• slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      3 days ago

      I’ll never forget the chill that ran down my spine when that thing with these cave kids happend in Thailand, and some random guy tweeted him: pleas mr. Musk, you are the closest thing we have to tony stark, help them. I felt genuinely disgusted.

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        3 days ago

        Musk losing it and calling that other dude a pedo during this event is what got me to start hopping off the musk train, so I kinda feel thankful for it?

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          Watching the SpaceX engineers transform those pods overnight really highlighted the fact that all he does is talk until other, more capable people actually make it happen. They probably could have been quite helpful had he not got in the way with his tantrums.

            • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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              they are not designed to be in caves

              are they design for cardboard box in the middle of a lake?

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              You’d think so right? I’m a certified diver and love swimming around the bottom of the ocean but caves and climbing inside shipwrecks is a hard pass. Just going through a lava tube and scraping my tank on the rock gives me the heebie jeebies

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                  There’s a million specialties you can be certified in SCUBA, as part of cave diving they literally teach you how to take off your BCD/tank and push it ahead of you if the space is too tight for you and your gear. NOPE

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            At teh end it really wasn’t helpful at all and the diver who saved them explained why. That led to his tantrum. I appreciate they tried, but at the end they werre just victims of a marketing stunt.

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      2 days ago

      he always seem wierd to me, he made news, i assume many people found out who he was when announcing the sub/calling the thai seals pedos.

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        Yeah, that thing with the Thai soccer team really opened my eyes. Later, I saw a documentary on the situation, and there was no way that his submarine idea could have worked, it simply would not have fit.

        But rather than accept that those on the scene were more knowledgeable about the situation, he immediately jumped to calling the rescuers pedos, as if the only reason they wanted to rescue them was because they were young boys, and wanted to molest them. What an unhinged take, proving that he was more interested in playing the hero and feeding his ego, than actually rescuing anyone. He saw an opportunity for global promotion, and was pissed when it was denied to him.

        It showed me a side that we hadn’t seen before, but turned out to be his real personality.

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          What an unhinged take, proving that he was more interested in playing the hero and feeding his ego, than actually rescuing anyone.

          Worse, it showed he couldn’t get his head around anyone else genuinely wanting to save children from dying. That was mask-off for his sociopathy.