musk's discarded skin.
"I didn't want to. It's beneath me. It degrades both of us. Me for making this content and you for watching it. But come down into the dirt with me everybody. Come down in the mud debate yourself with me." 😹 Love this channel.
That little wiggle towards the camera feels like something you'd see on an old Bill Nye style educational video for kids and I say that with nothing but admiration that was an absolute delight
" I get thousands of likes on every video. Even bad ones, like this" And it's at that point I clicked the like button. Damn your sneaky psychological manipulation.
When you read "He's the silicon valley ubermensch" in the funny voice I, outloud, with the window open, said "Oh GOOOOD. (God, but.. o dragged out.) shut UP" Using that to describe elon is just.. oh my god. oh my GRIEF. How does anyone /write/ that?
I like how futurism has become taking a thing that works, making it look like a futuristic sex-o-tron, put it in pods or something else (make sure to reduce the efficiency of the existing thing you're reinventing!) and slap yer name on it.
Being a fan of a billionaire must feel like walking around a casino you don't own, and hooting like a badass every time the house wins, licking the urinals, and calling the trash can, "Sir".
This article: Musk can destroy billions of dollars of wealth with one tweet! Also this article: Musk's tweets are bad and often backfire. WELL THAT'S FUCKING COMFORTING!!!!
Hadn't considered that. "You should like this guy! He has a space-based nuclear laser destruction platform." "I am worried that maybe this guy should not have a space-based nuclear laser destruction platform." "God, it's not like he's going to use it to conquer the world, he just gets drunk and fires it off in random directions! SO IT'S FINE!"
"Wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet" is normally what we'd refer to as a terrorist.
Also just saying the quiet part out loud on how fake the whole operation is.
I guess when Bane basically did that in The Dark Knight Rises that made him Iron Man?
True dat.
Epic point actually!
granted it was kind of sick (positive) when people did that with the early paid verified tweets made to look like pharmacutical companies and lockheed martin were suddenly growing a heart and it made their stocks plummet IMMEDIATELY
The Queen would never accuse someone of being a paedophile. Or admit that someone was a paedophile. Quite the opposite in fact.
The Thing with the Supermodels?
Holy cringe-sentence in heaven.
Divine Penguin, stay with us and make the cringe-gut-feeling go away, please!!
"Musk is undebateably the planet's alpha tweeter." That's one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard. It makes all the embarrassing shit I've said seem not so bad after all.
right? heck of a self-esteem boost for someone (me) who spends hours obsessively fixated (me) on things theyve said in the past that might be embarrassing (its me i do this) to simply compare them to that sentence.
i wake up and praise god every day that one of my achievements *isn't being the planet's alpha tweeter*
It made me look based and poggers.
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
most of the fucking article read as if it was wrote by me writing youtube comments, only on weed. Almost every single sentence made me wonder "why the fuck would any journalism company ever hire someone like this".
"I like this celebrity. Stop trying to making me feel bad about it."
That's it. That's the whole article.
To add further to your point, we should all like him too.
The whole American liberal voter base, honestly.
- my favorite celebrity can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad
- my economic system can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad
- the people and system that abduct, imprison, and/or kill “criminals” can’t be bad, that would make me feel bad
- the products I consume can’t have a blood price on them, that would make me feel bad
It’s the most basic kind of conservatism: “the status quo is comfortable enough for me that I don’t want to change it or think too hard about it”
"Elon Musk is really bad at manipulating the media" - A member of the Media, in a piece desperately trying to argue how amazing Elon Musk is
The Thing with the Supermodels?
Holy cringe-sentence in heaven.
Divine Penguin, stay with us and make the cringe-gut-feeling go away, please!!
The ultimate takeaway seems to be that the media is full of easily manipulated stooges lol
The Elon Musk hype cycle:
"Why are we still using boring light bulbs? Its so inefficient; I'm going to create controllable, light-emitting wallpaper and it will last 100 years, use no electricity at all and will cost 10 cents per square foot. Will be ready for sale next year"
*One year passes*
"Here is a prototype!" *shows a staged image of a room with the walls glowing different colours, rumours emerge it's just using light bulbs hidden behind furniture*
*One year passes*
"OK we're pivoting to looking at a design which uses LEDs to emit light, but it will still be way better than existing light sources"
*One year passes*
"Ladies and gentlemen: the Solaris Beacon!" *shows a strip of LED lights you attach to the wall that can change colour with a remote*
Solaris Beacon would be a revolutionary light source you can place on the ceiling and will emit high tech photons to illuminate the room.
well done
The second model actually has the controller on the wall - and BINARY! set it to 1 or 0 to turn it on or off!
@@MateusAntonioBittencourt
Indeed. Also forgot to mention that Elon releases some figures showing that the Beacon uses 100x less power than a regular light bulb by comparing the power consumption of one Beacon to the power required to light a whole office building with conventional incandescent light bulbs.
tbf this is capitalism. underselling is a sin in the eyes of invisible hand of free market.
"He comes from a Middle Class family"
Ah yes, as we know, every middle class family has an emerald mine in South Africa
And, according to his father, so much money that at times their safe was so full it wouldn't close
@@kwarra-an yes because if they weren't so poor they could've bought a bigger safe
This is why the middleclass is disappearing, too little emerald mines
Not just middle class. "As middle class as possible in the 20th century"
The Apartheid Emeralds!
