Via @whitneymcn, this is fantastic: https://elongineering.com/
Elongineering

@mmasnick @whitneymcn I'm not sure about the "coming to understand" part.

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“…And then what you produced goes out and indiscriminately mows down children.”

@mmasnick @whitneymcn Remember when Trump appointed Rick "Oops" Perry (who couldn't remember the name of the Dept of Energy when he called to abolish it) head of the DoE, only to discover it wasn't simply there to promote oil & gas, but was in fact in charge of our nuclear stockpile and Superfund site cleanup.

THAT was "Elongineering" before Elongineering.

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Unfortunately, there are so many elongineers all over the world 😭
@mmasnick @whitneymcn i think this describes musk with everything though

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that's 90% identical with Trumping ...

@mmasnick @whitneymcn similarity Elon’s Law: “Every problem increases in difficulty exponentially when I personally observe it.”
@mmasnick @whitneymcn and then firing people when his loud proclamations are not as loud as before.

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Somehow I am reminded of this. But for the mistakes of a leader, we would all be speaking Spanish.

https://the-past.com/feature/why-the-armada-failed/

Why the Armada failed | The Past

It was one of the greatest disasters in Spain’s history, yet it came within hours of success. Here, Geoffrey Parker, co-author of a major new history, draws ...