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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] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.

Did anyone else reading this bit immediately think of that other rich idiot that died in his ridiculous submarine?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

has anyone tried to get musk a submarine?

maybe we could crowdfund this

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Call it "Xubmarine 420" and tell him he invented it. I think he'd take that bait.