Very interesting that this guy hears "he mistreats employees" and talks about Elon like personally being rude to people instead of any structural and systemic mistreatment- which is. like. obviously happening. When he hears employee mistreatment he thinks of like. Iron Man Quips
He is both, i doubt its profitable firing that many people in important positions on a whim. Thats his touch, not the cooperation aspect, but he personally, doubles down too. If hiring union busting hunters is done over well making things a bit better for workers, which wouls be an incredible valuable investent in motivation for workers. That is him.
Also his social media.
The thing about the Iron Man quips is like...
Look at that character's arc.
He doesn't start out his story as the good guy.
But then, I guess this is what happens every time you have a piece of media where the main character is a shithead.
@@paulsmart4672 Yeah, he just looks cool when being an asshole, and those people just focuses on the cool parts and not the context surrounding it. Also, those characters' assholishness is cool because it's not directed at you
I also love the audacity of the position "Well, everyone's a dick sometimes, so why hold anyone accountable for their shitty behaviour?!?"
Which is essentially a "Whatabout" argument.
A former employer of mine made me feel "unsafe and triggered" when in reaction to me coming out as trans they moved my work area so I would be facing a wall for eight hours a day and then when I put up pictures of musicians, authors, pieces of art etc I was told to remove it all because "personalisation of your work area isn't permittable and some of your pictures have raised complaints". When I asked which pictures my supervisor told me that I needed to "stop asking questions and get on with your work, I want the pictures down first" before opening the door into the next part of the factory where I and anyone else could see a picture of a The S88 page three girl...of course when I later on complained about that picture I was chided for being prudish and only complaining because I had asked to remove the pictures at my work area. To add insult he then told one of the lads in that area that I had made a complaint and instead of that picture being taken down, more were put up and I was then subject to the the transphobic comments becoming increasingly nastier and harder to ignore.... How over-sensitive of me. So over sensitive I ended up in the local hospital having taken an overdose.
UNIONISE.
God I hope you are doing better now Cath
Why did you have an OD lmao
Yeah that last part was oversensitive. I was given similar treatment in my workplace. Not because I'm trans, gay, black or anything. Just because the boss was a cunt. My response was always to just be a cunt back. They literally couldn't fire me for being a cunt. The whole "you can't personalize your workspace" thing. That's a suggestion. I don't have to follow it. You can fire me if it affects my work :)
Unionizing is nearly impossible these days, and you are actually proof of why. You were too chickenshit to do anything but take it. You were too subservient and obedient to stand up for yourself. I know for a fact resorting to outside means of justice never crossed your mind, like having his legs broken. And after you let some white trash factory hog invent rules over and over again, your solution was to OD instead of mixing your H in his coffee so he'd OD. And now you're on the internet shouting how WE need a union?
I missed the part where you tried to organize a union at this workplace. Have you ever even been at a job where people were just trying to get cards signed to prove to the state a majority of workers support the idea so an election can be held? Just one of the many bullshit obstacles in forming a union designed to expose who is a union supporter early before the employees have any protection from retaliatory termination.
Also, everything you claimed happened you should have been documenting it and you should have reported it to the Gov. Regulatory agencies for multiple instances of discriminatory behavior. So, even when well established, well known labor laws and employee rights with websites and phone numbers and detailed descriptions of those rights are literally hanging up on display at all workplaces because it is MANDATORY, ....you decided to instead OD rather than demonstrate and ounce of self pride.
The other top obstacle/reason why unionization fails is because of people like YOU. People who let supervisors invent obviously fake policies (That they should be able to produce in written form and dated, and that you were oblivious existed which is not how policies work), and let management move their workspaces off into corners for no reason, and they don't even bother asking for a reason. These are workers who run off scared when asked to sign a union card, paranoid and afraid they'll "get into trouble" and are paralyzed by fear of any altercation. These are workers who quite frankly turn into company rats to save their skin, and will start naming names the second they're called into the office.
And this cowardly, pathetic peasant mentality is why tyrants exist. Because these individual people would rather destroy hundreds or thousands of lives instead of risking 1% of the personal comforts they enjoy. These worthless people tend to be narcissistic, like the kind who will run over a bicyclist in their car, and then put on a hysterical show to "out victim" the person they ran over and hide behind mental/emotional issues that can't be proven in order to delay or avoiding taking any responsibility.
A DECENT human being would immediately try to obtain a medical status/call for medical response, and be eager to offer comfort, not because its about who is at fault, but who was most affected and endangered. Those are the people who will support unionizing. Not self preservationist jellyfish.
They have been and continue to be the #1 tool of tyrants.
@@TheSMR1969 I don't think that self-harm being a direct result of transphobia and discriminatory behavior in one's workplace is a good reason to laugh one's ass off.
This dude’s main argument is: “how can you think Elon is a bad person? I like him so much!”
Yeah, this cat’s something else
It's so weird, because a theme of his books is people being stuck in mindless corporate structures. Bosses are by and large presented as mostly bumbling fools.
There is a aubcurrent of liberal belief in "self made men", though.
Still, I wonder how he can't see that Elon is exactly character with more mone than sense that is usually portrayed as the bas guy.
Actually, he even wrote himself as the (sort of) bad guy in one of his novels.
