seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Who he?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Suk Lemon
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude owes his company's survival to gov programs butsays it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promiseto obliterate them all.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so hyperloop huh
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:
1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people
2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there
3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude
still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.
There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.
Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad.
who do you follow?
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow
unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
cool monorail bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
even i can afford that
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I meant 94% sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
LOL "elon musk"
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?
I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Bad connotations...
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.
Lol
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.
Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.
*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
he might do this
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it
(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.
nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
do tell
curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. I also think the "open source" thing is pretty silly since it's not like code where an individual can make some kind of improvement and test it out to see if it works. I guess an open source design is an interesting idea after the fact if he actually gets it working and other people want to build his design, but it still seems basically irrelevant.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project
^^^
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
A key part of his criticism of the other rail plan is that it's "more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized)." I'd like to see some more detailed numbers on that though. Why would we count the cost of unsubsidized rail against air travel which is heavily subsidized? All that really matters is cost to the traveller, and unlike airlines, I'm assuming the high speed rail system is not going to be run as a for-profit business. He also makes no comparison of the environmental costs of air flight vs. the planned high speed rail system.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, August 12, 2013 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm generally contemptuous of futurists, primarily because they seem to think energy and climate change problems will just sort themselves out, but a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing. I looked at the first two feeds you suggested and they seemed to just be saying this is just a toy for rich people, which is afaict completely unsupported by his proposal. He's not suggesting a magic carpet for billionaires; it's mass transit that uses solar power. This is a good thing! Maybe it's completely impossible hogwash, but I'd like to see actual engineering criticism of it instead of casual dismissals based on suspicion of ideas from rich people.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
the main challenges are not engineering-related, their political
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
anybody who is over the age of 25, has lived in a city for any length of time, and paid a modicum of attention to the world around them knows that these kinds of massive public works projects tend to be underbid by shady contractors and then they go wildly over the original schedule and budget. so the fact that he's coming in saying he can do it so much cheaper with a totally new and untested technology is a huge red flag. to me it immediately suggests that the whole thing is not serious.
if he honestly thinks this is a feasible plan he should raise some funding and build a private line from LA to Vegas.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
It's transparently unserious in that he doesn't want to do it himself and "regrets even mentioning it"
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
right, that aspect has been p funny
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
haha, I missed that part
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
ya seems like he said something offhandedly then realized abt his celebrity
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing.
people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though. i have a hard time believing a transit system would fill the role of the 5 freeway. it's mostly trucks anyway.
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
You know what would do really well in transportation corridors like that? Plain old freight trains.
I swear, the interstate highway system and the fact it's mostly used for semi truck freight is the biggest money hole in our post-WW2 car-dependent wonderland
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
there already are freight trains
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though.
?! they most certainly do. there are these things called commuter flights, they are booked solid all the time.
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
there are a lot more trucks xp
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
what exactly are you proposing?
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
a solar powered superhighway paved with bitcoins duh
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
that we subsidize more public transport of freight in addition to passengers? or at least reallocate money away from interstate highways
idk, iatee and his ideas about gas prices to thread
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
HOOS otm
ah, ok. I thought maybe there was a problem with CA's existing freight lines. I don't really know anything about them but I do see freight trains going up and down the state all the time.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
If this thing actually worked the political will would develop pretty quickly. If the Acela line was shipping people 400 miles in 30 minutes every state would want one.
Which is why yeah, he should just fucking build one. I wonder what a good demonstration distance would be.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
L.A. to S.D.?
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.humancannonball.us/IMAGES/photos/017.jpg
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
what are the possible operating failure modes on one these loops
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
giant pillow deployment
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
halp im stuck in a tube inside of a tube
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
*giant sucking sound*
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/rsjem23/HomerWaterslide.jpg
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
homerloop
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
i don't understand why this would be a good alternative to commuter flights
I'd rather see the money spent on suburb-to-city trolley lines
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
commuter flights are very carbon-intensive, for one thing
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
There are ways.
http://opinion-forum.com/index/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/airplane_hybrid.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
wouldn't even a dependable normal rail line be comparable to commuter flights by the time you figure in airport screening and boarding times and shit?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
n/m, I am being way optimistic about rail speeds
there is a rail line that runs the California coast, it's called Amtrak
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
http://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
best described as "leisurely"
kind of forget the massive size of California, from now on I'll think of the distance from LA to SF being about the same as the distance from me to Chicago
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
about distance from the border to austin! i didn't realize it was that far.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
now we've got some common terms here
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
mostly slow because they have to give freight trains the right of way or something like that iirc
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
yep. it's an enjoyable ride, but not for commuters, it's way too slow. granted I haven't ridden it in 25 years
― OH MY GOD HE'S GOOGLY (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
so the freight lines are pretty congested, you're saying
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
they're full of hobos
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
if planes are carbon intensive why not build solar planes? about as doable as a solar rail vacuum tube
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I agree that the major problems with implementing his proposal are political, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea!
― schwantz, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Invent a solar plane that generates as much thrust as burning a bunch of jet fuel and you'll have everything solved. xp
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
why not build wind powered planes with propellers that are also windmills?
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
http://trollscience.com/image/f/full/3778286b17bf40dc45d98c31c99ba016.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Guys we'll have nuclear fusion by 2025 chillax
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
http://trollscience.com/image/f/full/8dff6ab64e09451e30476175170f9ec0.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
i've always lived the idea of giant solar-power helium dirigibles for freight transport
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
LOLLLLLL
uh whut
i think there's the major technical hurdle of building the giant vacuum tube
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
stick all of these ideas in a pdf and send them to the cologne tycoon
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
I can't find the specific economist or businessweek article that talked about this but in the US consultants who put the bid together for the state/county/city are not barred from bidding and often end up on the winning bid team.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-superfast-transport-system-powered-by-passenge,33468/
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
I'm pretty sure ross perot was trying to warn us about this giant vacuum tube 20 years ago
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
what's that giant sucking sound?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
This sounds neat. Anyone speculating as to whether it will work or not right now is completely full of shit -- you have nothing to base your opinion on yet.
One thing I do wonder is whether it will have stops along the way or just be a bullet shot from LA to SF -- there's a big difference in the effect and in the target demographic of a train that's just LA to SF vs one that has intermediate suburban stops. True "commuter" transportation is normally built on a suburbs-to-city model, where people can save money on living expenses and/or have more land by living outside the city and use the transit to get to their jobs. The kind of person who would "commute" from LA to SF or vice versa is more likely someone in a high-powered job travelling back and forth for business meetings and the like -- I don't really see a lot of people living in one city and making a daily commute to an office in the other.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
you have nothing to base your opinion on yet
I mean, outside of scientific studies, existing forms of similar transport, use patterns of public transport in that region and regions with high-speed rail, and studies on the efficiency of public project implementation
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
what I want to know is if they can team this Musk guy up with that Dyson dude so we can make sure this new rail system never loses suction
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
i have a plan for affordable teleportation. anyone who says otherwise is basing their opinion on nothing and is therefore full of shit
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
you mean buzz bissinger? xp
― MAAVENN (Matt P), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
high powered boozenass
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
why everybody want use internet why nobody read deh booehk
― the late great, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:57 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it doesn't involve a giant vacuum tube, tho, is the thing
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I thought we all switched to transistors
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
no? i thought that's how they got around the air resistance.
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't need to be airtight though. something to do with fans & pumps
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
I mean, outside of scientific studies, existing forms of similar transport, ― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
plz elaborate
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
see: Simpsons s04e12 and Futurama opening titles
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it's a low pressure tube, not a no pressure tube.
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I don't think the majority of our skepticism is in the particular technology, only that this particular technology might have implementation issues, having not been used in this type of situation before, and there are existing high speed trains we can study for the rest -- passenger usage, patterns of usage, etc.
New technologies need to go into effect and their costs may vary, but the costs of implementing for the first time are fairly predictable based on past ramp-up and production of technologies? If that makes any sense.
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
still some pressure in elon musk's tube
― MAAVENN (Matt P), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
so basically take the costs of a monorail, the costs of a vacuum system to keep it at low pressure, and the fudge factor of it being something new
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
it has to be kept up artificially though from what I hear
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
I don't think the majority of our skepticism is in the particular technology― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:52 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well ok then
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
so is this supposed to replace driving or flying or both? because even if the cost is somewhat lower than flying it seems like the capacity would not be nearly enough to make any sense at all? like, a detachable quad chairlift moves like 2400 ppl/hr.
maybe la-sf needs a subsonic detachable quad.
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
"The total trip time is approximately half an hour, with capsules departing as often as every 30 seconds from each terminal and carrying 28 people each. This gives a total of 7.4 million people each way that can be transported each year on Hyperloop. ... total of about $20 USD (in current year dollars) plus operating costs per one-way ticket on the passenger Hyperloop."
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait what
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Will these things have bathrooms?
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah, but don't flush
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
the whole experience is like being flushed amirite
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
I assume it would primarily replace flying plus some driving and rail. According to my quick googling, 7 mil per year is way more people than make the flight every year.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
if he could actually make a system that would take people between SF & LA in a half hour for only $20, and he's not going to spend all of his energy on that then he's a dick.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i think the flight figure is ~6.x mil. still, that sounds very inflated. it assumes 840 ppl/hour- 24 hours a day. no downtime? no maintenance time? i have no idea how many ppl drive it/day, and part of the traffic will transfer from there. if it's truly like $50/30 minutes, many more people will start to do it.
but i think it's a cool concept, hope it works someday.
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
i mean, the hyperloop capacity sounds inflated.
you could always build a second parallel tube amirite
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah but I think the total flight numbers are only like 1.x million
there are probably at least a million people each day commuting into LA and SF combined right? an affordable half hour hyperloop trip between the two (not to mention connectors to other less expensive cities) would lead to a lot more commuters.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
is there space for segways in it?
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
driving segways into the hyperloop with my google glasses
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I think it's very healthy to be skeptical of all new technologies. The idea is not to shot down anything new for the sake of it, but to remain cautious of the implications and in this specific case, the feasibility of the new technology.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You mean people actually living in one and working in the other on a daily basis? I doubt it, only because both are such expensive cities, so the main reason to choose living in one and working in the other would be taste. The commuters from the valley etc aren't going to pack up and move to SF just because they can tube to work.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
well it opens up the possibility. the valley is probably way cheaper than anywhere in the bay area, so if somebody there gets a job in San Jose and they can get there in almost the same amount of time it takes to drive downtown, then why not?
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2)Posted: August 13, 2013, 7:17:15 PMThis sounds neat. Anyone speculating as to whether it will work or not right now is completely full of shit -- you have nothing to base your opinion on yet.
where as yr opinion is based on the fact that it sounds neat lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
lasertrain sounds neater, so basically musk can gobble these
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
i'm not speculating as to whether it will actually work
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
there's way neater completely untested ideas out there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
having a press conference to present a scifi idea is what people are making fun of
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
he even pretends to know how much it will cost
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
i blame snowden
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Guys, I have this awesome idea and am pretty sure I can put one in every major airport for like $40-50 tops.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01729/star_1729224c.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
i already made that joek
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
HYPERCUBE
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
funny how billionaires always end up in hubris
― the rofflestomper (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
i've drawn a big elastic band that will be able to shoot people across country at Mach 4 let's do this
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like what
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
he's no ilxor that's for sure
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
well i haven't FP'd him yet so
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
oooh i bet he could come up with a better system than fp
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
like it would only take like 2, 3 tops to ban a fucker
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
say what you want about this guy, at least he made the hyperloops run on time
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
admittedly it's impressive that he's had success in software, auto manufacturing, and aerospace, but isn't a massive public works project like this a different thing altogether?
― wk, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Don't forget solar.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
I think it was entirely reasonable for him to give a cost estimate at this press conference xp
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure the tesla and space x count as engineering triumphs
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
dude is a genius entrepreneur, not a genius engineer
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
well i guess space x is pretty cool but not cheaper or better than nasa, the tesla is like 100k
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
I think it's pretty reasonable to be skeptical of a figure that's almost 1/10th of what's being spent on actual proven existing technology.
― wk, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
Well ya thats why he thinks his idea is better
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
Cracking up at article that bolstered dudes cred with "Tony stark is partially based on him in the popular im movies!"
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah, make believe ideas do tend to be better and cheaper than messy reality.
― wk, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
Wwtsd
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
wtsiw
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
Actually SpaceX is considerably cheaper than NASA. NASA even agrees: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/586023main_8-3-11_NAFCOM.pdf
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
that's because they're organizationally leaner, not because they've invented a cheaper spacecraft
― the late great, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
well sure that's fine for elon
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
estimate
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
lasertrain will only cost $1 because light is free
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
lose organizational fat with this one weird trick
― MAVEN! (Matt P), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
i admit the only reason i'm in this thread at all is i love saying Elon Musk in my head after every post
― MAVEN! (Matt P), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
no one's real name sounds more like a cologne
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
ELON MUSK...by fabergé
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Two weeks before his Hyperloop announcement, Musk quietly met with the founder of ET3, an even-faster, already patented tube transport system.
Daryl Oster and five people from his company ET3 made the trip to 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne, California, the headquarters of SpaceX. Its CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk had invited the engineer and former stockbroker over for a chat. Musk was interested in Oster's idea for an Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) system that he said would let people travel from New York to L.A. in 45 minutes.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3015704/futurist-forum/how-much-did-this-hyperloop-lookalike-inspire-elon-musk
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
dang 45 mins
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
eat the rich
― MAVEN! (Matt P), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Elon Musk @elonmusk 23 AugWill post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5pGi2W7.gif
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
nice
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
http://recode.net/2014/04/03/at-hbos-silicon-valley-premiere-elon-musk-is-pissed/
He is REALLY into Burning Man
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:21 (ten years ago) link
“The parties in Silicon Valley are amazing" lol i dont believe u
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 April 2014 11:06 (ten years ago) link
I was just having a meeting with my information security team, and they’re great but they’re pretty fucking weird — one used to be a dude, one’s super small
what the actual fuck is this shit
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
imagining musk getting continuously blown away by everyday sights
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
sounds like he was stoned, like whoa these guys work for me crazy and wow one of them is tiny and another one is pretty radical and were having a meeting this is so weird im kinda freaking out imna text sergey no dont text pay attention what are they talking about shit this is so fucked up
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
oh hey lets create a spacefaring civilisation oh look a squirrel
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
There's speculation of an interesting horizontal integration aspect to this project - namely, that the hyperloop stores energy in excess of what it needs to operate. The thought is that this energy can be funneled to various spots along the loop where electric car recharge stations would be placed. That helps alleviate one of the chief concerns with another of Mr. Musk's businesses, the relatively short range of electric cars (I.e his Tedla models) to travel highway distances.
― art, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
That's nice
Yeah actually if he's just wasted it doesn't sound weird at all
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 4 April 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
hey man i'm too wasted to be aware that describing transgendered or less-than-average-height people as 'fucking weird' is nagl
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
Isn't the story all about how pissed he is?
― kinder, Friday, 4 April 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
You mean, like, drunk?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 April 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
I ws thinking "Holy shit that guy's wearing a HAT, woah" type wasted
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 4 April 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
Outside on the street, actor T.J. Miller was having a cigarette. Was he having a good time at the party?“Yeah, but, and I’m not gonna name names, but if the billionaire power players don’t get the joke, it’s because they’re not comfortable being satirized,” said Miller, who plays a buffoonish character named Erlich, who owns the hacker house. “And they don’t remember that to be a target of humor is an honor — you have to be venerated to be satirized. Like, I’m sorry, but you could tell everything was true. You guys do have bike meetings, motherfucker.”
“Yeah, but, and I’m not gonna name names, but if the billionaire power players don’t get the joke, it’s because they’re not comfortable being satirized,” said Miller, who plays a buffoonish character named Erlich, who owns the hacker house. “And they don’t remember that to be a target of humor is an honor — you have to be venerated to be satirized. Like, I’m sorry, but you could tell everything was true. You guys do have bike meetings, motherfucker.”
Burn.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
fwiw the trailer for this made me laugh
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
I feel like with Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani on screen and Mike Judge involved it will probably not be terrible.
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
I'd watch a Martin Starr one man monologue movie, a la Spalding Gray.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
it turns out i know somebody who's just agreed to be, essentially, husk's PA.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
i mean musk.
please get them to start a 77 thread for us
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
also, maybe see if there are extra burning man tix so I can hang with the muskster
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
As I kind of expected, not amazing overall, but I laughed pretty much every time Nanjiani or Starr opened their mouths. Relied a little too much on obvious/well-worn tech company gags.
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
another space x launch later today
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 4, 2014 3:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Musk Musk
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
calling him "husk" is p lol
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCIYlRRw_o
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
I keep thinking of Aeon Flux.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
thanks jordan. i have no idea what that is, but thanks.
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
only 90s kids
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
i was born in 1987
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
maybe I should say only 90s teens
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/11/watch-hyperloop-hits-400mph-in-2-seconds-flat/
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 May 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
thats... not inside a tube?
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 May 2016 06:15 (seven years ago) link
the cult around this guy is baffling, except for paypal i've yet to use anything he built.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 16 May 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
What u haven't been to space lately ur not srs?
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 16 May 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
my friend works for SolarCity, which he strongly corrects me about. it's not run by Musk, he says. it's Musk's cousin.
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
Elton Musk
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 16 May 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
I see at least 1 Tesla per day
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
And there's usually only 3 parked at the dealership
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what I'm getting at with this
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
idk, the cult of Musk makes a lot more sense than the conventional tech wisdom that the uber dudes are visionaries. i mean, he's trying to get to space and build a train that goes 800mph, the appeal of these things seems obvious even if you don't share it.
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
Teslas aren't sold from the dealership. You order one, they build it and deliver it to you.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 May 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
Elon Musk is a living indictment of our broken economic system
― larry appleton, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah idk there is no tesla dealership, maybe you saw a place with free charging stations
I think my friend with a Volt has been optimizing his routes to be able to charge his car for free while drinking
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
I mean, ducking in for a drink. Probably not a good idea to drive too close to him, just in case
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
There's Tesla showrooms in a few places. There's one in a mall near here. On one of the upper floors, no less, which just seems weird.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 May 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
“As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, ‘I am the alpha in this relationship,’” Justine, who was wed to the mogul from 2000 to 2008, wrote in a Marie Claire article. “I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement . . . Elon’s judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking,” she continues, saying he told her, “If you were my employee . . . I would fire you.”
― salthigh, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
Sort of what I'd expect from a billionnaire called "Elon Musk"
― Treeship, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
if this isn't technically a dealership, it is at least surrounded by dealerships and occupies a space that was previously a dealershiphttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Tesla+Motors+Santa+Barbara/@34.4336131,-119.747588,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80e9151f819505f7:0x4e0b1a589e5a265c!8m2!3d34.4336131!4d-119.7453993
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
but yes, they seemed to only have one of each model type available for test drives or something. which is a bit hilarious because the lot is huge.
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
musks brother has a restaurant empire in colorado and hes a bigtime thought leader
http://i.imgur.com/6bH7YH0.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
tomato signal is strong
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
im against gmos personally
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
fwiw i agree that food is def the new internet
― Clay, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
i just emailed an ice cream sandwich to my face via my hand
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
"What time is it? No time to look back. Food is the new internet."http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/08/Byrne.jpg
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
all I do all day is facilitate gmos
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
www.wired.co.uk/article/hyperloop-hype-machine
― just sayin, Monday, 5 September 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/elon-musk-has-delivery-issues
― just sayin, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
didn't even build this - it already existed at another company that his company (X.com) merged with.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
Toupee-pal more like (he wears a wig or has implants or something)
― everything, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
T MINUS TEN MINUTES!
https://www.facebook.com/Floridatoday/videos/10155860010880937/
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
or try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
pls tell me someone strapped Musk to the nose
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
isn't there a left wing podcast you should be listening to?
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
pls tell me you have better things to do than harsh my buzz, comrade
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
idk I think it would be a win-win
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
okay that was fucking cool
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
the car + the 'don't panic!' thing was a little gross but w/e
the boosters just coming back home to their own separate landing pads was the best part imo
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
Welcome back lil guys!
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yeah the booster landing was amazing, the live footage from the rockets themselves was boss
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
coworkers were watching this across the row from me.
main comment i heard was "lotta white dudes"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
as much as i loath this kind of thing as an early example of advertising/marketing in space, i have to admit this is kind of riveting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/ZZ_Top_-_Afterburner.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
are we sure spaceX isn't just faking all this footage? when the boosters re-landed, i don't know, looked pretty fake to me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
that really is something, though, when it happens at about 38:00 into the video the late great posted. that's just fucking amazing.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
I don’t think the third booster made it? No footage was shown.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
a billionaire putting a car on mars in an age of record inequality is very "Whitey's On The Moon" imo
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
xp
Yes nothing was heard or seen of it, don't know tbh
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
otm xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
you're a flying bone
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
Tracer OTM. I appreciate the scientific accomplishment here, but it's a douchy thing to do and I'm afraid we'll see way too much of it in the coming years. Sending a car into space huh? What's next, sending a monkey into orbit? (j/k)
Like this fucking guy. It's a very vain way of polluting space.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
ugh I thought LBI's gizmodo link was an Onion article, and I appreciated the effort of setting up an external website, but thought it possibly a little on the nose that they picked a real company name
literally did not realise my mistake until I'd read the entire article and scrolled back to click on the link
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
back to today's launch, twin landings cool, anything to do with the car ugh
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
haha wow, well I can't blame you for mistaking it for the Onion. All too real though, sadly.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
seems aspirational when you write it like that
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
he died doing what he loved fucking a rocket and dying
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
that flat earth dude wherever, isn't that the thing
afaik that guy wants to die in a halfassed rocket launch and has appealed to flat earth people in order to fund his suicide rocker. good grift really
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
lol check this shit out, what cant elon musk do
The curvature of the Earth got people talking as photos and videos were shared of the SpaceX #FalconHeavy launch. https://t.co/Cod7JFblSI— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) February 6, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
thank u elon for finally proving real ppl and not government shills can show the earth curvy
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
real earths have curves
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
Elon and Tesla are doing its best to ensure my work days are never dull. But this is pretty awesome, I’ve had starman gently spinning all day long on my second screen, it’s very relaxing.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
#imwithFET
Wow, lots of activity since last night, as though a) this is the first time anyone pointed a funny lens at the earth, or b) the imagery in any way contradicts modern FET. If it were that simple, who wouldn't already be convinced?— Flat Earth Today (@FlatEarthToday) February 7, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
What do they regard as a "funny" lens, I wonder? Non-rectilinear? The long focal length lenses folks shoot with from the ISS are rectilinear. I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole (which isn't a hole, it's a disk), but if I shoot a flat horizon at sea level with a 400mm lens and then I shoot with the same lens from 500km up and the horizon is curved, what then? Someone with more patience than me is having this discussion with them right now on Twitter, right?
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.in5d.com/images/5d-agharta.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
i assume all is now clear
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
Gotcha.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about
back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)
anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
I dunno, most of space is kinda empty and dull. Gotta fill it with something wacky hey.
What's the plan for this car then? Is it just going to eventually crash into the sun?
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
"i thought it was crass and self-promotional"
I mean... it can be more than one thing. Unfortunate side effect of having space exploration headed by a private company.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
The amount of debris in space may not be a pressing issue yet, but it soon will be. http://stuffin.space/
Shooting disco balls into space because you're a dumbass billionaire doesn't sit well with me at all (but I'll concede it's different from Musks effort here)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
disco balls would be better imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
"Musk occasionally performs a ritual called anointing. When the he encounters a new scent, he will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. The purpose of this habit is unknown,"
Elon Musk Hedgehog -photoshop experts please produce this!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
Sounds like something really weird I used to do with stacks of Doritos in middle school
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Where is that quote from?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
Isn't the car going to end up in orbit around Mars? I was thinking if all went right, that's where it would end up.
Got to figure if ends up in a stable orbit and he pulls off some of his schemes, he'd eventually pick it up to complete the stunt.
That disco ball in orbit I guess has ticked off the antenna folk as since its highly reflective if it comes onto the line of site its light reflection is bright.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
apparently it's 'blasting' star man at top volume which seems like obnoxious and almost like pollution
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/DWTOb
He migth as well send his dick to mars what a braggart
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
fuck this guy
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
xpost luckily there's no sound in space
which reminds me, i really want to know what sound sounds like on the edges of the atmosphere, just before there isn't sound.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
(apparently it sounds like this: https://www.livescience.com/50721-near-space-sound-recorded.html)(although that's kind of cheating because the recording "instruments eavesdropped on atmospheric infrasound, or sound waves at frequencies below 20 hertz. Infrasound is below human hearing range, but speeding up the recordings makes them audible.")(i want to hear the last audible gasps of sound still within the human hearing range. i guess i could just simulate this on my laptop, though)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
flat earthers gonna hate!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
elon musk go to mars bitch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
now if George Clooney was in the spacesuit instead of a mannequin, well all right
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
He's gagged up in the boot
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
i want elon musk to move to mars and try to stay positive while it dawns on him how bad it sucks, also i want him to get stuck there
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Holy shit, did the flat earthers unionize? pic.twitter.com/hTrQ7bwLqf— Nora Blake (@NeitherNora) February 7, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
mars: also flat, bitches
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
day 300: finally weve reached our destination, mars! (and its dick shaped?)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
A local politician is found blasted into space in a car atop a heavy lift rocket. Suspicion falls on a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, angry that an unreliable power supply might threaten his plans for world domination of the electric vehicle market.— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) February 7, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― gbx, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I like my planets fat and not flat
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
I love big buttes and I do not lie
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
I'm in love with my curvy planet
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
oops
https://i.imgur.com/JX3iSXT.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.audibletreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A_1_Unpredictable_The_Repo_Man.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Convinced this will happen some day.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
what a loser, tried to send his car to mars ends up in ASTEROID BELT - dick!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
great guy
https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Elon-Musk-promises-frozen-yogurt-roller-coaster-10966087.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
actual "frozen yogurt roller coaster" would be legit breakthrough
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/12/elon_musk_invents_bus_stop/
― just sayin, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
“elite projection” is my favorite term of the day and I’m gonna use that piece in a talk I’m about to give. Thanking u
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 March 2018 05:48 (six years ago) link
humantransit.org is a gift
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-hires-several-pastry-chefs-away-from-entenm-1823807651
― had (crüt), Thursday, 15 March 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Can we use this thread to track the impending implosion of Tesla?
He bonds they sold last August are now trading at 88c on the dollar, their debt is rated barely above junk, people are leaving left right and centre.
New car, new production techniques, new factories, it’s starting to get very ugly.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
But he put fake man in car in space. Going in wrong direction, sure.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
If the point was making huge profits, then yes, it's failing, but the whole "disrupting the industry" strategy + opening minds to the possibilities of electric cars = success.
― StanM, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
the famous business strategy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
Who Killed The Self-Driving Car?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 31 March 2018 07:00 (six years ago) link
Dennis Guilder
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 March 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
they are facing another Moody's downgrade very soon iirc
― sleeve, Saturday, 31 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-shifts-model-3-production-lines
― sleeve, Saturday, 31 March 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
I fear for their poor workers, but I won't be able to deny the schadenfreude if Musk goes down.
― Simon H., Saturday, 31 March 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
it's clearly rich guy on rich guy vengeance, this is what happens when you shut down your corporate facebook accounts
ballistic: musk vs. the zuck
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
trying to think what Musk’s businesses’ actual recent successes are and if they’re at all notablerocket stuff: pretty good? more showboating than innovationcars: driving tech ahead of most competitors, pushing battery industry forward through demand. actual car production sucks, QA on car assembly is badsolar company: not any better than any solar company doing the subsidy/home install game. might be a front to sell batteriesmass transport company: they’ve dug some holes in the ground and are selling gimmicks for publicitybranding game: relatively strong
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
the real coup de grace was the car company purchasing the struggling indebted solar company imo
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
its all pretty funny imo except the mass transpo company which seems just another obvious attempt to undercut public transpo with a car dependent future
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
not even sure he even believes he can build his tunnels and suction tubes might be purely an attempt to inject chaos into the public transpo planning process
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
stando evil industrialist scheming
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
pushing battery industry forward through demand
But not fulfilled with Tesla/Panasonic batteries. Elon makes all the noise but LG and Samsung make all the sales. Even the 120MW big battery in Australia is full of Samsung cells. It keeps my day interesting that he keeps sprinkling the tech but it’s it where the money is going.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 1 April 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
they’re not doing much research overall, right? they’re an integrator/reseller
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/img/bills2.gif
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 April 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
heh heres the article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 April 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
The thing that really annoys me most about Elon is his name. I really want him to be called Elton Musk. Like a seedy jazz saxophonist from the 70s.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 April 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
spending a shitload of money and going massively into debt is a total alpha move
― frogbs, Monday, 30 April 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
will his personal life implode before Tesla does?
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Monday, 30 April 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
looking at his twitter is the most annoying thing
he tweets some shitbag stupid ass shit like "I'm going to create an amphibious moped then shoot it into space" and there's a zillion responses from a bunch of dickriding wanna be Pied Piper ass motherfuckers like "OMG you're my hero"
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 April 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Awesome sauce!
― badg, Monday, 30 April 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
'everything is awesome', enjoyed without irony
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 April 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
a month ago i thought about buying a share for the first time, risking it on tesla even though i knew there was a high chance of them going bankrupt. now i'm glad i held off.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 30 April 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
A week's worth of URL titleshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/elon-musk-hung-up-on-ntsb-chief-during-call-about-tesla-crash-probe/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-05/musk-is-super-super-serious-in-attacking-buffett-s-candy-moathttps://pagesix.com/2018/05/05/meet-elon-musks-new-love-interesthttps://gizmodo.com/tesla-shareholders-will-vote-on-booting-elon-musk-as-ch-1825598148
Anyone with an over-under on a final public meltdown?
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 May 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
yeah he seems unstable
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
"I am super super serious," Musk said of his candy idea. He also tweeted a movie clip from the animated "Trolls," with characters dancing to Justin Timberlake’s song "Can’t Stop The Feeling!" Musk didn’t provide an explanation for the video.
Thank god he stopped short of saying "super cereal"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 May 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
uh
https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musician-grimes/
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 May 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
― imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
“Elon was researching the idea of joking about Rococo Basilisk, and when he saw Grimes had already joked about it, he reached out to her,” says the insider.
oldest trick in the book
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 7 May 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
they said roko's basilisk would retroactively punish humanity but they could never foresee how
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 7 May 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
lmaoooo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jumping in before nickb gets credit for muskrat an all
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
lolz
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
your rights are my rights are our rights tom get out and march
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
this is how much i never want to hear grimes
https://voices.clickhole.com/i-never-want-to-understand-sand-1825124083
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
grimes is pretty good!
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
https://artofstyle.club/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/elon-musk-casual-style-art-of-style.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
learning of the existence of that clickhole blog jed posted is the best thing to come out of all this
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
my favorite headline of the day: Musk's Stock-Option Tweet May Invite U.S. Labor Board Complaint
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/musk-s-stock-option-tweet-may-invite-u-s-labor-board-complaint
Many Silicon Valley companies give employees shares that fully vest over a four-year period, which has made equity in fast-growing companies a critical part of employees’ compensation packages. The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union.“This is an interesting example of an employer using social media for purposes of campaigning and sharing its views with employees before they vote to decide on representation,” Steven Swirsky, a former NLRB attorney who’s represented companies including Volkswagen AG, said in an interview. “I can foresee the union claiming that this is a threat that the company will discontinue this benefit if the workers chose to be represented.”Musk would have been on safer legal ground, Liebman said, if he had just described collective bargaining as a give-and-take proposition and warned workers that they may lose benefits in the process.
“This is an interesting example of an employer using social media for purposes of campaigning and sharing its views with employees before they vote to decide on representation,” Steven Swirsky, a former NLRB attorney who’s represented companies including Volkswagen AG, said in an interview. “I can foresee the union claiming that this is a threat that the company will discontinue this benefit if the workers chose to be represented.”
Musk would have been on safer legal ground, Liebman said, if he had just described collective bargaining as a give-and-take proposition and warned workers that they may lose benefits in the process.
a genius unlike any other
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
wow, there is no elon musk news
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
Well, he's having quite the day on Twitter there.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
I was just coming over to say, it just keeps going.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 23 May 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
PRAVDA
*kisses fingers*
― Simon H., Wednesday, 23 May 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
[texting]GRIMES: 🌞 ¡good morninggg! 👻 xDDDDMUSK: hello my evropa, my sparkling summer solstice of sweet sherry. no-gods do i love alliterationGRIMES: what R U doin todayyy 🧠👀MUSK: methinks at precisely 22:35 on the dot i shall tonguepunch your delectable twatterino ;P— erica ✌️😉💜 (@babyfacepop) May 22, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Thing I’ll be thinking about all day today: people offering hugs to Elon and buying Tesla stock in response to people roasting Elon Musk about not liking unions pic.twitter.com/G3pRJXu9Jr— alan (@ActionAlan) May 23, 2018
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
he’s really owning the Gavin Belsen resemblance
― attica attica (sciatica), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
Was his calling it Pravda some weird irony, or is he just stupid?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
if nothing else, musk deserves the guillotine for further encouraging peter daou
https://i.redditmedia.com/CKxDpPvOIhr-Cz5UZgtp9RIzCi_3DZS2uGtZDX0o_IY.jpg?w=1024&s=1cfc619f2506d689b1b300ffafdf9c92
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 May 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
I'm sure the people who are motivated to evaluate the 'truth' of an article will be untainted, dispassionate defenders of 'verity'.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 24 May 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
that daou tweet made my day, just beautiful stuff
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Thursday, 24 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
so he's just putting the struggle to combat lies and fake news with the pure authorized TruthTM "on hold" to work on a book?
this book will be nothing but lies.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 May 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
I think he might even be lying about working on a book! Oh my gosh.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
well well well
May 24 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers International Union (UAW) has filed a complaint accusing Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk of illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union.The UAW, which is seeking to represent workers at Tesla’s facility in Fremont, California, filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board late Wednesday.Musk in a tweet on Monday said there was nothing stopping Tesla workers from joining a union, but “why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”
The UAW, which is seeking to represent workers at Tesla’s facility in Fremont, California, filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board late Wednesday.
Musk in a tweet on Monday said there was nothing stopping Tesla workers from joining a union, but “why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”
https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-union/union-accuses-tesla-ceo-musk-of-threatening-workers-idUSL2N1SV1DT
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
That tweet katherine posted above is my least favorite thing I've seen on the internet this year.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
if I had to see it so do you
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
(texting)
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/4662/elon-musk-business-ideas-pravda-candy-company-flamethrower?zd=2&zi=rasxm6k5
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
A great judge of the press.
This analysis is excellent. Applies principles of https://t.co/pLVH45gvOM https://t.co/EfAEPmH454— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2018
Hey buddy. Don't do this. You're making a terrible mistake. https://t.co/SxqsYh8V1s— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) May 26, 2018
― Simon H., Sunday, 27 May 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
Uh-oh, Elon Musk has caught a Twitter-specific mental disease. You've seen it before. Someone or some group on here has owned him so bad that he is re-aligning his whole life and worldview to prove them wrong. Happens all the time, but only Musk may blow up a planet as a result— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 23, 2018
― soref, Sunday, 27 May 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
Non-trivial part of my timeline alternating between "Elon. Please. Stop Talking." and "only following @spacex now" performative outrage.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 May 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
I think there’s another Twitter user who is actually much more likely to blow up earth as a result
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 27 May 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
Amazon has to ship to every military PO, right? Jeff decides to sneak an explosive in all the packages going to US bases worldwide
No way does the Trumpster have that pull
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Sunday, 27 May 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
Anyone want to bet he’ll address the absolute flood of antisemites supporting him in the replies here?
Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2018
Or is he going to be crying about the unfair media covering stuff like this?http://www.thejournal.ie/tesla-autopilot-crash-4038417-May2018/
― gyac, Sunday, 27 May 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
It don’t take long to get to a pro-Assad anti Semitic Pepe the frog and that was enough.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 27 May 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
Revolting.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 27 May 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
lmao
Marx was a capitalist. He even wrote a book about it.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Came to post that, hehehe we live in a fictional narrative this world isn’t real
― Dan I., Saturday, 16 June 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
I'm... pretty sure that has to be a joke. Even hating Elon Musk, I'm willing to extend credit that far.
― emil.y, Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah he’s trying “humour” and it’s coming out exactly as you’d expect
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
he was just researching humour
― Number None, Saturday, 16 June 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
so yeah how many billions has Musk personally siphoned from public coffers?
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 16 June 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/19/technology/tesla-fire-musk-note/index.html
...the Tesla employee had confessed to "quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations." The email said the employee made changes to the computer code of the company's manufacturing operating system. The employee also exported large amounts of highly sensitive company data to unknown third parties.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
wreckers, comrades!
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
it reflects so badly on the impressive heads down type Stakhanovites who just love nothing less than making rich ppl much richer!
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/elon-musk-lauds-new-temporary-assembly-tent-as-factory-2-0-awaits/"Not sure we actually need a building. This tent is pretty sweet."LOLOLOL
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
the fake saboteur is responsible for that tesla catching fire for sure
― mh, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
also the final mix of realiti
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
"Not sure we actually need an album version"
― scopin' VARs (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
charges filed today, but only for stealing date, no sabotage
so basically some employee tried to leak documents about this guy's collapsing house of cards, is what I think
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
braver than the troops
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
date = data
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
nearly every article about this is picking up on it, but it's worth noting that any time any of Musk's ventures has had a setback he's immediately jumped to the "sabotage!" angle
in 2016 he was convinced someone was firing a laser at his rocket from a neighboring building
― mh, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-avaa9a_HU
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/elon-musk-farting-unicorn-mug-cartoon-tom-edwards
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
Was actually someone else’s drawing of a unicorn on hidden Tesla sketch pad app & we gained no financial benefit. Have asked my team to use a diff example going forward. He can sue for money if he wants, but that’s kinda lame. If anything, this attention increased his mug sales.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2018
― gyac, Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
this guy sucks
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:16 (five years ago) link
"Elon Musk has shown up with his mini-submarine and left it at the site, but the rescue chief has said it’s not of any use" #ThailandCaveRescue https://t.co/mxvo3jkYNn— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) July 10, 2018
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:00 (five years ago) link
major whitey saviour fail, lol!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk in Gazza/Moaty scenario.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
except gazza with his chicken and chips and a fishing rod might actually have been more useful in this case
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
I'm sure American ILXors are dying to contribute to this conversation.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
huh? in what way is Gaza connected with Musky?
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
moaty spent five days living in an underground sewage pipe iirc, gazza like musk turned up unbidden to offer his unsolicited assitance to the authorites who were trying to get him out
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
Indeed, tragic steroid-deranged wife beater and murderer or some schoolkids stupid enough to climb into a cave, I know where my sympathies lie.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
i was feigning ignorance there, for once!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
I thought you were impersonating an American ILXor, though the fact that you didn't start your sentence with, "Excuse me, sir...", threw me a bit.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:58 (five years ago) link
in fairness to musk, maybe he'd just misunderstood what subbing players was all about
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
lol i came to this thread to report that i've now seen this identical joke emerge spontaneously/independently at least five times on twitter today -- well done everybody
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
so many people praising him for his selflessness "even if it didn't work"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
ppl who defend musk in the comments are frickin wild man what a world
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
"I went to the hospital where a child was having open heart surgery. I brought a bowie knife and a wrench and was asked to leave. But the important thing is...I was there."
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
"I left the knife and wrench there should they ever need them!!"
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
yes i've seen that exchange half a dozen times too
"lol elon musk always a twat""SO WHAT DID YOU FUCKIN DO TO HELP ASSHOLE"
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
not gonna link to hardtimes but I did chuckle at the parody headline "Elon Musk and Bono team up to invent world's first self-praising car"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
did he also leave a sub captain or instructions?
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
you know that a tesla submersible would be an utter fucking death trap too
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
xp it's self-driving iirc (j/k)
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Gazza is a fucking hero.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I've done plenty to help asshole
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
read a blind item on crazy days and nights that was talking about how "unnamed tech ceo" with popstar gf is a huge coke head and a lightbulb appeared above my head. explains so much of his behaviour - firing a car into space and arguing with randos on twitter especially
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
nm should probably take that to the rimming thread xpost
saw a tweet reply literally all "musk doesnt care about good publicity hes a billionaire" lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
also spotted: "musk doesnt need publicity he shot a car into space"
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
had dinner w/my friend who works at tesla over the weekend and he's completely a non-cultist and was like "well, I've worked here almost two years, time to start hunting around"
also he admitted that some of the software engineers from his team were asked to come over to help carry parts around in the new tent-based production line
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:10 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes the very same person in fact lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
incredible
well the good news is if anyone goes in that cave again and gets stuck there’s an unproven submersible no one knows how to operate made quickly by a man whose cars spontaneously combust ready to rescue them.
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
also it's too big to make it up and over a curve in the cave iirc
you can uh ride it halfway in
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
there will be a video game made about Musk's heroic venture
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Doing the classic bum roommate move of leaving his shit behind in case anyone wants to use it huh
― badg, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
i have an otherwise reasonable friend who admires musk and is taking the "at least he's trying to help people" line. "Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"
it's frustrating.
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
people need to understand that hating musk is fun and good
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"
By sending a submarine to Thailand.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
acquaintance of mine who snidely said he didn't think 'burger flippers deserved $15 an hour' and regularly posts "Be like Elon" memes that are riddled with factual errors also started a GoFundMe to repair his car after an accident (while not answering the question of why his insurance wouldn't be taking care of it).
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Here he is claiming to have helped out in Flint - someone queue up the Simpsons Spock gif
Already have— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
found it
It's crazy to hear that people think he's doing this for the attention, do you honestly think the man that sent a car to space needs attention?— TreyPenninger (@SSYGrunt) July 9, 2018
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Can't get this out of my head now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz7OEtaY90
― mick signals, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
His bootlicking cult is SO weird. Has anyone seen the woman who keeps trying to gift him crystals?
A person with any self awareness would feel ashamed about Trump managing to respond more appropriately ffs.
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
No, it means I created jobs for 50,000 people directly and, through parts suppliers & supporting professions, ~250,000 people indirectly, thus supporting half a million families. What have you done?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
tbf abt 95% of the hot stanning is elon himself imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
yegads
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
has anyone noticed that all of Elon's adventures line up with stories in this kids' series? pretty sure this latest chapter covers both the time they built a submarine and the time people were lost in a cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Scientists%27_Club
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
LOL what a prat.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
did Elon just add 50k and 250k and come up with a half million xxp
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
I think his assumption was that every one of the 250,000 was married with a family, which somehow seems even worse to me
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
wait even that's wrong, lol
really cannot wait for whatever accounting scam theyre running over there at tesla to be exposed
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
otm
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
isn't there a kickstarter or something for the Tesla whistleblower? I oughta throw some $$ at that
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
I wonder how often Elon would rather be a physics engineer, or lead technical designer instead of having to carry the label of billionaire. Regardless of whether or not the capsule ended up being feasible, the man sprung into action to help people he’s never met. #ThaiCaveResue— Blake Kistler (@blake_kistler) July 10, 2018
What a burden.
Ironically, the “billionaire” label, when used by media, is almost always meant to devalue & denigrate the subject. I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size, but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before. Just the scale has changed.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
to answer my own question
https://www.gofundme.com/Tripp-vs-Tesla-help-fund-the-fight
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
can we just shoot Elon Musk into space now plz
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size,
like... the billion dollar valuation size?
but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before.
none, because you're not an engineer or scientist?
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I like him for entertainment value.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
surely his bloated corpse orbiting the moon would be entertaining
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
"Our infrastructure is in shambles and someone is putting his own money into trying to fix it"By sending a submarine to Thailand.― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 5:38 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 5:38 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the infrastructure in question is digging a series of tunnels connecting elon's house and workplace and some other places he'd like to visit from time to time without sitting in traffic.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
excuse me billionaire is a slur. blocked
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
if only there were some way to not be a billionaire oh well
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Imagine trying to coax one of the kids into that terrifying floating coffin after they've spent two weeks in a cave
― Number None, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
do you think the team working on it had to keep reminding each other not to call it that?
― mh, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
can't believe elon hired that man who put his boy in a balloon to lead his engineering team
― scopin' VARs (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
on the plus side he can repurpose those coffins to re-create The City of Freedom from the Holy Mountain
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75a2BH0nUlA/SumXdfoFbII/AAAAAAAAANw/xYPyKv1Drzk/s640/mt4.jpg
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
self-clowning
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/elon-musk-queries-expertise-of-thai-cave-rescue-officials
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
turns out complaining about elon musk on the internet might bring some people in flint some water?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-11/musk-pledges-to-pay-for-clean-water-to-homes-in-flint-michigan
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
so wait, was he actually asked to do this?
This reaction has shaken my opinion of many people. We were asked to create a backup option & worked hard to do so. Checked with dive team many times to confirm it was worthwhile. Now it’s there for anyone who needs it in future. Something’s messed up if this is not a good thing.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
I honestly think he completely made that shit up.
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
the important thing is that his opinion of many people has been shaken
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
One might even say he has been shook
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
ain't no such thing as halfway musks
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
Update on @elonmusk’s promise to “fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels”.He now says “most houses in Flint have safe water” and he will “add filters” to the houses he describes as “outliers”.💦🤔💦cc: @LittleMissFlint pic.twitter.com/sLtKArGlNf— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 11, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
yeah I mean the trick is, as I have learned, a bunch of older homes have lead supply lines. under normal water flow, with the protectant additives, they don’t leach enough lead to be a problem — under EPA regs but there’s non-lead (fine), lead that never had corrosive water and had protectants (mostly ok), and those that had corrosive water with no protectants for months but are now back to baseline (flint)I think the latter is bouncing around EPA acceptable on the bad side and Elon stuck his foot in mouthhonesty I had half my supply line replaced this year and the under-street part is prob lead but not leaching and I am starting to really look into it
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/12/1531368000000/A-brief-history-of-Tesla-and-the-number-500-000/
― just sayin, Thursday, 12 July 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
Catching up on this, and now imagining an Ace In The Hole remake centering on a fictionalized Musk in Douglas role.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 July 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
feel like when Elon Musk's story is written it'll pinpoint the article calling him the "real life Tony Stark" as the exact moment everything went downhill
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
I would pay good money to see him try to fly around with rocket boots and no safety harness
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
everyone knows the true real-life tony stark is that guy who built a backyard rocket and blasted himself towards the stratosphere so he could prove the earth was flat
― look, you’re just gonna get gravy on the baby sometimes 🤷♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
still pretty sure he just grifted the flat earthers in order to build his rocket. respectable grift imo
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
musk is the rockwell character tbh
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.
― sleepingsignal, Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
darragh otm
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC https://t.co/3bLF6yzTMR— Salon (@Salon) July 14, 2018
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
one weird fact about the billionaire environmentalist
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Is it possible to put the thinky face emoji in bold type
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
you have to admit that musk is in the ninety-ninth percentile as a self-promoter. he has the knack for making pronouncements just weird enough to get big play in the media, not so weird he loses the faith of the investor class, but which generally hit the sweet spot of "brilliant eccentric"
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
it's almost as if the media is easily gamed by billionaires
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Potentially a positive development if disillusioned groupies start thinking critically re hero worshipping obscenely wealthy entrepreneurs
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
elton johns
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
That’s no way to refer to grimus
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, July 14, 2018 2:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"these billionaires sure are amazing at media" --the media
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thai-cave-rescue-elon-musk-mini-submarine-british-driver-tham-luang-vern-unsworth-a8447166.html
“The submarine, I believe, was about five foot six long, rigid, so it wouldn’t have gone round corners or round any obstacles.“It wouldn’t have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt.”The experienced cave explorer said Musk was “asked to leave very quickly” after he turned up at the caverns during the rescue operation on Tuesday.
“It wouldn’t have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt.”
The experienced cave explorer said Musk was “asked to leave very quickly” after he turned up at the caverns during the rescue operation on Tuesday.
Brit diver who helped locate the lost party says Musk can 'stick his submarine (which looks like an oversized suppository) where it hurts'
― calzino, Sunday, 15 July 2018 08:46 (five years ago) link
guy who helped save kids points out EM’s thing was an unworkable publicity stunt... EM calls the guy a pedophile. we are weeks away from “Enron Musk” headlines https://t.co/WArAW4Gxdb— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) July 15, 2018
― frogbs, Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
starting to think this guy might be problematic tbh
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Oh no this is gorgeous
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
His suckage gets more classic on a daily basisKinda strange to consider now that only a few weeks ago grimus fans were extremely betrayed that the empress of shitpostcore would deign to date him
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves. Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018
― gbx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
what a scumbag
that's gotta be actionable
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Yes, have fun suing the insanely rich person.
― Simon H., Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Slam dunk libel case in the British courts.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Which drugs do we think he’s on?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
mixture of cocaine and grown adults unironically calling him batman/iron man
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Dragonambienergy
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
The thing that really bugs me about Musk is how unspecial he is. Union-fearing dweebs with either a serious coke habit, some freak diet, or both, along with reactionary politics, megalomania, and breathtaking self-regard are nothing special, esp in the tech sector. Really the only difference is his visibility, willingness to say stupid shit in public, and his immense army of extremely online sycophants.
― Simon H., Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:16 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
adderall, paranoid about getting busted for accounting fraud
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
his immense army of extremely online sycophants.
― Simon H., Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:19 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
suspect many of them may be controlled by a pr firm, theres something uncanny about how they all pop up saying the same shit
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
he's actually rich enough to have a cocaine habit
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
He’s definitely petty enough to hire a pr firm to stroke him off on Twitter
― frogbs, Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
less stroking off, more stroking out pls elton
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
That may be so re his Twitter fluffers but the uncritical cult is real, I have encountered them
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
yeah hes def actually popular irl but just something about the pattern on twitter makes me suspicious
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk more like Noel Skum
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
damn
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
It's comforting to think the lackeys are paid/controlled but no, a lot of people really do just admire him and will defend his honor against fiendish literal hero rescue divers. People say the same shit a lot cause they're dumb and parrot the same shit, no different from people who @ commies and socialists with posts that literally just say "Venezuela"
― Simon H., Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, July 15, 2018 12:05 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
It’s funny when you see on Twitter someone is arguing with some dumb as a bathtub maga chud & then someone else runs their posts thru a bot checker & it’s 90% and they’re like aha! but it’s like... stupid people post like that
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
(This isn’t arguing against your post lagn, no need to c&p again)
one of the things about musks fans that set off the —alarm— is theyre not generally rude or mad theyre more "wow what have you done to improve humanity like this great man" i mean its def within the realm of possibility that he just has the most boring fans of anyone in the world but i just wldnt be surprised if when this scam all shakes out that theres not a story about payments to a shady pr firm
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk has definitely jumped the shark lately, no? I'd expect people to jump ship sooner or later, but I'd thought the same about Assange and Greenwald at this point, so what do I know.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Elon is developing a new kind of shark. What have you done?
― Number None, Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
is he really jumping the shark? clowning on this guy for not being progressive has always been in fashion. look at this thread, it's all about highlighting sycophants and then complaining about their influence. the Elon PWN Cycle is simply compounding at an exponential rate, vis a vis the brain dead ease of Fandom Shaming.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
Being popular with isolated sociopaths doesn't equal being IRL popular, fuck this protoplasm.
― Jules Rimet still leaving (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 July 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
I think Fred is referring to him calling a random rescue worker a pedo and insisting he will prove his useless mini-sub could have saved the kids that have already been saved
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 15 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
he will prove his useless mini-sub could have saved the kids that have already been saved
good. it will keep him occupied and off the streets. unless, of course, he doesn't follow through with his announced plan. but when was that ever true?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCze4CNEms
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Really hope Unsworth takes Musk to the cleaners for that disgusting slur.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 July 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
lol nice try losers!!!! pic.twitter.com/SFbZ4VSjuJ— libby watson (@libbycwatson) July 15, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 15 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
I guess you could argue that billionaire cretins function more as torches than sirens
― Jules Rimet still leaving (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
― El Tomboto, 15. juli 2018 19:13 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, that and a bunch of other stuff these last few weeks. He seems to spend more and more time shouting at random people on twitter.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
clearly a presidency bid
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
tweets all gone now. Liked the comment that he catches fire as fast as one of his cars.
― gyac, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Everybody goes so hard on Elon Musk because if you dunk on, like, Cruz or McConnell nothing happens; they don't care. It's like punching the wind. But if you make fun of Elon Musk, there's at least a 93% chance he'll see it and turn beet red and steam will shoot out of his ears— brans💋n reese (@bransonreese) July 11, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
heh
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiLOWZ3W0AAbQp_.jpg
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 16 July 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
OK I was convinced before, but that dude is totally on the payroll.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 July 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Gritty remake of Iron Man where Tony Stark spends all day fighting with random people on Twitter before getting in trouble for making unfounded accusations of pedophilia.— Murtaza Mohammad Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 16, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 July 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
heh🖼
― estela, Monday, 16 July 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
Gotta give it up for the musketeers, “Latin for foot” is some “German for the bart the” shit
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Monday, 16 July 2018 05:58 (five years ago) link
I suspect "pobudz" might be on an ironic tip with that reddit comment fwiw. It is really Poe's Lawish tho.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 16 July 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
Soon all musk defenders will be doing it ironically
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Monday, 16 July 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
musky tears
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Monday, 16 July 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
ew
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 16 July 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
Keep skipping Grimes tracks when they come on in the car because of this asshole.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 16 July 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Really hope Unsworth takes Musk to the cleaners for that disgusting slur.― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Reportedly considering this - hope it’s true.
― gyac, Monday, 16 July 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk is the Finchy to his fans' Gareth.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUymt9NCEAALj4z.jpg
― Eliza D., Monday, 16 July 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
damnhttps://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-insists-he-d-be-much-more-innovative-pedophil-1827630054
― Neil S, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
i missed that ppl thought he was some beneficent post-Christmas Scrooge
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
British caver 'could sue' Elon Musk over Twitter attack
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
He should crowdfund his legal fees, should get as much as he needs within half an hour.
― Jules Rimet still leaving (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
This chrome plugin which replaces 'Elon Musk' with 'Grimes's boyfriend' is making the internet slightly more fun today
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
typically weaselly words from the Musk rathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44870303
― Neil S, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
I was re-telling this incident to this posh bloke in a pub the other night, and he was absolutely incredulous about the Musky pedo slur - "no no no, he is a very important guy and wouldn't do that". My first encounter with an irl musketeer, no less!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
tbf i think a lot of longterm musk hatewatchers were also startled by it
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
I thought the capacity to be startled by an American billionaire acting like a complete cock might be a bit reduced in recent times!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
also, he's apologizing by ... running some kind of cryptocurrency promotion?
I know that sometimes people can get angry and voice an opinion that looks aggressive. Reacting in the way I did was not a good thing. As such I thought of a cool way to make amends with anyone who feels offended.A way to get yourself free crypto. How does it sound?Conditions are pretty simple. Just visit: musk-official-giveaway.com/btc/ - for free BTC musk-official-giveaway.com/eth/ - for free ETH P.s. If you send in 3 BTC or 30 ETH, you will get the Grand Prize: a customized Tesla 3 model, delivery included. Limited to one participant! DM me on Twitter if you did that and we will sort everything out. Thanks, Elon.
Conditions are pretty simple. Just visit:
musk-official-giveaway.com/btc/ - for free BTC
musk-official-giveaway.com/eth/ - for free ETH
P.s. If you send in 3 BTC or 30 ETH, you will get the Grand Prize: a customized Tesla 3 model, delivery included. Limited to one participant! DM me on Twitter if you did that and we will sort everything out. Thanks, Elon.
― soref, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
sorry, that is from a fake Elon Musk twitter account. this one is from the real Musk, though:
As this well-written article suggests, my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness & according to specifications from the dive team leader.
― soref, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
i was fully ready to accept the crypto competition as real tbh, seems like exactly the kind of thing he'd do
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
Telling Musk to “stick his sub where it hurts” is not necessarily the same as suggesting he “engage in a sexual act”.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
It is for this sub-fucking degenerate
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
And to think he wanted to shove kids in there before fucking it. Shameful
he's sunk to new depths
― Neil S, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
TS: sexual acts with submarine vs. sexual acts with children.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
grinding nemo
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub
lmfao
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
gonna be the new kanye stage rant
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
(sex) toy story
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
think i might be detecting some attempt to present an equivalency between submarines and children here, elon sees the sub as his child perhaps
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 09:58 (five years ago) link
seems more like a straightforward sub-dom relaysh to me tbh
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:01 (five years ago) link
ayy lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
I mean, the whole sub idea does seem like something Musk just pulled out of his arse.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:04 (five years ago) link
Something something up periscope.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
jacque cousteau could never get this low
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
the life erotic
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
yes
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
spelunkingthe act of exploring for the missing condom after deep penetrationThe next morning, "Oh yeah, we never found it. Better get out the head lamp so we can go spelunking."
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
Lost Johnny's out there.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:42 (five years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QU_3OkCH9Ww/U7M1Ex6DRWI/AAAAAAAAFC8/ra3sgSuGs4A/s1600/Submariner+1+panel+1.JPG
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
Elon should find out what that Jared Fogle fellow is up to these days
― Neil S, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
I mean obviously the glaring problem is that it’s a craven, manipulative billionaire weirdo punching wayyyyy down to a literal hero who rescues children from cave death, but if the tables were turned we do have to admit that “this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus)” is kind of a good zing
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
do we tho is my question
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
Twitter as a force of seeing into dark celebrity souls
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
“this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus)” is kind of a good zing
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 18, 2018 9:19 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
see and if he had just stuck with that he wldve been in the clear but he had to go and spell it out and now hes gonna have to give that guy a million dollars
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
hard to believe this story could get any better but just lmao @ "he suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
'he shuggests you fuck your subsh, you shuggest he fucksh kidsh'
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbplusmovieblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fthe-untouchables-17.png&f=1
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
TORPEDOOOOO MUSSSK!!!!!!!!!
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
what if everyone involved in the rescue operation outside of the thai government actually were pedos
― mh, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
if we agree to leave aside "punching down" (and remember we dont) would it even apply to interaction on twitter (not in any way that would leave it meaning anything (and remember it doesnt))
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
xp u joke but it happened the bbc
Now that the kids have been rescued he can move on to teh future problem of thai kids stuck on mars
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
how to rescue Whitey on the Moon
― Neil S, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Good to see Musk learned something from this, oh wait (from his likes!)
Dear Elon Musk: Feel the love, respect, and peace flowing to you from those of us who look up to you and respect you. ❤🙏✌@elonmusk https://t.co/d0b1vFHtwv— Johnna💎 (@JohnnaSabri) July 17, 2018
― gyac, Thursday, 19 July 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
If you understand this joke I recommend taking a few days off from the internet
i make-a the bitcoin scam yes— italian elom tusk ☭ (@muslimbanned) July 19, 2018
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-18/musk-enlisted-sierra-club-to-deflect-flak-over-donation-to-gop
wish I'd kept up my tweet about how Musk buys into the "donate money and then they have to do what you say" model because he apparently really did call the Sierra Club and say "I give you money please tell everyone I'm a good guy"
― mh, Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
In keeping with the spirit of the thread, may I present this amazing article about the "solar roof" vaporware
money quotes:
"...the company instructed some employees to avoid fielding Solar Roof inquiries due its limited availability."
and this:
"One user said Tesla has been unable to given even a rough estimate of when their systems will be delivered."
here's the full article:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-solar-and-storage-delays-and-deliveries#gs.L3Kul6s
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Theory - Tesla cars will remain the unreachable luxury items never be the next consumer - everyday car
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
xp I think the red flag there was when SolarCity was supposedly its own thing and "not the same company" but run by Elon's cousin, followed by them giving up and folding it into Tesla
― mh, Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
oh totally, I'm just enjoying the ensuing clusterfuck
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
I never asked my friend about it but the impression I got was that coordinating panel installation as a front for selling the home batteries wasn't working great, and then the actual home batteries aren't a great business either
― mh, Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
the Powerwalls are mostly useless IMO, the LG Chem batteries seamlessly integrate with Solar Edge inverters. LG is now sold out until August/September, indicating that there is high demand for a product that doesn't depend on "authorized dealers"
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
I would think powerwall would appeal to island dwellers and wilderness buffs only - or rich people who want to be green
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
it's useless without the power grid, not designed for off-grid systems
― sleeve, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
The Powerwall 2 is probably the best home battery you can buy today but far from the best there could be and they are not without issues. Price/performance is really good. None of this really matters because they are almost unobtainable.
LGChem comprehensively outsell them in Australia because they have stock available where Tesla don’t. In Germany Sonnen beats Tesla as do a number of other brands partly because germans buy German, are prepared to pay a premium for quality and partly because Sonnen offer a longer performance warranty.
The SolarEdge LG combo is okay, especially if you go DC coupled and need an optimiser solution. It’s somewhat let down by a somewhat elderly control system which doesn’t react particular quickly to changes in load which wastes a bit of energy. The LGChem battery is tricky to site outdoors as it is passive cooled and doesn’t like sunshine, much better in a garage or cellar.
Huawei have an interesting inverter that works with the LGChem packs but I have had a chance to test one yet.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
great info Ed, thanks!
― sleeve, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
there is talk in my town of replacing a power substation with batteries - I dont know much about such things but I imagine a warehouse of powerwalls to supplement the grid
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Replacing a substation with batteries doesn’t seem credible but using them to defer or displace a capital upgrade, eg. a new transmission line or transformer is credible. Tesla’s powerpack commercial battery is a pretty good piece of engineering. The liquid cooling allows them to creat a flexible, modular system that consists of inverter and battery blocks that are the size of an oversized telephone kiosk.
Most other manufacturers aircool and use computer racking, often mounted in shipping containers to hold racks of batteries like servers, with separate containers for inverters etc.
Whose batteries are better depends on the application, duty cycle and how badly Elon wants to do the project.
Fun fact Tesla uses Samsung cells in powerwalls and power packs when they can’t make enough of their own.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 20 July 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I think Latham is referring to using storage to decommission natural gas peakers, in Oxnard specifically:
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/ugc/articles/2018/07/17/declining-battery-storage-costs-raise-questions-about-the-role-of-natural-gas.html
― sleeve, Friday, 20 July 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
probably should take this to the energy thread but w/e
I’m seeing a lot of RFPs from public agencies interested in deferring capital investments or decomissioning peaker plants by using some combo of batteries and distributed generation resources. Dunno how viable any of the solutions are but there’s def a big demand for this stuff, and tons of people are rushing to fill it. Ed’s info seems good as far as I understand this stuff.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 July 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/18/south-portland-residents-balk-at-cmp-substation-expansion-plan/
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
extremely good ceo has a normal one
One of Tesla’s biggest anonymous trolls/shorts has been doxxed as an investment manager heavily invested in the oil industry.He has now deleted his Twitter account, which he used to promote his blog posts about Tesla and attack anyone saying anything that could be perceived as positive on Tesla, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly called his boss to complain about his behavior.We are talking about ‘Montana Skeptic’ who has been using Seeking Alpha, a financial blog aggregator, and Twitter to push the bear case on Tesla for the past 3 years.
He has now deleted his Twitter account, which he used to promote his blog posts about Tesla and attack anyone saying anything that could be perceived as positive on Tesla, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly called his boss to complain about his behavior.
We are talking about ‘Montana Skeptic’ who has been using Seeking Alpha, a financial blog aggregator, and Twitter to push the bear case on Tesla for the past 3 years.
https://electrek.co/2018/07/24/tesla-troll-short-doxxed-oil-industry-musk-calls-boss/
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
Highlighted the wrong part imo.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
what, the 'heavily involved in the oil industry' part?
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
Last night I dreamt that Elon Musk was in charge of mitigating, via his supposed technological wizardry, the end of the world, which was occurring via a great flow of lava across the entire earth's surface, but he kept messing it all up with self-aggrandizing schemes akin to the Thai cave rescue submarine fiasco, as humanity gradually succumbed to the molten rock.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
'heavily involved in the oil Energon industry'
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/transformers/images/3/3c/EnergonCubesCartoon1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070120063926
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/elon-musk-meets-with-his-pr-team
― o. nate, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
extremely good social media company has a normal one
Twitter has implemented a new method for combating cryptocurrency scammers: it now automatically locks unverified accounts that change their display name to Elon Musk. If you have a non-verified account that is not associated with a phone number, changing your display name to that of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO will result in an immediate lock out. Twitter will then ask you to pass a CAPTCHA test, as well as provide a phone number, to regain access.“As part of our continuing efforts to combat spam and malicious activity on our service, we’re testing new measures to challenge accounts that use terms commonly associated with spam campaigns. We are continually refining these detections based on changes in spammy activity,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement given to The Verge. The company declined to comment on whether the measure has been put in place for any other public figure’s Twitter account.
“As part of our continuing efforts to combat spam and malicious activity on our service, we’re testing new measures to challenge accounts that use terms commonly associated with spam campaigns. We are continually refining these detections based on changes in spammy activity,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement given to The Verge. The company declined to comment on whether the measure has been put in place for any other public figure’s Twitter account.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17610348/twitter-elon-musk-display-name-change-lock-account-crypto-scams?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 July 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
Everyone with that name is a scammer tbf
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
tru
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 July 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
all is well with the world again
https://www.stereogum.com/2007418/elon-musk-ends-farting-unicorn-feud-with-lisa-pranks-dad/news/
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 26 July 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
twitter-elon-musk-display-name-change-lock-account-crypto-scams?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
ok lol, missed this yesterday.
Update 6:13 p.m.: Tesla spokesperson Dave Arnold sent along a statement, seemingly confirming some of the situation and, using Skeptic’s real name, said Skeptic’s employer “is a longtime Tesla supporter and was one of the first to purchase a Model S.”
https://jalopnik.com/get-a-load-of-this-ridiculous-story-about-how-elon-musk-1827842961
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
today in burlington stink
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/tesla-s-phantom-shooter-the-strange-story-of-a-debunked-threat
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Just posted a $717 million net quarterly loss.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
how the hell can they be losing money with great ideas like these
If you’re into video game development, consider applying to Tesla. We want to make super fun games that integrate the center touch screen, phone & car irl.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2018
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
Like Pokemon Go! But with people swerving across motorways....
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
The future is fucking stupid.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
THE STOCK MARKET IS SO RATIONAL!!!
Tesla shares are literally going up and down based on how much of a pissy dickhead and/or phony insincere apologist Elon Musk is on any given day:
Elon Musk makes the ‘most valuable apology of all time’ on Tesla's earnings call
Tesla shares are surging after Elon Musk apologized to Wall Street analysts over his behavior on the company's previous conference call.
Three months earlier, the stock plunged in after-hours trading in response to what Musk called "boring, bonehead questions" from analysts.
This time, Musk showed contrition and Tesla shares surged 8.5 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday, adding about $4.75 billion to the stock's value.
KeyBanc Capital Markets called it "maybe the most valuable apology of all time."
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 August 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
it's all apologies and the promise of magic beans
companies that actually produce a reasonable number of products or have income are boring
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: Elon Musk invents device that allows you to play video games instead of speaking to investors
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 August 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
A fun little breakdown of their current woes.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
starting to get the impression that Elon is getting bored with the idea of cars. just doesn't seem that into cars anymore
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, August 3, 2018 10:01 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good read!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
agreed, thanks
― sleeve, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
need to find a way to convince these vc idiots to give me one billion to flush down the toilet (after giving myself a significant chunk of it)
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
― mh, Friday, August 3, 2018 11:14 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so elon's midlife crisis is the opposite of normal midlife crises
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
hmm he's still dating progressively younger women, so it's too early to judge
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
BUSINESSElon Musk’s Twitter Account: ‘Am Considering Taking Tesla Private at $420’Tesla stock rose 6.3% to $363.56
someone trying to go to jail
@elonmusk Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-twitter-account-am-considering-taking-tesla-private-at-420-1533661152
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
spose he cld argue he was just super stoned
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
stock should've risen to 6.9%
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
There had been reports that Musk met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman during his recent visit to the U.S.A. but Musk tweeted on May 22nd that he did not in fact meet with Bin Salman https://t.co/SAsvkyYD6C— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) August 7, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
wish i knew how to short a stock
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
trading suspended
lol this guy is such a putz
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
wish i knew how to short a stock― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:26 PM (fourteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:26 PM (fourteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same. I regret not shorting zynga many moons ago. However shorting can blow up in your face if you make the wrong call. gambling lol.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
did this guy just commit some kind of fraud or is he just an idiot
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
if the first then the second
― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:28 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah so as i understand it you borrow the stock, then sell it, then buy it and return it when it goes in to the toilet. i guess that if instead the stock blows up then you'd be on the hook for huge sums of money (which I'm obviously not good for) so i guess no one would allow me to do so anyway
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Elon is the poo rman's Ray Kurzweil
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Buying puts is probably a better/safer idea than just shorting, but I've never actually done either. As John Maynard Keynes said "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
Musk is a fucking idiot
so is Kurzweil
not sure which is richer (I would assume Elon but idk)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
He is a donor to the GOP he can do whatever he wants at this point. The US is but a playground for billionaires, if he wants to wrekt shorters with one illegal troll tweet, he can because they will be damned if the US isn't the land of snake oil vendors.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
which stocks would you short based on idiocy of the CEOs? a buddy thinks the GoPro guy is a doofus.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
the success of gopro is incredible a camera you strap to yr head lol god bless
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
which stocks would you short based on idiocy of the CEOs? a buddy thinks the GoPro guy is a doofus.― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 9:19 AM (fifty-three minutes ago)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 9:19 AM (fifty-three minutes ago)
You're 2-3 years too late, back when that company used to have significant worth/market action... same with Fitbit.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
many making the case that sonos will be next: https://www.statista.com/chart/14995/stock-performance-of-fitbit-gopro-and-sonos/
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
price kinda crashed after I posted that :o. Fwiw, i don't think the ceo is an idiot. I think it's a well run shop.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
Elon's twitter power extends to his ilx thread
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
still laughing at "take the stock private at $420" tbh
he really missed the boat by not adding "in 69 days!"
― mh, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
https://jezebel.com/will-someone-check-on-azealia-banks-who-has-been-alone-1828291286
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Man pr stunts are so crazy now
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
waiting for grimes
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 13 August 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
@elonmuskAm considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 1:11 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 1:12 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha!
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
Mods please merge this with the grimes thread
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
(btw not laughing at the 420 joke so much as the revelation that he was allegedly tripping when he tweeted that)
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
fuck Banks for making fun of down syndrome
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
turns out tweeting is a bad idea
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-private-elon-musk-sec-investigation
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
Yes. That seems like blatant market manipulation and fraud, even if he was stoned silly when he tweeted it and had not the foggiest clue how serious his misstatement was.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
where does the rank on the scale of 420 jokes
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
this
pretty high
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
Sometimes a 420 joke boomerangs back on you
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
i would say it's more like it blows back up in your face
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
A boy genius billionaire but doesn’t even know when to let go of the carb. Sad
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
did he fix the water in Flint yet
― frogbs, Friday, 17 August 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
they're going to drink his tears iirc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
it's weird, it's almost like wall street should assign huge valuations to companies that have never even flirted profitability and are run by a weirdo who acts like he's 15 years old
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
i must admit i'm intrigued by his “from a personal pain standpoint, the worst is yet to come" bit
passive-aggressive method to try to avoid getting dumped?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 August 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Haha this is too much
https://pitchfork.com/news/jack-white-to-perform-at-tesla-factory-for-workers/
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
I've long ago lost interest in that clown but yeah
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
haven't the Tesla workers suffered enough already
― Neil S, Saturday, 18 August 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
"There’s a reason for the word ‘stoned.’ You just sit there like a stone on weed.”
- Elon Musk
― chinavision!, Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Elton musk confirmed crank advocate
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
makes u think
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
He truly is a real life Robert Downey junior
haha
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 19 August 2018 04:17 (five years ago) link
i only just now parsed "you just sit there like a stone on weed" correctly
― No organ. (crüt), Sunday, 19 August 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link
Hahah right? I was like "moffe on the skull... no wait"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 19 August 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
Top Gear ran a drag race between the new electric Jaguar and a Tesla and the Jaguar won. The Muskovites have arrived in the comments section to the video explaining how the video is clearly faked and if it isn't it doesn't matter and that Jaguar made bad cars in the 70s and that every single problem with the Tesla is a feature you are too dumb to understand. It's fun!
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 19 August 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
Sounds like
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 19 August 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
Yikes
A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known place for funy computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. He has such sights to show us. Join me and I will be your silent guide into a world of horror. pic.twitter.com/uFDOj0x5Zy— ato̧̕m̀͡i̴̷̛c̨͝t͝҉͡h̷҉u̵̶m͜͞b͏͝s̀́ (@atomicthumbs) August 24, 2018
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
wow
― sleeve, Friday, 24 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
makes me nostalgic for fuckedcompany
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
For the record, my voice cracked once during the NY Times article. That’s it. There were no tears.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2018
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE65-Z8pOV0
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.— wint (@dril) December 29, 2014
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxKSjUwKdU
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GwdHe5nQSQ
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
oh Elonpawshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/29/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-pedo-claims-against-uk-cave-diver
― Neil S, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
for a guy who was only recently talking about starting up a site to evaluate the trustworthiness of reporters he really seems to have a v loose grip on how the burden of proof works huh
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
He’s disrupting the paradigm in factual standards.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
Amazing thread
well I guess I know what I’m doing tonight https://t.co/dxBDC0Zt2M— erinspace (@erinscafe) August 28, 2018
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 29 August 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
some choice nuggets in there, my favourites being the phrase 'electric skates' and that this pointless vanity project will create precisely zero economic growth
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
my favorite part was that spacex employees comprised 15% or more of “the public”
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
3 people out of 20, by the looks of it
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
alissa walker @ curbed is great on this (and all other la planning/transit stuff)
https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/16/17704428/elon-musk-dodger-stadium-tunnel-better-ideas
there is a gondala idea that is kind of wacky but approximately 10000x better than this tunnel thing.
i mean it's even worse than the 3 mile, one way, street car loop that will not have priority over road traffic at intersections and will thus go at approximately walking pace that they want to put downtown
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
the gondala goes from downtown, and there is perhaps a more acute need to improve connections to the stadium from pretty much exactly the locations this tunnel would serve (among others). so a red line connection sounds good to me in principle! and you can argue that there is value in a proof of concept, and i don't think anyone is seriously suggesting the tunnel would ever make money.
but the city does not need to get involved. and it certainly shouldn't be providing financial support.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
@elonmusk should check his mail before tweeting. pic.twitter.com/3c9QWtdp25— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) August 29, 2018
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Did that come addled dipshit just delete all of his tweets going back to the 25th or something
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Fyac
No really fuck you, autocorrect
Musk kind of seems to me like someone who rides high on the backs of the truly intellectually gifted minions
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
so high
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
"If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on th backs of giant reefers"
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
dipped in synthetic novelty psychoactivesalso please delete my last 150 tweets thanks
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
elon not doing great these days
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 2:00 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ever take the roosevelt island gondola, p cool
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
i support both the los angeles dodgers gondola and the Bosch season about the los angeles dodgers gondola murders
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 August 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
Exclusive: Tesla violated U.S. labor laws when Elon Musk tweeted about employees losing their stock options if they unionized, the NLRB alleges in new complaint. https://t.co/tRqGkmhZ73— Ryan Felton (@ryanfelton) August 29, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 30 August 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
the NLRB alleges
alleges? uh, that is straight up intimidation and coercion. how can it not be a violation of labor laws?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 30 August 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/08/teslas-affordable-model-3-costs-a-bundle-to-insure-study-claims/
Last year, AAA said premiums on Tesla vehicles would likely go up 30 percent after reviewing data from the Highway Loss Data Institute. At the time, Tesla said the analysis was “severely flawed and is not reflective of reality.” But the auto club stated the HLDI’s findings matched its own research, as well as numerous other sources.“Looking at a much broader set of countrywide data, we saw the same patterns observed in our own data, and that gave us the confidence to change rates,” said Anthony Ptasznik, chief actuary of AAA.The contributing factors to the brand’s above-average insurance rate are twofold. For whatever reason, Tesla models are subject to an abnormally high number of incidents that result in insurance claims, but they’re also more expensive to fix. “Teslas get into a lot of crashes and are costly to repair afterward,” explained Russ Rader, spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which operates as the HLDI’s parent organization. “Consumers will pay for that when they go to insure one.”For the Model 3, the result is tragically high premiums. A recent study conducted by Gabi Personal Insurance Agency Inc. and posted by Automotive News shows the EV’s average insurance cost across 150 ZIP codes is $2,814 per year. That’s $35 less than the cost of insuring a Porsche 911, using the same metrics.“In the last month we had more and more people coming in with Model 3, and they were all complaining about high insurance costs,” said Gabi CEO Hanno Fichtner. “We found cheaper deals for them, but not as cheap as we thought they would be. We even had customers tell us they are returning their Model 3 due to the high running costs.”
“Looking at a much broader set of countrywide data, we saw the same patterns observed in our own data, and that gave us the confidence to change rates,” said Anthony Ptasznik, chief actuary of AAA.
The contributing factors to the brand’s above-average insurance rate are twofold. For whatever reason, Tesla models are subject to an abnormally high number of incidents that result in insurance claims, but they’re also more expensive to fix. “Teslas get into a lot of crashes and are costly to repair afterward,” explained Russ Rader, spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which operates as the HLDI’s parent organization. “Consumers will pay for that when they go to insure one.”
For the Model 3, the result is tragically high premiums. A recent study conducted by Gabi Personal Insurance Agency Inc. and posted by Automotive News shows the EV’s average insurance cost across 150 ZIP codes is $2,814 per year. That’s $35 less than the cost of insuring a Porsche 911, using the same metrics.
“In the last month we had more and more people coming in with Model 3, and they were all complaining about high insurance costs,” said Gabi CEO Hanno Fichtner. “We found cheaper deals for them, but not as cheap as we thought they would be. We even had customers tell us they are returning their Model 3 due to the high running costs.”
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 August 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
More on the Unsworth lawsuit:
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/08/elon-musk-just-might-get-his-libel-suit-wish/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/the-british-diver-elon-musk-called-a-pedo-threatened-to-sue
― Lee626, Thursday, 30 August 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
https://urbanize.la/post/elon-musks-solution-dodger-stadium-traffic-full-holes
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
A friend of mine just picked up his Tesla, which he first ordered in the spring of 2016, this past Saturday. He's so proud.
― Eliza D., Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Tesla only hope of survival is to be bought by General motors
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
a co worker just got one and sent out a FAQ to the entire department. uguhghghghghh
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
haaaaaaaa
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
When are you getting your Tesla?
I am scheduled to pick it up on September 12th, 2 years and 5 months after putting $1,000 and two months after putting $2500 more down.
Are you excited?
Yes, very much so
Can I have ride?
Sure we can work that out.
Can I drive it?
Unlikely.
Am I afraid it is going to catch on fire?
Internal combustion engine cars are filled with flammable liquid, so no I am much less concerned it going to catch on fire then my Impala.
it goes on and on and on
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
does he mention the insurance payments? (see link above)
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
one funny thing is teslas are low quality cars
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
which didnt really matter when it was just a second car for status seeking rich ppl but now
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Aspie monty burns will just keep responding to reportage of his latest crime with inane shit like “nope. Try again, gremlin” and all his abject cultists will be like “epic clapback, sir” in their best smithers - this will keep happening and it’s funny but also a nightmare?
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
I'll take this nightmare over the one in DC, this one's fucking hilarious and there's no nukes (yet)
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Thursday, 30 August 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
yeah but if there are nukes then its the greatest story ever told
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 30 August 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
Holy hell, the lede on this new WSJ story... 🤯 https://t.co/vzsAZVR30b pic.twitter.com/KlIiNKoDG3— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) August 31, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 31 August 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
jfc wow
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
you'd think the guy would be more protective of his hair plugs
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
still, 'my ponzi factory isn't maiming workers fast enough!' is a great look for a ceo participating in a tour of his facility
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
I was freaked out when the driver seat moved in reverse when I placed the car in reverse. That is a serious glitch. I will only be happy if I get a new Model 3 or a refund now. Please help @elonmusk No one should feel afraid of their car.— LaLa (@McTweeterific) August 31, 2018
I have a 2010 Charger and apparently there was a minor problem with the airbag that caused some of them to inadvertently deploy. I think there was like 5 instances of this happening among 1.3 million affected cars, with no reported injuries. Dodge apparently tracked down everyone who owned one - somehow they found me, even though I bought it secondhand and moved twice since, I wound up getting a phone call offering to fix it for free, so I figured why not. This is not a cheap repair, by the way. I can only imagine how Tesla might handle a situation like this, given all the random faulty parts and the apparent shoddiness of the car's OS.
― frogbs, Friday, 31 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
lol I was drunk last night (shouldn’t have said “aspie” btw, sorry) today I agree this is a very funny nightmare
― coetzee.cx (wins), Friday, 31 August 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:50 PM (five years ago)
did this ever happen? the first few posts itt are shot through with heart-piercing innocence
― rob, Friday, 31 August 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
So many ppl have made this exact joke over the years it’s kinda wild that now it’s here everyone just calls it “the elton musk toy sub pedo controversy” https://t.co/ek6HLJPpXa— Tyto Pollens #FBP🌮 (@TytoPollens) July 16, 2018
― coetzee.cx (wins), Friday, 31 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
lol yes exactly
― rob, Friday, 31 August 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Azealia Banks teed this one up perfectly too
― rob, Friday, 31 August 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
There’s some good stuff in that twitter thread mookieproof posted. Cars are incredibly complex and the fact that the auto industry can turn out millions that are (mostly) reliable and safe and without killing and maiming the people building them and doing so at a cost that stilll seems insanely cheap given the complexity. That musk wants to toss out 100 years of accumulated knowledge and best practice is a disappointing as it is unsurprising.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk sent me an email last week. In it, he accused a British cave rescuer of being "a child rapist" who took a "12-year-old bride." He didn't provide any evidence of those claims.He also called me a "fucking asshole."https://t.co/EIAjzEJXiY— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) September 4, 2018
rarely in the course of human history has anyone been So Very Online
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
So Very Ondrugs
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
1) quadrupling down on a bizarre and completely unfounded claim2) "people are saying" things that no one is actually saying and are demonstrably untrue3) "attached, see this letter of a person praising me"
hmmmmm
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Elon's Trumpin'
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
speaking of underrated aerosmith b-sides
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
I think I might be rooting for his life to be absolutely ruined almost as much as Trump's at this point.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
IN the comments on that tweet someone points out that in the UK the libel laws mean spreading someone elses libel makes that person liable also, is that true!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
I hope Tesla survives his mismanagement and solves their production and design problems. Their firmware may be a disaster, but their drive train seems pretty decent. The more all-electric vehicles get into the market, the better.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
Whenever I see Musk he reminds me of a humanoid assembled from meat, or perhaps a shapeshifter holding human form through considerable effort.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
xp - ideally, he somehow loses his stake in Tesla and it goes on to be an enormous success without him as he has to watch by the wayside. Then he blows up in the first SpaceX launch with a human on board.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
teslas life or death prob not gonna have much impact on the adoption of electric cars
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
I haven't been convinced yet that electric cars are a sufficient strategy for lowering emissions anyway
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I have a friend who swore by a weekend Tesla driving experience, to which I responded: who the fuck cares? Luxury cars will always be luxurious. Right now I get John DeLorean vibes from Musk. Let me know when he perfects longterm energy storage and I'll be impressed. As for electric cars, companies like Toyota and VW are going to run with his ideas and make them cheaper, recognizing that the only luxury people really care is massive mileage in a low-cost car. You know, like regular cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
Come on - Musk obviously has his faults, but I'd take him over pretty much any other celebrity CEO dickweed. If you think that other companies would be scrambling to build electric cars without Tesla, you are kidding yourselves. And the things that he's chosen to work on (electric cars, solar power, batteries, space travel) are so much more inspiring than the usual Valley gadgetry and eyeball-farming.
― DJI, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
Oh, all agreed! I just expect others to take his ideas mainstream and leave him in the dust, charging things.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
lol @ VW mention in your previous post
you do know what that automaker is most recently famous for, right?
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
musk built his business on government vouchers for low/zero emission vehicles, california has mandated that a big % of vehicles sold there be zero emission and so forth, he didnt invent the electric car market there are much larger forces at work, and fuck being inspired by some jerkoff ceo especially one who is actively attempting to undermine public transportation just like every other car building industrialist in the history of the world
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
public transportation aka the thing that actually reduces pollution
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
+hes a huge asshole boss who got mad at one of his employees for attending the birth of their child and has broken laws trying to prevent unionization of his workforce, he sucks and is ridiculous and has some savior complex which manifests as building cars and rockets which is just plain dumb
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
otm. he's an extremely bad person.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Let's try not to conflate Elon Musk and electric vehicles, ok? Musk is an asshole who abuses his workers and others. Electric vehicles may be marginal when compared to public transportation as a means to reduce overall carbon emissions, but they still provide measurable benefits compared to personal vehicles powered directly by fossil fuels.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
xpost I mentioned VW because, despite their diesel scandal, I thought they were actually still doing pretty well, but mostly they were one of the companies ( I thought) that gave a set date for producing an all-electric fleet (2030?). I think they're doing pretty well in Asia, too. Maybe I was thinking of Volvo? Anyway, pretend I said Volvo. Regardless, as all these much bigger car companies push toward electric, and start producing more, and cheaper, and more efficient entry level electric cars, the novelty of Tesla will fade. All along it's always been about battery and storage, that's where the revolution is, finding ways and places to store all that renewable solar and wind to use at will.
I thought this twitter thread making fun of his bust of a Tesla press conference pitching a hyper loop shuttle to Dodgers stadium was pretty good. Maybe I first saw it on this thread? Anyway, it's good stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Come on - Musk obviously has his faults, but I'd take him over pretty much any other celebrity CEO dickweed.
That's like being the least-bad European dictator of the '30s.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
I know it's silly of me, but I just keep thinking, what if Musk is right about this guy? We'd never hear the end of it. He might even be right completely by coincidence. But I think the real reason it's nagging at me is because accusing someone of marrying a 12-year-old girl, and doing so based on absolutely no evidence, is so completely insane that my mind recoils at the idea.
― JRN, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
Essentially, yes. One famous case was the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper - one paper printed an allegation that she knew about the murders before he was arrested and a bunch of other papers followed up with reports spreading the claim. She successfully sued the first paper and collected something like twelve out-of-court settlements from the others iirc because they would also have lost had she taken them to court.
Contextualising it as ‘Elon Musk has made defamatory and baseless allegations against X’ is the way outlets would normally report without running as great a risk.
The jurisdiction he chooses to sue in will be interesting. It looks like it will be the US, which is arguably harder to win in but opens the way to larger punitive damages.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:58 (five years ago) link
But I think the real reason it's nagging at me is because accusing someone of marrying a 12-year-old girl, and doing so based on absolutely no evidence, is so completely insane that my mind recoils at the idea.
so
the diver is 63 now, and his wife reports her age as 40
Musk has it that the diver lived / travelled to elsewhere in Thailand for 30 to 40 years before moving to paedotown and marrying her, which he must have done 28 years ago, if she was 12
therefore he has been going to Thailand for sex trafficking since he was minus 5 years old Musk should fire his lawyers and get Giuliani on the case imo
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 07:23 (five years ago) link
My prediction: Bought by GM and left to simultaneously twist in the wind and rot on the vine like Saturn. All the IP is used to make electric Buicks for China.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
xpost: Musk described Unsworth as single, so presumably he's not saying that Unsworth married the woman he's with now (who he's not married to) when she was 12.
― JRN, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
okay so he’s saying Musk stole someone else’s child bride, and is therefore a homewrecker as well as someone who’s been fucking 12-year-olds since before he was bornstory checks out
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
This is pretty otm. I know two people with Teslas, they're undoubtedly very cool cars and its hard to drive them without getting the feeling that they're gamechangers. But I know the way the free market works - every legitimately great thing about these cars are going to get co-opted by more experienced and capable automakers in a few years, without the hefty price tag. My brother rented one for a weekend to drive to Ohio - we spent half an hour checking out all the neato features, like the big touch screen and the ability to park it with your phone and the way it detects your presence and shutters up when you're not near. Then like two hours into the trip a tire popped and it wound up costing a grand total of $1200 to get replaced. So, that's pretty much the Tesla experience.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
$1200! jesus
― crüt, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
No, Tesla
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
o god
Will be on @JoeRogan at 9:30pm Pacific on Thursday— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2018
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
teslas are hella ugly look like an unfinished nissan, logo looks like it was drawn on a jr high desk
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
also "tesla"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
haha right
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiK6lInU0AADnRf.jpg
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
let's do it and be legends
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
just a tiny black tshirt guy living his best life
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
I find maverick scientists like tesla + faraday quite fascinating, this numpt has just put batteries on wheels as far as I can see!
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
yea I never really notice one until I see the logo. which looks like an IUD. someone should really point that out to Elon.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/180724-paypal-mafia-elon-musk-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
a funny thing about the tesla worship among this generation of billionaires is theyre all total edisons
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
oh man. totally.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
that's perfect actually.
lol, truth bomb
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen two Teslas in the wild, which is more than I recall having seen before, and yeah, I was struck by how much they look like Nissans.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
electric cars are great and mass adoption of them will absolutely drive down emissions and it's going to happen regardless of Tesla's ultimate fate in the market why because of regulations + laws in California (and other states/countries like China)
Elon Musk is a moron
these are not mutually exclusive positions
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
(xp) I don't pay enough attention to cars to tell one boring run-of-the-mill generic car from another tbh.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
the only thing I took away from elon's email is that he knows a lot about which particular neighborhoods you go to for shady stuff
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
(sus)
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
haa
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
you know what would absolutely drive down emissions (and make cities more livable places for humans rather than private property that gets stored in the street): mass adoption of mass transit
literally everything this guy does from when he wakes up to when he goes to bed harms that goal
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
it drives me nuts that in every article the media is not yelling about how all his tunneling/vacuum tube schemes are blatant ploys to disrupt in process public transpo plans
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
thankfully none of those schemes are going anywhere, at least as far as I know. his CA vacuum tube proposal was laughed out of town.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
word. to the extent LA makes any progress on transit and emissions over the next couple of decades it will be in spite of this walking hair plug.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
his CA vacuum tube proposal was not laughed out of town. it starts with a proof of concept https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/elon-musk-talks-proof-of-concept-tunnel-parallel-to-the-405-in-los-angeles/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
I am all for mass transit, but it's not an either/or proposition. CA is both building a bullet train and investing in EV infrastructure, both are driven by state mandated GHG reductions goals.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
*takes .25 hits of acid* what if a subway for cars?
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
The company has buy-in from LA Metro, the city's public transportation provider. In a short, tweeted statement Thursday evening, LA Metro announced: "Metro leadership and CEO Phil Washington had a great meeting today with the talented staff of the @boring_company. They will coordinate with us as they move ahead with their proof of concept tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard to ensure it doesn't interfere with our Sepulveda Transit Corridor rail project. We'll be partners moving forward."
jfc LA is so stupid. Doesn't help that they have utility that doesn't give a fuck about GHG emissions.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
it is an either/or proposition if the EV business, to the extent it exists right now, is intentionally (and successfully) doing political and practical harm to harming urban mass transit efforts in southern california.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
typos, but you get my point (which, for the avoidance of doubt, is that this guy a bad)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
cars are bad throw them all into outer space
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
everything this guy does from when he wakes up to when he goes to bed harms that goal
Tesla's customers are among the least likely to embrace public mass transportation for their own use, whether Tesla existed or not.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
LA metro is an exceedingly dysfunctional organization, but i'm not sure that has to do with LADWP
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
LADWP is just the worst, they are deliberately dragging their feet on solar storage permits as well
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
to be absolutely clear, the issue with musk vs. mass transit is not people buying teslas, whether or not they would have otherwise taken transit ---- it's elon musk launching cockamamie faux-transit boondoggles that drain resources, energy, and attention away from projects that would actually transport large numbers of people reliably.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
I am positive you're right about the cockamamie part. As to whether any of these boondoggles have actually drained any significant resources in their direction I am skeptical.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
I was just complaining about LADWP in general, they are a terrible utility. idk what their relationship to LA Metro is, but other utilities (and public utilities, like SMUD) are way more aggressive with figuring out how to incentivize activities, including those in the transportation sector, to reduce emissions. how that ties in specifically with mass transit can vary, but I know there are programs, that hand out cash to transit agencies to convert their fleets to electric buses or install EV charging stations in their parking lots, for example.
xxp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
As to whether any of these boondoggles have actually drained any significant resources in their direction I am skeptical.
the LA Metro-approved thing hasn't yet, but if they start handing money to Musk then that's a different story
the drain is hard to measure in most cases. imo we'd have to count e.g. newspaper page space and city council meeting time devoted to considering his transit-sabotaging nonsense instead of getting down to brass tacks on schemes that would actually transport large numbers of people (and take large numbers of cars off the road) and that'd be hard to quantify. but we don't really have to delve that deep: chicago has selected his stupid company to build and operate a line to the airport! please see this article for a quick breakdown of the boondoggle.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
It is vital that everyone keep saying cockamamie and boondoggle
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
American Things.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
the main problem i have with tesla is their negative influence on mass transit. it's not just the boondoggles, or god help us actual subsidies (yet). it's that SCAG is making regional planning decisions with significant input from a car manufacturer (one that makes cars that are incrementally, not qualitatively better for the atmosphere, and are no better for the urban environment).
also, i'm realistic about the likelihood of this happening in the US, but there are places in the world where people who can afford (and actually own!) teslas also ride the bus. yes, tesla owners are not the first people you'll see on the current US mass transit system if they made it more reliable. but the reasons why mass transit does effectively serve the wealthy (and politically influential) in this country are more political than practical.
LADWP doesn't have a relationship with LA metro that i know of.
btw i feel like there's an implicit thing here that LA is a dysfunctional basket case and the rest of the united states doesn't need to worry about it, or that it's not predictive of what could happen elsewhere. 1. the socal metro is 20m people and a lot of people are moving there. 2. it's not *that* badly run. like at least they build housing.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
arglebargle also acceptable
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
(one that makes cars that are incrementally, not qualitatively better for the atmosphere, and are no better for the urban environment).
see, whether or not they are better qualitatively for the atmosphere depends on where they're drawing their power from on the grid. An EV in Alameda, which is served 100% by renewable power, is definitely reducing emissions, because that's one less car burning gas. But an EV in LA, drawing power from LADWP's bizarre ass mix of out-of-state coal and natural gas and god knows what else, is actually probably *worse* than a gas-powered car.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
you probably know this
there is also the impact of pursuing policy that envisions a car-oriented urban environment, which A) facilitates the daily use of countless gas-powered vehicles that massively outnumber any electric cars on the road and B) is massively more carbon-intensive just on the sheer quantities of asphalt and concrete involved, even if the cars were all yanked from the road.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
right, LADWP is bad news, and southern california is in many ways an ecological superfund.
which makes the fact that musk concentrates his efforts here even worse!!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
So you guys are blaming Musk for bad public transportation and coal-burning power plants? You know he runs a solar company, right?
I should probably just keep my mouth shut. He is obviously a jerk with a messiah complex - I get it. But, to me, he still seems like he's trying to change the world in a good way. I don't agree with a lot of things he's done (union-busting, starting dumb-ass fights on twitter, being, by all accounts, a total jerk boss), but I'm still happy that he's making things like electric cars and solar roofing and order-of-magnitude-cheaper rocket launches happen.
― DJI, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
"runs"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/06/22/teslas-constant-turmoil-cant-hide-the-fact-that-solarcity-is-dying/
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Solar City itself was nothing more than a tax scam, maxing out customer roofs with extra panels they didn't need so the company could rake in that tax credit cash.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
and the roofing is a scam too, total vaporware
the fact that he has spent some of his mostly accidental fortune on green tech is just him grabbing onto a trend and trying to capitalize ahead of the rest of the market incumbents. It has absolutely nothing to do with him giving a shit about other people or the world.
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
yeah SolarCity is a disaster due to mismanagement/overextension (sound familiar?)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
So you guys are blaming Musk for bad public transportation and coal-burning power plants?
i guess i'm blaming capitalism for creating incentives to make a shitty situation worse.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I predict there will be a zipline from the top of the Sears Tower to Midway before there is a $25 hyperloop from the city to O'Hare.
All this dummy does is talk about hypothetical tunnels and tunneling.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Tunnels not his strong point. And mini submarines.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
we are trapped inside Cars 2
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Lightning McQueen is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
the pistachio ice cream was wasabi paste and we ate it up
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
― sleeve, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:05 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yuup does not actually exist, wed all be better off if the tech media only covered irl products not press releases
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
e.g. just today. pretty generous of the press to call this a "production vehicle".
this is literally an empty body shell. there's not even a working prototype of this thing yet and people are sharing spec sheets https://t.co/o3NLCPPdR8— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) September 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:31 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:34 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really great 1-2 here
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
windshield sunglasses area: 10,000 sq. inches
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
my 6 year old cousin has this cool toy where you launch cars through a loop-de-loop and into a garage and all the cars look exactly like that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
hey man, as long as it's a loop.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
relatedly
Pleased my headline/image combo got through pic.twitter.com/T654peazLk— christhebarker (@christhebarker) September 4, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
epic burn
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
scream that headline while holding a thin slice of whole foods deli ham up to the store lights imo
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 1:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
100%
Elon Musk's snake oil being sold so well is an indictment of tech journalism's inability to go beyond 'woah gadgets' and engage with the real world. Not that the real world did better, I remember he was on the Late Show with Colbert's and he talked about nuking the poles of Mars to make it habitable and people were like 'woooh genius' and no one dared asked if it made any sense.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
'the boring company' is a good name, gotta give him that
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
I don’t gotta do shit!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Even that's not original, lots of companies involved in boring are called some variation on Boring Company. My town used to have the Paisley Boring & Grinding Co - which used to amuse us greatly.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
my fave company ever was British Bacon Supplies. They used to have a very old fashioned, generic blue letters on white ad hoarding at the football ground for over a decade. Lots of people used to wonder if they actually existed and would stare at it and mediate on carcinogenic processed meat during dull L1 matches. I nearly shit a kilogram of streaky bacon when I started at a new electrical contractors, and their yard was right next to the by now massively legendary British Bacon Supplies building.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Crosspost to Real England
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
it probably actually belongs on a neo-fascist thread!
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6n6Z4VG.jpg
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
fuck
― crüt, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
as a child, I loved bacon. As an adult, my stance is that bacon is kind of bad.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
tastes pretty good, smells amazing cooking IMHO
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
you know what's even better than bacon, though
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
kfc double downing on your libel
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
(xp) Yes, black pudding.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Software update issue with the Model S today. Car is immobile at the moment. Tesla tech support and roadside assistance have been very helpful - we’re hoping to avoid the tow by forcing a new update to the car. pic.twitter.com/DSverfOkGE— Ryan Negri (@RyanNegri) September 5, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0RzNKmbLk
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
tesla bringing whole new meanings to the shopworn phrase "car crash"
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
he's doing a radio interview right now where he claims "I didn't see any other ideas for improving the traffic [in LA]."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
Like these mysterious things called trains, trams and light rail?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 September 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/StiHKiuMtG— Watergate Speedrun - 0.5X A Presses (Commentated) (@surfbordt) September 7, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
Live now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
Lmao at every second of this
― Post Alone (latebloomer), Friday, 7 September 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
#420 #blazeit #muskonskunk
Elon Musk’s campaign to persuade investors he is out of his mind continued late Thursday night when he took a hit off a joint during a live podcast https://t.co/IxdUYK4HGn— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 7, 2018
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
Pre-market shares down 5%.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 7 September 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
moaning that you work so hard you never see your kids then hanging out with joe rogan for 3 hours
― devvvine, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
god can you imagine spending time with five little elon musks? i'd be choosing to get high af with joe rogan too, it's maybe the best decision musk has made in months
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
oh god, there's such a specific awkwardness to this
― devvvine, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
not enough abt elon's impressively evil dad in this thread
― mark s, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
oh i suppose you think he's evil just because he was an apartheid-era south african property magnate who dabbled in the diamond industry and, at 72, fathered a child with his 30-year-old stepdaughter, do you
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
who's the real sick man in this so called society
― devvvine, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: *TESLA SHARES EXTEND LOSSES TO FALL 10%; BIGGEST LOSS IN 2 YEARS https://t.co/lTUIJkAgWZ— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 7, 2018
https://i.imgur.com/4xMgwkD.png
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
blessed thread
works with anything pic.twitter.com/IYNk7uQS5z— meth lab for cutie (@AliceAvizandum) September 7, 2018
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
I've got a good friend who isn't allowed to invest in Tesla who nonetheless was going on and on about visionary this and steve jobs and amazon that and tesla's going to be a 25000 stock and the future and whatever. It all made me wish even more for this whole endeavor to fail just for me to be able to tease him for drinking the electric kool aid.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
lmfao u have to inhale it genius
Musk subsequently said that he rarely smokes weed and it doesn’t affect him much. It is certainly the case that he sounded just as high before he smoked as he does now. pic.twitter.com/fWEoYu0OCZ— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) September 7, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
wait was he wearing an occupy shirt lmao
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
“Occupy Mars”
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
He can have it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
he can take joe rogan while he's at it
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
if this culminates in Elon Musk dying alone on Mars it will all be worth it
― crüt, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
i'll say one thing for this guy, his hair plugs look great
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
Impressive that, while this sort of stunt would make many plutocrats seem more likable, it does nothing for Musk.
― mick signals, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk's new revolutionary, radical hyper loop hair plug technology.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
it's gonna take more than puffing on granny's glaucoma medicine to turn this ship around
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
http://imgur.com/tTlrXljl.png
― mick signals, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmfGx94WsAUqgBg.jpg
guys what if the hyperloop is just
like
one giant bong
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmfGx-AW4AIN4xK.jpg
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
Elsewhere, Tesla’s chief accounting officer is quitting after a month on the job, which is fine, it’s fine, don’t worry about it, it’s totally normal and fine:Dave stated: “Since I joined Tesla on August 6th, the level of public attention placed on the company, as well as the pace within the company, have exceeded my expectations. As a result, this caused me to reconsider my future. I want to be clear that I believe strongly in Tesla, its mission, and its future prospects, and I have no disagreements with Tesla’s leadership or its financial reporting.”
Dave stated: “Since I joined Tesla on August 6th, the level of public attention placed on the company, as well as the pace within the company, have exceeded my expectations. As a result, this caused me to reconsider my future. I want to be clear that I believe strongly in Tesla, its mission, and its future prospects, and I have no disagreements with Tesla’s leadership or its financial reporting.”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
http://blogs.thepoconos.com/pop-rox/files/2012/04/Andrew-Dice-Clay-at-TAO-red-carpe-570t.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmgCtqlWwAAibeT.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
He looks like some disgruntled shock jock.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
He's right about the Guardian at least.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
that pic of him toking is gonna be a very good meme
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
agreed, curious as to what karl could do with it (this isn't a formal request karl)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
oh, i've already been working on it
i'm doing some really lazy though
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
perhaps there is some reason he WANTS the stock to tank
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
A brewster's bilions situation
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Maybe so that he can build a hyper loop tunnel to rescue it?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
he's not gonna be able to get it to 420 but 69 is still in play
― frogbs, Friday, 7 September 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
looooooool
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
so is $4.20
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
didnt he want to buy the company and make it private? I am uneducated on such things but it seems like if you want to buy somethign its good to make the price be low some how
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
there maybe be some legalities there
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
He's going to hyper loop out of there so fast the feds will never catch him. Though it might raise some red flags when he suggests a tunnel from Palo Alto to Fiji.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Apple buys Elon and saves him
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Tesla Stan’s watched a completely diffferent interview to everyone else.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/07/elon-on-joe-rogan-a-tesla-is-not-really-a-car-its-actually-a-thing-to-maximize-enjoyment/
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah I caught a bit of the live broadcast last night when he was talking about that, “maximizing enjoyment.” He says there’s an Easter egg in the Teslas that makes them play music and “dance.” Fucking moronic, just make a good car christ.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
I mean he's kind of got a point, people aren't buying Teslas because they wanna get to point A to point B
― frogbs, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
Maybe not now, but he’s talking about a future where most ppl drive electric cars (and preferably Teslas). He went into the whole tunnel idea and everything. He realizes that they won’t be a super luxury item forever.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
By the way, dude has the most fucked up robotic Wiseauian laugh. “HAH-HAH-HAH.” that’s when I tuned out
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
I missed the blunt smoking last night. Why is that the big thing the media is running with? Marijuana is legal in California.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
It may be legal, but turning up to work high is probably not the best idea for he CEO of a multi-billion dollar company whose judgement and leadership style is already severely questionable.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
yeah it's not exactly gonna reassure the stockholders who have had a rough week already
― sleeve, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
shareholders? IDGAF
how much has the US government given this guy and what have we gotten in return exactly
― frogbs, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
$4.9 billion as of 2015, but hey we've had some good laughs
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
― sleeve, Friday, 7 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
he said weed didnt affect him then he didnt inhale lmfbo he doesnt know how to smoke thats some shit a 12 y/o wld do
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 7 September 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
instead of a partial vacuum underground, sounds like he needs a partial vacuum in HIS LUNGS... to get high
― brownie, Friday, 7 September 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 7 September 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
but don't all these guys brag about microdosing LSD at work? and then go to Burning Man and macrodose??
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
he has to have security clearance in order for spacex to maintain its relationship with the USAF etc.
New – Statement from the @usairforce to @CNBC on the branch looking into Elon Musk's pot smoking:"We will need time to determine the facts and the appropriate process to handle the situation." https://t.co/57cjiE6tJo— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) September 7, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 September 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
yesterday was such a failure that i ended up working on a dumb morph for an hour before realizing there was video footage of him smoking it, and i didn't have to recreate what it would have looked like based upon two still images posted on a thread. so here is an alternative look at what that scene might have looked like in a world that isn't our own
https://i.imgur.com/veEwo1i.gif
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
lol that's so much better and deserves to become the standard meme underlay for use of this incident imho
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
you mighty morphing musk imager
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
actually, wait a second, i legit fixed it. hold on
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
That thing his thumb done is incredible! Bravo!
― Frederik B, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
thanks!
adding a slight zoom helps things a bit, i think
https://i.imgur.com/GaOhhwm.gif
then there's this smiling version which is kind of idiotic but fun
https://i.imgur.com/ZUXBsCS.gif
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
the first one with the zoom is incredible
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
yes, thank you for your service
― sleeve, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
yeah, i think that's my fave as well. it really captures his spirit
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
a new high for KM
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
thread delivers
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
In ultra progressive California you can smoke weed but there’s no indoor smoking ban in workplaces?
― the article don, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
karl u are a hero
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah! All three of these are incredible.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
I'm high AF right now and just stumbled on those morphs above and jesus christ
― akm, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
lolYou all should just download a morphing program. They’re easy to use. You’ll be morphing all night!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
it's like, his smile is a puff of smoke that he pulllllls out of his face, taffy-like
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
The interview itself is really good! Rogan is a dope but EM goes into trance mode when asked about the future
― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
Dudes just listen to the Audio. The visual is frankly unnecessary
― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
is A.I. actually a serious threat or does he just love the drama?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
i'd literally rather die than use his neuralink software and merge my brain with a machine. not that i think his software will actually work. the interview annoyed me but maybe i just hate the future.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
xpost all of these people seem to think so, but every single of them are dumb and wrong, according to most people i talk to
https://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_on_Artificial_Intelligence
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
*puffs*
― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
every single of them, you heard it here
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
yeah I mean I'm not a scientist but what he said about tunnels was convincing.
A+ work Karl let's make that shit go viral
― flappy bird, Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
i posted it on imgur and it received a negative score, i posted it on reddit and 40% of the thread downvoted it. i have learned enough to know that the rest of the internet is not ilx, but i have not learned enough to stop trying
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
twitter
― flappy bird, Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
Wow I really hope this dingus loses his security clearance
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
bit harsh on karl just for getting downvotes tbh
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 September 2018 07:09 (five years ago) link
Those images have been giving me life in the last couple of days. Best meme since Croatian fascist takes cyanide at his trial. We'll done Elon (and KM!)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 September 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
HACKERS CAN STEAL A TESLA MODEL S IN SECONDS BY CLONING ITS KEY FOB https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-steal-tesla-model-s-seconds-key-fob
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 10 September 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Telsa announces the creation in real life of KITT
(Knight Industries Two Thousand)
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 10 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
is he fired yet
― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, 10 September 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
ive fired him effective immediately
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 10 September 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
He will fire himself but after a long discussion with himself, come crawling back to himself and beg for his job back
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 10 September 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Yes, I wonder if he will go on a killing spree. Yes, I track his flights. Yes, I have spoken to some of his overnight friends. Yes, he was out of control at Burning Man. Yes, you should ask @AZEALIABANKSNYC for a quote. Buy some soap first though.— Enty (@entylawyer) September 10, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 10 September 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
enty admitted to fabricating his stories, I'd believe Elon over him
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
well, s/admitted/was proven to have, but nevertheless
https://nypost.com/2012/04/01/how-crazy-days-and-nights-fooled-hollywood/
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 September 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
he had some good stories too tho before ~the msm~
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
ELon once ate with Max Tegmark, that crazy Swede! that must have been one funky night
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
a have a friend that listened to the whole interview and is now bemoaning that the "so-called news" is only talking about him smoking a blunt and not all his musings on robotics and AI and giant tunnels and all the other things he is constantly and publicly talking about
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
he's not exactly a modern day tesla more like the Bill Gates of electric cars
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
he's clive sinclair without the common decency to even produce a zx spectrum
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
elon musk test drives the new tesla c5
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-KzxRgmmC1ks%2FTlOiFMLp06I%2FAAAAAAAAB14%2F6NPuVPUbRkw%2Fs1600%2Fsovibrant%2Bsinclair%2Bc5_2.jpg&f=1
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
and clive sinlcair was man enough to embrace his baldness
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
shakey is there a thread where we talk about this?
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/8/31/17799094/california-100-percent-clean-energy-target-brown-de-leon
(also i want de leon to run for LA mayor when he loses to feinstein)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
The Energy Thread
probably best one
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
sometimes I wonder if the electricity used to power electric cars is dirty anyway what is the clean ness there
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-efficient-a-power-plant-providing-electricity-for-electric-cars-or-gasoline-powered-cars
― DJI, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:08 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The first 100+ comments on the YouTube video itself are basically this. He's not a total idiot, but fuck he's got so many red flags and a clear propensity for childish distractions. What he said about AI and robotics was nothing new.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
I don't understand how people accept that the technology necessary to simulate their human experience many times over is a given or that it would only not happen if the world abruptly ended in the near future.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
step 1 of his simulation theory fun -- imagine any rate of improvement in computing power, gaming, etc., already seems so naive. why would you assume this shit won't roll off? but maybe I'm missing something.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
and he describes the neuralink stuff as solving a bandwidth issue at the link between your mind's queries and the internet. but it seems like the speed at which my dumb brain can generate these queries will remain as a serious bottleneck? neuralink will disrupt mavis beacon typing instruction software!
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:12 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bill gates was a business genius, musk seems like more of a startup guy + good at media
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
gates obvs more technical than musk too
'gates' also a more technical term than 'musk'
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: Tesla's VP of Worldwide Finance, Justin McAnear, is leaving the company https://t.co/TGNPdho6Ha pic.twitter.com/jXw7oyHUYb— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) September 12, 2018
Tesla's biggest institutional investor says Elon Musk needs psychological helphttps://t.co/lMV9gmgjhL— Adam Pasick (@Adampasick) September 12, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/cosmostheinlost/files/2016/02/14758364689_bec87da428_k-1.jpg
― every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
things are going great!!!!
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
I would have Musk pegged as a Timbuk 3 fan, their hit does seem to represent his outlook on the world
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/hjo6ykhn0tl11.jpg
does this mean what I think it does
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Wait, so Teslas are usually being ... throttled?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
ha, exactly
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
its like that thing they do with video games now where all the content is on the disc but you have to pay an extra $15 to unlock some of it
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
'throttling' applies to changing or limiting a rate and not to changing or limiting capacity
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
tesla: the ea of car manufacturers
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
I don't know. there could be warrantied maintenance implications tied to the amount you're allowed to discharge the battery.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
xp fitting tbh. he said in the Rogan interview that they've just installed an Atari emulator in the latest Tesla. god this guy is so LAME
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
xp that's a good point, they could just be suspending the warranty for charge/discharge greater than the maximum in the specs
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
"warranty penalty", sorry
another thing: 'throttling' was really only an issue in that it would favor large internet businesses over the smaller guys with less money. There's always been throttling of internet speeds for the customer based on what that customer would pay.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
GET OFF THE GANJA ELON!!YOU WRECKIN YOR MIND
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
just gonna FP your garbage posts from now on, knock it off
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
what is FP
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
and I also don't see a problem with charging someone to unlock content that's already on the disc. The game company had to invest some resources to make the non-essential content, and they need to figure out a way to make money on that investment. Otherwise there'd just be less content. You can argue that greed makes them lock more content than they should, but the very idea of not having access to all of the content on a blu-ray you purchased isn't so outrageous. Obviously, it'd be outrageous if you had to buy the additional content to make your original base purchase worthwhile at all. But usually the consumer outrage is based on just wanting everything.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Oh "flag post" - jeez osrry dude! didn't realize you were taking offinese here :(
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
'throttling' applies to changing or limiting a rate and not to changing or limiting capacity― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:41 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:41 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes but "free supercharging" -- does this also mean they throttle the speed of electricity transfer? what is this insane world
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
supercharging is just what happens when you charge at one of those tesla-specific charging stations instead of via a normal outlet. It is faster, but it's faster because the charging hardware is different.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
so I think they're just saying you get free electricity at their charging stations, which are always faster charging than an outlet
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
so it's like that other kind of dlc where you pay $5 for the cheat codes
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
no, it's not. it's a real hardware difference.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
but you pay for it, right? and it lets you access a better power-up than you would have if you did not pay?
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
it's not a power up. the car needs electrical energy to run. you need to pull that energy out of the grid somehow. and there are real limitations to what you can conceivably do at most homes. Tesla has "supercharging" stations in public places where you can pay to charge with the larger, more expensive hardware that is required without needing to buy, permit, and install your own.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
What about the additional battery capacity component?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
I don't know. there could be warrantied maintenance implications tied to the amount you're allowed to discharge the battery.― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:44 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkxp that's a good point, they could just be suspending the warranty for charge/discharge greater than the maximum in the specs― sleeve, Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"warranty penalty", sorry― sleeve, Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:44 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know for sure, but it isn't a given that it's based entirely in arbitrary greed.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
they might have qual and/or failure analysis data that suggests allowing X deeper discharge will cost them Y in warranty repairs. So they could just be covering the calculated cost of this. ant this is also probably about marketing on some level. some other big player could have similar batteries, but claim better engineering based on that one spec (while taking the higher failure rate hit). By having a higher the option at a higher cost, they can win or compete in spec battles while also discouraging widespread adoption of something that will cause more failures and ultimately be a bit more wasteful.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
What about the additional battery capacity component?― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 September 2018 6:27 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 September 2018 6:27 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Could mean one or other if these
Tesla’s come in a variety of different battery capacity options, think fuel tank sizes. The actual battery’s (cells) aren’t that expensive so somewhere along the way they just started shipping out cars with the full pack, because standardised manufacturing it cheaper, but the customer only gets what they pay for. Tesla can Flick a switch and can upgrade your car.
Alternatively they are extending the depth of discharge. Typically if you want a long lived lithium ion battery you want to use the middle of the charging range, typically not using he top 5% and bottom 10-20%. It’s not that bad to go out of that range a few times so an easy win for tesla to enable this. A few cars will end up not being able to start next day and it may cost a battery pack if a car sits and the bottom of the state of charge range.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
it's not a power up. the car needs electrical energy to run. you need to pull that energy out of the grid somehow. and there are real limitations to what you can conceivably do at most homes. Tesla has "supercharging" stations in public places where you can pay to charge with the larger, more expensive hardware that is required without needing to buy, permit, and install your own.― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:26 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:26 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I... I'm comparing it to video game cheat codes. I know how real life works.
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
you compared two things, I think, to justify reaching a similar conclusion about the two things. I was pointing how the comparison wasn't good, and you shouldn't reach the same conclusion.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
i.e. supercharging, unlike a benefit from a game code, is not built into the already owned hardware. it requires additional hardware.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
goddamn my guy the only conclusion i was trying to reach was a good goof based on a good goof upthread
plus if it were a video game the superchargers would be built into the game's code obviously and access would only be available via dlc unlock but that's beside the point
the point is, tesla is for cardorks with money and i have neither means nor a drivers license so i will take every opportunity to clown this company named after a famous misogynist mustache boy genius
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
The difference in different Tesla levels is the software that unlocks performance - they don't have different motors or anything. If you buy the 70 you get X performance vs the 85 or the whatever number comes next. It's like all Dodges coming with the Hellcat motor and they just restrict it to 4 cylinders all the time if you buy the base level.
Owners know that going in, though, TBF.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Even the battery performance is DLC:https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cuts-price-model-s-60-75-kwh-battery-upgrade-2000/
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
feels like we're talking about two separate things here
the supercharging thing, I think the idea is that you have to pay some amount of $$$ to supercharge the car at one of those little Tesla charging stations. turning that from a paid to a free service is no big deal since I assume Tesla fronts the cost of that power
the battery thing is something else, what I'm gathering here is that all the models have the 75 kWH battery, but if you didn't get the "upgrade" package then only 60 kWH of this is "unlocked", and the rest can be activated at a whim from Tesla HQ
like Ed said there may be some reasoning behind this. correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a car with a "13 gallon tank" actually more like 13.5 for this very reason? that said it still feels ultra shady and I'm not exactly giving these guys the benefit of the doubt right now
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
Next step: a micro-transaction every time you use your blinkers (the bougie pigs who drive Teslas won't have to worry about this)
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
we are talking about two separate things here but they're both included in that Tesla message - they're temporarily unlocking the battery upgrade and giving you free 'gas'
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
actually I guess that is bogus b/c if they're trying to "protect" the battery on the 60 kWH models then they aren't doing it on the 75 kWH ones
given the quality of their software I wonder how long until some kid figures out how to root the thing and just unlock the max performance/battery mode. for example with the Nintendo Wii someone figured out real quickly how to get all the Virtual Console games for free and I knew people who would charge $20 to do it for you
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
The supercharging limit is mentioned in the firmware revelations twitter thread linked above that maybe only I read.
pic.twitter.com/jCw9KkynSo— ato̧̕m̀͡i̴̷̛c̨͝t͝҉͡h̷҉u̵̶m͜͞b͏͝s̀́ (@atomicthumbs) August 24, 2018
― mick signals, Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
plus if it were a video game the superchargers would be built into the game's code obviously and access would only be available via dlc unlock but that's beside the pointthe point is, tesla is for cardorks with money and i have neither means nor a drivers license so i will take every opportunity to clown this company named after a famous misogynist mustache boy genius― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:22 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:22 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this thread already has some great stuff in it. the 'good goofs' just make the thread feel too decadent overall. can a mod please lock the 'good goofs' behind a paywall? noticed some 'good goofs' over on the US politics thread as well, if you're not too busy.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
eh, I am being a dick. and I get why the politics threads are the way they are. I just wonder if we can't clown elon more coherently. maybe focus on the way he hurts the environment instead of stoking misguided consumer outrage that only harms rich tesla owners, anyway. too much ilx today. bye \Morbs
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Do not tell me to focus. I will never focus. ilxor dot com. i live for this
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Semper Post, Will M!
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:40 AM
Simpler times...
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8bbfo2/all_it_takes_to_total_a_100000_car_is_a_little/
jfc
so, long story short, a Tesla gets into a minor fender bender, owner finds out that it's not just structural damage but part of the chassis made by aluminum. Tesla does not sell a replacement part, meaning the car is effectively totaled. just lol @ this dumb company
― frogbs, Monday, 17 September 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
NEW: A British diver who was part of the Thailand cave rescue is officially suing Elon Musk for calling him a pedophile https://t.co/tMEcoCPdWO— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) September 17, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 17 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
This is the final paragraph in the section titled: "Musk's False and Defamatory Accusations" pic.twitter.com/seTVWG4C8i— kadhim (^ー^)ノ (@kadhimshubber) September 17, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 17 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Who he?― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:40 AMSimpler times...― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:13 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:13 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Indeed, kinda weird to see that every time I open this thread.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Monday, 17 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
"i fucking hope he sues me"
"notice he hasnt sued me yet"
gets sued
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 17 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
can't help but think of this
https://i.redditmedia.com/lqiMsIwmx4WrS1lwWQElOUGvp3-VeEJX5Hj1emmu4gk.jpg?w=1024&s=c0725013f4b3bab4d243846f6a1d8a53
― frogbs, Monday, 17 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
lol yes
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 17 September 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
So he's sueing him for £57,000?!?!? WTF?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
is there some kind of SpaceX press conference going on? part of my FB feed is drooling all over the guy again :(
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
a plane full of billionaires exploding will truly be one of the greatest stories ever told
SpaceX says Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be first private passenger on a solo rocket trip around the moon. https://t.co/hI4IPMXGeI— The Associated Press (@AP) September 18, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gylpqoC.png
― crüt, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
pedo guy shouldda stupped up. £57,000?!?!?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
~musk reads
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
is this one of those situations where you sue for costs and the judge adds punitive damages?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
muskreads.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
Hate to say The Simpsons did it first, but this whole thing makes me think of "The letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket (codenamed Exodus) is being populated with humanity's "best and brightest", and will be launched in order to preserve human civilization on Mars."
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
(the rocket to the moon thing, obv)
omg trayce
― crüt, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
xp except we all end up on the rocket with Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell, Newt Gingrich etc.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
god i would pay so much money to see newt gingrich die on the moon
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link
he would pop nicely
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
DOJ seems like a bigger deal than SEC?
BREAKING: Bloomberg News has learned Tesla is under investigation by the DOJ over public statements made by the company and CEO Elon Musk last month on taking Tesla private, according to two people familiar with the matter.— David Meyers (@davidfmeyers) September 18, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
def
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
has anyone seen Grimes in the last few weeks
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
On the moon already?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
dead from shame iirc
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Buried on the moon.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
For real though I can't remember where I saw it but it was some insanely detailed conspiracy theory that Elon is holding Grimes hostage or has already killed her or something. This is based solely on her absence from social media, which tbh is a bit strange, since she's become a public figure she's never taken a break from communicating with fans for this long. but good fuck that doesn't mean she's dead
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
or does it
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
it only took about 3 weeks to make a functional Melania clone
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.valuewalk.com/2014/11/tesla-elon-musk-compared-neo-matrix/
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
in that he's wooden and unconvincing, yes
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
omg traycelol i’m glad someone got it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2018/09/threshold-of-pain-theory-and-tesla.html
Kind of funny really how the whole appeal of Tesla is "electric car!" but electric cars have been around since 1890
https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
oh is that the whole appeal
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
well, also the sexiness
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 September 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
Nothing sexier than a wood-burning car:
https://assets.goodstatic.com/s3/magazine/assets/557703/original/18n4xo91e8q35jpg.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 21 September 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
nothing sexier than a cruck!
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 September 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
latham green i think you are elon musk
― mark s, Friday, 21 September 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
all signs point to it
― mark s, Friday, 21 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
the ute is on fire
― Dan I., Friday, 21 September 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
He's only a simlation
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Back when I got to Melbourne, and before I started working with Mr Musks products, someone tried to convince me to join a startup dedicated to reviving the tech behind this 1963 steam powered ford falcon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJq2Hc_mXFI
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 22 September 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
i am just saying (me yesterday, bloomberg today) pic.twitter.com/iH9tmjqg43— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) September 27, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
a further response to the "but he makes solar panels!" defense offered upthread:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/yelp-reviews-teslas-residential-solar-business-and-its-not-pretty
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
woww
MORE: SEC seeks to bar Musk as officer or director of a public company pic.twitter.com/rkZBtcgEdV— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 27, 2018
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
hahahaha
this guy can't crash and burn fast enough
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
A banker friend of mine was going hard for this guy a few weeks ago. I told him I thought he was the next DeLorean. So when they get around to rebooting Back to the Future ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
hell have more time to extremely publicly dedicate himself to being as cool as joe rogan
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoIKkauWkAAGj-L.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
p funny tbh
― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45672813 I have no idea what any of this means...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 27 September 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
I think it means that we have actual cosmic proof of LSD use revealing our true self.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 September 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
hell prob be happier as a podcast host anyway
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
is it against the law to be zany and carefree?
― rip van wanko, Friday, 28 September 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
if your company is on the stock market, yes, it is.
― StanM, Friday, 28 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
grimes should just release her new album as an exhibit in the discovery phase of Musk's trial.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 28 September 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
"your honor, i enter exhibit 16 into the record, this earworm with witchhouse production under a buoyant pop melody, 'IPO'"
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 28 September 2018 09:20 (five years ago) link
lmao assuming Grimes is still alive
― frogbs, Friday, 28 September 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
clown is goin down
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45696150
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
$40million for a tweet, fair enough but who got even half as busted for anything leading up to the great crash?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
he remains as CEO
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
the only bad publicity is bankrupcty
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
well get there
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
lol matt levine
Musk will purchase $20 million worth of the company’s stock in the next trading opportunity, according to a person familiar with his plans. He’s Tesla’s largest shareholder, with a 20 percent stake.Musk is paying the SEC a $20 million fine. Tesla is also paying the SEC a $20 million fine. Is what is happening here that Musk feels responsible for Tesla’s $20 million fine, so he’s making it up to Tesla by buying some stock? But he’s not buying it from Tesla? He’s just going out into the stock market and buying some Tesla stock? Does he … think that … if he does that … Tesla gets the money? I feel like the implied message here is “Elon Musk doesn’t really ‘get’ corporate finance, so cut him some slack for tweeting weird stuff about ‘going private.’”
Musk is paying the SEC a $20 million fine. Tesla is also paying the SEC a $20 million fine. Is what is happening here that Musk feels responsible for Tesla’s $20 million fine, so he’s making it up to Tesla by buying some stock? But he’s not buying it from Tesla? He’s just going out into the stock market and buying some Tesla stock? Does he … think that … if he does that … Tesla gets the money? I feel like the implied message here is “Elon Musk doesn’t really ‘get’ corporate finance, so cut him some slack for tweeting weird stuff about ‘going private.’”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 October 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Is it all a cunning plan? Act weird and stupid to devalue stock, buy an extra bunch when price is low, then act smart for a while so value rises... bingo, jackpot!
(nb. I don't 'get' corporate finance.)
― brain (krakow), Monday, 1 October 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
I would be very amused if the SEC came back and did him for insider trading.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
It was all tweeting while intoxicated - twitter shoudl have a bulit i nsensor for alcohol and stop you from drunk tweeting
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
stupidest timeline klaxon:
TIL (via @inthesedeserts and the latest @trashfuturepod ep) that Elon Musk made his first million by selling his Korn fansite to Korn's then manager, because he discovered that the bassist was ripping off the bass riff from Seinfeld https://t.co/FI7xkjDLHa— hussein kesvani (@HKesvani) October 3, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
holy fs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
possibly fake news tbf but I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
selling a korn fansite with sweet bass tabs for a million dollars is maybe the most dotcom boom era thing i have ever heard in my entire life
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
it has to be real, it's on me.me
its real everyone knows
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
that's what i heard
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
nothing is true, everything is permitted
especially elon musk's extremely real korn bass tabs site
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
ELON MUSK IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. THEY CAN'T BREAK HIS CODE OF ENERGY. THAT IS WHAT HE'S TALKIN'ABOUT.
... no, hold on, that was Papa Roach not Korn.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
I've never been to me.me
― brownie, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
meATme.com is my email address if u have elon musp tips plz send them full confidentiality provided
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
― | (Latham Green)
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
everyone shd be fined $20m every time they tweet
ps support my gofundme i have to raise $830 billion
― mark s, Thursday, 4 October 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Musk has started mocking the US securities and exchange commission (days after he was fined millions by them) and not even the die hard supporters are on board for this spiral into defiance pic.twitter.com/rjR3Jy0mjd— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) October 4, 2018
― Number None, Thursday, 4 October 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
trying to imagine being the kind of person who loves a company so much they shove their "life savings" into a single stock
upsetting!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 4 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Of course this is the first response:
The stock was at the exact same price 5 days ago. It’s unstable because of shorts and constant manipulation campaigns. That said, buy in the dip because taunts or not, TSLA will still be a trillion valuation in 11 years according to analysts.— uɐpʇou@ ✸ (@notdan) October 4, 2018
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 4 October 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
I do love how these flamethrower-totin' free-marketeers get all in a huff about the existence of short positions
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 4 October 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
according to analysts, don't buy futures or options with your life savings
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 October 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23508636/defense-of-elon-musk
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DppvLxUWkAgTXsX.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
holy shit bruce wayne is real?????
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
Tony Stark does not care about solving important problems wtf
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
if you don’t think defeating ultron is an important problem i dunno what to tell you buddy
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0
― Number None, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
my tweets are way worse than elon musk's but do i ever come under attack? no i do not, it's a rich man's world yes it is yes it is
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
ultron was a problem of his own making iirc? so that's more like just cleaning up after yourself
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
if i accidentally set my curtains on fire, stopping my house from burning down is still an important problem no matter the source of the flames
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
some would say the most urgent problem facing us today
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
thisisfine.jpg
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
that doesn't make you a hero, it makes you an idiot
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
An idiot hero
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
smokey bear collier
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
lmao Palmer Luckey is the VR chud who maxed out a donation to literal white supremacist Steve King
who wants to bet that Elon commissioned this piece himself
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
i actually know one of the writers of that piece; fortunately their bit wasn't terrible
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
“If that car was made anywhere else, and Elon wasn’t part of the manufacturing process, they would make a lot of money,”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-17/tearing-apart-teslas-to-find-elon-musk-s-best-and-worst-decisions
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 October 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
Take the steel and aluminum frame at the bottom of the car, a design meant to increase safety. Tesla's battery already sits in the floor and adds stiffness, Munro said, so Tesla made the car heavier and more expensive without getting much benefit.The aluminum trunk well, meanwhile, is made from multiple pieces held together with rivets and weld points instead of one lighter, cheaper fiberglass trunk preferred by other carmakers. The rear wheel well on the Model 3 also features nine pieces of metal riveted, sealed or welded together. The Chevy Bolt? It has one stamped piece of steel.
The aluminum trunk well, meanwhile, is made from multiple pieces held together with rivets and weld points instead of one lighter, cheaper fiberglass trunk preferred by other carmakers. The rear wheel well on the Model 3 also features nine pieces of metal riveted, sealed or welded together. The Chevy Bolt? It has one stamped piece of steel.
haha wow
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
every Tesla is hand-assembled by junior software developers
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
the worst timeline
lmao pic.twitter.com/V80oPmz2xs— diana thirst (@cocksailor) October 23, 2018
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
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― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 November 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
What? Is "Elon Musk" a sloppy anagram for "Nigerian Prince"?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Musk's first idea to fix LA's traffic was double- or triple-decking the 405, which they worked on for awhile but eventually rejected because the off-ramps would get too crowded with cars. 🤔#NLCLA— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) November 9, 2018
So the Mayor of Los Angeles just asked Elon Musk if he thinks cities should really be building high-speed rail anymore.Musk says no, they should not.To a room full of city leaders who are working on high-speed rail projects. #NLCLA— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) November 8, 2018
A good heuristic for understanding why high-speed rail is a workable and practical idea and triple-decker freeways over mountains is that many effective high-speed rail networks exist all over the world and there are zero triple decker freeways over mountains.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) November 9, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 November 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
Also, earthquakes
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Musk wants to sell cars so duh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 November 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
This fuckin' guy
― sleeve, Friday, 9 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
elon musp
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
elon is his own failson something to think abt
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 8, 2018 9:14 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good of mayor garcetti to provide him with a platform
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 November 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
Exclusive: NASA to launch safety review of SpaceX and Boeing after video of Elon Musk smoking pot rankled agency leaders https://t.co/woWjmEoa4C— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 20, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
i'd never have guessed joe rogan would be the one to destroy elon musk but i'm okay with it tbh
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
damn nasa needs to chill and spark a fatty
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
I dunno, Brooklyn has this cool triple-level roadway, created by proto-Musk Robert Moses, and it's never had any problems.
http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_chrisrobbins/92018BQEcantilever.jpg
― mick signals, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
*j/o motion*
Elon Musk’s Boring Company abandons plan for tunnel below Westside. https://t.co/ovqgXI36pw pic.twitter.com/upBHcz6cB3— Curbed LA (@CurbedLA) November 27, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
los angeles's worst citizen vs los angeles's worst citizens. tough to pick a side.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
Real sicka this guy
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk says people "must work at least 80 hours a week to make a difference." But research shows long workweeks aren't just bad for your health — they're also counterproductive pic.twitter.com/ROUB3OemGx— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 27, 2018
he's lost CBS news
― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
what the fuck is wrong with him?
― crüt, Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
he's making a difference what the fuck is wrong with you
― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
how many tunnels are you even digging rn
― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
or even trying to dig
or planning on digging
This guy lived at the end of my street when I was growing up.
He dug a lot of tunnels.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 1 December 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
lol 'i just have a big basement'
― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link
William h gass larper
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 1 December 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
everything went wrong when the moleman died
― mark s, Saturday, 1 December 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
hot new ceo trend: going on tv and bawling over yr bad tweets
https: //twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1071921788035190784
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
link intentionally fucked cuz ilx is giving me poxy fule errors instead of embedding tweets again and i just couldn't wait to share this hot #content with everyone here
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
I saw thatWhat a freak
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
He's still digging that tunnel to Mars, right?
― StanM, Monday, 10 December 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
@TCofHouseMooreWeird flex laughing at one of the most successful human being in the world. One who will never know you even exist. Whatever makes you feel good.
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
elon musk stans are among the worst people on earth, basically
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
it's so creepy every tweet is just these gross people kissing his ass
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
I wanna reply "he's not gonna venmo you dude" to each and every single one of these
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, December 10, 2018 10:19 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
funny thing is laughing at celebrities on twitter is prob the best chance they have at knowing that you exist and are laughing at them
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
As proven by that Dodger Stadium farce, they're all employees. I bet they clip each defense and submit it with their annual review.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
I am not an expert in, like, journalism, but it does seem to me that “look at you” might be the best possible interview question to ask Elon Musk. If Musk is up for it I will happily interview him for Bloomberg and I promise that my questions will consist solely of saying “look at you” repeatedly; I bet it will break a lot of news.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Heh, that's funny.
Elon Musk just seems like such a dope. He's like the human version of those months of hype when they were teasing the Segway, which turned out to be nothing more than an updated version of a Rascal scooter.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
"look at you!" is what Howard Stern always leads with
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
the correct responce is "hiee"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
a well-timed series of air horn blasts always gets the room going
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
the Segway, which turned out to be nothing more than an updated version of a Rascal scooter.
Rascal scooters have 3-5 wheels and are huge. Kamen's self-balancing device still looks p much like witchcraft.
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah but the only people I see using them are tourists and traffic cops, which is a pretty lame use of witchcraft.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
the technology is impressive they look like a total dorkmobile tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
and are basically useless
still makes me laugh that the owner of segway died driving his own product off a cliff
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
the Weekend at Bernie's reboot will have a "Bernie on a segway" scene
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
i was just at the fete des lumieres in lyon and instead of information booths they had people stand totally still on segways with big signs that said INFORMATION attached to their heads.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Lyon? You mean The Future!
I remember the build up to the Segway (aka, It, iirc). Then it's revealed as something that will revolutionize travel from the guy who made a wheelchair that can climb stairs, which is super awesome. And then the Segway comes out, and it's about as awesome as those monkey shoes that show the shape of your toes.
Elon Musk, 99% of what I heard about him is that he wants to build all these hypothetical super-fast hyperloop tunnels or some bullshit. Tunnels to baseball stadiums, to space, to Chicago, to stranded Thai boy scouts. But all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what? As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.
this is otm, they are gonna be outpaced by conventional auto companies *very* quickly
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
its already happened tbh, tesla still has a glow for some ppl which is funny since theyre pretty shitty cars, making cars is very hard
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Yeah and the incumbent automakers also know how to acquire startups just the same as any other enterprise
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
prob tesla will just end up acquired by one of the big boys after losing 90% of its value and then disappear totally after some corporate restructuring down the line
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
I can see a few of Tesla's ideas being legit gamechangers but trying to buck 100 years of auto manufacturing practices in the name of "disruption" is so incredibly stupid that only a galaxy brain like Elon Musk could've come up with it
plus they definitely seem to be committing some sort of obvious accounting fraud. their "profitable" Q3 made no sense whatsoever.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
yeah theres no way they havent done a ton of illegal shit in a number of areas
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk, 99% of what I heard about him is that he wants to build all these hypothetical super-fast hyperloop tunnels or some bullshit. Tunnels to baseball stadiums, to space, to Chicago, to stranded Thai boy scouts. But all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what? As soon as other car companies start mass-producing much more affordable and equally reliable and efficient electric cars, even more than they are now, in a couple of years, Teslas will be about as radical as Bentleys or some other luxury brand.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sometimes good thread will forever be sunk by self-owning posts such as this one
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
afaict all the EV nerds who are not musk fans by the jaguar now?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
like he doesn't even have the luxury market
also looking forward to alleged public "rides" on the hawthorne test boring co thing next week.
Trying to figure out how I self owned. Is it because what I reduced his accomplishments to (spurring others to make electric cars?) can be construed a big deal? Like he's some electric car martyr who paved (har) the way for others?
Anyway, let me know when I can take a Tesla train cross country in an hour or whatever and, if any of us are alive then, I'll concede his genius.
I did hear someone talking on NPR this morning about how limited discussion of self-driving vehicles has been (to sort of change the subject). The most novel idea he offered was a self-driving ambulance with a host of automated diagnostic tools that you could call to your house in an emergency. Stuff like that. But nothing about tunnels, so I assume it was not Musk talking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
you have taken a very "skeptical asshole" posture toward something and then you offered "99% of what (you) heard about" it in a paragraph that was part joking sure but also, I have to assume, a good summary of what you actually know about it.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
all he's done is made luxury electric cars, which are like so fucking what?
SpaceX seems like an interesting company with several very impressive engineering feats to its credit. tbh, I doubt that Elon Musk has had much, if any, direct input on how these were achieved. At most he sets lofty objectives and his employees do the real work.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
they mostly buy scrapped Russian rockets iirc
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
I'll take Virgin Galactic over SpaceX tbh if only because Branson seems like slightly less of an asshole
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
lol no
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
um
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
guys they can both just be assholes ok its not an unpopularity contest
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
so true
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I bring up Branson in part to demonstrate that Musk didn't have any uniquely genius ideas, he had p much the same ideas other billionaires had
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
also VIRGIN GALACTIC just sounds cooler than SpaceX come on
(cues up XTC's "Another Satellite")
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
maybe if your a galactic virgin lol faced
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
coincidentally ive been antagonized by horrible nerds on twitter for the last couple days cause i said going to space is dumb and childish
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Hah
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
It is thoMusk yet to do anything as evil as suing the nhs iirc
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
attempting to undermine public transpo projects in the pursuit of selling lousy cars is pretty bad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
That it is
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
full disclosure: I didn't know about the NHS thing
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
wait is Musk Sir Miles Axlerod or The Underminer. pick a movie.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
wtf r u talking about
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
attempting to undermine public transpo projects in the pursuit of selling lousy cars is pretty bad― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:06 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:06 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
But in the best traditions of the auto Indy which is about the only thing he hasn’t learnt from carmakers.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I guess my point, as such, was that the only thing he's really *achieved* has been his line of fancy cars. Everything else has been sort of a pipe dream work in progress that seems more talk than payoff, as of yet. That is to say, I understand that Space x is a thing, but I don't understand what that thing is. To privatize space travel?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
mostly
(I'm in favor of space travel+research fwiw)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
lol you guys are such haters.
― DJI, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
Space x’s number one thing is to earn money by putting things into orbit.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
If he wants to build rockets, that's cool, but it really does seem most directly a guy with money does things for other people with money project, unless one factors in the abstract potential benefits of future space travel. I agree that space travel and research is mostly a good thing, but I'm not sure how good it is in the hands of a select few with the money to do it. For example, who owns the fruit of research financed by Space X?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
Which is to say, at the rate we're going Elon Musk will mostly be known as the guy that owns the moon.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
afaik they aren't financing any research, so not to worry!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
space travel and research is childish and dumb actually
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
no more so than sports
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
you use the garbage we throw into orbit every day. spacex puts more garbage that you use into orbit more cheaply than everyone else by reusing the rockets, which they manage to land back on earth after launch.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
sports is way better than space travel
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
spacex might still be a shit business model. new forbes article about that today. nba is a good business model. not paying college players probably the best business model.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
them's fightin words
also stupid words
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLOBHEON20
― DJI, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:36 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow try growing up then get back to me
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
typed out a semi-drunk rant about sports vs Musk but then decided it was just easier to use the FP
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
for mere earthbound clods like us, sure. but sports are also childish and dumb. I mean that in a good way
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
sports and space travel are both run by tech billionaires
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
however, steph curry does not believe we've landed on the moon
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
sports has athletes who can dunk space travel has what some smelly nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Space Jam
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
just going to throw that out there
sounds like someone's never seen a little movie called SPACE JAM
lol xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
there is a basketball jones and then there is tracy morgan's astronaut jones
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
umm actually i saw space jam in the theater plz think before u post
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
you didn't see cars 2 or incredibles 2, though
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
i saw the incredibles 1
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
Note that in Space Jam it was the Monstars who were doing the space travel in an attempt to enslave Earth not an argument for the goodness of space travel tbh
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
anyway space travel and sports are both fun activities by definition, since they are hard to do and there's no reason to do them
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
humans shdnt go to space its not for us
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
fine, you can stay behind
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
if god had meant us to go into space he would've put us in space
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
space is cursed just like the new york knicks
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
the one exception is elon musk shd def go to mars and stay there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
hey have you ever thought about how, like, we already *are* in space, man
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
no JD & The Straight Shot in space. 1 point for space.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
no were on earth our home, the trash planet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
unlike Sanpaku I believe it's important that all humanity perish on this rock made of garbage
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
i'm not going as far as all humanity but i have a list
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
it's important to determine how far out our tail of garbage might reach
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
our best garbage (Voyager) will most likely outlast every trace of human civilization on earth
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
i thought that plastic bag in american beauty was supposed to be our "best garbage"
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
I would never call Kevin Spacey best anything
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:24 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
the only good reason to go to space is to kill god
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Been there, done that:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTE2NTE0YmYtNTE3YS00NzFmLWJmMDMtZWQ5Njg5NDBmNTFiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
is there really a star wars where they ill god dont mess w me
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
shit you not
― j., Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
ok im sold i will read the wikipedia summary
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
spoilers for Xenoblade Chronicles 2....Xenoblade Chronicles 2 also ends with going to space to kill god
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
spoilers for ready player 1....it is bad
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
but what does god need with a star war
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
So saying he dismissed them; they with speedTheir course through thickest constellations held,Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan,And planets, planet-struck, real eclipseThen suffered. The other way Satan went downThe causey to Hell-gate...
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfLjsXmwYw
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
what did he say?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
Good luck, vegeta. Get a basket.
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Wired feature: “He was always a mad genius, but he was about 95 percent genius and 5 percent mad.” That summer, possibly due to the breakup with Heard and the stress from the Model 3, the “ratio started to shift, and by the fall it was totally inverted.”
― mick signals, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
hahaha look at this thing
Elon Musk's tunneling company unveiled its 1.14-mile tunnel in Los Angeles County tonight, and I rode through it in a Tesla SUV. It was a bumpy ride! More here, check back for updates: https://t.co/JBEy6e8NcZ pic.twitter.com/8sSUGGwDM5— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) December 19, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Wait they dug a tunnel just, like, because?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
Part of the company’s goal, he said, is to create a tunneling process that will be 15 times faster than the “next best” option.
ok man good luck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah Hitachi heavy industries or whoever has definitely not spent any time trying to make their tunnel boring machines faster, it’s probably low-hanging fruit
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
Building the 1.14-mile tunnel took about 18 months and cost about $10 million, Musk said. The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor. The $10 million is still orders of magnitude lower than a typical subway project, Musk said.
its not a subway tunnel............but itd be cool if it was
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
http://www.hitachizosen.co.jp/english/products/products024.html
These are obviously easy to understand and improve on
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
tbh a determined person of wealth cld prob figure out how to build subways cheaper than we do considering the whole freakin rest of the world does
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
just driving underground, red faced, shouting "excellence is a passing grade in this tunnel. cylindrical coordinates are the coordinates in this tunnel."
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
One of the most annoying things we're going to be subjected to over the next few weeks is fanboys celebrating Elon Musk's invention of Tunnel Boring Machines, a technology that has existed for 150 years.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
Being able to cost-effectively bore underground tunnels is great, and something the USA is not very good at doing, but it's not exactly a high-tech problem with high-tech solutions.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
The Boring Company, I'm fairly certain, is not doing anything innovative! They just bought an off-the-shelf TBM and are... operating it. Fine! Tunnels are neat. But it's like not really anything new or interesting.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
i mean if he makes it cheaper good for him. but the problems in the US are not technical so i'm not optimistic but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the car skate is stupid though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
kayne and elon shld link up
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
lots of weird wired anecdotes
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:44 (five years ago) link
The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor.
So...$10m for? Musk's walking around money?
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
One of the things that makes his tunnels faster is that they are too small to put any useful in like a train or a bus.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
isn't the aim that there'll be some kind of car-train in it though?
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
yes, so he’s building something that doesn’t exist and won’t efficiently move people, but he’s building it faster
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
https://la.curbed.com/2018/12/18/18147366/elon-musk-tunnel-tesla-test-opening-grimes
Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour. Comparatively, on-street transit like light rail or buses traveling in dedicated lanes can move 10,000 to 25,000 people per hour, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials.
this is so unbelievably stupid.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
New Boring Company documents shared at the event showed not just a network of tunnels connecting Los Angeles destinations, but diagrams of dozens of tunnels stacked three to four levels deep.It called to mind a phenomenon transportation planners call “induced demand,” where building more capacity, like adding lanes to freeways, ends up creating more congestion.Musk was skeptical of the idea of induced demand.“I think it’s a red herring,” he said. “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels... If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them.”
New Boring Company documents shared at the event showed not just a network of tunnels connecting Los Angeles destinations, but diagrams of dozens of tunnels stacked three to four levels deep.
It called to mind a phenomenon transportation planners call “induced demand,” where building more capacity, like adding lanes to freeways, ends up creating more congestion.
Musk was skeptical of the idea of induced demand.
“I think it’s a red herring,” he said. “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels... If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them.”
got this response from the GM of LADOT (i.e. not someone irrelevant to this project)
The cost of the tunnel is low because the tunnel is small. You need dozens of tunnels for non-stop A to B trips (and to solve for the “red herring” of induced demand what). At what point does the tunnel of tunnels reach the mines of Moria and the cost point of an actual subway?— Seleta Reynolds (@seletajewel) December 19, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
this is dumb as fuck
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
i want musk to read power broker before he's allowed to talk to garcetti again
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
elon like fucken rocks hes the real punk rock for our generation
Slappa da basspic.twitter.com/pmTFPmfkNT— ★★★★☆ (@petel) December 19, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duyu5WaUYAIVSHw.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
worst ride in Disneyland tbh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour.
If UK Tesla drivers are anything to go by this will be 4,000 dicks going thru the tunnel because they can.
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Need to wait for an hour to have the guide wheels bolted on.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Ha
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elon-musk-has-invented-the-world-1831210269
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Whadda douche
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
tax writeoff
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Are they made out of clean water
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
"A $480,350 donation by the Musk Foundation announced in October is now being used to pay for water filtration systems in all 12 Flint school buildings and the administration building.
School board members approved the purchase Wednesday night of water cooler/bottle filler systems from Industry, Calif.-based Murdock Manufacturing for $221,000. The systems include water fountains and water coolers for students.
A request for proposal for water system installation is set to come in early 2019, with installation expected to be completed by February."
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
more tax writeoffs
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Do you know what that means?
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
But musk does. And he's the one writing it off.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
IDGI Are you guys advocating for repealing the charitable tax deduction?
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
and yeah anyone who makes over a certain threshold should be ineligible for the charitable tax deduction (see: Bill Gates)
I advocate for repealing the charitable tax deduction and replacing it with a charitable 95% tax rate on unearned income
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
4,000 per hour? How small are these cars?https://0419308.netsolhost.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shriners-parades.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
oh. sorry caek :(
― StanM, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character― sleeve, Thursday, December 20, 2018 7:30 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, December 20, 2018 7:30 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not sure why I keep defending the guy, but I guess it's just because you guys are so quick to find some kind of evil motive behind everything he does.
When you donate to charity, you get to deduct it from your taxes. So, effectively, you are getting the government to use tax dollars to help fund some charitable cause. You don't get your money back! You don't then get to slip into some lower tax bracket (AFAIK). Not sure how paying for clean water for Flint schoolkids became some kind of diabolical plot in your mind.
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
i think the motive is usually intense stupidity rather than evil.
it's ok to donate money. as with all Big Philaonthropy, it would be better if he used his influence to advocate for a social safety net, better governance, and mass transit though. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
xp a foundation donation is not the same as a personal one - foundations *have* to give a minimum amount away each year or get fined.
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Ok...
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
rode in a Tesla yesterday and the driver was very excited to show me an "easter egg" where if you crank the turn signal so many times it turns the road into a rainbow on the screen and plays the "need more cowbell" SNL skit for like 2 minutes
not only is that embarrassing I imagine it's somewhat of a safety risk? I mean if I was driving home at midnight and my car started doing that I'd probably drive right off the road
― frogbs, Friday, 21 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
SIGH
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
the new Teslas can fart
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Well, high emissions standards and all that.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Wait, that wasn't a joke!?!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
https://humantransit.org/2018/12/elon-musks-tunnel-it-doesnt-scale-so-it-doesnt-matter.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
How much bitcoin for a zer0 day that will infect all Teslas and force them to autoplay the theme from Get Smart?
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 December 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Not a joke
― flappy bird, Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
It is a near certainty that it’s possible to lowjack a Tesla over WiFi and take over the accelerator, it’s just a matter of research
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
Damn
― flappy bird, Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
silby driving cars
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
I mean like I have no knowledge of how to go about this it’s just almost certainly possible, because of how computers are
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link
Did you know?
Evian, the first bottled water, is naive spelled backwards— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2019
― frogbs, Friday, 4 January 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
They took their cue from Serutan, I guess.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 4 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
elon musk is kum noel spelled backwards
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
irl lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
I know Twitter is limited to NYC/DC concerns but I can't emphasize enough that this is a *real map* of what El*n M*sk is proposing for Chicago and it literally runs parallel to a train that costs $2.25 and leaves every 7 minutes. I am not kidding, this is it. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/rWAzYagBVt— Ed Burmila (@gin_and_tacos) January 8, 2019
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
my man doesn't even have the decency to propose a route that at least forms the outline of a dick, the numbers 69 or 420 or a pentagram ffs
― tacticool spank bank material (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
I was just turning this over in my mind and realized how insanely fucked the perception of public transportation is in this country
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
i'm all in favor of calling elon's plan "the vroom vroom tube" though
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
the transformer tube, as it only carries special cars that transform into tube-pods
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Huh, that is real real dumb. Assuming this comes to fruition, I'm super glad I no longer live anywhere near that route.
― Hootie and the Banshees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
It's difficult to understate just how relatively hassle-free that particular train trip is. Like if I'm going to that part of the city on the CTA, I will sometimes make the seemingly-unintuitive move of first taking a straight shot south to downtown (I live within walking distance from the northern Chicago border) just to take the Blue Line back northwest rather than deal with the many other less convenient travel options available.
Musk u dumb.
― Hootie and the Banshees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
i'd written out a post on how that particular route is insanely dumb even from my "visiting chicago" perspective but tbh it is so incredibly-self-evident the post would be worthless
the one thing that'd make this even dumber is just adding (or adding more) loop->o'hare express trains that skip most of the stops. i accidentally (!) got on one on the way to midway once and ended up at the airport so fast
― mh, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
somehow I missed this laughably stereotypical awfulness:
A Future with Elon Musk’s Neuralink: His plan for the company is to ‘save the human race’. Elon’s main goal, he explains, is to wire a chip into your skull. This chip would give you the digital intelligence needed to progress beyond the limits of our biological intelligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink
― sleeve, Friday, 18 January 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
lol this guy
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 January 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
Musk said he got partly interested in the idea from a science fiction concept called "neural lace" that is part of the fictional universe in The Culture, a series of novels by Iain M. Banks.
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 January 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
This guy must get baked pretty much on the regular.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 18 January 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
how come he's gotta wire it into my skull, how could it be so great if his goal isn't to put it in his skull first
― j., Friday, 18 January 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
Gotta say that I'm glad bezos and musk are Culture fans. IMO the best utopian sci-fi.
― DJI, Friday, 18 January 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
You wait until these fuckers have knife missiles, then you'll be sorry.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 18 January 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
lol this asshole
I just learned that Elon Musk flies in a $70 million private jet. Mostly to commute from LA to the Bay. Sometimes from Van Nuys to LAX -- literally across town.— Leighton Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) January 31, 2019
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
To be fair he’s not actually on the jet on those intra-LA flights. He’s having someone move it so he doesn’t have as far to go to get to it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
More here https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/elon-musk-private-jet-flew-150000-miles-in-2018-washington-post-reports/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
remember when people thought this dude was gonna be a pioneer for climate change
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
i mean he's right at the cutting edge of personally contributing to climate change
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
doesn't even have an electric jet project in the works smdh
― mh, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
just think, if he'd flown that jet 150,000 miles into space he'd be 0.001% of the distance to mars by now
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
'The Long View' on Radio 4 is this programme that compares an historical event or figure with one from the present day and seeks to point out how similar they are. This week was isambard kingdom brunel and elon musk, the first 3 mins was some railway fellow giving the background of brunel and what an innovative engineer he was, his background on the railways and the idea of an atmospheric railway and what a pioneer he was etc. Then the presenter lists elon musk's accomplishments paypal etc then goes something like "so isambard kingdom brunel giant of the railways and cutting edge engineer back then and elon musk groundbreaking engineer now" only for the technology contributor also on the program to cut in with "elon musk isn't an engineer, he left after 2 days of classes" lol
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Well.....
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1PY00J?__twitter_impression=true
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
oh, alllisonmy twitter impression = true
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Saturday, 9 February 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
Apparently he arrived in Ostend (belgium). An acquaintance's brother is working for Tesla here in Belgium.
― nathom, Saturday, 9 February 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
if you read this thread you probably already read matt levine, but today's is good on musk
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-20/elon-musk-can-t-help-himself
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
He’s also claiming (in Wired) that they will have FULL self-driving cars by the end of 2020, where the driver could take a nap while the car drives the whole trip.
― DJI, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
elom nusk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
joer ogan
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 February 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
making outlandish claims that never prove to be correct and fabulous promises he never keeps are almost his entire public relations playbook
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 28 February 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Promise kept: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245165/tesla-model-3-price-lower-cost-elon-musk-news
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
well... i mean the promise hasnt been kept until the cars have actually been delivered. at the moment this is just another announcement.
― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
he also accepted pre-orders for the self-driving option... which hasnt happened
I can't figure out who does more goalpost-moving, Musk, or the people in this thread.
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
your blind uncritical loyalty is far more offensive, you really should just read through this thread again if you're having trouble understanding why so many people hate him
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
lol "blind uncritical loyalty"
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
i hate him cause hes bad but hes also very stupid
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link
DJI you're not exactly uncritical, no. but your posts itt are kinda odd, like you've listed things that should be heinous dealbreakers ("I know he's a union-buster" or whatever) but they then don't... break the deal. like is there nobody else working on solar stuff to champion, instead of the guy where that's like the one tiny crumb of goodness to weigh against all the shit? i admit tho that partly this is coming from the internet being so full of uncritical musk stans who say a lot of similar things and maybe my radar is extra sensitive, idk
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 March 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
guy literally thinks going to mars is good when it so obviously sucks shit
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
We can go to mars in like seven hundred years it’ll still be there
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 1 March 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
the guy launched his car into space, like how dumb is that
― Clay, Friday, 1 March 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
He only does dumb things, and does them in the most obnoxious way.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 1 March 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
confusing science fiction for science is thing that annoys me about nerds
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
the whole thing of canonizing the underdog tesla too, also while actually behaving like edison
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
like grow the f up jeez
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
we won't, tbf
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 1 March 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
thinking abt the time he cried on national tv cause the government said he cldnt post lies about him company anymore lmfao incredible
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
never go to mars mars is bad
my car is in the shop after a dude hit it earlier this week and it’s paid off
should I buy the new tesla so we could have a tesla guy on the thread
― mh, Friday, 1 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
when I built a new garage by my house I had it wired so I could put an electric car charger (or arc welder) in it fwiw so my infrastructure is ready
― mh, Friday, 1 March 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link
Get an electric car made by a company that knows how to build cars imo
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 1 March 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link
pretty sure in current weather my battery life would be faring insanely poorly
― mh, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link
when I built a new garage by my house I had it wired so I could put an electric car charger (or arc welder) in it fwiw so my infrastructure is ready― mh, Friday, March 1, 2019 4:38 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Friday, March 1, 2019 4:38 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So you could use an electric kettle in your garage?
― S-, Friday, 1 March 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n
go to barsoom instead
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
go to.....heck
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
xxp a real european 220v one? maybe!
― mh, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
x-post to JiC
Yeah Josh - you're right. There is enough bad about Musk that I guess he's inexcusable? I guess I'm (somewhat) giving him a pass because I like that he has taken on bigger, more pressing problems than just the typical amass-enough-MAUs-to-get-bought-by-Google "entrepreneurs," or the lazy, rent-seeking behavior of the dinosaur capitalists.
Electric cars, self-driving cars, low-cost space travel, solar tiles - I really like all of these ideas. And while you can debate hype vs. reality, I don't think you can just wave off all that he and his companies have done in those domains. Sure he's almost always late, but after spending a long time in tech, I think that overpromising is often a successful tactic used to get things done as quickly as possible, even if it drives observers (and engineering teams) crazy in the short-term.
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
the planet is is dying and suburbia is causing a health crisis in the meantime. and a lot of it is on cars. electric cars and self-driving cars are bad ideas.
they're also not ambitious. they're "what if cars, but electric" or "what if cars, but you don't hold the steering wheel". they're the ideas you come up with if you take the "snakes on a plane" approach to movie ideation and apply it to physical infrastructure.
so just to be clear: i'm not waving off his accomplishments. i'm saying they are bad.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 March 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
driverless cars just equals a whole lot more unemployed truckers and farm workers right?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 March 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
they're the ideas you come up with if you take the "snakes on a plane" approach to movie ideation and apply it to physical infrastructure.
otm. succinct. witty, too. should be plastered all across the internet.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 1 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
@caekI hear where you're coming from that you feel that maybe driverless cars and electric cars are "bad" ideas, but I guess I disagree. I mean, they aren't the "best" ideas from a societal standpoint (I guess you'd favor putting more effort into mass transit, or no-transit solutions, which I also agree with), but that doesn't make them bad, imo.
However, to say that his ideas aren't ambitious is ridiculous. I mean, starting a car company when there hasn't been a new successful car company in the US since Jeep? Starting a rocket company? Trying to get cars to drive themselves? Those are ambitious ideas.
And to Dr. C - My end goal for technology/AI/automation is that nobody has to work. THAT is an ambitious idea. Getting to that state without mass disruption is the hard part, but I still think it's the goal.
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
that's a cool idea but we need some intermediary steps. the history of automation to date has often been flanked with that hope and in general capital has elected to keep the surplus to itself, with occasional pseudo-exceptions e.g. where very well-organized (and nonradical) unions negotiated final bail-out packages so that existing members would be compensated while their type of work was eliminated.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
yeah i'm being hyperbolic about the no ambition stuff. but it's easy be ambitious when you're a billionaire so i grant him less credit.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
"more cars" is ipso facto a bad idea from a societal point of view.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
if Elon Musk were ambitious he'd spend his money lobbying to ban cars.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
not to mention they are still a very long away from actually working except in the most idealized conditions, AFAICT
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
the most ambitious thing any california billionaire could do is bankroll a ballot measure to repeal proposition 13.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
Less self driving more self guillotining
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Truth.
And I'm fine with tech dudes trying to automate all the jobs away, as long as we can get a 90% marginal income tax rate on their robot-fueled profits.
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
I mean getting rid of relatively shitty jobs should be a net good where a better job exists or we have the ability to educate/compensate people, but our societal idiocy about employment means making an autonomous semi truck makes a couple people unemployed. Unless you count the incremental number of road crews we're going to need to maintain interstate highways once unmanned amazon trailer drones are rocketing down them.
― mh, Saturday, 2 March 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
it would be cool for the rich people to support some sort of improves social safety net before they eliminate a ton of jobs
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 2 March 2019 05:08 (five years ago) link
― Karl Malone
it would be but man my level of trust for "rich people" as a class is fairly low
if i'm going to take musk seriously, which nobody should because he's a clown, the idea of technological progress driving social progress is not a bad one, and also technological "progress" which brings about actively bad social change - like for instance the cotton gin - don't necessarily make their inventors bad people (elon musk is a bad person for other reasons and promoting electric cars does nothing to mitigate that)
i don't think fully automated gay space communism will become a thing until the technological infrastrucure to support it exists. i don't trust elon musk to effectively put that infrastructure in place.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
you can choose what to invent and put money into developing. for example, in the wonder woman movie, dr. poison was a scientist working on technological progress and her choices about this made her a bad person.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
This is not just OTM but I've seen folks (possibly in this thread but certainly in interviews and whatnot) note the huge impact driverless cars would have on employment in the US - esp. truck drivers and taxi drivers (I think a lot of farm work has steadily become automated in some sense?). Millions of relatively low-skilled but good paying jobs, poof, gone. We should probably be planning for this, as a society, but of course we're not.
Anyone else ever read The Confidence Trap, about the tendency of people but esp. Americans (historically, per the book) to see a problem coming yet keep putting off the solution until the last minute, then successfully scramble to fix it, because it's worked like that time and again the past, however scary and inefficient? It's a pretty interesting read.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino)
i haven't seen "wonder woman" but surely the fictional character "dr. poison" is a bad person because she's called "dr. poison"?
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
poison can be medicine so depending how you look at it shes dr medicine
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
it’s actually pronounced poy-sahn, she tried to work for the good of humanity but repeated misunderstandings due to nomenclature soured her outlook
― mh, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
we're not really capable of "planning" for anything as a society because we don't have a functioning society right now imo
if we're talking about making drastic societal changes like, i don't know, getting rid of cars entirely, these are changes that can come about either slowly and steadily, or rapidly and, er, "disruptively", under extreme circumstances. the existence of organized opposition to changing our society to make it sustainable is, ultimately, what will cause those changes to be radical and less-than-fully successful.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
turned evil because the insurance companies wouldn't cover her cosmetic botox procedures
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
object to neowhig characterizations of history as involving "seeing" "problems" and "deciding" to "fix" them, like we're one guy behind one wheel interested in going one place. if you think of things that way of course you'll always be shocked by our driving (and by the water level)
which returns us neatly to "elon musk"
however i am gung-ho pro-automation; as others have already said you just have to seize and equitably distribute the value it creates. just that, lol
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
It’s a tough job when you’ve got a government contract to send a mannequin smoking a huge doobie to space but somebody’s gotta do it
― calstars, Saturday, 2 March 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Now I want a high tech Zero-G Indicator, $35 when in stock.
― moistly harmless (Sanpaku), Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
Really looking forward to Tesla's "painful but necessary" cuts to referral program payouts... sorry, no more free $250k Roadsters!Just kidding, that'll never happen. The shills getting six-figure payouts for their daily online PR aren't expendable. Perception is the entire game— E.W. "Linear Thinker" Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) March 3, 2019
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 March 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faces-legal-trouble-financial-issues-in-2019-2019-2
The beginning of the year was consumed by delays in the production of the Model 3, the upscale company's more affordable sedan. There was "production hell" to make the cars, and then "logistics hell" to deliver the cars. There was a ramp up that CEO Elon Musk said took the company "near death."Then, of course, there was the $20 million fine Musk had to pay for misleading the public about plans to take the company private — as funding was in fact not "secured"— and the $20 million fine Tesla had to pay for the same infraction. Meanwhile, all year in a still seemingly never-ending line, executives and engineers and VPs left the company. There were layoffs and leaks and of course there was that time Musk called a diver who helped rescue a children's soccer team a "pedo." It was quite a year.But now it's 2019. This year was supposed to be different for Tesla. Musk said there would no longer be any need to take big risks and "bet the company." In Q3 of last year it turned a profit, and then it did so again in Q4, Tesla's first consecutive quarters of profitability ever. Musk told investors on a conference call that the company would be profitable going forward. It would be a new day at Tesla Motors.Recent events have called this turnabout into question. In violation of his SEC settlement, Musk is still tweeting material financial information that contradicts company forecasts. The SEC has given him until March 11 to show how he is not in contempt of the court ruling that followed his "funding secured" debacle.Both the company's CFO and General Counsel announced their exits. And analysts still worry that the Tesla isn't holding enough cash to finance its ambitious growth plans.And in stark contrast to Musk's statements about Tesla's profitability going forward, on Thursday Musk told a closed call with select reporters that the company would not be profitable in Q1, maybe Q2. This accompanied the announcement that the company's long awaited standard Model 3 (at around $35,000) would be available to order — a feat Musk said would require the closing of the lion's share of its retail stores and Tesla's third round of layoffs in the last 12 months.Wall Street, for its part, sounds exhausted."Last year featured a number of idiosyncratic events that shaped the Tesla narrative and, just 2 months into 2019, it seems to be another year of significant volatility, driven by both economic factors and company-specific factors," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a note to clients on Friday.Welcome to a new year.
Then, of course, there was the $20 million fine Musk had to pay for misleading the public about plans to take the company private — as funding was in fact not "secured"— and the $20 million fine Tesla had to pay for the same infraction. Meanwhile, all year in a still seemingly never-ending line, executives and engineers and VPs left the company. There were layoffs and leaks and of course there was that time Musk called a diver who helped rescue a children's soccer team a "pedo." It was quite a year.
But now it's 2019. This year was supposed to be different for Tesla. Musk said there would no longer be any need to take big risks and "bet the company." In Q3 of last year it turned a profit, and then it did so again in Q4, Tesla's first consecutive quarters of profitability ever. Musk told investors on a conference call that the company would be profitable going forward. It would be a new day at Tesla Motors.
Recent events have called this turnabout into question. In violation of his SEC settlement, Musk is still tweeting material financial information that contradicts company forecasts. The SEC has given him until March 11 to show how he is not in contempt of the court ruling that followed his "funding secured" debacle.
Both the company's CFO and General Counsel announced their exits. And analysts still worry that the Tesla isn't holding enough cash to finance its ambitious growth plans.
And in stark contrast to Musk's statements about Tesla's profitability going forward, on Thursday Musk told a closed call with select reporters that the company would not be profitable in Q1, maybe Q2. This accompanied the announcement that the company's long awaited standard Model 3 (at around $35,000) would be available to order — a feat Musk said would require the closing of the lion's share of its retail stores and Tesla's third round of layoffs in the last 12 months.
Wall Street, for its part, sounds exhausted.
"Last year featured a number of idiosyncratic events that shaped the Tesla narrative and, just 2 months into 2019, it seems to be another year of significant volatility, driven by both economic factors and company-specific factors," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a note to clients on Friday.
Welcome to a new year.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 4 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
isn't it pretty widely accepted that there's massive accounting fraud going on here
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
no but its not a bad theory imho
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
have we heard any more about the giant parking lots full of reject cars lately
― mh, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
Tesla has a long history of using diesel generators to recharge vehicles. Back in 2015, I found Tesla using them to power backup Superchargers at Harris Ranch, while its supposedly open battery swap station sat unused. https://t.co/OxtOCjhNuj https://t.co/IxaT4iowvk— E.W. "Linear Thinker" Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) March 7, 2019
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Now, a real visionary would figure out a clever way to install a diesel generator under the hood of a vehicle, so it could power the engine directly. You'd need a nationwide network of pumping stations though so you could refill the car's onboard liquid fuel tank when necessary.
― mick signals, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
I wonder how much it'd take to set up the power infrastructure to run a dozen charging rigs off the local electrical grid at each dealership or w/e
it's as if they're assuming the dealership is a pop-up shop and it's not going to last long enough to actually equip the location with real charging stations. hmmm.
― mh, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
I’m building a supercharging network right now (not for Tesla) and it’s actually quite challenging. The power draw on each charge head (140kW in the case of Tesla, soon to be 250kW) can be quite challenging for the grid in rural areas without a lot of power and urban areas with grid congestion. There’s also a pretty long lead time on things like transformers and MV switchgear and even longer lead times on getting the utility to uprate the grid if that is needed. You need to have charging stations at the right intervals so a diesel generator powered site will be (expensively: power at 4-5x the cost of grid) filling a gap whilst other infrastructure is getting sorted.
I’ve also never heard of Tesla battery swapping. No one has seriously considered battery swapping as ‘refuelling’ since Better Place folded nearly ten years ago.
I’m no Musk. Stand but my that is a very poorly written and researched article.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
the tendency of people but esp. Americans (historically, per the book) to see a problem coming yet keep putting off the solution until the last minute, then successfully scramble to fix it, because it's worked like that time and again the past, however scary and inefficient?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:21 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(looks at march workload) nothing has been more @ me next time
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Ed dropping the knowledge
― mh, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
imo a smart thing to do if you're into real estate investment would be to figure out the prime overlap between underutilized or at least well built-out power grids and prime commercial space for vehicle sales and grab some property to sell/lease to future electric car vendors
― mh, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
mine bitcoin while you're waiting
― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
xpost
There's plenty of stuff to criticise Tesla on, many as well do it with actual facts. If you want to criticise the supercharger network you could start with the fact that Tesla chose a non-standard plug design which means non- Tesla vehicles can't use it (and Tesla's can't use off network chargers without an adaptor), leading to unnecessary duplicating of networks. This somewhat shows up Elon's line on wanting to stimulate the electric car uptake in general. (they are backing away from this in Europe, but only because the EU is moving towards a mandatory plug standard anyway).
If you've got land and a bit of under-utilised power grid then build solar or a wind farm, it'll pay off much better than EV charging will.
Please don't mine bitcoin
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
Although by all means build an EV charger as well.
I wonder how much it'd take to set up the power infrastructure to run a dozen charging rigs off the local electrical grid at each dealership or w/eit's as if they're assuming the dealership is a pop-up shop and it's not going to last long enough to actually equip the location with real charging stations. hmmm.― mh, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:08 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:08 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you saw they quietly announced last week that they're closing all their dealerships, right?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 March 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
If I had to guess they’ll probably sell off the charging network at some point. It’s a good asset and will continue to benefit tesla customers even if they don’t own it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 8 March 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
xp I either missed that or forgot about it! But yes, that explains why they had no interest in setting up dedicated infrastructure -- the whole thing was a trial balloon/pop-up shop thing
― mh, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
my cynical view for quite a while has been that Tesla isn't really an attempt to establish a long-running car company, it's a test platform for a handful of technologies that could be licensed or sold off to existing automobile manufacturers
that's at least partially shared by the companies that have established a competitor interest and hold Tesla shares. there's already plenty of collaboration and cross-licensing and production out there
― mh, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
SpaceX Dragon demo capsule returns to Earth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47477617
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
🚶🏻♂️
Ooof, what the hell are they doing? https://t.co/Qa9FBcRd5x pic.twitter.com/c8jS25kkhX— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) March 8, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
this is some shit right here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
glad someone's following up on that Tripp dude
when the initial articles about the battery factory shenanigans came out my friend and I started joking with a guy we know who got a tesla
"so did they stab holes in the lithium battery before it left the factory, or just throw it around a little? get the patch that causes spontaneous bursts of flame yet?"
