Current Events > Elon Musk is arguing on twitter with virologist over the US coronavirus numbers.

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DeadBankerDream
07/02/20 4:27:25 PM
#51:


Good thing instead of focusing on the irrelevant "mansplaining" angle, you can instead choose to focus on the actual point, that Elon Musk is being a know-it-all idiot conspiracy theorist because he wants to keep his plants open to make him more billions while he tweets.
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EndOfDiscOne
07/02/20 4:28:12 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
This is like saying Fauci doesn't know what he's doing because other people are doing the work.
And like how a CEO is worthless because he's not working in the warehouse/plant/construction site, etc.

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LordFarquad1312
07/02/20 4:31:12 PM
#53:


NinjaWarrior455 posted...
Why do people like this clown in the first place?
Because people think "Smart guy do thing", when the reality is "Rich guy pays smart guys to do the thing".

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Heavy_D_Forever
07/02/20 4:33:43 PM
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I seriously love how Elon just doesn't give a fuck about his image and literally says whatever he wants.

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ohiostate124
07/02/20 4:34:16 PM
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Smackems posted...
Lost me at mansplain lmao
This.
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COVxy
07/02/20 4:36:01 PM
#56:


You know those 13 year old's that used to populate this board and argue about atheism and 'logic'. That's Elon Musk.

Supreme confidence in his ability to just divine knowledge with no expertise.

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legendary_zell
07/02/20 4:36:58 PM
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You guys are literally triggered by the word mansplain. You've been fed so much conservative propoganda and have been conditioned llke Pavlov's dog to turn your brains of when you hear that word. And when turned off, you miss the billionaire spreading misinformation. You are exactly as irrational as you believe the evil sjws to be.

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sktgamer_13dude
07/02/20 4:49:48 PM
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See theres asking a question and then theres being an ass when youre told your assumptions are wrong and its backed up by an expert in that field using data.
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TendoDRM
07/02/20 4:58:13 PM
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Honestly I respect her even more for even trying to engage with Musk. He's like trying to argue with a brick wall.

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DarkRoast
07/02/20 5:02:57 PM
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I have degrees in microbiology, public health and a doctor of medicine and I still get people on Twitter asking me to "do my research" when I call out their BS.


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onedarksoul
07/02/20 5:05:02 PM
#62:


Good. Even if he's wrong, we should, as a society, never be afraid to question the experts.

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MacDaMurderer
07/02/20 5:21:45 PM
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Question sure
Tell the expert thats breaking it down that they are wrong or saying their expert analysis is bullshit is just being an asshole.

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Propane4Sale
07/02/20 5:24:05 PM
#64:


shockthemonkey posted...
Has he started to meltdown or called anyone a pedophile yet?

I'm anxiously waiting for it.

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DarkRoast
07/02/20 5:24:14 PM
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onedarksoul posted...
Good. Even if he's wrong, we should, as a society, never be afraid to question the experts.

Never ask a question if you're incapable of understanding the answer, especially if you interpret your lack of understanding as the expert being misleading.

This is the fundamental problem with QAnon-tier "skepticism."

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Slaya4
07/02/20 5:27:11 PM
#66:


For someone so smart he's so fucking dumb.

Giant_Aspirin posted...
the more he says the less i respect him


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onedarksoul
07/02/20 5:31:06 PM
#67:


The problem with Qanon folks is they are idiots, being gamed by laughing political operatives. Thats not what this is about.

This is about

Can we ask questions, and reasonably push-back when we want to

or not? If not, might as well start calling this a technocracy, which is where its veering.

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krazychao5
07/02/20 5:37:20 PM
#68:


DarkRoast posted...
Never ask a question if you're incapable of understanding the answer, especially if you interpret your lack of understanding as the expert being misleading.

This is the fundamental problem with QAnon-tier "skepticism."
Maybe they need to answer questions in a way that is concise and understandable?

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mach25687
07/02/20 5:40:14 PM
#69:


But guys he was in Rick and Morty and you have to super intelligent to understand that show.

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Irony
07/02/20 5:46:58 PM
#70:


Musk is basically a flat earther now

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Aressar
07/02/20 5:58:32 PM
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It's really a shame he says things like this. I genuinely believe that enterprises like the companies he started can make relevant changes to improve the quality of life for humanity in general.
However, for those enterprises to succeed, good PR is needed, and as the face of those enterprises, publicly saying things like this is not helping. I get that he is frustrated with the setbacks that corona has brought about, but it can't be helped right away. I fear that like many others, he has grown too accustomed to the idea that everything that happens in daily life is within control of human society.