And also, "how can you criticise him? He's at such a terrible person! That you should like!"
but in terms of the service Elon provides these people, thats basically all they need. they use all these words to mystify the whole thing but they just want a guy they like to be talked about positively because they think similar behaviour will be rewarded in kind. (spoiler the system is random and your odds are based on parents wealth)
Coupland is known for being intensely sarcastic, he's the man who came up with Gen X, there's a possibility that the entire article is sarcastic.
“If you didn’t cut the mustard, you probably didn’t cut the mustard” this is a person being paid to write. Amazing.
I thought it was a reading mistake initially lol, that he read that line twice for some reason. But nah.
"If you die, you cease to live"
I listened to DC's Massey Lectures from 2010 on CD quite a lot when I's younger, and thought they were funny, smart, and mostly enjoyable if a bit misinformed. I'm really disappointed now.
people die when they're killed
Well, consider it's coming from an untalented, overly credulous essayist and butt-licker?
It's the best self-own I've heard this year...
The smartest person in the world is anyone who worked on the NEO: The World Ends with You OST.
As for Elon Musk, just because Mr. Burns owns a nuclear power plant doesn't mean that he's a nuclear physicist.
Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
A friend works at space X he’s definitely doing that toxic positive work culture thing. He’s admitted their deadlines make no damn sense from an engineering perspective (we’re both engineers) but he’s lied to himself it’s just that much more motivation and not that whoever is dictating the deadlines is either a moron or doesn’t care the deadlines are near impossible to meet.
Funny, but so unfair! Flashbacks show that Burns actually did know nuclear science.
"Grimes! Release the hounds!"
Wait, what about this one early episode where Homer gets a hair tonic that actually works, and he's much respected by everyone in his life and is even given a big promotion at the plant? When he goes bald again Mr. Burns meets him privately in his office and pulls out a photo album of his life and in one of the pictures he's seen working in a laboratory. Maybe not nuclear physics but he has to have a background of scientific studies to get where he is.
This has aged incredibly.
And it only gets better with age
Well, that We're In Hell segment sure didn't.
and the cycle continues
That bit about IQ is hilarious. Dude goes on at length about how Musk has an IQ of about 155. *I* have an IQ of 155, and I spend all day sitting around in my pjs playing computer games. IQ is nothing special and means nothing.
alledgedly i was tested at like 184 or some crap when i was a child and i can confidently say that i'm the stupidest mfer ever to be born. i can't even do basic addition or subtraction, i forget my own birthday frequently. im dumb asf. none of this is a brag
my iq dropped ten points between 4th and 5fth grade, and rose 10 points by 7th grade again.
that measurement was supposed to decide my education and future, and i couldve had a prestigious diploma if they had just accoubted.for me being a depressed mfer
really, iq tests are like witch-"tests" of our generation
@@zioqqr4262 IQ is like Astrology except you can't use it as a mean to do introspection.
Same. I did a fancy test and my IQ came out to be 142, but I had the lowest grades in college.
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
This goober isn’t even making his own argument well.
He’s prefaced this entire defense of Elon Musk’s character on the basis that he’s the smartest man in any room, and yet a portion of his defense is that Elon Musk is an idiot who makes bad tweets and doesn’t know what he’s doing.
An interesting choice.
"Our enemy is both weak and strong"
Bububut... Being socially completely inept means that one is a super genius, Right! Right?
@@KC-il6we hmm, sounds like a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus
Maybe I’m overthinking it but it feels patriarchal. The man is smart and capable but also come on, he’s just a guy, guys are dumb idiots who can’t control themselves! But also they need to be in power because they’re so smart actually. And other cool social scripts that make sense
@@Forestfreud Yeah, I see that. Within the realm of toxic masculinity what is deemed adequate masculine behavior is enormously context sensitive.
Elon Musk is the Thomas Edison of our generation. This is not a compliment.
That's an insult to Edison. At least Edison helped improve light bulb technology before he became money hungry. Musk has done jack shit.
At least Edison’s petty, fraudulent dickery is broadly accepted to have been influential to society’s scientific progress. There’s nothing that Elon Musk is associated with that’s remotely new, or likely to impact society in a meaningful way.
Then who is Nikola Tesla of our generation?
@@ExtremeMadnessX Everybody whose collective effort was actually responsible for the things that billionaire cretins like Musk take credit for.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick I was gonna say "someone whose name we'll never learn because they got completely trampled by capitalists" but you already nailed it.
As someone who owns a non-Tesla EV, the point about how he monopolized the infrastructure hits hard. You can't charge a non-Tesla car at a Tesla charger, but yet Tesla has installed chargers at most rest stops, hotels, etc., so then places don't even think about installing other chargers. Then, they come out with a product to allow Tesla cars to charge at non-Tesla chargers, further limiting the accessibility of non-Tesla EV's being able to charge and making it seem like the only way to feasibly go with an EV is to go Tesla. It can still be done with a non-Tesla, but longer drives are difficult because of the limited infrastructure that's been monopolized by one company.
Urgh, I don't drive at all so didn't know that this was a problem. I'm not hype for the future where we've got six different adaptors for all the various electric car brands and models in a cardboard box in the hallway like the tangle of redundant phone chargers in our bedside drawers.
Tesla talked to other car manufacturers so that they would adapt tesla charging networks but they declined. Also later this year tesla chargers will be accessible to other ev's
There actually is an EV charging standard that all non-Tesla brands use, Tesla just decided to create their own for monopoly purposes.
The weird thing about it is that they're getting government handouts to help create their EV charger monopoly.
