8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment

I'm not sure if he realizes how stupid that makes him sound
- He's that stupid, so no, he doesn't.
- He sounds very Trumpian.
- 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 a ridiculous thing to say and I'm not sure he does.
- 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.
  Edit: ITT a bunch of people who have never held a real job outside of ex-Reddit mod and pretending to be an tankie while mommy and daddy pay all of your bills, pretending they understand mfg ops and supply chain. Optimization is extremely difficult and at my last tech job we had to hire a bunch of PhDs to help us figure out a supply chain network issue. The simulations would have to run for hours and took thousands in compute daily.
  
  You're being incredibly generous if you think he understands any of it.
  
  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.
  
  Former twitter engineer here. Maybe he paid more attention at his other companies but Elon was comically clueless about how the twitter machine worked. Hiring geohot and thinking a firmware cracker could make heads or tails of a massively distributed system was pure idiocy.
  
  understanding 3% of a supply chain
  a whole 200 CSVs manually exported
  
  And we're saying that Elon knows <1% of any manufacturing process, evidenced by inconsistencies of manufacturing process across all his companies. The employees know more, yes, but they are not Elon and Elon is not SpaceX.
  And, for starters, not unfathomable but made possible through VC money and years of R&D. This makes it possible and completely fathomable. It's all maths and science.
  
  Yoooo whats your company are they hiring all positions?? Or is this sr engineers
  
  Fucking idiots will down vote you but this is the truth and something a lot of people who work or have worked with Musk say. The guy knows his shit. He didn't get to be the richest guy on earth because of South African emeralds or whatever. He's changing the world. Love him or hate him, you don't matter. If you think he's a moron then do better and take him down.

Did... did he actually say this? I knew this guy was full of it, but that's a whole other level.
- Sounds very much like Trump's mode of speech. Best/biggest in history yadda yadda
  
  This is Narcissistic behavior, not exclusive to trump, but only because trump and musk are both Narcissists of a high caliber.
- Yep. Just watch any of Thunderfoot's musk videos and you'll see that clip featured at least once.
- What's your evidence that he doesn't know it? All these claims that he knows nothing, but I never see any proof or evidence.
  Like, yeah, he has a team, because nothing gets done with just one person. That is not evidence for him not knowing how things work.
  
  My proof is that actually that my pet cat knows more about manufacturing than he does, therefore he doesn't know the most. In fact, my cat knows literally everything possible to know about manufacturing. It's amazing. And if you don't believe me, then you need to show your evidence that it isn't true. Also, my cat doesn't routinely give misinformation about the capabilities of the products made by their companies.
  
  He doesn't work in manufacturing. He owns companies that work in manufacturing.
  I'm not a medical expert just because I pay my medical bills.
  
  The trim coming off of the Cybertruck while driving down the highway or the steering wheel coming off of his cars would hint that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
  Musk is the one making the claims. It's his job to prove his own statements.
  
  Man they really need to fix the education system
  
  I think most people can believe that he knows something about manufacturing, but almost everyone doubts that he "knows more than anyone currently alive on this planet". Those are quite different things.
  
  I would say the fact that he isn't a P.E. is enough for me.
  If he was some mastermind engineer like he claims, he could easily pass the FE without even needing to study.
  Everyone else in the world needs to prove their credentials, why doesn't he?
  
  So anyway, how do I completely block Lemmy.ml 🤔 🤷‍♂️
  
  This stupid motherfucker didn’t know about some shit you’d think he actually WOULD be an expert on - EV charging legislation.
  https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24306385/elon-musk-pete-buttigieg-nevi-funding-ev-chargers-explainer
  I guess he’s been busy sucking Trump’s cock lately.
  
  Go troll in your toilet.

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 details 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.
- His main talent is "already having lots of money".
- The more proficient and knowledgeable in a topic you are you usually tend to see how much you don't know yet.
  Rarely someone who is actually good is going to claim to know the most in a topic.
- Its many reasons the saturn V can never be rebuilt. We know the plans and specs, but all the details of the manufacturering were all held by the people doing the work. Each one was unique.

I wouldn’t expect anything less of Phony Stark.
- I've not heard that before, it's very good.
  
  I can’t claim origin for that, but I think it fits. Feel free to use :)

"At this point, I think I pay enough talented people who know things to make it look like I actually know things so I can focus on acting like a fool on social media platforms and interviews."
- And don't forget the little team that makes me believe it was me all the time!

When I was a kid my parents wouldn't let me make my own pinewood derby car, even though I had done one already without issue the previous year. My dad then proceeded to put a 1/2" drill bit through his hand while doing it for me. I always found that kind of funny.
- "See son, this is what can happen if you're too inexperienced."
  
  and yet even at that age I new not to put my fingies in the path of the sharp things.
  
  Reminds me of the Starship Troopers scene "Why do we need to know how to throw a knife when we can just nuke the bugs?"

the creator of the cybertruck
- The creator of the electric semi truck and roaster 2nd generation… wait a second seems like they are having some manufacturing issues

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):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZZpaB2kDM&t=2284
- The true stable genius. Such wow
  
  I don't know about genius, but he sure is a stable guessing from the amount of horseshit in him.
- Loved the initial laughs
  (Noting I’m not in a position to judge his claim, but that’s OK as plenty of other commenters are comfortable doing so)
  
  Im pretty confortable saying that anyone that calls himself "the best THING currently alive" is an idiot

This right here is the kind of blind confidence someone smart and self aware could never fake. You have to be so far up your own ass or a page strait out of the dsm to say some shit like this.

Been around the orange so long he thinks he can lie and get away with it too
- Unfortunately he has similar real-world experience to trump’s: Be a total shitbag and get handsomely rewarded by it in the ways he cares about. I mean why care about being a horrible husband and father when there’s money and fame to be had?

Mr. Musk could manufacture himself into a fine powder.

Hope it doesn't sound arrogant when I say that I am the greatest man in the world.
- And I am the most humble, if I might add!
- When I started this company, I had only two things - a dream, and six million pounds

I'd love to see his engineering drawings.
- the closest thing i guess would be his hyperloop white paper lol

Shame. Shame upon you!

Maybe manufacturing stock manipulations, nothing tangible.

Elona channeling her inner Karen, good for her.

i made a cutting board

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?
- 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."
  
  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
- 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.
- Elon musk might know a lot about manufacturing space ships and electric cars (edit: that's a big might). 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.
  
  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?