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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Loved the initial laughs

(Noting I’m not in a position to judge his claim, but that’s OK as plenty of other commenters are comfortable doing so)

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Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Im pretty confortable saying that anyone that calls himself “the best THING currently alive” is an idiot

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- brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Heh, well they are certainly unafraid of being perceived as self-centered!
  
  Better when others are the ones to hype someone up with a high superlative like this guy I found:
  
  In an informal poll at a 1990 cosmology conference, Witten received the largest number of mentions as “the smartest living physicist”.
  
  Edward Witten
  
  Oh Mr. Musk, why must you do the silly stuff… so many big, expensive distractions (to say the very least)…
  
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- Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  When I got into computers the tech that trained me in my first coop placement in high school told me, on day one, “Anyone who ever tells you they know everything about computers is an idiot.”
  
  Still resonates with me today and I always tell juniors the same.
  
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