To be fair, nobody wanted him to fix those issues.

He’s also guaranteeing that the soldiers still alive in the Mariupol steel plant can communicate with their families, because of a swarm of Starlink satelites currently positioned above Ukraine.

I dunno, I find the guy abrasive, but he does get results.

Are the soldiers carrying 32 inch satellite dishes with a clear view of the sky?

Who knows. If they tell me (or well, they tell the newspaper, and the newspaper tells me) they have internet courtesy of Starlink I'm not really in a position to question it.

no way people who do things don't have 100% success rate what a surprise.

Exactly, so why expect him to fix Twitter's issues?

What's the argument here? Only people with 100% success rate can fix Twitter?

No, that's he's no more qualified to "fix" Twitter than any other shmoe out there.

I think it would be fair to say that "fixing Twitter" would be more in line with Musk's actual experience (ie: running a tech company) than rescuing kids in Thailand or fixing water supplies.

None of the companies he's run have been tech companies, much less ad-revenue social media platforms: they are manufacturing companies with tech valuations. And the software from them is not good.

His background is as a developer himself, and he co-founded x.com which was very much a tech company, which later merged into PayPal. Musk was CEO of PayPal for a few years until the company was bought by eBay.

Flint's water supply is fixed.

Not yet. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-...

Flint's population is over 400K. The crisis was over in 2019: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/23/flint-wate...

No thanks to anything Elon did afaik. It was all the slow boring fix of state work.

Right, and that was the reason the point was raised.

Whenever we achieve the grand unified theory of comment sections, it will include a formalized concept for this process of context loss as an explanation for where arguments come from.

The deeper in you go, the more likely that the reason the point was raised will be lost. And crosstalk will arise between people carrying on the original point and those who experience the latest comment as its own starting point.

First result from a google search of "elon musk flint water" was https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-...

Fact is the issue was largely already solved, even though the perception was that the water was still unsafe.

Elon did exactly what he said he'd do about Thailand

Accuse people of pedophilia and send private investigators after them?

People like you make it exhausting any time Musk comes up in conversations online. Please keep your poor takes on Twitter where I can avoid you.

I feel the same way about Elon superfans, if it makes you feel any better.