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Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site
- belter 4y agoTheir planned place for an Artists Residency is inspiring: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1375562834541752323 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1375562834541752323
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- asimpletune 4y agoBeautiful website. I also think this is the same guy who had to ask Musk if he was fired because HR couldn't confirm it. Maybe it was a mistake to let him ago, he seems to be pretty talented actually.
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- francislavoie 4y agoYep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705
- wood_spirit 4y agoIt’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(
- vaidhy 4y agoI wonder if that will be the new badge of honor
- rideontime 4y agoIt already is, in some people's opinions.
- capableweb 4y agoNo, he won't. Things like this are "hot news this week" while the other things are accomplishments in life. He'll surely be remembered for the much more important things he has done and the much more important things he'll do in the future.
- mr_woozy 4y agoIcelander here, we're all a bit chuffed at the moment that the world is recognizing what a cool individual he is. We already knew it here.
- archagon 4y agoPersonally, I just learned about a really interesting new person to follow. (Too bad he’s not on Mastodon.)
- runarberg 4y agoHe was already a celebrity in Iceland. So much so that he acted in the end of year comedy show (which is the nr. 1 television event in Iceland) despite not being an actor (which is rare; kind of like appearing in the Superbowl for Americans, or Eurovision for Europeans [although now I wouldn’t be surprised to see him there also next May]). In one recent event he had the president come and vandalize a poster for his ramp project with a spray can, striking out 1000 ramps and spraying 1500 rapms over it. Internationally he might be most known for this, but in Iceland he is known for far more. I have no doubt people will laugh with him in the next end of year comedy show about this incident, and then continue supporting him in his disability activism.
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- brigadier132 4y agoI believe him when he says he was asking for work and nobody gave him anything to do. I've had that happen to me many times at the "best" tech companies. Yes not having work to give people is a valid reason to lay someone off but not to publicly humiliate them and be cruel.
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- yunohn 4y agoI think you're describing all managerial positions if you think he was coasting.
- yardie 4y agoTwitter acquired his company and kept him on as an employee. A lot of times founders end up having to coast because the buyer is still trying to sort out how to merge the tech. The founder is basically on garden leave/on-call tech support until a strategy is in place. Some never get there, vest a few years, and start a new company.
- wjnc 4y agoThey kept him on as ‘senior director’ in his words. I think the senior directors in my company are quite capable as senior directors setting strategy, priority, creating valuable work environments and sometimes add some value in tactics and logistics. Never, ever are they to do any work. Don’t let them touch customers, processes or god forbid use any tooling. It’s been decades for the most of them. De facto demotion is a sorry excuse for firing with a good package. Notable exception for the phase nearing retirement where awesome firms put these types in risk management and audit.
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- bmitc 4y agoThere were front page posts on this earlier today, but both were flagged and buried by Hacker News. Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839
- mustacheemperor 4y agoDisappointing to see they were flagged, but moreso to see the apparent ratio between downvotes and negative comments on those threads. Apparently a large subset of the community felt those posts should be removed from the front page, but didn’t feel obliged to explain why. It’s like Elon is becoming a radioactive element for this community’s health too. Edit: This submission also briefly showed as flagged sometime in the last 20m
- mschuster91 4y agoPeople are sick and tired about constant news about Musk's latest crap antics, just like with Trump - basically, at least here in Europe, you can't go to bed and wake up without yet another newsflash of either a large Twitter outage or Elon Musk shitposting again. I get why people are exhausted, but the desensitization is dangerous on its own - when there are no consequences, people escalate their behavior... and Musk already has intervened to make Starlink less usable for Ukraine. I don't want that to continue.
- 93po 4y ago> Musk already has intervened to make Starlink less usable for Ukraine. and here you are perpetuating the fake shit about Elon that gets everyone engaged. Elon doesn't want Starlink to be directly used on weapons to kill people. Would you also fault the World Nuclear Association for being willing to provide uranium to power Ukraine, but refusing to provide the same material for nuclear bombs? He has a right to determine whether he wants his technology to be used directly for offensive war efforts. He is still providing Starlink for general military operations and communications. He just doesn't want it directly enabling weapons.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago> Maybe it was a mistake I suspect many mistakes have been made. This isn't even anywhere near the Top Ten.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThe way Elon is handling it on Twitter is uniquely bad, and could be opening Twitter up to massive discrimination liability. I would say this does actually make a top ten list.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoThat's a good point. [UPDATED] > But as I told HR (I'm assuming that's the confidential health information you are sharing) I can't work as a hands on designer for the reasons outlined above. > Or even small companies, like Twitter today. That's gonna leave a mark.
