1y ago

With all due respect...

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The guy thinks that hiring a team of rocket scientists means that he is a rocket scientist himself and that it means that he already knows all there is to know about everything.
- Never mind the fact that in the early days of SpaceX, there were people hired whose entire job was to distract Musk with bullshit work so everyone else that actually knew what the fuck they were doing could work around him.
  
  When you're so rich you pay to work
  
  This sounds too good to be true. Source?
- I misread that as "hiring Team Rocket" and/or "hiring Team Rocket scientists". He'd probably do that, right?
- Don't worry, his next zinger will convince you he's right. /s
  Running Twitshit right into the ground in slow motion, as always.

Here’s a little more context. Elon doubling down and linking Uncylcopedia, a crowd-edited satirical website, to support his stupid stance.
- "Nano applies to everything and therefore means nothing. Definitely indicates bs."
  What? When will your companies switch from those bs nanometer scale transistors in their CPUs and use down to earth millimeter etching? Make it even more awesome! Centimeter wavelength!
  
  Electric cars don't need physics! Just money!!!
  
  Real men make their electronic components in scales that third world children don't need microscopy to manufacture.
- I'm starting to think this Elon guy might not be as smart as we all think he is
  
  No way! He has money and his own private transportable sink. He's got it all!
- And here’s someone much cleverer than me explaining just a few of the uses of nanotechnology and why it’s not BS.
  
  While I appreciate the effort (and the info!) I don't think anyone in good faith actually needs to be told that nanotechnology is real and potentially very useful.
- Ohh, so nano does not refer to the Texteditor
- How could anyone use uncyclopedia as a source for anything other than laughs? That's ridiculous. Here's their article on redundancy, as a reference to anyone that doesn't know how intentionally and obviously non-serious the site is.
  
  https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/SomeHippie
  The "natural habitats" are those of me and my college roommate.
- How is this man the guy who owns the most important, bleeding edge technology company in the world.
  We need SpaceX to succeed but do we really want to give this dumbass that amount of power? Oof
  
  Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I'd rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.
- "The daily public displays of mental breakdown will continue until people respect me".

I love it when "with all due respect" translates to "with absolutely no respect" 😂
- The set of respect deserved is the empty set.
- The only circumstance it gets used, seems like.
  I've never heard it followed by something that actually was respect.
  
  Because you don't need to clarify that you are provide all due respect otherwise.
  "With all due respect, those are nice shoes."
  "With all due respect, I'll have the waffles."
  "With all due respect, I think there are a few more jellybeans in there."
  It just isn't necessary in these and other common situations.
  
  Well, its ACTUAL intended use (and the most common one) is to say basically "I'm going to criticise you, but it doesn't mean that I don't respect you as much as you deserve".
  In some cases, including Musk, the amount of respect deserved is none and as such you can use the term correctly without respecting the person you're addressing at all.

Do you mean to tell me Elon Musk said something unbelievably stupid and arrogant?!
- At this point its a surprise when the man says something that's actually intelligent.
  
  When does that happen

Elon is a Vim fan I guess.
- And just because he never figured out how to close it, and he's pretending to know what he's doing as usual!

Clearly this is the guy you'd want to be producing your rockets. Might as well defund NASA right away.

Nanodick energy
- More like picodick energy
  
  More like dickhead energy

Well, he has Elon Musk in his display name, that definitely is 100% synonymous with bullshit

Fuck spez and fuck Melon Husk.

What is nano
- Superior to vim
  
  Einstein proved this to be decidedly false
  
  I've never used vim so nano must be the best ;)
  
  eMacs has entered that chat
- MElon probably means that "nanotechnology is bs", and no it's not, it's just a science that is in it's infancy, and one that may become extremely useful in the future.
  Also Elon says that while pushing NFTs and crypto constantly.🤦‍♂️
  
  And we definitely are already making great strides in commercializing it, depending on how you define the set of nano-tech.
  
  I mean like everything is nanotechnology, you can mayyybbe argue against quantum if youre really stupid, but like even smoke alarms use some nanotech.
  Its mostly a buzzword tbh, and that's from someone getting a degree in the field (we learn a shitload but its not much different from advanced chemical engineering)
- Usually it stands for nanometer. It can also mean very small. Its a prefix which means a billionth of something, like centi means a hundreth.
- It's a prefix and it depends on the suffix it's attached to. If you are talking about a nanometer it's 10^{-9 meters. If you are talking about nanotechnology, that's a buzzward. In between that though there is plenty of meaning. If you are talking about graphene nanosheets, that means they are nanometers thick, i.e. roughly between 10}-9 m and 10^-7 m. In the material science context nano means the size of an object. Nanobeads would be nanometers in diameter. as opposed to microbeads which would be micron sized. A nanomachine would be a machine that is nanometers in size, etc.
  
  Nanotechnology engineering is also a recognized peng
- I assumed the scientist was doing something with nanotechnology, which according to the CDC is “the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials and devices. The technology promises scientific advancement in many sectors such as medicine, consumer products, energy, materials, and manufacturing.”
- It's Metric. Americans won't understand.
  
  I'm not American 😬

Elon, with all due respect, go fuck yourself.

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