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In my experience, the most common method of flag disposal is “yard sale”.

Somewhere an AV Club writer fires up Worst_Movies_of_2024.docx and begins cackling

federal tipped wage in 1991: $2.14

For all those who claim these restaurant jobs are unskilled labor, then why arent you working there? Kitchen work is highly skilled. Are you going to pay $25.00+ per plate for something made by an untrained teen? Do you want staff that isnt trained to clean the kitchen properly? Are you going to a restaurant where the

It will be a “hard pull” on your credit profile, but if your score is high it won’t have a big impact.

Add to that the requirement of deleting something to get something else that’s 100% unrelated.

That is nothing more than elitist bureaucracy designed to keep the mass of less fortunate innovators suppressed. If some “uneducated buffoon” takes it upon himself to “engineer” a device that changes mankind for the better, I’m sure universities would be clamoring to have him/her associated with them by bestowed

Insecure group of people self-define group as exclusive. Cool story. (Btw - that's not a definition of engineer) 

“Musk couldn’t even design the bracket that held the car onto the rocket that got fired into space; that takes an Engineer.”

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Can’t believe I’m defending him because I don’t like his public persona, but I’ve got plenty of friends who work with him and they will tell you he most certainly is an engineer.

IMO, a degree, much less designing brackets, does not an engineer make.

ok boomer

I think he’s stated so in the past. He’s technically the chief engineer at SpaceX but he’s stated it does no one good to think of anyone as the chief engineer of a project, it’s a generally managerial term.

I realize he doesn’t have an engineering degree, but the man is an engineer in my eyes. As I understand, he helps solve technical problems by offering his insight, just as an engineering manager does. 

This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?

While I take issue at many of Tesla’s business practices, the Man/Alien himself tends to come across pretty good most of the time. Disregarding Twitter.

I’m assuming that like most people, he has different aspects to his personality comprised of both positive and negative traits. And how he thinks/behaves may be a bit different depending on who he is around and what his mood is at the moment. We do have room for nuance, but it seems like opinions around Musk

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This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?
Also, reading this article felt like reading Popular Science articles from the 90s-early 2000s, in that it felt appropriately scientific yet easily digestible.