Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had a screaming match in April, with President Donald Trump in earshot.
  • athairmor@lemmy.world
    155·
    5 个月前

    Matt Calkins, CEO of software company Appian… said Musk’s approach to running his tech companies didn’t translate well in Washington.

    It doesn’t even work well in his tech companies.

    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      5 个月前

      Unrelated tangent on the Appian software: It is exactly your solution if you have a five person job, but need to employ 30

          • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            5 个月前

            It was indeed a joke. Appian is a “low/no-code” platform (that surprisingly requires quite a bit of code) used to build shitty customer service workflows. It is tailored for non-technical people and sold as a cost effective solution to clueless executives. It is the kind of software solution that body shops like infosys, accenture, etc love because they can load up lots of low skill people on the project (but charge the client as if they were higher skilled). The result of this arrangement is mediocre at best. Additional changes or scope creep drags out these kinds of projects. Because the system was built with low-skill there aren’t the same considerations given for readability, extensibility and all of the other good software development practices that enable future velocity. Again, another win for the body shops as they can’t deliver the changes the client wants fast enough. So now there is this parasitic body shop attached at your company’s hip after Appian is deeply ingrained into your business processes. It is exactly the kind of penny-wise, pound foolish thinking (“I can hire lots of non-engineers for one engineers salary!”) that ends up costing way more in the long run.

            TL;DR: Appian is a wage suppression grift.

            • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
              11·
              5 个月前

              Well, that’s on me. It’s a difficult sentence to parse in English since it’s kind of nonsensical, but I guess that’s the joke 😅

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    1202·
    5 个月前

    Theater.

    Elon Musk is playing the part of “heel”, and articles and reporting like this is engineered to “take you in” to the moment, where something can be simplified and reduced to a “good” versus “evil” paradigm. It creates an escape clause for those doing the truly villainous where the heel can be pointed to as “worse”.

    • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
      51·
      5 个月前

      100%. Also a hatchet man. He’s brought in, wrecks shit on purpose, gets “kicked out”, profits immensely. Now admin can roll things back 5-10% to placate the plebes and blame Musk who everyone already hates for their life being worse. That said, a lot of people would nonperformatively tell him to go fuck himself. Just don’t mistake it as anyone being on your side

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 个月前

          It was classic “seagull manager” shit that the private sector looooooves to pull (usually combined with a consultant company and/or very short-term executive position), but on the federal government level.

          Comes in, shits all over everything, typically skips off to do something else at another institution within a few short years, sometimes just a few months. Pays no consequences whatsoever for his stupid shit, is praised by the “right people” for being a financial/operational/executive genius or whatever; hated almost universally by everyone else.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        5 个月前

        Not true it’s mostly all Tesla stock. I guess he couldn’t go broke but he could loose more money then anyone ever in history.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      5 个月前

      My thoughts exactly. Distancing him from MAGA so people won’t hate him. People have very short attention spans and memories Elon could be seen as good again.

      • P1nkman@lemmy.world
        384·
        5 个月前

        Please stop using TikTok language. It’s only there you are not allowed to say suicide, which, by itself, is fucking stupid, so please use the language as it’s meant to be written.

          • comfy@lemmy.ml
            181·
            5 个月前

            We are not on those platforms, we have to opportunity to build something better here, so please don’t bring along the repressive habits from TikTok, Discord or reddit. No need for personal attacks either.

            I’m glad that Brian Thompson was killed, it was not a suicide. See? Different place, different culture. Let’s embrace it!

          • P1nkman@lemmy.world
            62·
            5 个月前

            I asked in a friendly way, and explained why, and you attack me? Alright, no problem, I’ll just block your user. Damn, I love the Lemmy functionalities where I can remove/tag toxic people. Hope you have a lovely day!

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        5 个月前

        Nah if he wants to kill himself I ain’t stopping him.

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      5 个月前

      That’s what his riches are all about, it’s all just trying to make people like him. He’s the unlikable rich kid who tries to buy friends.

      But it’s not gonna work, all the money in the world won’t make people genuinely like you. Only humility and therapy would do that and those aren’t going to happen.

      • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 个月前

        If he wanted people to like him, he would have solved global hunger. The UN told him that they needed only 6 billion dollars to do that. The idiot asked for an itemized list and when he was provided with one, he quit the conversation.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    5 个月前

    This is unrelated but why the fuck does every hat Musk wears look like it’s like 2 sizes too small? Like I’ve got a big head and a proper hat settles like right on my brow, meanwhile with Musk it’s like 2/3rds up his fucking forehead.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 个月前

      They must look right to him in the mirror. Gotta make sure the text is nice and square and forward.

      Or maybe he has a sensory thing and this is how he deals with it though positioning.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        5 个月前

        The problem is that the hats technically sit correctly, so I think he just has a weird head. Though it could also be a sensory thing since he has had a lot of work done including hair plugs so maybe it’s something to do with that?

        IDK maybe I should stop over analyzing a fascist I wish to scalp.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 个月前

        Sure but it sits way too high on his head, this is something specific to this particular dipshit. Fuck even when Trump himself wears the dipshit hat it fits better.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
      187·
      5 个月前

      I don’t know that we should be advocating for violence here. If we do that, we may find our opponents responding by doing the same, resulting in a positive feedback loop of escalation. I mean it’s not like they [checks notes] carefully planned and organized a rally based on an extremely inflammatory lie, riled up the attendees, told them to fight, sent them to the Capitol Building resulting in an angry mob that stormed the Capitol while actively calling for the deaths of the VP and several members of Congress, killing some people and vandalizing the offices of Congress…oh, no. Well, at least they weren’t pardoned for their flagrant, violent insurrection…oh, no. You know what? Just disregard my earlier comments. Carry on.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 个月前

    I’m sure he’ll be consoled by his billions and having a corrupted government that coddles him even further.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      5 个月前

      The best part is no he won’t. He desperately craves being liked and can’t understand why he isn’t.