I’m not sure if he realizes how stupid that makes him sound
8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment
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SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
db2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
He’s that stupid, so no, he doesn’t.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
The charitable interpretation is that it was just hyperbole as a joke. Unfortunately, for that to be true, he would have to think it’s s ridiculous thing to say and I’m not sure he does.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
He sounds very Trumpian.
spacecadet@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
I like to shit on Elon as much as the next person, but as someone who works in aerospace mfg, if he understands 3% of SpaceX’s manufacturing and supply chain he is already in the top 99.9999999%. What they have accomplished is absolutely unfathomable and why we have to make exceptions when hiring experienced SpaceX people into our company to pay 2-3x standard pay for them. They really really know their shit and are making everyone in the industry better by leaving SpaceX.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
You’re being incredibly generous if you think he understands any of it.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Bro claims to be the Chief Engineer while shitposting all day and being CEO of five other companies.
I do not believe that narrative, I don’t know about you. What I do know is that the single bit of confirmed “engineering” I’ve seen accredited to him is once using epoxy on a cracked part in front of a crowd of journalists, which I’m sure was a very organic and legitimate problem.
It’s possible that SpaceX is a result of him having an eye for talent, but quite frankly I think he probably just hired one person with that eye instead and could afford to pay for the people that person recommends.
Is that his talent? Having an eye for people who have an eye for talent? Maybe, I don’t know the bureaucratic details, but I don’t believe he’s that involved otherwise. He physically does not have the time to be so, and now that fucking goofball is entering politics too.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
understanding 3% of a supply chain
a whole 200 CSVs manually exported
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yoooo whats your company are they hiring all positions?? Or is this sr engineers
Schorsch@feddit.org 11 hours ago
skvlp@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I wouldn’t expect anything less of Phony Stark.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’ve not heard that before, it’s very good.
skvlp@lemm.ee 23 minutes ago
I can’t claim origin for that, but I think it fits. Feel free to use :)
omawarisan@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I needed to find the source to hear the tone of that statement for myself - it’s from an interview from 2022 (link is timestamped):
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The true stable genius. Such wow
jayk@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
the creator of the cybertruck
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I’d love to see his engineering drawings.
Zkuld@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hope it doesn’t sound arrogant when I say that I am the greatest man in the world.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Maybe manufacturing stock manipulations, nothing tangible.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Shame. Shame upon you!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Elona channeling her inner Karen, good for her.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I have literally hated elon before it was cool. I don’t intend to defend him but I also am of the mind it’s important to be educated on opinions, or at least I strive for that for my own.
I dont know the context of this quote but manufacturing, to me, sounds extremely plausible to me and maybe one of the few legitimate “skills” he actually has. Spacex and telsa is dealing a lot with manufacturing and the logistics of that. That is what I would presume his context was from this quote. Am I missing something?
Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Am I missing something?
I think you might be missing the little fact that, despite the existence of Tesla and SpaceX, Melon Husk does NOT know “more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive.”
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Thank you, I realize now the criticism wasn’t that he was totally ignorant of manufacturing. More that he claimed to be The Smartesr I believe he is ignorant in engineering and often painted as a savant of that regardless, I had thought this was being painted in the same vein. My mistake
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Him saying he knows more about manufacturing than anyone alive today is less descriptive than me saying I know more about the internet than anyonet. I work in manufacturing and the space is massive. What field if manufacturering? Because in the tesla alone there are dozens of separate fields of industrial manufacturing and he isn’t even the preeminent expert in automotive manufacturing let alone any of the components in the car.
Donkter@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Elon musk might know a lot about manufacturing space ships and electric cars. But that’s not general knowledge of manufacturing, in fact out of a lot of manufacturing that’s very specific and highly technical manufacturing.
But beyond that, Elon is not and probably never has been the head of manufacturing at any of those companies, and he hasn’t worked a significant amount of time (probably not any time at all) in any of his factory floors. so it’s impossible to give him points for practical manufacturing skills.
And even if you could twist your brain around to give him that. There are people in charge of manufacturing larger companies with much more diverse portfolios. Let’s say something like Hitachi who has people who know manufacturing magic wands to mopeds to precision l scientific equipment.
Or how about those companies in China that make every knick-knack and consumer electronic on the planet.
Fuck, if you wanted to name American CEOs and give them credit for manufacturing everything they produce under their company Jeff Bezos owns Amazon and Blue Origin, the direct space ship manufacturing competitor to SpaceX.
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Elon musk might know a lot about manufacturing space ships and electric cars (edit: that’s a big might).
Well he this about Cybertruck:
All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy. That means all part dimensions need to be to the third decimal place in millimeters and tolerances need to be specified in single digit microns. If LEGO and soda cans, which are very low cost, can do this, so can we.
What’s fault tolerance?
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I work in manufacturing industry as a production planner. Although I am in a central position, from everything that happens on the factory floor to make a complete product, I know surprisingly little. There are so mind bogglingly many little detail in the process. That’s why there are so fucking many of us here.
From where I’m sitting, the higher you go on the management ladder more clueless people are about the actual manufacturing process. They don’t need to know to do their job. They just need to listen when somebody who knows tells them the abbreviated version when necessary.
Elon does not appear to be a listener.
He’s just a pompous narcissist or possibly a full blown psycho. Not sure what his tallent is.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
His main talent is “already having lots of money”.