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DarkRoast
07/02/20 6:00:18 PM
#72:


krazychao5 posted...
Maybe they need to answer questions in a way that is concise and understandable?

Maybe they need to ask questions that aren't loaded?

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Guide
07/02/20 6:04:49 PM
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krazychao5 posted...
Maybe they need to answer questions in a way that is concise and understandable?

That's the thing: After a certain point, this simply isn't possible. Nuance and detail aren't something you can just condense, which is why takes whole verified reports to determine even relatively small things.

Lot of people read a line, decide they don't like it, and just never do more homework on it.

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pinky0926
07/02/20 6:06:21 PM
#74:


Notice how these tools always think saying things like "correlation does not equal causation" and "just because you have a phd doesn't mean you are right" think they're doing big brain time

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CountDog
07/02/20 6:25:53 PM
#75:


Elon is a con artist. He's intelligent, very, but a modern business man above all else.

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Roxborough4Ever
07/02/20 6:26:35 PM
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Smackems posted...
Lost me at mansplain lmao

because you are a man who perpetuates the problem........

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CruelBuffalo
07/02/20 6:27:25 PM
#77:


TendoDRM posted...
Honestly I respect her even more for even trying to engage with Musk. He's like trying to argue with a brick wall.
Can believe me or not, I have many friends at Tesla including one who reported to him. Basically Elon gets into moods where he cannot be reasoned with.
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Smackems
07/02/20 6:27:42 PM
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Roxborough4Ever posted...
because you are a man who perpetuates the problem........
I'm sure

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hockeybub89
07/02/20 6:32:03 PM
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"I don't trust experts. What I do trust is non-experts with loud mouths and lots of money."

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Poop2
07/02/20 6:32:46 PM
#80:


Smackems posted...

I'm sure

so are we
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Bio1590
07/02/20 6:33:13 PM
#81:


CruelBuffalo posted...

Can believe me or not, I have many friends at Tesla including one who reported to him. Basically Elon gets into moods where he cannot be reasoned with.

That 100% matches up with what we know about him
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MARKINGRAM22
07/02/20 6:36:29 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Mad that the nerd looked stupid?
Can you fucking neo marxists argue a point without trying to use someone's identity against them. When will this insanity of people who claim to fight for equality on the left stop using certain identities as if they were original sin.
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Prismsblade
07/02/20 7:34:11 PM
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Smackems posted...
Lost me at mansplain lmao


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Smackems
07/02/20 7:39:50 PM
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Poop2 posted...
so are we
Awesome. We're all sure then

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Shadowplay
07/02/20 8:29:56 PM
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...
Can you fucking neo marxists argue a point without trying to use someone's identity against them. When will this insanity of people who claim to fight for equality on the left stop using certain identities as if they were original sin.
Proudclad?

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lincoln002
07/02/20 8:38:36 PM
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I met Elon Musk one time at the airport. I said "Hey you're Elon Musk" and he goes "Hello, put'er there!" and stuck out his hand as if to give me a handshake, when I reached out to shake it he pulled it away really fast to the top of his head and said "too slow" then he said "Just kidding, what's your name?" and he put out his hand again, I was sure he he was being sincere this time so I reached for his hand again, wouldn't you know it, he quickly pulls his hand away and went "too slow." At this point I got kind of upset and gave him a mean look and began to walk away, but he grabbed me by my shoulder and said "where's your sense of humor mate?" and he quickly took a selfie of both of us with his smartphone. This caught me by surprise. After he took the picture he just looked at me and waited for my response for what felt like 15 seconds, eventually I got the courage to ask him if he could send me the picture he just took, his response caught me off guard, "what picture?" I said "the one you just took" he said "what are you talking about? You approached me about a minute ago and tried to give me a handshake and when I went to shake your hand you kept pulling it away from me" I said "You did that to me bro!" He said "Nice try, listen I am a very busy man, I don't really have time to play games with you. Goodbye." Quite honestly one of the weirdest experiences I've ever had, before he left while acting like he was angry at me he pulled out his phone again and took a picture of the crocs I had on and walked away laughing to himself while looking at the picture on his phone. A few weeks later I logged into twitter and checked my notifications and realized he followed me but then I guess removed himself later.

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07/02/20 9:10:25 PM
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MrMallard
07/02/20 9:13:37 PM
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whaaaaat, Elon "calls a hero a pedophile because he saved a bunch of kids without using Tesla tech that he was pushing on the rescue effort" Musk?

