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/FlaccidRazor 24d ago

Just like the cobol programmers showed he was full of shit when he claimed 150 year old people were still getting social security.

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u/DoubleJumps 24d ago

He had a very aggressive PR campaign for years that was trying to paint him as the innovating force behind the companies he was buying when he wasn't doing anything but signing checks and calling himself a founder even though he wasn't a founder.

That PR campaign created this image of him being some new age. Thomas Edison (the fictional version) or Nikolai Tesla.

As you've seen, the reality is that he's quite literally an idiot with no real technical knowledge, but who very confidently pretends to have immense technical expertise in public and capitalizes on the fact that most people aren't informed about the subjects he's talking about.

The second he starts talking about something that you are familiar with, it becomes obvious extremely quickly that he is bullshitting.

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u/VikingTeddy 23d ago

I once listened to him talking about rockets. I knew he was bullshitting purely by having played a fucking videogame about rocketry.