- colin_jack 4y agoYeah its disgraceful behavior from Musk.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoI have a feeling that Halli is getting a lot of solicitations from solicitors. I suspect lawyers are salivating over the possibilities. Target-rich (very rich) environment... [UPDATE] and there's this: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1633176820072816640 https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1633176820072816640 There will definitely be lawyers in the mix...
- PragmaticPulp 4y agoIt’s one thing to decide that someone’s role is no longer necessary at a company. It’s business, things change, no role is guaranteed to exist forever. But firing someone without communication and with HR unable to confirm it is just low. Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent. This could have been a completely different exchange if the response was a simple “Sorry for the confusion, I’ll look into it and have HR get back to you ASAP.”
- vaidhy 4y agoIt feels like the head of HR is asking elon for confirmation rather than having the information. In a well run company, you have institutional knowledge. In a dictatorship, all institutions are the dictator.
- bediger4000 4y ago> Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent. I agree, but we've allowed our upper class to do this since November 26, 2015.
- rnk 4y agoYou must be referring to the mocking of a reporter by TFG. I wouldn't say we allowed it. We elected one fool, he got almost dictatorial powers. It could literally lead to the end of our country. We are of course stuck in a dictatorship of the electoral collage at this point. Might as well call it the proletariat.
- jsheard 4y agoAn interesting detail with this is that the purchase of Haraldur's design agency was structured as part of his salary at Twitter > In early 2021, Haraldur sold Ueno to Twitter. In an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland, he chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received. Per the agreement, he paid the second highest tax of an individual in Iceland in 2021. Elon's focus on the work he was or wasn't doing is almost beside the point, because much of his salary was simply to pay off this debt. Now that he's been fired they'll either have to keep paying his salary anyway, or pay out the probably substantial amount he's owed as a lump sum. Haraldur has alluded to this in his tweets about getting "what he's owed" per his contract. Allegedly he was on a do-not-fire list for this reason, but it's unclear if Elon knew about any of this before jumping on the opportunity to punch down at a subordinate.
- webworker 4y agoHe clearly is a fan of curious george
- asimpletune 4y agoI thought it was more Tin Tin.
- chidog12 4y agoI wish I had the skills to create beautiful/art like website. is there anywhere to get started learning?
- cvdub 4y agoctrlpaint.com is a great resource. The tutorials are comprehensive and free. I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. Unfortunately there’s no hacks to learn draining overnight. Deliberate practice is the only way. Doodling in the margins of your notes during boring meetings is a great way to get reps in.
- cptcobalt 4y agoIt's years of skill and many different learned things to arrive on a curated outcome like this personal site, which is the point. Don't try to get there today, but maybe make your own site that's the best you can build with what you know. And honestly, if you do want to jump into this, there's nothing better than just to start. Use something like codepen and start playing with CSS & CSS animations. Try replicating some of the text animations (there'll be lots of examples on the internet) and go from there. After CSS animations (which will get you 80% of the way), would be helpful to explore composition & color theory (from a design perspective, studying and replicating examples is good to pick up skill and find your "design voice"). From there, the sky's the limit.
- nestorD 4y agoThe main illustration is done in the Ligne Claire[0] comic book style made famous by Herge in Tintin (and common in French and Belgian comic book). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire
- karaterobot 4y agoHe's definitely going for the style of Tintin comics, the so-called ligne claire. The books I see which claim to teach that style are in French, and out of print: the 2-volume L'atelier de la bande dessinée avec Hergé. But, read the comics anyway, they are fun.
- torehan 4y agoThis guy is incredible, I've been following him on Twitter since his Ueno days. An amazing designer and leader. One of my favorite projects he worked on was to literally build ramps all around Iceland: https://rampur.super.site/ https://rampur.super.site/
- poma 4y agoLooks like people mostly praise him for those ramps, his bar, his awards, and how cool he is in general. It's still not clear what he got done at his job.
- vaidhy 4y agoWhy not give the benefit of doubt that his awards are a result of his work? Unless you are his manager, your comment reeks of asshole-ry.