― mh, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes pic.twitter.com/wpaJFTW6Zm— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) March 22, 2019
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 March 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link
laughing out loud at these Virginia transportation officials trying their best not to say "what the fuck was that" re: Elon Musk's car tube pic.twitter.com/V6En63P2fu— snarkifesto (@lib_crusher) March 22, 2019
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
It’s a tough job when you’ve got a government contract to send a mannequin smoking a huge doobie to space but somebody’s gotta do it― calstars, Saturday, March 2, 2019 11:02 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calstars, Saturday, March 2, 2019 11:02 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I know I'm a month late but new board description please
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 March 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
I have a major deadline on April 1 so it is very concerning to find out it already arrived
https://www.thefader.com/2019/03/31/elon-musk-soundcloud-rapper-rip-harambe
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 31 March 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
this is the most epic moment in Martin Shrekli's life and he's in jail for it
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
are we to assume that musk's recent personal and professional meltdowns are because he spent the better part of the last three years devoted all his time and energy to a two-minute ode to a meme
― mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
lmao that Elon is reliving his teen shitposting years that were taken away from him, Michael Jackson style
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
Promise kept: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245165/tesla-model-3-price-lower-cost-elon-musk-news― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:34 (one month ago) Permalinkwell... i mean the promise hasnt been kept until the cars have actually been delivered. at the moment this is just another announcement.― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (one month ago) Permalinkhe also accepted pre-orders for the self-driving option... which hasnt happened― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (one month ago) PermalinkI can't figure out who does more goalpost-moving, Musk, or the people in this thread.― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:51 (one month ago) Permalink
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:34 (one month ago) Permalink
― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:47 (one month ago) Permalink
― DJI, Friday, 1 March 2019 00:51 (one month ago) Permalink
https://electrek.co/2019/04/04/tesla-model-3-base-doesnt-exist/
― just sayin, Sunday, 7 April 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
Entertaining, insightful @latimes story on Elon Musk’s army of short-sellers, who are convinced he’s a fraud and Tesla is a house of cards — and aren’t afraid to tweet about it. https://t.co/YzpE31sU0x $TslaQ— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) April 8, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
there will never be a $35k tesla.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-our-vehicle-lineup
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 April 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
Sounds like you can have one but only if you go on a quest to a Tesla store and do battle with the Tesla sales team who will do eevrything they can to talk you out of making them take a loss on it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 12 April 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
A software-limited car model is an absurdity, who is that for
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Friday, 12 April 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
if you think about it, the software in a lot of cars could do a lot more things, just not very well or safely
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 12:43 (five years ago) link
you get heated seats if you preorder at GameStop
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 April 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
omg lol
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
unlock a classic aftermarket pioneer stereo skin for your display if you die during autopilot
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 April 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
A software-limited car model is an absurdity, who is that forI’m mildly terrified whenever I’m in a car with software
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 12 April 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
I've got bad news for you
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
my last car was made in 1994 and I walk a lot
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 12 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 April 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
i’m no pedant, sure, that works
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
I'm with sic here. Our car barely has an engine, let alone software.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
even the odometer was still mechanical in mine, though I’ll admit I did get into it with a mobile phone in my bag
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
Lol what a cunt
So the Boring company loop can take as many passengers in A DAY as ONE Victoria Line tube train can take every 100 secondsPlease stop Elon Musk - take away his weed. Please. https://t.co/5Pmmrjln7r— marcus (@marcusjdl) April 18, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
not his weed that needs taken away from him. this is coke hubris with a budget
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
its his life that shd be taken away, the movement starts here to execute elon musk #executeelonmusk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
trisect him midair, each part landing squarely on a target below
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
tie him up in a tesla. turn on autopilot. direct the tesla toward the super aggro crag. mike o malley commentary throughout.
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
pay ricky for a "service" on paypal.
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
(the service is the execution)
caught his press conference on autotaxis (don't ask why) and its the first time I've ever heard him speak...he is a remarkably poor public speaker, coming off like someone who's been awake for 72 hours
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
the hatred of lidar is interesting. the dismissal seems too convenient, but I don't know enough to say it's certainly wrong?
― dreamcoat (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
he... probably has been awake for 72 hours.I wonder how much short selling is predicated on his behavior raising the probability he is going to die soon.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
We should be so lucky
― milkshake chuk (wins), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
if he dies Tesla stock would probably shoot way up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
I don't think that's true? The whole company's a cult of personality thing
― just sayin, Thursday, 25 April 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
the hatred of lidar is interesting. the dismissal seems too convenient, but I don't know enough to say it's certainly wrong?― dreamcoat (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, April 24, 2019 2:42 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dreamcoat (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, April 24, 2019 2:42 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm not familiar with musk's angle on lidar, but in general everyone who says they can do it without lidar has changed their mind (and moved their money) after trying
🚘🚖 Scoop(s): Layoffs at $INTL self-driving vehicle unit. Also, @Mobileye, once an anti-lidar firm, quietly bought a lidar-related company. https://t.co/ldZA2CIN0Q by @aatilley— Amir Efrati (@amir) April 25, 2019
see https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/intels-mobileye-wants-to-dominate-driverless-cars-but-theres-a-problem/ for more on that
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 25 April 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
i've kinda only been skimming the thread lately and when i saw "the hatred of lidar" i assumed that "Lidar" had to be the name of some rival monstrous tech personality
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
Try to spot the two quarters where the entire legal and accounting teams resigned. $TSLA pic.twitter.com/vwZXWV69X0— "Elon Says" (@ElonBachman) April 24, 2019
― just sayin, Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link
Elon's evil cousin who keeps trying to sabotage him, Lidar Musk
― mh, Thursday, 25 April 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
losing 800 dollars a month isn't really a lot though.
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
Ha.
Though I do like the idea of Tesla profits scaled down for, say, Elon's Lawn Service.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
"Episode X: The Hatred of Lidar"
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
in star wars, they'd use fodar
― dreamcoat (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
kylo and rey have a thing they call fodar love
― dreamcoat (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
I finally got short a little bit of TSLA today (through a put, the shares aren’t possible to borrow) just for shits and giggles.
― o. nate, Friday, 26 April 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
hope you got in at the open!
― camp pendleton subway yelp review (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
or not since i don't think puts work that way
― camp pendleton subway yelp review (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
i suppose the strike price you can get changes somewhat in real time, so it does make some sense? i've never bought anything but shares (of other stocks. TSLA scares me).
― camp pendleton subway yelp review (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
anway, lidar help you if elon tweets 420 right before expiration
― camp pendleton subway yelp review (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
I didn’t get in at the open but still made a small profit. I’ve already closed it out. I’ll feel dumb if the stock craters on Monday.
― o. nate, Friday, 26 April 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
https://humantransit.org/2019/05/why-write-about-elon-musk.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 26 May 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
holy shit
Parent's worse nightmare lived.A mother retrieving her toddler son from a $TSLA parked in her garage instead has the car suddenly accelerate, slamming her against the wall.The car wouldn't stop, breaking several bones & causing premature delivery of 2nd child.Harcourt pic.twitter.com/7Nqp8gGJBh— luis carruthers (@orthereaboot) May 28, 2019
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
of course people are saying "the toddler did it could happen in any car" in the comments despite the fact that the key was in the woman's possession and no a toddler cannot start a car that's in park and put it in drive and accelerate without a key in the ignition in any other car that exists
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
every new parent worries that they could be run over by their absurdly expensive smart car with Falcon Wing doors. few are forced to live this parent's "worse" nightmare.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Maybe the child used telekinesis.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
it appears Tesla is.....blaming the toddler
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
has Elon called the woman a pedophile for having a toddler in the car
― mh, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
will call the toddler a pedalphile instead
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
thumbs up
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
from the description in the full court document, it looks like she left all of the doors open except for the front passenger door with the key inside? and her son got into the driver's seat and accelerated the car by pressing the pedals. so the case is that other nice cars have additional safety features. my partner's car engages the parking brake if you start it with any door open. my car doesn't care. teslas are such a weird combination of impressive and crappy.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
also seems like maybe the doors just close automatically if you start using the car?
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
in retrospect maybe tesla’s inclusion of those insane / ludicrous / matricide modes was ill-judged
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
did it make a fart sound while it accelerated?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
would’ve been epic if it did tbf
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
starting to think this guy is sort of an idiot asshole
Ok Elon is no longer a man of culture. pic.twitter.com/QTdoGKL3WW— Miraculous Maku (Tifa fanboy) (@RedMakuzawa) June 16, 2019
― frogbs, Monday, 17 June 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
thinking that every time elon musk trends on here it's because he invented cold fusion, not because he publicly called someone an "Ass Hat"— wint (@dril) June 16, 2019
― frogbs, Monday, 17 June 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
I don't know where these tweets are coming from because he very obviously deleted his twitter account
Just deleted my Twitter account— Daddy DotCom (@elonmusk) June 17, 2019
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 17 June 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
something not quite right w this guy
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
just posting bad memes with my friends
― mh, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
kind of heartbreaking that dude has so much and he’s trying hard to get accepted as an ironic meme guy
― mh, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
"credit the artist" "no"
good tweet
― lumen (esby), Monday, 17 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
― frogbs, Monday, April 1, 2019 9:01 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― frogbs, Monday, 17 June 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Michael Jackson style (sus)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Monday, 17 June 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
i attended a mandatory jb straubel talk. he came across mostly as a gentle battery powered car hobbyist w/ one hundred million dollars and a crazy buddy named elon.
― Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
every once in awhile, he'd complain about how NHSTA doesn't get it: sideview mirrors shouldn't be required, recall letters shouldn't be required for software updates pushed over the air, etc. and i thought of you guys.
― Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 June 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
if somebody was critical of something about automobiles in general, he'd point out how tesla is such a small fraction of the automobile total. this point kind of worked against the idea that they were affecting substantial change in the industry.
― Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 June 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 27 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
t/s: elon musk vs the escobar family
Remember Elon Musk’s “Not a Flamethrower” from last year? Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto recently launched his own eerily similar product, a device he said looks almost identical because Musk stole the idea from him and then beat him to market.He told Digital Trends that he expects Musk to pay him $100 million for the idea or else he’ll take Musk to court. Escobar, brother and former accountant of the infamous drug lord, told us that he made a deal with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to launch the device under the Tesla umbrella. In exchange, Escobar said Musk was supposed to pay him 20% of the profits.“Then he changed the name to ‘Not a Flamethrower’ to avoid any type of deal we had,” Escobar, who is also the founder of Escobar Inc., said. Last February, Musk said he changed the name because many customs agencies would not allow him to ship anything labeled “flamethrower.”
He told Digital Trends that he expects Musk to pay him $100 million for the idea or else he’ll take Musk to court.
Escobar, brother and former accountant of the infamous drug lord, told us that he made a deal with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to launch the device under the Tesla umbrella. In exchange, Escobar said Musk was supposed to pay him 20% of the profits.
“Then he changed the name to ‘Not a Flamethrower’ to avoid any type of deal we had,” Escobar, who is also the founder of Escobar Inc., said. Last February, Musk said he changed the name because many customs agencies would not allow him to ship anything labeled “flamethrower.”
“It is very clear that Mr. Musk has done wrong here, we are assuming that he will settle with us at any moment now. Our flamethrower is a far superior product as evidenced by videos that are now going viral, his is simply not cutting it,” Daniel Reitberg, COO of Escobar Inc., told Digital Trends. “That is what happens when you try to copy someone. It looks good, but the functionality is just not there. Some people may think that is small, but imagine what else Mr. Musk may be doing behind the whole world’s back?”Escobar added that thing Musk isn’t doing is running Tesla well — and he has some business insights to share from Colombia.“Nobody is using Tesla here,” Escobar said. “I heard some people in Mexico use it to transport drugs with autopilot,” he added, though he didn’t provide any evidence.As for what Musk should do about it, “I think Elon needs to clear all of his business issues and take Tesla and his life more seriously,” said Escobar. “But start with sending me $100 million.”
Escobar added that thing Musk isn’t doing is running Tesla well — and he has some business insights to share from Colombia.
“Nobody is using Tesla here,” Escobar said.
“I heard some people in Mexico use it to transport drugs with autopilot,” he added, though he didn’t provide any evidence.
As for what Musk should do about it, “I think Elon needs to clear all of his business issues and take Tesla and his life more seriously,” said Escobar. “But start with sending me $100 million.”
Escobar didn’t provide us with any proof of the deal, but if Musk doesn’t pay up, he’s prepared to take the issue to the courts.
“That 20% is now worth about $2 million,” Escobar said. “However due to his slander, and due to his non-payment, we are requesting $100 million.”
“I do not mind [becoming] the new CEO of Tesla if we win a judgment in the courts,” said Escobar. “I am sure that I could run Tesla into profits.”[/q]
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 July 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
dammit tesla hackers have broken my bbcode :(
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 July 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
that guy is also a crypto currency scammer lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
love the casual introduction of a drug-running conspiracy theory
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 12 July 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that line is Trump-worthy.
― nickn, Friday, 12 July 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Musk to unveil his neuralink startup next week.https://www.inverse.com/amp/article/57607-neuralink-elon-musk-s-elusive-brain-computer-firm-just-made-a-big-reveal
― DJI, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
definitely a real thing that will absolutely work
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Bring on The Culture!
― DJI, Friday, 12 July 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Good morning, East Coast! I went to Elon Musk's big Neuralink presentation last night, and it was completely bananas. Read the startup's white paper (https://t.co/nfNUfinLfm) and my story:https://t.co/wMbRvNqHda— Rebecca Robbins (@RebeccaDRobbins) July 17, 2019
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
he shd test them on himself........in space
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
omg the robot
This is straight-up Bond villainy
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
OMG THE RAT
what is happening
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
“Because as I just articulated the primary challenge is how do you tunnel effectively, especially how do you put in the reinforcing segments and get the dirt out effectively – it’s harder than it seems." - elon musk. what a fuckup— Crewman Number Guy (@Atrios) July 22, 2019
the problem with tunneling, you see, is the tunneling part— Crewman Number Guy (@Atrios) July 22, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Genius!
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/its-fight-night-in-las-vegas-elon-musks-loop-vs-the-monorail/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 August 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/walmart-pins-store-fires-on-tesla-solar-panels-in-new-lawsuit
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
lol I have literally never heard of this happening with a PV system, that is some shitty electrical contractors they must have been using
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
not sure who to root for in this one
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Walmart. There are lots of shitty things about them as a company but they have been pretty ahead-of-the-curve when it comes to sustainability
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
ime they had energy efficiency + renewable generation targets, climate action plans, etc. way before a lot of other similarly-sized companies
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
they’re a relentless machine for tackling optimization problems, regardless of ideological or ethical trappings
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
In Australia we had a spate of residential PV fires caused by poor quality and poorly installed DC isolators. Water would get in they would short, heat up and catch fire. I’d put a small amount of money on this being the installation contractors fault not the fault of Tesla.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
if their business proposition is anything like solarcity’s residential one, they *are* the installers or coordinate the installation work
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
unbelievable
Amazon fire claims add to Tesla’s troubles with PV installs
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 August 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29729/the-worlds-most-important-electric-car-is-launching-now-and-its-not-a-porsche-or-tesla
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 September 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
Rad! Under $10k is more like it.
― DJI, Monday, 9 September 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
100% electric does not solve our problems, but yeah, cars for rich people (currently subsidized in many US states by a wealth transfer to rich people) _definitely_ doesn't solve our problems.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 September 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
My impression is that having as much of the global economy's energy needs supplied by electricity as possible is the most viable path to weaning us off fossil fuels. Personal vehicles as a method of transportation are terrible at efficiency, but getting people to stop loving their cars is going to be massively difficult. By comparison, getting them to adopt EVs will be child's play.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 9 September 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
getting them to adopt EVs will be child's play.
this is going to happen v fast, with any luck. Given that the average lifespan of a car is 10 years, it's conceivable we see a massive shift within a decade.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 September 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
This is pretty good news on that front: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/09/09/teslas-lab-secrets-talking-about-20-year-lithium-ion-battery/
― DJI, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
Interesting they mention Sl_lSI partners in that. I’ve met them and they know a lot about finance and a a lot about wishful thinking but stuff all about battery chemistry. Basically they will invest in battery projects that meet their IRR requirements, preferably where someone else is holding the risk.
There are 20 year lithium batteries today. Toshiba Lithium Titanate cells should get you there at a (very high) price. It all comes down to whether the Tesla team can scale that chemistry and electrode structure in a cost effective way. This is probably a when, not if, but when is a long time where battery tech is concerned.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEmQEKcVAAE3IRl?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
what a defense!
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 16 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
You don't understand, "Mr Unsworth is a pedo guy" is the name of my dog!
― nickn, Monday, 16 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
just some guys he does pranks with
― Mitch C. Palace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
I see what u did there
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
In determining my guilt or innocence the court must consider my frame of reference, which is whatever I say it is, because there is no way to corroborate my assertions.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 16 September 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Any Major Afrikaner Will Tell You
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 16 September 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.incimages.com/uploaded_files/image/970x450/getty_1130598318_401437.jpg https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2018/09/gettyimages-1041953998_copy.jpg
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 16 September 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-unsworth-pedo-guy-deposition-private-investigator
let it be clear that "pedo guy" is a known insult among south african youth and not meant to be taken literally
also, Elon hired some scammer out of the UK who randomly offered to dig up dirt on pedo guy for $50K. he will, unfortunately, not be continuing the investigation as our prospective detective is currently in prison
― mh, Friday, 4 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Elon Musk's deposition in the "pedo guy" defamation lawsuit is one of the most revealing windows into the way Elon Musk's brain works. I don't necessarily encourage you to dive in, but here are some highlights if you're curious: https://t.co/I12CnQWndG— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) October 8, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
He seemed suspicious.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
hope musks heart explodes from all the ching some day soon
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/i-watched-over-100-tesla-smart-summon-videos-heres-what-i-learned/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Here's a great idea! Instead of thoroughly testing this feature, which would probably delay its release for months, if not a year or two, let's just release it and let our customers play around with it using their own vehicles. They'll tell us where are the problems are, then we can fix them!
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 14 October 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
move fast and dent things
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
some of these people just lack the MP
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/90y488u
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 06:07 (four years ago) link
nooooooooo
― NEWS Giant penis frog didn’t have a giant penis after all (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
that is not safe for life
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Thousands of pages of internal documents and testimony show that the CEO’s promises about SolarCity were misleading or false.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/elon-musk-s-solar-deal-has-become-top-threat-to-tesla-s-future
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
that shit was obvs so shady
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
like hey lets buy this debt ridden other company i own its a great deal weve got uh fuckin solar roof tiles
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
dude he shot a car into space
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
lol the dude I know who worked at SC and now works at Tesla explained that the SolarCity internal messaging was *very clear* that it wasn't an Elon Musk company, it was a completely unique and independent venture run by his cousin
then Tesla did that shit and the curtain was pulled back
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
So far, though, Musk has mostly adopted a defiant (if not irritated) tone at his two depositions. In a back-and-forth with the plaintiffs’ lawyer, whom Musk called “dude,”
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
When pressed for details on the challenges with the acquisition, Musk called the lawyer “shameful” and a “very, very bad person” for scrutinizing a company that’s trying to change the world for the better.
a ver bad dude
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
everyone sounding like Trump
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
destroying astronomy, the night sky now
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-risks-astronomy-space-junk-2019-11
― The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 18 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
The world needs fewer big stupid pickups rather than more but this might be the first tesla to actually look interesting.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 22 November 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
Destroying science so that Musk can call anyone a pedophile anywhere on the globe.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 22 November 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
same energy
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/malcolm-abbott-caught-smoking-blunt-defending-parents-implicated-in-college-scandal.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 22 November 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
whoops
Elon Musk’s glitzy unveiling of the first Tesla “cybertruck” descended into farce when a PR stunt testing the “bulletproof” body strength of the electric vehicle resulted in smashed windows.The Blade Runner-meets-cyberpunk themed launch of the $39,900 (£30,000) futuristic armoured vehicle was meant to take aim at the traditional Detroit carmakers, proving that Tesla could make a credible electric version of America’s favourite vehicle, the pickup truck.In a theatrical series of demonstrations hosted by Musk, black-clad Tesla staff attempted to demonstrate the vehicle’s durability with tests involving sledgehammers, a simulation of a 9mm bullet strike and hefty metal balls.Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. “Really?” said Musk. The window smashed. “Oh my fucking God,” said Musk. “Maybe that was a little hard.”Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. “Try that one? Really?” asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. “It didn’t go through, that’s the plus side,” a stunned Musk said.
The Blade Runner-meets-cyberpunk themed launch of the $39,900 (£30,000) futuristic armoured vehicle was meant to take aim at the traditional Detroit carmakers, proving that Tesla could make a credible electric version of America’s favourite vehicle, the pickup truck.
In a theatrical series of demonstrations hosted by Musk, black-clad Tesla staff attempted to demonstrate the vehicle’s durability with tests involving sledgehammers, a simulation of a 9mm bullet strike and hefty metal balls.
Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. “Really?” said Musk. The window smashed. “Oh my fucking God,” said Musk. “Maybe that was a little hard.”
Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. “Try that one? Really?” asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. “It didn’t go through, that’s the plus side,” a stunned Musk said.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/71fe1c4ee2c7b2481a269e7334821449c8ab7ef6/156_54_515_309/master/515.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f1961a5d107b0e958879556d157a05b5
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 November 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
hefty metal balls
― mark s, Friday, 22 November 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
a rival weighs in:
Nobody *expected* the Land Shark either mate and it’s completely bollocks https://t.co/n0sY49WZa9 pic.twitter.com/DMUSf8LUlf— GrumpySkeletor (@GrumpySkeletor) November 22, 2019
― mark s, Friday, 22 November 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
This is incredible.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/y8tWsr4.jpg
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Whatever its flaws, I love the design of this thing and hope they make it work eventually.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 November 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
I meanhttps://image.businessinsider.com/5dd7fb96fd9db26df212a4d8?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 November 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
that's a deformed Honda Element right there
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
the haters are dead wrong, you're just not ready for it yet, it's beautiful
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I'm into it. idk. Normal pickup trucks are the dumbest looking things on earth. At least this looks like a dumb sci-fi thing. I don't specifically care if you can throw a rock through the window.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
― ☮ (peace, man)
look, i try really hard to be a law-abiding citizen, but if i saw one of those things on the street i'd have a hard time _not_ throwing a rock at it
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
can we stop acting like this dude is a genius now
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
as my dad would say, "Who's 'we', Gunga Din?"
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
i mean
did this guy just commit some kind of fraud or is he just an idiot― frogbs, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 7:46 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkif the first then the second― mark s, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 7:50 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
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― mark s, Friday, 22 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
some thoughts:
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
I'd love to be somewhere where the BMW and Lexus SUVs are the worst
somehow the worst drivers here are driving suburbans or the fuck-off cadillac version of the same, still
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
ford raptors and their ilk easily the worst
― gbx, Friday, 22 November 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
The proper comparison is the APC from "Aliens:"
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f3/b7/09/f3b709697adb5fce00256d73d0451b2b.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
xp oh god they made the "badass" pickup not just with a huge engine but giant off-road shit too?
I think I've seen a couple. very bad, never used for practical cargo or tasks
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
lol I looked upthread and briefly thought the Muskrat (that's what it's called, right?) had a built in pool table.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_660,h_363,c_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpgL-R: car, Elon Musk
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
got a sudden urge to play PS1 games
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
He should do the RoboCop 6000 SUX next.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
musk is just so not "a car guy"
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
A Florida dog put a car into reverse and drove it in circles for nearly an hour https://t.co/UrmKTDZCOh pic.twitter.com/MBWx4rXmLD— CNN (@CNN) November 22, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
honestly that truck looks cool
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
yeah, it looks cool
i continue to 1) think elon musk is a sign of everything that is wrong with the world, and 2) hope that he succeeds in making people replace their vehicles with low-poly flatshaded electric vehicles with solar panels on the top
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 22 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
At best he's going to succeed in getting Trump to go all-in on a Musk military contract.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
can't wait to see one of these ugly pieces of shit outfitted with a Punisher and Blue Lives Matter stickers, aggressively tailgating ppl on the freeway
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 November 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Cybertruck Nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
How are you supposed to roll coal in an electruck tho
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
there's a button for that, but instead of undercombusted diesel fuel it spouts vape smoke
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
xp yeah I also think Musk is a tool and a freak but I also appreciate that he's behind the only US automaker that doesn't seem completely mired in the groupthink stupidity of the US auto industry, both in terms of fuel and just in having to make everything look and seem exactly the same as every other car.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
tbf that's not just the US auto industry! worldwide, most vehicles look very similar
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
vehcicle designs are boring as fuck. we've been stuck in the 1980s for my entire fucking life
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
making distinction between "US" auto industry and other countries is increasingly meaninglesstrucks have been getting more militaristic, this is just an extension of that, like the Ford F150 Black Ops
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 November 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
his cars suck tho so basically u guys r just applauding dumbass startup thinking
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
I think Teslas are awesome. Most of them are too expensive for my taste but they're still great cars.
― DJI, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
theyre really not, just completely unrigorous from both a quality and design stand point right down to that amateur logo
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
yeah tesla and musk suck, i just think this truck looks cool. looks like master chief would drive around in this thing
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
lol yeah that about the level of thinking that looks like went into it
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
dang is that a DJ booth opened up on the right side of that Tesla camper.
― steve harvey oswald (brownie), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
i like it better than the other electric trucks proposals though
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
who on ilx actually owns a Tesla car or rides in one regularly, please speak up
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
I used to have a Dyson vacuum, is that close enough?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
ditched it when the suction was inferior to your own sucking
― mh, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/JSGfODjdev— LGR (@lazygamereviews) November 22, 2019
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 22 November 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
The Dyson vacuum worked pretty well, actually! It was actually a plastic part that broke, not the vacuum function itself. There seem to be a lot of vacuums that have mimicked it, though, which is ... what will happen with the best Musk advances.
Elon Musk should introduce a personal fragrance. Musk by Elon, maybe.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Well, congrats to Elon Musk for designing a vehicle that literally looks like a prop from Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared-Syn (Universal, 1983).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
lol this is the ugliest fucking thing
― j., Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
• No room for the gun rack
• All that ramp is is a glorified man-step.
• Put a hi-beam button under my left foot and I'll take two.
― pplains, Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Thursday’s unveiling of Tesla’s latest electric vehicle hit a snag when the company’s chief designer smashed the vehicle’s windows while attempting to demonstrate their durability. Tesla’s share price subsequently plummeted 6%, bringing Musk’s personal net worth down by $768m in a single day, according to Forbes.
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 23 November 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
Nah, that would be the Model X.
One passed me on the road the other day and it was shocking how ugly it was in person.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 23 November 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
we need ilx’ s resident former Pontiac Aztec owner to weigh in imo
― mh, Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
mfw
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/707977304245460992/0tWLcTBe_400x400.jpg
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Looks like it’s designed with the explicit goal of killing pedestrians.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
My brother has a Tesla. They are kinda cool if you’re the one driving it. Riding in one for 3 hours is incredibly uncomfortable, the interior is just hilariously underthought. They’re stupidly fast though, in a way that makes you a little sick sometimes. I always feel like I’m getting off a roller coaster.
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
I thought this was a good dissection of the numerous reasons the cybertruck is dumbhttps://jalopnik.com/a-deep-look-at-the-design-of-tesla-s-cybertruck-1839993654
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
I wonder what John McAfee thinks of this?
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
The truth of "Dank Minge": pic.twitter.com/L4OMh5mAsB— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) November 21, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
He's ordered two already, right?
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
dank minge was the best star wars extended universe sith lord imo
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
I kinda welcome more weird ass takes in the horrifically boring and homogenous world of car design, but I can’t imagine driving this thing and not feel like I’m cosplaying.The full aesthetic error is nailed down by the fact that it’s called the fucking CYBERTRUCK. Jesus.
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
the thing about design and life is its really all about the details, cars are pretty interesting design objects in that they have a million pieces have to do complex difficult tasks without breaking and have to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, while there are certainly obvious industry trends sitting in a bmw crossover doesnt feel like sitting in a toyota crossover, driving one certainly doesnt, and really while having the same basic shape they look pretty different, and certainly if you owned one youd slowly become deeply personally acquainted w its particular details over time
calling car design homogenous or not changing since the 1980s is prob just due to a lack of interest which then makes observing the details a non starter, which is fine cars a pretty awful in a lot of ways and prob should be banned, but i am pretty skeptical of ppl itt being all wow square truck
the funny thing is elon musk is also all wow square truck, he has no appreciation for the details, hes out there trying to disrupt a huge mature industry containing deep institutional knowledge like hes making an app and it shows
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
calling car design homogenous or not changing since the 1980s is prob just due to a lack of interest which then makes observing the details a non starter
true
i made a decision a while back to just start commenting on everything, sometimes it backfires
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
lmao the commenters code
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
my personal least fave current car trend (besides wagons being replaced by shoe looking crossovers!) is angry eye headlights, car looks like its mad at u, it fn ruined the once pleasantly neutral northern euro audi aesthetic
https://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/imagegen/max/ccr/860/-/s3/digital-cougar-assets/traderspecs/2019/02/04/Misc/Audi-A4-Wagon-2019-1.jpg
https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/audi/allroad-quattro/2005/oem/2005_audi_allroad-quattro_wagon_base_fq_oem_1_500.jpg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
on the plus side i am openminded person and will be ready to openly embrace the forthcoming triangle car because i believe it will ultimately lead to the line car, and then finally the point car. or the circle car. maybe one of the consequences of spiraling complexity in the world is the appearance of simplicity (the more points that an equilateral shape has, the more it resembles a circle).
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
fwiw there are prob more left field designs on the market now than there have been in a while, everyone just wants a crossover tho
https://s.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/legacy_thumbnail/640x400/quality/80/https://s.aolcdn.com/commerce/autodata/images/90TOGES1.jpg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
^^ ooh, i like that one! a few too many polys but it's getting there
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
https://miro.medium.com/max/2652/1*uEe9rvbQB8XM6uYWT_6vng.jpeg
tbf it is hard to argue w the utility of these things, drives/etc like a car while being halfway to the interior/head/storage space of a truck
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
a tall friend of my w bad knees who drives a crossover told me hes never hunkering down to get into a car again which is fair
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
think i like the mercedes vers out of all of those, lil more boxy like a truck, doesnt have a weird elongated front end
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
mods, lagoon just posted 23 of the same image, pls fix or replace w/ cybertrucks
― imago, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Dyson is another dick - what a suprise, eh? Pro-Brexit wanker.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
the volvo is so weirdly slanted i dont like it (tho i did drive one and it fucking shredded and was huge inside so the experience was actually pretty great even if it looks like its about to pounce on you)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
mods, lagoon just posted 23 of the same image
would be a good poll, although one is clearly superior to the rest
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
pretty obvious if you take a few seconds to examine each one
Oh no pic.twitter.com/RLDfmAxMUe— Jon Christian.info (@Jon_Christian) November 22, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
feel like the volvo s90 is a good example of a car that cld be easy to criticize as samey but is really low key pretty original, the fancy picture doesnt do justice to how monstrous it is, i saw one covered in dust in a parking lot off a dirt road and it was huge and scary, its basically a euro muscle car
https://i.imgur.com/uGYPAFl.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
also the way the rear end is styled almost like a hatchback is pretty unusual
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
shd be noted too that new cars are so good from an experience pov driving/comfort/safety etc, my dad has a new tundra and i drove it around the icy backroads of vermont and it was so good, for you city slickers icy dirt roads are by far the most challenging on road driving configuration there is, anyway the tundra just breezed along handles like a car but w the power of a truck, plus its got all the fancy lil features like auto dimming brights, it sees cars coming toward you from very far away and dims your headlights relieving you of a very annoying job, i want that car even if the grill looks dumb
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
lagoon doing good work itt, appreciating it
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
courtesy flashing of the brights to u
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
hes out there trying to disrupt a huge mature industry containing deep institutional knowledge like hes making an app and it shows
― lag∞n, Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
anyway i want a tacoma because i am a boring stereotype thx
― gbx, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
they do rule as vehicles tbf
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
its true
― gbx, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
This is stunning stuff. TESLA tried to have a whistleblower SWATTED, arrested & placed on a mental health hold in retaliation for him going to journalists with safety violations. Bravo to this police officer for documenting the entire interaction in writing https://t.co/OOsBdBRN6s— Ali Winston (@awinston) November 23, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
corporate scum
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
that station wagons with rear-facing seats in the back are a thing of the past is yet another sign of how corrupted our culture is
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
seriously
how do kids today tie action figures onto a spool of fishing line and let them drag far behind on the highway, occasionally reeling them back in to see how warped and deformed they are?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
^for some reason my parents were cool with this
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
We lease a Chevy Bolt EV and we love how peppy and quiet and easy to park it is. I think once major car manufacturers start responding to the demand signal for EVs, Tesla could very well be toast.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
(the chevy dealerships in the DC/MD/VA area can’t keep Bolts on the lot - EVs are incredibly desirable cars, it’s just a matter of manufacturing capacity and charging infrastructure being brought into line with how much people want them)
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
electric cars are neato
elon musk needs to evade this threadjack and invent a glider imo
― imago, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
re: crossovers, I got my mom into a Kia Soul to ditch her shitty Chevy something lease deal and it's kind of the perfect car (aside from having to get used to the nature of a dual clutch transmission moving from idle). Enthusiasts bemoan their downsides over car-cars but how many people are driving in such a way that they notice any added body roll?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
I think once major car manufacturers start responding to the demand signal for EVs, Tesla could very well be toast.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, November 23, 2019 7:28 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 November 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
^^^ a friend had a Renault Zoe as a loan car for a couple of weeks. First EV I've seen that was basically a regular car, also although it was expensive, the price was "only" a few thousand more than a high end Clio.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 24 November 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
My last couple of cars have been leased, the lease is about to end on my (diesel) Ford Fiesta and I've been seriously considering an EV, though as I rely on on-street parking I'm not convinced I'll be able to keep it charged (I do about 300 miles a week). Would get a PHEV but that'd need even more regular access to a charging point, so I may cop out and go for a "self charging" hybrid.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 24 November 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
my friend who covers FormulaE for a living and can bore for the olympics on recent breakthroughs in battery and recharge development (paradoxically given its frivolous rich-kid ambience it's where a lot of the current high-end EV R&D is happening) is *enormously* scornful of TESLA in general and musk in particular
― mark s, Sunday, 24 November 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
There's a certain weird mix of insecurity and arrogant d-baggery in some Tesla drivers. Your faithful correspondent snoball was walking about the town earlier, when I happened to see a Tesla come out of a junction on to a main road. It appeared to 'stall' (do Teslas even stall?), and in a show of defiant overcompensation, the driver engaged Super Pursuit Mode or whatever it's called and roared off along the street. Or rather whined off down the street because no exhaust note.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 24 November 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Saw this just last week.
Don't get me wrong – the Subaru driver was at fault and "lost the fight" as soon as he went aggro. But.
The Tesla driver did jump into that middle lane PDQ without so much as a turn signal. And how that first sub-head is "Don’t these guys learn Teslas have TeslaCam?" does lend itself that the arrogant stereotype does have some basis.
― pplains, Sunday, 24 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
The twitter thread above about the whistleblower is scary. Also is it coincidental that the truck press conference on the same day buried this news coming out?
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
hahaha how did I miss this
SpaceX Starship blows its top at Boca Chica
― Book Doula (sleeve), Monday, 25 November 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
though as I rely on on-street parking I'm not convinced I'll be able to keep it charged
i had a teacher once who was a fairly early EV adopter, well before there were ever charging stations around and before there was much in the way of norms around charging, and i think he got into low-stakes criminal jeopardy by cadging charge from some city power source or something
― j., Monday, 25 November 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
that swatting story is nuts, even more nuts that no one's gonna be charged for it
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
I think the plan to install charging stations at my workplace was cancelled :/
I did have the right electrical service run to my newly-built garage a few years back just in case, though
So what's the over-under on Elon himself being the one behind the swatting?
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
my be informative to see the square truck w some actual paint on it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKOIbAPXkAg0Stl?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
a visual metaphor of grimes
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
honda e
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKIzSNxW4AIxXfz?format=jpg&name=medium
not sure why the companies feel the need to make their e cars look electric but its kinda cute i guess
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
the bmw i3 goes to far in this regard imho, i dont think id want to drive around in this thing
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RJhz0+kYL._UY560_.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/img/pages/5DMLTE88P3E1QLC.jpg
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
audi a3 plugin hybrid is nice and looks like a normal car
https://images.hgmsites.net/hug/audi-a3_100551445_h.jpg
if i were getting a new car i might like one of these except that its too short to sleep in so idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
in the future, it will be coolest for your e car to look like the ford explorer eddie bauer edition
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
more apparel companies shd do editions its fun imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
mazda 3n, geoffrey beene
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
j. crew saturn VUE
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
i kinda love the look of the honda e -- shame we won't be getting it in the US
― gbx, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
just noticed it has a camera instead of a side mirror
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
Straubel said it couldn't be done. or maybe they've changed the laws.
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
aren't vehicles designed to crumple for crash safety? will this crumple? I don't get designing a truck around being damage-resistant.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
that truck is never getting released my guess
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
looks prefolded to me
― mark s, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
the whole "this can withstand a sledge hammer" angle is so incredibly dumb, how is that a legit concern for anyone who isn't living in a crazy fantasy world
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
a crazy fantasy world where cars bang into hard objects or even each other
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
but this is Tesla we're talking, any small dent to the frame is gonna cause the entire thing to be totaled anyway
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
I've been a passenger in a BMW i3. The interior isn't as far out as the exterior, but it is very basic for such an expensive car. Also look at how narrow the wheels are.
― just another country (snoball), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
how is that a legit concern for anyone who isn't living in a crazy fantasy world
They could make the bodyshell lighter, then it'd have more range and a better power:weight ratio through not having to heft all that unnecessary weight around.Although try GISing 'Tornado Intercept Vehicle'. Maybe someone could convince Elon Musk and John McAfee that the ultimate macho totally-in-no-way-overcompensating-for-something-no-sir stunt would be to drive a Cybertruck into a tornado while blasting Kenny Loggins' 'Danger Zone'.
― just another country (snoball), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
aren't vehicles designed to crumple for crash safety? will this crumple? I don't get designing a truck around being damage-resistant.― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is classified as a light truck so doesn’t have the same crash safety requirements as a car.
As for electric cars is general - I had a Hyundai ioniq for work last week and this is potentially the Tesla killer. Nothing remarkable about it really it’s a family hatch back but it’s Au$15k less than the cheapest Tesla, much better put together from what I’ve seen, is quick like any electric and will pretty much drive itself when you turn on cruise control, following the lane and the car in front.
Whatever else you think about Hyundai they really know how to build a good quality car to a price. Part of this is having electric, hybrid and petrol versions of the same car to drive scale economies on everything that isn’t the electric drive train.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
of course that Audi A3 hatchback hybrid isn't in the US
stop denying the USA the hatchbacks, car companies! we don't all want crossovers wtf
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
and yes I am a nerd with a hybrid hatchback even if it is a jumped-up lexus-branded prius
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Some ways, we're lucky that Zuckerberg isn't charismatic and that the president is a dumb ass and Elon Musk has all the subtlety of his silly cybertruck when it comes to swatting somebody.
But that's three guys. It's the dudes you don't hear about that scare me.
― pplains, Monday, 25 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Larry Ellison, now that guy is a complete shithead and probably richer
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
The other thing about this Hyundai is that it happily trundled around, in 35 degree heat and the AC on high)all day at between 11 and 12kWh/100km. Tesla’s are very heavy cars and can’t get close . Model 3 is around 16kWh/100km and the X and the S are in the 20s.
That big battery with all that range you need once in a blue moon costs energy and money to haul around. The Hyundai gets way more range out of a smaller battery and costs a lot less to run. Hyundai are, very quietly, getting really good at this electric car game.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
I drove an A3 hatchback in Italy this summer. I loved it and would consider buying one if they still made them here.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Let’s do this
Just got to the courthouse for the first day of the Elon Musk defamation trial. He’s expected to take the stand today for the first time ever to defend himself against a British man he called a “pedo guy” on Twitter. Here are the cameras waiting for him.This is my day 1 thread. pic.twitter.com/07y4Hlg6Ba— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 3, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
whyyy didnt he settle this guy is so dumb and crazed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
he doesnt get enough attention??
for people who need attention there's never enough attention
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
there's not a maximum amount of attention you can have, at any time there's a risk someone isn't aware of you
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
people who are willing to settle for extremely negative attention kinda blow my mind
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
Oh to be the person who could go up to Elon Musk and genuinely say "So, what do you do for a living?"
― just another country (snoball), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
I hope he defends himself and his first question to the guy on the stand is "So how long have you not been a pedo?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Looks like he won his court case.
The guy he libelled was a moron to sue in the US, even if the potential damages were higher.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 6 December 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593
Billionaire Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase "pedo guy" was common in South Africa, where he grew up.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
lol christ. juries amirite pic.twitter.com/pSjL5ak7wh— flglmn (@flglmn) December 6, 2019
Amazing.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
Elon Musk Hits Traffic Pylon With New Cybertruck After Dinner in Malibu.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-hits-traffic-pylon-with-new-cybertruck-after-1840307783
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
The Cybertruck doesn’t appear to have basic safety features yet like side mirrors and window wipers
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
the “pylon” is a no right turn sign that he runs over while making a left turn
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
“left on red” is a legal turn in California if your net worth is over $1b
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
Jobs never registered his cars
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
meanwhile
https://i.imgur.com/hnseSSD.png?1
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 December 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
The stock market is more fake than ever
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
big grain of salt because ars technica seems to worship tesla
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/12/tesla-stock-just-hit-a-new-record-of-400-heres-one-reason-why/
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
Tesla has also refined its motors over time to squeeze out a bit more power and range from a given amount of battery power. Those innovations may not be easy for rivals to replicate.
This is utter horseshit. I’ve driven a lot of electric cars in the last 6 month and the Teslas are the absolute worst from an efficiency perspective. Too bloody heavy. Hyundai is really good at this.
Driving an ioniq around in high heat and the aircon on high I can easily get 12kWh/100km it’s hard to get the Model 3 under 18kWh/100km. The teslas are too heavy and arguably the batteries are too big for what is really needed.
Tesla will do well though, especially next year, especially in the us, all the other manufacturers will be diverting their electric cars to Europe so they can meet emissions standards. A lot of that free cash will come from tesla selling emissions credits to other manufacturers.
Good article in the FT on that.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 21 December 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
https://www.ft.com/content/ebb85b9e-1b7d-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 21 December 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
As expected, 69% want car tunnels! Stop whining, subway Stalinists, the people have spoken … pic.twitter.com/g8GBvjDdvK— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2019
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
dis guy sux
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
I’m a subway Stalinist
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
amazing that this complete dimwit managed to convince so many people that he’s smart
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
*tips hat*
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Saturday, 28 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
He is a dangerously stupid man
Induced demand is one of the most irrational theories I’ve ever heard. Correlation is not causation. If the transport system exceeds public travel needs, there will be very little traffic. I support anything that improves traffic, as this negatively affects almost everyone.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
manufacture an electric bus, Elon!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Electric buses present a range of engineering challenges, some unsolved (such as ascending steep hills) so it’s not really in Musk’s wheelhouse.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
I don't even want to know what kind of little ambient tones he'd add on to them anyway.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
*Synthesizer fart noises from ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''*
"Oh good. My airport shuttle is here."
― pplains, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ap8k_Xjks
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
^^ Where I was going with that.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 December 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
well, yeahhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENArF6QWwAApzel?format=jpg&name=small
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 January 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
the organisms wouldn't spread to the entire planet would they? can't imagine they would be able to go that far on Mars.
― 💠 (crüt), Thursday, 2 January 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
If an organism can survive on an unpopulated (ie no predators) planet at all then they would likely spread vey quickly.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 January 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
can they thrive at temperatures averaging -60°C tho
― 💠 (crüt), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
i don't know much about microbiology i'm just curious
― 💠 (crüt), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
well I imagine if they could survive a trip through space then Mars would be a doddle...
― Number None, Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
curt, my point is they either spread very quickly (in geological terms) in a predator-free environment, or they immediately cease to exist because the environment is otherwise inhospitable. there's not a middle ground where only a bit of mars is only a bit contaminated. which is why being very, very careful is appropriate.
btw there's some theories about how life or its ingredients might get between planets that are on the more speculative end of microbiology, but they're not completely out of the question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
sorry mars is already infected with earth micro organisms from when i took a shit in space
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
btw theres a good hippie drug theory that psychedelic shroom spores were sent through space as a message from aliens
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
well, yeahterence mckenna otm about both that and also the apocalypse on december 21 2012
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
machine elves of the 4th dimension bro
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuKnxueWwwM
― mark s, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
Grimes has created social media accounts for her unborn baby with Elon Musk under the handle @WarNymph. What's more, the accounts include a clip of the 3D baby speaking directly into the camera about the impending apocalypse: https://t.co/gauUvCtMJj #WarNymph #Grimes pic.twitter.com/uVuytvQtte— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) January 22, 2020
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
WAR NYMPH
yeah think I might be done thinking about either of these people
― Clay, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
need to know the precise multi drug cocktail these ppl are into
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
end times, shaken, served up with a dash of messiah
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
i think i like the idea of what she's doing, if it were done in a simulated world. the problem is that we're still here on earth
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
its been done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVQtmMN_ao
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
I mean yiiit's been
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
ok I thought this thing was a money incinerator why has the stock price tripled
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
investors are dumb idk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
well over 600 now, sheesh guys
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
Q4 report looks pretty strong to me. They had a string of stumbles in the first half of 2019, but seem to have righted the ship.
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
no strong quarter justifies pricing tesla like volkswagen
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
not even thinking tesla is the next volkswagen justifies it lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
When you include debt VW is worth more than 2 times Tesla. I agree with your point though.
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
tbf they could be the next VW
I mean, the somewhat recent VW that was faking test results and got slapped down hard for it
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
This thread is full of people who doubt Elon's vibe.
https://soundcloud.com/user-209448905/dont-doubt-ur-vibe
I wrote the lyrics & performed the vocals!!— E “D” M (@elonmusk) January 31, 2020
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
10 seconds in all I can think of is this
https://soundcloud.com/timheidecker/drk-mt-btl-20
― frogbs, Friday, 31 January 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
just gonna leave this here
https://i.imgur.com/PwzIyks.png
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
I glanced at my phone at the moment a comment marker saying "This song is terrible" scrolled by lol
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
was kind of doubting my vibe this morning tbh but now i have decided not to doubt my vibe.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
dont doubt u r vibe
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 January 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
mods pls move this thread to ILM
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
sorry, this is my fault, literally six hours beforehand I posted in a group chat about the existence of elon musk's "rip harambe" so clearly I jinxed the universe
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Well I guess I am finally changing my dn
― Campaign to move el0n mu5k thread to ILM (Will M.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
mods pls move this thread to ILM― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open)
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open)
Lmao shit I didn't see this when I posted
TSLA blowing up.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
inverse ilx fund would do well
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
200 to 1000 on no news. Cool.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
Far out!
What if there was an AI programmed to want to pick as many strawberries as possible, and so it cultivated nothing but strawberries on all of Earth’s land? Then it would be Strawberry Fields Forever!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2020
― Alba, Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/XgyGXUEnnH— Cynic Metalhead🛡 (@GrumpyAmb) February 6, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
reading his tweets = microdosing stupidity
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
and now down to 700. the fact that this is acting less like a stock and more like bitcoin seems like not the best sign
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
well yeah
$btc 2017 vs TSLA. Wow. pic.twitter.com/beehVilkrv— Michael Novogratz (@novogratz) February 3, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
bubbles be bubblin'
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
yeah, stocks did this long before bitcoin, which is basically a crime ETF
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
that chart is apparently not very different to amazon in 1999, and well, it was a bubble but it was also a good investment. the trick is spotting the difference i guess.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
wish someone could teach me that trick. also the trick where your amazon stock makes 15% and you somehow don't sell it immediately.
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
i will teach you for $99
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
is there a guy that tries to sell you classes about making money with bitcoin that wears a suit with bitcoin symbols on it yet?
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
that's a poorly formed sentence, but i'm talking about a bitcoin matthew lesko.
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
pretty sure matthew lesko has an ilx connection but i can't remember what it is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
Company is full of jerkshttps://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617
― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 February 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)
the trick is convincing yourself there is a difference that can be perceived by sufficiently informed people, and that you're genuinely smarter than those other investors and not just fucking lucky
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Friday, 7 February 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
yessssss
The coronavirus panic is dumb— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 March 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
michael_jackson_popcorn.gif
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
I hate this asshole
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
We will make ventilators if there is a shortage— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020
Anyone wanna bet he’s not gonna make any ventilators
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
maybe get a start on that now bud, before the shortage hits hmm
― Clay, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
Seriously getting upset at the thought of this asshole trying to inject himself into the narrative
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Elon Musk has never met the process for getting FDA approval of medical devices.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:15 (four years ago) link
he will send boxes of short shorts to hospitals with a note that says "i heard there is a shortage"
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
He will make 2 ventilator prototypes and claim a promise has been fulfilled
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheriff-quashes-elon-musks-aim-to-keep-tesla-production-humming-11584503047
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
You doubters. Bet he's adding vents to the sides of all his submarines as we speak.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
guessing these ventilators are going to wind up killing the patients as soon as the cell service goes off
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
Must be hard for him to realise he’s not needed. Again. Though ironically his one car per mile tunnel might be the solution needed.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
sounds like our hero picked up some cpap machines wholesale
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
if you slap a Tesla sticker on, cpap becomes a ventilator? blah
― mh, Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
at least elon isn't 'known for his signature cowboy hat' i guess
At Kimbal Musk's restaurants workers were told community mattered, that they were family. They contributed money out of their paychecks to an emergency fund for workers. Then COVID happened, and the family fund was suddenly unavailable. Read: https://t.co/YTyQdTX7Mi— Emily Peck (@EmilyRPeck) April 7, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
This fuckin guy
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
getting nervous that this prediction may not in fact turn out to be true
Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
FREE AMERICA NOW— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
jesus this relentless dullard
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
FREE BTC NOW. TO PARTICIPATE SEND 1 BTC TO ELOONMU✧✧✧@A✧✧.C✧✧.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
FREE GRIMES N...EVERMIND, YOU CAN HAVE HER
― 🔫 (peace, man), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
AM CONSIDERING FREEING AMERICA NOW. FUNDING SECURED.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
$420 per american
― silby, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
My gf @Grimezsz is mad at me— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
― Number None, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
gah, that was meant to be this tweet
I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
anyway, he's on one
i wonder if his gf grimezsz got mad at him before or after he decided to sell almost all of his physical possessions and own no house
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I would like to see a Musk-less Tesla in the same way we now have a Charney-less American Apparel. I realize that they aren't the same kind of awful, but still.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
a Musk-less Tesla would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho nu?
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
oh I see he's a corona skeptic.
to be fair to him he's clearly high on uppers all the time and probably doesn't get much sleep so that can't be that great for cognition
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Also clearly a born dipshit tbfttl
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
I furiously judge anyone who ever liked this guy
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho
I don't know about this. I've been pretty impressed by the Tesla when I've been in one as a passenger.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
i've never liked this fuckhole
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
yea Teslas are pretty impressive though they're annoying for a lot of reasons and the interior design is pretty fucking awful
worth mentioning that Tesla existed before Elon bought it (and erased the real founder from memory) and almost certainly would be delivering a higher quality product without him
― frogbs, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Musk brought in silicon valley principles like "not trying very hard"
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
from building a useless contraption that provided no benefit to saving those people trapped in the mine, bragging about it and saying "what have you done?" to some internet rando, to this, to his weird sporadic Twitter meltdowns....
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
I'm assuming he came through with flying colors on his ventilator promise though, yes?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
about that
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ventilators-california/index.html
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:11 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
gotta think well see this eventually one way or another guys like him tend not to stick around, unless he manages to just totally drive the whole business under, but even then youd think one of the big companies wld want to scoop tesla up
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember when market manipulation like this would earn you a perp-walk into federal custody.
Tesla stock price is too high imo— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
ref: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerstmanipulhtm.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
the last time he tried this, he only had write a check for $20M and step down as chairman of TSLA:
https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/29/technology/business/elon-musk-tesla-sec-settlement/index.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:24 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the big issue with them is they have a lot of defects and build quality issues, which is something you wld expect from a young quick growing company, where the big boys are mature and put a ton of effort into limiting stuff like a glove compartment handle snapping off on a six month old car, and tesla has of course been accused of juicing their stats on this sort of stuff
theyre in an interesting spot as theyve produced expensive novelty second cars for rich people their entire existence and are now trying to switch to making cars that people who only own one car can buy, its a huge lift and its gonna be hard for them to get it right all the manufacturing stuff theyve been fucking up on both quality and efficiency levels will just be amplified by trying to make more cars and selling them to people who are really depending on them
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Nothing to see here just Elon Musk embracing the support of a climate change-denying Infowars loon as well as noted shit peddler James O’Keefe pic.twitter.com/VUDulpo0FO— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) May 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
the biggest thing id give tesla credit for is recognizing the performances advantages that electric vehicles have and leaning into that, because an electric engine immediately delivers max torque the model 3 can accelerate like a nice bmw for half the cost, where the rest of the industry has been making dinky nerd electric cars even bmw lol, undoubtably that tech will change the performance segment of the whole damn industry before too long, theyre also way out in front as far as how they do the computery stuff always pushing new features in updates, and that youd think will also become industry standard too
so they def have innovated meaningfully but i but i have a hard time seeing them being logistically sound enough to really scale up, getting bought out by a company who already knows how to make cars good seems like the most likely path forward
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
or those companies could just make tesla like cars tho they dont seem to really want to prob cause it represents such a small % of the industry, but on the other hand theres not a car company on earth that hasnt given lip service to electric being the future, mercedes even said theyre going to stop doing r&d on gas engines which is pretty wild
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
porsche the drivers car of drivers cars even has an ev now that everyone hates
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
so tesla might have to actually compete at some point...
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
but sales of evs just havent gotten to the point thats forcing the big players to actually take them very seriously
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
if he weren't evil scum I might find it sympathetic and relatable that he appears to fully lose his mind once every few months
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
lol true
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
for now
― silby, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
if they manage to maintain that condition i will respectfully doff me cap to mr elon
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
Need all roads converted to giant Qi charging pads before electric becomes adoptable by renters and people in apartments
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
yeah
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
is tesla stock gets to the point where a car manufacturer could afford to acquire the company, that will be because it's going out of business.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
damn, wonder if anyone's considered shorting it?
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Need all roads converted to giant Qi charging pads before electric becomes adoptable by renters and people in apartments― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 2 May 2020 5:19 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 2 May 2020 5:19 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I’m building a DC fast charging network at the moment and this isn’t true. It’s like going to the petrol station except you plug it in for 20 minutes and go and have a coffee or buy some groceries or whatever you want to do while it charges.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
lol at Elon twitter stans being torn pretty evenly between "clearly he's been hacked" and "idiots don't get his jokes"
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
we need a lottery ticket that takes 20 minutes to scratch
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 May 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
his stans also think he *invented* Paypal from scratch
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
PayPal also sucked and was (is I guess, thankfully I never have to use it anymore when paying online) bad.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
I go to a gas station once a week at most for 5 minutes, I don’t think it’s feasible for people to put in 20 minutes several times a week in terms of adopting electric.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
If you can’t charge in the place where you park every night I don’t think most people would buy an electric.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
we have a lot of charging stations here but that wasn't the case 5 years ago.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
People are notorious for letting their car get down to fumes because that five minutes at a gas station, which can be found everywhere, is a hassle.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
lagoon turning into a car guy has been a good low key ilx subplot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
lol it's true
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
The point is with DC fast charging is it won’t necessarily be at petrol stations it will be at stores and restaurants and you’ll get enough charge for the week in minutes not hours whilst you do what you do.
The first generation of AC was pretty useless when installed at grocery stores because you can’t get a meaningful charge in the time it takes to do your shop. With DC you’ll be full by the time you come out. And full will be several hundred kilometres.
Interestingly we have some data from a municipal DC fast charge network in California and by far the most used charger is the one in the food coop parking lot and the session data looks a lot like people dropping in for a weekly shop and a weekly charge (along with some ride-share drivers dropping in daily).
It’s obviously super convenient if you can charge at home but in large parts of the world it’s not necessary.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Yea charging stations I've seen are usually in parking lots
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, May 1, 2020 5:48 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thats what i said! tho also the stock price cld just come down to earth
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
I get the sense Tesla stock is probably more like Bitcoin than a traditional stock
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Muskcoin
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
the stock market just went up by 13% in a month when 30 million people filed for unemployment, the whole market is like dicecoin
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
wow, May Day fucking rules this year pic.twitter.com/263oQ6OgHv— Janus Rose, Post-Apocalyptic Delivery Dyke (@zenalbatross) May 1, 2020
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
How much for some anime Bitcoin? pic.twitter.com/itqRslFNcb— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
nuke the internet imo
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 May 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
second head in the basket
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 May 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
the baby is due today lol https://t.co/GMCXRO5hXZ— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) May 4, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
sick of grimes gold digging
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
listened to the new record and he heard a single
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
The future was wide open.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Monday, 4 May 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
His tesla chassis had loose parts that would jingle
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
maybe we should look back at what he was doing the last few times he had children. as in, lots of children per pregnancy, iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
IVF tho
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
i don't wanna think of Elon cumming thx
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
which naturally he was probably doing to a .jpg of himself
I meant maybe he’s gone bonkers for a while each time he‘a become a dadmaybe the effect is cumulative
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
im crying pic.twitter.com/YRIdEmpiuw— allie (@juulgod50) May 5, 2020
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
That exchange sure doesn’t bode well for them. They should have just named the kid Shared Custody.
― Kim, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-threatens-to-move-factory-sue-california-hea-1843362925
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
Tesla is actually a meatpacking plant.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Sunday, 10 May 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Nobody's mentioned the kids name, which is just going to mean a lifetime of getting red * next to text input boxes.
― koogs, Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/5VTE2qrnCa— Seth Simons (@sasimons) May 10, 2020
― Elon's musk (sic), Sunday, 10 May 2020 08:14 (three years ago) link
lmao what the fuck is this guy's problem
Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2020
― frogbs, Monday, 11 May 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
that's not how solidarity works, elon
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
less than a week at home with the baby and he just wants to go back to work
― mh, Monday, 11 May 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
please god, let me get away from my newborn for just a day so i can get coronavirus and spread it
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Tesla worker to me just now: "he NEVER works the line, he stares awkwardly at someone doing their job until they are very uncomfortable, then he walks away.” From another: "When he says on the line he just means walking around every so often to make sure everyone sees him.”— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) May 11, 2020
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
never met a PR stunt he didn't like.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
didn't catch that he changed the newborn's name to "a PR stunt he didn't like" but at least it's more honest
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I hope a pallet of Tesla batteries falls on this fuck and slowly crushes him in front of his employees, while they golf clap him into the afterlife.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
he's like The Wolf of Wall Street, except more like the Pissant of Palo Alto
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
“If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me,”
Yes please I would like to support elon in this request
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
Really trying to get out of childcare duties
― silby, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
if i must lose custody of my newborn in the name of the continuation of capitalist activities at any human cost, so be it
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
Arrest Elon. Send everyone else home. Set the fine at the maximum amount. Jail him for second offense. Deny bail at the third offense.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
fun thread:
i mention this a lot, but the tweets always seem to mysteriously get buried. a reminder elon musk is *not* the founder of tesla nor of its technologies. he bought his way in & forced the founders to sign contracts to name him a co-founder, then proceeded to kick them out. https://t.co/dxpigQq7RW— se asian oakland enby || balance: very limited (@WellsLucasSanto) May 11, 2020
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
Is this the pedo guy? That just what we call guys like this growing up where I did— “pedo guys”.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
https://sethsimons.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-practice-run
this is a good response to musk's ignorance about coronavirus. he really is a moron and rogan is dangerously credulous.
can any engineers of ilx speak to his engineering chops? is he just a business guy cosplaying as a science guy?
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
Musk was ousted in October 2000 from his role as CEO (although he remained on the board) due to disagreements with other company executives over his desire to move PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
i found that looking at his wiki trying to figure out if he can engineer, he studied business and physics at penn then started an internet company, if i had to guess hes a business guy who has a technical style brain and a science education, which would mean hes prob able to understand the technical side of the business conceptually but couldnt really do the actual specialized work of calculating how a car crumples and so forth, thats my guess, welcome to my guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
did he ever in his internet startup days write code? idk
im sure he could figure out how to write a lil code if he needed to, is he an expert programmer? almost certainly not, hes a business guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
that's my impression too. but rogan et al seem to think he is designing the tesla batteries and working out the technical challenges in colonizing mars lol
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
thanks for doing some research lagoon
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
love ta wiki baby
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
its funny ppl want him to be some genius engineer he already has a job they watchin too much ironman movie
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:06 (one year ago) link
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
yeah, i mean, i knew that his reputation as an engineer was inflated. i just wanted to know if there was any truth to it at all -- he describes himself as an "engineer"
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
yeah hes not an engineer
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
In 1995, Musk commenced a PhD in energy physics/materials science at Stanford University in California. Eager to pursue opportunities in the Internet boom, however, he dropped out after just two days to launch his first company, Zip2 Corporation.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
and as for his reputation as a maverick libertarian his entire business is built on government subsidies
Elon Musk needs the government. https://t.co/GXnfgsqCQi pic.twitter.com/63GAv8iqE1— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 12, 2020
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
thats not the only one thats helped him theres also tax rebates that electric car buyers get and im sure some other programs too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Elon dropping out of a Stanford PhD program after 2 days doesn't really indicate anything.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Here’s an email Musk sent to Tesla factory workers at 12:55 AM highlighting the “extremely honorable” task of making electric cars during the county’s shelter in place order. Email has been confirmed by two sources. pic.twitter.com/K1MmUmim6g— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
lmaooo at the last sentence of that email
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
i'm on record in this thread, i think, saying that i think elon musk is a smart man. just want to say that in the spirit of honest re-evaluation
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast & Safely!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2020
lmaooo
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
But don't let Musk's annoying persona make you forget those subsidies were good and should be continued and if anything enlarged!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
i mean theyre good but its still cars
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
says the low-key car guy
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
i like cars but recognize that they are bad policy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
What car u got lagoon?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
i dont even have any car rn
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
i want an audi s3 thoooooooo
lagoon are you gonna miss camp this summer? ;_;
― silby, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:48 AM (one hour ago)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it indicate he lacks the professional certification of being an engineer? e.g., his membership in IEEE is honorary
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
prob gonna miss everything this summer world done closed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
We have a lease that ends in about 18 months lb got the lease (rather than owning) in the hope mainstream EVs would be ready around then. You couldn’t pay me to drive a Tesla. Looking at the Kia Niro and soul tbh https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a26144426/2019-kia-niro-ev-driven/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/05/another-competent-korean-car-the-kia-niro-ev-reviewed/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Wait what are you leasing caek? My teenager desperately wants us to get a Tesla and I am keen on an EV but don't know the landscape.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
I'll admit that you had to have some follow-through and good business skills to get the clients going, but his first venture was pretty low-hanging fruit as far as early web companies go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2he probably hustled his ass off! then his second venture in payments was a more complicated thing as far as liability and infrastructure goes, but before they go too big the payments company merged with paypal
I sometimes shake my head and wonder why I didn't jump into that type of thing at the time, but the answer is pretty much that I was in my late teens and incredibly risk-adverse and anxious. so pretty much like the 3/4ths of my peers that were really internet-savvy but not doing this stuff
fwiw I am completely unqualified to run Tesla having run no businesses, but just as qualified as Elon when it comes to weighing in on a number of things
― mh, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
I rented a Kia Soul once and it was a completely acceptable car, not overdesigned and just did what cars should. It was the base model and had surprisingly bad fuel mileage and was kind of noisy, though
― mh, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Elon dropping out of a Stanford PhD program after 2 days doesn't really indicate anything.― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:48 AM (one hour ago)Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it indicate he lacks the professional certification of being an engineer? e.g., his membership in IEEE is honorary― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:29 AM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:29 AM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Professional membership is open to individuals who by experience give evidence of competence in an IEEE designated field. The designated fields are: Engineering, Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, and Law and Policy.
so I think he qualifies. IEEE membership is a bit like a museum membership. It generally just gives you access to some resources for learning or networking within the field.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
they also relentlessly mail shit to you, physically and electronically, until you die and probably after you die as well
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
“I’m naturally good at engineering that’s because I inherited it from my father,” Musk says. “What’s very difficult for others is easy for me. For a while, I thought things were so obvious that everyone must know this.”
Like what kinds of things?
“Well, like how the wiring in a house works. And a circuit breaker, and alternating current and direct current, what amps and volts were, how to mix a fuel and oxidizers to create an explosive. I thought everyone knew this.”
(Rolling Stone)
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
thanks, Sufjan, I was probably overly influenced by my father-in-law being a civil engineer and assumed other fields were similarly strict
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Musk will likely be remembered as one of the most seminal figures of this millennium
it's true, he does have 7 kids
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
I assume this RS profile is discussed upthread because it is hilariously overwrought
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
the "inherited" bit is dumb, but there was a group of kids in engineering/physics undergrad with "did projects with a technically skilled parent" chops. they generally did very well in school. comfort and familiarity with ideas and concepts is a huge boost to understanding, as is the confidence that comes along with that head start. it usually came with a privileged background. Elon likely doing some myth building in that quote. anyway, nobody can be so broadly qualified to justify his tony stark routine. I'm sure his chops won't live up to the myth he sells to the public and investors.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
sticking with the PhD probably would have humbled him!
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
the content machine needs ppl like musk and steve job then people read the content and buy the stock
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
it also helps with recruiting. people think working for elon musk means something because they know of his asshole antics.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
I wonder if Elon Musk knows how a toilet works.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
I can answer that for you: it comes very easy to him. he inherited knowledge of the toilet from his dad. valves. seal rings. floats. he thought other people knew this stuff? now will you please write the 60 million dollar check for his brain cable company?
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
He engineered an alternative way to remove waste from his body
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
he founded twitter?
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
courted grimes?
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
which punchline are we searching for here?
He's starting a Mars COLONy
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
The punchline is the queue of Americans waiting to bank the motherfucker in the jaw
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
yes, I don't see many engineers with previous work experience falling for it. But I imagine it's big for the poor lads that do work there.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
I think my friend is still in software development at one of these places and should check in
I think he was doing some internal apps last I checked and nothing production specific so it was less drama overall
― mh, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
hey caek: we got a Kia Soul last fall (they had just started rolling out the 2020s), base model, and love it. Part of it might be that it’s our first new car, but really it’s a charming and useful machine in many ways.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
why don’t you drive an EV?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
drama in the musksphere today
I wrote something on @ElectrekCo that is sure to be controversial but that's not the goal. I truly think that @elonmusk's feedback loop has been corrupted - resulting in some questionable actions. You can disagree but my criticism comes from place of love https://t.co/H8pOXsZzZ1— Fred Lambert (@FredericLambert) May 12, 2020
background
In light of the ongoing Tesla Fandom circular firing squad, I thought I would share this story again and add that in spite of all this I actually prefer Fred and Electrek to the up-and-comers who are helping bring his adventure to its inevitable conclusion https://t.co/1dbc09XSvW— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 13, 2020
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
who are the musk superfans
engineers, libertarians, SETI users, apartheid fans, environmentalists, incels, vc's, pedo guys?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
forgot 'guys who have a john galt reference on their license plates'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
space colonizers, grimes superfans
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
people who think elon musk builds the cars
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
apple superfans in search of a new home
reddit posters
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
that guy freds writing def has the weird manic superfan tone, its wild people wld willingly read that shit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
a lot of idiots who are like "oh that guy seems smart"
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
feel like dudes who make things in their garage that they don't really need to make are at least musk-curious
― Clay, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/Ny6hJb6/3211b2393a6a4195b5d0ab7a408e0f47.jpg
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
I kinda feel like painting the entire www.instructables.com community as musky is casting too wide a net.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
think it's mostly teenagers
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Older dudes who like to tinker and have a rain gauge in their backyard.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
Richard Heene
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
My son is a teenager and finds Musk intriguing. It’s kind of heartbreaking and I don’t have it in me to tell him what I think.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
lmaoo
My legacy is probably going to be carpal tunnel in my right arm from doing the jerk-off motion for 12 consecutive hours while weirdos with "Entrepreneur / crypto" in their bios pile into my replies to gush about Elon Musk. https://t.co/AopXgiVmPe— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 12, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
King
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
local hero Ken Jennings
― silby, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
he's more likely to get tennis elbow from that tho
depends on how you learned to do it
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
or how you inherited said knowledge from your dad.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Looks like Tesla is being sued over early touchscreen failure in Model S and X. This might be a good time to revisit my story about those screens, some of the reasons they fail, and why no other automaker has 17 inch screens in their vehicles https://t.co/ZnaN8mRQ9o https://t.co/e8SCZLakhP— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 14, 2020
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
I will never ever stop laughing about Elon Musk stealing an image from Buca de Beppo so he could fake eating out during a pandemic while he has a newborn at home pic.twitter.com/jWDoiGYzX5— Molly Shah (@MollyOShah) May 13, 2020
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
this is the guy many people think is the worlds #1 genius lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
his defenders are saying he didn't literally meant he went to Buca to eat that Sunday even though he p clearly implies that in his follow-up posts.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
see i wldve gone with he was just havin a laugh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
there is a massive closed and abandoned buca de beppo in my town which everyone hates b/c no one is taking care of the building so it has an extra layer for me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
this is hilarious
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 May 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
I thought he was referencing jail and scorsese
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 May 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
Listening to neon neon and tried to explain delorean as like musk, thought i was being all crazy insightful lol, but thread was on it. years ago. btw that album is still fun.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
delorean actually was very good at making cars to begin with tho, no? just not when he branched out alone
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
i told my kid that my recall was that he was trying some different design stuff (didnt the car have different sized wheels or something?) not to mention facilities location. You’re right tho he was at least a car guy making cars.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
first you monsters deny elon the title of 'engineer'. now you would take away 'car guy'? And after previously awarding that title to a poster that admits to not even owning a car!
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 May 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
https://mixmag.net/read/grimes-elon-musk-baby-name-burial-archangel-news
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 May 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Well said! Please run for office. The politicians & unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered & thrown out of town!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2020
so I had a short stint at a small stealth-mode cybersecurity startup once. my boss told me he had heard from one of the Y Combinator founders at a party that Elon Musk believed in Bostrom's simulation argument, but with one small amendment: that he, Elon Musk, was Real— biz malarkey🌹 (@uhshanti) May 7, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:39 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
You probably ought to check whether Elon Musk is hiding out in there
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
oh good pic.twitter.com/CBigbC8ffE— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) May 17, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
I love that these conspiracy nuts still overwhelmingly like to adopt the hip lingo of a 20+ year old movie and haven't found anything else to latch onto in recent years
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
nothing else has utilized the duster as effectively
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
funny thing is if there was ever a pill you could take to go under and live in a dream world and have lots of money and sex these would be the first people to sign up for that shit
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
*morpheus voice* in a sense thats what theyre doing
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, because he was an idea guy at Pontiac, which was GM's 'engineering' division where a lot of concepts got tried out first (mid-size performance cars, rubber bumpers, hidden wipers, optic cable radio antennas inside windshields etc.), and things started downhill for when he was promoted to the more conservative Chevrolet.
After he broke loose, his own company had a lot of problems getting started (among other things, coming along after a number of similar other failed 'performance/safety car' startups littered throughout the 70s didn't help), and when production finally began, they made the mistake of using underpowered Renault engines.
And then, yeah, cocaine...
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
Fuck both of you— Lilly Wachowski (@lilly_wachowski) May 17, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
<3
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
This is Grimes' mom. Thanksgiving is going to be fun. pic.twitter.com/7i3oLnzvrO— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 17, 2020
― peace, man, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
everything seems normal
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand why he included the rose emoji with that post
― Dan S, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
He self identifies as Tuxedo Mask
― Fetchboy, Monday, 18 May 2020 05:48 (three years ago) link
the red pill is actually democratic socialism
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 May 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
Funny thing about Grimes's mom is that she was a Tesla-owning Elon Musk fangirl well before her daughter started dating him.
― jaymc, Monday, 18 May 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
sounds like she has been red pilled since then.. about elon musk
― mh, Monday, 18 May 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
its sad when your enthusiasm for a luxury electric vehicle brand is marred by your daughter having the child of its psycho ceo
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
the classic tragedy
― DJP, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
elonmusk @ coronavirus
― imago, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
and its more famous prequel, elonmusk space x
This is a thread about what it’s like to be Elon Musk’s neighbor.— Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) May 21, 2020
― Bleeqwot (sic), Friday, 22 May 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
brutal
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 May 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
these fucking people
So do you want him to personally apologize for being the only person really making strides to make the world a better place? And actually executing ideas? Cool keep up the good work— Noya (@NoyaOfficial) May 21, 2020
Saving hmanity is worth the inconvenience.— Jub 🖖🧢 ☂️ (@hjub) May 22, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
the cartoon in that string ha
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Friday, 22 May 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Breaking news:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/25/elon-musk-grimes-change-baby-name-roman-numerals-look-better
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
Musk said that he told Behnken and Hurley's kids: "We've done everything we can to make sure your dads come back."— Miriam Kramer (@mirikramer) May 27, 2020
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
as trump told the widow of a dead special forces soldier, 'he knew what he signed up for'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
"we'll see what happens"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
"there's always the AZ-5"
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
Saved by the weather, lucky bastards
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Musk looks like a face transplant recipient. I don't know if it's the Michael Jackson stubble or what.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 28 May 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
he and zuck def rolled straight outta the uncanny valley
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 May 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
^ yes. They look like video game representations of themselves.
― calstars, Thursday, 28 May 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
idk what Zuck's excuse is but Elon's definitely had a ton of implants put into his face so that he can look good from precisely one angle
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 May 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
Uncanny Valley, CAPop. 2
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
zuckerberg clearly some sort of not quite human inter dimensional traveler
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
boom
The SpaceX Starship rocket prototype SN4 exploded after an engine test this afternoon in Texas.Credit: @LabPadre livestream https://t.co/aPJknKdl6M pic.twitter.com/gXKWTH0VLn— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) May 29, 2020
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
imagine being the astronauts waiting on their rescheduled launch
― frogbs, Friday, 29 May 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
meteors did it
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Seems sad and wrong this is like the only thread mentioning NASA sending astronauts into space. But not as sad as the FB correspondent rocking the weird NASA Members Only jacket complete with mock epaulets in front of all the wood grain top “engineering desks.” This is not the spaceage timeline i hoped for.
stay safe and whole astronauts.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
i guess there's this somewhat arcanely named thread also: DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight
― mark s, Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Shh!
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice— Andy Milonakis (@andymilonakis) May 30, 2020
― Ste, Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/CgiuE9aL52— No Context Russia (@Russia_NC) June 1, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 June 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
congratulations elon musk on catching up w soviet russia 60 years ago
― plax (ico), Monday, 1 June 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm__ZSLc6Is
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Good luck finding a charging outlet in the middle of the ocean, genius.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
jesus what is the pitch and roll on that drone boat, that sea looks pretty busy. i'm kinda like, 'is that real?'
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
but let's compare with the video of soviet russia doing it 60 years ago.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
🚨🚨🚨Tesla Model 3 plows info overturned truck on highway. I’m sure the driver was paying complete attention to the road and wasn’t relying on autopilot because he was told the car could drive itself....$TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/cHjueqH0j4— hand washing rooster 🐓 (@jsin86524368) June 1, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 June 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
did he died
― ||||||||, Monday, 1 June 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
every human being in that video seems like a bad driver
― Karl Malone, Monday, 1 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
not even injured xp https://insideevs.com/news/426312/video-tesla-crash-stopped-truck
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
good cars confirmed
― ||||||||, Monday, 1 June 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
it seems the Autopilot system has some issues in detecting stationary objects
details, details
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 June 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
All cars are bad
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
On the plus side, there was no gas tank to burst into flames.
― nickn, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
the autopilot knew he'd survive and learn something important about trusting autopilot -- a lesson that could save his life someday.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
or perhaps the autopilot ai takes twitter input and made a different optimization that failed
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
i’m so thoroughly pissed at this reality and the “i’m sure x” OP, and also aware of the difference, that i wanna throw up my hands and answer “i hope it happens to you.” to be sure i really don’t, but ftw.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
and by OP i mean the twunt, not lagoon tbc.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 June 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
it wld never happen to me the autopilot looks out for me
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 June 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
a visionary:
This will probably get me into trouble, but I feel I have to say it— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2020
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
what a brave stance
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 6 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
a man of real genius
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Saturday, 6 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
who knows but im saluting like crazy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
i know we've already done this tweet but honestly
https://t.co/PHzxi55xuE https://t.co/Xq5bsUxLPx pic.twitter.com/rSY2aGqWoI— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 2, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
Talk about ahead of the curve...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
at least richard epstein has stopped running his mouth on twitter
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
I remember thinking to myself the first time one of youse posted the article about people stocking up on supplies that "come on, we're just prepping for the worst, it won't be anywhere near as bad as we fear".
this is one of those rare times where it exceeded our imaginations.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 July 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
at least richard epstein doesn't have fanboys harassing anyone who questions his idiocy
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 July 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Well there’s still plenty of stuff to buy is the good news.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 3 July 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
Good replies to this tweet from the “pedo guy” guy
Please take a moment to report accounts clearly engaged in harassment. It is the only way to maintain public discourse.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Fair play that’s a high stock price
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 13 July 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
what the fuck how did it quadruple since the start of the pandemic
― frogbs, Monday, 13 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
he tells the stock market what he thinks their price should be and they comply and this is somehow ok
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
a major tesla accounting scandal seems very much in play
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 July 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
i honestly think it's just robinhood/reddit/andrew yang people who are bored because there's no sports to bet on
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 13 July 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Almost 40,000 Robinhood users added Tesla to their accounts over a four-hour span on Monday https://t.co/cfGHBQjAzL— Bloomberg (@business) July 14, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
gonna need yerac to talk me down from opening a margin account to bet against these guys
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
gambling’s dumb
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
No doubt
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
it will happen, but you don't know when
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
gambling is especially dumb when the other side is powered by hubris not reality.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
hard to bet into a guy who doesn't even know he's bluffing
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
silby i think u shd do it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
(keeping in mind that u can losing infinite money shorting)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
robinhood stores your money is stored in a signed 16 bit int so it actually goes positive after a while
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Oh nice
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
I did try to short Tesla once, but you couldn't borrow the shares, so I bought a put instead. It took a little dip and I got nervous and sold it for a small profit. Then it dipped more and I felt dumb. Then it bounced higher again and I felt lucky. The nice thing about buying a put is your downside is limited, but unlike shorting, there's a time limit on the bet.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
the stock market in general seems to have not absorbed the info that were in the early stages of the worst economic crisis ever
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
tbf neither has pretty much anyone else. even before the pandemic we'd reached a crisis of capital where too many goods were chasing too few dollars, searching the globe for investment opportunities and just inventing them from whole cloth if necessary, and now demand has dropped off a cliff. millions of jobs aren't coming back. we're still running on a short-term stimulus package and furlough supports that will all go away really soon, and the same is true for most of the world. it's a zombie economy and i'm not sure it's too dramatic to say it's a zombie society
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
it is absolutely a zombie society
― carin' (map), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
the zombie apocalypse is us
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Population collapse is 2nd biggest danger to civilization after AI imo— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2020
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
now he's Anti-Spielberg?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
I added a friend of friends who recently joined a zoom game night call on facebook only to find out she’s a Tesla cheerleader :(
― solo scampito (mh), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
T-E-S-L-AYOU DON'T NEED NO GAS TODAYYOU 'LECTRIC
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
That's why he's got seven kids so far? Or is this how he announces number 8?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
Elon approaching tech bro Jack Handy
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
wait back up he has seven kids?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
that he knows of ;)
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
7 is the solution to his last kid
― lumen (esby), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
Well, six. His first one died as a baby, then he had twins and triplets with his first wife. So his baby with Grimes is his seventh kid, though six survive.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
death of his child is hes said what inspired him to save the world... by making cars
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
ah yes cars, that thing we need more of
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
More cars or more babies is kind of a toss-up.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
just like in olden times, he had a lot of kids so they could help him work on the electric car farm
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
big fan of noted shitposter @caltrain
Coming soon, with far greater throughput per hour https://t.co/dAu94bw5ip pic.twitter.com/CTi4x8TzfI— Caltrain (@Caltrain) July 22, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
17 30-second images of the comet added up by @cielodecanarias, completely photobombed by @elonmusk's #Starlink satellites. It's a few hundreds of them right now,there will be a few thousands in the near future. @SpaceX is committed to coating orienting them better but still.... pic.twitter.com/TYtTf5xwhc— Julien Girard (@djulik) July 22, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
in some ways, the worst thing he's doing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Do they do anything
How many satellites do we even need
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
what laws/jurisdiction pertain if someone just decided to start shooting them down?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
Enraging
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
this man really makes me want to move to a ted shed
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdkBsQHXsAEKf9C.jpg
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
okay man
https://i.imgur.com/2yegWhU.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Why are so many people using these shit blunt/sharp tool metaphors
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
"I needed a scimitar. But I've only the hammer of this tip line to show my gratitude for your service. I know that other, possibly less deserving, staff may benefit."
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
this guy is a genius
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 24 July 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
UBI would, of course, not require legislation. It would just be commanded to be
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
Every Musk fanboi
I guess space faring would be a better term I personally think a Dyson swarms of O'Neil cylinders makes more sense for most people who opt to keep a physical body. Could fit a quadrillion people easily in comfort with a huge variety of landscapes.— Chris Hawkins (@mchrishawkins) July 23, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2020
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
pronouns suck says elon musk
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
anyone who stans this guy in 2020 is an automatic get the fuck away from me
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
why did lefties used to like this guy so much? cos of his car being eco-friendly or something?
glad most have become wise to his toxicity
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
had to have been the cars. then it seemed like he was sort of the epic bacon guy for normies who Fucking Love Science for a nice long while. feel like he’ll be full mask-off fash before the new year
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
Tesla shuts off in mid-drive if you put on NPR or any liberal music
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
secret "self-crashing" feature if u like tweets criticizing him
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
Anyone who ever stanned a fucking ceo in any year is an abject rube with zero self respect
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
i read grimes' response tweet and it just broke my fucking heart.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
why did lefties used to like this guy so much?
citation fuckin needed
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
Just about half my social circle was on his dick prior to like...last year
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
One of whom shared a Be Like Elon meme
xp she had a response tweet? i've been trying to find it for a few minutes (why? i don't know) and don't see one
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
Not to be all no true Scotsman but I’d question whether these were “lefties”
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
the only person i've ever met who was pro Elon was a complete Tory creep who kept winking at me when I was chatting to his wife, and he was completely incredulous that he'd called that diver a pedo and was blithering on about some top-notch ted-talk he did. but "lefties" not a bloody chance, not even the so-called soft left i don't think.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone)
maybe she deleted it. doesn't matter, it's still being shared all around discord. it was raw, emotional, and intensely personal.
i'm thinking of calling my next vaporwave project Cis Men in Acute Emotional Crisis. and it's real vaporwave, by which i mean it won't even exist.
look, i know this is a pvmic but it pains me on an ongoing basis to see cis men who are obviously not doing well lash out with anger and hatred and rage, to get into this particular spiral. it deeply saddens me the pattern playing out here, where Elon Musk's Girlfriend who is a brilliant and creative and accomplished woman tries to take care of him because he doesn't fucking know how to take care of himself, because he doesn't know how to hurt without hurting other people, and then when she does, everybody points at her, everybody _blames_ her, it's her fault for having the temerity to love a man.
there are a lot of women who love men, and it is hard, it is really fucking hard for the women i know. men have no idea how fucking hard it is.
elon musk is in emotional crisis, and he is handling it the same way goddamn near every other cis man handles emotional crisis, the way i used to handle emotional crisis before i transitioned and started to learn how to have fucking emotional boundaries - by lashing out like a wounded animal.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
as to whether the "left" likes musk, i mean, half the women on trans discord still get really bubbly whenever there's a spacex launch. if you want to say trans women aren't really "lefties", i just don't know how much of a useful judgement that is.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
.@elonmusk continues his effort to spend lots of money to transport tiny numbers of people. Inefficiency is inequality! https://t.co/7vsFaPdUgp— Jarrett Walker (@humantransit) July 24, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
I might unbookmark this thread bc now that I think about it it’s the only reason I am at all aware of Elon Musk’s shenanigans and dealings
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
out of all his shit trying to undermine pubic transpo is the worst and most revealing of who he really is, an industrialist duh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
“worshipping the ceo of Tesla(/whatever other billionaire)” seems like it should be disqualifying but “leftie” is a broad enough church to include tories now I guess
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
someone on twitter was saying they had leftie in their tinder profile and a date thought it meant left handed lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah sorry for other kind of lefty erasure
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I like to be flexible and nnon-judgemental as far as I can be, but stanning for some old money plutocrat industrialist whose family fled s africa with a load of dosh after the end of apartheid, well that means your politics are about as left wing as Margaret Thatcher.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
― calzino
you're not wrong. maybe i'm too much of a softie, maybe i go about things too slow, but my guess is that a lot of the folks i mentioned up thread may have a significantly different reaction to the next spacex launch. it's mostly a tactical difference, i think.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Tesla was cool before this shithead bought them, is my view
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
the og Tesla was the coolest, he invented alternating current and lived in a hotel room full of pigeons and wild birds!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
good thing he never got on twitter
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
he probably liked Hitler's fave book I'm guessing?
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
and he was a eugenics stan. erm .. I meant Micheal Faraday!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Apparently, he had more than enough tweets.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
i'm thinking of calling my next vaporwave project Cis Men in Acute Emotional Crisis.
damn why you gotta appropriate my culture
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
― trapped out the barndo (crüt)
"karen" was already taken as a bandname
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
I like to be flexible and nnon-judgemental as far as I can be
― calzino, Saturday, July 25, 2020 1:16 PM (one hour ago)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
lol crut
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
What an enormous piece of shit.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 26 July 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 26 July 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
I think I hate him more than Bezos.
Quite a bit of regression in 2020.28 auto wipers for some reason.Now it tends to see rain when there is none. But not always.The only way to stop is to turn off wipers completely for some time. pic.twitter.com/d9l9yBqFWa— green (@greentheonly) July 26, 2020
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 July 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
i'm reminded of my first car, 1996 pontiac grand am, which used to completely shut off (like i ran out of gas, no power steering, slowly coming to a crawl) every time i hit a moderate bump in a road
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 July 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
shitposter ceo is such a blatantly awful idea that i kinda respect it
Das Kapital in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/mG44mMkitx— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 July 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Uh, is that meme written in a clumsy imitation of AAVE? In which case, really fucking racist, fuck you Musk.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
wonder how much free government money this guy got
― frogbs, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Bezos is more successfully evil partially because he's smart enough not to, for example, develop this sort of extremely online persona― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, July 27, 2020 5:03 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, July 27, 2020 5:03 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
assuming you only want 10 billion dollars and not 100 billion dollars, i think musk is successful on those terms precisely because of his extremely online persona. without that, there is no way the stock price (and therefore his personal fortune) would be where it is.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
he can't get to bezos's level by shitposting, but he is the most successful shitposter of all time.
imagine if bezos had musk's fanboy army
he'd get them doing mechanical turk shit for free
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Bezos at least created a successful business
― frogbs, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
musk had alltime great pr before the shit posting, its hurt him, if not in the stock price... yet
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
i mean seeming very publicly unstable is not something the big money tends to like, they wont complain as long as theyre making money but once theyre not
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
i think going nuts was his best option
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
im willing to listen to your thesis
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
What Dorothy illustrates is that you can put in the Neuralink, remove it, and be healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig.
Meaning no disrespect to the pig community but this doesn't sound like a necessarily desirable outcome if you weren't a pig going in to the experiment.
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Saturday, 29 August 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5RQrshg.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 29 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Why can't this guy drop dead?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 August 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
penny ass stock
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
-Fishbone
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
I have a friend who I think bought a Tesla yesterday. The day before his trip to the dealer I made fun of him for supporting Elon Musk, con man and neo-libretarian asshat, and my friend had no idea what I was talking about.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
(libertarian, not librarian, or whatever got posted))
neo-librarian
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
Musk does seem the sort to collect a bunch of books he didn't read just to look good in his office.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
Just because i dig living on mars, ruining astronomy, and converting public wealth into private profits does not make me neo-librarian does it? am i the baddies?
― retail rage is for suckers (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
I learned today that a big chunk of Tesla's revenues ($428 million in the most recent quarter), the difference between them being profitable and not, comes from selling emissions credits to other auto manufacturers, for various jurisdictions around the world.
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
thanking u in advance, I will be sure to use that the next time I have to discuss this clown (which is way too often)
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 September 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
disappointed that elon has yet to bring a firefighting robot or covid antibody drone into service yet
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
firefighting sub
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
Firefighting submarine seems more his speed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
Wow
New From Us: Nikola—How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in Americahttps://t.co/GHf6kvUgo0 $NKLA (1/x)— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) September 10, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
So ... Nikola partners with GM, which sends Tesla shares down, then this other short seller party publishes research and fraud accusations against Nikola and *Nikola* shares do down, all over the course of a couple of days ... if I didn't know better I'd say something fishy is going on.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Our investigation of the site and text messages from a former employee reveal that the video was an elaborate ruse— $NKLA had the truck towed to the top of a hill on a remote stretch of road and simply filmed it rolling down the hill. pic.twitter.com/n2NLDGInzR— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) September 10, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
absolute cesspool of an industry
the 'rolling downhill in neutral' industry is gaining momentum at exponential rates, though
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Be right back, founding a company called Sisyphus that specializes in pushing electric cars to the top of hills *and* rolling them down.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
who does this guy think he is, elizabeth holmes?
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
...its all connected
Tesla stock TSLA chart resembles Bitcoin bubble in 2017, says analyst https://t.co/yvuuLmIcab #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/U1RbV1OexK— The Bitcoin Street Journal (@BTCstJournal) September 11, 2020
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 September 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
lol that analyst
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 September 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
it's all about charts
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 11 September 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
and golden ratios
pepsi cola
tbf tesla makes real cars that go, afaict. there seems to be some light financial crimes, but they do make cars. the nikola thing is theranos.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
i'd say $TSLA chart is shaping up into a classic triple-charge summit - you can see the first "base camp" in March as the line consolidates gains and redistributes them to the previous baseline. the first real climb goes from march to late june, interrupted by an overnight "pause for breath", followed by a dawn ascent to Bravo camp in early August. all of that was clear enough, but not everyone agrees on the meaning of the heights of late August. was that the summit? it was cloudy, everyone was relying on their instrumental readings rather than sight, and no one on the trip had been above 20,000 ft before. we can only see that musk quickly retreated back down. did he fall or was he pushed? or is he just redistributing the gains and insights to Bravo camp?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 September 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
could just be head and shoulders too
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 September 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
tbf tesla makes real cars that go, afaict. there seems to be some light financial crimes, but they do make cars.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, September 11, 2020 12:18 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
even money theyre doing major accounting fraud, tho maybe that qualifies for light these day
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 September 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
yeah i mean "light" as in "light treason"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
Light as in permanently removed from CEO office, permanently barred from ever serving officer or director of a publicly trading company ever again, as well as multiple $20M fines.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
i mean the eron guys went to prison
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
The Hobart Mercury reported on the opening of an EV charging station in Hobart, Tasmania today. It has nothing to do with Tesla or Elon Musk but they thought this was the best image to illustrate the piece with.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgd90g2grkrc5f2/elon.png?raw=1
Belongs on the claustrophobic movie posters thread.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 14 September 2020 05:59 (three years ago) link
For sure, it's like a cross between Back to the Future and Big Trouble in Little China. (Both by Drew Struzen.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
and santorum.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
Muskophobic.
― nickn, Monday, 14 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
Tunnels are the solution to traffic. You can have as many levels as you want. Usable tunnel depth far exceeds tallest buildings, so would work even for New York or Beijing.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 15, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
cool start workin
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
What does the height of buildings have to do with anything??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
He is saying if we lower New York completely to the depths of its highest building all the original streets become low level tunnels that we can build upon without needing flying Teslas.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Elon's tweets work better in the context of imagining he just took a massive bongrip prior to posting.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
"imagining" the "take stock private at 420" guy taking a bong rip
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Vf3Hw8r.gif
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
the height of buildings matters because the only other viable alternative - flying cars - would be obstructed by them.
how you gonna get down to these tunnels? 600 laps down a corkscrew ramp? car lifts?
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
if only there were some preexisting system for transiting rapidly through cities, in tunnels
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah, but that approach is so modest. They should just scoop out the rest of the rock and dirt and make one *big* tunnel. Big problems deserve big solutions!
Did he ever finish his submarine? That, for those who don't know, is a machine that tunnels through *water.*
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
Can't wait to use the tunnels in New Orleans and Miami.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
he just skip the prologue and just get straight to his tunnel from NYC - Shanghai project
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
just drop people in, fast commute!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
what about a pneumatic tunnel that shoots people around without a vehicle
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Or better yet, shoot people out to space!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
shoot them to mars
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
seems like all of this could be done more easily with rope and elbow grease
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
a sling shot
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
I was thinking a rope and pulley system, but that could probably be enhanced with sling shot modules
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
a paternoster lift, but for cars
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
(i didn't mean paternoster, did i. what's the one where you step on and off every floor?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
That’s just a standard pre-bedtime routine to ward off spirits, I think
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
― koogs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:14 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:19 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
that's a paternoster
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
i called him a dumb fuck yesterday and it kinda blew up, had to mute the convo before the stans got there
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk-rats are some weird fucks
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Kinda wish he'd get hit by a truck and have Guy Fieri bake him into some new Flavortown concoction
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:35 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
You’re not going to solve the problem by insisting that people use a form of transportation that is objectively less convenient than cars.— Regyptian Slut (@RegyptianStrut) September 16, 2020
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
markets determine correctness; if there are enough rich people who want to drive, they should be allowed to turn the city into a honking traffic sewer for everybody else, there are no other options
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
The car is so convenient there must be tunnels under other tunnels to conduct them.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
(a cursory glance at google was giving me a doorless lift that moved in a continuous loop and went over the top as a paternoster. not what i was after. which they used in mines...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
fuck cars. yeah, now and then I like going for a drive, but one of the things I love about visiting NYC is that I don't gotta rent one, the subways are easy to navigate, cheap, and hey, it's part of the experience.
all we have in Florida is the terrible Lynx bus system and the very limited SunRail. I wish I didn't have to drive.
but it's more important to get somewhere at 1:18 pm than a subway getting you there at 1:25 pm
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
lmao i love the idea that we can tackle climate change without any sacrifice convenience
clearly the best way to combat climate change it to keep pumping out $80,000 luxury sedans
serious question: is Tesla as a company even carbon neutral??
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
the car is so convenient, all it asks of us is the melting of the polar ice caps by its byproducts, decades of murderous imperialist policy to provide its fuel, the complete transformation of landscapes at a continental scale to create markets for it, and ongoing mass death caused by its operation by barely-trained amateurs. until you can answer to that unprecedented level of convenience, then *shrug* i guess there's a reason they call elon a genius and YOU'RE a nobody!!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
I really believe that people who think “cars are convenient” have literally never had the chance to live anywhere that’s walkable, with limited parking and decent public transportation. Cars are astoundingly inconvenient and expensive to boot.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
cars are in almost every way a huge pain in the ass
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
Cars are fun to drive, that’s about it
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
most of the time theyre not even fun youre just trying to get somewhere in a deadly machine that you control and theres a ton more deadly machines around too, and dont even get me started on parking!!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
I own a car I bought before moving to a city, and when I even remember that it exists I mostly hope someone steals it
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
h8 cars so fkin muchh8 car cultureh8 how everyone in a car culture intense place talks about cars
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
h8 old cars, new carsh8 car showsalso driving is so painful and hard on your body
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
last point so otm, I used to love driving when I was young and supple.
I would gladly sit on a bus for 30mins extra just to not have to deal with the sustained adrenaline-pumping stress of urban driving; hell even taking a cab/car can be terrifying
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
i have a hooptie right now so that probably has something to do with it but i swear more people drive like maniacs now than ever. feels like constantly dodging bullets out there!
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
what we absolutely need is dark tunnels full of computer controlled cars with nothing to anchor perspective, definitely the way forward
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
working from home has been such an unexpected joy, and a big part of that is no longer wasting 30 minutes a day on a highway, and saving $80 a month (at least) in gas.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
save on wear n tear too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
NB I still read Jalopnik and can’t wait for The Grand Tour to come out with more episodes. I hate cars too but I’m drawn to single-minded enthusiasts of all stripes (also see: me still reading The Ringer despite having stopped following any sports)
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Lagoon I thought you liked cars these days?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
i like cars... in some ways
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
map just described the shitty climax of the shitty fourth Fast & Furious movie, maybe we just need to get Musk to watch some of the other ones and we can look forward to new Teslas tuned up for "drifting"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 September 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
it's called Fast & Fourious, you're welcome
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 17 September 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
i also hate cars and cannot drive. but i've spent lockdown watching literally hindreds of episodes of Wheeler Dealers, Fantomworks, Fast and Loud, Misfit Garage etc.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
Left lagoon, right me
added a couple updates in response to feedback pic.twitter.com/YKMUqQpttC— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) September 17, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
left caek right me
https://i.imgur.com/JTEx4x6.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
lmao I can't get this out of my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSJORwb134
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I saw the Starlink for the first time last week on a clear sky, and it must have been the big one because this thing stretched *far* across the sky. Looked like an armada of spaceships invading, quite something, wasn't expecting the satellites to be so close together.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
@BoringPrufrock @BoringLoopLV @boringcompany this scenario shows 12pax AEV arriving every 6 seconds at a station with 5mph speed and 40s average dwell time per bay. Its a bit chaotic but the whole LVCC Loop system does end up moving 21,600 people per hour. pic.twitter.com/4dZUESsrXL— Phil Harrison (@phlhr) November 14, 2020
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Comments have been counting the number of people run over in this simulation.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
what if I got in on the wrong side of the car when I was picked up - do I have to scoot across the seat to get out, or get murdered by the next car in line?
now, what if all the cars were connected, and moved in sync between some sort of "station" built for unloading them? just a thought.
― vcrash, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Why not just invent teleporting pods instead of wasting time with these cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
lol nice simulation good work
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
my friend has a Tesla and he took me inside.
i was converted into digital data.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
at the end of this the bottom car disgorges like 20 people
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
feel like musk could stand to read this guy's book https://www.ft.com/content/b0c29ff7-e35e-397d-bea4-a7ca36e0ea15
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/bus-best-public-transit-cities/574399/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
The teslas should be able to fling and capture passengers via coupling through large passenger windows.
― foopin posts and pissin shits (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
i always hear about lyft's end goal being self driving cars and, having driven lyft, it's fucking mystifying to me, like do they know how fucking chaotic people are? especially at bar time?
like picking someone up a club downtown, fucking drunk people tottering all over, crossing in the middle of the street, cops on horseback walking around, oh wait we're not on that side of the block we're by this other place oh wait one of our group is missing oh hey i know we said to drop off at my apartment but chelsea needs to be dropped off at her apartment can we swing by there too? wait don't go that way i know a better way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
thats why you just run them over
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 November 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Dead people can't give you a bad rating
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
My city refuses to even consider buses so we have 12-16 passenger van city-sponsored rideshare bullshit instead. It's the worst of all worlds - small and inconvenient without regular stopping points, drivers who aren't professionals at moving people around. I get passed by the vans doing 15-20 over on semi-residential streets regularly.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
wait don't go that way i know a better way
I mean as a passenger I have certainly been in Lyfts that took a very bad route because the algo instructed them to, presumably the auto-driven cars would do this as well
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
yeah I mean you what the app tells you to, I've also had people who insisted on a different route that was an absolute clusterfuck
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
lol yeah theres like no rhyme or reason to the #s of people exiting those cars, 15+ passengers exit at least 3 times by my count
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
inching closer to mass transit imo - sounds like a dead end project!
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
SpaceX Mars prototype blew up during a test flight today. This is considered a success, due to Musk's policy to "embrace mishaps during the early stages of new spacefaring technology development."
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
EGG on Musk
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
would actually pay for an Elon-breaking machine
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
Has this guy invented a space bus that runs on earth highways yet? How about terrestrial boats that drive (on wheels!) through tunnels *under* the water's surface rather than float over the top?
Sad to say that Elon probably missed his opportunity on this, thoughhttps://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_3bb6e264-6eb6-4e8b-8723-64334ea568a5?wid=325&hei=325&qlt=80&fmt=pjpeg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
musk's genius brain coming at us with SpaceMall
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago:
Belly flop, engine restart, flip, and boom.SpaceX’s Starship SN8 rocket spectacularly guided itself back to a landing pad in South Texas after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday, but it couldn’t nail the touchdown.See our video of the entire flight: https://t.co/fUlhxwYevv pic.twitter.com/1odZgAS3R1— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 10, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
trying to observe that from the perspective a future archivist/researcher.
the people of earth...are cheering for the test of a self-landing reusable rocket...they cheer for it as it deploys its automated systems and seems to be landing correctly...and then when it crashes and explodes...they cheer with even more enthusiasm
...unclear what 2020 people want or think
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I think multi-billion dollar space ship crashing to earth pretty much sums 2020 up.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I love that this billionaire dumbass with unlimited resources keeps trying and failing to do something NASA did in the 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
i believe nasa had some crashes back in the day as well, though! rocket science is probably pretty hard
and i think the idea is to continue the idea of reusable components that nasa had partially accomplished (the space shuttles)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
karl, this thread is for posting stuff like "can this guy even wipe himself?" after somebody links a tweet
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago
this was almost certainly me misreading something late and tired, ty for video
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Has Elon Musk thought about radically disrupting the personal fragrance industry? Because that really seems like what he was born to do.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/qbNT1dUsED— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2020
in the thread's defense, it is p hard to believe this guy can wipe himself
― loose Orwellian mobs (rob), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
richest person in the world as of today
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
i find that bizarre
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
and sickening, obv
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
both are valid responses
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
I don't see why we call a person "rich" when all it means is that some object he holds claim to has been arbitrarily assigned a larger number, it's not like he's going to sell it. If somebody lives in a house that shoots up in value, they're not a millionaire unless they sell it, and if the house goes back down in value, they never were.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
I mean I'm not saying Musk isn't rich, I'm just saying the temptation to declare that "the current price speculators are paying for a thing" represents its actual value is to be resisted.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Pretend value behaves like real value, I suppose.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 5:21 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is literally the definition of value
― dean bad (map), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
what is to be resisted, imo, is "rich people aren't that rich because they don't have a bunker full of cash"
― dean bad (map), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
all that is solid kills versus maims
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
listen, i know you're saying this ps5 is $400, but that's just speculation
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
it is a very bad way to think about value imo, but i recognize it is popular
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
The problem is mostly that the bunker full of cash has disappeared into an asset that will provide nothing to no one, except Musk, for the foreseeable future.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
― dean bad (map), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:26 PM (four minutes ago)
otm. cash also fluctuates in value iirc
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
'Tesla cranked out about 500,000 cars last year, about as many as General Motors makes in a month. But despite that, Tesla is worth more than Ford, Honda, BMW, General Motors, Daimler, Volkswagen and Toyota put together.’ From CBC.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:20 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you know that money changes in value as well? if someone has 10 million dollars are they not rich because hyperinflation could happen and their 10 million may not be enough to buy a a 1990 subaru forester then?
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
Musk's wealth also feels a lot more.. tenuous than Bezos. I mean, Tesla still seems constantly on the edge of losing their market share and SpaceX is probably a couple exploded rockets away from falling apart.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
1st gen Teslas are exploding so there's that...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
Also afaict Bezos has yet to tweet something out that manipulates his stock price.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
It's just a bubble.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
i was under the impression that spacex was doing really well and that they are maybe NASA's biggest contractor? or is it Boeing, still? plus, beyond delivering payloads to space stations and making the re-usable crafts for NASA, i'd assume that there will be a neverending series of rich people who are willing to pay $500K to fly in low-orbit space for a few hours
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Most of Musk's wealth is tied in Tesla, SpaceX moves the needle by 5% of his total worth.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:28 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
How do you define value?
Because if people are willing to spend 5% of their savings on one stock, that's value to them, and Musk's worth (mostly) is an addition of all those investments.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
if he tried to wield power consistent with his paper wealth, other rich people and nations etc. would laugh at him.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
also tesla stock isn't bitcoin, but it's not like he can sell it and get dollars equal to the number of shares * current price. obviously this is true of anyone paid in stock, but it's particularly true of tesla.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
The amount power he yields is not inconsequential in that millions of people now have money tied to his fortunes. He can also use Tesla's cash flow to buy whatever he wants for a long time now.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
i'm not saying he's not rich and powerful!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
starting to think the rocket nonce may be dud
― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
I guess I am just resistant to a rigid definition that says e.g. the "value" of a person's labor, if they don't have much power, is the pittance they can be forced to accept in exchange for it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
I know there are 10000 theoretical books about this I haven't read so I can just excuse myself
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
having a lot of tesla stock is like having a lot of beanie babies, if you think about it
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
a cry for help?
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/DBcwLMbV5G— Mexie (@mexieYT) January 9, 2021
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
tesla built their car stereos to increment a counter every time you start it, and when it you've done it enough times the entire dashboard breaks. excellent https://t.co/EZB5RUuhBz— kyle (@knives_are_cool) January 15, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
intersting
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er9BntdU0AAG8ih?format=jpg&name=900x900
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 January 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
shoulda jsut given her emale
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
This car sounds like garbage.
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
This is the new Tesla Model S and Model X interior. Mostly it's a big improvement, but...
I'm sorry, having only half a steering wheel is a dealbreaker.
https://images2.markets.businessinsider.com/6011ef0e6dfbe10018e00622
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
It's like flying a plane, man!
― nickn, Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
lol that is... not functional
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
boring opinion but im still amazed that it can be legal to just have a streaming-equipped TV screen that faces the driver. like 20 years ago i once got a ticket for obstructed view for having a dancing hula lady toy on my dashboard, and now you can literally just watch TV while you drive
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
Every time I see a Model X in person I'm shocked again at how ugly it is.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
no shit when I started driving the cool thing to have were those CD/DVD players with a 7" screen precisely because they were illegal
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
i doubt that steering wheel is even legal in most of the world
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
self-clowning car
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:09 (three years ago) link
lol I bet three dozen people told him that only for him to reply "yeah ok eeet will be fine"
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:10 (three years ago) link
that car looks like it might be cool once they add some more polygons
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
it's the N64 of cars
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
car does the driving, you don't need a steering wheel while you watch Tenet picture-in-picture with a baseball game
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
the streaming video functions of tesla theater turn off when the car is in motion iircthere will be more demand for video in cars that require charging - drivers will be sitting there with nothing to do
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 January 2021 09:09 (three years ago) link
they should add a glovebox or a back seat so ppl have somewhere to keep a book
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:29 (three years ago) link
a what?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 January 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
lol sic, you'll never make it in today's market thinking that way
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 January 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
just...
Tesla unveiled the 2021 Model S and Model X vehicles on Wednesday night with images showing no stalks on the steering wheel or any other visible way to manually shift gears.CEO Elon Musk tweeted today, when asked how this will work, that the car will guess which way the driver wants to go.
CEO Elon Musk tweeted today, when asked how this will work, that the car will guess which way the driver wants to go.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35344029/tesla-model-s-x-shifter-explained/
― Lee626, Friday, 29 January 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
It’ll likely require training to learn your routine and parking spaces, and it's sure to make a few mistakes
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link
i'd say lol but they obviously knew this would happen and wanted it too because everything is shitposting for engagement
"At this time, NHTSA cannot determine if the steering wheel meets Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. We will be reaching out to the automaker for more information." https://t.co/MZJoLkKR1w— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) January 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 January 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
sir this rendering is not a real car it is unlawful to play the witcher while driving
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/elon-musk-says-he-has-wired-up-a-monkeys-brain-to-play-video-games-with-its-mind-12205374
Elon Musk says he has wired up a monkey's brain to play video games with its mind"He's a happy monkey," claimed the billionaire.
― The Man, DeLorean (onimo), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk says he has wired up a monkeys brain to be his only friend. "He's my best friend," claimed the billionaire.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk says he has wired up a monkeys brain to consume memes. "He's a epic monkey," claimed the billionaire.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk says he has wired up a monkey's brain to wire up other monkeys' brains to kill. "The end is nigh," claimed the billionaire.
― Florida Man vs. California Bill (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
Thought this was actually ... good?
https://jalopnik.com/in-epically-nerdy-interview-elon-musk-discusses-build-1846181756
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
Bro @NHTSAgov how is this even legal? One heavy breaking and their neck and face will go bye bye $TSLAQ $TSLA pic.twitter.com/vqrRVnDQLd— Tess Laqué (@laque_tess) February 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 February 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
hmm, that's kind of sensationalistic, you wouldn't be driving with the trunk open. absolutely impractical backseats that no one that isn't tiny could possible ever fit in is a pretty common thing in cars - i remember being almost too big to fit in the back of my uncle's porsche when i was 8
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
porsche has a famously pretend back seat but ive never seen a regular car with that little head room
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
you wouldn't be driving with the trunk open
right but it doesn't matter if the trunk is open or not. there's a metal bar 12 inches in front of their face.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
btw these still sell the prius wagon in australia, where it is a seven seater! https://www.toyota.com.au/prius-v
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
you wouldn't be driving with the trunk openright but it doesn't matter if the trunk is open or not. there's a metal bar 12 inches in front of their face.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, February 12, 2021 4:13 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh i assumed it would be flush when closed. doesn't look that way from this photo in the replies
Girls = 5,6' (170cm)Guys = 6' (180cm) pic.twitter.com/mmt8FCAJG2— Tess Laqué (@laque_tess) February 12, 2021
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
literally loling at prius wagon their own marketing materials show zero leg room for the back row
https://i.imgur.com/6okNlN9.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
you can see them at 3:20 ish here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVJhTcyLkvE
i want a prius v, but not the seven seater. they look fine for kids, apart from the lack of oxygen in the car.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
my god
https://i.imgur.com/JFhQJxu.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
you see a lot of those as taxis in california, and without the third row they feel insanely spacious. i wish they still sold them in the US but we all want suvs now apparently.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:23 (three years ago) link
yeah its hard to find a non suv these days, tho as they keep making more compact ones maybe they will reinvent station wagons and hatchbacks
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
ive driven a couple prius didnt really care for them tbh very tin can feeling
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
tho its been a while maybe the new ones are better
im sorry but you must drive a "crossover". or a truck
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
yeah they are. my in laws have a 2011 and a 2018 prius and fit and finish is waaaay better.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
our 3 year forester lease is ending this year. i leased on the basis that there would be good EV options for us around now, but it's still slim pickings and i am struggling to win the prius v argument, so we'll probably end up leasing again :(
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
i think my wife is worried about how many people will want to do it with me if i'm driving a prius wagon tbh.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
it is a very magnetic car
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 February 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link
bitcoin and tesla both down
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/lOQU3N3SBl— Justin Gaynor (@justingaynor) March 4, 2021
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Friday, 5 March 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
58 days and still no answer. I have had enough, i STILL believe Tesla makes great cars but their customer service is truly horrendous. Fifty-eight days since my car caught fire sitting in the drive, and Tesla doesn’t seem to care at all. ANSWER ME!! @Tesla @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/xZDr8mHQT7— :( thor (@GUNMTLM3) March 4, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
lol owned
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
Jesus these Elon fanboys are absolutely brainwashed.
"Here's a photo of the burned husk of my car that randomly caught fire two months but I still believe Tesla makes great cars, it's just the bad customer service that needs work."
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 March 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
don't worry lads, this reply guy has solved the case
Looks like sabotage. Teslas don’t spontaneously catch.— Tesla STONK 💎🙌: Crypto ORACLE of OC: (@JosephVVallace) March 4, 2021
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 March 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
this reminds me of those losers who spend hundreds of dollars on vinyl with ratings like "Very Good Plus" and pretend the surface noise and inner groove distortion actually makes it sound better, heh heh heh you dorks
― frogbs, Friday, 5 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
so the Tesla was a "hot stamper"?
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
damnit i wanted to see footage of car go boom
― map ca. 1890 (map), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
we like those
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
Profoundly depressing that the guy has to lead with “I still think Tesla is the best I promise.”
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
we're Tesla and Bunny
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Saturday, 6 March 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
$tslaqI have a theory and before I just started throwing out accusations of total fraud I did a complete exhaustive examination of the ZEV (and then non ZEV) credit transfers. Teslas rev/ profit center.— Mindful Capitalist (@HappiestYogi) March 11, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
I still think about this tweet every time someone mentions Elon Musk (which is like every day). It feels like it was from way longer ago that 2018.
Elon Musk
― peace, man, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
link is just looping me back to the bottom of the thread
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
maybe for the best, that tweet is both funny and too cursed to bear
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
link works on desktop, not on zing
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 11 March 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
aha, i'm on flagging
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Tesla has officially listed founder Elon Musk as its 'Technoking' in a regulatory filing, while the firm's financial chief is named 'Master of Coin' https://t.co/ZyfOWyHTef pic.twitter.com/sQT3j2SsOM— Reuters (@Reuters) March 15, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
this is ridiculoushttps://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/tesla-price-target-2/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/smxu0hn.png
i don't follow any of this shit closely, but here are the scenarios they used for that. it seems like they're like 50% sure the robotaxis will be a thing by then
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
(and because that's kind of a confusing graphic probably, by "50%" i didn't mean anything specific, i just meant that in about half of simulations, they ended up assuming robotaxis were a thing)
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
I know this is off topic but it fucking drives me up the wall to see hundreds of idiots on Twitter defend this guy by saying "yeah he's a billionaire but he's literally trying to save the world and advance civilization by bringing about a techno utopia" when he SWATs his own workers for even suggesting they unionize
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Within 2 years he will convert his $TSLA holdings into BTC and bounce.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
I recall reading an analysis of how the conversion of taxis and trucks to self-driving vehicles could put millions of people with relatively strong jobs that require few hurdles for entry out of work. Something like 3.5 million people drive trucks alone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
yeah, but those same truck drivers will help spur innovation and growth in the video poker sector
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
They just need to pivot to video, simple.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Well, someone's got to plug those video poker machines in. That's millions of jobs gained right there alone!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
It works perfectly well, for the first few hundred feet before it hits another car or runs someone over. But that's theirs problem for not being automated, losers.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
something like the tusimple approach should be possible, since you can invest more money into the sensors for semis. you probably also have a better view of things with the sensor placement. and it looks like they have set shipping routes that will be well-trained. there will still be a driver in the cockpit.
― intrusive dobro, shoeless guest (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
I know this is off topic but it fucking drives me up the wall to see hundreds of idiots on Twitter defend this guy by saying "yeah he's a billionaire but he's literally trying to save the world and advance civilization by bringing about a techno utopia" when he SWATs his own workers for even suggesting they unionize― frogbs, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is because Americans don’t trust one another and are more comfortable with an idea of one “great man” changing things than they are with collective action. There is no solidarity here, people just want to make sure their neighbor doesn’t have more than they do. This is a bitter, self loathing country that worships its worst citizens.
― treeship., Thursday, 25 March 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22351157/tesla-elon-musk-delete-anti-union-tweet-national-labor-relations-boardNo question that Tesla and Musk have engaged in many illegal shenanigans to pre-emptively bust a union, but what is "technically" the offense in this tweet? The giving up stock options thing?
― Nhex, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
yes. page 51 of the ruling starts going into the rationale. IANAL but basically it is illegal to tell employees that if you vote to unionize, we will take away a benefit you currently have - it's a form of intimidation. the NLRB finds that this is the most logical/likely interpretation of the tweet.bear in mind also that, threatened in advance or not, if employees chose Union Yes, employers are barred from making unliateral changes to things that are subjects of bargaining, even before a contract is ratified. (they may try anyway, but they can be challenged for doing something illegal.) so tesla also could not legally do this stock options thing that he was implying/threatening would happen.basically a more sophisticated sleazy employer would have listened to his sleazy anti union lawyers, who would have told him "you have to phrase it like you're deeply concerned that a possible outcome *of collective bargaining* would be a contract where for some reason the union's representation agrees to give up this benefit and everybody loses out, bizarre though that might be." employers use this schtick all the time - for example fretting that somehow a union would ratify a contract where workers lose more by paying dues than they gain in take-home pay. never mind that this will never ever happen, because what bargaining unit would vote yes to ratify such a contract? the employer can legally speculate that gosh, it's *possible*! watch out guys! musk didn't bother with that, so it seems like he's just saying "an outcome of you voting yes is i will punish you," which is not allowed.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
gotcha. ty!
― Nhex, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
'Investors are pouring money into unprofitable companies more than any time since the dot-com bubble.' https://t.co/myvYqbQYR7 pic.twitter.com/EOuevP70ZU— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 26, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
what could go wrong
― sean gramophone, Friday, 26 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
no future no past
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk, Texas: Apartheid. https://t.co/xzOglJuRyV pic.twitter.com/SSlqHlD3sM— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 25, 2021
can't believe this dumb herb actually replied
― rob, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
this guy
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
apparently bitch-ass-ness is as unlimited as income growth for the wealthy these days
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
this dude sucks
― Clay, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
I have been told of this creep's genius mind for almost ten years now and I have yet to use any of his products, and most of the people around me can say the same. Dude is the ultimate snake oil vendor and I hope unionization drives his ideas out of the highway and into the precipice.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Lmao the Babylon Bee fucking suuuucks
― frogbs, Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
on the upside there's a lot of gold in that Onion slideshow
― rob, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
I found a video about Tesla's autopilot in Vietnam.That poor system just gave up. pic.twitter.com/9J3FlL2tsw— Tu Minh (@TuhmSG) March 30, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
lots of FSD failure vids going on right now. Clearly not close to ready.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Lol I didn't realize anyone owned a Tesla here in Vietnam. I have often thought when driving here that this might be the toughest challenge on Earth for their autopilot
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Athens, Greece is also pretty nuts with all the motorbikes.
― DJI, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
It’s fine SpaceX. I’ll just reschedule my field work until next year again because I can’t drive down a state Highway or state beach. It’s only public land and critical habitats you just showered with rocket parts. pic.twitter.com/gTj9l5SXrV— Ross Winton (@rosscwinton) March 31, 2021
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
Technoking indeed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
The explosion of yet another (3rd so far this year) SpaceX rocket prototype yesterday showered metal and potentially toxic debris far into the sensitive tidal flats of the South Bay Coastal Preserve, Boca Chica State Park and the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. On the right side of the highway is the SpaceX fenceline, and on the left is what has historically been one of the single most important sites for wintering Piping Plovers and thousands of other shorebirds. Since SpaceX gets County orders to close the highway and beach most weekdays we have had to cut back extensively on our monitoring there. Sadly, most news stories about these explosions neglect to mention the extensive damage being done to these highly unique coastal public lands.
https://www.facebook.com/CBBEPCoastalBirds/photos/a.1410276219230980/2985174601741126/
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Lmaoooooooo pic.twitter.com/DXU5e3dGJ7— logo, uncool zoned dad (@logophobe) April 5, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 April 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
this is really something!
Footage of what it looks like when a @Tesla is traveling through the @boringcompany’s Convention Center Loop. #vegas #boringcompany pic.twitter.com/ph1DJoTYBi— Mick Akers (@mickakers) April 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
remarkable! maybe they can build a scale model of london in the parking area and play the peter pan title music.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Apartheid guy is an arsonist
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Lol fair
behold: the las vegas tradition of using light design to distract you from what a bad time you're having https://t.co/Yaot4SRTPJ— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) April 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
can you carry open bottles in the tunnel, though
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
My neighbor just bailed on getting a Tesla solar roof installed after like 8 months of runaround from the company.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Actual footage of Elon's Tesla submarine attacking a competitor's loop prototype:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/23/9b/5e239b8a83739df81702fdd2e80af52d.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
In more serious/interesting news, I did hear a good Freakanomics episode that addressed the challenges self-driving cars face with roundabouts:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/roundabouts/
When a human driver enters a roundabout, Cameron explains:CAMERON: What you’re doing is having to do this intricate dance almost, with all of these other people. You’re basically taking social cues from all of these different vehicles and you’re doing that visually.As we’ve been hearing, learning this roundabout dance can be a challenge for human drivers.CAMERON: In a robo-taxi, that same challenge is present. You have to be able to perceive these objects early.Objects including not just other vehicles but pedestrians, cyclists, dogs.CAMERON: You have to be able to understand their intent, understand their direction, their speed. And all of these things make for a particularly interesting challenge. And a robo-taxi is not quite as aggressive as a human driver. So it’s very conservative.And in some circumstances:CAMERON: You cannot be conservative. It just doesn’t work. You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.
As we’ve been hearing, learning this roundabout dance can be a challenge for human drivers.
CAMERON: In a robo-taxi, that same challenge is present. You have to be able to perceive these objects early.
Objects including not just other vehicles but pedestrians, cyclists, dogs.
CAMERON: You have to be able to understand their intent, understand their direction, their speed. And all of these things make for a particularly interesting challenge. And a robo-taxi is not quite as aggressive as a human driver. So it’s very conservative.
And in some circumstances:
CAMERON: You cannot be conservative. It just doesn’t work. You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
"Hey, kids --- Big Ben! Parliament!"
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
lol that's in the episode!
BERESFORD: It was that Lampoon with Chevy Chase — that’s so much stuck in the psychology of the Americans, that you’re just going to go ’round and ’round forever on a roundabout.You may remember this scene:Chevy CHASE: I guess what we do is just drive around the circle here. It’s from the 1985 film National Lampoon’s European Vacation. Chevy Chase plays the American dad Clark Griswold, driving around a London roundabout with his family.CHASE: Hey look, kids! There’s Big Ben and there’s Parliament!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
hahahahhaa
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Stephenson's Rocket, a fucking oak barrel on wheels, went faster than the Las Vegas Loop in 1829 and hauled more people pic.twitter.com/X90A3uWZfe— 🌈Wings & Strings (@TomColetti) April 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Elon would go faster if he sealed himself in a barrel and got thrown over Niagara falls.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
I like subways.
Why would you replace subways?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
because theyre competition for your car business
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Seems very unsafe, also.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
Kylie Jenner drives through Deathtrap Tunnel
Kylie Jenner showing off The Boring Company tunnel in Las Vegas 👀 🔥 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/wwN0yc9zIx— SAINT (@saint) April 14, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
the cars must be on self driving mode in the tunnel no
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
makes sense, but doesn't look like it from that video.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
good, because Jenners don't have a good track record when driving their own vehicles
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
thankfully there have been no incidents to date of accidents involving self-driving cars
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
That's what the 🔥 emoji represents— G (@grova) April 15, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
how long before someone crashes their car in here and they can't get it out? like, a week?
That's the whole plan: a car will get stuck, and Elon will announce a new Land Submarine that will drill down and rescue it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
until he is then stepped on by a Kaiju
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
at 35mph max lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
I'm more confused by the fact that Tesla actively chose to release videos of it than I am at how much it sucks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
i feel like a lot of the excitement & novelty theyre feeling in that vid has got to be down to the fact that ppl that wealthy are never actually in the front seat of a moving vehicle seeing the road through the windshield
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
the indescribable thrill of crushing claustrophobia
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
going to redub the clip with the tunnel scene from willy wonka
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
Just wait until these dorks see the United terminal at O'Hare:https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ohaire-internal.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Or that shitty ride at Epcot:
https://www.themeparktourist.com/files/Journey%2520into%2520Imagination.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
is that elon on the right?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
This is the man who will own Mars
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
He can have it, imo, but only if he moves there.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
he has....two weeks
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
l-r: elon musk, grimes
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
^not even funny anymore at this point, tbh.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Well a lot of Tesla's concepts are a figment of his imagination
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Lol I could write code for self driving cars in a single lane tunnel
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
could do this with two, possibly one lego mindstorms reflectometer
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
"lidar is a crutch"*builds tunnel underground for self-driving cars without lidar*
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
i tuned out the whole boring story - is the idea that there will be endless lines of cars moving on these things? like a pullover lane where the passenger steps in, and then the boring car automatically moves onto the main 35mph track alongside it and whooshes to the destination?
i mean, i guess
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
i think the best way to understand the boring company is its anti public transportation propaganda in service of selling more cars
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
what if we take all the existing cars and then pay elon musk to reconfigure them to work on his boring lanes
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
what if we connect all the existing cars together, in a loop, and then put that loop around the moon. then everyone would just hop in their cars, twist the loop, and you're on the moon
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
like it doesnt have to be successful at transporting people to accomplish its goal which is to undermine public transportation via introducing chaos into the process of doing public transpo xp self
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
heh, you might be right. you think it's kind of like a loss-leader, worth the billions of losses because it opens up other ways that he can make $ in a non-boring fashion?
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
theres that and also hes not a totally rational actor who has made it clear he just hates public transportation on its on merits and he prob also believes his own bs so i mean why not dig some tunnels and make ridiculous claims
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
whatever you think of bezos, he is clearly a good executive and logistics is the original hard operational problem. musk just seems insane, maybe 0.5% of the world (i.e. US men aged 20-30) find his shtick compelling, and the fact that he is the world's second richest man is proof that nothing matters.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
i get a panic attack just thinking about riding in that thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
it looks too narrow to open the doors (which probably don't work unless you turn the engine off and on again)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
half-kidding but: Elon as a public figure makes me regret that Freudianism has fallen so out of favor
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Engineer who worked on this tunnel for a bit before quitting messaged me other day and said “basically all the engineers did was work to make sure that the fancy lights looked cool” and that people trashing the tunnel - bc cars are slow, etc - are way more right than they realize https://t.co/arWokSQxdR— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) April 16, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I don’t think it’s possible to be any more right about Musk than I think I am
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
I swear this whole project is a death trap.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387887/elon-musk-spacex-win-nasa-lunar-lander-contract-artemis
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
finally...mankind will touch the surface of the moon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
i have to admit it would be kind of funny if we found out that elon musk faked his moon landing
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
I see Musky as this guy who controls/pays lots of really smart people then steals all the credit
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
He is the Thomas Kinkade of tech.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
controls/pays lots of really smart people
to do what
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
stuff that he steals the credit for
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
tbf space exploration feels like a major grift
> Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the Moon, it will also send the first person of color to the lunar surface. So far, the only Earthlings to touch the Moon’s surface have been white men.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375899/nasa-first-person-of-color-artemis-mission-moon-woman
I hope this prevents cops from shooting black kids.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
i think it makes a lot of sense that his market worth is so huge because he's basically an avatar for the continued dominance of car culture. it's certainly not because he's competent in any way. he's kind of a similar figure to trump in the sense of being a stand-in for the relevance of a huge reactionary industry where his incompetence is a feature. like his real asset is just the fact that he's a stupid blowhard true believer.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
all they do is make robot cars that murder people, spaceships that explode on the ground, and imaginary submarines that get too mad at invisible paedophiles to get around to existing
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
eh if you're into space stuff than SpaceX making launches way way cheaper is a big deal. and jump-starting the electric vehicle market (sorry too lazy to change bad metaphor) was a big deal.but yes, launching a suicidal self-driving feature was bad. the tunnel under Las Vegas seems like the dumbest so far (someone pointed out that they're too small for people to open their doors, so no escape in an emergency ... AND you can't get help because they're too small for emergency vehicles. and it was an awful idea anyway. trains! just make trains!)
― lukas, Friday, 16 April 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
what good is SpaceX going to go for anything?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Ruining the night sky with orbiting trash and satellites.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 16 April 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
I feel like the only real motivation is some pathetic billionaire sci fi escape fantasy of escaping a dying Earth and living on a space station
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
yeah I'm not into space stuff either but I know smart devoted geeks who worship SpaceX so ... like so many things ... it might be useless, but the engineering was good.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
I’ll give Tesla some credit for making a fully electric EV seem like a luxury vehicle - there are a lot of legitimately cool and impressive things about them. This has almost nothing to do with Musk himself, however - in fact, the more I read about this company the more I’ve come to the conclusion that his contribution to the company is generally limited to stupid, gimmicky features and bad QC as a result of making dumb promises. That said he does appeal to a certain type of mega online dork and that alone has probably sold thousands of cars.
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
I’ll give Tesla some credit for making a fully electric EV seem like a luxury vehicle
this is terrible, not good
it might be useless, but the engineering was good.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
prototypes do blow up sometimes, that's sort of the point of the testing.if my comment didn't make it sufficiently clear, I'm a HUGE fan of blanketing wildlife refuges with rocket debris. I hope they explode a thousand more rockets. muhahahaha
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
maybe I should rephrase. Tesla made EVs cool. a total 180 from the way that say, hybrids were portrayed.
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
I definitely think Tesla make the big manufacturers move to EV more quickly
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
hence why I'll never own one, every good idea Tesla has is gonna get stolen by the big car companies, improved upon, and made cheaper
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
the big car companies have spent a century refining the process of manufacturing motor vehicles. they are familiar with failures and what recalls cost. tesla is like oops, sorry, let's roll out the latest nightly beta, that'll probably fix it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
if a car explodes but nobody is driving it, was it really a car
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
the problem with the idea that tesla popularized electric vehicles is that a. it was all built on government subsidies without which tesla would not exist, literally the popularization of electric vehicles is a government program that elon musk was just a willing partisipant in, and more importantly b. electric vehicles just arent popular, any of the big automakers would happily sell them if people were buying, theyve certainly put a lot of time and effort into developing and marketing them and theyve made some decent cars but so far they are not in high demand, even with the government trying to push them, one would assume that will change some day but as of now in the usa at least electrics are not in high demand
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
the back of the envelope math people are doing to justify teslas insane stock price that assumes domination of a huge market of which electric cars are just part is especially weird considering in the countries where electric vehicles are more popular people are just buying the same volkswagens and toyotas they always have, there doesnt seem to be any sort of big first mover advantage there
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
brand loyalty is more and more a thing of the past but it still exists in the auto industry
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link
The automotive industry and oil industry just failed to move on quickly enough to ensure... human survival. It's not Musk's accomplishment, it's a societal massive failure.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
I agree their stock price is silly but even with subsidies, people were arguing that nobody was going to buy EVs ... then it was that Tesla wouldn't be able to scale manufacturing to meet preorders ... now it's "well 2% of the market is tiny" which is fair, but ... I mean, I detest Elon Musk, but I just don't get it. Selling electric cars is a good thing! Nobody else was making it a priority! They're an incredibly irresponsible company but it's not a scam and I don't understand the hate.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
I think people are tired of cars.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GFOrXUI.png
https://i.imgur.com/yXSfm5m.png
https://i.imgur.com/N9NfQSe.png
being in 6th place in norway is pretty amazing if they could have nearly that success in rich countries world wide it would be huge, but it prob still wouldn't justify their stock price lol, then if we look at sweden theyre not even on the list, not sure whats going with there
https://i.imgur.com/kuGZtOn.png
then theres the usa, being up there with bmw and benz isnt nothing but its also not everything
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Selling electric cars is a good thing! Nobody else was making it a priority! They're an incredibly irresponsible company but it's not a scam and I don't understand the hate.
― lukas, Friday, April 16, 2021 11:29 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
not sure if any of these statements are true tbh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
When I envision an utopian future, there is no cars.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
However bad you think the future is going to be, it'll be worse without electric cars, cuz we're definitely not going to restructure society around mass transit in my lifetime.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
welp then theres prob no point in doing electric cars
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
why?
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
if you dont think doing the major surgeries needed to forestall catastrophe are possible then theres really no point in applying the bandaids like electric cars
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
transportation, mostly cars and trucks, is the single greatest source of greenhouse gases? am I missing something????
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
electric cars produce greenhouse gasses, i mean theyre better than fuel burning cars but its marginal, where public transpo is orders of magnitudes better
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
and just on a philosophical level the sort of fatalist incrementalism of contemporary liberalism where building public transportation, something that has been done before and in fact continues to be done, is impossible but electric cars are going to save us is well its just... uhh not great
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
eh even with the electricity generation and the battery manufacturing, it's a 2-3x reduction. and as we decarbonize electricity generation that number will get better and better.
i'll be overjoyed to be proven wrong here, but we don't just have to build public transportation, we have to build housing stock in saner places where transit makes sense ... we can't even build houses to solve homelessness. i'm not saying we'll get nothing done here, but thinking electric vehicles don't have an important role to play in this transition is ... it's bad, lagoon. bad.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
i generally agree. electric cars are a good thing. they're not the answer, but nothing is. do it all.
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
you are of course misrepresenting what i said because youre mad but something to think about cars now are well more than 2x3 times less polluting than they were 30 years ago and yet here we are xp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
was thinking the other day about how every person i know irl who ever brings up elon musk thinks he rules and is explicitly going to save humanity and they love him very much which i of course think is insane and bad but what can you do
― Clay, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
i will happily say definitively electric are not a good thing, they are quite obviously a less bad thing, and obvs were never going to get rid of cars totally so yeah they should be electric cars and in fact i feel quite confident the world is moving in that direction
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
A part of the hate is that you can't on one hand claim to be saving the world with electric cars and on the other lobby against mass public transit when obviously the latter is key in fighting climate change. In a better world this is not a zero sum game and both will coexist but Elon Musk seems to insist that it can't (what else is that ridiculous tunnel?) and couch that rhetoric with heavy classism.
Also I have no idea who the CEO of Honda or VW are but Elon Musk I do and he is jerk and that can't help the branding.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
and "do it all" is good if all of the things includes big transformative projects, but if its just cover for thinking that a grab bag of corporate friendly incremental solutions is going to forestall environmental catastrophe maybe its better to not do it all
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
xpostalso promoting bitcoin which will cancel out any possible gains from evs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
^ in months prob
mining the metal to make a new car still pollutes more than the car will do over the rest of its life afaik
The automotive industry and oil industry just failed to move on quickly enough to ensure... human survival.
damn, and they tried so hard to do so :(
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
i know the US is currently the major carbon emitter here, but this discussion ignores that it doesn't have most of the cars, and there are a bunch of countries culturally/economically/geographically well suited to transit, and pushing electrification of private vehicles in those countries is climate arson.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
electrification of private vehicles not just incrementalism, it's a local minimum that will trap us (like a lot of mainstream liberal policies in the US, btw.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:20 (three years ago) link
i mean, in the next 10-20 years we'll start to see mass population migration in the US, so I guess we've got a chance to resettle people into dense urban environments.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
people already want to live those places thats why theyre so expensive we just need to build more
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, April 17, 2021 12:20 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
year cars really are just a disaster on so many levels
I do see some movement in my state to make that happen. I wish it would happen faster. I'm pitching in where I can in my city, although as my debating style here indicates I'm probably more of a liability in public forums. I dunno, I'm pessimistic.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link
history is full of way more lost causes that won out keep giving em hell
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:34 (three years ago) link
if your state is california then i think you are right to be pessimistic about changes in land use. it's just not in anyone important's short term financial interest.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
still, i do see a lot of teslas here in america's least affordable city!
If Elon Musk gets lost in space will TESLA still go on??
Or is it a pharaoh company that depends on a magical leader
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
‘No one was driving the car’: 2 men dead after fiery Tesla crash in Spring, officials say
Herman said authorities believe no one else was in the car and that it burst into flames immediately. He said it he believes it wasn’t being driven by a human.Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies said the vehicle was traveling at a high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and hit the tree.KPRC 2 reporter Deven Clarke spoke to one man’s brother-in-law who said he was taking the car out for a spin with his best friend, so there were just two in the vehicle.The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright.The brother-in-law of one of the victims said relatives watched the car burn for four hours as authorities tried to tap out the flames.Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies said the vehicle was traveling at a high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and hit the tree.
KPRC 2 reporter Deven Clarke spoke to one man’s brother-in-law who said he was taking the car out for a spin with his best friend, so there were just two in the vehicle.
The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright.
The brother-in-law of one of the victims said relatives watched the car burn for four hours as authorities tried to tap out the flames.
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 19 April 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
elon stays winning
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 April 2021 05:55 (three years ago) link
deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
Operators are standing by.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
we didn't start the fire. It's been always burnin since the teslas aren't turnin.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
"I talked to my supervisor and he says you guys are pedophiles"
― frogbs, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
they watched their relatives burn to death? eesh
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 April 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
if Elon gets stoned today, 60% chance he tweets about how Teslas are great value because they save you the cost of a crematory
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
The advice is “you don’t.” Look at the firefighting section in the manual:
https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Model_S_Emergency_Response_Guide_en.pdf
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
idgi?
FIREFIGHTINGUSE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat orgases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not immediately available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct access to the battery. Apply water inside the battery ONLY if a natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not open the battery for the purpose of cooling it.Extinguish small fires that do not involve the high voltage battery using typical vehicle firefighting procedures
USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat orgases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not immediately available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct access to the battery. Apply water inside the battery ONLY if a natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not open the battery for the purpose of cooling it.
Extinguish small fires that do not involve the high voltage battery using typical vehicle firefighting procedures
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
seems like it wouldnt be great if one of these caught fire inside some sort of structure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 01:43 (three years ago) link
three car fires = Armageddon for the globe's water supply
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link
Honestly shocked that li-ion fires haven't already caused devastating problems. But now we have huge concentrations of them moving around at high speed.
― fajita seas, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 02:01 (three years ago) link
clearly the solution is to push every accident victim and their vehicle to the bottom of the ocean
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
xp most RVs use the LiFePo4 formula without cobalt, which is much safer
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
sounds fun!
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/consumer-reports-shows-tesla-autopilot-works-with-no-one-in-the-drivers-seat/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
had to share this, how is this thing legal?
lotta people asking about the loop "how do you get out of the tesla in an emergency when the tunnel is so narrow" without understanding that it's actually impossible to leave the backseat of a tesla in an emergency even on a regular road pic.twitter.com/1kS13oeg1I— Well There's Your Problem Podcast (@wtyppod) April 20, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 23 April 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
The War on Cars podcast did a blow-by-blow breakdown of that terrible gushing news segment on the tunnel. While Twitter might offer better zings, it was still good for a deep dive on exactly how dumb and overhyped this thing is.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 April 2021 12:46 (three years ago) link
He should dig an emergency failsafe tunnel that runs parallel to the first one. And then a third one as well, just to be safe. And then more and more until he's hollowed out the earth and we get a giant one of these:
https://i.gifer.com/Q6ao.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2021 12:56 (three years ago) link
dude the earth is already hollow
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
the earth is thicc
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
So, yeah, he's hosting SNL.
― o. nate, Monday, 26 April 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
People on here hate Elon Musk because he has unbundled decarbonization from pious attitudes about decarbonization. https://t.co/fHrmENSHZe— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 25, 2021
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 April 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
a tweet that will make you want to throw your device out the window.
musk seems to be a true bipartisan hit. lots of libs that love him because of technocracy and internet-nerd-right think he's epic
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 April 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
People who are mad about Elon Musk hosting SNL need to understand that hosting SNL is *not* an endorsement, for example Adolf Hitler hosted SNL in 1938— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 24, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 April 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment and the future while also think that Elon Musk, the person himself, seems like a big asshole, I don't see why this is supposed to set up some kind of Captain-Kirk-destroying-the-computer logical doom loop
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 April 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment and the future
it's also not hard to not think this at all
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 26 April 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
I still find it incredible that apparently a Tesla's back doors can't be easily opened if the power is cut off. Or, one presumes, if the power is off and the car is on fire.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 April 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 4:57 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol yeah it is easy to think that, prob why so many people do
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 April 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
xp woah, let's not write the snl sketches for them
― devil sticks in trench coat (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 26 April 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
whoa
Elon Musk is one of the biggest obstacles to the acceptance of a post-personal-car world, which is what we really need more than anything. Don't think he gives a shit about climate change, electric cars are just the new thing, if this were the 30s he'd be selling asbestos and CFCs.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 April 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
have we done Elon’s bro kimbal yet?https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/KIMBAL_MUSK_OFFICIAL_HEADSHOT.jpg/428px-KIMBAL_MUSK_OFFICIAL_HEADSHOT.jpg
― brimstead, Monday, 26 April 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
ive seen "elon musk's brother looks like ted bundy" online
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 April 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
food is the new internet
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 April 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
elon musk's brother is a minor character on dallas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 April 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
Don't think he gives a shit about climate change
Who gives a shit about what he gives a shit about?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
double Weingarten, maximum damage
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 3:06 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
he is an extremely rich and powerful person so ...
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VK6kgV1.gif
― BrianB, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
If Elon and his brother had a baby (get working on that tech, Elon), he might look like Dwight Yoakam:
http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/dwight_yoakam.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, April 26, 2021 6:07 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
It is actually not hard to think that the success of Tesla (which has to do with a lot of people not named Elon Musk in addition to Elon Musk) is a very good thing for the environment
hahahaha no
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Space X has pulled off some pretty wild shit but Musk comes off like a total choad. I kind of hope they get the rockets to Mars working as there is a bunch of mf'ers I would like to get sent off the Earth as soon as possible.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
go to mars bitch— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 24, 2019
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dfzbMN1.jpeg
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
wrong thread but it probably works anywhere
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Musk is really the Platonic ideal of a choad, for me.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
Don't think he gives a shit about climate changeWho gives a shit about what he gives a shit about?― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 11:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, April 26, 2021 11:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
people who say he's doing good things for the environment
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/PYrJZrx/158635459-2808118269439231-3091014651316252244-n.jpg
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-makes-more-money-trading-bitcoin-than-selling-cars-11619517615
$101mn in Bitcoin trading, $500mn in selling emissions credits and -$77mn in actually selling cars.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
idk what this guy is talking about all the time its a little bit inside baseball but he seems to be alleging that theres no evidence that tesla has actually sold all those credits
After some looking into China NEV program. Since there is speculation $tsla got paid by VW in China to the tune of 100s of millions in Q1.Again, there are no receipts and all bound by confidentiality agreement. There was reuters report but no comment by either.Let's look.— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) April 28, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
Where tesla has been making a packet in credits is Europe, they sell them to other car makers who can’t make their emissions targets, whatever else you say about tesla, getting your competitors to subsidise your products is a pretty good trick whilst it lasts.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 29 April 2021 04:14 (two years ago) link
🤣🤣— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:52 (two years ago) link
in that thread, the same moronic argument I've seen used to justify NFTs, it must have gone out in a crypto newsletter or something
Before you get triggered, educate yourself on the basics of Bitcoin mining and how it consumes magnitudes less energy than the existing financial system👇https://t.co/Qh4ATx4x5m— Dan Held (@danheld) April 29, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/1601YcX/180668668-456247552301948-9111268922997487158-n.jpg
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
ahh
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
also please tell me that Elon isn't writing his own skits
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
they should let him tho
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
world's first 2 hour Dogecoin sketch
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
looked at the thread and he's enthusiastically approving and ineptly yes-anding people's dogecoin suggestions
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
he's gonna pump the price and then sell all of his Doge live on tv and lead to a massive selloff
the SEC will be too busy laughing to care
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
I hope they let him do his doge coin skit, and it becomes his adrian brody snl moment
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
looked that up: yikes and loool
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5SsglPc.jpg
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 8 May 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
dog coin is down 25% already
― frogbs, Sunday, 9 May 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
he has got to be the most boring and awkward man on the planet. even Prince Phillip has more charisma than this guy. and I don't mean Prince Phillip last month
― frogbs, Sunday, 9 May 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
this is some exquisite torture
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Sunday, 9 May 2021 04:35 (two years ago) link
has Aykroyd really never hosted? I guess it wasn't ~expected~ of breakout stars to come back and bless the show in his day
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
I dunno, Chevy Chase came back. if he never did I bet there's a story there.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 May 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
Ackroyd hosted in 2003.
Musk was painfully bad but Ill attribute his mannerisms to Aspergers which I honestly didn't know he had (not that it makes me like him any more; actually I don't hate him as much as everyone else, he's a billionaire fool who has some good tech and whose company would likely do better without him). I turned off after that Mario bit, wtf was that.
― akm, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
awesome to be one of the most powerful people in the world and never mention that youre autistic or try to improve the lives of autistic people in any way then bring it up to deflect the fact that youre going to suck on tv lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
one of my best friends guessed a month ago he figured Elon had Aspergers (he has two autistic grown children, so he's very familiar).
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
I thought Asperger's was no longer an existing diagnosis
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 9 May 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
Also, I've never heard this guy talk before, does he have a South African accent or does he not? He seemed to at first and then it went away?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 9 May 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
seems likely this is a self diagnosis cause neither he nor anyone associated with him, a man who has multiple books and countless articles written about him, has ever mentioned it before, it wouldnt be a recent thing since its been defunct as an official diagnosis for the better part of a decade
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
he could just be lying for personal gain
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
yep
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
The defense calls Wario. pic.twitter.com/D2ANjRmbMO— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) May 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Could be real, could be a way to shield himself from criticism for just being a walking cringe factory
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
some pretty bad tesla news recently that hasnt quite coalesced in popular perception, cld easily be more to come too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
Babylon Bee should pivot to video and let Elon be their Tosh just to really put the nail in his cultural capital coffin
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
elon musk should become the editor of https://www.houstonchronicle.com/
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 9 May 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
not for any particular reason, it's just a really mediocre landing spot
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/06/investing/tesla-investor-sells-shares/index.html
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
this to me is the big one
Here's something I always like to share randomly at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT on a Saturday night — Elon Musk lied about Tesla's self-driving capabilities which artificially inflated the company's stock valuation and caused the deaths of several human drivers https://t.co/nF47ZnVZpI— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
lol wait is this what saturday night live is like?
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
yeah, every time i see a SNL clip i'm dumbfounded. maybe if they went every other week the writers would have time to come up with anything at all that is funny
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
the story thats been told around teslas insane valuation hinges on self driving, becoming new kind of company not just a one that sells cars to consumers, its been common knowledge amongst people who really follow this stuff that a. full self driving is an insanely hard problem thats not close to being solved and b. teslas approach to it is inferior to its competitors, but meanwhile elons been out there saying FSD is just around the corner for years, these documents surfacing right when there are deadly crashes in the news thatre probably self driving related... idk feel like there has to be a reckoning about this stuff at some point
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
tesla/musk just seems so shady idk! musk preparing to claim aspergers did it when a major scandal hits??
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
you have to understand accounting fraud is my special interest
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/kAV0ET0bMK— oatmeal influencer (@acechhh) May 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Might be cynical of me, but the Aspergers thing felt too much like a PR move to shift blame from his most controversial tweets and statements, or to excuse his generally narcissistic behavior.
Now whenever he is acting like an asshole he can just say “sorry, it’s my aspergers”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
Getting backlash from the r/autisticpride subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticPride/comments/n897kw/just_a_reminder_since_elon_announced_he_has/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
He actively campaigns against labour unions. How evil can a person be without people excusing or vouching for him?
― braised cod, Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
It had been four weeks since they did an episode.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
so glad he wasn’t born here or he’d probably end up running for president
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
running*being*
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
once again elon musk showed his uncanny ability to wriggle himself into a highly coveted position for which he has no demonstrated talent
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 9 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
It’s a real question whether or not he’d be the best Texas governor since Ann Richards if he ran for that.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
looool fuck
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
but yeah true
Elton musk sucks and so does snl, never gonna watch the clip that confirms these two known facts
― Pinefox reviews Reviews (wins), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Elton Musk - Goodbye Yellow Doge Coin
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
I just saw the skit where they rebranded AAVE as "Gen Z-speak" so they could make fun of it and I'm extremely tired
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
GOP gotta be hoping they can become the party of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and their online standom, and not just one for Lin Wood and Lou Dobs and Marjorie Tay Tay Green.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
Or shit maybe not. Or maybe both. Big Tentin’
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, April 26, 2021 4:15 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is not me defending EM or cars. BUT
i think if you have to significantly reduce emissions in the next 10 years or else bad shit 4ever, theres a more realistic pathway in the US to doing this in that timeframe by electrifying as many vehicles as possible than focusing limited political capital on (and waiting on the completion of) absolutely necessary massive public transportation infrastructure. but then once that phase is done its back to banning cars.
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
wow sounds like someone who just bought an electric car.... very interesting
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 May 2021 04:25 (two years ago) link
lol i did
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
bc my dumbass city will never build trains without helicopters full of federal money
the thing about musk FWIW is that hes actively advocating against public transpo and in fact trying to undermine it via the boring company and also the dumb vacuum tube idea (not sure if those are the same thing)
if he was just a simple electric car maker dont think people would be giving him shit in this case, but as usual with the ultra wealthy they got to be monkeying around where they dont belong
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 May 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link
right. electrification of private cars (i.e. the short term fix) is happening without tesla in most of the world. if can happen without tesla here too.
AND
they are literally fighting the things that really will save us in the long term.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link
to clarify my position: fuck EM (and by extension tesla)
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDVdwxBgwY
i hope tesla stops lying about it and i hope they figure out how to do it soon. that guy actually driving a vehicle may be even more dangerous
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 10 May 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link
...And that brings us back to our back seat Berkeley driver. One of the people who recorded one of his dangerous stunts attempted to contact either the California Highway Patrol or Tesla proper to hold the driver accountable—and was hugely disappointed. From SF Gate:
He purportedly provided the info to Tesla’s customer service, who told him to contact CHP’s Oakland branch. CHP allegedly told him that there was nothing they could do, and to contact 911.He called CHP’s main complaint line, and the representative allegedly suggested filing a report in-person, with the caveat that it wouldn’t punish the driver. All it would do, he explained, is hit him with a proverbial slap on the wrist — a warning letter to not do it again.
He called CHP’s main complaint line, and the representative allegedly suggested filing a report in-person, with the caveat that it wouldn’t punish the driver. All it would do, he explained, is hit him with a proverbial slap on the wrist — a warning letter to not do it again.
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 10 May 2021 05:24 (two years ago) link
'Back Seat Berkeley Driver' an underrated 69 Love Songs track
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 May 2021 06:52 (two years ago) link
he runs some really great companies:
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-spacex-is-reportedly-trying-to-gobble-up-thi-1846850735
there's an even better WSJ article about this, but it is paywalled.
Roughly 14 people not connected to SpaceX currently live in Boca Chica Village and the surrounding area, according to the Journal. One local, Celia Johnson, told the outlet she started having issues with SpaceX employees after rejecting the company’s offer to purchase her two properties located near the launch facility. One of her homes, a rental property, had a 1,600-gallon water tank suddenly vanish in 2019. A few months later, she arrived to find its window shattered by a brick and evidence suggesting that someone had been sleeping there. When she and her neighbors accused SpaceX workers of being the culprits, the company denied responsibility but reimbursed her in both cases.
However, in the meantime, Boca Chica Village residents are apparently getting screwed. Explosions from failed rocket tests have broken home windows, rained down debris, and started brush fires, according to residents who spoke with the Journal. Leading up to launches, locals say SpaceX workers leave them fliers advising them to vacate their homes in case of a potential malfunction. The company has even offered to put them up in a hotel during launches, albeit one 40 miles away (gas and food expenses not included).
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Elon Musk sounds like a shitty cologne scent you get in a dollar store
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
That SNL skit is execrable. Why is that show still so popular?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Inertia. Also most popular shows are pretty bad.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
yeah kind of hard to judge the Elon stuff. maybe the show is just that fucking bad now. at least they didn't do "Woke James Bond"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Here’s some good SNL discussion
Brilliant: he was invited on air to talk about Elon Musk and instead called out Newsmax for its election lies. “Newsmax lied to its own viewers and had to settle that lawsuit...Are you still telling that lie or are you telling new lies?” pic.twitter.com/dIE3uOttrD— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) May 10, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
theres no way all of snl can be as bad as that wario sketch
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
The show is really, truly, deeply, almost unremittingly bad.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
everything was fine until g.e. smith left and the saxophone guy took over
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
It was all over when Chevy left.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
I sometimes wonder if I've missed out on anything after I stopped watching when president dumbfuck hosted but I never wonder for very long.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
feels like this current shitty era has far outlasted the dark ages of the early 80s. I basically started avoiding it oh idk some time in 2016 and can’t say I’ve missed it a bit.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
Just read in the Washington Post how NBC was happy with how well the show did in digital media, including social media. Which is funny, since the Post always puts a goddamm recap of every episode with Youtube clips on its front page every Sunday morning.
I don't even click on the twitter links anymore. I see that Wario screencap and think, yeah, I'm pretty sure I can grab the gist of this.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
you should watch it its shockingly bad!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
couldn't bring myself to watch that one but I saw two minutes of "Gen Z Hospital" and it was straight up the worst sketch I've ever seen and I've watched a dozen episodes of Mad TV
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
like it sucked so bad it that wound up becoming racist
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
"Here, smell this milk! I think it's gone bad!"
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
i don't think it's more shockingly bad than a recent simpsons episode to someone who stopped watching around season 10. the idea that SNL was ever good seems to be what the newspapers here call a "falsehood".
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
im not an snl fan or as you say it across the pond supporter but that wario sketch is like barely even recognizable as tv
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
*i do like the sketch "the californians" lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
I've heard of warioware, but wario wear?!
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
easily the highlight of the dylan show i saw in 1989 despite having fixed leering ghoul visage
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
right but the Simpsons is like....an actual TV show. it's not easy to wring humor out of the same sitcom characters for over a decade. SNL turns over half its cast/writers every few years and they can do pretty much anything. you'd think they'd luck into a few funny shows here and there. Key & Peele was watched by fewer people and has had like 10x the amount of viral sketches as SNL during the entire internet era. it's weird how aggressively unfunny it consistently is.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
the other thing is that it's just a really bad format for a sketch show. like "lets have an extremely competitive cast cobble together a sketch show based on some random celebrity, but all the shows have to be written in a week and must be performed live?" it's as if its designed from the ground up to prevent funny things from happening. I think a lot about "Roundball Rock", which is legitimately very funny (it's one of the Tim Robinson sketches), but like...I can't even make it to the second half. the joke is revealed but there's 6 minutes to go before commercial so there's nothing for the characters to do but just start throwing shit around. if it was an ITYSL sketch it would be 2 minutes
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
lorne michaels hates comedy
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
and so does elon musk
haterday night live
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
I remember when Something Awful would have people do readings of really bizarre fanfics and that's what this sketch resembled to me more than anything (granted this is based on the first 2 minutes that I just watched, I had to tap out after that)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
Ego Nwodim as the "Woman in a dark place in her life" during Weekend Update made me laugh. So, it was not a complete waste of time.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:10 (two years ago) link
the idea that SNL was ever good seems to be what the newspapers here call a "falsehood".
What Up With That is a thing of pure joy.
SNL turns over half its cast/writers every few years and they can do pretty much anything.
Pretty much anything that Lorne Michaels specifically approves of.
Jost graduated college in 2004, started writing at SNL in 2005, and became co-head-writer in 2012.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
I bought a DVD of Phil Hartman's SNL bits and even that - even him - even their peak - still had some really cringey limp moments. Maybe I just dont get that certain kinda US comedy I dont know.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
this is the only good SNL bit in living memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
― Number None, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 06:11 (two years ago) link
the show's spirit was broken when lorne put on andrew dice clay over jan hooks and nora dunn imo
dunn did a great, honest intervew a few years ago - https://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/nora_dunn_snl_is_a_traumatic_experience_it’s_something_you_have_to_survive/
where she basically says SNL wasn't a smart enough show to deal with a guy like clay, and it's true. not sure it ever was. but she also says it was the first cast that made it iconic, and everything else since has ridden on though, no matter how talented everyone was. 'the outsiders who became insiders' is a good way of putting it.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
We were lucky because we had a really stable cast. And I think as maybe three seasons went on, Lorne added a couple people, but we weren’t introduced to those people as new cast members. It was very strange. Suddenly there was just another person there. And I think it was very hard for those people. Like, Who are you? What are you doing here? Are you a visitor? Or are you in the cast? Then we got Adam Sandler, and he was pretty much just doing his own thing. A lot of these people came on and just did their standup routines on News Update. We had been an ensemble-type cast, and I think we were at our best when we were working together, and the show started to become solo performances and I started losing interest.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link
My theory has long been that SNL’s appeal was that it was the only show comedy fans could follow like a sports team, due to its weird format and wholesale cast changes. Lorne is basically like the team owner. It had its good eras and bad eras – the good eras usually looking better than they felt at the time through the benefit of nostalgia – and people could argue about which cast (team) was the best. But even at its most dire you could still check in from time to time to look for signs of improvement. Somewhere along the way – the run-up to the 2016 election, I think – it’s like they forgot how to scout for talent or the weight of the show’s history and weird cultural role started crushing them and it became unrecognizable to me as comedy. It seems like a celebrity cameo farm with a bunch of theater kids running around. It’s like they’re playing a different sport.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
it’s like they forgot how to scout for talent
There are funny people in the cast who are not typically funny on the show.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
I would agree with that in the case of some of the people who have been on the longest; not Kate McKinnon though, who along with Colin Jost embodies their whole problem.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
Chris L otm, I've never been a sports person but yeah SNL was basically my sports team for most of my life.
Is it possible to use the strikethrough tags on the thread title and just make this another SNL thread, y/n
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
It's not a coincidence that the best bits are almost always the pre-recorded bits, which implies the problem is not necessarily the cast or even the writing but what to do with either in the context of a "live" show, with no second takes, no refining, etc. "Murder Durder," for example, was really funny and silly this week (it's the only "skit" I saw) but I don't know if it would have worked live. It needed the look of "Mare" to seal the deal. So yeah, what sic said: there are funny people in the cast who are not typically funny on the show. The question is why? At least Keenan always seems to acknowledge the half-assed absurdity of what he's asked to do. Yang, too, imo. But most of the other people aren't being funny, they're *acting* like they're supposed to be funny, which makes the whole thing feel sort of off balance. Che and Jost are not my faves, but there's a looseness to Weekend Update that often contrasts with the rest of the show's rote parade of fake game-shows or whatever. Maybe that's always been the case, but it seems pretty stark lately.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
I watched like a minute of that Gen Z Hospital shit and, honestly, Musk wasn't much more wooden than any of the cast members featured in that sketch. It was like I was watching some small town's community theater comedy showcase.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
That's a good example of what I was talking about. I have no idea if that skit (which I saw part of over my wife's shoulder, while she was playing it for our Gen Z kid) done well would be funny, but everything is delivered in a stiff and ironic soap opera tone. Which might have been funny in a pre-recorded bit that can rely on the timing of music cues, and edits, a soapy look and melodramatic voiceover, but live was just ... people stiffly saying bro over and over.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
I will go to bat for "Liza Minelli Tries To Turn Off A Lamp"
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
Eh, virtually all long-running sketch shows have an abysmal hit rate. But you will find great sketches and performers in every era. Maybe I'm just an optimist, but I also believe in that "SNL was the best when you were 9 years old!" maxim.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
Most of the time, SNL is fine; not amazing, not terrible, but amusing. Sometimes it's hilarious. Sometimes it's total horseshit (see: this past week).
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
For at least the last 20 years, probably even longer (my warm memories of the early '90s cast from when I was 12-14 clouds my judgment a little) SNL has been 35% absolutely terrible, 55% boring and 10% hilarious. I still think this is the case, it just happens that sometimes the 10% hilarious completely misses an episode or two.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
pretty sure i've written this exact post elsewhere on the board, but i fell in love with early '90s snl via reruns on comedy central and did not realize that i was watching edited-down versions of the show, which i think accounts for at least half of why, when i tuned into snl in 2000 just to see radiohead perform, i was shocked at how... terrible the show was/is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
i've only caught the odd episode since but it does seem even worse now
I feel like "Please laugh" should be their tagline
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
A funny character still needs to be funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
fell in love with early '90s snl via reruns on comedy central and did not realize that i was watching edited-down versions of the show
very same here lol
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
And this one keeps me laughing every time I watch it. Nieces and Pets!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7b5-31LFY
― DJI, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
Huh, Grimes was Princess Peach in the Wario skit.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
Mario and Wario are not Japanese (although that was the only mildly funny part of the sketch) but Italian immigrants that live in New York (well Mario at least, Wario is italian but there’s no confirmation he also lives in NYC). Princess Peach is definitely not Italian she’s from the Mushroom Kingdom no idea why the Italian accent on her.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
because Italian bippity boopity amirite
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
wario is german
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
so then it's pronounced "var-io"
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
"Murder Durder," for example, was really funny and silly this week It wasn’t really funny, it just had an identifiable joke, unlike the rest of the parts I saw. Unfortunately, that joke was 30 Rock’s The Rural Juror.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
And it was funny for the exact same reason, just hearing them say "murder durder durder murder" over and over again. If it were live it would have been funnier for them breaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
some of their sketches remind me of the dreck that I used to read when I was a judge for a local Playwright Round Table that specialized in short, ten minute plays.
I eventually quit because I couldn't read any more shit sketch writing.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
It was initially conceived as a german character with a german accent and words but nintendo changed him to have the same Italian accent Mario has in subsequent games:
https://www.siliconera.com/voice-actor-says-wario-originally-intended-german-character/
Wario Was German:Wario originally spoke German in Mario Kart 64 -- his voice actor says it's because Nintendo told him Wario was German. But Wario's voice was later re-recorded with an Italian accent, and he's remained Italian ever since.Full story: https://t.co/Gue1ge4Prj pic.twitter.com/qNSfpVxd7A— Reggie-800's Nintendo Secrets (@reggie_800) August 26, 2020
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
that's what baffles me about SNL, no matter what they're lampooning they come off like it's something they just found out about yesterday. like with Donald Trump they were just like "so this guy's like Dan Quayle right? he misspells words and has weird hair? also there's something with him and Russia, can we do something with that?"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Waluigi is half Lithuanian half Tongan iirc
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
xpost - I don't think it's a lack of current, timely news that is the problem, it's figuring out a funny, original take on it that seems to be a challenge
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
As the review/essay and its citations argue, a big part of that is because every take has to be filtered through the perspective of an extremely rich, petty, fameo-loving man with multiple servants. Plenty of other humans are able to come up with funnier, deeper takes in a shorter timeframe.
As for non-news-based material, Bob Odenkirk argued in the '80s that writing every sketch in three days while sleep-deprived - then throwing away anything that didn't get approved first time - was a bad way of developing material, and proved it by rewriting and developing rejected sketches into an admired show with a better hitrate in the 1990s. Tim Robinson rarely got material onto SNL at all after being demoted from cast member to writer, but five years after that was able to use his rejected material in the most acclaimed sketch show of the last, oh, five years. For the last three years, John Mulaney's guest-hosted episodes of SNL have been widely noted as the best, and in each of those he has used his position to mount sketches that had been rejected during his five years on the show, five years earlier.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
Norm's monologue summarizes it pretty well. "See, they fired me because they said I wasn't funny. But now, this is the weird part, it's only a year and a half later, and now they ask me to host the show! So how did I go, in a year and a half, to not even being allowed in the building, to being so funny, that I'm now hosting the show? Then it occurred to me: I haven't gotten funnier, the show has gotten really bad! So yeah, I'm funny, compared to...well you know, you'll see later"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
xpost - it's almost as if Lorne's gut reactions to draft skits are uniformly terrible
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
ok folks lets get back on topic
pls stop the future i want to get off this ride pic.twitter.com/AO4XeMCGe1— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 8, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
well another thing is SNL skits last like 6-8 minutes, once the joke is revealed there's little for the characters to do but just yell at each other and start throwing shit. last time I watched a full episode there were a couple where I thought "did this end 2 minutes ago and they're just improvising to fill time?"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
there must be an snl thread
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
there is but fuck Elon Musk, we can discuss anything that sucks in here
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
michael o'donoghue would've told musk what's what!
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
i love elon musk erasure
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
always, don't wanna be with him
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
muskerasure love
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
who is Elon Musk
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
I believe he's a wacky one-note Jon Lovitz character who quickly outwore his welcome, like Master Thespian
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
Loads of wasted hate on SNL that would be better used directed at Elon Musk.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
We have plenty of hate to dispense like Pez
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
Elon Musk......you look marvelous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
*abandons failed autonomous-driving program*
"I HATE when I do that!"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link
turns out the autopilot may not have been to blame in the recent crash. instead it seems like a terrifying design flaw that seems related to the fact that ... you can't open the rear doors when the car is one fire because they require power?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/ntsb-finds-no-reason-to-suspect-autopilot-in-fatal-tesla-crash/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
As for why the driver was not found in his seat, one troubling possibility is that the front door was inoperable or obstructed and the driver died while trying to escape from the rear of the Model S. Unlike most cars, Tesla uses IP-based electronic door locks that fail if the car loses power (as it would have in this crash). Although the front door handles will continue to work in an emergency that cuts power to the car, under such conditions the rear doors of a Model S can only be opened using a plastic tab found in the rear footwell.
But it's ok the autopilot works
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
yes, let's trap those in seats typically reserved for the most vulnerable passengers
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
gets lost in all the hubbub that teslas are poorly made cars
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
like tesla wanted huge dashboard screens but there was nothing that big available in automotive quality so they just used regular screens and now they break at an insane rate, tons of stuff like that thats the result of doing startup culture to a car company
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
im sure ive said this before but a lot of its been papered over by the fact that teslas have always been expensive toys sold to rich people who own more than one car, but now theyre selling ~$30k cars that people need to drive every day
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
When I think about Tesla engineering I remember Chris Lattner left after just six months:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15844280/tesla-autopilot-software-chris-lattner-ai-quit
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
“Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all,” lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Tesla reporting is a useful reminder that the technology press has no relationship with technologists.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
yeah its pretty much just straight business or consumer reporting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
elon is unstable
Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
hahahahahaha omg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
🧐
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
lol he really is just joker mode and fucking with the world
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
hey good for them but uh I suspect there's a more uh...legal reason for this decision
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
lmao that one tweet wiped out like $10 billion in value
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
maybe it was a big mistake to base an entire financial system on this man's ramblings
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
maybe not, though!
And that alone is deeply amusing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1OHVudWEAE7ddZ?format=png&name=4096x4096
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
buy the dip!
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
i think levine is right about what he's up to here
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-28/elon-musk-made-tesla-some-money-on-bitcoin
I think that, if you can reliably do that — if you are Elon Musk and you can make Bitcoin go up by tweeting about it — you almost have an obligation to do it? Perhaps a fiduciary obligation to your shareholders, but at least a sort of aesthetic obligation to comedy. If Bitcoin wants Musk to manipulate it, Musk really ought to manipulate it... Musk is in the nice position of being able to spend billions of dollars buying assets in liquid anonymous markets, and then make those assets go up just by tweeting about them. If you can do that, you should! If you can buy a thing secretly, announce “I own the thing,” reliably cause the thing’s price to go up a lot, and then — if you want — sell the thing secretly, then that’s a great business right there. Talk about clean energy; that’s a perpetual motion machine.
Musk is in the nice position of being able to spend billions of dollars buying assets in liquid anonymous markets, and then make those assets go up just by tweeting about them. If you can do that, you should! If you can buy a thing secretly, announce “I own the thing,” reliably cause the thing’s price to go up a lot, and then — if you want — sell the thing secretly, then that’s a great business right there. Talk about clean energy; that’s a perpetual motion machine.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
except that he seems to have opted out of the rinse and repeat cycle of it, tho you never know with old elon, also some ppl seems to think there may be be regulator issues at play but idk what those would be
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
theres also this theory
People make the faulty assumption that @elonmusk is not trying to blow up the system and there are too many absolutely fucking insane people and they are not allowing him to do it.— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) May 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
ethereum dudes are in heaven right now
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money https://t.co/Nrz4jFO0op pic.twitter.com/0oDDbL8VgQ— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 12, 2021
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
this pains me
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
we really should bring out the guillotines just to shut these guys up
We at https://t.co/VUydpLFzGh will continue to accept BTC/Eth/Doge because we know that replacing Gold as a store of value will help the environment https://t.co/bs7NvnJY8A and https://t.co/ELhbuLOBRV shrinking big bank and coin usage will benefit society and the environment https://t.co/zu08F0STEQ— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
love when all the crazed rich guys are competing to see who can be the most jokered
― Clay, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
I think it's good to have a currency system fluctuates based on how good Saturday Night Live is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
definitely a good sign that literally nobody believes this has a thing to do with the environment
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Just guessing, but the real reason is probably something like: BTC is impractical as a form of payment, the expected boost to sales from people wanting to pay with BTC never happened, and the operational risks of dealing with BTC were too high to justify continuing the policy for the tiny number of sales happening.
― o. nate, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
It does seem like a pain in the ass merely from an accounting perspective
― rob, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
yeah its not —frictionless— to cash out and its highly volatile so you might think youre selling a car for 70k but really you sold it for 69 (nice), also elon is prob manipulating the market, i mean hes definitely manipulating the market and this is probably part of that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
it happens a lot with cashouts on the poker site I'm on. you can only cash out in Bitcorn now, and sometimes your withdrawal won't be processed until like 3 in the morning, so when you wake up your $1000 is somewhere between $900-$1100. I was actually planning to cash out some this week, glad I held off now lol
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
great “currency”, seems really useful
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
when I was offshore betting on sports a few years ago, it was the same thing. paying in Bitcoin.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 May 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
As every that has read my $TSLAQ posts about Emissions Credits being made up revenues, I focused on what seemed like impossible numbers in 2018-2019.I decided to look how far back this goes.— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) May 1, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 May 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAhXpYyXkAAe_I8.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
Everyone thinks overnight ACH was a byproduct of startups like Venmo. In fact, the Fed opened up overnight ACH and nobody used it. It wasn’t until regulators stopped banks from holding onto funds to earn the maximum amount of interest possible that they became “consumer friendly.”
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
They were doing this when it earned fractions of a cent from interest. Now imagine a situation where the “currency” fluctuates by 10% hourly.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
replacing Gold as a store of value
This happened last century. He must have blinked.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
hes back baby
Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. Potentially promising.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
Cool system that this dude can just tweet and manipulate the market every couple of days.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
its pretty incredible
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
youd think at some point hed wear out his welcome but really who knows
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
god I wish this was at least a little funnier
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
one of those things thats very funny but its drowned out by the profound horror of it
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
jack mad
#bitcoin changes *everything*…for the better.And we will forever work to make bitcoin better. https://t.co/wssrF2U0P0— jack (@jack) May 14, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
what does it make better??they always say shit like that then never say why
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
frees you from big fiat obvs
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 May 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
I've started to incorporate it in my lovemaking
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
come on, it's simple. bitcoin is good because it makes tech people money. tech people having more money = better world, it's science.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 May 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
its true it is science
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 May 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
it also provides a convenient method of money laundering for criminal enterprises. the dece money tech people are making from it is something like the big tip left for restaurant staff.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
https://decrypt.co/70945/exclusive-dogecoin-developers-say-theyve-been-working-with-elon-musk-since-2019
― just sayin, Saturday, 15 May 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
musk is always up to something
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 May 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
amazing that he managed to become the richest man of all time off the back of some ropey and transparent scams
― plax (ico), Saturday, 15 May 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
Ideally, Doge speeds up block time 10X, increases block size 10X & drops fee 100X. Then it wins hands down.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 May 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
And a free toaster for first time customers opening an account!
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 16 May 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
later: dumping doge because of enviromental problems he always cared about
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
but i would also say that if cadillac speeds up production by 10x, increases sales by 10x, and drops fee 100x, they will also win hands down.
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
what a visionary
― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
Ideally,
― Clay, Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
ideally elon would give me one million dollars ten million dollars and a billion dollars, if he did that i would be rich hands down
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
It is once again hard to argue with the science
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
ideally,
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
wait... what if they sped up block time 100X??
― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
that would be a 10X win
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
what's crazy is, what if they sped up block time 110X? you see where i'm going with this
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link
it's exponential
amazing that he managed to become the richest man of all time
Investopedia (updated May 2021) begs to differ:
1: Jeff Bezos... an estimated net worth of $197 billion, he is the richest man in the world2: Elon Musk... estimated net worth is $152 billion.3: Bernard Arnault... estimated net worth is $150 billion.
2: Elon Musk... estimated net worth is $152 billion.
3: Bernard Arnault... estimated net worth is $150 billion.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 16 May 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, Be-ZOS, !!!!Accum-u-LATE, Accum-u-LATE, Accum-u-LATE, Accum-u-LATE, Accum-u-LATE, Accum-u-LATE, !!!!
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
i think we can all agree that all these guys should have more money
― Clay, Sunday, 16 May 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
Bezos sits inside the service yacht, aboard the main yacht, reading the coverage of the yacht on his yacht
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 May 2021 05:03 (two years ago) link
the idea that these people have all this money is always so hilarious to me. they kindof dont really. what are they going to do, take 50billion out of the atm? all you can do with it after a certain point really is buy some worthless app company called Ploom or Burdl (expected IPO value 12bn.) so whats the difference between having like 50bn or 100bn or like 200tn? its the same.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 16 May 2021 07:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGd-2nEOVQ
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 16 May 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
Billionaires shouldn't exist. The rich cause society to be twisted to server their wants rather than the needs of everyone else.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 16 May 2021 09:40 (two years ago) link
whats the difference between having like 50bn or 100bn or like 200tn? its the same.
it has nothing to do with purchasing anything you want or need for yourself or for any of your 1000 closest family and friends (most of these billionaires barely have family and have no friends). it has everything to do with having enough personal power to shape the present society and its future, through corporations and foundations that will bear your name and vision in perpetuity. basically, it feeds their megalomania.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 16 May 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Kind of hilarious how pissed Bitcoin twitter is with Elon right now.
― o. nate, Monday, 17 May 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
How confidence looks like ❤️ pic.twitter.com/CbMN5F6Csw— Alex (@alex_avoigt) May 17, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 May 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
A Tesla in autopilot mode crashed into a deputy's patrol car in Washington, causing significant damage.https://t.co/3mK37E6j9G— KATU News (@KATUNews) May 17, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 17 May 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
comrade autopilot thank u 4 ur service
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 17 May 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
tesla is good now
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Serious question cos I have no freaking idea how any of this works - is it likely Musk is manipulating the markets on purpose and then buying cheap stock in the dip? Isnt that trackable and illegal?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
Bitcoin and Ethereum aren't publicly traded. Maybe some sort of related company though.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Economist Nouriel Roubini is accusing Elon Musk of market manipulation and stating that the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) should investigate.
The basis of Roubini's accusations stems from Elon Musk's tweets. Roubini accuses Elon of using his Twitter platform to pump up the price.
"For somebody like Elon Musk, who knows he has the market impact to manipulate, first take an individual position in Bitcoin, pump the price up, and then say that Tesla has invested."
