Someone who's dependant on us goverment contracts defense/nasa really shouldn't be interacting with high ranking russian officals.. even if it's for the lulz

espcially since the us has sanctions targeted at medvedev by name, it's no joke

To be fair that's one of the good(?) parts of Twitter.

I'm not sure if he's personally sanctioned but the former president of Iran also strangely likes trolling American politicians and commenting on sports. Sometimes gets replies from their social media interns.

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/10372992643161661...

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/10521783680729456...

Actually I'm surprised Iranians are allowed to have Twitter accounts, does that not count as "doing business"…?

I thought Ahmadinejad1956 was a parody account

One must do more than just denounce, they must denounce with precisely the correct language and tone.

Providing support to Ukraine (via starlink) is not enough. Proper denunciation speech is paramount.

(I am being sarcastic.)

It all feels very Trumpian; once he’s outside his comfort zone (very visible with the software engineering and politics in particular, in Musk’s case) he tends to just take his lead from whoever flatters him most, and promote/repeat this complete nonsense.

This is actually quite odd behaviour. Most high-profile people, confronted with something they don’t understand, will keep quiet; looking stupid is too much of a risk for these people. If the former PM of Russia drunkenly tweets about you, _you do not engage_, no matter how nice he is about you.

Considering how many Russians don't think so high about most of the presidents of the USA are we sure Medvedev is _nice_ to Elon?

He thinks he's being funny, and his opponents and critics have no humor.

He mocked the Twitter staff he fired. Sorry but a CEO of Twitter a social network. Elon not having emotional intelligence is the most absurd joke. Only problem is that it is reality now.

Maybe Elon doesn't think his stock dropping from $300 to $113 in less than six months is funny. Or maybe he doesn't have a sense of humor either...

I don't have a security clearance but one day in the middle of the night I accidentally ended up at the Belarus/Polish border due to a faulty bit of navigation software (Thanks, TomTom). I'm pretty sure that that had absolutely no effect whatsoever (I had no visum anyway and it's not like you just waltz across that border, nor did I want to) but at the same time if I would have a security clearance I'm fairly sure that there would have been some effect. When you are operating at that level you should be a lot more careful about who you are buddies with and where you visit lest someone decides that maybe it is time that you lost that clearance.

Reasonably politely pushing back on these has got my post not only downvoted to oblivion (after upvotes) but then flagged (!!) while of course the guy who was abusive in return, no problems.

I know you have written eloquently about HN in the past, but I think that site is gone. And I remember because I've been on it for over a decade. I joined an early stage start up on it.

Sadly, they give no means for deleting your account. But thought I'd flag to you anyway.

Anyway, I will be abandoning this account, but it's maybe something for other HN old timers to think about.

I had similar experiences suggesting covid had natural origins. I'm not sure the culture that HN possesses is the same as the one it alleges it desires.

Anyway, last post from this account. I am sure this one will equally be nuked... :)

>(Note, the way Elon "talks" in tweets would be sarcastic if it was someone younger, but remember he's middle aged and still calls things epic unironically.)

the way he tweets is pretty much distilled 2012-ish reddit