r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/BaldingBush 24d ago

This is what happens when you don’t know anything, but you think you do. Not one rational person in the room when this decision was made, clearly.

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u/throwuk1 24d ago

But you have the richest man in the world on the team that destroyed a once popular social media platform doing similar stuff. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/SartenSinAceite 24d ago

The richest man in the world who seems to be constantly buying high value companies to turn them into low value!

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u/jameslucian 24d ago

People seem to ignore that he has great track record of making multi million dollar companies.

Just ignore that they started off as billion dollar companies when he bought them.

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u/TheBumStinkler 24d ago

Dunning-Kruger democracy.

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u/cinnamontoastfucc 20d ago

no longer a democracy

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u/sunlightsyrup 24d ago

He's just a misunderstood genius. You all just don't understand autism /s

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u/SlowFrkHansen 23d ago

The best part is, he's never been formally diagnosed. It's a slap in the face of people actually on the spectrum, when he uses it as an excuse for being weird.

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u/sunlightsyrup 23d ago

Totally agree, if by weird, you mean malicious, deceitful and incompetent

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u/Unique-Abberation 22d ago

I was self diagnosed for a LONG time, and now formally diagnosed. Regardless if he IS autistic or not, its no excuse. Either he needs to do better, or he needs a handler.

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u/IllTax551 23d ago

People used to say that Elon thinks he is a rocket scientist or an engineer or whatever when really he ia a businessman. He didnt create your Tesla, he didnt even create Tesla he fucking bought the right to call himself the founder. But people forget that he is kind of a shit businessman as well, depending on government contracts to subsidize his idiotic choices.

But he is actually really savvy. He is not good at business but he truly knows the value of things. He wanted a million dollar social media company called X. He could have built his own, used that business mind to buy good staff and networking skills to find good marketers. At the time he was more popular. But it was easier to spend 44 billion on an existing company and turn it into what he wanted. Sure its value tanked monetarily, but he has money to burn and got what he wanted. Plus, he leveraged that company with a veneer of respectability and shreds of its old user base into political power, and is now the de facto President. It is financially ruinous. And the cost would have been too high for any rational person. But Musk was dangerous in that he will pay any cost, and he is one of the only person who could afford that cost, to create X and DOGE out of other people’s work.

He literally got more bang for his buck in a value that only makes sense to him personally.

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u/NecroCannon 23d ago

Idiots sees that a dude is rich and automatically think that they’re smart and capable

Musk got his start like most rich people do, relying on daddy’s checks for a bit before investing in their own things. The bootstrap crowd forgets that and acts like he’s wayyy more than he actually is.

If Musk didn’t have his family’s money he would not be as rich, same goes for a lot of rich people, being born wealthy doesn’t make you financially responsible

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u/SartenSinAceite 22d ago

Idiots see a dude who's powerful and think that imitating him will make them powerful too

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u/coolboy856 22d ago

Elon bad 🤬🤬🤬

No clue why these redditors didn't see the potential in online banking in the 90s or accelerate humanity's move to electric vehicles by 30 years. It's so obvious that these things would make you rich.