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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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[–] [email protected] 171 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd rather drive a Ford pinto.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

For real. I love those ugly things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'd rather ride a bike

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] archon -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Luckily, he's not the one making them!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But but, it makes fart sounds!! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

......what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

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