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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

The admin team here has decided to quarantine all musk spam to one community, so that people can easily block it, and won't have to read his takes.

Use !enough_musk_spam@lemmy.ml for now, or the musk spam communities elsewhere. In the future we can re-evaluate whether to keep any communities for rocket jesus at all.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 31 points 5 hours ago
[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 59 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He tries so hard to sound intelligent...

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 hours ago

He tries so hard to sound like an smart it guy.

But he isn't...

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago

You know nothing, Elon Musk!

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

ketamine is one hell of a drug

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 67 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He truly is an idiot’s concept of a genius.

No one who anctually understands Unix or IP networking would ever craft that as an explanation for this concept.

That said, it’s an excellent explanation of how a lobotomy helped him embrace his true self.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Now I want to see:

  • a genius'es concept of an idiot
  • an idiot's concept of an idiot
  • a genius'es concept of a genius
[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 hours ago

A genius wouldn’t post something this pointless and idiotic in the first place. If they felt inclined to, they would likely not think it worth the time.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
  1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
  2. the movie: Idiocracy
  3. lots of examples, let's go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman
[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
  1. I somewhat disagree, I think a lot of real smart people overestimate idiots.
  2. Yup
  3. Alan Turing is my guy! Always remember the British government did him dirty for being gay. Shame on you, British gov.
[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I think I just wanted to mention arrested development lol. It being a smart, well-written show about very dumb people

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fair! I hope I didn't ruin your fun.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i'd nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses' genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn't crack.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

Ah true I haven't heard of him! Love to hear about autodidact geniuses.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 53 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

His understanding of bash is as good as his Path of Exile skills.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's just inverse South African notation.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Emerald off the rails

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 30 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is what that indian kid would write on facebook after his first programming course lesson, to show off career choice

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 hours ago

Lmao, so accurate.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 7 hours ago

I think that kid made the youtube channel "Engineering Made Easy"

It's a channel about an Indian guy badly explaining physics in order to justify his spiritual beliefs, featuring the best of "Shit Roger Penrose absolutely did not say, not even when talking about Orch-OR"

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This reminds me of the old how to shoot yourself in the foot joke for unix, except in this case...

rm -rf * woke
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 28 points 10 hours ago

If Elon can go fsck himself that would be great. I sense a systematic lack of integrity from him.

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tiredturtle@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 hours ago

Saying there's a virus in his mind about everything being woke

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 33 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

He's saying the enemy is within and must be wiped out completely.

Recursively and forcefully remove virus at Localhost.

Just sent to a friend and I broke it down like this

The commands wouldn't work on Linux/Unix due to the format. But.. They don't need to if you're just sending a message.

127.0.0.1 means the local machine. The host.

rm is remove. -r is recursively. -f means use force if necessary.

The commands, when put together, would look something like this:

traceroute wokemindvirus (find the location of and path to the virus)

The virus has been located at localhost (internally)

rm -rf /127.0.0.1/wokemindvirus

Remove, forcefully and recursively until nothing is left, the woke virus, in the local host - USA.

In other words, the enemy within must be wiped out.

Tell me I'm crazy.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Didn't the woke virus delete /usr/bin/rm ?

Although rm might be a builtin, I didnt check.

❯ which rm
/usr/bin/rm 

Ah, no, apparently it isn't.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 hours ago

It's such a stupid joke that I prefer to interpret it like this:

He discovered that he is the source of the woke mind virus, and then he forcefully lobotomized himself.

[–] l3m05@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This seems like it makes sense on at least 2 levels, either because he's saying he at some point had the 'woke mind virus' and deleted it, or more likely he's saying this is what people need to do to 'free' themselves of the 'woke mind virus'.

You don't have to endorse it to understand it. I don't really understand Hazel's confusion.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

The woke mind virus is coming from INSIDE the house

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The confusion is an affectation they're putting on because the execution of the joke is just so poor.

I especially love that he didn't say where he was running rm -rf and I like to believe it's from root, so he lobotomized himself.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

I especially love that he didn't say where he was running rm -rf and I like to believe it's from root

I assumed that's what he meant and is telling people to kill themselves.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago

This is neither programming nor humurous. Wrong community.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 26 points 14 hours ago

He knows as much about Unix as he knows about PoE2

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 100 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Is Elon trying to say he deleted his own brain because his behavior would prove that theory

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 201 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Days after exposing himself as a fake poser of a gamer, Elon has conveniently (again) reminded us he's also a fake poser of a programmer

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