Ouch

You can literally fit the entire text on your phone

But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can't serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.

You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he's determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.
- I was about to say "at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this" but anyone still a fan of him think he's playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives
The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.
- Ooh is there more info about this?
  EDIT: Looks like this is it.
  https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
- This implies he has learned lessons from his past mistakes - he has not. The odds are better on Must thinking the people who executed his perfect demands did those things wrong.
- Yep. It didn't come across as stupidity (not saying Musk isn't stupid), but as someone blatantly borrowing from the Trump playbook.
Plex and IPFS has it's place, but I still support Wikipedia as a non profit, just like you don't need to pay to enter a library, unless your in some kind of elite library of the bleeding edge lol
Give it another year and I bet 6 to 1/2 dozen on the value of USB drives and Twitter.

musk is dumb as a brick

Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.
- I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.
This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.

He sounds like some upper level management I've known. "Why does this cost so much, you're just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?"

He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.
- Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!
- You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.
  Sadly, management cluetards "think" otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.
- He is literally that guy
A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.
- “Make it look like google.”
  Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.
The insane thing to me is that even if MediaWiki shut down completely with no warning, I bet we wouldn't lose anything. We got people backing it up instantly
- But you would need a new foundation, or those copies will stop being collaboratively updated. In addition, it would be difficult for people to access the information again, without a new website.

As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn't he at least be aware of the operating expenses?

He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn't pay his bills. Problem solved.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1
That would require him being aware of anything that goes into running any of his businesses, and maybe not tweeting all day from his private jets to actually pay attention to them.
Technically his website doesn't make any money
- Technically his website makes money but loses more money

What a fucking loser.

Seriously. All that power and money and he spends 100% of his free time trolling on the internet.
- He isn't trolling, he is just really, really dumb. If you ever heard him talk about something that you're knowledgable in, you instantly realize that he has no idea what he's talking about.

It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.

This is the same guy who didn't understand why you couldn't just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you're moving into a college dorm.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9%3famp

I just don't understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?

He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.
- He's the richest man on Earth, for a con man that qualifies as decent at least.
Here's the de-ampified version of that link:
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9

It's really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the "Readers added context" feature. Yet.

It's been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I'm sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.
It will be next on the chopping block after this.
- Or you’ll have to pay to add context.

So, how long before the "Readers added additonal context" feature mysteriously vanishes?

Kinda surprised it's still there, honestly.
I could've sworn it had already been disappeared. I guess I'm misremembering.
- The moderation for it has disappeared. So often it's just right wing bs these days

He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.

So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]
- He'll just be screeching "Dr Fauci" in a bird voice next. I hear that's what passes for comedy on the right.
I think that not being able to be funny is one of the eternal thorns in musk's side that his billions of blood money can never buy him. His stupid twitter quips, dumb sight gags like walking into the office holding a sink... he knows he'll never be able to become funny and it eats at him.
Also since he can't keep his giant dumb yap shut people who had a good image of him 10 years ago as a guy trying to help the earth now know that he's a huge piece of garbage. Money can't buy his legacy, no matter how many fanboys impotently scream on forums.
He is a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine. Can you tell if the following quote is by him or I made it up?
“I’ll give them a million dollars if they change their name to ‘Dickipedia’.”

Zuck is evil, but he doesn't seem to be stupid.
Elon on the other hand..
- Exactly. Zuckerberg is just an immoral fuckface. Musk is malicious and incompetent.
- He wrote the first iteration of Facebook in PHP. The Musk of programming languages.
There was this brief, beautiful moment when Musk seemed respectable. He was into renewables, and electrification, and investing in space. It sounded great. And then he opened his fucking mouth and just hasn't shut it since. Once he started talking, everyone else started noticing and publishing all the terrible shit that was there all along but no one either knew or cared about until then.
- Twitter killed (the image of) Elon, and now Elon is dragging Twitter to the grave with him.
At least i can respect Zuck. Hes the evil guy and hes good at it. Musk is just an idiot.
- Have we already forgotten the whole Metaverse initiative? That was plenty stupid.
Definitely agree on him needing help. His behaviour isn't normal, considering his behaviour even 5 years prior. Musk 10 years ago was probably still an idiot, but a private idiot and less of a man-child than today.
Stupid question, but is there some law in the US where someone can be detained for mental health reasons, to be evaluated to see if they pose a risk to themselves or others? Perhaps someone close to him should check that everything is fine, and if not, get him away from the half dozen companies he seems to be running into the ground.
Hated mostly by the left. Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
- From where you're standing, everyone is left.
- If you still respect Elon Musk after every obvious display of stupidity and incompetence he's shown, I think that says a lot about how willing people are to kiss the ass of billionaires on the right, and that's just sad. Musk doesn't give a fuck about you.
- Like the totally normal shooter whose Twitter account views were more than half dedicated to musk... Along with literally every right wing extremist for the other half. Also America has no left.
- Hated mostly by people who actually think for themselves, and don’t mindlessly worship the rich.
  Prove me wrong.
- Normal people lmao
- Hated mostly by the left.
  Yes.
  Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
  Well, eh, not really.
- Who is a specific normal person that has written anything praising Elon Musk? He is respected by some but I am concerned by what you would define as a normal person.

