Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work

Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by ClumsyPilot on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:15PM (#33554302)

> Reminds me of all those people who claim that Trump or Putin are "stupid"

So Russia has all the natural resources you could wish for, economy the size of Italy's, economic crisis, most corruption in human history, and is currently loosing a war fighting a smaller country with weapons made 60 years ago.

Please remind me where is the genius I am missing?

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by LAC-Tech on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:52PM (#33554773)

People are talking about whether Putin the individual is stupid, and your argument for that is the situation of the entirety of Russia.

The comparison doesn't really make sense.

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by bilvar on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:06PM (#33554921)

You see, before Putin they were drowning in dough.

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by palata on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:54PM (#33555417)

But before Putin, Putin was not in charge. One could argue that he improved his own situation, yes?

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by ClumsyPilot on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:22PM (#33555725)

Putin has been in charge of Russia for 20 years. In neighbouring China, CCP has produced tremendous economic growth in that timeframe.

People calling him a genious should be able to point to some great success he has achieved in all this time, in any activity whatsoever, that an average person could not.

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by LAC-Tech on Thursday November 10, 2022 @08:04PM (#33556080)

In neighbouring China, CCP has produced tremendous economic growth in that timeframe.

Some perspective is needed - tremendous economic growth is common when you're an incredibly poor country. China - after decades of growth - still has a lower GDP per capita than post-soviet Russia.

People calling him a genious should be able to point to some great success he has achieved in all this time, in any activity whatsoever, that an average person could not.

I don't see anyone calling him a genius. I'd imagine he's probably fairly smart, like most world leaders. Calling someone an idiot/crazy for starting a war isn't a very useful thing to do, if you're interested in the prevention of war.

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by ClumsyPilot on Thursday November 10, 2022 @08:26PM (#33556218)

> Some perspective is needed

Okay, how about Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary - they have all eclipsed Russia in % growth and nominal value.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

> I'd imagine he's probably fairly smart

Why do you imagine that? What is the logical basis?

> Calling someone an idiot/crazy... isn't a very useful thing to do, if you're interested in the prevention of war.

So now we are no longer interested in having an honest assesment in case he gets offended?

If you watched Russian media, he has clearly gotten worse over the last 10 years or so.

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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work by LAC-Tech on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:39PM (#33563918)

So now we are no longer interested in having an honest assesment in case he gets offended?

Assuming our enemies are just insane is a cop out. It diverts a lot of attention away from how horribly unprepared the west was to deter a military invasion of Ukraine, which is something no one wants to talk about.

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