- femiagbabiaka 4y ago> I now work at Twitter where I led an innovation team that among others spearheaded Communities on the platform as well as the long awaited (and finally launched) edit button. I also tweet a lot on there. http://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com/ http://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com/
- monknomo 4y agoA guy builds a company from scratch, has a successful exit, does extensive extra curricular philanthropy, stays on and somehow your takeaway is that he probably doesn't do anything
- pembrook 4y agoIt's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech company looking for design help from say 2014-2020, Ueno was probably on your shortlist (they're basically the reason most company landing pages look the way they do today). The fact that twitter could not find something valuable for this guy to do reflects more on the current state of Twitter management than it does on him.
- darth_avocado 4y ago> I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing So just because he is well known, you suddenly believe a Twitter employee. But others who Elon claims to not be working, they’re probably not working?
- mediaman 4y agoIt's true of any large company. There are many people not doing anything. Simply because of the number of employees, and the manner in which large companies tend to stop focusing on outcomes. That doesn't mean most were not doing anything, but "most" is not the word used in the comment to which yours replies.
- silvestrov 4y agoaka Price’s Law: Why Only A Few People Generate Half Of The Results https://medium.com/darius-foroux/prices-law-why-only-a-few-people-get-half-of-the-rewards-599562d607ab https://medium.com/darius-foroux/prices-law-why-only-a-few-p...
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoThat article is total garbage and the author comes off as a complete douche bag. Did he add anything of value or just regurgitate a link to Wikipedia, quote Jordan fucking Peterson and take some time to attack some straw-man voss-water drinking academics he made up?
- darth_avocado 4y agoAnyone surprised at this and changing their opinion about Elon now because of Halli, should know that this is how every single employee has been treated at Twitter since the acquisition. Doesn’t matter what your political beliefs are. Doesn’t matter if you’re resentful at employees at Twitter for apparent coasting at high salaries. Worker mistreatment at Twitter is some of the worst in the modern workplace.
- starik36 4y agoYou mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.
- JeremyNT 4y agoThere's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount. I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.
- starik36 4y agoThe only thing that matters is what you take from it. Severance. Everything else is completely and utterly immaterial.
- cody_coconuts 4y agoThat might be the only thing that matters to you, but that's not what matters to many others, or notably, the law
- Quarrelsome 4y agothat's not entirely true. Going out of your way to slander your former employees while revealing private medical information about them is nowhere near as kind as stating that your former employees are hard-working but the company simply made strategic employee head-count mistakes and needed to downsize.
- jack_riminton 4y agoElon's descent into an asshole Howard Hughes continues at pace. Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent
- walrus01 4y agoIn historical retrospect, Howard Hughes had a pretty good excuse for going off the rails in the 25 years prior to his death. He had screwed up his lower back in plane crashes much earlier and was prescribed an increasingly assorted amount of high powered medications (and self-prescribed) that affected his mental state. The 1950s-early 1970s were not exactly a golden era of non-addictive totally harmless painkillers and other psychoactive pharmaceuticals. And if you had essentially unlimited money to spend on private doctors who would do whatever you wanted... All of that, combined with whatever underlying bipolar or other psychological conditions he might have had, and Howard's predilection towards self-medicating himself, did not turn out to be a good combination.
- seper8 4y agoAre you leaving out that hughes had (neuro)syphilis on purpose?
- walrus01 4y agoIs that known for sure?
- pavlov 4y agoMaybe the definitive Elon Musk biography of 2075 will tell us what drugs he was taking in 2018-23. Should be interesting reading.
- yamtaddle 4y agoUppers and T, I'm guessing (like so many others).
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- amateuring 4y agono good guys in this story
- arthurofbabylon 4y agoHalli is a master of voice, as evinced by this site. This is deep, strong branding.
- clockworkhavoc 4y agoThe site design is a blatant ripoff of ligne claire [1], famously pioneered by French comic artist Hergé, creator of The Adventures of Tintin series. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire
- scolapato 4y agoBlatant ripoff, or homage?
- sofaygo 4y agoWhat does your comment even mean? If I were to create an original piece of art of an famous style, would that be considered a “blatant rip-off”? For a sanity check, here’s the website of the artist that created this original illustration: https://janneiivonen.net/about https://janneiivonen.net/about
- clockworkhavoc 4y agoYou mean to say this fraud didn't even design his own site? Regardless, it's clearly ripping off of a well-known art style. Disingenuous to claim "deep, strong branding" when it's simply a cheap imitation. What a joke.