Attacking Twitter then and now attacking Wikipedia. You can tell he want so hard to hide information and with starlink in his control it might happen.

Starlink has lost a lot of satellites. Makes me wonder if they can sustain it.
- Sounds like they should lose a few more to be sure.

Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?

Dude has become a shitty combination of Tucker and Trump

"Just asking stupid questions"

Just asking stupid questions seems like a Joe Rogan thing.
- Musk asks stupid, leading questions. Pretending he's Socrates, leading you to a truth he understands and you don't.

Wikipedia actually strives to pay it's bills

Yet is makes a huge profit every year from fundraisers.
- it makes >null< profit, or >NaN< profit as it is a non-profit organization, thus it cannot make a profit even if it wanted to.

thats a dog whistle.

What do you think the covert message translates to, overtly?
- Wikipedia is a tool of the "Globalists" (we know who those are) to brainwash poor conservatives.
- Right wing grifters rely on people being uneducated, so any tool that allows people to educate themselves needs to be vilified.

Ah, thanks for reminding me to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Can he fuck off and stop mentioning Wikipedia

Think he is pissed off by it somehow. Probably because it tells the truth. My guess is he is sitting in his lair plotting how to destroy it.
- I'm guessing he read the Wikipedia page on him and didn't like what he saw.
I'm guessing he tried to edit his own wiki entry and it got reverted immediately.
For someone claiming how much value each minute of his work has, it's funny how much time and effort he spends on bullshit.
- Maybe his minutes of work are valuable because they're rare.

Obviously he has an axe to grind with facts being easily available to regular people. He's trying to leverage his voice as a hated billionaire to signal maga conspiracy theories.

I sincerely hope that in the future when peole look up the archaic expression of 'Dumb Fuck' they find a beautiful portrait of man baby Elon.

Musk is such a giant fucking idiot. It’s tragic that such dumb shitty people have all the money.

Could you imagine what a truly smart and altruistic trillionaire could achieve?
Although as soon as they tried to change anything they'd probably get disappeared.
- Anyone good with a billion pounds no longer has that billion pounds. Because they use it to cure a disease, or give to poor countries, or whatever. But what we need is systemic change, because we shouldn't have to rely on rich people being philanthropists, the government should have that money and spend it on what the people vote for.

Musk was never meant to move beyond middle-management at a bottom tier MLM company.

All you need to succeed in life is a great ego and some sticktoitness.
(Some of that apartheid emerald money doesn’t hurt either.)
- Tbh his starting money wasn't huge. He took a couple of millions and through sheer power of ego and narcissism turned them into hundreds of billions. Takes some talent to pull it off. He's hugely harmful to the rest of society but really good at what he does, at least before Twitter.

Also, what phone does he have with multiple terabytes of storage if he’s downloading it on his phone…?

He's right that you can actually fit the entire text of wikipedia on your phone. Wikipedia let's you download a copy and it's not that huge.
But obviously Wikipedia has a huge image and audio library and those make up the majority of storage space.
- If you don’t download the history, and only download one language, sure, but that’s not Wikipedia

What a painfully stupid man.

He really is exactly as stupid as he looks.

Come on, he can't be that ignorant about how websites work, if he would Twitter would... okay, NVM.

That was savage!

I mean it's a major improvement to the platform, that's for sure. Now anybody being a dick just gets corrected. All you have to do is tone your schtick down the littlest bit and it looks like you were asking for people to fill you in.

Well the Wikimedia foundation does indeed not need this amount of money for wikipedia.org alone, they have copious amounts of money and their "asking for donations" is in some countries straight up "Wikipedia will shut down if you don't pay" and seeing that as questionable behavior is absolutely ok.

However... WE WITNESSED A MURDER.

Some of their staff are paid pretty high salaries ($300-400k), but its still nothing like what most business executives get paid and not much of their total costs. And while they have a lot of money right now, that could quickly change if people stop donating. Its best to be on the safe side with such a valuable resource.
On the other hand, I see the Internet Archive as just as valuable or more, and I think it deserves a lot more money and attention than it has been getting. Of course it doesn't have to be one or the other, I just think that Wikipedia gets a disproportionate amount of donations compared to the Internet Archive.
- https://youtu.be/d9UgRIPWP4w?si=gm8v6wCvQ7vLzo34
  Video is in German but it has subtitles, its a in depth analysis of it.
  Internet Archiv is absolutely great and nowadays probably worth more than Wikipedia when it comes to information. I wouldn't want to be in a world without a Wikipedia, but what Wikimedia does is sketchy often.
I endorse this post.
Wikipedia is great, and they do have real operating costs, but hosting all the data is about 2% of their budget. All the admins and editors and contributors are volunteers. Most of the money is spent on projects not related to the encyclopedia and donations to miscellaneous social groups.
Their accounting is public: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation