https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1743966490917794153?s=20
I got randomly tested a few times in my aerospace job. If I had tested positive, I would have lost my clearance and probably been fired. Our technicians wouldn’t eat poppy seed muffins for fear of a false positive. I guess we have to take Elon’s word, because there’d be jack all public consequences if he tested positive.
Why even be an engineer if you can’t smoke weed
They are just complaining on behalf of all the people/companies that they know DEI has wrecked. It reminds me of the reactionary conversations complaining about people’s preferred pronouns. I usually ask if the person doing the complaining has ever met someone who has requested they use they/them pronouns or
Whatever they are complaining about, and-shockingly- none of them
Have actually ever encountered any of the situations in real life. It usually ends the conversation.
I definitely can’t think of a million ways Elon could have gotten around this testing thing, so I’m sure he’s clean.
He doesn’t even say he wasn’t getting high. Just says he didn’t get caught, which wouldn’t be disclosed if he had.
I’ve been spending time discussing climate change on LinkedIn recently. Mostly with actual energy folks and avoiding the crazies.
But I still encounter enough denialists.
It’s still completely shocking to me how many very successful old white men out there are clearly and demonstrably, very, very, very fucking stupid.
Meeting successful old white men is the greatest cure for imposter syndrome ever.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1744401507317866833?s=20
Says the guy who thinks laws and regulations don’t apply to him.
FYI he was also an illegal immigrant
What a moran
His path to citizenship isn’t well documented in the biographies of him by Isaacson or Vance, as far as I recall. I think both say the investors in Zip2 helped him get an H1-B. After he got it, he’d have been fine. His student visa might not have been valid for some period before that but being Elon he might not have cared. The VCs would have insisted though. Overall I’d say, meh, whatever to this.
Edit: On second thought, I would like to see someone at least ask him about it.
what does this even mean?
Elon would like to reduce the fundamental but complicated issue of fairness to a binary choice between equity (giving more help to the less privileged, which would be woke and therefore bad) and equality (actually “equal opportunity”, which requires us to do nothing and is not woke and thus good).
I don’t think those are our choices.
Meanwhile
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1744524285601816878?s=20
The thread title is telling me he’s not serious and it’s time to move on but I won’t listen so it’s really my fault.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1744492413299687619?s=20
We’re supposed to get big snow here. Gonna make bank shoveling that shit.
the craziest thing about that elon and whoever argument with Cuban is that they really think they are dunking on cuban with this dumb shit. like it’s a full circle jerk in the comments with them trying to do encores to the standing ovation of the “you won’t put an asian woman in the nba” line.
The problem is that he’s serious, and so are a large portion of his massive following
I am all for any Asian woman being on the mavs who can beat AJ Lawson one on one to 21. 3s count as 2.
If Yao Ming’s daughter doesn’t get a 10 day contract out of this, I riot.
They have no choice. Big brain types like Elon can see that DEI means you HAVE TO hire unqualified people into important positions, like Asian women on the mavs or black men in the C-suite.
