I mean…we gave it a decent crack for ten years.
I don’t think carpet bombing a different country comes under the failure to engage in guerrilla warfare, but I understand the Vietnam War is difficult.
I would suggest not THAT difficult.
A cynic (most people) read the carpet bombing in Laos as a “and you could be next” warning.
I don’t think many would disagree that the US have carried out war crimes, of varying degrees, in a few different theatres.
That’s different to calculated ethnic cleansing.
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The war in vietnam included Laos and Cambodia . All three fell to communist rule.
As for how the yanks fought that war, no expert.
But I don’t think there was any genocidal intent in where they bombed. It’s not like they carpet bombed the capitals of either country.
(Note I don’t know, I’m not a student of those conflicts)
Lol.
And who decided that?
Cambodia?
Laos?
Alternatively the engineering team was rubbish, hes got good reasons for gutting it and it will be better for the change.
No really…
I can’t imagine what Cambodia and Laos did to America to elicit a harsher aerial response than any country in world war 2.
By gosh, it must have been bad.
Did their navy sink a US battleship?
Maybe they snuck across the Laos/US border?
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But 90% change? In less than a month of taking over rubbish?
Decided what? Laos and Cambodian forces fought against the communists.
Decided that they were a legitimate target for the US.
So much a legitimate target that they were carpet bombed.
You’re being Very silly.
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You have two safe ways to make that change. 1. Shut down, replace the staff, fix the problems, turn back on. 2. Bring in extra talent, fix the problems then downsize.
Firing everyone before fixing anything because the systems were bad and it was held together with metaphorical fencing wire is just asking for the bad systems to break.
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Would say that given how well Vietnam “seems” to be travelling these days, that the war on communism was the wrong ideal.
Mind you the south afaik is fairly pro free market and American friendly still to this day.
Yah Twitter like a few of these large tech companies must get too bloated.
I mean there must come to a stage where adding more engineers does little to improve the underlying product right?
He(Elon) has to quickly make that company valuable to his bankers.
And in this economic environment that’s probably just by cutting costs to offset softer advertising spend
The firebombing of Tokyo was pretty nasty.
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Twitter, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon have all made big cuts lately.
I mean…Dresden.
Dresden was, by all accounts, pretty, pretty bad.
And this isn’t my account, it’s wiki’s.
But I’m not disputing it.
Laos got shelled worse than Dresden?
Really?
And you want to say, ‘oh, fortunes of war.’
Really?
I think cuts were inevitable at some stage. Based on the reports of what the coding standards were like, they needed to make changes.
But…
If you did this style of change on an oil refinery that had been badly maintained, sacking everyone before fixing anything, the result would likely be the oil refinery would just blow up. That’s the software risk Musk is willingly taking.
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I really don’t think the USA is worse than Nazi Germany. Also don’t think the yanks were right on Vietnam.
Perhaps should have still gone but should have pulled the plug much sooner.
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I dont think hes too worried about doing things the safe way. If the people hes fired were rubbish at there job or against him buying twitter in the first place and willing to undermine/sabotage him, then maybe they would have done more harm then good.
Lots of companies have made numerically big cuts. Only Twitter has cut 75%ish of total headcount. Worlds of difference.
I work in tech. I’ve read a bit about the technical details what’s going on at Twitter, their infrastructure, their policies, the details of the layoffs etc. It 100% was a mess before musk got there, he doesn’t get the blame for everything. But his monumental mismanagement is making it a certainty that the mess won’t get cleaned up, and will in fact worsen.
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I agree but you’ve taken the discussion way beyond that.