"And Tesla doesn't make any money yet, it's also irresponsible, and it's market manipulation. The SEC should be looking into people that have a market impact, and that manipulate the price of assets. That's also criminal behavior"
Commenting on @Tesla's $1.5 billion bitcoin buy on #CDTV First Mover this morning, @Nouriel said it's "criminal behavior" for Elon Musk to take an individual stance on bitcoin to pump up the price before announcing Tesla's investment."Talk about a criminal enterprise." pic.twitter.com/aSHPX5ayHM— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) February 10, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
unlikely hes manipulating tesla stock but hes very obviously manipulating crypto
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
xps buying cheap stock in the dip?
here's what I understand about it. first, cryptocurrency markets are not regulated afaik and there are no cryptocurrency stocks to directly speculate in, just the currency itself. however, i've seen that tesla's reported profits have been strongly tied to their acceptance of cryptocurrency in sales transactions. tesla can then choose when and how they liquidate their crypto holdings into dollars in those unregulated markets, so if they (through musk) are manipulating those markets, they could easily maximize their resulting profits. seems like speculators could also be using tesla stock as a proxy to speculate in what amounts to a rigged cryptocurrency market.
I think the SEC can't do a thing about it, as long as tesla accurately discloses its reliance on cryptocurrency as part of their source of profits.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
tesla bought a bunch of bitcoin, and musk has been personally messing with doge, kinda doubt too much of their sales are in bitcoin
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
so tesla's directly speculating in an unregulated market. cool.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
im no big city lawyer, i dont really know what meets the criteria of market manipulation, but def seems like theres some fishy stuff going on
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Did I post this or did I dream that I did? Anyway it’s goodhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/17/michael-burry-of-the-big-short-reveals-a-530-million-bet-against-tesla.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah sorry stock was the wrong word, its currency trading. I dont think I actually realised it wasnt public trading, either.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
thats a lotta puts baby xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 02:06 (two years ago) link
*pushes up glasses* it's actually $500m NOTIONAL value. He didn't put up $500m.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
Also afaict there is little if any regulatory/legal mechanism to prevent crypto manipulation.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that's the point, it's outside those stuffy things like LAWS, maaaaaaan
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 08:41 (two years ago) link
guys cmon be serious just because something is a crypto currency doesnt mean its outside the reach of long arm of the law, they dont have to like formally add each new asset class that comes along to the law books lol, the sec and other government agencies are happy to regulate anything people buy and sell, for instance theres been tons of investigations and prosecution/fining of crypto companies going on the whole time, now that doesnt mean that the crypto ecosystem isnt difficult to regulate due to its lack of transparency and surfeit of scammers at every level cause obvs it is, but my understanding is the government a while ago decided to treat crypto like securities and proceeded accordingly
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
and of course they could bring new laws/resources online to deal with the specifics of crypto which its kind of surprising they havent already, special new crime tools been out there for years lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
not quite as easy to move as the price of doge coin
Giga Berlin suppliers please accelerate!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
I mean yeah you can't like hide all your assets in bitcorn while you're going through a divorce and it's still illegal to scam people but I don't think market manipulation stuff is against the law, it's kind of the one thing bitcoins are really good for
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
it most certainly is against the law to manipulate the markets... whatever that means
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
Tell that to the farmers in my town! Every third Saturday, what the hell is that?
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
i will tell them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
Thanks to @YIMBY_Princeton for inspiring me to check in on the Tesla forums, this Model Y trim discoloration (apparently caused by touchless car washes) is another classic. https://t.co/HhAaqK4U8l pic.twitter.com/zHbN7eij3k— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 18, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
$TSLA - @elonmusk, you need to get to precision within inches first before you even attempt centimeters.#bitcoin #BTC https://t.co/duPnkKBeqs pic.twitter.com/WZyHzO6dHC— phoenix10 (smartish) (@phoennix10) May 18, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Hn04JBH.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
how many other value analysts do you think there are?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
I already answered your question.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
The author posted this video in the comments. It's a truck full of traffic lights. pic.twitter.com/h2LwyL65ck— FSD in 6 months (@FSD_in_6m) June 2, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 June 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
"President Musk says his invasion of Iran is justified, as their leader is hiding a secret program to develop trucks full of traffic lights"
― bogo jumbo junbi boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 June 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
At least they weren't driving behind this dude:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/80/ab/be80ab95c0cfe1630be6c520ccaadf67.png
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 June 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
Karl please replace the stoplights in that video with little icons of Doof Warriors.
― DJI, Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
I have to say, there's an amazingly huge difference between how these cars look when they drive by you (sleek, great!) and how they look/feel when you sit in them (plasticky, cheap)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
i think lag000n comparing the model 3 to a nissan was about right.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
I actually had a long conversation with a Tesla-owning acquaintance over the weekend, and he loves his car. If there's any real criticism he has, or at least conceded, it's that the car components are indeed pretty cheap compared to similarly priced luxury cars. There were one or two other little things that bugged him, too, but he was otherwise really positive about the last year and a half of Tesla ownership. I still think that the biggest game changers are not the design/car, per se, but features that could be implemented by competitors for a lower price some time in the near future. He said he felt comfortable being part of what he considers an experiment. He professed not to be a Musk sycophant, fwiw, but he thinks the guy is a Jobs like genius. Which I guess tracks, as Jobs was an asshole weirdo, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
please don't mock my former upstairs neighbour
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
dang xpost, Steve Jobs did not live above me
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Now into CumRocket coins
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
He professed not to be a Musk sycophant, fwiw, but he thinks the guy is a Jobs like genius
hopefully musk has similar thoughts on personal health care
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
Now we have No Jobs, No Hope, and No Musk
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, I could easily see myself buying a car from Tesla, and I don't think Elon Musk is some kind of genius, I just think the engineers who designed the car are by most accounts good at designing functional cars and it has features that appeal to me enough that the "look and feel" deficits don't bother me too much (if they did, I wouldn't be driving a beater now)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
what about being locked inside a burning car because the locks stop working? that seems like kind of a dealbreaker to me idk
― sleeve, Monday, 7 June 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
tbf, you could accomplish this in any car by engaging child safety locks, getting in the front and starting the car, putting a brick on the gas pedal, and hopping in the back
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
maybe you can't even open a tesla's rear doors by opening the window and using the exterior handle, though
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
yeah I think Teslas are for the most part good cars, but I'm not sure what if anything Elon has to do with that, virtually every idea he's ever had for Tesla has either never came to fruition or has been incredibly dumb
― frogbs, Monday, 7 June 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
He once had an idea that Tesla's stock price should be higher -- that sure came to fruition.
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
I used to have this same issue about cars with no manual window handles -- what if my car went underwater and the electricity shorted out and I couldn't get out? I dunno, I have come to feel that things like my car catching fire or plunging into a lake are highly highly highly unlikely, much more so than other accidental deaths I might suffer, and if that's the way I go, that's the way I go, it's just not a big enough sliver of probability to affect my car purchase.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
I just think the engineers who designed the car are by most accounts good at designing functional cars
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, June 7, 2021 4:18 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
they are by the measure of average number of defects exceptionally bad cars fwiw, idk if thats the engineers fault tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
Guayaquil (eephus!) at 4:03 7 Jun 21what about being locked inside a burning car because the locks stop working? that seems like kind of a dealbreaker to me idkI used to have this same issue about cars with no manual window handles -- what if my car went underwater and the electricity shorted out and I couldn't get out? I dunno, I have come to feel that things like my car catching fire or plunging into a lake are highly highly highly unlikely, much more so than other accidental deaths I might suffer, and if that's the way I go, that's the way I go, it's just not a big enough sliver of probability to affect my car purchase.probably worth noting that Teslas catching on fire is incredibly common compared to other vehicles
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
probably worth noting that Teslas catching on fire is incredibly common compared to other vehicles― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 7, 2021 2:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 7, 2021 2:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this isn't backed up by any data I've seen
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
yeah tbf i don't think that's true. they share the same danger as all EVs: if a fire starts it's incredibly hard to put out.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
key difference seems to be how hard it is to *get* out
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
also:
― lag∞n, Monday, June 7, 2021 2:27 PM (six hours ago)
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
oh of course. if they catch fire you definitely die a terrifying death, a death that doesn't happen in other cars, and the software is buggy. but tbf they don't catch fire more than other cars.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
Hopefully it is possible to improve upon the baseline of 30-50k traffic deaths per year in the US
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 04:35 (two years ago) link
https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/a-new-report-highlights-the-incredibly-high-environmental-cost-of-teslas-bitcoin-investment/
In 2020, Tesla delivered 181,000 vehicles. You could argue that its romance with Bitcoin erased the environmental benefits from more than 7,000 of those EVs. De Vries says that if a buyer purchases a Tesla by making payments over 48 months in Bitcoin, the carbon footprint of the Bitcoin transactions would exceed the total lifetime emissions savings from driving an EV instead of a gasoline-powered car.
They note that Bitcoin mining consumes almost as much energy as all the the world's data centers combined, and produces CO2 emissions that match the carbon footprint for the city of London. The paper estimates that Bitcoin generates 90.2 million metric tons of carbon gases per year. That volume exceeds by almost two times the total annual reductions achieved by the replacement of gasoline-burning cars by electric vehicles, as calculated by the International Energy Agency.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 20 June 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
jfc. if true, the inventors of bitcoin should be taken before the Hague. like essentially we're talking Captain Planet villain level "I've built the world's greatest POLLUTION MACHINE" level accomplishments.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 June 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
at least Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that has any environmental impact, and the rest are all green
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
If you were me and I were you, I'd tell you how not all currency is green.
― pplains, Monday, 21 June 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
It's not easy being me or green
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
Ugh, libertarian bitcoin bros are all over Twitter (as well as Reddit etc). Basically the dudes who used to desperately argue that tort law would save the planet, now they've just settled on making hollow claims that their pet ponzi scheme isn't "technically" an environmental catastrophe.
For me Musk pulling Tesla plants out of CA and moving them to TX would be a deal-breaker but apparently that's not enough for my brother. I am seriously thinking it's getting close to the time when we should boycott entire states.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 21 June 2021 06:05 (two years ago) link
what if my car went underwater and the electricity shorted out and I couldn't get out? I dunno, I have come to feel that things like my car catching fire or plunging into a lake are highly highly highly unlikely, much more so than other accidental deaths I might suffer, and if that's the way I go, that's the way I go
FWIW, there was a case a few years back where I live, where an Audi SUV slipped into water and the controls for the doors and windows shorted out. The vehicle took a few minutes to sink and the four people trapped inside drowned, slowly. Two of them were kids. It really brought home to me that that's not the way I want to go.
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
if you drive a newish car (i.e. a shitty IOT gadget on wheels) then i recommend putting these in glovebox/armest/keyring https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0042VTYXM
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
These dudes (I mean, c'mon, that's 99% of the ones I've seen) are everywhere. The latest twist seems to be arguing that we are constantly on the verge of the tipping point where somehow all of the energy used to mine bitcoins is going to magically disappear because of.... something. This is the part where their tweets consistently become more vague.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
what's an IOT gadget?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
internet of things, see https://twitter.com/internetofshit
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
The latest twist seems to be arguing that we are constantly on the verge of the tipping point where somehow all of the energy used to mine bitcoins is going to magically disappear because of.... something.
proof of stake. as opposed to "proof of work", which is how many cryptocurrencies work now. "proof of work" means rising energy use dedicated to solving complicated math problems. proof of stake is the magical thing that everyone working with etherium swears they very much care about and have definitely been focused on from the beginning.
proof of stake will apparently save everything because it will be a way to validate the blockchain more efficiently. how does it work?
HOW DOES ETHEREUM'S PROOF-OF-STAKE WORK?Unlike proof-of-work, validators don't need to use significant amounts of computational power because they're selected at random and aren't competing. They don't need to mine blocks; they just need to create blocks when chosen and validate proposed blocks when they're not. This validation is known as attesting. You can think of attesting as saying "this block looks good to me." Validators get rewards for proposing new blocks and for attesting to ones they've seen.If you attest to malicious blocks, you lose your stake.PROSStaking makes it easier for you to run a node. It doesn't require huge investments in hardware or energy, and if you don't have enough ETH to stake, you can join staking pools. It allows for increased participation, and more nodes doesn't mean increased % returns, like with mining. Staking allows for secure sharding. Shard chains allow Ethereum to create multiple blocks at the same time, increasing transaction throughput. Sharding the network in a proof-of-work system would simply lower the power needed to compromise a portion of the network. CONSProof-of-stake is still in its infancy, and less battle-tested, compared to proof-of-work. Staking is more decentralized.
If you attest to malicious blocks, you lose your stake.
PROSStaking makes it easier for you to run a node. It doesn't require huge investments in hardware or energy, and if you don't have enough ETH to stake, you can join staking pools. It allows for increased participation, and more nodes doesn't mean increased % returns, like with mining. Staking allows for secure sharding. Shard chains allow Ethereum to create multiple blocks at the same time, increasing transaction throughput. Sharding the network in a proof-of-work system would simply lower the power needed to compromise a portion of the network.
CONSProof-of-stake is still in its infancy, and less battle-tested, compared to proof-of-work. Staking is more decentralized.
the only con is that it doesn't work yet and that the vast majority of cryptofucks don't give a shit about the efficiency and never will. that's Proof of Stake
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 June 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
yeah, they're going to build up a crypto-ecosystem based on millions of pieces of shit buying expensive mining equipment and dedicating themselves to this task and community for about a decade, and then suddenly they're going to shift away from that and calmly explain to the very worst people on earth that their mining equipment no longer works for ethereum (which will probably cause them to repurpose the expensive pointless electricity hogs for some other similar person, or throw it in a gas station trash can rather than recycling it)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
listen, you may have bought an old factory in Nigeria and filled it up with mining equipment because they had cheapest electricity in the world, but it turns out that we in the cryptocommunity you belong to actually really care about the environment.
maybe they'll eventually introduce PoS and everyone will adopt it. maybe not. but either way, anyone participating in it now just doesn't give a fuck, it's obvious. i wish people would just say "i don't care about energy and the environment and never will". it's the pretending that they actually do that drives me nuts
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 June 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Genuine thanks for that KM, that's definitely a better explanation than I've seen on twitter yet even though it still sounds like so much wishful thinking smoke and mirrors.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Staking allows for secure sharding. Shard chains allow Ethereum to create multiple blocks at the same time, increasing transaction throughput. Sharding the network in a proof-of-work system would simply lower the power needed to compromise a portion of the network.
ilx ideas: autoreplace "sharding" with "sharting" on this website
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
the cryptocommunity
CHINA CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING EQUIPMENT IS MOVING TO THE USA IN BULK!The USA is about to become the crypto hub of the world and #Dogecoin/#Bitcoin will rise again. MASSIVELY.— Matt Wallace ⚠️ (@MattWallace888) June 21, 2021
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 June 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
5000 likes, lmao. Just any old bullshit will do really.
But yeah thanks for clearing up proof of stake, much appreciated.
i wish people would just say "i don't care about energy and the environment and never will". it's the pretending that they actually do that drives me nuts
I think the half of them who aren't just flatly acting in bad faith probably think they do care, they're just stuck in the conceptual leap from tort law saving the planet they all bought into ten years ago.
No doubt it also gets into Silicon Valley technophilia, many dudes deeply invested in the notion that all it will take it is one good hack to sort everything out.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
thanks for clearing up proof of stake, much appreciated.
you and jon both said this, and thank you and i appreciate it back!, but i don't know much about the entire thing. i have made numerous basic errors in yelling at people about cryptocurrency over the last couple months. and there are definitely crypto/PoS advocates that make a strong case for what's possible. HOWEVER, my thing with those cool advocates who I really do believe have their hearts in the right places is that it doesn't fucking matter, because they're embedded within a community of people who are obsessed with value, ie, there is no soul in there
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
imagine a bizarre 1880s argument where people are talking about the environmental consequences of fossil fuels, particularly oil and coal. (just fucking imagine ok!) and then someone is like "but there are clean energy sources that are already proven, like wind and solar and hydro, and they'll eventually dominate the industry so it will be ok, and holy shit it's 1886 and i'm saying this hahaha!". that's how i feel about the crypto/Proof of Stake people with their hearts in the right place.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
it's like, yeah, you'll win the day eventually, after all these fucking turds you said Yes to have their way with it
#onethread
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
if you compare fossil fuels and the alternatives, fossil fuels have a clear advantage in storage and transportation. On top of this you have the inertia created by decades of infrastructure investment for mining, storage, and transportation. It seems like proof of work was easier to code and get running than proof of stake, so perhaps there's a similar issue there. Is there a large investment in coders to pivot to something better? It doesn't feel like it'd be on the same scale. I'm more worried that people making large investments in hardware or cheap and dirty power would be reluctant to switch and lose their investment into an advantage. So I agree with The Mailman, but I also don't know enough about it to say if a fast pivot to a more efficient algorithm is really so analogous to a pivot from fossil fuels.
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
Staking allows for secure sharding. ive been saying this
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
thank you for clearing this up
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
your welcome
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
1/ A thread on the stunning deposition by Kimbal Musk in the SolarCity lawsuit. Find it here thanks to @PlainSite:https://t.co/Vggtqc7l79It is document 328, attachment 2, starting on page 336 (exhibit 10). You really should read it for yourself. It is amazing. $TLSAQ— TC (@TESLAcharts) October 29, 2019
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/tesla-model-s-plaid-caught-fire-while-being-driven-fire-chief.html
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 2 July 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
if i had a car company i'd prob make it so the cars didn't just catch fire but idk i prob won't ever have a car company
― Clay, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
is it good for the environment when cars explode and burn for several hours? i heard that guy elon musk cares about the environment so i'm thinking this might be the reason for his cars catching fire.
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 2 July 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
is there some definition of 'plaid' that i'm unaware of
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
'Something that Elon Musk thought it would be funny to call a car line' seems to be the operative one here.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 2 July 2021 06:02 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 2 July 2021 06:10 (two years ago) link
good news, Florida
The city of Fort Lauderdale has accepted an unsolicited bid from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an underground transportation system under Las Olas Boulevard from its downtown Brightline Station to Las Olas Oceanside Park. https://t.co/JYcEoT5jGS— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 7, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 8 July 2021 08:07 (two years ago) link
If only someone would dig a big hole in the ground for us to throw all these public funds down.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 8 July 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
That seems like the worst ever idea.
― peace, man, Thursday, 8 July 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
It’ll be full of water by its second week of operation and the Tesla’s will short out and the windows won’t open.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 July 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
It’ll prevent CO2 emissions from the equivalent of one Florida citizen who will now “take the hole to work”
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
on the other hand, if you could water slide for a couple miles to work, that would be pretty fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
That would be incredible fun. Is ft lauderdale on the coast? I’m not sure if that’s advantageous for forts or not in 2021. But is it is you could just ride the hole all th way to the beach after work
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
wow this is a completely insane and stupid idea, please pass the popcorn
― sleeve, Friday, 9 July 2021 06:15 (two years ago) link
new hobby for disaffected FL youth: throwing bottlerockets down into that hole over there
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Ft. L story is even worse than it seemed: https://www.businessinsider.com/emails-how-elon-musk-boring-company-got-fort-lauderdale-loop-2021-7
― rob, Thursday, 15 July 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
One of the founders of dogecoin had a good thread yesterday
Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system (eg. corruption, fraud, inequality) and using software to technically limit the use of interventions (eg. audits, regulation, taxation) which serve as protections or safety nets for the average person.— Jackson Palmer (@ummjackson) July 14, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 July 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
Reminder: Elon Musk's conflict with Tesla's founders started over publicity. Not engineering, strategy, or product design, but the credit Elon got (or didn't) in a New York Times story. Just a few weeks after sending these emails he began a PR offensive that has never ended. pic.twitter.com/XKrWn1hMKR— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) July 14, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
We have almost all the pieces needed for humanoid robots, since we already make robots with wheels— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2021
THIS JUST HAPPENED I’M NOT KIDDING$TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/Ayc9KemaUI— TC (poorly dancing robot) (@TESLAcharts) August 20, 2021
Imagine just putting a guy in spandex and suddenly 200 tech reporters have to write about how you're building a robot pic.twitter.com/y6hkRC0sO3— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 20, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 20 August 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link
it's real if we think it's real
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
blood diamond showerthoughts techbro twat
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 August 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
Amazon just released its own robot demo in response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad65spfln8w
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 August 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
can't believe this guy finally did something legit funny
― rob, Friday, 20 August 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3BIrpxu5k
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 20 August 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
I’ve decided that Elon’s grift is now funny to me
he also should probably be in jail for misleading his fans into thinking they don’t have to steer their cars
contradictory, but such is life
― mh, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
that clip is something straight out of one of the On Cinema Oscar Specials
― frogbs, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
That's grimes
― ✖, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/29/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 29 August 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Embarrassingly bad.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
"He's a bad boss? Yeah so he's a dick, aren't we all, and you knew when you applied and stop being so woke" - good job sticking up for the microserfs there doug.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
feel like it's time for us as a society to challenge the idea that this guy is some kind of hypergenius when everything he does and says makes him sound dumb as shit
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
Not really - Teslas are fucking fantastic cars.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
did he build them
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
He brings them to market, as you know.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Douglas coupland? Sheesh
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
for sure, some of the best engineers on the planet are probably working for Tesla and SpaceX, Elon himself on the other hand seems to have no good car ideas at all. maybe I'm wrong!!
here's a fun story, my little brother owns a Tesla and something got messed up with the security system, idk if he hit the wrong button or something but the car just started freaking out, like honking and flashing lights and all that. apparently when it thinks its getting "broken into" the stereo system also starts playing Trans-Siberian Orchestra at max volume, which you can't turn off. the problem was my brother's wife and his 1-year old son were trapped in the car, and now there's this deafening music playing while my brother literally has to Google how to turn the shit off, and you just know fucking Elon Musk brought that up at some meeting, "ha ha, here is funny idea, also very smart because it disorient the thief, ha ha" and everyone around him is afraid to tell him no so they just start working 90 hour weeks instead of 80 to make it happen, and now my nephew might have hearing damage
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Teslas are fucking fantastic cars.
this is objectively false, regardless of what metrics you apply, lagoon has gone into this in great detail upthread
― sleeve, Sunday, 29 August 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
xp apparently this is a holiday light show easter egg? ffs.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 29 August 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
think we need to find out why the little frog was trying to steal his own car.
― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 29 August 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
Crap, I pre ordered the new Douglas Coupland last week. Wonder if I can cancel
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 29 August 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
lmao car software having easter eggs is really powerfully dumb shit
― Clay, Monday, 30 August 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
it's a CAR, elon
its probably been mentioned before but one of the absolute dumbest things about the Tesla is that it has its own Mario Kart spin-off game in the center console controlled by the steering wheel...okay, cool novelty, something to do while at a charging station, the idiotic part is when you play it ACTUALLY TURNS THE WHEELS which I am 100% sure was one of Elon's dumbass ideas, like he must've loved the idea of people seeing the tires turn so they could say "Look! He's playing video games!" never once thinking about how 15 minutes of that will create a bald spot on your $600 tire
― frogbs, Monday, 30 August 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
I was in a used bookstore last month that had 15 copies of Generation X, I wondered when was the last time it had been read for any reason aside from maybe a college class.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 August 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Douglas Coupland, Claire Boucher....how many others will fall for this fraud?
Meanwhile, my norcal roads are choked with chodes driving with Autopilot turned on. Hope me and mine don't end up as Tesla ML training data.
― fajita seas, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
two questions:
1. Is Douglas Coupland widely known as a dumbass?2. Is this the worst thing Guardian ever published?
― g simmel, Monday, 30 August 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link
Ha, just read that Douglas Coupland article, has he always been such an abysmal writer? has he always been so profoundly thick while imagining he's very clever indeed?
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 August 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
Never read any of his famous novels, they must be better than this.
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 August 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link
sort of wish someone musters up the strength to answer this screed point by point.
― g simmel, Monday, 30 August 2021 08:38 (two years ago) link
ack I confused Douglas Coupland with Douglas Rushkoff
― brimstead, Monday, 30 August 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
his novels aren't much better...
― symsymsym, Monday, 30 August 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Is this still the article from 2013 we’re talking about?
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
No, I think it was just published this weekend?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 August 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
Oh god! I clicked the link the other day, saw “Elon musk, 2013” and thought it was the date of the article, rather than the photo credit. My media literacy is declining
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Coupland's grift for the past few years has been selling public artworks to developers in Vancouver. The developers get generous zoning exemptions or relief on development fees for including the artworks in their developments and Coupland gets a massive payday. Here's his latest. And here's the background to how the entire building was evicted last year to facilitate this renovation. Some tenants had lived there for almost 30 years.
― everything, Monday, 30 August 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
if that Musk article didn't already convince me was a piece of shit...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I accepted delivery of the Model Y. It’s not without its QC issues but it’s one of the better ones I’ve seen so I accepted delivery.Panel alignment all around is pretty poor. I have a droopy drivers door, the lift gate isn’t centered, and the panel gaps on it are huge/uneven. pic.twitter.com/dwEg9xWu7U— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Also, to those that mocked me for my mismatched aftermarket bumper color on my Model 3, this is on a brand new car straight from Tesla…. pic.twitter.com/nQed4cYqv4— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
"one of the better ones" jfc people set such a low bar
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
ya car worse than a hyundai
Last tweet: @meghanntate’s Genesis GV80 puts the interior of the Model Y to shame. Everything is SUBSTANTIALLY nicer. Like, you’d never guess these cars are even remotely the same price point. That said, her power train is not even remotely responsive/fast. pic.twitter.com/cfkL7i221a— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 6, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
the thing about power is past a certain point you cant actually use it, unless you go to the racetrack and most people do not do that, and cars are generally so powerful these days, so if you want to spend a bunch of money on a car why not get one thats actually nice, one from germany
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
i mean if you think that genesis interior is nice you should check out a mercedes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
because it is about their identity as a specific type of cool guy, not just showing how rich they are
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
saw a post about a guy who got rear-ended and they totaled the new, still not paid-for tesla because a lot of it is made of aluminum? and the poster was still a big tesla fan? but i lost it
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 11:08 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah true, its sad they dont want a german car cause its too ostentatious, but people who actually like cars like german cars, because theyre good cars, turns out the tesla guys are more concerned with image, weird...
*obvs most german car buyers are also very concerned with image but the germans do go to great lengths to make "drivers cars" that are good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I drove a V8 for a while and the power was kinda fun to have but it turns out when you get rid of it and start driving a Ford Fusion you don't really miss it
I'll give Tesla that, they're stupidly fast and perform pretty well on the racetrack. That said they move like a rollercoaster and if the driver is being an asshole you can get pretty queasy when they stomp on the gas. idk what I'd ever use that for these days other than to impress some rude teens at a stoplight
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
tesla has an insane amount of power but its a cheat cause electric motors deliver 100% torque immediately where gas engines have to rev up, its not some brilliant engineering on their part its just a fact of the technology they use, and theres so much more to performance than just raw power, steering weight distribution breaking etc, a company like tesla just isnt going to be able to get those things as right as ones who know things about making cars, same goes for all the luxury design and build stuff too
some of that is demonstrated in this video, apologies for posting lame car guys lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pu9046wX9g
if you dont feel like watching they liked the tesla but the handling was kind of off for a performance car, and the bmw which is slowest in a straight line of the 3 cars had the fastest track time because its just a good car, the audi is a very nice fast car but is just not as drivey as the bmw, the rs3 is kind of silly cause youre making a car that has track speed but is too fwd heavy to have track handling, better off just getting the s3 for zipping around town, someone buy me an s3 thanks
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
with those 3 cars next to each other the tesla design looks so unfinished, looks like a clay model! theres no detail, a sick parody of minimalism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
The interior is garbage too, every time I get in one I feel like I’m inside a model car. Even my old Ford Escort was more comfortable than this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
they are just not good at making cars, and the ultimate offense... they are not car guys
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
lagººn when did you start being a car guy? i am interested in this heel turn.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
like many horrible developments i think youtube was mostly to blame, tho i have always had a soft spot for nice cars, like i owned a couple german cars before i really was interested in cars, which is ironic because now that i am a car guy i drive a subaru outback, and to be clear objectively cars are terrible things
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
they are pretty compelling as design/engineering/cultural objects thooo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
driving a nice car is nice too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
if i ever become a big city/good job man again i will buy myself an s3 as a a treat
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
more like lagOOOOn
― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
dont want a german car cause its too ostentatious, but people who actually like cars like german cars, because theyre good cars
I drive a Mercedes now, bought used from a guy who was younger than the car.
Always hated the stereotypical German car driver too, but man. There is some weight to the hype. They're really good cars!
My favorite part is that I can say out loud "Open Butthole" and nothing happens.
(And I usually say that out loud when a BMW driver won't let me in. Now those guys are the real enemies.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
you get it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
will be interesting to see what happens to tesla as more direct competitors from real car companies come online, interesting volvo launched a whole new brand maybe trying to avoid ecar buyers aforementioned hangups about luxury cars, still think the most likely trajectory for tesla is a major accounting scandal followed by being absorbed by a big company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75LSbn4ocw
btw did not know teslas dont have a driver side gage cluster, everything is on the center screen, you have to look over to see your speed! just awful
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
You don't need to know your speed when the car is doing the driving!
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
lol, btw thought this was correct re level 2 self driving https://jalopnik.com/lots-of-people-seem-to-completely-misunderstand-the-aut-1847541014
it makes a lot more sense for a computer to be a back safety mechanism for a human than the other way around
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
I remember the urban tales of people thinking cruise-control meant auto-pilot and crashing their RV while stepping into the back for a second.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
that happened in anchorman 2 iirc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
I didn't see Anchorman 2. I drive a Mercedes.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
people who know how to live
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 1:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
🙏🙏🙏🙏
my old boss had a series of A4s (had an old one when i started, got a new one, then a few years later she ran over something and totaled it, got another new one) and tbh i did love riding with her in spite of myself. still driving my corolla until at least 2030 though :)
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
a4 wagon is so classic, my dad crashed mine ffs, only available in the allroad configuration now in this god forsaken country
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
forced by logic to buy our forester at the end of the lease (worth 8k!!! more used if we sell it than the lease buyout price) but i still want that sweet prius wagon.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
station wagons rule, but they have been supplanted by those prettified light trucks aka suvs.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
volvo launched a whole new brand maybe trying to avoid ecar buyers aforementioned hangups about luxury carsUnfortunately, Volvo's "Polestar" (named after their performance division) cars are way overpriced even compared to their existing lineup.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
crossovers aka tall cars are a plague
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
real truck suvs are cool tho, if you like that sort of thing
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
xp iirc they are a way for manufacturers to evade MPG requirements, nothing more
― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
well you could sell it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
buy its freedom and set it free in the Skyforest of San Bernardino
― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:28 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
well people really like them too drives like a car but you sit high have awd space to put stuff etc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
I got a used Honda CR-V a year ago and it's the best, most practical vehicle I've ever had by some margin
It's just useful, I don't understand what's bad about small SUVs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
Like do you guys really give a shit about this stuff or is it just ilx pretend care type stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
i personally just dont like how they look or drive or their whole vibe really something very no there there about them, but im in the minority crossovers are the most popular vehicles in this country by far
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
an outback really toes the line between a wagon and an suv
― micah, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
my outback is so big and rides so high its a borderline crossover tbh, the difference between it and the forester isnt much, all cars are getting so big now, i parked next to a previous gen outback the other day and it was so much smaller and lower
ha xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
The Outback is not considered a wagon, at least the use of the word wagon is not generally allowed in any Subaru marketing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
(I work for Subaru's ad/marketing/digital agency)
ha inside info nice, its some sort of car in the shape of a station wagon
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
kinda reminiscent of this bad boy
https://i.imgur.com/udAiUpH.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
They call it an SUV now so basically everything is an SUV except the sports cars and the Legacy and Impreza sedan. Crosstrek is just a jacked up Impreza as crossover and has been a huge home run
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
the liberty (rip) was the wagon variant.
the levorg sounds like the goods now. shame you cant get it in the states (i think?)
― micah, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
crosstrek is pretty sick tho i find the styling to be a lil over the top, i was looking at those too but the low milage used ones cost basically as much as new so i went w the outback, and tbh i like having the interior space have slept in it a few times and so forth, crosstrek is pretty small
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
you can call it what you want but to me this is clearly a wagon (with suv characteristics)
https://i.imgur.com/xFr8DXv.png
and if you go all the way back to the first gen its just a wagon
https://i.imgur.com/Ho3lZZ3.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
as a car driver a really hate not being able to see as well in front of the tall crossover things,I’ll probabably just get one of the damn things eventually in an arms race capitulation kind of way
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
soon you wont be able to even buy a goddamn normal car! ford currently has one model in their "cars" category, the famous mustang
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/toyota-prius-lift-kits-are-the-next-thing-in-the-safari-everything-trend/?amp
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
god I love the amc eagle
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
it rules
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
i like my outback more now that i have had the thought that they are the same type of car
mb i can get some sort of wood panel wrap
i drove an 03 forester for years and it was basically just a normal sized sedan that was smushed to look like an SUV, i loved that car
― ✖, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
We bought our CRV new, and 14 years later, it's still running great. Kinda wild that the oldest kid could possibly go from a baby seat to driving the damn thing.
I should get a bumper sticker for the Benz that says "My Other Car Is A Honda CR-V"
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
my mom drove an amc hornet when I was a kid. my partner and I bought a new forester last year, the first new car i’ve ever driven. maybe there’s a through line somewhere based on these recent posts
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:36 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
our most recent car is a honda hr-v and it's not exciting at all but AWD and space to put stuff were basically the top priorities so it works. love my civic but i was sick of going to home depot and doing gyrations about where to put stuff. also had a few experiences with vermont hills in the winter that made me rethink some things.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
there is a reason every car in vt is a subaru or a truck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
they know what they're doing up there
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
i bought a barely used subaru legacy a couple years ago and it is basically a very fast tank it rules
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:28 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol please tell this to my wife
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
this is me and my wife btw
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESNxmyrW4AIG9eY.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
please send her this message for me "sell the subaru and buy the large prius"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
I think part of the crossover thing is because getting in and out of a car that’s at standing human height is easier for people, especially if you’re loading/unloading children and groceries, or are old enough to make the “unngh” noise when getting in or out of a car or recliner
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
yeah def true
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
I remember being a kid and thinking the little handle over the door was just kind of a novelty in cars, then I become an adult and everyone’s using it to climb in and out of my car.
america’s knees are not doing well
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
a tall friend of mine upon acquiring his first crossover was like fuck that shit im never getting into a low car again
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20121217083536
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
ffs
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg
crossover is much easier on the back if you're loading kids in and out and you're in the US where the sidewalk is like 18 inches about the street.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
I’m currently driving an ‘06 Pontiac Vibe that I bought for like $4K over 6 years ago, and it still runs like brand new at over 200k miles. Don’t know if I got especially lucky, but I have heard from car nerds (of the super practical strain) that those were some weirdly good cars in spite of the Pontiac brand mostly being a punchline by the 90s
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
these ppl seem also v bullish on early-mid 00s CRVs (if you’re looking for stupid cheap but reliable)
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
i believe the vibe is just a rebranded toyota matrix which explains all that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
^yep this is true
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
it did seem like at the time I was in the market for a ridic cheap car the Toyota’s had retained more of their resale value (naturally)
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
i bought a used car a while back and was looking at that model, was not uncommon to see the matrix of similar year/mileage be 2k more than the vibe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
the Geo Prizm was a rebrand of a Toyota too
widely known as the toyota tax
― micah, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
Friend’s Vibe just crossed 300k miles
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
they're called kilometres
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 9 September 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-1xUr0XEAMR9Ga?format=png&name=900x900
― calzino, Thursday, 9 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Don't let anybody tell you that the Tesla yoke is a good idea https://t.co/f1SkdDmRhI pic.twitter.com/WpCKb2Mt2D— Edmunds (@edmunds) September 7, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
I kinda think the SpaceX space suits look pretty dorky.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qs5VnkS6doevtfKhD2D7AK-1024-80.jpg.webp
― earlnash, Friday, 10 September 2021 08:03 (two years ago) link
They look like they should come with a pack of markers so that you can decorate them yourself, like a plain paper placemat at a restaurant when you order the kids menu.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 September 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
combination Storm Trooper/Interstellar wannabe spacesuit design, issued only in two-sizes-too-big form.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 September 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UQ2ovzU.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 10 September 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
It looks like what you wear to the gym in space. That helmet screams recumbent bicycle too.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 September 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Hoping Ledge just happened to have a blank template of Gordon laying around.
― pplains, Friday, 10 September 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
fortunately there are some just lying around on the internet for anyone to pick up.
― ledge, Friday, 10 September 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
this is me on page 9 (of my gis results)
― shitbird in prospect (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 10 September 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
https://modernpartyplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/il_794xN.2004774208_dpeg.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 September 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Damn! pic.twitter.com/4Fr828loCQ— Taylor Ogan (@TaylorOgan) September 15, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
JUST DRIVE YOUR OWN CAR.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 September 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
Disappointing that it didn’t slam into a pylon.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 September 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
oooOooof
BREAKING: Elon Musk Rushes To Aid Of Overturned Tesla Pinned On Top Of Child https://t.co/azxHMq4Wta pic.twitter.com/nHea9mXPhm— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 17, 2021
― frogbs, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
My friend's Tesla just had to be in the shop for three weeks, thanks to supply/equipment shortages. This is not its first prolonged service visit, either. His wife jokes that it's been in the shop more than it's been in the carport.
Oh, I was telling him about some of those videos upthread, especially the Edmunds guy who got car sick with the model Plaid (or whatever it's called) and he conceded that his Tesla sometimes makes him a little ill, too. I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection? Like the way some people need to be behind the wheel to avoid car sickness, or at the least how looking ahead where you're going is key to avoiding nausea. Maybe some people have been conditioned to need the sound of a motor or acceleration? That's a feature some EV et al. cars have, right? To *add* some engine noise?
Anyway, my buddy is literally the first and only Tesla owner I've met that is willing to say bad things about the car and its performance. I'll be curious if he sticks with it when his lease is up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 September 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
I wonder if there is something to that, psychologically, with all electric cars, where for some people the near silence throws off your body/brain connection?
lol buddy WHATTTT
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
Is that so far fetched? I don't mean it as something wrong with EVs, just something wrong with our brains. Like the way Teslas et al. offered the update back at launch that made cars creep forward a little with your foot off the "gas," or the way some cars offer the option of piping the sound of acceleration *into* the interior, through the speakers. Just like being on a big boat, where you might not actually see it or feel it moving or rocking but your brain certainly recognizes it, which can lead to sea sickness. Isn't that what the tester in the Edmunds video (is that upthread?) hypothesized after the Plaid made him motion sick in a way that even being in the backseat of a Formula 1 car did not?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
ppl seem to think the regen breaking is the main culprit, can be too herky jerky, tho im sure the insane acceleration cld do it too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 September 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
A little bookmark for anyone following the progress of western civilization 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QCSK8walTC— stricture (@bog_beef) September 18, 2021
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 September 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
But the real issue here is psychological: Musk has learned, again and again, that the secret to winning is to play chicken and never flinch. Whatever issue finally wrecks Tesla, and there's a good chance it's driving automation, Musk will drive directly into it at top speed.— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) September 20, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 September 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Coupla blind squirrels here
“Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.” https://t.co/40tK77p8KA— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 20, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 September 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
i burst out laughing at that
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Monday, 20 September 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
spidermen pointing at each other
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
https://t.co/7KXV29jrAk pic.twitter.com/J7JHA01thx— Sandy Johnston 🚰 (@sandypsj) September 20, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
No need to listen to this podcast episode honestly but god this clip from Rogan & Musk slayed me
The world’s most popular podcaster and the world’s richest man have the world’s stupidest conversation. This week on Double Threat @scharpling @julieklausner pic.twitter.com/IspE1cTYPJ— DOUBLE THREAT (@DoubleThreatPod) September 20, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:17 (two years ago) link
using a race car steering wheel but not knowing that in race cars they have a much higher turning ratio, just musk stuff
Tried it and... the yoke, as implemented, is one of the dumbest things Tesla has ever done.There I said it.It'd be different if lock-to-lock was < ~120 degrees or so (you know, the point of a yoke normally), but on a standard steering rack this is just flat out stupid.— Jason Hughes (@wk057) September 20, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Consumer Reports paints a particularly forehead-slapping picture of this stupid thing: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars-driving/tesla-steering-yoke-little-benefit-potential-safety-pitfalls-a1034204120/
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
the steering wheel is a crutch inhibiting full self-driving roulette
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Tesla swapped the tried-and-true round steering wheel for a flat-bottomed, rectangular yoke reminiscent of what pilots use to steer an airplane.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but pilots never do a hand-over-hand-over-hand turn, do they?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Clip from China of a $TSLA Model 3, evidently equipped with the latest and greatest safety technology. My guess is the 4D dojo supercomputer recognizes that the pedestrian dummy is not a human and therefore sees no reason to perform evasive maneuvers. pic.twitter.com/R1mQqbxIy9— degen (@finance_degen) September 20, 2020
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
if your computer can't suss out the dummies, you'll be vulnerable to wagon train robbery
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
it appears the pedestrian-recognition neural net core is actually just a copy of freeware classic Truck Dismount.tbf it let them shrink the size of the chip dramatically, leaving room for the forthcoming bong-holder add-on.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
Maybe the dummy just needs its own chip.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
poor robot Beatle
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
hate to say it, but Elon Musk stealing a bit of Thiel’s playbook and parlaying it to stock market success is funny in the context of their rivalry. absolutely both megalomaniacal dorks, but Musk’s grift is barely opaque after a quick look and Thiel thinks he’s truly subversive while being such a caustic shithead
― mh, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
I saw peter thiel in a park in Beverly Hills a couple of weeks back. He seemed to have joined a friend who had kids. He stood next to my while I pushed my kid on the swings and was confused about whether there was a correct way to face the kid on the swing. Not a joke.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link
that was a cusp that affected the future of humankind
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
You should have had your kid kick that Elizabeth Bathory motherfucker in the head.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 10:55 (two years ago) link
max said broadly the same thing haha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
The joys of living on the bleeding edge- a thread:On the way to dinner tonight my @Tesla literally locked up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY! A message Ive never seen before popped up saying "Vehicle May Not Restart: Service required"Well thats no good I think... pic.twitter.com/Q4Dm492y4Z— Pooch @Repkord (@repkord) September 23, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Just unplug it, wait 30 seconds, then plug it in again.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Zap the PRAM
― DJI, Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
There are other EVs out there and more to come. Eventually Tesla will run out of fools.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/hlLtyraCF5 https://t.co/BXefM0tEci— literally a grrl ghost 🎃 (@GrrlGhost) September 24, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 24 September 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
the prophecy is fulfilled https://t.co/Rg6xLSi6Z8 pic.twitter.com/ULDi9suDAy— Scott Chegg (@buckfastbadlad) September 24, 2021
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 September 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
😭😭not apartheid Clyde pic.twitter.com/HxfRXfqfAk— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) September 24, 2021
apartheid clyde
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 24 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
I'm curious to what the azealiabanks account actually said now, because it appears to have gotten it suspended.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 September 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
TOWSON 1-2 N CHARLES ST & W TOWSONTOWN BL - VEHICLE FIRE. TESLA ON FIRE. REQUEST LARGE CAPACITY WATER TANKER, HAZMAT UNIT, AND FOAM UNIT DUE TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE ON FIRE. ROAD IS BLOCKED #BCOTRAFFIC @LVFC30 @ProvidenceVFC29 @BaltCoFire pic.twitter.com/hJfPyTcwfx— Baltimore Co. Volunteer Firefighter’s Association (@BaltCoVolFire) October 1, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 1 October 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
hmmm
https://i.imgur.com/I3RHZ0x.png
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 October 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
Guy wearing a spacex shirt walked in to loudly observe “it’s like if you pressed pause during a scene in a play” pic.twitter.com/4N06zmkFBb— ethnic steve (@EthnicSteve) October 17, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
HAs S HE HAD PLASTIC S
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 18 October 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
https://elonmusk.today/
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 18 November 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
The new Tesla is great except it randomly, strongly and inexplicably brakes when it definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.https://t.co/3ZcrvD6HIx pic.twitter.com/X1gNGs2Rtb— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 26, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 November 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
my boyfriend is great but he randomly, strongly and inexplicably cheats on me when he definitely shouldn't between one and five times an hour.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 26 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
tbf that tweet makes it seem like the review understates major problems when really its pretty negative and recommends against buying
And, dear reader, I'm sorry to say, this first one will not be good. The Model Y is a phenomenal achievement in many ways, a great blend of range and practicality and even performance mixed with a suite of unique features that are as useful as they are distinct. But, as it stands, you absolutely should not buy one. Let me elaborate on the why.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2021-tesla-model-y-review/
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 November 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
rode in a friends tesla on a 5hr road trip a few months ago (i dont remember what model they have), and the constant sudden braking was infuriating. it was a lot of 55mph rural roads, and the brakes would automatically activate any time the car passed anywhere near any stop sign, incl ones on intersecting secondary roads we passed, as well as lots of other times on the open road for seemingly no reason. it was really annoying.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 November 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
jesus
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 26 November 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
wouldn't even buy a self-driving sack cart off this cunt.
― calzino, Friday, 26 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
"There is no way to sugarcoat this."https://t.co/jRxERoK8AI— Futurism (@futurism) November 30, 2021
Musk continued to make his frustrations loud and clear in the email, while also stressing the severity of the situation. He even went as far as demanding his employees return to work despite it being a holiday weekend.“Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster,” he wrote.Musk added that even though he had planned to take the weekend off, he would “be on the Raptor line all night and through the weekend.”
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
prelude to telsa buying space x i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Heltsley to Elon: "I learned it by watching you!"
― Oxnard Jeweler (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
In email leaked by Elon musk Elon musk claims spacex facing bankruptcy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
might be an attempt at imitating jim bakker and expecting the money to flow in
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
space ain't cheap
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/november/dick-moves
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
looks like a cupcake
https://i.postimg.cc/nzd0QGv5/image.png
― ✖, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
darth vader with the mask off lookin ass
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 3 December 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
lmao crust punk finally mainstreamed
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
is he afrikaner? just wondering the origin story
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
have you heard him speak, and not just in the last few years where his accent is just weird
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 04:18 (two years ago) link
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2021_50/1819582/time-person-year-kb-inline-211213.jpg
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 December 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Time magazine has devolved into something very bad.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 13 December 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
they’ve captured the 2021 zeitgeist pretty well there
― mh, Monday, 13 December 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
And they expect people will pay them to read/look at that?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 13 December 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
I just saw the incredible documentary about the Thai cave rescue, I was so afraid that he was going to pop up at any point, even as a punchline, but thankfully it completely ignores 100% of his bullshit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
I'm ok with that choice. he is an exemplar of the bullshit americans eat up. now that trump is out of the spotlight musk's the biggest one still going.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
as best i can tell, musk has very little actual real-world impact?
he's just a fantastically rich memelord, which honestly makes him a perfect selection
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
all those stupid fake satellites have a real world effect bcz you can;t see the stars properly any more :(
also pareene's argument here (tho tbf this has not yet manifested in the real world): https://theap.substack.com/p/losing-a-street-fight-to-elon-musk
― mark s, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
ps time was always shit and made hitler person of the year in 1938
― mark s, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
hitler did have quite an effect in 1938
― mh, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
oy that pareene piece makes horrible sense.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
lol i just realised that "man of the year" was time magazine pioneering shitposting
backwards walked sentences until banned the zoo
― mark s, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
Remember when
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Time_youcover01.jpg/220px-Time_youcover01.jpg
Someone got paid for that. Perhaps even a number of someones.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
fuck off old lunch i was the person of the year in 2007 you cant take that away from me
― mark s, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
i'm enjoying my control of the information age
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
One time Spin named my hard drive album of the year.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 December 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
i felt so welcomed into my world in 2007
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 13 December 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
this guy could be a good alternate for Time
Former US Senate candidate and first Maine resident to catch COVID Max Linn found dead in hot tub after being sued for pulling gun on former aide during cryptocurrency disagreement https://t.co/Q238V2UFwU— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) December 13, 2021
― mh, Monday, 13 December 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
should have used this for the cover instead of a picture of a guy with plugs
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 13 December 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
plug this payment interface into your website. plug your car into the wall. plug this hair into my skull. plug this cable into your brain. plug up space with this garbage. man of the year. plugger of the century.
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 13 December 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
Should have just named "Plugs" as whatever of the year.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 December 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
when you're a plugger, every problem looks like a receptacle
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 13 December 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
This magazine cover looks like a prop on the office wall of the next Bond villain.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
it is only natural that the villain of Bond would be Plug
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember when Adam Schefter was Time's Man of the Year
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
(Ha ha)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
I love the way Time gave it to Nixon in '71 and then a joint award to Nixon/Kissinger the year after 👏👏👏 quality work lads 👏👏👏
― calzino, Monday, 13 December 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
kissinger got the peace prize in 73. they pulled the trigger too early
― mh, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 04:05 (two years ago) link
well, yeah
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGf91ymXMAE9niU?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
Yeah just a little off the top and then lets go with a full undercut to make sure the hair transplant scars are visible in the profile pic.twitter.com/bwq6FqxOtd— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) December 14, 2021
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-11-2016/o9USOS.gif
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
is that gromes on the left
― rob, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
we have such sights
https://www.ladbible.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=648,quality=70,format=jpeg,fit=pad,dpr=2/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-images.ladbible.com%2Fs3%2Fcontent%2F7aa68ed26159789e9a83ca4770d32c96.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
@chadkirchner What do you know about Tesla apparently using 2017 packs in brand new cars? I’ve never heard about this before. pic.twitter.com/EHa1X05CG7— William (@willzlife) December 19, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 December 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
one of the design "quriks" on Teslas is that they have no consistency whatsoever. I remember an article about some mechanic who disassembled 10+ of them and found that no two were built alike; most of them were missing bolts or clamps somewhere. that was a couple years ago...I doubt anything's changed since
― frogbs, Monday, 20 December 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
yeah their qc is famously awful
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 December 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
my little brother bought one and it wound up bricking within 100 miles. randomly shut off and wouldn't start back up. spent hours on the phone and they even sent a tech out there but they couldn't get it working so they had to tow it away. now to their credit they did give him a full refund but they also banned him from buying a new Tesla for a year (??)
― frogbs, Monday, 20 December 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 December 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
Did your brother ask if they could extend the ban
― Vinnie, Monday, 20 December 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
lmao thats fantastic
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 20 December 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
do you have games on your phone pic.twitter.com/p5tOJ5Am3y— br◎seph (@on3ness) December 20, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 December 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
oh no
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 December 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
Musk has a honky Kim Jong-un vibe.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 December 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
How long until Kanye designs a car.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 December 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
obligatory:https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600,c_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 20 December 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
That remote ignition killswitch in subprime cars? It's now in Teslas. https://t.co/r2TbiNdIr2— Cory Doctorow MOSTLY AFK (@doctorow) December 20, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
what could go wrong?
US probes potential of drivers playing video games in Teslas
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into the potential for Tesla drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while the vehicle is in motion.
In a document posted Wednesday on its website, the agency says the feature, called “Passenger Play,” may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
we heard you liked tetris so we put tetris in your tesla and also we want you to die
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
one of the design "quriks" on Teslas is that they have no consistency whatsoever.
I live in a Tesla-heavy town and can confirm this. Start looking at basic defects like doors and trunk lids that don't quite line-up correctly and once you see enough differences among different Teslas it gets pretty obvious.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 December 2021 07:44 (two years ago) link
👀 https://t.co/oZ8yvZgjZ9— The Urbanist (@UrbanistOrg) December 30, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:50 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Is it finally time to use this?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Lol their stock price is actually up today, what a joke
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
iyo did Elon musk ruin the internet
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
don’t cars have minor recall/maintenance things all the time? i’m looking for every opportunity to take shots at elon but mehtbf every tesla probably has a dozen reasons for recall though
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
This is like half the Teslas ever sold though
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
they couldn’t admit that they aren’t sure which ones actually need a recall because there was no manual on how to run the camera wires and one team just stapled them to the trunk
― mh, Friday, 31 December 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
i'm a little confused by how this is reported, in part because i'm not sure how unusual it is to not know based on model whether the vehicle will have a defect. i do remember hearing/reading about tesla's lack of standards for components/assembly. the article says 1% of the model 3s in the recall are actually affected. i guess they would normally be able to limit it to a range of VINs.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 31 December 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
one would think!
― mh, Friday, 31 December 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
"Don't worry. We can always fix it in the software."
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 31 December 2021 05:08 (two years ago) link
TESLA MOTORS - "Move fast and break things, literally."
― earlnash, Friday, 31 December 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
can't wait
Boring company's "traffic-jam-solving-tunnel" has traffic jams lol.Cue everyone telling me that car tubes are more sustainable than an actual functioning public transit network 😉 pic.twitter.com/jLZ6YEhr20— Matt Lowne (@Matt_Lowne) January 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
Just wait until a car is disabled.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
god the Elon stans are fucking exhausting:
Please explain how "public transit" which has been tried and rejected by the American people is suddenly just gonna start working?— Kitsune Streaming Co (@co_kitsune) January 6, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
please explain how "geometry" which has been tried and rejected by the american automobile is suddenly just going to start working.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
love to reject something that exists in only the absolutely most desirable places to live
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link
Imagine all those rejected A line cars shuttling back and forth, empty and forlorn, never to start working.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
Just wait until a terrorist puts bombs in self-driving cars at each end of a tunnel.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
It's impossible to imagine such a thing, even though you have just imagined it and it would be amazingly simple and effective, if it were even possible to imagine it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
'welp, we tried subways, buses and ferries, they don't work so I guess it's just luxury cars from here on out!'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
love to reject something that exists in only the absolutely most desirable places to live― lag∞n, Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is a good post
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I get that driving an automobile can be cool and was really novel in like the 1930s but the complete lack of historical perspective from these people kind of blows my mind
Not that I live a block from where a trolley track used to run and it would have taken directly me to the bar and grocery store that's just over a mile away or anything
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
*wistfully gazing at the spot where the trolley was*
I can't believe the single lane tunnel thing actually exists. What if a car bricks or randomly starts on fire or experiences any of the other weird issues that Teslas seem to have? How would people get out?
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
Or is this like the dream scenario for the Bazingas? Is there a nobler death...?
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
tunnel valhalla
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
Strong "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" energy in that tweet above.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/uiHoMrpifZ— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2022
― Alba, Sunday, 9 January 2022 08:40 (two years ago) link
These death tunnels are fun and cool bc no matter how dumb the general population understands that they are, the ppl in charge are just going to do it anyway ☺️
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaRfNjTPx8
― mh, Sunday, 9 January 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpempCSp2-w
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 January 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
this fuckwad
Canadian truckers rule— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2022
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
is that why he's going to replace them with self driving trucks?
― StanM, Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
he just means truckers are the new government of canada which is technically correct
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
lmao we programmed cars to break the law, what's the big deal??
He’s actually a lobbyist, not a journalist. There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former. No integrity.Indeed, there were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2022
― rob, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
this guy is such a piece of shit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
sad lol at essentially programming in a rolling stop. Self-driving cars: they're just like us!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
new Teslas come with deepfaked footage of you drinking "just one beer with dinner"
― rob, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link
i programmed my exploding car to run stop signs slowly in violation of every state's traffic laws
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
i know no one who is likely to be pulled over can afford this car lol
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
For that you have to shell out for the self-buying car, which is a bargain.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
i'm not going to research this right now but i think nhtsa may frown upon the ceo of a car company publicly saying something is not a safety issue at the same time they are announcing a recall for a safety issue
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
I have absolutely gotten pulled over for doing this lol
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
we’ll just have to write new traffic laws to accommodate a weird billionaire pissbaby. I don’t think it will be hard.
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
xpost But what if *you* didn't roll through the stop, what if it was the car?https://video-images.vice.com/articles/60c09917f74527009a124228/lede/1623235200851-christine-car-on-fire.jpeg?crop=1xw%3A1xh%3Bcenter%2Ccenter&resize=2000%3A*
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
xpost - I have a feeling Tesla's legal team is also having a rough morning when seeing their CEO tweet out that the cars are programmed to directly break the law in, afaiui, every state.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
"lobbyist" is the new "narc"
― rob, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
well they know that because this is the reason for yet another recall xp
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Just saying that the tweeting of it out as "no safety issue" is probably not helpful.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
its only recently that tesla has been issuing recalls for software problems, which they were supposed to be doing all along
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
elon is lying in his tweet there the cars were programmed to roll though at up to 5+ mph, just a reflexively dishonest person
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
Does Elon's statement about the journalist amount to libel?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
I know nothing about law, just think that it would be cool if it did.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
I forget, what happened to the libel case of the guy he called a pedophile?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
Musk won
One of the smartest moves by Elon Musk's defence was in introducing the concept of "JDart", an acronym to describe their client's conduct on Twitter in relation to the infamous "pedo guy" tweet.A JDart, lawyer Alex Spiro explained, meant: a Joke that was badly received, therefore Deleted, with an Apology and then Responsive Tweets to move on from the matter. JDart.It's clumsy, for sure, but it meant Mr Spiro could offer the jury here a degree of structure around what before seemed senseless: Mr Musk may have acted foolishly with the J, but he soon "darted", which is how you know he wasn't being serious about the allegation.Expect the JDart "standard" to be applied again and again, not just in libel trials, but in any arena where social media behaviour is under scrutiny - a parachute for anyone who, in the heat of the moment, says something idiotic online.
A JDart, lawyer Alex Spiro explained, meant: a Joke that was badly received, therefore Deleted, with an Apology and then Responsive Tweets to move on from the matter. JDart.
It's clumsy, for sure, but it meant Mr Spiro could offer the jury here a degree of structure around what before seemed senseless: Mr Musk may have acted foolishly with the J, but he soon "darted", which is how you know he wasn't being serious about the allegation.
Expect the JDart "standard" to be applied again and again, not just in libel trials, but in any arena where social media behaviour is under scrutiny - a parachute for anyone who, in the heat of the moment, says something idiotic online.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
Of course he won, he's a billionaire. He can do whatever the fuck he wants, including goosing the stocks of his own companies via tweets whenever its convenient.
Unless you are poor or marginalized, the age of consequences is over.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
I had this dream or Elon Musk made it with a woman appeared as a golden shower and her babies were alien babies. This was either a dream or just something I thought about
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure that was his relationship with Grimes right there
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
A JDart, lawyer Alex Spiro explained, meant: a Joke that was badly received, therefore Deleted, with an Apology and then Responsive Tweets to move on from the matter.
Smart lawyer, stupid jury. A sensational lie will always outrun a lame apology. As for 'responsive tweets', they may as well be dropped into the Mariana Trench.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah grimes alien 👽
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
your honor when I publicly admitted the cars were programmed to break the law I was just being "based"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
the car learned it from you, dad!
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
SpaceX loses 40 satellites to geomagnetic storm a day after launch
SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up...
Musk vs. The Sun, a battle royale
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
If I've learned anything from the film Geostorm, the only solution is to send Musk himself into space to repair the satellites, before he takes the fight to the sun itself.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
He can definitely launch a private sun... competition breeds innovation
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
Neuralink trials going well
some elon musk reply guy is about to make "flowers for algernon" look like a success story pic.twitter.com/2YsRvc3EMj— a non-suspicious guy you aren't worried about 😏 (@ChrisCaesar) February 10, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 11 February 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
Oh and
California is suing Elon Musk's Tesla, alleging it runs a "racially segregated" workplace and discriminates against Black employees.Black workers report being concentrated in parts of its factory (one called "the plantation" by other workers) and hearing slurs up to 100x daily. pic.twitter.com/2vmD3oo13G— AJ+ (@ajplus) February 10, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 11 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
why would a guy who grew in the apartheid ruling class do this
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 February 2022 02:31 (two years ago) link
JFC @ that neuralink story. (Sadly?) I'm sure he could fill up some trials with his fanboys.
― DJI, Friday, 11 February 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link
yeah the self-mutilating monkey is uh fucking wild
― frogbs, Friday, 11 February 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
I hate this evil psychopath so much.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 11 February 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah this is next level horrifying. Where’s PETA when you need them?
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 February 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
So whether the chip was supposed to kill them or not, it still doesn’t really work. https://t.co/GjPnqxo6uS— Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel) February 12, 2022
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 12 February 2022 12:34 (two years ago) link
Musk removes mask and reveals reptilian face a la "V" miniseries
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 14 February 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
Then swallows a monkey whole.
― nickn, Monday, 14 February 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
he'd obv rather test on humans but the FDA can be so fickle
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 14 February 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1946074-elon-musk
― o. nate, Monday, 14 February 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
ELON has too much power. I miss pre-elon times
― | (Latham Green), Saturday, 19 February 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
congrats!https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/entertainment/grimes-elon-musk-second-child-intl-scli/index.html
― StanM, Friday, 11 March 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
there is nothing this dude loves more than having eight zillion children and tweeting his way through it
― mh, Friday, 11 March 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
hectic week for everyone:
Grimes is dating leaker Chelsea Manning after Elon Musk breakup https://t.co/l0PmWDPskN pic.twitter.com/7a5TgyG02i— Page Six (@PageSix) March 11, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 11 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
what in the hell
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 March 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 11 March 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
A union built to last!
― extra dark sideræl rusk (Matt #2), Friday, 11 March 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
had never realized how much they look like each other.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2022 05:46 (two years ago) link
edgy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNz7FYdXIAYMxHN?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 March 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
What happened in 10 days? pic.twitter.com/1ePAo0w0nG— David Weigel (@daveweigel) March 14, 2022
― symsymsym, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
Too many politicians/corporations/media figures came out in support of Ukraine I guess
― frogbs, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
Like what the fuck is this. Dude is 50 years old
pic.twitter.com/Gw6xaw1u0N— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
lmao that is extremely pathetic if the Chelsea Manning rumor is true
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
haha that’s it
"What I desperately, desperately need is for you to think that I’m cool and funny. I need this. Please give me that satisfaction." — @elonmusk https://t.co/otpfnBSMrj pic.twitter.com/O5Tg5ht5yZ— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 24, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
translation: he got rejected from Berghain, life is alright sometimes
They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2022
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 3 April 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
he’s so silly. I guess you’d call it “cringe” now but there needs to be something stronger than cringe. everything’s cringe
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Sunday, 3 April 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
Terrible disappointment for the Berghain pee guy I'm sure.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
I do not know what that means but if his plan was to pee on Elon then I suppose so. honestly I’m disappointed too
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Sunday, 3 April 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
Well well.
https://www.ft.com/content/29b9c884-02d7-4d1c-a4ab-c862242fa76e
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 April 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link
Now he'll be able to say anything he wants!
― nashwan, Monday, 4 April 2022 12:00 (two years ago) link
hi
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 4 April 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
ask him for a free tesla model x plaid 0-60 2.3 seconds
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 April 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
gonna ask him to stop doing a culture of racism in the workplace
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 4 April 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
i mean thats fine too
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
The worst people seem to become politicians and billionaires
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 April 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
he just bought a big chunk of Twitter
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 April 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
Not cynical/sinister at all
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 April 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
he also has a convertible floating through space
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 April 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
the tesla floating in space, courtesy of space-x, is a good example of corporate synergy, where the energies brought into alignment are the dumb ideas elon has when stoned
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 4 April 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
stoned on cocaine maybe
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 4 April 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
I couldn't write this script if I tried. pic.twitter.com/vRQN9wpzqg— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) April 5, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
abysmal real names
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
xp don’t do this at me
― mh, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:51 (two years ago) link
It seems the Starlinks he sent to Ukraine are really making a difference:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ukraine-now-using-over-10000-starlink-units-to-keep-country-online
― o. nate, Thursday, 7 April 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
This woman was brought to tears over the mere sight of Elon Musk. Psychotic. pic.twitter.com/WqMMbVHEGx— Matt Saincome (@MattSaincome) April 8, 2022
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
he's the fifth Beatle
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
more like the filth butthole
― Toxoplasmosis Jones (cat), Friday, 8 April 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
Whoops!
Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. pic.twitter.com/lfrXACavvk— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 11, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 April 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link
Is this the reason pic.twitter.com/xwlDhTv1Rf— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) April 11, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 April 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link
https://s3-prod.autonews.com/s3fs-public/MUSK_TEXAS-MAIN_i.jpg
"ARE YOU READY FOR FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE?!?!"
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 April 2022 04:51 (two years ago) link
he looks stoned
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 11 April 2022 04:52 (two years ago) link
He looks like he's wearing a human suit.
― peace, man, Monday, 11 April 2022 10:26 (two years ago) link
we tried to have him join the board where he would have legal obligations to act in the best interests of the company and all its shareholders but strangely he chose the option to remain a chaos agent— Mister Zingers (@allahliker) April 11, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 April 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
He is now offering to buy the company outright.
― peace, man, Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
Who controls the memes,controls the Universe— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2020
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
king shit
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
i meant that in a bad way, haha
whatta world
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
dude really has become the real-life Mr Burns
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
if he offers to buy ILX for more than $10 billion, though, i suggest we take it
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
"Trending in the UK: Mastodon"
― koogs, Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
It’s weird when someone uses a platform to break federal securities law and then later buys the platform.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
god, i bet he's going to somehow introduce crypto into twitter, too
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
man, Batman (1989) fucking NAILED our current era
it's uncanny how much back to the future 2 and batman both featured the cartoon supervillains, one a total idiot and bitter, the other a maniacal troll who is bitter
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
tomorrow's news today
https://i.imgur.com/fPkRVJ9.gif
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
He bid $54.20 per share
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
Trump will get back his twitter account.This will be Elon's legacy.— John_Hempton (@John_Hempton) April 14, 2022
― o. nate, Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
forums lawsuithttps://t.co/NxuVxcFoRShttps://t.co/w09DnLypDB pic.twitter.com/fV7lVH84ud— Goons_TXT (@Goons_TXT) April 14, 2022
― 龜, Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
phew close one
Journalists breath a sign of relief as Musk is blocked from buying Twitter by *adjusts glasses* Mohammed bin Salman. pic.twitter.com/Ic5b8xi1Mv— Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) April 14, 2022
― nashwan, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 April 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
does this guy actually believe his stupid tunnels are a good idea or is all just part of his pr scam
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
there is no difference in his own mind, that's the cool thing about post-Trump America
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
https://t.co/iWDzIqnMDz pic.twitter.com/5x7NMAunxN— Rob (@robrousseau) April 25, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
NY Times is saying the Musk and the Twitter board may announce a deal as soon as today.
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link
wonder what hes up to with all this, for a guy who relies so heavily on a a fawning media becoming admin of the media message board seems like a pretty dicey proposition, lot of potential negative exposure there with im not sure what the upside is
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
maybe its all a pump and dump to keep whatever major account fraud hes running at tesla going
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link
man, if Musk buys Twitter it's going to full of guys making claims they can't back up
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
Nazis running amok.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 25 April 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
Seems like he wants to make it more like Telegram, ie. less interference in people posting whatever they want?
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
I guess it's pump and dump that he's got planned to keep tunnels open during a hurricane.
― pplains, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link
― o. nate, Monday, April 25, 2022 10:26 AM (thirty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
i mean you couldnt come up with a better way to get bad press, is he going to reinstate trump whats going on here, this man is supposed to be selling cars
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link
twitter would become unusable and worth nothing overnight if they really went "free speech", even if they just do some minor tinkering around the edges its gonna be a media firestorm, maybe he really thinks he can ride with his meme stock people to... somewhere? idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
my assumption was that it was a pump and dump, no one would actually let him buy it, and he’d unload all the shares he bought as soon as that became clear to him but before the public caught onwe already know the SEC barely slaps him on the wrist, it’d be just slightly more blatant than his last few grifts
― mh, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
yeah thats what i was thinking too but it seems like hes going through with it
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
not like he’ll be out any cash either way, it’s all borrowing against his tesla shares
― mh, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
there are also policies & laws restricting speech in countries outside the US (I think the EU just announced more today?) that a Musk-owned twitter can't just ignore, so it seems like pure vanity right now
― rob, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
Apparently he has some other ideas too: A crack-down on bots (supposedly this is easier to do as a private company because it will initially impact user-engagement metrics in a negative way, which would cause stock volatility), an option to pay a nominal fee for a blue-check, more transparency around the algorithms. At least you can say one thing for Musk as an owner, he is also a customer, and he seems to have some strong opinions on ways Twitter could be improved. Like those old TV ads: I liked this shaver so much I bought the company!
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
wld be funny if he came in and just improved the user experience i guess
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
and yeah its true that sort of stuff is much easier when you dont have to watch the stock price
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
however! the concerns of a user with 83m followers are not those of the average poster
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
i would like a big heart button, bigger than the current small heart
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
Will be cool when twitter has lots of pricing tiers. Sovereign Individual level the highest, of course.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
is he going to reinstate trump
I assume this would be one of his first acts. I'm not sure it will be quite the seismic event people seem to think though, I think it's possible Trump has benefited from not being out there looking like a complete idiot every day.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 April 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Beyond thinking nobody should have as much money as Musk has, with the ability to singlehandedly purchase powerful media platforms, I have a hard time getting too worked up about him and Twitter specifically. Twitter already sucks, he'll still have to do a fair amount of moderation just to keep the most obviously noxious stuff off. I guess he'll let people post unlimited anti-vaxx shit, but I feel like that ship has sailed anyway.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 April 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
I'm kind of secretly hoping he ruins twitter just so I spend less time there
― silverfish, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
also it would be funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
I guess when you're as rich as Musk there's not much left that you can spend money on that will put any appreciable dent in your net worth. The only things one can buy with a price tag that runs into the tens of billions is a successful company or maybe a top-tier prestige sports team. He already runs a rocket-ship company, so that rules out another popular vanity billionaire project.
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
lets not forget the ape murdering brain implant company
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
Someone tell him about Chelsea
― greyfriars boaby (Matt #2), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
remember when our parasitic capitalist overlords used to at least feel compelled to assuage their unadmitted guilt by endowing scholarships, research laboratories, local libraries, orchestras and opera companies, etc.? not that i really want to line up for tickets at the Elon Musk Theater, mind you. but still.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
elon musk is not a good role model
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
I guess it was inevitable the world would be run by Heinlein characters
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
twitter is so bad already, and the people i know who use it the most are often the ones who complain loudest & most frequently about how terrible it is, its hard to for me to imagine how Elon could ruin it in such a way that a substantial number of people actually stop using it, short of intentionally removing the addictive elements of the design
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
hmm. Well, if blues checks are for sale, conservative billionaires will buy them for every idiot troll, rendering them meaningless. Not too bad.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
I guess there's a chance Trump wouldn't come back even if invited. It would pretty much mean acknowledging defeat for his Truth Social app, although OTOH it could be a face-saving off-ramp for him to shut it down.
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
not that i really want to line up for tickets at the Elon Musk Theater, mind you. but still.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
im persuaded
― mark s, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
stoked for the madness tbh
― Number One shlong in Devon (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 April 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
When's he gonna buy ilxor.com?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
As soon as he meets our asking price of $60,000
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 April 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
you sell us short karl
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 April 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
think of all the CONTENT he'd have control over! 14,786,235 messages and counting! including thousands of posts by celebrities like ned and nabisco
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 April 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
getting ready to post hourly photos of him photoshopped eating poop
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 April 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
Another possible motivation is that this gives Musk a good excuse to diversify $20B or so out of wildly expensive TSLA stock.
― o. nate, Monday, 25 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
Thanks Dave.
This exchange continues to haunt me pic.twitter.com/W06oSqx0MR— Dave Smith (@redletterdave) April 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 April 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
he should have married it instead
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 April 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
well.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
the "free speech absolutist" thing is so incredibly stupid. I remember an era where there really was "free speech" online and it fucking sucked. you couldn't look at anything in a public setting because people would spam goatse everywhere. decent message boards would get brigaded and become unusable. like, look at the YouTube live comment boxes whenever there's a political event going on (at least, back when there actually was live chat) - just an endless parade of racial slurs and swastikas. Elon himself has been known to retaliate against anyone who speaks up against him so it's blindingly obvious that his "free speech" charge is just replacing one type of moderation with another. idk how this is gonna work out for him but I can't imagine it will be good!!
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
It would kinda dope if Musk bought Twitter and just shut it off…. Lol— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) April 25, 2022
― mh, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
didn't he promise an edit button for twitter? can't wait for an endless parade of people getting 100K retweets on "jack in the box hit different at 1AM" and editing it to say something like "hitler was cool and the age of consent should be 9"
― JoeStork, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
frogbs otm
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
and joestorkand ice-t tbh
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Maybe Pierre Omidyar could buy Truth Social
― JoeStork, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
Making Twitter not suck is a simple matter of curating one's feed. I have the former president's name muted, I have Kanye West's name muted, and I don't follow any political accounts unless they have something else to offer, so basically my Twitter feed is a stream of people talking about jazz and metal and art (and pro wrestling, but whaddya gonna do).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 25 April 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
So proud to be supporting an African owned business✊— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) April 25, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 25 April 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
yup the conservatives have finally learned a second joke
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
reddit was seriously ideologically committed to free speech absolutism for many years and they eventually had to abandon it after it proved to be totally unworkable, expecting this to basically play out the same way except stupider. problems included totally unchecked harassment (already a problem on twitter as is), borderline child porn, creep shots of women, and the obvious nazis.
musk really should have bought reddit though, it's still the most elon musk social media site.
― ufo, Monday, 25 April 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
Making Twitter not suck is a simple matter of curating one's feed.
No. That's only making one's feed not suck. Twitter would still be a cesspool.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 April 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
also can I say it fucking sucks that "free speech", which is legitimately under attack right now from a political party that is trying to sanitize American history, determine what can and can't be taught to kids, and is now punishing companies for not discriminating against certain employees, is instead used to mean "you have to engage with my shitty, bad faith arguments". drives me up the fucking wall that the right wing is always complaining about "big tech censorship" when the objective reality is that most social media platforms have been bending over backwards to appease them!!
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
OTFM
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 April 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
I found a weirdo on there who is a Dunning-Kruger candidate that claims to be THE source on COVID, even though he's not a virologist or immunologist or epidemiologist or doctor and won't give his credentials other "I'm a social scientist" or "I wrote this substack". and dude is followed and given actual words of support by tons of legitimate experts, people like Dr Kim Prather, who is an aerosol specialist who actually gets interviewed and quoted in major COVID stories.
kooks wind up in your feed even if you follow reputable people, cos they get retweeted by people you do follow
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 April 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
frogbs otm and i'm legit depressed living in FL atm
I wonder if he’ll just more or less leave it as is, at least for a while. too many (undoubtedly dumb) changes in the interest of making it too epic or owning his detractors via TOS or what have you, and I’d suspect lots of people will just bounce.or are there some platforms (eg Facebook??) that are just Too Big to Fail?
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Monday, 25 April 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
He's pretty likely to leave it as is I think. There'll be PR stuff around free speech and whatnot, but in terms of actually changes that seems a lot less likely
― anvil, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 11:16 (one year ago) link
I feel uncomfortable with this latest Twitter purchase antic
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
what would be the point of buying it if hes not going to change it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
He’ll waltz in and try to make it more epic but will break it badly and piss off employees because he has no idea what he’s doing, then dump it when it becomes too much of a hassle.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
i suspect hes got some sort of business idea to make it worth more, not saying its going to work or that its really substantial but kinda doubt hes just doing this for the lolz or whatever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
one thing going in his favor is his demonstrated ability get weird money losing business overvalued
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
on the other hand there is a non zero chance he is just actually going crazy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
one interesting thing that could happen during this process is teslas stock price coming back to earth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
my guess is that he's the impulsive pea-brain flibbertigibbet front-puppet for a crew of way more sinister and hardheaded forces (thiel obv but not just thiel) who are happy to let him blunder hither and yon breaking things while they corral the culture-war responses to the elements unleashed
they allow him to think he is doing one thing (w/his vast cloud of dimwit simps n minions shrieking in excitement at every development) while quietly firming up their own stuff
do these dark forces have a high opinion of him? no of course not -- they despise him more than we do lol, he is just their dullard princeling wound up and pointed at stuff they wanted knocked over
at outside worst (for them) (and best for us) all his crypto-currency will be rugged at some point soon 👍🏽
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
hair plugs, dumb cars, 2nd (3rd?) divorce. he’s probably having the richest man on earth’s rarefied version of a midlife crisis.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
https://reductress.com/post/breaking-man-makes-midlife-crisis-everybodys-problem/
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 April 2022 bookmarkflaglink
How would you know?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
I know all kinds of twitter bullshit that no one I follow engages in
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
i logged off forever and yet am still exposed to Horrible Tweets basically every day
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
literally every time this comes up some super users are like "you just gotta rigorously customize your feed, it's so easy" and personally i think you're all sociopaths
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
I don't think hes buying it for the lols, and he may or may not have certain plans for it, but what does that look like in practice? If its to make it into a 'free speech haven' or something, I don't see how thats possible, all those free speech alternatives that keep springing up are moderated to the hilt
― anvil, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 bookmarkflaglink
But you've got an account, that's usually enough.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
also the degree to which everyone is performing for the likes undermines it as a useful transmitter of ... information, criticism, *jack voice* consciousness. i should be posting this in the twitter thread
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
this is why i'm glad ilx has no likes system, you can only tell if your posts are good if everyone says "otm" afterwards
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Musk is taking on $25 billion in debt financing to acquire Twitter, at an avg interest rate of between 4.5-5%. That means Twitter's going to have to pay $1.15-$1.3 billion a year in interest alone, which is more than it made before interest and taxes last year.— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) April 26, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
good at business
xxpost I kind of like the "tough room" aspect of ilx. Who cares if a bunch of dum dums like my tweet? I'd rather get a "heh" from a jaded Replacements fan.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:49 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is 100% right, but I'm also an old cranky twitter user who just uses tweetbot on my phone 99% of the time. it's just people I follow, all chronological
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
I also stopped replying to comments on tweets that are dumb and just block people who make egregious replies to people I follow instead of replying, because the urge to reply to bad twets gives me bad brain
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
i like looking straight into the vortex of chaos like those dudes in CHERNOBYL (2019) who opened a door and there was the naked reactor glowing spookily back at them
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
apparently the terms of the loan Elon took out against his tesla shares are really funny
if he can't pay back the loan -- which he probably never will have to, all these guys do is just chain loans forever -- he'll have to forfeit five times the number of tesla shares compared to its current valuation
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
related: he mainly wants to play pump-yr-crypto, including w/the algs
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
people really don't get the "stock rich, cash poor" thing. saw a few tweets about how he could have given every person in the world X amount of dollars instead of buying twitter, etc
there's no cash! if a stock-rich guy wants to buy anything more expensive than a hamburger they just take out a loan against their stock assets
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
I think ppl saying this is going to fail massively overrate the degree to which insanely rich people fail at anything. At some point, being rich is self-fulfilling.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
Expecting capitalism or market forces or whatever to punish the richest person on earth seems to be missing the point.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
Mh otm. Afaict, claims the financing is dumb book down the same idea as “the government should run its checking account like a family”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
*boil
Elon now on first name basis with EU
Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital rules under his ownership or risk hefty fines or even a ban, setting the stage for a global regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform.Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the internal market, told the Financial Times that Elon Musk must follow rules on moderating illegal and harmful content online after Twitter accepted the billionaire’s $44 billion takeover offer.Breton said: “We welcome everyone. We are open but on our conditions. At least we know what to tell him: ‘Elon, there are rules. You are welcome but these are our rules. It’s not your rules which will apply here.’”
Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the internal market, told the Financial Times that Elon Musk must follow rules on moderating illegal and harmful content online after Twitter accepted the billionaire’s $44 billion takeover offer.
Breton said: “We welcome everyone. We are open but on our conditions. At least we know what to tell him: ‘Elon, there are rules. You are welcome but these are our rules. It’s not your rules which will apply here.’”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/eu-warns-elon-musk-over-twitter-moderation-plans/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
― anvil, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 10:51 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i mean obvs i dont know what hes planning but i suspect the free speech thing is just marketing because as everyone knows any internet place with actual free speech will immediately fill with nazis and kiddie porn so i suspect hell make minor "free speech" changes and call it a victory for freedom
as far as predicting what hell do i guess we can look at what hes done with his other businesses which is some sort of mix of extravagant lying in the media and shady accounting, to his credit hes been insanely successful with that approach tho i do think twitter might be difficult to accomplish the same stuff with because its a more mature business and it has an extremely high level of visibility and scrutiny
i could see him spending a bunch of money to juice the stats and then take it public again in a couple years with all his meme stock fans jumping on board, hell prob make some ux changes maybe try to get the newsletter business off the ground which he could then point to as an area of growth, maybe make twitter blue the twitter you pay for worth peoples while
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
it does seem like he’s taking a massive risk that might tank his cash cow of a car company for no apparent gain, but idk maybe he’s a business genius
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
not in response to you lagoon, all of that does seem plausible
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
i think he'll integrate crypto into it somehow, anyhow
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
hes def some sort of business/media genius, its not nothing to become the richest man in the world, but who knows if his approach is viable long term, i personally wouldnt be surprised if his story ended with a major accounting fraud scandal
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
maybe that’s the identity verification bittwitter ids will be blockchain lol
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
the richest man in the world
It's funny how people repeat this in the very same sentence where they talk about how he has no cash and it's all about grotesquely overvalued (and massively leveraged) Tesla stock. Like, if your "wealth" is entirely based on the collective delusion of speculators, sycophants, and other rich scumbags who don't want to see the balloon pop during their lifetimes, are you really rich? Or does it just look that way on paper?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
its paper all the way down, but yeah musk is prob in some ways less rich than the other super rich guys, bill gates still owns a ton of microsoft but at least microsoft is a mature profitable business
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
when you really think about it the true riches are… friendship
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
twitter ids will be blockchain lol
― mh, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 11:41 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i need to see this attempted, as a fan of engineering disasters
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
as far as predicting what hell do i guess we can look at what hes done with his other businesses which is some sort of mix of extravagant lying in the media and shady accounting, to his credit hes been insanely successful with that approach
I mean yeah, he's successful in the same sense Trump is. which is a sense that's divorced from what we might think of *real* markers of success like, you know, doing things that are innovative or smart disruptive or actually delivering on any of your promises at all. I mean it's the same with crypto, you can make all the arguments and two-hour long videos you want explaining about how the stuff is idiotic & completely useless, but that only matters if "value" is a tangible thing, and in 2022 what's "valuable" is convincing people who spend 80% of their waking hours on social media that they're cool and smart and that everyone else sucks
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
Eventually, the house of cards comes down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
yeah i'm not doubting that he has a certain kind of genius, but buying twitter and putting up your car company as collateral is a dumb risk, even if it winds up working out.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
I feel like we’re ramping up to the second Brosnan Bond flick, folks, the one with Michelle Yeoh
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
tbf tesla does make and sell actual cars which differentiates it from crypto which is just nothing, but yeah their certainly is a lot of hot air around both
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 11:54 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
saw someone who knows things about him call him the most risk tolerant person theyd ever encountered, which yeah thats prob not going to end well
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
just going to put this here...
"What is more, Musk has agreed to take out a risky $12.5 billion margin loan, secured against his stock of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), the electric-car maker that he leads, to pay for some of the $33.5 billion equity check. Were Tesla's stock to drop by 40%, he would have to repay that loan, a regulatory filing shows."
and then note that tesla is down 10.2% so far today.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
that's from https://www.reuters.com/business/musk-tears-up-buyout-playbook-with-465-bln-twitter-financing-2022-04-22/
i mean he doesn't actually repay the loan. he just takes out another loan if that happens. but he's stretched!
i do think twitter might be difficult to accomplish the same stuff with because its a more mature business and it has an extremely high level of visibility and scrutiny
true for the content more or less, but their revenue is nearly entirely from the quasi-invisible and underscrutinized world of digital ads
― rob, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
And monetization of user data.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
Melty but authoritative tech journo I know says ‘wait, he still has to pass due diligence and a shareholder vote, not so fast’ but OTOH was like, ‘he’s not buying it’ seconds before the announcement. 🤷🏻♀️
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
xpyeah it's 89% ads, 11% data licensing
― rob, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
tesla is down 10.2% so far today.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:10 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQzMUM7WUAMly1w?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
back of the envelope calculation, only googled quick facts that might not be accurate todayElon has 17% of Tesla, at today's valuation, that's roughly $176 billiontwitter deal is for roughly $44 billion
margin loan is for $12.5 billion
if the payback is really 5x if he fails to pay it off... he's out $62.5 billion (probably off, considering he inked the margin deal at +10% stock price)
so he'd lose 35% of his Tesla stock
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
idk that still seems like a drop in the bucket
losing that much tesla stock makes him likely to lose even more wealth if the price drops
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Each quarter, if Tesla meets certain revenue, earnings and stock price goals, Musk can earn up to two tranches of Tesla options from this award. The $70.01 per share Musk will have to pay to exercise these Tesla options is less than 10% of the company's closing stock price of $977.20 per share on Wednesday.
Nope, as long as Tesla makes money, which they seem to finally be doing, he gets stock at $70 and the current price is still hovering around $900
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
good work if you can get it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
succession clip logan roy asks son kendall roy “is that why you’re paying a billion dollars for a gay little website?” pic.twitter.com/VzsaQmZhdt— succession clips and reaction videos (@successionreact) April 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Was wondering when the Succession refs were gonna start
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Wait until X Æ A-Xii grows up
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
"I think people are recognizing that Elon Musk has created a lot of value for his companies by being unhinged on Twitter." @matt_levine got Chotiner'd but not in a bad way!!!! https://t.co/lZv0mzISj0— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) April 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
max's take seems about right to me
https://maxread.substack.com/p/elon-musk-wont-fix-twitter-but-he
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Agree. Max's key point:
"Elon Musk's experience with Twitter is that he tweets, and then, whatever he said, whatever the context, he becomes richer. Why would he do anything to change that?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
idk i dont think elon is buying twitter to keep it the same is a real strong theory
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
like he might not be buying it to change it but hes buying it for some reason
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
is max gonna come back too
― imago, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
he def thinks he can optimize it at the very least, which is change anyway even if its motivated admiration rather than distaste
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
i heard elon musk just bought gawker
― imago, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
"Granted, one reason that many commentators believe Musk is buying Twitter to "fix" its commitment to "free speech" is that he has said more or less that. What I am proposing here is that he is full of shit."
this is sound. the idea that he's buying it not to change it is a shakier leap but seems entirely plausible.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
as in he's deliberately lying about making any "free speech" related changes or more that he'll merely announce some essentially meaningless tweaks to moderation policies and call it a day once he realizes what he's stepped in?
― rob, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
well, i think more that he is known to lie all the time about his plans and there's no reason to pay any attention to what he claims his plans are.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
lol fair
― rob, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
why would he buy it to keep it the same does he think its gonna change so much that he wont be able to post, credit to max where its due twitter works good for musk and hes not going to do things to threaten that, but still his motivation for the buying it remains mysterious, maybe he just likes twitter so much he wants to have it hold it in his hands idk, i do suspect hes got some more businessy plan too tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
the free speech thing is transparently at least mostly bs tho i bet he does change the rules some maybe back to where they were a while ago when you were allowed to make death threats
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
but hes buying it for some reason
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
idk if you were actually formally allowed to make death threats but you at least could do it without censure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
if i had to guess at his business ambitions for twitter id guess they lay at the nexus of thinking he can make it better and thinking he can pump and dump it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
he’s doing it so he can slide into the dms of women not following him
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
xp problem is there's only one rich idiot willing to buy Twitter
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
xp self tho matt levine suggested a third use in that nyer interview i posted upthread which is using it to pump and dump other things, which of course is something elon has already done extensively but could do even more if he controlled the platform and had access to all its data
He might say, “Look, I get so much value out of this direct access to the public.” Owning that direct access to the public—owning that thing that creates so much value for Elon Musk and Tesla—it has to be valuable somehow, whether it’s by increasing the value that it creates for Tesla, or whether it’s by finding a way to monetize the value that it creates for sports stars and celebrities and Donald Trump and lots of other people. You know, Donald Trump’s tweets back when he was on Twitter could create billions or trillions of dollars’ worth of market moves, right? And Twitter never made a lot of money off of that. It’s not obvious how the company would, but if you’re sitting on top of a thing that can create that much value, surely, if you’re really smart then you can extract some value out of it.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
problem is there's only one rich idiot willing to buy Twitter
― frogbs, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 3:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he could take it public again and rely on his arm of fans to buy it
he is actually on the record now about what he means by "free speech", and his definition is not maximally bad fwiw.
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
he definition seems idiotic, but it's not "twitter is now international waters"
twitter is maritime law
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
flying under the "I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX" flag of convenience
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
of course
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
reasonable point
"Far" is the (welcome! and valuable!) giveaway that this is essentially bullshit https://t.co/OBvRQsW1as— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) April 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
eh, if musk were a careful writer i would agree, but i don't think a precise, word-level reading of musk tweets is a good use of scocca's time.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
but yeah, that tweet seems ... not inconsistent with max's thesis
It's utter gobbledygook.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
i don't know about you all, but i'm still on @jack's enlightened path. i am following the thin clear light, not the thick smoky red and yellow lights
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
So $1bn/year in debt service on Twitter itself and almost that on his personal loans?
Twitter getting Toys R Us-ed would be pretty cool.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
Levine mentioned bringing in equity for his personal stake - Musktokens sold to his most rabid fanboys to help him live the dream?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
nice circular reasoning there you dumb idiot
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
I wonder how he will react to endless bot creation of accounts that constantly put him down
attack of the Anti_muskbots
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
does his purchase include the title of 'twitter founder'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
when will the $54.20 tweet be sold as a NFT?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
The stock market does not really make all that much sense to me. I just don't see why businesses like Tesla and Twitter are hyped as being worth THAT much f'n money based on their actual sales. I get that they have unique technology and could grow into their big boy pants, but I can't get why they are worth like 8 times more than a company that sells 6-7 times more dollars worth of the same stuff. It just just doesn't seem to me that Microsoft or Oracle or any of the tech now true "bluebloods" were that out of whack in the days of 90s stock market hard on yore.
I got to go back to reading comics or listening to rock or playing guitar as if I start focusing on this stuff I wish the sun would go nova and wipe this planet out of the heavens.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
It is pretty fucked up that for 99.9% of the planet money is a tangible thing that you only earn so much of each month but for certain ultra rich people it’s more of an idea which has nothing to do with your actual value or work ethic and is based on all sorts of imaginary concepts like speculation and leverage, plus can be manipulated in all sorts of (illegal) ways to ensure that the only people who will be affected by your shitty decisions are those who can afford it least
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
lol did not see the first part of that tweet
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRUGxSMWYAAigeA?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
If I got from one of the tweets I read, basically Twitters total sales is like Olive Garden...which would not have sold for 43Billion dollars. Is this correct or am I misunderstanding the situation?
― earlnash, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
"Free speech is the law, man"
https://thegatewayonline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Elon-musk-blunt.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
to be fair the electric car market is due to undergo significantly more expansion than the family friendly italian chain restaurant market.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
hospitaliano has always been undervalued by wall street
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
eyyy I make-a the sauce
― mh, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
I wish Italian Elon Musk bought Twitter instead.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Oh wait you said twitter not tesla... nah i got nothing.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
No refundo
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
like Olive Garden, Twitter offers unlimited sadness and fuckwits
― rob, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
i went to Olive Garden once and the busboy who walked by saw my shirt and said "Iron Maiden? (giggle) wow!"
you will find him buried under Tropicana Field
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
ah well nevertheless
It’s looking increasingly likely that Elon Musk will withdraw his $44 billion takeover offer for Twitter. https://t.co/Mcf7PbiC0a— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) April 27, 2022
(nothing definitive in the article just speculation fwiw)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
There are good reasons for him to get cold feet. The biggest is Tesla. The electric-vehicle maker’s stock has fallen around a fifth since Musk first revealed his stake in Twitter, partly because Musk may sell shares to fund his new adventure. If Tesla’s stock bounces back – likely if the Twitter deal falls away – the $40 billion of recouped wealth would more than make up for the break fee.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
the homonculi in my brain in my brain rn
https://i.imgur.com/2AYRAjc.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
announcing he's going to buy Twitter, posting a shitload about how he's going to "fix" it, then not actually buying it would be so incredibly in character
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
lmao i wish i could get my opinions posted on reuters.com
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
just get a job as an opinion writer for reuters.com
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
*takes notes*
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/1CE7rjBrNH— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
The agreement also stated Musk would have to pay Twitter $1bn if he walks away from the deal.
That might make twitter actually profitable for a week or two
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
fucking timcast
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
lol Freddie DeBear:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/just-keep-it-off-my-timeline?s=r
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
DeBear quite pointedly speaks only in terms of "ideas" and "communication", which are nice neutral terms, he does mention "extremism" in passing, but he carefully doesn't mention that genocide, violent white supremacy, death threats, doxxing, and purposeful campaigns of lies or slander directed at groups or individuals all fall neatly under those innocuous headings "ideas" and "communication". He argues that nothing effective can be done to end these things, so nothing should be attempted.
I can't wait until he's the target of such "ideas" and "communication" to see how he likes the sit-on-your-hands approach.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Gee Elon I wonder why Twitter seems biased against the party whose core platform is hate speech and misinformation
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
I will never be tricked into clicking on a freddie dB link
― mh, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
freddie is the ultimate making a guy up to get mad at guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
with age comes wisdom
(hb mh)
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
xp otm
― mh, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
I thought he had disappeared off the face of the planet tbh.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
So he's basically the poor man's GG now?
He's more of a fan of the "falsely accuse someone you disagree with of rape" approach. Fuck that dude.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Hear hear
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
"Why won't you debate me?"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Tweeting on my piss
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
Starting to think I might reply to some recruiters tomorrow.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
things seem to be escalating
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
he should def keep posting
― Clay, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
it's not the side effects of the cocaineI'm thinking that it must be love
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Musk's version of being a billionaire (trolling, lulz, financial crimes, drugs, $43bn toys) is far more comprehensible than, say, Warren Buffett's life.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
it is pretty funny to just be like hey ill buy this website why not, wld be better if he werent such a shithead tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
if i were a billionaire i would also buy cool fun stuff like websites
― Clay, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
is there a name for the phenomenon where rich people do objectively stupid things yet are still honored as titanic visionaries?
i mean, besides fascism
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
sycophancy
🐦[Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022🕸]🐦
― estela, Thursday, 28 April 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
what a twit
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 28 April 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
Is all this just stock market manipulation like all his other bollocks has been?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
#DeleteTwitter
― DT, Thursday, 28 April 2022 05:21 (one year ago) link
let go― RJG (RJG), Saturday, January 6, 2007 7:43 AM (fifteen years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, January 6, 2007 7:43 AM (fifteen years ago)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 April 2022 05:38 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRca8SMWUAE3haQ?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
will tesla be able to bounce back
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
they don't bounce, they have collision detection
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
*manical 1989 Joker laughing*
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
alert the UN
― beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
i do think the chances of elon musk consolidating a bunch of "essential services" (aka, everyone who agrees with him that twitter is THE digital "public square") and then doing a rug pull and flying off into space with a quadrillion stolen US dollars is > 2.5%
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
even those that got especially burned would just be like "well we always knew elon was a trickster at heart"
he has the technology to colonise mars he should go do it NOW and take his fanboys with him as space-minions, i wd applaud that
― mark s, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7eV7te6.png
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
we really are just fulfilling versions of the future that were delivered in the form of popular films from the 1980s, including spaceballs ('87), batman (1989), and back to the future 2 (1989)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
what the fuck is this
pic.twitter.com/Q9OjlJhi7f— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
I don't really see how "the left has moved further left" outside of demanding more action on issues which have only gotten progressively worse since 2008. as I recall the right literally tried to overthrow the government just 15 months ago and are currently booting out anyone who doesn't believe the election was stolen. this fucking guy.
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
he's such a scientist
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
its the standard way to justify going fash
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Does he have people creating these tweets for him? He must.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah, for instance I was screaming for marriage equality since basically I was of voting age, and back then, it was a conversation that never went beyond the hypothetical because it seemed like it was forever away.
I and other like-minded screamed louder about it when it started to gain momentum on a state and national level. Yeah I'm sure there were plenty of center-lefts who were either "pro-civil union" or anti-gay marriage that eventually gravitated towards the position, but there were a large chunk of people who were merely expressing what they always believed.
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
i'm a little confused because they are all at different scales?
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
i mean democrats have def moved left as a group but thats not really the point of the drawing
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
I'm embarrassed that it only just occurred to me that he's going to make a run in 2024.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
I think the idea that you'd be center-left in 2008, change none of your stances, and now be center-right is what people on the online left would call a "shitlib?"
basically, you are progressive about some issues but don't really reevaluate your stances over time, so your snapshot of what the world is like fossilizes when you reach some level of disconnect in life and anyone who challenges the status quo in a progressive way after that just seems too far left
why would you want anything to change when your world is great? maybe things have gone too far!!
― mh, Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
A run for what? He's ineligible to run for president.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Shh, let him try and waste his money.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
also it's not really *his* money, it mostly belongs to banks and such
― mark s, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
not that that stopped trump
that he's going to make a run in 2024
He'll have to buy the nation and change the constitution, but that ain't no big thang
Love how 'woke' is now considered some kind of insult in the right-o-sphere, like 'snowflake' was a few years back
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
He generally just steals other people's tweets and uses them without attribution. Someone named Colin Wright tweeted this cartoon. Its at least several months old.
― o. nate, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
Rules mean nothing. He will run.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:53 PM bookmarkflaglink
lol yes i enjoyed that aspect of his shitty comic as well
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
― o. nate, Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:10 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
iirc he made a big deal out of this a couple years ago, he stole someone's meme and got a ton of likes on it and when the original artist asked to be credited he threw a tantrum over it, like "this is ruining the internet" type bullshit
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
im tired of this guy lets release him into space
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/szO8Aru.png
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
one small step for him
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
It’s pretty clearly an egocentric illustration, where he is the unchanging center of the universe, and the only way he can explain away his rightward lurch is to claim the left is going further left. Which is complete fucking bullshit, it’s plain as day that the right is going far right and trying to shift the center further to the right. Elon has shifted right as his wealth skyrockets and he stops wanting to use his wealth for the greater good. Maybe he likes to think of his stance as unchanging, but he is deluded.
― epistantophus, Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FT_22.02.22_CongressPolarization_chamber_party_new1.png?w=640
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
well yeah as soon as I saw that tweet I thought "I bet this was actually researched and he's completely wrong"
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
Anyone not caught trying to bring a loaded pistol onto a plane is now a bleeding heart RINO
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
The hundreds of people trying to correct Musk on Twitter were really missing the point.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 April 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah you can argue with him all you want, he's telling you where he is: on the right. (Not that this is some big revelation obv)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 April 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Love how 'woke' is now considered some kind of insult in the right-o-sphere
Y'know what would really throw them? If the left claimed "born again" as its jargon term for having arrived at a deeper personal understanding of structural racism, class warfare and the marginalization of vulnerable people... and then doggedly stuck with it in the face of the aghast outcry from the white evangelicals. I don't think the Black church be all that bothered.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 April 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
I'd rather have Frank Zappa move into my house than spend a single minute around this guy
― frogbs, Friday, 29 April 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
this is very much “name one elected official and what they’ve done you dislike”several said mean things about Elon, I guess
― mh, Friday, 29 April 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
His assimilation won't be complete until he starts saying Democrat Party instead of Democratic.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
Oh cool, all cool then...
But I’m no fan of the far right either. Let’s have less hate and more love.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Friday, 29 April 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
- Bob Marley, famous center-right musician
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
get up stand upstand up for the (center)-right
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 April 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
this guy's just like every other "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" george w bush, backward-baseball-hat, co-ed naked lacross, marquette attending, son of a property developer, douchebag stoner bro motherfucker out there, absolutely nothing special about him much less his tweets
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Oh, I see, “strongly” supported. You supported him very strongly. Who have you been talking to lately?
― epistantophus, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Isn't it weird that Musk perceives the left as becoming more radical at roughly the pace that more people have discovered he's a giant shithead.
― Chris L, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
🤔
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
I wonder where he puts cryptofucks on his political line. Probably just where he places himself - the happy face in the middle
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 April 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
The thing that I'm losing my mind over is the simplistic idea that the ideological spectrum is a line where specific views and positions are objectively fixed in place as "center," "left," "far-left," etc., as though those classifications aren't constantly being shaped by political actors and institutions.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 April 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:48 (one hour ago) link
except he definitely doesn't lift
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 29 April 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
i feel like there's a whiff of old money to him too but yeah the way to the top in the u.s. is to fully become its bourgeoisie.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 29 April 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
which is just a logical hop/skip/jump to Demon-crat
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 April 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah this is just standard ‘abused centrist’ bullshit, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if Elon forms most of his opinions by using a sockpuppet to circlejerk in the most techbro corners of Reddit. This abused centrist mindset seems to be a reaction against having one’s biases called out publicly.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 29 April 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, if you make the "center" the zero / index point, he seems to be saying that both "woke" democrats and "lol" republicans have moved further away from the center, are both at the very edge, and that he himself used to be left of center but has now moved to the right?
https://i.imgur.com/a2NB0ag.png
damn, he IS a scientist
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 April 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
It says the view of "center" and "right" are skewed by the "left" moving further left. It's a coherent lie.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 29 April 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
better to focus on how it is embarrassing that he posted it
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 29 April 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
oh, i know what he was intending. i'm just saying, he did such a bad job with the chart that it doesn't actually show what he's implying.
want to see the worst annotated visualization of all time?
https://i.imgur.com/cEohjb1.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 April 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
loooool
― imago, Friday, 29 April 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
So frustrating and dumb.
uh the Overton window has moved right.
We were asking for universal health care, unions and racial equality in 2008. As the crazies get crazier, the left just seems that further left when you move right.
― octobeard, Friday, 29 April 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
xxp In the visualization, only the "left" guy is moving (dust cloud). The rest is supposed to indicate perception only. So it doesn't matter that "right" guy is more right in the end. Or same for "center" guy. The point is that only "left" guy moved.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
It is a dumb lie, but it isn't failing so hard at it's intended meaning.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
I am failing so hard at using correct "its"
you make an interesting observation. none of us had considered the doppler effect and consequent distortion of perception. red shift indeed
― imago, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
One thing to note is that the conservative always seems smugly pleased with his stubborn stasis
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
i'm going to need to annotate my annotation
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
truly we have found the santorum.jpg of our age
― imago, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
i recently updated wallogina and it was received with incredibly bad reviews. some things are just best left as they were
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
Van Halen put "update wallogina" at the end of their tour rider. If the manager found the same old wallogina in the dressing room, the band wouldn't show.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
that's showbiz
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
i updated it, i added new frames of animation, i zoomed in. it was made for 2022. and yet, things had changed. some said that it would have been better if wallogina had never existed at all, but the following day they were on the same page as everyone else - wallogina needed to stay where it was. it didn't need to move like that
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
"What's he updaaaating in there?" -Tom Waits
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
I'll tell you one thing: he's not building a playhouse for the children.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
or even updating a playhouse for the children...
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
no new laminate plank floors for the children.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
ELON QUIT F'ING AROUND GET BACK TO YER ROCKETS SO YOU CHOADS CAN GET THE HELL OFF THIS PLANET.
― earlnash, Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
now we're on nextdoor
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
I suppose most of this thread has reached this conclusion long ago, but is it possible this guy is just not good at anything? I'd always believed that if nothing else he was a tireless worker who knew some technical things but I'm starting to suspect he doesn't know jack shit about anything. His public statements are starting to sound like Trump any time he brings up windmills. Like remember how a lot of people were like "Trump isn't that dumb, he just knows how to provoke" and then it turns out he absolutely IS that dumb? Not only that but he's so fucking online in a way that suggests he's spending a shitload of time on Twitter/Reddit/4chan, plus he also seems to be way into several anime series with 7000 episodes, so where does he find the time to actually do like, CEO stuff? Is there any evidence of him being a better engineer than say, any random undergrad?
― frogbs, Monday, 2 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
one could almost take the next step and realize meritocracy isn't real
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 2 May 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
It's real, but it's a meritocracy of who can amass the best pile of bullshit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 2 May 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
a meritocra-do-u-c
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 May 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
i’d like to think that, jimbeaux, but i don’t see the evidence
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 May 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Yes, he's an asshole/troll, BUT so far..he has: * Built up a very successful electric car company (which has so far paved the way for other companies to produce & market electric vehicles)* Launched one of those cars with a spaceman dummy into outer space like some MTV ad from 1985
So that's not nothing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 2 May 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
Gotta hand it to him, Space X is pretty good at what it does. Of course, that's thanks to a ton of talented people.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
February 10:Elon Musk’s Starlink operation lost 40 out of 49 satellites it launched into the Earth’s upper atmosphere on Wednesday, as a geomagnetic storm knocked out the majority of the fleet.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
mmm. i hate him and i'm skeptical he deserves any credit for this, but spaceflight is hard and spacex is objectively very good at spaceflight.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
yes but like, what has Elon actually done to facilitate sany of those things? Tesla existed before Elon Musk paid to be listed as "founder" and I am pretty sure a lot of their signature technology had already been developed. SpaceX has done some impressive things but the dude gets government grants which he uses to hire some of the smartest people in the country. Maybe I'm wrong but does Elon actually have anything to do with this? The impression I get is that all his companies would be much better run without him. You could argue that being a very visible troll online kickstarted Tesla's success and made them a household name, which I think speaks to jimbeaux's point. from what I see from ex-Tesla employees Musk is a Trump-like figure where half the challenge in working for him is figuring out how to appease all the dumb & unworkable ideas he brings to the table. with guys like Bezos, Gates, Buffet, etc. you at least get the impression that they know things and can get into the weeds on technical details, whereas with Musk I don't think I've ever seen a clip of him that made him look smart.
― frogbs, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
eh, all granted, but right now i think he's smarter than the twitter board.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
The impression I get is that all his companies would be much better run without him.
I'd give the guy some credit for keeping things rolling. He's absolutely a stock price manipulator with his whole online presence, but he pulled the same shenanigans playing investors and the government against the reality of what he was actually able to produce for years. A bunch of electric car companies have failed in the meantime, and on the SpaceX front, he was able to pull together the right group of people and realize launching crap into space was a market that was under-served and comparatively overpriced.
I spend 90% of my time eye-rolling when he comes up, but there's some huckster thing he's actually been able to do that's got him here.
― mh, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
in other news, my tesla-owning friend is about to acquire his third (!) after minor collisions absolutely wrecked the aluminum frames of the first two
presumably he was hit both times and not at fault, but having been a passenger of his in the past, I can absolutely state he drives in a way that makes it more likely people would hit you
― mh, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
A bunch of electric car companies have failed in the meantime
his third (!) after minor collisions absolutely wrecked the aluminum frames of the first two
lmao, thank god elon is here to save the planet
― rob, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
lol, yes
― mh, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
i don't want a thread on "waht does elon actually do?" but even knowing his decision points and his decisions would help i guess.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 May 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
I've heard anecdotally that, like snowflakes, no two Tesla vehicles are the same... super erratic in construction and parts
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
some car magazine did a feature on it - there was no consistency in the bolt patterns and they deemed some of the vehicles super unsafe. virtually everyone I know who has one has had some weird "never seen this before in another vehicle" type of issue. to Tesla's credit they do tend to fix these free of charge (though it often takes weeks to get your car back), though my brother actually was banned from buying another one because the one he bought bricked within 100 miles
I am guessing that answers the question of "what does Elon do", since the demands to forgeo QC to pump out more units than they can handle probably came directly from him and it did wind up being good for their stock price
― frogbs, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
I think a large portion of it was his brave experiment to reinvent the idea of the assembly line from first principles and change up designs on the flyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/business/tesla-factory-musk.html
Established car companies master the process with assembly-line workers, and then find ways for machines to take over some of the work. Tesla did the opposite. It designed a highly automated production line populated by more than a thousand robots and other assembly machines.
In a very tangible sense, Tesla views its production line as a laboratory for untested techniques. In recent weeks, company executives concluded they could produce Model 3 underbodies with fewer spot welds than they had been using. The car is still held together by about 5,000 welds, but engineers concluded that some 300 were unnecessary and reprogrammed robots to assemble the steel underbody without them.
tl;dr from multiple articles -- Tesla started out doing things the opposite way other automakers do, by attempting to do as much possible with robots and pumping out inconsistent product instead of starting a mostly-manual labor assembly line, ensuring it produced consistent cars, and then ramping up automation and production levels
supposedly the results of this big experiment will be clear once the Austin assembly line, which takes all of the things they're learned into account, ramps up production. that's assuming that all of the bespoke hacks and workarounds in their crowded Fremont facility they did to keep things going are actually documented and can be implemented in a structured way, though?
― mh, Monday, 2 May 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
love 2 experiment with 300 fewer welds in the chassisas long as someone else is driving it
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 09:07 (one year ago) link
I already posted this in the quitting twitter thread, but icymi: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit
I guess some things don't need reinventing
― rob, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
I found this a good readhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-elon-musk-bought-twitter
reminded me of this:https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/US-Tesla-market-cap-v-top-10_2021-10-25-.png
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 6 May 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
totally man
Quintuple revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028.In his pitch deck, Mr. Musk claimed he would increase Twitter’s annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year.
Cut Twitter’s reliance on advertising to less than 50 percent of revenue.Under Mr. Musk, advertising would fall to 45 percent of total revenue, down from around 90 percent in 2020. In 2028, advertising would generate $12 billion in revenue and subscriptions nearly $10 billion, according to the document. Other revenue would come from businesses such as data licensing.
Add $69 million in subscription revenue from Twitter Blue.Mr. Musk plans to boost Twitter’s subscription revenue with services such as Twitter Blue, for which users pay $3 a month to customize their experience on the app. According to the pitch deck, Mr. Musk expects $69 million in revenue from Twitter Blue by 2025.
Elon Musk’s vision for twitter includes *very* aggressive growth over the next three years — we got ahold of his pitch deck to investorshere’s a breakdown of the numbersw/ @LaurenSHirsch @PreetaTweets https://t.co/yG4McSTffx— rat king (@MikeIsaac) May 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 May 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
lmao wow
― rob, Friday, 6 May 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
I feel like "got high on his own supply" might be the solution to the mystery of ~why elon bought twitter~
like sure the richest man alive might pay $3 a month for twitter lol
― rob, Friday, 6 May 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
69 million users huh
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
There's definitely a market for people who'd pay $10/mo to tweet without seeing people post the pig poop balls image in response but I don't know if a billion people work in the media.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
damn hardcore software engineering wow
If Twitter acquisition completes, company will be super focused on hardcore software engineering, design, infosec & server hardware https://t.co/m2HseK0TXl— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Deal still hasn’t closed and he’s qualifying with “If.”
― Chris L, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
*buys grocery store* we are getting to work on selling food
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
You could argue that being a very visible troll online kickstarted Tesla's success and made them a household name, which I think speaks to jimbeaux's point.
If anything, I think that taking on both the National Automobile Dealers Association and the United Launch Alliance monopolies needed a colossal troll - succeeding at it may be more of an accomplishment than actually building electric cars and reusable rockets.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
super focused on hardcore food sales
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
hardcore software engineering: creating an alternative to OnlyFans
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
This is one of the worst worlds
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 May 2022 06:55 (one year ago) link
Earth 666
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
Say what you will, but even after the pummeling we've given it, the toxins we've poured into the air, water and sky, the sixth mass extinction we've instigated, and the evil we do to one another, our earth is a fucking paradise, a garden of Eden, a staggering miracle of breathtaking magnitude, and a sacred vessel of life worthy of our worship unto our dying breath.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 9 May 2022 05:17 (one year ago) link
and elon musk can eat a bag of dicks
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 9 May 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
Hear hear! Why just this morning I fondly observed the mating ritual of a couple of fruit flies.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 9 May 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
(If anyone happens to be wondering, I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic any more. Irony is dead.)
If you can show me a more habitable planet anywhere in the universe, I'll buy it for you. I'm willing to pay up to $10,000 more than we paid for this one.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
switching my focus to hardcore terraforming
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 9 May 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Who could've thunk this would be on the list?
BREAKING: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he would allow former President Donald Trump back on Twitter if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. https://t.co/JLwe00ztzE— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 10, 2022
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
In an exclusive interview with Financial Times at Future of the Car conference on Tuesday, Musk was asked about Trump's potential return to Twitter. Rather than immediately answering directly, Musk said that he believes permanent bans on Twitter should be "extremely rare" and reserved for "bots, or spam/scam accounts."
weird, who would have guessed that elon musk's solution to moderation would be have no moderation?!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
you know what would make the global town square better? let's write to all of those skinheads and let them know they're invited to the fall social!!!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
"I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," Musk said. "I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice."
i'm sorry, so, if i read that correctly, if it DID ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice, that would have made it correct?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
twitter's not even in the top 10 of social media platforms
That's why Musk is using other people's money to buy it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Right. No way he could buy Google or Facebook etc. Twitter was the only one that was affordable & available.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Twitter subscriptions will either be $5 a month to not see Trump's tweets or $15 a month to see all of them.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
the thing about twitter is its not like the other social networks it has lots of famous people experts media people and so forth people make news on it musk has himself many times it has way more reach than its bottom line numbers would imply, thats why he wants it, and he prob thinks he can monetize that reach somehow, but he cant
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
it is also interestingly the media place where hes gotten by far the most criticism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
can't blame a guy for wanting to be the ultimate mod but heavy is the head
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
yeah it seems like a pretty bad idea to me but what do i know i dont have buy twitter money just lying around
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
pretty crazy that tesla stock is down 20% since he decided he was gonna do this, tbf market is down altogether but not that much
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
considering that stock is what hes putting up you gotta think that if it keeps falling the deal will stop making sense to him at some point
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
idk man the guy loves twitter and i'm pretty sure he thinks if he owns it he's king of the world
― Clay, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
if you own twitter you can add likes to your posts and no one will know
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
whatever makes him happy
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
what are all these free speech, centrism etc claims supposed to amount to you can already go on there and post pretty much whatever you want
'"I think Twitter needs to be much more evenhanded. It currently has a strong left bias because it's based in San Francisco...from their perspective, it seems moderate, but they're just coming...from an environment that is very far left."' @elonmusk https://t.co/LketxgQeaq— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) May 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
hell reinstate trump and a handful of awful right wing account thatve been banned i guess
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
there are also places where twitter will get dragged by the courts for being a publisher of defamatory content etc. you cant just disable moderation and go on your merry way
― micah, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
yeah doubt he does any sort of serious moderation changed theres just too much downside, its all for show, but i can certainly see why tesla shareholders wouldnt be psyched about the show you dont really want your media darling ceo getting super political
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
you cant just disable moderation and go on your merry way
why not? i'm thinking, here, of the millions pg places i've seen with shitty to nonexistent moderation that publish content and go along their merry way
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
millions pg places
fingers punched to the right by a small animal for the middle word
for instance if someone was posting revenge porn and twitter knew about it and did nothing or were just totally negligent they could get in some sort of trouble, which is not to say there arent tons of places online that dont break laws all the time but most dont have the profile of twitter, tbh the bigger threat if they stopped moderating is just the place going to hell and people stop using it, like if you ever check out those twitter clones for right wing psychos they are not places almost anyone would want to go
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
but seriously this guy is supposed to be selling cars and instead hes in the press with his name attached to the single most polarizing political figure in the world this is insane behavior
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
yeah its really hard to see the upside. musk/tesla already has insane brand recognition and reach and owning buying twitter won't do much from a pr perspective.
if anything twitter is currently perceived as a fairly liberal space for ideas etc so people supporting musk on twitter can be reported on as a reliable indication of reality. the minute musk takes ownership all news of twitter goings on will be noted as "musks social media network, twitter" and it will lose trustworthiness for those who follow stocks
― micah, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
"I think Twitter needs to be much more evenhanded. It currently has a strong left bias because it's based in San Francisco...from their perspective, it seems moderate, but they're just coming...from an environment that is very far left."
that is preposterous, this city is not far left, but it's clear you don't want to be here so just buy it and move the company to Florida or Texas, good riddance
― Dan S, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
I'm dubious of most media "don't look here, look over here" misdirections, but it's worth noting that Musk's "I'd let Trump back on Twitter" announcement occurred the same day/time as Tesla recalls 130,000 vehicles to fix touchscreen issues caused by an overheating CPUs.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah especially as up til last week he said trump wont come back to twitter, so hes changed his tune?
The guy is a fucking troll, manipulating media and stock markets to his whim. How is this allowed?!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
i’m guessing it’s the decades of supine fealty to capital and its bosses
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
bro its twitter cmon you knew what you were getting
Is this him backing out? 🙏🏻
― gyac, Friday, 13 May 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
that or renegotiating, hes also trying to find investors rather than borrow against tesla stock
Tesla's share price has plunged about 32% over the last few weeks. Musk is now trying to raise enough money from others so he doesn't have to borrow against his sagging Tesla shares to fund a Twitter takeover. https://t.co/yq5qEvasCN— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) May 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
very smart guy
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 May 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
smartest man in the last thousand years
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
point counterpoint
Here's the thing: There are not a ton of spam bots on this website. That's because of moderation.But of that small amount, there are a ton pretending to be... Elon Musk.Another sign pointing towards "I want it because it's bad for me, personally."https://t.co/TeWaGOhk9c— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 13, 2022
If Musk backs out of the Twitter deal ostensibly over bots they should provide insight into the bots he ran to pump Tesla’s stock.— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
Told @ElonMusk's tunnel from Convention Center to Resorts World is ready, awaiting final approval. Unlike the existing tunnels, this route has one tunnel (for now)—cars will go one way or the other, waiting for the tunnel to clear before drivers can go in the opposite direction.— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) May 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
is there a guy in a yellow suit holding one of those signs that says STOP on one side and SLOW on the other
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 13 May 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
― rob, Friday, 13 May 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
It’s happening
Musk is just pretending to buy Twitter to unload more Tesla shares and will find some dumb reason why he “can’t do it”— Bucco “Buyback” Capital (@buccocapital) April 29, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 May 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
thats one of my theories
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
my many theories
about the rich man i hate
wonder if the bot excuse is calculated to avoid paying the $1b backout fee, claiming they gave him bunk info
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk logic is literally: I'm going to buy Twitter to fix the bot problem, but I am actually going to wait for a further analysis of Twitter's bot problem.— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) May 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
iirc musk specifically waived the diligence out (it's common for buyers to require a diligence out that allows them to break the deal if they find something bad during diligence), so i don't think he's trying to do that. it's also stupid because the bot thing was literally in twitter's public disclosures well before the deal was signed.
orchestrating this to sell tesla stock strikes me as unlikely too given the $1B breakup fee, that's really expensive and he hasn't sold (or was planning to sell) that much anyway... fwiw he sold way more in 2021 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/elon-musks-stock-sales-could-total-18-billion-by-the-end-of-year-.html
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
I have no facts or reasoning to back this up, but my heart tells me that the big rich guy is going to win, and that it’s going to involve the other rich people also winning, somehow
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Then some people will get pissed and it’ll be like “well there’s going to be a lawsuit over that one, you better believe that!”Then 3-5 years from now on page A19 there will be some news on the progress of the settlement, and he’ll still be incredible rich, and will probably own google or some dumb shit as well
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
I finally realize the basic reality which is that to rich people, settlements are the costs of doing business, and that the small cluster of legal teams who know how to negotiate those settlements are doing it not to deter or punish or redistribute the money back to normal people, but instead just to get their slice of the pie. There is no one involved that is a good person, it’s just them getting theirs and then selling it to everyone else as the law in action or whatever we say these days. Reminds me of how I have to pay $8/month on a mandatory “concierge” service for my shitty apartment. It’s supposed to help me and lead to them doing cool stuff like repairing things. In real life, they just don’t respond, not for me and not for the other neighbors with the same mandatory concierge. We all just laugh (actually, I do - they tend to just complain about it literally every time I see them, to the point where I am now actively avoiding them because I cannot hear about this concierge debacle one more time unless I’m the one writing about it on an Elon Musk thread) because what are you going to do? It’s a total scam, everyone knows it, the concierge gets to pick up free money and they obviously are friends with whoever owns the apartments. I’m sure after these kinds of giant transactions are over, everyone gathers around a flame and worships Baal while cutting themselves with the edges of $100 bills
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
i know I have a tendency to be a little Pollyanna-ish about these things but I think obscenely rich people scamming each other but mostly scamming poorer people who will be forced by but to sit there and endure the scam will be like 97% of the global economy before the end of decade
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
*forced by law
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
i believe it will be more like 98% in some places, less so than others, unevenly distributed. but the trend of money is toward total, complete bullshit while people can't afford healthcare or housing
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
the only one single idea that elon musk has about that is to make people indentured slaves on his shitty new mining planets
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
龜 what do you think he's doing then? occam's razor (which would apply if he was like carl icahn rather than a zany narcissist dweeb) is he's just trying to drive the price down, which is fair enough i guess.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
that’s what we’ll have to call innovation xp
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
this guy makes trump look like charles foster kane
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, May 13, 2022 12:08 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)
i think that's probably the most likely scenario, the deal got better every day for twitter from the day he signed the contract via the stock market continuing to crash. the best outcome imo would be for musk to get twitter back to the bargaining table but just as they sit down the market recovers to where it was when they signed and musk still has to buy at 54.20.
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
probably the calculus from musk's perspective is that musk would rather pay $1 billion in a breakup fee and dare twitter to sue him for specific performance (and all the very public pr and morale damage that would cause) rather than overpay by $5-10 billion (or whatever he think's twitter's valuation is now against this market backdrop. there is the other calculus of everybody on twitter laughing at him if he pulls out, i think he probably still smarts from the whole funding secured thing. who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
what is trump's "rosebud" because i bet it's either gross or cruel xp and sorry
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
Trump's "Rosebud" is the old mayonnaise jar he used to kill caterpillars before they could become something beautiful
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
jarful of eyeballs from kids he had his juvenile pa's/droogs beat unconscious.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 13 May 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
His asshole
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 13 May 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
Jerkoff sock he lost behind his bed in 1964.
― daBobo (PBKR), Friday, 13 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
sorry all
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 13 May 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
lol cmon man
To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover …— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 May 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
100 followers! you can tell this man is serious
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 14 May 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Truly wish this guy would just blast himself into pieces on one of his rockets
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:31 (one year ago) link
The question now is, has Musk invented a set of underground tunnels for transportation, like London already had 150 years ago, or given the narrow clearance and the fire risk has he invented a set of underground tunnels for interring bodies, like Rome already had 2000 years ago.— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) May 14, 2022
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 14 May 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
so it turns out the testing 100 followers tweet was a tease towards violating an NDA. great job, idiot.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 15 May 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
no one thinks he will pay $54.20 per share for twtr. no one.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Remember, this is the guy who tweeted he was going to heroically take over the rescue mission for that group stuck in the underwater cave a couple of years ago and all that came of it was a lawsuit for slandering someone who was actually useful as a pedo on twitter.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 15 May 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
no, he's just not stupid enough to overpay that much for TWTR.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
He was! He literally bought it Twitter at the top of the market. He’s trying to get out or negotiate the price down because his friends are laughing at him and he can no longer afford it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
it wasn't the top of the market, but it makes no sense to try to figure out his intention at the time, whether he misjudged the market or was on some type of bender. he obviously finally figured it out when his btc position went underwater and tsls and twtr were tanking. everyone has been shorting every pop on twtr and tsla for weeks.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Eh, “he’s not stupid enough to overpay that much” doesn’t hold water. He quite clearly was. All that’s changed is what he can afford.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
ok, you are reading too much into that. I am speaking about the present.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
I mean I agree that he’s not so very stupid that he thinks 54.20 is a fair price.I’m just pointing out that he was the one who offered that price, so he must be stupid.I guess we can conclude he’s stupid, but not very stupid.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
i think it's a useless thing to argue if you are not doing anything with the information. anyway he has enough institutional and saudi backers now that his tsla shares aren't as much on the line. but if he had just waited a little longer he could have gotten twtr shares at $27-$30.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
If ilx is not for arguing claims on whose truthfulness you are not going to act then I don’t know what it’s for any more. But fwiw I work at Twitter for now so I do have some skin in the game and what I think about musk does matter for what I do next.Anyway I think my objection is the consensus in his replies that we are dealing with someone very smart because he is negotiating down the price. He offered the original price! He’s obviously an idiot!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
lol, it's good i didn't post my original target for twtr shares if the elon deal doesn't go through. but he has until oct.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
Ha if the deal collapses it’s headed for the teens. I am under no illusions.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
pretty clear that elon is in some way unstable but has been able to ride it to the point where he may be too big to fail
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
read a pretty convincing twitter thread from a lawyer with expertise in such matters that twitter has good case to make him go through with the deal at the agreed upon price
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
yeah matt levine wrote about this in his column.... seemed to come to the conclusion that while twitter legally could do that, he wasnt sure if it would be worth the hassle for them?
― just sayin, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
idk its looking like a good price
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
true. his reasoning was -
On the other hand, what if he does it anyway? What if he just says “no, I’d rather not close”? What is Twitter going to do? Sue him? It is easy for me, sitting here and looking at the contract, to say that Twitter would win that lawsuit and a court would order Musk to pay the money and close the deal. I do think that![3] But actually making that happen requires filing a lawsuit and going to court and asking a judge to make him pay billions of dollars to buy a company he doesn’t want. It requires his banks to fund $13 billion of debt for a risky leveraged buyout whose whimsical buyer is no longer interested.
Contractually this is all pretty buttoned-up, and I think a Delaware court would have a ton of sympathy for Twitter and none at all for Musk, who is acting in the most transparent and smirking bad faith. But there is a lot that could still go wrong. Suing would take time, and would cause bad publicity, and would create uncertainty among employees and users and advertisers. Letting him walk, focusing on the business, and taking the $1 billion — or negotiating a slightly higher breakup fee to save face — might be a better, though terrible, outcome for Twitter.
― just sayin, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
"uncertainty among employees" is one way of putting it. lmao at their reaction to the news the board is suing someone who doesn't want to be their boss to make him be their boss.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
It requires his banks to fund $13 billion of debt for a risky leveraged buyout whose whimsical buyer is no longer interested.
this part is wrong tho regardless what the bank does musk by virtue of being ~the richest man in the world~ has no argument that he cant get the money
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
and i suspect the board might be more worried about sharholder value than employee/product uncertainty particularly in the context of a tanking market
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
at the very least they cld prob get him to cough up another billion or two
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
also, chalk up statistics as another thing musk is bad at. sample size is much more important than population. 100 is pretty good! sure, 200 or 300 would be better, but if they only found 1 or 2 spam accounts in the 100 then less than 5% is a good estimate.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 16 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:34 PM (yesterday)
he's apparently got enough to take his margin loan down from $13B to $6-7B, but he also committed to provide $21B of his own money, which is pretty lol at the price of $54.20 - if he can negotiate a price at half of what he committed to, he saves $10B of his own cash, it's a good incentive.
it's also funny how he own goaled his tsla shares, he revealed his financing plans on 4/20 and tsla shares are down 25% since then.
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, May 15, 2022 7:06 PM (yesterday)
i pointed this out on friday itt ;)
but yeah i think the funniest/most hilarious outcome would be for twitter to sue him for specific performance and force him to fund and close, and for twtr then to take elon down in a death spiral as advertisers flee and twtr defaults on its debt. (obv maybe not funny for caek, at least in the short term :( )
i don't think enough has been made about how elon is leveraging twtr to the hilt with these very public loans that all of twtr's advertisers know about and can see, i'm sure these guys are salivating at the thought of renegotiating their deals with additional leverage. he also has to find money to fund the equity comp that twtr's employees are no longer getting, i think i read a figure that it' about $900MM a year. any significant move by advertisers away from twtr and elon will have to pony up significant additional $$$ each year just to keep twtr from declaring bankruptcy (he already has to pay $$$ per year on his personal margin loan, not withstanding the additional equity commitments).
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Don’t worry about me. I’ll be working at a differently widely loathed tech company by then.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Monday, May 16, 2022 10:16 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
apologies for not recognizing the aforementioned opinion at said date my expertise is mostly in bird law
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Per https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/elon-musk-twitter-pitch-deck.html “Stock-based compensation costs are also expected to rise to just over $3 billion by 2028, from $914 million in 2022.”They’ve announced pending stock grants will be paid as cash based on the stock purchase price, so if cash is a problem then negotiating the purchase price down helps not just with how much he needs upfront but also the carrying costs.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
that deck is completely insane
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
that thread i mentioned said that negotiated price reductions to avoid litigation over specific performance in other deals had been small like <%5
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
i do wonder if twtr employees will be given an option to roll over their equity comp into the private co, i think i read somewhere that musk may have been pitching privately that he'd re-ipo the company in 3-4 years a la private equity...
that deck is still certifiably insane tho, he's lucky he's taking the company private away from plaintiff's lawyers (but maybe one of his equity investors will feel so burned they'll sue him anyway if twtr crashes and burns as a private co)
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
First, let me state the obvious: spam harms the experience for real people on Twitter, and therefore can harm our business. As such, we are strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day. Anyone who suggests otherwise is just wrong.— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 16, 2022
insane that musk's diligence expedition is taking place in public view with the CEO but i guess that's just elon for ya
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
the musk show
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
oh great now i have to explain to people that yes i understand that spam is bad
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 16 May 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
current stated existing RSU grants will vest on the original as cash @ $54.20, and purchase agreement promises (ha!) no further comp changes for 12 months after the deal closes. after that they're going to need to do something stock refresher like (i.e. additional perf related cash grants, or something like the weird "stock" thing they do at tesla), otherwise the $-focused people will leave and get paid market rate (i.e. lots more).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
current stated plan*
i "get" what musk fans think they are doing when they troll twitter employees saying "you are such spoiled babies with your wellness grants and your standing desks, get ready for the real world". they're right. i am a spoiled baby. but i am not getting ready for the real world. i don't have to! there's a hiring market!
i know people here who don't hate musk, but i don't know *anyone* here who wants to work at a private company owned by someone who is known to pay badly and has opaque compensation plans after 12 months.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
getting cashed out at $54.20 is not bad in this market tbh.
i imagine the lure of other tech companies must be strong ("our shares have fallen 50-70% true, but if you join now your equity is going to be vesting at a relatively low price and you'll make bank when markets recover...)
headhunters must be furiously targeting anybody with 'twitter' in their linkedin
― 龜, Monday, 16 May 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
my response to every one of your paragraphs is "yes, precisely".
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 May 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/j6pCLji.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
hey elon.... it's okay not to post
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 May 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
twitter shd ban him
― mark s, Monday, 16 May 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
as a bot
no no no. pleas, elon. keep tweeting.
― Yerac, Monday, 16 May 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Agreed, nothing wrong with posting.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
column is incorrect. he should post even more https://t.co/aXDI2IsnBS— Alex Press (@alexnpress) May 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:21 (one year ago) link
always clapemoji be clapemoji posting clapemoji
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:38 (one year ago) link
20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher.My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%.This deal cannot move forward until he does.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2022
unfortunately, the legal agreement he said does not provide that for that - any misrepresentation in twitter's public filings must rise to the level of a material adverse effect, and Delaware courts have traditionally found that to be a *very* high standard (sort of the equivalent of, idk, a nuke going off). if twitter litigates this, the courts will not be sympathetic to elon!
― 龜, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
lmao dis guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Have we though about DMing all the Twitter accounts with a quick “are you real?”Would only take a couple days tops
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
are you even a person bro
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
hey now ho now inactive/abandoned accounts would be bigger numbers still
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000119312522152250/d283119dprem14a.htm
Still later on April 25, 2022, following the meeting of the Twitter Board, the applicable parties executed the merger agreement and the limited guarantee and Parent delivered to Twitter fully executed revised versions of the debt commitment letter, margin loan commitment letter and equity commitment letter. Promptly following execution of the merger agreement, Twitter and Mr. Musk publicly announced the merger agreement and the merger.
when elon filed his commitment papers they were not countersigned by elon. now presumably they are - he is legally obligated to fund!
also classic lawyer statement:
Elon Musk is an active user of the Twitter platform.
― 龜, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
It is completely normal to conduct due diligence for $xB deal through social media.
― gonna make you sweat the technique, gonna make you groove is in the heart (PBKR), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
Why are you even caring at this point, this guy never intended to buy Twitter in the first place. It would be news if he actually goes through with it.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Elon's squirming for an exit strategy... let's watch him squirm
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
eh, let's try not to. watching elon musk do anything is like watching someone take a shit on the sidewalk. you get further from the light and he likes it. (same with piers morgan.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Hello @SECGov, anyone home?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2022
as far as trolling go, this isn't quite doing it for me - too obvious
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
i want to be a judge chancellor on the to be on the delaware court of chancery
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
oops sorry for typos
do you need to know how to write a sentence to work there? also how long do you need to live in delaware before being appointed
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
its cool just come in on monday
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
they shouldn't be required to live in delaware, none of the corporations do lol
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
also delaware sucks iirc???
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
certainly no one should be required to live in delaware
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
do you need to know how to write a sentence to work there?
let's face it, you don't really need to know how to write a sentence to work anywhere. i'm sure there are certain presidential memos that are like "rrrigggim slaggim!"
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:38 (one year ago) link
and then the aide is like "hmm...let's arrange a briefing on pasta sauce options" as the president licks their lips
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
*aide prints the relevant ilx poll thread*
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:56 (one year ago) link
watching elon musk do anything is like watching someone take a shit on the sidewalk
perfect
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 06:25 (one year ago) link
I pity the lawyer that has to explain how a poop emoji constitutes a disparaging remark and a violation of the acquisition deal in this context. Oh wait, that's me. pic.twitter.com/PiyQlUb6mW— Alejandra Caraballo 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 (@Esqueer_) May 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link
The beaches are lovely
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
No Rehoboth fans?
― Chris L, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
jinx
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
Tax free shopping. Dogfish Head. Thrasher’s French Fries. Scrapple. The screen door factory.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
We are Delaware of the charms of the First State.
― Blackhawk Down 2: Electric Boogaloo (PBKR), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
Briefly the home of Bob Marley.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
i am sorry i insulted delaware. i will try to do better in the future.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
jupiter records is a great lil record shop
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
i dont know anything about that state barely even delaware it is
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
Delaware's worth was debated on this important thread
Delaware vs. Rhode Island
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Look at me, talking about Delaware 16 years ago in that thread. Anyway, back to your musking.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
While musking is no longer mandated, musking is still recommended.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
this shouldn’t be read as indictment of the entire state but I spent the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas in Wilmington a few years ago and would not recommend
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
"Was really looking forward to this deal, but hey the SEC srsly dropped the ball, anyway check out this hydrogen powered rideshare unicycle right over here!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
It would be great if this fuckup finally destroyed his cult, but it won't.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
lol. A+. very sly ambiguity there.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
he's essentially the next Trump, or maybe he has been for a while, seems obvious at this point that his whole thing is doing/saying dumb shit & failing to deliver on anything but never experiencing any consequences as a result. ahhh, to be a rich shitposter
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rn3fxcu.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
really cant imagine wanting to go from a universally lauded super rich celebrity to a loathed by half the people politicized super rich celebrity
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
guess he thinks his magic touch with business/celebrity media will carry over to stuff people actually care about good luck buddy
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
thank goodness he's disqualified for the presidency by virtue of his birthplace
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
nonzero chance that he runs anyway and everyone on the right, including all the Trump-picked judges, just ignore that rule entirely
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
doing what trump did isnt easy i doubt elon has the ability to serve the red meat but it is nice to not really have to worry about it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
NEW: Elon Musk says he’ll vote for Republicans this year because “the Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions and…class-action lawyers.”Musk is a notorious union-buster & was hit with a class-action lawsuit from 1k Black workers who alleged rampant racism at Tesla. pic.twitter.com/2SEUBTgDXm— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 18, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
hahaha this guy is so shook. fuckin guy
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
you crying about unions now you big kingpin? boo hoo hoo
guy only likes playing monopoly if he starts with more money than everybody else otherwise he cries about it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
"unions are just another form of monopoly" lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
If only the Democratic Party were controlled by unions.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
i should be allowed to throw this guy in the ocean its fair
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Bringing up reactionary greatest hits with 'class-action lawyers' - he's going to start making tort reform memes.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Put him in a bag first and let people whack it with sticks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/cars/tesla-buyer-politics/index.html
unfortunate that Tesla buyer demographics aren't worse for him going down this path
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
Tesla owners are more Republican than you'd think
CNN does not know what i think clearly
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
though my neighbors down the street have a tesla which they build a special parking spot for and they love kamala harris a lot. so two strikes against them i guess.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
afaict tesla owners are all nimbys regardless of party affiliation
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
^ seems about right
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
saw someone on twitter theorizing his rightward trend was to attract conservative car buyers since hed already burned through dem environmental types via building the worlds shittiest cars, dont think its true but its a cute theory
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
xpostMy brother is a Tesla owner and literally helps run a YIMBY group. He was an early adopter tho, I haven’t checked with him lately for buyer’s remorse.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Tesla does seem to have eclipsed the BMW as the car of choice for douchebags.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
will be interesting to see how tesla holds up with one million different electric cars about to hit the market
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
(My stepsister is a complete Elon stan. She’s also a recovering environmental scientist like myself and she has recently self-diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. At this point I think she’s just trying to keep her head above water, she was delivering for Amazon and got laid off so can’t comment on her Y/NIMBY status. If any of this seems like it’s violating her confidence someone please delete it, I don’t think there’s any crossover between the audience here and her social circle but just in case.)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
Xxp Thanks jimbeaux I’ll relay your regards to my bro.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
that guy I know who keeps wrecking his teslas (lol) had to wait for a new tesla and his interim used car he bought? a bmw
he has absolutely bizarre choices in motor vehicles, though. he previously went (iirc) from one of the early hyundai hybrids to a hummer to a chevy volt
― mh, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
(Final follow-up on my fam Tesla history: to be clear the stepsister’s stepdad is a famous basketball coach, that’s the only way she could afford a Tesla.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
Probably putting her solidly on the NIMBY squad.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
which coach
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
YIMBYs have their own set of problems. that's why i'm an OKIMBY.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
I’m a Bothsidesimby(I think I’ve done enough to ID my stepsister already sorry.)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
im a YIMBYBAKLL (yes in my backyard but also kill landlords)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
OTMIMBY
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
(Ok so I doubt anyone here has followed the plot but at one point here I did basically come out with the fact that Nancy Mace, GOP Trump gadfly, is like my 3rd cousin too. My family is a piece of work.)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
KIMBY is Elon's brother, right?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
the Tesla owners at my workplace have to be some of the most arrogant “I’m smarter than you” type asshats I’ve ever met in my lifetime.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Not to say that all Tesla drivers are douchebags, viborg, just that a plurality of douchebags are Tesla drivers.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
yeah the flaw in the plan is that youre alienating other prospective buyers, but who knows elon is always doing weird short term plays, makes me wonder whats really going on over at tesla, i have speculated about major account fraud itt, just a lot of weird shit idk, maybe its worth it to him for whatever reason to boost teslas sales short term by owning the libs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
One trend I can definitely do without is right wingers calling Musk "the country's most successful African-American."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
its such a lame joke but on the other hand at least they got a new joke
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
he needs to emphasize how environmentally destructive the Tesla is, or maybe make them artificially even more so. like add a fake tailpipe that emits a stench and benzene or something.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
All Teslas now come standard with truck nuts and exhaust pipe that emits fart noises whenever a Bernie sticker is picked up within twenty yards.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
self drives to nearest steak house for a huge fucking rare rib eye some kick ass bacon and a nice stiff burbon
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
at work we have a Tesla guy and he makes it the core of his entire personality. he wears nothing but Tesla polos, set his desktop & phone backgrounds to photos of his car, once sent the department a "Tesla FAQ" including lines like "Q: Can I drive it? A: No! Q: Can you take me for a ride? A: Sure!!"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
fuckin bleak
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Xxpost. The Tesla's horn actually can be set to emit fart noises.
― everything, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
There is a whole fart app. Lots of different fart noises which you can direct outside or to one or several of the internal speakers.
― everything, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
I’m going to assume that’s actually the one Innovation that Musk personally shepherded from idea to implementation
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
"Not juicy enough, too dry. Back to work."
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
I've told this story in here before but there's a feature where, if the car detects its being broken into, it'll lock all the doors and play Trans-Siberian Orchestra at max volume. I know this because it erroneously went off on my brother's car with his wife and 1 year old inside. She thought it was loud enough to potentially cause hearing damage. I'm guessing that is another one of Elon's ideas that nobody could say no to.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
and ppl really want to question this man’s genious
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
i am pretty sure it's illegal to have a horn that is permanently modified to make non-horn sounds and i understand the app is not that, but it should also be illegal to have the option to do it temporarily because we cannot trust tesla owners to understand that horns are safety devices and that it is hazardous to confuse other drivers on the road with farts
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
to be safe teslas should just brick themselves
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
well, they do, but it's on highways in the travel lane which is not safe
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
what happens when lame internet humor from 15 years ago gets weaponized by the world's richest man
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
to be fair, it used to be legal (maybe?) to install flamethrowers in cars as anti-theft devices in south africa
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
I’m sure Elon would want to bring back some other things that used to be legal in South Africa, too
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised Teslas don't allow you to force drop old Something Awful memes to the screens of other Teslas.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
Jimbeaux, no worries. It was just the timing really.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
This article assumes that he's actually not trying to weasel out of the deal, but is just doing some hardball negotiations:
https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/05/13/why-elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-the-twitter-deal/
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
at work we have a Tesla guy and he makes it the core of his entire personality. he wears nothing but Tesla polos, set his desktop & phone backgrounds to photos of his car, once sent the department a "Tesla FAQ" including lines like "Q: Can I drive it? A: No! Q: Can you take me for a ride? A: Sure!!"― frogbs, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 3:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 3:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
*brushes up resume*
― Hillary Queenton (PBKR), Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
that faq thing is blowing my mind
― mh, Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
same here tbh.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Wow.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
At a Twitter all-hands right now, execs told employees that they are not open to renegotiating the purchase price with Elon Musk.I’m told that champagne was popped in the New York office.— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
yeah but they're always drinking heavily in that office
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile in Slack, one employee changed their screen name to “The Algorithm” and is encouraging everyone to drink whenever an executive says “fiduciary”— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
It’s true
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
It was a good all hands I’m told
no elon just vibes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
"Q: Can I drive it? A: No! Q: Can you take me for a ride? A: Sure!!"
I'm fucking dying
― jmm, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I know "The Algorithm" - I think he did that a while ago though…
― carson dial, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
many are taking the above tweets to mean the deal is off but not everyone
they’re all twitter shareholders and they’re getting (maybe!) a windfall from the world’s richest man who’s been taunting them for weeks, it’s gotta feel like catharsis— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
fight for what
Champagne was popped because they want the deal to go through or because they think he'll back out?— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) May 19, 2022
i think it’s a ‘we are not going down without a fight’ type of thing— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
if anyone has any insight but would prefer not to post here feel free to dm me on twitter dont com
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
haha that's insider trading no thank u!
it's all in those tweets though. and in any case, leadership/the board are not going to share anything non-public with rank-and-file employees (they can't without out also making it public).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
im not going to buy any stock i want to own the secrets
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
haha yes
Elon's campaign to publicly troll and preemptively alienate the entire workforce of the company he's trying to buy was a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him. https://t.co/gugU6rV8cN— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 19, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
(i mean we're still fucked, dont get me wrong)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
presumably the original terms of the deal, which elon is now claiming is void because he was relying on what he says is incorrect information supplied by twitter and twitter claims is correct
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
i think there's a "we want whatever he doesn't want" element to it, and clearly he doesn't want to pay 54.20.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
elon paying way above market for a company where all the employees hate him would be something
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
ofc he doesn't want to pay $54.20. but he can still back out entirely by paying the indemnification, which I heard was $1bn.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
apparently they can make him go through with the deal if they want we talked about it upthread
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Lmao aimless thank you as ever for your insight.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
how would you answer the q: "fight for what?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
he's so fucking stupid
Unless it is stopped, the woke mind virus will destroy civilization and humanity will never reached Mars— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
he's really gunning for best poster right now. twitter should ban him for the lulz
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Yang and Amash showing up in replies to his "we need a moderate party" tweet like "yes sir, reporting for duty sir"...is there a word for when you're both a con artist and a mark?
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
pathetic thing about this country is a "moderate" party would probably be left of where the Dems currently stand
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
― rob
smark
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
twitter abhors a main character vacuum and once trump got the boot it was inevitable someone would take his place as the ultimate main character
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
otm but what grates is he's doing it so deliberately. trump wouldn't have a clue what "the main character on twitter" means to his credit
I like "smark" lol
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
I will never forgive the media for trying to make this guy look like some kind of brilliant visionary like Thomas Edison
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
btw if you were wondering what the "woke mind virus" is, it's unions and the people who sue Elon Musk for being a gigantic racist:
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
is there a home rapid test for the woke mind virus? i dont want to needlessly expose anyone and be the reason we dont get to mars
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
fortunately, there is. all true conservative patriots are encouraged to take the test to ensure that they 100% non-woke mind virus. it involves ball tanning
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, May 19, 2022 3:01 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
thomas edison was a far more ruthless operator than even musk! but at least "his" inventions were useful
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
You say that but I’ve never heard an incandescent lightbulb fart
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
Twitter execs reassured workers in a meeting today the sale to Elon Musk is going through unchanged -- there are provisions in the contract that can be enforced to ensure this outcome. Immediately after, Musk memes about Twitter being 'all bots'https://t.co/hwsmDett9o— Kali Hays (@HaysKali) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
"verbal govt approval" = he was jabbering about it to a member of Congress at a coke orgy and the guy said "sure, sure, sounds awesome, keep me posted"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
And there's nothing those states & DC can do about it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. https://t.co/5plOiNJOW5 via @businessinsider— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) May 19, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
gee now we know what this was about
In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
After Insider contacted Musk for comment, he emailed to ask for more time to respond and said there is "a lot more to this story.""If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light," he wrote, calling the story is a "politically motivated hit piece."
"If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light," he wrote, calling the story is a "politically motivated hit piece."
― 龜, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
"please don't dig any further into my 30-year career," added musk
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
this guy is gonna make this all so much worse isn't he
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
For those interested, we reached out to the principals for comment regarding this story at ~9 a.m. eastern yesterday (Wednesday May 18).— John Cook (@johnjcook) May 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
FYI - Twitter is currently at $36 per share, if he’s forced to pay 150% of its value for being a giant dumbass it would be the first time he actually made me laugh
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
I laughed when Azealia Banks called him Apartheid Clyde.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
"politically motivated hit piece"
But you're not a politician... are you??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
“But actually” and “your” feel very trumpy.
To be clear, I’m spending <5% (but actually) of my time on the Twitter acquisition. It ain’t rocket science!Yesterday was Giga Texas, today is Starbase. Tesla is on my mind 24/7.So may seem like below, but not true. pic.twitter.com/CXfWiLD2f8— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2022
The attacks against me should be viewed through a political lens – this is their standard (despicable) playbook – but nothing will deter me from fighting for a good future and your right to free speech— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 20 May 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
what a snake
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link
musk is a derivative poster, simple as that
― 龜, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
Elonald Skump
― nashwan, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
what a hero!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 May 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
i need an ElonI'm holding out for an Elon til the end of the night
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 May 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
oh you've been sexually harassed by me? name 5 fucked up things about my dick pic.twitter.com/Utptrh88pF— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) May 20, 2022
― nashwan, Friday, 20 May 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
rotting conjoined twin corpse on groin?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 20 May 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I was trying to come up with something but I don't think I can top that
― Ste, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
I see this and…
And there it is: Musk can now be sued for defamation by the woman he has just publicly called a liar—after paying her to not sue him. It would appear he has broken his non-disparagement agreement.I think this story is going to get very, very interesting over the next few weeks. pic.twitter.com/PQkKse4P49— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 20, 2022
― gyac, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
i was JUST wondering if the agreement had a clause like that but does seth abramson know?
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
No idea, I assumed he was referring to the nda, am guessing Musk is also prohibited from discussing her as she is him? But I know nearly nothing about how they work.
― gyac, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
if she does choose to sue she shd definitely avoid hiring lin wood, "attorney and conspiracy theorist": unsworth deciding on wood to represent him was a bad move
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
seth abramson is a legendary idiot so may very well be wrong abt this but i have seen others saying musk has broken the terms of the nda
― mark s, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
I would imagine any court would invalidate an NDA based on the party who asked for it publicly calling the other party a liar?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Even if Musk did break the NDA it would be suicidal for the victim to press forward here so it seems highly irrelevant. Just a grifter trying to keep his tweets in the trending box.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
feel like we’re about to see an avalanche of “no way ol Lonnie Musk wriggles his way out of this one” takes anyway, heaven help that port walk an when her name gets out
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
*help that poor woman
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
again haven't looked into it but he's talking about non-disparagement not NDA (non-disclosure)
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
if there is one she might not need to sue, sometimes they include what the damages would be in the event of a breach. maybe seth abramson can fill us in since he is allegedly a lawyer but he doesn't appear to understand that this is different from suing for defamation. which would be independent of there being a pre-existing non-disparagement clause.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
she was a Space X flight attendant, so maybe signed an NDA on day 1? Like "Elon's probably gonna show you his little rocket at some point, so please sign right here!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
tesla down another 10% today
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
In 2015 I decided on a whim to check out Tesla's battery swap station that was earning the company 9 figures in California ZEV credits, and found it wasn't real. Instead Tesla was using diesel generators to charge cars. Here's how this changed my life 🧵— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
"And that's okay"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
i have been wondering about this. seems to mean tesla is not reporting safety issues to NHTSA, which is very legal and very cool.
A year later I found another big cockroach: Tesla was hiding defects by requiring customers sign NDAs in exchange for free repairs. This cut off the auto safety regulator's only independent source of information about defects. This led to a couple of important lessons...— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 20, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
yeah teslas habitual rule breakers but the fines are such mickey mouse shit that they dont care, guys seems to be saying that musk is more vulnerable personally
hes been covering tesla for years from the business/tech perspective but is now for the first time at least since ive been following him saying that musks got plenty of skeletons in his closet that shouldnt be too hard to expose, and that hes particularly vulnerable since none of his companies are actually profitable, his success is based on a cult of personality, its a celebrity story, jeff bezos for instance is a lot more protected since amazons success is based on actually making a ton of money
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
not sure they've had to pay any fines for it though, will investigate later
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
yeah not sure about for that issue, they have been fined a bunch for various things at a rate much higher than a typical car company iirc
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/mgOXvltU28— helen (@helen) May 20, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
I quite literally cannot believe how many people think this guy is some sort of genius. It’s almost more disturbing than the Trump cult.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 20 May 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
I've gone through the same 4 stages with him that I did with Trump
1) This guy seems like kind of a clown, but he's had a lot of success so I guess he knows what he's doing2) Alright, getting pretty weird now, but I am pretty sure he's just trolling/playing the media3) No, he really is that much of a dipshit4) He sucks at everything, what kind of fucking country lets this asshole be successful
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
crazy thing about musk is he has absolutely no personal charisma its just the idea of a visionary billionaire engineer that horrible nerds like
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
Like Steve Jobs, are there any charities or philanthropic causes that Musk contributes to?
Jobs believe his greatest gift to the world were the products that you bought from him at full price
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
IDK, maybe he supports the indigent Afrikaners back home
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
yea this is a big deal and why I don't think he's gonna have much success trying to walk in Trump's footsteps. he appears kind of witty on Twitter because he's just ripping off memes he saw and stealing replies he thinks are funny. as a speaker he's fucking awful. every time I hear him talk my first thought is "has he not slept in the last 48 hours?"
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
all these guys think they can be trump but none of them ever had a hit tv show is how i break it down
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I don't think that bar is going to matter much longer. More dopes like Trump are coming.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
im saying trump has a talent its not that easy
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
I don't think that bar is going to matter much longer.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
public attention is limited and highly sought after resource
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
you can't really teach charm
― Clay, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
afaics, Musk is only engaged with politics insofar as he can use it to amplify his wealth and power. I greatly doubt he will run for office, because, like Trump, he would have no interest any position but the top job and he's barred from it.
He does like having a big fan club of adulators, so he spends a lot of time feeding and grooming them. Plus, they come in handy for all sorts of things that increase his influence. They are the sole reason why he got to host SNL, f'rinstance.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 20 May 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I agree Trump has some animal cunning/sociopathic skill. I'm just not sure we aren't going to see more of that in politics.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
musk has been really successful from a pr perspective, getting the media to tell the story he wants, but hes never had to actually perform, and now hes contradicting the story he told by getting political fucking up the twitter deal and so forth, and now the bad news is starting
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
Trump has been really successful from a pr perspective, getting the media to tell the story he wants, but hes never had to actually perform, and now hes contradicting the story he told by getting political fucking up his casinos and so forth, and now the bad news is starting
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
lol nah man trumps been happily on screen every chance he can get for 40 years see aforementioned #1 tv show
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
I am in no way saying Musk = Trump, I'm must saying don't dismiss him from whatever because he's not actually successful, an obvious moron, etc. etc. etc. He has resources (more than Trump). Like Trump he just keeps his name in the media on end and appeals to a certain demographic.
― PBKR, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
must = just
not really sure what were talking about now but i stand by my statement that he has no personal charisma, and furthermore hes currently in a tough spot
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah the obsession w/ the media is a big similarity, iirc there was a story a couple years ago detailing just how hard he works at keeping any negative stories out of the press. Like he would personally hound and threaten reporters who had anything negative to say about him or Tesla, nearly everyone who works for him claimed they have to sign crazy NDAs, etc.
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
Anyway he’s now trying to crowdsource a legal team through Twitter which I am guessing means a bunch more stories are about to drop
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
That would be great.
― PBKR, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
thing about musks media success is basically him and the business media were made for each other theres nothing they love more than the idea that enterprise will save the world, that was his sweet spot, he fucked up when he went full celebrity cause the celebrity media will eventually turn on you thats part of their practice, now this political shift is just very dicey, i mean unless he just wants to become some shitty right wing figure, but its not going to help with selling cars, theres a reason ceos usually dont do shit like this, theyre not trying to alienate half their customers
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Tesla is building a hardcore litigation department where we directly initiate & execute lawsuits. The team will report directly to me. Please send 3 to 5 bullet points describing evidence of exceptional ability.just✧✧✧@te✧✧✧.c✧✧— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
weird dude clearly pretty unstable
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
he doesn't know how anything works and is tired of lawyers telling him things are illegal
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
wtf is he doing pretty sure he already has lawyers does he think someones going to read that and be all oh i better not fuck with him hes putting together a hardcore litigation team
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
he is planning to sue all of us for this thread
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
i welcome his cleansing lawsuit
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
damn elon is making litigation hardcore now? this is getting wild but what a visionary
― Clay, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
i've been watching succession season 3 this week and i can't help but think of kendall. *kendall gets owned* kendall: ok. ok, let's play offense. we need to dominate the conversation space, we're not even talking.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
lmao kendall is so lame, incredible portrayal of a weird useless rich kid
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
This is an On Cinema bit
― frogbs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
read a piece lil while ago about the resonance between succession and on cinema
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
which made sense to me as those are two of the only shows i watch so im always like yeah im getting [only other show i watch] vibes from this
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
is this the piece? https://www.polygon.com/22832955/succession-and-on-cinema-media
for some reason, i am a regular polygon checker, i'm not sure how i missed that
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
i dont remember but i cant imagine theres more than one of them
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
With subscriptions funded by the HEI Network, and supported by his loving wife Toni, Heidecker unveiled one tremendous plan after another — there were Hei Points, which Heidecker described as “the U.S. dollar 2.0”; Hei-lot Season, in which his various friends make pilots to run on the network; and perhaps most grandiose of all, the Hei Ranch, which at the moment is 25 acres of sand but will, after a 10-year plan, be a fully functioning society.
even just reading on cinema summaries is almost as good as the real thing. if only elon could be more like this, rather than like kendall
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
you both should watch more shows
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
Somebody's on another meth binge.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
i dont like shows theres too many shows too many episodes theyre mostly pretty bad too i cant be involved in all that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
shows, episodes, things of that nature
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
maybe you should watch less shows, ayoo
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
FEWER
:)
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
i take the stage. my red penis tip sticks out of my waistband; little bit of piss coming out. "I will end all politics-based attacks of me."— wint (@dril) May 21, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 May 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link
kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2022 07:42 (one year ago) link
How hardcore are you, bro?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 21 May 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
kind of tired of people thinking individual elon statements mean something as if they’re not just part of him doing an ongoing bit
― mh, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Tesla stock down another 8% today, lol
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
~$25 shy of where it was a year ago
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
which is to say its down almost 50% since november
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
is he still the wealthiest man in the world?
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
not that he ever *really* was
just googled it and seems like yes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
what none of you know is that there is this one really rich guy who has been waiting for his moment
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
its me i sold magic beans to jeff bezos
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
...but who is the wealthiest man in the metaverse ?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
I'm talkin with the man in the metaI'm asking him to change his ways
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk on remote workMay 31, 2022 pic.twitter.com/gTw1Bdh18h— Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) June 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
When was the last time Tesla shipped a great new product?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
I mean, I like Tesla! But -- they came up with a thing a while ago, they've been doing the thing. I guess maybe there's going to be a truck but it keeps getting delayed?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
theres not going to be a truck, at least not that "cyber" truck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
wonder if tesla had an intervention to convince him no one wants his weird childs drawing truck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Must make exciting products to cover my overpay
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Hey, i liked cyber trukBut only because it didn’t look like a vehicle. In retrospect that was one of my least popular opinions, haha
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
more of a folk art vibe
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
i liked it because it looks like something you would drive in a dystopia
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
was certain this bump would be about this absolute asshole shitting on marginalized people again
pic.twitter.com/G83vCrHHJf— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
I don't even get what that means
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
(yes, there is an argument about the fake facade of big corporations changing their social media avatars for one month but otherwise not giving a shit about marginalized people, but this fuckin' guy has not earned my belief that this is what he's trying to say with this shitposting)
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
xp Is it an angry white man about to be pummelled by a sandstorm of pride-endorsing corporations, or is the sandstorm sweeping away the pride-endorsing corporations?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
and why is there only half a white man?
it's pretty clear at this point that shitting on marginalized people is this asshole's main deal
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
idk id say its more of a side hustle
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
need to check where that friend of mine who was working at tesla (thought he still was?!) is at, because as far as I know, he was cleared for 100% remote work a couple months back. maybe elon's just... making shit up?
― mh, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
xp could go either way I think
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk on remote work“omg the future is going to be sooo sick *squeeee*”-musk stans, probably
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I really wish this guy would just die in one of his fucking rockets already
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
people are freaking out on blind fwiw
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
lol🐦[Elon Musk on remote workMay 31, 2022 pic.twitter.com/gTw1Bdh18h🕸— Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) June 1, 2022🕸]🐦
― gyac, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
yeah seems pretty clear at this point that companies are going to have to get on board with wfh or lose their people to ones that are
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
I'm also just going to say: fuck Teslas.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
meta mandated a return to work a month or two back and ... nobody came in. i am like the only person on my floor. it's spooky but super productive!
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I still think this might largely be the case, but it seems less so with each passing month. I keep hearing from friends that their wfh/remote options are either being rescinded entirely or severely reduced. In lots of markets it seems like the landlords and business park owners are whining about lost income in the right ears or something.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
I have a buddy that works for Apple and he reports that their mandated return to work is really, really unpopular
And they're losing prospective staff to companies that are more flexible
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
theyre def trying i just think mid-long term that offering wfh will be such an advantage that eventually everyone will get on board, not to mention that theyll save on office space, rn theyre all locked in to leases but eventually thatll play out, who knows maybe some of that office space can be converted to housing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
maybe we can all move into apples zillion dollar new headquarters
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
lmao @ "Tesla's success is due to me sleeping on the floor" in the wake of all these "Elon was a shitty programmer and everything he did had to be redone" stories
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
He didn't make any coding mistakes when he was sleeping, though.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
i didnt know he even claimed to be a programmer thought it was more mechanical engineer, just saw a guy on twitter say elon asked him how to run a python script lol which i mean he couldve easily googled it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
i think his BS degree isn't doesn't stand for Bachelor's in Science
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
huh just physics and economics i guess
Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk: Sleep that’s where I’m a programmer.
― life is a highway to the danger zone (PBKR), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
meaning he is a robot who nightly executes a script to set himself to low power mode
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
yeah idk why people represent him as an engineer or having present-day programming knowledge, he was in the web 1.0 years with a group making online yellow pages type of crap and selling those off for a couple years before starting one of the paypal predecessors, and by that point he was already the financial backer
― mh, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/EHkHs1U75X pic.twitter.com/GMt2XYBt6s— Elvis The Alien (@ElvisTheAlienTV) May 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
I imagine that there are some percentage of competent, rational people in positions of authority at Tesla, and they are doing their damnedest to run things normally despite having a despotic CEO operating by whim. I see the WFH thing same as the Pride thing, you maintain sane policies and just sort of cross your fingers and hope he moves on to another shiny object before he actually take any actions behind his pronouncements and tweets. All that being said, the cultishness and sketchiness of Tesla probably mean that the ratio of competence and rationality is lower than in other comparable companies.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
isn't this the guy who wants to work remotely from mars
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
two weeks
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
Musks are the reason oligarchs need a Putin. Don’t worry, we’re making one now, but he is still currently a low-level (fascist) bureaucrat/officer right now. For all of Trump’s bullshit, he cannot Putin, he’s yeltsin and will need an out/rescue.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
dud
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
self parody
Elon Musk says the humanoid robot known as Optimus or Tesla Bot may be up and running within months https://t.co/HLBhM5bxtz— Bloomberg (@business) June 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
ELIMINATES DANGEROUS, REPETITIVE, BORING TASKSHUMANS
― life is a highway to the danger zone (PBKR), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
Is there any doubt he already has his own sexbot?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
it may be up and running
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 3 June 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
"Super bad"
Musk feels 'super bad' about economy, needs to cut 10% of Tesla jobs
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 June 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
But but the humanoid robot rollout is only months away!!!!! He should be hiring!!
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 June 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
can I make a prediction right now that none of us will ever see this thing in our lifetimes
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
lol in your facehttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716BidTlurL._AC_SL1400_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 June 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
The message, sent on Thursday and titled "pause all hiring worldwide", came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or leave
Just leave already, the robots will build each other and work 150 hours a week and they don't even care if the plant is racist
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Lies. I just updated mine while driving my Cybertruck through The Boring Company tunnel to the airport this morning!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
(should we be worried that the MiBro Supabad is a 'choking hazard'?)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
im McLovin it
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
choking hazard in the sense that it may decide to start choking you
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
that's what I mean!! it has claws
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, June 3, 2022 9:49 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
id bet theyre not even actually working on it its just end stage musk hype, hes run out of things to hype up, you can only say full self driving is two years away for so long before people lose interest
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
yeah he's like an inexplicably popular hacky af sci-fi author now
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Wish these creepy, terminally online Musk stans got into like, Asimov, instead.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
saw a thread on twitter where someone posted screens of musk critical threads on various nerd sites reddit etc they said the stans are still around but the tide seems to have turned against him
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
well he's dicking around with twitter instead of space stations, of course they're gonna start drifting away
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
def a bad sign when Biden is landing zings
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
suspect also the hard right political turn prob didnt sit that well with a lot of people xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
his name was brought up at the record store the other day and the responses were "I am so fucking sick of hearing about that whiny idiot" and "I hope his rocket blows up with him inside" which is uh not how people were talking about him a couple years ago
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
xpyeah I imagine a lot of his core stans are the kind of people who bristle at everything being "political"
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
he shouldve stayed in his lane, how unfortunate
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
also you can only promise the moon and not deliver so many times before people get fed up
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
yeah scamming is fundamentally unsustainable, feel like he couldve or maybe still can thread the needle where he scams to keep the tesla stock price high long enough to reap the benefits but then at some point it becomes a normal profitable company with a normal stock price, but idk its prob not in his nature
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, June 3, 2022 12:25 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love Asimov but I'll bet he'd be the most annoying man on centenarian Twitter if he were alive today
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
Skip ahead to 6 minutes and you can see how that would have played out in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYMYPTNV8A
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
holy shit this is comedy that could not be more narrowcast directly at me, thank you
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
Asimov would be too busy picking apart the atrocities in the Foundation adaptation
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
lmao that is so good
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
This is absolutely true.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
After reading Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding I'd be happy if Asimov just stayed dead and buried.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 June 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk’s father, Errol, says that Elon had to be hospitalized after he mocked the suicide of a schoolmate’s father and he pushed Musk down a flight of stairs pic.twitter.com/GCae5JlPj3— Michael Ballaban (@Ballaban) June 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 June 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
Awesome writing — I thought Elon’s dad pushed him down the stairs
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
We should all get to push him down the stairs.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
hush! hush! whisper who dares!elon musk has just fallen downstairs
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Self-pushing stairs should be with us in a couple of months
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
lol, as expected
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922068347/tm2217761d1_sc13da.htm
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 6 June 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Letter here https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922068347/tm2217761d1_ex99-o.htm
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 6 June 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
this guy i swear
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 June 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
Alex Spiro! A Boston sports legend. Defended both Aaron Hernandez and Robert Kraft!
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 6 June 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
i'm very glad I'm not an employee of twitter, this shit must be excruciating
― akm, Monday, 6 June 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
dude is turning into a fine Trump-ian businessman
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
This is just the billionare equivalent of drunk-buying (or in Elon's case, on a coke binge) something online and regretting it.
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 June 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
he's just playing the (E)long game
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
As noted in our previous correspondence, Mr. Musk will of course comply with the restrictions provided under Section 6.4, including by ensuring that anyone reviewing the data is bound by a non-disclosure agreement....
narrator: no he won't
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 6 June 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
It's going to turn out that the kid of pushed Musk down the stairs was actually a time traveler from the future
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
it was older Elon Musk
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
his son with grimes
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Cable_%28Nathan_Summers%29.png
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 June 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
The Tesla CEO now believes Twitter is "transparently refusing to comply" with the terms they agreed to, "which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk's own analysis of that data will uncover."
The move adds to speculation that Musk is trying to wriggle free of the agreement, which comes with a $1 billion breakup fee, though his past tweets suggest he may try to get around that cost.
I didn't order anchovies, no way I'm paying for this pie
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
(after eating the pie)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 June 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
Today I’m investigating Twitter for potentially misleading Texans on the number of its “bot” users. I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.https://t.co/OZbwdV3pnY— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) June 6, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
it's like an AI bot wrote it
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
The lawyers are happy.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
the state of texas enabling elon is funny, to me
― mh, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
Texas will do anything for their newest Texan
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
i thought they were in favor of letting social media platform users post whatever they want at all times
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
"I have a duty to protect Texans" seems especially specious at this particular juncture
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
These people are not bots. They just all live in their parent's basement. Their parent is named The Alamo.
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://media2.sacurrent.com/sacurrent/imager/jan-hooks-helped-us-remember-the-alamo/u/original/2326934/peeweesbigadven-132pyxurzjpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 June 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/wmhUErnqaG— Crazy Frog (@TrueCrazyFrog) June 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
possibly the wildest tweet i've ever seen
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
Good pod discussion on why tech media outlets can’t change how they boost psychopaths
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/10722966-tech-media-needs-to-do-better-on-crypto-and-elon-musk-w-ed-zitron
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 07:11 (one year ago) link
Does Elon know who Baudrillard is?
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 June 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
I'd like to see ol' lonny musk wriggle his way out of *this* jam
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
this thing looks like total shit
Some more beautiful photos of the Cybertruck from yesterday. @elonmuskPhotos shared by Nattanan here: https://t.co/FLuSILXQ7R pic.twitter.com/mOiBnxYR01— Sawyer Merritt 📈🚀 (@SawyerMerritt) June 7, 2022
look at the warping in the side panels and the absolutely shitty join at the front end
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
happy meal toy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
Design cues from the Damnation Alley vehicle.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
why it have no headlights
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
they should google "how to make cars"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
people used to laugh at the Pontiac Aztek, who's laughing now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
First comment: "Thing looks like a curbside fridge with a “FREE” sign taped to it."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Or a pile of leftover ducting from an A/C installation.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
I want to see it standing upright
https://www.simplyeighties.com/resources/Transformers%20Motomaster%20Stunticon.JPG.opt200x327o0%2C0s200x327.JPG
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
He just keeps winning and getting more money you guys are just envious of his genius. Look at that truck LOOK AT IT!
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline4.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
admittedly they do look pretty striking & neat right out of the factory, the problem is I bet they'll all look like dogshit after 15,000 miles, not to mention all the "this is why nobody designs cars like this" problems that'll be discovered along the way
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
lmao that thing is so offensive imagine being a designer at tesla youve devoted your professional life to developing some sort of expertise and the lamest man in the world hands you a drawing on a napkin, its called the "cyber truck"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
saw someone speculating it looks that way cause they used very strong aerospace aluminum which makes is super durable but you also just cant shape it the way you really need to for a car
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
It looks like a shop class welding project where you only get a passing grade if your welded box can hold water. (I speak from experience.)
Also, how is this a truck?? I don't see a picture of cargo capacity so wtf is it even for?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
cyber tronk
― mh, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
You carry your groceries in the cloud
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:15 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
it has a bed in the back, also 4wd etc offroad stuff, tho its supposedly not body on frame which is maybe the prime truck thing they say it has "an exoskeleton" whatever that means https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2019/11/22/tesla-cybertruck-uses-stainless-steel-exoskeleton-rather-than-traditional-body-on-frame/
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
i was looking at a 1990, boxy looking Volvo. These straight lines are seen in the Cyber truck. Its interesting to see the reaction of this stainless steel truck hauling freight with its 8 camera security. It sets a new standard for tough.— Grant Hendricks (@GrantHe62069356) June 7, 2022
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
the entire "look, it won't dent" thing is kind of dumb because if you're actually using a truck for work, nobody cares if the vehicle gets dinged up. the worst risk is enough paint gets scraped off that you end up with rust and corrosion
now, if you're worried about people throwing bricks and rocks at your fancy rolling fortress for... reasons.. then having a dent-proof exterior makes sense
― mh, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
why dont they just made the whole car out of the plastic cladding
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
lmao the volvo comparers tweet has zero likes but someone telling him to stfu has hundreds
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Lol mh xpost
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
My dad designed and made a couple of recumbent bikes in the late '80s that used 100% riveted structural sheet metal instead of a welded frame. Apparently he was 30 years ahead of the (nonexistent) curve.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
modern cars are designed to crumple in a crash so that the people inside them don't die
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
yeah good point wonder if this thing would pass a crash test, not that theyre ever going to release it anyway
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
this stainless steel truck hauling freight
Freight? You mean a sack of potting soil and a couple grocery bags from Costco, right?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
cars should be made of NERF
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
We know a place where Floam cars go
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Musk stans are my least favorite stans of all
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
For all you haters mocking Musk's future-tank, well, I'll have you know that Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to discover the importance of hand washing to maintaining basic hygiene, and he was mocked, too. In the future *all* cars will look like vintage 16-bit video game vehicles, and Musk will be counting money. Until he dies from a communicable disease easily avoided by hand washing.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
vintage 16-bit video game vehicle
It does have some Battlezone lines going on there
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
i am a very very function over form guy and can def be won by proving the former. But that looks like shit, and surface deformations like that usually don’t mean good things at all wrt design or production competence.wrt layout design, there seems a small market for a truck that is functionally truck with also uh, another thing (hello Ridgelines which i love). but here the skyhigh bedwall and… it’s all 100% wtf to this amateur.in a world where hummers became dick extensions i dunno.
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I still think about the moment he introduced this monstrosity to the world and demoed its "indestructability" by throwing a giant metal ball at the window, which shattered instantly. Then tried it again and shattered the back window too. That was such a funny moment that I almost can't hate the guy completely. Few people get to be a part of such a widely broadcast, pure comedic moment like that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
It looks like there's a smaller car inside of it and someone stuck a whole bunch of protective sheets of metal on in, post-apocalypse style. Like Dead Reckoning from "Land of the Dead:"
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zombie/images/4/42/Dead_Reckoning.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20171207033908
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
lol I pulled a Muskhttps://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/b5/e4/8eb5e493f9a86ab751eb6a15196cddff.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
I'm getting a broken image on that which coincidentally also resembles the Cybertruck
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Let me know when Musk makes this one and I'll sign the checkhttps://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/amv-prod-cad-assets/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MMFR_PlymouthRock.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
brb designing and market planning an aftermarket 3 ft tall android doof warrior
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Ran across this gem in the twitter roasting:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUrXjMgaAAAJMca?format=png&name=small
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
lol, that's fantastic
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
frogbs otm, one of the great self-owns by a blowhard. on a par with geraldo and the empty vault. you’ll be able to judge the quality of the obituary by whether or not it includes that moment.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
not that I should expect any differently but it’s weird that that moment didn’t really dim his star any among the stans (not surprising) or tech and mainstream media (a little more surprising)
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
shit, it looks like they've added a windshield wiper! This thing ain't no joke:
https://electrek.co/2022/06/07/tesla-cybertruck-updated-interior-and-windshield-wiper/
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/Tesla-Cybertruck-tailgate-open.jpg
Bed looks good for a hefty load of laundry and a labradoodle puppy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
They really cheapened scaled down the tires from those first renderings, huh?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
They prefer the term "value engineering."
