(02-28-2025, 12:38 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(02-27-2025, 07:56 PM)mikesez Wrote: Neither of you have your thinking caps on it seems. 
If I am exploiting Twitter, using a bot army, I can probably afford to "verify" a few of those bots if all it takes is a monthly payment.
If I'm a skeezy middle manager at some federal department who has fake people on their payroll and is collecting those checks, I can certainly make time to have my various alter egos reply to emails. 
If Elon's plan is just what you say it is, he's not nearly as brilliant as you seem to think he is.
He's either an average but very hard working intelligence who has gotten very lucky, or something very different is going on below the surface.

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Both sides do no-bid contracts. 
The new guy complaining about the old guys no bid contracts is nothing new. Been going on for decades. 
What would be something new, is someone actually getting prosecuted over this kind of thing.

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Lol no.  Absenteeism and short-timing are usually symptoms of a deeper problem.  The balance sheet usually tells the main story.

I think you should forward this advice to Elon. He ll probably appreciate it. Maybe in the same email you can also advise him on how to build a better rocket or electric car, or revive a failing business.