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Is Musk constantly inside-joking himself? Why $420 a share? Why do his car models spell S3X? Is his internal email bong69@boring.com? I love this guy.

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I’d file that under childish and awkward instead of funny.

I find an ultra powerful visionary being childish and making fart jokes very funny.

I find it disconcerting.

You and I aren’t his audience then, I guess.

In India, 420 means scam\fraud. Just sharing the other (interesting) side. I don't think Musk used this number for any fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_420_of_the_Indian_Pena...

https://www.quora.com/What-does-420-mean-in-India

Don't forget that the Model 3 was originally planned to be "Model E", but Ford owns the rights to that name. Also, there's a planned compact SUV which goes by "Model Y". U+1F644

He even made a public comment "Ford is trying to kill SEX"

https://jalopnik.com/ford-killed-sex-1585513454

Also BFR (Big Fucking Rocket).

Inside jokes like that are a way of communicating with other nerds and gamers.

I once worked for a company where the CTO's e-mail was aliased as pigfucker@domain.com.

No, he is not that interesting with email ids. It's just elon@tesla.com

> Why $420 a share

Beause 42 is always a good answer, maybe.

Do you think calling heroes "pedos" is funny too?

Maybe the "hero" shouldn't be throwing insults on twitter like a child. I thought the insult was well considered because, in context, the diver was going after kids. It's a sly kind of funny that someone from another country might think is very funny.

This is the first comment I’ve seen approving that tweet and it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect. Musk never even apologized for that one did he?

> it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect.

Not deluded at all. Sorry if you didn't get it. It's very strange that puritanical adherence of America has been rolled back (mostly) but the pedo label is still so toxic in American culture that it's assumed that other cultures share the same values.

Do you think it make sense to judge the entire work/life of someone by an affirmation made at some point in the past on a public forum ? From a moral point of view people are not black and white, there are infinite shades of grey in between.

If you dig deep enough you will find morally questionable things in everybody's past.

That being said, that tweet was a bad idea.

That's just the tip of the iceberg for Elon. He has a lot to answer for Tesla including the "self-driving" claim fiascos and all this erratic behavior. He puts video games into the center console of the Model 3 while also claiming that drivers need to pay complete attention during operation.

Compared to Sergey, Besoz or Tim Cook and I'd rather have them as CEO than someone interested in "memes".

One of the reasons to go private... no shareholders that demand a bland CEO.

Personally, I think it was very offensive. I also found the hero's comment on the Musk submarine "to stick it where it hurts" very crass and offensive too.

Perhaps the funding he secured involved Tesla's revenue sources to include cannabis operations.

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