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2年前

The definition of "insanity"

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The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

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- I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7
  
  Relevant xkcd
- You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.
- ☝️ 🤓
  
  the original commenter was who downvoted this
- You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.
  —Michael Gretzky
- For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
- it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves
- Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.
  
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  Iconic only for those who played it or randomly encountered him via meme propagation.
- I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn't "do the same thing over and over and expect different results". He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.
  
  So they tasted good? If not, where's the difference?
- Idk, if you're doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn't need training or you weren't successfully trained.
  It's an idiom, it's not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you're psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that's obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that's ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.
  Ultimately, it's actually the same exact idea as "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," but in less politically correct terms.
  
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- Not to mention it's always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn't stop people from continuing to invoke this "definition of insanity" as if its a smart thing to say.
- What a lovely twist on an annoying misattributed quote!
- If you're getting different results it's because you're adjusting something. That's training.
- Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
  
  Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.
  
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- Not a meme, it comes from a thought experiment trying to disprove quantum mechanics. It's often attributed to Einstein, though that's very likely not true.
  EDIT: This is wrong.
  
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- Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
- Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used
- The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.
- Couldn't he have just started a blog, like a normal person?

He's just a big fan of X11.
- Nobody's a big fan of X11
- Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards
  
  X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X
- That's a pretty terrible trademark
  
  Tell that Apple.
  Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?
- He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.
  Musk is not a very smart man.
  
  To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?
- your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make
  
  yep. The fact that lemmy is even needed goes to show how millionaires are never to be trusted.

Enemy Unknown
- The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!
  
  Pvt. Musk is under Alien Control
  Pvt Musk is going berserk!
  
  Shoot down that UFO! We can't lose our Furry funding!

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.
- Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom
- Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom
- Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom
- Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

what company is he gonna buy now, and name it S ?
and what company is he gonna name e ?
and what company is he gonna name y ?
https://electrek.co/2016/07/30/tesla-vehicle-naming-convention-sexy-model-y-elon-musk/

He looks older in older pictures, creepy
- He is 100% more sane than you. 100 %.
  
  artificially selecting your kids to be all male is a sure sign of sanity

Did you mean "inXanity"?

Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.

Thanks Vaas
- Turns out an insane guy isn't the best person to correctly define insanity.

The legal term for not knowing the difference between right and wrong? I suppose that still applies.

There are a lot of “that guys.” That guy who quotes Bob Dylan. That guy who wears crazy pants. That guy who’s good at ping-pong. And so forth. Decades ago, Elon Musk apparently decided to be That Guy Who Really Likes the Letter X. You do you.

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I don't quite understand the rage against this guy, imo he's one of the more likeable and interesting billionaires in the world. At least he has visions and wants to change the world for the better, something you cannot say about Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg etc.
- He is an alt-right douche and it escapes me how him constantly being purposely antagonistic for fun lends to being "likeable". The abhorrent political views would be enough, but there's a lot more.
- He's a vocal transphobe and all around nasty piece of work, and he doesn't want to change the world for the better - he wants to use that narrative to line his wallet for the better.
- He suggested that Ukraine should surrender to Russia and give up their Land. His own daughter hates him so much that she expressed in court that she doesn't even want to inherit his money or be related to him in any shape or way. He cancelled the Tesla order of a blogger after the blogger said he was disappointed that Elon musk made a bunch of people wait for multiple hours without communicating anything. He is known as a bad boss that overworks his workers and pays then poorly. He has shown himself to be transphobic, ableistic, racist, ageist, hypocritical and a liar
  I like that guy. Very likeable.
- Reasons:
  He is a petty person; he called one of the divers saving Thai children a pedo, tried to get a lawyer fired for successfully suing him, is suing the firm which forced him to buy Twitter
  He fights unionization while tesla has safety and racism issues, and just look at spaceX on glassdoor
  His securities fraud, plus dogecoin pump and dump
  He dislikes mass-transit and blocks actually helpful transit ideas with Boring & Hyperloop
  And ofc his management of Twitter leaves much to be desired

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