@@LofferLogge Funny thing. Tesla chargers in Europe use the standard CCS charger. But in the US it is a closed ecosystem for only TESLA cars.
"Getting mad at a person he made up in his brain to explain just how sensitive everyone else is" has been added to my toolkit
fun fact: Tesla, under Musk, literally set back electric cars by years.
Under the CA law requiring manufacturers to sell a certain number of electric cars, electric car manufactures could (of course, praise markets) sell the credits for their "excess" electric cars above that quota to other manufacturers so they didn't have to - just like noted totally functional policy of carbon credits! Tesla, as a small manufacturer, got TRIPLE credits for these. Here's the super fun part: they were allowed to count (or just did and never got dinger) the *preorders* for their cars - which you might recall were sold *years* before they made a single mass-market car!
So Tesla sold electric car credits to Ford and GM, enabling them to get around the California laws that were supposed to cause more electric car manufacturing, without even making electric cars themselves!
so if Tesla didn't exist, Ford and GM would pay 20% more than the credits in fines and that would be better for the world?
Honestly anyone using the Ubermensch without irony or historical context is always a red (black and white) flag.
Except in the context of discussing Nietzsche.
@@epimisti Quote: "Without irony or historical context"
Someone always has to bring up the "But what if they're discussing Nietzsche?" response, as if:
1) Nietzsche's ideas weren't a direct influence on who and what came later,
2) We weren't all very aware of that exception anyway,
3) People who are red, black and white flags don't use that as a shield.
Yes, we get it, there are contexts like discussing philosophy where using the term isn't a bad sign, but in pretty much every other context, including using the term to describe a living, breathing human, it is.
@@hughcaldwell1034 What's really ironic is that Nietzsche despised Germans and loudly proclaimed himself Polish at every opportunity, then he died and his sister, who was a hardcore German nationalist, edited and rewrote much of his works
Nietzsche: stop following slave morality. Recognize and embrace your inner strenght and value
Musk's fans: he's the greatest man ever and we should follow him blindly
On the topic of his coding abilities:
They had to bring in people to rework his stuff because it was such a mess. He knew how to code in the same way a teenager knows how to cook: technically edible but not ideal.
That's the thing about Elon, he's a savvy investor who knows that being a savvy investor isn't enough to establish a cult of personality. So he tries to be perceived as a super scientist while his actual scientific credentials are a Bachelor of ARTS in physics and a PhD programme he dropped out of on day one.
At some point (or from the beginning) he also started believing that shit himself and now his employees complain about him weighing in on the technical side of things when he really isn't qualified to talk about it.
@@jonathanmarth6426 The Thing with the Supermodels?
Holy cringe-sentence in heaven.
Divine Penguin, stay with us and make the cringe-gut-feeling go away, please!!
Hey man, I make pretty good soup. Why you gotta put my soup down like that :^(
No hut fr, the more I find out about elon's "abilities" the more of a joke he becomes. And I dont think it's in the way he wants.
I learned to cook as a teen, i was good. every girl i cooked for loved what made, i learned that cooking was a good way to.....
I'm screaming at "he's reinventing the wheel and succeeding" being presented as a positive thing
That's exactly what he's doing to be fair. Successfully presenting something mundane as if it was a revolutionnary idea. Well I guess it does leave out the part where it ends up less functional than the original idea.
"Well alright, mister wise guy! If you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be!"
It is an amazing self own
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
He's a stupid man's idea of a smart man... not unlike someone else.
I increasingly believe that the correct answer to the question "Is Elon Musk Tesla or Edison?" is "He's Barnum."
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
This video has aged spectacularly.
He treats his employees badly! “Well he’s Elon! He’s a dick! That makes it fine!” OH MY GOD WHAT
Does the writer think those sarcastic asshole characters should be emulated in real life?
@@thunderbird3304 It’s the message being fed to us by so much mass media after all, why not?
I mean this is the same bullshit that gets banded around anytime any toxic work place shit comes to light.
"WHAT? Video game studios can be abusive to employees and often are when the employee is female? Well why would anyone work for them then? It's not like companies literally prey on peoples' passion and desire to not starve in order to build a workforce who will suffer almost any insult. I can't believe it."
This fucking non-defense gets trotted out day in and day out to insist that abuse shouldn't just be over looked but that any damage caused was the victim's fault to begin with. Ya know, like Suk Lemon over here is a fucking wild bear and therefore can't be expected to have common human decency.
@@ConclusiveConfusion yea I really don't get how people working class people can defend such a argument, firstly you work to get money to pay the rent and buy food sure many of other passions and stuff that brings them to specific work places but the main reason to work is to earn money so we can't just jump ship if the work place is bad we need another ship to jump to or a life raft till we find a new ship that might be better secondly you might be bound to the company for X mounts by the contracts you signs and you most likely don't know how shitty of a workplace it is because workers are to afraid to speak up and might even have a NDA that prevents them
Okay but "He's naturally mean so that's why he treats his employees badly" is an argument that just... it's like an unholy creation that's barely clenching to life, begging for a quick end.
It doesn't make sense, when you look at it further you feel a bit disgusted, and we all should just end it's misery and move on with our lives.
I mean technically from a logical perspective it makes sense, but it's not a good reason or even a passable excuse so it doesn't work in the context it's presented in. It's basically like saying an asshole acts like an asshole, just more subtle.