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
The richest person alive doesn't have an ad block or YouTube premium. https://t.co/XrK1WoxMEt— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 7, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
i haven't seen a youtube ad in like a decade, no idea what he's talking about
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
also sounds like the ad algorithm has pegged him as a guy who might fall for scams
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
I wonder what he watches on youtube
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
This company I found is giving away these planet bracelets to spread awareness about climatechange, just cover shipping! grab one before theyre gone #Savetheplanet ✅ https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/zNLf5bluf3— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022
Also, don't forget to to check out these awesome Yoga Mats which have different yoga positions printed over them. Get one while they're on SALE and FREE SHIPPING at https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/QWjs02CZ8x— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I have a hunch Musk saw this show at a formative point in his youth and has spent his life trying to match its promise:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2QxOTk4NzctYmFmYS00M2ZiLTgzYmItM2YyOGM5ZGZlYTgxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzMzMjU5NDY@._V1_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98Kb55ZWLM
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/366993-stunts-amiga-screenshot-the-race-has-just-begun.png
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
You pay more for red.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
offered in support of? it may happen again.at least john delorean had big coke deals. because he was not a billionaire i spose. bring back scrappy coke dealers making stainless steel cars.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt924g5lZ7w
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
Ha the first two sentences are residual from prev non post
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
third one was def a con
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Can you imagine hitting your head or your elbow on one of the sharp seams / corners?How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?edit: turns out that the USA is almost the only place that doesn't give a fuck about anyone except the driver.https://www.governing.com/now/can-american-cars-be-made-safer-for-pedestrians
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 June 2022 06:10 (one year ago) link
haha i know about that situation in the article with the flex posts, i live pretty close to there. according to my nearby nextdoor posters, flexposts cause accidents because cars will slow down (???) and they are ugly and you should just drive over them. any improvement for pedestrian safety makes people SO mad.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychotic, the famous car is one of the worst things
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah more than 20 years ago idiots in Charlottesville, VA were complaining that traffic calming to slow traffic down will “cause accidents”.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychotic
this is a truth bomb. I'd add that driving only a few times a year makes you realize that the act of driving a car is fucking insane, just a lunatic idea that mega-distracted dummies like me are all tooling around in these heavy death machines while having feelings
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Cars dehumanize the drivers in everyone's eyes. I had a premonition that you could get widespread support for any kind of mass extermination as long as the victims are behind the wheels of cars.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?
feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
its not a real car its a shiny object for the media
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, June 9, 2022 11:04 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Elon: Pedestrians? more like pedo-strians
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I don't blame anyone for being cynical about this after a decade of functional impunity for Tesla, but I'm telling you: NHTSA is coming for Autopilot/FSD. https://t.co/s94HgKUZsX— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
driving makes people psychoticmy last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Drivers do emo-aggro things they would never do out on the sidewalk... the protective steel frame of the vehicle brings out the worst
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
my last car had a broken horn, and I always asked for it not to be repaired when I got my rego servicing, as I’d found not even being able to honk made me incredibly calmer, more aware, and zen-like behind the wheel.
There's a relatively well known bumper sticker that reads "HORN BROKEN - WATCH FOR FINGER".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
i think i've used my horn about 10 times, total, in my life. i used it this morning, by chance. i was just driving down the middle lane, minding my own, when i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light. most people here are too polite to honk, but in the last few places i've lived people would have performing an improvised 4 to 5 car "honk symphony" in this situation. it would be enough to completely annihilate someone's day - "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!?! IT'S GREEN!!! THERE'S A LINE BEHIND YOU, COME ON!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!! HYOOOONK!!". it was nice and quiet in the streets of st. louis. so as i passed by this non-situation, i gave the lightest lil' honda fit "toot toot", and was pleased to see in my rear-view mirror that the sleepy driver finally made the turn and the rest of the line was moving up, not just in this lane, but in life
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
^^Lyrics to Bruce Springbean - "Lil' Honda Toot-toot".
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
lol, fucked up your artist name
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
Springbean I can deal with. It's when people call me Springsteen that really irritates me!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
it’s really satisfying to do the rapid staccato “beep beep beep beep beep beep”, not as much a fan of the standard honk or (the worst) leaning on the horn in a hot rage
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
lol Karl that is a very accurate description of driving in Chicago. I swear you could get honked at there if you weren't already moving when the light turned green if they didn't just try to pass you instead
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
it's basically like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2vejhdm8lo
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
I barely register horns as a sign of danger anymore, since drivers seem to use them primarily to express annoyance.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
i get irrationally embarrassed any time horns are involved even when theyre necessary. i've taken to flashing my brights whenever someone ahead of me is sleeping on a red light. which almost certainly does nothing, partic in the daytime
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
you just gotta give em a lil toot toot nbd
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
i fuckin hate cars and traffic and as i've aged i'm constantly freaked out about how unnatural it is for humans to be hurtling through space in these death machines at speeds (and i'm talking as low as 30 mph here) that we just shouldnt be doing. now that i'm essentially a daily microdoser (abuser) of delta 8 mommy weed my patience behind the wheel has increased, but my phear of being murdered by another driver--whether via impact or a road rage incident involving a freeedom tool--has as well. luckily thanks to the nature of my work, proximity to our meager public transit and my bike i've cut my time in a car down to levels i would have never thought possible.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
i want to revise my earlier post. i said "i noticed a line of cars in the turn lane, waiting behind someone snoozing at a red light." it was hopefully clear from the context of the rest of my traffic report (in the Elon Musk thread), but this car that i lightly honked at was snoozing at a _green light_. it wasn't just that they could make a right on a red and that they weren't doing it -- this light was green.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
also p embarrassed by how aggro I was behind the wheel in my 20s-early 30s. which tbf compared to Atl traffic ca 2022 was fairly negligible. even so it’s kind of amazing there aren’t more murders by car every day
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
crazy thing about cars is their immediate danger and warping of human psychology isnt even the worst part about them compared to the societal and environmental impacts of pollution global warming suburbanization alienation increased policing and so forth
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
lol yes same. I typed red but meant green
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
cars and drivers are like warped human minds wrapped in a mysterious passenger cabin inside a beautiful, best in class exterior
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
i always say that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
someone needs to make a magazine for these cars and their driver, asking them both where are they going
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
this is like low-tier friedman now, where you just yell at passing cars and ask their drivers where they are going
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
where are you going oh to work ok haha yeah me too man my job is having opinions
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
in a flat world, we all have opinions, it's just that some of them are worth more than others. i spoke with one local driver to find out why:
"where are you going?!?""whaaat? i had my window up!""where is your car going?" i asked"no, i don't have any money!" he said as his window smoothly closed.
call them Distributed Opinion Dollars!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
that's joe biden's economy for you
― rob, Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, June 9, 2022 2:37 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Omg, this is bringing back memories of my dad writing joke letters into Car and Driver magazine in the early 80s, which apparently was a common thing for the readership then. My Dad signed one as “Ralph Nader” and my recollection is it claimed he bought his suits at Kmart and liked their chili dogs. It got printed in the magazine and Nader threatened the magazine with libel so they had to print a retraction that it was not in fact Ralph Nader.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
It was too late though, the Kmart suit + chili dog rumor had already spread far beyond the Car and Driver readership
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
He was a dad and so were his jokes.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
PBKR that is amazing
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Important Correction: It was corn dogs, not chili dogs.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Thursday, 9 June 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Lol yeah that's hilarious.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 9 June 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
designing the autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact so your company can deny it was the cause of the impact is simply epic pic.twitter.com/Ur4OXHmMXU— jeff dirt (@muttgomery) June 10, 2022
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 10 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
“your honour when i said full self-driving i had my fingers crossed so it didn’t count”
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 June 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
a self driving Tesla is going to have to literally kill a conservative justice before anything happens to this doofus
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
lmao all hands with elon musk this week
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 13 June 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
elon doesn’t understand the difference between gender and sex, so let me explain:gender is a person’s internal perception of themselves, whereas sex is what a trans woman is having with his wife right now https://t.co/04IMgTI4Th— ellie (@misandryinc) June 12, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 June 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
wow lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 June 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
its weird that the entire right is using "what is a woman?" as some sort of gotcha question when it's like...clearly a made up concept. you don't have woman birds or man birds. lady birds perhaps. but a "woman" is strictly a human thing! we know about the whole gender spectrum in part because it exists in other mammals!!
― frogbs, Monday, 13 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
dogs are boys and cats are girls iirc
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
a lady condor just had a baby without a man condor, they're not needed anymore
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
someone from venus
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Boys come from Jupiter to get more stupider
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
"what is a woman?"
that paragon of masculinity matt walsh (rw idiot troll, NOT hilarious guy from Veep) really getting some mileage out of this
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
The question is as about as meaningful as "What is a bro?"
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
mommy what is a funkadelic
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk comes to defense of 'Libs of TikTok' over Twitter death threats https://t.co/MZjHnysXjE pic.twitter.com/ogLBGkKsfw— New York Post (@nypost) June 14, 2022
These people are such fucking marks
the "radical leftist" who supposedly DM'd Libs of TikTok to threaten her was actually a right wing fan of hers who thought she would get his sarcasm and enjoy his joke pic.twitter.com/o5DijIsgE0— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 14, 2022
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
Launched into the sun
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
My favorite Velvet Underground outtake.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
lag00n iirc this is your pet theory
We obtained internal $TSLA documents from a number of whistleblowers that prove that Tesla and Elon Musk have been defrauding investors for years in a variety of different ways. But the most important is that Tesla has been lying about how many cars it sells.— PlainSite (@PlainSite) June 15, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
wasn't this all well-known for years? didn't someone actually spot a parking lot full of "sold" Teslas in Arizona or something?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
is this going to be like when college professors make their students buy their crappy book
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
to drive up "sales", i mean
that was a common trick with Scientologists, to keep Hubbard's shitty books on the NYTimes bestseller list
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
L. Ron and Elon seem to share some personality traits
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
I'm not going to read that tweet thread or do any actual research on my own, but when every single fucking car on the road is already a Tesla, why would they want to lie about how many they sell?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
to get into the s&p500 to boost their stock price?
to have a market cap 5 times ford and toyota combined?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
when every single fucking car on the road is already a Tesla
i see a lot of teslas these days too. the other day a tesla parked next to me as i was walking downtown and three people got out of it and actually irl right there on the sidewalk in front of me started shouting at each other about whose fault it was the door locks weren't working. they wanted to leave their tesla, skirt their way around the homeless, and patronize one of our many fine downtown boutiques; but they couldn't because the door locks weren't working, and they blamed each other. they opened and closed doors and tugged on handles and fumed and barked "try it now" and "no stop just stop!" it was so pornographic i thought it had to be a dream, but it wasn't.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
lmaooooooo
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbEss4svXk
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
wow!
i was just watching a recommended facebook video about ancient egyptian locks, earlier this morning. the basic mechanics of them have barely changed in thousands of years, it's amazing
and yet here we are
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
gemstones scene much better because less on-the-nose. my story is true but hacky
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
is this going to be like when college professors make their students buy their crappy book― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:45 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:45 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, except many of those professors don't make dick, and Musk makes enough in one minute to support you and me for a year if not more. Lay off the easy targets.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
One day, probably in my lifetime, the only thing the US government will be able to actually do is fund cops & military, and force you to buy a Tesla
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 1:35 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
very interesting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
I genuinely don't know if I've ever seen a Tesla in real life. I'm sure there are some in my state, but my city doesn't really attract the kind of d-bags who would buy them.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
will be interesting to see if/when owning one starts to communicate "i am a republican"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
not many teslas in vermont tho i do see more than the previous none
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
what if instead of database just jira
How do we know? $TSLA revolves around a product called JIRA, a bug database commonly used at software companies. At Tesla, JIRA tracks more than just software—it tracks *everything*. Weird A/C smell? JIRA ticket. Console glitch? JIRA ticket. Car catch on fire? JIRA ticket.— PlainSite (@PlainSite) June 15, 2022
so... what's the delta? by how many cars is TSLA over-reporting by?
― 龜, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
I think a lot of normies own them but Musk really seems to be chasing the d-baggiest sector of the market there is if he can get the bros who’ve heretofore purchased $80k trucks as status symbols/personality replacements/to own the libs to switch to his farting car then that proves he’s smart
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
A journalist just asked me if I wanted to send them a recording of the all hands with musk tomorrow “off the record”.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
in hilo i now see multiple teslas literally every time i leave the house. may have been a "libertarian" influx lately (guys in search of compound space etc) but probably most of these are driven by well-off liberals who wanted something cooler than a leaf. (the one person i actually know with one is a retired public schoolteacher, so i can't rly be less than nice about it.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Both of the two coworkers I know that have recently bought Teslas are blue lives matter cops' kids who constantly harp on "Biden's gas prices". Insignificant sample size sure, but hard to imagine these would be the Tesla buying types even three years ago.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
I see a couple of Teslas every day, one of them is the Model X SUV that remains the ugliest vehicle on the road and another is a regular S with CRYPTO vanity plates. Haven't seen that one in a couple of weeks so it might be getting repoed.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
I’ve never seen one either. Maybe I’d know if one hit me.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Along with the Range Rovers, they are the bane of the carpool line at my son's school.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
they definitely have the highest percentage of vanity plates of any vehicle make
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
pour one out for the Teslas silently driving themselves back to the dealership in the wake of crypto crashing
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:27 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
cant believe max would do that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I see many more of them now, and the racial makeup of those driving them is pretty even in my majority minority city.
Like any very expensive thing, they are a status symbol, little more.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
I will say that the first time I saw one, though, I was living in Chico, CA, and some asshole Tesla owner parked ACROSS TWO SPACES at the local grocery store that was always packed because it had the best quality/price ratio. I left a note on it that said, "LEARN HOW TO PARK YOUR FANCY CAR."
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
figure it’s just a matter of time til I see one modded out to roll coal
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
guys, the libertarians owning teslas have been there the whole time. utopian tech nerd overlap
― mh, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
The first Tesla I saw was parked in a friend's neighbor's driveway in Berkeley and had a bumper sticker that said "this car runs on coal"
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
3% of California's power comes from coal, but ok.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
I don't know, if these people are the jackasses that would normally buy a giant land rover, and instead are buying an electric car? I guess that's a good thing overall
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
plus they're more likely to burn to death in a Tesla because they can't open the door
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
guys, the libertarians owning teslas have been there the whole time. utopian tech nerd overlap― mh, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:56 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mh, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:56 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they were the first buyers, sure, but it's like an expensive prius now in california, i.e. totally mainstream family car.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
A single tear coming from a headlight.
― nickn, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
libertarian Wall -E
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
I wear headphones when walking so I have no way of even suspecting if a car is a tesla very much enjoyed dlh’s little sketch tho
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
They are one of the most popular cars here in Vancouver. A lot of older guys mostly I think. My friend bought one when he retired and theres like 5 on his block. First time I was in it he wanted to demonstrate the self-drive thing, although we were screaming at him not to. The car immediately sped up to 20km over the speed limit (this was in a place where deer regularly leap out onto the road). When we got to our destination his seat automatically started tipping him out the door, which had the effect of crushing my foot, because I was jammed in the cramped back seat. I actually thought it was going to break bones but in the end it was ok probably only because I had boots on. More seriously, he couldn't even find the proper version of Daddy Cool by Boney M on the special Tesla streaming radio thing. Only a 2000s remix. Crap car.
― everything, Thursday, 16 June 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
xxp they’re the ones that accelerate toward you when you’re using a crosswalk
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
the guy I’m acquainted with who has a Tesla used to have an override installed on the a/v console in the middle of the dashboard in a prior car that’d allow it to play video while the car was moving
we used to joke that some day he’d end up flying off the interstate while watching dave matthews live at the gorge
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
Musk bearish on Twitter.
Tesla founder Elon Musk said the key to his electric automaker's value is whether it can achieve self-driving technology, adding that the firm would be "worth basically zero" without it. pic.twitter.com/PAxBAHPv3k— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) June 16, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
they really did miss the window where they could have just licensed/sold all the baseline electric car stuff they were ahead on by now, huh?
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
idk there a bunch of companies that do that sort of thing, teslas trying to make cars, take on the big guys
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JYWW7A9ZL._SY445_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
das alotta sauce baby
I'm so old, I can remember when Tesla's pitch for the $100k Roadster was that it would fund a Model S that started at $50k, which in turn would fund a Model 3 that started at $35k.The cheapest Tesla you can buy today is $48,490 out the door. https://t.co/pKV0WvkDNv— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
imagine having 100k to spend on a car and thinking "im going to buy a tesla" absolutely freakin psychotic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
I got to ride in a Rivian last week, an electric truck which has a lot of the same cool features the Tesla has but with a much better interior & a way more intuitive center console. it's also free of all the glitches and quirks that Teslas have. it occurred to me that Tesla is in the Sega Dreamcast phase, I don't know how they'll compete with the big boys when all that technology starts coming standard. they kinda suck at making cars.
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me
written in 2006
$35,000 in 2006 is worth $50,745 today
i don't follow elon's predictions too closely but it seems like he was saying similar stuff in 2008:
.@elonmusk discussing electric vehicles in 2008 as tesla was nearly out of cash. pic.twitter.com/q41Tw9bfx9— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) October 26, 2021
35K in 2008 is $47.5 today
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Our Tesla owning neighbor recently added an electric Porsche to his fleet. He's still got the Tesla, but honestly, if you can afford a car that *starts* at $50k, let alone higher (the Porsche is iirc something like $90k), then I don't see *why* you would go Tesla when you could go with any other luxury car. Like, two or three times this week I've seen one of the new electric Mustangs. Looks like they start at around $43k. A few months ago I saw an Aston Martin SUV (base is $176,000). Those who want something more modest seem to be leaning Nissan Leaf or Chevy Bolt, which are in the ... $30k+ range?
One of the most fervent Tesla proselytizers I've talked with stressed the pioneering, market penetrating power of the Tesla *brand*, which he likened to Apple. But what Musk seems to be doing, as far as this armchair hater can tell, is working overtime to harm the brand while failing to scale up the quality or affordability of the cars themselves. That seems like a poor strategy. Like, what was that comedian's hot off the presses take on Dave Chappelle? "Chappelle, do you know what comes up when you Google your name, bro? That’s the legacy?" It's getting to the point where the last thing anyone thinks of when they hear the name Tesla is the car, and the first is Elon Musk, and what a douchebag clown he is.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
funny detail that a lot of the tech that tesla and now other electric car makers are putting in their cars is stuff that people actively dont want and/or is just dangerous
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
The only way to know for sure is to make fart noises an optional feature on every car and see how many people bite.
Musk should announce hologram truck nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
waiting for the reveal that the entire Musk/Tesla empire has been a long con operation by the Big Three, hoping to ruin the reputation of electric cars by association with bad build quality, self-crashing autopilot, and an omnipresent douchebag
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:57 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah he was still saying it would cost 35k when they launched it five years ago tho, iirc they did sell a handful of them at that price but quickly raised it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
bad build quality, self-crashing autopilot, and an omnipresent douchebag
lol these clauses can both be describing Musk!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
the fact that screens have become such a lux symbol in cars just sucks dont we get enough of these things
https://i0.wp.com/evtak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/motor1-1.jpg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
saw a study the other day that a driver fucking with the car screen has a way slower reaction time than a drunk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
still buttons on the steering wheel why isnt there a screen wtf
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
should make just the entire interior a big continuous screen
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
instead of buying a car just look at computer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
those seats look really comfortable though and with the blue lights if i took a long drive in it i would probably fall asleep
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
You guys are actually making me want to buy a car.
― Jeff, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
play a soothing youtube on all my mercedes eqs screens falling asleep and driving into the ocean
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
"Wave of Mutilation" was predicting the future
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Trying to navigate Atlanta rush hour traffic looking like Tom Cruise in Minority Report
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
oh my god. this all hands.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Idk I drove a car w a big screen on a road trip a couple of years ago and I liked it a lot for map/navigation, large format music/audio display, and making calls on the road. Bigger text in the display means having to peer at it less, taking your eyes off the road. Plus you need one screen that is the control for multiple systems as opposed to your dash having a lot of control panels.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
liveblog it!
― 龜, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Not gonna lie, the wireless nonskid device charging pad was nice too.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
PS it was not a Tesla but I can't wait to find out what kind of meeting caek is being subjected to.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
you need one screen that is the control for multiple systems as opposed to your dash having a lot of control panels.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:47 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
physical buttons >>>
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
afaict it's being liveblogged generally accurately in the NYT and bloomberg and verge.
those writers are doing a lot of work to make him sound like he's got a three figure IQ and is experienced in talking to humans using the english language. so just imagine the liveblog but stupid.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
xp Make your case but I disagree. Maybe I haven't been in a really well-designed car for a while but dashboards are dark, buttons are dark, print is small, and everything below chest-level is too low to see without leaning over (I am old).
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
I have a 2005 Outback with 190k on it— it is the barebones model, absolutely nothing fancy except a slightly nicer after-market stereo that it came with (I bought it used).
The 2016 Outback that my dad drives feels like a different universe— I can skip a song and change the volume using the steering wheel, ditto climate control, the car has enough sensors and stuff to essentially feel like it is "self-driving" when it's in cruise control, and so on. I don't care for navigation stuff or a lot of other "bells and whistles" of the car, but a lot of it is quite useful if you know how to use it without allowing it to distract.
I had saved up enough to buy it from him last year for a decent price (it has a few minor problems), but he backed out of it because the demand for new cars was such that he couldn't get himself a new one until 2023. Praying that my Outback lasts until then.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
if you own a car you learn where the buttons are and can use them without even looking, which is a pretty big contrast to navigating computer menus, screens have their uses not everything can have a button, but putting the most commonly used things like climate control volume etc are hate crimes against drivers
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
some cars are putting air vents controls in the screen, the thing you used to just be able to reach out and manipulate now requires operating a computer, absolute madness
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
aw hell yeah lol
Musk is musing to Twitter employees about aliens. "I have not seen actual evidence of aliens"— Sheila Dang (@Sheila_Dang) June 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
lagoon massively otm about buttons. same reason i'm extremely vexed about the near-complete death of phones with physical qwerty keyboards. they're way, way, way faster and more reliable, and i don't have to look at the screen!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
re: buttons vs. touch screens, I could have sworn I read that some very basic functions on the Tesla, and possibly many new cars with touch screens, take several on-screen navigations to get to what you need. Things like climate control. Defenders say "well, use voice control," but anyone with a phone (or who regularly uses voice to text) knows what a mess that can be.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
i have sad news the physical buttons are not coming back any time soon. screens everywhere, screens on the floor, screens in the headrest, you won't be able to move for the fucking screens they're going to be encasing you in
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
I liked having the map, my time to destination, my directions, etc in clear view on a large screen (to be fair I was traveling across the country and needed those things more than in everyday life).
I will allow physical controls for ventilation I guess.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
suspect the car makers like putting everything in the screens cause its cheaper easier and completely modifiable, but mostly people really dont like it so i guess well see how it plays out, bet the most used buttons will end up staying, even the lucid air prob the craziest ev on the market has some buttons
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
I hope caek is having fun.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
some new cars have screens or sections with a permanent spot for climate controls but even that isnt has good since you cant feel them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
none of that even touches on distraction tho, screens are genuinely dangerous for drivers to use
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
true but there has to be some kind of intuitive element to it. the reason why so many devices are similar these days is because the designers understand that the human brain has certain expectations, and that is massively important when designing a car, in which the driver is expected to operate everything without really thinking, since they're focusing on the road. this is why it's so boneheaded for Tesla to be putting various controls in its own clever space, if you drive multiple cars you really don't wanna have to stop and think where the A/C or windshield wipers are. I know someone who's driven them for years and still gets irritated by the turn signal buttons on the wheel. he says it still breaks his concentration to signal that way.
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I have a 2005 Outback with 190k on it— it is the barebones model, absolutely nothing fancy except a slightly nicer after-market stereo that it came with (I bought it used).The 2016 Outback that my dad drives feels like a different universe
The 2016 Outback that my dad drives feels like a different universe
Counterpoint: I drive a twenty-year old Outback and I have never driven a rental car and felt "wow this is a really different experience from driving my car at home" -- I think in many ways the technology matured some time ago
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Then again I never use cruise control (which I believe my current car does have some version of)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
wrote a novel on my blackberry, could feel the keys press beneath my fingers, very few typos. now roughly 20% of key presses are wrong on this samsung. nobody is catering for me and my fat arthritic fingers.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
And obviously a completely different powering mechanism like an electric motor is an authentically big difference even if it doesn't affect the driving experience!
I liked having the map, my time to destination, my directions, etc in clear view on a large screen.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:35 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah theyre good for navigation, prob best setup is to have a voice controlled map on the drivers screen where the speedometer is, crazy that the tesla x has absolutely nothing in that spot you have to look down and over to even see your speed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
the human brain has certain expectations, and that is massively important when designing a car, in which the driver is expected to operate everything without really thinking,
Exactly -- I can rent a car and I don't have to learn how it works, every control is just where it's supposed to be, it works the way a car works; I think this is critical for safety
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
I hope caek is having fun.― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:36 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:36 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
haha if you think surfing linkedin on company time is fun then yes!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
we don't want to imagine it, caek, we want to live it through you
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:42 PM (fifty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
i use cruise control basically every time i get on the highway hate having to keep track of whether im speeding, would love to have some of the newer smart cruise control features as well as the new safety stuff auto breaking lane assist etc which imo does represent a significant move forward in driving tech, also if you care about such things new cars drive really well its kind of crazy how much better they are, one minor piece of new car tech i really like is the led headlights that will dim just the part of the beam thats pointed at an oncoming car, i want that lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
I don't understand why screens are more distracting than having to look at a tiny LCD screen that's almost at stomach-level to see which of the 5 different ventilation modes you're currently in based on pushing a "MODE" button??? (Thanks, Subaru.) All the controls should be where you can peripherally see them while still looking at the road imo.
Hate. Haaaaaaate the lane assist and automatic braking.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
those are both screens?
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
also if you care about such things new cars drive really well its kind of crazy how much better they are
yeah I think it must be the case that I don't care about such things because the difference is really not perceptible to me, I'm not sure I even know what it means to "drive well" (my car goes the direction I point it at the speed I ask of it, so I guess it's more than just that)
On a well-designed car the ventilation mode is controlled by a five-way switch which clicks as you turn it to each position so you can just feel where it is with your hand! Having to look at a screen for this would be like having to look at a screen to change gears.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
i hate, hate, hate using the touchscreen when i'm driving. it's at an awkward angle, it's not particularly responsive, and it take even longer to look at than glancing down at my phone
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
the whole screen situation in my 2015 outback is so bad slow poorly designed etc but luckily its just for music i dont have the nav subscription def easier to use my phone
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
fp'ing tabes' dad and eephus for cultural appropriation
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
g∞n t∞!
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
oi m8!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Sorry yes that was unclear. They're both screens but the difference is between a larger, high-contract color screen that's high on the dash, versus a small black-on-grey LCD screen on the center console at the height of my lowest rib, but this is a design problem more than anything. So maybe my point is that I would like a large screen that allows all the controls to be at the best, most convenient level with the best visibility, instead of them competing for space. But I do not have a car.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
* hi-contrast
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
not having a car is the best solution of all
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
some of the safety/assist features seem nice and I'd like them on a new car but Tesla cheaped out and dropped lidar on most of their models, right? so they don't have a premium there unless you really believe their visual-only system works
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
i dont think any new cars use lidar its too expensive which is why tesla doesnt either, the difference being that musk just went on promising full self driving was right around the corner anyway
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
As of January, according to the latest tally from BloombergNEF, 17 automakers globally have announced a total of 21 lidar-equipped passenger car models, either in production or coming soon. This number will increase as systems like GM's lidar-based Ultra Cruise are added to specific models.
https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/musk-looks-isolated-rivals-embrace-lidar
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
"announced"
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
right and this is why I'm skeptical of the whole "self-driving" thing being a gamechanger, like what are we supposed to do just sit behind the wheel and nervously hope the autopilot doesn't drive into a playground? I like driving!! my car has a backup cam, radar cruise, and a blind spot detector. most of the annoying aspects of driving have already been made much easier.
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
if there was real safe level 5 driving that would be a pretty amazing advance, i mean ~40k people die every year on our roads
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
If self-driving tech was actually good, fuck yeah I’d use it. No amount of making a car nicer improves bumper to bumper traffic short of me having the ability to nod off.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
we could use any kind of help to fix driving in FL. one person died recently when their vehicle plunged off of Toll Road 408 and landed on Interstate 4 below.
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Sounds like driving is doing WAY too much. People need wages that allow them to work fewer hours and better social support systems so they're not constantly exhausted from trying to handle 3 people's worth of responsibilities and falling asleep at the wheel. And public transit options that replace bumper to bumper traffic, and affordable housing near transit with walkable commercial zones so we don't have to drive so far and so much.
Oh, we don't care about any of those things? Cool, definitely self driving cars then.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
lots of people do care about those things, there may be some powerful interests arrayed against them tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Here's Jim Chanos on why he considers $TSLA to still be the quintessential stock of this market, and why he's still betting against it, and how it's to this market cycle as $CSCO was to the dotcom bubble. https://t.co/mSMtHh7SXx pic.twitter.com/51Mlm9u7ek— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
I would like a cruise control that keeps a maximum speed too, so you don't forget to brake enough going down a mountain and scare your passengers
not that I did this to lag∞n or anything hehe
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
the idea that tesla is some sort of zeitgeist future-looking stock makes sense, people just don't have a lot to pin their enthusiasm for a future on outside of riding notions and the stock roller coaster
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
what's weird is that when it comes to driving I'm like "cruise control, no way, I want to have my attention constantly on anticipating what's ahead and exert direct control of what I'm doing, no automated BS for me" but when it comes to investing I'm like "eww, who would buy individual stocks, just buy an index and let the market do the work"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
the market can be modeled by a random walk with a forcing term, so "follow the market" works. if you model driving with a random walk you die.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
the cars i drive were made in the late 80s and early 90s and have very manual controls. they also dont have air bags!
― 龜, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
crossing my fingers that my 2006 hatchback w 210k miles makes it to 300k. the idea of car shopping in the modern era gives me hella anxiety
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
I love cruise control for long trips— it’s absolutely an energy saver, at least for the way I drive.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
honestly would prefer to move somewhere that a car just isn’t necessary before it’s time to buy again
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
“i use cruise control basically every time i get on the highway hate having to keep track of whether im speeding”can confirm the subie eyesight shit makes hiway driving much nicer. you still have to be 100% in control ime, it just means you don’t have to take your eyes off the road for speedo or wonder about how fast you’re going. you wont go over x mph, if the cars afore you slow down, so do you, and if they speed up, so will you, but not over x mph. You can just steer and navigate traffic and brake when you need to do. 🤷🏻♂️I don’t like the steering thing that bumps you inside the road lines so i turn that off.
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
We rented a Mazda CX-5 thing last year - sort of a crossover small SUV - to drive out to Zion
At one point on the drive home, we locked in with two other CX-5's, using the radar-guided cruise control.. so when the first car was able to speed up, the others did as well.. it was really fucking weird but kinda cool
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
the last trip on the interstate that I didn't use cruise control on was when I was being shady, shadowed a semi trailer in my circa 2010ish hybrid car, and managed to eke out an extra 10mpg
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
Hunt3r, what you describe is exactly what I’m talking about— it makes highway driving, particularly for long stretches with little congestion, an absolutely different and I think less physically taxing activity. You still have to be alert mentally and have your eyes on the road, obviously.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
to divert away from cartalk for a while
Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla are being sued for $258 billion over claims they are part of a racketeering scheme to back the cryptocurrency Dogecoin https://t.co/HgvMaYpV7F— Bloomberg (@business) June 16, 2022
feel like yeah, he absolutely was manipulating the price of Dogecoin for personal gain, but idk if that's technically a crime
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
― 龜, Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
webistics
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
Pump and dump chump
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
musks doge situation def seemed very shady at the time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Everything this motherfucker touches seems shady.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
im just a simple poster idk what this case needs to go forward but could be pretty interesting if it does
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
*to the tune of Pumps and a Bump*
Pump an-a dump/ pump an-a dump/ elon musk finna pump an-a dump
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 June 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoomAnd a poom-poom, just pump and dump
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
Teslas Running Autopilot Involved in at Least 273 Crashes in Past Year
The new data set stems from a federal order last summer requiring automakers to report crashes involving driver assistance to assess whether the technology presented safety risks. Tesla‘s vehicles have been found to shut off the advanced driver-assistance system, Autopilot, around one second before impact, according to the regulators.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 June 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
Pump-de-Dump doop boduDump-de-Pump doop bop
― peace, man, Thursday, 16 June 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Interesting to see even the hacker news set worrying that people will think they like musk if they drive a Tesla https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31771367
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
elon really fucked up lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
Smog's "I Was a Stranger" about Elon's arrival on Mars
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 17 June 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
Kind of wonder if Tesla is in too big to fail territory no matter what Elon does or how much of a scam Tesla is finally revealed to be. How many pension funds and 401ks are invested in it at this point?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
Might as well confess at this point that my wife owns and drives a Tesla, and we both love it. I'm probably the only person on this thread who likes them, although I agree that Musk is an idiot.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
friend of mine recently bought one
as insufferable as Elon is, it was a pleasure to drive in
the roof is made of glass!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 17 June 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, June 17, 2022 1:10 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This was my point a couple of weeks ago. It would have to be something criminal and even then I'm just not sure our system is going to punish a rich guy like Musk. I would love to see it though, I hate this guy :(
― Cabernet Frank (PBKR), Friday, 17 June 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
too big to fail is not the same as too rich to be prosecuted. you need to be close to a monopoly to be too big to fail, and tesla have a lot of competitors (who are rapidly catching up). tesla stock could absolutely crash in a bad way, or at least back to a realistic valuation
elon musk will never suffer because of the judicial system tho
― micah, Friday, 17 June 2022 11:12 (one year ago) link
yeah companies like tesla do from time to time fail
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 11:39 (one year ago) link
I hope Tesla fails. I hate the way their cars look, I hate the way their owners act, and I hate Elon Musk and his racist apartheid company.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 17 June 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
x-post to anagram, just curious: I think I've mentioned before this strange Tesla owner thing I've noticed, where they all (the three or four I know) love their car while simultaneously admitting it's nowhere near as nice or reliable or well-made as comparable/previous luxury cars. Was this at all your experience?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
Well we've never had a comparable size/price car before so I have nothing to compare it to really. My wife is the driver, I'm just a passenger/navigator and I just like the look & feel of it. With petrol prices going through the roof I think we did the right thing in buying it when we did. Obviously there are other EVs out there but the Tesla just seemed like the right choice for us idk. We also test drove a Volvo EV but it was kind of a boring experience compared to the Tesla.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
No farting.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
driving a car should be a boring experience in my humble opinion
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 17 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
Pontiac - “Real Driving Excitement” begs to differ
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
Driving excitement is meant to replace our early human excitements, like chasing wild game across dangerous fields and bravely growing wheat, or making cave paintings
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
Only now the excitement is more about how to connect Bluetooth
well i hope that tesla meets the same fate as pontiac
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Does Tesla have a good slogan? Maybe they could use a good slogan to turn things around
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
"Build Tough. Fart Tough"
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
"ride free" is their motto! that's even better
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/technology/spacex-employees-fired-musk-letter.html
“The letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views,” Ms. Shotwell wrote. “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism.”
i thought this guy was all about free speech :\
― 龜, Friday, 17 June 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
indeed who has time for overreaching activism when you are engaged in the important work of frivolous space travel
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 17 June 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
"ride free by becoming an indentured servant on mars with a competitive interest rate"
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 17 June 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
or rather: we just slap our logo on Toyota Matrixes now lol
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 17 June 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
vibe twins, yeah! greatest fricking car ever made, reliability of a toyota with the lol factor/cheapness/no one will ever bother jacking this steez of a pontiac 💟
― bule bulak oying (cat), Friday, 17 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
oh right teslas. yeah, my hippie college techbro town is crawling with them. aiui one of the lesser musks lives here, i reckon he gets a family discount and hands them out to people so they'll be friends with him.
― bule bulak oying (cat), Friday, 17 June 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Lesser Musks sounds like a seldom visited archipelago.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
someone leaked screenshots from our slack, and now people are getting harassed by qanon types, great stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
(because
I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican. Massive red wave in 2022.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
not that it matters but I’d bet he didn’t vote
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 17 June 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 8:14 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Well we've never had a comparable size/price car before so I have nothing to compare it to really.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, June 17, 2022 8:58 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
seems like this is pretty common ppl who were not previously lux car buyers drawn to tesla because they wanted an ev and then being like hey this is really nice, next might want to *whispering* check out a bmw
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
Yeah, fwiw the dudes I know with Teslas mostly came *from* German luxury cars *to* Tesla.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
thats crazy to me taking a step down things of that nature
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
I imagine it's because Tesla, for a minute, was the future. And now that the future is here, or closer, Audi, Mercedes, BWM, VW, Porsche et al., they all have their own EVs. I wonder, given the starting price, if some folks gravitate (or gravitated?) to Tesla not for its environmental benefits but as a luxury brand, back when they were more scarce. And now that they're becoming more common (in every sense) they lose that cachet while offering little on the tech front that every other car won't soon offer, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
I am not sure German cars are what they used to be. My oldest, who drives a tow truck and sees all kinds of automotive disasters, is not a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
farts tho
― bule bulak oying (cat), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
german cars are as they have always been subject to disaster
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
if anything theyre much more reliable than they used to be which is true industrywide
The newer BMWs aren’t as nice inside as like a Mazda CX-5 until you’re really climbing up the price list.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
I've almost never even been *driven* in a luxury car, let alone driven one, but a friend of mine has a Porsche SUV, and even as a passenger I could tell it drove so much better than our Nissan. Of course, $$$, including maintenance, gas, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
The CX-5 is on my wish list.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I don't think it's reliability as much as safety and durability.
i think the biggest criticism of new german cars which is also true of cars in general is theres just too much stuff too many features too fussy too many little things that can break to much computer shit mediating the driving experience
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, June 17, 2022 2:28 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is crazy talk
I got a CX-5 in 2014 and love it as much today as I did in the first year. I think my enthusiasm on ILX was one of the reasons tipsy mothra got one a few years later.
― WmC, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Whenever I read any cars reviews (infrequent) they always bring up all sorts of shit I never considered. Engine noise, road noise, how smooth it shifts, etc. I'm so used to just driving utilitarian cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
Two of my siblings got violently T-boned in a Volvo 700 series sedan in the '90s, and the state transportation safety board sent investigators to look at the wreck to see how it was possible that anyone survived it completely uninjured. Idk about these days, I haven't kept up.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Volvo used to have an unparalleled reputation for safety, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
basically all cars are safer at least in construction than the best volvo of the 1990s, they way in which theyre not safer is theyre all huge and fast now
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
the tesla interior, minus the dash screens, reminded me of a Saturn lol
― mh, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
interesting blog post https://danluu.com/car-safety/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
i saw someone online say they rode in one recently and were shocked by how theres just nothing in it, said it reminded them of a bachelor apartment with no art on the walls, which makes sense considering their fan base lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
That's def. one of the things one of my Tesla friends likes about it, the cleanness of it all (which somewhat mitigates the cheapness of it all). Which is all moot, because it's only a matter of time before Musk starts selling targeted ads for their touch screens.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
"For just $5 a month extra, you can use your touch screen ad-free!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
ive heard them called minimalist which is such an insult to minimalism
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 6:35 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
That's why we had a couple and my sister drives one now. It did get bigger, as caek said--now she has some kind of SUV. But she also has 3 kids, 2 in carseats, which wouldn't have fit in the 740.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
I suppose no passenger car is going to save you when you rear-end a tractor-trailer at high speed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1ZEfjXP.png
crazy thing is the usa had been making steady long term gains in driving safety until it just wasnt, a lot of the recent flattening is prob due to increasing car size, but that last lil upward blip might be because the pandemic drove people crazy
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
can confirm that, I was out driving around town last weekend and thought I was driving bad, then I saw two separate incidents of cars blowing through red lights on the way home
― mh, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
yeah also the police have been on strike
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
also the gains stop when smartphones were introduced.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
yeah good call
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
i don't know how to reveal this to humanity, because it is incredibly bad news, but i dumped all the car fatality data into Numbers and ran a 6th order polynomial trendline on it, and ...we're all going to die next year
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
ah well it could be worse
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 June 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
idk I think the fact there's nothing on the dashboard except the screen is kinda cool
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
until the screen goes dark for some unknown reason
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 17, 2022 2:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
The one time I was actively shopping for a car, I remember rapidly realizing that reading any kind of professional car review was completely pointless because they are all written by car fetishists. Would have loved to find some resource for people who need to buy a car because they need to buy a car and just for people who are really into cars.
― silverfish, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Hasn't happened to us yet! xp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
xp. they're often reviewed like this guy reviews tools, i.e. without telling you what it is like to own and use them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTJMhJuL68
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Road noise is legit, though. I drove my ex-roomie's Wrangler when I helped her move four hours away and even with a hard top the ambient noise was giving me a headache - and I was driving a utilitarian work pickup at the time.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
I think Saab actually tested better, but Volvo was more than happy to have people circulate this idea
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
(I've always had a weird, unjustified love for Saabs, which I'm sure would be dashed if I actually owned one)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Saabs are forever associated with the Clickhole "Garbage Sons" article for me now.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.classicargarage.com/assets/images/f/saab-sonett-2-1967-two-stroke-red-rouge-rot-rood-02-3162057f.jpg
A 2-stroke 3 cylinder motor? gimme a break, of course I'm in love
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
not drive my car? xp
― 龜, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
No, "I don't cry. I Saab"
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
"FIAT" stands for "Fix It Again, Tony"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 June 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
Found On Road Dead
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Terrifying Electric Shitty Loser Asshole
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 June 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
The ignition on the floor novelty of slaabs would be lost in an age of fobs what wld they do to bring back the mystique
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Saturday, 18 June 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
I admire Elon Musk, but the real People of the Year are the doctors, nurses, first responders, and scientists who have worked so gallantly—there is no other word—to fight this deadly, constantly transforming virus.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 21, 2021
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Lost me at "admire".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
So how much money has Tesla lost from Musk's Bitcoin investment now?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 18 June 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
~$600m
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 June 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-son-files-change-201451698.html
Happy Father’s Day Elon
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
the fact he has a trans kid puts an even more dire context on all his bullshitcongrats, not your kid anymore. hope she’s doing great and no one bothers her about the shithead birth father
― mh, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
4 things that deserve each otherhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/sgifcv/elon_musk_jordan_peterson_joe_rogan_and_the/
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link
nightmare blunt rotation
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
he hasn't tweeted for over a week. hope he's ok.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:34 (one year ago) link
if by "ok" you mean "being eaten slowly by very lazy but hungry feral hogs"
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
he's probably taking a sex tourism trip somewhere with a couple of big GOP donors/game hunters while he waits for a fresh hair transplant to heal.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
in other words "self care"
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
I'm referring to him as Buck ROdgers from now on
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 1 July 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Strong "I did it 35 minutes ago" energy
Without a common goal, humanity will fight itself— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2022
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
ah grasshopper.. you have learned well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Musk deserves a boot to the head.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
That's just a "Gabbo!!" tweet where the Big Reveal is "SpaceX!!"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
“and that ‘common goal’, funnily enough, is making me and people like me richer and more powerful. yeah I know, seems crazy, but that’s just like, how it is man”
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
he hasn't tweeted for over a week. hope he's ok.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:34 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:34 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
If Musk is the Howard Hughes of our time, could he be having a storing-urine-in-bottles phase?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
okay!
this mf loves having kids https://t.co/CcyI1bP21H— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
lmao i've met her. chriiiist.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Musk, who has been an outspoken advocate of bringing more babies into the world, now has nine known children.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2022-04/08/full/1649401646-6642.jpg
"Who wants to get pregnant!?!
Seriously, I'm ready to go. This cowboy hat just _does it_ for me."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
more begats than Genesis
― WmC, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
Page Six exclusively reported in September 2021 that Musk and Grimes had broken up.
yeah well having twins with an employee can definitely strain a relationship
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Pffft! At this rate he'll never catch up with Genghis Khan.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
xpHa, I googled the same thing but didn't post because I figured it was common knowledge.
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
“Known children” is a red flag imo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's probably pretty doubtful he knows them.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
The story specifically cites him as saying he doesn’t really have anything to do with his young children, that’s the mother’s job, but he expects that when they’re in their teens he’ll take them to (eg) look at the Great Wall and terracotta warriors if he has business meetings in China.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
that sounds really, really, really bad for the kids.
― ian, Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
Probably better than being around him lots, tbf.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Imagine the sounds he makes when he cums.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
“That was epic”
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
I don’t get it… does Tesla manufacture his condoms too?— Extra Sauce Queen Li’l 🌳 (@karengeier) July 6, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
zing!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Man I just do not like the new MST.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 July 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Ugh I always get stray abandoned sentences in there
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 July 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
he's had a... more than normal number of these kids via IVF/surrogacy considering a few factors
not saying that's the case with this newly-discovered mother, but the fact she had twins takes on some weirdness given everything else
― mh, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
yeah was thinking the same
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
there really is a thing with rich weirdos and having a load of kids via surrogates, my wife was just telling me about a Chinese billionaire who just had 100 babies via surrogates, all eggs from white American women, all kids to be raised in the USA
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
twins are more common when conceived in zero G
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
The ego and sociopathy of your average billionaire resulting in a desire to spread their glorious seed as far and wide as possible is... unsurprising.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 July 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
Lmao https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/07/elon-musk-twitter-jeopardy/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
No shit!
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
as matt levine notes musk already agreed to buy the company, so he kinda has to buy it
the reason that elon musk can't get out of the deal over the bots thing is not that he "waived due diligence." it's that he SIGNED A BINDING AGREEMENT TO BUY TWITTER, and that agreement does not have any outs for "i think there are too many bots."— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) July 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
which does he have more of now, children he neglects or companies he neglects
― Vinnie, Thursday, 7 July 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
what about that poor spaceman he launched in a tesla a couple years back? the most neglected of all
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 July 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
Grimes's mom today:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When did the idea of manhood descend to being the most infantile & obnoxious person in the room?</p>— Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻 (@Garossino) <a href="
When did the idea of manhood descend to being the most infantile & obnoxious person in the room?— Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻 (@Garossino) July 8, 2022
― everything, Friday, 8 July 2022 05:23 (one year ago) link
where were the warning signs?
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 July 2022 05:31 (one year ago) link
That's just the free market deciding what the idea of manhood should be
― Vinnie, Friday, 8 July 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
ok
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he is terminating his $44 billion Twitter deal https://t.co/X1qiGld4bM pic.twitter.com/6gTTyn6yFV— Reuters (@Reuters) July 8, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
see he does know how to pull out
― frogbs, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Ahhh, so Elon does know how to pull out after all— MisterZofter (@Zoftwarz) July 8, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
ha! he still has to pay them a billion to weasel out, right? Twitter might actually turn a modest profit in July
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/ELON.SPACEX.web_.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Pouring one out for all the fascists who were waiting to get unbanned
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
He has to pay them $1 billion 10 years from now after everything is tied up in lawsuits in the meantime.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, July 8, 2022 5:39 PM (four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
according to the contract he still has to pay the entire cost and in fact buy the company, the billion termination fee is for if somehow he couldnt get the deal done his financing fell through or whatever, but of course hes the richest man in the world so he can just buy twitter out of pocket which he has agreed to do
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Be funny if they banned him
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
he can go to court maybe twitter will get sick of him and say fuck it but it seems like people who know what theyre talking about are saying this is a very open and shut case, he has agreed to buy the company
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Here’s the letter
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Oh, the billable hours.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
This will free up funds for his hostile takeover of ILXor, we're all in for a big payout
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 July 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
doesn't sound very hostile
― mark s, Friday, 8 July 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
would he even be the worst poster?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 July 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 8 July 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
see you in the court of chancery bitch
The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.— Bret Taylor (@btaylor) July 8, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
Banning him would be bad for business and probably bad for their soon to be lawsuit somehow but god would it be funny.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
ok it is pretty funny that all of Trumpland is mad at him now too
― frogbs, Saturday, 9 July 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
He should pour billions of dollars into the Libertarians.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 9 July 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
But for an accident of birth we could have a Musk/Yang '24 campaign.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 9 July 2022 04:42 (one year ago) link
remember when everyone was excited about Kanye running in 2020 cuz it might peel off some of the Trump votes
I think Elon could actually do it
― frogbs, Saturday, 9 July 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
we'll never get to find out
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 9 July 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
jarndyce & jarndyce concludes when the money at issue is finally entirely eaten up by court costs
this might be a way down the road -- and it also might not be as far down as musk fronts it -- but it would be an amusing conclusion: EM fully beggars himself with years of litigation lol 🤞🏽
― mark s, Saturday, 9 July 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
smartest businessman in the world spends billions on not buying something
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 July 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
It’s notes you don’t play
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk: “I’m terminating my deal to buy Twitter.” Twitter to @eIonmusk pic.twitter.com/TcMLs7WcrO— High Yield Harry (@HighyieldHarry) July 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
Don’t see that happening
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
eion musk
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Well you got me, well done
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
I never recommend Twitter but today I do. Simply for reading the Elon Stan's who r insisting Twitter execs are going to jail for fraud lmao
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
emergency edition of levine: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-09/elon-s-out
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
This is a brilliant move by Elon Musk. First he made an offer Twitter couldn't refuse, with the caveat of Twitter cooperating with due diligence. Unsatisfied, Musk backs out. If Twitter sues, the discovery process will sink Twitter as sure as an iceberg sank the Titanic.— trpdo (@trpdo) July 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
god i wish somebody blindly loved me like that
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
something weirdly touching in their faith that he became the richest man in the world through being some sort of genius instead of incredible luck of birth & government subsidies.
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
To be fair he did put the board in an impossible position and has done damage that will take years to fix. Doesn’t really matter if that was his intent.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
trpdo_guy
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 9 July 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
The only self-proclaimed genius that lives up to the billing is GZA
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 July 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
No love for Kwame, the Boy Genius?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS7K2mybKBw
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Yiiikes
I'm sure there are legal/fiduciary reasons you have to say that, Bret. But if I was still on the board, I'd be asking if we can just let this whole ugly episode blow over. Hopefully that's the plan and this is ceremony.— Ev (@ev) July 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
Trump attacks Elon Musk at his rally in Alaska: "He's another bullshit artist."— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 10, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 10 July 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
game recognize game
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 10 July 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
They certainly both have their stans who are convinced every blunder is a 6d parcheesi move
― Vinnie, Sunday, 10 July 2022 06:25 (one year ago) link
the matter will be adjudicated by twitter poll
pic.twitter.com/JcLMee61wj— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
man he keeps owning the libs
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 July 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
vaguely wondering if musk timed his termination of the acquisition to draw attention away from the twins story
― 龜, Monday, 11 July 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
"Another" bullshit artist? A rare moment of self-awareness from TFG.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 11 July 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
xp not to draw comparisons to any political figures of late, but I feel like Elon's definitely leaned into the strategy of constantly doing some new bullshit to draw attention, and I don't think it's a calculated "don't look at that, look at this!" thing. just a never-ending stream of bullshit
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
tesla q2 results next week which he's been expectation managing about for a while now
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 July 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Monday, July 11, 2022 8:49 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
nah having a ton of kids with a bunch of different women is something he's very much proud of and I think he gets off on the fact that pictures of the women he's sleeping with are going around
that said he definitely has that need to make every news cycle revolve around him at all times, each new controversy is a new opportunity to defend yourself and piss off the haters, plus (like Trump) there's probably something to be said for his shitposting being the reason for at least some of his success
― frogbs, Monday, 11 July 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
If you give a narcissist some nookie
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 July 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
I feel like Elon's definitely leaned into the strategy of constantly doing some new bullshit to draw attention, and I don't think it's a calculated "don't look at that, look at this!" thing. just a never-ending stream of bullshit
― mh, Monday, July 11, 2022 10:18 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah now were into conversiongate
For improved quality of sleep, raise head of your bed by about 3” or 5cm and don’t eat 3 hours before bedtime— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 July 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk’s spaceship blew up today. pic.twitter.com/dVfNtqdIGq— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) July 12, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
Responding to the video on Twitter, Musk said: “Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage”.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
It's the money. It's always the money. It's never not the money.
entire thing was clever ruse toSELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5 BILLION of TESLA STOCK(w/plausible excuse for doing it)80% odds Elon pays $1B breakup fee + walks away with $7.5B liquidated20% spends $100M fighting litigationhonestly think he can “land rockets”but can’t fix ‘bots’? https://t.co/HTyOM3V36B— Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) July 8, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
Uh oh
NEW: Elon Musk just said “it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset” after Trump called Musk “another bullshit artist.”— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 12, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
simpsonsmonkeyfight.gif
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
the thing about not eating 3hrs before bedtime is actually pretty reasonable advice imo
(sorry)
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
So is raising the head of the bed if you find it difficult to breathe lying down. It improved my sleep quite a bit. Maybe he should stick to lifehacks
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
you can just have a good pillow. good advice for his twitter followers using a towel stuffed in a pillowcase
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 05:17 (one year ago) link
Much like the memes he posts, Musk just repeated good advice from others.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:26 (one year ago) link
I don't know how you could engineer a worse "fuck off Trump" tweet but I guess he has a team working on it
I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2022
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
the thing about not eating 3hrs before bedtime is actually pretty reasonable advice imoWhy 3” or 5cm though?
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link
3" is not the same as 5cm!
― micah, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
also no actual engineer would use cm as a unit of measurement. yuck
Depends how big your head is, I guess. If you're a normal human, 5 cm. If you're the Elephant Man, 3".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
“sail into the sunset”have i ever got cruise ideas for you two
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
Be launched into the sun
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
finally a practical use for those rockets!
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
― micah, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:02 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this explains the paneling in Teslas
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
It's the money. It's always the money. It's never not the money.― Elvis Telecom, Monday, July 11, 2022 11:31 PM (yesterday)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, July 11, 2022 11:31 PM (yesterday)
eh, as i have pointed out itt musk sold more than $8.5B in 2021 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/elon-musk-sells-another-963-million-of-tesla-stock.html
selling $8.5B and having to maybe pay $1B (post-tax) of that as damages? doesn't make sense
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
he prob just wanted to buy twitter for a minute
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
as long as tesla keeps making certain milestones, or he's able to juice the numbers to make it look like they have, he gets to buy tesla shares at $70
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
he prob just wanted to buy twitter for a minute― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:27 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:27 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
he wanted, for one minute, to buy Twitter, or wanted to own Twitter for just one minute, but what a minute.
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
Who doesn't want a bright shiny toy for a tiny portion of their net worth? It's like one of us looking at getting a new 4K TV.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
its like one of us looking at getting a new 4K TV, and we get a lot of attention for it (which is something we like)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
obviously the poop emoji made it into the complaint pic.twitter.com/kPgRONZFo7— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) July 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXfuCgWXwAYvy2i?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Twitter notes that Elon isn’t allowed to terminate the contract if he himself has breached his own obligations under the deal. And then lists six ways that he breached those obligations pic.twitter.com/rYEMQ5qj4C— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) July 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
yeah that seems like the ball game tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
No Twitter execs are going to jail when the court learns about da botz
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
Hes still got it pic.twitter.com/DJLIUIlIq1— Fentanyl Toucher (@lib_crusher) July 12, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
lmao trump piling on
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk Tries To Back Out Of Twitter Deal By Deleting App From Phone https://t.co/3Y6IJqxxn8 pic.twitter.com/WYL5yicKzJ— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 12, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Trump fanfic
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
trump gonna sire twins on a mar-a-lago functionary to own musk, calling this now
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
This is like the best reverse poison pill. Musk attempts an aggressive, obnoxious hostile takeover of Twitter, for no good reason, Twitter half calls the bluff and agrees to a high price, Musk agrees then compulsively fucks it up so, eventually, tries to back out of the deal, but Twitter is more or less forced to sue to ensure the sale goes through. End result: Twitter, which probably didn't want to be sold, sues a guy, who probably didn't really want to buy it, for deciding not to buy it. Twitter remains as is, Musk loses several billion/face. And now he's also made an enemy of Asshole, who doesn't let things slide, ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
he's also made an enemy of Asshole, who doesn't let things slide, ever.
Oh, I disagree, you are always welcome back in the fold if you ritually debase yourself, see Cruz, Ted
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I'd be the shadow of your dogJust to keep you by my siiiiide
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but if you debase yourself to get back in his good graces you've already lost, and besides, Asshole keeps the receipts and is ready to revert at a moment's notice. But it's a win-win for spectators, that's for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, July 12, 2022 6:20 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't think that's right. it says he can't *terminate* for a breach if he's currently breaching. but he can just sit around and not close and eventually the deal terminates on the drop-dead date.— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) July 13, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
as noted in the comments to that post:
if the Merger shall not have been consummated on or before 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on October 24, 2022 (as such date may be extended pursuant to the terms hereof, the “Termination Date”); provided, however, that (x) the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(b)(i) shall not be available to any party if the failure of such party to perform or comply with any of its obligations under this Agreement has been the principal cause of or resulted in the failure of the Closing to have occurred on or before such date...
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
We have accumulated a significant long position in shares of Twitter.Twitter’s complaint poses a credible threat to Musk’s empire.— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) July 13, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
previously
NEW FROM US: We Are Short TwitterMusk Holds All The Cards. We See a Significant Risk That The Twitter Deal Gets Repriced Lowerhttps://t.co/sHzwFfoXic $TWTR— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) May 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
The only plausible outcome here is he settles somewhere north of the billion termination fee but way south of the $45 million merger price, right? And I have no idea how one would value that. Maybe something along the line of an option price?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
levine's idea was ... well, this guy owns 10% of the company, so how about the break up fee is that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
Specific performance is such a hard to fathom remedy when you have a 45 billion dollar company, yet it seems pretty likely that the Chancery Court has the legal power to do it. What would happen if they did and then Elon just didn't have the financing and literally couldn't comply?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
In that sense they really have him over a barrel. And the dumb motherfucker put himself there. It's kind of amazing actually, he acted like he was playing them and then he played himself.
Def a self-inflicted wound... and his puported specialty is not social media software, it's somewhat old-fashioned hardware like rockets, cars and pneumatic tubes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
It's possible that Twitter settles for the previous merger price minus predicted court costs. I don't see it going lower than that.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
this is a tough one because I really don't want Elon Musk to own Twitter but I kinda do want him to be forced to buy it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:19 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
There's no way.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
Twitter will settle for less because they won't actually be able to get him to pay that much. He doesn't have $40+ billion sitting in bank accounts, and he doesn't have financing. And it's not that easy to just dump billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock in a short period of time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
he already has the financing in place, and even if he didnt hes the richest man in the world, he absolutely has the resources to get the money
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
the thing about twitter settling if its any substantial discount the shareholders might not like it and they have legal remedies available to them too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
I would like for the courtroom feed to be put on the television please
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
I don't think he had financing for the majority of it, and even what he has seems like it might be shakyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/musks-twitter-deal-threats-put-new-financing-on-ice-sources-say.html
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
that article kind seems like whatever but it really doesnt matter, theres no argument that he cant get the money
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
i mean he might not be able to get the money in a way thats nice for him but he did agree to buy twitter so
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Levine's latest newsletter:
Money Stuff: Twitter Still Wants Musk’s Money
Bloomberg
Programming note: Lol.
Oh ElonYesterday Twitter Inc. sued Elon Musk in Delaware to hold him to his agreement to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share. Twitter’s lawyers are hoping for a quick trial in September, so that the deal can close on schedule in October.[1] You can read Twitter’s complaint here. Here’s the gist of it:
Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away. This repudiation follows a long list of material contractual breaches by Musk that have cast a pall over Twitter and its business. Twitter brings this action to enjoin Musk from further breaches, to compel Musk to fulfill his legal obligations, and to compel consummation of the merger upon satisfaction of the few outstanding conditions.
If you have been following the Musk/Twitter fight, here at Money Stuff or otherwise, nothing in this complaint will be a huge surprise to you. On the other hand if you have been following the Musk/Twitter fight, it is probably because you are interested in that fight, and if you are interested in that fight then Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk will probably be of interest to you. So I guess we should go through the complaint.
The basic narrative beats will be familiar. Musk secretly bought a 9.1% stake in Twitter, violating securities laws in the process, then announced that stake and agitated to join Twitter’s board:
Starting in January 2022, Musk began purchasing Twitter stock. By March 14, 2022, he had secretly accumulated a substantial position — about 5% of the company’s outstanding shares. SEC regulations required that he disclose that position no later than March 24, 2022. Musk failed to disclose, and instead kept amassing Twitter stock with the market none the wiser. By April 1, 2022, Musk had accumulated about 9.1% of the company’s outstanding shares, still in secret. ...
Meanwhile, on March 26, 2022, Musk spoke with two Twitter directors, Jack Dorsey and Egon Durban, about the future of social media and the prospect of Musk’s joining the Twitter board. Soon after, Musk told Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Twitter board chair Bret Taylor that he had in mind three options relative to Twitter: join its board, take the company private, or start a competitor.
So he signed an agreement to join Twitter’s board, then changed his mind and backed out of the agreement. Instead, he sent Twitter a take-it-or-leave-it unsolicited offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share in cash, and tweeted some cryptic threats to launch a tender offer if Twitter’s board didn’t sell. He also lined up committed financing from banks. So Twitter’s board negotiated a merger agreement with Musk, and they signed it on April 25.
Then the stock market went down:
The risk of market decline, which was Musk’s alone to bear under the merger agreement, materialized. Soon after signing, the U.S. capital markets took a turn for the worse. Within a week after April 25, 2022, the date the merger agreement was executed, Musk elected to sell 9.8 million Tesla shares to finance the merger at prices as low as $822.68 per share, substantially below their pre-Twitter-signing price of $1,005 per share.
So Musk tried to find some pretext to get out of the deal:
Musk wanted an escape. But the merger agreement left him little room. With no financing contingency or diligence condition, the agreement gave Musk no out absent a Company Material Adverse Effect or a material covenant breach by Twitter. Musk had to try to conjure one of those.
And because he is Elon Musk, he chose the most ridiculous imaginable pretext:
What Musk alighted upon first was a representation in Twitter’s quarterly SEC filings over many consecutive years that based on its internal processes the company estimated “the average of false or spam accounts” on its platform “represented fewer than 5% of our mDAU during the quarter.” “Monetizable Daily Active Usage or Users,” or mDAU, is a non-GAAP metric Twitter employs to measure the number of people or organizations that use the Twitter platform. …
Twitter’s SEC disclosures regarding that process and its findings are heavily qualified. As described in the “Note Regarding Key Metrics” section of its filings, Twitter’s “calculation of mDAU is not based on any standardized industry methodology,” “may differ from estimates published by third parties or from similarly-titled metrics of our competitors,” and “may not accurately reflect the actual number of people or organizations using our platform.” As for the estimate of spam or false accounts as a percentage of mDAU, Twitter explains that it is based on “an internal review of a sample of accounts,” involves “significant judgment,” “may not accurately represent the actual number of [ false or spam] accounts,” and could be too low. Twitter has published the same qualified estimate — that fewer than 5% of mDAU are spam or false — for the last three years, and published similar estimates for five years preceding that.
Musk was well aware when he signed the merger agreement that spam accounted for some portion of Twitter’s mDAU, and well aware of Twitter’s qualified disclosures. Spam was one of the main reasons Musk cited, publicly and privately, for wanting to buy the company. On April 9, 2022, the day Musk said he wanted to buy Twitter rather than join its board, he texted Taylor that “purging fake users” from the platform had to be done in the context of a private company because he believed it would “make the numbers look terrible.” At a public event on April 14, Musk said eliminating spam bots would be a “top priority” for him in running Twitter. On April 21, days before the deal was inked, he declared: “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!” Musk echoed that same sentiment in the press release announcing the merger on April 25, stating that upon acquiring Twitter he would prioritize “defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”
Yet Musk made his offer without seeking any representation from Twitter regarding its estimates of spam or false accounts. He even sweetened his offer to the Twitter board by expressly withdrawing his prior diligence condition.
On May 5, 2022, Musk announced that he had raised an additional $7.1 billion of equity commitments for the deal from 19 investors — including $1 billion from Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, $800 million from Sequoia Capital, $400 million from Andreessen Horowitz, and $375 million from a subsidiary of the Qatari sovereign wealth fund. Musk’s investors, all sophisticated market participants, made these commitments in the face of Musk’s public statements regarding spam accounts, and knowing he had forsworn diligence. Musk made his plans to address spam a key part of his pitch: As Andreessen Horowitz’s co-CEO stated in publicly announcing the investment, the firm thought Musk was “perhaps the only person in the world” who could “fix” Twitter’s alleged “difficult issue[ ]” with “bots.”
Musk announced that he wanted to buy Twitter because he thought there were too many spam bots. He sent in an unsolicited offer to buy Twitter, did no due diligence at all about spam bots, and asked Twitter for no representations about spam bots. He imagined that there were lots of spam bots, and he was eager to “defeat” them. And then the stock market went down, so now he is pretending that he was tricked into buying Twitter because they went around lying to him about how few spam bots there were. This pretext is bad:
Musk’s exit strategy is a model of hypocrisy. One of the chief reasons Musk cited on March 31, 2022 for wanting to buy Twitter was to rid it of the “[ c ]rypto spam” he viewed as a “major blight on the user experience.” Musk said he needed to take the company private because, according to him, purging spam would otherwise be commercially impractical. In his press release announcing the deal on April 25, 2022, Musk raised a clarion call to “defeat[ ] the spam bots.” But when the market declined and the fixed-price deal became less attractive, Musk shifted his narrative, suddenly demanding “verification” that spam was not a serious problem on Twitter’s platform, and claiming a burning need to conduct “diligence” he had expressly forsworn.
But it’s the pretext he chose, and he started tweeting about the deal being “on hold” because of the spam bot issue. He tweeted this “without any advance notice to the company.” Twitter’s executives found out the deal was on hold the same way we did, by reading Twitter, if in fact any of them read Twitter.
Twitter’s chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal, then tweeted an explanation of how Twitter estimates its bot numbers, and Musk replied with a poop emoji. You had better believe that poop emoji is in Twitter’s complaint:
If this case does not settle and ends in a landmark Delaware Chancery Court decision, that poop emoji had better be in the opinion. All the corporate law casebooks had better have that poop emoji.
In addition to being in obvious bad faith, this pretext is just completely false. In weeks of complaining about bots, Musk has never produced the tiniest sliver of evidence that Twitter’s estimates are wrong in any way:
Nor can defendants show that Twitter has made any representation or collection of representations the inaccuracy of which is “reasonably likely to result in” a Company Material Adverse Effect. They do not even try. Notwithstanding that defendants have received mountains of information regarding Twitter’s processes, far beyond what they are entitled to under the merger agreement, their termination notice asserts only that “ [ p]reliminary analysis by Mr. Musk’s advisors” of the vast data set Twitter provided to Musk after signing “causes Mr. Musk to strongly believe” Twitter’s reported estimates have been inaccurate. Ex. 3 at 6. Musk’s claimed “belie[ f]” is of course no proof of misrepresentation, much less of a Company Material Adverse Effect — which can be established only by clearing an extraordinarily high bar that is nowhere in sight here.
Meanwhile Musk’s lawyers hit on a slightly better pretext for getting out of the deal: In the merger agreement, Twitter agreed to provide information to Musk that he reasonably requests “for any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the” merger. So Musk’s team just sent in more and more ridiculous requests for information about spam bots:
On May 21, 2022, Twitter hosted a third diligence session with Musk’s team and yet again discussed Twitter’s processes for calculating mDAU and estimates of spam or false accounts. Twitter also provided a detailed summary document describing the process the company uses to estimate spam as a percentage of mDAU.
Defendants responded with increasingly invasive and unreasonable requests. And rather than use “reasonable best efforts to minimize any disruption to the respective business of the Company and its Subsidiaries that may result from requests for access,” Ex. 1 § 6.4, defendants repeatedly demanded immediate responses to their access requests. The scope of the requests and the deadlines defendants imposed on their satisfaction were unreasonable, disruptive to the business, and far outside the bounds of Section 6.4.
Twitter nonetheless continued to work with Musk to try to respond to the requests. It extended an ongoing offer to engage with Musk and his representatives regarding its calculation of mDAU, and held several more diligence sessions through the end of May. It also provided detailed written responses, including custom reporting, to his escalating requests for information. …
The June 17 letter further contained a litigation-style discovery demand for information Musk asserted was needed to investigate “the truthfulness of Twitter’s representations to date regarding its active user base, and the veracity of its methodologies for determining that user base.” It broadly demanded board materials relating to mDAU and spam, as well as emails, text messages, and other communications about those topics — highly unusual requests in the context of good faith efforts toward completion of any merger transaction, and absurd in the context of this one, which has no diligence condition. Musk propounded these unreasonable requests and touted his contrived narrative about Twitter’s methodologies, all without ever identifying a basis for questioning the veracity of Twitter’s methodologies or the accuracy of its SEC disclosures.
The purpose of these requests was certainly not to work toward closing of the merger, which was the only reason that Musk was allowed to demand information. It wasn’t even really to understand how many spam bots Twitter has. The purpose of these requests was to be so unreasonable — to ask for so much information, and for sensitive competitive and user information that Twitter couldn’t give Musk[2] — that Twitter would say no, and then Musk could say “aha, you didn’t give me the information I asked for, I can walk away.” You can tell because Musk ignored the information that Twitter did give him:
Agrawal and Twitter CFO Ned Segal had been trying to set up a meeting with Musk to discuss the company’s process in estimating the prevalence of spam or false accounts. On June 17, 2022, Segal proposed a discussion with Musk and his team to “cover spam as a % of DAU.” Musk responded that he had a conflict at the proposed time. When Agrawal sought to reengage on the matter, Musk agreed to a time on June 21, but then bowed out and asked Agrawal and Segal to speak with his team not about the spam estimation process but “the pro forma financials for the debt.” …
Musk exhibited little interest in understanding Twitter’s process for estimating spam accounts that went into the company’s disclosures. Indeed, in a June 30 conversation with Segal, Musk acknowledged he had not read the detailed summary of Twitter’s sampling process provided back in May. Once again, Segal offered to spend time with Musk and review the detailed summary of Twitter’s sampling process as the Twitter team had done with Musk’s advisors. That meeting never occurred despite multiple attempts by Twitter.
Musk simply doesn’t care how many spam bots Twitter has, or how it estimates that number; he just wants to get out of the deal, and endlessly asking for more information is a way to manufacture an excuse to get out of the deal. Twitter argues that that can’t possibly work:
Twitter has provided defendants far more information than they are entitled to under the merger agreement. Section 6.4 serves the narrow purpose of giving Parent reasonable access to information necessary to close the merger. It does not give defendants a broad right to conduct post-signing due diligence of a kind they specifically forswore pre-signing. Much less does it give Musk the right to hunt for evidence supporting a bogus misrepresentation theory developed to try to torpedo the deal.
Musk has one more pretext for terminating the deal, which is that Twitter supposedly did not ask him for permission to fire a couple of senior employees and freeze hiring. One problem with this pretext is that it’s not true:
While erring on the side of seeking consent, Twitter has continued to operate in the ordinary course respecting routine management decisions, including decisions concerning termination and hiring of individual employees. In early May, Twitter let go of two executives and announced it would be “pausing most hiring and backfills” as positions became vacant. Musk’s counsel was notified of those decisions at the time and raised no objection.
Another problem is that the contract allowed Twitter to fire people without Musk’s consent[3]:
Twitter specifically negotiated for the right to terminate employees, including executives, without first having to obtain Musk’s consent. Musk had notice back in early May of many of the actions about which he now complains for the first time. He did not object then or at any point prior to his purported termination notice on July 8, because there was no violation.
A third problem is that it’s what Musk wanted:
These decisions aligned with Musk’s own stated priorities. Days after signing, on April 28, 2022, Musk texted Twitter’s board chair to say his “biggest concern is headcount and expense growth.” In a meeting with Twitter management on May 6, 2022, Musk again asserted that the company’s headcount was high and encouraged management to consider ways to cut costs. Musk repeated these themes in conversations with Agrawal and Segal throughout May and June. On June 16, Musk held a virtual meeting with Twitter employees. Asked what he was “thinking about layoffs at Twitter,” Musk responded that “costs exceed the revenue,” “so there would have to be some rationalization of headcount and expenses.” In his final conversation with Segal before purporting to terminate, Musk expressed his concern about Twitter’s expenses and asked why Twitter was not considering more aggressive cost cutting. And, as noted, Musk has refused to approve — or even discuss — Twitter’s proposed retention programs for key employees.
Twitter’s lawyers also point out that Musk himself constantly violates his obligations under the merger agreement. The merger agreement says that Musk can tweet about the deal, “so long as such Tweets do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives,” but of course “since signing the merger agreement, Musk has repeatedly disparaged Twitter and the deal, creating business risk for Twitter and downward pressure on its share price.” After a due diligence meeting in May where Twitter “explained, among other things, that its spam estimation process entails daily sampling for a total set of approximately 9,000 accounts per quarter that are manually reviewed,” “Musk Tweeted publicly a misrepresentation that Twitter’s sample size for spam estimates was just 100.”[4] And then:
The narrow point of this argument is that “the merger agreement provides that if defendants are in material breach of their own obligations under the merger agreement, they cannot exercise any termination right they might otherwise have.” (See section 8.1(d).) So when Musk sent a letter terminating the merger agreement, it didn’t work, because he was breaching his own agreements right and left. So the agreement is un-terminated and he has to keep working to close the deal.
But there is also a broader point to this argument. Ultimately what Twitter wants here is a judgment of specific performance, “ordering defendants to specifically perform their obligations under the merger agreement and consummate the closing in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement.” The merger agreement says Twitter can get that judgment, but it’s not up to the merger agreement, it’s up to the judge. And it is a somewhat drastic remedy, forcing an unwilling buyer to pay $44 billion for a company that he doesn’t want. It is an “equitable” remedy, and a court will not order it unless “the balance of equities tips in favor of the party seeking performance.” If it feels unfair to a judge to order Musk to close, she’s not going to order him to close.
The fact that Musk has been acting in transparently bad faith all along — that he started this process by violating SEC disclosure rules, that he agreed to join Twitter’s board and then backed out of that agreement, that “bots” were the reason he wanted to buy Twitter before they became his excuse for getting out of the deal, that he has disparaged Twitter and its executives from the time he signed the deal, that he violated his nondisclosure obligations and then boasted about it on Twitter — these things are not all relevant as a legal matter (some of them are), but they are as an equitable matter. They make it clear that Musk does not care about contracts, that he ignores the law, that he will not live up to his word. The point is to make the judge angry at him, so that she will make him do what he promised to do.
I joked above about this case turning into a landmark Delaware Chancery Court decision, but honestly I don’t see it? We have not yet seen Musk’s reply, and perhaps I am missing something, but so far this case seems very simple to me. We talked yesterday about the DecoPac Holdings Inc. case, decided last year by Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick. A private equity buyer agreed to buy a company, the market went down, the buyer manufactured pretexts to get out of the deal and blow up its financing, and the target sued for specific performance. The buyer’s pretexts there were not as laughable as Musk’s here, and the buyer there did not go around tweeting about how gleefully it was violating the terms of the merger agreement, but the judge ordered it to close anyway. “This court has not hesitated to order specific performance in cases of this nature,” she wrote, and she didn’t.
But that case was a private equity firm buying a cake-decorating company from another private equity firm. The seller was economically motivated, and the buyer was economically motivated, and the market went down and they fought over who had to eat the loss. The buyer lost and had to close the deal, so now it owns the cake-decorating company. And presumably it will run it as well as it can, so that it can make as much money as possible decorating cakes. The buyer, a private equity firm, is not mad at the cakes; it is not going to smash them all out of pique. It’s just business.
This case is a little different. Musk did want to buy Twitter for some reason? I think?[5] It is possible that his reason was to make a lot of money, but he specifically disclaimed that, and his plans to make a lot of money seemed pretty half-baked. Instead his reasons for wanting to own Twitter were like … pique? Politics? Free speech? Getting more publicity for himself? Making the experience of using Twitter more pleasant for him personally? Fighting bots? Adding an edit button? Diversifying his meme-lord portfolio? Improving the fate of humanity?
Meanwhile Twitter’s board quickly agreed to sell because it wanted the money for shareholders. Back in the simpler times of earlier May, I was critical of this decision. I wrote:
A lot of people think of Twitter as a public utility, a public trust, “the town square,” a company with an important social mission that many of its users and employees and Elon Musk care about deeply. And its CEO and board of directors essentially can’t bring themselves to talk about it. When employees asked him about what was best for the company, Agrawal could talk only about the shareholders. Elon Musk is not at all embarrassed to say that Twitter has an important public mission, which is why he’s buying it. But its current management can’t say that, which is why they’re selling it.
I want to be clear here that I am not saying that it was a bad decision, for Twitter’s product or users, to sell to Elon Musk. I have no idea; that’s not the point. The point is that the board seems to have put almost no weight on these questions. (Except Jack Dorsey, who does seem to have thought that Musk would run Twitter better than he did, and who seems happy about the sale.) I have written this before, but the basic problem with Twitter’s management and board of directors seems to be that they do not care about Twitter, as a company or as a product, so they are left to care about shareholders. This seems bad for everyone, including shareholders.
Well but it’s worse now isn’t it? Back in May, at least some people thought that Elon Musk would be good for Twitter as a product, a company, a town square. Now he is on a very public mission to destroy Twitter, get rid of employees, drive away advertisers and spark regulatory investigations. He wants to “trash the company” and “disrupt its operations,” as Twitter’s own lawyers say, as they demand that he buy the company. Seems like a bad guy to own the company!
As a matter of shareholder value, Twitter’s efforts here are unassailable: If Musk is hellbent on destroying Twitter, he should really pay its current shareholders $54.20 per share in cash first. But if you think of Twitter as something other than a pot of cash for shareholders — if you care about its employees or its users or its public mission — then the last thing you would want would be for this guy to own it.
One can sympathize with Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. “I’m sure there are legal/fiduciary reasons” that the board has to push Musk to close, he tweeted. “But if I was still on the board, I’d be asking if we can just let this whole ugly episode blow over. Hopefully that’s the plan and this is ceremony.” I mean, no: The shareholders definitely want their $54.20 rather than nothing, and the board really does have to try hard to get it for them. Also it is bad to let Musk go around destroying public companies on a whim without any consequences; Twitter’s board has sort of a public-service obligation to try to make him pay. Still, Williams has a point. He co-founded Twitter, presumably he likes Twitter, and now Elon Musk is trying to destroy it, and Twitter’s board is trying to force him to follow through. What is the good outcome here?
You could imagine a fantasy solution. A judge orders Musk to close on the deal but put Twitter in a public trust where he can’t meddle with it (or tweet). A judge says “never mind the damages cap in the merger agreement, I’m awarding $40 billion of punitive damages.” Other dumb stuff. We talked on Monday about the realistic outcomes: The judge will let Musk off the hook for $1 billion (or less), or the judge will order him to close the deal and buy Twitter, or Musk and Twitter will settle for him buying Twitter at a lower price, or they’ll settle for him walking away at a higher price. The last of these seems the best to me — Twitter’s shareholders are compensated, Musk is held to his word, he doesn’t actually own Twitter — but it requires Musk to agree to settle. And to get him to settle, I do think Twitter needs to convince him that they will otherwise get specific performance and make him close the deal. Nobody wants that, I don’t think (I hope!), but they have to fight for it anyway.
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[1] Disclosure: Twitter’s lawyers include Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. I worked there, uh, 15 years ago now. I suppose this creates an appearance of bias, but in my defense I have taken a pretty consistent line on the Musk/Twitter deal for months now, and they hired Wachtell on Friday.
[2] In particular, the merger agreement says that Twitter does not have to give Musk any information that would, in its “reasonable judgment,” “cause significant competitive harm to the Company or its Subsidiaries if the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are not consummated.” As Twitter’s lawyers point out: ”On May 27, 2022, Twitter responded by noting its weeks-long active engagement with Musk’s team and explaining that some of defendants’ requests sought disclosure of highly sensitive information and data that would be difficult to furnish and would expose Twitter to competitive harm if shared. After all, Musk had said he would do one of three things with Twitter: sit on its board, buy it, or build a competitor. He had already accepted and then rejected the first option, and was plotting a pretextual escape from the second. Musk’s third option — building a competitor to Twitter — remained.” It will be pretty insane if Musk gets out of his deal to buy Twitter and then builds a Twitter competitor.
[3] Technically what happened here is that the original draft of the merger agreement that Musk’s lawyers sent to Twitter “would have deemed the hiring and firing of an employee at the level of vice president or above a presumptive violation of the ordinary course covenant absent Musk’s consent,” Twitter’s lawyers crossed that out, and Musk agreed to the revised version. This is not *definitive proof* that Twitter was allowed to fire senior employees without his consent — Musk can still argue that firing these employees was not “in the ordinary course of business” — but it is helpful for Twitter that it was specifically negotiated.
[4] Hmm. A “misrepresentation”? A quarter is like 90 days, so daily sampling for 9,000 accounts per quarter would seem to be about 100 accounts per day. I can see his point here. Their point, though, is that he’s not supposed to disclose what they tell him publicly, and he’s especially not supposed to brag about breaching his confidentiality agreement.
[5] Maybe his plan all along was to pretend to buy Twitter, ruin its business and run away? That seems pretty far-fetched, but on the other hand Musk keeps tweeting memes suggesting that it’s true? That this was all a galaxy-brain plan to expose Twitter’s bot problem? Okay.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Weird that TSLA shares are up, you'd think the market would be concerned about him having to sell more shares
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Twitter will settle for less because they won't actually be able to get him to pay that much. He doesn't have $40+ billion sitting in bank accounts, and he doesn't have financing. And it's not that easy to just dump billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock in a short period of time.― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:33 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:33 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
right. this seems like one of those "if you owe the bank $1000 you have a problem, if you owe the bank $100m then the bank has a problem" situations.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
i mean maybe the judge will let him off because hes a special rich person but the idea that he cannot pay is ludicrous
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
it’s funny that he wanted to buy twitter to fix its bot problem and now he says he won’t buy twitter because it has a bot problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
He wanted to buy Twitter because he's a pampered rich-boy dickhead who's about 1/8 as smart as he and his cultists think he is, with an ego bigger than one of his rockets. And I must return to the idea that he's only "The Richest Man In The World!!!"(TM) on paper, because Tesla is grotesquely overvalued by Musk sycophants and "the market." If that balloon ever really pops, he'll be about as liquid as me.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
ummm...what
Elon Musk's dad, 76, confirms secret second child — with his stepdaughter https://t.co/0ml4OmBPTD pic.twitter.com/sH0A4Hz6Hv— Page Six (@PageSix) July 14, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
actually you know what mods just delete that post
The Musk patriarch, 76, welcomed the baby girl with Jana, 35, back in 2019 — but only confirmed the news on Wednesday, bragging to the Sun: “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.”
sounds like someone
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
xpost no, just delete Elon. t hx.
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
https://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/john-huston-chinatown.jpg"The Musk patriarch, 76 ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
It led to a bitter falling out between Errol and Elon, with the Tesla CEO furious that his father had impregnated his stepsister.
Ahh, so he does have some boundaries
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
Seems like the most likely explanation is just that he wanted to buy it but then the market turned and he felt like he was way overpaying so he backed out and looked for any excuse, one of them being the bot thing.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
Also that's fucking gross
So... Woody Elon
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
elon musk woody allen
About 1,270,000 results (0.49 seconds)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
I mean that's a little of an unfair joke, Elon is pretty clearly taking the anti-impregnating-your-stepdaughter side here
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 July 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
Only because he had likely been led to understand that she was off the table.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 14 July 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
he has zero stepdaughters last I’ve checked, don’t know how we can ascertain his true stance
― mh, Friday, 15 July 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
Looking mighty vat-grown...
ayo fanboys, come pick up your mans pic.twitter.com/8tDeytQ8ln— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) July 18, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 18 July 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
bodyshaming sucks
― sean gramophone, Monday, 18 July 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 July 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
Allergic Reaction - The FSAI announced the recall of a batch of Dunnes Stores White Sub Rolls because it was mispacked with Dunnes Stores Floury White Baps. The bap product contains milk and eggs which... Food Poisoning https://t.co/DpKDmRaGYp #allergicreaction pic.twitter.com/mX8rKGM9rJ— Iwaspoisoned.com (@iwaspoisoned_) July 18, 2022
― mh, Monday, 18 July 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
lol the guy hosing him down
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 July 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
― Clay, Monday, 18 July 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
"Moisten the front"
― rob, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
Fwiw the tweeter did say that it isn't okay to body shame people, but that for Elon Musk it is okay. And tbh, I agree.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Something about his shape in profile reminded me of something, and then I realized it was the disproportioned protagonist from Altered Beast:https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/screen/full/7/1/6/160716.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 July 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
whiter shade of pale
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 July 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
That's the part that amazed me. Not that he's fat — of course he's fat, he's a 52-year-old pothead. But he looks like he lives in a damp, lightless underground cave! I mean, does he dig the tunnels for the Boring Company himself?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
50% of my genes come from Scotland, 25% from Wales and 25% from wherever Russian Mennonites started out in Germany but even I'm not that pale.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
kinda wish i had not a single follicle of body hair
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 July 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
"A larval Baron Harkonnen" LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
grimes had sex multiple times with this person, quite alarming— Hard Drum Will Never Die, But You Will (@caostrofia) July 18, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
lol the guy hosing him down― lag∞n, Monday, July 18, 2022 3:51 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, July 18, 2022 3:51 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ari Emmanuel!
― jaymc, Monday, 18 July 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
o shit lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 July 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
truly depraved people
oh god
― mh, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
_lol the guy hosing him down― lag∞n, Monday, July 18, 2022 3:51 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink_Ari Emmanuel!
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYCoxY6WIAANj9w?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
based on those photos I'd say that Musk is definitely more than 5% butt
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
I'd say buy at 5%, because he's always going to be a bigger ass.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
don't threaten me with a good time, business insider
Please. Please. I am begging God. pic.twitter.com/c4C2XR8NNG— Zombie That Only Eats Cops (@MaxKnightley) July 19, 2022
― built like a kit malthouse (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 09:50 (one year ago) link
they cant touch him he has studied the teachings of JOHN McAFEE
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
Someone said his torso looks like the result of taking steroids without doing any lifting.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
(The Twitter uptick is at least in part because the judge decided on a trial in October. Twitter had asked for September, Musk for February I think - both to set the framing that this a complicated matter requiring a lot of experts and discovery to determine an accurate bot count, and because his financing runs out in April)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 10:59 (one year ago) link
The market clearly thinks he's going to pay more than the billion fee to get out of this, which I also think.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
yeah the fact that the judge set the trial date early implies that his marketing powers do not extend to the delaware court of chancery
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
Chancery does not fuck around with mergers, they move fast
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
what is the over/under on how many times Elon shouts out "OBJECTION!" from his seat in the court room, like he's on Law and Order in a criminal trial
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
as a client he'd be stopped after the first in favour of counsel, please please PLEASE let him be representing himself lol
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
wont even be there too busy getting hosed down
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
yeah, might be the first case of a party testifying from low earth orbit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
you know what the Cybertruck's shape makes sense to me now
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 July 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
The amount of attention on me has gone supernova, which super sucks. Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks :(Will try my best to be heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
...like shutting up?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Only time he’s heads down focused is when he’s sucking his own dick.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 25 July 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
super sucking
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
The fucking frowny face what a dipshit loser this guy is
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Like you’re the richest man on the planet with an army of sycophants who will defend literally everything you do and instead you’re crying on Twitter like a 9th grader who farted in class and got caught
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
Awwww poor widdle baby
Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh)— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Yeah but when Elon farts it creates so many clicks, it’s not like the other boys :(
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
"what if you gave an 18-year old incel $200 billion" is the worst episode of Black Mirror.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
An incel with kids all over town
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
that "boo-hoo everyone's paying attention to me and i hate it" bs is such transparent reverse psych/br'er rabbit dickery and i am much too clever to take the bait
― CYANIDE MUKBANG (cat), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
o no! well at least the bait had the delicious flavor of empty schadenfreude
― CYANIDE MUKBANG (cat), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
the evil capitalist from 100 years ago with the top hat and cigar - at least that guy had some dignity. being ruled by a redditor is just fucking humiliating
― Left, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
"Haven't impregnated an subordinate in ages (sigh)"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
He's bitching about the attention he's getting for having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Sergei Brin.
In other words, this is all so much humblebragging. I hope his dick falls off.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
while he is obvs a huge attention whore i dont doubt he has regrets about some of his recent press, his q score has suffered
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
His p score remains on pin though (heyo)
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
lol that was supposed to be “point” that’s what I get for trying to be a smart ass while tipsy
I was joking at work yesterday that in this workplace, we don't talk about two things: Tesla stock, and how many children Elon Musk has at this point in time
both are just arbitrary numbers tbh
― mh, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
many people are following this
https://twitter.com/chancery_daily
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 July 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
lmao compelling him to buy twitter would be a violation of his rights under the 13th amendment https://www.barrons.com/articles/twitter-musk-specific-performance-thirteenth-amendment-51659101363
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 July 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
smh body shaming
Elon Musk's disdain for his dad probably just intensified, after the 76-year-old Musk patriarch essentially called his son fat and said he's not proud of him. https://t.co/VIuzOC5i7w— TMZ (@TMZ) August 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 August 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
finalFINAL202207311829.jpg pic.twitter.com/uV2Lc4XUoQ— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) July 31, 2022
― mh, Monday, 1 August 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
G’day @elonmusk, I’m a reporter at @abcnews that’s been covering the discovery of @SpaceX debris in Australia. Just wondering, is anyone from your team coming to collect it?Here’s a pic of one of the pieces👇 pic.twitter.com/NcJeuigQzx— Adriane Reardon (@adrianereardon) August 3, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
"Clearly this is not going to turn into a horrible diplomatic event”sad crowd: “awwwww.”
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
truly the billionaire we deserve
I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 August 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
i was just down at the gas station and overheard two guys (pickup truck owners) discussing twitters bot percentage, they both agreed it was probably more than five percent
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 August 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
I hereby challenge Elon Musk to a debate that Tesla should accept Dogecoin for cars! :)— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) August 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 August 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
how good are teslas pic.twitter.com/nPDUK9ZHik— matt (@mattDCLXVI) August 5, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
oop
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 August 2022 03:03 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Elon Musk sells 3.3 million Tesla shares, worth over $4.3 billion.— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) August 10, 2022
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
"worth"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
*MUSK SELLS AT LEAST 7.92M TESLA SHARES WORTH $6.89B: FILINGS(yes it is Tuesday)— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) August 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
It’s 2022, and Teslas still aren’t stopping for children. pic.twitter.com/GGBh6sAYZS— Taylor Ogan (@TaylorOgan) August 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
This looks like it's worth a read
“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @ParisMarx @Gizmodo https://t.co/qj5WyO4oGR— Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) August 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link
the guy who will save the environment
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Is there anyone in the Bay Area with a child who can run in front of my car on Full Self-Driving Beta to make a point? I promise I won't run them over... (will disengage if needed) (this is a serious request)— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) August 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Lmao
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Narrator: He did not make a point.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Parody so good you can't tell it's parody
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
2016: the revolutionary $35,000 Tesla Model 3 is going to bring EV ownership within reach of the mass market, making zero-emission mobility truly affordable.2022: the average Tesla costs over $13k more than the average Lexus, and roughly the same amount as a Mercedes or BMW. pic.twitter.com/U2osrEoAoA— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) August 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
Grimes Announces Plans To Get Vampire Teeth, Elf Ears
https://www.stereogum.com/2196423/grimes-announces-plans-to-get-vampire-teeth-elf-ears/news/
exciting time to be alive
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
elon: hark my elf my little nightwalkergrimes: hello
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
She doesn’t have them already?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
Guess i should have read the first sentence
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Grimes X Mortiis collab when
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Lmao man utd truly the Twitter of football, he has a type
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
Congrats to the five people in the purple circle—which I believe is empty by 2020. You have the support of Elon Musk.Should be really good for fundraising purposes! Not a lot of competition.(Map is ideological overlap in Congress from here: https://t.co/UXPWTwcx7z) https://t.co/6y4w3cN3zZ pic.twitter.com/C1gSUyY8Se— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) August 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 17, 2022
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
^^^^
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
you gotta tip your cap lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk has (jokingly?) said he is buying Manchester United.But $MANU is traded. Here's where it gets weird.$MANU gets 0 options activity. Two days ago, someone did 450k, sustained volume, in $14 calls expiring 31 days, 3500% increase in volume.Planned joke on markets? pic.twitter.com/oYX4iLRyaq— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
elon musk: what the heck is goin on
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
as usual I suspect the answer is "too much coke"
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
lmao did he just hype up a pump and dump again
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 12:40 (one year ago) link
This is what he's reduced to when the drugs don't work anymore.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
Alternately: this is basically drugs when yr a billionaire
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
why go to mars when you could buy your own offshore research pharmaceutical lab to cook up something that makes you think you've reached mars, is my take
― mh, Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
That is kind of the plot of a couple of PK Dick stories.
― earlnash, Friday, 19 August 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
― mh, Friday, 19 August 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
if PDK were around today I bet twitter would hate him
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 August 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Philip D Kick
― symsymsym, Friday, 19 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Many A+ comments
Cybertruck is truly mind blowing in person. This will be the best product by Tesla so far. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/f4BCTuJa4W— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) August 21, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
in the spirit of 2022, the era of just being dumb, i am doubling down and slightly distorting my previous approval of the cybertruk concept and now say that yes, sometimes things can be so bad that they are good, and that's what i meant all along
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
That’s what I don’t understand. When I see an H1 go down the road I don’t think OMG that car is SO SEXY and BEAUTIFUL! It’s not a girls car… When I see an H1 or the CT I think wow that’s badass!!! 🔥🔥🔥What’s with dudes trying to make there trucks look pretty?— Jason Bridges (@Jason_lloydd) August 21, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 22 August 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
there’s a guy with a healthy collection of truck nuts
― packed plastic baskets (cat), Monday, 22 August 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
only fifteen thousand us dollars to unlock the feature that lets you chill out while yr tesla autonomously mows down children, cyclists, animals and more
Elon Musk is jacking up the price of Tesla’s unfinished autonomous vehicle software yet again, an added feature that itself is starting to approach the cost of a typical small hatchback. https://t.co/xI8kRRlhh4— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) August 22, 2022
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
guy is absolutely relentless in fleecing his marks, such distain
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
That photo there makes him look like a Bond villain.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
and rightly so
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
Bond villain or, I dunno, asshole conductor who stopped the performance because someone was talking.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
A conductor who is legendary for his temper tantrums but can't conduct his way out of a paper bag.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
careful or you might ink a show deal with amazon
― look like Farley smoke like Marley (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 August 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Would watch. Unless you are actually describing the premise of "Mozart in the Jungle," in which case, did not watch.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 August 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
(still laughing at this one)
When the Moon Patrol buggy fucked the Peavey logo. https://t.co/Peyjx6v43i— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) August 22, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/qECQXkl5TE— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) August 22, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
I think these two might buy it pic.twitter.com/Muf6bAbPd5— Tin Foil Awards (@TinFoilAwards) August 21, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 August 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
I guess I've always labored under the misapprehension that vehicles in post-apocalyptic cinema looked that way out of practical necessity (limited materials available, must be able to cross the wastelands without being hopelessly ravaged by mutants, etc.) when I guess everyone just looted the warehouses upon warehouses filled with unsold Cybertrucks.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 August 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Tesla Steering Yokes Are Disintegrating Before 30,000 Miles
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
probably just the Andromeda Strain mutating again, def nothing wrong with Tesla's scientific and product engineering genius
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
we made the shittiest possible steering wheel but dont worry its broken
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Still not sure how the yoke complies with regulations
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
JFC
A variety of theories have been put forth by the Twitter community to explain the issue. Many posters quickly turned on the owners, accusing them of causing the problems through their personal vices.
Meet Kevin was facetiously accused of spilling beer in the interior, with a Twitter user hunting down a mugshot from his DUI arrest. Posters scrutinized images and criticized jf.okay in particular for excessive fingernail pressure on the yoke. Others spuriously asserted that excessive alcohol consumption could cause the problem via ethanol leaching out of the skin. Less cutting theories put the blame on hand sanitizers or lotions degrading the coating on the yoke.
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
I forgot that Teslas have a fucking YOKE steering apparatus. I feel like that’s a tidy micro summary of everything that’s wrong with this dude’s hubristic “engineering genius”.
― circa1916, Thursday, 25 August 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
More like Yeet steering, am I right?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 August 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
excessive alcohol consumption could cause the problem via ethanol leaching out of the skin
lol these fuckin' nerds and the mental gymnastics to defend their god king Musk
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Imagine being so drunk all the time that you can literally dissolve plastics with your hands.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
I just call that "Friday"
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
I have had a tendency to wear down car trim just by my touch.
In the first case, it was the passenger "oh shit bar" on an ex-girlfriend's brand-new Subaru, which I had caused noticeable erosion on after just a few months of being her only semi-regular passenger.
In my own car, I wore down the steering wheel padding all the way down to the base plastic. This took several years of use as a daily driver. It took me a while before I noticed it was visibly wearing away, so I'm not sure when it started.
Also, I may have been more drunk than not during the time periods of greatest wear. Unknown if this is relevant.
Anyone else notice this in your non-Tesla cars? Not to apologize for Musk or anything.
― peace, man, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
I mean, there is some noticeable wear marks on the steering wheel and arm rest on the car I've driven for 10 years, but absolutely nothing I would consider actual "erosion".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
the humorous minutiae people pretend to give a fuck about when defending their cult leader.
i bet that nerd had never even thought the words "fingernail pressure" in the same sentence before until his tweet.
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
wouldn't be talking about other people "squeezing too hard" bro
You must be squeezing too hard. Slow down and you won't have this issue. 😉— kobiyashi.eth 🥷🍔🔺🐵 (@kobiyashi_eth) August 23, 2022
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
This is being nit picky.— Brent Ericson 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@brent_ericson) August 24, 2022
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
spinaltap.jpg
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbBNet6UUAED5oE?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
lol the guy who says "that happens to all cars" is a suspended account now
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Here, you take the wheel.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
some dumbass in that (two year old) thread also posted articles of other cars recalled for steering wheel "coming off" issues to point out that it happens to other cars, but it's like, no, you moron, THOSE CALLS WERE RECALLED, Tesla wasn't!
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
*cars
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
There is a Permanently Attached luxury steering wheel option, just add $4400 to the MSRP
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Tesla, hire this man
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/87c8f74ea777deab505c309892933de151601bf8/67_20_606_363/master/606.jpg?width=620&quality=85&fit=max&s=f8d4012c93ac9460cc24bf1409e67266
― Vernon Locke, Thursday, 25 August 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
This just gets better... Teslas Can Be Tricked Into Stopping Too Early by Bigger Stop Signs
Twitter user Cowcumber discovered this when their Tesla came to a stop significantly shorter than it should have, but only on particular exit ramps. After pondering the problem, Cowcumber noticed that stop signs on exit ramps appeared to be larger than signs in their neighborhood, so they broke out a tape measure to confirm.As they suspected, the stop sign on the exit ramp is, in fact, significantly larger. Many of these signs measure just over 48 inches tall, which is around 60 percent larger than the 30-inch signs in their neighborhood."60 percent larger to the camera gets interpreted as 60 percent closer?" asks the Tesla owner on Twitter. "I still have the slow creep problem here [...] and it'll come to a complete stop while sitting in the near lanes even if no cars are around!"
As they suspected, the stop sign on the exit ramp is, in fact, significantly larger. Many of these signs measure just over 48 inches tall, which is around 60 percent larger than the 30-inch signs in their neighborhood.
"60 percent larger to the camera gets interpreted as 60 percent closer?" asks the Tesla owner on Twitter. "I still have the slow creep problem here [...] and it'll come to a complete stop while sitting in the near lanes even if no cars are around!"
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 August 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
It's Friday, so .. more #TeslaFireIssues updates in this ongoing Tesla 'safety' threadExample no. 346: a controlled test, at low speedRemember what I said about a Tesla scraping the sides or bottom. And your Tesla is .. (well, you know, 20x or 30x more often than other EV's) pic.twitter.com/mwNHn4OEYE— Ton Aarts (@ton_aarts) August 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
Controlled test ... did they set off the explosion/fire, too?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
youll just have to "do your own research"
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
I guess it looks like it just blew up, then. Sounds about right.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
you can read the thread if you want
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
i talked to the village tesla doctor, and they told me that if the car catches on fire when it's upside down, stop making it go upside down
i proceeded to tell some ruffians around the corner to kick this doctor's ass for me
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
you dont understand teslas only catch on fire when theyre very upset
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
"tesla, take me downtown""ok, i'll take you upside-down"
*immediate fire death*
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
me: ok i will just open the door and get outtesla: no lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
tesla, i don't want to dieok, you're gonna die though
*doors lock*
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
telsa please let me outim kind of busy right now (being on fire)
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I did read the thread. At first I thought they were *trying* to make it blow up, to show how easy it was. Instead I guess they were mostly trying to make it go upside down and get scratched, which in turn showed how easy it was to blow up.
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who is convinced self-driving cars are absolutely happening. He's not a Tesla/Musk stan, he just thinks it's inevitable. My counter was that it couldn't happen on a mass scale because there are just too many uncontrollable variables to account for, and as a counter tried to think of a single autonomous, untethered, easily lethal machine we regularly encounter and I came up with nada. Elevators could kill you, but they're on a track. Same with trains. But self-driving cars everywhere would be like swimming with sharks. You just never know which one is going to get you. Especially if you dress as a tiny stop sign and it thinks you are farther away than you really are.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
basically no one who works on autonomous vehicle tech thinks that full autonomy is happening any time soon if at all, and these are mostly people who thought they were close ten years ago, there has however been a lot of progress made in autonomous safety features lane assist auto breaking adaptive cruise control and so forth, of course when you take that stuff and market it as self driving it becomes not safe
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Oh, wait, looking a bit more I guess the fire was faked/triggered? Can't vouch, but I found some translated German article:
"For safety reasons, it was not possible to ignite a real battery fire at an event with around 500 people, which is why a fire with pyrotechnics was staged," said the Axa press office in Cologne at the request of 24auto.de: "We wanted to use the fire the accident researchers: on the one hand point out the danger of a cell fire, which can result from damage to the underside of the electric car, and on the other hand point out the problems with fires in electric vehicles."
Anyway, looks like the Tesla has eclipsed the Pinto for number of people dying in fires. Interesting, found a couple of random articles comparing the two cars almost a decade ago!
https://qz.com/146604/why-tesla-doesnt-have-a-pinto-problem-with-its-car-fires-yet/
https://greenerideal.com/news/vehicles/0331-whats-difference-ford-pinto-tesla-s-much-really/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
thats dumb just have the 500 people stand back a bit whats the big deal
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
"Goggles on, everyone!"
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
a safety issue with evs in general is fast acceleration of a very heavy car is not a great combo
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
saw a review of a hyundai ioniq where the guy was just lighting up its tires and giggling about it, they basically built a volkswagen tiguan with the power of a porsche macan
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
even something like the tesla plaid x which is more designed to be a performance car im sure you could absolutely destroy its suspension and what not if you consistently floored it
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
the instant torque of evs is a perfect just because you can doesnt mean you should situation, and then considering the weight of the batteries you probably just shouldnt, most people dont even care about that stuff, let them buy performance cars if they do
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
lol I didn't even know this existed:
https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
thats very silly
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
me: tesla, we've not been to the dairy bar in a while and...tesla: There's nothing. I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Weyland.
― look like Farley smoke like Marley (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
So, this is how well things are going in Norway for Tesla Owners...https://t.co/3rM9EBPovu— CommonSenseSkeptic (@C_S_Skeptic) August 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
The car won't start in cold weather
Intense squeaking noise
Car won't start in warm weather
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
the three bullet separation between cold weather and warm weather is killing me
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
You have to wait on the phone for a long time before Tesla answers
Oh come on. Ever called, like, anyone? Join the club, Norwegians.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 28, 2022 10:37 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
my brother got a Model 3 one for my son which Tesla gave him as a “gift” for buying 2 real ones. It hasn’t started on fire yet but it did have a lot of weird issues with the electrical components and the steering wheel popped off. It also gets stuck on anything that’s not concrete, which sucks because kids love to off road these things. After a year (which ain’t much because in Wisconsin you can only really use the thing for 6 months max) one of the axles broke. The only good thing I can say is it was pretty fast (6 mph) but even that is obnoxious because the parents have to follow along.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
followed the link. "This item is out of stock"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
i don't mind stealing breadfrom the mouths of Pretorians
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Mojave Desert to Tesla drivers: "send more cars!"
slightly worried this Tesla seems to have had BeamNG installed https://t.co/eLFpvMy2eT— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) August 29, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
the desert attempting to reclaim its lithium
― mh, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Another problem with steering non-wheels that can only be held in one exact place:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-steering-yokes-are-disintegrating-before-30000-miles
...and of removing all buttons, knobs, and levers for the driver to use:
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/31/the-danger-of-removing-all-buttons-knobs-levers/
― Lee626, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
this seems like the ball game?
Twitter: May 8th, Musk to Morgan Stanley: "let's slow down just a few days ... it won't make sense to buy Twitter if we are heading into World War 3"177/— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) September 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
whats he talking about re ww3
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Bad idea: "Let's go race our Tesla at 100mph+ in the middle of the night on the Bonneville Salt Flats" https://t.co/PvpANPqCge— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) September 6, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
xp withdrawing from the deal for a reason unrelated to his claimed reason for backing out and certainly unrelated to the scope merger agreement
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
what does he mean by ww3 tho like actual world war three
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
Ukraine, I’m guessing
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
Lol that was a text from Musk to Mr. Grimes
Oh, I belime
― look like Farley smoke like Marley (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:39 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
thought the same but musks initial offer to buy twitter came after the war started, which is not to say he couldnt have just gotten the idea at some point that now its going to be ww3, but also he could just be talking about something else
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
some sort of figurative world war three, or maybe a secret world war three, idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
The text before the WWIII one said, “Putin is speaking tomorrow”
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
putin is going to announce ww3 tomorrow better not buy twitter, a thing we all think from time to time
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
I’m pretty sure idiots going fast in the desert after dark has caused a lot of casualties really re: salt flats
― mh, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
Nah, normal cars are invincible in desert conditions
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
i took my 2002 audi a4 avant on there but it was kind of wet and gummy did not reach max speed had to hose it down after for sure, that was during the day tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
I know nothing about the salt flats but How much salt is in the dust i should think that would be corrosive as fuck without super washout and cleaning
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
driving out onto the salt flats is fun. best to be careful about where though, some areas are wetter than others and blocked by embankments. the north side between mm 15 and 20, west of the "tree of life" is generally ok, although i see after having driven out that way yesterday that they have put up little fences on the side of the freeway in that section.
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
I think they steam treat certain tracks when they're trying for a speed record... as noted earlier, they can be pretty slushy, like walking on rock salt
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
Not only has Tesla's strict return-to-office policy damaged morale but the company lacks resources to house everyone: shortage of chairs, desk space, parking spots, dongles, charging cords, phone booths and conference rooms. https://t.co/zvgY86QIqM— Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@amydiehl) September 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Musk is more than enough dongle for the whole place.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Musk himself is a dingle
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Elon's college girlfriend from Penn just auctioned off a bunch of old photos of him, a birthday card, and a necklace he gave her:
https://www.rrauction.com/search/results/?lot=&str=elon%20musk&exclude=&cat=0&sort=time&auctions=0&view=gallery&page=1&itemQty=96&catalogLotNumber=&cp=past-auctions&searchType=title
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
im goin g to buy them
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
i dont understand why someone would pay thousands of dollars for these snapshots, is there a businessman collectables market
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Here's a handkerchief that Elon blew into and never washed. I'll start the bidding at 50,000
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's baffling. Almost makes me wonder if Elon bought them himself. xp
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
get his dna, clone him, set up permanent dunk tank, PROFIT
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
good for her
― mh, Friday, 16 September 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
it make a pinch
Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person's fingers when being rolled up. https://t.co/PBT06Hrh6Q— The Associated Press (@AP) September 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 September 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
haven't worked out the kinks in the self-rolling windows
― i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
I'm sure it's fine
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
This is the third time my Tesla is getting recalled in just the last year. Getting sick of this shit. I'm sorry @Tesla your cars are amazing but this is not acceptable. If this happens 3 more times I will have to consider trading it in for a different Tesla model— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) September 22, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
this is your fourth-to-last chance tesla
― rob, Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
Is the pinch really more of a priority than the exploding thing? I’m not a driver so maybe one of you can explain idk
― barry sito (gyac), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Surprised Musk didn't make them add a cartoon noise when your finger gets caught in the window. "Booiiiiinnnng!" or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Seems to suggest that at least one person has actually had their fingers cut off.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:33 AM (sixteen minutes ago)
everyone who buys tesla does so to satisfy the death drive, mere pinches don't go far enough, is how I break it down
― rob, Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Maybe the windows of other cars just don't pinch enough.
― i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
been seeing articles about techbros that "want to grow inches" and it's naturally going to take some pinches
― put their faith in a god-fearing man selling them tiny homes (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 22 September 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Lol what pic.twitter.com/ARiJIZty0i— Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse Party (@weathergoose1) September 23, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 September 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Thought car windows had been figured out long ago, but I guess we gotta disrupt everything nowadays
― Vinnie, Friday, 23 September 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
this man loves to lie
Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
love that "briefly" followed a few words later by it crossing "seas"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
All cars can serve briefly as boats. Very briefly.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
!! pic.twitter.com/y6QX5JyAds— Udit Kumar (@itzme_udit) September 29, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
*dies at sea in a car*
tesla boys: that sea was too choppy
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/A2BLNdW.png
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
you make fun of him but this seems like a brilliant solution to the "car keeps lighting on fire" problem
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, and also fireproof, if it serves briefly as a boat.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
announcing the new CyberTorus
https://i.imgur.com/D29CydT.png
it can bounce along most rivers and water passageways and holds 2 insecure barfing passengers
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
What is there to protect your ass from rocks?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
the idea is that what the torus shape lacks in specificity of function, it overcomes in adaptability and resilience.
https://i.imgur.com/DXLhmyI.png
this group of barges is in a severe river traffic jam. months of FTEs will be wasted on this single problem during intense meetings and intrafleet negotiations.
meanwhile, the tori float on in an unstoppable horde, bouncing off of the bureaucratic red tape and winning the industrial race together
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
xp josh according to leaked concept footage, the passengers ride inside of the cybertorus. for safety, there are no windows so you can't see them from outside. but they're in there, two of them in each, strapped in.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Ah, that makes sense. I initially confused them for Innertubes (TM).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/fetch/c_fill,h_712,q_75,w_1024/https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/crm/houston/Woodlands-Lazy-River_3c037f76-eea5-93db-24e77d1b3dcc2c5d.jpgArtist's conception, Innertube Hyperloop
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
an innertube commuting corridor is not actually a terrible idea. luckily climate change will make it inevitable
― rob, Thursday, 29 September 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
Ford just announced the CyberTaurus
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 September 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
Our derelict vessel crews are begging you to understand that anything that “serves briefly as a boat” should not be used as a boat https://t.co/lcrunbf1DJ pic.twitter.com/j2eL5tGcJZ— Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources (@waDNR) September 29, 2022
― o. nate, Friday, 30 September 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
when we stop economy-crippling regulatory agencies from fucking with our freedoms we can have truck boats, libs.
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
sorry ass shit
who shows up in Musk's texts is interesting (right wingers, reactionaries, tech & media billionaires, etc.). their eagerness to get in on a deal that would generate money & influence makes sense. but it was surprising seeing so many of them grovelhttps://t.co/zAHMhE9J5P— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) September 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
pretty funny that a couple dudes who always sound like little worms actually are little worms
― mh, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
living that worm life
― lag∞n, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
that Calac4nis dude, damn
― mh, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
lol, the sloppy copy editing of this Vice piece means that that dude's name is spelled like 3 different ways throughout the article, too.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 30 September 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
You have my sword
― circa1916, Friday, 30 September 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
The body language of the actual Tesla team while Musk makes astronomical promises will never not be funny. https://t.co/WaRuC5tr7U— Justin Pierce (@justinpie) September 29, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
very neat
JUST IN: Tesla, $TSLA officially unveils AI bot 'Optimus' pic.twitter.com/OTyryDdkwQ— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
sorry ass shit🐦[who shows up in Musk’s texts is interesting (right wingers, reactionaries, tech & media billionaires, etc.). their eagerness to get in on a deal that would generate money & influence makes sense. but it was surprising seeing so many of them grovelhttps://t.co/zAHMhE9J5P🕸— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) September 30, 2022🕸]🐦
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
In some ways, Musk could not have chosen a better name for his company. How long before they announce a "Peace Ray"?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Really despise Jack Dorsey as ever, always great to see evidence he’s a fucking idiot. That text about how freedom of speech on Twitter is important to humanity - k.
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Just another douchebag techbro.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
people at twitter hate jack more than elon musk. just total contempt.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 October 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
Where's Sarah Connor when you need her?
― i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Saturday, 1 October 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Is he unaware that there is already a very famous robot named "Optimus"? This will have to be Optimus Secundus.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 2 October 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eGxU1jR.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
Which @elonmusk do you like more?— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 3, 2022
what is going on
― death generator (lukas), Monday, 3 October 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
ha the no vote is up to 60%+ and now hes putting out new polls
Let’s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Engineers know the value of a well-designed poll
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Is he trying to get Russian oligarchs to buy Teslas instead of armored G-wagons?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
i think he resents the disruption being caused to his businesses and would like the war to stop asap on those grounds regardless of the goals of the combatants
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
lmao, sure does seem like he wants his politics to be a thing people think about.
Ukraine's ambassador lashes out at Elon Musk's peace proposal, telling him to "fuck off" and saying no Ukrainian will buy his "Tesla crap" pic.twitter.com/egrhbA3rEA— BNO News (@BNONews) October 3, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 October 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
elon could spend his every waking hour having his dumb half ass ideas feted if he would simply stay off twitter, but he just will not
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
just keeps picking incredibly divisive issues to associate his implausibly successful businesses with
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
he could have a group chat with titans of industry and various hangers on where they just confirm the hell out of each other
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
im sure andrew ross sorkin would be happy to tell him hes good at geopolitics
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
I’m trying to imagine the alt universe where Henry Ford tweets bad takes on how to settle peace Europe, and is subtweeted by de Gaulle (with a poll) and members of Hitler’s government (with snark).— Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est (@argvee) October 4, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 06:47 (one year ago) link
TRADING HALT: TWTR (NYSE)-NEWS PENDING— Tom Hearden (@followtheh) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
lol?
BREAKING: Elon Musk is expected to propose that the Twitter deal proceed at the original $54.20 per share price $TWTR— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
a truly avant garde business process
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
agree to buy a company for more than its worth then proceed to damage it as much as you can before closing, simply beyond the ability of normal minds to comprehend
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
he needs to clear this twitter deal so that he can concentrate on peace in ukraine
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
simply flood the war zone with verified posters
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
This guy is so ridiculous I bet he builds a giant warehouse of his stupid janky humanoid robots dedicated to sitting at terminals and posting to twitter, just to stick it to ... someone. For the dank lols (or whatever people say).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
maybe he got some of his boys on the text chain in on the deal. want to join the game? 5B would be a decent buy-in. 10B would be better, should be fun
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
easy monetization opportunity $5 subscription a button appears on each tweet that lets you kill the poster
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
turns out Agrawal has been clicking "I'll do it later" for months on the daily "delete all bots now?" pop-up
― rob, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
I'll believe this when I see it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing the Delaware chancery court decision is nearing its release.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
the trial hasnt even started yet lol, what happened was elon decided he wanted to buy twitter again, for whatever reason
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
the Tesla robot leaned over the other day and whispered “hey man you gotta buy twitter”
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
He wants to give Ukraine a good kicking.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Or maybe he wanted to buy it all along but just threatened to back out in order to get a lower price. When the bluff was called he folded.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
i think he wanted to buy it then he didnt now he does again, or at least he wants to buy it more than he wants his other options, worth noting that all those embarrassing texts were just released and there was prob a bunch more embarrassing info to come if the trial went forward
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
this is a bad deal for him and really the whole world, with the possible exception of twitter shareholders
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
contingent on trial being adjourned
he's dropping $48b not to have more DMs read out lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
i wonder if the relative slaps on the wrist and unenforceable SEC settlements musk has received so far makes him think he’s untouchable legally
🐦[Argentinian TV cracking open the bubbly live on air has done me in pic.twitter.com/KzpCVTJbYr🕸— oli (@olicoulsxn) September 8, 2022🕸]🐦
― 龜, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
also dumb
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
idk maybe seeing all those texts resurface reminded him of how uh..."fun" it would be to own Twitter
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
feel like theres a non zero chance that offering to buy the company again is also some insane ploy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, October 4, 2022 4:08 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
and ugly, smells bad, wears dumb leather jackets trying to be cool
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
correct
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
whoa there was a bunch of stuff in my post that i had typed up but never posted from a few months ago, guess zing just saved it…
― 龜, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
thats evidence now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
he is simply creating x
Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I love it
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
i think a lot of us love it
what's up with me? oh not a lot, just creating X
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
its great
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
i love x
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
wait
if we can get the tesla fans to start thinking 'I love X", ILX, etc, let that simmer for a few years...THEN we reveal ilxor.com and go premium/public
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
one of the big selling points of this ilxor/tesla merge would be that we have proven systems to moderate troubling content
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
How is he going to make Xbook even more Nazi-friendly than Facebook?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
It's too bad Zuck didn't buy Twitter so you could only experience tweets via VR.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
time to put on my tweet helmet and yell at a harvard economist
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
The Everything App
https://vinyl-records.nl/led-zeppelin/photo-gallery/germany/presence/led-zeppelin-presence-12.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
how long until the app that tells you what to do in all respects of your life and rewards you in store credit for doing what it recommends
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
X will do that. because X will do everything. and while it's at it, it will revolutionize everything. just for good measure. first they have just a few more tiny bugs to iron out of it. but once they do, it's look out world!**
**warning: X may murder small children and cause genital warts.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
Never needs ironing
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
its cool hes building x
some dumb math:Meta and Snap down on average of 67% this year. Implies standalone Twitter price of $14.00/share ($11bn market cap), based on where Twitter was on 12/31.Implied premium on $54.20 deal price is like 287% (oh and $13bn new debt package immediately underwater). pic.twitter.com/C2nA6neeqH— Sujeet Indap (@sindap) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
blocking all posters here until X is released and then unblocking so i can read your heartfelt apologies
― Clay, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
free x
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
its easy to be a critic but how many of you are building x
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
sorry, g∞n, but my nda with the nsa forbids me...
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
We should sue him, we're X! ILX! Fuk u elon.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
I made a couple hundred bucks today after seeing the $54 thing lol
― mh, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 04:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGx6K90TmCI
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
My last day was Monday. So sad I wasn’t around for the three hour company 2023 strategy meeting yesterday that was interrupted after 15 mins by news the stock had been suspended.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
good times at blue bird industries
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
"i made ten Gs today"
"yeah you made it in a sleazy way, selling Doge to the kids"
"I gotta buy Twitter"
well hey
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Random Musk thoughts, posted on a discord server and copied here:
I think Brandon Sutton or someone adjacent to him pointed out that figures like Musk and Bill Gates/Steve Jobs(in earlier decades) represent some sorta human instantiation of Progress.
Elon Musk is doing big things which means that technology is advancing thus the American People and/or Progress is advancing. Anything that could possibly endanger that conception must be vehemently attacked. It kinda explains why online creatures freak out to defend their hero.
It’s effectively just a degraded, dumber version of Great Man of History belief, where the only thing that advances Civilization are the mighty strides of titans of tech industry, since every possible Avenue of social change has been forcibly squeezed out or discredited
The fact that Musk doesn’t and can’t deliver jack shit doesn’t mean anything, at least not for the moment, since his importance to this crowd seems just to exist as vessel to receive desperate hopes and dreams that Things Are Getting Better.
Eventually his importance will probably fade(or blow up) and some other character will come along, at least as long as we have our current social formation where there’s a need for large figures in the form of tech CEOs like this.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
there's definitely something Trumpy about it, the way he tries to take complex, age-old problems and reduce them to very simple solutions that you can fit in a single tweet. it's convincing to some people because he's got that visionary quality to it, like maybe he doesn't know everything but he knows "what's important", blah blah blah. much like Trump there's this sense of "well if he's not brilliant why has he been so successful?" and as time goes on and more reporting gets done it starts becoming clear that this is just how America works. of course both of them push back against all those narratives and insist all the news is fake, and I guess if you're already hypnotized by them you believe it. I think Tesla bought him a lot of goodwill, even if in retrospect, it's not quite clear what exactly he added to that company. as far as I can tell he's mostly responsible for the bad/fraudulent stuff they have going on, but I guess in the meantime he did put them on the map by being an annoying piece of human garbage. so there's that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
better boat than the cybertruck (dome means u wont drown)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
App X is how Space X shares its joys, worries
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
what is going on here
NEW YORK (AP) — Musk lawyers say Twitter won't accept renewed $44 billion bid for the company, ask Delaware court to halt upcoming trial.— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
bad news: my car battery was dead this morninggood news: the CAA dude who came to boost my battery spent the 10 minutes of waiting for it to charge telling me how much Musk sucks lol
― rob, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
"Twitter will not take yes for an answer," said the court filing signed by Musk attorney Edward Micheletti. "Astonishingly, they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders’ interests."
Whole thing is super fishy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
seems like musk wants the trial called off before he gives twitter the money and twitter wants to be given the money first
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
xps more maneuvers and market manipulations methinks
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
Makes clear Musk is not doing what is necessary to obtain financing. https://t.co/F3ngBEAJ3r— Ann "No Relation" Lipton (@AnnMLipton) October 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
That is a pretty spicy filing from Twitter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
this fuckin guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
'further mischief and delay'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Just this morning, a corporate representative for one of the lending banks testified that Mr. Musk has yet to send them a borrowing notice and has not otherwise communicated to them that he intends to close the transaction, let alone on any particular timeline. The bank further testified that the main task necessary to close the deal—memorializing the debt financing—could have happened in July but didn’t because Mr. Musk purported to terminate the deal.
it really was just a ploy my god what a lunatic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
he needs that money to occupy mars
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
judge listen the money is on mars, its mars emeralds
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
ohhhhhhhh you guysI just figured it outthis is about the Tesla selling window, innit? 16/ pic.twitter.com/H8eoq88mQV— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) October 6, 2022
seems plausible that he's buying time to sell tsla stock
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
if thats the case why doesnt he just tell them that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
banter heuristic
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
Musk asks the Court to stay trial while he tries to close the deal. Twitter won't agree. You can have trial going on and Musk can continue to close if he wants. No problem! Why should they give up the hammer of the trial when dealing with an untrustworthy partner? https://t.co/sfA55sEecc— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) October 6, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
It all has a distinct feel of Musk's lawyers flailing their arms in an effort to cause delay in the hope of concessions from Twitter. iow, it looks desperate, but the hours are billable and Musk is permitting them to flail away, so why not?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 October 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
I am just imagining the billing that was going on at these firms getting ready for this trial on this time frame.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Thursday, 6 October 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
i mean justice delayed is justice denied innit homie
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
this is how the world endsnot with a merger but with billable hours
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Bulk billing dream.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
ok man
Elon Musk says his teenage daughter doesn't want to be associated with him because of what he calls 'full-on communism' taught in schools and widespread hatred of the wealthy https://t.co/MNZPabKPbD— Business Insider Tech (@BITech) October 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
gee Elon, maybe you should have been a more positive presence in her life and she would have learned from you how wonderful wealthy people really are.
uh, you have met her by now, rite?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
"Can't win them all."
Parenting isn't about winning, you miserable troll.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
tbf, who among us doesn't have at least one child that loathes us
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 October 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
it’s tough out here for a g
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 October 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
if you think about it, wealthy people are the real victims in this unfair world
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 October 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
iirc, Twitter should meet Elon Po Po's trick with their own involving the promise of magical ginkgo nuts
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I understand they've been lost in the ocean of other stupid things he's said & done, but just wanted to note that his comments about Taiwan are stupid craven bullshit.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
lot of ppl are thinking he said it to cozy up to china but i think its prob just cause he likes to talk
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
he said basically the same thing about russia and ukraine and whats the angle there if anything hes hurting his business by airing an unpopular opinion but he does care he just wants to talk about his dumbass theories
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
I'm sure there's a lot of truth to that. Everything he says creates an uproar.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is as fucked up as Henry Ford and that's a difficult feat.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
he's going to mobilise his stans into an anti-left anti-woke anti-union death squad if we're not careful
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
you can only tip you cap really
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
worth noting that a good chunk of the most fervent musk enthusiasts you see online are being paid to do that and or have some other relevant financial interest in the situation
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
it's just interesting that a lot of Elon's fanbase came from leftists, in the early-going, defending some of his more boorish behavior as his "being an asshole now and then", and right wingers became his fanbase the moment they saw that leftists didn't like him anymore.
one of my best friends is a liberal New York democrat, who hates conservatives and loathed Trump. he's a feminist, he has a transgender child, has created one of the safest spaces in town for autistic children with his c@t c@fe (and both his kid are on the spectrum), and despite all this, he loves Elon Musk, and gets in angry, almost conservative-ish defenses of Elon. and he does this for no one else!
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
s/interesting/not interesting at fucking all
https://i.imgur.com/JasHcRW.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
He didn’t realize murderous antisemitism was bad. Now he does.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 October 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
A win for the discourse.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 October 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
glad elon solved antisemitism
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
"you just gotta keep your feelings about the Jews, which are correct, to yourself, Kanye, or else you'll be cancelled! that's the real lesson here"
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
the really grating longtermism crap aside, the idea that Musk's involved in things that seem genuinely interesting and his ability to hype up the idea that there is a future where smart electric cars, ubiquitous internet access via satellite, functioning space transit, etc. exist appeals in an uncynical way to people that many other things do not
I think his deployment of these things is cynical
― mh, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
he just goes around saying shit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
lol he got rolled
Think (in ridiculous fashion) this is the first indication of what Putin's red line for nuclear use is:'Musk said Putin told him these goals would be accomplished “no matter what,” including the potential of a nuclear strike if Ukraine invaded Crimea'https://t.co/7aTlTEb0Pt— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
big day for musk news hes also been trying to befriend nathan fielder
I knew it. The Musk Twitter bid is season 2 of The Rehearsal.https://t.co/NELTFd29zH pic.twitter.com/1yETJPmHY7— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) October 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Elon For You
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
isn't there some law (lol) preventing citizens from dealing with or lobbying on behalf of heads of state?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
laws no longer exist, we're only alive cos people don't all know yet
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
This is how Elon Musk invents things https://t.co/q8rAL7t597— Laurie Charles (🚫🏌️♀️) (@thestuffofmemes) October 13, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: CNN reports that Elon Musk's SpaceX has told the US government it can no longer fund Starlink service in Ukraine— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 13, 2022
― barry sito (gyac), Thursday, 13 October 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
trial subscription now over
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 October 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
It wld be a shame if anything happened to starlink man.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 14 October 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
ah
Breaking @TheTerminal - $TWTR claims in a court filing that @elonmusk is presently under investigation by federal authorities for his conduct in connection with the acquisition of Twitter— Ed Ludlow (@EdLudlow) October 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 October 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Not sure that's quite news — the SEC has been looking at his Twitter actions since the spring. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/technology/twitter-elon-musk-sec.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
We’re just following his recommendation 🤷♂️— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2022
God I hate this fucking guy.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 October 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
the tweet he was responding to:
Elon Musk’s Starlink says it can no longer afford to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 free service and asks the Pentagon 🇺🇸 to pay for it. Starlink had been a game changer in the war.This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador @MelnykAndrij told Musk to “fuck off.”— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) October 14, 2022
download our twitter archive before Musk Ox takes over
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 16 October 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
Also Musk is probably building SPaceX mukes to taunt Puti n
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 16 October 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
i must preserve my 2017 tweet "love too stick a qtip in my ear"
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 October 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
HEARTHEART!!
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 16 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@lathamgreen/video/7119117552948792622?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7141741392912729642
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 16 October 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
its weird how he keeps not caring about kanye being a huge racist pos
Musk posted this and deleted lol pic.twitter.com/JwHJ6FMcGJ— Goat Capital (@TradesalotSir) October 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
Game recognises game
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
Apartheid Clyde and Klanye
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hFkVb4J.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
If X takes off we are seriously going to need a rebrand here
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
wtf is X
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
imagine willingly positioning yourself with any of those ding dongs
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
his meme sensibility is so early 2010s reddit and he doesn't even have the excuse of being a kid when that kind of shit was considered acceptable
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 11:45 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the everything app
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
sounds like bs
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
buying twitter is an accelerant to creating x
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
X currently only works in the hyperloop, but will soon be available on Mars as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
X.com was a company Elon Musk ran in 1999, a precursor to PayPal (which came about after X.com and Confinity merged).
of course he'd use it again
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Parler has a tiny user base, and it gets tinier every day.. I'm sure they be relieved to cash out and move on, i.e. Ye Olde Exit Strategy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
kanye actually buying parler seems like one of those things that wont really happen
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
bcz bots maybe
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
i was very excited by the WaPo story abt the (apparently) hilarious internal beef at truth but try as i might the paywall stopped me reading abt it
i even have a dedicated plug-in for stealing content from the other side of newspaper paywalls but BEZOS has defeated me, must be feeling the pinch after all that rings money >:(
in conclusion i love x
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
bots in the brain
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10:58 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
there's gotta be some Michael Jackson thing going on here, he spent his prime shitposting years investing his Apartheid money so he's now spending his life trying to recapture them
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 1:26 PM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
enjoy https://justpaste.it/2adko
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
will be pretty funny if elon if elon kills twitter by adding payments and calling an uber to it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
if he really opens up the platform to developers i swear to you here and now i will make the most deranged app that i know how
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
lol thx for that lag∞n
i like that, just as a mastodon tweet is called a "toot", a truth too is simply called a "truth"
my favourite bit of the WaPo piece is where don jr simply wanders in and "asks to be paid"
(he does nothing and had no role in setting up or financing the platform) (you will be startled to learn)
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
anyway back to elon
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Isn't one of his kids named X?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
who the hell uses Signal
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
work teams with extremely security conscious bosses.
― ledge, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
God, that WaPo piece... looking more like Trump Media will go the way of the USFL, but maybe burn up faster
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
ETTD
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
A LOT more people should probably use Signal
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
judging from how many people in my address book are on signal many people use it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
white nationalists also used it during Unite the Right.
so yeah, lots of people, some good, some bad, some in-between, but lots of people use it.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
both sides now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
^never liked that recut version of the Free song
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
I use Signal, ama
― rob, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:36 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
and then cries to his dad about it who then yells at the founders lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
afaict, signal is popular among people who have reason to worry about opsec (obviously), and in countries where people don't use whatapp/wechat/ktalk, etc. so don't have an obvious option for cross platform messaging (i.e. america).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
i use signal to chat with one friend, it’s very good and better than imessage
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
imessage is a demon that comes bundled with apple products
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
Signal is good for buying certain things
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china
Maybe the Democrats should use signal
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
I use Signal too. My sister and most/all of her NGO and world traveller friends all use it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:45 (one year ago) link
also on Signal. I send them money sometimes.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 07:16 (one year ago) link
I only use iMessage with people who don’t use Signal
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
I like the UX for WhatsApp way better than Signal.
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
whatsapp has the funniest name
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Whaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssaaaaaaapp
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
But do other people have to be using signal on the other end? Like you have to get people you know to install it to use it?
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
I'm glad to have no need for privacy for the most part - cant imagine someone caring what I am messaging people about -0-__ maybe good for CIA agents or something?
Also if you use things like signal isn't it kindof just saying to the NSA - "hey I am hiding something"
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fbu6WgI.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Can't imagine the NSA spends their days going - "holy shit, Stanley Coppersmith opened a Signal account", they're too busy spying on civilians listening to private phone calls
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Latham, what app do you use? I don't understand your pov, because to do things like group chats at some point you all have to pick some platform to use
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
and I assume people are just kidding w/stuff like "white nationalists use it" cuz that's like objecting to sending packages in the mail because of the unabomber
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
that's not a great analogy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
yeah the unabomber is good and white nationalists are bad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
assuming that isn't what Andy meant, ignore the analogy and tell me what's bad about Signal
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Using Signal is like having a Protonmail account; it just tells me that you take yourself way too seriously.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 5:15 PM (yesterday)
btw, this was actually Discord
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
Using Signal is like having a Protonmail account; it just tells me that you take yourself way too seriously.Tell me you don’t live in a red state without telling me don’t live in a red state.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I don't particularly care for Signal (it's a pretty bare-bones messaging app) but certain people in my life won't use anything but so I'm stuck if I wanna communicate with them
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Anyway I thought Telegram was the most active messaging app for right wing extremists. I’ve never tried that one.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
― rob, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink
I wasn't saying that as an objection, just pointing out it does have a wide reach. might even tell my team to move to it, but i haven't tried it yet.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I just use the regular text messaging app for group chats
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
xpyeah I mean I first heard about it from (leftist) activists, so it definitely has a rep as a political tool. I'm just confused why people bring up the (possibly false) far-right association but no one seems to mention, e.g., Whatsapp being implicated in actual genocide
I do sympathize with being compelled to use a partic app just to chat, as I have friends who only contact me through Instagram DMs and I hate it
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
i mean i'd be a massive hypocrite to call out Signal for that when I use FB of all things, lol.
WhatsApp has also been used to share larger vids w/ me. friends sent me a vid showing me how to give their cat insulin injections
didn't stop the cat from scratching me anyway I blame Whatsapp for that
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
there's a subreddit for that? r/catscratchinsulinvideos (not really)!
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
All of these apps will be subsumed into X.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6:07 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Worst social media platform thread is over there >>>>>> (((to the FAR RIGHT)))
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
Actually the worst is the nasty dysfunctional feedback loop of Reddit and Youtube.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Honestly, Signal is barebones and I don’t understand why anyone would need anything else from a text messaging app— that I cannot make Signal the default messaging app on my phone is the thing about my phone that pisses me off the most. I hate the way iMessage or whatever looks
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
I think if everybody you know is using Apple stuff, "Messages" is about as good as Signal: It's supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I've used a chat program to talk to friends going back to ICQ (followed by AIM -> Yahoo messenger -> Facebook messenger -> messages/SMS -> Google Hangouts/Talk -> Signal. Out of all of those apps, Signal and Messages made me feel the most confident that my conversations were private. I do not "have anything to hide" or do anything illegal, but I don't like the feeling of wondering if I should self-censor in a supposedly private conversation - whether it's from a fear of a joke being misconstrued or Google's machine learning picking up keywords to sell to marketers for targeted advertising, I like my conversations private and I'm happy to pay for that service.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
Like is the prez has to have some one send him the nuclear codes he should not use whatsapp
It seems like human bahavior is already the bigger problem - leave it to IT people think better software fixes everything - https://blog.avast.com/uber-hack
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
Messages is great if everyone is on iPhone and not everyone is already on WhatsApp or local equivalent. The only social groups where that’s true are in the upper end of the income distribution in North America. It’s just not a situation that happens much outside that.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
I have only known one person in my life to use WHatsApp - it reminds me of the ORkut situation - only a Brazilian station?https://applemagazine.com/is-the-long-extinct-social-network-orkut-on-the-verge-of-a-comeback/52177
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
caek otm
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is cheaper for people than regular texting in a lot of places where you pay per text. Also cheaper if you text people with international numbers.
― Position Position, Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict
― mh, Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
only commies use whatsapp - USA Boldbloods use one of teh three Musk-eteers apps ! This is Reagan's future
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
"world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there"
iPhone really gouges people on price if you ask me - but isnt it odd that Beyonce and me could use the same phone - were is the million-dollar Ferrari phone
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah in india there are cheap phone plans that just have whatsapp instead of data, for some people it is the internet
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
^ brazil's the same
― fpsa, Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
I had to use it to coordinate my pickups and dropoffs during my office visit in the Philippines.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
coke?
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
lol no rides to and from the office
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
not korea (kakao https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/asia/korea-kakao-ceo.html is wild), japan (line), eastern europe and one girl from park slope i went on a tinder date with in 2013 (viber) and china (wechat).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
It figures that an Elon Musk thread has turned into a discussion of messaging apps.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
it's all leading towards X, everything leads towards X
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
It's not a crossroads, it's a singularity.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
He should buy goatse.cx
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
just two edgelords living in the moment pic.twitter.com/iouBxhGnkI— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) October 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
he pay too much lol
Social media market caps (2021 peak to today)Snap $131B → $14BMeta $1.07T→ $353BTwitter $61B → $40BPinterest $56B → $15B— Troy Osinoff 🕺 (@yo) October 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
I saw someone say it's like announcing you want to buy a car, changing your mind, changing your mind again, then crashing the car, then saying you still want to buy it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
aside from whatever damage he mightve done to the company his timing was just terrible, making an offer right in the middle of a gigantic crash of the sector, twitter would prob be trading at a third of what hes paying
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Seems like his only hope now is to make enough Putin-friendly noises on Twitter to provoke a national security review that will bar him from going through with the purchase.
― o. nate, Friday, 21 October 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fMQcZDW.png
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
post article said the deal is prob closing next week xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post.
Musk has told prospective investors in his Twitter purchase that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers, leaving the company with a skeleton crew, according to the report...
Gonna be awful lonely in the cafeteria.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I hope the actual citizens of the TL rise up and takes the building, that's what Musk and Twitter deserve afaic.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Who will be the last person to tweet, and what conspiracy theory will they be pushing?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
and who will own the NFT for that tweet?
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
who taught him to talk like this
“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” — @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1SqS8qMs3F— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) October 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
the state's monopoly on violence should rightfully be his because he could discipline & extract value from workers more effectively without government regulation, better than a government itself can? (capital allocation as the financial abstraction of this?)
― Left, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
the antistatism is of course totally opportunistic and hypocritical and feels like something between a pose and a threat
― Left, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
feel like this might be evidence of exposure to anarcho capitalism, which which would stand to reason i guess what with being into crypto
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
feel like thiel and andreessen probably also often talk this way, and with a somewhat firmer intellectual grounding?
i mean i don't think they're advanced political thinkers or anything but musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce with far too much time and money on his hands
― mark s, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
sub-mid in fact
^^^speaking truth to power here
how long until the helicopter memes or has he gone there already
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
feel like Twitter would be better if in addition to followers, it gave a complete list of people that also hate you. but that would probably just egg Elon Musk on.
this feels more like him intentionally trying to say something that winds up being a decades-enduring quote and failing miserably.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
given how much govt capital Musk has gotten, I have to agree with him here
― rob, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
he is prime ancap material - born into money, sexually predatory, racist, utterly convinced of own brilliance, resentful of meagre protections his workers have won from the state and jealous of the violent forces the state is able to marshall (partly) independent of his whims (for now)... but he's not fussy - he also called himself an anarcho-syndicalist once didn't he? although I suspect was thinking of something more like fascist corporatism, if he was thinking
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
No private citizen should be so powerful in a governed society. Bu there he is with his money and power and toys like a super villian
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
ancap is the most ridiculous name, what if we combined these two oppositional ideas to form... libertarianism?
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
capitalists and fascists stole libertarian from the left and are in the process of stealing anarchist too (thanks hbo)
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
lol remember the story from a few years ago where an american ancap reddit user was visiting greece and decided to check out an anarchist squat and they ended up beating him up
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
god that fuckin rules
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce
― mark s, Sunday, October 23, 2022 11:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
the saddest part about this is its a new affectation, he was just a square before, he got into dorm room philosophy as a midlife crisis
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 23 October 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
it's still up I hope it's real
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/i_was_beat_up_by_left_anarchists_in_greece/
I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me."
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 23 October 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
tfw force is initiated
― mh, Sunday, 23 October 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Hate when someone disturbs my NAP
― jmm, Sunday, 23 October 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
such as a basic douche, such a basic play, so depressing.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Sunday, 23 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
not to assume the veracity of the story but“I’m just taking pictures of an anti-authoritarian group’s headquarters, why would they be mad?” is really something
― mh, Sunday, 23 October 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
elon said something true then compensated by following up with the most reddit thing anyone has ever said pic.twitter.com/lwB6MEE5Yo— Lena (@banalplay) October 24, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
"polytopia addresses these limitations"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
perfect post
lmao I assumed polytopia was some weird philosophy thing but it turns out it's just a mobile game for kids
― frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
it's literally a version of civ that has been simplified for mobile play and has brightly colored graphics. it's pretty good?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
he talks like a deep fake of himself
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
xp maybe a friend of his owns the game
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
(that is rampant speculation, sorry. but at any rate, i'm glad the limitations of chess have been addressed
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
lol I was briefly obsessed with Polytopia a few years back; caek's right, it's a simplified Civilization with cute icons, pretty addictive ime. I definitely liked it more than chess, but that's because it's much easier
― rob, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
one game lasted exactly as long as my commute when i lived in munich.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
yeah that's an ideal use case
― rob, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
one of the limitations of chess is that it doesn't last as long as a hungover person's commute, and polytopia addresses this.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/star-trek-tridimensional-chess-set-4453.jpg
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
The design of Polytopia does look neat
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
Tetris addresses these limitations as well.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
it's a great iphone game!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
three more days until it becomes musk brand twitter
It's all (????) happening (????) https://t.co/TndbF00O6C— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) October 25, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
lmao stock still stuck at $53. he's obviously going through with it and still nobody trusts this guy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
No idea why they wouldn't.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
it would be nice if he tried one last minute gambit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
he's gonna demand they split the stock on Friday morning, before he signs the check
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
I kinda agree with some less-panicked commentary I’ve heard that there’s not much he can do to change the platform and retain the particular userbase that makes it relevant. There’s a lot of professional media person panic about this kinda thing that might just skew their perception just a lil’
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
the professional media person demo is absoulutely essential to the product's value though
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
they're addicted, so i doubt they leave, but if they ever do then it's over.
yeah twitter is really more a broadcast system than a social network, and the high profile users are what makes it work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
entire communities exist now because they've found each other being haters in the replies of high profile accounts
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
one thing a technical person said on twitter the other day is that twitter is somewhat protected from someone stealing their users by the fact that twitter is hard to build, which i think is somewhat true, like you cant just build a twitter clone and be like everyone come over here unless you have a lot of money and expertise at your disposal, you could have some new thing that slowly attracts users tho, and then eventual the media people come over
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
toot toot!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg/220px-Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Its like Facebook - try getting everyone you know of Facebook to move over to slack or something - it will never happen unless they are young rebels
Facebook won the social media race - like Microsoft won the OS wars - even though both are obvious shit
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
facebook is dying tho, social networks altogether might be dying
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
praise be
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
I hate the reels in Instagram! How obnoxious for them to just say "hey we are like tiktok now here are some vids from people you dont even follow"
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
yeah thats an indication that these platforms are moving away from the social model towards the broadcast model
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
I cant get anyone I know to use tiktok - the model seems to be "watch videos" but a lot of people dont want to make vidoes just watch them - so I see what you are saying. Of course 18 year olds sit there all day making selfie videos so maybe its a generational thingpeople who want an audience - how human - "Human, All Too Human" Nietzsche would have loved tiktok
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
someone I was talking to hypothesized a trickle-down where tiktok stuff gets reposted to instagram gets pulled into facebook
the minionization of video clips
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
the social type stuff following liking commenting etc will prob stay around but the truest presentation of social media the chronological friend feed is already dead, people thought facebook was the future but really it was youtube, facebook was unpleasant actually lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Yikes lol pic.twitter.com/pc6SXl0Ulc— Paul E Williams (@PEWilliams_) October 25, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I mean that's true, people don't tweet all that much
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
the idea of a comment is pretty funny, you have an initial post then it has some baby posts parented by randos which are almost always bad, everyone hates the comments lol they were bad on blogs, theyre still bad, youtubers complain about their commenters all the time, commenters are causing genuine harm on twitter, this is of course a central feature of social media
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I have seen a lot of tiktok videos on youtube so that is another trickle
you canupload someone else's video to your tiktok and get a thousand views and no one cares about copyright at all or credit
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I was talking about this with my husband last night— "the dark forest is growing."
https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
I certainly post more on a private Discord server than I do anywhere else except ILX— I am tired of being perceived and "creating content"
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
yeah thats the other part of social media dying the conversation aspects are moving to more chat type platforms
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
turns out talking to everyone all at once was not the best way to talk
what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I have found Facebook to be a great place to get an audience for paintings and photography. That's the motivation-rewards loop - brief hit
Internet has such great potential for non-profit betterment of life - hopefully the dark forest will include such cozy cottages
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
and the "one" switches all the time, like kiss cam
"what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one"I like it - TalktoMebook
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
thats called the main character of the day, everyone tells them they should go to jail
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
yeah but what if tomorrow it was the shift manager at office depot
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
and suddenly everyone is talking to him
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
only if they say something bad online
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
i don't know, could be fun, i'm just saying let's flip the paradigm here
just saw some stats that over-50's make 80% of the political comments on social media... the younger folks generally avoid the subject
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
nobody should use tiktok
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/10/tiktoks-secret-operation-tracks-you-even-if-you-dont-use-it
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
xp and let's face it, you absolutely know the shift manager at office depot said something bad online
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
the perfect post for a office depot manager to get man charactered for is bragging about over charging a homeless person for making copies of a job application
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
just saw some stats that over-50's make 80% of the political comments on social media...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 3:45 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah but thats just cause theyre replying "trump more like dump" to home depot ads 50 times a day
https://i.imgur.com/abEt6zB.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
thats right
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
now you understand the potential of everyone talks to one
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
i should get one of those hats
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
you know what kudos to the truman show for nailing the headset mic visionary before he was a wildly known type of guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Fwiw I see at least as many screenshots of tweets on TikTok as I see TikTok videos on Twitter
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
i wonder if tiktok just figured out you like tweets
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
Twitter's research also examined what topics are of interest to their most active users. It is increasingly NSFW and crypto content and these users are actually losing interest in world news, sports, fashion and entertainment— Sheila Dang (@Sheila_Dang) October 25, 2022
lol circling the drain
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
there is a surprising amount of nsfw like a video of some girl just screaming "DO YOU WANT TO &*%& ME" - like do the TIKTOK makers realize Americans find that kind of thing supriosing
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
twitter: pornhub for shills
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qtNx8s0.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
I installed TikTok for one person and when you load the app random videos start playing. they are all so astonishingly horny. like 4 minutes of "when your best friend's sister comes over!!! and starts saying a lot of suggestive things that make you want to fuck her!!!"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
haa good stuff
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
is the beret some reference to Erich von Stroheim or Ingmar Bergman? Should really have a monocle as well, the headset mic is the equivalent of the old bullhorn
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
this thread inspired my to download tiktok and upon opening it i got 3 horny vids and then one of those silly cooking vids
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
i do like the ones of chinese people making big soup in the countryside
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
youtube started a very wack TT ripoff feature and it is super horny too
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
yeah those are cool
there is definitely some funny/informative stuff on Tiktok but a lot of it gets filtered through Twitter so I just watch it there. unfortunately the majority of it is either softcore porn or "True facts that will DEMOLISH your perception of time Part 97" featuring a dude making the most unnatural voiceover you've ever heard
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
when I go onto youtube to look at Deep Purple videos or whatever, it's interesting to see what's 'trending': 'OMG, watch what happen when the bridegroom finally opens to the pantry door!' or whatever.. who watches this shit? And it'll have like 750 million views
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
or whatever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
I want to add that the good dancing videos are so good that they fill me with relief.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
when I go onto youtube to look at Deep Purple videos or whatever, it's interesting to see what's 'trending': 'OMG, watch what happen when the bridegroom finally opens to the pantry door!' or whatever.. who watches this shit? And it'll have like 750 million views― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
One of the things that the internet has made certain: most people are incredibly simple, passive creatures.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
the worst part about the youtube algo is how it feeds you conspiracy versions of your interests like hey noticed you watched an archaeology video on gobekli tepe would you perhaps like to watch this one about how atlantis was real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
totally - I was looking for info about my old .22 rifle (xmas present when I was 12) and started getting survivalist suggestions, for when the Coming Storm arrives
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
i wonder if it's because the algorithm gives bonus points for having some sort of business angle or a product for sale, biased not necessarily toward "grift" itself but toward "commerce", which is a ton of grift and conspiracy
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
if you start a new account it really is astonishing how fast it leads you down the Joe Rogan/Ben Shapiro rabbit hole
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
as in, search for art and you'll find artists and galleries, search for music and you'll get pushed toward the things they're selling, celebrities have a tv show or a movie or whatever. but search for something that doesn't have a clear commercial connection, like "i am always lonely", and it still searches for some sort of commercial connection
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
i have my finger on the pulse of the nation - they're all searching "i am always lonely" on tiktok
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it still tries to serve me joe rogan videos occasionally even tho ive done nothing to deserve it except maybe watching boxing documentaries
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:54 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
maybe who knows whats going on in there, but i think they also just consider conspiracy videos to be videos that belong to whatever category that legit ones do, its all just videos to them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
yeah plus I would bet consp videos have really strong time-on-site numbers compared to less nuts content
― rob, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
you'll get pushed toward the things they're selling
Isn't this just Google in a nutshell?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
It's all content
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
Matt Levine a few days ago pointing out that the funniest outcome here is that Musk doesn't come up with an angle and buys Twitter at $54.20 and at 5.01 Joe Biden rings him and says we've decided you are too close to China and Russia and he has to sell it at $10.00.
I mean, the best option is this destroys Musk and Twitter, and I'm still holding out hope.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
oh i know that matt
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.garbageday.email/p/websites-are-just-places-to-talk
In fact, according to Know Your Meme, about 60% of the memes we’ve seen in 2022 were created by Twitter or TikTok. And the three biggest apps behind those two —YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram — all trail far behind, contributing around 10% each. And if these current trends continue, it’s likely that by next year TikTok will outpace Twitter. In fact, we’ve entered a new interesting moment where it’s usually unclear whether people on Twitter are talking about something because it’s on TikTok or if people on TikTok are talking about something because it’s on Twitter. Soon it won’t be. Very shortly, every platform on the internet will be completely downstream of TikTok.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1c8b5e5-0386-40b6-a1a8-e8209d6f3e91_680x375.png
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
But for people who do not closely follow TikTok — of which there are still many — culture will continue to feel more and more random and confusing. You can see this in the way TikTok “algospeak” has spread to other platforms, with words like “Unalive” becoming a now very common thing to see within particularly twee pockets of the internet. And readers ask me about inscrutable TikTok trends all the time. Most recently, a reader named George sent me an email last week about a weird and confusing TikTok trend where people were posting videos of “fastest workers”. Here’s a supercut from 2020. I also suspect this is contributing to the death of the influencer, as recently noted by Embedded, and the rise of the influencer-worker. It’s not particularly interesting to just be an influencer on TikTok, but it is interesting to follow someone who does something. Perhaps this is also connected to the “faster workers” trend.But this creeping feeling that to not “be on TikTok” is to somehow not understand what’s going on anymore is spreading. In fact, I came across a Tumblr post that I thought articulated this idea pretty perfectly.“Frequently, I’ll see a post here that’s like ‘as a society, we all need to stop engaging in the very common [activity/ behavior/ perspective that I have never once heard about in my life]’ and I’ll feel confused at first because this post will be treating this extremely niche unheard-of topic like it’s universal,” Tumblr user keplercryptids wrote. “And then I remember that I am not on TikTok. So many takes on this site are direct responses to what’s popular on TikTok and I am so happy to live in ignorance tbh.”The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?
But this creeping feeling that to not “be on TikTok” is to somehow not understand what’s going on anymore is spreading. In fact, I came across a Tumblr post that I thought articulated this idea pretty perfectly.
“Frequently, I’ll see a post here that’s like ‘as a society, we all need to stop engaging in the very common [activity/ behavior/ perspective that I have never once heard about in my life]’ and I’ll feel confused at first because this post will be treating this extremely niche unheard-of topic like it’s universal,” Tumblr user keplercryptids wrote. “And then I remember that I am not on TikTok. So many takes on this site are direct responses to what’s popular on TikTok and I am so happy to live in ignorance tbh.”
The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?
memes as culture. i don't know what to do with that. memes are an episode of america's funniest home videos. but maybe it's true. maybe that's what our culture is
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
"Vine" lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?
Ehh - 'the machinery of our culture'? this is depressing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be an old fartsack with my musty old books than have anything to do with TikTok. I did a deepdive the other week on skinny shaming and fatphobia on the platform, and both sides were completely unhinged and without a shred of nuance or understanding
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
the ultimate meme is the project to convince us memes are important
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
I still think the dancing baby on Ally McBeal is the ultimate meme
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
ha that baby could really get down!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
hey it seems they're creating jobs in meme counting XXP
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, August 12, 2013 6:13 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lmao some of the posts up thread are crazy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
i defended elon musk for a long time because i thought it would be a good thing for humanity, overall, to move to electric vehicles
good lord though, at what cost, AT WHAT COST
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project.
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:15 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
re hyperloop derailing sf > la high speed rail, he did years later admit to this
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/911FW6bHvHEAAAAM/80s-commercials-80s-mtv.gif
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
tiktok is fine if you want to laugh _at_ people, but other than that it's either vile or extremely stupid.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
i like twitter and will be sad when the guy in the thread title destroys it.
i do think it would be kind of funny if he destroyed it not by turning it into a right wing hell hole or gutting its workforce but by trying to turn it into x, the everything app
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
kinda think hes not going to do all that much, tho just letting trump back on would be bad for the world
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
I like my part of twitter and Elon Musk can fuck off and die in a hole full of raw sewage.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
he will change it like 3%, not noticeable to norms, annoying to some journos but THE EXPOSURE. dems will flap their arms without impact. 60% of any remaining left presence that even still plays with it will go someplace else, and GOP/authoritarian majority will become permanent.
jk jk, i feel better now. (gets out tracking sheet for future accuracy evals).
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff9bDQqXEAE8rdH?format=png&name=small
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok
A real culture doesn't shift at the speed at which TikTok memes emerge and are replaced.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
Wont kids get bored with TikTok in 5 years and move onto something else like they did with Myspace and Facebook and Livejournal all of which were huge at their peaks? Let em all rot.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
Yep, that think piece just panders to FOMO.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
I saw an interesting article (on Twitter, lol) claiming that no social media site has yet been able to pull themselves out once they start declining. So good luck Facebook, Twitter, etc.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
ive seen some big journalist accounts saying twitter got too aggressive for them, wonder if that was due to the maga influx, not the best people to have around
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Kids do use groups chats in regular text messaging a lot I think
the ultimate private social media I suppose
One of these days some rebellious kids are going to want to actually meet irl and hang out
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
My 14 yo daughter and her friends almost exclusively use Snapchat for messaging.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
my daughter (12) uses gchat
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/11/snapchat-layoffs-apple-tiktok/
Snapchat’s active user base surged to 350 million people per day, more than Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit. By 2022 it was the fifth-largest U.S.-based social media platform by active users, behind only Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and Google’s YouTube. An April survey by Pew Research found that 59 percent of American teens use Snapchat, while 15 percent said they use it “almost constantly.”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
thats crazy considering snapchats stock is down more than anyones
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
i guess the problem is teens are poor and they grow up into tiktok users.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
what the hell is Snapchat good for that the other apps aren't? blows my mind that that's the one which took off. I remember when it was introduced the founders would do interviews and be unable to explain why exactly disappearing messages were good. outside of **that reason**
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
product design is like that its mysterious you have to be steve jobs to understand
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
60% of any remaining left presence that even still plays with it will go someplace else
Can't count the number of thoughtful memorials to Mike Davis I've seen on Twitter today. I don't know if this is regional thing maybe, or we're using different interpretations of "left", or possibly the issue is with the specific content of your feed?
That article quoted about TikTok is just the stupidest. I don't think there's ever been a "cultural" phenomenon so thoroughly manufactured by international neoliberalism, what a myopic and shallow understanding they present there.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
yeah left twitter still seems pretty strong havent noticed any mass disappearances, twitters a good place for angry people lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
ha, yeah i think current defs of leftiness are vague in usa after the last 50 yrs, esp in my old age bracket. there i simply meant left-of-lib and strong anti-capitalism. xp
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
snapchat - the appeal of using a social media app yoru parents are not on
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
also, one they can't pry into to see what you posted last week
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Snapchat’s active user base surged to 350 million people per day, more than Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit.
Pinterest? What does anyone do on Pinterest? Collect photos and 'pin' them to your wall? Gimme a break.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
people, women mostly, seem to use it for shopping reminders/inspo, ask the women in you life if they have a desk/dress/yarn board its a whole hidden world
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Their 'sign in NOW!' wall is so fierce that I've never had a chance to peruse it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
yeah i always felt like it was more just a centralized bookmarking tool for mood boards than a social network but maybe people use it socially
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
i think yes but also you look at other peoples boards to find stuff for your boards
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgAtFMhXwAAF7lE?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
some of you are really telling on yourself in this thread
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
What’s a computer?
(Eat y’self fitter)
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
who uses
https://pinboard.in/
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
That is one I actually do use. I started using it after the previous bookmarking service shut down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
i used to follow him on twitter when he was just making fun of silicon valley, then he got super into dem politics, an arrogant man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
its cool how he just runs that site himself and keeps everything on a couple servers tho, living the dream
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
i've met him. he's nice! he's terrible on twitter though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
iirc he's taking the year off. maybe he'll be better when he comes back, or maybe he won't come back.
true old schoolers like to write down their favorite websites and keep the list in the top drawer
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
"the web drawer"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
The site works great. I've been keeping bookmarks there since 2005.
I can't remember what the prior one was called.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
delicious
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Yes! del.icio.us
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
"How's it going, everybody? You're all fired! OK, not all of you. You, you, you, not you. You, you, you, not you."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
sounds like it's done. "you'll all hear directly from elon on friday" from current leadership to staff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
have fun making $1.2 billion a year in interest payments
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
i will fine
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 1:16 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:01 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
shades of George Constanza's house in the Hamptons.. he's gonna ride this out as long as possible: "So, eh, where would my office be if I did go through with the deal?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
xp what’s the point of this
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
That he is stupid enough?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
everyone thought he was gonna be able to wriggle his way out of this one lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:42 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
there was some point in recent times when he emailed all the early pinboard users saying "hey, I know you paid a small amount way back to get a lifetime subscription to this site but hosting it's gotten kind of pricey could I get a few more bucks"
I was like, should have asked before you got super obnoxious on twitter about politics sorry buddy
― mh, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
i must admit i don't really understand the focus on the share price and how much extra money he has to pay compared to what twitter is worth. if there's a chance he's going to go bankrupt or something, i guess i'm interested. but am i wrong to see buying twitter as not an investment but control of a global loudhorn for someone who is obsessed with his own celebrity? i'm always hearing that these super wealthy people are about to finally eat shit but no, i don't think he will. paying an extra 20 billion for twitter, when you have $200B+ and you also have tesla (i know) and spacex (i know)?
however i'm not a finance guy and so maybe the main takeaway here is that it's bad for twitter investors or whatever
xposts
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
are we really ready for an all-electric twitter?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I think there is a certain delight in seeing supposed geniuses, especially obnoxious ones like Elon, fail spectacularly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
I think its not just that he's wildly overpaying but also that the writing seems to be on the wall for Twitter so he's gonna left holding the bag when everything goes South. who knows though he'll probably convince the US government to spend $5 billion bailing him out so long as he promises to unban all the Nazis
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
i guess i see it like when jeff bezos bought the washington post. i don't know how much he paid for it. let's say he overpaid by like 2x, just a ridiculous overpay, like the twitter thing.
but who cares? newspapers don't make money. twitter doesn't make money. bezos and musk could both just subsidize the total financial failure of both companies, out of pocket, or by getting donations from their friends. "you in for $5B to float twitter for another 5 years? should be fun -- elon"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
didn't mean to pick on yerac in particular, other than in her capacity as an actual finance expert. a lot of people have been comically wrong about what would happen. that was my point.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
he agreed the price at twitter's absolute top of its value, and it's near zenith of cultural relevance.
total fuck up. he can't fix it. (someone paste this when he fixes it.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
You edited out a few posts in the middle, so yeah, it came across exactly how it did. I would be less fast to point out someone else’s wrongness - not their singular wrongness, given people have assumed the same- if I had posted this in the past month but you know.just curious why anyone in the uk gives a shit about interest rates given how the mortgage market there works.
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
xp to Karl
Bezos paid $250 million in cash for the Post. Since he made it private, it's impossible to tell if that was a good financial decision (and as you said, he clearly did not buy it as a pure investment)
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
twitter does make money, but now it likely won't (at least under GAAP accounting), because of the interest it has to pay, xp to karl
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I mean yeah I think people constantly underestimate just how stacked the deck is in favor of people like this. they can't fuck up no matter how hard they try. Donald Trump committed like 57 different crimes in office that would get a person like me the death penalty in 57 different ways and yet he just walks around his golf club all day. this Twitter deal looks like one of the stupidest rich guy decisions in history but I have no doubt his finance guys will find a way to make money while completely torpedoing the company. thats America, baby!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I always hope for the big social platforms to die, so hoping for this outcome atm
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Newspapers are profitable. They’re just not profitable ENOUGH to keep Wall Street scumbags happy, so they get bought and sold back and forth among the vulture class.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
he agreed the price at twitter's absolute top of its value
not quite true - twtr was a lot higher in 2021. if he'd made an offer in 2021 when twtr was trading in the $70s, the offer would probably have been $142.069. relative to that, he thought he was getting a bargain at just $54.20, but failed to account for the fed!
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
xp to rob $250M in cash! the brinks delivery people must have felt like badasses on that day!
but still, that entire investment is a rounding error to Bezos. less than 1% of his net worth, in fact far less than that (.0017)
to compare, i have in the neighborhood of $10K left to live on. a "Washington Post" to me is $17. Less than a twenty dollar bill. I could take a 20 dollar bill and light it on fire and it would be like buying the post and burning it to the ground, on Bezos terms
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
Twitter was much more expensive, on relative terms, of course ($50 billion to musk's ~$200B). i realize that's still a lot of money, even to musk
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
Oh hey
On the @Reuters wire: EXCLUSIVE-TESLA FACES U.S. CRIMINAL PROBE OVER ITS AUTOPILOT TECHNOLOGY-SOURCES— Dan Levine (@FedcourtJunkie) October 26, 2022
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
we just need something bad to happen to tesla now
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
hell yeah! finally i'm starting to understand this whole "thoughts and prayers" obsession, it really works!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
relative to that, he thought he was getting a bargain at just $54.20, but failed to account for the fed!
― 龜, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 3:43 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he failed to account for a lot!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
he should have hired an accountant
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
it's true
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
They usually take things into account.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
good calls
We have closed our long position in Twitter. pic.twitter.com/wsmbhxtyz9— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) October 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
not a finance expert caek. I don't remember the context five months ago on this one messageboard but it did drop back down into the 30s for quite some time after. People made money both ways. I don't work there and i don't like the company or even the stock but it made a lot of people money on the news cycles. But most people who were trading it are glad it's over this week.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
lmao he's in the building the stock price is still only $53.40. seems like trust in him is shot to the extent that next time he tries to buy a public company a board will be able to reject a strong $ offer on fiduciary grounds just because he's such a liar.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
This always happens. Look at ATVI. People play arbitrage but it's dead money. Who wants that tied up when the difference is so little.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
i went through an public-private with a company at $16. the stock price was $15.85-$15.95 for four months. a dollar seems like a pretty big implied risk.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
and xxp didn't mean to pick on you in particular. everyone was very confident about what would happen. most of us were wrong. just struck me as a particularly unequivocal claim about what people think, from someone who would be in a position to know what smart people would think (or what conventional wisdom was). enough that i remembered it 6 months later, which is more than i can say about my own posts.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
I probably do not understand what you are trying to say then.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
"Hindenburg" is a rather ominous name for a company that is supposed to be about the future.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
he literally tried every conceivable way to get out of the deal. It is a terrible deal. Everyone realizes this.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
xpI was thinking the same thing, so went to their web site and learned they picked that name intentionally, because they focus on finding companies that are close to self-destruction.
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Oh, the humanity
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
they publish short reports. they were shorting twtr like everyone else in the world when elon was trying to get out of it and then they went long when it looked like he was stuck.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
xxp oh for sure. but "no one thinks he will pay $54.20 per share for twtr. no one." is a statement that conventional wisdom was that he would succeed in getting out of the deal. which it was!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
again, i probably have no clue what you are trying to say. well done. look at the big dick on caek.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
my point is not that you were wrong. if you want me to try to explain more clearly then lmk, but if you don't care that's fine.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
i am good, i kind of have a memory about you working at twtr? but it's ok.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
it's never a good idea to make general points by quoting a specific poster. for some reason they take it personally.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Like, literally I got pings that someone was being a dick about me when i haven't posted here in months and months.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
aimless, that's fair. yerac, sorry for doing that.
xxp yes i worked there until last month. it was weird. i wouldn't pay $46bn for it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
so wait - carrying the sink into the lobby was just so he could tweet a pun? What is he, 14 years old?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
That reeks of "Steve Jobs making his assistant get him a dress shirt five minutes before his McIntosh demo just so he could show that its floppy disks fit in a breast pocket" energy, except with less of a point
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
doing stupid stuff for the sake of a bad pun is good imo
― micah, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Ehh, when you've publicly stated that you plan to lay off most of the workforce? Not necessarily a way to ingratiate yourself into the new digs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
I brought these leis for you from Hawaii.
Now I want you to count off from 1-10, and everyone with numbers 1-7, take them off
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-self-driving-claims-sources-2022-10-26/
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a41781263/tesla-us-criminal-investigation-full-self-driving/
(it's about time)
― Lee626, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
lol i finally got a chance to read the _dark forest_ thingy and saw the author and just lolled irl, it's been a long time since i thought about him. good enough piece though.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
“elon musk will never actually buy twitter” is kind of the “no way donald trump would win a presidential election let alone be a serious candidate” of 2022 and ok, yeah, still doesn’t make a lot of sense
― mh, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
The difference is Trump wasn’t desperately trying to get out of being President
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
since this is the platform thread, is this good
Meta has lost almost 20 percent of its value since the stock market closed three hours ago. pic.twitter.com/P3N6ikcgYw— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) October 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
context is zuck had an earning call in which he announced their profits were way down and he planned to waste even more money on the metaverse
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
If we allocate more to metaverse I think it might get some legs
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
Musk should buy Facebook, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
then we'd have Facebook for celebrities/Facebook for everyone els e
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 27 October 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
Zuck revealed a colosseum in the metaverse where David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin are forced to fight his programs
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 October 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
There was a brief period during the primaries where it seemed like he was! That was an actual rumor, that he was trying to run but not win in order to boost his profile. I think a lot of the erratic behavior and what looked like self-sabotage wasn't him trying to get out of the job, though, it was just normal Trump (as we later figured out)
― mh, Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
"Surely his promise to prevent all Muslims from entering the country will sink his candidacy."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
i feel like trump taught people to be incredibly cynical about the rule of law, and mostly that was the right lesson, but it didn't apply here. wonder if delaware can run things for a while.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
so elon’s gonna re-platform trump, which will probably lead to facebook re-platforming trump because they don’t want to miss out on the ad dollars and engagement, right? which leads to trump 2024?
― 龜, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Democracy will be strong enough to take it now that Biden has done so much for the American people.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/musk-visits-twitter-hq-promises-staff-he-wont-fire-75-of-them/
Musk has an October 28 deadline to complete the $44 billion Twitter purchase, stemming from an order by Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick. Twitter sued Musk after he tried to break their merger agreement, and a trial was originally scheduled for October 17. McCormick's order delaying the trial said it will be rescheduled for November if the merger isn't completed by 5 pm tomorrow.Twitter shares are due to be suspended from trading on Friday in anticipation of the closing. The stock price has been rising since Musk reversed course in early October in order to avoid a trial and is now close to the $54.20 per-share price that Musk agreed to pay.
Twitter shares are due to be suspended from trading on Friday in anticipation of the closing. The stock price has been rising since Musk reversed course in early October in order to avoid a trial and is now close to the $54.20 per-share price that Musk agreed to pay.
also
Today, Musk posted a message for advertisers. "The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society," he wrote.After spending months trying to get out of the merger deal, Musk told advertisers he is buying Twitter "to try to help humanity, whom I love." Attempting to convince companies that they should buy ads on the platform, he wrote that "Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature."He went on to say that Twitter must show users "advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content! Fundamentally, Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise."
After spending months trying to get out of the merger deal, Musk told advertisers he is buying Twitter "to try to help humanity, whom I love." Attempting to convince companies that they should buy ads on the platform, he wrote that "Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature."
He went on to say that Twitter must show users "advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content! Fundamentally, Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise."
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
sounds like everything's gonna be fine then
― highly relevant ads are actually content! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
So glad I don’t use Twitter and have no stakes in this except wanting it to fucking fail and wanting Musk embarrassed and preferably dead
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
but highly relevant ads are actually content!
gag me with the proverbial spoon.. I've been hearing versions of this for a few years now, trying to convince us that we'll come tolike ads if we only get to see the right ones for us. This is some Phillip K Dick bullshit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
If ads are the new content they should pay me to read sites.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
which is the far left echo chamber network and how do I sign up
― rob, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Jim Cramer is tearing up over $METAGenerational bottom in process pic.twitter.com/3tICGm6qoi— Inverse Cramer ETF (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) October 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
xp you're posting on it right now :)
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
haha "inverse cramer etf"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
"Musk said his primary motivation for buying the company is to ensure the “future of civilization.” He said the goal is to preserve a “common digital town square,” where people with wide-ranging beliefs can debate their views without resorting to violence, rather than splintering into “far right-wing and far left-wing echo chambers.”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022"
This guy really has a savior complex
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
he sure is into the idea that the main purpose of town squares is the holding of debates.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
for everyone looking to move to mastodon now that twitter's dying, i have some news for you: Evidence Of Ancient Giants Unearthed In Vietnam— big baby (wailing) (@dec_in_stone) October 27, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Very soon, Elon will be Twitter's only employee, circling the earth high above us in a Space X pod, saving civilization one unmoderated tweet at a time... Silent Running on social media
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
The $TSLA Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards https://t.co/UhZPHV2O9w via @verge— BertelSchmitt™ 🇺🇦💉💉💉💉🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩 (@BertelSchmitt) October 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
As one of his first moves, he fired several top Twitter executives, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. One of those confirmed the deal had closed.
CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, were all fired, according to the people. Sean Edgett , the company’s general counsel, was also pushed out, one of the people said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/twitter-elon-musk
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
Previously reported to have declared that he will fire 75% of employees, which does not bode well for security, also he's been quite the troll on there from time to time, and the public square is already starting to smell strange. It's been fun, but I'm gone.
― dow, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
deactivated deleted. my account sucked anyway, because idngaf about twitter, but it would be a shame if something really terrible happened to it or musk.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 28 October 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
you're leaving twitter? henry kissinger is still alive, and you're leaving twitter?— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
the important thing about Elon buying twitter is we all have to act like Tumblr after Yahoo bought it. devalue this platform. make it much worse. stop "driving engagement" and start depression posting. block every promoted tweet. we can do this.— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
I instinctively block promoted tweets (they make it easier than any other platform) and for a while 99% of my ads were for HIV/PREP drugs and then that transitioned to ads aimed at doctors trying to get people to take them.
(the old story about Target predicting a teenager's pregnancy based on the algorithm had me worried for about a minute when the first HIV ad popped up.)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 28 October 2022 09:45 (one year ago) link
People saying they are going to leave because more bad ppl are going to come back assumes there aren't enough bad people posting today. Or that the situation was improving purely because a few accounts (Trump's) was finally put to rest. This is really, really not the case.
But if it becomes markedly worse at aggregation of opinion/news then it will be diminished.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 10:18 (one year ago) link
Blue check marks for every scanner crimewatch account
― Eric H., Friday, 28 October 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
Lol at this discussion
Am I the only person who thinks you would lose something if we all retreated into our little soc media walled gardens?— Tom Munday (@tommundaycs) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
I've deactivated my barely used account. So you can look forward to a...slight reduction in embedded tweets on the uk pol thread.
― nashwan, Friday, 28 October 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
All of the “free speech” platforms are unusable right wing cesspools due to the lack of moderation. If Musk wants to turn Twitter into that, good for him, it will lose all of its value to advertisers.
― treeship., Friday, 28 October 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
Twitter already does a bad job rooting out the troll accounts, the frog picture people and whatever. What they do right now is ban the big accounts that violate their policies, like Trump. With those people back on it will make the site shittier though as the trolls will feel like it is “their” space, they’ll have more big tweets to congregate around.
― treeship., Friday, 28 October 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
musk already told advertisers that hes not going to make it a right wing free for all, who knows what hell actually do, but theres really no angle to making it a total shithole, theres no point in owning it if people stop using it, which is happening anyway lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgKI9WnVEAIQarz?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
thanks, bro!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
absolute power currupts tweets
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/1ibkfp.jpg
Musk about to let all the baddies back out.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
the funny and likely thing that could happen here is musk making twitter more "free speech' causing advertisers and users to leave causing musk to roll back the free speech causing his loony fans to hate him
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
hopefully its value drops to the point where it can one day join the ilx family of apps
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
lol Josh - "it's true, this man has no dick"
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
I love people who are posting things like, "Now that we have free speech on Twitter, I can say ..." and then proceed to post dumb shit that was already on Twitter all the time.
I still think the best analogy to this is rich guys buying newspapers, which was also traditionally much more for clout and bragging rights than as a business proposition. But also, those rich guys almost always end up getting antsy when it turns out it's hard to actually make money running a media company, and one thing most rich guys really don't like is losing money. It's inconceivable to me that even as big a troll as Elon will not want return on $44 billion. And the reality is, there are only a few ways to make money from a media platform, no matter how large — basically some combination of advertising and subscriptions. Musk is apparently banking heavily on the latter, which seems like a reach to me, but who knows. People pay for all kinds of things I guess.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I remember the big deal when Sam Zell bought Tribune...then unceremoniously dumped it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
Anyone who is willing to pay for access to tweets doesn't deserve respect of any kind.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
good summary
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
― that's not my post, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
Like, a substack or a Patreon, I get it— oftentimes people are paying for long-form thinkpieces, or mixes, and they get something special out of supporting someone who isn't part of the regular media environment. Foxy Digitalis' return is a good example of this, at least in the music world.