- arkitaip 4y agoIt is simply impossible to ripoff an entire style of drawing.
- espadrine 4y agoIt predates Hergé. Bécassine did it two decades prior. It is so old that it will enter public domain next June (death of the artist + 70 years in France).
- eric4smith 4y agoYeah it’s sucks how he was let go. But he will get paid. But for the first time I’m using Twitter more than HN , which has jumped the shark. Elon’s accomplishments? - helped start openai - runs the biggest rocket company that makes a new raptor engine every day. - runs one of the biggest car companies. - just eliminated rare earth metals for new generation of motors. - runs Twitter which is undeniably more active and popular than ever. No matter what you think about the dude, doing all that stuff is going to make you a dick. But then again, it’s the dicks that make the world we live in.
- mustacheemperor 4y agoPlenty of people that make the world we live in are not dicks. This take is very reductive towards all those people while overmagnifying Elon’s personal role in his companies’ successes. As an example, Iceland’s 2022 person of the year also founded an agency that was hugely influential for tech messaging and branding over the last few years, and he has a reputation as being a really great guy.
- Anechoic 4y agoruns the biggest rocket company That would be Boeing Defense, Space & Security (50,000 employees and $23.3 billion in revenue vs 12,000 employees and $2 billion revenue) runs one of the biggest car companies. Tesla, with it's $81 billion in revenue, doesn't even crack the the top ten. just eliminated rare earth metals for new generation of motor Just announced it would eliminate rare earth metals. This will be a great thing if/when it happens, but it hasn't happened yet. runs Twitter which is undeniably more active and popular than ever. Annual users appears to be up, but down in the US [0]. But if we use annual users as a proxy for "active and popular" then I'll give this to you. So, 1 for 4. [0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/ Edit: taking chroma’s post at face value, you’re at 50%.
- chroma 4y agoSpaceX is a private company so they don't publish revenue numbers. Also your revenue estimate is from 2018. Current estimations put their 2022 revenue at $3.2B. And BDS does much more than orbital rocket launches. They are the third largest defense contractor in the world. Most of their revenue comes from manufacturing aircraft. Except for ICBMs, BDS's orbital launches are conducted by ULA, which has less revenue and fewer employees than SpaceX. But employee count and revenue aren't the most accurate way to compare the two companies. The best metric is, "How much payload did you launch to orbit?" Last year SpaceX sent twice as much mass to orbit as the rest of the world combined. They have landed more rockets than ULA has launched. SpaceX also holds the record for most consecutive orbital launches without a partial or complete mission failure. This year they have averaged one orbital launch every 4.5 days. ULA has not launched a single time this year. There are many good criticisms of Elon's companies, but it's silly to claim that SpaceX isn't the biggest rocket company.
- hintymad 4y ago[flagged]
- stubybubs 4y agoHe started out by asking Musk if he was fired. An employee has a right to know this, whether they're laid off or fired for cause. HR could have told him that, and he did ask them first, for days. Musk could have directed HR to finish his paperwork, or his manager to tell him what's up. Even if this guy was doing zero work, it doesn't matter. The employer at some point has to say your employment has ended as of today. This is generally required to be given it written form. Locking you out of systems != firing, it can be something done by accident or for a multitude of legitimate reasons. If you just want to talk about facts, it's this: as an employer, Twitter was required to give notice, and they didn't. If his written notice was as of yesterday then I think Twitter owes him for that 9 days plus whatever else his contract says.
- hungryfoolish 4y agoIt doesn't matter if that person was good at his job (which btw from whatever his peers say about him, he most definitely was) - everybody deserves a right to at least be told that they are fired and no longer working at the job.
- the_only_law 4y ago> If we get the answer, shouldn't we ask if Twitter is wrong to fire a disabled person if he didn't do his job? I would assume that would be dependent on said answer, but you weren’t actually trying to propose a real question were you…
- hintymad 4y agoI was. I don't have answers and I recognize that labor dispute can be nuanced, hence my questions.