The meaning of selfhood changed 25 years ago because Evangelion came out and invented psychology
I need this comment. XD
I prefer code geass for inventing revolution 15 years ago.
Kill la kill invented boobs 8 years ago
That Gurren Lagann did a great service for humanity when it invented drills in 2007
@@LP-tf7cy Revolutionary girl Utena erasure!
The fact musk is spooked by rogue ai makes me much less worried about rogue ai
I know this was made before glazing entered common vocabulary, but HOLY SHIT Douglas is the definition and pinnacle of glazing.
I like how he simultaniously argues that it's bad that no one can, apparenty, say anything nice about people anymore but it's also good that Musk is a huge asshole to people & it's pathetic that people don't like having their feelings hurt by him.
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
if i compare elon's accomplishments minus his money, he's basically just like any average dude i know. like you pursued coding, dropped out of school and then struggled to patch together a website with your friend. great. nothing superhuman about that. that's like 5 dudes i've known.
but if you do it with apartheid emerald money it's suddenly considered "ubermensch" because money inherently makes you more valuable, literally ...
I think the guy meant "reinventing money" as in cryptocurrency, a lot of his fanboys consider him like the godfather of crypto
which is a whole other set of cringe 😬
he showed up to that party pretty late and people think he's the host
Yeah that was my first thought, too. Does the author think Elon created DOGE? Based on the other things with which Elon gets wrongfully credited, I wouldn't be surprised.
Real crypto dudes hate him though because he denounced bitcoin and plummeted the price. As if he cares about the environment at all.
The only people who like him in the crypto community are cringey doge fanboys because he pumped up the price those few times.
pump and dump schemes are old as well
@@yourex-wife4259 Doge Coin is based on Bitcoin, which he promoted.
14:31 His response to “Elon treats his employees badly” first is reciting his previous point that everyone can be a dick sometimes.
Ah yes, who hasn’t accrued tons of labor violations every once in a while?
“A real pug ugly yeg” is a fantastic string of syllables.
"People just aren't nice anymore" = "I'm a constant asshole to everyone around me and I assume everyone else is, too."
A thief believes that everyone steals.
Among the not-nice people is Elon Musk. But that's good actually, not like the other *bad* not-nice people, because his boots taste so good and I love to lick them all over.
Oh dear, thot slime goes totally Affective Fallacy (also The Romantic Fallacy;:) An extremely common modern fallacy of Pathos, that one's emotions, urges or "feelings" are innate and in every case self-validating, autonomous, and above any human intent or act of will (one's own or others'), and are thus immune to challenge or criticism. (In fact, researchers now [2017] have robust scientific evidence that emotions are actually cognitive and not innate.) In this fallacy one argues, "I feel it, so it must be true. My feelings are valid, so you have no right to criticize what I say or do, or how I say or do it." This latter is also a fallacy of stasis, confusing a respectful and reasoned response or refutation with personal invalidation, disrespect, prejudice, bigotry, sexism, homophobia or hostility. A grossly sexist form of the Affective Fallacy is the well-known crude fallacy that the phallus "Has no conscience" (also, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do;" "Thinking with your other head."), i.e., since (male) sexuality is self-validating and beyond voluntary control what one does with it cannot be controlled either and such actions are not open to criticism, an assertion eagerly embraced and extended beyond the male gender in certain reifications of "Desire" in contemporary academic theory. See also, Playing on Emotion. Opposite to this fallacy is the Chosen Emotion Fallacy (thanks to scholar Marc Lawson for identifying this fallacy), in which one falsely claims complete, or at least reliable prior voluntary control over one's own autonomic, "gut level" affective reactions. Closely related if not identical to this last is the ancient fallacy of Angelism, falsely claiming that one is capable of "objective" reasoning and judgment without emotion, claiming for oneself a viewpoint of Olympian "disinterested objectivity" or pretending to place oneself far above all personal feelings, temptations or bias. See also, Mortification.
@Hillary Clinton 123 none of that made ANY SENSE
Sir, this is Wendy's.
Yes, my middle class family also had an illegal Namibian gem mine that was worth billions and staffed by slaves, and we routinely sold the gems to American and European jewelry stores in violation of international law. Didn't yours?
The best part about the Tesla thing and Elon "single handedly" doing shit is the sheer amount of US Government handouts he got to do it. Musk is the poster child for Government free rides and it seriously bothers me.
Who is deriding people getting government handouts.
@@lilelo208 not in oz.
whatabout domestic manufacturers that havent paid back squat? tesla paid it all back in record time
Spoke the truth, got deleted.
Elon musk is a stain on American Capitalism and he's hates The People.
Otherwise he'd help fund the Monorail in Las Vegas or at least the government would. But instead we get a one lane tunnel that will cost much more than expanding the current system in place.
Somebody once accused me of being a thief, but I said, I'm really bad at it, so that can't possibly be true.
"If I'm a spy, how come you caught me?"
The leadup and punchline to that "we live in a meritocracy" joke is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel. Genuinely laughed out loud at that.
I think this guy seriously took "Elon Musk is basically Tony Stark" as gospel, and is now defending Tony Stark again real life criticisms of Elon Musk
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
Social media users are famously just sitting on their horde of likes like Smaug, with nary a like given in all the lands.
Well when you’re an alpha tweeter your fingers are ONLY for making alpha-tweeter-level tweets
Please sir, spare some likes for the poor? It gets terrible cold this time of year.
