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If someone tells you “I challenge you to a cage fight”, tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. “I challenge you” and then we wait two years or what?

If someone tells you “I challenge you to a cage fight”, tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. “I challenge you” and then we wait two years or what? Do you realize this makes no damn sense. Also Musk issued the challenge in June. Not today. Despite Zuckerberg not issuing the challenge, he gave Musk over two months to get his shit together and he clearly can’t.

valianteffort 3y ago
To take the GP comments fight as an example, there was 64 days between when Khabib v McGregor was announced and their actual bout. Both camps knew there would be a fight and so consider negotations started at least one month prior to that. So both trained fighters had at least 90 days to prepare. Khabib however trains everyday, that is his life and he has done nothing else his whole life. Connor I'm not so sure but at a minimum he had the three months. These guys are elite, the best at their weight class, and they had three months. People here who have never had so much as an afterschool fight in their life thinking it takes a week to prepare for something.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  > > People here who have never had so much as an afterschool fight That is the perfect description of Musk, the only fighting experience he had was back when bullies used to beat him up in high school. And in retrospect, the bullies were right
rowanG077 3y ago
> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  It's jerking around the media and the attention of everyone, and telling Zuckerberg to spend two months in gym with professionals preparing himself, only to then say "oh, I forgot I have a bad back, sorry". It may be lighthearted fun, for the most part, but it's a microcosm of the Musk condition. The guy is a deeply unserious person, who is always dead serious saying unserious things, and using everyone around him like a play-toy. The benefit of communication is to share facts and information with one another, so we can be less wrong together, so we can be more coordinated. Musk does the opposite. He aims to mislead, to confuse and to profit from the confusion.
  - rowanG077 3y ago
    He is an unseriousness person on twitter for sure. If you as a person take anything Musk says on twitter seriously you have greater problems. You shouldn't take anything on twitter seriously in fact. It's almost like the people who dislike him most are taking him the most serious. It's funny actually.
    - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
      He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember him saying the future of the world and free speech depends on Twitter and what not. Is it just for the jokes? This is what we use free speech about, this is what democracy depends on? Fucking around with jokes? Why do autocratic regimes shut down Twitter in times of unrest? To reduce number of jokes? Why is say former President Trump being sued for promoting insurrection on Twitter? Don't they know it's just for jokes? The accounts of the war crimes in Ukraine that found outlet on Twitter, the news of weather events, earthquakes, crime, scientific news like the LK-99 superconductor candidate, it's all just jokes? The fact the stock price sharply went up when Musk said "I'm taking Tesla private" on Twitter, just jokes? The only joke here... is you. And as a matter of fact, Zuckerberg had explicitly asked Musk (not on Twitter, but "in real life") if he's serious about the fight, and he's said "he's dead serious". The problem with Musk being dead serious is that he tends to be dead serious about great many things, and then not deliver. That's not about Twitter, or about jokes. It's who Musk is. He's not reliable.

valianteffort 3y ago

To take the GP comments fight as an example, there was 64 days between when Khabib v McGregor was announced and their actual bout. Both camps knew there would be a fight and so consider negotations started at least one month prior to that. So both trained fighters had at least 90 days to prepare. Khabib however trains everyday, that is his life and he has done nothing else his whole life. Connor I'm not so sure but at a minimum he had the three months. These guys are elite, the best at their weight class, and they had three months. People here who have never had so much as an afterschool fight in their life thinking it takes a week to prepare for something.

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
> > People here who have never had so much as an afterschool fight That is the perfect description of Musk, the only fighting experience he had was back when bullies used to beat him up in high school. And in retrospect, the bullies were right

rowanG077 3y ago

> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
It's jerking around the media and the attention of everyone, and telling Zuckerberg to spend two months in gym with professionals preparing himself, only to then say "oh, I forgot I have a bad back, sorry". It may be lighthearted fun, for the most part, but it's a microcosm of the Musk condition. The guy is a deeply unserious person, who is always dead serious saying unserious things, and using everyone around him like a play-toy. The benefit of communication is to share facts and information with one another, so we can be less wrong together, so we can be more coordinated. Musk does the opposite. He aims to mislead, to confuse and to profit from the confusion.
- rowanG077 3y ago
  He is an unseriousness person on twitter for sure. If you as a person take anything Musk says on twitter seriously you have greater problems. You shouldn't take anything on twitter seriously in fact. It's almost like the people who dislike him most are taking him the most serious. It's funny actually.
  - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
    He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember him saying the future of the world and free speech depends on Twitter and what not. Is it just for the jokes? This is what we use free speech about, this is what democracy depends on? Fucking around with jokes? Why do autocratic regimes shut down Twitter in times of unrest? To reduce number of jokes? Why is say former President Trump being sued for promoting insurrection on Twitter? Don't they know it's just for jokes? The accounts of the war crimes in Ukraine that found outlet on Twitter, the news of weather events, earthquakes, crime, scientific news like the LK-99 superconductor candidate, it's all just jokes? The fact the stock price sharply went up when Musk said "I'm taking Tesla private" on Twitter, just jokes? The only joke here... is you. And as a matter of fact, Zuckerberg had explicitly asked Musk (not on Twitter, but "in real life") if he's serious about the fight, and he's said "he's dead serious". The problem with Musk being dead serious is that he tends to be dead serious about great many things, and then not deliver. That's not about Twitter, or about jokes. It's who Musk is. He's not reliable.