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Bio1590
07/02/20 9:17:53 PM
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Reminder that Grimes let this guy impregnate her and kept it
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LordFarquad1312
07/02/20 9:31:46 PM
#92:


Bio1590 posted...
Reminder that Grimes let this guy impregnate her and kept it
And then literally gave the child a serial number

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Trigg3rH4ppy
07/02/20 9:44:58 PM
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KINDERFELD posted...
Reminds me of Bill Gates telling the country how to handle a pandemic.

Motherfucker, sit your billionaire ass down and let the experts trained in these fields, speak.
Bwahahaha imagine saying something so embarrassing and completely uneducated. Bill Gates is an expert

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Sad_Face
07/02/20 11:29:55 PM
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Veggeta X posted...
Agreed. You can always tell when someone is being genuine or someone is just tryna test another person. In this case, I feel Elon is the ladder.

If you want the truth, you should being testing people. Put their claims through heavy scrutiny even if you look like a dumbass through it. The most successful hedgefund in the US, Bridgewater Associates, has exactly this kind of atmosphere. They'll straight up call any claim you make "S***" and force you to justify why you think you're correct. 4chan has this cutthroat culture as well. I implore you guys to go on there and try to make money off of them or learn something from them so you can really understand appreciate how important having such a culture is.

Reading through the twitter conversation, I don't see anything wrong with Elon's questions. It seems he's trying to account for the discrepancy of the virologist's source of the Arizona's hospitalization rate increasing while his source of the US cases of new cases and death rate falling at the same pace during the same time period. Looks like this should be a state by state basis since states are opening up at different times with different strategies.

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crucial2099
07/02/20 11:39:37 PM
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idk if i could argue with her shes too cute. id end up just popping a boner and browsing for a good picture of her cleavage
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DeadBankerDream
07/03/20 6:06:39 AM
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People who say "we should be allowed to ask questions" are always dishonest actors who have an agenda against what is accepted. Nobody says "we must be allowed to ask questions about evolution" unless they're a creationist who want their religion taught in school science classes, because if you don't have an agenda, it's pretty obvious to you that you are allowed to ask questions about evolution, or in this case corona. Usually what is interpreted as not being allowed to ask questions is when being called out on being a conspiracy theorist with an agenda.
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pinky0926
07/03/20 6:59:14 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
People who say "we should be allowed to ask questions" are always dishonest actors who have an agenda against what is accepted. Nobody says "we must be allowed to ask questions about evolution" unless they're a creationist who want their religion taught in school science classes, because if you don't have an agenda, it's pretty obvious to you that you are allowed to ask questions about evolution, or in this case corona. Usually what is interpreted as not being allowed to ask questions is when being called out on being a conspiracy theorist with an agenda.

Indeed. "We should be allowed to ask questions" is sady code for "I didn't ask questions, do any actual real research and I can provide no better ideas that you haven't already thought of and investigated, but I don't like what you're saying".

Fuckers on twitter and the internet in general think being a skeptic is just dismissing established positions and providing nothing else.

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Veggeta X
07/03/20 7:13:48 AM
#98:


Sad_Face posted...
If you want the truth, you should being testing people. Put their claims through heavy scrutiny even if you look like a dumbass through it. The most successful hedgefund in the US, Bridgewater Associates, has exactly this kind of atmosphere. They'll straight up call any claim you make "S***" and force you to justify why you think you're correct. 4chan has this cutthroat culture as well. I implore you guys to go on there and try to make money off of them or learn something from them so you can really understand appreciate how important having such a culture is.

Reading through the twitter conversation, I don't see anything wrong with Elon's questions. It seems he's trying to account for the discrepancy of the virologist's source of the Arizona's hospitalization rate increasing while his source of the US cases of new cases and death rate falling at the same pace during the same time period. Looks like this should be a state by state basis since states are opening up at different times with different strategies.
He's being a contrarian.

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pikachupwnage
07/03/20 7:19:05 AM
#99:


deoxxys posted...
Yeah when you bring gender into the equation it makes you seem less credible.

Elon is just arrogant because he is rich and people praised him for being smart.

Being smart doesnt make you an automatic omnidisiplinary scientist our expert in every field. He is smart but he absolutely lacks in tact and wisdom while having plentiful ego so he constantly has egg on his face,

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Blue_School
07/03/20 7:35:04 AM
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Elon is quickly going the way of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Smart dude turned insufferable prick.
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