I'd like this comment, but I can't afford to.
Yooo one of my faves watches thought slime!!!
@@GamesFromSpace I got your back bro, I've been saving up my likes for a while.
"Intelligence makes you cruel": this is why the fans of Rick & Morty and Elon Musk are one and the same.
Meh.... I do like Rick and Morty, but not Elon Musk. But I do not think Rick is someone to aspire to be. And I do not think Intelligence make you cruel. People who do think that I often find are very un-self-aware and full of themselves and often not as smart as they think they are.
@@Cythil I suppose the more accurate wording would have been Rick stans. See also: Tyler Durden fans.
@@hartthorn Oh yes. I actually dislike all those types of fans. Especially since it makes me out as a hipster. Disliking a those fans because they do not get it sort of thing. But hay. That is what I am doing. I think Rorschach from watchmen is a other example.
That’s why bullies are always the smartest kids in school! It’s just common sense.
@@Cythil Indeed. I never got into the show, but the real problem is with the people who think they are much smarter than they really are.
Aside from "cutting the mustard", this article is a representation of Douglas's brain cutting the cheese.
I'll admit, this got a genuine chuckle out of me.
I got to the "his Cybertruck launch was a disaster" and had to check the date this was uploaded. Amazing. Most of this article is indeed the most embarrassing thing I've ever heard, but that was spot on, and predicted the future too!
"Elon Musk is bad at manipulating the media," says a man supposedly voluntarily writing an article in Musk's defense on The Guardian, a website that was recently called the most widely used newspaper website and app for news.
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
musk has one key skill: Avoiding regulation
And sueing his way into companies.
Don't forget govn't grants, subsidies, and 'investments'... ironic...
Dont forget stopping unionization efforts
Copeland simped on main about a billionaire...how embarrassing
This is sigma-level simping, really having trouble believing this author isn't trolling...
Boy, I was saving my one yearly like for a video of a cat saving another, smaller cat from drowning in a flood...but you really deserved it for this video.
I didn't expect the comment section to be filled with rational people as opposed to cultists.
I'm just here to say nice stuff about Mildred.
Mildred is cool.
That is all.
I have given you a like from my carefully hoarded stash of likes for saying something that is both nice and accurate.
their lipstick looks pretty good
Mildred is my makeup goals. Looks great but wouldn't know they're wearing it if you don't pay much attention
The Thing with the Supermodels?
Holy cringe-sentence in heaven.
Divine Penguin, stay with us and make the cringe-gut-feeling go away, please!!
"He can destroy billions of dollars in wealth with a tweet, why would he bother manipulating the media?"
Ah yes, I see we've taken the "evil villain is so powerful that he can do all of this, why would he NEED to do anything that's so BENEATH him?" approach.
to me that sound like liturgy manipulating the media or for the weary least manipulating the stock market not sure what is worse lol
"The radio gave us Hitler." That's not at all historically accurate, even slightly.
Goebbels basically gave them away for free to broadcast propaganda 24/7 into German homes. So yes, the radio did a lot to get people into Hitler.
and i love when he says "the internet gave us the last five years" instead of just saying the internet gave us Trump, which it did with the fake news bots, but i guess he didn't want to make a comparisson to Trump and Hitler easier, even if in that example it would be fitting
any way, he uses it to deflect criticism against technology without acknowledging the solution, which is regulation, the thing billonaires like Musk hate
technology can be good or bad, less fossil fuels is good, but not at the cost of exclusive charging ports that will limit competition
Don't fret. After all....
Video killed the radio star 😁
Actually it is. Hitler ran his own news network.... In which he told his listeners everything else was "fake news"..... So much of the followers of hitlers were fans of his news show. And that's how he got so many followers. Its how he developed his speaking style he was known for.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan But that happened _after_ the Nazis were in power. Also, would you say that "TV gave us Donald Trump"?
this aged well
Elon thinks AI is going to destroy humanity because he's a yudkowsky dork. He's absolutely spent time posting on LessWrong and fully believes in Roko's Basilisk
"Musk is basically Iron Man" if ironman didn't invent anything and never had character development.
His persona is exactly like Iron man: Fictional.
Yeah, they forget that Tony Stark is supposed to be a bad guy in the first Iron Man
He's barely Justin Hammer.
Oh God, my husband used the same story about the supermodels to defend him too. I am an engineer. I work with lots of technologically smart people. Very few of them are actually dicks. It's possible to be good at technology and not a dick.
My response is "OK, go do that instead of harassing your workers"
I'm so sorry, I read that as "husband" when you *clearly* meant ex-husband (or at least I hope so for your sake 😏)
It should be pointed out that 1996 was about the last time Douglas Coupland mattered anywhere outside of Canada, so it is unsurprising that he would celebrate the celebrity interview culture of that time.
Gosh, saying a guy looks like a criminal is the peak of irony considering how Elongated Muskrat looks.
I think “The radio gave us Hitler” made my brain flip around in my skull
Yes, the “alpha tweeter!” The Twitter user who gets to eat before all the other Twitter users
Lmao followers have to check to see if alpha Elon has tweeted before making their beta tweets
@@Mosstoad there might be a few words left or letters at worst for those further down in the tweet hierarchy. But noone should be sad because the alpha tweeter was the one who made it all possible in the first place.
the father and mother tweeters must eat before the rest of the pack
I've never heard Musk say anything particularly intelligent, ever. I don't get what makes ppl think he's smart. No proof of his intelligence anywhere. When I think 'intelligence' I never think of businessmen, instead I think of artists, philosophers, writers, inventors, etc. Musk is a totally unremarkable intellect, worse than mediocre.