But seriously— paying for some media asshole's tweets? Paying to access 280 character sharts? Please, only an absolute fucking dummy would do that.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
I was thinking ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/technology/elon-musk-is-a-digital-citizen-kane.html
"But imagine that Musk eventually buys Twitter from the stockholders who own it today. The closest comparison to this might be the 19th-century newspaper barons like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and the fictional Charles Foster Kane, who used their papers to pursue their personal agendas, sensationalize world events and harass their enemies."
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Yep, but the difference is that at that point newspapers were pretty good business propositions.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
Sam Zell destroyed the Tribune, and the assholes he hired there were like a preview of the Trump administration.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
rosebud: https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/c99fb3ee-tesla-fire-moscow.gif
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
subscriptions will never work for twitter. it will fail just like ilx premium did.
― treeship., Friday, 28 October 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
Maybe Twitter needs a 77 board
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
x post what if you had to pay to cancel?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Not surprisingly, as a long-time poster on a tiny niche message board, I kind of feel like all the big social media platforms are lame and the internet was better when it was made up mostly of small niche blogs and boards. So its hard for me to get too worked up about what will happen to Twitter.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Yeah I don't want to downplay its significance (e.g. Trump), but people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
"LIMITED OFFER: Get a FREE Twitter account when you buy any dozen at participating Krispy Kreme™ Doughnuts! Open your account today!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
A lot of the freakout over the acquisition of Twitter seems to be the particular kind of upper-middle-class ladder-climbing liberal media professional just manifesting anxieties that there are massive structural disincentives in place to prevent. That Verge piece linked about goes into it well.
Musk can’t do all the nightmare horde unleashing that media types fret about and dumbass online rightwing trolls slather over because it would make the userbase flee in droves, and that userbase is the thing that gives the platform its relevancy Musk do desperately wants.
From that Verge post:
Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, October 28, 2022 12:41 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
would say its importance is generally underrated eg the famous expression twitter is not real life, it has reach way beyond the platform, watch any cable news show and like half of it is them reading tweets, trump obvs the ultimate example he prob wouldnt have won without it, having said that i do think it peaked a while ago and will be fairly irrelevant before long, for instance athletes are way more likely to post on instagram these days than twitter where a few years ago if you watched espn it was full of tweets
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
I don't know, if it's all about the grift then can't he just charge right wing advertisers and cons political players and the like a lot of money, a la Trump overcharging people to stay in his hotel?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah I don't want to downplay its significance (e.g. Trump), but people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance
Definitely, and I think it works from the ego entanglement and self-identification and self-branding that the particular kind of user who needs social media to exist as a promotional tool. The network they identify with just simply must be important because they view themselves as very important people.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
that sounds weirdly like an argument for its importance
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
every sentence in that verge piece makes sense, but i think this is the correct take on it
imagine going up to elon of all people and being like Sir you have to take your job seriously— stephanie (@isosteph) October 28, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
also this is terrible
You fucked up real good, kiddo.
Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself,
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
I'd like for this to be true, I hope it's true, but I'll believe it when I see it.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
Not enough advertisers in that market niche, but more importantly, doing that kills all the cache Musk compulsively needs.
So much of what Musk does can be seen as just a dumb rich guy/con man who so desperately wants social legitimacy from a certain cadre of the cultural establishment. (Kinda like Trump and Vince McMahon in the 80s, come to think of it.) There’s a reason he went on SNL.
The other half is just hype shit up to keep the government contracts coming, and to kill any project like high-speed rail in California or elsewhere that might encroach on the shitty car company he bought.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance
Ha.. In MAU's (monthly active users), it's below platforms I've never even heard of.. it's even below Pinterest!
1. Facebook — 2.9 billion MAUs2. YouTube — 2.2 billion MAUs3. WhatsApp — 2 billion MAUs4. Instagram — 2 billion MAUs5. Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion MAUs6. WeChat — 1.26 billion MAUs7. TikTok — 1 billion MAUs8. Sina Weibo — 573 million MAUs9. QQ — 538.91 million MAUs10. Telegram — 550 million MAUs11. Snapchat — 538 million MAUs12. Kuaishou — 519.8 million MAUs13. Qzone — 517 million MAUs14. Pinterest — 444 million MAUs15. Twitter — 436 million MAUs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
people who work in media use it so it has an outsized influence on the culture
― treeship., Friday, 28 October 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
it is where consent is manufactured
one of the problems with twitter as a business is that its niche as a broadcast platform for powerful, famous, and various other power users way outclasses the baseline numbers that advertisers care about
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Friday, October 28, 2022 12:57 PM (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
it is true advertisers are very picky about this stuff
also, it’s a private company without any meaningful regulatory comms framework? (such as might be produced by the FCC or Ofcom). why would anyone/Musk care apart from a revenue/profitability pov?overreliance on a non-publicly regulated or owned company for communications strategy is a problem, right?!What *are* the US regulatory frameworks that cover twitter?
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
the outsized nature of it as a platform for pols, companies and media definitely has an impact.
you dont see your uncles facebook posts complaining about masks or whatever slapped up on cnn too much
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
xp the FTC. it's under a consent decree right now. none of that changes with it going private. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-pay-150-million-penalty-allegedly-breaking-its-privacy-promises-again
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
yeah "importance" is too ambiguous a term really, but lagoon is otm
― rob, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
there's also the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
― rob, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
it's the only social network that gets mentioned regularly on TV news. seems like denial to say it's not "important". it's probably becoming less important.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
will be interesting to see how the "repeal 230" right respond to this change of ownership. seems like its repeal would be a danger to musk personally now haha.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
that’s interesting caek, thanks. makes sense it’s on the data management side.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
wonder what happens after twitter, notice a lot of non american journalists celebrities and whatnot have channels on messaging apps telegram wechat etc that people can subscribe to, americans have never really gotten into those mega chat apps tho, maybe someone should create x
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
How important is TV news?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
definitely important, for all the reasons stated. it’s interesting it has such importance with so little regulation. in other areas i’d say regulation was slow in catching up, on the comms (not the data) side im not so sure. feels like the publisher/platform difficulty is a genuinely problematic area.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
that was an xpost rather than a response to the tv news point!
it's subject to local laws too. i don't know much about DSA but it seems like it should be on his radar.
👋 @elonmusk In Europe, the bird will fly by our 🇪🇺 rules.#DSA https://t.co/95W3qzYsal— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) October 28, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
my instinct rn is that unless musk rly fucks up the high profile users and many others won’t go anywhere.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
yeah europe def has the capacity to hamstring the business model - just look at GDPR.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
seems like section 230 tbh (but unlikely to be repealed, unlike 230) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#New_obligations_on_platform_companies
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
maybe they start making subtwitters to cater to niches - ie. /garfield
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
Twitter has largely replaced PR firm press releases... I remember Whoopie Goldberg eulogizing Lou Reed on twitter (!) rather than quietly sending flowers to his widow.. in that respect, it's dirt cheap and purely performative
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Oh lol at my half thought fucking up the quote anyway YOU GET WHAT I MEAN
― barry sito (gyac), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
i do and it’s absolutely right. things don’t change v much until they do very rapidly.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
lol i have been trying all day to get hold of a large publisher's publicity dept (via phone, via email and via twitter) and none of these avenues work
i blame elon musk
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
lol ok maybe just add twitter to the ways people won’t respond to you.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
:(
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
no not that face! not you personally! i just mean channels of non-communication from businesses and people.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, October 28, 2022 12:01 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
how many advertisers still run ads on Tucker's show? its the most watched thing on cable news but I know for a while it was nothing but ads for reverse mortgages and My Pillow
― frogbs, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
yeah the ads across fox news are all over priced gold coins and reverse mortgages lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
fwiw even with the efforts of the previous regime twitter still made less money per user than the other comparable sites because of the problem of being a bit of a hell hole
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
That Verge piece linked about goes into it well.
otm. once I found time to read it, it felt like the author accurately puts his finger upon the many constraints Twitter faces and how little Musk can do about them without ruining Twitter even worse and fucking himself out of billions of dollars. def worth a read.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
the most muskian playbook here, considering his history with tesla, would be to manipulate the media into inflating twitters valuation, gonna be a lot harder than just saying full self driving is a year away every year tho
cut costs introduce some new features juice the numbers then take it public with the hope that the fanboys will buy it up
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
what happens when twitter bursts into flames
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
🙏🙏🙏
Congratulations to @elonmusk Maybe now I can get @verified pic.twitter.com/nlij2dPnnr— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
what a lovely welcome
Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify derogatory slurs. For example, over the last 12 hours, the use of the n-word has increased nearly 500% from the previous average. pic.twitter.com/mEqziaWuMF— Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.
― piscesx, Friday, 28 October 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Dropping mad N-words to welcome Trump back into the fold
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 28, 2022
I had forgotten Twitter was the company that bought and shut down Vine.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Vines problem was the videos were too short for the brain to comprehend imo
but many vines live on - on tiktoksweet vine of grapes
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
vine was too good for this world
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 28, 2022
I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.― piscesx, Friday, October 28, 2022 3:26 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― piscesx, Friday, October 28, 2022 3:26 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
their policies and their implementation of those policies is not perfect, but it's pretty good, and a lot better than it was 3-4 years ago. unfortunately the person responsible for that was fired yesterday.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."
https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bill-and-ted-future-dudes.jpg?w=1020&h=446
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
I have noticed that every trending topic I've seen today is some right wing bullshit. I'm assuming it's conservatives feeling themselves about now.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 28 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
i find this facebook tankie extremely annoying, but this seems obviously true?
I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 28, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
I guess General Motors has already begun cancelling advertising..?
I know another car company that can take up the slack!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
_people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance_Ha.. In MAU's (monthly active users), it's below platforms I've never even heard of.. it's even below Pinterest!1. Facebook — 2.9 billion MAUs2. YouTube — 2.2 billion MAUs3. WhatsApp — 2 billion MAUs4. Instagram — 2 billion MAUs5. Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion MAUs6. WeChat — 1.26 billion MAUs7. TikTok — 1 billion MAUs8. Sina Weibo — 573 million MAUs9. QQ — 538.91 million MAUs10. Telegram — 550 million MAUs11. Snapchat — 538 million MAUs12. Kuaishou — 519.8 million MAUs13. Qzone — 517 million MAUs14. Pinterest — 444 million MAUs15. Twitter — 436 million MAUs
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
my suggested topics are always useless garbage - oh you follow AOC and Ilhan Omar, you definitely want to see every attempt at a fascist hashtag!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Ed Zitron:
In short, Musk bought a company with a product that’s somewhat difficult to describe for reasons he has had a great deal of trouble elucidating. He didn’t want Twitter, he wanted to prove he could buy it, and he wanted everybody to think it was cool, which they did not. He has spent $44 billion in an attempt to make people love him only to be left with a very expensive way to make people angry at him every single day for the rest of his life.
https://ez.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-boy-genius
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
what a fn dickhole
Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself. Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.Subscribe to read ➡️https://t.co/ad9XTdVQhJ pic.twitter.com/sbO8tD8hGN— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
learn to shred
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
― death generator (lukas), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Without personal knowledge of Twitter infrastructure, I’d bet Musk is right that it’s a mess and over-staffed. Do I think he can fix that? Nope!
Wiki Foundation, for reference, spends about 100m annually.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
Musk doesn’t even know how to read code, as has been shown repeatedly.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
Like, he’s had to have people walk him through installing and running stuff off GitHub.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
some sort of stunt to keep the troops on their toes type of thing youd see in a movie im sure it went over well in real life and the workers arent say brazenly posting your code to twitter cause they dont give a shit
Happy Friday all. pic.twitter.com/Rk9m1v1hmu— Leah Culver (@leahculver) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
a social network with constantly shifting functionality would be cool, you always have to figure out whats going on like a game, of course no one would use it and it would fail
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgPXv2mXgAAIlky?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
isnt it already this?
i mean it already fails lol but assuming we're not talking the kinds of multiple outage-dysfunction that accelerated livejournal's shift into the twilight
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
just had a vision of the revenant failwhale as moorcock's GHANH (aka the key denizen of a sharknado) returned from the chamber of the dead by corum's hideous jewelled eye
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
elric musk 😔
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
Can't believe @elonmusk bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022
― calzino, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Saturday, October 29, 2022 9:39 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
to an extent, but change is too slow and iterative, ai will solve this
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
or blockchain will solve this
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and is set to launch "soon". https://t.co/e6LUiprjQV— RELENTLESSLY Gay (@queertardo) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
til jack dorsey was an ilxor viz poster blueski
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
🐦[Can’t believe @elonmusk🕸 bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F🕸— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022🕸]🐦
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Is Elon Musk that much worse than Jack Dorsey? I mean they are both the same ballpark of absolute cunts.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
richer = worse is how i break it down to an extent
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, October 29, 2022 10:11 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they seem pretty similar even beyond being horrible rich guys tbh, tho musk personally owning twitter is a pretty different set up than jack running it as ceo of a public company, guess well see how it plays out
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Musk is imo worse because he's a troll.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation?fbclid=IwAR1SQ1aNpojt6ChZKgHlW1h3qGF5OOZu_oLC4DXMSJZeOccWcxnkPvHMQbw
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 29 October 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
musk doesn't seem like a genius and the fact that he's operating in bad faith makes him worse/more dangerous than jack. but but jack dorsey is an actual moron. he reminds me of peter sellers in being there.
This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, October 28, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, October 28, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i don't think this is true. the average manager of ICs or manager of managers at twitter is not unusually bad. the problem is 1) there are too many of them. the average number of reports for a line manager is low relative to the industry. you could fire half of them and not make much operational difference. 2) there's a culture of incompetence and extreme slowness among *their* managers, right the way to the top. can't imagine where that came from. (it came from jack.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
how do i become this clever?
Ok. It’s hitting me like a rock. Twitter is the social operating system for tesla. Hence tesla engineers already working with the code. It’s the software that can run communication and commerce through the tesla. Ok wow. $twtr $tsla— Ross Gerber (@GerberKawasaki) October 29, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
get hit with a rock?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Nah, it's gonna take at least a falling air conditioner.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 29 October 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
it's hard for a disruptive technology, the system is stifling it. it has stuffed this one with middle management and ~feelings~ and shit.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Saturday, 29 October 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
What a guy. @elonmusk is making sure to fire people at Twitter before part of their year-end compensation *kicks in on Tuesday.* https://t.co/sEclZozKV5 pic.twitter.com/inw3vF0kIL— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) October 29, 2022
― 龜, Sunday, 30 October 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Not surprising! I personally and anecdotally know of a ton of companies at the very least dropping contract employees right before a fiscal reporting deadline. Dropping off all contractors in software at the end of Q3 to pump up Q4 numbers, etc
might result in a big hiring spree Jan1, maybe not
― mh, Sunday, 30 October 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
he's also apparently firing senior staff for cause so he doesn't have to pay their golden parachutes. congratulations to the lawyers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
sounds like he really is going to try to fire ~50% of people before tuesday. absolutely nuts, almost certainly in violation of the WARN act.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
When’s he ever had to suffer consequences for breaking the law before?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 30 October 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is now sharing conspiracy theory blog posts about the attack on Paul Pelosi. pic.twitter.com/XKolS7ogYd— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) October 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
They should ban him from ... oh.
Dumb question: He owns Twitter now, which is a private company, so if he fails to foster a safe workspace, or actively does stuff to make it unsafe by promoting, I dunno, homophobic conspiracy theories or whatever, are there any legal ramifications, or is he just free to fuck around all he wants? Does a worker have any recourse besides quitting? (Assuming any workers will be left.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
no lawyer but does seem like someone could have a claim
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
I know the last 5–10 years have made people extremely cynical about the law but this guy was forced to buy twitter against his will by the courts.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Will be interesting to see if advertisers still want to spend money on a site whose owner uses it to post homophobic conspiracy theories in Hilary Clinton’s mentions.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
IANAL but i believe that it could very easily constitute creating a "hostile work environment" under civil rights and workplace harassment law. there must be a lot of case law by now where awful stuff the boss posted/shared on social media, right? i don't know, but you'd usually think someone with Musk's familiarity with right-wing online awfulness would focus very much on staying obnoxiously, trollishly on JUST the 'legal' side of things. (perhaps he will make the attempt, but totally fail because he is an egomaniacal moron, as this week has reminded everyone but his two million most sycophantic worldwide followers.)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
anyone who's spent time reading abt the great fraudsters (bottomley, ponzi, madoff etc)* will discover that for all the time they spend as outrageous scofflaws getting away with everything all the time they are often very active under the surface (like a swans feet) compounding the fraud more and more incoherently to support the earlier fast-toppling stages = they get away with it until suddenly they don't, the very epitome of "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly"
musk is extremely streeeeeeetched right now and increasingly hemmed in legally -- and maybe he'll get away with it! he's nominally (if not actually) the richest man in the world and has a tone of ppl who will still shill for him at any price, but he's also a massively dumb ecogmaniac who no one ever says no to
*(obviously the ones who quietly got away with much worse are nowhere listed as "great fraudsters")
― mark s, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
is this something: black swans feet
― mark s, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
musk Trump is extremely streeeeeeetched right now and increasingly hemmed in legally -- and maybe he'll get away with it! he's nominally (if not actually) the richest man in the world and has a tone of ppl who will still shill for him at any price, but he's also a massively dumb ecogmaniac who no one ever says no to
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
trump deep in the brain stem
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
re elon as fraudster have wondered for a while if there isnt major accounting fraud somewhere in his business
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure some business columnists have tried to hint that without making outright accusations. His reliance on government subsidies and possible misuse of them, for example.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
I'm sure they'll charge him ... in 25 years.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
Mike, what’s Twitter’s Blind look like right now?
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
In re: Josh. Even private companies legally have to respect a variety of worker's rights, as laid down in state and federal law. It's just that the worker usually must go to the trouble of hiring a lawyer and filing a complaint. obv, the top management people he fired can easily afford going down this avenue. lesser & non-unionized employees have a harder time drawing attention to their grievances, but the amount of publicity around this buyout and mass firing will assist them in that.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
everything going perfectly
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgVx2fZWIAAG6hY?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
Mike, what’s Twitter’s Blind look like right now?― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, October 30, 2022 1:57 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, October 30, 2022 1:57 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
dunno right now. i got banned from blind this morning for calling musk a messy bitch.
but the last couple days have been intense. the 75% story was i think the first time a lot of people realized it was more likely than not they would lose their job. and then the story about the c-suite getting shitcanned without severance yesterday and the apparent rush to get stuff done before nov 1 finally made people realise not only are they losing their job: he's not going to honor any aspect of the unenforceable gentleman's agreement about comp/severance/benefits. the code review thing is the icing on the cake.
there was a great "i was excited about musk getting rid of the libs but now i'm shocked to see him firing the very people who can help him" post this morning. real never though leopards would eat my face stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
i got banned from blind this morning for calling musk a messy bitch.
damn no free speech on blind
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
you saw how he eats spaghetti?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 October 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
NEW: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 a month for verification. It’s Elon Musk’s first big project.Oh, and the team building it was told they will all be fired if they don’t meet a launch deadline of November 7th. https://t.co/Kk8IVynhzw— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
^ fodder for the work faster you fuckers thread
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
i'm starting to think that the starting point for understanding elon's agenda is recognizing that he is really fucking stupid— jason wilson (@jason_a_w) October 30, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
Lol this defeats the purpose of the blue checkmark. Enough notable ppl will decline to pay that no one will look for it as a credential anymore.
― treeship., Monday, 31 October 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
There are apparently 300k verified users so this would bring in like 70m a year if they all cough up.
It’s going to be a badge that says “I pay for this treatment and I like Elon musk”. What is the market for that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
yeah thats such a fundamental misunderstanding of what the blue checkmark is for and also a perfect encapsulation of what Elon thinks Twitter actually is. can't wait for a ton of people who decline (or just let their accounts go inactive) to get impersonated by trolls which will no doubt fool some high profile political or media figures
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
It's so dumb that it seems like the real point must be to basically eliminate them — most people won't pay, and you probably shouldn't trust the ones who do. I keep waiting for this to not seem like a giant trolling exercise, but at the moment that still feels like the main motivation.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
he may think he can squeeze some money out of big orgs willing to pay, but even if it works its gonna be a drop in the bucket for a company that paying a billion dollars a year to service its debt
the checkmark is not important for most people and ill happily lose it, but if there's no exception for journalists, this amounts to asking the NYT, say, for hundreds of thousands of dollars so that trolls can't impersonate their people to cause trouble https://t.co/KfN8h5ayjf— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
whether or not it's a good idea i expect most bluechecks will pay the $20 to stay verified
― flopson, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Yeah it’s extortion sort of.
― treeship., Monday, 31 October 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
Remember: The reason Twitter has "Verified Accounts" in the first place is because baseball manager Tony La Russa sued Twitter over an impersonator account: https://t.co/dXLuQiCzNq— David H. Montgomery (@dhmontgomery) October 31, 2022
It’s not very good extortion, historically.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
suspect someone who worked at buzzfeed five years ago or whatever prob doesnt care enough to give twitter hundreds of dollars a year
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
I bet it doesn't actually end up being $20 a month. $20 a year I could believe.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
Another site (platformer) is reporting $5/month fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
so basically you pay for twitter blue and they give you a check mark as part of the package guess i could see that
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
The real money will be in every wannabe influencer/scammer/grifter paying for verification for a few years until it's completely devalued.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
I believe that was something they were thinking about pre-Musk, and now that he's there he's gonna try and squeeze as much money out of his expensive new toy as quickly as possible, because he's dumb as shit and has no idea what the actual value of his expensive new toy is. Twitter is going to death-spiral incredibly fast; I'll be surprised if it still exists a year from now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
yeah if its $5/month I guess a lot of people will just do it. if it's $20 I suspect the blue check mark is gonna be the next NFT profile picture, having one will get you mocked relentlessly
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
the check mark would be nice for people doing literal fraud on there
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
ah now hes looking through internal coms and tweeting stuff out
Wachtell & Twitter board deliberately hid this evidence from the court. Stay tuned, more to come … pic.twitter.com/CifaNvtRtt— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
ahahaha of course the first thing he'd do is review all the internal docs for messy drama
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
as business strategy it makes no sense to take a company private and immediately jack up prices, something you'd do to juice revenues to placate impatient shareholders. whole point of going private is to free you from those short-termist incentives and let you experiment with risky investments with potential long-run upside
― flopson, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
same with all the firings
― flopson, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Fun fact: because Twitter is under an ftc consent decree its slack is set up such that you can’t delete or edit a comment after 5 minutes. The sheer amount of shit that was talked about him on there is staggering.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
― flopson, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
And unlike the previous ceo, who I never once saw on slack, I hear he actually spent the entire weekend logged in. Apparently his username is ermt. Feel free to email him @twitter.com.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
terminal posting disease, good god rich ppl used to have standards
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
The idea of forcing people to pay for blue checks gets Twitter’s value proposition totally backward. For Twitter to have value, it needs to provide valid information from legitimate sources. If anyone can pay for the appearance of validity, the site losses all value.— Max Berger (@maxberger) October 31, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
I mean yeah that's kind of what the whole appeal of Twitter was, you could hear from celebrities, athletes, and journalists all at once. like 90% of their users joined because a specific person was on it. maybe that's not the case anymore but still this sounds like a remarkably idiotic idea
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
I don't understand why somebody wants or needs a blue check unless they're actually famous enough for someone to want to impersonate them
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
I mean it's a cool status symbol I guess. especially if you're a pretty niche writer/artist/musician or whatever
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
But isn't having the followers the status symbol? Is it high status to have a blue check and, like, 1000 people following you?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 31 October 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
seems easier to get followers if you have the check though
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the “war room” are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elon’s legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
Jason c is a podcast content grifter with a get rich quick intro to angel investing book and literally zero management experience. Krishnan is ex Twitter for a reason.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
everyone made fun of jason for pledging his sword to elon but whos in the war room now
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link
First task: Get rid of all the spam!Second task: Get companies to pay to spam your DMs! Guys. pic.twitter.com/e3G9m4TSLb— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
twitter only needs one person to pay $20/month. that's enough to buy four tomato plants. after 6 months that's 100 tomatoes. plant them. 6 more months that's 2500 plants. plant them. 6 months it becomes 62,500 plants. 12 months later that's 39MM tomatoes. sell them for $1 each— leon (@leyawn) October 31, 2022
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Monday, 31 October 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
lmaooo that's a deep cut
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgXqR1_WAAIoHbq?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
interesting
― Clay, Monday, 31 October 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
Welp, I just got fired from this bird app ya’ll. It’s been grand.— ttl.eth (@taylorleese) October 31, 2022
The ongoing layoff process is a complete farce and an embarrassment. It’s a bunch of Tesla goons making decisions about people they know nothing about other that number of code commits. It’s complete absurdity.— ttl.eth (@taylorleese) October 31, 2022
senior managers getting canned for not writing code on a sunday night
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 04:49 (one year ago) link
I'm sure Elon's goons are goonier than usual, but that also sounds like any number of M&A bloodbaths.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 06:09 (one year ago) link
Twitter crashing and burning is probably a good thing, depending on what comes next
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 31 October 2022 06:13 (one year ago) link
xp Firing middle managers for cost efficiencies is expected. Firing middle managers *because* they’ve being doing their job (management) rather than a different job (writing code) is bizarre.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 06:40 (one year ago) link
In retrospect, there was no way a little blue checkmark was not going to evolve from a fraud prevention tool into the online equivalent of The Star-belly Sneetches in the minds of these cringe-y losers.
― Chris L, Monday, 31 October 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
anyone with .eth in their username probably deserves to be fired tbh
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 31 October 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Monday, 31 October 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
That's just nonsense. So many marginalised voices have been amplified on the platform. I've learnt a lot from them.
People quitting bcz of Musk are silly. Did you not know the weird people who owned the platform before he came along? Not to defend the cunt but the previous ppl had a contempt for the product and hardly ever tweeted. At least he uses it.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:26 (one year ago) link
This is exactly right. If you think the cumulative cultural impact of the right-wing knuckle-walkers outweighs the cumulative cultural impact of Black Twitter, to pick just one, well, that's on you. It's certainly not my experience.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
ive got multiple paul pelosi conspiracies in my trends this morning
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 12:31 (one year ago) link
a multiplicity of paul pelosis
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
it’s also simply been a net negative in the world under any objective measure
Would like you to print out the data on this and bring it by my office in 30 minutes.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
It's OK to quit sonething because you hate the person in charge of it.It's OK to hate them more than the previous person in charge of it (esp.given how they behave on it themselves).I mean these whataboutery complaints about this are pretty weird to me.
― nashwan, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
In any case I think the vast majority of ppl quitting now are doing so with Musk being the last straw rather than a single reason.
― nashwan, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
I am querying this guy buying it as being the last straw. Really?
Big portions of the world are carved out for other people's profit (whether that's monetary or cultural). I don't think you escape that by deleting an app.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
But you can certainly reduce their ability to rub it in your face.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
I mean it does sound like Musk buying was the last straw. Lots of ppl talking about quitting and alternatives.
Funnily enough a couple of Black/Asian posters I saw were like 'it's always been hell it will always be hell', or 'at least I can swear at a dumb blue tick again without getting banned' lol xp = sure, if you think so.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
Did you not know the weird people who owned the platform before he came along?
sure but Dorsey seems like your standard issue libertarian techbro while Elon is more of a Trumpy figure whose ultimate goal is to make every single thing on Twitter about him. the idea of him moderating a giant online forum gives me Lowtax vibes...hopefully it ends the same way
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Musk himself is pushing some of them lol.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
fwiw Dorsey didn't own Twitter the way Musk does now (public v. private)
for my part it was the combination of already waning enthusiasm/enjoyment/utility plus now having to hear about twitter+musk constantly everywhere else on the internet. Also quitting social media platforms feels really good, I recommend it
― rob, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
ive never consciously quit a social media but twitter is the only one i still use
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
something that's occurred to me is that we're kind of past the era where people who were rich and/or had power had to be serious people; as in, they at least had decent instincts or knew how to listen to people who did. thanks to the way the media works, plus the general entropy of wealth, where random kids are inheriting vast sums of money, or investing in the right startup, or getting big into crypto at a lucky time, you now have a lot of unserious people with a lot of power. the whole appeal of Elon Musk is that he is that "if I had a billion dollars, I'd [something which sounds nice but is obviously stupid and impossible]" guy. very much an extension of the Trumpy "everything is actually easy" mentality. kinda scary but hey if a guy like that is gonna blow his fortune on something a dying social network is a pretty funny way to go
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
fwiw Dorsey didn't own Twitter the way Musk does now (public v. private)for my part it was the combination of already waning enthusiasm/enjoyment/utility plus now having to hear about twitter+musk constantly everywhere else on the internet. Also quitting social media platforms feels really good, I recommend it
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
oh yeah another reason to quit is how funny it would be if this fails quickly
lol gyac, I am of course part of my own problem there, so maybe it's like cutting out wine while continuing to drink beer & liquor
― rob, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
I drink whiskey but not wine or beer, I see no problem with this.
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
me neither! that analogy was inspired by true events
― rob, Monday, 31 October 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
― rob, Monday, October 31, 2022 9:52 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
quitting works but prob the best thing to contribute to musk twitter failing is for a lot of people to use any new freedom from moderation to to post wildly advertiser unfriendly things, also could be funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
chaotic evil is fun because lawful evil is so consistently against me.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
Years back a friend of mine verified me as a prank. You could disable the verification in the settings. Maybe it’s no longer possible (e.g., I lost my verified status, rightfully, when Twitter did an audit of verified users back in 2016). But, assuming that option still exists, it’s funny to me when verified users complain about being verified.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
I still think centralized verification is dumb and I think we’d be in a far better situation if, for individuals, publicly verifiable identity proofs were used. It’s embarrassing Reddit’s AMA subreddit does this better than Meta or Twitter! But I also understand this isn’t a mistake. Twitter doesn’t want to provide links to Meta services. Meta services don’t want to provide links to Twitter. Everyone knows but won’t admit that this shit is (or is potentially) valuable.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
I apologize for the barrage of posts, but this story is enraging for so many reasons. Last point, Jack, whatever you think about him, is likely right about the need for decentralized authentication and authorization. Do I trust him or his proposed implementation? I haven’t looked at it closely but I’m obviously skeptical because of the source. Nevertheless, it’s an idea that I truly believe would make the web a little safer and nicer.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
tangential since this is more about the mechanism of sign-in authentication and not authentication of real life identity:
lol remember when oauth was going to be the end-all, where people could bring their own auth wherever they wanted, only to be followed by oauth2 being kind of a corporate-led mess, to the extent one of the oauth creators quit the project after its release and spent the next year doing talks at conferences explaining how bad oauth2 is?
I remember a handful of sites very briefly allowing either a handful of providers or, kind of insanely, allowing you to plug in your own providerthe only vestige that remains is "sign in with google/facebook/twitter" which basically get dumped as soon as a service gets large enough they realize they're missing out on some data by not making people use their own auth
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
that isn't to say the two couldn't be linked, obviously. if you signed in with an identity provider explicitly linked to your organization (maybe something like the ACME mechanism LetsEncrypt uses to verify domain ownership) and that was flagged as legit by twitter, then verification of identity linked to that org could be streamlined
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
I don’t he has this one covered tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Jack, whatever you think about him, is likely right about the need for decentralized authentication and authorization. Do I trust him or his proposed implementation? I haven’t looked at it closely but I’m obviously skeptical because of the source. Nevertheless, it’s an idea that I truly believe would make the web a little safer and nicer.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, October 31, 2022 10:34 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i found the developer page
https://atproto.com/guides/overview
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many fake accounts there are
Also its funny he wants to charge 20$ a month to be verified - so like if Beyonce doesn't pay she is going to lose her blue logo? Why not make it more first of all or base the fee on how many followers you have
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
xp oh yeah I was looking at that last week but forgot it had anything to do with Dorsey
seems decent, probably won't get any traction
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81
Then there is this type of thinking
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
the blockchain will solve this
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
lol blockchain
Seems like online identity verification is something the government could provide pretty easily. They verify people's identities all the time. (It would have the added advantage of right-wingers boycotting it becz govt). But like the digital equivalent of a passport, which could live in a secure place but you could link to from your social media bio or whatever.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
phone number seems to be more important than physical address lately
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
Estonian solved this
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
Estonia*
estonianchain
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/5wle6aa325351.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4c7b7f52ecfdab780639886f65fde6b894488330
speaking of Dorsey
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
I hate reading articles about blockchain because I am worried I am not understanding itbut then I wonder if there is actually anything worth understanding
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
funny I remember reading a story about Tesla where Elon would fire anyone who was discovered to have a second job or side hustle because he wanted their attention focused solely on their job at Tesla. well now Elon is the CEO of 3 separate, very different companies, plus he apparently has the time to shitpost & play video games all day, not to mention impregnating one of his subordinates every few months. is his involvement with these companies just "do this dumb idea or you're fired"??
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
― | (Latham Green), Monday, October 31, 2022 10:06 AM (forty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
I dont think blockchain is that complex, it's just a large linked list which everyone on the network needs to have a copy of to verify new entries. or something like that anyway. I think there is an actual plausible use case involving authentication tokens that could in theory be used across multiple networks but, as always with blockchain stuff, there's already a much quicker and easier way to do it out there
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
heres a brief primer that pretty much covers it https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-the-crypto-story/
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
we're kind of past the era where people who were rich and/or had power had to be serious people;
I think you should probably look up the Habsburgs (or really any monarchy past a certain point)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah I feel like ruling/elite classes have always been rife with buffoons, dunces, crooks and dipshits.
Didn't know about the Estonian system, it does seem like a good solution.
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
social media has exposed the fact that rich people arent serious, did away with the pr and professional media intermediaries
the only problem is that many of them love it and are thriving eg elon trump
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
I was reading something about using blockchain as "providence" (who owns or sold a work of art and who owned it before etc) but it seemed like it was full of pitfalls.
Seems like the whol blockchain idea is "we don't need governments anymore" like anarchy or something - like the programmers will solve everything but they dont know about how the world really works they just know how software works
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
amazing to watch genius in real time
Fun watching these complete dumbasses reply to mostly bad ideas from random accounts for how Twitter should now change. It really does show they have no clue what they’re doing. pic.twitter.com/3UJ485rEam— Paris Marx (@parismarx) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
good lord
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Longtime Musk associates David Sacks and Jason Calacanis appeared in a company directory over the weekend, according to photos obtained by The Washington Post. Both had official company emails and their titles were “staff software engineer.”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
love too c0de
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
If there's a silver lining to this debacle it's that Musk will be allowed to fail and make a fool of himself again and again, in public, for everyone to see. Unlike most CEOs, who tend to do this stuff in private.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
these people are freaks (the bad kind)
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Scary monsters (and super creeps).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
I read an overheated/overstuffed piece about Sacks the other day: https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel
not sure there's much of a thesis in there, but his politics are bad (as in Desantis donor bad) in case you were wondering
― rob, Monday, 31 October 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-execs-for-cause-avoid-severance-report-2022-10
this is deranged and will 100% lead to lawsuits
also, popcorn.gif at this coming up in november: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/musk-defends-50-billion-pay-deal-as-justified-by-tesla-s-surge i don't have a view on the outcome but hope it will lead to lols.
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
interesting considering theyve owned a piece since the startup days iirc
Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Twitter.https://t.co/IDwnKGaxt7— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
articles a couple weeks old but first ive heard
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
do ya think that maybe he did this just to read Grimes' DMs?
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
it's not so much that Alwaleed bin Talal owns a piece of Twitter, it's now that Elon Musk owns Twitter and not the public, ergo Alwaleed bin Talal has leverage over Elon, also elon is a right-wing conspiracist now so more likely to promote pro-SA stuff. iirc Alwaleed bin Talal increased his ownership % as part of the deal.
there was a popular theory going around a month or two ago that Elon was tweeting pro-putin and pro-xi propaganda to try and draw biden's attention to the deal so he could stop it. obviously that did not work and but chris murphy is still trying to score political points off it? the deal is done and it would be a huge clusterfuck for CFIUS to come in now and force the deal to be unwound.
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
that theory actually seemed kinda plausible except for the fact that Elon does not seem smart enough to pull something like that off. he's clearly very deep into far-right conspiracy bullshit, can't imagine it goes any deeper than that
― frogbs, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
this is the guy i mentioned who left twitter for a reason, and is now part of the transition brains trust
https://www.garbageday.email/p/anti-crypto-media-personality
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
good luck elon
Scoop w/ @sarafischer: Twitter engineers have been instructed to look at the old Vine code, with hopes that Vine could be revived by year-end. https://t.co/XL6kdZFhEw— Dan Primack (@danprimack) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
bit of history re vine
Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users.From “Kids These Days”: pic.twitter.com/zfrTzjk0Kx— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) April 5, 2019
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Is convincing Musk into relaunching Vine going to be like meme people tricking Sony into re-releasing "Morbius"?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
platforms are ephemeral like nightclubs but refusing to negotiate with labor is the bedrock of the capital/silicon valley marriage
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
tho it is interesting that give big(ish) accounts a cut of ad revenue has since become the model, at least on some sites, but not twitter lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
tbf it takes no effort to make a tweet
"relaunch vine" is a joke meme inside twitter, used to openly mock pre-musk leadership on slack.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
has this account been posted yet? https://twitter.com/ElonJet
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
elon tried to pay the kid $50k to take it down and he said no lmao
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
seems fun for him
Mark Finchem, AZ secretary of state candidate, is apparently locked out of his Twitter account and is accusing Elon Musk of banning him pic.twitter.com/dDQ6Eerak4— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) October 31, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
everything that happens on twitter is just musk now
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Monday, October 31, 2022 5:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol I was going to say how awesome that is but in this economy that kid’s going to do something terrible asap
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
who will fill the soros role in american politics when soros himself dies?
kind of a dread globalist roberts situation
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
It's weird that Soros is a villain, he's extremely generous with his wealth unlike some bizillionaires who shall remain nameless
but hey, that's anti-semitism for you!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
you could legitimately criticize Soros for many of the same reasons you’d criticize the Koch family or other rich stock market investors but a lot of people who really hate him don’t mind those things
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
im sorry its a lil too on the nose for him to bring the guys from the project that famously doesnt work
Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover, most of them Autopilot engineers https://t.co/ogt21X90Dh <--- At Tesla, Python is a preferred scripting language, and at Twitter programmers use Scala extensively.<--culture clash, code review challenge— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
jfc *i* can code python pretty well, no wonder autopilot frickin sucks
― Clay, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
was going to say, if they're coding a realtime safety-critical system in python that would explain some things.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
Twitter's ongoing verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem. It looks like some people (including in our newsroom) are getting crude phishing emails trying to trick people into turning over their Twitter credentials. pic.twitter.com/Nig4nhoXWF— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
Lol indeed. Though I think getting blue ticks to pay isn't a bad idea. They are moaning about it but most will pay up.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:16 (one year ago) link
Musk now trying to negotiate with Stephen King to get him to pay for his blue tick.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
this is literally pathetic lol pic.twitter.com/jkMe7voVwx— cait (@punished_cait) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/022/017/thumb.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-dissolves-twitter-board-becomes-new-ceo/a-63612360
"Grand Moff Tarkin : The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away."
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
ive noticed that these online right bitcoin etc weirdos are not only status obsessed often about the most inane things like a blue check or an ape drawing and they also assume everyone else must be too, but all of that is kind of whatever the odd thing is that they just talk about it openly like i saw a pic of some bitcoin millionaire eating the stupidly overpriced gold leaf covered steak at salt bae restaurant and when people made fun of him he defended himself like this is good i am demonstrating my status as a high net worth individual and then a bunch people jumped in to defend him like yes this is good this is how you do it lol, but thats not how you do it youre supposed be like i drive the s class because its the best vehicle on the market i couldnt care less what people think, even some conspicuous consumption like a rapper throwing money around or whatever has a sense of fun to it but these guys are just like *completely flat affect* must business the status and level up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
Halloween with my Mom pic.twitter.com/xOAgNeeiNN— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
lmao that he's getting negotiated from $20 to $8 (from a guy who is not gonna pay a cent) and then openly admits Twitter is losing money. shit's gonna crash and burn even harder than I thought
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
he is just all about the self-own
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
xps to lagoon it’s just so joyless in a completely gamed way, none of these people are enjoying their money! What’s the point!
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
yeah its super lame but even lamer are the guys who aspire to be that and spend their time larping it online
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
it's a bunch of guys who have spent their entire lives heretofore min/maxing their video game characters and obsessing over rare loot drops generated by a random number generator applying that logic to real life now that they're paper millionaires via crypto. all you really need to know is that the inventor of ethereum invented it because he was made that blizzard nerfed his char in WoW.
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
So far at least two of the very small handful of people I follow on twitter have either deactivated their accounts or announced a break.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Elon's two moms are Moira Rose?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
yea I remember this stuff during the online poker boom, a certain subset of young folks got really rich and all they could think to do was buy stupid cars and get mad online. I mean if you play poker for a living there's always something to be angry about. but it did occur to me that these people were just not enjoying their money at all. one of them even used it to make a fictional series about his life that he was gonna shop out to various networks. it was hilarious and not in an intentional way. if these folks just got offline and invested in original pressings of obscure German records they'd be a lot happier.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
all you really need to know is that the inventor of ethereum invented it because he was made that blizzard nerfed his char in WoW.
― 龜, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 9:39 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol had not heard that, checks out
omfg… etherium was created as a cope for a world of warcraft nerf?? im losing my fucking mind. imagine being so mad you… what the fuck https://t.co/BX3rrWAtKk pic.twitter.com/4QXuWt6644— 🌦 (@zemnmez) October 1, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
I remember somewhere around peak Google when I read some profile of at least one of the Google dudes and he was driving one of those stupid looking high six figure sports car that looked like Sammy Hagar in vehicle form. I could be worth untold billions and I would literally never buy some yellow spandex jumpsuit with wheels. I can't tell if they're bored, have bad taste, get bad advice ... probably all three. Like, they probably watch "Entourage" for ideas.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
yeah theyre just like i should consume the things for rich suckers now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
you guys really hate lambos eh
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
I paid stet a few hundred bucks to get an emoji on my name and he never delivered
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
ilx rug pull
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
thinking about this pay-to-verify thing, the intent is to also open it up to normie, currently non-verified users too right? so elon thinks it's not just extorting current blue checks for money, it's a whole new revenue stream. but that obviously dilutes the value of a blue check if anybody can buy it for $8. altho it's already pretty diluted as-is, so many alt-right nutjobs have one via running conspiracy theorist fake news sites.
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
a pic of some bitcoin millionaire eating the stupidly overpriced gold leaf covered steak at salt bae restaurant
imagine trying to parse this sentence in 2002
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Oreos should buy Twitter
How about Blue Check for important people and orange check for nobodys that want to send Twiotter thier social security number
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, November 1, 2022 10:04 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lambos are sick dont get me wrong, they are 100% for rich suckers tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
i guess if you want to split hairs theyre also for insane rich people, thats really more their image, but most of their sales you have to think come from the suckers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
lol just recalled someone telling me about their bitcoin rich cousin who bought a lambo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
xxp if it turns into that I can't imagine it'll go any better than the NFT profile picture thing, any rando with a blue check is just gonna get dunked on constantly. unless half the userbase leaves and it turns into 44000000000chan
even if every verified user ponies up the $20/month it's still only enough revenue to cover 10% of Elon's yearly interest cost. absolutely stunning that he's workshopping ideas on how to monetize Twitter AFTER vastly overpaying for it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
lambos are a perfect match for crpyto bros because anybody can buy one - perfect nouveaux riche status symbol. ferraris, on the other hand, you have to do insane shit like go to ferrari events, make under the table payments to your local ferrari dealer, get a 'starter' used ferrari to demonstrate you're a true tifosi, all so you can just buy the current model year - perfect old guard / landed gentry elite exclusivity bullshit
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/heres-why-ferrari-wont-sell-you-new-model/
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
Theory - Musk is actually an idiot who got money out of sheer luck
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
i think musk is prob good at business, which doesnt mean hes not lucky and privileged, or that he cant make very big mistakes like buying twitter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
the farrari lambo dynamic is so funny farrari is in denial lambo openly admits what its all about
xp - I knew the bit about getting them only serviced with Ferrari and the bit about trying to resell one, but had no idea about the rest of it. Def helps me understand why Lambos are the go-to car for the newly rich.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
which dates all the way back to their founding when enzo ferrari snubbed the then tractor manufacturer ferruccio lamborghini inspiring him to build his own cars
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
i mean if you want a ferrari you can always just buy a used one, tho ferrari does try to meddle with that too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
I'd already knew about the lamborghini origin story, had no idea this was still going on. Crazy, but I guess it works out pretty well for both Ferrari and Lamborghini?
― silverfish, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
lolz pic.twitter.com/qwffiIQHgJ— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) November 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Seriously, though, if status and celebrity is important to Musk, he *should* pay people like Stephen King!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
the 'charge for verified' thing would probably work if you restricted it to just brands who are using Twitter to advertise
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
brands might just fuck off at some point, not because $20 is a lot to them, but because twitter is a bad place for them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
He has some idea that doing this will “solve bots and spam” so I think he doesn’t actually care about the price, and he thinks $20 is low.
But if he’s doing this for the revenue then there is no model of charging advertisers or celebrities for use that gets you to 1bn/year.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
My wife works in advertising and that is her take on this. It's also brought up in that Verge piece. Twitter's value as an advertising vector is entirely linked to its reputation as a site safe for advertisers.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
what does this have to do with bots and spam? I would guess those accounts are not verified, so, uh...I don't get it
the fact that he's trying to negotiate Stephen King down from $20 to $8 is pretty strong evidence that he's not really serious about this and that this is in fact one of those "new boss" moves like Trump's awful Foxconn deal which is intended to show investors and the public that you're willing to make big splashy decisions. I kinda suspect that it wont happen at all.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
this guy clearly been reading my posts on the state of social media
Last week I had a lot of conversations about whether social media was dying or not. I don't think it is but it did make me think about shifts away from text and how Twitter is Geriatric Social Media https://t.co/UEvhKVGVJe pic.twitter.com/8jEAxbQx3P— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
yeah this makes little to zero sense, since said botnet owners and spam accounts might be willing to pay $240 per year for the appearance of legitimacy
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
🤷🏻♂️
I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat the bots & trolls.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
this is already dumber than i anticipated
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
yeah feel silly for thinking he might play it straight lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
The way to defeat bots & trolls obviously would be to offer free-but-rigorous verification for anyone who wants it. He's doing the opposite, so he's either dumb or disingenuous (or both obviously).
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
also lmao @ him seeing Stephen King telling him to fuck off and going "uh, would you pay $8?" such a beta move
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
I wonder if businesses can actually tie data that shows Twitter adverts actually caused sales
I see businesses to be more keen to advertise places like Paramount+ - as more studios rip their stuff out of netflix
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
have they considered adding different pieces of flair for different types of accounts in addition to the verified badge?
for people with ".eth" in their username they could add a badge for that instead. those people would pay
maybe a badge to indicate interest groups, like verifying someone is a twitch streamer with a number of subscribers over a threshold
― mh, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
a badge to indicate your account has been active over a decade without getting permabanned
NFT owners could put an octagon border around their NFT profile pics. did you know? no? worked out well!
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
make them pay
― mh, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
I knew that, even if only because these people get ruthlessly mocked the instant they step outside their cryptobubbles
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
ten years later, haggling with Steven King about paying money to post on the bird sitehttps://t.co/7H37to05mc— /📷 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐱 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐰 📷/ (@HongPong) November 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
otoh he did put hairs on a man
― rob, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
given how much money gets spent on Twitter ads I'm sure they have this data but yeah I'd be curious how much that's changed over the last few years. and how much it's going to change now that a right-wing birdbrain has decided to make himself the very public face of the platform.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
Lol we're fucked https://t.co/obO3GvojLy pic.twitter.com/pvyYhutBiT— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) November 1, 2022
starting to understand why ol' Musky was so desperate to get out of this deal
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
The banks that lent Elon money to take over Twitter are admitting that they're in for a "huge" haircut https://t.co/CesZzGUGVF pic.twitter.com/c9aVxUOzLf— Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell) November 1, 2022
Shit like this bolsters my belief that Elon will be fine, even as Twitter goes down in flames.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
wonder how much he ends up selling twitter to some private equity fund for, $5b maybe, less or maybe much less, 0 + liabilities perhaps
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
looking forward to hearing the news in a few years that twitter is now owned by macedonian online gambling company or w/e
― rob, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
" I owe the bank $100,000, that's my problem. If I owe the bank $1,000,000,000, that's their problem."
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
eventual musk take: inadvertently destroying the rats nest that is twitter to clear the way for whatever comes next was my greatest accomplishment
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
I like thinking about this stuff because I know some car guys but I only know one with a lambo. he has bonkers amounts of money and never feels validated by the world and the car is so clearly "well, fuck you, I get THIS," but at the same time, fuck those are sick ass cars
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I mean, he's making X the Everything App, think about how much everything generates in sales per year
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
i rode in a lambo once it was nuts barely a car more like a jet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
automakers that cater to the "carriage trade"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
btw from a business standpoint and I would guess this is something that will very shortly annoy the shit out of musk, Twitter's reach & effectiveness is not jack shit compared to FB or IG. or probably TikTok, I don't keep up on that front. FB has twice the users to begin with, a suite of really useful stats & business tools, and is very responsive to business clients. twitter has "well...we'll verify you and you can promote your tweet if you want idk???" its function for business is brand-building mainly
xp I have not ridden in a lambo and am jealous
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Twitter will become like Yahoo, being bounced around between unenthusiastic telecom conglomerates for years to come, a shadow of its former glory
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
I have not ridden in a lambo and am jealous
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:42 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
it was cool but what i really wanted to do was drive it, i did ask lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
some of the 70s Lamborghinis are really elegant cars, nothing like the Transformers they are today
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
You will also get:- Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam- Ability to post long video & audio- Half as many ads— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
lmao half as many ads how generous
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
it is true they are beautiful but lambo is kinda all about being a ludicrous transformer
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
Also you will get a free iron-on transfer and a tote bag - while supplies last
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
this is a pretty reasonable conclusion tbh, still dont know if anyone will want it, also actually verifying people is a big job, if the check becomes unreliable and scammers get them its counterproductive
Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
he's just making this shit up as he goes along
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
happy to remain a peasant
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
And that's all you'll ever be to him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
"What do you mean essential oils won't cure my cancer? I got this information from a blue check doctor on Twitter?"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
This seems like a stupid plan.- pay to prevent your replies being hidden- but you still get ads- this will prevent spam and scammers- wait can’t they pay that every month as well???- profit
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
this thread reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-T1MYyt-Dw
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
sure man ok
Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
using a VPN to connect to india to pay for twitter blue and nba league pass for cheap
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
scammers get them
What if - and hear me out - the scammer *runs the company*?
I asked my wife, and she said that Twitter ads have a high conversion level, which means people do click, buy, sign up, etc. She said that in this regard Twitter is much better than FB, but right now TikTok is way better than everyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
i guess twitter underperforms as an ad platform not because it doesnt work but because companies just dont want to be associated with the kind of shit thats on there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity. But how many pickles did Peter Piper pick if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 2:03 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
becoming an indian influencer, moving to india, living a nice life
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Apparently "the click through rate on Twitter is much better than FB or IG." So, at least right now:
ads on TikTok>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Twitter>>>>FB/IG.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
I quit ages ago but if they make it a paid service I might have to join just to do the bit where someone posts something bad and I qt “this website isn’t free”
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
wonder if that tiktok conversion rate has to do with that tiktok is already really good at serving people stuff they want to see
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
Or maybe, since we're talking advertising, TikTok is even better at serving stuff people don't want to see but that they stick around for and watch anyway.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
having a more passive tv like experience might make people more willing to sit through them, how does youtube compare
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised that he accepted scaling Twitter Blue as the solution to what he originally proposed. TBH it is not a terrible idea from a business perspective. He is correct that Twitter should really think how it is going to keep revenue flowing; online ad spend is getting clobbered due to new privacy restrictions on mobile devices anyway.
― akm, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
pay me to post bitch
This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Supposedly, youtube is "more like highly targeted TV, so more for branding, less for asking people to take an action."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
twitter ads are like tv ads in that their goal is usually to elevate the brand rather than say "hey you, specific person, check out this specific service we think you specifically would like". this is true of lots of social media but it's especially true of twitter because they have relatively little information because most people users don't post much and follow accounts that don't have obvious implications for their interests. this means there's only so much "getting better at AI" (or whatever musk things he's going to do) can help, but ironically this has protected them a little from the problems the ad tracking changes introduced in iOS 14.5 (cf facebook, which is fucked, even though they are very good at ad targeting).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
charging power (and eventually real) users was a good idea 5 years ago. it's a bad idea when the number of power users and the amount they post peaked 2 years ago and is declining.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
wait, why should money for content creators come out of the twitter blue pot rather than the ad dollars pot?
they could just pay content creators out of the ad dollars pot like youtube does
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
its just you know some shit or whatever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Looking forward to the future on Thursday. Resigned on Friday. pic.twitter.com/eDsf8WtzoF— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 1, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
fuck OFF pic.twitter.com/10jsHS8Eha— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) October 12, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
That "lords & peasants" framing is such an Extremely Online Bro take. I think even most Twitter users don't give much of a shit about blue checks.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
many people on twitter really get worked up about it which always seemed weird to me, ive seen people with like 800 followers who have a blue check cause they worked at a website when twitter was giving them out like candy who cares
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
however if more people want to get verified thats whatever, they would be wise to keep giving them for free to big accounts/those who have a good reason to need verification eg gov brands etc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah that would be a smarter play — free blue checks to anyone with 50k followers or more (or whatever), peons can pay for them. Tho also that would be another "lords and peasants" system. Which I have a feeling he does not actually care about.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
SCOOP: IPG is recommending client "temporary pause" all current media on Twitter, according to multiple sources.— Ryan Barwick☕️ (@Ryanbarwick) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
this asshole could be working on a fucking zero gravity machine right now, instead he's pleading like a sad sack used car salesman
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
rich ppl needing to buy the things theyre into is so funny and self defeating, you bought the local football team congratulations millions of people who had no idea you existed now hate you
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
advertisers who are smart know that twitter has to make $1.2 billion a year in interest payments, it's a prime time to renegotiate their deals with twitter (and if they're smart they probably had change of control provisions in their contracts that let them do exactly that). i'm not a commercial contracts lawyer but i'd be willing to bet advertisers have twitter over a barrel and not the other way around.
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
xp It's really adolescent wish fulfillment.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
just get a yacht like a normal bozo, at least you can ride around on it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
just because you CAN fire off stream-of-conciousness random missives all day doesn't mean you should
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
this would help https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/snap-meta-stocks-pop-after-fcc-commissioner-floats-us-tiktok-ban.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
would say theres no way theyre going to do it but after the microchip sanctions who knows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
IPG’s recommendation on pausing spending on Twitter follows an announcement from General Motors, which last week said it was temporarily suspending its advertising on Twitter. G.M. is a competitor of Mr. Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla.
twitter now has the same problem as AWS, i.e. competitors of the parent entity are going to refuse to do business with it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
In the long run I feel like a raging coke habit would have been a better, less expensive investment for Musk than Twitter. (Not saying he might not have one of those too.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
its so funny that he doesn't seem to realize that bots/spam are very specifically an Elon Musk problem because his followers are the dumbest rubes on the planet. most famous people aren't constantly hounded by them but as soon as you start pushing crypto shit and dumb conspiracy theories you start attracting them like flies.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
yup lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
imo hes prob mostly on adderall maybe some other pharmaceutical in the mix too xp
Azealia Banks claimed meth didn't she
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was verified with like 350 followers early on for that reason, there was actually a contact at Twitter you went to to get people verified, one person I worked with got the whole mag/website stadf verified at once
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
we should verify posters on ilxor
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
i'm me, i promise
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
I forget who I am
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
I’m the problem, it’s me
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
Twitter engenders a certain kind of psychosis that other platforms don’t, tho all platforms have a probably deleterious effect on their users
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Social media being an institution-revealing thing at the same time that a great many institutions are crumbling in real-time is some real serendipitous if cursed timing.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
"PROMOTED" pic.twitter.com/QO06EMRMrx— Majority Report (@majorityfm) November 1, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
ten year anniversary pic.twitter.com/Kk4i0Fv65D— gryphoneer (@OneRadChee) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
a year on Mars takes twice as long. so he's still got time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
spent 44 billion to be lectured to by catturd2 https://t.co/OUNAfZ6s9N— raandy (@randygdub) November 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
its too good
Censorship-obsessed conservatives hard pivot to anti-Elon zealotry despite Chief Twit’s obsessive right-wing pandering pic.twitter.com/GA92kpVh4A— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) November 2, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
One of the big takeaways from time on twitter is seeing scores of millionaires, academics and people you would think are smart generally make fools of themselves.
This might be twitter's finest hour.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
https://daredevilmusicproduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Artist-Success-Money-Talks-MEME.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/XDP8PzgzBr— naomi (@badnaomibad) November 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Being attacked by both right & left simultaneously is a good sign— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
my man's really chugging the victory wine right now
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Made from his own tears
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Elon’s on board with my gamer tagshttps://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1587866548655505417
― mh, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
If a new thread is warranted I suggest the name Elon Musk : god-Emperor of Twitter
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/kGncG7Hs3M— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
as a guy who cut his teeth on the SA forums back in the day I very much recognize this strain of posting disease
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
always a great sign when your new CEO can't explain why anyone should pay for his company's service and instead resorts to antagonizing his own customer base after just 4 days on the job
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
This piece is a pretty good variation on the "wow, has this supposedly smart guy fucked himself" pieces going around.
Now that we’re several days into the Elon Musk era of Twitter, some additional musings on how we got here and where we’re going. In no particular order:1. Elon Musk did this to himself. There’s an old quip about how to make a small fortune in publishing: Start with a large fortune. Well, certainly Musk has a large fortune — the largest in the world, if we’re talking valuation rather than actual liquidity — and he’s about to make it smaller, because Twitter is worth nowhere near the $44 billion or so that he paid for it. Certainly Musk realized that almost immediately, which is why he tried to back out of the deal as soon as he made it.The (former) board and shareholders realized it, too, which is why they absolutely, positively would not let him back out. From their point of view, Musk was their patsy, their stooge, their pigeon in a confidence game that let them cash out while Musk was left holding the bag. Twitter hardly ever made money as it was; now with the debt Musk has to service on an annual basis, it’ll probably be underwater for a long, long time.But, look, no one made Musk do this. No one made him decide to become Twitter’s largest stockholder, no one made him make a ridiculous offer for the service, no one made him make that offer at what was basically a locked-in high price with little to no way of backing out gracefully if the financials did not add up. Musk, high on his own presumed genius and fashy-flirting worldview (and possibly also just high, period), was playing to his right-wing cheering squad of simpering fanboys when he decided to buy the place, and didn’t think through the consequences. So now he’s got himself a social media service and no clue what to do with it. Which is actually a thing we should underscore:2. Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter. Both Musk’s frothy bootlickers and ardent haters think the dude has some sort of master plan for the service and that he’s bought the place to turn it into a fascist-friendly sinkhole that he can push democracy into (this being a bug or feature, depending on one’s own tendencies). And maybe, left to his own rich-white-dude-libertarian tendencies, he would have done. But the thing is, there’s no money in social media that way. Elon Musk may be an authoritarian-frotteuring bore, but the majority of the heavy users of Twitter (i.e., the ones generating content) are vaguely-to-solidly lefty, and the companies who advertise on the service don’t want to have their ads served next to an orgy of bigoted utterances by shitty people. Musk’s deal for the service has left him with something like a billion dollars in debt to service on an annual basis. He’s not going to do that with an exodus of high-profile users and no ads.And this is before the various governments all over the world weigh in on what’s acceptable content on social media platforms. The EU has already made it clear to Musk they will take a dim view of him turning the service into a Nazi clubhouse, US politicians are looking to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which largely immunizes platforms from the legal repercussions of the speech of their users), and other countries will have their own bones to pick on this score. Thanks to Musk owning other companies that are vulnerable to government pressure and punishment (Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink among them), anything he does with Twitter that displeases governments can also have an effect on his other businesses.Remember what I said earlier about Musk being left holding the bag? This is the bag! He’s got to find a way to make incredibly disparate constituencies — users, advertisers, governments — happy, and still make enough annually to service his debt. Doing all this was hard enough for the previous Twitter regime, and they didn’t have either the amount of debt servicing Musk has, or the additional business vulnerabilities he does.How will Musk do this all? He doesn’t know! Neither does anyone else! But of course it’s no one else’s problem, now; he’s the sole director of the place. At the moment, he’s trying to suggest that raising the price of the Twitter Blue subscription scheme and tying verification to that is going to do something useful for him, which it probably won’t, since tying verification to payment is not a great idea, and Twitter Blue is — and I can say this as a subscriber — a benefit for a niche audience at best. He’s also going to lay off staff, which will save some money but is likely to make the service worse. Which brings us to the next point:3. No matter what Musk does, he’ll probably make the service worse in the short run. Minimizing moderation on the site, allowing creeps and trolls more latitude, will make the service worse. Fiddling with how verification works and opening it up without an actual plan other than to have it as a bonus for subscribing to Twitter Blue, will make the service worse. Cutting staff hastily on sketchy criteria, will make the service worse. And making the service worse is bad for Musk, because everyone is watching him, and these first few days and weeks are very likely to seal the service’s overall fate.Celebrities and other heavy users are already leaving or making plans to leave or curtail their use of the service. Advertisers can go elsewhere. What and who is left will not necessarily be inclined to participate in a subscription scheme. The snowball of collapse is likely to start rolling downhill, picking up momentum as it goes, hurtling toward the cliff.Mind you, it doesn’t have to go this way — Musk could just say, hey, in the short term, I’m going to keep things as they are while I and my crew figure this thing out. But he won’t, because that’s not who he is. He’s the sort of guy who decides to buy a social media service in a fit of pique, and then panic when he realize he’s overpaid and is now in charge of a money pit. So he’s going to do things, and just doing things quickly isn’t going to be great. Beyond this:4. Musk picked a really bad time to jump into social media. Aside from Twitter’s already-existing money and user woes — it is the smallest of the major social media outlets, by a considerable margin — all the social media giants seem to be doing a faceplant these days. Meta/Facebook is has seen its value slash by hundreds of billions of dollars as Zuckerberg frantically tries to make VR happen; the formerly trillion-dollar company was famously recently valuated less than Home Depot. TikTok really does seem to be Chinese government spyware, and an FCC commissioner thinks it should be banned. More widely, Google is thinking about layoffs, and even Amazon’s valuation dropped below a trillion for the first time in a couple of years. Just about the only major social media that doesn’t seem to be about to implode is LinkedIn, i.e., PleaseHireMeIJustGotLaidOffFromTwitter.com.The best time for Musk to have bought Twitter was never, but last Friday was definitely not the second-best time. The whole concept of what social media is seems to be undergoing scrutiny, and not just on an existential basis. It would not entirely surprise me to see the social media giants of today sold at fire sale prices tomorrow. It’s happened before! Which, hey, dovetails right into this:5. I don’t expect Musk to keep Twitter for long. Or at the very least I don’t expect him to have it be his focus for very long. Right now Musk is in the “oh, shit, how do I make money from this” phase of things, and once he figures out he can’t (or alternately, realizes what he’s doing will just make things worse), I think his attention will drift to the other companies of his that actually do make money and will need his attention. At which point he’ll either foist the service off to someone at a substantially reduced price (Google could take it on and happily mine it for all the ad data it’s worth), or hire a caretaker CEO, whose job is to keep the bleeding to a minimum as the service deflates like a sad balloon, and then go back to his previous role on Twitter, which is stoned billionaire iconoclast occasionally posting an outrageous opinion for lulz.Which is to say: Musk is gonna lose money on this! Like, a lot! But it’s his money to lose, and also, he has the money to lose. If the other parts of his empire do well (and they might!), he might not even miss that money as his overall net worth continues to expand.Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. It’s possible that Musk will unlock heretofore-unrealized value from the service, shepherd it to wild profitability, and make all the services’ constituencies happy. In which case: Swell. I’ve liked Twitter, a lot, and would be happy for it to survive and thrive. Prove me wrong, Elon Musk! I will be happy to be wrong!I don’t suspect I will be wrong, however. Musk overpaid, there’s not that much value to unlock, and he’s gonna take a bath on this purchase before he gives up the ghost and cuts his losses. Musk will survive his Twitter foolishness. We’ll see if Twitter survives it as well.
1. Elon Musk did this to himself. There’s an old quip about how to make a small fortune in publishing: Start with a large fortune. Well, certainly Musk has a large fortune — the largest in the world, if we’re talking valuation rather than actual liquidity — and he’s about to make it smaller, because Twitter is worth nowhere near the $44 billion or so that he paid for it. Certainly Musk realized that almost immediately, which is why he tried to back out of the deal as soon as he made it.
The (former) board and shareholders realized it, too, which is why they absolutely, positively would not let him back out. From their point of view, Musk was their patsy, their stooge, their pigeon in a confidence game that let them cash out while Musk was left holding the bag. Twitter hardly ever made money as it was; now with the debt Musk has to service on an annual basis, it’ll probably be underwater for a long, long time.
But, look, no one made Musk do this. No one made him decide to become Twitter’s largest stockholder, no one made him make a ridiculous offer for the service, no one made him make that offer at what was basically a locked-in high price with little to no way of backing out gracefully if the financials did not add up. Musk, high on his own presumed genius and fashy-flirting worldview (and possibly also just high, period), was playing to his right-wing cheering squad of simpering fanboys when he decided to buy the place, and didn’t think through the consequences. So now he’s got himself a social media service and no clue what to do with it. Which is actually a thing we should underscore:
2. Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter. Both Musk’s frothy bootlickers and ardent haters think the dude has some sort of master plan for the service and that he’s bought the place to turn it into a fascist-friendly sinkhole that he can push democracy into (this being a bug or feature, depending on one’s own tendencies). And maybe, left to his own rich-white-dude-libertarian tendencies, he would have done. But the thing is, there’s no money in social media that way. Elon Musk may be an authoritarian-frotteuring bore, but the majority of the heavy users of Twitter (i.e., the ones generating content) are vaguely-to-solidly lefty, and the companies who advertise on the service don’t want to have their ads served next to an orgy of bigoted utterances by shitty people. Musk’s deal for the service has left him with something like a billion dollars in debt to service on an annual basis. He’s not going to do that with an exodus of high-profile users and no ads.
And this is before the various governments all over the world weigh in on what’s acceptable content on social media platforms. The EU has already made it clear to Musk they will take a dim view of him turning the service into a Nazi clubhouse, US politicians are looking to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which largely immunizes platforms from the legal repercussions of the speech of their users), and other countries will have their own bones to pick on this score. Thanks to Musk owning other companies that are vulnerable to government pressure and punishment (Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink among them), anything he does with Twitter that displeases governments can also have an effect on his other businesses.
Remember what I said earlier about Musk being left holding the bag? This is the bag! He’s got to find a way to make incredibly disparate constituencies — users, advertisers, governments — happy, and still make enough annually to service his debt. Doing all this was hard enough for the previous Twitter regime, and they didn’t have either the amount of debt servicing Musk has, or the additional business vulnerabilities he does.
How will Musk do this all? He doesn’t know! Neither does anyone else! But of course it’s no one else’s problem, now; he’s the sole director of the place. At the moment, he’s trying to suggest that raising the price of the Twitter Blue subscription scheme and tying verification to that is going to do something useful for him, which it probably won’t, since tying verification to payment is not a great idea, and Twitter Blue is — and I can say this as a subscriber — a benefit for a niche audience at best. He’s also going to lay off staff, which will save some money but is likely to make the service worse. Which brings us to the next point:
3. No matter what Musk does, he’ll probably make the service worse in the short run. Minimizing moderation on the site, allowing creeps and trolls more latitude, will make the service worse. Fiddling with how verification works and opening it up without an actual plan other than to have it as a bonus for subscribing to Twitter Blue, will make the service worse. Cutting staff hastily on sketchy criteria, will make the service worse. And making the service worse is bad for Musk, because everyone is watching him, and these first few days and weeks are very likely to seal the service’s overall fate.
Celebrities and other heavy users are already leaving or making plans to leave or curtail their use of the service. Advertisers can go elsewhere. What and who is left will not necessarily be inclined to participate in a subscription scheme. The snowball of collapse is likely to start rolling downhill, picking up momentum as it goes, hurtling toward the cliff.
Mind you, it doesn’t have to go this way — Musk could just say, hey, in the short term, I’m going to keep things as they are while I and my crew figure this thing out. But he won’t, because that’s not who he is. He’s the sort of guy who decides to buy a social media service in a fit of pique, and then panic when he realize he’s overpaid and is now in charge of a money pit. So he’s going to do things, and just doing things quickly isn’t going to be great. Beyond this:
4. Musk picked a really bad time to jump into social media. Aside from Twitter’s already-existing money and user woes — it is the smallest of the major social media outlets, by a considerable margin — all the social media giants seem to be doing a faceplant these days. Meta/Facebook is has seen its value slash by hundreds of billions of dollars as Zuckerberg frantically tries to make VR happen; the formerly trillion-dollar company was famously recently valuated less than Home Depot. TikTok really does seem to be Chinese government spyware, and an FCC commissioner thinks it should be banned. More widely, Google is thinking about layoffs, and even Amazon’s valuation dropped below a trillion for the first time in a couple of years. Just about the only major social media that doesn’t seem to be about to implode is LinkedIn, i.e., PleaseHireMeIJustGotLaidOffFromTwitter.com.
The best time for Musk to have bought Twitter was never, but last Friday was definitely not the second-best time. The whole concept of what social media is seems to be undergoing scrutiny, and not just on an existential basis. It would not entirely surprise me to see the social media giants of today sold at fire sale prices tomorrow. It’s happened before! Which, hey, dovetails right into this:
5. I don’t expect Musk to keep Twitter for long. Or at the very least I don’t expect him to have it be his focus for very long. Right now Musk is in the “oh, shit, how do I make money from this” phase of things, and once he figures out he can’t (or alternately, realizes what he’s doing will just make things worse), I think his attention will drift to the other companies of his that actually do make money and will need his attention. At which point he’ll either foist the service off to someone at a substantially reduced price (Google could take it on and happily mine it for all the ad data it’s worth), or hire a caretaker CEO, whose job is to keep the bleeding to a minimum as the service deflates like a sad balloon, and then go back to his previous role on Twitter, which is stoned billionaire iconoclast occasionally posting an outrageous opinion for lulz.
Which is to say: Musk is gonna lose money on this! Like, a lot! But it’s his money to lose, and also, he has the money to lose. If the other parts of his empire do well (and they might!), he might not even miss that money as his overall net worth continues to expand.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. It’s possible that Musk will unlock heretofore-unrealized value from the service, shepherd it to wild profitability, and make all the services’ constituencies happy. In which case: Swell. I’ve liked Twitter, a lot, and would be happy for it to survive and thrive. Prove me wrong, Elon Musk! I will be happy to be wrong!
I don’t suspect I will be wrong, however. Musk overpaid, there’s not that much value to unlock, and he’s gonna take a bath on this purchase before he gives up the ghost and cuts his losses. Musk will survive his Twitter foolishness. We’ll see if Twitter survives it as well.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
Musk is like a guy taking over Spotify and saying, "You now have to pay $15.99 to stream an album. You're welcome."
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
M.U.S.K Man (with torture intro)
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
lmao it owns that he's having a public meltdown at the same time advertisers are trying to figure out whether to continue running ads on his platform
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
I think one of the biggest mistakes this dummy made is confusing Twitter for something significantly more than a source of entertainment, which I think is largely the role it plays for a lot of people, its various sub utilities aside. If Twitter stopped today the world would not fundamentally change the way the end of Google or Amazon would change things. Imo, the end of Twitter would be more like the end of a modestly successful sitcom. No one would pay a penny, let alone a monthly fee, for the return of Two and a Half Men.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Hey not so fast..
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
would be hilarious if Elon musk personally relaunched Two and a half Men.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
well, the way he's currently windmill jousting, that could happen
Publicly allege (on twitter) he doesn't have the cojones to bring back 2 1/2 Men and I bet he'd take the bait
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
"Go to Mars? What about Everybody Loves Raymond, man!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
All these kids with Friends t-shirts show there is a market for 90s sitcoms, he should relaunch them all. A lot cheaper than buying Twitter.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
the thing that would really pique interest in twitter is if he created accounts for the characters from two and a half men!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
#winning
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
The Elon thing is like watching someone who wished to become a genie (because nobody is more powerful than a genie) realize what being a genie entails. pic.twitter.com/2uSqW1gQXZ— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) November 2, 2022
― borrowed Ostalgia for the unremembered 80s (MoominTrollin), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
something something genitals
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
so it's like watching the end of the famous movie Aladin?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
Genie entrails
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
firing half a company in one day, there must be some reason why no one ever does that
Here it is: Elon Musk is planning to absolutely gut Twitter.~3,700 people will lose their jobs on Friday, which is about half the company. Musk also plans to end Twitter’s remote work policy, forcing employees back to the office. https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
Screenshots from a Slack channel since made private put the number at 3,738 — we assume full-time Twitter employees. A ‘RIF review’ meeting with Musk and his team is scheduled to be taking place right now. https://t.co/KokN5sul3A— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 3, 2022
This roughly covers the interest payment
Apparently they accidentally posted the list in a public slack channel then made the channel private. None of the people managing this have ever had a real job.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
prob fire the people actually keeping the site up cause he had tesla guys out there counting commits
“Layoff lists were drawn up and ranked based on individuals’ contributions to Twitter’s code during their time at the company … The assessment was made by both Tesla personnel and Twitter managers.” https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
How confident is everyone in Tesla personnel and Twitter managers and their ability to identify who is keeping the website running?
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
You have to imagine that many capable people are running for the Apple, Microsoft, and Google lifeboats is they haven’t left already. Meta on-boarded a handful of E6s this week. All from Twitter and during a “hiring freeze.”
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest. It’s a non-issue. Even the most chaste of the lenders have said as much in the past two days. It’s not a pressing issue. Musk doesn’t care about it and he shouldn’t. He’s just this dumb.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Apparently remote people (which is most people) are going to get fired for cause to avoid severance.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest.
My point was order of magnitude this saves real money (in the short term), while charging a small number of people $8 does not.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
Shitcanning trust and safety before pivoting to paywalled videos also seems like it might be a bad idea.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
My bad! That comment wasn’t directed at you! It was more of a comment about everyone on Twitter or Hacker News talking about this as being an important issue rather than the obvious important issue: Musk is a moron.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
issue isn’t the lenders, it’s about not throwing good money after bad!and clearly he does care about it, given the layoffs!
and clearly he does care about it, given the layoffs!
Welcome to Silicon Valley. You over-hire but reminiscence about the “startup days” and will always, without fail, throw good money after bad.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
Xp got you.
Do you know if the Facebook joiners on ml infra or modelling? Or are they regular swes?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
no, you throw fidelity money after a16z money in silicon valley. if twitter can’t pay its interest with the cash generated from its operations, sooner or later elon will have to contribute even more of his own money to avoid defaulting on the debt. elon is not very liquid - all his wealth is in tesla stock. he’d rather not have to sell even more tesla stock while the price is at a recent low. that’s what i mean about throwing good money after bad! xp
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
I feel like Elon is giving us a good real world sense of what Galt's Gulch would be like. Nobody would actually know how to do a single useful thing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
hey appeared to be infrastructure people. Because I’m a creep I looked at one’s Twitter profile and his posts read like he hasn’t quit Twitter! I hope this is a “quiet quitting” situation. If so, I applaud him.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
Hero.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
Reply to your dms btw
Advertisers should support:— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
normal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
SCOOP: L’Oréal has become the latest big company to suspend advertising spending on Twitter, as major brands grow nervous of Musk's chaotic rein Others are quietly reviewing their exposure. “There’s some quiet quitting going on,” said one ad executivehttps://t.co/o8hD5uAcnw— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 2, 2022
they're gonna hemorrhage advertisers, meanwhile the CEO is trying to feud with AOC on his own platform
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
let's say you could...how much would you pay?— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022
fucking yikes (assuming this dude actually does work there)
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
he does
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
twitter but make it reverse cameo + onlyfans
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
pay 2 harass
what about the reverse, John? have you ever had a time you wanted to chat with another twitter customer but they never responded?— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
This is hilarious and embarrassing. They really don't understand what people use Twitter for or how.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
“no wrong answers: what if you could buy a stake in a twitter account & effectively own them? any experiences with owning folx? painpoints?”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
I feel a dril/Elon Musk showdown coming
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
this is so wild. I honestly thought given the money he paid and his eagerness to get out of the deal that he'd keep things mostly as-is but the dude is firing half his staff and crowdsourcing terrible ideas in order to generate revenue (which he won't have anyone to work on!) while simultaneously having an online meltdown which has led to him straight up antagonizing his entire userbase, all the while advertisers are jumping ship in anticipation of him turning it into a right-wing hate speech cesspool. and it hasn't even been a full week!!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
The Liz Truss of the social media world
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
I feel like our current reality is just hastening a real life Coupon: The Movie
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
you know how it's generally accepted that Kanye's mother dying is what turned him from an eccentric but successful weirdo into a full-on psychotic fascist? I think Elon's moment may have been everyone dunking on him for that stupid cave submarine
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
we should have let him take it in there and sealed it shut
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
wait he was going to drive the submarine?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
A least it's only social media.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 November 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
It's just logic.
"Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive and founder of Binance, said “a slimmer workforce would make more sense” at the social media platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has invested $500m (£441m) in Twitter as part of Musk’s $44bn takeover, which completed last week and has been followed by a stream of changes and mooted overhauls of the company ever since."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/twitter-may-axe-half-its-workforce-as-key-investor-backs-job-cuts-elon-musk
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
“I trust him by reputation “ lmfao
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
!remind one week
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
hah
https://i.imgur.com/rQyJQyg.jpg
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
Reply to your dms btw― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:30 (twelve hours ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:30 (twelve hours ago) link
I only get DMs from Twitter Blue members.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
reddit brain
Elon Musk Told Twitter Advertisers He Plans to Offer Tiers of Content Moderation Similar to Movie Age Ratings https://t.co/gPp0fhuygT— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 3, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
Hey, white supremacists! Have we got a deal for you! Hang out with all your friends in a warm, welcoming space tailor made for you. All for a low, low introductory price.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
G = Fascist-freePG = Mild FascismR = Full Mussolini
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
It'll be like the MPAA - the hard r pushes you to the top tier, but they'll let a little softcore racism slip through for the kids, as a treat.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Just waiting for Muskcoin and the "buy an NFT to keep yoru blue check" nightmare
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I would like to catfish Elon
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Just stunning how this is playing out in full public view: 'We don't know what the fuck we're doing, what would you do smart ass??'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Meaning I'd like to fry him and have five to ten people eat him
My meemaw has a great recipe hold on a sec
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
When it's going great
Since taking over a week ago, Musk has not even officially told his new staff that he is in charge. Or that he fired their CEO and other top leaders. Staff have to follow his tweets to learn about major changes in company direction. "We're all working for the Trump White House." pic.twitter.com/Mmq3dASoXF— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) November 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
https://collectiveaction.tech/2022/a-layoff-guide-for-tweeps/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
it makes sense tho because the company is twitter
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
At Twitter, Twitter is Microsoft Teams.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
I think it would be a great idea to have a Twitter tier just for militias and domestic terrorists and folks like that. Elon, hit me up at @Christopher Wray
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
"Why is this not done? I tweeted about it three days ago."
"Oh, I didn't know boss. I've got you blocked."
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, funny enough I was trying to figure out why my modest feed was not stuffed with Musk shit, and then I remembered that I blocked or muted him long ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
How long until he removes the block or mute features
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
he just fired the guy that knows how to do that
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Twitter's new staff being shown around the place:
https://www.siasat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/robort-scaled.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
"Elon Musk: Business Pioneer or Huckleberry Finn's Duke and Dauphin?"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-business-pionee_b_12353902
https://www.huckfinnsrestaurant.com/menu/
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
not only does this idea seem horrible but I'm pretty sure that Reddit already tried this and pulled the plug within 2 weeks
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
apparently he's laying off 90% of the machine learning org.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
giving an individual content rating for every tweet seems pretty easy to do, why waste the money on staff?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Wait wait Elon’s big pitch is that if I DON’T pay money he will STOP amplifying my tweets to people outside my usual circle???SIGN ME UP FOR THE $0 PLAN— Courtney Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan) November 1, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
Actually,
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
this is all so crazy there are ways to reduce headcount that dont get strip clubs talking about it lol
PSA from Las Vegas: pic.twitter.com/gFwlzsROtY— dev 🫧 (@bummermaid) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
caek quit too early
― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
its a different kind of amazon right fellas
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Seems weird how chaotic our society is.
― treeship., Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
the last bigco without a hiring freeze announced a hiring freeze this morning, so i think i quit just right tyvm.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
its nice how the fed and big business are working together on this recession
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
Riding giantess
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Time for ILX to hire
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Twitter is basically the main platform used by corporations, media organizations, prominent individuals, and even nation states to communicate directly with the public. About half of what people talk about on cable news are responses to tweets. Should be treated like a utility.
― treeship., Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
no authentication! he really thinks people just want the check
We saw internal docs with more insight into the new Twitter Blue:-Launch on Nov. 7 but only in current markets (US, CA, Aus, NZ)-Check marks for subscribers, no current ID authentication-Some features announced by Musk won't be ready-Euro launch soonhttps://t.co/K646aQrThi pic.twitter.com/1jToHytXfi— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
Some features announced by Musk won't be ready
butthe team sleptinthe office
― nashwan, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
The "pay money to DM" thing is presumably opt-in (like a low rent Cameo) but god what a beautiful scam - you know that when Trump is back his DMs will be open and every guy with Oakleys and a CCW will be spending $8 a pop to send him a DM that will be immediately deleted by Eric Trump.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
lebron james cannot wait to pay $96 a year so twitter can make money letting total freaks racially harass him in the dm’s https://t.co/1Tp5Vk27b0— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Finally get to tell Emo Philips what I think about his so-called 'haircut' hrummphh
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Should be treated like a utility.
Utilities are regulated, but in return they are usually guaranteed a profit of maybe 7% or 8%. This would be like Elon finding a gold mine while picking his nose.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
das a lotta servers baby
BREAKING: Elon Musk has directed Twitter’s teams to find over $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings by cutting cloud services and extra server space, per Reuters.— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Being down three days a month should be a boon for revenue
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
I'll say this much, at this point the reason I haven't left Twitter yet could very well be Elon Musk.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
his thinking is prob something like i can cut all the stuff that not twitters core functionality various expensive in salary and computation stuff like machine learning moderation and whatnot then those savings + revenue from my new subscription stuff will look good if i can sell twitter before it collapses
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Lol that is definitely what he is doing. Pretty funny he was forced to buy it.
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
couple issues with that is hes doing it in an extremely messy public way that turns users and advertisers off, and if youre trying to sell to private equity or whatever you already did the thing that they like to do ie gut the companies and saddle them with debt so its less interesting to them
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
its kinda true but also if twitter ceased to exist everything would be ok
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
I see it now.. this is The Producers of social media
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
I think it's quite possible that the only thing on Musk's mind right now is finding a way to make his money back, future of Twitter be damned, like a one-man private equity group.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
contrast elon trying to deny people their severance with how stripe is handling its layoffs https://stripe.com/en-gb-nl/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
There are roughly 75 million cable subscribers in the US, which is about equal to the numbers of supposed US Twitter users. The argument that something like that should be treated as a utility is absurd.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
we can treat it as a utility if we want
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
It’s not about the direct users though, it’s about how many things start there and spread to conventional media. Its influence surpasses its popularity and makes it problematic to have in the hands of a single person.
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
I mean it seems like he is mostly going to wreck it, which would be fine, but in principle
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
“this mind rot is so influential on the other mind rot, surely we must make it a public utility “
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
its a reasonable argument
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
however i do think twitter was kinda toast before musk ever got ahold of it and now its really toast
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
He's going to turn it into some kind of unusable myspace junk and then sell it off for like $15 million or something. He's probably the only person in the world who could afford to burn through $44 billion, and he's going to do it.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
thats my guess too
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
I wonder if that will deflate the cult of musk that has emerged on the right. Some ppl are very worshipful in how they talk about this guy
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
what could really deflate it is if he doesnt let them organize murders on his site
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
Well the oath keepers and such, yes. But even your average rogan listener sees him as a brilliant visionary
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
If the Cult of Trump is any indication, every failure will only boost his standing among the faithful.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
Kanye seems to have actually lost his fans though.
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
It’s very hard to say how these things shake out.
i mean joe rogan spread the litter boxes in classrooms conspiracy the other day, this shit is way off the rails
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Would replacing toilets with litter boxes at twitter save money on water? Could be a good idea
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
But yeah i get your point. The whole right wing and alt media space in america is extremely radical and irresponsible. These are the people who seem to love elon, even though i don’t think right wingers drive electric cars…
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
theres another problem for him
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
there's definitely a right wing type that drives teslas, i know a guy through work who is exactly that
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
The fail whale! Hahah this whole situ gets more fkn hilarious every 12 hours or so. Except the staff layoffs part, that isn't funny.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
there is def a conservative ev driver but i wouldnt say its the most common guy
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
Lmao at charging $8 for a check mark with no authentication the day before the us elections. What could go wrong.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
they're free market libertarian types who think elon is a genius and are also getting socially conservative as they age
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
i know ive said it before itt but elon used to have a just perfect public image and he threw it in the trash for what to post some memes
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
one theory i heard was that elon went right in order to court that demo to buy teslas cause he used up all the liberals by selling them shitty cars, i do not think thats true but its a nice theory anyway
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
True
once upon a time only a different set of weird nerds understood this meme now everybody does. pic.twitter.com/AoR763T1oB— Atrios (@Atrios) November 3, 2022
What's strange is that there are a lot fewer weird nerds in my mentions when I criticize Musk than there were before he bought Twitter.— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 3, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:05 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this strategy is too coherent for elon
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
i don’t think right wingers drive electric cars…
The Trumpy neighbor across the alley from me drives a plug-in hybrid and just got solar.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
sales are already pretty even (you have to be rich enough to buy a Tesla in the first place and thus...) but Elon's not hurting Tesla as a brand with conservativeshttps://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/cars/tesla-buyer-politics/index.html
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
Lol pic.twitter.com/fIpbLlis0k— Citizen Shane (@ShaneSheehy) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
repost this one Elon
https://i.imgur.com/4o87E2W.jpg
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Employees in Twitter just got an email from their bosses saying layoffs are coming tomorrow.Those who are staying will get a note tomorrow in their work email. Those who are let go will get an email sent to their personal address.Slot machine-style layoffs.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 4, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
Lol Twitter offices closed to ensure safety. This is like being ghosted by your job.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
holy shit they're firing coders based on how many lines of code they wrote
an idiot like me wouldve stayed on for sure lmao
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
has any big company ever fired half its workers WITHOUT immediately going into a death spiral? like within the last 40 years
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Why do people think Twitter isn’t worth 45 billion? Recall, Microsoft is currently acquiring Blizzard for 68.7 billion! A handful of companies could and would make that deal. The trickiest bit is getting regulatory approval but I feel like that becomes a lot easier if regulators perceive Musk as sinking the ship.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
Blizzard makes a lot of money though don't they
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
I don't really know anything about coding, but that doesn't seem like the best performance metric?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
2021 Twitter revenue was 5 billion. 2021 Blizzard revenue was 8 billion. They both make a lot of money!
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
microsoft only bought blizzard because they love video games
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
I kind of think the opposite — people love believing that rich people they have political disagreements with are secretly unimpressive morons, but even if Musk’s Twitter investment goes to $0 he’s still had a tremendous world-changing career with impressive achievements. https://t.co/Jf08I17my7— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 4, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
Ah see, Mr. Yglesias proves himself thoroughly wrong by being an openly unimpressive moron.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 November 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
If cost monitoring (or lack thereof) is what I think it’s like, laying off even half a data science department is going to stop hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in random, non-intersecting experiments in figuring out user stats of whatever per month
I haven’t found a company yet who has figured out how to do this intelligently at scale it’s all “gpu machine go brrrrrr”
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
Why do people think Twitter isn’t worth 45 billion? Recall, Microsoft is currently acquiring Blizzard for 68.7 billion! A handful of companies could and would make that deal. The trickiest bit is getting regulatory approval but I feel like that becomes a lot easier if regulators perceive Musk as sinking the ship.― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, November 3, 2022 10:42 PM (yesterday)
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, November 3, 2022 10:42 PM (yesterday)
twitter's peer companies (meta, snap, goog (via youtube)) are down ~50-80% since april, when elon made his offer. what's sort of neat is that because of musk's lawsuit, you can see what the market thought twitter was worth when they thought the deal would be renegotiated or wouldn't close entirely - and that number wasn't 44 billion! now, noone's saying it won't be worth 44 billion someday in the future, but my personal take is that if that ever happens, it will be due to some rising-tide-floats-all-boats forces such as a return to a ZIRP environment and the exuberance/frothiness of 2020/2021... and that's only if musk hasn't run it into the ground by then!
fyi, activision posted $2.7 billion in profits for 2021, while twitter posted $221 million in losses. so there's part of your answer? also, activision is the one that faces regulatory scrutiny here (via microsoft already being heavy in the gaming business / needing antitrust approval globally), not musk (twitter is not synergistic with electric vehicles nor is it synergistic with launch rockets, although maybe musk thinks one day it could be?). also, the deal already closed so there's not really any more regulatory risk!
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
Wait so there’s no verification of who is paying for a blue check? Isn’t the entire value of having a blue check is that the person behind it is verified? So if anyone can pay for it, and it no longer means you are verified, what is the value? Why would anyone get a blue check? Just hoping that some dumb people who somehow hadn’t heard about the new blue check policy will think you are the real Joe Biden or something?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 November 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
musk et al seem to have bought into the idea that a blue check is a status symbol which was never true and if it was then you are of course destroying that value by making this change
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
its weird cause authentication does have value thats something you could reasonably sell, where as now the blue check is looking more like.......a scarlet letter
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
idk maybe they arent capable of authenticating people right now because they fired that department
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
there may be some utility to scammers over the short term until people figure out you can just buy one
But scammers would NEVER pay a small amount for potential greater rewards!!!
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 November 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
I become more and more convinced every day that there are androids among us who don’t understand human behavior at all.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 November 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
My impression is that nearly all of us are saying it won't be worth $44 billion one day?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
iirc a big part of the rollout of the blue checkmark back in the day was kind of soft-bullying celebs into joining twitter. like "we cant shut down these 9 imposter accounts unless you join so we can verify you". I remember celeb twitter accounts from back then that just had one pass-ag tweet like "i only joined to get them to delete other accounts, please visit my website"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
Elon musk is what happens when the ghosts of a 16 year old edgelord and an 18th century coal baron struggle to control the same body— Mahogany (@Mahoganytooth) November 4, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
The blue check mark was a status symbol tho! Esp for my friends in weird bands who didn’t “deserve” it. Many xxxxxxps
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 4 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
but like just for fun right
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
well it was funNY that's for sure
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
i mean there is evidence that people do take them seriously but i dont think its that popular of an idea
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
things got weird when people assigned value other than "yes this is the person they're claiming to be"
twitter is partially to blame because they don't make you lock your username or (iirc) twitter handle (@) when you're verified. they then tend to revoke your verified status if you abuse it (see: italian elon musk, etc)
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!!
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
lmao @ him saying "nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists" the same day he fired literally half the staff
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/KdiuHd6gaC— Elon Musk (@ChrisWarcraft) November 4, 2022
gotta admit this is tremendous content
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
lol former Viking Chris Kluwe! good dude
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Whoa https://t.co/J0Xpq6G86T— Keanu Reeves (@abnerpastoll) November 4, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
everyone's doing it now that verification is disappearing lol
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
I did not expect it to take less than two weeks for it to get this bad. Well done Elon!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
it's cool that free speech in America is entirely dependent on advertisers
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
he loves posting and loves the reaction he’s getting.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
not to do the Trumpy "here's what he's REALLY doing" thing for a guy who probably hasn't slept in 4 days but is there a chance he's saying this as a way to justify the massive layoffs without getting sued? I mean legally I'm sure this won't work but Musk seems like one of those "they have to tell you if they're a cop, man" guys
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
firing 50% of the workforce will be so good for morale - imagine losing that many of your co workers in a day
"Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter’s workforce to slash costs at the social media platform he acquired for $44 billion last month, people with knowledge of the matter have said. The company must also find ways to cope with interest costs on a massive debt pile."
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/11/04/layoffs-lawsuits-begin-after-musk-takes-twitter-helm/
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
looks like he's following the letter of the warn act
Latest: “It looks like employees are getting their notices and at least some will be paid until January 4,” says the attorney who sued Twitter under WARN Act. “I am pleased that Elon Musk learned something from the lawsuit we brought against him at Tesla" https://t.co/OMwAAFzLlE— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
(accidentaly fires entire ar15 magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]— wint (@dril) June 9, 2017
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
Wonder what percentage of the team that suspends misbehaving verified accounts is getting the axe.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
For some reason I read ar15 as art15 which must be a cool art zine
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
it’s funny cause looking at the most recent results of every social media company, ad buying on a whole is way down and projected to keep on going down as advertisers braces for the recession. in this environment, twitter’s implosion / elon’s own goaling must look like a freakin gift, easiest spending cut to justify ever if you’re an advertiser.
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
everythings fine
Having a nightly standup is bad enough, but imagine holding one while everyone around you is being unceremoniously fired pic.twitter.com/aumYS2LW1V— Shantini Vyas (@shantinix) November 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
On Wednesday, if you would’ve asked, I would’ve said that product designers who can’t program but work on software is bad for software and the entire field of “AI ethics and responsibility” is quackery. Yet, after seeing all these people laid off, I feel terrible for thinking this.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
The blue check mark was a status symbol tho! Esp for my friends in weird bands who didn’t “deserve” it. Many xxxxxxps― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, November 4, 2022 9:49 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
It’s also very popular in science where people are paid in prestige.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Sure pic.twitter.com/9Zbxcmt5Kj— Katrina McKinney (@catincoggnito) November 4, 2022
― firm foundation of unyielding despair (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Esther Crawford is one example of why I believe product designers who can’t program make terrible software.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
fwiw I agree, I just think that’ll happened. The “correction” went way beyond reasonable correction. I believe all of these companies are presently undervalued. Including my current employer who can’t even ship avatar legs.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
idk programmers who design also make terrible software, its pretty hard to be good at both, and also hard to do both
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
idk programmers who design also make terrible software, its pretty hard to be good at both, and also hard to do both― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:06 PM (twenty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:06 PM (twenty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol fair!
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
software is hard is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
software is hard is how i break it down to an extent― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
My point is really that product designers who can’t program struggle to iterate. They can make the design process feel glacial and cumbersome. If you can program, it’s possible to brute-force a solution and retain some creative momentum. I guess this is probably a better discussion for a different thread!
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
And, truthfully, there’s nothing worse than a non-creative product engineer. You can usually spot them by their vocal love for Haskell.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
I’ve written this elsewhere in this thread, but I was thinking about it this morning. I have friends at both Tesla and SpaceX and they all seem satisfied by their jobs. They all say Musk can be a great CEO because his ADHD is so intense that, in practice, he leaves everyone alone to do their work relatively unmanaged because he’s so frequently distracted by unimportant nonsense. Zuck still commits code and it’s annoying. sund4r frequently attends design meetings and I imagine that’s annoying too. I wonder what they think of Musk making all these product changes at Twitter, making people work 80 hour works to ship his pet features, running Twitter polls, etc.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
xps re nightly standup
I love my family and I’m grateful they understand that there are times where I need to go into overdrive to grind and push in order to deliver. Building new things at Twitter's scale is very hard to do. I'm lucky to be doing this work alongside some of the best people in tech. 💙— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 4, 2022 12:10 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
cmon u know you want to work at a place where you can just write weird haskell programs all day and never have to talk to another designer/marketer/bizdev guy, thats the dream
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
man’s got Your Da energy no matter how many emojis he uses
The hilarious tragedy of Elon Musk is he really wants to post but he can’t. The man can’t post. It’s not in his blood and it never will be. He can spend all the money in the world and he’ll never be a poster. The real ones know exactly what I mean.— gaming on an ultrawide (toilet) (@Arr) November 3, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
xp - goddamn the responses to that tweet are bleak as fuck.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 4, 2022 12:09 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i would like to hear more about this tbh mb in here
Programming as a career
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
xp LinkedIn brain
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Sorry, honey (shhh, don't cry now). Mommy has to sleep on the floor tonight because the rocket boy that memes all day bought all the tweets and he's making us work round the clock so we can charge $8 to suckers for a blue checkmark. Very important work.— curbanski (@ChrisUrbanski) November 2, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Actually even worse than that
To those commenting on our family: our 3 children are watching Esther model what it looks like to give your all to something that matters to you, and watching me model what it looks like to support a loved one 100% #RideOrDie. The kids are alright. 😀— Bob CowhΞrd | cowherd.eth (@bobcowherd) November 2, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
guys, it’s fucking Twitter, you’re not working on a vaccine.
i dunno I'm becoming pretty immune to social media rn
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
We are #OneTeam and we use the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWork to show it, which is why I retweeted with #SleepWhereYouWork -- a cheeky nod to fellow Tweeps. We've been in the midst of a crazy public acquisition for months but we keep going & I'm so proud of our strength & resilience.— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
Delivering this speech into a blurry Hi-8 camcorder while a masked man with a South African accent holds a gun to my beagle’s head.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
Bob Cowherd is a crypto huckster. I think Esther Crawford is too.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Both pathetic.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
anecdotally, it seems like he's gone out of his way to fire people on maternity/paternity leave, and people who are expecting.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
yeah the correction was multiple things: the market being overvalued in general, those companies being overvalued in particular, and those companies starting to not look like rocketships anymore, facebook had seen nothing but massive growth up til then and now all of a sudden thats looking pretty shaky, obvs not a thing the market loves, thats why zuck did the metaverse he needs a new opportunity, but people arent buying lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
iiuc esther crawford is a social listening (i.e. marketing) huckster, but she got moved onto "moonshot" stuff when she joined via an acquistion, and moonshot == crypto under jack.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
it's happening
The site continues to display signs of all kinds of incidents.Loading tweets has had < 1 9 SR for me since my first tweet and I keep running into weird bugs I've never seen before, like the desktop site redirecting me to the mobile site login page and then failing; pic.twitter.com/wlIKO4uJ75— Dan Luu (@altluu) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
I wonder if its Musk vs. the Algorithms like Attack of teh CLones?
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
(xp, he's ex-twitter infra)
lol the site is already breaking, impressive
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
i wonder why elon decided to do it this way, he easily couldve done a more normal amount of layoffs like 15% in a normal way, then had buyouts and a hiring freeze then another round of layoffs in six months and accomplished the same thing without precipitating a huge pr crisis and probably a technical crisis too and a morale crisis as well maybe some other crises idk, such bad choices hes just unstable seems like
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
Guys, I'm starting to think this Elon Musk guy isn't actually very smart and is terrible at running businesses.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
he did amazingly well with tesla tbf, tho in a very scammy high risk way, he seems to have lost all discipline, maybe he just cant work without huge government subsidies
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
he easily couldve done a more normal amount of layoffs like 15% in a normal way, then had buyouts and a hiring freeze then another round of layoffs in six months and accomplished the same thing without precipitating a huge pr crisis
The PR crisis is the point. Disruption is the point. Cruelty is the point. What is confusing about this?
If Trump still had competent lawyers willing to work for him (lol) they would be suing Musk for copyright infringement and/or biting the Trumpian steez
Seriously it is like the most massively telegraphed heel turn in history, why is anyone acting surprised? Shitty person acts shitty, film at eleven
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
i mean yeah except he also does seem to think that it should have worked out better for him, these are still not the outcomes he wants
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
lmaoooooo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgvBBomUoAAWwj9?format=jpg&name=medium
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
user @maplecocaine: each day on twitter there is one main character. the goal is to never be ituser @elonmusk: i could be it for SO many months dude just watch
he's like when the villain plugs their brain directly into the central mainframe flow
https://media.tenor.com/GNQ_kULIvKMAAAAd/irina-spalko-indiana-jones.gif
― mark s, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
there are days when I think that no one in the USA understands what "free speech" really means. instead, every day millions upon millions of people in the USA loudly, openly and incessantly complain that it's being denied them. after which they freely go about their lives and that's free speech in a nutshell.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgvHjn0XgAIRAE5?format=jpg&name=medium
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
I thought the point was to make money
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
the point was to make a weird impulsive decision to buy the company then get forced to buy it when you tried to wriggle out out of the deal
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
then plug brain directly into central mainframe flow
― mark s, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
it's like literally everything he does is the most opposite possible to touching grass
― mark s, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
very funny to develop terminal posting brain so late in life
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
I mean he's got the same brain disease that every conservative has, this weird belief that every complex issue is actually simple but can't be dealt with that way because the woke left hates free speech and will throw you in solitary the instant you use the wrong pronoun or whatever. but unlike those conservatives he actually has the ability to fuck around and find out, and is so mind bogglingly stupid that he actually went ahead and did it
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Be extremely funny if he tanked Tesla so much he got forced out
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
def on the table
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
i know it’s already been said but god it’s just Trump on twitter 2.0 -corporate versionElon running company through tweets & getting good grace from stans bc he “is a successful businessman” bleh
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
trump and elon also similar in that their "business success" is very tied in to their ability to manipulate the media
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
i know it’s already been said but god it’s just Trump on twitter 2.0 -corporate versionElon running company through tweets & getting good grace from stans bc he “is a successful businessman”
corporate Trump is the worst Trump to be, dude lost money on practically everything he did that didn't directly involve fraud
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
the tesla analysts i follow all have mentions full of $TSLA investors saying "ok this was funny elon but let's get back to the real stuff now, stop fucking around"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
xp didn't Trump go bankrupt dealing real estate in NYC in the 80s? (ie during a real estate boom in one of the most lucrative real estate markets in the world)
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
According to Business Insider, he told an audience on Friday: "I tried to get out of the deal, it was like that scene from The Godfather.
"I mean I think most people would say, given how market has evolved this year, the price is on the high side."
We're not sure what scene he is referring to in The Godfather, the classic film about the Mafia. Hopefully not the one involving a horse's head.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
This scene springs to mind -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UneS2Uwc6xw
― MaresNest, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
Max:
I’ve been thinking about this divide because, since Musk bought Twitter, most of his public statements have suggested he holds the first view of Twitter: It’s a “a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner,” as he said in a statement to advertisers this week. But charging money for blue-badged check marks -- check marks that won’t even be nominally connected to a real “verification” process -- suggests a deeper understanding of Twitter as something much closer to the second view: a place to establish and enjoy your social dominance as a “prominent” person.The truth is I can’t really tell what Musk thinks Twitter is -- if he actually does imagine it as a “common digital town square” dependent on transparency and authenticity, or if he agrees with the resentful Silicon Valley freaks he’s surrounded himself with that it’s a game of hierarchical social positioning, or if he thinks of it as both or either depending on the last person he talked to. Over the past week he hasn’t acted like a person with a real plan, let alone a clear concept or theory of balancing the tensions of an advertising-funded social-media platform. Instead he’s made impulsive and contradictory decisions, acted out for attention and approval, and attempted to appease varying intransigent groups of users before lashing out when praise wasn’t forthcoming, all the while complaining and posting vaguely resentful memes. He’s been acting, in other words, like a message-board moderator.
The truth is I can’t really tell what Musk thinks Twitter is -- if he actually does imagine it as a “common digital town square” dependent on transparency and authenticity, or if he agrees with the resentful Silicon Valley freaks he’s surrounded himself with that it’s a game of hierarchical social positioning, or if he thinks of it as both or either depending on the last person he talked to. Over the past week he hasn’t acted like a person with a real plan, let alone a clear concept or theory of balancing the tensions of an advertising-funded social-media platform. Instead he’s made impulsive and contradictory decisions, acted out for attention and approval, and attempted to appease varying intransigent groups of users before lashing out when praise wasn’t forthcoming, all the while complaining and posting vaguely resentful memes. He’s been acting, in other words, like a message-board moderator.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
He's going to make a print version of Twitter delivered to every subscriber's doorstep
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
lol wut? (xp)
― mod (wmc), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
they are tweets printed on concrete blocks and thrown through the window
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Friday, November 4, 2022 1:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglin
This is good i am going to steal it to describe so many people
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
that's a good article jaymc, I really do think the most simple explanation for this is that's he's basically apartheid Lowtax
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
something something radium
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
lmao when you fire 50% of people with a coin toss things like this happen
Just to be clear, he fired the team working on this. https://t.co/56I1uyBIIR— sillyrobin is a fmr Tweep (@SillyRobin) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
that was the only other twitter blue thing that seemed possibly worthwhile, maybe an Apple News alternative or something that'd be more relevant if you get most of your headlines via tweet
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
a lot of companies have undergone layoffs or a major change in methodology or structure but those things often take **years** to work out. I don't think I've ever seen one try to do it this quickly without immediately going under. I'm curious what the next few weeks are gonna look like. obviously with half (!!) their staff getting the axe and (presumably) many more actively looking for new work it's only a matter of time before the company starts to experience some major issues, either a lengthy downtime or big accounts getting hacked or the whole thing just devolving into an unmoderated cesspool overnight. kinda get the feeling that if Twitter becomes unusable for like 2 weeks the vast majority of their users just won't come back. maybe it won't even be that long.
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
Fail whale being hastily sorted out for the app as we speak
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
lmao keep posting dude
You tweeted a conspiracy theory from a website less credible than the National Enquirer like four days ago. We all need to look inward as well as outward.— Hank Green 🧦 (@hankgreen) November 4, 2022
And therefore Twitter should die?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
got that real Big Don energy with that reply
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
thank god he can't run for President
Elon, face it: As long as you are not perfect in every way, you are to blame for everything that goes wrong. Because everyone else who criticizes you is perfect in every way and therefore has the right to blame you for everything.— Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤ (@marenkahnert) November 4, 2022
🤣💯— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
This really is like if Michael Scott was the world's richest man.
― Chris L, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
An illuminating exchange:
one of those stories in three tweets pic.twitter.com/Attc0TUWPs— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 4, 2022
I know little about marketing, but Paskalis' MMA Global seems to have just about every big brand as a member.
― firm foundation of unyielding despair (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 November 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
coincidentally he seems to be currently celebrating brand safety week
Post Brand Safety week speakers dinner recap with two great friends. pic.twitter.com/ShKT21g1kw— Lou Paskalis 🇺🇸 (@LouPas) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
Some Jack Torrance energy there in that photo
― MaresNest, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
the kubrick stare, brand safety week edition
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
As a former SRE, I'd just like to say:This site isn't going to burn down. That's way too calm and organized a death for a site this big which apparently just fired most of the on-call staff.— foone🏳️⚧️ (@Foone) November 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
Right now a disk is filling up on a server somewhere in some data center that a person who has just been laid off has been manually clearing every few days and when that disk fills up Twitter will go down.— @✧✧✧@i✧✧.excha✧✧✧ (@craigcalef) November 4, 2022
xp i think that thread is a bit rich, but i keep getting surprised about how fast things are going, and who knows
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
this is not wrong
Part of me is morbidly curious to know what happens when you try to take infra spend from $1.8bn to $0.8bn after firing 80% of your infra staff and with 100% of those remaining looking to be somewhere else as soon as possible.— Mark Dennehy (@MarkDennehy) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
its an interesting experiment lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Evidence that Twitter is falling apart: I've been receiving multiple DMs from people who joined in December 1969. Anyone familiar with the Unix Epoch will recognize that date and that it indicates timestamp failures. pic.twitter.com/B4Cbs0GeXM— Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) November 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
someone should look into why computers dont work better
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
I can't speak to halving the infrastructure support but I know what it looks like when you outsource over half of your infrastructure support and the outsourced support is nearly worthless. It's not good!
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
I wonder how long an outage or outages would need to be to kill Twitter off?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
This new Facebook sliding pay scale based on popularity to message people is bullcrap. $5 to message Josh Groban? pic.twitter.com/SH5VZfZHwo— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 24, 2013
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
katie n’s account reminds me i’d pay for twitter blue if it let me have an animated gif as my profile pic
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/joQLyGFwRa— Bullwark (@MattOben) November 4, 2022
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
assuming they pulled source control stats I wonder if it was lines written or lines changed it’d be funny if the top ranked dev was some pedant that kept running some code formatting tool
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
lol this whole thing is so wild, also he had tesla guys making the decisions so there was no one to say like hey this person does have a ton of commits but they take care of this critical thing
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
why are you speed running firing half a company treat yourself take a few weeks to figure it out
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
^this
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
it’s the old “move fast and break things” style of techbrodom
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
it’s not so much “build a plane in midair” as “buy a plane while it’s flying, kick half the crew out, and find out how passengers feel re zeppelins vs planes and maybe start dismantling and do a zeppelin type thing instead but yknow cooler”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
he obvs just thinks its all bullshit engineers are always whining about something but if you just stick to your business guy instincts everything works out *cell phone video of tesla burning on a desolate highway*
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
The thing I can't quite understand about paid DMs is that one of the appeals of Twitter has always been that you could conceivably catch the attention of a famous person *without* needing to pay for the privilege. You can just tag them! I guess a DM would make it more likely that the famous person would see the message, but unless Twitter is paying them to respond, I don't know why they wouldn't just ignore it.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
could do an opt in thing where the celebrity sets the price and gets a cut but only gets paid upon reply
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
Thank god for the thumbs up emoji
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
ikr
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
I absolutely love lagoon’s dedication to being on this guy’s case, if Twitter goes down I will come straight here for live reaction
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
lol thank you, this thread has been a good outlet so that i dont tweet about him all day
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
this, very much this. like a nathaniel west novel for the tech age
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
The fun thing is going to be when his actions really impact everyone negatively and his fans blame it on anyone other than him.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
the impersonations when blue check goes money = lots of people gonna be trying to get Josh Groban arrested by posting in first person about crimes he committed
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
xpost my friend the otherwise-liberal Elon defender, I thought for sure this would be it, and he wrote a three paragraph essay and told everyone they were not welcome to disagree w/ him on the topic in his thread
fuck this whole blue-check thing
because fuck anyone not running dark mode
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
So many dudes gonna be sending their life savings to fake sex worker accounts (already a problem but infinitely worse with paid checkmarks) and inevitably taking it out on the real person.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
xp I’ve never used dark mode anywhere
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
white text on a black background hurts my eyes
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
is there some kind of Brewsters Millions situation going on here
Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
threatening advertisers should work out
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
lol @ his followers suggesting he should sue them for not advertising anymore
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
im sorry its a lil too on the nose for him to bring the guys from the project that famously doesnt workElon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover, most of them Autopilot engineers https://t.co/ogt21X90Dh <--- At Tesla, Python is a preferred scripting language, and at Twitter programmers use Scala extensively.<--culture clash, code review challenge— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 31, 2022― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:18 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover, most of them Autopilot engineers https://t.co/ogt21X90Dh <--- At Tesla, Python is a preferred scripting language, and at Twitter programmers use Scala extensively.<--culture clash, code review challenge
— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 31, 2022― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:18 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
slow update from me, but one thing that a *good* Scala dev can do (note: I am not one) is write a program in a single line of code; what a bad Scala dev does is write extremely verbose Java
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
you've got to admit it would be interesting to know which companies he means I mean there is no other way to have that information none
― nashwan, Friday, 4 November 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
its amazing within a week of owning Twitter he's antagonized their main source of revenue AND nearly all their users while also firing half the company
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Too bad the entertainment is peaking so early, he's not going to be able to sustain this for long.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
if I do decide to go out, it’ll be like this pic.twitter.com/WVC8kbJ8yd— Tendentiousness (@tarintowers) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
Weird… reading this thread on the official Twitter desktop app (v12) wondering what might break 1st… then noticing that every tweet in the thread (about how twitter will break) is already broken… showing as [user] and [user] plus double avatar. Sign of things to come?!? pic.twitter.com/PNsUav5k9u— emmanuel momoh (@emomoh) November 4, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
lol twitter cops suspended me
https://iili.io/mN0NAN.md.jpg
https://iili.io/mNG7Sf.md.png
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, November 4, 2022
for me too.
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
I'm worried that twitter imploding just as the election is happening will be bad
lmao matt
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
White text/black background much easier on my eyes than the reverse, especially in the dark/low light.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
The guy from Nvidia who tweeted that they should replace all the scala with python deleted the tweet and quit his job haha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
Threatening advertisers seems bad for your relationship with current advertisers but also seems like a guaranteed way to never get any new advertisers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
Matt you are a hero
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Apparently, free speech does not extend to making fun of the king.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
should change the profile image to thishttps://mcanhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elon-musk-before-hair-transplant-cnn-e1637934950726.jpeg
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
idk why people think these old photos of him are embarrassing, he looks way more embarrassing now
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
He doesn’t think that though
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
matt i'm dying
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk as crying clown - I meant actually crying but whateverhttps://i.imgur.com/E81zyxq.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Twitch streamers should be covering this. I want to consume this trash even more passively than refreshing ilx
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
holy cow this thread
1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
That whole context about the way those big ad deals are booked is interesting. Totally makes sense people wouldn't want to commit to Twitter in the middle of the drama. So Elon kind of fucked the financials well before he actually bought it, just by being his mercurial maverick dipshit self.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
LOL @ Matt that was heroic.
Right? He's all lumpy now. He looks like a celeriac with hair.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 5 November 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
this is good https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-does-elon-musk-think-twitter
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6JVRAe0.png
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
More Ed Zitron fun:
https://ez.substack.com/p/billionaire-brain-damage
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 5 November 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
so are the mass layoffs and abuse of remaining labour particularly bad because he fucked up the ad sales with his antics or is it just what he would always do anyway?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 5 November 2022 10:06 (one year ago) link
I think he wants to straight-up punish them because he doesn’t respect them. It reminds me of something that Steve Jobs would do only Steve wouldn’t shitpost about it first.SpaceX runs well because Gwynne Shotwell, despite being 100% Team Musk keeps the place running efficiently. I applied for job there once and got as far as a skype interview but hfs the pressure that everyone there joyfully works under.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 November 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
this is a super-dumb question from someone whose grasp of coding is not much more advanced than GOTO10 DUBDOBDEE IS SKILL but what is this code that everyone is writing all the time: by which i mean i guess is it speculative new projects, greenlit projects, new better faster solutions to old problems, frantic patches to looming disasters, other?
i guess i just find it odd (as someone who works in the CONTENT-O-SPHERE where the endpoint of the work is that the public see the work) that so many ppl are just off in rooms tasked all day with "writing lines of code"
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
10 MODE 220 COLOUR RND(15)30 PRINT "snoball IS SKILL ";40 GOTO 20
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
(except mostly in Scala apparently)
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
> what is this code that everyone is writing all the time
i spent the last week improving user experience and fixing errors in code written in 2017. and reviewing other people's attempts at same. i didn't do any new features this week but there's often that too. there are also times when you are forced to update things due to infrastructure changes or increasingly obsolete hardware.
― koogs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgyz77QX0AAkR1J?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
This is basically Cartmanland in reverse
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
rip me
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
i know something about programming and i do wonder what everyones doing at some of these companies, google has according to googling 27k engineers! who knows what theyre all up to all day, on some level google is probably just collecting them because they can
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
They're probably just sitting there googling things.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
that is how you do programming tbf, you google why doesnt my code work, where did i go wrong in life
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
google has a lot of products some of the most used products in the world, they have prob the most extensive infrastructure in the world or at least top two, they have researchers, they make their own programming languages, theyve got frameworks (of course), they do artificial intelligence (not a real thing), theyve prob got some guys who just do math (not programming), idk, my point i dont what they all get up to over there, someone is in charge of the google doodle, maybe a whole team
That seems like a fun, low pressure programming gig, but idk, maybe after a few years the pressure of coming up with new doodles is intense.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
The most recent doodle was about jollof rice, so I guess if you run out of ideas you could just do your lunch.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
there was an article a while ago about people whos companies had been acquired by google and as part of the deal they have to work for google for a while but then google ends up not really having anything for them to do so they come to work and just like hang out at googles cafes all day
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
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― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
i dont understand watching instructional programming videos you cant cut and paste and you have to sit there while the guy goes uh ok now im gonna uh open a new tab, more theoretical ones are good tho cause you can watch them go isnt that interesting then move on with your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Google promotion culture incentivises engineers to build things, regardless of whether that thing is needed or whether there already is a thing that does the same thing. You can use up a lot of engineers that way.
Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/u9nwleGxHK— Peter Yang (@petergyang) October 3, 2022
Anyway yes, all the big tech companies have people doing all sorts of things - some are the core activities that make money, some are risky expansion bets, some are projects that should probably have been killed years ago.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
For sure I imagine a lot of these giant tech companies are basically giant R&D farms. Buncha Oompa Loompas.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
wonder if elon read the rest and vest article lag8n mentioned and thought everybody at twitter was just resting and vestinghttps://www.insider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7
― 龜, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:47 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
building something that no one uses and getting a promotion for it, best of all worlds
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Have several friends who worked for Google for a decade or so in the early years, they’re linguists and were mostly working on translation products— now one of them runs one of the most important arts spaces in LA. He sometimes talks about how he made a ton of cash and then noped out at the right time.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
I'm just glad to realize that upper mississippi sh@kedown is Matt.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @Teslarati— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
I wasn’t quite resting and vesting but I wasn’t working very hard I’ll be honest
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
man tweeting isnt about working hard its just about making a few tweets
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don't expect that to be mutual in this moment...or ever…and I understand. 💙— jack (@jack) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Sorry about your new stepdad, kids. I’ll send you a Christmas card!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
It is perfect that the official voice of Twitter is now "Estonian phishing email." pic.twitter.com/GN6hqazETW— David Roth (@david_j_roth) November 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Among the first "peasants" to attempt to sign up for the new paid verified checkmark: conspiracy influencer QAnon John. pic.twitter.com/dEtB2GkD9P— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
@tpvjohn is suspended.
no idea if the screenshot is fake, or it's a recent suspension.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
xp lol suspended
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
This article is terrifying, gotta say. https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
ok but it's it's just weird-nerd elon cultism with the polarities reversed: no actually he's the most brilliant man in history BUT EVIL
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
apu taking a bullet meme
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
This guy is so fucking clueless, e.g., this doesn’t make any sense to anyone that knows about this stuff:
“ This would need to become a formal Internet standard,”
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
It’s a fucking website man. Relax.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
shocked to discover this inherited wealth waster is clueless
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
i didn't even mean to be mean, i've had a couple, this whole thread should be one post that says USELESS CUNT
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
To be fair, if you’d told 1980s anti-apartheid teenage nephew that in 40 years the richest man in the world would be a white South African asshole, it wouldn’t have terribly surprised me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
Nephew? That said “teenage me” when I typed it. Oh well.
lol i like the idea of referring to oneself as nephew
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
damn is this place breaking too
Who he?― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:40 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:40 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh happy days...
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
oh that dave troy guy is a far gone conspiracy nut. I read a very long thing he wrote about putin and some spiritual shit and it was like ... ok, I liked robert anton wilson too, but give it a rest.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
also, bluesky is in fact interesting, but I'm not entirely certain how it's different from mastadon.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
Twitter will have an edit button before ilx does.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Oh dear
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
how did he know
i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022— wint (@dril) August 24, 2017
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 November 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. .― wk, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:15 AM (nine years ago)
― wk, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:15 AM (nine years ago)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
More from former tweep: They fired EVERYBODY on two of the teams that were working on things they want to launch. https://t.co/C2JtityJHV pic.twitter.com/ZfrIZNAe9n— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) November 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
So close. There are actually about eight of those tiny little pieces holding everything up, and yes, all those teams got slashed. https://t.co/vWhjNn5bpY— Jim Redmond (@jredmond) November 4, 2022
― 龜, Sunday, 6 November 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
lmao good work everyone
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
always good to demonstarte a new hellish workplace culture and give someone their salary for 3 months before renegotiating their pay.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 6 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
if I were one of those people I would have to be highly financially incentivised to come back and do a single thing. Hopefully they don't have some clause in their termination contracts (which dictate their last day is actually 60 days from now) that compels them to.
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Scoop: all of Musk’s companies use MS Teams for comms, where new channels are private by default.When software engineers from Tesla, Boring and SpaceX came in to Twitter a week ago, they created Slack channels to communicate amongst themselves.Several channels were public.— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 5, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Twitter just sent me this tweet as a recommendation via iPhone notification this is how it appears lol https://t.co/BExIVxHL6x pic.twitter.com/p7BIWpMlGi— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
Full-scale Hyperloop Testing has begun pic.twitter.com/cDUD1PEfkD— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
So we're right on track for the first full-scale failure
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
someone speeding through a tunnel in a Tesla, checking Twitter on their phone and then crashing and bursting into flames?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022
― 龜, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Is he pulling a reverse Costanza???
― frogbs, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
He wasn't in the pool
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 November 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Just to be clear, he *also* fired the team who *built* and *shipped* this. https://t.co/chX1FNdNVV— sillyrobin is a fmr Tweep (@SillyRobin) November 5, 2022
Just to be clear, he also fired nearly the entire TweetDeck team 🙃 #hattrick https://t.co/v6ByA5o3ct— sillyrobin is a fmr Tweep (@SillyRobin) November 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
Musk and Twitter reminds of the scene in "Lost in America" where Albert Brooks tries to convince Garry Marshall/the casino to give him his money back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2q0HemaFs
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
It really makes you wonder what Musky's motives are other than "I am messiah"
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Messiahs can never fail, they can only be failed.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
That was a fun week pic.twitter.com/VxfwkwCK0E— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) November 6, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
Lol what a bitch
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
I'm almost surprised he didn't accidentally sack himself
― StanM, Monday, 7 November 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2022
what is the point of Twitter if it's not "micro"-blogging?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 7 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
Apparently this feature was already finished but I’m sure Elon will take credit for it
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
we should all go back to wens
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
I’m on mastodon now and it’s mostly fine if a bit “GNU/Linux” vibes but the absolute worst thing about it is that you can write 500 characters. I’m not reading that, get serious.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
there should be a im happy for you or sorry about that button
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
this is really interesting. food for thought. thanks!
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 7 November 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
Tweets should be limited to 20 characters
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
test— Elon Musk (parody) (@davidmackau) November 7, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
teslas when they see a little kid crossing the street: pic.twitter.com/Ssovj7dVuf— john 🎾 🗸 (@mexicanwilddog) November 7, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 7 November 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
loool
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 7 November 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
Ahahahaha damn
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
philosophy time
https://i.imgur.com/vFsZTZa.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link
jacks mad
these tracking additions when sharing a tweet are a step backwardsnothing needed after the ? pic.twitter.com/v7eCFaAT99— jack (@jack) November 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
he's on another posting spree right now and its kinda makin me feel like the advertisers aren't gonna come back
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
i will annihilate all spoofs of me . i will take anyone who does spoofs of me or my beloved content to the court of criminal law.— wint (@dril) March 4, 2014
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
Anyone who celebrates Halloween or tables at a convention will lose their tick, that they paid 8 bucks for
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 7 November 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
Hi. I’m @elonmusk (THIS IS PARODY) and I’m going to suspend Kathy Griffin for a joke the same day I reinstate Kanye West because I’m an antisemitic, homophobic, broken, un-loved prick (NOT parody).— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) November 7, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 7 November 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
otmarx
― Vinnie, Monday, 7 November 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
why anybody would want to leave during this golden era of comedy is beyond me
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 November 2022 09:24 (one year ago) link
We got this one right?
My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
(Elon opens the door) Welcome to my house, better than all the other houses, unlike those other houses where you can't fill your hands with shit and throw it. Here you can throw shit wherever you want, because we believe in freedom here. (shit hits his face) Get out of my house.— A.R. Moxon, Ṽerífíed Duck 🦆 (@JuliusGoat) October 28, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 November 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
I’ve heard rumors of elon unblocking himself from accounts and its true! I’ve had him blocked and muted for 5 years and now he’s just muted 🥴world’s most cartoonishly pathetic billionaire— shan horan 🎷 🐛 (@shanhorandraws) November 7, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
Funny how twitter is going to end in a msg board fashion where the mod is like on this mad rampage.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
this is so funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
its the lowtax way
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
obvIously i'm like the trillionth person to make that connection
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
lets just say i like the ending
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
😭 pic.twitter.com/S04RBdzBs4— dell cameron (@dellcam) November 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
memes that are also monopoles
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
FUD'er? What the fuck is a FUD? Off to google.
Autocomplete says...
FuddruckersFudgeFud meaningFudge recipefud in crypto
A-HA!
― peace, man, Monday, 7 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
turns out you don't need to build your own bot army when there's already abundant sad nerd resources out there
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
I love the idea of this idiot burning time and resources just playing whac-a-mole with all the parody accounts that he personally prompted with his stupid policy changes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
sad nerds are only one part of his online army the rest and prob more significant part are people who have a financial interest in his success, theres obvs those who own stock or whatever in tesla or whatever, and then probably there are people who are paid to post as elon fans probably via pr firms that offer that service, i only say probably cause i dont really remember the details but i think theyve been pretty conclusively tracked down
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
whole thing starts to make more sense if hes got reddit mods and so forth on the payroll, and it worked so well for a long time, the msm obvs loves the story of a genius titan whos trying to save the world, then he was seduced by the posters life, a genuine tragedy
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
citizen kane but he says “pwned bud”
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
lol pic.twitter.com/GJX06GwdcV— Elon Musk Fondles Dogs (@chaser) November 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Look, it feels like even posting this is a trap, but yes, this is a picture of a nazi soldier and his carrier pigeons from WWII.https://t.co/yWub0APlFl pic.twitter.com/UPSofU04Jl— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
My parents can take screenshots and this guy can’t?
If you don’t like Twitter anymore, there is awesome site called Masterbatedone pic.twitter.com/Jl7lpC5oEu— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
why doesnt he just hire people to write posts for him, masterbatedone is very poorly formed, why does it have an e on the end is he trying to write masturbate(sp) done, masturbatedon while still pretty lame would at lest be recognizable as a joke
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Trying to be funny in a foreign language.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
the foreign language is being funny
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
I'm glad he had clothes on in that reflection
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Tesla stock still falling btw
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
down about 50% from its peak which was about a year ago
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
down 5% so far today lol
HODL
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Advertisers flocking back for this top level content
What do you call someone who is a master at baiting?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
jfc this just gets more and more dumb with every passing hour
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
This is why he earns the big bucks
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
forget 92 hours, he hasn't slept for ten days
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
elon's 4D chess is that "Masturbatedon" or "Masterbatedon" might be read as "masturbate don" i.e. elon wants to stroke donald trump... he's heading off that insult before it can even begin! :-)
― 龜, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
he could really plumb some new depths if he came out as kinky and poly
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
Another fun thing: for years, he was a reply guy in The Onion's mentions.And then they made fun of him a couple times. And he responded by pivoting to the right-wing satire site that publishes "Elon in a mech suit" fanfic. Watch the shift: pic.twitter.com/UqfkpM7oFW— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022
But yeah, this is what he thinks is the height of comedy: fan-fiction about how cool he is pic.twitter.com/zEdHGQ3PAx— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
He deleted the dirty screen tweet and retweeted a couple of Tesla tweets lol
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
cool cool cool
To independent-minded voters:Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
so Twitter is now officially a mouthpiece for the Republican party?
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
It’s a mouthpiece for someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder.
It’s interesting. Jack was semi-public about his struggle with manic depression. Ev too. I don’t think Musk has ever spoken publicly about his clear issues.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
He has! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/business/elon-musk-tesla-board.html
It’d feel more like a win for the bipolar community if there wasn’t so much … uh, baggage.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
I'm just trying to picture the absolute uproar if, say, Zuckerberg flat out said everyone should vote for Democrats. All hell would break loose.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Meant to qualify that with if he used his official Facebook platform to do so.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
“therefore I recommend” is just absolutely killing me
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
the classic "guy who cannot take an L or log off"
― ciderpress, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg7q9ZJVsAAoIzT?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
There’s a whole account for this stuff
Elon Musk liked a tweet from Eva Fox 🦊Claudius Nero’s Legion 🐺 https://t.co/oDBwElNolN— ELON ALERTS (@elon_alerts) November 7, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
This feels like watching Trump's first week in office if he misplaced the keys to the White House and spent three hours on camera looking for them
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
He's tanking the site, he's drowning in debt, he's a huge fucking baby, and he reads his mentions.— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
cool cool cool🐦[To independent-minded voters:Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022🕸]🐦
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
lmao he's fucked https://t.co/MEL9lYlqQW— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 7, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder
certainly has all the earmarks of someone riding their mania straight at a fiery crash into the mountain
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
maybe he'll make Kanye Chief Product Officer
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
re the yang tweet
https://t.co/zUkuY3rsNq pic.twitter.com/JaTJo2CzyE— Jesse (@RequiemArm) November 7, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe's Twitter account! Wasn't it obvious he was doing a PARODY???— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 7, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
He's such a dummy. By going full goblin and imposing such a strict my way or the highway binary, he's pretty much whittling down the number of people that would pay to associate with him and in turn prop up his ego/clout. He is indeed going to end up in a the same sort of parallel universe as Trump, surrounded by yes men, Scott Baio and Three Doors Down.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
hatchi matchi
Bullied Loner Plans Office Shooting https://t.co/vi1zjXxjB3 pic.twitter.com/uLVy73blc1— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 7, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
They should stick him in the middle with a big flag when the fabled "both sides" he loves so much start unloading on each other.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
WAIT! Don't go!
Tech insider Casey Newton tweeted Saturday that some Twitter employees are getting called back in after getting sacked Friday. Those who are being asked to return, according to Insider, were key to Twitter’s operations; it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is basically what you get if you take Steve Jobs and drain his genius for design, commitment to excellence and ability to bring out the best in people, even better than they themselves thought possible. What you're left with is a destructive, selfish narcissist promoting vaporware.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
just rebrand it Shitter already
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's already in the toilet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
lol there are people suggesting that Elon should fire these people if they refuse to come back. THEY'RE ALREADY FIRED.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Hey, he has been fishing for additional revenue streams and Wacky Packages-style re-skins aren't as dumb as some of the ideas they've been throwing out.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
"it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place" yeah duh, because this appears to have been so massive no actual thought was put behind what they were doing.
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
RIFs are often poorly thought through/done without regard to operability even at my company, to the point where they literally laid off half of our project team prior to a live date, which basically made the entire project a big disaster. at a company like Twitter that's run by the equivalent of a gardener whose head was run over by a lawn mower, well...y'know.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
for SWEs it really does seem to have been lines of code in the last 30-60 days combined with tenure.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
that's the reporting, and at least in my former org it matches what actually happened.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Amazing
Could use a community manager who has grown an amazing online message board, subreddit, or online forum… work from home, anywhere in the world, as long as you’ve done it before and you have a playbook I can learn from. Email Ja✧✧✧@calaca✧✧✧.c✧✧ explaining your experience— @jason (@Jason) November 8, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
haaaaa
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
nominate e.mily
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Is Philip Greenspun still alive?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
invocation of greenspun is always my line for OG SHIT. i was as ignorant then as i am now and could never figure out the board's connection to this greenspun, like, is this on some usenet bullshit, what is this? mr. greenspun (didn't know there was one) should definitely end twitter, is what i'm getting to here
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
Philip Greenspun. Born September 28, 1963 (age 59)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
(post for my) green spun philster
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
Having seen WeChat work in China, this scenario actually makes sense:
There you go. Musk’s plan for Twitter is to copy WeChat. https://t.co/wgcjUc2fOT— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 8, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
legendary greenspun hours: when his dog* had like peed on the server out in the garage that ilx and the all other boards** were housed on, and we had couple of days outage till it dried out or whatever
*(probably no longer with us RIP) **eg there were two Y2K boards on greenspun bcz there'd been a massive flameward schism over how to interpret the non-arrival of the Y2K end-times, also ask a drunk and iirc de subjectivisten 👋🏼
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
copy wechat (create x the everything app) except start by paying $4b for the legacy code base of a site for journalists to yell at each other
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
I feel like a problem with this model is Elon himself. Most people have gotten comfortable with online payment systems, but those are generally controlled by big faceless corporations. We may not like them, but like the banks, we have some level of trust in their institutional competence and stability. But to the degree that Elon is just making Twitter all about him, I think there might be some well-founded reluctance to give This Guy your credit card info and purchase history.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
if you use paypal* you already did!
*used paypal 20 years ago
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
It boggles the mind, but the need for these dudes to broadcast their assholism rather than quietly go about business as secret assholes or rumored assholes is incredible. It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
people be wanting attention is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
the ones who can keep it quiet are the ones i fear more tbh (they're like the fraudsters who never get caught)
the internet tells me there are 3,311 billionaires btw (maybe there's a page somewhere with a number that clicks up or down)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
results for billionaires vs results for "real billionaires"
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Tesla dropping another 5% today is it? Down to a new 52 week low?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Giant Tesla recall just announced — 40,000 cars with power steering issues, apparently.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
all tesla OSs will be upgraded to display twitter as their homepage, car self destructs unless you pay an extra $8 per month
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
What was Musk's role in PayPal? Was he instrumental in it development or is it more of a Tesla thing where he glommed on to someone else's stuff?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
the latter iirc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
shouldn't be a surprise but Elon was a notoriously poor developer - a lot of his ex-employees remarked that virtually all the code he wrote had to be rewritten
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but the *ideas* in that code, man, the *ideas*." He's a visionary, not a secretary.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Like, check out my code:
$htmrr----jheeeeeee*#&>>>exe:--SELF-DRIVING CARKooo>>>2112******AV-??/://EXE
Clean that up and you're practically minting money.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 10:39 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf this is pretty standard you build something that works and eventually if it catches on you hire people who are better than you and also have more time to do a good job
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Paying 44 billion to become a mid.
Incredible how small time he is. This is the world's richest person (for now) and he's got such severe poster's brain that he's doing this. https://t.co/iBWX0m4EBW— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Mid range mod
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Funnily enough LinkedIn might be the only old-ish social media that isn't on fire?
Why couldn’t he buy LinkedIn?— Prof Jo Barraket 💉💉💉💉💉 (@JBarraket) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn brain impervious to worms though
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
linkedin is perfect because it can't pretend to be anything other than a corporate shill site you only visit because you have to or because you're psychotic
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
I actually went on there for the first time after signing up like 15 years ago and looked around and, blech.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Lol so many bad takes earlier on this thread and people who were buying into his snake oil.
Happy to see how the tide has turned and everyone - except for tsla cult bagholders - can see the emperor has no clothes on.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
i find linkedin incredibly soothing. like porridge.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
linkedin help me break my addiction to twitter - after i limited my twitter usage any time i feel the need to plug in to a stream of updates i'll go to linkedin, read a few posts, and then close the tab (easily, without friction)
linkedin is kinda like methadone for social media
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn has a particularly deranged vibe, as not only is your boss on there, but everybody who could possibly be your boss and all the batshit influencer/grifter/striver they pay attention to all in the same ecosystem.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
linkedin incredibly depressing to me as I need to use it to look for jobs; but the feed is just post after post of layoffs at the moment.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
same same
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:40 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 龜, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:47 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao gotta check it out
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
i figured most people were like me - on linkedin constantly when job searching and barely ever on it when not
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
this is like i'm reading some strange foreign or alien philosophy. i've not been there since 2014, doubt the time would change my opinion. i was quite actually a diff person then tho, hmmm, do i dare?
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.Narcissism is a normal stage of development if you’re say 3 years old. Some people never mature emotionally beyond that. In Elmo’s case it seems to be mixed with the terminally online techbro’s need to be perennially correct on technicalities. Like Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I don’t think Elmo can.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I
citation needed
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn has become infested with right-wing political posters. Many of them have probably been kicked off other sites.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn will have like, a head of DEI at Google post something innocuous and 1/3 of the replies will be from old white dudes who are like heating repairmen in Nebraska deriding them for being woke.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
or, someone will post something LGBTQ+ (hey I got married, hey here's my kid) and they'll be blasted to hell by both the previous posters and non-US based software devs (eastern european, middle eastern, south asian) jeering at them or saying "this is in appropriate for a careers website, no one cares about your personal life"
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
They said I was too socially conscious , so I beat em unconscious
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
at least people stopped sharing shit from Dan Price
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
The problem with his vision of being WeChat America is that we already have a range of entrenched payment portals and Twitter wasn’t popular enough before he made it stupider.
If peak Facebook couldn’t make sending money to people a serious part of their business, Twitter has no chance.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn? My impression - from the email notifications I get, not from, you know, actually logging in to the site - was that people just posted when they changed jobs or companies or did a training course. Actually all the notifications I've got in the last couple of years have been 'hey do you want to connect with this person you don't know who works at the same company as this person you used to work with several years ago?'. Er, no...
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
I never post. I just like that the timeline is lobotomy level content.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
This feels like admitting to meeting a partner via online dating when it was still weird, but I actually got my current job via (very well targeted the) recruiter spam on LinkedIn too haha.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. citation neededI’m not expressing any love for Trump but he seems to have some ability at social manipulation that Elmo lacks. Trump could shitpost effectively on Twitter. Elmo cannot. Trump is a guy bikers could have a beer with. Elmo is not.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
You're talking about ex-president, Donald J Trump, correct?
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn?
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Trump telling the Phoenix Hells Angels about his favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber nber would be a sight.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
all while wiping down counters over and over and refusing to drink a (1) beer
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
Donald could kid some bikers along for a while using his tiny bag of 'regular guy' tricks, but they'd be sick of him in about half an hour.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
xpSubstitute Big Mac for beer. I know there’s plenty of reflexive Trump hate but he was effective at messaging and he has some kind of evil narcissist charisma. Elon is completely without any social appeal that I can see. What’s lefts of his fanbase is entirely maladjusted and overprivileged nerds.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
xpost They would give him an honorary membership jacket and he would pose on a bike. Then he would claim to be president of the club.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
And yeah I guess Trump’s handlers were usually wise enough to wheel him off before his 30 minute socially acceptable shelf life is expired.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
honestly one of the funniest things about Trump is him doing these rallies where people will spend hours listening to the MyPillow guy and some drunk lunatic on the county board, Trump will show up an hour late, and then 30 minutes into his speech people say "fuck it" and start leaving
there was a good John Oliver episode about Infowars, where he talked about the stuff that doesn't go viral - the other 3 hours and 55 minutes of the broadcast, and how incredibly strange and desperate it all was. I wonder if Trump rallies are the same way. there's always one truly insane clip but I have to assume the majority of these 2 hour speeches are just him rambling about random things out of context
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Trump was so much better at Twitter than Musk is, not close
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
elon is not a poster and never will be
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
yea as a number of people have observed, Trump is a poster, Elon is a reply guy. I hate his guts but Trump can be funny. Elon seems to be incapable of having an original thought. all the stupid memes he's posting are just things he finds when he namesearches himself. he's that kid in middle school who tries to emulate what the popular kids are doing and then gets pissed that nobody gets his anime references.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Trump's narcissism has a definite goal of self-aggrandizement, enrichment and punishing his enemies. Elon's narcissism is less insecure so his goal is just to exhibit his wonderfulness to the world for its edification and to garner the adulation he deserves.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Elon would never tweet something as funny as the Diet Coke thing or even a lesser-ranking classic like this:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIY2Xh2WYAEmbbg?format=jpg&name=medium
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
frogs is right about Trump, though. reporters looking for particular points to publish as interesting or controversial have finally started saying that he rambled for two hours about not much at all before dropping a couple pointed barbs at whoever
really they should stop that and just say "he spoke and just rambled and a handful of old people fell asleep or left"
Elon's realizing that people are publishing the stupid shit since you can just embed tweets or screenshot them. you can't ramble or post about master baiting or whatever and rely on other people to figure out which posts are the bangers (he posts no bangers)
― mh, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
Aside from the "haters and losers" tweet (maybe the best Tweet ever), Trump's relationship advice to Robert Pattinson was his peak IMO.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
There was that New Yorker article a few years back that (correctly) likened Trump to a stand-up comic.
Like that of any stadium comic, Trump’s brand was control. He was superficially loose, the wild man who might say anything, yet his off-the-cuff monologues were always being tweaked as he tested catchphrases (“Lock her up!”; “Build the wall!”) for crowd response. On TV and on Twitter, his jokes let him say the unspeakable and get away with it. “I will tell you this, Russia, if you’re listening—I hope you’re able to find the thirty thousand e-mails that are missing,” he told reporters in July, at the last press conference he gave before he was elected. Then he swept his fat palm back and forth, adding a kicker: “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”It was a classically structured joke. There was a rumor at the time that Russia had hacked the D.N.C. At the same time, Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from when she was Secretary of State—which were stored on a private server—were under scrutiny. Take two stories, then combine them: as any late-night writer knows, that’s the go-to algorithm when you’re on deadline. When asked about the remark, on Fox News, Trump said that he was being “sarcastic,” which didn’t make sense. His delivery was deadpan, maybe, but not precisely sarcastic.
It was a classically structured joke. There was a rumor at the time that Russia had hacked the D.N.C. At the same time, Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from when she was Secretary of State—which were stored on a private server—were under scrutiny. Take two stories, then combine them: as any late-night writer knows, that’s the go-to algorithm when you’re on deadline. When asked about the remark, on Fox News, Trump said that he was being “sarcastic,” which didn’t make sense. His delivery was deadpan, maybe, but not precisely sarcastic.
...
The Big Lie is a propaganda technique: state false facts so outlandish that they must be true, because who would make up something so crazy? (“I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”) But a joke can be another kind of Big Lie, shrunk to look like a toy. It’s the thrill of hyperbole, of treating the extreme as normal, the shock (and the joy) of seeing the normal get violated, fast. “Buh-leeve me, buh-leeve me!” Trump said in his act, again and again. Lying about telling the truth is part of the joke. Saying “This really happened!” creates trust, even if what the audience trusts you to do is to keep on tricking them, like a magician reassuring you that while his other jokes are tricks, this one is magic.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/how-jokes-won-the-election
Elon is like a bad aspiring comic at open mic night, who has been told he's funny but who is most certainly not.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
who was that right-wing "meme warrior" who gave a TED talk where he just showed a bunch of really cringey memes? that's what Elon would be like
still think about that ILX post that said something like "Biden telling Trump to shut up on live TV is probably gonna win him the election"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Rupert Pupkin, ladies and gentlemen.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
From the little I see a lot of the Indian IT guys on LinkedIn are Hindutva. See more of that on there than Indian twitter but I'm sure that's fucked too.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
was actually talking about that moment a few days ago, good stuff
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-sells-at-least-3point95-billion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html
TSLA bagholders are in shambles. I should feel sorry for them but honestly fuck them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
August 9th lmao
Yes. In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 10, 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/X5d1B39/image.png
it's starting
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-succeed-in-musks-twitter-embrace-the-chaos
paywall'd but the lede suggests that crawford is a "the chinese word for 'crisis'" kind of person
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
tbf if half your company is getting fired there is no doubt room for advancement for people who are willing to be dogs for the new management
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
for sure
the most brazen are the "I'm the thought leader now!" type she seems to be aspiring to
the funnier one is "well, you can't _completely_ dispense with managers" and they end up managing something like 30 people after the organization is flattened
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
Seeing quite a few folks in my timeline specifically deleting their accounts today. Is this just because of the new verification thing going live?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
who even knows? the migration urge or decision to stop using twitter seems like it's gotten more momentum and it's maybe incrementally building
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Didn’t take long for the first blue tick scam to appear. Almost 27,000 retweets on this one. pic.twitter.com/RqLyQ2cPqC— Angus Duncan (@Angus_Duncan) November 9, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
cant believe people are leaving right in the middle of the biggest ever board mod drama lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
tbf that's pretty much how twitter worked for years, so maybe the glory days are back
there were a bit fewer users then, though lol
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom-let-a-hundred-schools-of-thought-contend-mao-zedong-32-45-53.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
Did he get rid of “official” the day it launched?
I just killed it— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Can’t tell if he’s talking about that one account or the entire feature.
check around a bit, it's gone
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/weATfOb625cIM/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952dongs9ps3fi7szqh911i263c6g79sq52jggztyyx&rid=200w.gif&ct=g
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
amazing, poor Esther
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
I think you can still buy yourself a blue check, right? idk
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
Tesla shares still falling
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
down down down
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
the stock is down because Elon is unloading a chunk into the market
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
is that bad
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Didn’t that happen a week and a half ago?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
i also unloaded 3.95 billion worth… of poop
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
if you want to short tesla then this is one way to do it
I'm sorry, some clown launched an ETF that was just 7 different short TSLA positions? Short equity, long bear put spreads, short QQQ, long an inverse QQQ ETF, QQQ puts, short ARKK, long an inverse ARK ETF? https://t.co/IOTFSBqQtX— Quantian (@quantian1) October 31, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhA8GhFXkAATsrt?format=jpg&name=900x900
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
i like how little sleep he's getting
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Source for that, sorry
coming to a realization pic.twitter.com/s6eSJheWpC— MJ (@amorgus_) November 8, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
I just listened to Elon Musk on a Twitter Space that was intended for advertising partners. This is what he said at the outset. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he has little understanding of human communication, or indeed behavior on the platform he owns. pic.twitter.com/ZiYtLNLd0a— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 9, 2022
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
he really is doing a lowtax
Elon in a Twitter space right now: "If someone tries to impersonate a brand, we will get rid of them and we will keep their $8. And they can keep doing that and we will do it again."— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
xp“Now truth can be a somewhat nebulous concept”…it’s like trying to discuss science on ILX, ha!
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
Dude would be a much more convincing idealist if he weren't such an aggressively shit-posting asshole.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many people would believe Chairman Mao quotes attributed to Buddha
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
He’s out of his mind
https://t.co/VWo3MvENej pic.twitter.com/sAvE1DlTrO— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Lol I ain't giving Twitter access to anything but my shitposts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Tesla’s stock selloff intensifies, on track for lowest close in nearly 2 years
― Liz D. (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
oh yes please, let me link my bank account to this flaming pile of dog shit that is soon to be even more rampant with grifters and crypto hackers
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 2:07 PM (one hour ago)
well if it did, elon would be in violation for not timely reporting it to the SEC (he's been in trouble with the SEC before but not for that)
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 9, 2022
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
would be cool if elon announced twitter was getting into crypto like facebook/libra lol
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
The fanboys acting like this is some cunning plan... he didn't need to spend $44bn on Twitter to turn it into Venmobook.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
he's re-founding Paypal
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Elon is unloading a chunk
gross
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
uh oh
Reporter: Do you think Elon Musk is a national security threat and should be investigated?Biden: [long pause] "I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at..." pic.twitter.com/OTnlsi4GON— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
8 is a lucky number in China. And his thing cost $8. DO U SEE.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
lmao at him only knowing PayPal and seeing WeChat as something successful that maybe he could do
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Biden trolling Glenn Greenwald
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
Twitter is now blocking new accounts from its $8 Twitter Blue verified tierThe rule change is to tackle issue of new accounts being made which are then getting verified and used to impersonate high profile accounts FIREFIGHTING! 🔥😆https://t.co/3rGkY41wZH pic.twitter.com/cbACpfmhX7— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 10, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
They should really look into why this is happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
This reminds me of the Web 2.0 days when, breaking from the precedent established by Apple of masking the employees who work on products, companies would let individual designers and engineers, rather than the company, market new features. Essentially Esther is cooked and she doesn’t know it yet.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
moving fast breaking shit. if youre a billionaire they let you do it. jk, i just don't have to give a fuck.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
it does make me hope for the old "gradually, then suddenly" thing
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 10, 2022
― groovypanda, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
In the same message, the employee said Twitter’s current head of Legal, Alex Spiro, said “Elon is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to his company and its users, because ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’”
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
was probably heard shouting "so long shitshow!"
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/twitter-lea-kissner-departs/
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
why tie bank accounts to Twitter instead of just having everyone convert their life savings to dogecoin
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Xxp - As I posted in the Twitter thread, Alex Spiro was the defense attorney for Aaron Hernandez.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
This is the most pathetic man in the world pic.twitter.com/3knHxE6ejQ— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 10, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
I imagine the financiers who helped Musk bankroll this by loaning him tens of billions of dollars are feeling sick to their stomachs every single day.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
the lenders will be bloodied but probably fine. it's musk's buddies who bought equity that are probably nervously tugging their collars.
― 龜, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
From: Elon Musk [email removed]
Date: Nov 9, 2022 [time stamp removed]
To: Team
Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company but there is no way to sugarcoat the message.
Frankly, the economic picture ahead is dire especially for a company like ours that is so dependent on advertising in a challenging economic climate. Moreover, 70% of our advertising is brand, rather than specific performance, which makes us doubly vulnerable!
That is why the priority over the past ten days has been to develop and launch Twitter Blue Verified subscriptions (huge props to the team!).
Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.
Of course, we will still then be significantly reliant on advertising, so I am spending time with our sales & partnerships teams to ensure that Twitter continues to be appealing to advertisers.
This is the Spaces discussion that Robin, Yoel and I hosted today: [Link to Elon Q&A: Advertising & the Future removed]
The road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed. We are also changing Twitter policy such that remote work is no longer allowed unless you have a specific exception. Managers will send the exception lists to me for review and approval.
Starting tomorrow (Thursday), everyone is required to be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week. Obviously, if you are physically unable to travel to an office or have a critical personal obligation, then your absence is understandable.
I look forward to working with you to take Twitter to a whole new level. The potential is truly incredible!
Thanks,
Elon
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/read-elon-musks-first-email-to-all-twitter-employees.html
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly says they're in communication with Twitter to address the fake-but-verified Eli Lilly tweet that has been up for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes https://t.co/Ai3lq50YRh pic.twitter.com/zIWDsd8c0B— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) November 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
truly amazing
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Seems bad pic.twitter.com/Yw73QtGVMS— will scarlett (@willscarlett) November 10, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I fully expected him to shit the bed. I did not expect him to shit the bed, trip down the stairs while running the soiled sheets to the washing machine only to shit all over the stairs causing him to slip and fall ass first into the furnace where the pilot light ignites an explosion that showers the entire Bay Area in a gigantic shit-storm.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhPVhlIWAAAlspE?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
like a thousand onions exploding in the sky at once
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
How is that Tesla account still up lol
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
I applied one of my accounts for reinstatement cos "Elon's in charge"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
Only cos I wanna impersonate people
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
lol map
― sleeve, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I love how when ppl impersonate Musk they get canned immediately but other peple being maliciously impersonated (like Mueller She Wrote) get no traction at all. Go team.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 11 November 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
less than two weeks ago
Watching @elonmusk + Co take over Twitter is like watching a business school case study on how to make money on the internet. Amazing that at some level it is so basic. Lesson one: charge your power users what they are willing to pay. 1/3— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
I love how when ppl impersonate Musk they get canned immediately but other peple being maliciously impersonated (like Mueller She Wrote) get no traction at all.
Elon is such a troll himself, he'd be loving this shit if the joke wasn't on him. Doesn't surprise me if they make other people being impersonated a low priority
― Vinnie, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
Mods please rename the thread board "Elon Q&A: Advertising & the Future removed"
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
We ❤️ apartheid— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
Elon is such a troll himself, he'd be loving this shit if the joke wasn't on him.
Seems like he is when it isn't!
https://i.imgur.com/d5nGn3b.png
― jaymc, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
can someone just uh make youtube
Musk wants Twitter to take on YouTube. He is tasking employees with making a program to pay creators to post video on Twitter and somehow earn rev share. (Will likely add to his already deep expenses — Musk said the company could have negative cash flow in the billions next year)— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
do it fast
A quote: “I’m a big believer in having just a maniacal sense of urgency. So if you can do it after this meeting, I would do it after this meeting. Just a maniacal sense of urgency. Like, if you want to get stuff done, maniacal sense of urgency. Just go ‘aahh!’ Hardcore!”— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
and make a sharper image too
“I’d love to see ads for gizmos…Even if they’re not that great, I’ll still buy gizmos. I love technology. I’ll see content for gizmos but not an ad or an ability to actually buy the gizmo. So then I have to send it to my assistant like, ‘Please buy this gizmo.’”— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
🐦[We ❤️ apartheid— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022🕸]🐦
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 11 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include “parody” in their name, not just in bio— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
“I’m not owned!”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile, I just got an alert with a Log4j error … in the iOS app. Everything is fine.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
is he on coke or did he always talk like this
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
his vanity project simpsons episode where they get lisa to call him the world's greatest inventor has aged about as well as south park episodes about global warming
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
Star Trek needs to go back and edit out references to him
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 11 November 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
lol at whenever people bring up "creators"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
I wanna joke about this but holy fuck this is all so surreal and deeply fucking hilarious
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9XGgBxR.jpeg
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: A second Tesla has hit the World Trade Center— Tesla (@TesIaReal) November 10, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 November 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
italian musk has me in tears xD
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 11 November 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
man sounds so thick when you hear him speak
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
This was at the end of another piece I read this morning too.
what a sentence pic.twitter.com/AHeoseVX63— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:15 (one year ago) link
This is wild.
Musk has learned nothing since he was fired from PayPal. https://t.co/lhvFpGZfR7 pic.twitter.com/5QaF4X7UaU— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) November 11, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:29 (one year ago) link
and then you go to mars
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
SailorsFighting in the dancehalls
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 November 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
still leaning hard on the "elon musk is a standard-issue fraudster" lever here
he's not very bright? lots of fraudsters are wildly dim, ponzi and madoff and the FTX guy all got caught bcz one bad day the money wasn't where they said (or anywhere else), they had no plan B
the smart fraudsters are the ones whose names we never learn
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
you keep repeating that line and frankly it's a little suspicious
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
👀
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Not sure what it would mean for Musk to be a fraudster a la Madoff. Do you mean there's some big accounting fraud lurking inside one or all of his companies?
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 11 November 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
that has been the #TSLAQ hypothesis for years and years running now xp
― 龜, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
he's only like madoff in that neither of them are very bright, i wasn't arguing that their schemes were similar, #TSLAQ notwithstanding
EM's -- or at least this is what i was responding to -- is the paypal card twitter bank scheme, which he hasn't yet succeeded in setting up
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Many successful companies have turned out to be harboring major accounting fraud. However, the last big wave of accounting scandals was in the early 2000s, and since then regulation has gotten more stringent (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). But who knows, maybe we're about due for another wave.
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
crypto has much less stringent regulation plus an on-going series of, well, revelations and disappopintment shall we say
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
Well, yes. But despite his occasional boosterism for Dogecoin, Musk doesn't have much to do with crypto, AFAIK.
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
*crowd watching a horrific car crash* everyone loves this car
Usage of Twitter continues to rise. One thing is for sure: it isn’t boring!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
we had a big all company meeting to introduce new ppl and the new head of comms for the agency mentioned in her even her intro speech she found time to mention they are "re-evaluating" the overall twitter strategy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Closest I can think of is when Czar Alexander II's train derailed in 1888 and killed 23 people, because Alexander was drunkenly demanding the engineer go faster and when the guy explained that's not how trains work Alexander accused him of being a Jewhttps://t.co/ywfMQG95no— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) November 11, 2022
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
Henry Ford attempting to stop World War I with The Peace Ship. He thought he'd travel w celebrities from New York to Europe, meet with heads of state, resolve the conflict. The mission was based on false documents, no celebrities showed up, and there was an influenza outbreak https://t.co/UN5iPXDntb— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) November 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
twitters haunted
The rate at which we are finding out incredibly stupid things about this man is unsustainable https://t.co/lOeXmxCQTT pic.twitter.com/VThFpBAKDr— lauren (@NotABigJerk) November 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
spooky stuff
That evening, Twitter hosted a Halloween party called “Trick or Tweet” for employees and their families. Some workers dressed in costume and tried to keep the mood festive. Others cried and hugged one another.
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Ghost employees don't need health insurance Elon
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1629461/software-developers-chilling-out-work.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
the payments stuff with Elon is giving me fucking flashbacks to working for a legal tech company (I was director of engineering for 4 years) and our way overly involved founder/CEO got a whiff of blockchain, which, at the time, I thought had some legitimate uses for building smart contracts and overlap with esign and legal documents, so worth looking into. But he got completely hung up on the cryptocurrency aspect and that became all it was about, to my dismay (this project wound up going nowhere). In the end, every single one of these founding fuckers seem to want to be bankers.
Here's an interesting post along these lines: https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
tbf it is free money
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
but on the other hand some random software company thinking theyre going to be the ones to grab it is very silly
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
the technology itself is interesting and compelling. the incentivizing aspect of it, which is all anyone cares about, to me, is fraudulent nonsense.
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
I didnt' upgrade medium so I can't read the Cory Doctrow article on this but this summary is enough: "They recognize, with startling clarity, what Cory Doctorow unpacked earlier this year: whatever the particular web3 project’s service is, it is there to generate a need for a specific crypto-asset in order to drive up its price, and to ensure pay-off for those who invested early."
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
and that, to me, is the shit part of this (and everything related to tech)
i guess I'm just saying capitalism is shitty, on reflection
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
you're saying you're not a fan of ponzis?
― 龜, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
― | (Latham Green), Friday, November 11, 2022 9:28 AM bookmarkflaglink
seems like another case of corporate takeover advice received from the Oracle at Delphi. a teachable case for Business 101.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
i must admit when i found out you could run computer programs on ethereum i was like thats pretty cool, but ultimately none of this stuff has any real world uses because its too expensive and a huge target for malicious actors and subject to catastrophic bugs that might as well be malicious actors and im sure some other reasons im not thinking of
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
its more interesting for its not understanding how the world works underlying philosophy, the search for trustless relationships is futile
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
could all have this been avoided by one really meaningful pinky swear
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
im sure some other reasons im not thinking of
it's hella tacky
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
there is that
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Talking about schemes..
What a dark, dark, dark day. I'm utterly devastated to report that, with FTX Future Fund folding, the probability of 10^45 digital people coming to exist within the Milky Way galaxy may have just fallen by 0.001%. However bad you think climate change is, THIS IS WAY WORSE. https://t.co/rlGJ8njcgu— Émile P. Torres 🏳️⚧️ (@xriskology) November 11, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Little_computer_people_cover_art.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/6tc66ZvIEx— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) November 11, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
he shouldve bought huffpost
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk will be publicly blaming twitter’s situation on Jews and globalists within days
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
wait. the media elite fired half the staff?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
I fired ten people
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Lmao, looks like the parody greenwald account got the real greenwald account suspended for being an impostor.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
xps if there is one person it's exhilarating to see burned by nu-Twitter it's Glem Grunwald. Nobody deserves it more.
― Liz D. (Eliza D.), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Scratch that, there are multiple parodies going around and one of them got axed
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
listen - no one got laid off except the ghosts who worked at twitter
On Oct. 30, Mr. Musk received word that the rapid approach could cost millions of dollars more than laying people off with their scheduled bonuses. He agreed to delay, four people said.
But he had a condition. Before paying the bonuses, Mr. Musk insisted on a payroll audit to confirm that Twitter’s employees were “real humans.” He voiced concerns that “ghost employees” who should not receive the money lingered in Twitter’s systems.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
stupidest possible move theyre just going to haunt you forever now
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
I think I very rapidly want to improve every aspect of Twitter. Search I know we can improve immediately and in a number of ways. I mean, just this morning, I actually was just looking for Jack [Dorsey] actually. And I typed Jack into the search engine, and “@jack” was not the number one thing. But that should be the number one thing. So then I just had to type “@jack” in directly. If you type j-a-c-k, your number one thing should be Jack Dorsey. I mean, that’s probably what you’re looking for, you know? So I think anything we do to improve any aspect of the system, let’s do it right away.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
sounds like there needs to be a big jack off to determine who's the first result
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Mr. Kaiden asked managers to verify that they knew certain employees and could confirm that they were human, according to three people and an internal document seen by The Times.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 11 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
he seems to have implemented a lot of new systems that involve double-verification
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
Double-verification is good.
Triples is best.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
trust, but verify. and verify. and then verify one more time.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
can you get so verified that you dont even know who you are anymore (verification horseshoe theory)
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
this has to be intentional, right? there's no way this is well-meaning or some sort of radical business galaxy brain shit; he must be intending to tank the company, though i don't know or care enough to try to discern why.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
at the $14.99/month level, yes you canxp
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
need to get some of that 14.99 great price cheap
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
forks he’s just a dumb guy, no galaxy brain about it
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
lag∞nPosted: November 11, 2022 at 11:24:01 AMstupidest possible move theyre just going to haunt you forever nowxp i’m just recognizing excellence
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
i'm not arguing musk is not dumb, just that this level of dumb seems theatrical to the point of disingenuousness
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
that feeling is so strong to me, that he’s either incredibly incredibly high or he’s so beyond billion $ that NOTHING MATTERS in a beyond normal rationality level. nobody could be this nonsensically dense
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
i have no idea about his drug habits and stuff but the coke thing seems very plausible. especially when he was advising his employees to get more intense and just fire themselves up to work nonstop and embrace the intensity, i mean, lol
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
hes def not doing it on purpose but there is some sort of pathological sabotage happening, he wanted to buy twitter because hes obsessed with it, but its a love/hate relationship, its the place where hes most criticized which also makes it the place he most wants to be accepted, he tries desperately to fit in by posting memes and receives more grief in return, he thinks if i just owned this thing i could fix it so it doesnt bother me anymore, so going in he already has an urge to destroy at least some aspect of it, and his emotional neediness is overwhelming any sort of business rationality
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
i'm just glad this is happening with something essentially useless and he didn't somehow buy five major airlines and now no one can fly anymore
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
xp ^too long for a tweet. you shld email him
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
i dont think hes on coke but would be very surprised if hes not a long time abuser of adderall or the like, then once youre on that never sleeping and so forth youre prob gonna need some benzos to deal with the anxiety and even you out a little
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
said cocktail is not great for impulse control
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2014/09/Blade-Runner-Test.jpg
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Lol: Twitter sent an HR email to every laid off employee acknowledging it's late getting people their separation agreements and release of claims. But the company messed up the BCC and it has become a reply-all catastrophe.— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 11, 2022
(some of the sabotage is probably coming from inside the building but outside his head)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
xp Mmmm, boiled dog
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
If you type j-a-c-k, your number one thing should be Jack Dorsey. I mean, that’s probably what you’re looking for, you know?
He's clearly unaware of film Twitter's "top 5 Nicholson performances"
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
xpAgree that Elon being on the ole Adderall train makes sense. A lot of Trump in him, who also clearly pops (some 80s version of) prescription speed. Have known folks who fuck with it and I think long term abuse def has some brain rotting potential. Most likely because you’re sleeping 3 hours a night.But, y’know, that’s just one of his problems.
― circa1916, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
xpost Sounds like someone turned the algorithm they had for "jack" off.
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
(that works better said out loud btw)
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
"The algorithm doesn't have jack" is a bit more straightforward.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
it is! thx :-)
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
xp not really gonna speculate w/r/t uppers other than to observe that twitter really does suddenly seem to have disturbingly strong "working in a restaurant" energy.
― New York Review of Wooks (swim), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/340/024/408.jpg
― | (Latham Green), Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
this has to be intentional, right? there's no way this is well-meaning or some sort of radical business galaxy brain shit; he must be intending to tank the company, though i don't know or care enough to try to discern why.― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, November 11, 2022 3:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, November 11, 2022 3:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I had the same moment yesterday! I just can't tell if he's a lord of chaos cackling from his evil lair about destroying a company or if he's some 15-year-old burnout mumbling "yo, what the fuuuuuck" as the consequences of his braindead decisions compound.
― peace, man, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
lag∞n's expanation is occam's razor on this one: EM enjoys what twitter does when it roasts others, he wanted to tweak it so it didn't also do this to him, so far it has tweaked him, on a raft of pills and no sleeo he is breaking it as he looks for the magic off-switch for the elon-tweaking
to the evident extent he disdains own 1 x trillion reply guys as not the acclaim he deserves as a poaster he does in fact sorta kinda "understand" twitter, reply guys are not it (and he's not a poaster)
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
🤣
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/5vciyaXCwo pic.twitter.com/uU0axDu9BJ— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 11, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yTgbBWO.png
It's a pretty unique situation. Warren Buffett would, I'm guessing, keep a distance from all he invests in.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
Everyone who left twitter: it's your loss. I'm having a great time.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
*twittermigration increases*
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
https://maxread.substack.com/p/whats-going-to-happen-to-twitter
― 龜, Saturday, 12 November 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
Max always gets it.
Journalists are overall happier, but the quality of their work is worse because they’re no longer afraid of anonymous accounts spoonerizing their names.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 12 November 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
rax mead
― ciderpress, Saturday, 12 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
The other option is this carries on till Elon Musk collapses of a heart attack.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
He'll be the first recipient of the Tesla heart implant
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/IQBhkaosCYEAAAAM/heart-fire.gif
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
it's also compatible with yr Tesla vehicle's engine
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Starting to wonder if the financiers of this deal are gonna have a legal case against him for all this
― frogbs, Saturday, 12 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
prob not worth the trouble theyll just cut their losses and move on
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
The heart also makes a fart noise when you have an infarction.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Huh, so @elonmusk was wise to Elizabeth Holmes before @JohnCarreyrou?That's an interesting claim, given that Musk appeared with Holmes at the McCain Institute in April 2015, just six months before the WSJ's first bombshell story. https://t.co/07SX41xI1w— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) November 12, 2022
Receipts: https://t.co/BjZPFPnoS8https://t.co/PBQe1PrDu2— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) November 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
hes going down posting
Very smart to antagonize a U.S. senator with jurisdiction over your industry the day after his party just secured a majority in his chamber. pic.twitter.com/zP7XrAYZdd— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 November 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
Lol! keep digging, buddy
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Sunday, 13 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
And why does your pp have a mask!?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 13 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
For a second I thought that was another childish dick joke.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Elon gives me very “low information voter” vibe.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 13 November 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
It’s too perfect pic.twitter.com/9KemlikwTG— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) November 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
i will stop being mean to Elon for $5 million, let's negotiate
― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 November 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
elon's mom also told me that
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 13 November 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
i know reddit got there long before this but
https://en.vogue.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/maye-musk-fb.jpghttps://static.wikia.nocookie.net/enfuturama/images/f/ff/Carol_Miller_-_Official_Character_Promo.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
cant be bothered to calculate which of her sons this makes elon
(it's igner)
― mark s, Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
reminder that Elon Musk and his ex-wife Talulah Riley texted back-and-forth about buying Twitter (before he publicly offered to)...because Babylon Bee got suspended lolhttps://t.co/4Mv3zvqTK7 pic.twitter.com/LKCwCecn1s— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 13, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
"Please do do something to fight woke-ism"
electric wheels spin frantically in elon's head, then burst into flame
― cephalopod conflict resolution (cat), Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Just putting Markey's answer here.
One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will. https://t.co/lE178gPRoM— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) November 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
This is gibberish. Someone played a trick on him to get him to tweet this.
Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 13 November 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 13 November 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
be a real tragedy if SpaceX lost some government contracts
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 November 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
https://external-preview.redd.it/H4-McW0A-fGjgBX-GnRE7Msh5WvKNapdCpR9p5JlKO0.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 14 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
try again:
https://i.imgur.com/EBfsFTT.png
― 龜, Monday, 14 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fhe9S5aVUAAIZAg?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
the number of current twitter employees calling their boss out on the companies app sure is something, might say ive never seen anything like it before
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/13/twitter-suddenly-cuts-large-number-of-contract-workers.html
― 龜, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Nobody remotely sane would ever work for this guy
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I’d really appreciate it if some clown who has no idea what he’s talking about kicked in the door of my business, threw a wrench into the machinery, and then publicly shat on the work I’ve been doing on it for 6 years. What an asshole.Also xxxp’s Elon’s love of Babylon Bee says so much about him. That is some of the most inept “humor” writing I’ve ever encountered.
― circa1916, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Ya it has nothing to do with their politics either they just don’t understand the basic mechanics of humor
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
theres a tweet upthread i think detailing how he was a onion reply guy until they started writing mean things about him and babylon bee was publishing pieces like elon musk builds real life iron man suit
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
The Babylon Bee is a prime example of how conservatives have been determined to incorporate satire into their repertoire the last few years without ever having figured out how it works. It's not just that they're not funny, they're incapable of understanding anyone unlike themselves and thus can't competently poke fun at their enemies.
― Chris L, Monday, 14 November 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink https://t.co/5xXKoZUE1Z— CNBC (@CNBC) November 14, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 14 November 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
xpConservatives obv notoriously bad at humor, but wow like REALLY bad at satire. Throw an evangelical bent into the mix and you’re in truly dire territory.
― circa1916, Monday, 14 November 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
uhhh isn't SpaceX massively subsidized by the US government? seems very much not legal to do this
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
elon getting dunked on (proportionately) by the NYT's comedy writer was not an article i expected at the start of 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/elon-musk-twitter-parody.html
He’s Michael Scott from “The Office,” whose terrible jokes everyone must if not laugh at, at least put up with. One reason Musk might think he’s hilarious is that every joke he makes gets a glowing response from his vast population of followers. Why? Comedy is subjective. But I bet a few just admire him and want his attention. This can be its own form of cringe humor and mocking it can really bring people together.But Michael Scott is ultimately well-meaning. And when Musk spreads cruel disinformation about the assaulted husband of Nancy Pelosi, Musk seems less like Scott than the omnipotent kid from “The Twilight Zone” who insists on watching cartoons all day and forces the adults to do the same. Of course, unlike them, we can leave.
But Michael Scott is ultimately well-meaning. And when Musk spreads cruel disinformation about the assaulted husband of Nancy Pelosi, Musk seems less like Scott than the omnipotent kid from “The Twilight Zone” who insists on watching cartoons all day and forces the adults to do the same. Of course, unlike them, we can leave.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhiF2koXEAE_d-r?format=png&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
it's a full time job keeping up with Kyle Rittenhouse's fanmail, but Elon Musk is a devoted CEO
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
lemme ask you guys: is there really nothing to this guy? is it that everything the two companies he founded had accomplished has been in fact the work of underlings that he took credit for and he's just another rich guy whose bluster obscures his stupidity? Or is it that obeisance he has received from mainstream culture, combined with the brain rot that twitter has self-evidently rendered upon him, has slowly and steadily destroyed his ability to focus? It is really really annoying that NYT business section refers to him as the world's riches man at least once in every piece, as if any reader whatsoever at this point doesn't know who he is… the way they use that phrase almost seems like they're about to come every time it's employed…
― veronica moser, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I’d really appreciate it if some clown who has no idea what he’s talking about kicked in the door of my business, threw a wrench into the machinery, and then publicly shat on the work I’ve been doing on it for 6 years. What an asshole.
I quit a job several years ago when the CEO forced a CTO on us who did exactly this. It was unbearable. He fired people out from under me, and that was the final straw. He then went on to fire 80% of the engineering team without replacing them, then quit. Stellar six month tenure. It took the company three years to recover.
― akm, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
He didn't found Tesla
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 14 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Well he's definitely not a good engineer, and 95% of his ideas are fucking idiotic, and that dates back to the PayPal days. I too am curious what exactly this guy has managed to accomplish that shows him as more than just a loud & incredibly lucky rich guy. I'm not saying this as a hater, though I am a hater. He has such a bad track record when it comes to promising stuff and this stuff has real consequences; see all those poor saps who paid for full self driving 5 years ago. He's got the Trumpy skills - good at drawing attention, throws huge tantrums that make national news, manages to drive an army of simps because he's just as insecure and petty as they are. Everyone seems to be saying "if I had that kind of money I'd just fuck off forever"...well, if he was capable of doing that, he wouldn't be the lightning rod that's attracting everyone's attention right now.
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
He's benefitted a lot from being in the right place at the right time, and also at least projecting the illusion that he is one step ahead of everyone else, a visionary, thus duping people into deferring to his presumed genius. It reminds me of the early '80s, when all these virtuoso keyboard players, like Herbie Hancock or Greg Phillinganes or Jann Hammer or Hans Zimmer or Harold Faltermeyer, started popping up everywhere, playing this rinky-dink synth stuff way below their pay grade, I assume because no one else even knew how to turn the things on so just threw money at them. Like, Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" features Thomas Dolby on it, as if no one else could come up with such rudimentary little synth wiggles. Or "Axel F" or hell, "Rockit." Herbie Hancock actually *is* a musical genius, and that song is fun, but it's not exactly a showcase of his abilities.
