Elon Musk sends Boring Company engineers to help Thai cave rescue mission
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Isn't this just defamation?
I feel like this story is gonna continue to develop If and when it does, should it go into a separate thread?
Maybe, you know, people aren't strictly "muskdrones" and their opinions are more nuanced than "omg elon is the best person ever"?
When you meet one lemme know
I kid, mostly. I'm specifically referring to the fanboy tier followers he has, not everyone who's interested in his ever changing adventure through the court of public opinion.
I found this for explaining why the entire plane ride and the publicity was bad:
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1018498560789286912
Who needs the Boring Company when he can dig himself into a hole this deep?
Fair enough. I assumed you were referring to posters in this thread.
yikes
Stanton (who worked with Vern) was the guy who helped design the tube. It's not like Elon's team whipped it up with no consideration which is why I think Vern's anger is unnecessary. It was Vern's teamates who consulted and requested Elon send the tube!
he's always been something of a huge asshole on social media
Oh I meant that this was a twitter thread explaining it. Here's the text.
I know you said clearly you'd defer to the divers, and I point that out
in my piece. But rescuers hate high profile interventions & VIP
visits etc. Quiet, background development is great, publicity is not)
because they're also fighting a million officials with own
ideas/agendas.
I was once in the middle of an earthquake rescue with an amazing team.
Politest people. Their lives on the line. Humble. Years later, I just
don't have words. Literally the biggest problem they faced was local
officials, politicians & celebs who butted in. Even if well
meaning.
Officials pull/push actual rescuers. Sub as a back-up option (are people
still working on it with domain experts?) is great to explore quietly,
but the thing they fear is that an official comes and overrules the
rescuers. Try this flashy thing! Happens to disastrous consequence.
We had someone important and famous land with a @#$@!! helicopter to the
earthquake zone to "support our work and improve our morale." At that
point, we were working round the clock next to a burning refinery and
the biggest challenge was establishing silence to listen for life.+
These rescuers I had been working, who were so humble, polite and
expert—and who accepted everything and just worked and worked at great
risk to themselves, climbing into rubble in the middle of 6.5+
aftershocks.. I learned more English curse words that day than since or
before.
I've too-long for Twitter stories on how hard it was to keep officials
on track and from meddling wrongly. Anyway, the lesson I took is that
publicity—even well-meaning—and anything flashy that officials might be
attracted to during a rescue is dangerous. Many stories like that.+
Take from all this, my piece, my thread, his irritation what you want,
but we're all human and my two-cents is that too many people blindly
cheer-on wealthy/famous people, and want saviors, and we're all worse
off for it, and the wealthy famous people perhaps worst.
Keep digging that hole you piece of shit
Not really. I don't think any, uh, Musk Enthusiasts??? On FP that I see have jumped into the "OMG HOW DARE U HES SAVING HUMANITY NO SACRIFICE IS TOO GREAT HES LIKE A IRL TONY STARK !!!" behavior, yet.
Most seem, even if painfully so, aware he has plenty of flaws.
Went ahead and made a separate thread since there's no way this pedo thing is ending here.
Elon Musk Defames Thai Rescue Diver Calling Him a "Pedo"
That way this thread can stay on topic being about Elon's actions during the rescue rather than his twitter comments now.
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