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> On Twitter there is a highly active community of space enthusiasts. Absolutely none of them would post slop like "Elon is not an engineer"

You live in an algo bubble!

TONS of intelligent people with backgrounds in space, defense and technology say it all the time on Twitter.

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And all of them are wrong.

He isn't. He has a bachelor in economics and physics.

You're an engineer as soon as you make an engineering decision. End of.

Doing engineering ≠ being an engineer.

Am I a doctor because I took my temperature and found I had a fever? Am I a lawyer if I represent myself in court?

At least where I'm from, you need to be licensed to practice engineering.

Train drivers blowing their own horns are only Engineers in the weakest possible sense.

I'm at the point where I think you people are just dumb. The amount of people I've worked with my in career who did things totally outside of their major in college or simply dropped out entirely. I'm literally sitting here thinking about how intellectually destitute the so called left has become and it makes me sad.

> the so called left

HUH?

When did that ever come up?

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