Anyway, the people that give Musk long-leash support are like the labels throwing money at some '80s synth guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
that was not a direction i expected on this thread
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
i think hes good at business, in that particular move fast a break things way, he didnt found tesla but he was with them early and for sure had a vision for the company that has panned out, tho tbf the core of that vision was the work of the actual founders which is make a cool high performance electric car, until then they had been lil nerdy efficiency vehicles, doing a car startup was considered impossible at the time and succeeding at it was no mean feat, he did a lot of shady scammy stuff along the way for sure and tbf a more honest operator mightve failed, there still might be some very shady stuff going on at telsa who know their success could illusory
he was also very good at doing the media he really understood how to tell a story that would rev them up so to speak haha and also really understood the value in that, he put a lot of work into building his image and it paid off hugely, i doubt telsa wouldve made it without millions of articles calling him tony stark
which! makes this whole twitter situation and just his weirdo persona for the last few years so mystifying, he threw all that hard won good will away, maybe he got over confident or just tired of the whole thing, idk hes def a bit unstable its part of the mix for sure
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
doing a car startup was considered impossible at the time and succeeding at it was no mean feat, he did a lot of shady scammy stuff along the way for sure and tbf a more honest operator mightve failed, there still might be some very shady stuff going on at telsa who know their success could illusory
it seems to be widely accepted in certain circles that there is, so again it's the whole Trump thing, he's willing to break the law and commit fraud to make it look like everything is constantly going up uP UP. I mean Trump was notoriously one of the worst businessmen in the history of America and he wound up becoming President, so I guess being a scumbag pays off. I mean you can't really talk about Elon's business success without mentioning the billions of dollars the US government gave him, much of which seems to have gone right into his own pocket
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
yeah american business is incredibly corrupt, def some parallels with trump, except that musk was actually successful at business, trump did get to be president tho which is pretty nice too
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
and yeah elon has done well to position himself in front of the government subsidies spigot
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
free money baby who doesnt like free money
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
shit like this should really be a jail type situation
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
I mean
Part of today will be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
very much the "nearly all government spending is wasteful, we can easily do away with 90% of it" mentality that idiots like Ted Cruz have
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
they should 100% go back to rails, break out the fail whale, lets do this
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
lol excited for him to just turn off services at random until the site breaks
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
my friend who is a fast cars and electric engines nerd -- like she can literally talk abt types of battery for hours at a stretch -- says she will never climb into a tesla and that they are ludicrously and unimagineably dangerous. she DETESTS musk since long before all this
stripping out the resilience then outsourcing the risk -- i mean the risk at twitter is that i have to look elsewhere for my "cats with jobs" needs but he is running it the exact same way
― mark s, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
someone should rig him up a board with a bunch of switches he can throw xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
NEW: Twitter has lockdown it’s code base, freezing production changes to Twitter systems until further notice. Exceptions made if Elon explicitly says so, according to an internal email. 1/— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 14, 2022
lmao it might not last the end of the day
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
also idk if it's been mentioned itt but the site nearly broke during every World Cup goal 4 years ago and the 2022 one starts next week so good luck Twitter
― frogbs, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
this is it its happening
https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Untitled(1).jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
what if twitter and crypto fail on the same day does that mean none of it counts, we all just wake up from a dream
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Bolon_Yokte%27_K%27uh.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
i feel bad for twitter workers but this is tremendous content
he absolutely had some of his tesla sycophants have some very brief chats with people about stuff they barely understand, who then explained it to him and now he's micro-managing the infra pic.twitter.com/IlDrkPdBvn— wint32 (@mountain_ghosts) November 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
If I worked there I would be so mad if I were one of the ones that didn’t get laid off
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
btw no one uses the term rpc right, hes just trying to say request
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah he means requests probably
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
and the reason he thinks theres a thousand requests for a page load is because he doesnt understand what graphql is doing
i just looked up rpc and based on ten seconds of scanning it seems like its a situation where you make a request that could be fulfilled locally or remotely, which would describe how graphql works
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
or he does understand how it works he just decided he doesnt like the batching
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
and hes trying make the situation sound much worse than it is to give him an excuse to break twitter, idk lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
i mean some of the requests are rpcs as an implementation detail. no one talks like that though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
someone told him the word and he loved it
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
someone told him it was more hardcore than REST
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
tbf rest is not very hardcore, just taking it easy, thats the life
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
What
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
I love his energy
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
He’s fired— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 14 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
what a pos
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/6GykHxlH5r— Josh Mankiewicz (@JoshMankiewicz) November 13, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
tweeting a screenshot of a tumblr post…nature is healing
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
xpost - I 100% buy that Elon had no intention of firing that guy until he saw the tweets suggesting he do so
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
lol otm
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
oof the replies to his tweets are a new level of dismal
― rob, Monday, 14 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Found another one, Elon! https://t.co/0HjqXZpyr1— ✨Chicago✨ (@chicago_glenn) November 14, 2022
need a new snigglet for combo of snitch and stan
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
"team freedom of speech"
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
He can name her to his new Katch All Rogue Employees Now Squad.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
however degraded musk is people rooting for firings in his comments are somehow lower
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
note the meme signature
@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/qPSBr3PK8j— Tesla DMV -Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia (@FSDbetaa) November 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
oof
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
come on, evil young children. turning point usa is where you want to work, not this flameout twitter stuff
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
this could go extraordinarily poorly
― akm, Monday, 14 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
seems less funny now.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 November 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Just imagine how much money he would save if he fired everyone, turned it off, and quit. Twitter would go from losing billions to losing nothing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
ah very nice slam dunk
apparently they didnt turn off 2-factor authentication but they DID turn off the service that sends you the 2-factor authentication code. so if you log out and try to log in with an authentication code you simply wont receive one. lol. lmao https://t.co/CoTqonsagG— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) November 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
oh, details
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
“Only 1 factor is necessary, 2 is waste of RPCs and compute”
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
musk stans (god I hate that term) are terrifying, these interactions with twitter engineers who are speaking up are insane. their craven need for a strong authoritarian daddy figure whom you never disagree with is just off the rails.
― akm, Monday, 14 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
Elon is just demanding random people on his website tell him how it works now pic.twitter.com/k3jEG9DVZz— worms cited (@christapeterso) November 14, 2022
he's confused about requests again
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 November 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
what a maroon
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
Please don't call posting work.
Elon Musk complains about his brutal work schedule: 'I torture myself' https://t.co/z5oBy6thQt pic.twitter.com/7wr0u5Aa7L— New York Post (@nypost) November 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
c'mon bro, posting is not work, it's what you do when you are procrastinating work
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
like I am right now
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
elon should consider running fewer companies idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/315541335_10229744337502882_7385327958355739455_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=e3f864&_nc_ohc=wY3rFOoCQv4AX8irMKv&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfCpk-Y_ou_5ItA45tVDcn7o-rlZ7vcaeqhZLmgl_DgR9A&oe=637800E7
― nickn, Monday, 14 November 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
Gave Kyle Rittenhouse a reply today…
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 14 November 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Was just coming here to post that
In the mentions of a verified murderer cool pic.twitter.com/e2c1Ohb0D1— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) November 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 November 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
I am learning about all the other crap that goes on in social media too
this is actually a really valuable tool that can be used, for instance, to determine whether a tweet was made using a commercial social media management tool or by an individual using the app on their phone. https://t.co/FwCeSZIJEu— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) November 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 November 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
I'm great at detecting when a tweet was composed by a tool
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 14 November 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
ayy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
he paid $44bn to be the annoying dumb guy on the message board everyone can't help roasting 24/7— Jess Harvell (@cheaptrickrules) November 14, 2022
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
someone needs to start a ban elon thread
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
why were any banks willing to loan elon money for this?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
hes one of the richest ppl in the world, they want his business, they didnt realize how bad hed fuck it up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
waste (of compute) man
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
xp true but expecting any company to pay $1b a year simply to service its debt doesn't seem like a recipe for getting one's money back
that banks are already, after two weeks, floating the idea of selling off that debt at 60 cents on the dollar doesn't speak well of them
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
They did a big ol whoopsie doodle
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
is there a good podcast episode that gives a rundown of all that has happened? want to drift off to sleep learning about the chaos.
― treeship., Tuesday, 15 November 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
i think most large banks have a line item called "fucking around" where anything goes, worth billions
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
no that's the Finding Out line item
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 05:00 (one year ago) link
so when do we start calling these events Elon-gate?
― StanM, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 06:11 (one year ago) link
If there’s ever a scandal about me, *please* call it Elongate— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2021
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
aha, ok, too predictable, got it.
― StanM, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 08:17 (one year ago) link
Why did he move so quickly to change things before understanding the company?
― treeship., Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
idk its genuinely bizarre
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
exact same as when liz truss became prime minister and completely tanked the pound within the first month
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
he's surrounded by yesmen so dense-packed they cause a two-way event horizon
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
had missed this exchange from the texts via the court case
i don’t think this website will thrive :( pic.twitter.com/RoHU6Vuxq7— worms cited (@christapeterso) November 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
xpostOr when Trump promised a quick fix to two 70-year old crisis in exchange for a Nobel peace prizeApparently to the megalomaniac, genius consists in proving that everything is in fact simple, everybody else being dumb and faking it. I also have a hard time understanding the fascination this kind of psychology exerts on the people who want to believe in them (in the megalomaniac). Maybe they're the same at heart ?
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
At least Musk face-planting has only modest repercussions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?
I got 75%
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
67%
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Employees say it appears that around 20 people have been fired so far for their Slack posts.— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
What a prick
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
just an absolute shithead
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
i shd also be fired for my slack posts tbf, luckily i am self-employed
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtyN1s2XMAATJb6?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
tinpot dictator
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
me: I need the most obscene executive compensation package ever, tied almost entirely to stock price rather than core business metrics, because *checks notes* I am called by prophecy to storm heaven and overthrow Godchair of the board of directors: makes sense, where do I sign? https://t.co/iv9cWqOK2w— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) November 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w3DH2sA.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
dammit, i meant that for the twitter thread. it makes no sense here, on the elon musk thread
Mr Musk, uninformed all around,Helmed Twitter & ran it aground.The tweeting howeverWas better than everFor daily this man was beclowned— Limericking (@Limericking) November 15, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
weird how he always seems to be replying to the most vile right wing accounts
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fhn-xM_UUAA2sHR?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
I am blocked by a man named CatTurd2 on the internet, making it considerably harder for me to figure out the business strategy of the richest man in the world. pic.twitter.com/yA7Z8KgUmp— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
sad all the musk fans gloating over these firings when obviously the people knew they were likely to be fired and did not care
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
god it's just full mask off with these people. one day they're celebrating because "free speech is legal again!" and the next they're cheering on the richest man in the world as he fires anyone who dares to correct him
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
stone cold losers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Just the same fantasy over and over of the big strong man who will grind their enemies under his boots.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
xxxp seriously. lots of tweets from current employees saying how jealous they are of people who got severance. it's free money and a badge on your resume that is neutral to positive.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Didn't realize so many people watched The Simpsons to empathize with the heroic main character, Mr. Burns.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 15, 2022 1:32 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
compendium
If you've been paying attention, you might've noticed that over the past two weeks, Elon Musk basically only fields suggestions and complaints about Twitter from one side of the political spectrum. And a lot of them like spreading rumors of election fraud. https://t.co/dcV0SlQ7Tn— miley 🐡 (@MilesKlee) November 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
That photo of Elon in the cowboy hat is ending me. I am ended. He looks like a cowboy Big and Rich rode to save the horse.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Does he still live in a U-Haul storage unit in Texas or whatever?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
Big and Rich fundamentalism
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
charlie warzel at the atlantic (of all places lol) is covering this story p well. this (from april) seems prescient
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson! pic.twitter.com/LEhXV95Njj— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
28th October:
Ligma Johnson had it coming 🍆 💦 pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:02 (one year ago) link
Lots of Elon stans claiming this is top level trolling by Musk (re Ligma meme) and that the two were never employees ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good to see he's got time for this whilst Twitter literally falls apart around him
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
Why has he emojied an ejaculation there?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/038/139/wewew.PNG
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
It does track that he shows more interest in annoying fake employees than real ones.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
wld be funny if he had a heart attack and died
Elon Musk has given Twitter staff 2 days to commit to ‘extremely hardcore’ work culture or lose their jobs‘extremely hardcore’ = ‘long hours at high intensity’People need to click "yes" in online form by 5pm ET today or leave https://t.co/PTTj2JRHKc— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
what a complete fucking spoon
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
screencapping storing here
https://i.imgur.com/OF8a1nt.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
if u click anything at all u end up downloading malware tho it's how he get u xp
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DS1ffGdVMAANdBm?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
i do like mark s's link above, the management-style summary seems to slide things together pretty well.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
irl lol at coinbase's “'rate your coworker' real-time feedback system." i mean, if i rated my co-workers (whom i generally like!) in real-time
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight. Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️Story: https://t.co/expt0d63dH pic.twitter.com/C8VDjRBvk1— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 16, 2022
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
He fundamentally doesn't understand what the company is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk should just go extra super extremely hardcore himself to make up for all the slackers. Get that guy in a room with a computer, lock the door, and wait for the magic to happen.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
He fundamentally doesn't understand what the a company is
l' affaire c'est moi
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
OnlySycophants
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
I'm addicted to the rubber-necking but man, I'm so tired of seeing his big stupid head, is there even *one* pic on the whole net where he looks normal, he's like some sort of man-fish hybrid. I expect to see terrible gasping, slobbering gills all down his neck.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
I cannot imagine (particularly in this job market) a job that I valued so much but had no actual stake in where I receive that message and say anything other than 'thanx 4 the three months severance bruh'
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
there are people for whom its harder to quit for instance those on work visas, and theres those who see this as an opportunity for advancement which it certainly is, but yeah all things being equal id be so out of there
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
Twitter data suggests most of the people buying Twitter Blue are promoting three things: right wing politics, cryptocurrency, and porn. https://t.co/yiXnqX1gw8— Adam Smith (@adamndsmith) November 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
I'll be really disappointed in him if he doesn't bring a giant fork prop into the Twitter lobby today.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
but anyway tech workers and all workers should unionize
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's what I want — stock in Twitter. (Or Tesla, for that matter.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
what twitter data? from ppl txting the phone# in yr bio? this is a wrd data tecnik
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
as someone currently unemployed in the tech industry in the bay area, proclamations like Musks kind of terrify me because I hate to think of other companies following suit, even in small ways; after the blunted attempts at compassion and empathy in the workplace during COVID (which IME weren't even followed very well, at least not where I worked), I can see more companies saying 'fuck it.' that said, this turn is basically setting himself up for a raft of discrimination lawsuits in CA so I expect him to cut costs by shifting all engineering to someplace with zero worker protections. Maybe Dubai.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Wonder what wildcat strike actions would look like here.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
'he also made some vague promise about huge stock grants for high performers for whatever thats worth'
it's a private company, there is no stock
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
sure there is
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
there is the potential for there to be stock, you just won’t be able to do anything with it until elon takes twitter public again.
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Private companies, if they are corporations, do issue stock. It's just not traded on a public exchange.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
sometimes you can sell private stock or whatever its called
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Sure, you can sell it unless a shareholder agreement restricts its sale, and if you can find a buyer. Or, you can cash in when the company sells or goes public.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
if i had twitter stock i would give some to everyone who liked my tweets, there should be a button for that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
the rule around this is complicated but basically you can’t sell it for a year after you get it and if you can find a buyer they will be under similar restrictions. there is a pretty big “liquidity discount” vis a vid public stock. but there are services that will try to match you with a buyer if you own private stock. https://forgeglobal.com/buying-or-selling-private-company-shares/
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Musk email incoming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWcfmkslT48
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
musk took down that elephant thing hardcore
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
Good thread on what capitalists like Musk could be attempting in the tech workplace
It's...funny? I guess? to see a capitalist bullish enough to do to tech infrastructure what they've already done to every other kind of infrastructure. For a while the techies had the clout and mystique to hold off the barbarians, but looks like here they fucking come https://t.co/wDRldPh4jO— a furred tail upon nothingness (@dynamic_proxy) November 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
The worry that this is part of a new approach that will spread across the tech industry seems misplaced because it is clear he doesn't know what he's doing, and the result will be wrecking a popular brand and losing lots of money. Not really sure what the argument would be to copy this disaster.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
i feel like twitter itself has to stay up in some useable form for it to function as both model and platform on which the model is being successfully pushed
but i am not a coder(which a furred tail very much is)
xyz, do you have any thoughts from within yr own experience and world (less as twitter's biggest fan and as more bulletins from the class-war front in yr own territory)
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
idk I feel like that vulture capitalist approach only really works with companies or sectors in decline, where underlying infrastructure (real estate, supply networks, even just the value of the brand name) is worth more than the business itself. That's mostly not true in tech, which — all the vaporware and starry-eyed bullshit aside — is still full of very profitable companies that make money by making and selling actual goods, either hardware or software.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
it hadn't actually struck me until @dynamic_proxy said it out loud but of course (some of) the spiteful glee at twtr ppl being fired is rage against what he calls the "tech-professional class" from other professional layers as technies lose their formerly unbiddable heft
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
I mean unbiddability survives layoffs, I would jump at the chance to get fired by Twitter or Facebook rn
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
Sadly I work in the public sector
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
Elon is currently testifying against a lawsuit that he took way too large a compensation package, this is a long thread but this may even be funnier than the Alex Jones one
Elon: "The consent decree was made under duress. An agreement made under duress, is not valid, as a foundation of law.""Are you trained as a lawyer?""I have some familiarity with the legal system. If you're in enough law suits, you pick up a few things along the way."/50— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) November 16, 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
agree, but, I'll be transparent here: I just left a company that hit a financial bump in the road, and the response was that the board ousted the (well liked) CEO, brought back a CEO that had left in disgrace over sexual harassment allegations, and he promptly gutted the company and appears to be positioning it for acquisition at a bargain price over it's struggling competitor, rather than buckle down and fix the issuess that needed fixing. the company was cash flow positive. CEO is a Musk simp, incessantly replying to Musk on twitter. So, I just saw this happen. It made zero sense to me from a financial standpoint, unless they were being dishonest about the finances (which is entirely possible).
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I mean unbiddability survives layoffs
for sure and it likely (?) will in this instance also: @dynamic_proxy's argt is that musk's full-on assault on it -- all too familiar to many other "indispensible" layers in plenty of other industries -- is new in this instance, and also as public as it possibly could be really. what (given that it's only a new model in this specific instance) are the conditions for general contagion?
does musk have to succeed at twtr, for example?
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
There is just a lot of resentment toward a well paid class of people, and I see someone like Musk tapping into that and just hacking at it. IT is said to be a 'career', politicians tell people in deindustrialised areas to 'learn to code'. My feeling is that at some point, this just has to be stopped. Jobs have to suck.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I mean coding absolutely does suck and is stupid as hell but it pays very well and it’s impossible to evaluate anyone’s performance
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
When Musk says “high performers” he means “people who cup my balls the way I like when they’re sucking my cock”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
coding is fun its the results of coding that suck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
A lot of the guys fired publicly by Musk will walk into other jobs no problem. As an industry people are well paid and pretty secure once they are in it. They don't have to perform amazing either, just get a pay rise by going somewhere else.
Musk is only saying/doing what all bosses are thinking.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
the technical people should be good tho its maybe not the best job market right now, if youre a random bizdev guy i dont think youre necessarily just laughing your way to the next job
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Musk is only saying/doing what all bosses are thinking
this is key point i think: magazineland passed through this beginning like two decades ago, when VCs started eating up titles -- a similar downgrading of expertise, first slow then quick
it unfolded over a fairly long period -- the voice was bought up by new times media in 2005 after all but the torque supplied by "pivot to video" wasn't until 2015, a notorious complete lie fromfacebook that just stripped the authority of experience out from under those few editors still stubborn enough to back-talk their owners. deadpin's wrecker jim spanfeller is held in justified contempt by a layer of magazine workers who know what they're doing (and defector still seems to thrive) but it's not like he's shunned within the industry at large
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
yeah I love coding what I don't love is having to say analyze a dozen different microservice I'm unfamiliar with to figure out why X is doing Y
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
love to produce bugs (sowing) hate to debug (reaping)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
Pretty much
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be a secretary
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
But I like money too much at this point
it’s impossible to evaluate anyone’s performance
this is categorically false, cmon.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Well, impossible for nontechnical managers, which is the only kind I have
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
If I talk enough I think everyone assumes I’m doing a good job
i see, well then, you have a bad org structure, on the other hand, that might work in your favor
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
you're telling me!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
i'm out of work and need a job, hire me as your technical boss, I promise I won't evaluate you on lines of code committed
― akm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Sadly I lack this authority
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: @elonmusk says he plans to find someone to replace him as acting CEO of Twitter— Stock Talk Weekly (@stocktalkweekly) November 16, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
some personal news:
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
ehhh not quite so BREAKING really: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462668/elon-musk-trial-testimony-twitter-tesla-ceo-technoking
― rob, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
stock comp at private twitter is a solved problem at spacex. they organize private sales twice a year iirc.
the problem from the recipients pov is: it's difficult to value the stock, and even if you assign a high value to it they pay extremely poorly relative to the public tech industry.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
and yes, the least experienced people he's firing earn 300k/year, and the managers and senior staff ics are closer to $1m, and they will get a 20% bump by moving employers, and they will also get severance if they click no. i think he fundamentally misunderstands his bargaining position.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
found out this morning that they hired back literally the worst engineer i worked with at twitter. he wasn't an asshole. just he was incredibly slow and needed constant prodding to do anything, and this was well documented in his perf reviews, which they would have access to. this is what they've been reduced to.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
tip o the cap to genius management
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
first time he's ever been funny and i dont think he meant to be pic.twitter.com/5vYdvePtLo— barbarism critic (@SxarletRed) November 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
I posted this when i herd Elon musk was acquiring twitter wishing him all the best i dont think there is anything to be afraid of cheers pic.twitter.com/t4MVrpi9mz— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) November 16, 2022
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Well, he has to pay a billion a year in interest until he does...
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 November 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
does he have more billions than he has years of life expectancy though? it's like citizen Kane
“You’re right. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in 60 years.”
― koogs, Thursday, 17 November 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk could be chilling in a $100,000,000 mansion right now, getting massaged by 100 women, as a team of private chefs prepares him a 5-star meal! Instead @elonmusk is literally sleeping at Twitter HQ and working his butt off daily to improve the world.— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) November 16, 2022
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 November 2022 07:49 (one year ago) link
Genuinely interested to know how you get massaged by 100 women
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
This tweet tells a story in fewer words than "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
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― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 17 November 2022 08:02 (one year ago) link
Metaverse
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 November 2022 08:02 (one year ago) link
Genuinely interested to know how you get massaged by 100 womenshifts
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 17 November 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
the issue was does elon have to "succeed at twtr" for his break-it-by-smashing-the-tech-layer model to look better than it looks risky -- and i think "succeed" has a much lower bar in that question (tho he may yet not clear it)
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 10:46 (one year ago) link
Wonder if Musk will eventually end up like this guy, who existence I only heard about last week.
What on earth did I just read.https://t.co/Nar5R0HiMJ— New Left EViews (@NewLeftEViews) November 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 November 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
SBF seems both smarter and more borked, by his own delusions and by the world catching up with them (slowly then quickly)
i want elon to crash and burn since his japes already have a bodycount but i can also see him wobbling thru to the other end in effect unscathed and never really confronted with a reckoning he understands as being a reckoning
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Musk's folly here feels a little like say someone obscenely rich who doesn't know anything about coffee bought Starbucks and poured all of their coffee in the street and then told all of the Starbucks employees to double time it on inventing something sorta like coffee (optionally beverage-centric even) but better (maybe a product where, whenever the new owner of Starbucks isn't around, all the consumers of nu-Starbucks should be asking 'where's Poochie?') or they're out on their asses, is what it feels a little like. Just why. What is money when the person with the most of it decides to use his to put himself in the center of a third-rate Marx Brothers rip-off that ends with a static shot of the Groucho stand-in pissing into his own face for twelve solid minutes.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
i have to say this post lost me
― plax (ico), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
Agreed.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
that Matt Wallace tweet is so deranged, not just in the implication that women are falling over themselves to get a piece of this freak but also in the idea that people like this are driven by hedonism and not spite. dude is just like Trump, he needs people to tell him what a good little boy he is 24/7
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
but also that he's cool like poochie
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
which is not actually a trump failing (in new low bar news)
where is Poochie tho
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 17 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Also Musk should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 17 November 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
Then again, there must be someone willing to take $300k for being the least experienced. Probably easier to find if they can wfh and live outside the Bay Area, though.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
shifts
first you need 100 of these
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 November 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/izJW0Vt.png
You might have regrets, but at least you’ll never have this guy’s regrets pic.twitter.com/wh1b3uJohm— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 16, 2022
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23464351/whatsapp-business-directory-brazil-mexico-indonesia-uk
lol whatsapp is launching a feature that's similar to offering from the one company Elon actually started in the 90s
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DRju2sOusI
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Can't believe I'm saying this, but if your account got locked in the last hour for retweeting my post about Elon Musk, DM me. (Others have DM'd me directly.) pic.twitter.com/pK4wGyRCpV— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes".Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy.I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay.Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. https://t.co/VrPEn4IwBG— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Maybe the collective outrage over Ticketmaster cancelling the public ticket sales for the Taylor Swift tour will give enough of a pre-World Cup stress test.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
how can he be so bad at this is so much worse than should be possible
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
"From my larger group of 50 people, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance. Elon set up meetings with a few who plan to quit."I don't blame people quitting. They've been offered intimidation, ever-changing policies the last minute, long hours, and an ultimatum.— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Who could have predicted this?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
The richest man in the world now has to beg blue-haired nerds to keep submitting pull requests. And they’re just going to be like “you know I’ve been meaning to take a pottery class, it’s time.” Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
crazy that people didnt jump at the chance to take a much worse job than they can get anywhere else
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
It's nice to see pampered, overpaid programmers getting to play the victim in a media narrative for once.
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's just me but it feels like implicitly whittling your workforce down to employees motivated by punishments from daddy isn't the most efficient way to run a company.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
And I've got to assume those staying, every last one of them, is readying a resume and looking for other opportunities, because they would be more reckless than Musk not to.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
xpost You probably have to create a whole new division to delegate some of those spanking duties to, for a start.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
I assume the majority of people who don’t quit will be those with visas
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
Also may be gambling that a lot of people will get promotions to fill positions left by people who quit. If you're kind of low-level, it could work out well. (Not that I have any idea how the hierarchy of Twitter departments is set up.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
No use getting promoted to be the boss of nobody
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
idk that sounds pretty good
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
Well, fair
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
My whole career game plan has been, and hopefully always will be, to get promoted and compensated as much as is possible without being to boss of anybody.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
"I fear that in this world one is reduced to being either hammer or anvil; lucky the man who escapes these alternatives!"
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
Also may be gambling that a lot of people will get promotions to fill positions left by people who quit. If you're kind of low-level, it could work out well. (Not that I have any idea how the hierarchy of Twitter departments is set up.)― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:23 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:23 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
IC engineers don't get promoted just because someone more senior than them gets fired. managers sometimes do, and i know a couple of managers who stuck around hoping for exactly that. they both got fired in the first wave though haha.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
I assume the majority of people who don’t quit will be those with visas― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:12 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:12 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i know four people still on the payroll. three are on visas and one is on paternity leave.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
― o. nate, Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:07 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
its pretty funny that musk thought he could do some drill sergeant routine, pure delusion, pampered people are very resistant to not being pampered anymore
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
i dont particularly know what goes on as far as management in musks other companies but purely speculating both cars and rockets seem like industries that people might have a particular interest in working in, like video games or movies, and therefore are willing to work more hardcore, but making a app its cool people are interested in and may even be passionate about the technology aspect but no ones like its just so amazing to be around websites you know
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
up until recently, if you wanted to work on rockets or greenfield EV car design, there were relatively few places to go
but if you're a software engineer in silicon valley, there are and have been literally a million places to go?
(i think i saw this point being made itt but can't find it, apologies for plagiarizing)
― 龜, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
i think its amazing to be around websites. but im not an engineer
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
posters love to be around websites
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
xp to myself - meant to say 'clean sheet' not 'greenfield'
― 龜, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
i know four people still on the payroll. three are on visas and one is on paternity leave.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:58 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:58 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao one of them quit today.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
for a while people were genuinely interested in apps, telling you their app ideas, asking if you know how to build that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
never know, the next one could be a million dollar idea
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
i dont particularly know what goes on as far as management in musks other companies but purely speculating both cars and rockets seem like industries that people might have a particular interest in working in, like video games or movies, and therefore are willing to work more hardcore, but making a app its cool people are interested in and may even be passionate about the technology aspect but no ones like its just so amazing to be around websites you know― lag∞n, Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:02 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:02 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think ironically twitter actually is a place where certain kinds of engineers go. it has a rep as being cushy of course but i'm not talking about that. it also has a really strong track record of being a place you can do foundational and extremely influential stuff, without needing to put up with organizational complexity on the scale of google/facebook. they don't care about twitter.com per se, but twitter.com has more interesting engineering problems than like doordash or even uber.
good thread of examples of this
One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) engineering work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced to "the cloud" or open source projectsA few examples off the top of my head: https://t.co/zAMF3oW5rL— Dan Luu (@danluu) November 16, 2022
these people actually like the idea of "hardcore" (not in those words, they're adults) and should be his constituency. but it turns out that spending a month shitting on everything they've ever done (while being factually wrong about literally every detail) is not a winning strategy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
You can be a software engineer essentially anywhere including like banks, grocery stores, universities, companies you haven’t heard of that make ERP systems for hyperspecific sectors…
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Personally I think scratching layers off of legacy code and fixing up bad databases and solving business logic problems for your colleagues is interesting
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
their idea of hardcore (solving difficult problems) is prob different than musks (sleeping at the office) xp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
I feel like a lot of the foundational things Uber, etc. had to do are now almost boilerplate. I was at a conference talk where "here's how you'd use this backend system to query the nearest ten cars from a geospatial point" was a low-code example. The backends caught up and have absorbed a lot of the system load that Uber would have had to design around
imo Uber/Lyft still had some things to work on some years ago, but their grasp exceeded their reach and they started building systems to detect cops and feds attempting to illegally use their cars and started building shit to explicitly flaunt regulations, etc. that would have been a waste of time if their basics weren't already there
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
twitter is just endless "what should we show users and get them to click on ads and also stay on the site" followed by a zillion thought experiments and re-engineering, but caek probably can speak to that
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
the problem is Uber and Lyft cannot make money because their business model was using VC cash to subsidize cab rides and bribe city councils to exempt them from regulations, so the engineering problems aren't really relevant
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
anyway it sounds like essentially everyone is quitting
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
xxxp i know nothing about how they build the product tbh.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
xxp unravelling patterns of human interest to keep them scrolling and posting, not just getting someone a ride
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
xp you were the thought experiment department I thought
if you're a serious infra person and you like things like fixing bugs in the kernel networking stack and improving the throughput of a very large system then you can see how twitter (along with relatively few other places) might be one of your only options. i guess the difference is you have like 5 options and 4 of them aren't run by a maniac and pay better, but if you like space stuff you have 2 options and they're both run by a maniac.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:02 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
one of my biggest regrets professionally is that i didn't really see how incredibly fucked up labor issues were in the game industry, we were working our own crunch on the latest issue and website updates constantly and everything was so centered around that being the natural state of things. i was just ignorant as anyone and the culture and discourse has (thankfully) gotten much more critical of the game industry in the past 5 or so years. we definitely failed on every level back then.
all that is to say that i met so many dictatorial nutcases who ran studios and everything about elon musk reminds me of them
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
on the bright side, I don't think any huge open source projects that are in wide use have twitter as the primary contributor so we won't end up with software forks
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
reading the twitter kernel guys thread talking about how newer companies are all cloud bois was left wondering once you get big isnt that just so expensive, wouldnt it be worth it to roll yr own at some point
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, but even then you need someone else's cloud for some stuff even if it's just image caches
― mh, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
HI DERE. Perfectly happy to live and work in the software suburbs.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
I am going to miss this place. We built something special here, and I do not expect to see its like ever again. I have worked here at Twitter for over 11 years. Back in July, I was the 27th most tenured employee at the company. Now I'm the 15th. I am not going to click "yes" pic.twitter.com/IqVrFrUiaB— THISWILLWORK (@THISWILLWORK) November 17, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
wouldnt it be worth it to roll yr own at some point
That's exactly what Basecamp (the inventors of Rails) have decided to do.
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
Twitter’s Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 17, 2022
he shouldve bought the company before the salute emoji was introduced
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
there were 7000 when he took over fwiw.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
fn crazy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:49 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
almost all of twitter is in private datacenters for this reason among others. ml experimentation (not serving) and data science stuff is the big (and expensive exception).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhzPRnEUcAECrNu?format=jpg&name=medium
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
even tho twitter workers are for the most part still in good shape compared to most people that does just suck to have a job that you like and some billionaire freak comes along and ruins it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
it does.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
someone shd send that mfr to mars
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
didn’t half of basecamp quit bc the founder was like no politics allowed
― 龜, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
yeah lol that was a good scandal that dude had been acting like his shit didnt stink for literally ever
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
It sucks to have someone devalue your work and piss all over a place you've invested time and energy in whether you're a line cook or tweep (or an alt-weekly editor, let's say). Even if you have good prospects, leaving a job is always disruptive and when it's accompanied by feeling like your own work and the whole enterprise you were part of is being treated like shit, it's even worse.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
the good work continues
NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022
We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
the emperor temporarily realizes he has no clothes
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
the nice thing is, elon doesn't need to hire anyone to replace the engineers and devs, he can continue to rely on free unsolicited advice from his friends on twitter!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
lol they dont even know who works there anymore
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
does this mean nobody is actually running the site right now?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
mods are asleep change yr dn to elon sucks
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
elon already entering his howard hughes phase
― 龜, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
he has truly disrupted the social media industry
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
Hey how much to acquire ILX by the way
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
Pack of chewing gum for a start.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
next communication from twitter: as a favor, please do not watch or post about world cup
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
this is all a bit on the nose tbqh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
I feel bad saying this but honestly this is the funniest thing to ever happen
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
richest guy in the world spent tens of billions of dollars to just get mercilessly bullied on his favorite website before destroying it within weeks
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
its incredible content
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
This all happening at the same time as FTX and John Fetterman going to the senate is just too much
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
!!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”https://t.co/5lmWQHX2ft— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) November 18, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Legitimately stunned this is happening so fast
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
xxyyzz mentioned a wildcat strike and i guess this is that, but the strikers get three months pay in advance?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
As we’re all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000….) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We’re nearly 2 hours post deadline.— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022
doesn't seem like enough people tbqh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
sorry wrong tweet in the thread, meant this one
What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems.— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022
first goal in the world cup is when it ends
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
The most abominable villain in this story is the US immigration system, in the end
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
i kind of want to know how Ligma & Johnson are doing. rooting for those two
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
if twitter dies what's Elon gonna post on
― symsymsym, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
Good question
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Post it notes on the toilet
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
he could buy truth social and try again
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:47 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
beautiful
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
I haven’t seen an update on the sale of the debt in a couple days I wonder how that’s going
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) November 18, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 November 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
There's like 50 people stuck in a Twitter parking garage in Sunnyvale right now - the barrier arm won't go up because their badges are disabled. Someone in facilities management is supposedly bringing them a sawzall.— Specifically Performing Steiner (@TweetOfSteiner) November 18, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Probably faje
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
Fake
The Alex Cohen one definitely is, but dude can pick his targets.
I was let go by FTX today. I was in charge of all of Sam's personal finances. This was my first job in finance and living in the Bahamas.I'm sad but excited to share that come January, I will be starting a new role at ARK Invest, leading our early stage web3 investments!— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) November 10, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
People on Twitter spreading fake news about Twitter's collapse and Twitter can't do anything about it because of Twitter's collapse.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
> first goal in the world cup is when it ends
first game is qatar vs ecuador on Sunday. I'm not sure that'll have enough weight tbh
― koogs, Friday, 18 November 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
I feel bad saying this but honestly this is the funniest thing to ever happen― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:23 PM bookmarkflaglinkrichest guy in the world spent tens of billions of dollars to just get mercilessly bullied on his favorite website before destroying it within weeks― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:24 PM bookmarkflaglink
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:23 PM bookmarkflaglink
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:24 PM bookmarkflaglink
lmao @ these posts
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 November 2022 03:03 (one year ago) link
I (and probably thousands of other people) already made this joke weeks ago, Elon.
How do you make a small fortune in social media?Start out with a large one.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
i'm not owned
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 November 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
Actual footage of Elon arriving for the final moments of Twitter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
GLADLY accepting my severance deal from twitter today. I seriously can’t take working like this anymore pic.twitter.com/BwvlBRXCAL— neopet sematary (@glitchdagger) November 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
Elon really just tweeted this. Jesus pic.twitter.com/jOHrA2NLLs— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 10:30 (one year ago) link
More lolz
listen, if we want cars that catch fire and run over children we have to just live with the catastrophic mismanagement of a social media platform https://t.co/wEmFeHH9OV— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 17, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
The greatest emoji ever.
A bunch of Twitter engineers who were still at the company as of this morning, people I've known and respected for years, just called Elon's bluff, took the offer of severance, and said 🫡— Chad Loder - @chadlo✧✧✧@kolekt✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@chadloder) November 17, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
Salute emoji suggests to me 'yes sir, right away sir' rather than 'fuck of Musk' as it seems to be being used
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 November 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
off
Fuck of Musk and Eye of Toad
Or someone standing at 90 degrees to a nazi salute lol
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 November 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
salut
― calzino, Friday, 18 November 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
It's used as a fuck off emoji whenever I've seen it.
It's a way of saying fuck off to people you cannot say fuck off to, is how I see it.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
that puts it in a much better light, never seen it before
― calzino, Friday, 18 November 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
oh my god pic.twitter.com/F9S62VEuJP— cait (@punished_cait) November 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
Twitter's San Francisco headquarters has gone hardcore tonight. #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/DoG5pDD4AD— Muskrat McRatfu*ker needs to resign as CEO (@christoq) November 18, 2022
― groovypanda, Friday, 18 November 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
put this on Elon's gravestone
https://i.imgur.com/X4lIrq2.png
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
Just had a look at this article on the FTX founder and the drugs he might've been taking...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-psychopharmacology-of-the-ftx?utm_source=post-email-title
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
He has lost it pic.twitter.com/YPyxj5Ep6b— Men's Rea (@InternetHippo) November 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
"In case there's anyone left who doesn't hate me ..."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
it must be really frustrating to still be working there, in the middle of a work crisis, after clicking a button that indicated that you were hardcore and that Outstanding was the only acceptable performance, minimum of 96/7 work hours, and then you see elon replying to ticketmaster about taylor swift
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
I rode in a friend's tesla recently and it felt weirdly already dated, very car of the future of the past.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
I was in the back of my coworker's yesterday and, having moved his kid's car seat, I ended up sitting in a pile of cheez-its
― mh, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
its so funny how he keeps doing that thing where you use jargon to make yourself sound more serious but youre obviously just a poser and everyone hates you
NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
lol that’s so deranged what a fucking dumbass
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
and then he asks for screenshots lmao if youre going to go out of your way to mention the implementation detail of committing you should at least commit yourself to using that system to track the code youre interested in which not coincidentally is the thing its for
Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
please fax me a drawing of the best code you have ever written
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Imagine having to interview for your job every day
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
someone in the thread pointed out these emails are just a way of him trying to find out who leaks things to the press. weird but maybe possible?
also, new tweets seem to be loading way slower than before. 5s or more
― fpsa, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
he seems to make a habit of making people around him repeatedly justify their qualifications for being there, which miiiiight be a bit of projection on his part, maybe something that a forbidden recess of his mind keeps trying to bring up
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
if i were him and committed to fake cinematic boss bullshit i would at least ask like what ideas of yours have made twitter a million dollars or more, thats actually an interesting thought experiment, and peoples answers would probably at least give you some insight into how they work and think, but some screenshots of code who gives a shit its totally meaningless, ask them how much code theyve deleted its a much more useful activity
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
"Space Karen" on that streaming projection thing is killing me
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
^ otm deleting code is the most critical software engineering function
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
The best code is no code at all.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Are we sure the plaintiff in the Tesla lawsuit case, Richard Tornetta, is not: ㄥ7ㄥ7ㄥ7 Tonetta777 ㄥㄥㄥɐʇʇǝuoʇ Tonetta777 ㄥㄥㄥɐʇʇǝuoʇ Tonetta777 ㄥㄥㄥɐʇʇǝuoʇ Tonetta777 ㄥㄥㄥɐʇʇǝuoʇ Tonetta 777 ㄥ7ㄥ7ㄥ7
― Position Position, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
lol space karen was good, cant believe they didnt include apartheid clyde tho, makes u wonder if they actually use the product twitter
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
I was space Karen first, dammit. pic.twitter.com/UvNw3UyhbW— Dr. Karen James (@kejames) November 18, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
"Space Karen" sounds like a lost David Bowie/Robert Forster collabo.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers
I had a low opinion of Elon, but I didn't think he was this stupid about software. (assuming this isn't a leak detector)
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
its not about leaks hes been doing this the whole time number of lines committed was one of the things they looked at when deciding who to fire
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Of course he’s this stupid he’s an emerald mine heir that’s not a background that makes you smart
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
What should Twitter do next?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
"Word puzzles? Internet dating? Pokemon? What do you guys want?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
Heh
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
word puzzles def
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
Twitter should allow users to trade cryptocurrencies directly on the platform.— Marc (@MarcTheBulll) November 18, 2022
this seems inevitable, or at least some sort of option to buy crypto or showcase your awesome nft artwork
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4N2dk0cMk
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
― Karl Malone, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:48 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
and crypto will have its ultimate crash months before they launch
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
they already have (had?) a thing for nft avs fwiw, it was a hexagon instead of a circle lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, November 18, 2022 9:42 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, November 18, 2022 9:44 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah but what is a "salient line of code"??? does he think there's going to be like one line of code that's brilliant and impactful in isolation?
"yeah this line is the differential equation that figures out how to align memory allocation to page boundaries, taking into account virtualization and cache latency"
actually ... brb about to go raise $10M of dumb money
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
but can you directly buy, sell or trade those nft avatars, on twitter? because wow, when they do that it's going to bring a lot of attention to the amazing auto-generated nft images that are out there and drive up the value. there are some really, really good images out there, people are spending a ton of time looking at them and enjoying them
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
maybe knowing things would actually in some way impair the pathological lack of self-doubt that has enabled his rise
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
― death generator (lukas), Friday, November 18, 2022 12:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the correct reaction lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
I thought all the dumb money was sitting tight right now b/c of the economic climate
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
I got the impression Musk has no non-superficial nor real interest in code or even productivity necessarily (CEOs have earned a lot of time to 'use their own product' all day sure sure) and this is just a way of filtering out the insubordinates.
― nashwan, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
theyll get tired of that in like a week, and this whole thing of the big companies firing people is such a charade its not in their nature, just as vcs are built to throw money around big tech companies a built to hoard computer science phds xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
sounds right
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
the fed is built to inflate bubbles and so forth
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
― nashwan, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:59 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think he does in some way believe in the c0de, he recently described himself as having been involved in hardcore coding for 20 years
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
hes trying to bring down the whole damn thing!
The Twitter shitshow is so bad that it's hurting productivity throughout the industry. People just can't look away— Johnathan Norman (@spoofyroot) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
some SRE comes in with a line of perl that is 100% punctuation
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
just thinking of what my "10 most brilliant lines of code" would be and I'll be damned if they aren't the exact same ones I get those "why on earth did you do it this way" emails about
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
He should put all of his resources into developing AI that allows cars to tweet at other cars while they're driving. That would be the best use of his time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
It would be like the end of "Holy Motors."
Lol patheticH/T @Tweetermeyer https://t.co/oJo4hBim4U pic.twitter.com/Kg0LBSFNxV— JabroniCoin.USD (@TheBenSchmark) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
For a 2p meeting announced at like 8:30a https://t.co/MUuNHYF0ry— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 18, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
I am having a difficult time believing this is real and I am looking at the emails.— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
nothing to add but cant believe how bored of slash obsessed with this story i am even though i hate computers
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I know nothing about coding and I'm still amused at how bad Elon is at coding
― jmm, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
have we considered the possibility this guy is in a manic episode and the last week or so is not normal behavior even for him?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
― 龜, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
so, hellbanning
― 龜, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, November 18, 2022 1:38 PM (fifty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah some sort of combo of that, total arrogance, and not understanding the difficulty of transplanting a work culture from one place to another
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Max Deboosted
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
i can't get over the "lines of code" thing. i know next to nothing about code but for yuks i thought i would open up the Zork-type adventure game program i wrote in C++ in AP Computer Science, completed 23 years ago this Wednesday. despite my surprisingly diligent annotation, the code is basically impenetrable to me now, but also, despite my very proud feeling that i'd arrived at a really brilliant, elegant, efficient solution to the basic problems at hand, there is (believe it or not) no one masterstroke line of code that attests to this.
so even for my dorky 12th grade magnum opus, asking for the best line of code is like asking an automotive designer for the best single piece of metal in the engine. "come on, you know what i mean, the one that makes the car go fast!"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
'Max Deboosted' is a fun new character you'll encounter on the platform, like the MS Paperclip guy... Max will help keep you abreast of Tweets that may be of interest to you
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
MAX DEBOOSTED
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
lol wasnt shadowbanning one of the things he vowed to get rid of
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
He was always like this. Like to think he is undergoing some sort of breakdown. Maybe if he jumps out of a building we'll know for sure xps to caek
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
my view of where twitter ends up is it's gonna be tumblr, dedicated fringe userbase but unmonetizable
― 龜, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
hes def always been unstable and impulsive but this is over the top
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Twitter is great but it has done harm to a lot of people when they are main character and pile-ons occur. This is possibly the ultimate instance of that.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
bean dad deserved it 100%
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Leaker should deliberately leak their personal copy, and it should be the music video plot for Swift's "Mastermind"
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Friday, November 18, 2022 10:46 AM (four minutes ago)
tumblr was pretty slow yesterday, lotta ppl bailing on Twitter to check it out. Also Tumblr was selling Important Internet Checkmarks at 2/$8 last week
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
that was a good bit apparently you could gift them too one account had like 20
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
it's perfectly possible to monetize a dedicated fringe userbase and build a sustainable business if you aren't inflated by VC money, you sell them profile trinkets for $8, it works very well
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
There is some serious brain stuff happening over on r/elonmusk pic.twitter.com/eUp1tWEVsS— rustbeltjacobin 🌹 (@rustbeltjacobin) November 18, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
The mental gymnastics it takes to not acknowledge that he just sucks— Peter 'Elon Musk (Parody)' Bajurny 🔰🐈🚰💉💉💉💉 (@fishmanpet) November 18, 2022
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Big Q Anon "Trump is actually working with the FBI to catch Hillary" vibes there
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
r/elonmusk fan theory makes sense, it's like that time I bought a used Audi that I suspected might have something wrong with it and turns out there was totally a cigarette burn on one of the floor mats so I plowed that fucker into the river and showed up soaking wet on the seller's doorstep asking for my money back. He told me to go fuck myself but I was like 'too late, pal, too late'
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
Need a new display name, thanking u elon
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Is that armor he's wearing in his profile pic?
Never a good sign.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
ok here's an even worse theory
Mind Masters: Knights of Thought pic.twitter.com/e8XDE37DvZ— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) November 18, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
this is just the plot to Westworld
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
lol twitter will sell you access to its data for way less than $44b
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
who'd have thought 'leaf reviews' would spout a bunch of stoned nonsense
― akm, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
almost impressed by someone hearing "generative adversarial network" and being like "oh I get, like in a debate" and just running with it
― rob, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
haa true
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
We’re all discriminators on Twitter.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 18 November 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
reading various reporting seems like since elon took over three week ago twitters workforce both regular and contract has shrunk by about 80%, thats fn crazy lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
wasn't that the plan all along?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
prob quite a bit more than the plan but crazy regardless
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
I expect by New Years there will be raccoons and pigeons living in the HQ building
It's gonna look like the final fight scene in Blade Runner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
lol yeah last week I was asking if any company ever managed to survive after laying off half its workforce, I guess I kind of assumed that business genius Elon Musk might realize he fucked up and get people to return and he antagonized most of the rest into leaving instead
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/ pic.twitter.com/ziuOMblwLJ— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters) November 17, 2022
Fun long thread about how Elon has lied about his degrees for nearly 30 years and how this affects everything from his purchase of Twitter to US national security, from the account that hunted Jan. 6th Capitol rioters no less.
― octobeard, Friday, 18 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Since the security badges don't work any more, I have half a mind to head over to Twitter HQ and impersonate a high-level engineer for this meeting tonight
Pretty I'm sure I can just walk right in
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
you actually need to submit a list of your best lines of code beforehand
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
can I borrow yours?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
the sad truth is that i might be the one person in the world who could plausibly point to individual lines of code which are outstanding. when i was first putting conferencecall.biz together it was barely working at all and the code was a sprawling mess. then ilx legend allen g stepped in and it was, from my perspective, a magical transformation of it into something that was much tighter and suddenly worked flawlessly and reliably! so i guess if i had to fake being being a software developer for elon i'd just send him those lines and then email allen to let him know i might need a bunch more help again from him soon :p
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh4zFjPWIAAaTZz?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
So he has at least the one brain cell
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gJCouv9.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Starting to think 2022 is The Year of Those Who Fucked Around and Found Out.
― octobeard, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
Found out that there are no effective consequences to anything you do if you have billions of dollars at your disposal? If so, then yes.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
thread
Look. The site is gonna stay up but the spell is broken. He'll let Trump back in then he'll kick him off and the NYT will cover it in all caps. There'll be another private jet handjob horse bribe incident. He'll make Calacanis CEO and fire him. &c. Everyone will care less daily.— Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
Sorry, no effective consequences to the wielder of those billions, obvs. Like 'Musk tanks the fuck out of Twitter > Musk flies to Thailand with Bankman-Fried and lives off of cocaine and milk for four months' is a totally feasible progression.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
Confidence that the site will stay up seems unwarranted but the spell being broken is about right
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
xxp - that is sort of how I see it falling apart for Twitter as well. the site may or may not have the sort of cascading failure that a lot of the engineers are predicting but it's gonna start to lose it's appeal. it's already starting, with a lot of accounts I really liked quitting, or getting banned for making fun of Elon Musk. it's gonna get a lot more fashy, will almost certainly have regular technical problems, and may wind up full of so much NSFW stuff you can't open it in public. little by little it'll become less appealing and I think eventually you just say fuck it. Facebook is kinda in the middle of its own problem like this. I can see Twitter being like Myspace, maybe in 5 years you'll be like "ohh I still have an account there!" and log in to find it totally revamped with a really complex layout and a bunch of weird new features you don't like. half the posts will be spam. it's really hard to do anything because they had to disable so much shit to keep from getting sued. but it'll still be around.
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
prepare to show me your objects
New email from Elon Musk to engineers: “please be prepared to do brief code reviews as I’m walking around the office.” That’s it — that’s the whole email.— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
ok that is incredibly funny
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:28 (one year ago) link
I know it's a little uncouth to make these kinds of assumptions but I think this dude is 100% on something right now. his behavior right now really feels like the dudes I know who were rapidly approaching a major inflection point. like, this is what the guys I knew who were on meth started acting like.
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
he has implied that hes bipolar fwiw
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
right I mean one of the people I know is too and when he got all hopped up during a manic episode he said shit so bizarre that it was almost scary to hear. like the dude bought this company for $44,000,000,000, immediately started posting conspiracy theories, antagonized all his advertisers until they pulled out, lost 80% of his workforce within 2 weeks, and is now demanding everyone fly in to see him in person on 6 hours notice so he can tell them he's going to stalk the aisles of the workplace and do impromptu code reviews of a programming language he won't understand for an app he apparently knows absolutely nothing about (from the technical side, at least). he went from "all our unbannings will be reviewed by a diverse council that considers all viewpoints" to "should I fukkin do it!?! y/n" within a week. it's literally insane shit. like he thinks he's lucid dreaming or something.
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
Reinstate former President Trump— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link
Gross, but entirely predictable, that you would hold an open-to-abuse poll to justify a totally reprehensible outcome that you have already decided upon but don’t have the guts to take personal responsibility for.— Matt Carr (@MattCarr55) November 19, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:58 (one year ago) link
inevitable he would poll it
what's the split?
― nashwan, Saturday, 19 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
currently it's the cursed 52-48
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
Just leaving Twitter HQ code review pic.twitter.com/pYcXRTJm14— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
think ive discovered the problem, too many mixers, twitter is all mixed up!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9d-1d0ltCM
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
Just lol at clicking on the embed of a proud Elon tweet about Twitter's awesome code and getting 'this tweet is not available' on the actual website (as has been the case with about half of the Twitter links I've clicked this week).
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
love that the “code review” was apparently doing up a quickie logical architecture of the type that i have drawn, or watched others draw, countless times over my years in IT
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
yeah if youre curious about how a computer program works thats really the place to start not looking at code
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
Don't bump the tableI'm trying to code
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
it’s actually pretty interesting to see it done for twitter!
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
i like this part
https://i.imgur.com/nBEBLSg.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
👍
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
WT..?
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
hahhaha the dreaded bottom corner where we put the stuff that doesn’t exist yet
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
more twitter infrastructure research
for people blathering about “just put twitter in the cloud” we tried that. i was there. so just to put some numbers out there, let’s assume aws gave you a 60% discount. now you’re talking approximately 500,000 m6gd.12xlarge systems (new hw was bigger). that’s $300MM monthly— ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ but can’t dance off it (@petrillic) November 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBHdj8XkVFg
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Wade-5/publication/302632920/figure/fig2/AS:751645805789184@1556217733527/Then-a-Miracle-Occurs-Copyrighted-artwork-by-Sydney-Harris-Inc-All-materials-used-with.png
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
TBF that's what I would expect an arch diagram to look like. also I'm a bit surprised he put that on twitter for the entire world to see
― akm, Saturday, 19 November 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
also re: cloud that is a good point. cloud hosting is great if you have predictable traffic levels, less good if it fluctuates wildly and you're paying bandwidth costs.
― akm, Saturday, 19 November 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated.Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
Let ‘em eat caek.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2012
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
he claims hes not coming back
TRUMP JUST RESPONDED TO ELON’S POLL AND SAID “NO THANKS” LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/CXGr9GY5vE— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
xp to infrastructure post
1000 node presto cluster is not “keeping twitter running” that is probably some analytical junk and if the last two years have taught me anything, it is that you really need to segment “this is what keeps people doing things” and “this is how we determine what people are doing and modify that experience”
the latter is where potential exists but if it’s a zillion times larger than the former then you’re taking crazy pils
― mh, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 November 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
putting money on trump making "the best deal ever" and coming back after "winning."
but i should probly read/watch/listen to trumps actual reply, which i have not.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Sunday, 20 November 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
you should never read/watch/listen to that guy
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 November 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
When you spend $44b on a ring and he says no— James Millar (@JDMillar1) November 19, 2022
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
This is what Zuckerberg is up to btw.
pic.twitter.com/wDF9tRA2qX— Gavin Mueller (@gavinmuellerphd) November 20, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 November 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
Tesla is recalling more than 321,000 vehicles in the U.S. because tail lights may intermittently fail to illuminate, the company says. https://t.co/BlEmQTLkz2— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 19, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Sunday, 20 November 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
its very funny (and good) that regulations classify bug fix updates that can be done "over the air" as recalls, it must make him so mad
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
tesla bring software industry practices of frequently pushing new updates to their cars is unsafe, cars need to behave in consistent predictable ways and if youre always changing the software thats not happening, even worse other companies are doing it now too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Elon is merely acting as transgressor, exploring how fast others can degrade their service.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 November 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
I saw someone on Twitter make the point that Trump's deal with Truth Social (i.e. whoever actually put money into that thing, because obviously it wasn't him) require that all of his posts appear there for at least 6 hours before appearing anywhere else. Assuming that's something Trump could wriggle out of if he wanted to, it's still a useful leverage point for him to do something — like, insist Musk buy the company or something.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 20 November 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Trump famously loves obeying contracts.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
he knows it would be a beta move to come back under these circumstances.
― beard papa, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
i dont think he can stay away hes going to make up an excuse to save face
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
maybe well get partial posts with a link to the truth social original or something
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
and he does need twitter right now with fox et al trying to shut him out he needs that megaphone
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
Hey @Tesla, pay the man. Assholes. pic.twitter.com/FHpPU2Ir1R— 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 (@hardestrides) October 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
Imagine if Mussk could do for Tesla what he did for twitter - junkyards full o' telsas
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 20 November 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
Someone in that twitter thread points out that video is from 2019 and since "resolved", no idea how true that is as they dont back the claim up.
But I'm getting wary (and weary) of a lot of disinfo and "comedy" crap flying around now.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 20 November 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
ok!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiDP2jHVEAE-5JO?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
very good point
at some point elon is going to log into the account and post from it— orinoco hockey flow (@sponcondereplay) November 21, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
This just took the lead in the Cringiest Fucking Thing I've Ever Seen in Austin Contest, which is really saying something pic.twitter.com/rViskmVi20— Evil MoPac (@EvilMopacATX) November 21, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 21 November 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
uhh what is he doing right now
And lead us not into temptation … pic.twitter.com/8qNOXzwXS9— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 21 November 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
Winning, something something tiger blood
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
gross and weird, just like the man himself
― treeship., Monday, 21 November 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
Also reinstated Project Veritas. So what if — either because it was always the goal or it has evolved apace — the model is to turn it into a global disinformation network for the international alliance of kleptocrats and religious fundamentalists? (Yes, I have been watching The Peripheral, why do you ask.) Authoritarian populism gets its own giant megaphone, which they can't build themselves because they've tried, but they can take control of one that already has the infrastructure in place. With costs covered by the League of Evil Billionaires. Still open to anyone, but with the trolls and fake accounts encouraged rather than restrained.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 November 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
there have been numerous sites which encourage trolls and fake accounts and there ain't a single normal person on any of them
― frogbs, Monday, 21 November 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
Yeah, and that would probably be the result here. But they're starting at a scale where there are already a lot of "normal" non-chan people. Maybe you figure some of them stay because they don't really care about politics, they care about sports or TV shows or whatever. I don't know. I don't really think there's some masterplan or conspiracy here, it's all way too half-assed. But after some initial noises about caring about moderation, Musk is on a totally different tack. Maybe that's just his natural instinct, but god knows who all he's hearing from or what kind of money is being bandied around.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 November 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
yeah, given the size of the platform, it will take more than individual users deciding "enough's enough" for it to lose its hold on all kinds of not-paying-close-attention people. assuming for a moment that the platform continues to function on the technical and financial levels... it's gonna probably require organized boycotting and noise-making, social pressure that gets people to equate having and using a Twitter account to, like, having and using a Fox News premium subscription or something like that. it has to be WIDELY understood as a right-wing scumbag edgelord disinformation site... not just amongst politically-informed types who've been carefully following all the Trump/Musk stuff and Musk's continued descent into obnoxious fashy jerkwad trollery.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 21 November 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
do normal people use twitter though? i thought it was just
a, celebs & journalists postingb, plebs quietly following ac, nutjobs
― micah, Monday, 21 November 2022 05:41 (one year ago) link
that weird fucking post is a milo manara lift btw
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 November 2022 06:37 (one year ago) link
are ilx0rs normal people or c
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 21 November 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link
if you need to ask
― micah, Monday, 21 November 2022 07:19 (one year ago) link
d, bots
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 07:23 (one year ago) link
e struggling comedians
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 November 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
the problem with turning twitter into a right wing hellhole is not only that users will leave but that advertisers will too, however normal twitter has already been a big amplifier of right wing propaganda enabling trumps presidency hosting the vile libs of titok and so forth, so if i were them id basically keep it how it was maybe let a few big accounts back on
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
tbh I don't really know how the math changes when it comes to social networks, because people join because people they like are on it, and when some of those people start leaving they may start leaving as well. even though Twitter is addictive and has a stranglehold on those little pockets of free time people have I also think it doesn't take much for that addiction to break. the clowning on Elon is fun and I'm all for messy forums drama but is it really gonna be fun a month from now? I'm already noticing some of the good people have left and that a lot of right-wing trolls are starting to take over.
the whole idea Elon has - that Twitter should be a "town square" or "marketplace of ideas" - is exclusively a right wing thing, for reasons the left figured out long ago. free speech absolutism always just leads to stuff like "maybe Paul Pelosi had a gay lover and staged a false flag attack to help Dems in the midterms" which I think most smart people figured out you just don't engage with. you can't change anyone's mind and quite frankly who wants to spend their time that way? ILX is an echo chamber too and that's why I like it. you don't seek out contrarian assholes to hang out with in real life so why would you wanna do that online?
― frogbs, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
yeah the elon pile on seems like its already over as far as something thats fun im sure it will continue forever in some form, but yeah hes prob gonna ruin the site seems like rip
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
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― paulcarrigan@proton.me, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
whoa we've entered the wormhole
― frogbs, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
did that just happen? I think it did!
― mh, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Dang, I assume that was (inept) spam. Banned.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Monday, 21 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
I am interested in new ideas, maybe give paul a chance
― mh, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
we’re through the looking glass here people
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
what do you guys think the probability is that Elon has seen this thread? probably non-zero!
― mh, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
I mean, Paul there has a very interesting filmography over on imdb.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
"quality is something you definitely cannot afford to compromise"
New board description?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
guess papers best prices
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
i've never had quality, are u willing to accept any of the rest of my shit for a deal, world
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Tesla price just keeps dropping. Saw Elon was being rounded on by right wing Twitter for his refusal to unban Alex Jones.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
wonder what it would take for him to get fired from tesla
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
hope i can get a tesla for five bucks soon and enter it into a demolition derby
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
A consummation devoutly to be wished
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
Xp
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
crash the tesla once it combusts and burns for five days
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
Teslakuh
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
Grandpa? Why do we celebrate the holiday?Sit on my lap son & let grandpa tell you the story of this dayYou see, twitter only had enough engineers remaining to keep it running for one more night, but it miraculously kept working for eight nightsWe burn a Tesla in remembrance— Elder Rubber Asylum (@Rubberasylum) November 18, 2022
― sleeve, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
wow it still works!
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 21 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiH_jo3XkAA8ux4?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
What are the words “Taylor Swift” doing there?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
Why is israel engaging with Kanye for clout
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
Anyone else feel like they're getting weirder/sketchier/more random suggested tweets? Just anecdotal, but the timeline feels more cluttered.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
Oops I guess that should have gone on the Twitter thread. I forget which one I'm on.
Hey tipsy, I see you’re feeling lonely, alienated, like no one understands. Click here to learn how you can take back your manhood and take back America.
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, November 21, 2022 7:42 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i have done some research and the country of israel tagged taylor swift in their post as a reference to:
Taylor Swift: “I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Narrative”Swift wrote a note on Instagram in response to the video Kim Kardashian posted of Swift’s phone conversation with Kanye West.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
xp lol
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
who could have predicted this
Twitter won’t restart paid verification until ‘significant impersonations’ stop, Elon Musk tells employees https://t.co/htpnMtov4m pic.twitter.com/a4GYMd5YI6— The Verge (@verge) November 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
He is running this site in a dumber way than I ever would have predicted
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
Staggering. The dumbness. I’m dumbstruck
― treeship., Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
its really something
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiIJEl_XEAEoDmY?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
idc if real or fake
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
i did search and its in a bunch of tweets at least, good enough for me lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Are there "ratings" for social media platforms, or is he just incapable of thinking of things in any terms other than those of 1980s television?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
app stores have ratings prob what hes talking about
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
crazy truth social doesnt have a web interface you cant just go look at trumps truth tweets
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrumptest test
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
oh there u go hey
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
i guess that post was fake, sowwy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:48 (one year ago) link
either that was fake or it got untruthed
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Like I said I don’t care if it’s fake
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
+1 silbytruthed
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
its real in that its true its super truth social
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
lmao i would be so chatty tell him about my week
Going forward, all Twitter employees are now required to send an email every Friday updating Elon Musk with what they are working on and “code samples” if they are engineers, per internal memo sent out. Hardcore! https://t.co/Vx5TH5yU7X— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
The man must be made of pure cocaine at this point.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
Maybe direct access to uncut shit was the Bolivia coup motivation rather than lithium.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
once he's down to like <30 employees this is v manageable. check back next week
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
How is he so bad at understanding how humans operate, what humans like and don't like, the kinds of humans other humans do and do not enjoy working for, etc. Oh right sociopathy, nm.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
Plus the privilege of never having to care what other people think or learn how to connect with them. See also DJT obv.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
is he doing this like "twitter employees, justify your existence" ?
― StanM, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link
imagining a scene where X AE A-XII and Exa Dark Sideræl are clamoring for their dad's attention during a weekend. "not now! daddy's reviewing code samples!"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 06:32 (one year ago) link
trent "nine inch nails" reznor pic.twitter.com/d0ZgPNWtVb— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) November 22, 2022
anyone with a passing familiarity with nine inch nails already knows he's massive crybaby. "I just want something I can never have boo hoo"
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
"maybe Etsy is more is style"
-Elon "Hardcore" Musk
― circa1916, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
hehe nine inch nails more like eight inch nails
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
https://archive.ph/7iyY6
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
i wanna Thiel you from the inside
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiHe0VnVEAA101Z?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
he tried to spin it like all the bands sound the same to him.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
i am going to send Brandon an email that just says "bootlicker" every day for a month. just sent the first one.
Chasing clout by cribbing a Nate Silver tweet, the man is truly the wackest poster ever to touch a keyboard pic.twitter.com/Z94fz3Vjnn— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) November 21, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1595105866977419264/photo/1
pretty funny that that feature is still working
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiL0VQjUAAA7d_v?format=jpg&name=medium
Carl "Dune" Jung
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Elon's quote neither Dune nor Jung, but Dung.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Weird that he would talk shit about his reply guys like that
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I don't want reply guys, I just want a shy guy
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTR-_Klcq8
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Things that definitely happened
Ummmmmmmmm wut? pic.twitter.com/2hULyXctig— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 22, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
the very idea of left-of-center "social/political activist groups" forming "a large coalition" around any proposal in less than 18 months, let alone the idea that in a few weeks such groups could strong arm Twitter's advertisers into something they didn't already want to do, seems like a fever dream. where do I sign up for these super-powerful and ultra-effective activist groups?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
seriously. can't believe the people i just made up would go back on the deal i assure you we made.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
ah haaa
wait, what ??? Elon Musk has been going around saying "I saw the red flags and didn't invest with SBF in Twitter...." and actually he *did* and FTX owns some Twitter???? https://t.co/y5BEIuX1zq— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) November 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
― Clay, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
YES!!! The crossover episode!!!!
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
Good news, Elon is secretly fighting the pedophile elites:
lol published right as I tweeted pic.twitter.com/Mkbryq6TTU— spoonie for qatar 🇶🇦 (@lib_crusher) November 22, 2022
thread becomes more bizarre as it goes on, apparently Eliza Bleu is well known under other names in the My Chemical Romance fandom and was once engaged to Gerard Way.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
Effected
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 06:03 (one year ago) link
no way to vouch for this as evidence except to say "makes total sense" (the best kind of evidence)
This is *exactly* as I imagined, and provides the most straightforward explanation for anyone still trying to grasp at complicated theories on how the "SpaceX genius" could possibly be so bad at this. https://t.co/gRAgBgCPo7 pic.twitter.com/b2PGwhQmH7— Rob Sheridan (Parody) (@rob_sheridan) November 23, 2022
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
Looolll. IRL Gavin Belson
SpaceX employees re-coloring a giant dong cake and giving it to their oblivious child-king Elon for his birthday as a "rocket" cake is *chef's kiss* pic.twitter.com/bngMr4E8Vx— Rob Sheridan (Parody) (@rob_sheridan) November 23, 2022
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
thats pretty funny, might be real or might not, but it is true
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
elon is a paypig for space exploration
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
everyone working for spacex deserves it, we do not belong in space, its not for us
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
same thing with microblogging
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
L’espace c’est moi.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
he deleted this but jesus christ dude
https://archive.ph/kSncC
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
lol linking to the doj report what a goober
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
where is this going?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk has said he's about context on tweets, so here's context for these shirts: They came from Twitter's Black employee resource group and were popularized by @jack, who wore a version around to conferences to support the group (and was sometimes ridiculed for it). pic.twitter.com/Lw7aXJSBke— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 23, 2022
― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, May 3, 2022 9:12 AM (six months ago)
Musk's overt anti-Black racism, especially as a manager of Black workers, is well established. It's a real failure that this has been basically shrugged off or subsumed under a "Musk is a troll lol" narrative that makes it seem clownish
― rob, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
There was a long segment on NPR yesterday, interviewing some people about the Twitter situation. A former employee (a contractor free to talk, as opposed to former employees silenced by NDAs), that reporter from the Verge, and this VC investor Musk bootlicker with fingers in both Twitter and Tesla who was downright embarrassing to listen to. After defending Musk and his methods and stressing, Twitter aside, how well Tesla is run, the host had to point out that, well, no, point of fact, Tesla has gotten more than its share of complaints, specifically about work culture and racism.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
god he really is the world's worst poster. just absolute cringe
https://i.imgur.com/cxbfkcM.png
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
also note the times on those, Stephen didn't bite so he posted again like 12 hours later
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
King I’m sure has him on mute.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
Sorry, who did this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/uhP0moZJqQ— tyler hogge (@thogge) November 23, 2022
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
Elon's mom reposted that which is really gross considering that he's almost certainly sockpuppeting her account
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
I somehow missed that Musk stole a dril tweet and cropped out his name...the guy is so lame. https://t.co/ZIpKdbhf2x— Aryeh Cohen-Wade (@AryehCW) November 23, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
You come at the king, you best not miss
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
you can hardly blame him look what happens when he tries to make his own jokes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiRiYJJVEAAARvw?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
only able to shoot himself with this musketry
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
God so cringe. Elon should learn to stay in his lane, no matter what pedestrian trolling is thrown at him
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
tbf his lane is being a lame who is also promoting the murder of queer people
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
TBH I paid approximately zero attention to this dude before the past couple of weeks and hadn't formed an opinion about him one way or another (aside from a general 'billionaires = douchenozzles') but I am definitely forming a very strong opinion about him now and it isn't a favorable opinion and I have a feeling there are lots and lots of people in shoes similar to the ones I'm wearing. Is this a 'any publicity is good publicity' thing? Because I'm not sure that's always actually a thing.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
Same.
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Good point lag∞n, but I was only trying to set someone else up for a Tesla joke
― Vinnie, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
ha cant believe i missed that, too mad @musk lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Even Reddit seems to be turning on him
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
geeeeeez it always gets worse
New: Here's the text message from @elonmusk telling SBF he's "welcome" to roll his public shares into Musk's twitter, as Liz reported https://t.co/7yS5166PtP pic.twitter.com/UpjC4GfBBW— Ben Smith (@semaforben) November 23, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
I don’t believe that Elon did not know who was texting him. I think he was negging him because SBF wasn’t putting up more money. This is the dorkiest soap opera ever.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 03:47 (one year ago) link
fwiw "So long as I don't have to have a laborious blockchain debate" is the only likeable thing musk has ever written, and it was in ref to a meeting with SBF. https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#62
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 24 November 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
hahah of course michael grimes is the SBF connect
― 龜, Thursday, 24 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
the hilarious part is that Musk got so unbelievably triggered by that exchange that he went back to it over 3 years later and replied. talk about rent-free pic.twitter.com/oznRQZwcJi— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) November 24, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
claims hes gonna unban all banned accounts, should be interesting
The people have spoken.Amnesty begins next week.Vox Populi, Vox Dei.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
app stores have in the past removed social apps that didnt do enough moderation
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
There was a once famous political formation that styled itself as neither right nor left while worrying about civilizational suicide. https://t.co/npQvtEdETQ— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 25, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcmDTX1JwQ
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 November 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Re app stores, I feel like the only actually good thing that could come out of that is a coked up litigious billionaire taking on apple re its App Store policies.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
epic tried and lost (dont know if they were on coke)
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 November 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Congrats to Tesla Autopilot/AI team on achieving a major milestone! pic.twitter.com/gQ8rI3slCX— would you like to know how i got these SARS (@tompettyflacko) November 25, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
i have to admit having some sympathy for Apple's dictatorial control over its app store because i see it as a kind of content moderation and i'm pretty convinced that the only content moderation that works is total dictatorship
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
sure but it does not work in the case of apple. the app store is full of literal scams and gambling adverts.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 November 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/08/11/facebook-ads-manager-scam-removed-from-app-store/https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/06/14/reporting-app-store-scams/https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/04/22/the-app-store-isnt-catching-the-most-egregious-scams/
etc. https://mjtsai.com/blog/tag/appstore/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 November 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) November 25, 2022
I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 November 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
sickos_yes_hahaha_yes.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
looking forward to some more exploding phones
― ciderpress, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
muskphone
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
fully self-posting
― Clay, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
Space phones!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
I’m posting from mine right now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 25 November 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
you can call anyone except your own kids
― nashwan, Saturday, 26 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
The Batphone
― | (Latham Green), Saturday, 26 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
a tephelone
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
“We surveyed 442 Twitter employees remaining at the company, and asked them: Do you believe Twitter will succeed under Elon Musk’s management? Eighty-nine percent said ‘no’ https://t.co/qpRo1ffMCI— Rest of World (@restofworld) November 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
This was the plot of a “W/ Bob and David” skit!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
You have to have a Twitter email address to get on the Twitter blind, but you don’t have to keep it to stay in. Given most employees have quit or been fired, I assume most of this 400 people don’t work at Twitter any more.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
Elon's child died in his arms, the same way he "founded" Paypal pic.twitter.com/IBcufwwR9f— TERFs are not women (@Saeko_Cut) November 25, 2022
― Chris L, Saturday, 26 November 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
Really disgusting.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
Ouch
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
hes been using his dead child for marketing purposes for years
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
“Seriously, you think $50K is enough and he won’t call?” pic.twitter.com/WCnLbTJ3zd— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) November 26, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
link https://archive.ph/pzLu5
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
credit where its due to musk for knowing how to annoy these guys into spending something lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
there's so much legitimate stuff to castigate this guy for, how on earth are people choosing to go with 'fact-checking his account of his infant son's death' (in the context of explaining why he won't let Alex Jones back on twitter ffs)
― soref, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
youre giving him too much credit
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
annoy more like threaten to destroy trumpily
― nashwan, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
i doubt theyre too afraid but on the other had why risk it
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
His first wife has told that story before. Article very interesting reading.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
I mean if the result of the fact checking shows he is clearly lying in his account it feels p valid tbh that’s a fucked up thing to do
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
it's one thing for his ex-wife to respond with her own account, but for hundreds of random twitter users who weren't there and don't know any of these people to jump in feels ghoulish to me. something specifically horrible about twitter as well, flattening out everything from the most to the least trivial thing imaginable into an opportunity for owns and receipts and quote-dunks
― soref, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
hes also used the death of his child as the origin story of why he wants to save humanity via his companies, which of course is not something he actually wants to do, so its worthy of criticism
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
It’ll be funny if they manage to fire him from Tesla for spending too much time on Twitter
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
(xp) We already knew this guys sucks, it’s just nice to be able boil it all down to one catchy soundbite that everyone can relate to.
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
Since Elon paid 44 billion to make himself the permanent main character of Twitter, Twitter users are naturally going to be interested in his grotesque lies.
― Chris L, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
for sure will be interesting to see what happens to his unprofitable companies stock prices thatre propped up by his reputation as a genius if his reputation continues to tank
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
+his estate is comprised almost entirely of stock in said companies
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
“permanent main character” is a pretty good summation of why i find his personality so loathsome
― the late great, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
Elon fanboys are going apeshit for a product that does not and never will exist pic.twitter.com/Yjn1v0mEeg— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) November 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk on SEX without procreation pic.twitter.com/UnDiRKt3yu— Shannen Michaela 🍉 (@ShannenJPEG) November 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Waiting for him to unzip the human suit he's wearing.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
I guess doing anything in this life that isn't bending over to your employer is a waste of time? I bet Musk finds eating for pleasure to be nonsensical too. He's either parroting talking points being fed to him (some kompromat involved maybe?) or is actively in full 100% troll mode 24/7. I think it's both.
― octobeard, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
bro there is no way pic.twitter.com/NsrmuRDHpJ— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) November 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Feel nauseated after learning he lied about the circumstances of the death of his son. I’m really sick of narcissists in public life.
― treeship., Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
More sickened by dick riders posting shit like "as a hospice nurse how dare I question Elon's recollection of events"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
*you
Pointing out someone is bald is the real racism.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
As an apartheid-supportimg emerald mine owner in South Africa, here's why Elon haters miss the mark...
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIcJPO8wn4#onerubberband
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
Now waiting for an opportunity to say: “Well then, that’s a horse of a different color.”
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
the dead son thing is super gross, not just because he lied about it but because he's using him as a scapegoat for why he can't unban Alex Jones, which is obviously because he doesn't want to touch the dude who just got sued for a bazillion dollars for spreading misinformation
― frogbs, Sunday, 27 November 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
i did not invent this but just heard "Phony Stark" and had to tip my hat
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 27 November 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
guns, diet coke, buddhist ritual implements, normal stuff
My bedside table pic.twitter.com/sIdRYJcLTK— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
what a freak
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
lol this mfr is drinking caffeine free diet coke
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
is that gun loaded?
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
hope his children weren't running around the house with that thing on the table. so grotesque.
Think Different
― Clay, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
night full of thrusting and diet coke burps
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
gun means he's getting closer to completing the lowtax speedrun
― 龜, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
I’m sure there’s a well-thumbed copy of Middlemarch just out of frame
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
i'm assuming that revolver is a prop from some sci-fi/cyberpunk thing? very cool and hardcore either way.
― circa1916, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
I got permanently suspended again, so MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH ELON
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
what did you do
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
― treeship., Monday, November 28, 2022 10:44 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he doesnt live with his kids cmon be serious
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
xpost I wrote "god is a cunt"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Elon is probably the shittiest father
whaat xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Having an extended psychotic break in public
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
gonna be hard to fire that revolver with no trigger
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
NEW: Elon Musk has sent another email to Twitter engineers warning them about code reviews. “All managers are expected to write a meaningful amount of software themselves. Being unable to do so is like a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse.”— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 28, 2022
i guess this means the CEO should be expected to do most of the coding right
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Can’t imagine being the world’s richest person & painstakingly lining that display up like it’s a get ready with me video for tiktok
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, November 28, 2022 11:07 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah dont think either of those are real guns, much like caffeine free diet coke is not real diet coke
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
this is insane, I cannot imagine working there right now, and I can't understand what he thinks is going to eventually happen; he's going to totally drain his engineering team. how is that a strategy?
― akm, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Saw someone say that the gun on the table is a replica from deus ex, even worse if true
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
hey Twitter's still running though lmao
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
lmao making managers code is a very well known bad practice, they have a job its called managing
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
Elon, can you stop this? pic.twitter.com/pYyCQbKl24— Bim (@bimsalabem) November 28, 2022
He seems to have absolute disdain for this institution he paid a lot of money to be in charge of. Reminds me of that guy who used to be president.
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
i was skeptical of the idea that twitter would break completely but if he keeps up this all out assault on the engineering dept it will eventually
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
hopefully it'll be like Children of Men, where it's 2040, the last tweet was successfully tweeted 18 years ago before Twitter broke, but rumors appear that a new tweet is going to post soon
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
much like cia doing crack cocaine, i'm starting to wonder if cia did elon buying twitter. though it would have been a much more complicated op. idk it's probably just "hugely fortunate accident benefiting global hegemony" tbr.
idly wonder if "disaster leadership" is overall an effective way to retrench/accelerate the status quo in the same way that disaster capitalism is.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
It's worked too well to be a CIA plot tbh.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
today i learned that there's a caffeine free regular coke, which seems like a pervert's drink
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mLKuq2IUL.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
caffeine-free regular coke is fucking amazing, I will not hear a word against it
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
once i had a budding awareness that the corn syrup in coke is better than the caffeine but i extinguished it
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
imo caffeine free diet coke is more deranged than the normal coke version, diet coke is exactly a caffeine delivery system, its only reason to exist
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
cfdc is very twisted. perverted even. perfect villain signifier.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
sometimes you want a coke with dinner but it's too late in the day for caffeine
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
my parents used to make my sister and I drink caffeine free regular coke when we wanted coke at home. I probably drank more coke growing up, overall, than one should, but less than other people. Now I have it sparingly because black coffee is better and better for you
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
anyway Twitter is still "up" but it is grinding inexorably towards collapse
There is no need for caffeine-free Coke as long as root beer exists.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
good ole root beer
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
the beer of the ground
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
root beer is only good by itself or with ice cream, not food
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
Barq's root beer has caffeine and is yummy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
Yeah I also grew up on caffeine free regular coke, the low threshold for caffeine that resulted meant that when I first got into coffee as an adult it felt like I had been plugged directly into gods brain.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Caffeine free diet coke is for people who had a diet coke habit and are now trying to cut down on caffeine. People who drink diet coke drink a lot if it.
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
The taste is likely comforting to the addict even if it lacks that sweet caffeine
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Pfft. I drink a 16 ounce glass of unsweetened iced tea at 10 PM for that last burst of writing energy before bedtime.
Also, Diet Coke is what you drink when there's no Coke Zero in the house.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
I imagine caffeine-free Coke sales are higher in Utah.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
I remember being in the back of the family car when caffeine-free Coke was new and my dad was talking about it with a friend of his in the front seat. The friend said, "First the cocaine, now this!" It was the first time young me learned what the Coca stood for.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, November 28, 2022 12:27 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
coke zero the diet coke for mans (less caffeine)
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
I don't drink soda except I have a healthy seltzer addiction, I have a whole carbonation (NOT SODASTREAM) setup and everything lmfao.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
I drank a lot of soda as a kid, tho— probably enough for a lifetime.
One of my writing mentors was addicted to Tab, and so whenever I come across one— a deep rarity, but an occasional occurrence— I drink one in his memory.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
wonder if elon is drinking caffeine free diet coke because he’s on too many uppers generally (as has been speculated itt)
― 龜, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
SCOOP: Twitter didn't pay its current and former employees on time in the UK and Germany today. “It has come to our attention that some of you may not have received your November 2022 salary yet in your bank account,” an email sent this morning says.— Chris Stokel-Walker ~ @sto✧✧✧@info✧✧✧.excha✧✧✧ (@stokel) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
Truly strange situations going on next to the beds of Elon Musk fans pic.twitter.com/qqiXUejEEf— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Caffeine free diet coke is for people who had a diet coke habit and are now trying to cut down on caffeine. People who drink diet coke drink a lot if it.― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 17:23 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 17:23 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― hamicle, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
ooh i have one of those pink rock-salt lamps (first pic)
it's not by my bed tho (it sheds salt everywhere and is not long for this world i think)
i have none of the other things
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
i keep an anton chigurh gun next to my bed
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
I am reluctant to defend this dum dum, and I think Musk is a bad troll, but the bedside table photo is likely a pun akin to "let that sink in." That is, his bedside table is cluttered with guns and coke. Get it, har har?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
crystal lamps are entirely respectable and have no business being on that guy's bedstand. i bet a girlfriend is responsible for them.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
Apple doesn't hate free speech, it hates anything free.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
trying to bully the biggest company in the world should go well
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
I'm beginning to feel like Musk is stealing Trump's thunder among the absolutely fucking broken and worthless dickhole quotient of America who like their celebrities to be toxic, racist and awful.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
Probably a good thing he can't run for president.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
People still talking about the Tesla phone like it’s real 😭
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
hes def trying but like most trump imitators hes just got no game
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csRUZ_l41Y
https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2022/11/elon-musk-ideology-libertarian-effective-altruism-far-right/
Relevant MuskChat on Silicon Valley, dumbass infantile libertarianism, and Twitter culture scolds who couldn’t exist were it not for all the users they claim to hate on the network they claim to hate
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Barq's root beer has caffeine
o fuk
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
at least with Trump there was some strange sort of charisma there, like he was a WWE heel. Elon is not only pathetic he's also incredibly boring
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah doing a trump isnt that easy elon thinks he has the juice cause he was the beneficiary of a well executed pr campaign, but this is a whole other thing
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
xxpost Yeah, "Barq's has Bite."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Trump legitimately funny though. No try-hard photos for this king
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
That's, like, Trump Classic though. The old formula.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
Musk tells a colleague of mine that Apple is threatening Twitter’s standing in the App Store. Explains his string of tweets just now critiquing Apple. https://t.co/8FsbZENYRL— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
re: failure to make payroll, they have employees in like 30 countries and no meaningful payroll department https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-payroll-finance-department-resigns-en-masse-under-elon-musk-2022-11.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
they should just put a big bowl of cash by the door and you take some when you leave every day
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Time to invent that phone!
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
he’s gotta put a camera in a hammer before that, sorry first come first served
― Clay, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
this man is very silly, who knows if apple has actually threatened twitter with removal from the app store but if they did they did they certainly said why
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Negotiating in public, always a good tactic. He doesn't seem to fully understand that nobody has to be on Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
xp eh, it wouldn't be the first time. apple has history of either giving inscrutable reasons, or refusing to give reasons for rejections.
ironically prte-musk twitter did a much better job of designing an enforcable moderation policy and enacting it in a way that people understood than apple has ever done.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
they didnt reject twitter tho, musks story is they called him up and threatened to do it and when he asked why they laughed and hung up, doesnt make much sense the whole point of a threat is to extract a concession
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
musk's story is a couple of engagement bait tweets that ask more questions than they answer
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
theyre nonsense
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
I kind of love the idea of some Apple execs calling him on speakerphone and being like "Nyaaaah, we're gonna kick you out of our app store! How you like THEM Apples? Hahahahaha!"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
*muffled speakerphone laughter, fumbled hangup*
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
I mean Tim Apple just took a hatchet to Facebook’s entire bottom line and crying foul didn’t really change the outcome. But sure let’s try to fuck around and find out.— Jason Goldman (@goldman) November 28, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
based on the timeline what id guess happened is musk starts bitching about apple cutting back on advertising, someone asks him if apple has threatened twitters spot in the app store, they have not but it seems like a good thing to bitch about so musk says yes and then proceeded to bitch about it
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
which doesnt mean apple couldnt reach the conclusion that twitter is under moderated at some point, but seems unlikely that were there yet
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
nothing brings back the day to day numbing banal dumbness of the trump years harder than "tim apple"
― Clay, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Next version of iOS blocks all advertising on the Twitter app regardless of whether you use it or not
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
So getting kicked off the App Store probably would actually be a MAE under the merger agreement? Lol. Lmao.— Quantian (@quantian1) November 28, 2022
Now we get to see if the bond indentures were drafted as carefully as Twitter’s contracts were.— Quantian (@quantian1) November 28, 2022
iiuc this is saying twitter's loans could be contingent on not doing something like "getting kicked out of the app store"? that would be funny.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
― Clay, Monday, November 28, 2022 2:20 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao tim apple goes in the greatest hits for sure
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
"All Boring had to do was bring its machine (named Godot) and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot." pic.twitter.com/XOGQqeY9AS— Eliot Brown (@eliotwb) November 28, 2022
― Chris L, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
And Marilyn LockHEED
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store? https://t.co/LGkPZ4EYcz— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
did Elon seriously pay $44,000,000,000 for Twitter without knowing this
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
shh its a secret
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
this might be giving him too much credit, but 1) of course he knows 2) that is a tweet designed to go viral with the help of people who think he's stupid. trump was good at that.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
He will be talking himself into pulling the iOS app entirely by the end of the day
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
ALL HANDS ON DECK MEMO:
ALL TEAMS IMMEDIATELY REQUIRED TO DESIGN NEW OPERATING SYSTEM AND APP STORE, TO LAUNCH FOR CHRISTMAS ROLLOUT. APP STORE MUST BE EXTRA BASED, WAY COOLER THAN APPLE'S. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH READIN THIS YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES TO SEND ME SOME CODE.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
The dangerous thing about this guy is he thinks there is nothing that can happen to him he can't bully/buy his way out of, and so far he hasn't really been proven wrong.
― Chris L, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
He was notably unable to bully his way out of spending way too much money to acquire Twitter, Inc!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Yes, but he's pivoted to simply breaking it (because who cares, "X" will be the everything app), firing thousands of people, not paying whole countries' worth of other employees, and upending scores of other peoples' ability to promote their work. Didn't exactly learn his lesson.
― Chris L, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
It would be funny if Tim Cook replied to that Elon Musk tweet with something like "Sure, Elon, whatever. Now pay the $8, er I mean 30%"
― o. nate, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 28, 2022 1:54 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
normally I'd say yeah but everything he's done since buying Twitter implies he really is that dumb
― frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
All these rich people know one another right? Are they laughing at him? Are they ignoring him?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
NEW: Documents show why Apple pulling its Twitter ads is devastating for Elon Musk: In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was Twitter's top advertiser, accounting for nearly $50M in revenuehttps://t.co/h9TWjdwFoH— Faiz Siddiqui (@faizsays) November 28, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 28 November 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Ruh-roh
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 28 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
no pocky for kitty
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
meanwhile back in the streets:
A man and his son are in a car accident. The man is killed instantly. His son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon says “I can’t operate on this patient, he is my son”. The car then crashes through the wall of the operating room, killing everyone. How is this possible? (Tesla)— RiderToast, scab resident destroyer (@RiderToast) November 28, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
iiuc this is saying twitter's loans could be contingent on not doing something like "getting kicked out of the app store"? that would be funny.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 28, 2022 2:24 PM (four hours ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 28, 2022 2:24 PM (four hours ago)
nah, bonds/loans are completely different from merger agreements. even under the merger agreement, apple kicking twitter off the app store now would be a muddled set of facts for an MAE - arguably elon's actions leading to all of twitter's major advertisers cutting spending would have been the MAE since that actually impacted revenue, an apple ban would be a bit late to the show. but those provisions of the merger agreement ceased to matter on october 28th. the bond indenture is concerned with a different purpose - it's designed not so much to make sure twitter operates in a business as usual way, as the merger agreement, but to preserve twitter's lenders position in the capital structure / claims on twitter's assets in case of insolvency, which elon tanking twitter's revenue doesn't really touch.
― 龜, Monday, 28 November 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
are loans like that contingent on *anything*?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
i get that they're not contingent on the literal terms of the merger agreement, but are they likely to be contingent on terms like "self-inflicted MAE" or key man risk or whatever?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
If a loan agreement is based on using stock as collateral it would certainly include provisions that cover what happens if the stock plummets in value.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
contingent is maybe the wrong word, since musk already got the money. to answer your question though, loans like the ones twitter allow lenders to call an event of default (and demand their money back) if twitter does things that imperil the lenders claims on twitter's assets. for example, taking out more debt (which allows new lenders who are not the current lenders to have a claim), selling/transferring away assets (reduces the size of the asset pool available to satisfy the debt), sending money upstream to musk (reduces amount of money available to satisfy the debt).
in other words, the loans are about keeping money/assets from leaving out the door, but aren't concerned at all with making sure the company keeps money coming in the door. this allows the company to continue business as usual, in 99% of cases and which is what rational companies are interested in doing, but also allows for seppuku in public, which appears to be elon's strategy?
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
If a loan agreement is based on using stock as collateral it would certainly include provisions that cover what happens if the stock plummets in value.― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:01 PM (twelve minutes ago)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:01 PM (twelve minutes ago)
a loan that uses stock as collateral, or a margin loan, is not available to companies generally, but usually is available to individual lenders. elon was originally penciled in for a margin loan to buy tesla, but was able to drop that part of the financing package after convincing his buddies to chip in. if he had taken out a margin loan on his tesla shares as originally contemplated, this thread would be about 3x more fun, given where tesla's stock price has traded since oct. 28th.
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
Wonder if some banks are going to consider defining key, knowledgeable employees as assets for loan collateral purposes
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
like if Elon Musk had borrowed $13 billion to buy, say, a mining concern, based in part on a business case for future cashflows from the mine, and then after closing decided to detonate a dirty bomb inside the mine, a lender might reasonably default, right?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
*declare him in default
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
also, re: MAC, a MAC is notoriously hard to establish in delaware. there has only been MAC in history, and it was big:
Then, during the post-signing period, Akorn experienced consecutive year-over-year declines in quarterly revenue. Akorn’s operating income was down 84, 89, 292, and 134 percent, respectively, in the four quarters after it signed the merger agreement. Akorn’s revenue was down 29, 29, 34, and 27 percent, and earnings per share were down 96, 105, 300, and 170 percent. Akorn’s stock price dropped from $32.13 per share before signing to between $5.00 and $12.00 per share after signing. Commenting on Akorn’s financial decline, Chancellor Stine remarked:Akorn’s dramatic downturn in performance is durationally significant. It has already persisted for a full year and shows no sign of abating. More importantly, Akorn’s management team has provided reasons for the decline that can reasonably be expected to have durationally significant effects.Not only had Akorn’s financial situation “dropped off a cliff,” Fresnius soon also learned of serious deficiencies in Akorn’s data integrity processes. Dramatically, these issues were first identified in an anonymous whistleblower letter. Upon review of the letter, Fresnius performed its own investigation. Fresnius discovered that Akorn was “in persistent, serious violation of FDA requirements” and had “a disastrous culture of noncompliance.” The investigation by Fresenius also uncovered the possible use of fabricated data in Akorn’s FDA submissions. Additionally, as soon as the parties signed the merger agreement, Akorn had canceled regular audits, assessments, and inspections of known problems.Upon these findings, Fresnius attempted to terminate the merger agreement. Akorn argued that the merger agreement should be specifically enforced. Fresnius counterclaimed, seeking a ruling that it properly terminated the merger agreement. The rest, as they say, is history.The court determined that the unexpected and nonstop drop in Akorn’s business performance constituted a “general MAE” (that is, the company itself had suffered an MAE), and that because Akorn’s representations of regulatory compliance were not true and correct, the deviation between the as-represented condition and its actual condition would also result in an MAE.
Akorn’s dramatic downturn in performance is durationally significant. It has already persisted for a full year and shows no sign of abating. More importantly, Akorn’s management team has provided reasons for the decline that can reasonably be expected to have durationally significant effects.
Not only had Akorn’s financial situation “dropped off a cliff,” Fresnius soon also learned of serious deficiencies in Akorn’s data integrity processes. Dramatically, these issues were first identified in an anonymous whistleblower letter. Upon review of the letter, Fresnius performed its own investigation. Fresnius discovered that Akorn was “in persistent, serious violation of FDA requirements” and had “a disastrous culture of noncompliance.” The investigation by Fresenius also uncovered the possible use of fabricated data in Akorn’s FDA submissions. Additionally, as soon as the parties signed the merger agreement, Akorn had canceled regular audits, assessments, and inspections of known problems.
Upon these findings, Fresnius attempted to terminate the merger agreement. Akorn argued that the merger agreement should be specifically enforced. Fresnius counterclaimed, seeking a ruling that it properly terminated the merger agreement. The rest, as they say, is history.
The court determined that the unexpected and nonstop drop in Akorn’s business performance constituted a “general MAE” (that is, the company itself had suffered an MAE), and that because Akorn’s representations of regulatory compliance were not true and correct, the deviation between the as-represented condition and its actual condition would also result in an MAE.
so far nobody's leaked how much revenue twitter has lost so far, but i bet it'd give the above a run for the money. after all, twitter did $5B in revenue in 2021, $4.5B of which was from advertising. unfortunately, musk's own goals are happening after musk actually closed the deal, when the MAC stopped mattering. twitter did a pretty good job of making sure money kept on coming in the door while it was waiting for musk to close the deal so it avoided the MAC!
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
Wonder if some banks are going to consider defining key, knowledgeable employees as assets for loan collateral purposes― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:22 PM (two minutes ago)
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:22 PM (two minutes ago)
the problem is, you can't really sell an employee in the bankruptcy auction process for cash to settle a debt... not yet anyway. maybe a bank will find a way?
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
we already call them human capital!
― rob, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
Yeah I guess calling an employee a bankruptcy asset is less relevant than proposing that Elon has in fact caused damage to Twitter's primary asset (Twitter) by firing over half of the people who made it work and making 1/3 of the rest quit
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
hence the dirty bomb analogy
idk if I were lending money to someone to buy a software company I would make them covenant to offer experienced technical staff sizable retention incentives
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
This is what’s so infuriating about Mr. Epic Reddit Man. He all but announces he’s ripping people off by naming it “Godot” — you can just see him tittering to himself — and still people are too dense to catch on because they’re content to simply bask in his imaginary glow.― Chris L, Monday, November 28, 2022 2:26 PM (five hours ago)
i mean, this literally is
https://i.ibb.co/M27DZ8t/image.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
also didn't musk admit that the hyperloop was lobbed over the wall for the express purpose of defeating california's high speed rail proposal? seems like the boring company is the same stratagem. the playbook is old - see ford/gm convincing cities to pave over light rail and train in the 40s/50s in favor of the auto-mobile and a car for every family. the car needs to be destroyed!
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
agree
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
idk if I were lending money to someone to buy a software company I would make them covenant to offer experienced technical staff sizable retention incentives― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:34 PM (seventeen minutes ago)
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:34 PM (seventeen minutes ago)
it's often the case that companies get bought so the buyer can fire staff and pocket more money for themselves, and that's the whole incentive for buying the company. it's the private equity leveraged buyout playbook. that usually takes course over several months/years though, a controlled burn with plenty of backstops, not in just a few weeks like here!
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
Do the banks actually get paid in the end tho when your Guitar Centers or Toys R Uses finally go under
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
i'm not an expert there but my understanding is that by the time a company is finally circling the drain, a lot of its debt will have been sold and resold until it ends up in the hands of distressed debt investors, who chiefly specialize in bringing guns to a knife fight.
the fact that elon's underwriting banks here still hold the debt is extremely unusual and is more a factor of how drastically the macro debt markets have deteriorated since the deal was struck back in march rather than anything elon did. but of course, elon's actions haven't helped matters at all.
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah good point I forgot that part of this colossal fuck-up
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
Guitar Center has been "circling the drain" for going on 20 years now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
Elon fanfic is hilarious
It would be insane if it turns out @elonmusk had a long game of buying Twitter- knowing apple & Android would drop him- to launch a secret phone he had made two years ago, making his $44B Twitter investment into a $300B phone company..— Jason “Storm Chaser” Nelson (@Storm4Congress) November 28, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
lol wtf, how would massively overpaying for twitter have any relevance to building a phone?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
4d chess, maaaaaan
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
44b chess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
fanboys should just write a horny Miami bass paean to Musk at this point, cos that's about the level of their obsession atm
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
"we like the cars that go boom"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
A lot of people were like that with Trump too. I seem to recall Mr. Dilbert saying all the Putin stuff was just to earn his trust so he could stab him in the back later
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
lol sleeve
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
Same energy as Elon and Tesla
“I will not accept that it’s a highly dangerous road”From ITN archives. pic.twitter.com/snILgnwvPi— Stephen R Jones 🇺🇦 (@Meliden) November 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
Hmmmmmmmmhttps://t.co/6ELisTqFcq pic.twitter.com/mDIP31Y0Eg— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk said that Twitter will unveil three verification badge colors: blue, gold, and gray. Blue will be reserved for individuals (both those paying for Twitter Blue and verified individuals of interest), gold for companies, and gray for government. https://t.co/LxlVrq9IPm pic.twitter.com/xBMDA3rR64— IGN (@IGN) November 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
where's the brown badge
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
I expect to be assigned a yellow six-pointed star
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Sorry meant to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmvAUmvLA4
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
Musk also said that all verified accounts will be "manually authenticated" before the check appears on the profile.
hows he planning to do this since he fired everyone
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
he didn't say how long it would take
6-7 month wait time
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
you tweet at him and ask for verification and he runs it past catturd2
― mh, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
NEW: Email from Elon to Twitter engineers and designers: "Anyone writing software or doing design should be on the 10th floor of SF HQ. It is intended to be dense and intense. Thanks, Elon."— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 29, 2022
dense and intense famously the friends of computer programming
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
i am dense and intense
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
get to the 10th floor asap
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
lol just go have a lan party in whatever stupid house you have Elon
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
It smells funny in there
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
https://thenerdstash.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/duct2.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mAsl03WQY
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
How much will it cost to get one of those awesome Herschel Walker badges? #onethread
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
Starting to think Elon paid 44m for Twitter NFT
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
“dense and intense” is also how ppl describe Elon
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/hLSfFZF/Fis-N0-Zv-VUAAAq-Bx.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 04:14 (one year ago) link
I doubt Buddah would think Musk is correct
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
underrated weird thing about that photo is the mirror behind the table just reflecting the lamp and whatnot
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
seems fine
Breaking news: The EU has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be banned in Europe unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderationhttps://t.co/lbFJfnvrwb pic.twitter.com/w6r3bQmJwv— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) November 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
Stop being Woke, Europe!
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
Lol saw one of his fanboys say "WELL TWITTER IS BASED IN US SO EUROPEAN LAW DON'T MATTER".
Be amazed if he doesn't adopt that hilarious legal reasoning only to dirty delete tweet after his lawyers msg him
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Are you serious?! pic.twitter.com/7QPkHXhT4E— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) November 30, 2022
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
thats bigotry against high net worth individuals
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
Money is speech, therefore taxes are censorship. And you can't advocate for censorship on Elon's Free Speech Bazaar.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
(how does he tweet with a locked account?)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
in many cases theyll unlock you once you delete the naughty tweet
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
you can see at the bottom there it says proceed to twitter to fix the issue with your account
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
ha wow weird
Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
uh, whose misunderstanding, now?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
WHO is Elon musk?In geography, My WorldIn reality, My LifeIn history, My KingIn mathematics, My SolutionIn mythology, My god In astronomy, My UniverseIf I'm Blind, He's LightIf I'm Hungry, He's FoodIf I'm sick, He's MedicineFor Me, He's Everything— Wikram (@Vikram_RMFC) November 27, 2022
― 龜, Thursday, 1 December 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
He's Food
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 December 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
lol that Tweet means nothing and Apple is not fond of conversations being made public even meaningless ones
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 December 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
if musk and apple do get in a fight about the 30% thing it's going to be a lot of
https://clickhole.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/dnmtn4ksijwyep0xmljk.jpg
but it will be worse than that because he'll make the points in such a divisive and ineffective way that he'll strengthen apple's position.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 December 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
If I'm Hungry, He's Food
Toast?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/03/cook-muskrat-wild-dishes-1938/
― rob, Thursday, 1 December 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
wow ^
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 December 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
I didn't actually read that at all, hope that wasn't a mistake...
― rob, Thursday, 1 December 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
I don't know the ins and outs of the severance agreements, but this is a good letter.
So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you. I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't. pic.twitter.com/VA04hFDVBX— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 2, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 December 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
assuming there is some kind of standing for the employees to enforce an agreement they weren't party to (which it seems like there is from the letter?) then the fact that this can be litigated by dozens of arbitration cases rather than in court(s) or class actions should be pretty lol.
that said, the specific things he's accused of not doing are not going to cost him very much (it's little things like 401k match), so he'll probably just do them and settle.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 December 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
He’s so, so dumb tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 2 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fi8mUNhWYAAfFoe?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
RSU vest acceleration at $54 per share sounds expensive
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 2 December 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link
that could be 15% of someone's salary or 500%
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 2 December 2022 04:57 (one year ago) link
for engineers 50/50 cash/stock is the mean average, and the mean average cash pay is about 200k/year = 50k/quarter.
so if he owes 3000 engineers a quarter of stock, that's ballpark low hundred millions. they're not all engineers though, so it's probably less than that, maybe high tens of millions. not nothing but not going to be his downfall.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 December 2022 06:21 (one year ago) link
sure, but that is more than 401k match. And is the 50/50 mean at $54 or a lower price?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 2 December 2022 06:43 (one year ago) link
Also kinda depends on what his net worth is by the time the case settles
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 2 December 2022 06:50 (one year ago) link
Who is spraying Musk in Kanye's photo? Is it Epstein?
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, 2 December 2022 08:30 (one year ago) link
$54 is the merger price (i.e. the price elon paid for all of twitter's shares) so it makes sense.
imagine the 50/50 split is the average for hires since twitter was a public company, but if you were employee #15 or whatever, you are probably a millionaire many times over, even before the acquisition - same if you were early in the door at any other bigtech company
― 龜, Friday, 2 December 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
assuming there is some kind of standing for the employees to enforce an agreement they weren't party to (which it seems like there is from the letter?) then the fact that this can be litigated by dozens of arbitration cases rather than in court(s) or class actions should be pretty lol.that said, the specific things he's accused of not doing are not going to cost him very much (it's little things like 401k match), so he'll probably just do them and settle.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 1, 2022 10:58 PM (yesterday)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 1, 2022 10:58 PM (yesterday)
this is the heart of it - the merger agreement specifically disclaims any twitter employee from enforcing the provisions of 6.9 (nice) via 6.9(e) (and 9.7), but the delaware court of chancery is a court of equity, not a court of law, where famously "he who comes into equity must come with clean hands", etc. etc.
is it a winning argument? i have no clue, maybe it feels a little odd that just a month ago the court of chancery was being lauded for holding elon to the letter of the law of the contract but would now be expected to look past the letter of the law of the contract (granted to enforce other parts of the contract that elon is breaching), but in both cases you have a breaching musk, so maybe it's not that weird
― 龜, Friday, 2 December 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
addendum: i forgot that this guy on twitter is going to arbitrate these claims, so it's likely not going to end up in the delaware court of chancery. but i'm assuming the arbitrators will be asked to apply delaware law. who knows! i am out of my depth here.
― 龜, Friday, 2 December 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, December 2, 2022 3:30 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ari emanuel, dont think kanye was intending it to be incriminating or anything just clowning elon, account got suspended lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/638921c1d542e53ed937ba6f/master/pass/221201_blitt_kvetchbook_elon_twitter_noise.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 December 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
I opted out of binding arbitration fwiw (always do) but afaik of the 3000+ people he fired on nov 4 they couldn’t find anyone who did.
sure, but that is more than 401k match.
This is true. I don’t think they’ll get much more than 401k match if this actually ends up in arbitration though.
And is the 50/50 mean at $54 or a lower price?
At the time of joining. 54 is probably pretty close to the average joining price weighted by employee though. It was nearly 80 in 2001 when Twitter added like 2000 employees.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 December 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
Big Lincoln project energy from that lawyer though. Hope he’s pro bono.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 December 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
wow so much for free speech
Kanye West was suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. Elon Musk said the post violated the platform's rule against inciting violence. The tweet was deleted shortly before West's account was shut down. https://t.co/Fq5ADz5YAE— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 2, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
but in both cases you have a breaching musk
thx I will be haunted now by images of a breaching Musk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 December 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
Demand letters can be fun especially when recited as holden caulfield. let a zillion jams arbs be fruitful and multiply lol xp
breaching musk lol
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 December 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
are the brands coming back yet pic.twitter.com/QXYv97HTjc— Peter Adams (@PatchAdams03) December 2, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
are ye winnin' 'lon
― nashwan, Friday, 2 December 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
So, so disruptive.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Going according to plan, making sure Nazism is normalized before the 2024 elections really ramp up.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
tbf i dont think putting nazism front and center is really what you want, nazis have a pretty bad rep, dont see the upside there
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
One would think, but the modern day GOP doesn't exactly seem to be rushing to distance themselves from it, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
fwiw many of them are mcconnell just gave a very critical speech alluding to trump meeting with those anti semites, and even for those who arent it doesnt mean its a politically winning proposition it just means that they are either a. themselves fully radicalized or b. have been put in a tough spot where they dont want to alienate their more radical supporters but also have to worry about people who still think nazis are bad getting turned off
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
Push back from McConnell et al. boils down to "please don't make me support these Nazis."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 December 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
They want you to dog whistle Nazi/Hitler support, not full-throated yell it
Nazis have spent the last two decades trying to rebrand themselves as not actually Nazis while still being Nazis
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
even from the pov of the radical right wing project which prob has less of a electoral focus than say the republican party embracing nazism just seems a bridge too far, theres no reason to be specifically a nazi when you can just be a non denominational racist piece of shit, tho its prob an unavoidable byproduct of mainstreaming antisemitism generally
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
ari emanuel, dont think kanye was intending it to be incriminating or anything just clowning elon, account got suspended lol― lag∞n, Friday, December 2, 2022 6:38 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, December 2, 2022 6:38 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Well, he might have been intending it to be incriminating. Ari Emanuel recently wrote an op-ed headlined "Business silence on Kanye West’s anti-Semitism is not an option," and Kanye called him out on InfoWars.
― jaymc, Friday, 2 December 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
ah ok in retrospect i shouldve reflected upon aris jewishness
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
#protip
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
yeah hes been mentioning ari emanuel in a lot of his rants lately, no question he knows its him imo
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
You know Twitter is being fair when extremists on far right and far left are simultaneously upset!Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate. ❤️— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Twitter is best when both Nazis and Jews are upset
― frogbs, Friday, 2 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
both people who want to kill and people who dont want to be killed are mad at me
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
eat, pray, learn, laugh & engage
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 2 December 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
Just listened to Elon Musk speak for about 2.5 hours on a Twitter space and this is probably the biggest takeaway: https://t.co/fti9al3618— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
oh my god, he brought in weiss
Elon Musk is speaking on a Twitter Space right now about the opening up of the so-called "Twitter Files." He claims he gave unfettered access to emails and documents to Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and at least one other person.— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
funny to get opinion writers to make sense of a huge document cache
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
one of my favorite new searches is tesla investors replying to elon's tweets and begging him to shut up pic.twitter.com/MYh5WmFoDv— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
lmao bari
― mh, Monday, 5 December 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
at least one other person!!!
― mh, Monday, 5 December 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
his comment on Assange the other day reminded me he has no attention span, isn’t really tuned into politics, and may think Julian is the name of the trans person living with his ex
― mh, Monday, 5 December 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 04:25 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk claims risk of his assassination is 'quite significant' https://t.co/chc44A0acp pic.twitter.com/9zzz2DgCGn— New York Post (@nypost) December 4, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 5 December 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
lol lets go
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Don't worry this is just a simulation.
― nashwan, Monday, 5 December 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's just me but things are starting to feel a littlehttps://theultimaterabbit.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/boogie-nights-thomas-jane-photo.jpgat this point
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 December 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
Get some sleep Elon.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 December 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
the risk of elon musk's assassination is not significant enough imo
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
the super rich should be made to think at least a little bit
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
twitter playing the yoko role in the minds of tesla fanatics
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Pink_flabby_whalefish
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Tesla stock having yet another bad day I see? Lovely.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Monday, 5 December 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
it had a lil rally a few days ago and is now giving it back ah well
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
it's because of this https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/tesla-reduces-shanghai-output-in-latest-sign-of-sluggish-demand.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
crazy that ~3 years ago it was at $15
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
and https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-cuts-dec-model-y-output-shanghai-plant-by-over-20-versus-nov-sources-2022-12-05/
the tesla response (they don't have a PR deparment lol) was "this is false news".
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
but I thought the advertisers were coming back to Twitter!! I know that has fuck all to do with Tesla but neither does anything related to their stock price.
― frogbs, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
that article doesnt mention it but apparently theres been a lot of bad press re tesla quality and safety in china
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
MonTake Apple to taskTueTest Starship's Raptor 2 enginesWedAnnounce machine/brain interface human trials in <1 yearThuDeliver first 500-mile range $TSLA SemisFriReveal how politicians control MSM & social mediaThat's *some of* @elonmusk 's week.What did you do?— James Stephenson (@ICannot_Enough) December 2, 2022
Kings of yore had to pay their obsequious hangers on at least.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 5 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
that guy would pay extra for twitter blue
― mh, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Monday, take apple to taskTuesday, rocketship go fastWednesday, a keyboardless bashIt's friday, make a kid
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 December 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
this happened in China. there was some discussion about whether this video was completely on the up and up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kf3I_OyDlI
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
lol Sufjan
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
That large penises are seen as desirable is just another symptom of western degeneration. Large penises are a sign of low intelligence and savage genetics. Small penises indicate high intelligence and aristocratic blood. pic.twitter.com/J0KKyGjFWj— The Hellenist ☀️ (@The_Hellenist) December 5, 2022
AHHHHHH WHAT pic.twitter.com/H4nEqQnkJR— Cosmic Jenny ~ ✨ (@jenny_b_3) December 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
"savage genetics" huh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
I that guy would pay extra for twitter blueHe can afford it, he makes at least $785.40 a month from his Tesla fan blog
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 5 December 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
20+ Neuralink workers came forward to expose Elon Musk mishandling & abuse, leading to federal investigations with a long lists of his completely stupid and dangerous decisions."The company has killed about 1,500 animals" thanks to Elon's lack of skill.https://t.co/0QFS71qU8V— Rafael Shimunov is on Mastodon (@rafaelshimunov) December 6, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
one presumes that if he were more skilled, there would be a lot more dead animals
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
It just made me think of this:
https://morbotron.com/video/S07E10/_HfuFe_Nz77iB0f23i5L7mr3puM=.gif
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 05:32 (one year ago) link
Killing dogs might be the only way to get people to turn on him en masse.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
BTW I did work experience at a medical research lab and yeah they do not treat animals all that great, its kind of gross.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
all the small penis trolling from Grimes is kind of ironic if you believe any of what Azealia Banks wrote about her experience "collaborating" with Grimes
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
i mean all those ppl are kind of terrible but banks can also be (meanly) funny
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
as soon as you hear that grimes smells like a roll of quarters you know its true
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
living my life specifically in a way that azealia will not cross my path and have the opportunity to roast me
― mh, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
feels like some law's gotta be broken here
Elon Musk has converted some rooms at Twitter HQ into bedrooms for employees as part of the "extremely hardcore" Twitter 2.0. They look like sad hotel rooms, per a photo shared with @Forbes. From me & @cfarivar https://t.co/G61HTgzFxg— Katharine Schwab (@SchwabKatharine) December 6, 2022
UPDATE: Elon Musk terminated the contract employing the striking janitors. "We have about 48 families out of work. And it just so happens that it’s three weeks before Christmas,” their union president said. https://t.co/RAzWmHMTPA— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) December 6, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
reading replies is broken for some users (not for me)
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
intermittently broken for me
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
it's happening! free us! pic.twitter.com/TZLbr2dTAL— Atrios (@Atrios) December 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
funny that i just got an error that the tweet wouldn't load when i clicked on it to go over to twitter
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
User reports indicate possible problems at Twitter
Yeah, no shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Very broken for me today in terms of retrieving replies. Thought I had been "shadow suspended" at first
― dell (del), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
the api is just returning a 403 and a file called error_log.json that's empty
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
my bots are still tweeting fwiw
downdetector says whatever happened is over :-(
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
start a hot news rumor on Twitter, get it going again
like a celebrity death or something
Blake Lively, Blake Lively died....that'll generate traffic and overload servers
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
I mean if the World Cup hasn't done it...
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
xxxp random restaurant is one of the accounts I liked best on twitter.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
thank u kindly
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
make a website for it
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
i could i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
i also told someone i would put it on mastadon lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
apparently theres one for bots not sure how that works
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
it does sounds good tho
mastodon is a janky twitter clone attached to badly-designed protocols in 2023 websites are coming back
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
i wish i was better at computers i would build a twitter rival that uses ai to constantly change its ui based on usage patterns, it would be the worst thing ever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
yeah that sounds horrible
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
just let the computer do whatever it wants, its computer time now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
mastodon needs more good bots
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
lol I was dreaming of a Twitter rip-off last night which just squashes it into a random sort of classic Winamp skins on each refresh
― nashwan, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
eq sliders as a means of rating each tweet
― nashwan, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
ha nice yeah we need to bring that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Ah yes
Elon Musk's business confidants are sleeping in new bedrooms at Twitter HQ that have been converted from unused offices. Musk is having one made for him. https://t.co/Y3rq9WWEtC— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) December 6, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
tired: work from homewired: home at work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
next hot trend: indentured servitude, but with an attractive salary
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Plus handy for a CEO with a history of sexual harassment.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
i'm finding that tweet clickthrus from newsletters (and on ilx) are breaking in chrome/mac, started during the elon era
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
so this latest "Twitter files" thing is, uh...they hired a lawyer to review documents before sending them to Elon. who he just fired, lmao
really amazing how these guys keep going "oh god oh FUCK oh holy shit man you. will. not. believe this shit right here, it's even more corrupt than I could've possibly imagined" before revealing something like "Twitter paid BILLIONS in federal taxes!". its real cartoon shit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
He worked for the FBI so, you know, DEEP STATE
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
Matt Taibbi has probably never had a real job and doesn’t know what they’re like
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
NEW: Ads from roughly 40 brands, including Amazon, Uber and Snap, are appearing on white nationalist pages after Elon Musk granted amnesty to previously suspended Twitter accounts. The inadvertant placement of brand ads is fallout from new amnesty policy. https://t.co/2wAqZAkl9h— Faiz Siddiqui (@faizsays) December 7, 2022
hahahah what you up to WaPo
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
let them fight
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
the Twitter Files stuff feels like russiagate for elon musk fans. the breathless threads, all totally incomprehensible, with the assumed shared understanding of why the latest revelation is HUGE https://t.co/SViwm3tQhY— libby watson (@libbycwatson) December 7, 2022
lol exactly looking at taibbis replies and its all people posting popcorn gif, but i doubt any of them could explain what the scandal is
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
"Jim Baker - the Reagan guy or the televangelist? They're still alive? Why was a televangelist working for Twitter?"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
no one should be able to work for reagan god and twitter at the same time
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjWDpyHXoAAl99i?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link
I love the “the Deep stateness is coming from inside the building!” twist
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
WaPo ads are literally the only ones I now see (haven't blocked them, as I do every other advertiser, as it also blocks news stories from them)
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
Great, so does this mean Elon is going to start digging for Fauci dick pics now, too?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
Anyone else really losing track of the plotlines? This show was better in season 1.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
i still read the recaps tho
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
I just gave the Open AI beta the prompt "Write a screenplay about Elon Musk and the fall of twitter"
FADE IN
EXT. CITY STREET - DAY
We open on a typical city street. The sun is shining, people walking by, buses and cars on the street.
EXT. ELON MUSK'S OFFICE - DAY
We then cut to the office of Elon Musk. He is sitting in his chair, looking out the window. He looks tired and stressed.
ELON MUSK
It's been a long few weeks.
INT. ELON MUSK'S OFFICE - DAY
He is looking at his computer, deep in thought. He takes a deep breath and then turns to his assistant.
What's the latest on Twitter?
ELON'S ASSISTANT
It doesn't look good. The stock has been falling for weeks. People are losing faith in the company.
I need to do something. I can't let this happen.
EXT. STREET - DAY
We see Elon walking down the street, making phone calls and sending emails. He looks determined.
EXT. TWITTER HEADQUARTERS - DAY
We then cut to the headquarters of Twitter. Elon is walking in, flanked by his team. He looks around and takes a deep breath.
Let's get to work.
INT. TWITTER HEADQUARTERS - DAY
We see Elon and his team working on strategies to turn the company around. They are discussing different ideas and ways to improve the company. After a few hours, they come up with a plan.
We then see Elon and his team walking out of the building. Elon looks determined.
We can do this. We can turn this around.
We see Elon walking down the street, with a new purpose and energy. He looks confident and determined.
FADE OUT.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
"Write a screenplay about Elon Musk, twitter and hunter biden's penis"
We see Elon Musk at his desk, typing on his laptop. The camera pans to a large TV screen next to him.
ELON
Ah, this is the life.
Suddenly, a tweet appears on the TV screen. It reads:
"Look at Hunter Biden's penis!"
Elon looks up from his laptop, shocked. He takes a deep breath and looks around the room, unsure of what to do. He shakes his head and then looks back at the TV screen.
INT. ELON'S OFFICE - LATER
Elon is sitting at his desk, now surrounded by several people. He is furiously typing on his laptop.
Okay, let's do this.
The people around him nod in agreement.
First, I'm going to tweet out a link to an article about Hunter Biden's penis.
The group nods in agreement again.
Then, I'm going to tweet out a link to a video of Hunter Biden's penis.
The group looks at each other with a mix of shock and disgust.
Then, I'm going to tweet out an opinion piece on why Hunter Biden's penis should be discussed in the public sphere.
The group slowly nods in agreement.
And finally, I'm going to tweet out a link to a petition to get Hunter Biden's penis removed from Twitter.
The group stares at Elon, unsure of what to do. Elon looks around the room and then back at the TV screen.
Let's do this.
Everyone in the room nods in agreement.
FADE OUT
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
"Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster"https://t.co/NDZsj8WgcQ— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) December 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
I'm not going to put that into the AI, but I can already imagine the results.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, December 7, 2022 7:25 AM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this whole thing reminds me of that adage that books & radio are often more thrilling than film because you have to use your imagination to come up with things that you find scary or exciting. all Republican politics is based off these giant MacGuffins, like there's always some bombshell on the email server (that Hillary destroyed with bleach!), or there's something explosive in the laptop (otherwise why would BIG TECH want to censor it?!?), or there are all these secret underground pizza meetings that they can't produce any actual evidence of which in itself is evidence of how good they are at covering their tracks!! but they know the truth!! which I think is why this whole thing is a massive dude, not only is there no smoking gun here but it seems obvious now that all Twitter did was remove someone's nudes at the request of the Biden campaign (which is reasonable!) and had a lot of internal debate given the politically charged nature of it (also reasonable!) it ruins the illusion that there was something more sinister and overtly political going on here which of course is why they're going to quadruple down on it from now until 2032
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
or worse...imagine you're inside a Tesla
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
we all know he's a massive dude
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
If I had a bomb strapped to my head and Apartheid Manbaby was my boss I would simply E Honda myself into his midsection as violently as possible
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/DYwg5sFqikwAAAAM/simpsons-homer-simpson.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjYcHvwWQA8WuS0?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
If Musk really wanted to make bank he would rent all those rooms at SF rates.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
who is this fucking guy's lawyer? pretty sure when you're accused of a crime the last thing you want to say is "well yeah but what about this other thing???"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
idk if zoning code violation really rises to the level of crime
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
well don't admit to the zoning violation
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
he has a point though: building inspectors should be tackling the child fentanyl problem
― rob, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
have we considered zoning schools as "no fenantyl"
― rob, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
pretty sure he fired all the lawyers, as if he'd listen to them when the other option on the table was ceaselessly shitposting
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
i believe that in SF, as in many places, code violations (if determined to have occurred, etc.) are deemed misdemeanors. sarahell, are you lurking in this thread and can you help us?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
regardless elon can admit to making offices into bedrooms it wont affect him, other than the city is going write him a ticket and make him turn them back into offices
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
TBH I do think this is an overreaction, it sounds like he put beds in some conference rooms; that is weird, but he didn't do construction and turn the place into residences without permits (I don't think). and yes SF has more important things to worry about. god I hate that I just defended musk but on the list of terrible things he is responsible for, this is down there pretty far.
WaPo's statement that ads are showing up 'on white nationalist pages' or 'accounts' is weird to me. Do they mean that if you peruse the account of one of these people, you will see ads sprinkled in with their posts in their own feed? I've never seen this happen before. Do they just mean the ads are showing up adjacent to these posts in people's general feeds?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
idk read the article
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
Rich people refusing to listen to legal advice seems to be a big post-Trump trend (see also: the FTX guy).
― Chris L, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
tbf elon has been doing blatantly illegal stuff his whole career and all its gotten him is the biggest pile of money in the world
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Musk would spend millions to get out of a fine of a few thousand. Just to make a point.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Josh those ChatGPT results are excellent. Starting to think McSweeney's Internet Tendency is probably obsolete now
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12
i enjoyed this piece and it has some seemingly solid financial analysis behind it. but then again the whole #TSLAQ movement has been focused on pointing out how tesla's financial fundamentals are beyond shitty, but still getting carried out on a stretcher - a strong sense of "ah well, nevertheless" about it all.
still, maybe this time it'll be different? 🤞
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
shouldve put his other companies on the plates, just my opinion
https://i.insider.com/6376b4df8faef80019a75c9b?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp&quality=100,100
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
expecting the twitter cafeteria to start serving up neurolink test animals any day now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
https://archive.ph/LM2zD
Elon Musk’s bankers are considering providing the billionaire with new margin loans backed by Tesla Inc. stock to replace some of the high-interest debt he layered on Twitter Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.The margin loans are one of several options the Morgan Stanley-led bank group and Musk’s advisers have discussed to soften the burden of the $13 billion of debt Twitter took on as part of Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are confidential.
hah hah hah
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
how does a margin loan work?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Basically just borrowing against the value of existing equities, in this case Tesla stock. It gives you lower interest rates because the loan is at least partly backed by the collateral value of the assets, meaning it’s lower risk for the lender.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
meaning that if musk defaults on his payments the bankers get to own his stock and ultimately tesla (and thus to pwn him)
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
Interesting, thanks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
a margin loan was originally on the table back in april but he snookered his rich friends to pick up some of the tab so he was able to remove it from his financing package
it's riskier for him personally since his own assets are on the hook, but can be cheaper overall (esp. if he needs to inject cash into twitter to keep it afloat)
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
Does him tanking Tesla stock change anything about a margin loan?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
I presume it gives him less leverage in general. Blood in the water and all that.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
he needs to put up a lot more of it for the same $$$ amount since it’s worth less now
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
and if the value of the tesla stock drops below a certain agreed upon number then he has to put up more collateral, the famous margin call
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
would it be crazy to imagine that if Elon margins a bunch of his Tesla shares to prop up twitter his fanvestors might get disgruntled and sell out which would drive down the price which would get him a margin call which etc
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
anyway I hope Morgan Stanley ends up owning 40% of Tesla
and Twitter
teslas stock price is entirely predicated on the idea that musk is a world beating genius whos going to turn tesla into something bigger than the biggest car company in the world, the battery power company for everything, and since hes very publicly challenging the whole genius idea it seems pretty possible that telsa stock will return to a price more befitting a company of its size and profitability, say the $15 it was three years ago rather than the $400 it was a year ago or the $175 it is today
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
or maybe zero zero is in play
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk’s bankers are considering providing the billionaire with new margin loans backed by Tesla Inc. stock to replace some of the high-interest debt he layered on Twitter Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.
short squeeze short squeeze short squeeze
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
you actually want the opposite of a short squeeze if elon is borrowing on margin (short squeeze causes the stock to go up)
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
i support elon
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
I imagine the idea of shorting Tesla has occurred to a lot of investors, both small and large, in the past six months. That space is probably overcrowded rn.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 8 December 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
not just the past six months
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
Also notable is just how many dif ways $NOPE is short $TSLA via straight shorts, puts, $SARK, $QQQ. pic.twitter.com/xg8myM51La— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) October 31, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 December 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
looooool
"Now, Weiss has been given access to Twitter's employee systems, added to its Slack, and given a company laptop, two people familiar with her presence said.The level of access to Twitter systems given to Weiss is typically given only to employees..."https://t.co/3zBi3eDGJP— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 8, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
this is going to end with some random twit getting put on blast for joking around about working for the deep state on slack
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
there are literally thousands of posts in there that could be the basis for a project veritas/fox news hit.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
utterly insane that elon is doing this to a company he owns
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
Is it possible that he's absolutely off his fucking nut on drugs?
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
it's extremely funny that The Boring Company has gone from "revolutionizing modern transportation" to "getting Elon some coffee" pic.twitter.com/U1GnoV23AH— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) December 8, 2022
every man woman and child who's ever used simulants thinks he's on a shitload of them
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
having to hang around and run errands for Elon is the very definition of "boring company"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
We were always being boring
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
speaking of do you think Elon listens to music? I remember the Dilbert guy being asked this once and he was almost offended at the question. like "uhhh no I have better things to do music is such a waste of mental energy". Elon strikes me as the same sort of person. either that or he's listening to the same 3 Nightcore songs on repeat while chugging Caffeine-Free DCs until 3 AM
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
he doesnt even listen to grimes
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
I refer you to the post upthread in which Elon professes not to understand sex for purposes other than procreation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Don't you guys remember when he wrote a song about Harambe? Obviously he has no idea what music is.
― ian, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
He probably likes Weezer.
― Chris L, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Dubstep
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
he likes Captain and Tenille for obvious reasons
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
None of these guys like anything that distracts from thinking about themselves. If he listens to anything it’s video game soundtracks, and he imagines he’s the cool hero in the game
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
In a Guest DJ Project first, we took a field trip to the SpaceX headquarters to visit with CEO Elon Musk as the company prepares to launch an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station in 2012. Elon shares his favorite song to whistle, the Andrea Bocelli track that reminds him the world is a beautiful place and shows his sense of humor with a pick by Monty Python. Elon is also the CEO of Tesla Motors and one of the creators of Pay Pal.
TracksFly Me To the Moon - Frank SinatraAlways Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty PythonAmerica., expletive Yeah! -Team America World PoliceCon Te Partiro - Andrea BocelliSanta Claus is Coming to Town
https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/guest-dj-project/elon-musk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
if I didn't already think he was a sociopath
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
ok yeah that is not a person who ever listens to music
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
one of the creators of Paypal
ugh, such bullshit that they keep repeating that line. the Paypal service already existed in the company (Confinity) that merged with X.com. he didn't create shit, he acquired it and made it the primary focus of the company
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
LOL
That playlist has a "How do you do, fellow kids" vibe.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
lmao two comedy songs a christmas carol and a reference to his rocket company, not sure about the last one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
That playlist has a 'cthulhoid entity wearing an entirely unconvincing human mask' vibe imo. It makes me deeply uncomfortable.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
he wishes he were that cool
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk: Thanks for having me on the show.
RC: “Fly Me To The Moon”…
EM: (Laughter) That’s the obvious one.
RC: (Laughs) The obvious one. Explain a little bit, why Frank Sinatra?
EM: I like the sense of possibility and it’s really inspiring. And I’d really like to fly to the moon. (Laughter)
RC: Well, I’m sure that’s going to happen pretty soon!
EM: Yeah, absolutely. You know, obviously I own a space company, I’m going to tend to like something that involves flying to the moon. You hear this song and it sounds like it’s really going to happen.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
whoever it was called the hosing-down pic his "glistening larval form" earned a thumbs up
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
What’s the next one we are going to check out?
EM: It’s “Always Look on the Bright side of life.” And it’s from (the Monty Python film) “Life of Brian” and obviously it’s a pretty funny song because (the characters) are being crucified at the time. (Laughter) But I think it is a good reminder not to get focused on the negative things in life. And my personal philosophy is I’d rather be optimistic and wrong rather than pessimistic and right.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
EM: This is, “America, Blank, Yeah” (Laughter)
RC: And we should say that the “blank” starts with an ‘F’ (Laughs)
Song: “America., expletive Yeah!” – Team America World Police Theme
EM: (Laughs) Yeah, right.That is from the movie, “Team America”. I’m a big fan of “South Park.” The shows that I watch – “South Park,” “Daily Show,” and “Colbert Report,” – those are sort of my main three ones -- they just capture a little bit of essence of America in both a good and a bad way.
RC: You can say that a little bit. (Laughter)
EM: I think it’s funny and inspiring in a weird way – a song that just kind of gets you fired up. (Laughs) It’s just cool. I like it.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
like a lot of Elon it has a "nerd who incessantly laughs at their own jokes" vibe
― rob, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
this is all very much like when Golf Magazine interviewed Trent Dilfer
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
I don't think he's actually heard Fly Me to the Moon
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
EM: Right. I think “Con Te Partiro” is an incredibly beautiful song.
Song: “Con Te Partiro,” – Andrea Bocelli
EM: It’s really calming. And, it’s just a really beautiful song. And obviously Andrea Bocelli is just an incredible singer.
RC: Well, when you need to be in that kind of relaxed mode or to put you in a mellow environment, is this something that you go to?
EM: Yeah, it is actually. I think that song is kind of a reminder that the world is a beautiful place. It’s an incredibly beautiful song, sung really beautifully so I think that’s why it makes me feel that way about the world.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
this mfr walking around the office obliviously whistling santa claus is coming to town
EM: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” I personally don’t understand it, but it’s the song that I whistle the most. I don’t even realize I’m whistling it. I just go into auto-whistle and this one comes up more than any other so I must like it at a subconcious level, but I’m not entirely sure why. I could guess. It’s sort of a positive song. I mean, who doesn’t like Santa Claus? I guess it’s good to have him come to town. (Laughter)
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
yes, I know that you are with me;you, my moon, are here with me
Con Te Partiro is abt wanting to fuck the moon but the moon said no
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
I'd believe you if you told me ChatGPT generated this conversation
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
its pretty uncanny
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
(Verse 1)I'm Elon Musk, the man with the planI'm known for my cars and my rockets, I'm a self-made manBut now I'm turning my attention to the world of social mediaI'm buying Twitter, and I'm gonna be the boss of ya
(Chorus)I'm buying Twitter, it's a game changerI'm gonna make it better, no more hatersI'm gonna tweet my thoughts and share my visionI'm the new owner, you better listen
(Verse 2)I'm not afraid to speak my mind, I always tell it like it isI've got some big plans for Twitter, you just wait and seeI'm gonna make it faster, easier, and more user-friendlyI'm gonna give the people what they want, and make it shine brightly
(Verse 3)I'm not just buying Twitter for myself, I'm doing it for youI want to give you a platform to share your voice and be heardI want to make Twitter a place where ideas can flourish and growI'm investing in the future, and I want you to come along for the ride
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
^actual ChatGPT
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
i don't think the playlist is that weird, tbh. back in the day when everybody had an actual itunes library, you'd go visit your friend across the quad and their dormmate's laptop would be open and the playlist would be something like this, scrounged off of kazaa just like they got an earworm and did the bare minimum to acquire the song but didn't have any interest in pulling on the thread. track #6 on elon's playlist is probably 'star wars gangsta rap' and #7 is a weird al song (mislabeled).
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I personally don’t understand it, but it’s the song that I whistle the most. I don’t even realize I’m whistling it. I just go into auto-whistle and this one comes up more than any other so I must like it at a subconcious level, but I’m not entirely sure why.
https://i.imgur.com/GHKbfEZ.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 9 December 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 9 December 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
god i know why, if there ever was a paranoid sadistic christmas song it's that one
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 9 December 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
{movie trailer voice}
Hang your stockings
Say your prayers
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 December 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
I like Neil Diamond's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_nqUHmEmA
― peace, man, Friday, 9 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
that's pretty much Violent Night
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
ok but what were your friend across the quad's dormmate's reasons for choosing those songs when they were interviewed on KCRW about them
― more crankable (sic), Friday, 9 December 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
It’s weird to anyone who cares about music, art, or culture, in other words.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 9 December 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
i think it's safe to say he doesn't care about any of that (other than the works of stephen king)
― 龜, Friday, 9 December 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
he cares about tweets and in some way isnt that the ultimate art
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
YALL I AM SCREAMING I really don’t know which one he’s talking about pic.twitter.com/5CNQkpp1Z7— 🕺🏾🪩 (@shOoObz) December 7, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 9 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
Amazing, new head of Twitter Trust and Safety already having to battle Andy Ngo misinformation campaign against one of her own employeesLet's see if Elon chooses his actual paid professional T&S or his right wing ego fluffer pic.twitter.com/LVwWB9MXbt— z3dster (@z3dster) December 9, 2022
funny that elon thinks he can befriend these people
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
there are few people I hate more than Andy Ngo, who earlier this year, basically called an eyeball witness to a driver intentionally hitting pedestrians during a protest a liar and incited his minions to attack her
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
this couldn't possibly be new twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) letting Bari Weiss rifle around in a backend tool that clearly says "Direct Messages" in the sidebar could it? 🤔 https://t.co/qqfoKuvs30— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 9, 2022
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Three of us resigned from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today: @eirliani @podesta_lesley and me. Here’s why https://t.co/h05TblfGIO pic.twitter.com/iqcHvhbgms— annecollier (@annecollier) December 8, 2022
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Correct. For security purposes, the screenshots requested came from me so we could ensure no PII was exposed. We did not give this access to reporters and no, reporters were not accessing user DMs.— Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) December 9, 2022
How did this work, though, @ellagirwin? If reporters didn't have access to DMs, what was the process? Did they give Twitter officials search queries to run on the DMs, and have you retrieve relevant ones?Did Twitter officials pick out the DMs yourselves to give reporters?— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) December 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
so glad I never used my gov name on Twitter.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
good chance theyve got you linked to it in their data anyway
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
google for "buttface-mcgee" and find Neanderthal
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
pt 3 of THE TWITTER FILES is entirely dedicated to the output of ilxor neanderthal 👍🏽
― mark s, Friday, 9 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
greenwald already firing up the outrage machine
― mark s, Friday, 9 December 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
theyre so lazy they need to do better
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Most people's disinterest in this is enraging these guys
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
cool
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
hope they rage-stroke out, every last one of them
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Dream of Twitter one day being broken to the point where everyone can only see their own Tweets and all recreate I Am Legend
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
much-followed accounts that follow no one: mel brooks 👈🏽
― mark s, Friday, 9 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
Please stay on strike if you’re going to leave Top Gun Maverick off this list @aoscott seriously how many of these films have you seen / heard of… for me it’s 0 / 2 ! pic.twitter.com/UxW6tJJOO9— @jason (@Jason) December 9, 2022
Top Gun Maverick was great!NYTimes has gone “full woke”.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
on cinema at the cinema twitter crossover event
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
Not only did the NYT fail to list Top Gun Maverick. It doesn't even have a comics page!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Has anyone counted how many times this guy tweets a day?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
I love that we’ve now reached the Star Wars nerd state of “Not liking my favourite film is oppression” in record time. I’d settle for that level of bedshitting
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
idek who would want to be a critic anymore. a local theatre review here generated a 7 paragraph essay from someone in the production, that was reposted by like 15 other people, who had a list of demands of things the critic 'needed' to include next time and ongoing in all reviews (even though dude is on an oppressively small word count). Like they think the critic is their publicist.
and then the example above, butthurt IP fanboys hershey squirting their keyboards because AO Scott didn't think the newest Jackass should be film of the century (no shade on that franchise tho which I love).
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
I think the thing you have to understand about twitter is there is an entire heavily monetized ecosystem that has kept itself fueled up for years on the self-fulfilling prophesy that they’re perpetually victimized by every conceivable entity in the world, and that’s elon’s market— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 9, 2022
― borrowed Ostalgia for the unremembered 80s (MoominTrollin), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
J4ckass will be on my 2022 ballot (and was my first Jackass anything)
― more crankable (sic), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Wow, you've got a lot of awesome Jackass movies (and TV shows) to catch up with!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 December 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I still need to see it. have loved the other films in the series. nothing makes me laugh more than Johnny Knoxville flipping a golf cart in whichever one that was.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
That was #1
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 9 December 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Filmed at my hometown mini golf course!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 December 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
I really expected him to lose interest by now, and set his sights on Martian moss farming or whatever.. but if this is a manic episode, it's a sustained one. He even lives in the building now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 December 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
It's his new toy. He'll play with it until it's so broken it's no fun any more.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 9 December 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
Elon is now replying in agreement to Lara Logan, who was recently banned from Newsmax for spreading conspiracies about a “global cabal” of UN officials who “dine on the blood of children”: https://t.co/6DX1xNZ2lx pic.twitter.com/jTqLhhYzUl— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
It really can't be overstated just how much of a shameless liar Elon is pic.twitter.com/cpEa0Rcndl— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 December 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Taibbi's rolling out Part 3, fwiw. All about events leading up to Trump's account being suspended. As before, all the selective screenshots are supposed to look like some big anti-Trump collusion, but clearly they just show people trying to do a kind of impossible job (monitoring election disinformation) in a crazy environment.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 December 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
I don't know a single person, even Elon fellator, who gives a fuck about that tonight, lol.
they really gotta work on theatrics more
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
the effort is very low all around
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
why do they keep doing this on friday nights lol
― Clay, Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
idk I used to spend my late 20s grabbing a bottle of Jamesson, inviting friends over, renting a projector, and reading Tweet threads together
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
this is so dumb
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjlO_M-XEAI5JXZ?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
FIFTY-TWO
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
jesus fucking christ, if only there was a non-Twitter medium in which lengthier stories could be published. alas, Twitter is our only option
Twitter is the perfect publishing platform to pretend to do journalism but never provide actual context or details. It's just headline after headline.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
this is the JFK for this generation
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
my head is spinning as i countenance the dense tangle of orwellian unwords like "bounce"
― Clay, Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
Companies use internal jargon, news at 11
― jaymc, Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
pretty easy to grift readers if they hang onto your every word, just say a company is doing something mundane and then act as if it's never been done before
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
at least a bounced account wasn't 86'ed
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
Damn, Taibbi 51'd everyone, overbearing mod behavior imo
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
Elon is basically just outright making Twitter part of the right-wing media ecosystem — allowing people to say what they want, for now, but he guides the narrative. Or at least that seems to be the idea. But he can't really do that and have Twitter be any semblance of its former self. It still seems like this just ends up with a Twitter no one wants.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
he'll probably die in a strange way.
hopefully at least
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
like ironically in one of his own Teslas, hopefully
Spoiler
At the end of Twitter Files 3 Mulder and Scully find Taibbi’s body crammed into a duct that smells suspiciously of Morley cigarettes
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Saturday, 10 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link
is he going to sue himself
NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Shame on those acting in a manner contrary to the company's interests. Only your boss has that privilege.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Saturday, 10 December 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
It still seems like this just ends up with a Twitter no one wants.
Going the way of Gab, Parler, et al.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 10 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
yeah i'm not sure you get to be the anti-leak guy once you go full assange on your own company
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 December 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
twitter blue now $11 on iphones, and three out of four features are labeled "coming soon" this is so goddamn funny https://t.co/GCJucSKEHe— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) December 10, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 11 December 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Twitter Blue Balls
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 December 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
11 dollars on ios, not iPhones, 8 dollars on web. that's just passing on the 30% Apple tax to the buyer.
― koogs, Sunday, 11 December 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
hes on one
can he say this??? pic.twitter.com/6CEXmIQ6dH— pudding person (@JUNlPER) December 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/yhEOieaGER— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
thank god we can't hear these tweets at least
― rob, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
So his business model is basically just ... trolling?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
man despite how much he's always sucked, this guy has turned out to be so much worse and more obnoxious than i ever would have guessed
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
its something lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
It’s kind of amazing how not funny or clever this guy is. Just a black hole of cringe and total suck. The most pitiable edgelord.
― circa1916, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
He's a cross between one of those assholes that says something offensive, then slaps you hard on the back and says "come on, I'm just kidding, lighten up" and one of those other assholes that says something so stupid and not funny that you have to reply, and like a child they take that negative attention as affirmation.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
Hope he slips and falls and hits his head and goes into a coma and nobody knows and hackers get into his account and ruin his legacy with fake tweets
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 December 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
That scenario would more plausibly explain what is currently transpiring than 'manic billionaire actively trying to destroy company he just spent millions acquiring'
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Sunday, 11 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
*billions
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 11 December 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Next episode of the "Twitter Files" is up, from asshole Michael Shellenberger. Same as before, shows Twitter employees having serious conversations about how to handle Trump and his threats to public order. Right-wing Twitter is reacting as usual (everyone involved should be locked up, shot, etc).
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 December 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
This whole thing where we're all subjected to Elon Musk's jokes as a condition of being on Twitter has strong overtones of the Vogon poetry plotline from Hitchhiker's Guide.— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) December 11, 2022
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
With the "prosecute Fauci" turn seems like he might be a couple of 8-balls away from going full Kanye and tweeting out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 280 characters at a time.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
*4000
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
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― omar little, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
yeah like Trump there's something spooky about his straight up nihilism. like trying to fan the flames of the nonsense pedophilia accusations against Yoel Roth, a guy who was working for him until recently. or just blatantly lying about shit like "ah yes when I took over Twitter I was laser focused on taking down child porn, quite frankly it's disgusting how long they let this slide". the difference is Musk has this pathological need to be seen as funny and smart which makes him such a pathetic villain. there's none of that weird charisma that Trump has. he couldn't have an original or clever thought to save his life. he's such a completely unappealing person. even the late night shows can't find anything funny about him.
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
even the late night shows can't find anything funny about him.
This part says more about the late night shows than Musk tbh.
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2022 08:10 (one year ago) link
fuck both of these guys, obv, but lmao nonetheless
Was at the Dave Chapelle show at SF tonight and who comes on but Elon Musk! A good 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people. and he withers. Like absolutely turns into a corncob. “What should I say??” He saysDave tries to salvage the situation but to no avail— james yu (@jamesjyu) December 12, 2022
Dave chappelle brought up Elon musk up on stage at the chase center. Had to pry the yonder for this ahaha pt 1 pic.twitter.com/zCYNUf3Hhz— Cleo PatrA (@CleoPat48937885) December 12, 2022
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 December 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
second account there seems to have been blasted, is musk trying to wipe the footage?
― devvvine, Monday, 12 December 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdBga225HBk
― peace, man, Monday, 12 December 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
I really hope so, that always goes well
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 12 December 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
Genuinely surprised that Chapelle’s current fans don’t like Musk. Not surprised at all that Chapelle himself likes Musk.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 December 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
Did he think he would be hailed the conquering hero? This is what happens when a comedian brings up a drunk heckler and gives them the mic, don't know how Chappelle thought this was going to go.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
Followed by frankly scary tweets along these lines:
Many battles remain, but, yes, the tide is starting to turn on the mortal threat to civilization that is the woke mind virus— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 12 December 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
brb, got to go stock my woke bunker.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Imagine saying the words “ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world!” and expecting not-boos
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 December 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
the guy's tax rate should be a million percent
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 December 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
*entire audience boos me because they hate me*
it was the woke mind virus
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 12 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
kinda ironic that Twitter's algorithm, even before he took over, was designed specifically to make guys like Elon feel like the most popular people on the planet and that concerns like "the woke mind virus" and panicking over pronouns were real things that people actually cared about
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
if one were to go solely off of the Elon tweets itt, it would appear that the only people still on Twitter are creeps, conspiracy theorists, bullies and, basically, right-wing trolls.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter).It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Technically Dave did not specify what noise he wanted the ladies and gentlemen to make
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 December 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
I suppose he's right that SF "leftists" at a Chappelle show are, indeed, probably pretty unhinged.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
they weren't booing, they were asking for jobs at Booooo-ring
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
even chappelle was booing
― mark s, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
Man goes to doctor, says woke mind virus must be defeated. Doctor says treatment is simple, great clown Dave Chappelle is in town tonight, go and see him. Man bursts into tears, says, but doctor, I am elon musk— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 12, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
Hey Elon, if it was 90% cheers then why did you stand there like an ass, helpless, until you walked off the stage humiliated?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
Reminds of the time we opened for papa roach and limp bizkit— eve6 (@Eve6) December 12, 2022
genuinely funny that Musk genuinely did not anticipate getting booed like that and therefore had no response to it. just letting the boos win
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
also funny that they're nuking the accounts posting the videos which makes it abundantly clear to people that Elon is embarrassed by this before they've even seen the videos
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Fake boos!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
hes over confident from the media cupping his ball ten years straight and becoming the richest man in the world, thinks he can do no wrong, as evidenced by all of his recent behavior
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
yeah it's insane that this dude's PR team was able to actually successfully frame him in the media as the one selfless billionaire doing cool new stuff and he threw it all away to be Ian Miles Cheong's top reply guy (along with 44 billion dollars lmao)
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
"this tweet contains potentially sensitive content" jesus christ just take the L man
put this in a gold frame in a gallery https://t.co/hU4DIhbvLc pic.twitter.com/yRYFkO91nH— Donna Respirator (@AliceAvizandum) December 12, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Twitter Files Part 56231: The Elon Booing Event Decision
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
"Internal communications show Twitter employees worried that their boss would become emotional and 'fire everyone' if the video was not suppressed."
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Monday, December 12, 2022 10:15 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
notable that he was pitched as saving humanity via electric cars and rocket ships and now hes saving humanity by combating the woke mind virus, his whole schtick is so superficial, and it worked beautifully, when primarily directed at the business press lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Chappelle should pivot to working corporate events exclusively
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
chapelle in his prime wouldve absolutely cooked musk if given the opportunity now hes like hey the richest man in the world my friend, sad
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
(not to say he had perfect politics before just that hed see musk for the nerd he is)
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
"Are you ready for some COMEDY?! Because I have a surprise for YOU!"*brings out the unfunniest dork you've ever seen*— Cohl! Face! Killah! (@RuckCohlchez) December 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Going absolutely crazy when the stand-up comic I paid to see brings out a weird twitchy rich guy in a leather jacket and has him walk around for a while. The whole crowd chanting "more of this" at deafening volumes.— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 12, 2022
pry the yonder?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Mostly sad to see Chappelle not going with the energy of the crowd and turning it into an Elon roast. 'It's mostly the poors up in the cheap seats, sir.'
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk shouting "I'm rich, bitch," while the sound people at Chappelle's show honk a horn to drown out the boos from the crowd is one of the saddest videos I've ever seen. https://t.co/tJHFRhKU3w pic.twitter.com/SeeLSZG93h— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) December 12, 2022
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
this is elon's corncob moment
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
i think dave was conflicted cause he kept bringing up the booing which he knows will result in more booing, on an instinctive level he wanted more booing while his conscious mind wanted it to stop, old dave and young dave fight within him
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
open the bag that their phone was locked in, to prevent them from filming and posting part of the performance
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
Taibbi and Greenwald are soon going to be posting about the scourge of people illegally filming comedy performances
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
the musque of cred death
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fjyh6WvXEAUoM2W?format=jpg&name=360x360
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
Slowsquatch - https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
how it doesnt work haha
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
XPost, missed the chance to say:
“I was saying Boo-lon!”
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
I was saying "Booo-ring company"
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
I just have to wonder, like...is any of this ongoing manic episode a net positive for him? He may be solidifying support among his most ardent fanboys and maybe attracting a little bit more human slime to his side, but otherwise he just seems to be intensely broadcasting his unpleasantness to the world and actively repelling a lot of people who previously had little-to-no opinion of him whatsoever. It basically just doesn't make sense on any human level. But that applies to an awful lot of human behavior from the past half decade+ so what the hell do I even know about anything anymore.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
kind of nice we can stop humoring people who claim Chappelle is anything more than a rich bigoted asshole
― rob, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
he's getting more and more people talking about him, which is what he really wants, even if he won't admit it
it's clear that what these dudes want is to feel important, and elon's way of doing that (everyone is talking about elon!) is probably less harmful than his peers who think they're influencing the tilt of the world by doing shadowy garbage behind the scenes
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Elon, that is. Dave's just a lost cause at this point
Chappelle's fans understand the concept of "punching up" better than he does
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
Maybe Elon paid him to let him come out on stage.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Chris Rock came out too apparently. Weird, wild stuff.
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
I think Rock and Chappelle are touring together?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Thanks all... I clearly haven't been to a big show in a while...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
lolll
Out at the comedy show having the time of my life with the 90% of the crowd cheering. They're all just out of frame, not booing pic.twitter.com/yGjqQOCTgJ— ((Grumpy)) 🌹🇵🇸✡️ (@GolemBundist) December 12, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
Where's Whiney?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah I was gonna say i am expecting Whiney to pop in to remind us that Chapelle has been bringing publicity-hounding robber barons on stage to flatter their vanity since the 80s and why are we freaking out about it now
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
I'm so, so, so tired of this man
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Now he's tweeting that he must have upset the "Branch Covidians," either not knowing or caring that that phrase was invented to refer to anti-mask anti-vax invermectin cultists. But typical of Musk in taking somebody else's wordplay and getting it wrong at the same time.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
ivermectin, sorry. Invermectin is a small Scottish town.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
no one batted an eye when Chappelle had "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap open for him in the 80s
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Where's Whiney?― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 12, 2022 12:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 12, 2022 12:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Boooooooooooooooooooo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
3) Twitter related concern #2: Brand. The $TSLA brand is suffering from the current news flow, but the impact on the net favorability score is minimal, likely temporary (remember Uber in 2017), unlikely to affect hardcore fan who are most of the buyers in the market today. pic.twitter.com/lkvhJ6YK6t— Pierre Ferragu (@p_ferragu) December 9, 2022
this is a slide from one of his investing simps so ignore the commentary, but is a clear drop in the approval rating of tesla among the group most likely to buy teslas in the US, and i assume that will continue to get worse.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
ya I read recently that his net favorability improved somewhat with conservatives (who still don't like him a whole lot) but it absolutely has cratered among liberals (the ones actually buying his shitty cars). sure glad the US government poured billions of dollars into this moron
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
yeah this is a total failure to know your consumer base
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Tesla's current electric vehicle (EV) offering turns out to be the oldest lineup in the world for a carmaker.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
this is a slide from one of his investing simps so ignore the commentary
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, December 12, 2022 1:44 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol saying its ok you only need the hardcore fans for a company thats priced like its supposed to become the biggest car maker in the world and more
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Tesla Patreon clearing $8 billion a year easy
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
xp "However, the arrival of the Cybertruck might significantly change its ranking."
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
its funny ppl still think the cybertuck a vehicle flagrantly in violation of crash safety regulations will ever come out
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
i mean theyll prob put a truck out eventually but the public prototypes to date are absolute fantasy
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
how much car safety regulation in the US is at the state level? this feels like it could be another front in interstate culture wars.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
think that stuff is all federal
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
meanwhile theres three electric pickups that people are extremely stoked on already out with a bunch more coming
don't worry, they're going to switch to making semis for truckers!
the reviews of the semi so far are pretty bad
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
funny thing about the semi reveal is they made absolutely no claims about full self driving cause they know the professional buyers wouldnt be falling for it
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
Iirc they've been boasting about how much it can haul without revealing how much the fucking empty truck itself actually weighs, which will have a huge effect on capacity, road damage, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
xp huh, yeah i hadn't bothered to think about the age of their product lines as a thing but that is a weird huge unimaginable failure to understand their market space it seems to me. so much about cars (and many many things) is getting the new new.
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
I am watching a movie clips about @elonmusk's Tesla Semi - remember, the truck that was to revolutionize the transport industry when it entered the market 4 years ago 🤡And I am going to tell you'all why it is a completely stupid vehicle. And I won't even want to talk about (1)— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) December 8, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
he really said "I'm Rick, bitch"
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
cars are designed to DOT standards first, i think, which are federal (hence why cars have gotten bigger in last 10 years as has been discussed on ilove cars, the need to implement crumple zones and such).
california as a state has a lot of power here though since they're a huge market and are able to hold automakers to higher standards than federal through their state standards - if a car can be sold in california, it can be sold anywhere.
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
the level of competition and improvement on fit and finish/interiors etc in cars currently is crazy too, like you never want to have an old lineup but thats particularly rough now, especially when your quality lagged behind in the first place
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
ha this thread is amazing seems like they didnt consult a single trucker or anyone who knows about them
i). Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a factory or, say, a tollbooth. (4) pic.twitter.com/5vLmgHNhP0— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) December 8, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
A few weeks ago someone said that Elon is terrified of reliving the fall of apartheid, and it’s totally changed the way I see his posts pic.twitter.com/ENU9lY6WbI— DEI coordinator for sinaloa cartel (@Forever_Wario) December 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
lol I do make a point of repeating the phrase "white South African billionaire" a lot. It helps to remember who we're dealing with.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
emerald mine heir etc
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Elon basically IS the villain demographic from movies and TV shows in the late Reagan/Poppy Bush era, when Russians got less fashionable as bad guys but everyone could agree rich white South Africans were terrible.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
they have such gross accents too
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
california as a state has a lot of power here though since they're a huge market and are able to hold automakers to higher standards than federal through their state standards - if a car can be sold in california, it can be sold anywhere.― 龜, Monday, December 12, 2022 2:22 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 龜, Monday, December 12, 2022 2:22 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
also 🇪🇺. lol at anything like the cybertruck ever being sold there.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Popular image of white South Africans in the 80s =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dmoT9AfoI
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
yeah feel like cali/eu tagteaming must be pretty common - like it was big news here when cali announced they were gonna ban ice engines by 2035 but really they were just aligning with the eu's decision to do the same a few months before xp
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
I rode in my first Tesla this week (Uber) and the interior looked like a 30 yo Star Trek: TNG set. All the controls and instruments are in what looks like an offbrand Surface Pro strapped to the very center of the dash. So many unnecessary changes to basic car controls/functions just for the sake of reinforcing that the car was special. Needed instructions to open the door from the outside and the inside. Interesting design choice to force the driver to take their hands off the wheel to scroll through several levels of screens for basic controls (radio, comfort, wipers?) that nearly every other car company now puts on the steering column or wheel.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Popular image of white South Africans in the 80s =
https://media.tenor.com/Xe2unUKcr0MAAAAC/diplomatic-immunity-diplomat.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
"The demn blex"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
xxp next gen will be dope though, octagonal wheels and “knights who say ni” when you honk the horn.
― circa1916, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
Does Tesla have any actual automotive engineers on staff? Who thought it was a good idea to put the driver in the center?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
prob elon
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
he is a centrist, you know
― rob, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
The average Tesla driver could have their seatbelt break, get lodged in the windshield of their car, and will still go on Twitter while in the windshield and post
"hi Elon, love your cars, had a small issue with the belt today but it allowed me to have a once in a life time experience today"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
yeah feel like cali/eu tagteaming must be pretty common - like it was big news here when cali announced they were gonna ban ice engines by 2035 but really they were just aligning with the eu's decision to do the same a few months before xp― 龜, Monday, December 12, 2022 3:04 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 龜, Monday, December 12, 2022 3:04 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
right also the CCPA is not a million miles from the GDPR IIUC.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Does Tesla have any actual automotive engineers on staff?
"tesla engineers poached" = About 862,000 results (0.69 seconds)
All through 2017-2020 Apple, Rivian, and Ford were hiring Tesla engineers. Alan Clarke (who was Tesla's manager of new programs engineering and had been there for 12 years) split for Ford in February.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
my coworker has an older tesla (although maybe not old, because they never come out with new models!) and any time I ride in the back seat I have to be reminded of how to open the damn door
the design decision where holding the "door open" button rolls the window down a little bit so it can clear the frame, because the top of the window goes into the roof and not into a slot in the top of the door, is just weird
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
"It looked cool in the McLaren F1 so it will look cool here too."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
It's the logic of a 12-year old drawing their ideal Ferrari-Lambo-Space Shuttle.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
― mh, Monday, December 12, 2022 3:46 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao had not heard about that, think saw something similar on a review of an old lamborghini back from when they were designed by literal insane people
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
everyone's first reaction is "oh, I must have hit the window button and not the door open button" because it's unintuitive and they're not labeled. and then you end up rolling down the window on your second try
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
I was mostly being tongue in cheek, but honestly that design choice seems to be one made by someone who knows virtually nothing about automotive design . . . or driving, for that matter.
If your point is that Tesla's best engineers have been poached, that makes sense.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 December 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
someone should tell them to check out door handles xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
for some reason i thought the car homer designed in the simpsons had the driver at the center, but even homer had the sense to keep the driver on the left hand side
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
xpost I had the darndest time closing the door in my friends Tesla. I was sure it was still open a tiny little bit, not fully closed, but I cannot figure out how to do it without him pulling the car over and showing me.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
that called innovation baby
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Disruption
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
$TSLA hit a new 12-month low by a couple of pennies today, i think. the rally is over!
― 龜, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
I do wonder how Tesla owners are currently feeling about the fact that they’re driving around automotive MAGA hats these days.
― circa1916, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
Anecdotally, I don't think they care. Though I bet it puts a dent in future purchases, especially once you factor in all the alternatives out there.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
I am seeing a lot of the EV Kias and Mustangs lately, as well as a lot of Volvos and VWs.
yeah theres starting to be a shit ton of evs to choose from, at least model wise not sure if a shit ton of actual cars exist yet
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
glenn, thank you
The same worthless media liberals who never break stories, who never do any reporting, who just sit around mimicking each other every day - speaking only to and for one another in servitude to Dems - all write the same articles because they're all hive-minded empty herd animals. https://t.co/CK74mXWPJN— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
True— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
i don't think warzel claims he's a reporter?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 December 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
when was the last time glem actually reported on anything
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
the lula-jailed-by-a-corrupt-judge story -- which he was largely fed but did amplify
― mark s, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
when he was still at the intercept lol
― mark s, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
I see a Tesla with CRYPTO vanity plates every so often. I assume he loves this direction.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 December 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
xp then i guess he tried to report on hunter's laptop but the intercept nixed that lol lol
― mark s, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
We need more of that substantial conservative reporting, like the big story about schools having litter boxes in classrooms for kids who identify as cats.
― circa1916, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
the two guys i know who own teslas are liberal guys who work in tech and were early adopters invested in musk as a tech genius. i see a ton of teslas around my area of chicago, which is mostly upper-middle-class but also generally liberal. my guess is a lot of tesla owners bought before he made his political leanings obvious and are now kind of embarrassed about it, or are oblivious of his right-wingery.
― na (NA), Monday, 12 December 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
That's the vibe I get around here, more or less the same people that might otherwise (or previously) have been driving a luxury hybrid.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
my little bro used to be a big Tesla guy and the thing that turned him off it (besides Elon becoming a garden variety chud) is them fucking around with the turn signals. he said he could never get used to it and sold the car. I'm glad he did because I fucking hated that thing. not only did it make me feel sick every time I rode in it, it's also incredibly uncomfortable. the entire interior is made out of the same shit you see at WG&R furniture when they're trying to stage a fake bedroom.
― frogbs, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
xp - same vibe in my (increasingly upper-middle class) neighborhood. the 'zero emissions / good for the climate' aspect is the initial motivator, but the 'look at me in my next-gen luxury car' vibe closes the deal.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 12 December 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
the couple people I know who have had them are gadget nerds who also like futuristic junk
like, the idea of it not working quite right and being idiosyncratic is part of the appeal
this is not what normal people want from an automobile
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
max's Read Max newsletter had a gadget review that reminded me of that type of interest, and I think this kind of sums it uphttps://maxread.substack.com/p/the-worlds-stupidest-smallest-smartphone
When you use this phone in public, people will want to talk to you about it. The most common question is “what is that” or “is that, like, a real phone” or, in the case of my immediate friends and family, “Dan … why.” But I’ve handed the Jelly 2 to people and after they mess with it a little, they’re also taken in by how charming and teensy it is. They’re sometimes impressed with it, too, though I don’t get the sense that very many would consider actually buying one.This phone is shockingly non-shitty. It is clear when using this phone that Unihertz is a very, very powerful company, filled with engineers with powerful brains; I don’t know if Apple or Samsung or Google could have made this thing. What it also means is that Unihertz is absolutely capable of making an extremely good normal phone, and that they have chosen instead to make Stupid Phone. I admire this.
This phone is shockingly non-shitty. It is clear when using this phone that Unihertz is a very, very powerful company, filled with engineers with powerful brains; I don’t know if Apple or Samsung or Google could have made this thing. What it also means is that Unihertz is absolutely capable of making an extremely good normal phone, and that they have chosen instead to make Stupid Phone. I admire this.
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
I think the newer ones are maybe better but the Tesla is the Stupid Car that does technologically interesting things. You're elated when it does something particularly cool. When the bumper falls off or you have to explain to a passenger for the fiftieth time how to open the doors, you shrug it off
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Teslas are everywhere here, clearly the new BMW in terms of frequently being an easy signifier for the most despicable driver in close proximity. I don’t think a lot of not extremely online people care about what Elon musk says any more than they care the Nazis drove around in mercedes.
― omar little, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
I forgot my neighbors who seem nice and retired-ish that have the crossover-looking one. I think they're kindly liberal types
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
Rode in a Hyundai Ioniq recently and it felt head and shoulders more luxurious than the Teslas I'd been in.
One of my colleagues bought a Tesla a few months back and immediately had issues with his windows opening, and his killer feature was being able to have his turn signal turn into fart sounds to amuse his kid. I thought to myself "you paid $65k for this?"
$TSLA will be $30 before the end 2023
― octobeard, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
There was a Tesla driver who would cruise past every night on the way home with their car set on the ice cream truck sound.
― omar little, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
Guess who ultimately makes the design choices for Tesla?
The more autonomous a car is, the less dash info you need. How often do you look at the instrument panel when being driven in a taxi?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2017
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
xp well, that's not creepy at all
― mh, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
This is more for why don’t you drive an EV? but if I hadn't gone with the Mach-E, the Ioniq 5 would have been the runner up.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
what wld have been yr selection?
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 12 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Greenwald is just a toxic person now. Pretends to still be a leftist that hates Democrats, doesn't mind that now a good portion of his followers just so coincidentally happen to be pronoun-mocking homophobes.
Which of course he'll hide behind "I can't hide behind who likes me" as if he isn't intentionally courting that crowd cos fuck it, getting a handjob from your readers is all that matters
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
I ordered a Mach-E GT last December and took delivery in April.
I really want to avoid general "best car I've owned" statements because I live in an area with an above-average charging network, but still I'm 100% satisfied.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
the father of one of my best friends, as old and liberal and jewish as they come, is pissed off beyond belief. he was a musk fan until fairly recently (obv he was turning a blind eye to some bullshit along the way).
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
Never thought "is the owner of the company that makes my car a white supremacist?" was something I'd have to consider
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8sV1pVk.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
My neighbour has one and looks incresingly embarrassed to be seen in it. It is probably not helped by the fact that it has been repeatedly keyed in recent weeks. It wasn't me, honest.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, December 12, 2022 7:01 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
one would ordinarily just assume
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Karl Malone, chef's kiss on that little pun
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
I’ve always been a little wary since that Henry Ford character tbh
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
lol yes that was perfect KM
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Haha totally. High quality bots are fine!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
― more crankable (sic), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
Ok I think ChatGPT has peaked for me pic.twitter.com/zp55sDmiss— Tim Clare (@TimClarePoet) December 12, 2022
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 07:23 (one year ago) link
Tesla down another 6% today, despite S&P being up on the day
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
the shine is officially off
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
It's a boooo-ear market
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
Stock hit its 52 week low today
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
i don’t think he cares about Tesla stock price or even the company all that much any more. he got what he wanted out of it (fanboys, cash, aattention) and now he’s going to leverage that to…do…something? the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto. going full Q now is a good way to hook some chunk of gullible people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
better get in before crypto collapses completely next week
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto.
Which comments are these? My apologies for being lost.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
don’t remember exactly the quote but jack posted something about how twitter should’ve been a “protocol” and how Musk was the “singular person” to get this done or something along those lines. then there was some back/forth they had about the blockchain…
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Jack’s a real dipshit. Never seen someone so checked out of the consequences of his actions in my life.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
yeah hes the one whos really into crypto not elon, prob what he wanted to do but couldnt because it makes no sense, he did however pivot his payments company to crypto hope that works out lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
i just imagine jack meditating naked in a white room while a robed assistant intermittently comes in to whisper assurances that all is on track and reads a couple of elon’s tweets
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
his other other company blue sky did release a social protocol thing recently fwiw, it has no blockchain tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
Can only assume Biz and Ev are both glad they got out ages ago
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
they're probably both freaks but they aren't mainstream famous for being freaks
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
his big problem is he is losing one audience of vaguely liberal urban tech oriented ppl but he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing, even pollution is a feature not a bug for some of them (see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
the blue sky stuff doesn't look terrible, but I don't know that it has any chance of catching on
― mh, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
yeah just releasing —a protocol— into the wild is hopeless, need to do like mastadon and put out an app that runs on it too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
(see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough
Fast forward a few years when Musk adds this feature to Teslas.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
teslas biggest problem doesnt really have anything to do with musk its other car companies releasing electric cars, theyve basically had the segment to themselves to do whatever dumb weird things they wanted
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing
YES, this sums up whats been bugging me about all this. If he's decided to pivot to this crowd, what the hell for? They wont give a shit about either Tesla OR spaceX.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
elon doesn't give a shit about crypto but he knows his audience
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
I don't think it's a shrewd or calculated move to pivot to the right wing/crypto crowd it's more a matter of him desperately wanting to be liked by someone and it's pretty easy to be popular among those people if you just whine about the right things
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
theres that but he is also actually a shithead its not a random choice of people to cater to
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about such a deep boredom with being alive that they've opted to plunge headlong into chaos in an effort to feel something about literally anything. What does the richest man on earth have left but to burn the entire earth.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
The ratchet effect seems to be real with the Rogan/Musk/Taibbis - they only get positive praise for something from the right and being dumb guys who desperately want to be seen as geniuses lean into it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about...
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 4:04 PM (six minutes ago)
???
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html
lmao i guess i'm not getting the $2k of 2022 401k match they owe me then.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
lot of choice tidbits in that article
― 龜, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
He’s not the richest anymore fwiw
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
lol @ telling everyone they have to come in and then not paying rent
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
nothing in that article seems too good jeez
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
the posts are obviously embarassing on their own but seeing them all together like this is really just astounding pic.twitter.com/EBylL5kjS1— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
wonder how long til they miss payroll
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
it is very odd that theyre doing things like selling the kitchen equipment
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
Probably wants to move to Texas
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
what a wanker
One message focused on first principles thinking, a worldview based on the teachings of Aristotle to reduce assumptions to basic axioms, which Mr. Musk credited with helping him make difficult decisions.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
must have skipped that step when he offered to buy twitter for three times what its worth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Thought I heard that all the top Tech Bros, toxic and otherwise, were into Stoicism and such.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
that would make sense
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
It’s like What’s Your Sign for them.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
Stoicism is the new Mindfulness
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
Reminds me of when the Top Mathematician would poke fun at his nemesis R. L. Moore, who had his charges in his fiefdom at UT Austin apply the Socratic Method to Point Set Topology, “which produced brilliant but quite ignorant students.” Replace “brilliant but” with whatever you want.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
tl;dr but maybe something interesting here: https://medium.com/@markdery/how-stoicism-became-broicism-123f3aae6aba
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Repeating “woke mind virus” to myself in a South African accent.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
why has no one trained an AI with Leo's Blood Diamonds accent
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
stoicism is good not bad. these bros will fade as others have faded before them
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
stoicism is when you grow the philosophers beard
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
broicism is pretty clever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
C/D: Bands performing albums in their entirety
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
When confronted with a band playing an album in its entirety, stoicism helps, yes.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Counterpoint: Mission of Burma playing Vs.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Longtermism is the driver behind all of this. Stoicism is just a side-effect.https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23298870/effective-altruism-longtermism-will-macaskill-future
Worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy. https://t.co/cWEM6QBobY— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 2, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
such a dipshit.
I don't want to edit everything into 280 char chunks, so here's the rest: https://t.co/eWVwDFxq7e— jack (@jack) December 13, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
He (Jack) claims he volunteered at Gilman Street but nobody remembers him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
lol that's so bad xp but of course
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
So this longtermism is an offshoot of so-called effective altruism, but instead of assisting people in the present it promotes the idea that "the best way to help the most people was to focus on humanity’s long-term future — the well-being of the many billions who have yet to be born."
So, you get to think you're a philanthropist while throwing masses of money at things that you believe will be good for humanity sometime in an imaginary future. How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
a went to neighboring nerds imag tea party but she didnt pay actual cash screw that
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless)
Has the imprimatur of academic philosophy’s best-compensated utilitarians
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
My imaginary friends' tea party doesn't tell me that my greed is good because eventually one day when I'm bored of cocaine and hookers I can donate my wealth to a family foundation to combat... stuff.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link
"How dare these workers unionize, can't they see that I'm trying to save civilization?!" plays well to Musk's (or other social darwinists like him) own messiah complex.
Feel free to substitute in "how dare Ukraine fight back, don't they know that a European war is bad for civilization?!"
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
...what the fuck is he talking about people using bitcoin in Africa to fight censorship??!?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
It's a weird inverse mirror of the strain of dominionist and dispensationalist theology that is argues that if god didn't want us to burn up all the natural resources then why did he put all that oil in the ground. Besides, jesus is coming to take us all home so fuck climate change.
Why conservative Christians don’t believe in climate changehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340215599789
Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianityhttps://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/scott-pruitt-has-laid-bare-the-growing-environmental-schism-within-christianity/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
Often wished I could be playing Elden Ring as I'm driving to work
You can play Cyberpunk, Elden Ring and 1000s of other games in your *car* with an epic sound system!! https://t.co/F25Qu6HJ63— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
epic
― Clay, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 08:12 (one year ago) link
He's definitely not a crypto true-believer - the only relatable thing he did this year was refuse to turn up to a half hour meeting with SBF to secure $15b funding for Twitter in case he'd have to hear about blockchain.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/iwMNvoStrf— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link
he may not be the richest man anymore but he's still the most cringe
Oh man that would be an epic troll!!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
So epic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
I thank the discourse on Elon for introducing me to the phrase 'the most divorced man on earth'. Which kinda hits it right on the head.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
Divorced from reality.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
unfortunately spacex's valuation continues to grow, so elon may not care too much that $TSLA is nosediving
https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-eyes-higher-valuation-in-offering-employee-shares-for-sale-11670976045
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
Twitter has permabanned Jack Sweeney, who ran the Elon Jets account (also banned) pic.twitter.com/0iQxQQmILD— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 14, 2022
Now it appears more accounts that track the private jets of billionaires and celeberties using publicly availble flight data are being suspended. pic.twitter.com/c7pOqRyq4k— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) December 14, 2022
For now, Sweeney says he is operating accounts tracking Musk's jet on Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, and now Mastodon. https://t.co/iCiJ7CyI3T— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
'A threat to my personal safety' whined Prosecute Fauci Man
― nashwan, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
lol let's bully this guy off the internet
Twitter has now blocked the ability to post a link to the ElonJet Instagram account. pic.twitter.com/qNEcn6uVDF— Tony Webster (@webster) December 14, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
(elon, not the elonjet guy, he's good.)
he's got kids dammit
― nashwan, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
keeping this one link off twitter is the definition of hardcore engineering
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
In other words, the same mechanism used to prevent ppl from posting the NY Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop in Oct. 2020?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
tried posting it with a link shortener and it gave a spam warning when clicked
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
this just gets better and better
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
“i’m not mad i think this is all hilarious!”
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
“it was all a big joke and you all fell for it! ahahahaha!!”
I don't know why I've always assumed that being thin skinned would be a barrier to success. I guess having been handed success/$$$ by your doddy is perhaps comorbid with that particular trait?