Some people have convinced themselves that being rich makes that person better than everyone else because they think that someday _they'll_ be the uber-rich.
He isnt hannah reloaded does streams on him , and some ex employees were there too in chat, no he isnt smart, he appearently asked the stupid questions, and what makes him really dumb, he doest listen to people who know their stuff. And being firehappy as he is, they are scared.
Also yeah if i were the smartest person in the room, i would listen to criticism. And stiulating ideas and that. wouldnt i?!
He isnt dumb but incredibly arrogant and sheltered that he behaves very dumb. I think he is average. And that doesnt care if he is not willing to improve himself really
Ikr. Didnt Ramanujan have a regular job? Also Einstein worked in a patent office.
@@yourex-wife4259 He very much wants the world to think of him the way people think of Einstein in casual conversation.
Einstein had his flaws but he was a truly brilliant mind who was lucky enough to escape Germany before things got really really bad, and worked with many other brilliant minds on some very important concepts that expanded our understanding of the universe at large. He foresaw, like a few others, the future of nuclear weaponry, encouraged the Allies to look into it as a precaution against Germany, but refused to work on it himself as a conscientious objector.
E=mc2. Five characters that sprang forth from his research are more famous, impactful, and meaningful to humanity than Musk ever will be.
Musk showed up late to the dot com boom but lucked out on his investment. These men will never be comparable. And I hope it eats at him that no matter how hard he tries, only his weirdo fans will ever hold him in that high a regard.
When I was 10, I remember reading about DC having retconned Luthor to just be a businessman instead of also a scientist, and I didn't understand because I thought "Well if he runs a tech company, doesn't that mean he'd have to be not only a scientist, but like, the best scientist?" Whenever I see people stan Musk, I remember that thought, as I'm pretty sure they're stuck in that same mentality. They don't see "businessman" because they don't understand how someone who's just a businessman could run a tech company.
"Dear God, is this what our society has been reduced to?" Split-second shot of Mildread getting ready for a reply before an ad overtakes the video by starting with a loud shush noise. Amazing. Even the ads don't like the article.
18:36 „The Radio gave us H*tler!“ There might have been some other things going on.
My internet dropped out @13:04 and I sat here for way too long thinking it was part of the bit
he would be the most enjoyable man on earth to hunt for sport tho
Oof, I'm not so sure.
I feel like he would talk a big game going into it, maybe act super tough or clever or confident at first.
But once you actually get him cornered, I fully believe he will just fall apart, start crying and begging for his life and soiling himself as he grovelled on the ground.
He would take all the fun out of it, and the kill would feel hollow and undeserved.
Lmao i spat water all over my keyboard
I dunno, it's kinda head-to-head race between him and Bezos there
@@NAWWMANNN Maybe for you.
@@LexYeen I apologize for actually wanting to enjoy some challenge and sport to my hunting of sapient humans...for sport.
This article is the perfect template example of "I hope he sees this, king"
Rogue AI is a genuine concern in AI research, but it's the kind of thing that will be *caused*, not stopped, by someone arrogant and attention-seeking like Musk, given his track record of ignoring safety concerns.
Why is always assumed that AI would turn evil?
@@ExtremeMadnessX that's just it: "evil" is human morality. An AI programmed to be as efficient as possible at achieving some goal may take "evil" actions because they are optimal. It's not a case of an AI being evil so much as it lacking a concept of mortality.
@@davidmurray3542 I didn't think evil in literal sense, but also wouldn't truly sapient AI also developed some kind of moral and concluded that harming people isn't must logical solution.
@@ExtremeMadnessX You'd have to program something like that or at the very least socialize the AI the way that humans are socialized. It would have to understand how things like ethics works and then you'd have to be sure that it didn't reason the same way that humans often do, that losses are acceptable.
In short its a lot of complex programing with massive room for things to go wrong or not even wrong, but in ways that we humans, don't expect. And that is even before you then give x or y AI access to power or information that then means reevaluating all of that over again.
If you make an AI of suitable intelligence or ability, you are effectively creating a person, but a person with experience and mental capacity far beyond that of any other person that ever has been, and their outlook is going to be utterly unique from any other person that has ever been as well.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Logical conclusion for what? Morals are developed for a purpose, if sapient AI doesn't need morals to reach it's goals it would not have any morals.
Elon is not the smartest person in the room, even when he's alone.
the short answer: no
the long answer: noooooooooooooooooooooo
OMG!! Thank you so much for the Eyeballs shoutout. I'm getting so many hilarious and amazing comments on my Jiggle Physics video! Love your videos
Funny that you'd facetiously compare him to Iron Man as someone who engineers everything, when the whole premise of Spiderman Far From Home was that a disaffected worker was angry at Tony for taking credit for his work. One can imagine this problem is endemic to the fictional company.
How could you make We're in Hell cry like that?! For shame, he is a gentle boy.
Wow, this video was so fire that Grimes left Elon a few days later. You've become too powerful.
15:30 "it makes sense to be cruel to infants because infants are stupid and incompetent" is a pretty accurate summary of mainstream American child-rearing.
I'll never understand how Musk manages to get people to simp for him so hard.
