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Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 108 points 20 hours ago

I don't remember the quote exactly but.

"It's just so dumb" "So dumb it's genius" "No it's just dumb"

perfectly encapsulates musk.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 54 points 20 hours ago

From glass onion lol. Great movie, btw.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 29 points 19 hours ago

Janelle Monae crushes it in her role. I mean absolutely crushes it. In it she is acting in the role of a character acting in a role, which is actually really hard to do in a really satisfying way, and she absolutely pulls it off. What's more is that she lets the veil slip just enough, as an actress, for the character playing the role to be believable as an actress. Like her music and visual artistry as an R&B performer is incredible, but there's still a part of me that feels like the world lost something from her not going into acting. But if she had, she'd probably have put out an album that would make me lament she hadn't focused on R&B.

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 32 points 17 hours ago

Man this book will probably be banned before it comes out

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 23 points 17 hours ago

Imagine being as stupid as this clown is and his vice president and still... STILL somehow being smarter than the average voter. The bar is on the ground, folks.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

If it makes it any better id argue that the average voter at least has the excuse of being propagandized and under educated with minimal ability to improve. These fucks have more than enough money to inprove themselves nearly infinitely but would rather wallow in their egos and call it wisdom.

I feel like if ya sat down with Cletus the Appalachian hillbilly and told him the tale of his names origin he would probably find it interesting at the very least.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

When is the biography coming out?

Also, when is that HBO documentary on fElon coming out?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

Did he even get a real degree?

I'm not convinced he even knows how to code, if we are being honest.

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 34 points 18 hours ago

People who know how to code are in agreement that he has no clue.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 17 hours ago

Elon doesn't think the government uses SQL. He's dumb as fucking rocks.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

What does that mean? I don't understand the reference about SQL.

[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

Think of it like this:

“This r**ard thinks the government uses PAPER [SQL]” - Elon Musk

It is literally that standard and common and obviously in use in the government.

(SQL is just a computer language for dealing with data and databases)

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

SQL is a language used to format requests to most relational and nonrelational databases. Databases are extremely commonly used for data persistence and retrieval. It's like saying the government doesn't use binary - or the government doesn't use TCP - or the government doesn't use paper. It uses all these things in abundance.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

I know how to code and during my career, I've worked with people that could only barely do it, mostly relied on others to carry their weight, and often would fail upwards into management track stuff, usually done as a defensive strategy to get them away from doing damage hands-on. Of course, some of them effectively did MORE damage later by doing incredibly bone-headed things because some of them suffered from extreme arrogance and Dunning-Kruger.

Watching fElon in his takeover of Twitter and turning it into xitter, I was not paying too close of attention, but the level of chaos and performative bullshit seemed to be terrible at both a management/ownership level and on a technical one.

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