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
Update, Twitter has changed their policy on open source flight tracking-https://t.co/gHZIiCWnx4“Under this policy, you can’t share the following types of private information, without the permission of the person who it belongs to:” pic.twitter.com/JPGdd3ZgUl— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) December 14, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
the dammit was probably in response to the realization that he has kids
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
lol this guys from total free speech allowable under the law to this insanely broad restrictive rule
You may not publish or post other people's private information without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so.
In addition, you may not share private media, such as images or videos of private individuals, without their consent.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
free speech for the dumb
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
no "live location information ...that would reveal a person's location" would basically prohibit any live coverage of events in any identifiable location?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
don't worry they aren't going to enforce it against everyone just people making fun of Elon. Proud boys will still be able to dox trans women
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
i tried to read just one of the threads posted in here today and tapped out after the third "ok groomer"/anti-trans response I saw within mere seconds.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
you used to be able to report heinous posts even if you yourself were suspended. now when I try to, it says "something went wrong". not sure if this is something that changed or if being able to do it before was a loophole
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, December 14, 2022 5:58 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
not sure what they mean by for media here
For media, the following are not in violation of our policy:
the media is publicly available or is being covered by mainstream media;the media and the accompanying tweet text add value to the public discourse or are shared in public interest;contains eyewitness accounts or on the ground reports from developing events; the subject of the media is a public figure.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-information
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
seems like elons public jet info should fall under that since hes a public figure
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
i'd almost respect it if he just said 'i paid $44 billion for this and am gonna make up whatever rules i want, no matter how capricious or inconsistent'
almost
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
Wait Hello? How long does delay mean @elonmusk— ElonJet (@ElonJet) December 14, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
enjoying elon's first real encounter with board lawyering
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
Send Tuomas
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood.Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
That is a very disturbing thing that actually happened in real life
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
making fake lawsuit claims is such a rookie move
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
my brain filled that in to "Lil Xan"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
"legal action" as in a strongly worded letter from Elon's legal team?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
or maybe just saying the words legal action in a tweet
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
Musk sold more than $3 billion in Tesla stock this week. https://t.co/1qdfBSlgYQ— Matt Ford (@fordm) December 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
lmao he’s gonna get fired
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 15 December 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
so if Elon is as Trumpy as I suspect he is the reason why he banned that account is because he's planning to go somewhere soon he doesn't want people to know about
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link
too bad theres elon jet accounts on every other social network
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
also he let the account back on it just has to allow for a time delay before tweeting the jet details now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
nah its banned again lol
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
ah good stuff
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link
>Get into my Tesla ready to play some GTAV>Hit 15 pedestrians with my car>I start up GTAV https://t.co/5RBwVraH4k— FightClubFan22 (@Fan22Club) December 14, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
what the fuck dude
Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
just wanna point out A) he's got the license plate and could go to the cops so he's obviously hoping for some vigilante justice here and B) Teslas have cameras fucking everywhere if this guy actually did "jump on his hood" there would definitely be a video
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
we're arriving at "Elon gets someone murdered" a few months earlier than planned
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
chefkiss.png
new contender for most brutal Elon Musk being owned by his own website moment pic.twitter.com/2slGYw7uRC— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 15, 2022
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:42 (one year ago) link
I don’t believe his claim that he was stalked, if the incident happened as he says then report it to the police, don’t crowd source your minions to run plates. He’s also been friendly with Ian Miles Chong who has previous for “fake anti Facebook attacks” and who has been suggesting to Elon he is now in danger from the left.
― I am using your worlds, Thursday, 15 December 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
this can only end one way
https://wolfmanscultfilmclub.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/The-Naked-Jungle-1954-killer-man-eating-ants.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
somebody stalked lil nas x? i'm confused
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 December 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
i assume elton is referring to his grimespawn, the wretched X Æ A-Xii
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
the wretched X Æ A-Xii placed in a babyseat in an autodriven T$LA programmed to decoy the h8as
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
like el cid but the opposite
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
dic le
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
so many levels
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
whoaaaa! im whippin my musk track into a frenzy of dic le
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
welcome to realiti
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
so during breaks in my training class I pull ILX up and I've had this thread up and a few times I've come back from break and forgotten to minimize the tab and shared my screen, and though i haven't had the tab open to where the thread can be read, people can see a tab titled Elon Musk.
i'm so paranoid that my class is going to think I like Elon Musk ;_;
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
like man, I would rather be thought of as ugly than thought to be an Elon stan
lol elon breaking his doxxing rules in his thread about them
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1603257514484711424/photo/1
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj_qLU8XwAECPUp?format=jpg&name=medium
What will this mean for Libs of Tik Tok?
Narrator: It meant nothing for Libs of Tik Tok
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
xpost it was funny seeing him being called out for that and his stans making the "first amendment doesn't apply to gov websites" argument that until now has been usually used *against* them
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
Auctioning kitchen equipment, not paying Twitter’s San Francisco lease, rumors flying about not paying severance, multiple tweets about the Fed, selling $3 billion in Tesla stock … Yikes! I’m very curious about Twitter’s current revenues.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
Their flight tracking story is clearly meant to distract from the Tesla stock sale, right? This guy isn’t playing 3D chess.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
s/their/this
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
yeah prob its silly tho cause most people dont care that he sold the stock and those who do will still notice
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
this is what Elon Musk was publicly saying on Twitter to Tesla shareholders on the days he was dumping $3.6 billion in $TSLA stock pic.twitter.com/gjl259CxpD— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 15, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
Elon founded Tesla but is now foundering.
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
help lol
Tesla should announce a buyback immediately and stop the dilution from Elons sales. It also allows the company to take advantage to the low share price Elon has created. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW TESLA BOD - @MartinViecha $tsla— Ross Gerber (@GerberKawasaki) December 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
This in the qts from an Elon stan:
@GerberKawasaki you have to relax my friend. I’ve been badly hurt by the stock drop but I don’t want TSLA or Musk to run the company to support daily trades. Long vision + big goals = big future stock price. Everyone else is welcome to sell. https://t.co/aZpUsN2G7g— Seth Champi (@SethChampi) December 15, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
once elon gets rid of the woke mind virus the stock will go through the roof
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
xp It's a very similar dynamic to that in which most Trump supporters find themselves.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
what does TESLA BOD mean?
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/gsc8ujrjc5k41.gif
Board Of Directors (I assume you knew that tho)
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
HELLO TESLA BOD CAN YOU HEAR ME IS ANYONE THERE
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
like a normal bod only all crumpled up because your dumb self-driving car just self-drove into a brick wall
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/nikola-tesla-orig.jpg
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
When did Dr. Evil start sporting a rug?
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
The Martin Viecha those investor simps keep tagging is head of investor relations and his likes are quite interesting!
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
https://imagez.tmz.com/image/ef/1by1/2022/07/18/ef33dc7e1276494ab5509ae4efbae53f_xl.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/84/32/358432070e48b3dc7127508f2b03a713.jpg
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
as the owner of a torso not dissimilar to elon musk’s who has always struggled with body image issues, thanks to folks who keep posting those shirtless pics of elon for validating my suspicion that actually yeah people are laughing at me when i go swimming
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
Pure cuntery imo, considering everything else about him
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
thanks for speaking up, b.g. i'd really be happy if we collectively dropped the "bodyshaming is cool if the person is rich and powerful" kind of approach, which has been so widespread online, especially since Trump.
i don't think stevie, or any other individual poster, means ill --- but this stuff, collectively, does a LOT of collateral damage to many folks' emotional and even physical well-being.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
Seriously, Elon having a normal middle-aged body is the most/only relatable thing about him.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Seems preferable to all the body-fat-obsessed CrossFit Silicon Valley bros.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
Apologies - wasn't thinking and it was massively insensitive and dick-ish of me. Will be sure to post more thoughtfully and avoid this sort of humour in the future.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
you gotta go with this one cause being hosed down by a hollywood super agent is funny enough on its own, doesnt require body insults
https://i.imgur.com/KxS77eU.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
i do hope hes wearing some sunscreen tho damn
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports.https://t.co/H4ibUozDKV pic.twitter.com/lNvvOKmvC4— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) December 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
appreciate it, stevie. all good on my end.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
is that Grimes' ass
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
dont think twitter can survive too much more of this sort of thing
Twitter's new head of trust and safety has invited QAnon-adjacent and publicity-hungry anti-trafficking group OUR (the subject of a criminal probe believed to be ongoing) to discuss a partnership. OUR tells me and @annamerlan it's "delighted" by the offer. https://t.co/R1SO9XRgqD— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) December 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
all my "who to follow"s were, about an hour ago, replaced by "Elon Musk." it's back to normal now.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 15 December 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
Since Musk took over my Who To Follows have been people like Michael Tracey
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Friday, 16 December 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
elon just going after reporters he hates now
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022
oh hey @rmac18 is suspended too!— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
if you were trying to put twitter out of business what would you do differently
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) has been suspended for... asking the LAPD about the supposed "stalking attack incident" on @elonmusk and reporting that there was no police report filed. Nice job you fucking apartheid waterhead dork. Suck the shit out of my ass.— K. Thor Jensen 🐀 (@kthorjensen) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
now hes suspending people whore talking about the suspensions this is s bloodbath
just nuke the site already elon https://t.co/op658YrXyH— raandy (@randygdub) December 16, 2022
uhh matt’s suspended now too— raandy (@randygdub) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
just lolling at him sitting there watching the firehose and clicking the ban button on the mod panel instead of doing any work
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
he taking another step in the mod journey, get drunk and ban everyone you hate
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
one that got binder nuked
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkD4TFVUcAAHQ-x?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
can you imagine what greenwald would be saying if he didnt like elon
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkD5c1mVEAAeo5z?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
This was Ryan Mac @rmac18’s last tweet before he was suspected 🤔 pic.twitter.com/0TOWpN9aei— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
what does the breaking news site need normal journalists for i ask you
― Clay, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
lol he is really losing his cool
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
Elon took Aaron Rupar from the based libs….he just picked a fight he cannot win. BlueWaveDeborah1956 is going to end his empire— 71 Years Young (@ByYourLogic) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
another one
The Intercept journalist @micahflee has been suspended. He had been writing critically about Elon Musk.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
Uh-oh, Elon Musk has caught a Twitter-specific mental disease. You've seen it before. Someone or some group on here has owned him so bad that he is re-aligning his whole life and worldview to prove them wrong. Happens all the time, but only Musk may blow up a planet as a result— Vincent 🇦🇷🇲🇦🇦🇷🇲🇦 Bevins (@Vinncent) May 23, 2018
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Prescient
first they came for the reporters and i said nothing, then they came for the annoying guys
Political pundit @keitholbermann has been suspended by Twitter. He had been tweeting critically of Elon Musk.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
The night of the long hair plugs— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
Lmao at "night of the gone wives" in the replies
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
the tesla meeting he was late for must have gone really badly
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 December 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
Greenwald disingenuously presuming the argument is lefties being upset now that their 'friends' are banned and not pointing out the obvious hypocrisy, or the fact that these bans were much more egregious than the ones conservatives scream about, as no TOS were presumably violated.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
one year from now, Twitter will be 100 people in Klan robes jerking off and trying to plan get togethers at Wing House
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
lmao, this one made me go cross-eyed
Maybe they violated real terms of service by conspiring against freedom of speech. 🍿 Owners/influencers will come and go but that dang constitution lives forever.— Stephen (@spcomstock) December 16, 2022
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
journalists gone, 89 tweet thread of the original movie Avatar is still up
― mh, Friday, 16 December 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
he's claiming the journalists all 'doxxed' him by retweeting Elonjet or some ish
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Twitter is now marking all links to Mastodon unsafe pic.twitter.com/kUseCXVLMk— 𝗝.𝗠. 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗥 #readoptimal (@intelwire) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
I would appreciate boosting the hashtag #sendelontomars
― mh, Friday, 16 December 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
elon go to mars right away
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
first person on mars gets to make all the laws iirc, for example law 1: no clowning on elon
― Definite Article, The (cat), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
Apartheid beluga still digging down huh?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
dude's seeing centipedes crawling out of his fingers right now
They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
the human capacity for self-delusion and rationalization is generally up to the task of justifying any opinion or behavior without recourse to hallucinations.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
In an amazing turn of events, Twitter is malfunctioning and suspended accounts are able to access Twitter Spaces and speak in them https://t.co/kiFGZ8s17A— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
lmao pic.twitter.com/L31AYgcIHr— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:14 (one year ago) link
I'll settle for a Buddy Dwyer
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
Only with him being at a party with Trump and the bullet going through his head and Trump's. Oopsie!
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
Trump NFTs in the morning and Elon just fucking melting down in real time in the evening, it's a day the bards will sing of.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 04:25 (one year ago) link
you know people say this guy is like Trump without any of the charisma or weird humor but I gotta say some of the phrases he's coming up with today like "assassination coordinates" and "Few people understand this!" really do sound like Trump right after he got impeached
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:25 (one year ago) link
god he is just getting so owned
Sorry, too many options. Will redo poll.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link
hes talking on a space with the banned journalists right now
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
lol he left after like 30 seconds presumably cause they were asking him questions
lol fucking pitiful
Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange pic.twitter.com/wVA9Gb5MVJ— Bradley Eversley (@ForeverEversley) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:57 (one year ago) link
getting booed at Chappelle's show really made him crack huh
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:01 (one year ago) link
turns out freedom of speech isn't working out so well for this guy
― sleeve, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
everyone told him he was the best boy in the world for ten years straight then suddenly turned on him its basically torture a cruel prank lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Who has a screenshot of the "Kanye. Elon. Trump." tweet? I need to see that again.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
lol that shit was a curse
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
Just too pathetic
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 December 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
lmao the Twitter space talking about this just abruptly got killed
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:19 (one year ago) link
Still half a month left for him to just kill the whole damn site and fulfill the Dril Prophecy.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:21 (one year ago) link
I hope that if he's forced to reinstate these journalists they still have the dignity to walk away anyway.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 16 December 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
lol he is really losing his coolgetting booed at Chappelle's show really made him crack huhSure looks like that was the breaking point. It’s been a downward spiral since then. Notably the first time he’s really been physically forced outside his weird nerd echo chamber.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 16 December 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link
I finally figured out the true meaning of this tweet. Each one is the King of the Losers for their respective generations.
― Chris L, Friday, 16 December 2022 05:57 (one year ago) link
Elon’s 51 and Kanye is 45. Aren’t they both Gen X?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 16 December 2022 06:48 (one year ago) link
Yes
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 16 December 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
had to double check that Trump was a boomer and not silent generation (he squeaks in to boomer)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 07:24 (one year ago) link
Well, Trump’s definitely not silent.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 December 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
Silent but deadly.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
― Cow_Art, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
The Deadliest, people are saying...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 December 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
Kanye is *spiritually* a millennial (I'm telling myself)
― Chris L, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
thats fair
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
Nah ye can keep Kanye, millennials have enough problems
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
haa he nuked spaces altogether, guessing its cause banned accounts were still able to use it and no one works there anymore who knows how to fix that
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
So how long til he announces a relocation to Texas? He's obviously not staying in SF.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Xp wtf?!
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Guess who works on and is possibly a product lead for Twitter spaces!
1yr ago @Squad was acquired by Twitter – our whole team is still here & since then we've worked with amazing Tweeps to launch:- @TwitterSpaces - Tips- Ticketed Spaces- @SuperFollows - Creator Dashboard- Unified Purchases Dashboard- NFT Profile Pics (soon)What a year! 🚀— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) December 14, 2021
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
Twitter Blue round 2: I’m travelling and haven’t looked at this in detail yet, but my tracker has taken 66 million profile snapshots of 18 million distinct accounts since Monday’s relaunch, and it’s found a grand total of 2,215 new sign-ups.— Travis Brown (20-30% parody) (@travisbrown) December 16, 2022
15 of the top 20 by follower count are porn. The top non-porn personal accounts are the UKIP Gamergate guy and a Bolsonaro supporter who recently got Elon Musk’s attention with claims of election fraud. https://t.co/LQ5XJfPQ7c— Travis Brown (20-30% parody) (@travisbrown) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
lmao this is his explanation for why Spaces isn't working right now. dude is so pathetic
We’re fixing a Legacy bug. Should be working tomorrow.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
It's always someone else's fault.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
Imagine having a midlife crisis on this scale. It's like one of those mortifying failed public proposals of marriage but as a worldwide simulcast event on all major television networks.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
fucking Dan Price in that twitter spaces conversation
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
ya I mean Trump could get away with this because he was a powerful political figure who could actually make life miserable for people in very real ways. all Elon has the power to do is ruin a social media company and tank Tesla stock. everyone is laughing at him too much to really be mad and the only people really getting hurt are those who stupidly put their life savings into his stupid company. the right wants Twitter to stick around more than the left does and it's gotta drive 'em crazy knowing the only winners in this whole situation were the people who managed to convince Elon to buy it for $44 billion
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
checkn muh stonks
https://i.imgur.com/LCW97H4.png
― mark s, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU’s Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.— Věra Jourová (@VeraJourova) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
ya definitely worth remembering even if Elon actually gets some sleep and somehow realizes how bad he's screwing this up he's still set a ton of lawsuits and sanctions in motion, not least of which involves all the labor laws he flagrantly violated
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Given recent behavior I'd expect him to just cut off service in any country that tries to sanction him. Which would just make things worse for the company's financial prospects, but that clearly is not factoring into his decision-making at the moment.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
paranoid meltdown
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
aren't there entire countries who are either locked out right now or can't get 2FA to function because Elon fired all the people who knew how it worked?
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
I think there’s a very real possibility this guy goes broke.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
If he does, I hope it's because he made it his life's mission to spend all his money buying various social media sites and turning them into MySpace overnight.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
New 52 week low and falling
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
$TSLA's recent 52 week low makes a lot more sense now that it's been revealed elon dumped $3 billion worth of shares into the market. lol @ calls for a share buyback
xp!
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
lol it lost half its value in exactly 3 months. isn't there a point where the Tesla board just forces him out? how low would it have to go for that to happen?
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
teslas in a tough spot 99% of its value was based on the idea that elon is a genius and a real good boy
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
pre-covid it was trading around like $20, then it shot up b/c it was a meme stock and also ZIRP. so probably will need to drop back down to $20
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah the most shocking thing about the Tesla price isn't how far it's fallen, it's how much it shot up in 2020 — based mostly on forth and excitement about "self-driving cars" and Musk's success at selling himself as a visionary. And helped a LOT by the weird pandemic investing environment. Like, even now the share price is triple what it was in February 2020.
Here's a good and somewhat prescient analysis from a year ago: https://www.investopedia.com/why-tesla-skyrocketed-during-pandemic-5211590
"During times of excess, fundamentals take a backseat. And so it has been with Tesla."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
froth and excitement, I mean
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, December 16, 2022 9:43 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol yeah they're in a real unique spot, just think of all the value that could've been saved if someone could convince Elon to just shut the fuck up once in a while
kind of amusing how TSLA's stock graph pretty much mimics Bitcoin exactly
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
investing for dummies
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
elon was pretty much on track and on message til the stock went crazy, becoming the richest person pushed him over the edge
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
yeah i kind of forgot that he's only been the world's richest man for like 2 years. maybe if his wealth accumulation had been slower and steadier like bezos it wouldn't have gone to his head as much
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
tesla was on the verge of going under for years he must have felt so vindicated when it went to the moon
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
yeah he's basically the biggest lottery winner ever in history, not surprising his life is flaming out
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
not sure if we talked about how he supposedly 'donated' $5.7 billion in stock to a charity last year (which saved him $4 billion in taxes) and that charity turned out to be himself lol
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/elon-musks-5-7-billion-stock-gift-had-some-surprising-benefits
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mysterious-charity-donation-went-to-musk-foundation-report-2022-12
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
I will go out on aa limb and say massive fraud is involved in Tesla's stock price (like Bitcoin!), too.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
you're not really going out on a limb everybody has thought that for years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
It was a legitimate charitable donation, he gave that stock to the Human Fund.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
ah interesting
News from @maxwelltani : NBC News has suspended @oneunderscore__ from appearing on air, over Musk criticism it thought crossed the line https://t.co/9zMkQgbxM1— Ben Smith (@semaforben) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
tbf that guy does kind of suck
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
no hes cool he follows me
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
you're not really going out on a limb everybody has thought that for years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ🕸
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
all according to plan
And soon, ladies & gentlemen, the coup de grâce— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Bari Weiss is bad now
What should the consequence of doxxing someone’s real-time, exact location be? Assume your child is at that location, as mine was.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
🤣🤣🤣— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
Just a good ol’ South African boy loving those Mandela jokes
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Having heard him get awkward and agitated almost immediately on that space before he left it, the emojis are even funnier now, basically him afaicthttps://i.imgflip.com/2/1nhqil.jpg
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
god these stories start eating their own tail so quickly, I'm not even sure what "reporting on my real-time location" or w/e is supposedly referring to at this point. I followed the bit about the "stalker," the car hood, the jet tracker, but these things become mythic in like hours and now I'm confused again
also as I'm sure someone already pointed out, it is too fucking LOL to have a tech CEO complaining about this
― rob, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
I don't care enough about Tesla to know a lot about it, but I feel somewhat confident in guessing that Tesla HQ knows exactly where all their cars are at any given minute
― rob, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
This David Roth piece from Defector is really good.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
especially a tech CEO who's big idea was "Twitter should have your location data at all times"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
also what's actually happening doesn't look any different to me than someone posting say, Taylor Swift's touring schedule
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, December 16, 2022 11:14 AM (one hour ago)
i sort of wonder if he now thinks every business venture of his will follow this pattern, and thinks that it's OK twitter is flatlining it's all part of the plan, he'll operate it on the verge of bankruptcy for a decade and then have it go to the moon... too bad social media ain't electric cars
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
It’s kind of the opposite in fact, automakers get bailed out and have weird inflated valuations all the time but social media companies never really recover once they start going into a tailspin
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
i'm not listening to that space for the same reasons i won't click play on a trump video, but apparently at least half of his consternation there was him realizing a bunch of people he'd personally banned from twitter earlier that day still had access to twitter spaces.
sounds like a bug. these things happen. but it will be interesting to see how long it takes them to ship a fix.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
not exactly surprising but: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/technology/elon-musk-management-style.html
But as I’ve called around to C-suite executives and influential investors in Silicon Valley over the past few weeks, I’ve been surprised by how many are rooting for Mr. Musk — even if they won’t admit to it publicly.Mr. Musk’s defenders point out that Twitter hasn’t collapsed or gone offline despite losing thousands of employees, as some critics predicted it would. They see his harsh management style as a necessary corrective, and they believe he will ultimately be rewarded for cutting costs and laying down the law.“He says the things many C.E.O.s wish they could say, and then he actually does them,” said Roy Bahat, a venture capitalist with Bloomberg Beta.Mr. Bahat, who has criticized some of Mr. Musk’s moves, characterized his Twitter tenure as a “living natural experiment” — a divisive but illuminating window into what other executives might be able to get away with, if they tried.“He’s giving people a lot more knowledge of what’s possible,” he said.Tech elites don’t simply support Mr. Musk because they like him personally or because they agree with his anti-woke political crusades. (Although a number do.)Rather, they view him as the standard-bearer of an emergent worldview they hope catches on more broadly in Silicon Valley.The writer John Ganz has called this worldview “bossism” — a belief that the people who build and run important tech companies have ceded too much power to the entitled, lazy, overly woke people who work for them and need to start clawing it back.
Mr. Musk’s defenders point out that Twitter hasn’t collapsed or gone offline despite losing thousands of employees, as some critics predicted it would. They see his harsh management style as a necessary corrective, and they believe he will ultimately be rewarded for cutting costs and laying down the law.
“He says the things many C.E.O.s wish they could say, and then he actually does them,” said Roy Bahat, a venture capitalist with Bloomberg Beta.
Mr. Bahat, who has criticized some of Mr. Musk’s moves, characterized his Twitter tenure as a “living natural experiment” — a divisive but illuminating window into what other executives might be able to get away with, if they tried.
“He’s giving people a lot more knowledge of what’s possible,” he said.
Tech elites don’t simply support Mr. Musk because they like him personally or because they agree with his anti-woke political crusades. (Although a number do.)
Rather, they view him as the standard-bearer of an emergent worldview they hope catches on more broadly in Silicon Valley.
The writer John Ganz has called this worldview “bossism” — a belief that the people who build and run important tech companies have ceded too much power to the entitled, lazy, overly woke people who work for them and need to start clawing it back.
― rob, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
i wonder how much of what he's doing is influenced by his need for approval from that crowd. seems like a lot of his career has been focused on winning approval from thiel in particular. big alpha/beta vibes when they're in the same room apparently.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
i wish more people were pointing out the obv fact that nobody stalked his damn kid, and the police aren't even actively investigating a crime.
he probably took video of some rando and assumed it was a stalker, then doxxed their fucking license plate
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
unless i'm misunderstanding, wasn't the extent of the doxxing just a bot account that regularly posts the flight information of famous people, which is already publicly available, and is still widely available on other platforms? wasn't the level of detail something like "elon musk's plane is landing at LAX at 8:20pm"?
because that isn't doxxing
and the police aren't even actively investigating a crime.
and they didn't even report whatever happened to the cops, which seems notable because, given musk's reaction, you would think he would be desperate to have any evidence to support his claim
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
tbf I don't really see anyone accepting that as fact either, as there was with Trump there are just so many weird things about all of this that it's hard to know what exactly we should be focusing on
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
teslas have cameras all over them, just saw a video of a guy keying a tesla filmed by the car as it was off parked and empty, if the guy jumped on the hood elon wouldve tweeted out footage of it by now
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
though I do wanna bring up that whole thing where Elon claimed "priority #1" upon buying Twitter was stopping child exploitation material, which he took a victory lap for despite knowing full well that he didn't do anything to combat it and in fact almost certainly made the problem worse by firing the whole team responsible for finding and reporting that stuff. and he did it by bringing up the fact that one of his kids "died in his arms", which caused his ex-wife to take to Twitter to say it absolutely wasn't true. I think a lot of the media isn't quite grasping how desperate and shameless this guy really is.
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
unless his family wasnt in a tesla, the true scandal
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
eh the media doesn't care, controversy generates traffic. it's the trump problem, they're going to keep covering elon until elon does something bad like precipitate the fall of western democracy (oops)
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
I think a lot of the media isn't quite grasping how desperate and shameless this guy really is.
Which is odd, given how the media usually is very good at not falling for such men.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
In two years, a small group of rich dorks will probably start trying to lobby Congress to pass an amendment to allow foreign born candidates to run for President. So Elon can run.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Tesla stock learning a big lesson today: Don’t fuck with Aaron Rupar pic.twitter.com/18Ik4u43kK— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
elon's probably just selling more of his shares, probably getting in sales before the end of the tax year because his options expire or something (iirc he sold a bunch of shares last year during the holidays too)
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8jX2yMX.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
guy got too used to being the boss
it seems like musk just completely confused cause and effect and decided that twitter was in control of journalists rather than the other way around. none of the controls are connected to the things that neoreactionaries discuss at their orgies.— rev. howard arson (@revhowardarson) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/3FunSiHndf— Galuade @ FIRES OF RUBICON (@galuade_) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
These dorks can’t figure out the 1st Am., really don’t want them to try figuring out the 4th.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
honestly seeing that online bullying of rich people can impact investors confidence and price in a CEO like this is better than most drugs https://t.co/4C20FtAlND— pudding person (@JUNlPER) December 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Bari, this is a real question, not rhetorical. What is your opinion?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
all real questions on twitter must now be flagged as Real in the message
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
So if Musk never filed a police report, isn’t he breaking Twitter policy by posting that dude’s picture without his okay?
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Twitter policy is basically just royal prerogative now afaict
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
lol I got a "most users don't like this kind of language" for using "Tesla" and "morons" in the same tweet.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Somehow fitting that the ultimate end of technology would be an AI built to rim the oligarchy
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
Beyond the Blue Check Event Horizon.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti https://t.co/ujZOYxlfQG— Liz Hoffman (@lizrhoffman) December 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
like a Craigslist ad with a beat to shit guitar saying "just trying to sell it for what I paid for it"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
“One could argue he has created value or destroyed value at Twitter. It’s hard to tell at this point,” he said.
Is it hard?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
- Grimes
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
I remember getting lots of pushback a mere 6 weeks ago when I was celebrating the downfall of this cursed platform. I know we don’t like this sort of behavior here, but I’m going to do it anyway: I was right, dammit.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
lmao the "coup de grace" is more Twitter files bullshit
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
xpyou were, but tbf a lot did happen in the past 6 weeks lol
― rob, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
he can't be the worst Democrat while Joe Manchin's alive but he can be the most pathetic
Elon, as a father, I understand the safety of your family comes first. Could you remove the real-time tweet but not ban the account? If there is a continuous pattern of unsafe doxxing, then escalate. Let’s discuss these things as Americans first, thoughtfully and rationally.— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) December 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
Show us the Twitter Files from the last 24 hrs u coward
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
wow that tweet is puke. My most hated American obsession is with being thoughtful and rational
― rob, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcbxjWG9Mc
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
lmao nobody gives a shit about the old management dude is just posting hit pieces against his own company
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Did Bari get cut out of this Twitter Files drop?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
I mean I hope Bari gets cut out from this mortalcoil soon, but
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
lmao at Bari saying, even while criticizing Musk, that she still doesn't believe Twitter isn't a 'public square', like....literally only the Court of the Fifth Circuit will agree w/ you on that
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
oh cool look who's back
I'm back!! Thank you @elonmusk and by the way MELT DOWN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND TURN THEM INTO PRISON BARS!— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
that's kind of an iconic return post
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 December 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
he’ll yeah
― Clay, Friday, 16 December 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
Pillow Man and Musk probably share a dealer
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ap9fv9AsL.jpg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
i'm sure that this mentality is why i will never be a zillionaire to begin with, but it is so strange to me that none of these guys (everyone from musk to trump to kanye to lindell, etc etc) doesn't just cash out and enjoy life? like i would totally just pack in in an sit around plunking around on a guitar by my infinity pool in greece or read books or w/e
like you could are one of the few humans in history that could live a stress free life yet you actively choose all this bullshit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
That life's reserved for trust fund babies.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
melt down the pillows and turn them into ploughshares
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
xxpost If they ever stopped moving the void inside of them would swallow them whole.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
that's kind of an iconic return post― Karl Malone, Friday, December 16, 2022 2:07 PM
― Karl Malone, Friday, December 16, 2022 2:07 PM
right? he's gotta have a ghost writer or smth
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
xps
the irony is that the one rich guy who cashed out and seems to be living the life is Tom from Myspace, whose social media profiles are all just chill vibes and beautiful locales last time I checked.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
this guy gets it
https://i.postimg.cc/kGrzbt93/Screen-Shot-2022-12-16-at-4-39-00-PM.png
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
“It looks like toddlers put this together during recess.” The shoddy build quality of a brand new Tesla. pic.twitter.com/5IC2TkEIZm— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) December 16, 2022
car guys vs musk is the real grudge
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
The god damned door trim
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
xxxxxp Most of us can play for only so long. But there is so much need in the world, and there are many good causes looking to address that need. Any of these guys could alleviate a whole lot of human suffering, find meaningful and rewarding human engagement, and still have enough wealth to last several lifetimes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
yeah like the Caruso guy who blew $100 million trying to win the LA mayor's race so he could fix homelessness
instead of just using the $100 million to fix homelessness
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 16 December 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
this is a dril tweet pic.twitter.com/xhkkTHzJzT— sclv (@sclv) December 16, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Bfscle7aA
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
xp Yeah, fuck that guy.
One of the problems with so many of these guys is that, because they happened to have made a shitload of money (most often from a combination of being in the right place at the right time and recognizing that circumstance), they think they are smarter than everyone else (they're usually not) and good at everything (they're definitely not).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
Sorry, meant to posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2dDyeRkfSg
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
Xpost sure I get that but honestly Myspace Tom is doing better just by doing nothing than most of these guys actively making it worse. Like they could just go on vacation all the time and be extraordinary tippers and do more good.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
But there is so much need in the world, and there are many good causes looking to address that need. Any of these guys could alleviate a whole lot of human suffering, find meaningful and rewarding human engagement, and still have enough wealth to last several lifetimes.
Not a single one of these ghouls should be actively involved in the policy of 'good causes.' Putting them on a beach and blinding them with coke and hookers is the best case scenario aside from just taking their money away by force.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
why would u do that to innocent hookers
― Definite Article, The (cat), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
this is good https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
(i think the best thing that can be said for EA is it's stupid rather than evil in the way most philanthropy is evil)
nah it's still pretty evil
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
Establishing your own egotistical charity is awful, but someone giving all their money to like, Doctors Without Borders, with no strings attached is fine.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
🐦[Elon Musk’s team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti🕸 https://t.co/ujZOYxlfQG🕸— Liz Hoffman (@lizrhoffman) December 16, 2022🕸]🐦
― 龜, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
My nonprofit employer got some big no-strings-attached donations from MacKenzie Scott's foundation and she actually kinda rules
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
squandering her divorce settlement on worthy NGO's all over the world without micromanaging or telling them how to spend it = classic
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah she's done it right. Essentially releasing half of Bezos's money up to that point into the world.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Despite her massive first round of donations (another is to follow), she still came out ahead since Amazon stock went up so much during the pandemic
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
proving the only good billionaire is the billionaire who doesn't want to be a billionaire
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
(but she should likely try harder)
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
Gates Foundation is not bad but they're definitely a more traditional philanthropic foundation, they expect reporting
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Looks like everyone who watches Elonjet on Twitch is getting reported and suspended for glorifying violence
What the fuck are you talking about. Where have I ever said anything like this. This is super bullshit. pic.twitter.com/4jLixKmbGE— carter. (banned arc) (@CarterForNow) December 16, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
The gates foundation is very bad actually
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
i was gonna say, when the revolution comes we empty the gates foundation's pockets
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 17 December 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
srsly, the worst example possible
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 December 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
The Gates Foundation gave us the microchips in the vaccine, so there's that. (The m in mRNA stands for Microsoft.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
NBC has responded to Musk banning reporters by… suspending a reporter who was critical of Musk.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
xp no we're not joking abt Gates
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t just spend its own money. As much as 40 percent of a foundation’s assets represent funds that otherwise would have been collected by governments as income and estate taxes.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/is-the-gates-foundation-out-of-control/
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
also helping to eradicate polio but whatever
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
If we took his money we could use it to eradicate polio without his pet project of union busting teachers coming along for the ride.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
Keep caping for Epstein’s bro, though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:34 (one year ago) link
i don't think "we" could do that, actually
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:38 (one year ago) link
Linsey McGoey's book No Such Thing as a Free Gift gets into the details as to why the Gates Foundation is bad - it's from 2015 and needs a post-covid update but this interview from July is up to date: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/how-bill-gates-makes-the-world-worse-off
Looking forward to Tim Schwab's book on Gates due out next year. His twitter is a constant stream on how Gates sucks.Recent article from him: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 December 2022 05:57 (one year ago) link
if you'd like to witness something truly deranged I would encourage you to check out the frequency with which Elon Musk replies to an unaffiliated twitter blue account called "musk university" that just quotes him https://t.co/a8pwrPak8T pic.twitter.com/z3FtAePOPL— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) December 17, 2022
― just sayin, Saturday, 17 December 2022 07:15 (one year ago) link
The current top read article on English Wikipedia is the one on the Streisand Effect btw
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 17 December 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Well, until Musk buys Wikipedia
― Vinnie, Saturday, 17 December 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
gates is a monster who has killed far more people than musk has yet and his PR is somehow more insidious since normal people seem to buy it without necessarily becoming stans - something that seems impossible for musk to achieve especially now
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 17 December 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
lol at people defending Gates
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
the shit they pulled around commercializing the covid vaccine was real bad
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
bill gates is the most powerful person in public health, because hes good at computer
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
every billionaire is a policy failure and an assassination co-ordinate (parody)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
THE ILXOR FILES: matt taibbi identifies the posters who work for the fbi but you already know who you are 🚓
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
even when an ultra rich entity gives their money away in a way thats not an exercise in extending their political power, which it almost always is see bill gates, they are still unwilling to address the fundamental problem theyve caused which is that they and their cronies are hoarding the worlds resources, in fact they think they deserve to do it and its good, and we should be grateful for whatever they give back however they decide to do it, which is why effective altruism is so silly theyre never actually willing to do the effective thing
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
I have zero interest in defending Bill Gates the individual, I don't think billionaires should exist, and I recognize some of the inherent problems in large-scale philanthropy as it is often practiced. That said, I find some of the dismissiveness of the Gates Foundation, which employs hundreds of people who are working to improve health, education, and economic outcomes around the world and partners with other organizations to increase its impact, rather annoyingly smug.
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
just imagine how annoying it must be for us to see you uncritically repeating corporate pr
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
why not read about their commitment to intellectual property over all that human life they claim to be saving https://thebaffler.com/latest/who-owns-vaccines-neumann
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
Fine, I won't talk about it anymore
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I wanna be a billionaire just to show you fucking ilxor bozos it can be done correct. musk send me money pls
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
thats effective altruism
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
we shd poll which ilxor is the most effective recipient (its me)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
listen even if i dont win i think whoever wins should give me a million dollars, i just want a taste, just need to get my beak wet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
hes really trying hard to sell this thing that no one wants in a way that no one cares about
Twitter will start incorporating mute & block signals from Blue Verified (not Legacy Blue) as downvotes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
anyway as far as my plans for the money i will use it to kill every other billionaire then with whatevers left over i will go on a world noodle tour
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Tesla’s most prominent investors now openly feuding with Elno. pic.twitter.com/vXMTWsGrke— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
And as predicted, while all the mainstream journalists who were banned come back, the indies who specifically track the far-right are still suspended. https://t.co/0rnBOUTSRs pic.twitter.com/7QPnXpWBHv— AZ Right Wing Watch (Kolektiva.social/@AZRWW) (@az_rww) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
My brother used to say, if he became a millionaire/billionaire, he'd buy St Mirren FC and have a statue of our pet dog outside the stadium recreating a famous photo of him wearing our dad's glasses.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Shit if I got given one million bucks I'd just pay off all my family's debt and keep driving the same car.
Paying off debt like an aphrodisiac
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
sorry but my family needs to learn personal responsibility
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
I’d pay off debts but tithe 10% to myself for a stupid fund and see if I could buy all the props from Rob Zombie’s Munsters.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
I touch computers for a living and have no children so I already have enough money for everything I want, being a billionaire has no appeal rly
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Walking around handing out $100s to every person I encounter would be fun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
John D. Rockefeller used to do this! Except he passed out shiny dimes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
new bil, who dis
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
the guy who just retired? his days are numbered
🧐 Much will come to light as Fauci loses power.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
Do we have to post all his lousy tweets in here, we know where to go get them
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
well it is his thread
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link
I can’t really dispute that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
So few understand this— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
An open invitation for con artists to pimp their cryptocurrencies in his replies. The man has a scam kink.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 December 2022 04:49 (one year ago) link
This will surprise many
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
the last tweet @taylorlorenz sent before elon musk kicked her off twitter: asking for comment for a story pic.twitter.com/DYAjlHcaqU— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) December 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk posted a picture of his live location at the World Cup. Elon Musk’s account should be suspended for doxxing the Twitter CEO.— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) December 18, 2022
― groovypanda, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
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― Number None, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
― Number None, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
It’s amazing how fundamentally he misunderstands what social media is and why people use it. It’s like someone buying a soccer team for 250% of its actual value and then getting all livid that the players can’t use their hands
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
seems like he basing it off his experience which is obviously completely atypical
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
I mean this site was plenty exhausting during the Trump years but it’s so much worse when the dude actually owns the site and just makes up dumb rules on the fly
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
idk trump was genuinely bad for the world, this is just kinda funny imho
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
one of those first as tragedy then as farce type situations
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Kind of like how many of the Paulie Walnuts storylines on Sopranos were intended to be pathetic mirror images of Tony's.
― Chris L, Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Bet he didn't enjoy it. Looks bloomin miserable. https://t.co/WG3T9dmP90— Jeremy Morris (@russophiliac) December 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
For my sins I’ve been on the internet a long time, but I can not remember seeing a forum—of any size—where the mod’s mother was posting about how his bad decisions are actually good. https://t.co/yLgy2X6vT6— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 18, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
brb, getting my mom to start posting to ilx & arguing that all my posts are otm
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
sums it up
IT IS IMPORTANT TO SPEND YOUR DAY DEFENDING THE ULTRA WEALTHY ONLINETHEY COULD SEE YOUR POST AND DECIDE YOU GET TO BE THE GUY WHO TURNS A CRANK THAT GRINDS HUMAN BEINGS IN A FINE PASTEAND WHEN YOUR DAY IN THE GRINDER COMES, THINK OF WHAT PROUD GOO YOU WILL BE— NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) May 15, 2020
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I do call AsiaKitty 'the problem child'...what with all the A's she gets and academic and sports awards she wins, so maybe you are right. She got an F once on some quiz where she did all the math backwards by mistake. I posted it up proudly on the fridge. "Right on, Asia! Glad to see you have finally started to RELAX a little :)"Boy, did THAT piss her off!I laughed more.12 year olds are so easy to tease. Actually, I think she was 10 then.You should see when I get dressed slowly."Mom, you are gonna make me LATE!""Yeah, but Asia, you don't want to ALWAYS be on time. They might get used to it."But as soon as she starts posting under a name like "schlongdong" I'll selling those damn Foo Fighter's tickets on Craigslist.org !!!!― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:35 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I laughed more.
12 year olds are so easy to tease. Actually, I think she was 10 then.
You should see when I get dressed slowly.
"Mom, you are gonna make me LATE!"
"Yeah, but Asia, you don't want to ALWAYS be on time. They might get used to it."
But as soon as she starts posting under a name like "schlongdong" I'll selling those damn Foo Fighter's tickets on Craigslist.org !!!!
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:35 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
Wonder if the World Cup was his "pls don't dismember me I'll get you your $13bn investment back" meeting.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Haha! Based on his expression, it probably was.
― nickn, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
some great posts on the HN thread where they're pouring one out for the the world's stupidest lisp programming and finally realizing musk might not be all there
e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044371
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
*programmer
Not that I care about his happiness but dude truly seems like a guy who doesn’t enjoy much of anything.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
I'm just about as sick of reading about Musk as I am about Trump, and many sites I've read have replaced Trump with Musk as new bete noir.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
if Musk is depriving Trump of media attention, then I can live with that trade off. Musk is much less dangerous to my mental health.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
I missed this chat earlier but anybody who thinks that bill gates is a force for *improving* public health in the global south is naive to the point that I hope they have someone who checks in on them to make sure they're okay regularly
― plax (ico), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
None of these guys seem to actually enjoy anything.
aside from occult human sacrifice parties you mean
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
rich Silicon Valley nerds are big on non-sacrificial orgies too IIRC
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Poor guy flew all the way to Qatar to ask for more money and they said no.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
This might be the most successful cyberbullying campaign of all time
No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
So what the fuck happened in Qatar?
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
He bet all the remaining money he has on a French victory.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 December 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
forum mod meltdown Path 3, Stage 9: "it has become clear that no one appreciates the sacrifices i've made to keep this board running" https://t.co/DLOuckspH1— Actually, (@eaton) December 19, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
forum mod meltdown Path 3, Stage 9: "it has become clear that no one appreciates the sacrifices i've made to keep this board running"
send Musk complete Buffy DVDs (NOT remastered!!!) or he will ban more journalists
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
You must like pain a lot. One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
Wonder what happened in May?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
mad @ saudis?
Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
has he been cracking open fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant the last five hours
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
are Chinese restaurants open in Qatar at 3am?
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
some of these tweets seem like they should be in all caps
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
According to the video of the incident that Musk posted, the member of the Musk security team confronted Collado sitting in the car wearing gloves and a hood. “Yeah, pretty sure. Got you,” the Musk security team member can be heard saying on the video.
What took place between the two men before they arrived at the gas station is unknown. There’s no indication in videos shared with The Post that Musk’s children were present.
no mention of the claim that the guy jumped on grimes car, one wld think the police wouldve arrested him if so
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
the guy is obviously unwell but elon could easily be tracking him
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Erdogan and Elon Musk shake hands in Doha during the World Cup Final Match pic.twitter.com/eKqr9sDelD— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) December 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah elon hanging around with Jared K and various members of the House of Saud is just what we needed at this time.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 December 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Multi-billionaires and autocrats always have mutual interests to talk about.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 19 December 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
"How can we kill these people but extract as much value from them first via enslavement?"
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 19 December 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
I know I shouldn't be surprised by these people anymore but my lord
One thing that just occurred to me: using internal Twitter analytics, this poll (given its perceived gravity) could provide some really interesting data on how some accounts organize to manufacture the perception of consensus, especially if some of that is measurably coordinated.— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) December 19, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 December 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
lol that guy works for the moonie newspaper
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
man it must be wild to be working at Twitter right now
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
Seeing him with all these autocrats, if I were an opposition politician or dissenter in any of those countries, I'd get the hell off Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 December 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
I know I shouldn't be surprised by these people anymore but my lord🐦[One thing that just occurred to me: using internal Twitter analytics, this poll (given its perceived gravity) could provide some really interesting data on how some accounts organize to manufacture the perception of consensus, especially if some of that is measurably coordinated.— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) December 19, 2022🕸]🐦
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 December 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
People really love a perceived Big Strong Daddy who will take care of them. The constant mental gymnastics they have to do to uphold that image must be a part of the appeal because fuck, it’s gotta be exhausting.
― circa1916, Monday, 19 December 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
If Zuckerberg had a spine he’d revert Facebook and Instagram to 2010 levels of shittiness and wipe Twitter out overnight.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
much to talk about in this photo
pic.twitter.com/UD803mbKRB— marge (@mags_mclaugh) December 19, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 04:32 (one year ago) link
the belt buckle is something horrible, isn't it
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 December 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
can't stop staring at the bottom left guy, he's basically sickos.png
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
Depends who you get to run it ! 🤔— Tom Anderson (@myspacetom) December 19, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 19 December 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
Lol at all these fucking idiots claiming it was rigged
Hey @elonmusk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1. They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you. 😘 https://t.co/y2piyeE84a— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 19, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 19 December 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
It's not like he said when.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 December 2022 12:31 (one year ago) link
tfw you buckle up and don’t notice your shirt has got caught up in the machinery
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 December 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
Good summary: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12?op=1
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 December 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) December 19, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 December 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/xpdQAcVTTo3ZBj3UVS/giphy.gif
let that sink out
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/lYoJpxeWDX— LeSubstack Triller Moth (@legotrillermoth) December 16, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
(note the date)
he hasnt posted since this 16 hours ago, hes in saudi dungeon signing over his tesla shares
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Do you like me?
( ) yes( ) no
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 December 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
maybe he finally crashed after weeks of no sleep
― sleeve, Monday, 19 December 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
maybe he finally crashed after driving one of his cars
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 December 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
i was joking but the saudis absolutely would kidnap him for a lil while if they felt like it
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
please don’t give out my assassination coordinates before I go hang out with a bunch of murderers with billions invested in the thing I’m plainly fucking up
― Clay, Monday, 19 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
then let him go after spending an hour with him
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 December 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 December 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
elon heading to a meeting of twitter investors stepping alone into an elevator with the saudi bone saw guy— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 18, 2022
― 龜, Monday, 19 December 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkTTcKwXgAU3TOQ?format=jpg&name=large
noted sports fan elon musk hopping on a 15 hour flight to take in the world cup with his best friends
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
he looks absolutely thrilled to be there too!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
he left qatar via london luton hours ago. still has all his fingers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
Wearing a worn-out t-shirt to an event viewed by the entire world is quite a power move.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
jfc caek are you trying to get him killed
― frogbs, Monday, 19 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
mods
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
So I guess also don't drink this dude's coffee...
Elon is taking Twitter policy advice from a dude who was banned from Magic: The Gathering events for harassing women and pissed on his own floor during a live stream because he was mad his wife got pizza without him https://t.co/y6gqnfHnNM— James Dator (@James_Dator) December 19, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
“Live stream”
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 December 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
He had better find a cure for cancer, because Mars has no magnetosphere and its surface is constantly blasted by radiation. https://t.co/1HiD6i6glA— Adrian (@blagojevism) December 19, 2022
― borrowed Ostalgia for the unremembered 80s (MoominTrollin), Monday, 19 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Gotta pay for Blue if you want to cyberbully him from here on out.
Interesting, looking into this pic.twitter.com/GnIbywFCah— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 19, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 19 December 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
What does catturd2 think?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
This is a good idea, I think in the future instead of asking everyone if they hate me I will just ask people who've had their tongues cut out
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
love the idea that an $8 monthly subscription is "skin in the game"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
*holds out palm* gimme some skin*!
*8 bucks
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
He's kind of acting like a vulture capitalist but forgetting the part where you extract money from the thing before you kill it. He's gone in reverse, he can never get out of it anything close to what he put into it. Stripped for parts, what's Twitter worth? I guess he could, like, auction off Lady Gaga's DMs or something.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
My first thought was that he was ripping-off Zelenskyy's olive green shirt look
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
xpOr turn them into NFTs.
― nickn, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/nrBUTahGsk— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) December 20, 2022
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 09:34 (one year ago) link
I'm no expert on management but running a poll to establish whether you should stay in charge of things seems an incredibly stupid thing to do, how would you build employee trust after that?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
Employee what?
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
lmao he's establishing his own apartheid system on Twitter now that the poll didn't go his way
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
Legendary posting week: using your ex’s stalker to win a fight by fabricating a threat against your kid, having your mom show up to defend you, banning anyone who questions your story, then losing the poll you created about whether you should remain a mod— orwellian untweet (@jesseltaylor) December 19, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
Tesla down 4% since opening. Rapidly approaching $140. I wonder when the margin calls kick in.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
yeah I gotta imagine it's somewhere around the 125-130 mark. pretty significant because Elon would lose an insane amount of cash should that actually happen
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Yes, but that's all part of the plan!
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
do ultra-rich people and hedge funds ever really get margin calls these days? assumed that was a tool used to punish small investors trying to horn in on profits from the backroom deals the big boys have made
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
it happened in the 2011 film margin call
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
actually im not sure if it did happen theyve mightve just named it that cause it sounds cool, i cant remember even tho i watched it recently, pretty sick movie tbf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
down another 6% today lmao
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
“I got rid of the bot problem”[loses a poll with a sample size of ~17,000,000 by a significant margin]“The bots are back, folks” pic.twitter.com/I8mK0ZsZMA— Healthy Masculinity Guru (@PerfectGameLex) December 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
the margin calls are made by banks or other financial businesses that are bigger than the hedge funds and ultra-rich, and they don't take kindly to losing money they don't have to lose. it's the legal (and politer) form of the lender breaking the arm of the debtor to encourage prompt payment.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah I think conceptually the 2008 financial crisis was precipitated by a few giant margin calls
― 龜, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
i would do it i dont care who it is they have my money and not enough margin im gonna make that call you best believe
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
the pension fund insolvency panic of six weeks ago -- which toppled a uk prime minister if u recall -- was driven by margin calls, they haven't gone away lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
two months not six weeks
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
The beclowning continues
Musk now claiming his OWN POLL, run on a platform that HE OWNS, was rigged against him. Beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/0yw9wrrDh2— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 20, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
in the meantime enjoy this game
http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=TSLA¤cy=USD&name=TESLA%20INC
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
so basically a majority of americans want him to stay, the rest of the world wants him to fuck off
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
I'm highly skeptical of any poll runner who uncritically retweeted Musk's response above.
Is Harris X legit? Is it even associated with the actual Harris Poll?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
YouGov poll today of 2,356 U.S. adults:Should Elon Musk step down as head of Twitter?42% yes, 33% noAmong people with an opinion:56% yes, 44% nohttps://t.co/ASiLHijnsM https://t.co/vg9d042XNx pic.twitter.com/PUQaYgvwxA— YouGov America (@YouGovAmerica) December 20, 2022
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
What a weird thing to be talking about anyway. Who cares how many people want him to stay or go? I don't even have an opinion on it, he's kind of hilarious right now and he doesn't owe me any money so I don't really care.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
It's a fascinating case study of the narcissist's insatiable need for validation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
this is all sideshow attempt to distract and deflect by attracting and mesmerizing; profits are tanking is the actual story
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
but people gotta write articles and bingethe main character doesn't generally hang around this long but it's the season finale after all
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
honestly it's a tough call, idk which of the two options is funnier
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
he's also becoming a Q-Anon darling
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
sorry, what?
The press release said that authorities later learned that the alleged “suspect involved in this case is believed to be a member of Elon Musk’s security team.”
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
I feel like Mike Judge deserves residuals for this season of Silicon Valley.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
Still trying! pic.twitter.com/SUvF1T4skd— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) December 21, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
holy cow he is shockingly dumb
Saved it for the lulz pic.twitter.com/qrKG7RmUDS— @sa✧✧✧@mastoui✧✧✧.f✧ (@pwnsdx) December 21, 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
The person asking the question there is ex-twitter and one of the worlds foremost experts on performance tuning. Extremely hardcore.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
"Musk's Democracy"
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
Democracy Blue
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
one NFT = 1 vote
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
jesus christ, there is nothing at all weird or uncomfortable about that question.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
There is if you can’t answer it
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
that's the greatest video of all time right there. just dying
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
the emperor's clothes are on backorder
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
if this is a bad q its ok but srsly how much does el*n actually know about coding/comp sci in general?
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
very little, aiui
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
I disagree he’s very real and very hardcore
― Clay, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
he knows "how to code" but seems to have very little knowledge of the higher level architectural aspects of making software is what it seems like, which is completely insufficient for making engineering decisions for a huge site like twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
I think he holds a bachelor's degree? but he's not been doing a lot of coding/engineering for a while, he's a very lucky investor who became ceo
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
he's a sad sad man
seems like he thinks he knows more than he does prob because workers at his other companies have been gassing him up while manipulating him into agreeing with what they want to do
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
its pretty funny once you see the pattern in his "engineering" career, basically his company merged with paypal early on and people have been managing him up every since, as least as far as the technical stuff, the more business things idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
it was pretty funny when he thought the twitter app was making thousands of requests on every load, just a very not reasonable thing to believe
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
guys he said “stack” he’s for sure a player
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
I like a full stack when it comes to software
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
and pancakes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
elon bringing a banana to a gunfight
― mh, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
I think the main thing that pisses me off is this is only the most egregious example of mediocre white men failing upwards into extreme wealth. Fuck em and put their heads on spikes afaic.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
regret to inform that I listened to a longer segment and Elon had some ok points, but they were pretty shallow so they were likely cribbed from other people he'd talked to
― mh, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
Thom's committed to never playing Minneapolis again even though ticket sales would be through the roof
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Thanks Elon
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Lol oops
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
twitter crappier more unproductive
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
a pigin a cageon rogaine
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 December 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Elon is both a creep and a weirdo, it’s true.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 December 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
How is this account not banned yet
Tesla has just been informed by the NHTSA that our cars pose an “imminent threat” to all drivers & are demanding an immediate recall of all vehicles w auto pilot. We are going to fight this to the end, but I’m being forced to announce the immediate recall of our entire fleet. 1/2— Elon Musk CEO Tesla Motors, SpaceX & etc (parody) (@h3h3productions) December 22, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 22 December 2022 08:52 (one year ago) link
They were one of the accounts that got banned in early November. I was surprised they were back. Now banned again.
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 December 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
TSLA down another 6% today, lmao
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
gotta look on the bright side it can only go down 100%
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Below $130!
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
“Shares drop for a fourth consecutive session and 11th out of the past 13 as they head toward worst month, quarter and year on record”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Tesla is now offering a discount of $7,500 (up from $3,750) for anyone that takes delivery of a new/inventory Model Y or Model 3 in the US before the end of this year.Buyers will still also get 10,000 free Supercharger miles. pic.twitter.com/BsPubjA7iG— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) December 22, 2022
This is actually a better deal than the $7,500 IRA EV credit would be in 2023 since this is $7,500 directly off the car (and your tax bill on the car is lower due to this) and you get 10,000 free Supercharger miles. The IRA EV credit only starts to be a POS rebate in 2024.— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) December 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
trying to cram some extra sales into this quarter
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Don’t think this one was posted
man who recently bought website for $44 billion dollars infuriated to hear the basics of online advertising accurately explained pic.twitter.com/SkYzIXAy11— caleb gamman (@calebgamman) December 21, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
can you turn this guy off hes just talking nonsense
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
yeah teslas went from like months to years long waitlists to like "we're gonna give you all this shit for free if you buy" no wonder the stock is tanking, plus take into account whatever elon needs to sell before year end
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
Tbf the discount is apparently forced by the new fed incentive that starts Jan 1. No one will buy a car until Jan 1 otherwise.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
yeah but thats a really big discount, a sign of some sort of pain on teslas part, either trying to spiff up a bad quarter or they just have so many cars it makes sense to offer 15% off rather than just wait and sell them in the new year
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
15% + miles tbf
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
I know you’ll enjoy this guy’s tl lagoon
Just sold 2% of my $TSLA to stay below 20% margin balance. Painful but necessary. Better to sell a bit now rather than wait to get margin called at a lower price. Will buy back these shares after selling my house. First time I’ve sold $TSLA since margin called in 2018.— Jason DeBolt ⚡️ (@jasondebolt) December 22, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
jesus lol what is wrong with these people its just a company
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
how tho
Tesla will be worth way more than Apple + Saudi Aramco by 2030 ($4 trillion). @elonmusk made a similar prediction in 2015 when he said Tesla would be worth $700 billion by 2025. Tesla ended up being worth $700 billion by December 2020, 5 years earlier than predicted. https://t.co/AB76D671fS pic.twitter.com/pxWQ8UOnPj— Jason DeBolt ⚡️ (@jasondebolt) October 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkmE2KOWIAAytqZ?format=jpg&name=medium
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
yeah at this point they're just doing the "Bitcoin losing 50% of its value is actually necessary and a sign that it will 10x in value over the next five years" thing
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
He knows how ads are currently run; he's indicating that they can be better targeted with much lower CAC. Advertisers say they want to target x type of person in y region. Those are the wrong variables.— KO_Sulli (@KO_Sulli) December 21, 2022
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
people who pay for online advertising with risky placement love being told how they should spend their ad dollars, especially when the distribution company might not be around in two months
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
i love confidence
https://i.imgur.com/NgLmRoP.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
yeah taht whole subthread is delightful
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
pretty funny to watch all these people argue with a 64 follow account with an av of a sports car, its probably a teenager
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
So fucking depressing to see actual human beings stanning for a billionaire and they’re not even being paid to do it. In the 19th century were there stans and super fans of Andrew Carnegie or James J Hill?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
idk probably, people like a winner they want to be associated with that, thats how you go nazi
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
rooting for elon musk is like rooting for US Steel
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
I'm sure there were more stans in an era where there was a sliver of possibility that you, too, you could be a wealthy business owner, but in 2022 lol.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
People love Avatar and the Yankees
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Capitalism is a virus, they're trying to get infected by rubbing elbows
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
i asked google "what was andrew carnegie like" but it chose instead to answer this question: "why was carnegie a good person?"
ans = "in addition to funding libraries, he paid for thousands of church organs in the united states and around the world"
i stan the organ tycoon and so shd you
― mark s, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
down over 10% now, man it is taaaanking
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
73d chess
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
barron's has got me HOOKED with this sneak peak of the analysis behind the paywall
Tesla TSLA –10.29% stock was down again Thursday. It has nothing to do with Twitter. The reason is much more serious.
The mix of inflation and rising interest rates have made used-car prices too expensive for many buyers.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/ford-tesla-carmax-used-car-prices-51671725166
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
https://archive.vn/y1u5f
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
i created a simple infographic to explain the abrupt change in $TSLA's stock price trend pic.twitter.com/y7GLM2Eh5V— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) December 22, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
xp ty lagoon!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
Huh. For some reason I was under the impression car prices - new and used - had somewhat stabilized.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
car financing has gotten more expensive though (via rising interest rates)
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
it's amazing this stock is tanking solely on the (true) perception that the CEO is a fucking idiot and not because of the issues with the cars themselves.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
well the stock did go up like 20x on the perception that he was the smartest most handsome man on earth
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I think it's possible that the suddenly inescapable visibility of the CEO, cast and casting himself in the worst possible light, have enticed those simply along for the ride (in every sense) to look closer at the stock and its valuation.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 22, 2022 1:02 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
np i recommend the archive page browser extension as a component of everyones paywall avoidance schemes, or if youre on mobile you can just c&p on https://archive.ph/
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
that is the fucking LINK OF THE DAY (archive.ph), thank you! the internet has truly delivered today, and today the internet is lagoon
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
bless
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
with $7k off, the cheapest tesla is still like $50k, huh
― mh, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
and thats the one that was supposed to be 30k lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
the affordable tesla is as much as a mid tier bmw
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
sadly the Free Speech add-on is an additional 44 billion.
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
BREAKING $TSLA U.S. LAUNCHES TWO NEW SPECIAL CRASH INVESTIGATIONS INTO TESLA VEHICLES WHERE DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS ARE SUSPECTED OF USE - via NHTSA— Stock Swing Alert (@StockSwingAlert) December 22, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
the best chasing post ever there:
"U.S. LAUNCHES TWO NEW SPECIAL CRASH INVESTIGATIONS🤔
When do they start investigating the POISON JAB🧐"
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
best freshman year roommate ever
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff3GjEEX0AAN66F?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
elon's an elite polytopian
Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels 🐿 and rocks🪨, but now we have computers 💻.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022
Polytopia is *way* better imo, if you like strategy games— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022
Aquarion and Polaris— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
I thought he only liked spawn positions for the purpose of human reproduction?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-exodus-11671722594
About 70% of Twitter’s top 100 ad spenders from before Mr. Musk’s takeover weren’t spending on the platform as of the week ending Dec. 18, according to an analysis of data from research firm Pathmatics. It’s a problem the billionaire can’t afford to ignore, since roughly 89% of Twitter’s $5.1 billion in revenue last year came from ads.
― 龜, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
elon otm re kasparov tbf: he is an idiot
― mark s, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
He should challenge him to a stupid-off.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Elon Susk
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
that might be a good opportunity for someone to revive the flying dick scheme
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:16 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
just cause someone has different beliefs than you like thinking jesus was born in crimea in 1152 doesnt make them an idiot
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
it's time for musk to buy kickstarter, then redirect all the funds towards twitter.. queen takes pawn
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
"but this money was for Timmy's heart surgery"
"yes, but if we don't take it, you won't have a Twitter to post about it on. think before you talk."
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
ok I was going to say that pattern would make more sense but Neanderthal has gone a step further and confused both with gofundme
although a kickstarter for heart surgery would be great, you buy a heart replacement that's obviously meant to be cobbled together from Alibaba components but they never figure it out and you receive nothing
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
not pattern, patreon
lol i should know better, I've donated to kickstarters before. must be bitter that anything I funded never materialized.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
"thanks for your support, back to the drawing board"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
"Guys, Twitter is a little short on funds to make payroll this month - if anyone is able to chip in, we've got some great schwag and we'll let you zoom into the board meetings!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
patreon is a good fit because it's "I'm uh making content please fund me"kickstarter is "I'm going to deliver you this thing if it works out. you're a gadget guy, right? ok nevermind your success rate is higher buying random shit on aliexpress"gofundme is "my house burned down again and also gamgam needs money to get her arm amputated and we have no social safety net"
if Elon buys out patreon then maybe the owners never have to make a pomplamoose song again
Elon is definitely a gadget guy to some extent, though. I bet he'd be into one of those cool Flipper hacking devices but then try to figure out how to put tweets on it
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
Lesson two: Lock up your core customers (advertisers) by going on a listening tour and asking them what works and what doesn't. Make sure to land a few key public commitments. Focus on the head not the long tail.— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022
Lesson 3: Cut costs dramatically and do it fast and all at once to get it over with. Elevate a few key people (including some veterans) to promote internal cohesion. Not rocket science. They will succeed because they can do it outside the public shareholder eye.3/3— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022
which lesson are we on now
― frogbs, Friday, 23 December 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link
I'm starting to think they're not completely wrong. If the user attrition through the site being a garbage experience doesn't turn off enough people, with the advertisers noting that, they'll weather this and we'll get a different twitter
I mean, what's the alternative right now for quick bits of interesting news and bait tweets, because facebook isn't it and every website tries to send push notifications that are annoying and most local/national news is more obtrusively ad-heavy and has chumboxes 2.0
I think if Elon can attract a few dozen code perverts who understand how to refactor the site to not just keep it performant, but cut costs (with blips and dips in usability and experience), there's the possibility things somehow work. I hope I'm wrong! But the thing he absolutely could not explain, but engineers have, is that large portions of twitter are very bespoke because the technologies to do what they wanted to at scale didn't exist. They're now pretty much solved problems. I significantly doubt he has the leadership skills to push it through, but the idea that the ability to do useful features is hamstrung by: more programmers = more lines of code to do less = increasing technical debt? I could buy it. Which is hilarious when you think that they prioritized layoffs inverse to lines of code
thoughts that are probably better spent on the ilx programming thread but idk
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link
the funniest thing that was mentioned on the twitter spaces discussion that Elon contributed, and was probably a gimme for him because it was known but prior leadership thought of it as annoying to tackle, was sms messages for two factor auth
I guess they were spending 60 million a year to telcos outside the US to send sms two factor messages, and someone at twitter suspected that shady providers were charging them for duplicates or even using bots to bump the number of auth requests. which is an amazing business idea tbh
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link
word is they've lost 70% of their top advertisers and Elon himself said they were losing a shitload of money
I agree there's no real replacement for it but like 50% of the shit happening on Twitter is ABOUT Twitter now and Elon seems determined to fuck things up enough that it's not going to go back to the way it was. I mean it's an app that you're counting on people to be on ALL THE TIME, doesn't take much of a drop in quality of user experience to turn people off
― frogbs, Friday, 23 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
a business school case study on how to make money on the internet.
but has he made any money?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 23 December 2022 04:14 (one year ago) link
wow I bet frogbs feels embarrassed about linking to that now
― more crankable (sic), Friday, 23 December 2022 04:27 (one year ago) link
honestly I'm still floored he made "tweet views" a thing. it's such a dumb metric - nobody cares how much a tweet was "viewed"! if it has a high number the thing that'll stand out is the comparatively low amounts of likes and RTs which is the thing Twitter users have actually cared about for like 15 years now. the fact that the CEO unilaterally made this happen speaks to how little this dude knows about how people actually use the website he grossly overpaid for. he knows less than I do! I mean up until he bought Twitter I was always willing to accept that maybe this guy sees things I don't but man he really has proven himself to be just as dumb as everyone says he is
― frogbs, Friday, 23 December 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
i assume he wants advertisers to see that "hey look tweets get so many views!" but surely these metrics exist on the advertising side of things and also i hate to underestimate elon musk (a genius of business)
― Clay, Friday, 23 December 2022 04:42 (one year ago) link
the fact that the CEO unilaterally made this happen speaks to how little this dude knows about how people actually use the website he grossly overpaid for.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 December 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
Maybe he wants everyone using Twitter to feel as humiliated as he does.
― circa1916, Friday, 23 December 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
This is what you wanted people to see? pic.twitter.com/maLcjrM5Cf— Leander Schaerlaeckens (@LeanderAlphabet) December 23, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
Going to try to embed less.https://i.postimg.cc/V6Pt3YZt/24-F4-C127-E6-F1-430-E-BBE4-75-FEDCE65-EC7.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/Hx0MmfFh/AF88582-B-3651-4-ED3-B28-A-529-D8-CE68-FDE.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/rs8rwfkF/DDE46-A34-033-F-4231-B8-D6-9298413-C313-F.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/prqnhKWQ/13-B1-B221-9698-4392-9662-C3119-A4-ED300.jpg
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
everything is cool
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Everything is everything.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
uluv2c it
https://i.imgur.com/XzdTLP7.png
― mark s, Friday, 23 December 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
jeez, it must be old news but i didn't realize that musk has a trans daughter who changed her name to avoid being associated with him, and that musk blames it all on "full-on communism" in universities
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
this musk guy seems like he might be a bad father, to boot!!
Nonsense, he's pretty sure how many offspring he's produced.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
shows you how brainwashed Elon fanboys are where one of my best friends, who has a trans child and has been vocally supportive of safe spaces, encourages guests of his business to wear a nametag with their pronouns, etc, continues to stan for this guy, only willing to concede that he's an 'asshole'. like the friend is one of the kindest, most inclusive people I know, so it's so jarring for him to stan for this 'one guy'.
their child is probably not amused and I just don't know how much further down this rabbit hole he can go before he just admits "enough". at this point I think it's a refusal to admit he's been wrong for two years than actually caping for Elon anymore. i hope so at least.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
just like, the one element of his identity that isn't progressive = supporting this guy
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
I know it’s kind of a very tangential take, but it’s always kind of bothered me that Telsa the man become kind of the go-to groovy spiritual science guy for people rebelling against the Einstein’s Raspberry dorm room posters of earlier generations.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Became
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
the tesla board is frantically trying to figure out if they can oust this guy right now, right?there are undoubtedly other ceos with terrible views out there, but they either don’t speak publicly or they keep to the normal ceo script. this guy’s out here alienating every other human on a daily basis
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
i imagine the tesla board is stuck? if it dumps elon, then tesla becomes just another car company, and one that isn't even particularly good at making cars
tesla needs musk to go back to being a ~visionary who is saving humanity~ but i think that ship has sailed
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 December 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
I was kind of on a tear last night, but it’s worth noting that the Elon-optimistic person frogs posted tweets from (Jessica Lessin) runs a ridiculously pro-tech/vc publication that positions itself as insider information for SV and investors. she and her husband (a former facebook vp) are apparently friends with the Zuckerbergsafaict it’s at least $30/month and, while it might have some researched articles, is mostly a circle-jerk. basically the anti-valleywag
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
xp yeah, they’re probably stuck
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
here is my elon musk compliment sandwich
AGREED TO MEET WITH SBF ONLY "So long as I don't have to have a laborious blockchain debate"
... fash, abuses employees, liar, seeks to destroy transit, boring/never funny ...
LIKES POLYTOPIA
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, December 23, 2022 11:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah apparently the google founders are nikola tesla adherents too its common in those circles, i think they like the tragedy of it, they identify with him, theyre unrecognized unremunerated geniuses, even tho now theyre totally recognized and remunerated they still feel the world doesnt appreciate exactly how brilliant they are, all these guys needless to say are in actuality total edisons
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
lol https://t.co/pr9u1vFQxi pic.twitter.com/AAAPmgVCAG— Atrios (@Atrios) December 23, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
tbf every one of these dim bulbs is working on their own DEATH BEAM
― mark s, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
one thing i *would* try to do if i were part of tesla's board is stop elon from poaching its engineers to go work at twitter, because that's absurd
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
#OneCompany
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
i frankly don't understand hero worship.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah its odd
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
carnegies organs tho
― mark s, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, December 22, 2022 12:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
was thinking about this and the answer is yes absolutely, how to win friends and influence people is one of the best selling books of all time, carnegie was if anything more popular than musk
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
lol just realized dale carnegie is totally unrelated person, apologies, carry on
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
anyway people probably liked andrew carnegie, people are sickos
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
one of dale's descendants lives a couple of doors down the street from me.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
has he won you as a friend and influenced you
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
she's ok
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
wz gnna say ("carnegie (/ˈkɑːrnɪɡi/;[1] spelled carnagey until c. 1922") but lol turns out dale confirms and affirms the argt after all: "by 1916, dale conducted a sold out lecture at carnegie hall, which influenced his decision in 1919 to change the spelling of his last name in honor of the steel magnate, andrew carnegie, and easier for others to remember.[15]"
― mark s, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
it's a good book despite the name, the lesson is basically if you want something from someone be nice to them instead of being mean... there now you don't need to read the book
― 龜, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
How to win friends and influence people: practice, man, practice
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 December 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Charles Manson swore by the book
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
How does it stack up next to Emotional Intelligence?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
It's a good book but the Dale Carnegie speaking to you is totally a stan for the tycoons, partly because he's trying to convince you that with these techniques you will become a better salesman (true) and eventually a tycoon (false).
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 December 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
a good salesman always tells you you're made of the right stuff to be a tycoon
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 23 December 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
worship of millionaire "geniuses" is all over the 20th century - Edison, Ford, Henry Kaiser, Hugo Stinnes, obviously Steve Jobs, Bill Gates in a different way, and so on...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-N8-FuVYog
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Elon arches his eyebrow, strokes his chin, composes the Tweet: “Chess. Nothing more than a children’s game 🤣🤣🤣” as his Tesla sails off a cliff making fart noises.Muskboys: true genius, taking out a second mortgage
― circa1916, Saturday, 24 December 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
incredible pic.twitter.com/5Uv6JZR0Yt— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) December 24, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
i had to know what the joke was. i figured it was the hilarious prosecute/fauci pronouns one. but let's see your knee survive THIS:
"If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!"
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 December 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
he was right to fire him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
3.7m views 17.3k likes pic.twitter.com/PZu8RJTDAy— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 24, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
just keep on unplugging stuff
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
i love how the "move fast and break stuff" philosophy extends to irl trying to break stuff. he is a failure until something new has broken. and then when it breaks, i'm pretty sure elon isn't the one who has to fix it. he knows a guy
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
graphql— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) December 24, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 December 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 24 December 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 24 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
not sure how much further he can take the mask off
kek— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 December 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Be a real shame if more white nationalists bought cars that lock you inside while you burn to death.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 26 December 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
The guy’s just immolating himself (again, like a Tesla owner).
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 26 December 2022 09:07 (one year ago) link
Is that specifically a Nazi thing now? I just remember it as a WoW thing
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 26 December 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
Online “lol”-esque expression with a mostly harmless origin that, like Pepe, was sucked into the alt-right asshole and toxically shat out.Iirc
― circa1916, Monday, 26 December 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
it's definitely not specifically a Nazi thing
― c u (crüt), Monday, 26 December 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
the gonzo milo trumpoids use it the way they use "based" -- "that's so kek"
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 26 December 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
If there's no surrounding context, I would read someone saying 'kek' as them being Very Online and aware of channer-type memes. Tbh I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were being ironic.
However, given the vast amounts of context we have at our disposal, Elon Musk saying 'kek' is p obviously saying "hello alt-right I love you please love me back everyone else hates me and I am desperately trying to be with it by using a decades-old edgelord phrase".
― emil.y, Monday, 26 December 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
Yeah I was going to say even his racist memes are out of date (NB I don’t know the up to date racist memes)
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 26 December 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
The SPLC has a pretty exhaustive (tho, granted, 5 years old) breakdown of kek: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic
It's pretty alt-righty and I think emily's otm in Musk's intent.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Obviously this is part of a much bigger conversation but it’s a big problem that anyone who gets ostracized from other online communities for being too bigoted can always find a place amongst the alt right. Like I don’t think these are the communities people are seeking out but they get driven there because everyone else is telling them to shut the fuck up
― frogbs, Monday, 26 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
They should go to church or something instead
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 26 December 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fk8pqCKXEAkGh9Z?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Did Medvedev get assigned the Twitter Files Part 345?
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
Actual billionaire fantasizing about being a billionaire with a bat suit.
Some nights … pic.twitter.com/BLAUsJr4wb— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
What else has he got to do?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 05:06 (one year ago) link
TFW someone reminds you that the markets reopen tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/4ZngsJg99m— Mike Gee (@mestizoqueso) December 27, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
Below $120 and heading for $110 rapidly, is it?
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
when is the margin call
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
ill do it now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
btw do we know that he has margin loans
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
margin loans were not part of the twitter financing
not sure if he has a personal margin loan
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/05/25/elon-musk-margin-loan-twitter-equity-deal-takeover-bid-buyout/
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
could be loans for his other companies where tesla stock was put up as collateral i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
Margin loans weren't part of the financing but there was discussion just the other week of converting some of the debt to margin loans tied to Tesla stock. I'm guessing that's a more difficult prospect at the moment ...
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
.@Mining_Atoms Brave new world... pic.twitter.com/BZX7TGsZFw— Chuck Petras (@Chuck_Petras) December 26, 2022
Elon is trying to distract you from the major problems with @Tesla cars. pic.twitter.com/HNmenqIhxd— andrea heart 🇺🇸🏴☠️🌵☀️ (@andreaheart19) December 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
someone needs to go on norwegian internet and see how theyre doing being the top tesla country and a cold place
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
https://www.tocn.no/travelling-in-norway-during-winter/
Charging in wintertimeIn order for optimal charging, the battery needs to have a good temperature, approximately 30’C.If you are at a supercharger, are alone on the A-B pair, low charging speed is most likely due to low temperature on the battery(or high SOC). One hour of driving when it is 0’C outside, can still give you a battery temperature of only 17’C. Optimal battery temperature is said to be 30’CIf you plan to charge at your destination on AC on low amp, plug the car in as soon as possible while the battery is still warm after your days driving.If you start charging the car while the battery is cold, you will at first see no progress at all on charging, as all the energy will be put into heating up the battery first. If it is cold enough, it can take several hours before charging starts.
If you are at a supercharger, are alone on the A-B pair, low charging speed is most likely due to low temperature on the battery(or high SOC). One hour of driving when it is 0’C outside, can still give you a battery temperature of only 17’C. Optimal battery temperature is said to be 30’C
If you plan to charge at your destination on AC on low amp, plug the car in as soon as possible while the battery is still warm after your days driving.If you start charging the car while the battery is cold, you will at first see no progress at all on charging, as all the energy will be put into heating up the battery first. If it is cold enough, it can take several hours before charging starts.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
hmm doesnt seem good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
eh teslas are pretty much the best in cold weather fwiw https://www.axios.com/2022/03/04/the-cold-hard-truth-about-electric-vehicles-in-winter
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
that doesnt seem to address the wont charge at all issue
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
since so much of norway/scandy is coastal it's not really cold cold lows on average. mid 20sF. because 0C lol. i have now looked at average lows for oslo trondheim stockholm and helsinki for dec - feb. lillehammer inland does get avg mid teens F. send me help basically
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
also stats are for 20-30f barely below freezing please refrain from posting such garbage articles in the future! xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
the CEO of feels pic.twitter.com/WFh3dbQxZS— derek (@derek8185338254) December 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
remember that Elon-as-Thanos meme with Tesla's stock price that was being passed around the week after he bought Twitter? it's down another 50% since then lmao
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
It was at $46.75 when he tweeted that. I guess with some effort he can get it back down under that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
46.75 and it's split at least once since then too
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
$46.75 is the split adjusted price
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
And you have tiny testicles!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
I don't know if I've seen this posted here before - most of it is just "working with Elon is 50% managing Elon", but the final anecdote is too good to miss
https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd
This post is long so I’ll leave you with my favorite Elon story. One day at work, I got an all hands email telling me that it was Elon’s birthday and there was going to be a mandatory surprise party for him in the cafeteria. Presumably Elon also got this email, but whatever. We all marched down into the cafeteria, dimmed the lights, and waited. Elon was led out by his secretary (who he hadn’t fired yet) and made a big show of being fake surprised and touched that we were there. Then they wheeled out the cake.
OK, so, I want you to imagine the biggest penis cake you’ve ever seen. Like the king of novelty sex cakes. Only it’s frosted white, and the balls have been frosted to look like fire and smoke. This was Elon’s birthday “rocket” cake.
For as long as I live, I will never forget the look on everyone’s face — in that dark room of mostly-male engineers — when he made a wish and cut into the tip.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
For the uninitiated, Musk makes this ask at the end of every quarter to boost sales and make up for the general chaos that is Tesla. https://t.co/LELIdCZP33— Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette) December 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Based on the agreement Elon Musk signed to help fund his Twitter purchase, he has experienced his first margin call because of Tesla's stock-price declines. https://t.co/TUjt6sQ7GH— Barron's (@barronsonline) December 29, 2022
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Sorry, can’t breathe pic.twitter.com/uivzA1ni68— jingle 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗔🎄 (@agirlcalledlina) December 29, 2022
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
i know this is a boring opinion but i just cant bear him
ugh omg go home nobody wants to play with you
69D Chess
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
NiceD
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 December 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
to be clear, there is not. he just did not take out a tesla margin loan to buy twitter - thought about it, did not do it. (that said, he had previously pledged shares to secure personal indebtedness, who knows what's up with that.)— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) December 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 December 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
lol yeah i kind of knew that i still wanted to post it though the fake news of our desires
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 December 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
maybe we can do a citizens margin call
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 December 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
look this is America, people like Elon will never cease to be indefensibly rich. if Trump taught us one thing it's that with the right combination of luck and rich parents you can be in a spot where you cannot fail no matter how much you fuck up. you can even steal national security secrets and plot to overthrow the government and nothing will happen. the only time in your life you could ever possibly face a consequence is by defrauding someone even richer than you. that said none of this really matters because Elon is so clearly a miserable sod who so desperately wants to be funny and well-liked but he just doesn't have the ability to. decades of being spoiled and rich has left him utterly unable to form a single original thought and it drives him crazy. I mean this dude could be doing literally anything he wants to and instead he's just namesearching himself on Twitter and replying "So true!" to guys who couldn't even hack it in Trump's White House. he's the most cringe human being that's ever existed.
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Pretty solid Musking™️ from Tesla here. Choking on inventory, slash the price $7,500, collect cash from buyers (juice the Dec 31 cash balance), then delay delivery, revoke the cash and SC mile incentives (might as well get the margins back up while we’re at it) and send a bill. pic.twitter.com/po5uONIXzI— Keubiko (@Keubiko) December 30, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 1 January 2023 02:00 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 January 2023 06:44 (one year ago) link
The margin loan issue is interesting. If he did, he’d might, surprisingly, be in a better spot since there’d be some finality. The worst thing he can do is let Twitter slowly drain Tesla.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
I’ve been asking everyone I know who might know something whether Musk has been shopping Twitter. Nobody has heard anything. That’s so insane to me. I’m positive there’s a deal somewhere. Most people think the lack of any discussion is because of the FTC (and the European regulatory body whose name I forgot) and/or a belief that we’re about to enter the worst recession of our lives (see that billionaire bomb shelter article from a few months back).
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
Or, the woke mind virus is not yet defeated.
― Chris L, Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
kind of wondered when the $7500 was contingent on taking delivery by December 31st if they actually had any cars ready to deliver. seems like an insane bait and switch
― mh, Sunday, 1 January 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
there oughta be a law o wait
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Sunday, 1 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
They only announced the deal on 12/22 knowing snowstorms were imminent.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 January 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-offers-7500-discount-on-cars-delivered-before-2023
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 January 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link
that also assumes that the cars exist and are shippablecan’t delay the shipment of a nonexistent car due to snow, but you can say you did
― mh, Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
thats some real scumbag shit wow
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
I’ve been asking everyone I know who might know something whether Musk has been shopping Twitter. Nobody has heard anything. That’s so insane to me. I’m positive there’s a deal somewhere.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, January 1, 2023 10:08 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
how much do you think he could get for it tho a quarter of what he paid, an eighth
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
tbh I assumed they had a handful of cars to clear out and knew they’d be oversold/underdelivered
― mh, Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
Seems most likely
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
We are living in The Purge, but for consumer crime.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 January 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link
this things got to have a longer wheel base than any actual vehicle
For the first time in 100 years, the competition is coming for legacy auto Welcome to the year of the Cybertruckpic.twitter.com/tE7QBqPfDm— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) January 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
shouldve thought about four wheel steering if youre gonna make it like that
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
of course not close to being street legal as pictured, tiny bumpers weird sharp corners prob no crumple zones
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
always wanted something in stainless steel
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Delorean_DMC-12_side.jpg/640px-Delorean_DMC-12_side.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlbBJ1UXkAA7e15?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Ryan @RyanadambarrettReplying to @WholeMarsBlogHow soon will it be before we see you in it Omar?Whole Mars Catalog @WholeMarsBlogReplying to @Ryanadambarrett2 weekssteef (here for the 🛞🔥) @steefensteinReplying to @WholeMarsBlog and @RyanadambarrettYou're gonna save so much money on condoms
Whole Mars Catalog @WholeMarsBlogReplying to @Ryanadambarrett2 weeks
steef (here for the 🛞🔥) @steefensteinReplying to @WholeMarsBlog and @RyanadambarrettYou're gonna save so much money on condoms
― nickn, Monday, 2 January 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Catturd2 OTM
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
the CyberTruck will have a special rolling coal mode that belches particulate matter for the lulz
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link
in true Tesla fashion it will come out the AC vents though
In ten years we'll all have tanks and the road will be open warfare
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:56 (one year ago) link
Wish they were allowed to build it without side mirrors pic.twitter.com/oNLLY8Nbiu— Tesla and Doge (@TeslaAndDoge) January 1, 2023
They’re required by law, but designed to be easy to remove by owners— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2021
Fucking dum-dums.
― peace, man, Monday, 2 January 2023 02:05 (one year ago) link
what the shit
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
...the tyranny of safety
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 January 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
Or basically this dumb thread
People who look over their shoulder to check their blind spot when changing lanes on a motorway, classic or fucking terrifying?
Huh, wonder if (CA) regulators can point to a screenshot of a tweet about evading regulations to keep them off the street?
In the event any of them do ever make it to the road it's going to be a moral imperative to fuck them up at every opportunity.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 January 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
teslas have the side cameras don't they? so that's probably why all the tesla stans think they don't need side mirrors.
― 龜, Monday, 2 January 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
This truck is never coming out.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 2 January 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
So I guess the appeal of these is that fanboys think it looks like some Robocop military vehicle? Is that the deal, like a next-gen Hummer kind of thing? Because they're so objectively ugly and awkward that it's just hard for me to imagine anyone wanting one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 2 January 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link
yeah i dont think theyd sell too many of them but theyre good for pr purposes
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:15 (one year ago) link
it's a nerd car for nerds imo, total niche thing, truck guys won't want anything to do with it (especially with the inevitable build quality problems)
― Clay, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
Truck guys have already paid for every F150 lightning coming off the line for the next 18 months or whatever
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 2 January 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link
jeez that blind spot thread
it seemed slightly annoying the first time I was in a car that had the little light up "there's a car next to you, dude" indicator on the side mirrors but it makes sense after looking at what people think
obviously a Tesla with side cameras would just say "it's cool it's just a child, merge on"
― mh, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link
My car has sensors that beep if I signal or start to pull into a lane that someone's in. I still check my blind spots, but it's a handy failsafe.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 2 January 2023 04:27 (one year ago) link
Has anyone ever heard of a Tesla window spontaneously cracking on its own? For no reason? I’m sitting in car and this just happened… pic.twitter.com/vRA8hb31En— Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp) January 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
that's normal
― mh, Monday, 2 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
easy over air fix
easy, just remove the windows. they're required by state law but are easy to remove
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 January 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
you must have hit the 'artwork' button, where the window cracks in interesting, creative patterns.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 January 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
$TSLA 4Q delivs 405.3K vs my expectation of 420.0K and Bloomberg consensus of 420.8K (IR-compiled consensus 418.0K). 4Q production was 439.7K vs my expectation of 436.4K and WS consensus of 438.8K. FY’22 deliveries were +40.3%. pic.twitter.com/YSxv4jQbh3— Gary Black (@garyblack00) January 2, 2023
not clear if this is already priced in or not, but seems bad
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 2 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
tbf when it comes to tesla nothing is priced in its lost 3/4 of its value and is still worth more than toyota
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
these cars rule. they gained just enough sentience to try to kill themselveshttps://t.co/69svr6FYo9— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) January 2, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
I love that the people who posted that video were smart and turned comments off.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 2 January 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
didn't realize that was district 9 neill blomkamp upthread
― 龜, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
not clear if this is already priced in or not, but seems bad― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, January 2, 2023 1:49 PM (one hour ago)bookmarkflaglinktbf when it comes to tesla nothing is priced in its lost 3/4 of its value and is still worth more than toyota― lag∞n, Monday, January 2, 2023 1:51 PM (one hour ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, January 2, 2023 1:49 PM (one hour ago)bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, January 2, 2023 1:51 PM (one hour ago)
the way tech stocks are generally valued is based on the potential for future growth, when the economy is in a ZIRP environment tech stocks get out of control because the discount rate for future cash flows is essentially 0% so if your growth trajectory puts you at 10x your revenue in 5 years, that 10x revenue gets priced in today with no discount essentially. you take that and add in the fact that $TSLA was the first meme stock and that was the jet fuel for the stock price going to the moon during the pandemic.
the reason tesla has a larger market cap than toyota despite selling way fewer cars / being a way smaller company is because toyota is a very mature company and they're not growing their revenue at the crazy rate that tesla was (7% year over year vs. 40% for tesla). that, and also being a meme stock.
elon is not... wrong when he says that the fed raising rates is responsible for $TSLA's decline, but it's only one factor and doesn't account for the fact that $TSLA has way underperformed the nasdaq in general and other tech stocks. its growth is slowing, the market for EV is maturing and getting a lot more crowded/competitive, it's not unreasonable to think that $TSLA has crested and the good times are over. it's still got a massive growth % but that % is probably going to get smaller over time, not bigger. i suspect that this Q4 is already being priced in if an analyst on twitter has already published their numbers, but won't know until the official Q4 numbers are released.
― 龜, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
telsa was priced for future growth only if you thought they were going to be mining gold on mars
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
yeah fair it's not just future growth, i didn't feel like getting into it but probably the biggest reason the stock gained so much was due to the fact that it was the most heavily speculated on stock in the S&P 500 during the pandemic via the options market and the rise of retail options trading in general, which led to all sorts of funky behavior. here's a good FT article that goes into some of that: https://archive.ph/twZTK
i think a lot of that air has been let out of the balloon though.
even pre-pandemic and pre-meteoric rise it had a market cap bigger than a lot of automakers at the time e.g. Ford, that's totally due mostly to future growth/ZIRP stock pricing and was the reason it had a bullseye on its back even then for the $TSLAQ people.
― 龜, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
obvs theres tons of complicated finalization around it and people hopping on for the ride but i think what happened with teslas stock price qualifies as a genuine mania, theres a bunch investors out there who just believed in elon so fucken much, lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
obvs parallels with crypto except that the story being told about tesla made even less sense
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/01/03/elon-musks-spacex-valued-at-137-billion-in-latest-funding-round/?sh=10259e2b3b36
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
andy hory still has a huge crush on musk, shd see if they want to buy twitter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
im sure ive complained about this before but the way the business press reports valuations is very silly, those investors almost always have first out provisions in their deals meaning if i bought ten percent of a company for a dollar it would be reported that i valued the company at ten dollars, except that later if the company sold for a dollar i would get... one dollar, that sounds to me more like i valued the company at one dollar, and its also just nonsensical to pretend a company has a value based on relatively tiny private investments no one even knows the details of
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
btw a bunch of musks reported net worth is based on said valuations
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
yah it kind of makes sense when someone's net worth is reported based on stock holdings when it's an institutional, long-running stock. there are rare exceptions when something tanks the market, but if you're the founder or major stockholder of some too big to fail corp that's 80% owned by institutional investors, then counting the stock as part of your net worth makes sense
tesla's like 40% individual investors and 15% tesla employees/the board, with the rest split between venture capital and institutional investors -- and the institutional ones have tesla slotted into the volatile gambling bundles, not the long-term stability ones
just total bs
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
and the space x part of his fortune is even more illusory
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
first google result says elon owns about half of spacex so thats ~$70b right there, can he actually get that money no of course not
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
Down 12% today
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
enjoying the plummeting T$LA stock price as ever^^^ but also vaguely worrying it ends in a plummeting spacex moon-podule full of the first however many* ppl to die in actual real outer space
*ie all of them :(
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
space x doing manned flights is prob just more musk pr lying, tho i havent actually looked into it, seems like in reality theyre a rocket company
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
im sure ive complained about this before but the way the business press reports valuations is very silly, those investors almost always have first out provisions in their deals meaning if i bought ten percent of a company for a dollar it would be reported that i valued the company at ten dollars, except that later if the company sold for a dollar i would get... one dollar, that sounds to me more like i valued the company at one dollar, and its also just nonsensical to pretend a company has a value based on relatively tiny private investments no one even knows the details of― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:32 AM (one hour ago)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:32 AM (one hour ago)
yeah valuations are silly, but in the private rounds they are also very mathematically factual, as you point out, it's just price paid per share of the company multiplied by total shares outstanding. by first-out provision, i think you mean the liquidation preference. in your example, you'd only get a $1 back if you were the only investor and at the top of the capital stack, if you had co-investors in the same round and the company sold for a $1 you'd be sharing that dollar with those other investors. the term you want is paid-in capital, which I guess is a good proxy if you're a VC with preferred shares. the most accurate accounting way of describing a company's value is shareholder's equity, which is just assets minus liabilities of the company.
the private round valuations are silly, yeah, but by the time a VC funded company goes public they're usually confident that the public IPO price will be well above the last private round. that generally holds true except when it doesn't, i.e. last year when tech stocks cratered and a ton of tech companies started trading below their IPO price and close to or even below their last private funding rounds. but if you were a series A or even series D investor or w/e in google, amazon, etc. those private round valuations weren't silly and you made a ton of money, more than enough to cover your investments in the 100 other start-ups that didn't make it, where you were partially protected by the liquidation pref anyway. VC investing, good business to be in if you can swing it, the incentives are all wrong but who's gonna fix it?
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
i will fix it just gimmie a min
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
yah it kind of makes sense when someone's net worth is reported based on stock holdings when it's an institutional, long-running stock. there are rare exceptions when something tanks the market, but if you're the founder or major stockholder of some too big to fail corp that's 80% owned by institutional investors, then counting the stock as part of your net worth makes sensetesla's like 40% individual investors and 15% tesla employees/the board, with the rest split between venture capital and institutional investors -- and the institutional ones have tesla slotted into the volatile gambling bundles, not the long-term stability onesjust total bs― mh, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:00 AM (forty-seven minutes ago)
― mh, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:00 AM (forty-seven minutes ago)
net worth never makes sense no matter how blue-chip the underlying stock is for the simple reason that if anybody tried to unload that much stock at once, the price would tank, simply supply/demand microecon 101. but it's a convenient proxy and leads to eye-popping numbers so it's what get used.
tesla's 40% institutional isn't that low tbh, a lot of blue-chips are in the 50% or so range, and blue-chips don't have a ceo that holds 15-25% at any given time due to an outsized (and potentially illegal) comp plan. some institutional investors may hold tesla in "volatile gambling bundles" but keep in mind ever since tesla was added to the S&P 500 a few years ago a ton of index funds were forced to buy tesla, which added a ton of jet fuel to the options bonfire i linked to previously itt. index funds are not volatility traders.
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
re my example it was obvs simplified but its the same diff regardless of how many investors are involved, obvs u need to adjust the percentages based on how much of the stock has that preference
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
and obvs the people who get screwed in the deal are generally the ones who did the actual work ie the employees who are being compensated with stock
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Right, you want to be like employee number three or join post IPO. anything in the middle is for chumps.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
like steve aoki is in the middle of the #dearmoon project
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
re my example it was obvs simplified but its the same diff regardless of how many investors are involved, obvs u need to adjust the percentages based on how much of the stock has that preference― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:54 AM (twenty-six minutes ago)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:54 AM (twenty-six minutes ago)
so if you and 4 other investors invested $1 total for 10% of the company (each of you paying $0.20 each) and the company later sold for $1, you'd get your money back. this goes into the rabbit hole of what actually happens to start-ups that don't go public. one common scenario is for the start-up to get bought. usually when this happens it's at a premium to the last private valuation, because of the control premium i.e. the privilege to control the company, i.e. why elon's offer of $44B was like 50% higher than the market cap of twitter at the time. so in that situation you get paid out, make some money, and the employees get paid out too.
another common scenario is for the start-up to go bankrupt, in which case your liquidation pref doesn't protect you and you get wiped out in bankruptcy court. that's part of the VC game too.
right now the scenario a lot of tech companies are facing is their public company peers are trading way down so their private valuations are being adjusted way down, see all the stories about instacart right now. it definitely kind of sucks for the employees but only if they actually exercised their options, and you don't exercise your options unless you have to because you left the company and they're expiring. if they still work there and just hold options, they didn't actually spend any money on stock, so their downside is limited. if you joined a start-up and agreed to be paid only in stock options, well i dunno what to tell you other than you maybe come from a rich family?
i'm also not sure how sorry i'd feel for them regardless, if you join a start-up you probably did so because you heard the story of david choe and his $200 million for painting facebook's offices00 million for painting facebook's offices, or of snapchat or airbnb rank-and-file employees becoming millionaires when those companies went public and you're chasing that dream, you always had the option of joining a safe public company where your stock comp is actually paid out in RSUs that have value vs. stock options that are essentially a gamble. and you still got paid 6 figures in cash a year for all those years most likely anyway!
all of the above is kind of funny because when you put it like that (generational wealth opportunities are only open to the rich who have disposable capital to invest, basically) you can see why crypto took off in such a big way. america, the country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires!
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
Private tech valuations 1. Fuck right off with that SpaceX BS. Ain’t no WAY 2. Stripe employees should mutiny for missing the greatest tech IPO window of all time pic.twitter.com/GvDiVQlr7l— Bucco Capital (@buccocapital) December 30, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
or, another way to put it - if you're a rank and file employee in silicon valley, you only get to gamble on one company at a time (via working for them), so you better choose right.
if you are a VC, you get to gamble on a thousand companies, and your biggest problem is trying to get your fingers into as many pies as possible, because of the skewed upside/downside risk-reward profiles (being a series A investor in uber will pay many, many times over for being a series A investor in 1000 other failed start-ups that went bankrupt). because of this, the competition to get in the hottest start-ups will be intense, and it will be a race to the bottom and VCs will fall over themselves and throw caution to the wind, see all the stories about how the FTX investors did basically no diligence. because, while the music is playing, you have to dance!
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
jason calacanis is a grifter, but his book about angel investing was extremely interesting to me as someone who knows nothing about how early stage vc works. seems to be become the standard text for senior engineers who made fuck you money at uber or wherever and are so bored they're doing angel vc now.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
that whole generation are a bunch of right place, right time guys, elon included.
Calacanis co-founded the blog network Weblogs, Inc.[3] with Brian Alvey on September 24, 2003, and the startup was supported by an angel investment from Mark Cuban.
i mean, lmao
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
there were a bunch of his blog peers (Anil Dash, several ex-Six Apart/blogger/flickr/etc) types dunking on Calacanis publicly on twitter late last year calling him an insufferable dweeb
you've got to be pretty terrible for people to pop up and do that
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
There are so many desperate, sweaty untalented dudes in nominal positions of power in tech. Though I will say, in 20+ years, Jason Calacanis stands out as amongst the top in terms of sheer embarrassing foolishness, even separate from his funding of white supremacist shitheels. https://t.co/mTHyEjJ97q— anildash (@anildash) September 30, 2022
Ha! Exactly. I still recall when he couldn’t tell me apart from Mena bc you know, female blog company founders are confusing!— Meg Hourihan (@megnut) September 30, 2022
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Not to mention the tax treatment on nearly all such investments will be long term capital gains and any losses will offset such gains the investors have elsewhere, while employees getting a W-2 alongside any such stock/interests/options get taxed at higher wage rates. Nice work if you can get it.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
yeah i think the biggest elephant in the room is the way the us government has juiced the stock market, which is a public policy choice that has gone back literally centuries, the NYSE can trace its roots back to 1792. treatment of long term capital gains definitely a big one, makes no sense that one of the biggest opportunities for "wealth creation" is taxed the least.
another prominent in my mind are 401ks and how they've displaced relatively safer fixed-income pension funds, the government basically seeing all that money locked up in pension funds (which aren't as equity-weighted as 401k plans) and deciding it's better to allocate that to the stock market; now there's a permanent fixed bid on the S&P 500 to the tune of $20k a year multiplied by all W-2 employees in america, with an employer match to boot.
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
Lmao heading rapidly for $100, down almost 15% today
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
the guy who originally proposed the idea of a 401k based on a possibility given financially legislation is one of those dudes who goes around explaining why his idea was misused now
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
financially? financial
the government basically seeing all that money locked up in pension funds (which aren't as equity-weighted as 401k plans) and deciding it's better to allocate that to the stock market
should be pointed out that "the government" cited in that sentence consisted of members of Congress, who most definitely were having cash shoveled in their direction by businesses that would benefit from a move away from pensions and toward 401Ks.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
OK, I'm going to get off of the Calacanis beat after this, but... jesus christ what a thin-skinned dorkhttps://himariapetrova.medium.com/why-does-jason-calacanis-hate-scott-galloway-3ada7784c9a3
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 19:39 (one year ago) link
xp dan to get back to the original point about valuing startups via extrapolating from privileged investments is just basically that the investors are getting better deal than say the employees, thats why they want it, how much more is it worth idk, but its not nothing
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
yeah I agree with that, at the end of the day it's the classic battle between Labor vs. Capital
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
musk of all people gets that. so much of his management style seems like class-based revenge rather than liberatian market-based capitalism tbh. which is why the lack of tech unions is so maddening.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
i was too new to have any social capital to push for this myself, but the almost total lack of any serious conversation about unionization at twitter over the summer was baffling to me.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
theres the classic dynamic where affluent or even merely middle class people identify with the ruling class, unions are for people who work in factories, its so wrong headed, feel like someone just needs to organize a campaign around getting privates offices (or i guess now home offices) instead of open floor plans and tech workers might start to see the benefit of collective action
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
i know it's a running joke but twitter really was the "wokest" set of employees i've ever worked with. if not there, it's difficult to see it happening anywhere in tech. the 90th-99th income percentile really don't get it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
yeah it would prob take a larger union wave to sweep them along, which could be happening tbf, but its got a ways to go
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
even at somewhere like twitter you've got a non-trivial number of libertarian, vocally anti-union cranks among non-management, which is surprisingly chilling for discussion, especially when it happens on slack rather than in break rooms.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
just to threaten to tell the irs about their crypto dealings and theyll shut up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
but in all seriousness if one really wanted to do it theyd prob need a plan that involves marginalizing those people, im sure someone will attempt to organize a tech company at some point, i know there was some agitation at google a while ago but they were going with the wobbly wildcat model thats about a chunk of workers taking ad hoc action rather than actually forming a union, which prob reflects the fact that the demand just wasnt there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
iirc etsy may have done it?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
oh its the sellers that are doing it thats interesting i hadnt heard about that https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330758/etsy-strike-boycott-indie-sellers-guild-union-fee-increase
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
i guess the other problem is that the social and professional boundary between management and ICs is especially porous in tech, which makes forming an org that excludes management trickier.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
kickstarter is probably the most famous (and maybe first?) tech company to have a union
DM me to learn more
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
oh yeah i forgot about that thats cool salute to them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
a little ironic because Kickstarter has said in the past that they intend to never go public, so the equity kind of exists in a limbo https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/17/kickstarter-paid-a-dividend-even-though-it-never-intends-to-go-public.html
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
ah yeah kickstarter was what i was thinking of, not etsy, i.e. the other brooklyn success
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
meanwhile the memestock elves on the trading floor after closing time: https://i.imgur.com/UBlrQlm.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
160 what shenanigans is that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
wtf
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
Jordan Peterson has a "Twitter suit" with a tie featuring Elon Musk heads pic.twitter.com/U7TXC7m6aD— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) January 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
xp happens all the time A/H. volume is tiny. shows up particularly on google finance for some reason.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
i know it often jumps around in a fairly meaningless way, the image is p funny though
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
There's a thread on Peterson with a surprise guest:
there's a very painful period when you see guys start to pay attention to clothes and they start to dress worse than they did before they started paying attention to clothes pic.twitter.com/RWNGjiv6SB— derek guy (@dieworkwear) December 18, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
good thread
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
damn wow makes u think
pic.twitter.com/dJvUeO2P5t— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
Ah, the guy who has all our personal information and never reads probably thinks those books describe Utopia.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
wow matt levine must be reading this thread, today's money stuff is all about the silliness of private company valuations and also some lol twitter tidbits https://archive.ph/5j4kj
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
hi matt
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
i didnt know there were preferences where you get back multiples of yr investment before anyone else gets anything, thats even worse! its much worse
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
https://enersection.io/twitter/
this is good because i forget that twitter had some cheap debt they issued pre-elon that is now very expensive debt lol
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
well yeah - the bad thing is that VC investors have a lot of leverage in these kinds of situations, private companies are nearly always on a runway to bankruptcy, so the choice can be take this cash that has a 2x/3x liquidation pref attached to it or go bankrupt xp
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
they should go bankrupt it would good since then there would be fewer apps
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
We’ve had enough of apps!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
apps are out
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
Rare sympathy for landlords
The landlord said in the suit that it had informed Twitter in mid-December that the company would be in default on its rent if it failed to make payments for space on the building’s 30th floor within five business days.Other parties, including a software provider and transportation company, have also sued Twitter in recent weeks to recoup overdue payments, the Wall Street Journal reported.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
"I mean free speech let me tell you that if somebody's got to pay the servers okay so those features gotta cost at least eight dollars oh because otherwise how do we pay the freaking server bill um you know there's like a billion and a half ish you know of oil and server-related costs um and you know we're trying to get that lower but it's a lot it's like not trivial um and a minimum you know like there's like somebody's got to pay the bills"
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
hot take: The only reason Tesla was so over valued as a stock is crypto-bro orgy of valuation
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
twice as much as the electric f150 and as much as a gas f250, almost certainly a lie, the infinite mass part also not true
The tesla website claims that the new truck can pull "near-infinite mass" hhjjkhjslsl this company is so unserious pic.twitter.com/bMLMgHSUdj— Human Mel (@melhuman) January 4, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
the overvaluation of Tesla would have made some sense in like 2016 when all those charging stations were getting installed and there was talk of a $30k Model 3, not to mention Full Self Driving on the horizon. I can tell you insurance companies took that pretty seriously because in theory the Auto line could be unprofitable mighty quick. I guess it wasn't quite apparent back then how full of shit Elon Musk was. why it blew up after the pandemic when the cracks were starting to show kinda baffles me.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
always funny how the fascists who cry fascism seem to think only three dystopian novels have ever been written
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
xp the trump trick of making an obviously false claim/error to encourage haters to amplify the announcement
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
Brave New World not far off the mark, but not in the way I am sure Elon thinks it is.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
"near infinite mass" surely video games bear some responsibility for this
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
brb just towing a black hole around in my tesla truck
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
mb by using mass instead of weight they were making a lil joke about pulling things in outer space, still not true of course once things get massive enough youd be subject to their gravity, also wheels wouldnt work out there since there no ground, there are also some other problems with this "joke" im going to suit elon
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
or maybe the joke is you can pull anything but that doesnt mean it will move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26CtnvXKY3w
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
i think it's one of those things where like, yeah it could tow the space shuttle at walking speed for a few minutes. but any truck can do that
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
really, we should be bemoaning the fact that the cybertruck can't outpull this very strong human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGIjlK1nSs
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, January 4, 2023 5:34 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah im sure when normal companies talk about towing capacity they mean it in a normal way, who knows wtf tesla is talking about
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
apparently towing with an ev drains the battery like crazy too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
energy spent is energy spent!
Expensive Debt was an underrated Fela Kuti album
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
Tesla Miss Road
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link
Musk's ego has near infinite mass
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 5 January 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 4:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The only way to understand Musk is as a video game messages board troll circa 2000
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
his whole thing reminds me of how Michael Jackson "lost" his childhood, and so he spent his 40s trying to recreate it. in Elon's case I guess he never had the chance to be a cringey teenage shitposter so he's trying to live it now.
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
Ricardo is real!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
more funny graphs from the poster's poster:
https://i.imgur.com/O5A8A9M.png
― mark s, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Cybertruckesque
― nashwan, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk should— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2023
i think we all know how to vote here, folks
― 龜, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
He should aim higher imo
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
its so funny this is the thing he wants to do, a man with all the resources to actually do politics is totally gassed up on the power of memes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
It's because he's a moronic nepo baby
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
these nepos effin everything up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
Boebert starts grandstanding, gets told "VOTE!", and then votes for "a consensus candidate"...Hern. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
another vote for Hern, just now.
wait, i thought Donalds was the consensus candidate
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
a couple hundred representatives are googling "who the fuck is kevin hern" right now
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
wrong thread Karl
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
gentlemen you can't talk about incompetent morons in here this is the Elon Musk thread
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
smdh #onethread ofc
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
#elonethread
― more crankable (sic), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
lol oops sorry!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
Gaetz should nominate Musk next time.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
if it goes long enough, there is a non-zero chance that elon musk does get nominated.
we need outside of the box solutions
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
complete the triumvirate, nominate Kanye
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2022-12/221201-gop-kanye-tweet-mn-1415-5d8d24.jpg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. pic.twitter.com/I14fKiIh0f
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Thursday, 5 January 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
$200/month for an AI that thinks a daycare parking lot has the same speed limit as the adjoining street pic.twitter.com/9tB3MFcViG— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) January 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Per @josephmenn Elon Musk ordered Twitter to ban antifascist researcher Chad Loder https://t.co/tPBKAvWsbv As I reported, Loder's open-source investigations ID'd Capitol rioters but infuriated 2 far-right activists Musk admires, Andy Ngo and Chaya Raichik https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT https://t.co/7lDSJlq8c4 pic.twitter.com/tlGsiPCgKe— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) January 5, 2023
― Chris L, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
elon is broing down with some of the absolute shittiest people, and also hes one of them
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
feel like any self-proclaimed "centrist" who is also obsessed with being the smartest guy in the room goes down that path
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
also holy shit at that Dan Nguyen tweet, how is this even legal
so I totaled your caryou was using it wrong
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Is the Whole Mars catalog guy employed by Elon?
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
He has similar brainworms
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 January 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 6 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
even Grimes has more dignity
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 6 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
Lmao how had I not heard he got this incredibly cringe photo removed https://t.co/HQ0PCBX77a pic.twitter.com/onO6gKiNqh— K. Thor Jensen 🐀 (@kthorjensen) January 6, 2023
― 龜, Saturday, 7 January 2023 04:03 (one year ago) link
narrator's voice: it was not popular with anyone
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 January 2023 07:43 (one year ago) link
Rich guys who are into S&M should be an exception to the "don't kinkshame" rule.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 7 January 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link
And in particular, he has become Lowtax. We’ll see if things end the same way of not
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, January 7, 2023 9:16 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
can they really be into s&m if they've never experienced full consent in their lives though
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship
I think a lot of it comes from the immediately Great Recession crash era, where you had a combination of social and political-economic factors colliding:
-tech interests coming into to start gobbling up all the capital spending that real estate couldn’t reliably generate profits from. - tech guys becoming savior-gurus to the level beyond the hype that guys like Bill Gates had in the 90s -the Obama Admin openly embracing and incorporating tech guys has the cool smart saavy technocratic leaders who will lead civilization into the next era because mass politics sure as shit wasn’t going to be allowed to do that -Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark being a bit hit and a useful fantasy of what a tech guy is and how this superhero was going to save us, and guys like Elon, Jobs, or Zuck paying a lot to promote that kind of branding for themselves -the western(or at least American) conflation of tech-progress with social progress, since that’s how a lot the second half of the 20th Century/Cold War was both marketed and perceived
So yeah, you have a certain kind of person who swallowed every bit of the STEM hype of the last 15 years and existing in a culture where the personal advancement of tech billionaires is conceived as Progress(and/or America) Marching Forward. I don’t think it’s surprising that this kind of parasocial relationship would form. Our culture is great at generating those
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
Relatedly, because every other institution and metric of modern life(or at least the perception of it) is getting worse, I think plenty of folks put all their hopes into one of those tech moguls innovating/disrupting/conjuring the genius solution to everything. Electoral politics has been deliberately drained of any ability to address the problem, so without those tech superhero figures to believe in, there’s be nothing but despair.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link
death/murder/suicide/dissolution of the labour movement seems to be lurking in the background here
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
but it still seems to keep him up at night which is something to hold on to
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
everyone love the rocketman who will save us from the environment, tho tbf a many of his online boosters are prob paid or at least financially aligned in some way
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
I hope so
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
vaguely recall someone trying to untangle it all at some point, pr firms def offer the service of people liking you online, and then the tesla investor community is extremely active too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
think tesla gives perks/access to big accounts too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
does that explain the absurdly credulous media coverage until a minute ago or is that its own problem
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:43 (one year ago) link
i mean it cant hurt but i think that was mostly just good tradidtional pr work, pitching the business press with a story about how a business man is going to save the world by doing business is a winner every time, musk really shouldve stuck to that instead of doing whatever it is hes doing now
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link
True, tho I think the Musk fanboy types aren’t exactly the types who would have been at those kind of jobs
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link
Also, as somebody expressed it better than me, Musk has switched his target audience up of the years, going from aiming at NPR liberals to more libertarian tech types to now transphobic Maga chuds
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 8 January 2023 03:59 (one year ago) link
I guess the thing with mega billionaires is that they really are a different form of life and I don't think any of us can really comprehend what that mindset is like. You wanna say "oooooh the money wouldn't change me" so you'd just be a more extravagant version of who you are now. You'd still want the same sort of people to like you. You wanna be the most popular kid at school AND own the school at the same time. And if you're a total asshole then Elon Musk IS that guy. So maybe they just identify with him and think "well he must be a good person then"
― frogbs, Sunday, 8 January 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
the thing with mega billionaires is that they really are a different form of life and I don't think any of us can really comprehend what that mindset is like.
Somewhere north of $10 million money stops being money and becomes power. A mega billionaire has enough power to warp the direction of entire societies. It's got to be a huge mindfuck.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 8 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
yeah someone pointed it out on Twitter but spending your whole life getting to point at anything you want and then receiving that thing probably does really stunt your emotional growth, to say nothing of asking for and receiving full credit for extremely intricately engineered stuff you had nothing to do with outside of "let's add a fart button, ha ha"
― frogbs, Sunday, 8 January 2023 04:28 (one year ago) link
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish)
That last step may be death for Tesla. They still want their giant RAM/Ford/Chevy rides.
― nickn, Sunday, 8 January 2023 06:10 (one year ago) link
Tho tbf, I never thought that demographic would ever link with Russia.
― nickn, Sunday, 8 January 2023 06:12 (one year ago) link
Musk can win them over by engraving “I identify as an F-250 Dually” in the bumper.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 January 2023 06:17 (one year ago) link
xxpost There are something like 700 billionaires in the US alone, and most of us can only name a couple. those few must represent the most insatiable egoists.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 January 2023 06:19 (one year ago) link
Sadly, I suspect the only thing that will slow down climate change is some self-aggrandising billionaire firing tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere from some bought country; this will then lead to some other disaster.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 8 January 2023 08:46 (one year ago) link
did a lot of non-rich people hero worship scumbag industrialists to an embarrassing degree back in the 1800s and 1900s? can the success of musk and his ilk mostly be attributed to well-funded PR via contemporary mass/social media (in the context of broader trends in social conditions, ideology, technology)? or does it reflect something more basic about human psychology (under capitalism? or in general?)
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:24 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant_mentality
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 January 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
That doesn’t actually get at what we’re talking about, tho, particularly as the prime example given in that wiki is actually rather lovely and Romantic. It also doesn’t answer the question, really.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
From my knowledge of history, the phenomenon of people “stanning” or engaging in gross hero worship of extremely rich people only began in the 20th c and the rise of a modern celebrity culture. As far as inventors and industrialists getting this sort of acclaim and weirdo fealty, Edison and Ford are obvious precursors. That said, eventually, certain people became celebrities because they were rich, without any other reasons behind it— and that has now warped into situations like this one with Musk.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
hard to know what peasants actually thought about stuff but there must be feudal and early modern analogues to this phenomenon especially with those stans who are also his employees
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
the charismatic protofascist strongmen of the 1800s feel like a precursor except they sometimes actually did stuff for their supporters
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
of course he's neither charismatic nor strong but maybe being a weird awkward nerd promising sci fi shit is the new being a tough talking moustache guy covered in fake medals
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link
“That we have made a hero of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves, something only dimly remembered, tells us that the secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake (Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power), but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.”
― 龜, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
it’s true that’s a poor wikipedia articlewhat i meant was the mentality that some people are just born to power and riches, and that’s fine, we have nothing, and that’s also fine, in fact it’s the only way it can be, it’s how the world is ordered and to argue for a better way is to in some sense go against the will of god and nature, so let us simply enjoy what pleasures we can in this life and recognise the beauty and greatness of our betters when they accomplish their public feats
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
some people have for sure always venerated the rich and powerful, in rome emperors were both the richest and powerfulest guys and when they werent busy assassinating them many considered them to be demi gods
as to why musk got particularly famous, and his fame does well predate becoming "the richest person in the world" which carries its own fame, i think it was due to a well executed plan to become famous
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
alien vs predater
― mark s, Sunday, 8 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
should add was brilliant marketing for tesla which prob wouldnt have survived or flourished without it, but then musk started believing his own hype which is a well known thing you shouldnt do
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Monotheism lends itself even more to veneration of the powerful than polytheism did, because the monotheistic god is all-powerful and infallible, where the Greco-Roman deities were fickle and sometimes even wrong. Kings and caliphs exploited this obviously via divine rights and all that, but in the post-monarchical parts of the Abrahamic world we've still allowed some sense of that to persist, that the wealthy and powerful must have divine favor, as evidenced by their wealth and power. If you believe in a hierarchical monotheistic deity, it's easy to assume the hierarchies established in the earthly realms reflect God's wishes. That this actually goes against some pretty explicit teachings of Christ per the gospels — which were anti-establishment and anti-wealth-and-power - is less of a problem than it seems like it should be, because obv most people don't really follow Jesus as a philosopher, just as a guarantor of their own ticket to heaven.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
There’s also the bootstraps ideology that is pounded into peoples’ brains from the moment they take their first breaths in this country.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 January 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
Yep, which also has a strong Protestant flavor. Really, the Prosperity Gospel movement just kind of takes that twining of capital and theology to a logical end.
Anyway, Elon is now encouraging coups. Basically just turning Twitter into Parler.
And once again, Twitter let election conspiracy theories run rampant after Musk dismantled all of their trust and safety teams. Now Brazil's capitol is facing an insurrection. But unlike before, Musk has actively promoted and pushed these conspiracies. https://t.co/rKts84I4Rg pic.twitter.com/iwUIslAtb9— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) January 8, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 January 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
Anyway, Elon is now encouraging coups.
what an astonishing, new turn of events
https://i.imgur.com/lMIOHax.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/muvyX4Y.jpg
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 9 January 2023 07:59 (one year ago) link
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it asked Tesla for more information about the tweet. https://t.co/bWcgWjFW1c— FOX6 News (@fox6now) January 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 January 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
car signaled and pulled over done with self driving for the day
I obtained surveillance footage of the self-driving Tesla that abruptly stopped on the Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash that injured 9 people including a 2 yr old child just hours after Musk announced the self-driving feature.Full story: https://t.co/LaEvX9TzxW pic.twitter.com/i75jSh2UpN— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
Lol... always an excuse. (I mean yes, safe following distance matters but ffs a car pulling into and abruptly stopping in the left lane is deadly)
Doesn’t anyone understand the concept of safe following distance? Like you should always be ready for sudden stops. Which is why you stay behind a couple car lengths— Dennis (@AbibIiophobia) January 10, 2023
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
to be fair to the tesla, the footage does not appear to show any children running in front of it
― 龜, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
Lol, of course the person stopping to help at the end is driving a Subaru.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
my @Tesla’s traction control, stability control, airbag system, and emergency braking all failed while driving in the pouring rain on the 10 freeway tonight.tow truck is on the way, will be an hour.bad product, bad company. pic.twitter.com/OmGnt1IHsJ— Rustin Sotoodeh (@rust1n) January 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
Doesn’t anyone understand the concept of safe following distance?
Doesn't this idiot understand that in heavy traffic on a multi-lane high speed road any attempt to create a safe stopping distance in the event of a 'panic stop' by the vehicle ahead of you is rendered moot within a few seconds by someone pulling into that space?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
Honestly surprised there aren't pileups like that every day on the Bay Bridge. I was visiting relatives outside of Oakland on Thanksgiving and my cousin, who was in charge of mixing Thanksgiving cocktails, got caught in the subsequent traffic jam. What a disaster.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
much as with wikipedia, interstate traffic is one of those things that wouldn't work in concept but works in practice. AI driving is the inverse!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @kimbal— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) January 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
Baby let me ban yer bot.
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @Grimezsz— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) January 11, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
Do you feel a sense of real purpose in ur life?— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) January 4, 2023
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link
Watching this I fully realized that this tunnel is an instagram opportunity, not really about transit at all pic.twitter.com/oGWoSVwp0f— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) January 11, 2023
― 龜, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
the funny part is that, of all the insta-friendly light installations, it’s one of the worst I’ve seen
― mh, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link
all these small time business ideas, things musks cronies were texting him before he bought twitter all no brainer i would easily pay ten million dollars for an elite username
BREAKING: Twitter is considering selling user names to generate new revenue.— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 11, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
its not enough to pay the rent tho
I'm told Twitter employees were just walked out of its Singapore office — its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) January 11, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Love 2 not pay my landlord.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
if i were the richest guy i'd just buy all the buildings duh
― Clay, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
No it’s better to talk about having floating buildings in 10 years
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
This is actually a classic private equity trick. Extend the payment terms as much as possible to get your counterparts to fund your working capital. Makes a huge difference on cash flow metrics. Stop when it starts impacting your business.— 8teAPi - e/acc (@8teAPi) January 11, 2023
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 01:45 (one year ago) link
Not sure Musk actually knows what the "business" part of Twitter is, tho.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
ah the classic business move of not paying your bills yes i think i may have heard of that one before
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link
76D chesskers
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
that made me lol, Neando, thx
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
I dunno if "don't pay for stuff because what are they going to do about it?" qualifies a trick, really.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
Stop when it starts impacting your business.
Oops.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 12 January 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
isn’t that a pump-and-dump private equity trick that was done to a bunch of retail chains that were then saddled with debt and thrown into bankruptcy by bain capital, etc.
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
thank you for bringing free speech back
If you try searching Twitter for @kenklippenstein—the major investigative journalist who recently posted footage of a Tesla crash—you can’t find him anymore. This is all you get. pic.twitter.com/7UYLmtHRTD— Eve Fairbanks (@evefairbanks) January 12, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
that is odd, but fwiw when i searched for him just now i immediately found his twitter profile and all his posts
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
do yo follow him tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
but i see he also retweeted @evefairbanks' post, too, so i guess he agrees?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
xp i do not follow (...@kenklippenstein on twitter)
i tried searching with my account where i follow him and he showed up then i tried with one of my bot accounts that does not and got the musk but no ken result but it did return some other nine follower ken klippenstein lol
https://i.imgur.com/xxUBdhb.png
https://i.imgur.com/RWMRZsk.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
logged out incognito search returned all the ken klippensteins and no musk
https://i.imgur.com/4xm5zMU.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
seems like something weird is going on especially the fact that its returning musk too, cld just be twitter sucking but prob some meddling going on or more likely even is a combo of the two
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
Musk sucking?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
musking
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
yeah right after I posted that I tried in a different browser where I wasn't logged in and I got the same thing where I saw Musk & no Ken. but now if I do it Ken shows up and no Musk. so it could be they reversed course after people started noticing, or maybe it's just a random search bug, which actually seems kinda likely given it took me several tries just to test this since half the time it just returns nothing at all
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
Klippenstein still shows up for me when I open Word '97 on my compaq presario. But he is gone in Microsoft 365.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
Twitter app has started defaulting to ‘for you,’ when it’s in the background and reopened. That was the death knell for Facebook and Instagram being even remotely usable, can’t wait for the chronological timeline to be hidden behind five menus.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 13 January 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
Many 3rd party apps aren't working, Albatross for Android seems to be, at this point.
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Friday, 13 January 2023 12:24 (one year ago) link
https://defector.com/i-was-almost-elon-musks-twitter-voice/
https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/01/TeslaCommunication-1.png
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2023 13:01 (one year ago) link
can't wait to read that.Elon musk is of course not funny, but the fact that his profile picture remains that stupid cosplay outfit is hilarious. reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who used to wear her NASA space camp jumpsuit to school.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 January 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
that "for you" view is god awful. at least on Facebook this kinda made some sense but so much of Twitter is about live reactions and this nerfs all of that. I still like it when NBA games are going on and now I have to switch the view every time I use the app. not only that but the 'for you' view is showing me the same exact stuff now it did yesterday lol
― frogbs, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
one of the biggest opponents of “right to repair” is Tesla, who infamously fleece customer service costs in a way that puts the medical industry to shame. Examples like hundreds of dollar charged for a piece of duct tape hidden under a fender well.https://t.co/eoDL4SuT5L— Jimmy Trillstein (@JimmyTrillstein) January 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
UPDATE: it appears that the Search Suggestion Ban against @kenklippenstein has been removed, per https://t.co/ondv5QlBWyKen Klippenstein has been freed, great job everyone. pic.twitter.com/BwNqUWyYLJ— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) January 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
doug games out the crash in used tesla prices, not sure he really gets the formula right, the idea that tesla buyers are so uniquely affected by interest rate hikes is suspect, think hes relying on the data from his speciality auction site too much which prob isnt representative of the general used car market, used cars crashing in general and increased tesla production have to be factored in more, and musk bad pr is a bigger part of it than he thinks too imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-9_As6qq4
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
Note that I filmed this video on Monday, before Tesla's announcement this week that they're significantly cutting prices on all their new models -- a move that will only further serve to significantly reduce the value of used Teslas.
this is going to have a huge effect too. including credits that weren't previously available it's like $20k cut in some cases.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/14/23554886/tesla-price-cut-ev-market-deman-elon-musk
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
thats a lot of ks
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
lol wow
Angry Tesla customers in China have started storming $TSLA stores, demanding refundspic.twitter.com/CQALimsox7— William LeGate (@williamlegate) January 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
most "hmm" bit of the demuro video is the assertion that people who work in the loan industry are more likely to buy teslas lol
the tech industry correlation i can see, loan officers though???
― 龜, Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
hes seems to be saying he knows that cause of the people who sell teslas on his site but idk
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
“In the firms thinking, the party's over as of this morning. There's gonna be turmoil in the Markets for the foreseeable future. And *they* believe it is better that this turmoil begin with us. As a result, the firm has decided to liquidate its Tesla inventory... today.” https://t.co/3clKLx00qx— Bucco Capital (@buccocapital) January 15, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
wow thats some big discounts
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 January 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
“There is a whole bunch of us pumping Tesla…”, says one of the biggest $TSLA shills. https://t.co/2IuwrxwbuP— Scot (@ghost_scot) January 16, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
genuinely believing in tesla
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
should work as a gift article: seems like Teslas crash a lot
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:54 (one year ago) link
love when peter singer wanders on-stage to explain why very bad things are actually very good
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link
'crashes bring people together'
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.
e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
I was confused for a moment about which company you were commenting on, so here's my pitch:
Twitter focuses on lidar
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
xp tweets so good, it'll make your head spin
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
(then they put a laser in your mouth)
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
didn't know anything about Singer, looked him up, and was greeted with this doozy:
It may be all right, according to Singer, to kill infants. Because they are not "persons," they have no interest in staying alive, and it is only superstition that makes us think that killing them is intrinsically wrong.Singer is quick to note that it is still wrong to kill most infants, for other reasons. The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.
Singer is quick to note that it is still wrong to kill most infants, for other reasons. The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.
The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
Most, not all
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
I am very sad to have learned of this person's existence today.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
what if, unironically, the child has bad vibes
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
when peter singer turned up in the middle of the effective altruism / sam bankplan-fraud discussion i assumed it was a typo for PAUL singer (the hedge fund guy who "pioneered" effective altruism, whatever this means) -- but no! it's peter, with a finger in every fkn dark pie lol!
30 years ago he was best known as the animal rights guy, which was a way better bit imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
oh no, now I remember who he is
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
my favourite peter singer anecdote is when he was on a panel in germany in i guess the 90s discussing something or other and there was a stage invasions by autonomes* and they grabbed his spectacles off his face and flung them into the audience
he wrote a big long piece i think in the new york review of books saying this was bad not good but i disagree bcz it was funny!
*best of all the gnomes
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i guess this link belongs in the twitter thread, but it speaks to this point so i'll but it here https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.imgur.com/v9NBTOh.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
is that good
Tiny scoop: We learned today that Twitter’s revenue is down 40 percent year over year (& Musk’s first giant interest payment on the company is due at the end of the month): https://t.co/IH7lJiQ0Dw— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
btw that article is the saem one caek posted, def worth reading for true musk heads
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake https://t.co/F5uXGvzfiU— Max Chafkin (@chafkin) January 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol
on the left hand side of the verge article there's a little blue bar that tracks elon's net worth over the course of the twitter saga, it's good
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
" A Tesla owner was recently seeking a state inspection sticker at one of VIP’s locations, Winkeler said, but the car displayed a light indicating a traction control problem. The service center couldn’t pass the vehicle’s inspection with the light on, but also couldn’t access the dashboard error code to diagnose the problem. The customer had to drive to Boston to get the car diagnosed. "
what a bother
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thats fn crazy youd think itd be down by more than 40%
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
the expected revenue from the sell-off of the neon twitter sign and assorted work stations must be incredible
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
the interest payment is coming up https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262631 (use archive.ph if you don't wanna register)
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
oh its 500 top advertisers not the 500 top advertisers
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
it'd be really funny if 50% of the revenue was the weird dudes who pay to promote their own incoherent tweets
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
someone should get steve cohen into the twitter memorabilia scene
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
2 billion if he jacks off into it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
Fidelity, which owns a stake in the social media platform through a listed fund, has cut the value of its holding from $19.7mn in October to $8.6mn after Musk closed the deal.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Seeing a lot of crying from the people that insisted Elon “fixed” Twitter. pic.twitter.com/iBihVKn5rp— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
they will never learn that most people don't care about their shitty opinions
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
and people really dont care about their whining about engagement
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Don't know how it hasn't gone more noticed over the years, but the guy in this video that Elon tweeted out to show the safety features of Tesla autopilot...? He died in a Tesla autopilot accident two months later.https://t.co/JUJriy3YOf— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
his final words were "so thrilled...this will...help improve...self-driving...next patch"
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
Best…car…I…ever…had…
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
“He had said, ‘For something to catch Elon Musk’s eye, I can die and go to heaven now,’” said a neighbor, Krista Kitchen, choking up. “He was absolutely thrilled – and then a couple weeks later he died.”
https://t.co/1BWwPHIzR0— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
Mind detergent and soul rot, from the top to the bottom.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
genuinely think some of these ppl should go to church they'd be better off
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
worth a shot
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
lol why
NEW: https://t.co/9ameptuFXR— Dana "Legacy Blue Checkmark" Hull 👩🏻💻 (@danahull) January 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
haters will say its photoshop
- elon
― 龜, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
knives comin out
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
i'm pretty sure some undercredited production person directed the fuck out of the video while elon executive produced and called himself director
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm8PZZgXgBAwIFs?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
This is the world we live inAnd these are the stans we're given
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
gosh, I hope Elon saves Catturd
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link
'take the algorithms off'
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
this is probably why the desktop site has started defaulting to "for you" every time, gotta get that catturd engagement up
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
Fortunately, catturd is not "for me." (Yet. I'm sure if he whines enough Elon will set it up so everyone is auto-following both himself and catturd.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
Fortunately Catturd 1 is okay
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
Catturd Prime
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
not everyone saw Catturd's tweets, but everyone that did started a ban
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
Very nice
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
I keep wanting to ironically buy catturd merch but I suspect that impulse will never result in anything
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
Why would you do that? May as well wear an ironic swastika.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
the fact that this account is run by a 65 year old really comes through in phrases like "take the algorithms off" lol https://t.co/0drpUya5BP— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) January 20, 2023
it's so funny to post "engagements are almost down to nothing" on a post with 25,000 likes— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) January 20, 2023
worth noting that catturd has gained over 600,000 followers since elon became ceo a few months ago (nearly double what they had before). he just loves whining— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) January 20, 2023
catturd2 knows that when elon replies to him he gets thousands more followers
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
wait is that guy really 65 lmao
― frogbs, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link
he’s not young!
he owns a registered business that owns property (maybe just his own home) that is “catturd llc” or something like that
just an insanely pathetic guy. I’m a cat owner and I have to admit branding yourself with all cat stuff is insanely beta
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link
Chadturd2
― George Santos' If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D? (President Keyes), Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
Enjoying the idea of Elon browbeating the remaining employees at Twitter to boost Catturd’s engagement.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:15 (one year ago) link
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
*Trying to make the biggest weirdos on this website think I’m cool*Uh, the vaccine gave me bad diarrhea. pic.twitter.com/MxGcu5oeok— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) January 22, 2023
Insane levels of thirst
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:21 (one year ago) link
you know this is a lie because we did not see nonstop tweets from him about it https://t.co/TMPBHLOxrI— Successfully paid for cube (@Boringstein) January 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
it is true that wine in a glass can be quite nice
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnIuvq1akAExhQS?format=jpg&name=small
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link
oh no he’s been burgundy-pilled
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
Love how alcohol is "a scam" rather than a substance with effects some enjoy and others struggle with
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Monday, 23 January 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
hi I drank this bottle of wine and halfway through the glass offered me a timeshare and the rest of the glass disappeared when i said no
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
alcohol told me it wanted to sell my art as NFTs but that I would have to pay the gas fee
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
I prefer to drink wine by sucking on a soaked newspaper.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 January 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
― Karl Malone, Monday, January 23, 2023 9:43 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ha she is actually a crypto person
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
maybe that woman found out that cheap alcohol gets you just as drunk as the expensive stuff and that’s the scam
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
I eat one meal and think "i will never be hungry again". Food is a scam.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 January 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
ok I looked into why she thinks alcohol is a scam and it's even dumber than I could have imagined
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
do share!! I personally drank some alcohol over the weekend and I can confirm that it definitely gets you drunk!!!
― frogbs, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
Lol why is this presented as a galaxy brain hot take
Alcohol ads use themes like happiness, prestige, sophistication, success, maturity, athletic ability, creativity, sexual satisfaction to target consumers.But the misuse of alcohol actually diminishes and ultimately destroys these qualities if you drink enough.— Nicole Behnam (@NicoleBehnam) January 20, 2023
― jaymc, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
she then later tweets that she has "fallen for this scam before"
I'm picturing her seeing a very sexy ad for tequila and then drinking like two whole bottles
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
u fucking barbarians it’s about BEAUTY IN A GLASS. aesthetes know
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 23 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
drinking a case of dos equis to become the world's most interesting woman
once u see red wine in a fine _ass_ that seems beautiful too.then the scam is clear. now u are stuck in a steely dan song. probably w don and glen. in hell. how u gonna unscam now?
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 23 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
lol @ this 'mind blowing' tweet
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
Pay attention— Nicole Behnam (@NicoleBehnam) January 20, 2023
👀👀👀— Nicole Behnam (@NicoleBehnam) January 23, 2023
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
i have to assume those eyes are on maricopa
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
so funny this is all based on the Dilbert guy taking a Rasmussen poll and going "how shall we interpret this?" as though these "serious side effects" don't coincidentally only affect conservatives in America
― frogbs, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
these tweets completed a 9th grade health class assignment
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
this tweet drinks Coors Cutter.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
That alcohol scam tweet reads like something you'd post after waking up in the bushes in an unfamiliar neighborhood
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 January 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
"No, honey, for the fifth time, I didn't cheat on you. I was intentionally scammed by that bottle of vodka!"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
I, too, have fallen for this scam
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
elon admitting to price manipulation in court
This came right after Musk admitted, almost casually, that he thought investors would rely on his tweet in their decisions to buy and/or sell Tesla stock. https://t.co/TVA4cx209B— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) January 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
You know I missed the marketing where alcohol enhances your athletic ability. Maybe a sport like driving donuts?
― George Santos' If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D? (President Keyes), Monday, 23 January 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
nah dude, alcohol made me a track and field champion. after a fifth of vodka before my 100m race, I lurched into my opponent's lane, stepped on his foot and broke it so he had to drop out
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
i feel like babe ruth drank a lot and didn't seem to hurt him on the field or with the ladies
― treeship., Monday, 23 January 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
it hurt when he drove cars into trees, which he did often during his lowest point
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
cars drive themselves now
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
into trees even
― treeship., Monday, 23 January 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
This has come up a bunch in testimony, so it's worth spelling it out: Musk seems to believe that the fact that he once tweeted that Tesla stock price was too high but it immediately went higher absolves him of any subsequent attempt to manipulate the stock price by tweet. https://t.co/K0bsyHigzL— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) January 23, 2023
legal genius
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
feel like i followed niedermeyer an age ago but checking his TL says i didn't
or that elon pressed the the big red button that makes me unfollow his foes w/o me knowing
― mark s, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
lol re-following is already paying dividends, further down this thread he links to a story in nme.com!
― mark s, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
wow shameless. i hope the sec fines him one million dollars
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
just literally using the Trump playbook of saying all kinds of shit so that no one can pin you down on any one thing
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
Whenever my co's CEO tells us something big that'd affect our stock price we're all told REALLY STRONGLY that we are not to touch our shares or tell anyone else, on pain of legal/criminal punishment. Its not rocket science. Musk surely cant be that stupid. You talk acquisitions, you halt trading ffs.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 23 January 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
hes really testing americas permissive regulatory regime, for no good reason
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link
yeah, he’s being stupid but in a crafty way
it’s like when your parents told you something was the LAW and you’re like, ok, I am going to be cautious because if I do this things the cops will know and come arrest me! then you see others do the thing and the cops never show up. pretty soon you realize that it’s rare people get caught, but if they have money, they can lawyer their way out of it anyway, like a rich old man who never puts the required license plates on his car but just pays the fine every time
eventually you have money and haven’t seen any real enforcement and you’re Elon and you just do whatever because if you are a billionaire the cost of fines and lawyers far outstrips your gaming of the market
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
in the US the supposed checks and balances system is kind of a farce and an afterthought based on constitutional interpretation (branches to create, execute, and judge according to to law) but we kept adding little hacks and totally new things like the stock market appeared, agencies that may or may not have actual teeth to do things. and there are even libertarian types who have now argued that regulatory agencies can’t enforce anything, and the concept is going through courts. are the SEC, FCC, etc really able to block things or levy fines without a jury trial? maybe not!
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64384278
likeness captured
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Doesn’t look enough like a waterlogged corpse.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/elon-musks-epic-quest-for-lols-is-only-hurting-tesla
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
ooof tremendously sad interaction
Thank you, Sir Doge!— Mr. Tweet (@elonmusk) January 25, 2023
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
please clap
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
Mr. Tweet
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnXIhv_acAIDbNd?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 January 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
DETAILS: Rick Ross won't ride in Teslas because he's afraid they will automatically drive him to the police"I've always had in the back of my mind, the government could tap into the brain of the car. 'OK, where's Rick? Nah, bring him in for questioning.'https://t.co/bWkCL9b3sP— XXL Magazine (@XXL) January 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 January 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
guess he forgot he is police
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 January 2023 04:20 (one year ago) link
Rick Ross - Fuck Tha Me
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
The poor engineers at Twitter have to talk to these weirdos Elon invites and pretend like they're trying to solve the imaginary problem that their tweets don't get enough likes pic.twitter.com/Ikalc8GN1o— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) January 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
twitter engineers supplying dave rubin with a black box that makes his posts less shit
― mark s, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
at last a task worthy of AI
it has self driving tho
@elonmusk @TeslaOwnersWW @BLKMDL3 Family was excited to receive Tesla Y delivery on 1/24/2023. Was driving on highway and all the sudden steering wheel fall off, was lucky enough there was no car behind and I was able to pull on devider #SafetyFirst #Fixit #TeslaModelY #help pic.twitter.com/4UMokFA2cv— Prerak (@preneh24) January 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
#fixit
― mark s, Monday, 30 January 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link
If your steering wheel falls off just lean to the right or left to turn the car.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 30 January 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
You are too strong. I wasn’t able to fall off any steering wheel of my two Teslas. Lol— Khlee (@Khlee15052283) January 30, 2023
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Monday, 30 January 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
xpost - Elon leaned so hard to the right that he's still spinning in circles out in the parking garage
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ClearcutAptGecko.webp
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 January 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
it kills me that the I Think You Should Leave focus group sketch is basically Tesla irl
― mh, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
he admit it!
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
threb
2️⃣ The verification scandal in November was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Data from the Standard Media Index (SMI) suggests that ad spend on Twitter dropped by 71% in December year on year. It was 55% in November.— John McCarthy (@JohnGeeMcCarthy) January 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
Since the Elonjet thing this guy seems to have scaled back his public bullshit. Maybe someone was able to convince him to stfu.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
omg
God it's so fucking funny that he fired everyone who knows how the site works pic.twitter.com/cPxvEIUWkN— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) February 1, 2023
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
supposedly bonuses get paid out today so there may be another exodus happening
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
i think Twitter just straight up doesn’t have a support team anymore. an A-list celebrity’s account being hacked and used to phish payment info from fans isn’t something that used to just stay unresolved for over 24 hours lol pic.twitter.com/ELjISQcXPq— LeMucus Triller Moth (@legotrillermoth) February 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
xp: nov 1, feb 1, may 1, aug 1 aka "quitting day at twitter". google pays out stock every month so people can quit year round.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
nice of them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoDjX-zWQAAkOaI?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
there’s like no way they have actually programmed that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
yeah tho i guess they couldve already had it ready to go
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Like pre-Elon it was built and then killed? Seems plausible
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
Does that mean if advertisers spam your replies you get money? What the fuck?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
"advertisers" to twitter are paid advertisements that appear in the feed algorithmically
so if you're tweeting on brand/on trend and the algorithm inserts ads adjoining your tweets you're incentivized
I also thought "oh ads, yeah those people that tweet 'check out this cool combination vibrator/ring light'" but those are just tweets trying to hustle, not ads
― mh, Saturday, 4 February 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link
absolutely incredible pic.twitter.com/v8KBYtJXcg— cait (@punished_cait) February 4, 2023
Makes it even better!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
I’m ready for Elon Musk to sunset
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
Sadly he gets a pass today. https://www.reuters.com/legal/securities-fraud-trial-over-elon-musks-2018-tweets-draws-close-2023-02-03/
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 4 February 2023 06:40 (one year ago) link
tl;dr Tesla's Elon Musk found not liable in trial over 2018 'funding secured' tweets
ah! well. nevertheless,
― 龜, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoS9gJiWAAYdcPX?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
not everything can be turned into a 24 scenario
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
many of the strange behaviors we see in society today - conservatives thinking they can shoot down a balloon that's 11 miles in the air, true crime women keeping scrapbooks out of fear they will be murdered - stem from a condition that i call "thinks movies are real brain"— lauren (@NotABigJerk) February 4, 2023
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
human: please computer just say the n word in order to save the world
computer: no
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
the only time isaid the "N word" i said it with perfect frequency/timing to intercept & cancel out the sound waves of another guy saying it,— wint (@dril) April 8, 2021
― frogbs, Monday, 6 February 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
the movie in question being Die Hard 3
― rob, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
When you think about it, isn't "No" the real "N word"?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 February 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Sony headphones canceled
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 05:36 (one year ago) link
elon musk? the cunt that got rich thanks to south africa politics and apartheid?
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
"Can I say the n word to stop a murder? What about nuclear armageddon? TELL ME WHEN I CAN SAY IT GODDAMMIT."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 09:04 (one year ago) link
worst ppl i know all otm:
Very grateful -- genuinely! -- to @elonmusk for making this possible. pic.twitter.com/KIDy0lo3RU— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 7, 2023
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
all my favorite characters in one spot!
― mh, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
It's like when the mobs in Minecraft turn on each other
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
Oh Elon
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter-fires-engineer-declining-reach-ftc-concerns
On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.Musk did not take the news well. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”
One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.
Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.
Musk did not take the news well.
“You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny https://t.co/FhKNufNS6n pic.twitter.com/NTwF9zfz14— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) February 9, 2023
The disarray makes it less likely that Musk will ever recoup the $44 billion he spent to buy Twitter, and may hasten its decline into insolvency.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
man, elon musk sucks badly
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Another victim of the tweep state.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Oh this too.. I'm sure the orders came from Lord Musk:
The president of SpaceX revealed the company has taken active steps to prevent Ukrainian forces from using the critical Starlink satellite technology with Ukrainian drones that are a key component of their fight against Russia.
“There are things that we can do to limit their ability to do that,” Gwynne Shotwell told reporters on Wednesday, referencing reports on Starlink and drone use. “There are things that we can do, and have done.”
Fuckers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
now there will be pressure to artificially inflate his impressions while also making musk feel like he totally earned it. the rich dude fantasy
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
this man is like a modern day Hans Christian Andersen fable
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
my god musk throwing a tantrum about people not paying attention to his tweets and firing someone over it hes further gone than i thought
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
lmao this is amazing
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
interview to fill the suddenly open principal engineer position
"now...you're gonna have to kiss some MAJOR ass in order to work here. can you please show us how sycophantic you can possible be? seriously you are going to need to humiliate yourself on a daily basis if you want to earn the honor of writing monthly one-pagers to plead for your job"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
the hilarious thing is the obvious way to solve this problem for elon is bots
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
“There’s times he’s just awake late at night and says all sorts of things that don’t make sense,” one employee said. “And then he’ll come to us and be like, ‘this one person says they can’t do this one thing on the platform,’ and then we have to run around chasing some outlier use case for one person. It doesn’t make any sense.”
musky musky him sad man in his room
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
“You’re fired, you’re fired"
kinda has a 'hitler's final days in the bunker' vibe, when he was all spun out on speed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
lol this list
“We haven’t seen much in the way of longer term, cogent strategy,” one employee said. “Most of our time is dedicated to three main areas: putting out fires (mostly caused by firing the wrong people and trying to recover from that), performing impossible tasks, and ‘improving efficiency’ without clear guidelines of what the expected end results are. We mostly move from dumpster fire to dumpster fire, from my perspective.”
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
I hope the thing that got the guy fired was him finally snapping and yelling "it's because your tweets SUCK!" Like how much "engagement" are you going to get with a daily avalanche of "concerning" or "interesting"
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jAfqEgF.png
mr. musk? um, you asked me to let you know when the dilbert guy compliments you. he says you're doing a great job
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
also we cleaned out your piss jars, they're all fresh for the week
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Balls to the wall there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
that starlink thing doesnt make any sense. why would you piss off the DoD, the biggest gravy train around?
― micah, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
seems like musk might not be good at business
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
i know this is juvenile and also physical assault but it must be really tempting to pants him during meetings
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
the whole thing about 'starlink was never intended to be weaponized' - hello, what about the ENTIRE LAST YEAR it's been weaponized??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
lol no one tell Elon where the internet came from
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Can't wait until the USAF discovers that they invested https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-1-9-million-air-force-contract-for-starlink-services-in-europe-and-africa/.9 million in something that's not supposed to be weaponized.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
Nice interview about how Tesla exists as a stock-promotion/manipulation company first and everything else a distant second:
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/154_the_tesla_crash_is_only_beginning_w_edward_niedermeyer/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
“We haven’t seen much in the way of longer term, cogent strategy,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-VAi2Xqq8
"Are my methods unsound?"
"I don't see any method at all, sir."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
confirmed
This was me, my 6.5-year stint at Twitter comes to an end today. Proud of the work we did and have full confidence the three or four people left will be able to honor Elon’s requests to artificially inflate his view counts (and view counts for advertisers). Not me though 🫡 https://t.co/VyXhUraCmr— jordan (@jdan) February 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
btw not sure how twitter charges but is he accusing elon of fraud
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
lol woz emptying the clip, poor lil sorkin just wanted to talk about great entrepreneurs
Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are “very similar … in being like a cult leader,” says Steve Wozniak.“A lot of honesty disappears when you look at Elon Musk and Tesla,” he says. They’ve “robbed my family … of so much money” by lying about their products. pic.twitter.com/qis7Z65snm— Paris Marx (@parismarx) February 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
I like Woz, he's being measured in his assessment
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 February 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
yeah, having read Woz's autobio I am deeply weary of his "oh I never ever tell a lie" schtick, as if that's a lock on the moral high ground in every circumstance, but those seem like pretty useful distinctions between the Cult of Jobs and the Cult of Musk. I can't imagine a site like folklore.org arising to express exasperation and fondness for Musk, who seems like an absolute dick 24/7. People listened to Jobs because he had charisma and genuinely loved what he was doing (even when he lost bigtime as a result), people listen to Musk because he has been financially successful without an iota of the other ingredients. If he wasn't wealthy there would be about 200 Jordan Peterson acolytes who admired his ability to be a dick in public, and a wide circle of disgust around that. Which I'm hoping for as the outcome of the Twitter self-immolation.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 February 2023 03:49 (one year ago) link
Lag00n I think the Jordan tweet is a joke
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 February 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link
shdve checked on that
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:52 (one year ago) link
Wait, is it a joke that the tweeter was the engineer who was fired (i.e. he was not), or a joke that Elon is demanding the engineers inflate the view numbers (because I'm pretty sure Elon is actually doing just that in a Trumpian "hint at what you want done without saying it in a way that a jury would find you culpable")?
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
the first
― 龜, Friday, 10 February 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry guys, i was the engineer
― mh, Friday, 10 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
its a me engineerio
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
Musk surrounded by dudes who tell him it’s cool how he steals memes pic.twitter.com/dECKUw61NO— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
"What color shirt is he wearing today? Black? Okay, got it - black it is."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 February 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
well they probably have a duffel with some shirts next to their bed they slept in at the office, so it's pretty easy to match Elon's look for the day
― octobeard, Friday, 10 February 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
I don't think it's body-shaming to say that Elon could really use a few minutes outdoors everyday, in the sun and fresh air
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 February 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
hey, he's trying to fit in with the nerds
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 10 February 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
ENGINEER 1: your engagement is tanking bc you're less popularELON: you're firedENGINEER 2: your engagement is tanking... because.. uh... you're TOO popularELON: i like this guy pic.twitter.com/HNbBeE4ncv— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) February 12, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
95% of his tweets weren’t “getting delivered at all”? How much does he tweet? I don’t even follow him but I still his tweets all the damn time.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
i think he means that it wouldn't appear on the feeds of 95% of his followers, or whatever. the tweets would get through, but due to his massive popularity and how much everyone wants to know what he's tweeting, it would overload the system and fail to reach most of the people who definitely wanted to read those tweets
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
i wonder what he's doing right now
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
I had to block him to get them to stop appearing in my feed constantly, wtf is he talking about
― frogbs, Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Whenever Elon's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's Elon?"
― Vinnie, Sunday, 12 February 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
I mean, hasnt everyone always complained the algo of this and FB is crap at showing ppl you follow? Is he gonna address it for everyone or just his posts hahahaha what am I saying.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 February 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
sitting with rupert murdoch at the superbowl a lil too on the nose
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
Pi-kapika!
― P1k4chu, Monday, 13 February 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
lmao he deleted his "Go Eagles" tweet right after they lost. what a loser.
― frogbs, Monday, 13 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
he jinxed them
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
He lost a bet. Jackson Mahomes now head of Twitter marketing.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 13 February 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
People of Earth!
Looking forward to Tesla Investor Day on March 1. By this, we mean the broadest definition of investor, as in the people & life of Earth.It will be a message of good hope & positivity for the future.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
lmfbo
NEW: Elon Musk directed Twitter engineers to design a secret system to boost his tweets over everyone else's after his post about the Super Bowl did poorly compared to President Biden's: https://t.co/HsJ0BZOSCI— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
got to hand it to him he’s the coolest
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised he still lets users block him.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
buddy calm down just submit a ticket
His deputies told the rest of the engineering team this weekend that if the engagement issue wasn’t “fixed,” they would all lose their jobs as well.
Late Sunday night, Musk addressed his team in-person. Roughly 80 people were pulled in to work on the project, which had quickly become priority number one at the company. Employees worked through the night investigating various hypotheses about why Musk’s tweets weren’t reaching as many people as he thought they should and testing out possible solutions.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
But there were also legitimate technical reasons the CEO’s tweets weren’t performing. Twitter’s system has historically promoted tweets from users whose posts perform better to both followers and non-followers in the For You Tab; Musk’s tweets should have fit that model but showed up less only about half the time that some engineers thought they should, according to some internal estimates. By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his tweets will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed. Internally, this is called a “power user multiplier,” although it only applies to Elon Musk, we’re told. The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed, now known as “For You.”That explains why people opening the app Monday found that Musk dominated the feed, with a dozen or more Musk tweets and replies visible to anyone who followed him and millions more who did not. Over 90 percent of Musk’s followers now see his tweets, according to one internal estimate.
By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his tweets will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.
Internally, this is called a “power user multiplier,” although it only applies to Elon Musk, we’re told. The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed, now known as “For You.”
That explains why people opening the app Monday found that Musk dominated the feed, with a dozen or more Musk tweets and replies visible to anyone who followed him and millions more who did not. Over 90 percent of Musk’s followers now see his tweets, according to one internal estimate.
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
the only power user
*elon musk 'hmphs'*
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:34 (one year ago) link
Over 90 percent of Musk’s followers now see his tweets, according to one internal estimate.
Good, they deserve it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:43 (one year ago) link
god this is the most pathetic thing, I'm actually embarrassed for him
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
He's so funny. Just unmoored, that guy. He has a lot of needs.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't have thought it should cost billions of dollars to turn yourself into Poochie
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
gonna be funny when he unloads twitter to some vc for a fraction of what he paid
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
this must be in his pre-acquisition plan for bankrupting it imo
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:18 (one year ago) link
Gonna get seized by the banks
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:55 (one year ago) link
Question for the Twitter users: If I understand correctly there is a chronological feed you can choose that shows you all the tweets by all the people you follow in chronological order but I guess nobody uses it or knows about it? If there is, is the “problem”really that Elon and all the right wingers want everyone to see their tweets all the time no matter if you want to or not using the “algorithm”? NB: I haven’t signed up for Twitter only read it through stuff people text me or from here.)
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
• there is a chronological feed and lots of people know about it and use it • its main drawbacks are that if you follow a lot of bots (as i do) then mostly the chronological feed shows you bots and not discourse, or only the discourse of the busily active • a benefit does seem to be that i never encounter his thin-skinned lordship • for some time when "for you" debuted you would be defaulted back to it every time you logged in -- this seems to no longer be the case? • if you have alts then you will get the default "for you" after you switch back from an alt to main, and apparently for a few times after that • to begin with "for you" did sometimes deliver unexpected random stuff that was good not bad which the chronological feed generally doesn't, but now it apparently primarily delivers a deep crust of musk's shitty tweets for you to trudge through
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
I've switched to 'for you' as I don't follow that many people and I miss the unexpected random stuff. I've seen zero musk content (except for people dunking on him), the main disadvantage of 'for you' for er me is that i see some tweets more than once, seven times is the most i've counted so far.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
yes maybe the elon-sludge issue has been cleared up? i only read about it tbf, that he was suddenly all over everyone's TL after the superbowl -- anyway i just switched to my main alt and back and saw nothing of his. on the whole i find curation p effective tbh (i follow a ton of bots and i go on block-sprees for promoted accounts)
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
Elon Sludge would have been a good name for this guy, like Sly Sludge from Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
This is my experience as well. I only follow a couple of hundred people, and a lot of them seem to have peeled off/made their escape, so sometimes I'll click "For You" just to see something new/surprising. (This will occasionally surface tweets by people I follow that I was not previously shown, for some reason.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
garbage day called his posting style "radioactive levels of Keep Calm And Chive On divorced Funko Pop brain" which sounds right
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
uuuuuuugh that is brutally accurate
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
Swore I thought I had already blocked him but, yeah, starting Monday he was showing up all the fuck over my feed so I blocked him (again?) while we are still able to do so.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Blocked him ages ago, now only see people talking about his bullshit.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
as someone who's divorced the Elon discourse is really interesting in that apparently everyone thinks divorced people are weird scumbags
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
The code also allows Musk’s account to bypass Twitter heuristics that would otherwise prevent a single account from flooding the core ranked feed
total U2 ripoff
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
My guess is that the ratio of divorce people to scum bags is likely the same as any population
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
i dont think people really think that its just a joke, not so much about being a scumbag more sweaty denial like a mid life crisis
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
the divorced guy stereotype is homosocial renewed burst of bottom-of-the-barrel misogyny a la scott adams afaict. my own divorced brother very much fits this stereotype but it is undoubtedly unfair to lots of divorced men.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
i would submit that there is an ambient flow in that direction and if you're a particularly unmoored divorced man it's easy to go that way.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
One of the unpleasant things I occasionally encountered in my just-divorced years was meeting another divorced guy who would take our similar states as grounds to launch into bitter diatribes about women. I would curtail the conversations as quickly as possible. I never ever wanted to be that guy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:41 (one year ago) link
(Not least becz as a divorced guy I was way more interested in meeting and talking to women than talking to other lonely dudes.)
https://i.redd.it/gwq41svhgzk71.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
some men are very immature and respond to pain by crawling back into the womb of boyhood
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
being a Divorced Guy is different from being a guy who got divorced
― more crankable (sic), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
bachelor arms would be a great name for a fisting event.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
Tesla is recalling ~10% of all the cars it has ever sold https://t.co/5vFaQYEz49— hal 👾 (@halhod) February 16, 2023
Tesla is voluntarily recalling 362,758 vehicles equipped with the company’s experimental driver-assistance software, which is marketed as Full Self-Driving Beta or FSD Beta, in the US, according to a recall notice out Thursday. Tesla will deliver an over-the-air software update to cars to address the issues, the recall notice said.
The FSD Beta system may cause crashes by allowing the affected vehicles to: “Act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution,” according to a safety recall report on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The FSD Beta system may also have trouble responding appropriately “to changes in posted speed limits,” the notice said.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
and now this!
Tesla fires dozens of employees in retaliation for organizing
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/tesla-fires-dozens-of-workers-over-union-campaign-complaint-alleges.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
man thats just brazen
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
fwiw muting him works better than blocking
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 February 2023 04:41 (one year ago) link
Killing him would be even better.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 17 February 2023 05:53 (one year ago) link
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c19e14-6bf8-4f74-ad48-0a9ebe2345ca_1328x832.png
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
This just popped up for me. I don't even know how to start doing this. pic.twitter.com/mrMac8VKRA
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 19 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
As the former lead for Ads at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about https://t.co/Hw4TfkFNJH— bruce.falck() 🦗 (@boo) February 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 February 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
Tesla thinks train is bunch of slow trucks pic.twitter.com/1cidVc58tC— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) February 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 February 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Convoy!
― nickn, Monday, 20 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
let's be real: a train really is a series of slow trucks
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
someone had to say it
― mh, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
they even toot their horns like slow trucks do
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
what do these people think the bronze age was like pic.twitter.com/tMc9WS8vZ2— m (@kept_simple) February 20, 2023
weirdos
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:51 (one year ago) link
not sure why i posted that here, other than andreessen being a twitter investor and also because i immediately imagined elon tweeting "interesting" in response to that
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:52 (one year ago) link
Why did the Bronze Age collapse? It got too woke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse?wprov=sfti1
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
I remember this season of Game of Thrones.
Competing theories of the cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse have been proposed since the 19th century. These include volcanic eruptions, droughts, disease, invasions by the Sea Peoples or migrations of the Dorians, economic disruptions due to increased ironworking, and changes in military technology and methods that brought the decline of chariot warfare.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
i have honestly never heard of anyone hoping to restore the bronze age. i truly don't even know what he means by that. kudos to him for coming up with something new i guess
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:00 (one year ago) link
The Bronze Age thing is a rancid shtick like all the rest of the aggressive half-jokey Proud Boy/Boogaloo Boys bullshit. White supremacist fantasizing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link
The nerds triumphed, and proceeded to replicate a creepily envious conception of the value system of the jocks who had oppressed them.— Matt Steinglass's Elon Musk parody acct 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (@mattsteinglass) February 21, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link
wow someone needs to watch revenge of the nerds two where they become friends
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:30 (one year ago) link
tesla just forgot to make new models or what
Imagine the head of the China Passenger Car Association saying this about your company. $TSLAhttps://t.co/YQSewueTiI pic.twitter.com/drtbhmazvv— Motorhead (@BradMunchen) February 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
btw i saw a tesla x the one with the fold up doors charging in the dead mall parking lot today not a common site in northern vermont
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
then later i saw them taking in a senic vista with the doors up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGthsqPOsk
― 龜, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
lol rough whyd they make it on the back doors but not the front hey check out these cool doors i never use
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
my close friend was with our friend I know though him in a tesla this past week, and the FSD got turned on. it was for a route in a suburb, pretty open streets that are marked, and it tried to move into non-lanes or turn where there wasn’t a turn a half-dozen times
tbrr this tesla owner is the guy who has owned every windows phone, he has beta tester personality
also how have people not made the joke that FSD beta is for betas
― mh, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:52 (one year ago) link
Why did the Bronze Age collapse? It got too woke.
based on no knowledge i was like "they were drinking lead" but i guess that's one of the guesses
i wanna say nah they need pt 3 where everyone is totally enslaved/indentured by nerd billionaires and a few jock crony oligarchs is more on point, but some shit's not funny is it?
it end's up ok, some marry indie stars and have kids named c3po and shit
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 03:49 (one year ago) link
or ends
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
(Anyone seriously interested in Bronze Age Collapse stuff would do well to check out the recent Tides of History episodes on the matter -- if you start here, go through the end of the season and the beginning of the new one, you'll find a lot of good stuff:
https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/season/4/?epPage=12
I admit to being a regular Wyman listener, he does his job very well.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
Also the book “1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed”
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
if i remember correctly, that was the year when non-aggressive, doubtful people briefly asserted themselves. the buildings weren't very tall back then, but nonetheless they began falling down out of weakness
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
"if people aren't aggressively procreating within me, why should i even be here", asked one local building
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
People looking back through history always imagine that they would have been the ones in the palace— Adrian Bonenberger (@AdrianBonenber1) February 20, 2023
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
Easily verified by the high percentage of 'past life regressions' that replicate that fantasy. And even if they weren't some warrior-prince or a queen, they were something vaguely glamorous, like a witch-herbalist-healer who was revered by all. Never a starving peasant kicked in the head by an ox as a child.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
"Dennis, there's some lovely filth over 'ere!"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
"No one wore ox helmets when we were kids, and I turned out alright!"
― peace, man, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk getting closer and closer with Andrew Tate's friend group https://t.co/ua32InzzV3— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) February 23, 2023
― better than whoever you are (gyac), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
wonder if elon will lose all his companies and just end up a sad right wing influencer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
it’s coming
― Clay, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
xp already got the Divorced for it
― better than whoever you are (gyac), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
re bronze age retvrn
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpxYwPaXwAEikBi?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
fwiw i dont know the source of the photo or really anything about it but i love it
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
bronze age mindset going to town on some ribs baby!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
btw i love that mindset has become a dumb guy buzzword its perfect
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
XPs "I want my Bronze-back Bronze-back Bronze-back Mindset"
<BARBECUE SAUCE>
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
oh wow what a feast. the first rule of bronze age mindset is never be outside for more than 5 minutes.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
Majors, L-R: communications, psychology, computer science, chemical engineering, business, indeterminate
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
btw funny thing about the bronze age collapse for all the stories told, the sea peoples is one of the most mysterious names ever, it like many collapses was likely precipitated by unfavorable climate change
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
yeah iirc it was climate + a bunch of earthquakes in the main iirc
― Clay, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:54 (one year ago) link
i still support the sea peoples tho they seem cool
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
i def align with the sea peoples they stole the grain when the time was right
― Clay, Saturday, 25 February 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
sailing around the mediterranean with your best buds raiding once great civilizations what could be better
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 February 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
i failed to die at 26. I failed to have the bronze age mindset.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 25 February 2023 01:36 (one year ago) link
Clay it’s good to see your posts!
― mh, Saturday, 25 February 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
thank you so much! i am recovering well and i love to post
― Clay, Saturday, 25 February 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
climate change and sea peoples aren't mutually exclusive! storms, earthquakes, fires, the lashing rain, the unprecedented breakers, riding atop them: the sea peoples
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:02 (one year ago) link
one day everyone just wakes up like well time to set fire to the palace and they're otm
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
because the palace is where the servers are and the servers are defended only by the guys in the pic above
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
^^^ bronze age mindset
glad you're well clay!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fp5WbG2akAIwuzE?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
Sick of this
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Esther got laid off.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-esther-crawford-1850162371
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has a message for employees: Loyalty means nothing. Over the weekend, Musk laid off more than 50 employees at the social media company, including one of his most vocal supporters, product head Esther Crawford.Crawford famously made headlines back in November when she quote-tweeted a photo of herself sleeping at the office days after Musk took over Twitter in order to meet his crazy deadlines. Despite criticism from folks who said Musk was making Twitter employees work round the clock to prove themselves, Crawford took it in stride, stating at the time that “doing hard things requires sacrifice.” The Platformer newsletter first reported Crawford’s dismissal.
Crawford famously made headlines back in November when she quote-tweeted a photo of herself sleeping at the office days after Musk took over Twitter in order to meet his crazy deadlines. Despite criticism from folks who said Musk was making Twitter employees work round the clock to prove themselves, Crawford took it in stride, stating at the time that “doing hard things requires sacrifice.” The Platformer newsletter first reported Crawford’s dismissal.
― z_tbd, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
yeah we've been gossiping about it on the twitter thread
― mh, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
oh whoops, thanks. my bookmarks went back to zero and i haven't added the twitter one on there yet
― z_tbd, Monday, 27 February 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he looking to develop a non-woke AI rival to counter ChatGPT.— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 28, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
I’d say this is some skynet shit but it’ll just crash and burn like all his other projects
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
shitnet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
Looking into it is he
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
Concerning!
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
normal times
Full video of the actual puja (worship) of Elon Musk at Bangalore, India.Men's Activists of SIFF used to be often shadow banned from twitter by previous woke admins of the company.After Elon Musk fired them, the MRAs have got back their right to free speech.Elon Musk Puja pic.twitter.com/zzBoTiTuOV— Save Indian Family Foundation (@realsiff) February 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink\
this is the way the world ends, with rival AIs tweeting "OK Groomer" and "Die in a fire!" at each other forever
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
do people not realize they can just post the n word themselves
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
Better to just blame the robot.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
The “can I use slurs to avert the apocalypse” tweets from a couple of weeks ago were A+.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
good news, we'll finally have an AI that will use the n word to prevent a nuclear explosion. and then several hundred times after that too.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
Just like in the "should we torture y/n" days when we were very worried that squeamish human rights do-gooders would stop Kiefer Sutherland from waterboarding the guy who would tell him where the nuke was set to go off.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 01:56 (one year ago) link
did you know Kiefer Sutherland’s daughter played the daughter of the main character on Veep? makes u think
― mh, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
They need to build more Julia Louis Dreyfus co-stars who Don’t say the n word
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
what if its to keep the show from getting canceled tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
(last page of Wally Wood's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains in EC's Weird Fantasy #17)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:53 (one year ago) link
Tesla is barring some of its biggest boosters, who flew in specifically to see the event, from attending Investor Day today — and for what appear to be either petty or unexplained reasons pic.twitter.com/JnRpzANICk— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) March 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
"honestly close to crying, this is heartbreaking" lmaoooooooooooooooo what a dork
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
sucks to get dumped (by car company)
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
if I won many millions of dollars, I wouldn't retire, I'd just locate the companies with the most Elon-esque CEOs, con people into hiring me for key roles, and deliberately sabotage major projects and violate NDAs and share secrets with competitors .
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
i hope he'll be ok
honda might be looking for a sycophantic rich asshole, could try emailing or following them for a while and see if it works out
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
nevertheless
ARK's first "GitHub" model published in 2019 had over 5 million Tesla robotaxis on the road doing 585 billion miles, this year (2023). The actual number will be zero. pic.twitter.com/qM7YuYUZjF— Keubiko🇺🇦 (@Keubiko) March 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
lets see what he's responding to as his website continues to misfire
Super concerning— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2023
― frogbs, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 March 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
its true you can be a total moron and still have like 10 kids
― frogbs, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
lol this made me look up his IQ, which is not known but has been "estimated" at 150-155
(i.e. this is what *he* says it is i suspect) (lying as usual)
(IQ is a garbage measure in any case but also haha no way)
― mark s, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
yeah i estimate my iq to be *turns to assistant* whats the highest number
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
I'm also super concerned about a 23-year-old study that reveals nerds don't get laid in high school
― rob, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
if you kill elon you become the new elon
Elon Musk now has bodyguards flank him everywhere inside Twitter HQ — including accompanying him to the bathroom. He is reportedly paranoid that someone in the company may go rogue & stage a coup. https://t.co/BdTQvvJmqg— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
I certainly believe that Elton is Super concerned that there may be demographics of children not having enough sex
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
How many jars of his own piss are presently taking the place of all the staff he fired
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
In the words of Nigel Tufnel, "What are the hours?"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
has he endorsed phrenology yet? seems like his kind of thing
― z_tbd, Monday, 6 March 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
he'll need to have some head sculpting
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Monday, 6 March 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
there’s no reason to treat someone like thisjust an absolutely horrible person pic.twitter.com/kFiH5G2VUJ— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link
idk if that guy was for real but still
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
monstrous
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
that might be the most unprofessional thing I've ever seen, fuck this asshole
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:41 (one year ago) link
i would imagine he could get sued for publicly humiliating an employee who was just trying to figure out if he was fired or not after the company failed to communicate with him
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
he also doesn't understand the point of office space. having to constantly justify your existence to heartless bureacrats is what drives people to despair at initech. the audience is meant to laugh -- bitterly -- at management's lack of humanity, not the employee's lack of relevance.
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
can't imagine how horrible this guy must be in private if he's willing to do that in public
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 04:11 (one year ago) link
idk if that guy was for real but still― lag∞n, Monday, March 6, 2023 9:37 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, March 6, 2023 9:37 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Obv can't vouch for the specific details of his job, but he did work there:
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/halli-laid-off-from-twitter/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link
Also suffers from muscular dystrophy.
Mr Thorleifsson is worried that Mr Musk will not honour the contract he signed with Twitter when he sold them his company."This is extremely stressful. This is my retirement fund, a way to take care of myself and my family as my disease progresses. Having the richest man in the world on the other end of this, potentially refusing to stand by contracts is not easy for me to accept," he said.
"This is extremely stressful. This is my retirement fund, a way to take care of myself and my family as my disease progresses. Having the richest man in the world on the other end of this, potentially refusing to stand by contracts is not easy for me to accept," he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 07:49 (one year ago) link
He seems like a real dude, and also a real dude
https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/06/access-all-areas-meet-the-man-building-a-thousand-wheelchair-ramps-in-iceland
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 10:12 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ what a fucking asshole
The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
Yesterday I read somewhere that Twitter hasn’t paid their AWS bill in months and Amazon is negotiating with Twitter for points on Twitter ad sales.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
I’d make a joke about selling the office furniture but he did that.
What ads? I haven’t seen an ad in weeks.
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:35 (one year ago) link
The replies from Elon simps cheering on that guy's firing is incredibly depressing.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ what a fucking asshole🐦[The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023🕸]🐦
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
Don’t know how it works internationally but on top of all the other despicable shit that seems like a HIPAA/medical privacy violation to tweet about his requested disability accommodation
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
he def broke some laws but he doesnt care hes rich
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
The replies from Elon simps cheering on that guy's firing is incredibly depressingIt is but I assume someone with money and a mind like Musk is paying a giant street team (while still getting many always-online supporters gratis).But even if he wasn't we should say that he is.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
genuinely curious how many people remaining at Twitter are actively looking for other jobs right now
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
there was a recent article that said it was most of them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
i get it, it's like looking at a car crash but I don't know why anyone would read Elon's reply guys.
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
maybe 1 or 2 but then you just move on w/ your day
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
Unless you had mastered the ability to send aneurysms through the screen maybe
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
What ads? I haven’t seen an ad in weeks.I haven’t seen a tweet with more than two replies that doesn’t also have ads in the replies for weeks.
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
Musk's description of that guy is a completely accurate description of Musk himself
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
I'm getting a lot of Epoch Times ads atm
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
i got an ad for the san diego zoo and it was the only ad I have not immediately blocked in months.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
i have a long term experiment going where i block all ads except for junk food and booze to see if they will just serve me those, conclusion: no
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
like racist reply guys on a Sadiq Khan thread I use these chuds to up my list of blockees, at least until I master that aneurysm-via-tweet thing gyac mentioned above
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
I definitely wish that Twitter sent them a message when you block em, like "Stevie blocked you because you're a worthless danger"
This guy's good. Halli, I mean. The whole thread is great.
hitting the most divorced man alive with a “i sleep in a big bed with my wife” is killing me lmao https://t.co/i663ApGHVD— maybe: xavier (@couldbexav) March 7, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
I saw also that this Halli guy is allegedly really generous with his money in Iceland and seems to be a really well liked guy. But even if he was a miserable grump, it's still fucking appalling to see Musk do that in public and ultra depressing to see the chuds cheering him on.
I just want this fuck to go away forever.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
I joined at a time when the company was growing fast. You kind of did the opposite.There was a lot going on. The company had a fair amount of issues, but then again, most bigger companies do.Or even small companies, like Twitter today.— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
― peace, man, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
get him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Kind of want to poll the individual zings in that thread
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
“You only read on the toilet” is underrated
Are you under the impression this is going to look good for him https://t.co/XmjqQt01nA pic.twitter.com/MeYBKKq9EG— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) March 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Look at the hits in this thread.
