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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 171 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What a fucking moron. This is the guy whose self-driving car you trust?

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nope. Once upon a time long ago I thought I wanted a Tesla. Now? I'd rather drive a Ford Focus.

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd rather drive a Ford pinto.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

For real. I love those ugly things.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah man, I love the Ford [Dick in Portuguese]

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd rather drive an old lada made out of depleted uranium than a Tesla.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

I'd rather ride a bike

[–] justabigemptyhole@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked here.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Well, I drive a Kia Soul, so I'm probably not one to be throwing stones.

[–] archon@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Luckily, he's not the one making them!

[–] sky@codesink.io 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, just the CEO of the company that has regularly overridden the decisions of his engineers, driving anyone with any actual experience away.

Autonomous vehicles built by hundreds of first-year software engineering graduates seems like a good idea though.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But but, it makes fart sounds!! /s

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

......what?

[–] Saeveo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Teslas have an "Emissions Testing Mode" on the centre console that's just a fart sound generator.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Hs still impacts critical decisions. He needs to be kept very far away from money and business.