Because everyone wants to "be a part of history" or "know a great man" it is hard and fast just people creating a golden calf to worship.
@@LupineShadowOmega ...and because the prospect of "being a great man" just by throwing money at ideas that thousands of people are already working on and then being able to demand credit for those ideas appeals to the lazier sort of golden-calf-worshippers.
because he lies and people don't fact check
The term "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" explains a lot.
@@hollandscottthomas It sure does.
I think the only solid truth we can infer from this article is the author likes his own Facebook posts.
"commenting on other's content is really lazy"
Hey, Thought Slime. I really disagree. I love when you do that stuff because you add a lot to it. It's only lazy when people do essentially reaction videos saying "Wow! That's crazy! So bad! ... Like and subscribe!"
exactly
did…did elon write the article
if billionaire bootlicking were a sport this guy could represent his country
the new glasses look good
Probably misses his old glasses.
Doug writes about Musk like he's describing his Gary Stu OC where all of his flaws are just the best things about him, for realsies.
"I've read 'Ready Player One'. ...This is MORE embarrassing."
... I got to the part where it was revealed that Artemis was scorchingly beautiful, but for her wine-stain birthmark and, I'll say it, I just hated myself. I just hated having made it that far into something that hijacked the worst parts of my nerd culture. Embarrassing it is. Very embarrassing.
No, she wasn’t scorchingly beautiful, she was…rubinesque…. She was FAT! Nobody other than a perfect holy enlightened nerd man could ever look past a small birthmark and a little bit of weight to see beauty (/s)
@@Forestfreud honestly I think the guy who wrote the books based on his “poetry” thinks mildly curvy women are fat and he’s enlightened to find said mildly curvy women attractive. He still wants the cool girl who does performative femininity for him but just what he personally finds attractive.
And then Ready Player Two... which I only read to participate in the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back's hate read of it and OOF! It's clear Ernie cosplays as Elon Musk... in Elon Musk's discarded skin.
"I didn't want to. It's beneath me. It degrades both of us. Me for making this content and you for watching it. But come down into the dirt with me everybody. Come down in the mud debate yourself with me." 😹 Love this channel.
"Reinventing money..." Oh, is that what it's called when you lose billions of dollars by being a gigantic knob lol
That little wiggle towards the camera feels like something you'd see on an old Bill Nye style educational video for kids and I say that with nothing but admiration that was an absolute delight
Douglas Coupland: "You ever notice how society is so sensitive to airborne pathogens these days"
Mildred: "Join me in the muck"
Me, in my muck hut with my muck family: "Sure, I guess I can"
Hurray, we are joined in the muck by another nice person!
"We want out of the muck!"
- Maupin Borger King.
elon muck
that's it that's the whole comment
imagine if he bought twitter
The truest form of the Alpha Tweeter
Fun Fact: he could code! Horribly! All of his code has to be fixed by others. He didn’t even make the site that eventually merged with PayPal.
Let’s worship some rich billionaire that exploits people to near death! I mean he’s quirky and “relatable” after all.
“Relatable”🤔
People who think that Elon is some kind of Rick Sanchez beliebe that they are some kind of Rick Sanchez too, which makes him somewhat relatable.
@@TheSorrel can confirm, as someone who used to worship elon
@@TheSorrel *Compilation Clipshow of Rick Sanchez's war crimes ensues*
but but but he's Tony Staaaark
" I get thousands of likes on every video. Even bad ones, like this"
And it's at that point I clicked the like button. Damn your sneaky psychological manipulation.
Elon's Arrogance and Personality
worry me a Lot of a Lot.
That guy seems to be some Hashtags combined,
including the dreaded Hashtag Nice-Guy.
...
When you read "He's the silicon valley ubermensch" in the funny voice I, outloud, with the window open, said "Oh GOOOOD. (God, but.. o dragged out.) shut UP"
Using that to describe elon is just.. oh my god. oh my GRIEF. How does anyone /write/ that?
Using the word “Übermensch” unironically like that is honestly so fashy that it invalidates everything after that.
It is the art of taking a shit, but through one's hands.
Poor nietsche, ubermensh is about abadoning both slave and master morality there, and its clear, elon wants to be a master.
I like how futurism has become taking a thing that works, making it look like a futuristic sex-o-tron, put it in pods or something else (make sure to reduce the efficiency of the existing thing you're reinventing!) and slap yer name on it.
Being a fan of a billionaire must feel like walking around a casino you don't own, and hooting like a badass every time the house wins, licking the urinals, and calling the trash can, "Sir".
Omg making fun of Douglas Coupland and Musky? You spoil me
Glad to see you came around to making that video about real and dangerous muppets you teasered in your ADHD video.
I died
This article: Musk can destroy billions of dollars of wealth with one tweet!
Also this article: Musk's tweets are bad and often backfire.
WELL THAT'S FUCKING COMFORTING!!!!
Hadn't considered that.
"You should like this guy! He has a space-based nuclear laser destruction platform."
"I am worried that maybe this guy should not have a space-based nuclear laser destruction platform."
"God, it's not like he's going to use it to conquer the world, he just gets drunk and fires it off in random directions! SO IT'S FINE!"
Come down in the dirt and the mud with you? Ahem. Working people are trying to get AWAY from dirt and mud, Mildred.
Considering the absolutely substance-less word soup that Elon vomits in any public capacity, I don’t see how the fuck ANYONE thought he was a genius.