- kentm 4y agoWhether Twitter was "wrong" to fire him is not really relevant. The employee in question wasn't trying to get his job back, but just trying to get a straight answer about whether he was fired and whether Twitter would honor their contractual obligations, only to get dumped on by Musk and his remora-like followers. Contractual obligations are relevant because Twitter is famously just ignoring their obligations and stiffing their vendors and contractors, under Musk's watch. This is also something he did with Tesla. So its entirely believable that Musk intends to do the same here.
- danso 4y agoTo build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242
- nonethewiser 4y ago> Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field Its literally just a pink background for me. Not sure if I'm missing something or if that's the joke. I'm not familiar with him and assume he's a great designer. I dont understand the reference here though.
- showerst 4y agoIt’s gorgeous on my iPhone, though it does scrolljack for effects which I find annoying. Maybe an overzealous ad blocker?
- starrider 4y agoIf you scroll, it changes.
- veddox 4y agoYou need to scroll down (and presumably have JS enabled).
- chroma 4y agoIt's a landing page saying when the restaurant will open and what it will have, along with a couple of links to hiring, contact info, and social media. You have to have js enabled so it can show the fancy animations. There's no fallback for people with older browsers or noscript. Also while arrow keys and spacebar work, the page doesn't respond to pageup/pagedown or home/end. Maybe it's a nice experience on mobile, but it's a nightmare on my laptop.
- Phelinofist 4y agoI'm out of the loop, can someone summarize the drama?
- vsareto 4y agohttps://www.reddit.com/gallery/11kzn5v https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11kzn5v
- Phelinofist 4y agoHonestly I lol'd a bit
- gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y agoWhy would anyone want to work for an Elon Musk portfolio company after witnessing this?
- unglaublich 4y agoIf _this_ is what changes your opinion of Elon Musk, you wouldn't even recognize a problem if your house was on fire.
- Orangeair 4y agoSurreal to me to see how many people in this thread and trying to steer the conversation towards whether or not the firing was justified based on his job performance. What the actual fuck does it matter? In what world is it okay to fire someone without communication and then publically mock them like Elon did here? I'm truly unable understand the willingness some people have to jump to the defense of billionaires.
- 93po 4y agoElon isn't mocking him - the employee made this public and Elon is defending his choice to fire him. It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't. Instead he's tweeting "Let me know if you are going to pay what you owe me?" at Elon, which is only furthering Elon's stance that this dude is looking for a payday and went to publicly smear Elon to bully him into paying out while hamming up his "I built a trillion wheelchair ramps" and other awards.
- Quarrelsome 4y ago> Elon isn't mocking him he posted an office space meme in response to him sarcastically. > It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't. and that is a spurious reach.
- 93po 4y agoIt's a meme asking what exactly he did, which is a completely valid question for someone who clearly wasn't working and then launched a public smear campaign to get paid. > and that is a spurious reach. Halli himself tweeted that he "did what his manager told him to" but didn't actually say that he did any material work, instead citing that he had been waiting forever from HR without any response. I cannot believe people are trying to defend that this dude was actually working when it's very clear he wasn't.
- Quarrelsome 4y ago
- beardedman 4y agoThe guy sure knows how to toot his own horn.
- Pxtl 4y agoFlagged again. Can't help but notice what kind of political bend we see in the things that get flagged here.
- dang 4y agoAs one is far more likely to notice what one dislikes or disagrees with, this kind of perception is unreliable. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- 93po 4y agoI wish Elon related stories would get banned on HN. The comment sections are always complete wastelands and I hate feeling compelled to constantly correct space-man-bad takes that have no basis in reality. I'm done.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoIt's odd that you posted this. I read your posts on this thread, and you're basically just angry that people don't agree with you. Welcome to the Internet.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mustacheemperor 4y ago>no basis in reality You seem very upset about this issue, so maybe you should read Elon's apology.[0] >"I would like to apologise to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful." You worked yourself up "compelled to correct" the people with criticisms you felt "have no basis in reality", and then space man himself admitted he was in the wrong. I'm not trying to be rude or to attack you to say, I think you need to recalibrate your sense of what has a basis in reality. Because your behavior in this thread, as explained here, is a strong indicator you did not have an accurate view of whether the criticisms in this thread were based in reality. [0]https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64884287 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64884287
- mikedelago 4y agoDisclaimer, I don't support Musk at all. The thing I don't get is "why"? Did he really have to try and fight the guy over twitter? Why couldn't he say, "thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it", and let that be the end of it? He was being cruel and childish so his fans would think he's funny.