Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

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n_huffhines said:
I am comfortable saying Musk has a genius to him, but the genius? For the record:

Space X = legit awesome, and he deserves credit for being a driving force
Starlink = legit awesome
Neuralink = seems very promising

Tesla = didn't found it, just bought it, deserves credit for gigafactory concept.

Paypal = his company was meant to be an online banking company, but it merged with Confinity which was already doing email payments and then became the online payments company. He wanted to build everything on Microsoft and wouldn't acquiesce so he was ousted. Everybody else was right, it seems. Paypal took off after they kicked him out.
Hyperloop = he published a white paper on a 100-year-old idea
OpenAI = can't tell he did anything besides funding and then leaving to compete with them.

Twitter = so far it's a lot worse since he bought it.

He's a tech geek with a bunch of money and he's funding and involving himself with interesting projects, but if we're being honest, none of us know how much credit he should get, beyond the funding.
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X is phenomenal compared to where it was under Jack Dorsey.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It just seems like everything is ego-driven, and I mean that in the Buddhist way. Get us to Mars? That would make him feel important. Getting involved in politics? Makes him feel powerful and important. Trolling people? Makes him feel powerful. Denying free speech to users he doesn't like? Makes him feel powerful. Getting laughs from his sycophant fanboys? Etc.
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Don’t like him denying free speech to users he doesn’t like, but I remember some posters on VN saying Twitter had a right to censor and ban speech they didn’t like.

What changed?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
X.com, several components of his EVs and navigation, Starlink network, Falcon heavy rockets, raptor methane engines for starters.
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Even if he just funds the technology makes it a huge accomplishment, I agree! It sounds like you believe he developed the technology himself, from the conceptual stage. IOW, he made the initial discovery. Is that your belief?
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
Don’t like him denying free speech to users he doesn’t like, but I remember some posters on VN saying Twitter had a right to censor and ban speech they didn’t like.

What changed?
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That's an overly broad, sweeping indictment. It's like news reporters inserting their narrative by suggesting "some people say..."

Who said it?
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
No one credible has said it! He just knows it. You don't really need to ask him, but you did for sport 🤭🤣🤣
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Plenty of credible people said it. I was one of them.

A private entity is 100% within their rights to decide who they do business with - in this case, post on their platform.

Citizens are afforded no first amendment speech protections at their job, or the businesses they patronize.

Your only protection(s) is against suppression from the State, not Twitter or Facebook.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Plenty of credible people said it. I was one of them.

A private entity is 100% within their rights to decide who they do business with - in this case, post on their platform.

Citizens are afforded no first amendment speech protections at their job, or the businesses they patronize.

Your only protection(s) is against suppression from the State, not Twitter or Facebook.
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…but as fate would have it, the Biden Administration was pressuring all those social media sites to suppress conservative speech.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
It's impossible to have a conversation with people who don't think Elon is literally the genius of our era.

Space X
Tesla
Starlink
PayPal
OpenAI/ Chat GPT

ALL revolutionized their respective industries

Still to be seen what Hyperloop and Neuralink do.... could be huge breakthroughs for mass transportation and nerve damage/paralysis victims.
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Just imagine if Elon could make a documentary like Michael Moore.
 
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NPR President Who Said Truth Is A 'distraction' Is Summoned By DOGE To Sing For Her Supper​


The embattled National Public Radio president, who once called truth a 'distraction,' has agreed to testify before Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) congressional subcommittee.

On Monday, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the DOGE subcommittee chair, called on the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) bosses to testify on Capitol Hill to defend the government funding they use to share 'systematically biased content.'

The subcommittee's letter to NPR specifically called out a Ted Talk company president Katherine Maher gave in 2022 while she was the CEO of Wikipedia.

During a section of the speech titled 'What Wikipedia Teaches Us About Balancing Truth and Beliefs,' Maher called the truth a 'distraction.'

'In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.'

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The embattled National Public Radio president Katherine Maher (pictured) has agreed to testify before the DOGE congressional subcommittee

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NPR president who said truth is a 'distraction' is summoned by DOGE

The embattled National Public Radio president Katherine Maher (pictured) has agreed to testify before the DOGE congressional subcommittee.
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