Elon Musk deletes

[malaise]

Tesla and Spacex accounts from Facebook.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/23/17156958/elon-musk-deletes-spacex-tesla-facebook-pages
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Elon Musk took a flamethrower to his company Facebook pages after going on a mischievous Twitter riff about how insignificant Facebook is.

The head of SpaceX and Tesla ordered the pages for both companies to be deleted on Friday after responding sarcastically to an article on Vox sister site The Verge about companies deleting their Facebook accounts — but only temporarily. “Wow, a whole week,” Musk snarked. “Risky.”

Musk evidently sees Facebook differently than many of us, however; he followed up his response to The Verge with a tweet to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, as Acton encouraged people to take the plunge and say goodbye to Facebook; Musk responded with “What’s Facebook?”

[RandomAccess]

1. I'm tellin' ya --

I really, REALLY like this guy. His politics aren't that great, IIRC, and I personally don't get it about one-way tickets to Mars (the very idea freaks me out to the max), but I really like a lot of the things he does.

[malaise]

2. If he can get the Con and his spawn to buy the one way tickets, I'm all for it

[FSogol]

6. Why should a one way ticket freak you out? When my ancestors left Ireland,

they knew they were never coming back. That's true for a lot of immigrants, refugees, displaced persons, etc.

[RandomAccess]

7. That's an order of magnitude different

IMO. And THAT's what freaks me out.

Going to another country is one thing, another planet, an out-of-this-world different thing.

Even if your ancestors knew they were never going back, they also knew they COULD -- that it was a physical possibility, even if such an extremely high improbability to warrant the "never" label.

With Mars, it isn't. You go there to die. No matter what happens, you have no other choices. You literally go there to die -- even if it takes 60 to 80 years.

[Oneironaut]

3. Facebook is probably the biggest demise Im waiting for right now.

When that time comes, may it rest in shouldering ruins!

I joined in 2006, when it was for college students only and wasn’t swamped with Russians and pedophiles. Once it went public, I left Facebook forever (but kept my account open).

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Facebook owns Whatsapp and Instagram.

Many don’t know or forget that.

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5. I'm not on any of them

I pissed off lots of family members by refusing to join.