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Zero999:

--- Quote from: Psi on December 07, 2022, 07:55:33 am ---It's getting really hard to tell what is true and what is lies/FUD directed at Elon.

The 'neuralink-faces-federal-probe Animal' stuff has soured me a little towards Elon, but i'm really not sure how much of it is true and how much is grossly exaggerated for the purpose of making him look as bad as possible.

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Even if animal welfare standards were poor and needless unethical experiments were conducted on animals, the question is, how much did Elon know about it? Is it really true he knew everything and just wanted to make money, damn animal abuse? It's very difficult to get to the truth these days.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: wraper on December 07, 2022, 03:08:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: MT on December 07, 2022, 01:32:49 pm ---Besides Musk calling rescue divers peddos when Musk was denied to experiment with minisubs during the actual rescue operation.

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Nope, he called so a single guy who insulted Musk first during the news interview.

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That's one view. Another is that Musk said of the chap organising the rescue:


--- Quote from: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/elon-musk-queries-expertise-of-thai-cave-rescue-officials ---In response, Musk said Osatanakorn was “not the subject matter expert”, adding that he believed he had been “inaccurately described as rescue chief”, and should be more accurately referred to as the “former Thai provincial governor”.
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The bad insult that provoke Musk's response:


--- Quote ---“Even though their equipment is technologically sophisticated, it doesn’t fit with our mission to go in the cave,” Osatanakorn told reporters.
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Bit of a thin skin, methinks.

But back to Unsworth:


--- Quote from: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter ---“It just had absolutely no chance of working,” Unsworth said in a widely shared interview. “He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine, I believe, was about 5ft 6in long, rigid, so it wouldn’t have gone round corners or round any obstacles.”
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Mmmm. Hardly justifies reputation trashing, does it? Oh, there's more:


--- Quote ---Musk visited the cave system himself. Unsworth said the billionaire “was asked to leave very quickly”. He also told CNN Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts”.
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Ah. Well, there you go - an inflated ego putting his nose where no-one wants it and then striking out when it's put out of joint. Although having lashed out the least he could do was stay quiet, but no:


--- Quote ---On Sunday, when a Twitter user pointed out that Musk was “calling the guy who found the children a pedo”, the billionaire responded: “Bet ya a signed dollar it’s true.”
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Musk has achieved a lot that's defeated many others, made dreams come (more or less) true. But he's a thin-skinned tosser.
wraper:

--- Quote from: PlainName on December 07, 2022, 04:47:06 pm ---
--- Quote ---Musk visited the cave system himself. Unsworth said the billionaire “was asked to leave very quickly”. He also told CNN Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts”.
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Ah. Well, there you go - an inflated ego putting his nose where no-one wants it and then striking out when it's put out of joint. Although having lashed out the least he could do was stay quiet, but no:

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I'd say its Unsworth who had inflated ego. Did he really need to say that insult? Especially considering that Musk had donated a lot of equipment for rescue operation. No good deed goes unpunished.

PlainName:
Unsworth's respones was after Musk's earlier huff, was it not? And I would suggest that telling someone to push off is a LOT less damaging than telling the world they're a kiddie fiddler, and then doubling down on it explicitly. YMMV, in which case I will try to remember your preferred insult if necessary.

Simon:

--- Quote from: Bud on May 10, 2021, 05:01:23 am ---The mystery of Musk's speech  impediments and other weirdnesses has now been solved - Musk has admitted he has Asperger's and is/was just fooling around.


--- Quote ---Look I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that's just how my brain works," he said.
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https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-reveals-he-has-aspergers-syndrome/a-57473708


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Mystery ? We forget that one does not "have" aspergers, Aspergers/autism is just one end of the spectrum of people, you don't have it as such, it's part of who you are, most people find it weird but then that is just their opinion.

Given his eratic public persona I always sort of suspected,
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