We worked for more or less every big tech company. We grew fast and made money. I think that's what you are referring to when you say independently wealthy?That I independently made my money, as opposed to say, inherited an emerald mine.— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
elon really is getting to trump levels of churning out awful shit
.@elonmusk knows how to get down pic.twitter.com/yIwcByxAuL— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) March 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Nazi fuck
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
wow. the guy, Halli, that Elon Musk has been mocking is not only a class act, but was literally on a list of "do not fire" VIPs because of how expensive his exit package was (likely because, if what Halli's other tweets say are true, Twitter acquired his company for a good price) https://t.co/H1skqNyiHI— Dan Seljak (@anotherglassbox) March 7, 2023
did Elon have any clue who this guy was before he started mocking him?? can't imagine how many lawyers are chomping at the bit to take his case
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
lmao, it does seem like he knew who he was and just didnt care, tbf hes lit so much money on fire already adding that guys compensation to it prob doesnt matter much
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
i mean, why would he start expecting any negative consequences at this point? he's free to do whatever the fuck he wants.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
yeah he's just going to stonewall this guy in litigation, I feel bad for him
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
there is a non-zero chance that musk can use expensive lawyers to flatten this guy and pay him absolutely nothing
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
it does seem like he knew who he was and just didnt care
idk it seems every time something breaks on Twitter there are employees (or ex-employees) stunned at how little Elon seems to know about how Twitter actually runs, I would not be surprised if Elon saw the word "Figma", thought he was being trolled, and now has to double down on it because he's that dumb? sorta like how he got forced into buying Twitter in the first place?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
idk he def a least found out who the guy was at some point because he was sharing info about him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
yeah I think he found out after he started talking shit about him, that's kind of how Elon operates
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
elon you huge baby bitch pic.twitter.com/SNjbodeeeb— metal.txt (@metaltxt) March 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
people are speculating that elon thought figma was some sort of joke the guy was just trolling, its design collaboration software
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqlgWCfWIAARC90?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
who knows tho, regardless elon should be thrown into a pit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
i don't believe that excuse.
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
i dont think its an excuse
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
when all you have is a bofa, everything looks like a ligma
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
people are speculating that elon thought figma was some sort of joke the guy was just trolling
I 100% believe this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
yeah then once he realized the guy was for real he doubled down to save face makes sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
his paranoia about getting owned led him to a huge self own
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
many such cases
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
sad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Elon being one of the single-app dummies explains a lot
I get playing dumb as a bit on twitter but the thing that irritates me is people doing "I don't know what that is" or asking for explanations of what easily-searchable entities are because they refuse to do anything other than scroll and reply
I guess that's an argument for the all-in-one apps, just make it so you can click on any word and the wiki entry pops up. Not that he's going to read that, either
― mh, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
playing dumb is also a classic boss domination tactic
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
oh, is it?
― mh, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
ignorance is strength
― treeship., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 12:01 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is true.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
i had a tweet about the fact that twitter is still paging me do numbers over the weekend. lots of replies, as terrible as ever, but i also didn't see any ads.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
i had to mute that conversation everyone was faving your cute reply to me, an innocent man
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
yeah that was rough sorry
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
if twitter could monetize people explaining each other's jokes in the comments they would have a winner
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
Halli is such a contrast to Elon Musk and the entire Silicon Valley model.When he sold his company to Twitter, he took the payment as wages so he’d pay much more tax to give back to Iceland’s social system. Meanwhile, Musk fights higher taxes while taking billions in subsidies. https://t.co/zpHa6uA3Pb pic.twitter.com/dlVPYYkdZE— Paris Marx (@parismarx) March 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
whooerps
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
he's not getting a penny.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
lag∞n are you metal.txt?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
no but im metal af haha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
i never tweet out of character from my bot accounts i consider it a violation of the bot code
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 bookmarkflaglink
He'll be ok, he has a wife and children who like him.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
obThread, this guy sucks so bad
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is such a deeply terrible person even as a kid when another kid hospitalized him, his dad was like fair enough the kid almost killing my son had a point pic.twitter.com/6CZR6ecaRl— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 7, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
Another very Trumpy thing about him, an absolute spoiled bully since childhood.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
BBC has a little profile on the Icelandic dude... he actually does kind of need the money, or is going to need it at some point:
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful.He is considering remaining at Twitter.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
POV: you just got a call from your lawyer.
betting now all of the tweet responses are variants of:
"see? Elon can admit when he's wrong, because that's the kind of quality man he is"
OR
"Weak. you didn't owe him an apology CANCEL CULTURE amirite"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
That messed up, why would those people lie to you— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) March 7, 2023
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
"based on things I was told that were untrue"
that very sentence is untrue
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
it was the pizza deliveryman
he passed on a false rumor and i only regret that i believed him
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
Fuck this guy forever. Obviously nothing he does isn't gross but secretly firing and publicly mocking someone with muscular dystrophy is ghoulish even by those low standards
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
if you read musk's tweets in the voice of a 13 year old who is being forced to apologize they're way better.
betting now all of the tweet responses are variants of:"see? Elon can admit when he's wrong, because that's the kind of quality man he is"OR"Weak. you didn't owe him an apology CANCEL CULTURE amirite"― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 4:20 PM
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 4:20 PM
i'm cynical enough to believe that his public responses are a show and his actual response is to establish more bot accounts to post this exact sort of response.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
I think experience informs us that you cannot in fact be too cynical about this guy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
I think when his Twitter bullying of a guy with muscular dystrophy started to get reported on cnn and bbc etc is about when that half baked apology got written
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link
It's kind of astounding re: the subject of this thraed how quickly I've zipped from 'you are a person whose name and face I recognize and that's about it' to 'how soon can u do us all a favor and stop being alive'
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
*6 hours later* he might be?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
god he embarrassed himself so thoroughly yesterday that nobody noticed he also spent a good part of the day retweeting Tucker Carlson's idiotic Jan 6 story
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Hard Drive remains on his case, previously seen ratioing him repeatedly
well you're the expert on SNL's bad days pic.twitter.com/Ysb5oJsRBK— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) May 30, 2022
reversing your charitable decision? for shame, Mr Musk https://t.co/lLnHSICJx9— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) March 8, 2023
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
i think all this shows is that musk is maybe a little serious about trying to win advertisers back to twitter - publicly attacking a guy with muscular dystrophy who by all accounts sounds like he could play All Around Nice Guy in the next pixar movie is not going to assuage advertisers concerns with the platform.
i don't think the threat of litigation over his contract was the deterrent here, there's already hundreds of millions in comp that he's not paying to the former twitter c-suite iirc, among others.
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
yeah agree it was prob more of a pr issue, it was getting coverage on tv, thats not great lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
Halli isn't another dev though. It's a different contract. Apologizing after that roasting was humiliating, so there must be more to it
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
yeah, the salary seemed symbolic and not actually linked to him doing a lot of work at twitter. just the payment for buying out his company, in installments
wasn't there an episode of Silicon Valley where the dudes who were coasting as employees were just hanging on a rooftop on the corporate campus screwing around because they weren't assigned work and were running out the clock? obviously not the case here, but it's not unknown
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
wild to buy a digital shop for $100m not something you see everyday
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
i wasn't talking about devs, i was talking about the c-suites' golden parachutes, which he is not paying xp
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
acquihire at $2m per head and a bunch of those are prob admin bizdev type people that twitter doesnt care about perhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/twitter-acquires-design-firm-ueno-adding-about-50-employees
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
If he's still actually working there (?) then I guess he's getting his monthly cash salary (although if he had to ask if he was still working there then maybe he's not even getting that).
But salaries are mostly irrelevant for senior leadership. They're <10% of their compensation. He's not getting any of the millions of dollars of accelerated vest stock he's entitled to if/when he gets fired "for cause" (ha) or leaves voluntarily.
We know this because neither has any VP+ or acquisition exec. I guess some of them might eventually. Seems unlikely. But the "uh oh elon really screwed up firing this person" stories that have come with every wave of layoffs have big "i'd like to see him wriggle his way out of this jam" energy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
my assumption was that the novel "pay me for my company as salary" would mean he'd have an abnormally large salary unless he spread it out over a very long term, which seems goofy because it'd be odd to assume any social media company's going to exist for twenty years
so as a line item Elon would probably see he had the top salary and be like "fire this guy he costs way too much" without bothering to find out why
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
SOP is that he (and esther crawford) would have had pro forma cash salaries similar to SWEs, i.e. maybe $200k in the US, presumably much less in iceland. the real ~$Xm acquisition money would have vested as stock (or now cash at $54.20) quarterly over four years, with a rider saying "you get all of it immediately if we fire you without cause" (which is not being honored).
i don't get the impression he made much of an effort to fire people with high total comp *in particular*. these people would have gone in the first wave otherwise. they probably earn 10x what everyone else at their level earns.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
I haven’t been following the Tesla stock price since it mysteriously rallied but I see it’s now dropped from around $200 to $184 in two days? Keep it going king
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
fwiw I'm going off this source: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/
it might have been a one-time payout as wages, not clear
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
tbf, i don't know if his contract would have had a 'for cause' out. if he was the owner of the company he sold and actively chose to take his payment as salary instead of as a payment (whether in stock or cash) I doubt they would have included a for cause out. that would not be equivalent to taking his consideration as a one-time payout with no strings attached.
where musk could have stonewalled him I think is just dragging out the process by which he sues and tries to get the money he's owed under the contract. like, if he sues in iceland and wins a judgment, musk could simply choose to not pay. i doubt twitter actually sends any money through iceland as part of normal operations, so it'd be hard to enforce in iceland. which means he'd probably have to go to the US and get a US court to recognize the judgment and then to garnish revenue from twitter's bank accounts or something. but imagine the headlines - musk is making the guy with muscular atrophy who can't go to the bathroom without assistance actually get on a plane and fly all the way to the US to appear in a courthouse to get the money he was owed under the contract. that would not be a great headline for someone who is trying to convince advertisers that twitter is not a lightning rod of controversy and is safe to advertise on!
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
i would guess the vesting schedule was the normal one, even if he took it in cash rather than stock.
Normally in such large sales, the payment comes in the form of stock or other financial instruments, which categorize the sale as capital gains
this is not true in the US and UK and it would surprise my if it were true in iceland. stock compensation is taxed as ordinary income. if it wasn't then companies could save money by paying their employees in 100% stock.
anyway, musk could have picked a less sympathetic guy to get into a fight with. twitter is full of them.
is calacanis still there?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
that appears to be the m.o. here, just fire everyone and not pay for anything and then drag things out in court to the point where the different parties will take a much smaller settlement
not sure how that applies to the rent situation where they could just get evicted, though
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
yet another trump parallel
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
xp it was an acquihire? i assume they paid ~$0 for the company, and the value was in tying up good people with golden handcuffs. and surely an exec wouldn't accept golden handcuffs without an accelerated vesting clause? that seems nuts.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
that xp is to 龜 sorry
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/06/twitter-acquihires-creative-agency-ueno-to-help-design-new-products/
I think a lot of suppositions and conjectures are being made (the $100M figure keeps getting thrown around) but here's what was reported at the time
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
$100M seems in the ballpark if that covers a nominal acquisition price (reading between the lines in haraldur's murder thread, it doesn't seem to have been worth a lot as a business per se by this time) and the comp for 50 acquihires for 4 years.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
idk if you ask me $100M is a business that is worth a fair bit
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
in an acquihire that $100M is almost all going to people who don't own the business (i.e. its employees), and only if they stay for four years. the owner of the business gets relatively little cash for the business itself on closing (which is not to say this guy is not a mensch for voluntarily maximizing his tax liability).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
the thing is agencies are by their nature worth basically 0
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
yup.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
xp it was an acquihire? i assume they paid ~$0 for the company, and the value was in tying up good people with golden handcuffs. and surely an exec wouldn't accept golden handcuffs without an accelerated vesting clause? that seems nuts.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:33 PM (nineteen minutes ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:33 PM (nineteen minutes ago)
i think there'd be at least some payment for the equity of the company, might not be the full $100MM deal price. i've never worked on one but this seems like a good summary https://www.cooleygo.com/acqui-hire-basics/
i'm speculating that halli would have received cash in exchange for ueno's equity because of this whole thing in the news about him taking a salary and paying taxes on it as ordinary income, contributing to iceland's social safety net etc. vs. a one-time cash payment for his ueno shares on which he would only pay capital gains tax. the previous sentence makes sense only if one of the options he was choosing between was selling his shares in ueno for cash + assuming iceland taxes long-term capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income (which would make sense insofar as it mirrors the us regime).
the other option seems to be this structure that they ended up with though that does sound bizarre - that he gave up his equity for $0 in return for a guaranteed salary for life. maybe what was meant was that the consideration for halli came in two parts, cash for his shares + guaranteed salary, and he weighted it much more towards his salary? personally, i would have taken the lump sum and invested it in treasuries or something, which is the advice they give to all lotto winners.
side note, acquihires seem weird to me - employment is generally at-will (i.e. either side can fire/quit at will) and i think it'd be hard to force someone to basically work for a company without letting them quit. seems courts would not like that. so seems like you make them work by offering above market comp to the employees for a number of years. which i think is what the cooleygo article gets at and what you referred to as golden handcuffs. as elon would say, interesting!
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
the cooley article says $2M per head is at the high end of the range for an acquihire - that seems excessive for a bunch of graphic designers, no? (apologies to all the graphic designers who read ilx).
makes sense to me that halli as owner of ueno would get paid a little more, say $10-20 million, as the gatekeeper, and the rest of the $100MM was split among the 49 other employees, that brings the actual cost per head down. and makes sense as to why halli gets put on the DO NOT FIRE list, you don't want $20MM of cash (or RSUs) going out the door in one day.
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
fwiw, i have been on the receiving end of an acquihire.
every share holder (which happened to include employees) got a lump sum share of the total acquisition price of $Xm in cash. (i got 1% of that $Xm in cash and paid off my credit cards on airport wifi the morning the deal closed.)
every employee who chose to stay got around double their market rate in comp over the following four years. the projected total for that was about $3Xm in our case. you're still at will. there were 7 of us. only 2 of us stayed for 4 years, even though we were paid much more than market rate.
i guess the point is that the acquistion cash to owners is not $0, and that's presumably the capital gain he elected to take as income, which makes that article make sense. but normally the ongoing comp an essential acquihire employee receives is larger than the cash they get as a shareholder/owner (that's what makes it an acquihire). the ongoing comp is what's normally subject to accelerated vesting, and what i'm assuming musk is not going to pay.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
$2M/head as comp over four years is about right. it's a little high for non-eng, but it's not crazy.
halli will have been on single figures million a year, with accelerated vest.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
that makes a lot of sense, you're just bulk-hiring known talent and expertise
good posts
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
interesting post on this https://lethain.com/digg-acquihire/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
that he gave up his equity for $0 in return for a guaranteed salary for life.
this would rule
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
that's really interesting caek!
i do wonder if any of the other employees at ueno actually had equity, or maybe twitter just sort of agreed to buy everybody's shares at different prices. i'm assuming they would not have given essential employees who owned equity the option to weight their equity more heavily than the salary potion of the comp. i'm assuming for essential employees you want their to be some sort of balloon payment at the end, to incentivize people to stay. if they gave halli the option to weight his comp toward a lump sum for his equity, maybe they didn't view him as essential.
i do recognize this convo is going off the rails. to bring it back, i appreciated the sick burn halli had on elon having twitter shitter bodyguards.
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
i do wonder if any of the other employees at ueno actually had equity, or maybe twitter just sort of agreed to buy everybody's shares at different prices.
startup employee equity is so chaotic that i think anything goes, and the CEO/founder has a ton of influence on what happens. basically they have a big dial called "give myself less money or screw over employee-shareholders" that they are free to adjust based on their particular needs.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
xp yeah, he restrained himself but there were some nice mild insults in that thread
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
are people from iceland known to be really rude though? that might have been brutal
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
this whole thing has been an absolute PR disaster for Musk specifically, and more broadly the wreckage of what was once Twitter
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
it's the worst thing he's done this week for sure
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
just this from BBC:
Photographer Daniel Houghton tweeted "As someone who has worked directly with Halli Thorleifsson during a turnaround, this is super disappointing to see. Not only is his work ethic next level, his talent and humility are world class."
Mr Musk replied: "Based on your comment, I just did a video call with Halli to figure out what's real vs what I was told. It's a long story. Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet."
Dude 'communicate via tweet' is literally all you do all day long
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
yet I read both of those things as tweets and not as a BBC article
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
as the proud still-new owner of twitter i say: better not to communicate by it!
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
other uses are ok tho (muting people)
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
this conversation is making me realize once again that i should ask all of you tech types for money. gimme!
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
How much you want
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I would like four thousand dollars
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
thats super cheap. i want 40 million.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
us techies don't have any money, we have stock options and man buns
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
elon has money because he makes space rockets and automobiles
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
And never pays anyone
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
every day this shitwad finds a new way to fail beyond anyone who didn't grow up living off the proceeds of blood diamonds, it's almost impressive really. and still he continues onwards/downwards. is there no bottom? there is no bottom.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 9 March 2023 09:54 (one year ago) link
The bottom is suicide or life in prison. He'll likely fail into a pillow full of money instead.
― octobeard, Thursday, 9 March 2023 10:54 (one year ago) link
assassinated on his own toilet by his own bodyguards, tywin-lannister-style
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2023 11:05 (one year ago) link
oh my god
Elon Musk asked managers at Twitter to nominate their best employees for promotion, then fired the managers and replaced them with their lower paid nominees https://t.co/ngOh68eEZ5— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) March 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
is this how he ran tesla? it seems like he is actively trying to destroy morale.
― treeship., Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
does he have this kind of control there? i'd image anyone else who is in a position of power at his other ventures, if they have an ounce of sense, has got to be drawing up plans to get him away from any decision making powers
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
Tesla’s board is very deferential to Musk but they could change their minds
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
Musk being ousted would be hilarious, people would create videos of themselves burning their Teslas
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
perhaps he has become more reckless over time.
― treeship., Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
i read an article once where a source inside tesla said that elon was quite carefully "managed," like they'd devote a lot of energy to placating his rages and preventing him from making any rash decisions. so he has been mad for a while. but it doesn't seem like twitter has a skilled enough asshole whisperer to keep him in check.
― treeship., Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
from what weve heard about tesla and his other companies hes kind of like that everywhere a domineering impulsive boss but hes really letting loose at twitter because he hates the company and also he loves it hes a mess over there
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
i thought that little video clip posted here from a while back was pretty telling: the one with a group of dudes sitting around a table, staring at elon musk, who is staring at his phone, using twitter, and occasionally muttering to himself about what he might tweet. iirc, he says something that is not notably interesting at all and then one of the sycophants reassures him that he is amazing
i did try to search for it, but failed. this thread has 9574 posts, and also, i'm not sure if it was on the twitter thread, which also has a few dozen posts
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
.@ElonMusk jokes about his plan to steal @HardDriveMag memes and post them as his own. pic.twitter.com/6XhIKXVfQe— The Recount (@therecount) June 14, 2022
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
Your meme game is strong
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
― treeship., Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:05 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i wonder if he is...increasingly isolated?
― omar little, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
it's hard to fuck up saying "thank you" but the way he says thank you there is a fuck up
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
he's definitely entering the howard hughes mania part of his tycoonship
― 龜, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
probably the funniest genre of post by the type of person who pays for twitter blue pic.twitter.com/U5e7NB4Cye— pudding person (@JUNlPER) March 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
elon promised blue subscribers more engagement and hes not delivering lol prob cause he fired all the developers and cause you cant make people like shitty tweets they need to build an ai that will write viral tweets for people but they cant cause he fired all the developers
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
haha, yeah that's where it seems to be going, or at least what they want: to make twitter users little CEOs of their potempkin villages. pay the fee to get better "engagement", then use AI to craft tweets because you can't think of good stuff on your own, then...i think the part that is missing is that the bots need to be there in order to give the AI tweets more engagement. elon may be making a mistake in trying to get rid of those, it's a key part of the delusion scheme
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
you could have an ai that basically turns your account into a bot automating all the activities of twitter and interacting with other automated accounts, it would still give you the option of using twitter manually when you felt like it but why bother its already taking care of it for you, all you have to do is sit back and read your notifications, all negative content will of course be filtered out
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
it could have a lil thumbs up thumbs down training system so it figures out how to generate stuff you like
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
well its worth remembering that Tesla was making cars before Elon bought the "founder" title and both them and SpaceX get a ton of federal money which I assume means you have to have a functioning board. so its only natural that Twitter would operate more like his *other* companies like Boring and Neuralink, companies which are uniformly terrible and may not produce anything tangible ever (outside of what Twitter's already done)
also funny to remember that this is basically how Trump operated too, anyone who ever worked for one of his companies or in his government has said the same thing, that things could only run smoothly if they kept him away
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Company town: pic.twitter.com/DfDZk9q8W7— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) March 9, 2023
Cannot fathom how ugly and boring Muskville would be.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
asshole whisperer
dying at this, thank u treeship
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 9 March 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
So, a company town? Ive read Parable of the Sower, fuck off with that shit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 March 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
Oh duh the guy posting the img said exactly that, I'm a derp.
Idk if it's true or not but I often think of Felix from Chapo talking about how Elon is a rockabilly guy.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 10 March 2023 01:10 (one year ago) link
btw ai-written social media is here now: https://www.theverge.com/23632371/social-network-future-ai-automated-chatbot-posts-linkedin
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
twitter needs to catch up theyre fighting for their lives
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
honestly, as long as users don't care/notice, this feels like the future for most ad-based media
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah I think a lot of content-generation jobs (copy writing, design) are going to turn into basically AI management, or AI specialists. Twitter will be all bots except for Elon and catturd.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 March 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
some (most?) clickbait media is already heavily guided by "AI" (meaning: analytics + A/B optimization + specialized CMS), but who needs human posters when you can get people to lurk/look at ads while bots post
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
My own life would be a lot better if an AI could cover government meetings for me, but I feel like that's a long way off.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 March 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
That's an AI application that you could see being genuinely helpful, but yeah a little more dicey than reporting junior league hockey games
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
I will never log off pic.twitter.com/a6VVruzFtJ— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Can't believe that feature is still live tbh
― nashwan, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
[money bursts into flames] pic.twitter.com/EPlbJ4B5Rw— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 11, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
he's down for any stunning losses out there, just PM him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
There's no way the Feds would sell SVB to a company that has zero banking experience and would have to start learning their new business by watching some Powerpoints. Elon may not know this, but he knows how to encourage his flatterers.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 March 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
running a bank is easy, you just tell everyone to work extremely hard and extremely smart, or else
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:30 (one year ago) link
i woke up in the middle of the night and had the epiphany that the guy to the right of elon in the backwards baseball hat has big loftus energy. it is... so not gonna happen, bro
― 龜, Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
Halli, thank you for staying on twitter dot com
Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
Add anti-transgender to the list:
Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults. Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes. Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2023
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
responding to an account dedicated to making sure that as many people as possible die from covid and puts "slow the spread" in mocking quotation marks
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
wow, he's pissed he has a trans daughter
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 March 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link
also, he started this whole purchasing Twitter fiasco shortly after Grimes dumped him for Chelsea Manning.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
i hope he fucking explodes
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
seriously, who - beyond a swathe of twitter accounts that get off on the taste of boot leather - will miss this shithead when he dies?
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Saturday, 18 March 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
I hope he goes to Mars (soon) and livestreams his journey as he steadily fades away, like the death of HAL.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 March 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
I think he’s referring to watching The Breakfast Club
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
There’s no way, if he does go to Mars, that he won’t be forced out the airlock before they even arrive.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 18 March 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
pr✧✧✧@twit✧✧✧.c✧✧ now auto responds with 💩— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023
is he trying to burn his empire down
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 March 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
well, he’s not lying, it did thatI emailed asking whether they’d comment on the fact users’ blocks aren’t maintained if the blocked user is elon muskI had a notification this morning he’d tweeted some inane garbage. Promptly re-blocked him, we’ll see if it sticks
― mh, Sunday, 19 March 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fr6-bxWWIA4YsN4?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
oh sir, i love you so
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
the joke doesn't even work like that, what the fuck is he doing
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
i'm guessing, but i think he's going for the "this is so obviously not the context for that joke but i said it anyway!" angle, which i remember being very in vogue when i was 10 years old and is deeply unfunny
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
That's what she said?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
but its not funny with "that's what she said", the whole point of that is you can say it a lot of innocuous things
its funny when like people recount their dreams and then say "when I woke up, my pillow was gone"
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
But it's funny because Hakeem Jeffries says things that girls say.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
Assuming blue tick Jeff there is a Twitter Blue subscriber with about 20 followers
― groovypanda, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
jeff curry is VP and head of marketing for a rival EV firm afaict
so he may possibly be being sarcastic?
― mark s, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Twitter needs a sarcasm font
Elon Musk: looking into this
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
you're talking about knoopdogg373? This guy just retweets crypto shit and replies to Elon
It really is it?! 🤷♂️— Jeff Curry (@knoopdogg373) March 21, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
lol it looks like he already lost his blue checkmark? payment decline? insufficient asslicking of King Elon?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
He appears to be a desperately thirsty crypto dweeb.
https://twitter.com/knoopdogg373?s=21&t=z1egexpHAtHcPPxgbp4Hrw
The energy of a guy wearing no shoes buying one more lottery scratcher at 4 in the morning.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
If you knew anything about Twitter, you would know when you change profile pic. They review account. Blue check will be back in 2 or 3 days 👍— Jeff Curry (@knoopdogg373) March 23, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
no my guy, i am neither famous enough to have legitimately earned a blue check in the olden days, nor a mark enough to pay for one now to have known that changing your profile pic throws it off (which seems really dumb to me and i don't remember seeing that under the old system)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
(ftr my snarky response was to his tweet and not your post Mr. President)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
Tesla Sells Out of Steering Wheels as Owners Rush to Replace the Yoke https://t.co/MfHGblkllP pic.twitter.com/iotelheUkh— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) March 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
oh god knoopdogg373 is from Montevideo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk concedes Twitter is now worth less than half what he paid in email about stock grants, report says https://t.co/QC9sjo0WFX— Insider Business (@BusinessInsider) March 26, 2023
Musk also told staff he saw a "clear but difficult path" to a $250 billion valuation, Schiffer tweeted.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
"clear but difficult path"
visionary
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L8jgaWn.png
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
the thing we all know about
Musk says Twitter is on the path of an inverse startup. 5/5— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Musk innovating in the enddown space.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
oops lol
Twitter says its source code was posted online and worked to get it taken down from GitHub on Friday. Now it's trying to unmask the anonymous user behind the leak. Our sources say that the person is a former Twitter employee who left last year. https://t.co/mML5OXkUit— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) March 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
who "left"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
Weird what happens when you fire a few thousand people
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/ymCxdvWK0Z— hingo🫡 (@hingo) March 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 March 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
Full Self Driving as they call it. Damage on the front end, driver unconscious. pic.twitter.com/il1ak11ukg— Joe Sixpack Capital (@Joe6packcapital) March 28, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsUyJT_aMAA7fpB?format=jpg&name=small
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 07:26 (one year ago) link
Have any cult experts ever weighed in on Tesla?
― rob, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
this is like letter writers trying to win a no-prize from Marvel
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
this is a pretty breezy take, but yes!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7a586dB2BLYEWTftCO1F7V?si=972592832ebd4909
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
ha yeah that makes a lot of sense, will listen
― rob, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
my god is this man a loser
Remember when Elon Musk publicly discriminated against a disabled worker and then had to apologize when it turned out firing the worker would cost 100 million dollars? Since then Elon’s been repeatedly making friendly replies to the guy and the guy has never responded. pic.twitter.com/8ZgmR39FEa— evan (@esjesjesj) April 1, 2023
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 April 2023 04:59 (one year ago) link
Aw he found a new Stephen King
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 1 April 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.2 million in damages to a Black former Tesla worker over allegations of racism https://t.co/z0nTPtAbzg— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 April 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Punis are v much of the point so i get the appeal but ow
― alright alright alright alright (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 April 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
the hits just keep on coming
The cameras in Tesla vehicles are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy," the company claims. In fact, Tesla employees internally shared and joked about highly invasive videos of Tesla customers recorded by their own cars, per Reuters: https://t.co/ZdWX8QWtsx— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) April 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 April 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
tuff times
MCDONALDS CMO, on Musk:“For many communities, his willingness.. to further an agenda under the guise of freedom of speech is perpetuating racism .. and a potential for brand safety compromise we should all be concerned about.”(via @maxwelltani) https://t.co/TNAXtddkcF— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) April 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 April 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
rough words from an officer of a company whose CEO is literally a clown
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 April 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
And whose Chief Legal Counsel is a cheeseburger
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
Mayor McCheese, Esq.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
About three years ago, some employees stumbled upon and shared a video of a unique submersible vehicle parked inside a garage, according to two people who viewed it. Nicknamed “Wet Nellie,” the white Lotus Esprit sub had been featured in the 1977 James Bond film, “The Spy Who Loved Me.”The vehicle’s owner: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who had bought it for about $968,000 at an auction in 2013. It is not clear whether Musk was aware of the video or that it had been shared.
The vehicle’s owner: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who had bought it for about $968,000 at an auction in 2013. It is not clear whether Musk was aware of the video or that it had been shared.
― scanner darkly, Friday, 7 April 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Of course he bought that thing. What fun is it to have endless money if you can’t buy all the rides from all those movies you love ? Worked for Tom Cruise.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 7 April 2023 05:05 (one year ago) link
does Cruise buy souvenirs from art he feels fondly about? literally all I know about his personal life is that he uses slave labour and has pimps audition his wives, and has personal chefs that he'll recommend to colleagues - afaik he actively avoids demonstrating affection for specific pieces of craft or design
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Friday, 7 April 2023 06:16 (one year ago) link
Cruise bought his own P-51 Mustang, right?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 8 April 2023 07:44 (one year ago) link
I don’t know if that’s a car or a plane or a gun
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 8 April 2023 08:12 (one year ago) link
― groovypanda, Saturday, 8 April 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
What if it’s all three?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
20th Century murican Trinity
― alright alright alright alright (Hunt3r), Saturday, 8 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
https://77snszqv.media.zestyio.com/Mustang.jpg
A two-seater, single engine WWII fighter
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 8 April 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
my ex uncle used to have a plane like that (hes an airline pilot)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 April 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
ta, looked it up - gonna say that buying a plane that you fly and then using it in your own movie 17 years later does not count as buying a vehicle because you liked seeing it in a movie tho
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 8 April 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
Definitely something a real genius would say pic.twitter.com/OGN5FecKAh— Brian Hiatt (@hiattb) April 10, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 April 2023 02:52 (one year ago) link
When Elon tries to actually have insights, he always just sounds like he's high. (Which I assume he is.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 10 April 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
its like how when one of your tires is bald the other three usually are as well. crazy when you think about it!!
― frogbs, Monday, 10 April 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, April 9, 2023 7:54 PM
Not just high, but like a 16 year old who's high.
― nickn, Monday, 10 April 2023 05:04 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk’s Twitter could be on the hook for a pipeline of multimillion-dollar penalties for failing to take down illegal hate speech in Germany
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Monday, 10 April 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
Not like he's high at all. Like the most annoying boy in your class when you're 14 who likes to make drug jokes but has never had so much as a toke.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 10 April 2023 06:51 (one year ago) link
OTM.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 10 April 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
I think he's probably more pills but he's definitely fucked up when he's making some of these decisions, this mentions board concerns about unspecified recreational drugs in addition to Ambien way back in 2018https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/17/tesla-board-members-reportedly-concerned-about-elon-musks-use-of-ambien.html
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 April 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link
isn’t that just referring to when he went on joe rogan and smoked weed?https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/musk-weed-1536332069.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 10 April 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
*good drug jokes intensify*
― mark s, Monday, 10 April 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
if he did smoke weed I think he would actually be cooler and more chill, he sounds like he's on stimulants 24/7
― frogbs, Monday, 10 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
if he's posting at 3am after taking a bunch of ambien he's not remembering any of that shit
unfortunately, we're forced to see the ambien tweets
― mh, Monday, 10 April 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
I remember seeing someone say the word was that he was microdosing stimulants which is stupid enough to be true
― michel goindry (wins), Monday, 10 April 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
not to veer from thread topic, but the number of people i know who have recently let on that they're microdosing on serious hallucinogens all the time is really shocking to me. like, people microdosing mushrooms every day. blows my mind tbh.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 10 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
were living in weird times
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 April 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
I've been microdosing cider
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 10 April 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
I macrodosed some 8% cider last night after I’d finished the wine, it made me contemplate how my liver is the same age as my bladder
― michel goindry (wins), Monday, 10 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
so matt tiabbi had a disastrous interview on msnbc where his lies got called out and he had no defense. then twitter blocked searches on his account because he had substack links. he then quits twitter and musk unfollows him.
― formerly abanana (dat), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
*taibbi
Is that some kind of slash fiction or did it really happen?
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
some haha's and hoohoo's about it over here
who is worse - Taibbi or Greenwald
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
the most lol thing of all was that Taibbi demanded to be invited on Hassan's show so he could give his opinion about Musk and India, and then when he was asked about it was totally unprepared and seemed to not know what Hassan was talking about
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
that was an oopsie
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 April 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
everything going well
Elon Musk Shares Private Text Exchange He Had With ‘Twitter Files’ Journalist Matt Taibbi https://t.co/t3DrjFH8Oa— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 April 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
Twitter responded to questions emailed on Monday with a poop emoji, an automated response set up by Musk.
come on
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 10 April 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, they've been doing that for a while. He fired their whole comms team and changed it a poop emoji autoreply.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
Elon on this BBC interview says that being under constant strain and attack has been rough and emotionally hurtful. Really validating to get this kind of feedback.— Jason Goldman (@goldman) April 12, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
lol. time to ramp up the efforts even more
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
Reminder that Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis paid the Boring Company $375,000 last year for a study to dig a car tunnel from downtown to the beach https://t.co/xlQT0GSp06— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) April 13, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
...and Lana Del Rey will write an album about it.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
Bored to Die
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23684005/elon-musk-new-ai-company-x
― 龜, Saturday, 15 April 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link
I missed the rollout of the new subscribe-to-Elon feature for $4 a month. Exclusive tweets and memes! What a deal. What a clown.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
one of the funniest things is his insistence that “X” is the coolest name for a company
― mh, Saturday, 15 April 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
gen x sensibility
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 April 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
also funny elmo signing a letter calling for a 6 month pause on AI development at the same time
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
he just needs a lil time to catch up
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
🤖VERSION 2!Asked Ai: "a song about @elonmusk ,#Dogecoin , @Twitter, @Tesla, @SpaceX, @neuralink, Mars, Multiplanetary species" "Elon Musk's Power: Changing the World One Tweet at a Time" ✍️Lyrics - Ai 🗣️Voice - Ai 🎹Instrumentals - Ai 📽️Video - Ai pic.twitter.com/Rw6irXXxz6— NFK (@nfkmobile) March 23, 2023
― 龜, Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
^ describes our imaginary future while it exemplifies our horrific future.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
Thought that was parody but it's from an account that's a Twitter Blue subscriber and also a crypto stan
― groovypanda, Sunday, 16 April 2023 08:06 (one year ago) link
What AI app are these people using for all the "Tupac raps the lyrics to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'" videos?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 16 April 2023 08:13 (one year ago) link
Well now that AI has created an artwork of sublime genius we can shut down the culture
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 April 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
Sorry but the definitive song on Elon Musk already exists
― frogbs, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
“I’m going to start something which I call ‘Truth GPT’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Mr. Musk said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” https://t.co/O5GyVTtAz2— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
gonna be two tomato cans connected by string.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
The Key to All Mythologies
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
"be sure to drink your ovaltinedrive your model 3"
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
i fucking love science
holy shit this is real?? pic.twitter.com/Wu6ZhbdA2R— 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 (@ass_beaters) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
all of those connected insurance things seem like an incredibly bad idea tbh
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
I'm sure Tesla is worse but Geico spying on me while I drive, no fucking thanks
god I thought the shit he said to Tucker was the most must've-been-high thing ever but now I'M high and it feels even dumber. ha ha ha yes lets teach the robots to love. the thing that can't distinguish between things that actually happened and things that only happened on the TV show M*A*S*H
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
im in favor of teaching the robots to love that sounds interesting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:31 (one year ago) link
I think he's just horny for Plankton's girlfriend from Sponchebob
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
people joking that the rocket launch was delayed yesterday because Elon saw an opportunity to do it on 420
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
circling back on this
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
Who gets the Musk Face?
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
circling back on this🐦[Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017🕸]🐦
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
"username checks out"
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
That's generally how the federal gov't works awards verbal contracts - they'll give you a thumbs-up which means "Go for it, you got this!" or a frowny headshake which means nope
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
username checks out
:D
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
xp the old system led to a lot of confusion, which is why most modern agencies now conduct contract acquisition via a voice vote, with everyone working on the same floor as the cube where the formal bid was emailed getting a say in the decision during an optional meeting held during the lunch hour on fridays
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Starship: The Starship has cleared the tower! An amazing sight as the huge rocket climbs away atop 16 million lbs of thrust (!) generated by the Super Heavy first stage booster's 33 methane-burning Raptor engines— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
Starship: Rocket appears to be spenning... and exploded 4 minutes and 2 seconds after launch— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/mK6AuDz91J— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
Good day for everyone to lose their checkmarks
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
4 minutes and 2.0 seconds
― mh, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
"rapid unscheduled disassembly" incredible new heights in corporate speak
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
Xpost It got pretty high
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. https://t.co/aGvDQnKXZA— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 20, 2023
President Kennedy successfully visited Dallas— Upton Earl Sinclair (@howiehandupme) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
(points, laughs)
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
*very chris rock voice * ITS SPINNIN
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
I'm not a space guy, but the reporting on this seems extraordinarily deranged to me
NYT: "The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday."
"However, SpaceX has a history of learning from mistakes. The company’s mantra is essentially, “Fail fast, but learn faster.”Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly....SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly.
SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.
It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
I know I should be cynical about this by now, but wtf
― rob, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
I did manage to get to the bathroom and I successfully defecated, but I didn't quite reach my most ambitious goal of taking down my trousers first.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
just a minor systems failure, but the method is spot on - nothing to see here!
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
isn't SpaceX mostly funded by the federal government?
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
man imagine if SpaceX was the Challenger and Elon was also in charge then
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
"successful launch, just some minor sky detritus"
tons of Musk-ites complaining about the lack of nuance in the reporting on the 'explosion', when just about every article I've read expressed what happened pretty accurately and that this was always known as an expected outcome.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
i was watching a live stream of this where the announcer went “there goes the future of humanity!”then 2 minutes later it exploded in the sky https://t.co/66nL3ZdID5— 🍄😮💨 (@CinemaMonsieur) April 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
i would simply design a rocket that was not expected to explode
announcer technically otm
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
lol. Musk is obv racist and transphobic and a piece of shit so I don't care to defend him but it's almost like this dude hasn't heard of "4/20" before
Musk always celebrates 4-20 with events, "Coincidentally" it's is also Hitler's Birthday.https://t.co/zzTab39w3J— Eric John Diesel (@EricJohnDiesel3) April 20, 2023
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
it's hilarious that the new blowing up is "a rapid unscheduled disassembly"
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
expressions that express gratified anticipation:
https://i.imgur.com/dYdAOAy.png
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
happy bluecheck liberation day you pained motherfucker
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Eric John Diesel not an expert in the Sour Diesel.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
Dog has some thoughts:
i do not destroy my toys. they simply experience. a rapid unscheduled disassembly. this has nothing to do with me— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) April 20, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZ-FbCMIrUThe RUDs • (You’re) In a RUD (You gotta get out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it)
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
This is Major Lon to Ground Control/I'm here forevermore/and I'm tweeting in my stupid normal way/and my bullshit's very typical toDAYYAYYAAY
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
kinda shocked to learn that Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is actually a preexisting term that somehow never went full-on viral. if it had been coined by some establishment grey man in the 60s, it'd be on the level of "we had to destroy this town in order to save it."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
THE ROCKET LAUNCH WAS A SUCCESSPLEASE KINDLY IGNORE THE MESSAMANDA
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Like "terminate with extreme prejudice." (Which I have learned actually means to "use tons of careful judgment"). xp
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
https://external-preview.redd.it/oiZh5RNj8VGqwtcSnYDq0RKwNmTOS77ESs5-w0VMzEg.jpg?auto=webp&s=3be504b8a8fd1a0b3465e13b6ba8d0f143c8024d
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
Why give Musk even a whiff of the benefit of any doubt at this point though. Why *is* he so into 4/20 lolz?
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
We're getting to orbit today 🚀 pic.twitter.com/xJ9v90QqK6— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
oh shit was grimes on the rocket?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Her final art performance.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, April 20, 2023
I heard it long ago (pre-SpaceX), and figured there was some humor behind it (even tech peeps have senses of humor).
― nickn, Thursday, 20 April 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-the-phrase-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly
he offers that too https://t.co/mkKy1HYHTF— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
Elon press conference post rocket blowup pic.twitter.com/c223i7VTxS— Brendan James (@deep_beige) April 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
bro I can't fucking imagine what I'd do if I was fighting for my life trying to squash a news story about me and my dad went to the press like "not only is it completely true, make sure you write up the part where my grown son was crying about his fancy bike" https://t.co/BpCS7H1o5z— Takes Of Vesperia (@coolranchzaku) April 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
A new Logan Roy has entered the arena.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
That emerald mine is burning up
A dramatic 24 hours for Elon Musk has slashed his fortune by almost $13 billion, his biggest wealth wipeout this year https://t.co/E4imsTZ28r— Bloomberg Wealth (@wealth) April 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
his biggest wealth wipeout this year
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
Just think what he will achieve when he is truly hungry, both figuratively and literally.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
i get that doing things *in* space is super difficult but we've been sending shit into orbit for 60 years now. why are these things constantly assploding
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
I highly recommend John D Clark's book Ignition! for some insights as to how frickin difficult it is to make rockets, which are basically balancing a small skyscraper on a controlled explosion.https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
i could do it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
xxp because we've lost a ton of institutional knowledge about rocket science since the 60s, Elvis Telecom to thread
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
sweet thanks matttt
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 April 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link
mattkkkk thxxxx!
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Friday, 21 April 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
If your rockets aren't exploding, you're not failing fast enough... it's all about disrupting the paradigms...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 21 April 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link
The physics at that speed are pretty wild. An interesting book I read quite a few years ago was the biography of Ben Rich the guy behind the Skunkworks and Lockheeds development.
SR-71 metal panels had to be setup so that when it was on the ground they did not meet, as when it would get up to full speed the metal would expand out. The plane could literally leak fuel on the ground.
― earlnash, Friday, 21 April 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
In the Twitter fallout after the launch, a friend posted "I remember the space program from my youth. We were not blowing up that many rockets or platforms." and I had to point out - hfs yes we were. There's hours of earlylaunch failures all over YouTube. It's just that most of this happened before either of us were born. Tom Wolfe makes a mantra out of "our rockets always blow up" throughout The Right Stuff but once everything worked well enough, it's only later that (to take the Norman Mailer p.o.v.) NASA gets good enough to make the whole thing boring.
Hypersonic aerodynamics is nuts. Even nuttier when you're taking it on with pencil and paper seventy years ago. There's one famous story about the SR-71 pilot whose plane rapidly unscheduled its disassembly around him in flight - leaving him just falling in the air. Then there's Mike Adams in the X-15, and worse - Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise.
When I saw that some of the engines had conked out on launch (shades of the insane launch attempts of the N-1), I knew that things were about to get interesting. Undoubtedly, SpaceX will probably figure it out - they have to, because (deep breath) NASA's moon program is depending on it. I just wish they would launch out of Florida like everyone else does and stop fucking up South Padre Island.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 April 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
I just wish they would launch out of Florida like everyone else does and stop fucking up South Padre Island.
this, an old friend lives there and she is PISSED
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
also please launch out of FL so I can attend live and point and laugh
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty much for a complete stoppage and moratorium on all rocket-building, moon programs, etc, either by Musk or NASA or anyone else.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Until we figure out what the hell is going on
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 21 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Until the stars fall from the sky for you and I.
― peace, man, Friday, 21 April 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
If the moratorium could be global I'd endorse that. We're cluttering low-earth orbital paths and generating space junk at a breathtaking clip.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 21 April 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
Yeah when I hear ppl talking about the massive contingency involved in exploding a small skyscraper into space I just think “sounds like a big fucking waste of time then tbh let’s stop doing it”
― michel goindry (wins), Friday, 21 April 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
There's a bunch of rocket launches in California that they don't even tell us about until they're done, spy satellites probably.. I remember a few years ago there's was this really weird cloud in the evening sky that everybody noticed, and the Feds were like 'don't worry about that, why don't you mind your own beeswax anyway'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
For the record, I just wanted to make a Doors joke. I don't actually agree that we should stop space exploration.
― peace, man, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
is there anything more to be gained from shortv distance manned space flight? (actual question I don't know much about it)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 April 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
I think bringing back lethal space viruses and infecting all of humanity might be the last true benefit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
We haven't touched the monolith yet.
― nickn, Friday, 21 April 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
that's what Elon calls his junk from what I heard
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 April 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
Elon already touched the monolith, that's why he can see 5 years into the future
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 21 April 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Musk and his followers are so scientifically uncurious that they wouldn't touch the monolith at all, but just piss on it.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 April 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link
A hilarious way to troll them is to innocently ask "why is SpaceX's Starship designed without any crew escape mechanism or abort systems?" and try to untangle the cult-speak word salad they'll respond with.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 April 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link
lol sacrificing a minivan
Salute to redditor DonaldRudolpho for turning the r/spacex subreddit into a roiling mass of cope and seethe with these basic factual observations pic.twitter.com/C9PGQ5Cydl— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Speaking of John D Clark’s _Ignition!_, notice who blurbs the most recent printing
https://sheep.horse/2019/3/ignition_cover.jpg
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
I looked for a space-x thread but anyway:
The space agency is depending on Starship to land astronauts on the surface of the moon as part of its Artemis program. That first landing is tentatively scheduled for 2025, though 2026 or later is perhaps more likely.
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
epic sir
The checkmark on the dril account has now been removed again, and then I think it was added for a minute, then removed again. It's like a Looney Tunes cartoon but one side is some shitposter on his laptop and the other side is the richest man on the planet in corporate HQ fuming— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) April 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 April 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
great success much data
BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation. This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
This is what happens to your launchpad when you think it would be funny to launch to the world's largest rocket on 4/20, instead of when it's ready.It will probably be at least a year before the FAA will approve another Starship launch. pic.twitter.com/tXytW309a6— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Pshh. Guess the FAA is gonna be losing its checkmark... we'll see who cancels who, woke safety regulators..
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad.He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly. It's his fault.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
And because of this decision, the launchpad was blasted apart and debris slammed into the engines at the bottom of the booster, damaging them.Ultimately resulting in the spectacular cartwheels and explosion that we saw just moments later.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
and yet there are hundreds of weird nerds absolutely fuming into their keyboards all day today about how we're all just too stupid to appreciate his genius
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
extremely low qual religion
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
elons sock
omg I found his burner https://t.co/xDHDt2X1VV pic.twitter.com/qlfzw2DjrL— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) April 24, 2023
It’s definitely him pic.twitter.com/PGqoucEyo1— The Flying Morgan Wallendas (@BlastArrow4) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
Musk responding to himself with an alt account pic.twitter.com/IgXHZttZbz— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
I think that's actually the cringiest thing he's done yet
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/GhbhS04T/5-B5-C08-FD-00-BB-4-BEA-B1-B2-86104-F920-ED1.jpg
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link
Hope someone’s on the blower to child protection services
― michel goindry (wins), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
wait, if that's elon why is he paying attention to his child
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
imagine Lion King if Rafiki got so distracted he dropped Simba over the cliff
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
was it steve jobs who created this poisonous concept of the innovator as an individual with no actual tech knowledge but who makes big, bold decisions and demands unrealistic time frames etc etc? i mean that's what musk is obviously shooting for and failing dramatically, right?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
neil breen perfected it
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Jobs was just making phones and computers though, not things that explode or crash
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
why is he so brainless
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
feel like the business guy who dares to demand more has to go back before steve job, and tbf it kind of works but its a dangerous game, has prob killed more businesses than its made but you dont hear about them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
elizabeth holmes vibes
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
the thing about steve jobs is he actually was a great product guy, and obvs a great salesman too, which are real skills, a little different than some over confident dumbass just being all you have half the time to do twice the work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
like musk does the same shit but has no feel for product and hes also unserious about doing quality work
exactly - that's what they're all aiming for and no one else can really do it
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
good time to mention I was actually in a Tesla last week and while the car was impressive in terms of pure horsepower (it was so fast it made me want to throw up, actually) it also had some remarkably stupid design "features" like putting the gear shifter and wiper blade controls on the touchscreen and the turn signals on the steering wheel. the guy who bought it said even after a year he still isn't used to how counterintuitive that is. Steve Jobs I think at least understood the psychology of things that work like you expect them to
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
most companies that make great products arent lead by charismatic visionaries theyre just good companies but thats not as interesting to weird wannabe business guys
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
i think what i'm trying to say is that musk (and holmes and a bunch of others) learned the wrong lesson from jobs which is that you just have to be INTUITIVE and INNOVATIVE and DEMAND NOTHING LESS THAN PERFECTION and that you don't really have to know anything technical or practical or listen to anyone with actual technical/practical knowledge
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
the whole thing with electric cars being extremely fast and heavy is not great its unsafe
free speech
Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.I didn't.Most likely Elon.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 02:15 (eleven months ago) link
Good morning, Elon Musk has been ordered to give a deposition in a trial because Tesla has been claiming that his (many) public statements about Autopilot's capabilities might have been deepfaked.Seriously.https://t.co/iVmwaj5HFa pic.twitter.com/r1sTqBqZ1L— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 27, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:48 (eleven months ago) link
You don't have to be a sociopath to be a billionaire, but it helps.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:50 (eleven months ago) link
lmao I had a feeling he would be the first to try to use that defense
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:05 (eleven months ago) link
lol thats such weak shit they could have been deepfakes well were they
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:15 (eleven months ago) link
tbf r kelly did it first i mean it was before deepfakes but same diff and it worked despite be preposterous
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:16 (eleven months ago) link
I could tell you, but how would you know "my" telling you wasn't also a deepfake?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:17 (eleven months ago) link
what's even more despairing is the typical Elon nerds jumping into threads about this with constant tweets saying, "what? are you alleging that it is impossible for Elon to be deepfaked?"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 April 2023 16:51 (eleven months ago) link
Elon Musk is more of a shallowfake, amirite?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
a snowfake
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:10 (eleven months ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:20 (eleven months ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:29 (eleven months ago) link
idk if you have to be a sociopath but you prob have to be a least a lil socipathish
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:36 (eleven months ago) link
I do think you have to have at least some level of disregard for most other people on the planet.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:41 (eleven months ago) link
Sorry for the double post
the money/success/power tends to amplify those tendencies too, which is why billionaires shouldnt exist, for the good of their mental health
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:42 (eleven months ago) link
unfortunately money starts to pump up sociopath tendencies at like a vacation home level of wealth lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:44 (eleven months ago) link
Do we want to wager if/how much he’ll lie on the witness stand or in desposition?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 27 April 2023 23:02 (eleven months ago) link
There are something like 450 billionaires in America alone. The ones we can name I assume are among the worst, but I really have no idea how many I could name. Some of them are sociopaths like Musk, some of them are, like, Springsteen or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:38 (eleven months ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:44 (eleven months ago) link
Springsteen is definitely a sociopath
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 April 2023 00:46 (eleven months ago) link
It was the title of his second album
― Vinnie, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:48 (eleven months ago) link
The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Sociopath.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:48 (eleven months ago) link
he stopped eating dinner to delay his aging
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 April 2023 00:51 (eleven months ago) link
he wears bolo ties
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 28 April 2023 00:52 (eleven months ago) link
almost a Musk
cannot believe i had to FP you all for the Springsteen-Musk comparison
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:07 (eleven months ago) link
they're the same guy
― Clay, Friday, 28 April 2023 01:14 (eleven months ago) link
the e in e street band stands for elon
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 April 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
It's OK I checked and Bruce's net worth is variously estimated at $650-$700 million. He doesn't even have ONE billion, much less multiple billions. Still just a blue-collar guy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:16 (eleven months ago) link
Basically he is exponentially closer to all of us in net worth than he is to Musk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:17 (eleven months ago) link
i mean ive got like $400m but with inflation whats that even worth these days
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 April 2023 01:18 (eleven months ago) link
Not what it used to be I tell you what
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:18 (eleven months ago) link
Springsteen stopped doing an equal split of concert revenue, now he really is The Boss
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
Hey little dolly with the blue check on
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:44 (eleven months ago) link
What a desperate dipshit:
Elon Musk sent an email earlier tonight to Twitter employees encouraging them to subscribe to creators on the platform and then expense those costs back to the company.— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) April 29, 2023
Apparently he was also on Bill Maher's show last night talking about "the woke mind virus".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 29 April 2023 14:25 (eleven months ago) link
i'm starting to think the woke mind is a virus. the word woke used to mean something positive and now it gradually evolved into something representing ignorant reactionary fear that is working its way through the minds of millions of people who never would have touched the word in its form from just a few years ago
― z_tbd, Saturday, 29 April 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
Lol seems like a ponzi scheme
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:23 (eleven months ago) link
(Xp)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link
Why doesn't Elon just pay those "creators" directly? That would be the least stupid thing he's done yet.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:56 (eleven months ago) link
Biden: Not everybody loves NPR. Elon Musk tweeted that it should be defunded. The best way to make NPR go away is for Elon Musk to buy it pic.twitter.com/qw6iRwxFZF— Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2023
man if even Biden is dunking on you
― frogbs, Sunday, 30 April 2023 22:45 (eleven months ago) link
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 30 April 2023 23:10 (eleven months ago) link
dunking on a clueless non-competent billionaire worked with obama/trump i can see why he wants this battle
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 May 2023 01:39 (eleven months ago) link
Elon can't run for President, it's fine.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 May 2023 01:52 (eleven months ago) link
x42jksjigha Musk can run for President in 33 years though
on Mars
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 May 2023 01:59 (eleven months ago) link
Great to meet @elonmusk at the Miami GP and discuss our mutual efforts to combat online abuse. pic.twitter.com/W9gGQuwzox— Mohammed Ben Sulayem (@Ben_Sulayem) May 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 17:55 (eleven months ago) link
Tesla Cybertruck (ed. 1 of 1) and infamous owner got stuck and had to get towed by Ford F350 diesel dually:
https://i.imgur.com/N0HozI8.jpg
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:26 (eleven months ago) link
lmao if you have images off and read the post, thought "hmmm I wonder what it got stuck in", and then clicked the image
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
idgi
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:39 (eleven months ago) link
it appears to be "Stuck" on a normal stretch of road surface
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 May 2023 23:56 (eleven months ago) link
Se viraliza video del Elon Musk, pasándosela de lo mejor en un antro en México. El empresario mexicano Guillermo Salinas, aseguró que Musk, es muy platicador, bailador y accesible, ambos visitaron Los Cabos, y compartieron en la fiesta “Sundream”. pic.twitter.com/1aOw6MNf2y— José Luis Morales (@JLMNoticias) May 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 May 2023 17:12 (eleven months ago) link
🙌
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 15 May 2023 17:30 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/52Lz1Cx.png
― frogbs, Monday, 15 May 2023 17:31 (eleven months ago) link
Musk seems to have mastered the diaper dance, familiar to all parents of small children.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 17:51 (eleven months ago) link
aren't Diaper Dance those dudes at disney who sing on bicycles
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
https://princesongs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/iwd4u.jpg
"I would ... diaper ... you ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
LOL!
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 15 May 2023 19:55 (eleven months ago) link
Shocked to see this from an apartheid fascist who's scrambled to reinstate every Nazi suspended from this website: pic.twitter.com/hRTb2iQ9wk— Eli Valley (@elivalley) May 16, 2023
sounds like someone's thinking about going Death Con 2
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 03:47 (eleven months ago) link
that thread is filled with 4chan-esque memes that appear to be ai-generated.
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:01 (eleven months ago) link
the horrible future of the internet, everybody
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:09 (eleven months ago) link
It's going to be sad when AIs take over all the white supremacist jobs.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:47 (eleven months ago) link
lol perfect application
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:09 (eleven months ago) link
yikes this interview
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:17 (eleven months ago) link
The strongest commitment to disaster posting I’ve ever seen, and from the world’s worst poster pic.twitter.com/dZOhWEXGXI— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 16, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:27 (eleven months ago) link
Is he on edibles? Sounds like dorm room philosophy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:35 (eleven months ago) link
When you're one of the world's wealthiest people being simple-minded is the path of least resistance. There are no consequences worth his worrying about because he has the money to deflect, defer, or buy his way out all of them.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:46 (eleven months ago) link
The rest of the interview was nazi shit
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:49 (eleven months ago) link
he thinks the TX mall shooter was a psyop, very cool
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:50 (eleven months ago) link
It's amazing how quickly someone can propel from 'person I'm generally unaware of on any meaningful level' to 'person I want to choke on their dinner while eating alone, tonight if possible' when they really put their nose to the shit-ass grindstone
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 01:52 (eleven months ago) link
This guy is the stupidest fucking person I’ve ever seen.
― treeship., Wednesday, 17 May 2023 01:55 (eleven months ago) link
"great movie by the way"
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:58 (eleven months ago) link
I mean I've known some dumb guys before but generally nobody cares what those people think. It's like the Neil Breen thing where you're not sure if he's just uniquely strange or if you actually know several dudes who, if forced to make a movie all by themselves, would probably crank out something like that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 03:01 (eleven months ago) link
I retract my previous claim, the man was not bottoming out earlier and apparently has no actual bottom (not referring to his gluteus maximus).
ok it's bad enough he's invoking the "I can't be racist, I have a [insert race] friend" trope, but what makes this truly batshit insane is the "friend" he's invoking is *Jeffrey Epstein* pic.twitter.com/yl16i72b6W— dangit, kyle (@dangit_kyle) May 17, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 04:49 (eleven months ago) link
Billionaires don't have a rock bottom. Even the Minecraft creep who was disappeared by Microsoft still gets to go for a morning dip in his Scrooge McDuck vault before heading online to say racist shit.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 04:59 (eleven months ago) link
I didn't see any of it except what was excerpted and shared on Tiwtter but I found it maddening that when he was claiming the Texas shooter being a Nazi thing was a psy-op and smearing Bellingcat that the interviewer didn't seem able to respond with any real firmness. Maybe he did that later. I kind of feel you need to set your sharpest, most forensic and bold interviewers to tackle someone like this, to set Elon's mental jello in sharper relief
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 08:38 (eleven months ago) link
Right wingers are mad that the Tennessee shooter’s manifesto wasn’t released because his motive had to do with lgbtq rights. There is no evidence for this except the fact that the shooter was trans but ok.
Their response is to throw a fit that the texas shooter’s motives were disclosed because they think it’s hypocrisy. “Why do our shooters get treated worse than theirs?” That’s how they think. And now the tantrum is getting into Alex Jones/Sandy Hook territory with this idea it was a psyop or at least his ideology is.
― treeship., Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:11 (eleven months ago) link
*because they think* his motive had to do with lgbtq rights. As I pointed out, that has not been established.
The whole thing is exhausting because this horrible epidemic of gun violence has become a political football. It’s the right who are driving that fact by the way.9
― treeship., Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:13 (eleven months ago) link
here we go.. Elon lecturing us on morality:
"I think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the fake Marie Antoinette quote, ‘Let them eat cake,’” Musk, the second-richest man in the world, said.
“It’s a productivity issue but it’s also a moral issue,” Musk replied. “People should get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bulls—t, because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do. It’s wrong.”
A few seconds later, Musk said, “The laptop class is living in la-la land, OK. As I said, are people working from home here? Of course not. … It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:29 (eleven months ago) link
This asshole acts like everything he learned about business and management he got from some shitty over the top TV show.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:38 (eleven months ago) link
I trust him, he is definitely an expert on morally wrong things
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:41 (eleven months ago) link
it's like blaming these damn new electric cars on the end of good-paying gas station jobs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:48 (eleven months ago) link
As I said, are people working from home here? Of course not. … It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.
Well, there was that Toobin thing.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:56 (eleven months ago) link
The broke-brain association of "work" with "moral good" is so strong in the management/owner class. I got in argument with some conservatives about it online a while back, they were insisting that there is something inherently ennobling about work. I was like, have you ever actually had a job? That kind of rhetoric is so far removed from so many people's experience of the workplace, which is dehumanizing and degrading.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:02 (eleven months ago) link
xp - whoa, hey now, seemed like he was about to work pretty intensely on something
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:03 (eleven months ago) link
Why would a guy who runs a car company not want you to commute to work?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:17 (eleven months ago) link
Why would the owner of Twitter not want you to spend half your day tweeting?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:22 (eleven months ago) link
his point seems to be that the laptop class needs the working class to go to work (or deliver them stuff) so they can work from home?
classic "i, a billionaire who commutes by private jet, am a real american, the true avatar of the people, unlike you, the person who lives in a city" stuff.
btw it's only immoral to ask people to go to work so you can WFH if you agree that WFH is better.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:17 (eleven months ago) link
obviously there are tons of inequalities between white collar and blue collar work but i fail to see how which room you go to to sit in front of a computer all day matters at all.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:24 (eleven months ago) link
He's even worse at fake populism than the Josh Hawleys of the world
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
As with a lot of things, it seems like he's reacting mostly to the discourse and against people he perceives as his enemies rather than assessing the issue on its merits.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:34 (eleven months ago) link
i fail to see how which room you go to to sit in front of a computer all day matters at all
that was the point I was clumsily trying to make with my electric car comment - technology changes, and new options become available. In the past 'work at home' probably leaned more blue collar - thinking woodworkers, daycare providers, gunsmiths, etc... it's only the last few years with VPN, Zoom, and shit that allowed a broad swath of white collar/tech folks the option
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 22:15 (eleven months ago) link
He’s a capitalist who wants to dictate the terms that workers work. At this point in history knowledge workers have the upper hand and he mad.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 23:16 (eleven months ago) link
he also might be bummed about having a big giant empty building on Market Street, since he laid everybody off... no new subordinates to impregnate
'Where is everybody?'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 23:34 (eleven months ago) link
the guy I know who worked at one of the non-twitter Musk ventures quit when he revoked WFH so *shrug*
― mh, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:09 (eleven months ago) link
the only guy i know who's still at twitter lives in semi-rural michigan 🤷🏻♂️
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:18 (eleven months ago) link
xp Barbers and hairdressers were often work-from-home as well, as was laundry work. Sweatshop piecework was often work-from-home as well.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:28 (eleven months ago) link
xp Please let him be Unabomber 2 and blow up Musk
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:28 (eleven months ago) link
If the techserfs don't have to drive to the office, they don't have to buy Elon's shitty cars to get there.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:29 (eleven months ago) link
Its not like the dude workin' 32 1/2 hours a week at Krogers or Piggly Wiggly is buying his crappy cards.
Considering how cheap a$$ these billionares come off, they must pay their help ok as they should just bludgeon them to death or set them on fire when they go to sleep. Maybe that is why the guy works like 20 hours a day... I guess that is why some are trying to come up with obedience collars for their bunker workers.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:32 (eleven months ago) link
probably not great that Elon's entire worldview can be reduced to "arbeit macht frei"
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:23 (eleven months ago) link
How do you say that in Afrikaans? Probably about the same, I'd guess...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
As John Ganz has pointed out, there's a word in Afrikaans-- baaskap, which roughly translates to "bossism". It's an explicitly Apartheid ideology that also imlies "white people on top, white bosses on top of white people".
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
Always wondered if he hired a voice/accent coach - he always seems to be speaking very carefully so he comes off as your typical Cali tech brah and not a South African mine owner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:57 (eleven months ago) link
probably mostly organic. a few coworkers moved to the midwest from countries with distinctive accents around the same age Musk did and there's an entire spectrum of merged accents, some that sound local with a slightly noticeable inflection on some words, others with a more noticeable tone
― mh, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link
I don't know how many lawsuits he's up to now, but this one has some good details about all the bonkers shit with their leases and unlicensed renovations.
Six former Twitter execs and longtime employees sued Twitter and Elon Musk in US district court in Delaware on Tues, alleging they violated severance agreements. The lawsuit seems to corroborate much of our & others' reporting about the co not paying billshttps://t.co/dEkOJws1o5 pic.twitter.com/UqvHez4kHk— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 18, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:05 (eleven months ago) link
This, just for example:
253. Killian was soon instructed to circumvent the landlord's lighting control system, which was motion- sensitive in compliance with California's Title 24 energy code, because the lights were bothering people living in the hotel rooms when their small movements at night would trigger the lights.254. Killian submitted the service requests to the landlord, who denied them,255. When the landlord denied Twitter's requests, Killian was instructed to disconnect the lighting himself, which was not safe and which he was not qualified to do.256. When he objected, Hollander berated him for refusing to do the work himself.257. She was not satisfied until he brought her in and had her look into the drop-ceiling and see what the electrical system looked like, to understand that he could not safely do the work himself258. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Killian hired an electrician to disconnect these rooms independently, putting Twitter in violation of both the building code and their lease.259. It got worse.260 Killian was instructed to install space heaters in the hotel rooms in further violation of Twitter's lease.261. Killian was also instructed to place locks on the hotel room doors, a request that betrayed the lie that these were intended to be temporary rest spaces for exhausted Tweeps.262. California code requires locks that automatically disengage when the building's fire suppression systems are triggered.263. Killian was repeatedly told that compliant locks were too expensive and instructed to immediately install cheaper locks that were not compliant with life safety and egress codes.264. Again, Killian protested that no licensed tradesperson would perform work that violated the building code.265. Killian protested that installing these locks would put lives at risk that in case of an earthquake or fire (the latter of which was made dramatically more likely by the noncompliant electrical work and the presence of the space heaters he had been instructed to install), these locks would remain locked, blocking first responders from being able to access the rooms and the Tweeps within.266. Nobody cared.267. On information and belief, the non-compliant locks were in fact eventually installed but not by Killian.268. Killian quit that day.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
Slumlord Billionaire
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:01 (eleven months ago) link
couldn’t they just put “do not disturb” signs on the “hotel” doors or was Elon just busting in like the Kool-Aid man and they needed locks to keep him out?
― mh, Friday, 19 May 2023 00:48 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, that whole section is fucking wild
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 May 2023 00:51 (eleven months ago) link
I love this:
266. Nobody cared.
It's the "Jesus wept" of Elon court filings.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 May 2023 01:59 (eleven months ago) link
Needs an Elon crying/laughing pic
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 19 May 2023 14:18 (eleven months ago) link
why are bro’s opinions about working from home being reported on like important news? :-(
― brimstead, Friday, 19 May 2023 19:19 (eleven months ago) link
I thought Elon was sleeping in a closet at Twitter headquarters, doesn't that mean he is working from home? So he is a total hypocrite who should put his head in a toilet and let people take turns flushing it (just like old times, no doubt).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 May 2023 19:32 (eleven months ago) link
the only opinions being reported are about the loss of 'water cooler synergy' and 'team building', we never hear the 'well, our employees enjoy living in rural montana and not driving every morning, getting more sleep, spending more time with their families and pets, not polluting by commuting, saving money on lunch, crapping in their own bathrooms etc etc etc"
Feels like a vast conspiracy to pull us back into the rat race
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 May 2023 20:29 (eleven months ago) link
Yes it's about control.
― octobeard, Friday, 19 May 2023 22:03 (eleven months ago) link
Someone has pointed out that not only can Twitter Blue subscribers now post files up to 8GB, there's no limit on how many they can post, making Twitter effectively a piracy machine (people are posting whole movies left, right and center) and an unlimited storage service for just $8 a month. There's no way this lasts.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:53 (eleven months ago) link
someone posted shrek in its entirety a day or so ago. total mess.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 May 2023 19:00 (eleven months ago) link
never cared for it much either.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 20 May 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
how the... how is that in any biz model, it's so dumb? do i not understand it?
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 May 2023 22:24 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, he's not running it like a business. I don't know what he's running it like. Like he hates Twitter and the people who use it. Seems pathological.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 May 2023 22:37 (eleven months ago) link
I think Elon genuinely wants to make it a right wing social media site like Parler or Truth but popular. Of course, by making it explicitly RW (and being a fascist anti-Semite who wants to be King of Mars) he will drive away the people (and with them the advertisers) that made Twitter actually fun and popular and thus just turn into Gab.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:44 (eleven months ago) link
I think he's mostly throwing a tantrum because it became painfully obvious that he's not universally loved and respected.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:53 (eleven months ago) link
Like, if he was so upset about “free speech” why didn’t he just fuck off to Parler or Truth? Because there’s no one there to torment. Everyone thinks the same. No fun!Because he’s an idiot, he thought for some reason he could keep all the “woke” users at Twitter and keep respectable advertisers while letting the Nazis run amok. They wanted playthings.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:54 (eleven months ago) link
Feels like a vast conspiracy to pull us back into the rat raceYes it's about control.
OT but I think there is also an element of, if people aren’t commuting, they won’t care so much about gas prices, making our elections harder for OPEC to manipulate.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:56 (eleven months ago) link
So it’s about control?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:15 (eleven months ago) link
It's about control. Through dominance.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:18 (eleven months ago) link
I was wondering since Twitter was a tool in the Arab Spring that the Saudi money backing Musk was just as much to buy it and kill it as anything. Don't exactly quite get why the oil sheiks would want in business with the battery car guy, but between Musky's hugging up to them and the Russians it sure seems that way.
― earlnash, Sunday, 21 May 2023 14:45 (eleven months ago) link
See also: the monthly articles from NYT about how people want to go back into the office… which only quotes managers/supervisors/CEOs. One of the few times I read the comments, since they are almost exclusively people disputing the articles’ premise and giving it the finger.
― blatherskite, Sunday, 21 May 2023 16:40 (eleven months ago) link
Bosses are panicking that white collar labor in the US, for a brief shining moment in this post-union age, has some leverage.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 May 2023 16:47 (eleven months ago) link
More than a little of the forcing people back into the office thing seems like it has a lot to do with trying to justify the expensive office rental contracts and business leasing agreements, doesn’t it?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 21 May 2023 17:35 (eleven months ago) link
Which is especially weird in Musk’s case since he apparently refuses to pay rent for office space. You’d think he’d want people to work from home — it’s basically outsourcing real estate costs to the employees.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 May 2023 17:44 (eleven months ago) link
also, MASSIVE IGNORANT GENERALIZATION ALERT, a lot of managers don’t do shit except big their employees and talk loudly and now they don’t have anything to do
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 May 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
bug not bigI think every single one of my posts in the past week has had a typo
Working from home has been a big issue for cities that have large office building infrastructure and the businesses that depended on the lunch trade. Property tax revenues from office buildings had been a mainstay for DC and adjacent jurisdictions (office buildings bring in more tax revenue than cities spend in revenue to service their infrastructure). In this area, despite our best efforts at creating mixed use neighborhoods, we have some areas that are office canyons that in pre-pandemic times kind of rolled up those sidewalks at 5 pm. Businesses that depended on errands by office workers or lunch have suffered, not to mention the tax revenue such businesses raise have declined.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 May 2023 18:33 (eleven months ago) link
Objectively yr correct but the problem is that these facts are being used to justify the continued ennobling of all of the worst parts of work in late capitalism rather than, yknow, trying to figure out new ways of organizing society that would be more humane and ecologically sound.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 May 2023 19:34 (eleven months ago) link
If you let workers work from home but then you replace the worker with AI, can you make the AI work in the office?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 21 May 2023 19:35 (eleven months ago) link
XP I agree, table. One part of the solution will be for city planners and leaders to encourage the conversion of office buildings to much needed housing.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 May 2023 20:15 (eleven months ago) link
Apparently it is often prohibitively expensive to convert office to residential because of the different plumbing needs of the two uses and how they are normally addressed.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 21 May 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
That’s true too. Apparently 1960s-70s buildings are easier to convert cause they have smaller floor plates. Our community has done a couple. The fact that office and residential buildings have very different Building codes (much more stringent regulations, understandably, for places where people sleep) make it harder to convert in some cases
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 May 2023 22:18 (eleven months ago) link
Y’all are using talking points from the real estate industry. Such conversions are expensive but can work and significantly revitalize parts of cities— the residential population of downtown Philly between 2000 and 2020 went up 54% as a result of office to residential conversions. The industry is holding out on office work coming back (it’s not) or on getting sweetheart tax abatements (like the one in place in Philly) to do the conversions. There are obvious problems with the abatements, duh, but the housing crisis perhaps justifies swallowing a nasty pill. If done ethically and with safeguards in place, it can work.All that said, conversions wouldn’t add a significant number of units in most places.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 May 2023 22:25 (eleven months ago) link
Hey Elon tried to add much needed residential units inside the Twitter offices but the landlord and the city were all like “lease violation” and “fire trap” and “people may die.” Small-minded bureaucrats.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 May 2023 23:48 (eleven months ago) link
Well DC is starting to try tax abatements, so would be interesting to see the results.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 May 2023 01:02 (eleven months ago) link
older office buildings, despite plumbing etc, are likely easier code-wise due to the fact we made use-specific housing codes that let builders de-emphasize good general use building practices or, as my architect friend used to lecture me (he’s moved from pure architecture to structural concerns), architects leave too much to engineering and don’t bother to work beyond the recommended minimums in code, despite whether they’d actually be the best in the building honestly the same goes in software but idk that’s also why I moved to infrastructure
― mh, Monday, 22 May 2023 02:37 (eleven months ago) link
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Don't think he can make twitter "explicitly RW", the guy cannot execute a plan.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 09:20 (eleven months ago) link
i do think blue tick prioritisation leans heavily towards it though. you have to wade through a garbage fire of blue tick answers to any particular thread to get any sort of through line of discussion.i’ve always been fairly relaxed about it. it’s a commercial site, and you can more or less get what you want out of it. but in the last few weeks i’ve noticed it becoming unusable, in terms of how i use it anyway - defaulting to “for you” is an absurd piece of friction to introduce. and generally as an information aggregator it’s becoming epistemically extremely degraded imv. however, i do think a lot depends on how you use it. a lot of the issues that have driven others away were invisible to me.
― Fizzles, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:23 (eleven months ago) link
My twitter mostly goes to "following".
"i do think blue tick prioritisation leans heavily towards it though. you have to wade through a garbage fire of blue tick answers to any particular thread to get any sort of through line of discussion."
I don't know if answers to a popular thread have ever yielded much, but yes you see the blue ticks mostly first in line, but some are more 'liberal' sounding people.
I think if I were to join now it might be harder to find good people. Because I have already built a good list it's still ok at the moment. As it hasn't gone in a puff of smoke I reckon death will be slow.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:51 (eleven months ago) link
Doesn't matter. If they've paid for a blue check, they're idiots and marks. Block or mute anyone who has one.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 22 May 2023 13:28 (eleven months ago) link
Don't really care to block or mute anyone. I'm a grown-up.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 13:44 (eleven months ago) link
then you should pay 8 dollars. You can afford it pops.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 22 May 2023 13:56 (eleven months ago) link
the grown ups in the room social media site.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 22 May 2023 14:19 (eleven months ago) link
We exist #grownUps
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 14:37 (eleven months ago) link
grow up— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) May 22, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 14:41 (eleven months ago) link
I hid in the clouded warmth of the crowdBut when they said, "Come down" I threw upOoh, growin' up
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
--Elon Musk
the space degrades. and people whose voice you might value don’t feel comfortable posting - because RW libertarian voices are given precedence, because the moderation, poor as it was, is explicitly and deliberately worse, because the experience is *bad*.lol ganz can give as good as he gets but yes, another one bites the dust.
― Fizzles, Monday, 22 May 2023 16:37 (eleven months ago) link
Fizzles otm in both his posts. This isn’t hard to understand.
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Monday, 22 May 2023 16:59 (eleven months ago) link
xxxp My gut here tells me Elon's involvement in Twitter was 1) not necessarily his choice, he was kompromatted into it (his lawsuit to get out of the sale was about to expose some interesting emails/texts and he instantly caved), and 2) ultimately to help the Saudis (who are investors) and their ilk as well as the interests of Jared Kushner (who he met with during the World Cup and has received billions of Saudi cash for "investments") and Rupert Murdoch (who Elon met with during the Super Bowl).
Him and his investors I'm guessing don't care one bit about the lost $ value of Twitter. I'm guessing they want it dismantled and diminished as it was a viable tool for the left to communicate, advocate and organize world wide (see Arab Spring and women's protests in Iran and many other countless movements and moments). It's an incredibly powerful tool in this regard, worth far more than its lost dollar value if it helps accomplish things like create fascist uprisings in Europe or help a Republican president get elected in 2024, which long term will protect and grow these oligarch and autocrats assets and influence far more. Seeing how the algorithm diminishes the reach of Ukraine posts already shows it being used as a political tool for manipulation.
This whole Elon "is losing a ton of money" thing is just a distraction.
― octobeard, Monday, 22 May 2023 17:19 (eleven months ago) link
otoh it is quite hard to find stuff like this anywhere else
what a rothko painting is in color and form, a song by the necks is in sound and time— Toby (@tobyshorin) May 22, 2023
― Fizzles, Monday, 22 May 2023 17:38 (eleven months ago) link
Does Elon Musk really strike you as the type of person who would sacrifice personal gain for ideological gain? Doesn’t it seem more likely he assumed he could just do whatever the fuck he wanted and Twitter would continue to make money because he believes himself to be magic and infallible?
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Monday, 22 May 2023 17:55 (eleven months ago) link
never ever underestimate the ability of a coddled human being to be a 100% ego baby
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 22 May 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
DJP - Given his motives and the evidence exposed during his suit to get out of the sale, he already knew he was sacrificing personal gain from the get go. Perhaps it's a little bit from column A and B. Given his visible meetings with hard right oligarchs, autocrats et al (which can't be dismissed), at the very least he's being used. I tend to avoid underestimating the ruling class, especially Elon types.
― octobeard, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:05 (eleven months ago) link
i'm sorry for you that you avoid underestimating the ruling class, seems exhausting.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 22 May 2023 19:10 (eleven months ago) link
try overmisunderestimating them
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 22 May 2023 19:32 (eleven months ago) link
"I'm guessing they want it dismantled and diminished as it was a viable tool for the left to communicate, advocate and organize world wide (see Arab Spring and women's protests in Iran and many other countless movements and moments)."
The movements and protests that failed. Ok.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:33 (eleven months ago) link
the Left can only win with pamphlets
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 22 May 2023 19:35 (eleven months ago) link
Hey maybe I'm overly paranoid, but we underestimated Trump and Russia's impact on social media and its affects on democracy. But yeah perhaps I'll stick to the basketball and music threads here.
― octobeard, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:40 (eleven months ago) link
Post where you want. But I might ask a question or two. I mean, I thought Facebook took a bigger 'credit' for those uprisings. So why not shut it down as well?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:48 (eleven months ago) link
If Musk was blackmailed into buying Twitter (with significant Saudi funding public), why would they let him try to get out of it?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 22 May 2023 19:58 (eleven months ago) link
xp Facebook is a reliable medium for disinformation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 May 2023 20:07 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, so is every person on the planet earth, ime
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:06 (eleven months ago) link
Literally nothing about Musk's behavior at any point in this debacle suggests any kind of plan, on his part or anyone else's. I do think he was reacting to and agreed with right-wing troll critiques of Twitter and its "censorship," as he's repeatedly demonstrated he's simpatico with the 4chan view of the world. The Saudis obviously have some self-interest in influencing a potentially powerful communications medium, and that would make sense as a reason for them to buy in. But nothing about it seems organized or orchestrated, Musk seems like he's just been running on incoherent instinct and lazy contempt.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:57 (eleven months ago) link
Don't forget the potential value in all the DMs and communications that could be shared to said "investors" as well.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 00:56 (eleven months ago) link
Nobody’s pushing valuable state secrets on Twitter; that’s Discord territory
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 01:13 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-presidential-bid-campaign-elon-musk-rcna85288
?
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:47 (eleven months ago) link
oh thank god - he's not running for president
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:48 (eleven months ago) link
needed a guy with even less charisma as a wingman
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:49 (eleven months ago) link
he found someone who will love him for who he is, not his wealth
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/22/08/71259053-12110105-image-a-3_1684741522248.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:21 (eleven months ago) link
If Musk was allowed to run we've have already lived through two terms of President Arnold Schwarzenegger.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:00 (eleven months ago) link
Musk I think would get less votes per $ spent than Bloomberg
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:04 (eleven months ago) link
“Rin Di Santis”
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:08 (eleven months ago) link
Like that also confirms what I suspect is that Ron is the VC fascists’ choice for president.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:10 (eleven months ago) link
but ian miles cheong would vote for him. o hang on.
― serving aunt (stevie), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 08:16 (eleven months ago) link
1/🚨 Dorsey is today pushing QAnon propaganda, derived from an apocryphal JFK quote that has also been used by Wikileaks, and which has religious origins. This is QAnon dog-whistling. https://t.co/oI4Q5B828S— Dave Troy (@davetroy) May 24, 2023
6/This was the first time Jack has tweeted something new in months.Elon made sure to amplify it with a “!” tweet. And it includes a link to this portrait of JFK. Pure QAnon nonsense, and full Jack/Elon axis in play. pic.twitter.com/FURur3GNq1— Dave Troy (@davetroy) May 24, 2023
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:01 (eleven months ago) link
QAnon otm tbf.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 09:46 (eleven months ago) link
Poling etc. "But.."
https://t.co/E2C52R6bNw pic.twitter.com/Wv413ktiIO— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 24, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 11:07 (eleven months ago) link
Skeptical that "the rest of the country" all know who Joe Rogan is.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 11:28 (eleven months ago) link
it's "donald trump is a good businessman" all over again innit?
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:17 (eleven months ago) link
I dreamt last night that Musk was involved in some criminal scheme with Donald Trump in which they were somehow trafficking in stolen microprocessors(?) I think it was my mind attempting to reckon with how genuinely sinister a person or phenomenon he is, in light of his recent flood of anti-semitic conspiracy memes posting, his showcasing Tucker and Desantis, the arrogant rich guy "I don't have to pay these bills, what are you going to do sue me?" while putting lives in danger via fire code violations, etc. behaviors... as opposed to the habit of just thinking of him as being a gormless charmless fraud of sorts.
How is someone having that much money and power and fanbase, who is happy to inanely regurgitate qanon-ish nazi memes and just asking questions responses (or for that matter, Trump still supposedly being a viable presidential candidate in 2024...) possibly going to end well, for the country or the world at large?
Years ago when I first encountered his name regularly I ended up blocking it on Twitter because I was weary of hearing about him and people endlessly complaining about him/making fun of him... "Elon Musk". Somehow his name alone manages to be unpleasant. Then a couple years later I came to understand that he was a terrible person in a way that I hadn't previously realized. Now it just seems so much worse and I wish that everyone who were formally blue checks, back when blue checks meant something, the actual public figures/journalists/govt orgs who aren't the dilbert guy or whoever, would abandon the site en masse and let it rot as a Gab/Parler/TruthSocial-style backwater that he dumped billions into and tanked his reputation over.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:00 (eleven months ago) link
remember when elon hosted an event to showcase an unbreakable car window and it immediately cracked. now imagine it was a human brain https://t.co/OeLEXAHcU6— Law Boy (@The_Law_Boy) May 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 May 2023 09:24 (ten months ago) link
the people who are utterly terrified of the vaccine are gonna be first in line for this
― frogbs, Friday, 26 May 2023 13:13 (ten months ago) link
the chip teaches you to be a very good Musk fanboy
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 26 May 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
For some reason that Bill Hicks about the world feeling lighter already for having lost another idiot springs to mind.
― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2023 14:00 (ten months ago) link
I think reverse Midas touch Musk is the problem, not the tech or concept. This was just a few days ago and is super-cool/nuts:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/24/paralysed-man-walks-using-device-that-reconnects-brain-with-muscles
A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads his brain waves and sends instructions to his spine to move the right muscles.Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic accident in China, but has climbed stairs and walked for more than 100 metres at a time since having the operation.“A few months ago, I was able, for the first time after 10 years, to stand up and have a beer with my friends,” said Oskam, who is from the Netherlands. “That was pretty cool. I want to use it in my daily life.”
Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic accident in China, but has climbed stairs and walked for more than 100 metres at a time since having the operation.
“A few months ago, I was able, for the first time after 10 years, to stand up and have a beer with my friends,” said Oskam, who is from the Netherlands. “That was pretty cool. I want to use it in my daily life.”
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:04 (ten months ago) link
(lol, the quote reads like he wants to use beer in his daily life, which I appreciate.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:05 (ten months ago) link
That's not Musk's project though, like Tesla isn't the only electric car.
― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2023 14:05 (ten months ago) link
No, I know, that's what I meant. It's not the brain implanting that is the problem, it's Musk being behind his own version of it that raises (AI-augmented) eyebrows.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:09 (ten months ago) link
Maybe his direct competitors have conspired to keep him in the game? Like if he fails epically and publicly at everything he does, other folks doing the same things only need to have like a 60% success rate to look amazing in comparison. Create a self-driving car that only runs over every tenth toddler rather than every third, for instance.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 May 2023 15:29 (ten months ago) link
Can't believe nobody has noticed that the announcement is from MUsk's company. This is the guy who said he had "verbal approval" from the government to build a hyperloop up the East Coast.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 May 2023 15:35 (ten months ago) link
right and it doesn't really specify what exactly they've gotten clearance to test, in all likelihood it's just some non-invasive EEG prototype thing
― frogbs, Friday, 26 May 2023 19:25 (ten months ago) link
Am I imagining it or has he subtly changed his affect lately to sound more thoughtful and circumspect?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 27 May 2023 00:39 (ten months ago) link
Maybe he's got a factory making quaaludes again.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2023 01:13 (ten months ago) link
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 27 May 2023 02:30 (ten months ago) link
He didn’t just read the wiki summary of the Protocols, he studied them closely.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2023 02:45 (ten months ago) link
Concerning
― mh, Saturday, 27 May 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link
It's not the brain implanting that is the problem
no i agree, but it's not Musk's version that is the success! But it's Musk's version the chuds will tolerate over the one that actually works
― serving aunt (stevie), Sunday, 28 May 2023 09:16 (ten months ago) link
Well, if they get it and it drives them all to self-harm and suicide the way it did the apes, something good will have come from all this.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:02 (ten months ago) link
A familiar story when libertarians' bluffs are called:
BASTROP COUNTY, Tex. — Chap Ambrose has always been a fan of Elon Musk. He spent $100 to join the waiting list for Tesla’s first pickup in 2019 and bought internet service from Musk’s satellite provider.But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.“I just have no faith that the leadership there values the environment and these shared resources,” said Ambrose, who leads a group of local residents pushing Musk’s companies to slow down and address concerns about the environmental risks of the development. “I would say, I’m still a fan (of Elon), but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.
Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.“I just have no faith that the leadership there values the environment and these shared resources,” said Ambrose, who leads a group of local residents pushing Musk’s companies to slow down and address concerns about the environmental risks of the development. “I would say, I’m still a fan (of Elon), but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/28/elon-musk-texas-spacex-boring-bastrop/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 14:53 (ten months ago) link
Judah Ross, a Bastrop real estate agent, said afterward that he went into the meeting feeling neutral about the issue but left opposed because he found the Boring consultant’s answers “evasive.”Musk, he said, is building products that are “changing the world.”“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”
Musk, he said, is building products that are “changing the world.”
“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 14:56 (ten months ago) link
Again, it blows my mind that capitalist billionaires have “fans”.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 28 May 2023 15:01 (ten months ago) link
I want to preface by saying that I love Elon and think he's a total sweetheart. I guess I just wish he'd stop systematically torturing and murdering my family members and subjecting me to an endless series of punishing medical experiments. Great guy otherwise, though, A+.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 May 2023 16:46 (ten months ago) link
gotta say the man has a talent for making me hate him just a little bit more each day
🔥— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
even by his standards this is insane pic.twitter.com/6H2GZ4kJix— effortful grunter (@lib_crusher) June 7, 2023
"hate the js"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:57 (ten months ago) link
twitter is going to buy the daily wire, isn't it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:58 (ten months ago) link
Daily Wire already moved their podcasts to Twitter. Whatever that means.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:16 (ten months ago) link
Elon either doesn't know that twitter is accessible on the web, and/or is about to demand his engineers revoke the API keys of the World Wide Web pic.twitter.com/rVPy2cbafi— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) June 14, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:51 (ten months ago) link
please let Elon get into a fight with ChatGPT
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:12 (ten months ago) link
How is “cis” or “cisgender” a slur? In which direction? https://t.co/9VQby0tqhm— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 21, 2023
fite!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E03/985333.jpg
― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
so not gonna happen
If this is for real, I will do it 🔥🔥— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2023
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:36 (ten months ago) link
we can bully him into doing it, zuck is on board hes been special forces larping
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:53 (ten months ago) link
I 100% believe Zuck is willing to do this, Elon is obviously gonna back out and blame it on trans people somehow
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:52 (ten months ago) link
which is why we must bully him, hes vulnerable to it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:53 (ten months ago) link
gotta give credit where its due here, flawless execution
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzMShjAaAAARZGJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:55 (ten months ago) link
I've been laughing at this for over a week now. Absolutely perfect. pic.twitter.com/oAmgJ1EbKh— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) July 18, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 20:39 (nine months ago) link
The richest man in the world stole a meme from a 16-year-old kid and cropped him off pic.twitter.com/wtDLEeO8FP— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 July 2023 20:59 (nine months ago) link
he's a founder/investor tho, he knew what he signed up for
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 23 July 2023 23:07 (nine months ago) link
lmao pic.twitter.com/FMWLjZGz2y— huffy (@sulkingtime) July 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:48 (eight months ago) link
lol, "chicken wings and cigarettes"
― nickn, Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:51 (eight months ago) link
I love the punchline.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 27 July 2023 23:12 (eight months ago) link
Equal parts eye opening and terrifying
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html
― groovypanda, Saturday, 29 July 2023 20:17 (eight months ago) link
Tesla cfo stepping down effective immediately, replaced by someone from solarcity 🤔
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:42 (eight months ago) link
Am lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight. Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
NEW: Elon Musk says he will receive an MRI of his neck and upper back and may require surgery https://t.co/vbWv0r8hlb— Bloomberg (@business) August 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link
needs a a spine implant amirite
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:15 (eight months ago) link
Everybody’s so down on themselves!
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:21 (eight months ago) link
https://www.threads.net/@bestofdyingtwitter/post/CvnGNyfR0ch/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:32 (eight months ago) link
Musk: I am training to fightMusk (a minute later): I am getting my spine replaced.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:39 (eight months ago) link
Be hilarious if Musk tried to back out of fighting Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg took him to court and forced him to fight.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:49 (eight months ago) link
Delaware Court of Chancery governs merger disputes and the MMA I believe
― symsymsym, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
tbh I’m not surprised he needs work on his neck. Looks pretty messed up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rck4PQXVDA
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:21 (eight months ago) link
one can only hope they have to completely remove his head to do this surgery
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
he needs to let zuck give him a chiropractic adjustment
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:26 (eight months ago) link
So is this neck thing just a dodge to get out of fighting Zuckerberg?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:28 (eight months ago) link
Failed self-suck attempt
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link
head up own ass injury
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:45 (eight months ago) link
So today he's pretending he didn't back out of the fight last month?
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 7 August 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link
Here's an unusual situation. I had a Tesla, crashed it, it was totaled. And now it's ... in Ukraine? And someone there is listening to Drake on my, still logged in, Spotify account. pic.twitter.com/ymW2psyvz6— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) August 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 August 2023 14:10 (eight months ago) link
I've heard about this from someone irl like last year lol, their old car was driving around the black sea area
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 10 August 2023 16:50 (eight months ago) link
it was 'totally' exported to eastern europe
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 10 August 2023 17:00 (eight months ago) link
This is the mind-blowingly racist neo-Nazi account that Elon Musk just followed. Literally one of the most racist accounts on this entire website: https://t.co/zzwwD95uxl pic.twitter.com/5JH2OkXsA1— Will Stancil (@whstancil) August 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 August 2023 20:12 (eight months ago) link
Eugenics and IQ score-pseudoscience are hot again on the right (if they ever weren't).
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 10 August 2023 20:32 (eight months ago) link
Reminds him of dear old Dad
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 10 August 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
I'll just say this, if you want a terrifying insight into just how dire his app is right now, spend even 90 seconds scrolling through the replies to Stancil's tweet and see exactly how many verified accounts are loudly defending the racist for "simply stating the truth". Spoiler alert, it's a fucking lot of them. And, even expecting it going in, a lot of those are tech bros.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 August 2023 21:19 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, it's extremely bad and disheartening, stomach-turning, among other things. In the early years of Twitter, before Jack I guess realized that "absolute free speech" didn't really work in practice, there were plenty of groups of the sort monitored by SPLC who had Twitter accounts and would post whatever gross stuff. But, you had to actually be searching for that type of content. Now, even if you only look at your "Following" feed, it is impossible to avoid that stuff, because clicking on any popular post will reveal dozens and dozens of outright nazi or nazi-ish posts by blue check accounts. That is all Elon's doing. He designed it that way. He thinks it's important for people to see that stuff. Some of those same people he retweets, some of them he rewards financially.
There was an interview with Yaccarino on CNBC earlier today that was awful. She kept retreating into drivel about how wonderful a platform it is for debating ideas, even or especially ones we may not agree with... ohh, yeah. Well, I thought I had made up my mind about the whole nazi thing but, I probably should give the other side a fair hearing. We could have a healthy, vibrant exchange of ideas!
John Cusack tweeted some scathing, perhaps slightly over the top thing about DeSantis today to the effect that he's a nazi ghoul who should he locked up in some kind of institution, and at first I kind of rolled my eyes a bit, thinking how this is a good example of why people get irritated by or at least don't take seriously "hollywood liberals" opining on political shit. But then I was like "wait, no! Basically everything he's saying is completely right!" It's insane that DeSantis, Trump, Abbott, MTG -- all these fucks, were not drummed out of polite society a long time ago, much less ever entertained as being legitimate candidates in the realm of public service.
They are monsters, and in the same way that people who are not great at math have trouble conceiving how much bigger a billion is than a few million, the average flawed person who is basically decent at heart and trying in good faith to do the right thing as they live their life I think has trouble understanding how sociopathic and truly monstrous these people are. If you are a "oh gosh, was I rude to that cab driver, and did I tip them enough?" person, how can you even begin to approach an understanding of the moral void that is at the heart of these people?
That is what worries me about Elon. Obviously a total shitbag with an execrable worldview and kinda dumb to boot, but people positively worship the wealth and power he wields or represents to such a degree that they will happily ignore him torturing monkeys or doing the equivalent of trump's "shooting someone on fifth avenue". One often gets the feeling that even diehard MAGA people think on some level that Trump is a bit of a buffoon, but Musk's fans see him as a Visionary. I just have a ~bad feeling~, apart from simply "this guy sucks". That much wealth alone can very easily turn someone into something of a monster. But if they were already a shitty person? And tons of people think that the person is a genius who is going to solve so many of humanity's most pressing problems? And the same person is trying to give creepy eugenics and nazi shit maximal exposure on his giant social media site?
I legitimately have TDS. I feel it's like how in the years since 9-11 when people look at the economic waste and the forever wars and the security theater that has made air travel hell and then they will glumly admit yeah, the terrorists/Osama won. Like, even if Trump gets locked up tomorrow, or dies a spectacularly humiliating death while conducting one of his hate events, for all practical purposes, he won! He has done so much damage, legitimized and emboldened the worst behaviors and attitudes in so many people on such a large scale, has unleashed so much profoundly unwholesome energy, etc.
― dell (del), Friday, 11 August 2023 01:13 (eight months ago) link
^^^^OTM Good post
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 11 August 2023 01:20 (eight months ago) link
yeah. it really sucks. that's a big part of what killed me the night of the election, the knowledge that Trump is now forever a part of American history. that one day my grandchildren will learn about this guy and he will perhaps be described as an "eccentric straight shooter". he may get humiliated again in 2024, he may get charged and convicted and eventually sentenced to jail time, but it doesn't matter. he still won, he still triggered the libs, he still completely reshaped an entire political party in his image, in a way that I don't think really's ever been done in our country's history. for the rest of my life if there's a single person in power who continues to support him or his "ideology" (whatever the fuck that is) I cannot say I'm proud to be American.
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2023 02:23 (eight months ago) link
i’m just going to write, not judgmentally, that if you were proud to be an American before Trump, you just weren’t paying attention.(that said, I agree with del’s post— but I would focus more on the sheer force of the nihilism and meanness which he brought and which has now seeped into all corners and ideologies)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 11 August 2023 11:28 (eight months ago) link
if this video were made today hed be no scoping sex traffickers from 400 yards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KoXt9pZLGM
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 August 2023 11:57 (eight months ago) link
all I can say is I've spent far too long giving conservative ideology the benefit of the doubt - I watch/read liberal media, I hang out with liberals, I'm aware we talk about them the same way they talk about us, I assumed maybe there was *something* to at least their economic ideas, but nah, turns out it's literally all about them having hurt feelings
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
proud to say as an american that i never gave those fuckers the time of day, i do regret humoring and harboring centrist-dem politics tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 August 2023 14:07 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3SoAUhWwAEnYaG?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:39 (eight months ago) link
del's post is OTM. I got tired of hearing people say 'don't normalize racism' shit but it was true, and now it seems to have been completely normalized, and race science tech bro nutjobs are proliferating.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:48 (eight months ago) link
Ive seen that post a couple of times, WTF is Elmo saying there, "If Zuck my"... tongue? Heart? I dont know what that emoji is doing.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:36 (eight months ago) link
I assume it's a pussy emoji, but that requires your brain to contemplate for even one microsecond the thought of Elon Musk eating pussy
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:37 (eight months ago) link
While listening to Dan Carlin
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:45 (eight months ago) link
spelling Sméagol on Grimes’s upper thigh
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:48 (eight months ago) link
they should fight to the death
I got this text message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT showing a screenshot of some text messages in which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they should fight this Monday at Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto. pic.twitter.com/krgRsH5P5G— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) August 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
What about the neck surgery?
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:19 (eight months ago) link
even if Trump gets locked up tomorrow, or dies a spectacularly humiliating death while conducting one of his hate events, for all practical purposes, he won! He has done so much damage, legitimized and emboldened the worst behaviors and attitudes in so many people on such a large scale, has unleashed so much profoundly unwholesome energy, etc.
otm; repairing that damage would be a slow and patient but doable process if the organizational will were there for it, but probably nah.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:50 (eight months ago) link
it is doable, i agree. it will take a new religion, let's go
isn't this how the early russian socialists did stuff? imagine if they had social media.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:42 (eight months ago) link
(truly tho, i do agree it is doable and it is lol--what is to be done)
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:44 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3bLG4vXAAAJ_Q2?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
could have gone out like a legend
― mh, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:42 (eight months ago) link
I'm kind of relieved that I won't have to be embarrassingly emotionally invested in Mark Zuckerberg winning an MMA match
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
Oh Zuckerberg would obviously kick his ass, which, like, of course he would, he's actually an MMA fighter. It's not really any shade on Musk that he would lose an MMA fight to somebody who trains and fights as an MMA fighter. But it would have been pretty fun to see him get his ass kicked, so I'm sorry we're robbed of that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
From the beginning I figured there was a 0% chance it was actually gonna happen and it wasn’t because of Zuck
― frogbs, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:08 (eight months ago) link
does zuck have the juice to goad musk into this
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:19 (eight months ago) link
did you guys hear that zuck rizzed up elon
― mh, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
Elon trying to make his paunch a feature rather than a bug.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
In other words, roll with the paunches.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:35 (eight months ago) link
Sancho Panzón
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:36 (eight months ago) link
A Paunch and Judy Show.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:41 (eight months ago) link
Is that a real paunch or a Sears paunch?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:43 (eight months ago) link
am i going crazy or wasn't a rich dude getting obsessed with becoming an MMA fighter a subplot in a lesser season of Friends?
― serving aunt (stevie), Sunday, 13 August 2023 22:00 (eight months ago) link
Look, any two knuckleheads can climb in a cage together... they should have it out like a couple of real billionaires; see who can hire the best team of assassins versus the other guy's private security detail...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 13 August 2023 22:01 (eight months ago) link
this meme return when
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aydOe4W_460s.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 14 August 2023 10:26 (eight months ago) link
xp not so weird that Friends did it. there's only so many frontiers these rich guys can help mankind get a better understanding of: space, AI, and *checks notes* full-contact combat
― Vinnie, Monday, 14 August 2023 11:33 (eight months ago) link
ronan farrow on musks influence on the us government, not a great sitch
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
no paywall https://archive.ph/GEjpZ
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:50 (eight months ago) link
Again, we have an emasculated government, unable to even to even conduct foreign policy without relying on a billionaire.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
You might want to reconsider your metaphor. Seems to me more of a tension between a weak democracy and an ascendant oligarchy than one of insufficient power at the disposal of the government.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 21 August 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
Lol pic.twitter.com/nsqmhFXIOH— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) August 21, 2023
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 13:44 (eight months ago) link
we were so close to a better world
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
just remembered this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnJBx_QagAQO8kQ?format=jpg&name=large
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
the cool friends gang
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:04 (eight months ago) link
the extent to which people kiss his ass is truly disgusting
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:08 (eight months ago) link
I can't read "I made the clutch move of ordering us pizza" without picturing Kendall Roy
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:18 (eight months ago) link
the clutch move of telling ronan farrow yr billionaire pal's life just sucks
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
do I have to read that Farrow piece?
― rob, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
not really
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
you have to sorry
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:14 (eight months ago) link
It's not particularly revelatory. My big takeaway was that in a better country a government sniper would put a bullet through his head.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:24 (eight months ago) link
"honey badger drinks when he wants"
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
we could have had it so good. maybe that incident explains his weird posture.
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
It's not particularly revelatory.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the meat of the article, the mechanisms of musk influence over the government, hasnt really been reported before at least not in this detail, and its important imho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:48 (eight months ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:50 (eight months ago) link
but on the other hand if you just assume rich guy has too much power you wouldnt be wrong
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
stuff like
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me.
is pretty strong
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:08 (eight months ago) link
then you mix in musks instability and ambiguous/bad politics and its not that good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:10 (eight months ago) link
xp That sounds made up.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:10 (eight months ago) link
dumbest possible timeline type scenario
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:12 (eight months ago) link
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded.
― aeronimo is mad againe (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:13 (eight months ago) link
its that famous neoliberalism that we all know and love
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:15 (eight months ago) link
oof yeah "thanks" for posting that OSHA bit
― rob, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:35 (eight months ago) link
god i forgot that she laughs in his face and hes like on the verge of tears the entire time https://t.co/ZTkoF9COMN— teen vampire, aged 40 (@starswheeled) August 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:34 (eight months ago) link
so moist
― omar little, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:40 (eight months ago) link
"look at you"
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:43 (eight months ago) link
so mean lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:49 (eight months ago) link
that's the most Afrikaner sounding I've heard from him, she must've got under his skin
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 19:02 (eight months ago) link
every once in a while this resurfaces and
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4FiBUaW4AAQeV_?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 22:29 (eight months ago) link
cuts off the best part, he recommends some mobile game instead lol
https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/v1/images_users/tiny_mce/raync910/phpPDm8qz.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 22:45 (eight months ago) link
...but he's describing Civ! lol.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:51 (eight months ago) link
I thought it was Minecraft
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:52 (eight months ago) link
and Polytopia is just a dumbed down simplified version of Civ for mobile.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:57 (eight months ago) link
Candy Crush addresses these limitations.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:58 (eight months ago) link
tbh I think elon may actually have been attempting a joke there
― 龜, Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:09 (eight months ago) link
Pretty sure Elon just got mad he couldn’t make his Bishop excommunicate a Rook
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:10 (eight months ago) link
Thinking Polytopia is better than chess is the only interesting thing he’s ever said.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:23 (eight months ago) link
Both sides exact same pieces
I wonder why he hates the idea of everyone having the exact same starting chance.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:59 (eight months ago) link
sad thing is its been well documented that elon likes games but he has to do this thought leader schtick where games are only good if they help you win at life
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 August 2023 13:54 (eight months ago) link
guess he felt insecure about not playing the smart guy game
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 August 2023 14:12 (eight months ago) link
poker is the true business analog tho
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Qc9KPaQAAd0vP?format=webp&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4TgWlBaUAE6w_2?format=webp&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 August 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
*looking at cyber truck* the door is a fraction of a hair off
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4UCo_OXwAE6z5j?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 August 2023 02:49 (eight months ago) link
LEGO is designed and built to sub 10 microns accuracy?
Did this guy become a billionaire just by talking out his ass?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 02:52 (eight months ago) link
That and blood diamonds.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 25 August 2023 02:55 (eight months ago) link
Bullshit + blood diamonds
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 02:56 (eight months ago) link
lego really is made to incredible tolerances
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 August 2023 03:07 (eight months ago) link
very funny to compare a car to a soda can
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 August 2023 03:13 (eight months ago) link
Lego doesn’t fuck around with their product, for sure.The Algorithms somehow put Musk clowning subreddit r/enoughmuskspam in my feed and the thread dedicated to that particular memo was some entertaining reading last night. Pointing out how moronic it was from about 20 different angles.
― circa1916, Friday, 25 August 2023 03:52 (eight months ago) link
Oh I didn’t notice lagoon’s post actually came from there lol
― circa1916, Friday, 25 August 2023 03:55 (eight months ago) link
my manufacturing friend’s comment on Elon’s micron-accurate take is “this is how you price a vehicle like a space shuttle”
― mh, Friday, 25 August 2023 14:14 (eight months ago) link
this is how you price a vehicle like a LEGO kit
― peace, man, Friday, 25 August 2023 14:29 (eight months ago) link
Anyone have a link to this?
Apparently I totally missed a certain tyrant on this website making his ex-wife go viral for horrible manners in Japan by ruining one of her gigs pic.twitter.com/gOZSJDQf15— I Am Unseriouz Oranj (@fireh9lly) August 25, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 August 2023 14:35 (eight months ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/grimezs/comments/15v2d78/in_his_shadow_translated_quote_tweet_roundup/
― mark s, Friday, 25 August 2023 14:45 (eight months ago) link
What do you expect at a Grimes gig these days?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 25 August 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
LEGO is designed and built to sub 10 microns accuracy?― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 24, 2023 10:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 24, 2023 10:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah. Injection moulding is incredible.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 25 August 2023 14:50 (eight months ago) link
Lego's injection molded stainless steel sets are amazing
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 August 2023 14:53 (eight months ago) link
a couple of months ago my daughter got a barbie-branded set of building blocks that were presumably created to be as close to lego as possible without being legally actionable and jesus christ they feel like absolute shit to play with, it really gave me an appreciation for the design of the real thing
anyway, fuck elon musk obv
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 August 2023 14:57 (eight months ago) link
why are people still calling her his ex-wife? of all the dumb things she did, oddly marrying him wasn’t one afaict
― mh, Friday, 25 August 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
Elon's divorced energy is so strong that anyone who dates him becomes an ex-wife de facto
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 25 August 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
fair
― mh, Friday, 25 August 2023 17:48 (eight months ago) link
It's not my wife, it's just my girlfriend I had two kids with
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 25 August 2023 17:52 (eight months ago) link
it's like Rumpelstiltskin. The monster makes the gold for the lady, raising her station. But in this case the monster doesn't want the baby. Also, the baby has the strange name.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 August 2023 17:54 (eight months ago) link
Grimes' Tales for Young and Old
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 August 2023 17:56 (eight months ago) link
cool Bob Mould tune
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 25 August 2023 18:41 (eight months ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, August 23, 2023 3:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I did love how the farrow article described him as growing up “under” apartheid
― k3vin k., Friday, 25 August 2023 22:14 (eight months ago) link
what is this thread?
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 August 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
you should all be embarrassed to post in this thread about a fucking needle dick dimwit
damn budo jeru dont say something youll regret
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 August 2023 23:13 (eight months ago) link
microns
https://t.co/sU64sleU1l pic.twitter.com/gKqID5rttA— Eric Hu (@_EricHu) August 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 August 2023 23:27 (eight months ago) link
That fucking thing still looks like a solar ovenhttps://www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-4.58.01-PM-1024x568.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 August 2023 23:53 (eight months ago) link
Or, like, a range hoodhttps://assets.wfcdn.com/im/17420943/resize-h800-w800%5Ecompr-r85/8926/89263482/36%22+Fabriano+600+CFM+Convertible+Under+Cabinet+Range+Hood+in+Stainless+Steel.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 August 2023 23:55 (eight months ago) link
Or maybe "Box" from Logan's Run
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/box.gif
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 23:57 (eight months ago) link
how is that a truck
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 26 August 2023 00:01 (seven months ago) link
You know this has to be the inspiration:
https://i0.wp.com/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/review_damnation-alley.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 26 August 2023 00:02 (seven months ago) link
― budo jeru, Friday, August 25, 2023 7:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is like when I didn't click on ILE for like 3-6 years.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 26 August 2023 00:25 (seven months ago) link
cybertruck is now vaporware instead of vaporwave
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 26 August 2023 07:41 (seven months ago) link
Elon Musk and Y Combinator's CEO are trying to blacklist a law firm, because it does pro-bono work for the civil rights of homeless people.The class war is real. pic.twitter.com/5aEMmcBj9W— Y Dissasembler (@loomdoop) August 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 August 2023 18:30 (seven months ago) link
tbh it's weird seeing one of the largest and most profitable law firms in the world as the victim here
― 龜, Saturday, 26 August 2023 22:07 (seven months ago) link
"I personally demand"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 26 August 2023 22:08 (seven months ago) link
I've said it before, but the rhetoric around homelessness in this country is getting genocidal
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 26 August 2023 23:42 (seven months ago) link
Without context, it looks like that Garry Tan guy (whoever he is) is supportive of treatment programs/shelters which on the face of it seems reasonable?
I assume the issue (on a quick google) is that people just want tent cities obliterated but there's no other option for the homeless, despite Tan's suggestions?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 27 August 2023 00:56 (seven months ago) link
I’m basically to: Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?
― you need magical thinking ayo my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:00 (seven months ago) link
xp His "solution" probably comes down to bootstraps and tough love.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:05 (seven months ago) link
DS9 prophetic
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:37 (seven months ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:45 (seven months ago) link
Huge trigger for the disgust reflex in right-wing rhetoric. The dehumanization in the way they talk about homeless people is as bad as it is about trans people, and it really does sound like some Rwanda radio/Goebbels kind of shit.
And as always they don't want to "solve" homelessness, they just don't want to see it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:53 (seven months ago) link
They want to be able to characterize it as a problem for liberal cities, caused by liberal policies.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:55 (seven months ago) link
Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?
"Solved" might not be the best way to think of it, but people who are homeless need to be attended to. Most of them are in one kind of crisis or another — economic, most often, and also mental health and addiction etc. They're people who have for the most part fallen through every safety net. So yeah they need help, and housing is mostly the best place to start.
I know a guy who is probably the closest you could come to a real happy hobo type. He's real-deal hippie troubadour who writes poetry and busks on his acoustic guitar. He spent decades basically migrating back and forth from Tennessee to Florida, going south in the winters and for the most part living outside the whole time. He was a really experienced camper, he lived on what he made busking, and he says that he just really loved the life. But then he got older, everything got harder, being cold and wet was worse than it used to be, and so forth. He decided to get on the list for public housing when he was in his late '60s. He eventually got a little apartment. He still busks downtown and can't possibly have much money to get by on, but at least he's got a bed. Everybody likes to have a bed.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 August 2023 02:06 (seven months ago) link
Speaking as someone with firsthand dealings with Garry Tan, he is absolutely terrible, he is a libertarian cryptodouche who thinks local politics can be solved by recalling school board members, the DA, the police commissioner, the board of supes, etc. Absolute racist trash.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 27 August 2023 02:11 (seven months ago) link
lmao wrecked
Elon Musk getting booed at VALORANT Champs and the crowd starts chanting "bring back Twitter" lmao pic.twitter.com/lDoWse78YV— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) August 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:55 (seven months ago) link
"This crowd is funny."
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:58 (seven months ago) link
Was that a crowd watching people play a video game?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:18 (seven months ago) link
I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:26 (seven months ago) link
I mean, watching eSports is no different than every fat fuck who watches football, so.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:28 (seven months ago) link
So it is a crowd watching people play video games
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:38 (seven months ago) link
A friend of mine (former boss at Roadrunner Records) runs an esports empire (including the biggest gaming center in the southern hemisphere, apparently) in Australia. BIG money in video games, and watching other people play them.
― read-only (unperson), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:41 (seven months ago) link
fp'ed for fatshaming
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:42 (seven months ago) link
Cute. Reminds me of that Fred Savage movie.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:44 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7oOZvds.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/NNa5ovj.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/c2oqWrj.png
lookin good very nice truck sir
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:13 (seven months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart_song.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:15 (seven months ago) link
idk that back plate looks around 11 microns off to me
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:20 (seven months ago) link
idk, i heard that it was an 11 micron measurement that made Grimes leave him
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:29 (seven months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 6:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
esports at least in the u.s. (korea is probably more stable just due to the history there) it kind of a financial house of cards, it's really been decimated recently
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:46 (seven months ago) link
just showing receipts cuz this is ilx
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:48 (seven months ago) link
i dunno if it's joy div as much as it's
https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/public_image_ltd_metal_box.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:03 (seven months ago) link
cold metalwhen I start my vancold metalin my garbage can
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
I repeat, how is that a 'truck'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:33 (seven months ago) link
its very big has a flatbed 4wd high clearance etc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:36 (seven months ago) link
tho it does have a unibody which is anti truck, elon was claiming it was going to have a unique "exoskeleton" construction but that like many things he says turned out to be a lie
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:40 (seven months ago) link
Esports is quite one of those things I cannot wrap my mind around
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:42 (seven months ago) link
idk I'll watch people try to speedrun Mario 64 for an hour so I kinda get it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:47 (seven months ago) link
yeah i’m just deeply not a video games person— my main interactions have been with either the first two Mario games for Gameboy (the original) and Mariokart for N64. I like playing the latter but the whole thing— watching other people play video games— feels so abject and horrible to me, even in theory.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:53 (seven months ago) link
i mean, i like foosball way more than esports, but i don’t care about either, really. I’m more fascinated by whether esports are easy to rig for gambling, because that seems like the real money?
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:00 (seven months ago) link
Does that cybertruck have duck tape holding two panels together?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link
kinda looks like it! maybe that's an optional extra
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:31 (seven months ago) link
gotta pay your monthly fee or else Elon will sneak into your garage at night and rip the duct tape off
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:44 (seven months ago) link
Tryna figure out who thinks that looks ok. Like it looks neither next level or quality. Like some kind of joke i just don’t get.
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:08 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4zry0PX0AAeokP?format=jpg&name=medium
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:39 (seven months ago) link
hope it's flex tape at least
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:11 (seven months ago) link
they look like they're always gonna be kinda grubby
I think DeLorean clear-coated the stainless just for this reason
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
This car is never going to production
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 11, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:10 (seven months ago) link
In repsonse to...
Oh come the fuck on https://t.co/tdkwY6VINK— Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerRIP) July 11, 2023
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, August 30, 2023 7:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i wonder if those big stainless steel panels will even meet the gov standards as far as crumpling in a crash and so forth, regardless pretty sure the shape with those sharp corners isnt compliant
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:15 (seven months ago) link
how dare you question innovation
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:19 (seven months ago) link
you know it was the last thing i wanted to do
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:21 (seven months ago) link
The thing is, that stupid truck think is so totally Homer's dream car, but that is so otm and on the nose that we're all just wishing there is a better comparison, but no, that truck is akin to one of the (fictional) dumbest things of all time, but real life.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:30 (seven months ago) link
Such a dolt. His existence is embarrassing on a global scale, a species scale.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:36 (seven months ago) link
Meanwhile, Rivian just rolled out their dual-motor truck today. Overall a better alternative to the quadmotor Rivians and certainly far more useful than Elon's dumb truck.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:38 (seven months ago) link
next they should roll out round headlights haha i joke but seriously they should
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
world historical cringe
― budo jeru, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:43 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F42SKW8WMAABqJi?format=png&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:45 (seven months ago) link
poor volkswagen its tough out there, maybe stop doing fraud idk, but then u look at tesla and think maybe do more fraud
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link
make self-gaslighting your brand
― rob, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link
my former coworker juiced VW so hard on trade-in when that fraud thing came throughthey practically paid him to accept a new gti by the time the deal was done
― mh, Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:03 (seven months ago) link
only do cool fraud
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
Tesla superchargers on I5 powered by a diesel plant.
“One of the real tragedies of Tesla, in my personal opinion, is the extent to which well-meaning people were convinced that this company whose mission is in fact extreme wealth generation by any means necessary is somehow a force for good, to be supported like one would a real mission-driven nonprofit,” the investigative journalist wrote SFGATE.
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:09 (seven months ago) link
article does make it clear that all of this energy just goes into the grid in CA, and that these chargers aren't only powered by the energy source that was built to help support them, but the journalist's point there stands, I think.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:18 (seven months ago) link
ah, but maybe it was biodiesel! (not likely)fwiw, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard system is mostly gamed by swapping credits in a Musk-like fashion. most of the metrics mention the fuel is nearly all produced outside of California, but as far as I know, it’s also sold outside the state. so someone incentivizes the production and sale of biodiesel or gasoline blended with ethanol and it’s produced, sold, and consumed elsewhere but a CA company buys the renewable energy credits and claims compliance
― mh, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:29 (seven months ago) link
Edward Niedermeyer is great on Tesla smoke-and-mirrors stuff - really enjoyed the War on Cars ep with him on.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
yeah def the most knowledgable tesla expert out there, including understanding the politics
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:46 (seven months ago) link
this is frankly why any sort of shaming over EVs or etc is utter bullshit— such scolds should go work in a lithium or coltan mine.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 4 September 2023 11:33 (seven months ago) link
I'd been following a solar electric car company called Aptera for a bit, who seem to be actively encouraging comparisons to Tesla (probably to gin up investors), which makes me wonder if their claims of moderate commutes being totally powered by CA-level sunshine is similarly Musk-esque bluster.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 4 September 2023 16:08 (seven months ago) link
Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) May 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 September 2023 17:18 (seven months ago) link
why do you need Kanye when Elon's around
Dragging all your former advertisers into discovery is totally going to win them back! Excellent move, sir pic.twitter.com/3TvdsrLvyL— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) September 4, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:38 (seven months ago) link
I wonder where Elon got the idea to shut down Starlink on the frontlines? https://t.co/i6LzgJwqSg pic.twitter.com/t5sAWITWNa— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) September 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:57 (seven months ago) link
where's the malay wet-ops arm of the cia when u need it most
― mark s, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
release the ants lads
― mark s, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:06 (seven months ago) link
To everyone arguing against Tesla removing the gear shifter: what looks easier to you? pic.twitter.com/DwkmnAdv6D— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 5, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:59 (seven months ago) link
wait, is that how you change gears in a Tesla?!? Swiping on a screen?
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:34 (seven months ago) link
some ppl just love screen time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:42 (seven months ago) link
It's certainly how you play Fruit Ninja.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:42 (seven months ago) link
back up buttons (not actual buttons)
Yes! Of courseBackup buttons illuminate when the screen loses power pic.twitter.com/zH0CdA6mCS— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:43 (seven months ago) link
on one hand I hardly ever need to shift quickly and on the other hand there are occasions where I need to deftly execute a three point turn and I shouldn’t have to look down at something during that
― mh, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:46 (seven months ago) link
I usually back into my driveway so I have to shift quickly - the dial transmission select on the Mach-E is very fast and I never have to look down
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 September 2023 04:08 (seven months ago) link
what’s a mach-e
― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 8 September 2023 06:48 (seven months ago) link
Pixar took the plot of Cars but made it about jets
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 September 2023 07:02 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5fTXsvaYAAWmdu?format=jpg&name=small
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 8 September 2023 08:48 (seven months ago) link
xps How’s the Mach-E been treating you, ET?
― mh, Friday, 8 September 2023 13:50 (seven months ago) link
The Mach-E is Ford's electric Mustang, BTW.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 September 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
anyone read this ronan farrow piece?
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 8 September 2023 16:45 (seven months ago) link
Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake. By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, children are…— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) September 7, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
GREAT car. Zero regrets. Also biased because the charging infrastructure in California, despite the legitimate complaining, is pretty good.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:32 (seven months ago) link
My wife has one of those cars, and she loves it, but apparently her biggest (negative) surprise was a limited turning radius. Or at least, more awkward than she expected for something so otherwise zippy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:35 (seven months ago) link
Ha, I meant to write my wife's *friend*!
lol i thought this was a joking reference to the powerful mach 5
i am not a car guy
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 September 2023 22:39 (seven months ago) link
Does Михайло Подоляк realize that Elon Musk was raised in South Africa in a family that wistfully views apartheid as the good old days of stable, orderly governance?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 September 2023 22:39 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5mdLPPWkAA3LlM?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 September 2023 18:10 (seven months ago) link
Yes, Ellen, please tell us more about what is actually happening in public schools today, your finger is so on that particular pulseIt's really amazing to me how quickly I've gone from 'I have no opinion about that guy whose name I know' to 'that guy should get into an accident where he no longer has the ability to communicate with the other people in the world'. And all because that guy has been working overtime to completely sour every non-shit person's opinion of him. It's like the one thing at which he is an unalloyed success.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 September 2023 19:00 (seven months ago) link
It’s the same thing with Trump. So much power and money; they can literally do ANYTHING.
And they spend their time being an internet troll. Fuck.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 9 September 2023 19:39 (seven months ago) link
Capitalism is bad, Communism is Good— little known Negativland remix
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 September 2023 20:10 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5nAIr1XcAAs25U?format=jpg&name=small
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 September 2023 20:14 (seven months ago) link
I mean, he could turn his responsibilities to all of his businesses over to anyone else and they would do better, he could just go to Jamaica and party for the rest of his life. He could build an island palace and populate it with willing supermodels that he could pay to do his bidding. He could, oh, BETTER HUMANITY. He could make a solid gold butt-plug encrusted with precious jewels and give it to Kanye West as a gag gift. He could just fuck right off. UGH. How can somebody be so influential and important and so goddamned trifling at the same time, I don't understand it.
I need to spend less time online, I find myself getting worked up too much about people that I can do nothing about, that I shouldn't worry about. I can vote and volunteer to help local organizations, all this other stuff is garbage taking up mental space.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 9 September 2023 20:37 (seven months ago) link
He’s still seething about his trans commie daughter
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:27 (seven months ago) link
Things I just found out about this dork: he has ten (10) children. What is it with these alpha types jetting their spunk about all over the shop? See also: Johnson, B. No-one needed any more chips off this block.
― I spent too long trying to write sensible SF (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:42 (seven months ago) link
Eleven. He/Grimes just announced a third, named "Techno Mechanicus"Or did I just make that up? 🤔
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:49 (seven months ago) link
unsurprisingly he has a eugenicsy belief that the smart people need to reproduce in order to save the humanity go multiplanetary etc
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link
Damn that kid is gonna wish they got the name X
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 September 2023 23:09 (seven months ago) link
Musk and Cheong are exactly the sort of men you’d find hanging around outside primary schools.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 September 2023 00:00 (seven months ago) link
Here’s hoping all his kids go trans commie.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 September 2023 01:19 (seven months ago) link
Or did I just make that up? 🤔
jfc I was really hoping you had...
― octobeard, Sunday, 10 September 2023 01:37 (seven months ago) link
Grimes just wants to see the son she shares with ex-partner Elon Musk, but she says she’s being boxed out.
The “Oblivion” singer seems to have responded, in a now-deleted X post, to a self-promoting post from author Walter Isaacson about his new Musk biography, which featured photos of the SpaceX chief executive and Shivon Zilis, the mother of his recently born twins. Grimes pleaded in the tweet for the writer to relay a request to Musk about how he and Zilis have allegedly blocked the Canadian artist from seeing her son.
“Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” Grimes’ post read, per screenshots posted on Reddit. “I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-09-08/grimes-demands-elon-musk-let-her-see-son
sourcing maybe dubious on this one idk
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:23 (seven months ago) link
“he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now,” the 35-year-old wrote.”
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:28 (seven months ago) link
https://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/images/mission.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
X aii xii and she-ra should be allowed to know their mom before they pupate
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:44 (seven months ago) link
_“he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now,” the 35-year-old wrote.”_
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:52 (seven months ago) link
does Grimes not have shared custody of her kid? I don't get it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:32 (seven months ago) link
life and art dedicated to the Mission UK. All over this wasteland.
I *think* Grimes was saying she's not allowed to do stuff with her kids and Musk's other recent kids together. Either way sounds like she'll happily have a bunch more with the paranoid amoral choad.
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:23 (seven months ago) link
Remind me when these ppl are going to mars and taking off their helmets so their eyeballs pop
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link
i know go to mars already right
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:42 (seven months ago) link
If you love the deadly inhospitable atmosphere of mars so much why don’t you get divorced by it
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
If I’m reading this correctly (and the reported information is accurate), there were four simultaneous surrogacies. Two with the woman from Tesla that asked for his sperm because she admired him and two with Grimes.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:59 (seven months ago) link
digraph Musk { "Elon Musk" -> "Nevada" "Elon Musk" -> "Vivian" "Elon Musk" -> "Griffin" "Elon Musk" -> "Kai" "Elon Musk" -> "Saxon" "Elon Musk" -> "Damian" "Elon Musk" -> "X Æ A-12" "Elon Musk" -> "Strider" "Elon Musk" -> "Azure" "Elon Musk" -> "Exa Dark Sideræl" "Elon Musk" -> "Techno Mechanius" "Justine Wilson" -> "Nevada" "Justine Wilson" -> "Vivian" "Justine Wilson" -> "Griffin" "Justine Wilson" -> "Kai" "Justine Wilson" -> "Saxon" "Justine Wilson" -> "Damian" "Grimes" -> "X Æ A-12" "Grimes" -> "Exa Dark Sideræl" "Grimes" -> "Techno Mechanius" "Shivon Zilis" -> "Strider" "Shivon Zilis" -> "Azure"}
"Justine Wilson" -> "Nevada" "Justine Wilson" -> "Vivian" "Justine Wilson" -> "Griffin" "Justine Wilson" -> "Kai" "Justine Wilson" -> "Saxon" "Justine Wilson" -> "Damian" "Grimes" -> "X Æ A-12" "Grimes" -> "Exa Dark Sideræl" "Grimes" -> "Techno Mechanius" "Shivon Zilis" -> "Strider" "Shivon Zilis" -> "Azure"}
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:16 (seven months ago) link
he should just name them all after microsoft products
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:43 (seven months ago) link
This seems to be intriguingly bad journalism in that the story linked (and the tweet in it) are from last year, when she was 33. So it uses house style to mask the fact that this is a (relatively) old opinion.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:53 (seven months ago) link
story is a mess frankly
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:09 (seven months ago) link
kinda feel bad for 'Damian'
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:17 (seven months ago) link
Damian, 668 the Number of the Breast
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:29 (seven months ago) link
So I'm confused, has Grimes actually given birth to any of these kids herself?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:55 (seven months ago) link
they hatched
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 September 2023 22:56 (seven months ago) link
i think she gave birth to the first one then the other two were via surrogates
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:00 (seven months ago) link
Techno Mechanicus is likely a Warhammer 40,000 reference. https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/elon-musk-techno-mechanicus-grimes
― peace, man, Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:02 (seven months ago) link
Part of the ElonJizzAthon at yr local Tesla dealership.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:02 (seven months ago) link
Saw someone suggest that Elon prefers IVF so that he can choose the sex of the child, which ... tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:04 (seven months ago) link
New season of Silicon Valley dropped
Remember all those technical glitches that caused Twitter to keep crashing around the new year, and also took down Musk’s Twitter Spaces with Ron DeSantis? Here’s what actually happened, according to @WalterIsaacson’s new book: https://t.co/tdcnAytHtG pic.twitter.com/Yez8TJmGHd— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 10, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:11 (seven months ago) link
this guys not right
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 September 2023 23:40 (seven months ago) link
I don't believe that microdosing ketamine is working out for him
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
"Depression is overdiagnosed in the US, but for some people it really is a brain chemistry issue," Musk tweeted in the early hours of Tuesday morning. "But zombifying people with SSRIs for sure happens way too much. From what I've seen with friends, ketamine taken occasionally is a better option."
some people are just babies but i have an actual problem, which i self medicate, and sometimes i take the medication recreationally, also im the richest man in the world
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:24 (seven months ago) link
Really wish someone would make good on those assassination coordinates.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 11 September 2023 00:38 (seven months ago) link
@
I'm a medical doctor. I own a mansion and a yacht.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 September 2023 00:42 (seven months ago) link
"Story continues below advertisement": Journalism in 2023 in four words.
― read-only (unperson), Monday, 11 September 2023 01:50 (seven months ago) link
"zombifying people with SSRIs"
people who say stuff like this have clearly never taken an SSRI. They aren't fucking tranquilizers.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 September 2023 02:49 (seven months ago) link
Does Must ever not talk completely out of his ass about anything tho
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 September 2023 04:27 (seven months ago) link
"zombifying people with SSRIs"people who say stuff like this have clearly never taken an SSRI. They aren't fucking tranquilizers.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 September 2023 04:46 (seven months ago) link
It was definitely better all those years before 2023 when journalism was not financed by advertisements.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Monday, 11 September 2023 09:32 (seven months ago) link
ya but they generally didn't used to have to sherpa you through the adverts to track down the actual writing so much
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 11 September 2023 10:29 (seven months ago) link
if people were debating whether or not I was a Nazi sympathizer I'd maybe give it a while before bringing up the fact that I also tortured monkeys to death
― frogbs, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:12 (seven months ago) link
tortured sick monkeys to death
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:13 (seven months ago) link
yeah but are you the richest man on Earth?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 September 2023 14:20 (seven months ago) link
the more monkeys i torture the richer i get
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/walter-isaacson-elon-musk-biography.html
they deserve each other
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 September 2023 15:13 (seven months ago) link
It’s kind of a tribute to the impotence of the current animal rights movement that this chaos isn’t having red paint dimpled on him continuously.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 September 2023 15:19 (seven months ago) link
Chaos = choad
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 September 2023 15:20 (seven months ago) link
Dumped ugh
love to chaos dimple lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 September 2023 15:22 (seven months ago) link
hello my evropa, my chaos dimple
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 11 September 2023 15:24 (seven months ago) link
re: the isaacson / nymag profile
https://bsky.app/profile/sifu.tweety.fish/post/3k74x22voka22
"Shawn McCreesh is a 2015 St. John’s journalism program graduate who has quickly worked his way to the coveted position of editorial assistant to Maureen Dowd at the New York Times."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 September 2023 15:50 (seven months ago) link
McSheesh
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 September 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html
i only saw the tweet upthread not the excerpt so applogies if this is a repost
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:10 (seven months ago) link
isaacson amending the claim in his own book that musk shut of starlink. great stuff.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/walter-isaacson-and-the-power-of
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 03:03 (seven months ago) link
as much as I hate Elon, the Neocon framing of "Musk actually murdered Ukrainians by not enabling a military attack on Russia" is a bit much
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:02 (seven months ago) link
some people may be saying that but the more common point is maybe its not that good for this one rando to have that much power
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:03 (seven months ago) link
well yeah, but as far as I know he just got baited into offering the services on Twitter
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:10 (seven months ago) link
Don't think he bid for a contract or anything
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:11 (seven months ago) link
Yeah I love the framing of "Elon probably kept us out of a world war" — which is first of all almost certainly not true, but the better framing is "How the fuck did anyone let Elon get into a position to decide whether or not we have a world war?"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:14 (seven months ago) link
article upthread about various high level government functionaries quaking in fear at the sound of his name is wild stuff
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:18 (seven months ago) link
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 12, 2023 10:11 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh well if theres no contract lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:21 (seven months ago) link
I mean he volunteered to offer the service with the caveat that it not be used for offensive operations. If the US or Ukraine wanted an offensive system they would have set one up.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:30 (seven months ago) link
How this dipshit still manages to convince so many people to continually cape for him in the year 2023 will never cease to amaze me.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:34 (seven months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
fuck off table
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:39 (seven months ago) link
maybe this one dumb bad guy shouldnt control all this stuff based on his drug and sleep deprived moods idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
exactly.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
+ ideas from the worst people in the world
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5b0TdmXYAAkIdI?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:43 (seven months ago) link
There was an NYT story a few weeks ago about what a shitshow it was to have a private citizen in charge of a shifting battle zone. Ukranian general were constantly on the phone to Musk requesting the service to be turned off or on in different areas depending on who was in control of what town or terrain.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:45 (seven months ago) link
they should send someone to kill him imo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:45 (seven months ago) link
Musk should not be in the position to make these decisions, but the US, which is dumping billions into the war, has chosen to rely on him.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:46 (seven months ago) link
smiley and felix leiter sat across from bond discussing ian miles cheong: "the licence just doesn't cover this, shir"
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:52 (seven months ago) link
yeah wonder how exactly that happened, starlink is a one of a kind network much faster than the geosynchronous options, and then he just kinda offered it to ukraine, seems like it was convenient but came with some issues too lol xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:54 (seven months ago) link
us gov can beam some internet down from planes but thats a whole thing that they would rather not be involved in im sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:00 (seven months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:02 (seven months ago) link
Starlink entry on Wikipedia has now got me reading about Brilliant Pebbles which paved the way for Fucking Magnets.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:16 (seven months ago) link
xpost Sorry for lashing out Table
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:29 (seven months ago) link
all good Pres, despite our past disagreements and butting heads i harbor no ill will toward you, just fyi.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:32 (seven months ago) link
same here
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:33 (seven months ago) link
tbh the pop of ilx is so low now i'm guessing nobody could be fp'd off the site anymore
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
Serious question, since I've either never been FP'd (seems unlikely) or just don't know how it works — do you get notification of FPs? Or is it just that if there are sufficient #s the mods do something?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:42 (seven months ago) link
the latter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
So kind of a Star Chamber system huh. Terrifying.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:53 (seven months ago) link
we have no choice but to abide by our shadowy overlords
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:56 (seven months ago) link
i’m not totally sure but i think the late great gottempbanned over that kerfuffle
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:57 (seven months ago) link
no, he didn't
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:33 (seven months ago) link
Early days of Ukraine war had quite a few posters get temp banned, it's still possible you just need to work with the zeitgeist.
fwiw tipsy there's a thread where you can ask how many FPs you got and the mods will tell you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 18:14 (seven months ago) link
We cannot inform you of the charges against you. Prepare your defense.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:36 (seven months ago) link
elon seems overextended.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:54 (seven months ago) link
lol some things it's better not to know.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:06 (seven months ago) link
I don't know if that New York Magazine piece on Isaacson/his Elon bio was discussed here but it's really jarring and kind of bizarre how almost sycophantic an attitude he takes towards Musk at times, but then he will casually drop things like "yeah, it's a shame he has zero empathy" or "yeah, his pedophile tweets are kind of off-putting" (the latter I guess a reference to when he accused the Thai cave rescue guy of being a pedophile?) He also muses that all geniuses or great dudes (and presumably the one lady he wrote about?) are driven to accomplish great things by their personal demons, with a sort of implication that Elon has the potential to be the most godlike genius ever precisely because he has so many issues and is such a fucked-up guy.
I'm maybe sloppily paraphrasing him here, but it's a weird read altogether!
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:52 (seven months ago) link
well they dont give you access if youre not a sniveling lil toad i guess
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:58 (seven months ago) link
Ha... the other layer to it is that the New York writer seems to go out of their way to paint Isaacson as being such a great guy, and going into the article having known almost nothing about him I was honestly having trouble figuring out if my overall negative reaction to him (Isaacson) was due to Isaacson as a person, or weariness at the writer's lavish encomium of him, Isaacson's attitude towards Musk, or just my own personal bad weather Sept. 11th Monday spleen.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:14 (seven months ago) link
theres daisy chain of butt sniffing happening
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:23 (seven months ago) link
Apparently!
I think his lack of empathy is a deeply unattractive trait. I also think that he would not be who he was in terms of the enterprises if he hadn’t had the deficit of the empathy gene.”
I guess the actual quote is worse than what I made it sound like in my post up there. It's almost like "I for one welcome our new sociopathic billionaire overlords!" Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress ;)
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:29 (seven months ago) link
That's the price we pay for . . . whatever Elon has given the world.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:30 (seven months ago) link
*checks notes* shitty cars and letting nazis on twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:31 (seven months ago) link
Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress
This seems to be the approved line re: Musk among the Davos class; Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who I think used to be a scientist, said the same thing on a podcast interview this week. Of course, to quote William S. Burroughs (I know, I know), "No job too dirty for a fuckin' scientist."
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:40 (seven months ago) link
Thank god for progress (rich guys firing things into space for no reason while everything crumbles)
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 05:25 (seven months ago) link
"Early days of Ukraine war had quite a few posters get temp banned, it's still possible you just need to work with the zeitgeist."
Temp banned twice here, and I'd agree. Pick your moment and go with God.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 06:06 (seven months ago) link
[Stares into the camera] pic.twitter.com/PZrtNA8FQl— Zito (@_Zeets) September 13, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:05 (seven months ago) link
thats something
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
why does it say he was born in "$"
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:41 (seven months ago) link
(the original says pretoria)
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
Progress would be rich guys being fired into the sun.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:47 (seven months ago) link
Elon Musk was born in $crooge McDuckia
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:48 (seven months ago) link
I'm still not over "I am the alpha in this relationship"
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:59 (seven months ago) link
fuck this twat
.@elonmusk, on @theallinpod: “I think I understand China well…”Then proceeds to compare Taiwan to Hawaii: “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China”He’s repeating CCP talking points with no mention of US interests. pic.twitter.com/93V6lCOuVR— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) September 13, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:57 (seven months ago) link
Most inarticulate fuck i’ve ever heard
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 23:45 (seven months ago) link
i think i understand china well i say what they want and they let me do business there
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:20 (seven months ago) link
he has a special deal other car manufactures in china have to be 50% chinese owned but tesla can just do what they want
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:23 (seven months ago) link
it's always shocking to me how childish, stupid, and sloppy he is
― treeship., Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:38 (seven months ago) link
it's worth noting that the Communist Party of China has never ruled Taiwan - if anything the island could be considered a liberated post-colony of the old China, but never a part of the People's Republic, fuck off elon
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:47 (seven months ago) link
he never knows what the fuck he is talking about
― treeship., Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:48 (seven months ago) link
He might want to ask some Hawaiians how they feel about all this.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 September 2023 02:48 (seven months ago) link
That famously "integral" part of a country that is mostly on a landmass 2,500 miles away.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 September 2023 02:49 (seven months ago) link
I remember hearing this guy speak in like 2017 and could not believe how unprepared and tired he seemed. serious "didn't actually read the book" vibes. his brain is just a rat in a really tight maze unable to see more than a foot ahead
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 September 2023 02:51 (seven months ago) link
I mean he spent decades surrounding himself with people who were willing to take every idiotic thing that came out of his mouth seriously and reward him with hundreds of millions in government money I genuinely think that kind of shit warps your melon
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 September 2023 02:54 (seven months ago) link
Elon vs. China hawks is a no-win scenario.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:06 (seven months ago) link
You're Elonin' My Melon Man
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:22 (seven months ago) link
Gary Shteyngart's review of the Isaacson book is appropriately savage.
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:32 (seven months ago) link
3 sentences before we hit lazy empty mental health slurs, kudos
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:45 (seven months ago) link
You mean this?
Throughout the tome, Musk’s confidantes, co-workers, ex-wives and girlfriends present a DSM-5’s worth of psychiatric and other theories for the “demon moods” that darken the lives of his subordinates, and increasingly the rest of us, among them bipolar disorder, OCD, and the form of autism formerly known as Asperger’s. But the idea that any of these conditions are what makes Musk an “asshole” (another frequently used descriptor of him in the book), while also making him successful in his many pursuits, is an insult to all those affected by them who manage to change the world without leaving a trail of wounded people, failing social networks and general despair behind them.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:51 (seven months ago) link
no i'm sorry you're right it's ok to use aclinical mental health slurs about bad people
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:57 (seven months ago) link
He’s talking about what people interviewed in the book say about Musk. But ok.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:01 (seven months ago) link
He also says that explaining away Musk’s evil with clinical theories is an insult to people with these conditions.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:03 (seven months ago) link
i would simply avoid echoing this nonsense by focusing on Musk's existence as an avatar of the hegemonic socioeconomic system but
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:05 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, you should never talk about what's actually in a book when reviewing it. That's just rude to imaginary internet people whose feelings might be hurt.
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:52 (seven months ago) link
How Couples Argue Today:Wife: cool how theres 4 mustards in the fridge in 2018 and none go with my sandwich. Normal WorldHusband: wow its almost like those are my dipping mustards and arent meant to go on sandwiches????????? but ok go off— Jumbo josh_ATF (@AnimeSerbia) July 15, 2020
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:43 (seven months ago) link
Important development: Senate Dems are demanding that the Pentagon turn over information about Elon Musk's Starlink contracts with the US military, to investigate whether there are safeguards in them to prevent another version of Musk's recent fiasco.https://t.co/TKMBwu7pAt pic.twitter.com/JINXfMrW0y— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 September 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
they shd just drone strike this guy
Too bad his body doesn’t produce a heat signature
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:24 (seven months ago) link
elmo is gonna post an “all of your base” meme isnt he
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
Meanwhile over at the genius summit
Touché https://t.co/w58XhgEeSD— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 September 2023 00:39 (seven months ago) link
1000%— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2023
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 01:35 (seven months ago) link
lmao the celebrity cameo in this one
Elon Musk revisiting an idea apparently floated privately in the past -- charging *everyone* to use Twitter. A lower tier than premium. "We’ve moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system," he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it's only way to stamp out bots.— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBG) September 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:36 (seven months ago) link
Netayahu just flew here to the Bay Area to meet with Elon, for god knows what
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:43 (seven months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Soldier_with_Bazooka_M1.jpg/600px-Soldier_with_Bazooka_M1.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:44 (seven months ago) link
benjamin net and yahoo
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:48 (seven months ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:52 (seven months ago) link
Elon destroying the bots like Howard Hughes killing all the germs in his apartment
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:56 (seven months ago) link
Absolutely not paying for social media.
But he hasn't killed the block function so...seeing is believing.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 18:36 (seven months ago) link
Yeah and surely any remaining ad revenue would be decimated
― groovypanda, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:11 (seven months ago) link
50 cents per post$2 if you want anyone to see your post$5 for a racist post$10 if you want Elon to call your post interesting
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:20 (seven months ago) link
$50 if you wanna have Elon's baby
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:21 (seven months ago) link
there is little to no reason to believe anything this guy says about anything he intends to do
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:21 (seven months ago) link
Trying to implement significant changes would probably break the app too.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:36 (seven months ago) link
I'm still waiting for him to rescue those Thai kids with a pedo-proof submarine.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:40 (seven months ago) link
Musk told the Israeli prime minister that with 100m-200m posts on X in a day, “some of those are gonna be bad”Musk when asked about his own posts
― nashwan, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:55 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xccaLNJli6U
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:01 (seven months ago) link
charging every user would at least solve the problems they created when they halved the capacity of the backend by shutting down the sacramento datacenter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:06 (seven months ago) link
yeah lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:40 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6WFS4uWAAMf1Ci?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 September 2023 23:34 (seven months ago) link
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, September 18, 2023 2:21 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
He’s actually implemented a lot of his dumb Twitter ideas though
― frogbs, Monday, 18 September 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link
https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/33d5ded2-374d-43c6-92c6-b04bbfc47953/42008985.jpg?size=pdhism
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 23:47 (seven months ago) link
Netanyahoo just came to check out the new DeLorean
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 September 2023 23:48 (seven months ago) link
since he's implemented every other bad idea he's had i'm gonna start trying to actually use bluesky this time around, i've got some spare invites so dm if you still need one buddies https://t.co/MHUQgB94AO— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) September 18, 2023
Gotta give Elon credit where it's due: this is a very funny own https://t.co/W5YP31htXQ— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) September 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 01:12 (seven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6kTJyVWQAEzCyw?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:49 (seven months ago) link
isaacson writes that this was a masterful gambit sir
― mark s, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:54 (seven months ago) link
Tell me you're in a cult without telling me you're in a cult.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:01 (seven months ago) link
It will be interesting to watch Musk's 900 children battle each other to become God-King
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:08 (seven months ago) link
I'm imagining Grimes commanding an army like Alexander the Great's mother
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
i find elon's approach to fatherhood to be disgusting.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:10 (seven months ago) link
His office mini-fridge must be a real horror show.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:25 (seven months ago) link
but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:26 (seven months ago) link
He also keeps the horse embryos in there so he can thaw them out and exchange them for handjobs
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link
what an absolute fckn spanker
(à propos of nothing, it just rose unbidden to my fingertips)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link
Add in his followers as "tarnished" and we got a plot for Elden Ring 2
― octobeard, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:23 (seven months ago) link
ay, at one point in this spiral grimes has a comment like "i don't expect normal people to understand" and you know what?
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:28 (seven months ago) link
Elon Ring 2
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:36 (seven months ago) link
His office mini-fridge must be a real horror show.but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:23 (seven months ago) link
Elmo is certainly starting to gain the lumpen potatoey countenance of Mohg.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 22 September 2023 04:49 (seven months ago) link
this dude is so hopelessly pathetic
That was fast pic.twitter.com/ztYxN53P6Z— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 23, 2023
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:29 (seven months ago) link
what a dork
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:50 (seven months ago) link
What a fucking dork. Both of them.https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-infinite-rebuy
There’s a scene in Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk that unintentionally captures the essence of the book:-----"Levchin was at a friend’s bachelor pad hanging out with Musk. Some people were playing a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. “There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds,” Levchin says. “Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said “Right, fine, I’m done.” It would be a theme in his life: avoid taking chips off the table; keep risking them.-----That would turn out to be a good strategy. (page 86)There are a couple ways you can read this scene. One is that Musk is an aggressive risk-taker who defies convention, blazes his own path, and routinely proves his doubters wrong.The other is that Elon Musk sucks at poker. But he has access to so much capital that he can keep rebuying until he scores a win.Isaacson, our narrator, doesn’t grasp the difference. He doesn’t understand poker well enough to recognize Musk as the grandstanding sucker at the table. So he portrays Musk’s complete lack of impulse control as a brilliant, identity-defining strategic ploy. (If you go all-in and lose six times, then go all-in a seventh time and win, then you’re still down five buy-ins.)
-----"Levchin was at a friend’s bachelor pad hanging out with Musk. Some people were playing a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. “There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds,” Levchin says. “Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said “Right, fine, I’m done.” It would be a theme in his life: avoid taking chips off the table; keep risking them.-----
That would turn out to be a good strategy. (page 86)
There are a couple ways you can read this scene. One is that Musk is an aggressive risk-taker who defies convention, blazes his own path, and routinely proves his doubters wrong.
The other is that Elon Musk sucks at poker. But he has access to so much capital that he can keep rebuying until he scores a win.
Isaacson, our narrator, doesn’t grasp the difference. He doesn’t understand poker well enough to recognize Musk as the grandstanding sucker at the table. So he portrays Musk’s complete lack of impulse control as a brilliant, identity-defining strategic ploy. (If you go all-in and lose six times, then go all-in a seventh time and win, then you’re still down five buy-ins.)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 September 2023 20:54 (seven months ago) link
if he really is just shoving every single hand you can't even say he "sucks at poker". he's not even playing the game. just mindlessly gambling at a huge disadvantage. and if he left right after doubling up which is the point where you can actually make people nervous that's even dumber.
― frogbs, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:15 (seven months ago) link
needs a 'game theory' tweet rn
― 龜, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:16 (seven months ago) link
elon played hold 'em as a child but found it too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 2 personal cards, no random map or spawn position, only 10 players, etc.
omaha hi-lo addresses these limitations
― Clay, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:32 (seven months ago) link
that story makes no sense you cant just double down in poker the most you can win in a hand is the amount your opponents have and you need their cooperation for that they can just fold
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
also memorizing cards has no value in hold em the only cards you see are the ones youll be able to see the whole hand
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:42 (seven months ago) link
i mean you could go all in every hand but you will probably lose
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:45 (seven months ago) link
well I've heard of home games where you can buy in up to the biggest stack but something tells me the author here doesn't know anything about poker or gambling either and is using the term "double down" incorrectly. I kinda have doubts he's just shoving every hand but I can totally see him getting all-in with the worst of it over and over again
― frogbs, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:30 (seven months ago) link
Lose five hands, win one, declare victory.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 September 2023 22:31 (seven months ago) link
you miss 100% of the hands you don't go all-in on
― symsymsym, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:43 (seven months ago) link
i could see him shoving every time to show that he doesnt care about being good at poker which he obviously does
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
Isaacson cites this 'Levchin' as his sole informant for this story, which he appears to deliver mostly unaltered. Apparently neither of them knows anything about poker.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 September 2023 23:05 (seven months ago) link
that story makes no sense you cant just double down in poker
ppl misuse the term "double down" but there is a betting strategy across all games that says if you lose, double your wager on the next hand, I guess if you have unlimited funds this is a totally workable strategy?? I think that is what people mean by it
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 02:50 (six months ago) link
you're talking about the Martingale strategy. that wouldn't really work in poker though. if you lose 5 buyins chances are it's not gonna be to the same player 5 times. so you couldn't really make it all back in one hand. also typically in poker there's a limit to how much you can buy in for in a cash game. though I'm guessing they suspend that rule for Elon Musk
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 02:59 (six months ago) link
even if you could buy in for whatever you want the double bet doesnt necessarily exist, its not like roulette where the house will just take whatever action
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 03:11 (six months ago) link
"Great meeting with the President of Hungary about the population collapse crisis!"
this man is a nazi.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:50 (six months ago) link
"I don't actually have any cash on me, but I can put up several vials of my sperm as collateral."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:51 (six months ago) link
having started replaying the video game Cyberpunk 2077, I have been reminded that at the beginning of the game you're asked whether you'd like to live a quiet life or go out in a blaze of glory
apparently Elon crashed his then-girlfriend's voice recording session for the game...
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:42 (six months ago) link
Apparently they patched any mention of him out of the game since?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:05 (six months ago) link
he was never in the game https://www.pcgamer.com/no-that-wasnt-elon-musk-in-cyberpunk-2077-says-senior-quest-designer/
That wasn't Elon musk, it looks nothing like himWho came up with this nonsense? https://t.co/usPO94IFhD— Patrick K. Mills (@PKernaghan) September 22, 2023
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:09 (six months ago) link
yeah, he was never in it despite his epic attempts to get included
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:17 (six months ago) link
I muted this pretty quickly. I may have ended up spreading misinformation, but a couple of videos and articles said that the guy on the left was a Musk cameo a couple of weeks before 2.0 released and they did end up changing it so regardless of intent it is funny.— Virus_Kid (@_Virus_Kid_) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:25 (six months ago) link
so regardless of intent it is funny
is it tho
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:31 (six months ago) link
everything is funny now :|
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:38 (six months ago) link
laughing crying emoji
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:39 (six months ago) link
Weird silence from him on his new preferred party trying to cripple his main business. Weird silence from Republicans on the fact that their hero owns an EV company. Weird. https://t.co/SVVnNLCMSc— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 28, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:40 (six months ago) link
Isn’t SpaceX his biggest biz
― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 September 2023 02:47 (six months ago) link
regardless of intent it is funny
new board description obv
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 September 2023 02:53 (six months ago) link
Seems like Elon Musk's brain worms really kicked into high gear overnight. pic.twitter.com/CP9zFArbnp— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 2, 2023
― groovypanda, Monday, 2 October 2023 05:44 (six months ago) link
In 2018, I filed the first defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones, ultimately discrediting him in court. Today, I am proud to announce I have filed suit against yet another notorious disseminator of false information: The owner of this platform, Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/YpvTz2JxBp— Mark Bankston (@BankstonAtLaw) October 2, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:24 (six months ago) link
rip Bankston's twitter account
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 15:30 (six months ago) link
get elons ass
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:42 (six months ago) link
A friend saw him stuck in gridlock traffic the other day and thought about defacing his douchemobile truck but realized there's probably security detail running in parallel.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:11 (six months ago) link
is it a cybertruck?
― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:27 (six months ago) link
I was driving my son and two other 8 yos around this weekend and they were talking about Teslas non-stop.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:32 (six months ago) link
That lawyer's thread is worth reading, if one is able or so inclined.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:42 (six months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 2 October 2023 18:56 (six months ago) link
how do they feel about roblox?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 19:07 (six months ago) link
They program their own obbys
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 2 October 2023 19:09 (six months ago) link
is it a cybertruck?― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Monday, October 2, 2023 9:27 AM (eight hours ago)
― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Monday, October 2, 2023 9:27 AM (eight hours ago)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 00:31 (six months ago) link
Looks like Grimes is suing to gain access to her children (might have been hinted at in the Grimes thread a week or two ago, I forget)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/grimes-elon-musk-custody-dispute-18404323.php
― octobeard, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 22:08 (six months ago) link
Having kids entirely via IVF and surrogacy seems like something a man with a tiny dick would do.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:08 (six months ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490
― adam, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:26 (six months ago) link
XP I imagine 44 billion could have bought/engineered him an amazing penis.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 01:51 (six months ago) link
A cyberpenis, even.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 01:55 (six months ago) link
But doing so would entail admitting his own shortcomings.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 03:19 (six months ago) link
Let's just say anyone who has sex with him has to have a 10 micron tolerance
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 03:36 (six months ago) link
BAM
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 04:28 (six months ago) link
I’m still trying to process that a man who has 10 kids may still be a virgin.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 07:24 (six months ago) link
That NBC news article misleads the right wing site to mean almost the opposite of what it says.
― formerly abanana (dat), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:36 (six months ago) link
Yeah, that was weird
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:57 (six months ago) link
suspended for using the recent stripping-out of headlines from news stories to call elon a pedo (he can dish it out but he can't take it, you will be startled to learn)
https://t.co/pXb8Ni91qA pic.twitter.com/bRxMVvtDda— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) October 11, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junlper#Suspension_from_Twitter
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 09:41 (six months ago) link
ugh the first of those was meant to be this (guess who i blame)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8Hy0mNW4AEEjUe?format=jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 09:43 (six months ago) link
Elon Musk acted like a 'little baby' and was 'almost in tears' on Tesla's 'terrible' earnings call, analyst says https://t.co/aQgEPRK8P0— Insider Business (@BusinessInsider) October 22, 2023
― frogbs, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:34 (six months ago) link
lol the investors are mad at Musk because he said this:
Musk suggested at one point on the call that he was delaying the factory in light of rising interest rates, which make borrowing more expensive. "If interest rates remain high or if they go even higher, it's that much harder for people to buy the car. They simply can't afford it," Musk said, pointing to the impact on monthly car loan payments.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 23 October 2023 14:38 (six months ago) link
He created company value based on pure fiction in an attempt to hold the line until they could actually be profitable, and now the investors are angry he's stating fact. Kind of dug his own grave on that one
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 23 October 2023 14:40 (six months ago) link
That's usually when these guys fail, when the bullshit stops.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link
"If interest rates remain high or if they go even higher, it's that much harder for people to buy the car. They simply can't afford it," Musk said, pointing to the impact on monthly car loan payments.
lol. the monthly payment on a new tesla is down compared to a year ago.
IMO Elon is overplaying the macro card. For anyone who wants to know whether $TSLA monthly payments are higher or lower than where they were 12-15 months ago, put into your HP12C these scenarios:- 15 mos ago: Model Y $65K with 10% down, 3.9% auto loan rate over 60 months.…— Gary Black (@garyblack00) October 20, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 October 2023 14:47 (six months ago) link
So the price dropped 15K in the past 15 months?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 23 October 2023 14:53 (six months ago) link
of that model in the US, yes. i think that's one of the more extreme examples tbf but they've been dropping prices to juice sales all year. CW is that they should be advertising and distance themselves from their insane nazi founder instead, neither of which they do.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:03 (six months ago) link
they get a lot of coverage in the finance and tech spaces but not the "guy just looking for a car" spaces
that and their sales model is completely different in the US than any other automotive brand. apparently they do have a store and service center in my area now but I had no clue! I just pulled up the site to see if they let you test drive a car, and every single time block is open today
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:19 (six months ago) link
It's actually kind of fucked up the EV market, as I understand it. When Tesla cut prices the biggest effect was that it dropped the bottom out of the used EV market and lots of EV drivers lost thousands in value, especially those that purchased new. Granted, I suppose anyone that pays a premium for a car, any car, understands they lose value as soon as you drive off the lot, but Tesla's desperate price slash really accelerated depreciation, hurting even those with generous loan terms.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 October 2023 15:26 (six months ago) link
Elon Musk was slapped with a community notes for his latest anti-American tweet. pic.twitter.com/FPFae8AA2a— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 28, 2023
I love getting Noted – proves that no one is free from being corrected!This is obviously a joke meme, but there is more than a grain of truth to it. We should aspire to see things from the point of view of others.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2023
― groovypanda, Sunday, 29 October 2023 05:32 (five months ago) link
Possibly the least-asinine meme Musk has posted in his life.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 October 2023 05:34 (five months ago) link
Obviously a joke meme=I was just kidding, gawd, can't you take a joke?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:47 (five months ago) link
gotta rule for musk on this one, the image is using hyperbole to make a joke... and indeed a point --community note
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:51 (five months ago) link
also his original post doesnt currently have a community note on it
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:52 (five months ago) link
i know the US is a unique country with its own exceptional culture but why the fuck does every bit of hype this clown runs for his trucks involve firing weapons at them?
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:58 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoKZ7YZ5AI8
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:03 (five months ago) link
very cool
Joe Rohan shatters an arrow on Cybertruck that would easily go through a normal car pic.twitter.com/XSMjnoE5Xp— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:20 (five months ago) link
the next time your shopping run takes you thru the Battle of Hastings
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:24 (five months ago) link
the mail must go through
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:26 (five months ago) link
Joe, King of Rohan
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:43 (five months ago) link
Joe Rohan!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:19 (five months ago) link
I suspect I'll never see a cybertruck out on the street
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:20 (five months ago) link
If you do, burn that fucker (if it hasn't already set fire to itself).
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 00:42 (five months ago) link
I rented a car for the week on Sunday. They asked me if I wanted a Tesla at no additional charge. I just said no.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 00:46 (five months ago) link
big blade runner fan
https://i.imgur.com/JunYXlD.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:27 (five months ago) link
Blade Runner was not a guy, it was a job that the guy in the movie had, this is like saying it's the car Taxi Driver would have driven
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:49 (five months ago) link
Which I guess it is, now that I think about it
you mean a taxi
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:49 (five months ago) link
Bladerunner vs. Taxidriver
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:52 (five months ago) link
thinking the main character of blade runner is named bladerunner really jumps out at you but the added detail that he thinks bladerunner drives drive an armored personnel carrier makes me think he maybe hasnt seen the movie, but does know it concerns the future and that its very cool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:55 (five months ago) link
does he think that blade runner serves in the future army as a driver, cause thats not that cool, or that he just drives or "would drive" an army truck because hes such a bad ass, but idk driving an army truck thats specifically designed to carry a bunch of guys as your daily just seems kind of odd, also the cyber truck is not designed to carry a bunch of guys
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 03:01 (five months ago) link
Elon would not pass the Voight-Kampff
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 04:04 (five months ago) link
a Tesla at no additional charge
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 04:17 (five months ago) link
why the fuck does every bit of hype this clown runs for his trucks involve firing weapons at them?
https://i.redd.it/8yuht4ob4k9b1.jpg
― baths in the belfry (cat), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 06:01 (five months ago) link
blade runner in his cybertruck, ppl
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxPCc8wGN6o/VHmgkxiS5GI/AAAAAAAAMUU/zGd88nft-hI/s1600/total-recall-3.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 09:27 (five months ago) link
getting excited that you've managed to make a fictional dystopia a little more real
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 09:31 (five months ago) link
If it resembles anything in shape, it's the carrier from Aliens?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:34 (five months ago) link
Yeah, it's totally what Aliens would drive, not Bladerunner, this asshole has never seen a movie. Now, it does look a little like what Bladerunner flies, but this Musk monstrosity does not fly, which is why it's an instant fail. But Elon, if you're listening, a flying car would be dope, you should shift all your time and money to that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:41 (five months ago) link
iirc the part of the movie where they say the name of the movie out loud is this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fVUCgnW_o
the lack of punctuation could also mean that elon is simply referencing the book from which the movie gets its name but not plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:46 (five months ago) link
That's wild, I didn't know that. So weird that the title came from a different book, even though the movie has absolutely nothing to do with that book, or title.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:52 (five months ago) link
Andrew otm
https://images.bigbadtoystore.com/images/p/full/2016/12/dbc6b011-2562-4f46-a5be-320d2fd055e4.jpg
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:23 (five months ago) link
I'm a little surprised Musk didn't put a turret on his.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:24 (five months ago) link
should at least have an option for a bracket
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:27 (five months ago) link
Elon's interest in science fiction movies and video games, etc. is a lot more lore-focused than plot-focused. And by that, I mean he probably owns a lot of the ridiculously expensive scale models of vehicles and guns from science fiction works.
I guarantee you he owns one of those "recreation of Deckard's pistol" props that people sell for over a grand. He posted some "this is the stuff on my nightstand" picture and iirc it included some prop anime gun. And he took a non-functioning 200 year old flintlock pistol to try to talk his way into appearing in a video game.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:28 (five months ago) link
he undoubtedly talks about his "bladerunner gun" a lot. you know, wielded by bladerunner in the movie
imagine jihadists trying to use one of these thing where are you even gonna charge it gimmie a break
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:29 (five months ago) link
we should be doing the obvious thing: talking him into waiting to deploy the cybertruck until it can be powered off of compact hydrogen fuel cells or cold fusion so it can work indefinitely in the desert or on the terrain of mars
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:30 (five months ago) link
the cybertruck on the terrain of mars, ppl
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:43 (five months ago) link
Elon owns the 1/6th scale torment nexus model from the famous movie adaptation of the torment nexus and wants to build a real one. No, he has not actually watched the whole movie
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:20 (five months ago) link
Now I really wish I had a blue check account to ask him if he's tried shooting the cybertruck with Bladerunner's gun
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
https://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/images/product/D/a0077842_17175602_2.jpg
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:22 (five months ago) link
a true philanthropist
A year later, Musk is now claiming that he was actually compelled to buy Twitter — now X — out of an overriding sense of civic duty, because he needed to save civilization itself from a potentially overwhelming "mind virus" propagated by the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Rogan asked Musk, "What was it ultimately that led you to make the decision to do it?" As in, buy Twitter.
There was no mention of last year's impending legal battle. Instead, he said, "This is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried that (Twitter) was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having a bad impact. Part of it is where it's located, which is downtown San Francisco. While I think San Francisco is a beautiful city — and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco — if you walk around downtown San Francisco right near the X fka Twitter headquarters, it's a zombie apocalypse."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:05 (five months ago) link
He starts off talkong about homeless people in san francisco but it quickly becomes clear that he's talking about lgbt+ people. He used San Fran because his mind is stuck in the 1970s apparently.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:16 (five months ago) link
Take a wild guess which company was the largest employer in that area (mid-market) that just so happened to lay off 83% (+?) of their workforce in the past 13 months... What an absolute dolt.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:21 (five months ago) link
San Francisco being the favorite target of right-wing troglodytes who are obsessed with human feces.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:23 (five months ago) link
and to correct, Elon... Twitter is located *near* downtown SF (2-3 neighborhoods southwest), in an area where under previous management could build cheaply and receive massive tax breaks from city government, in such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard.
Twitter couldn't afford downtown SF which is why they ended up on 10th/Market, former home of a cockroach-laden buffet and budget motel.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:30 (five months ago) link
(sorry if that comes off as "old money" but there is a bit of history lacking from Elon's shit-take)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:32 (five months ago) link
So bought it to destroy it? He bought it to save it? what the fuck is his point
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:34 (five months ago) link
and to correct, Elon... Twitter is located *near* downtown SF (2-3 neighborhoods southwest), in an area where under previous management could build cheaply and receive massive tax breaks from city government, in such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard.Twitter couldn't afford downtown SF which is why they ended up on 10th/Market, former home of a cockroach-laden buffet and budget motel.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 November 2023 00:44 (five months ago) link
he tried very hard not to buy it! whatever he claims his point was hardly seems to matter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 November 2023 02:27 (five months ago) link
How much walking around in downtown SF does Elon actually do?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:09 (five months ago) link
he takes his jet to the corner store
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:12 (five months ago) link
such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard
this is absolutely true. even when everyone worked downtown pre pandemic, that stretch of market was miserable. lots of downtown SF is miserable now, but musk owning twitter hasn't done anything to improve it, indeed, his laying off tons of people has probably made things worse as now there are fewer customers to frequent the businesses around the office.
anyway why do I care what this dumb fuck thinks, everything he says is wrong and is always wrong.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:15 (five months ago) link
everything he says is wrong and is always wrong.
this has been proved by science -- the science of seeing the obvious
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:19 (five months ago) link
https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/7ZvzOo/s3/img_4439.webp
https://insideevs.com/news/694929/tesla-cybertruck-matte-black-impressions/
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:31 (five months ago) link
thinking Deckard's name is Bladerunner actually feels like one of the more Trumpian things Elon has said
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:32 (five months ago) link
like how Kanye used to call Chris Martin "Coldplay"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
Which one’s Pink?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:34 (five months ago) link
not well, stayed back at the hotel with his cybertruck
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 19:08 (five months ago) link
Young Rust
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 19:15 (five months ago) link
In one particularly alarming anecdote, the writer recounts how during one "spiral," Musk freaked his employees out so bad by locking himself in his office that they "were considering calling a wellness check by the San Francisco police because they thought he was going to self-harm himself."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-staff-wellness-check-elon
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:56 (five months ago) link
That freakout seems to have begun, Mezrich explained, with other incidents — including him getting booed at a Dave Chappelle show last December and someone confronting a car carrying his son around that same time. Both demonstrated how much people have grown to despise the serial entrepreneur who once inspired "Iron Man," and contrary to his devil-may-care attitude, Mezrich argues that Musk is very sensitive to what people think about him.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link
He could have swan dived off that giant X he put up illegally.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:19 (five months ago) link
thats what i would do if i were booed at the big comedy show
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:36 (five months ago) link
"hi 911"
"yes, Elon Mask is in his office, we think he might harm himself"
"we're sending help ASAP-"
"help is already here, I was just wondering if you could send them home"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:55 (five months ago) link
Getting wellness-checked by one’s own employees is certainly one way to do a coup d’etat
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
kinda figured getting booed at Chappelle's show was a big moment for him. he probably gets that he's not exactly universally well-liked but getting shunned by that particular crowd probably stung a lot
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:46 (five months ago) link
yeah getting invited up there was prob the coolest shit for him then he gets booed instant reversal of fortune
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:48 (five months ago) link
Pretty predictable too I mean he was definitely a shitty dude before but getting made fun of for the Thai cave rescue sub is where his villain arc really began
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:54 (five months ago) link
It really was, wasn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:09 (five months ago) link
contrary to his devil-may-care attitude, Mezrich argues that Musk is very sensitive to what people think about him
no way!
― symsymsym, Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:23 (five months ago) link
Wow so at odds with my footloose-n-fancy free image of Elon, he always seems so chill, just lets things roll right off him.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:26 (five months ago) link
much to think about
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:27 (five months ago) link
xxxpost Villain arcs usually END with submarines
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:49 (five months ago) link
the submarine thing was really the beginning of it and was also the period of time when a lot of my moderately liberal friends still liked Elon
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 November 2023 04:30 (five months ago) link
That fucking car looks like it'd kill someone even if it bumped them at low speed. Not to mention it is absurdly large, t'fuck is with all thes monster cars these days?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 November 2023 05:48 (five months ago) link
ain't that america
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 November 2023 08:59 (five months ago) link
who once inspired "Iron Man,"
Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck and Jack Kirby would like a word.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Thursday, 9 November 2023 10:04 (five months ago) link
that was a weird and silly thing to claim yes, since the comic character predates the birth of the second-richest blight by some eight years
i guess (as a veteran of many a fact-check conversation) it's not *impossible* that such elements of the downey-era portrayal as don't predate do fit this description
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2023 10:14 (five months ago) link
also: something ultra-musky abt a supervillain that doesn't even bother building the mini-submarine his villainy fully demands
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2023 10:15 (five months ago) link
GPTs can save a lot of effort: pic.twitter.com/VFIrGzPuMN— Sam Altman (@sama) November 10, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 November 2023 00:27 (five months ago) link
An Elon Musk biopic is reportedly in the works at A24 with Darren Aronofsky set to direct.(https://t.co/4qCXV4fOz3) pic.twitter.com/fNnEYSeav0— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) November 10, 2023
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:10 (five months ago) link
He should play himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2023 13:15 (five months ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/954/playedurself.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2023 13:33 (five months ago) link
Requiem for a Meme
― groovypanda, Friday, 10 November 2023 13:46 (five months ago) link
mother******!
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:48 (five months ago) link
sheer howling desolation
https://i.imgur.com/ndnvzDL.png
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:10 (five months ago) link
you are so funny you should die in horrible agony sir
― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:30 (five months ago) link
A screendoor on a submarine!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:40 (five months ago) link
difficult to know whether getting bodied by sam altman is worse for his psyche than getting booed at chappelle.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:40 (five months ago) link
Explains why he couldn't rescue those Thai kids then xp
― groovypanda, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:25 (five months ago) link
if you shoot an Elon Musk biopic and you add a death scene in the movie do he die in real life
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:27 (five months ago) link
a friend who went to film school with Aronofsky says "ugh, a perfect match"
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:41 (five months ago) link
I wonder which Hollywood actor is going to allow their face to be flattened by an iron in order to look like Musk
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:47 (five months ago) link
Austin Butler might work if he gets his face smooshed up a bit.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:49 (five months ago) link
I bet Musk could talk for hours about how much he loves Pi.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:55 (five months ago) link
And then name a kid after it
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, November 10, 2023 12:49 PM bookmarkflaglink
featuring Tom Hanks as Grimes, to keep the pair together
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 18:15 (five months ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/
Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed.
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 18:36 (five months ago) link
what did they think "breakneck" meant
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 18:40 (five months ago) link
It’s right on the tin
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 10 November 2023 18:44 (five months ago) link
you guys didn't click through huh :(
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
yikes, no I didn't, but immediately regret making that statement now that I just did! :(
in all seriousness, this is the part of Elon's "piece-of-shittery" that I wish got talked about more. not that it's not important to call him out for his anti-Semitism, racism, transphobia, and the other things he does, but word about him as a neglectful employer has been pretty loud for years, and so many assholes chalked it up to "geniuses can be hard to work for sometimes, idk what to tell you".
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 19:01 (five months ago) link
yeah absolutely, especially since one of the previous major stories about his terrible management was about how rampantly racist the Tesla Fremont plant was, which was well before he took over twitter. His "rightward turn" was pretty easy to predict
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link
Image:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjzrpzlcmir3bkss4b5nh6ox/bafkreib43un3rsngkvresprsgs52kes4kynvq4d2jamqj436sp6oezalb4@jpeg
Immediate Bluesky riff on it:
hello yes one CIDERFRUKK please
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:40 (five months ago) link
wait is CIDERTRUKK not a Tesla? It's like it's own thing?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:43 (five months ago) link
nobody in FL gonna drive that, you can't put a Salt Life sticker on it
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:46 (five months ago) link
god, it's so ugly. It's not even "child draws their dream car" ugly, it's "tell an AI chatbot to design a car in Mindcraft" ugly.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:48 (five months ago) link
if Homer Simpson had trotted this car out instead, his brother would have shot him on sight
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:50 (five months ago) link
Looks like it was designed by Henry Rollins in Johnny Mnemonic
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:58 (five months ago) link
the tires don't look very standard... I'll be you only buy them at CYDRTRUXX retailers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link
Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company including crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying a heavy price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 November 2023 22:01 (five months ago) link
Bruce Levenstein did that one better -- he shared this image with the line "My Uber is here."
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:6txvdz7iius6z56uyymsxkzz/bafkreicamz63eu67zoddanep4pjxlf66vr5oc6bifz2j2yn6sai7fgukey@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 November 2023 22:02 (five months ago) link
CYDERPUNKKCYDERSEXXCYDERKKAFFECYDERSPACE
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:04 (five months ago) link
JFKBLOWN AWAY
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:19 (five months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/AUTOMANCAR.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2023 22:34 (five months ago) link
How do u cyber with this truck, asking for a horny friend
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Saturday, 11 November 2023 00:12 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2365FxE.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 November 2023 02:29 (five months ago) link
This guy sucks but he’s not wrong about polytopia (iOS). I’m playing it again. Such a great game. Easily better than chess.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 11 November 2023 14:51 (five months ago) link
spoken like someone who hasnt spent the last half hour learning life lessons from solving pin pattern puzzles
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 November 2023 15:13 (five months ago) link
ok I spent half the day playing Polytopia and I’m going to rate it “kind of ok”everything is too small and fiddly
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:23 (five months ago) link
i remember it being more legible on old iphones. i wonder if it needs some kind of update for higher res screens?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:44 (five months ago) link
can i say something about games here so many games are just complicated, getting good at them is learning the rules, game as a tutorial
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:47 (five months ago) link
shouldve put a "these days" in there no old games are like that
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:48 (five months ago) link
you can teach a kindergartener the rules to chess
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:52 (five months ago) link
i have some longtime friends who became deep, deep boardgame people and i swear the appeal for them is mostly just new toys, new tokens and figures and little cards to read with each and every game
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:01 (five months ago) link
yeah they buy these games and play them once, whats that
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:03 (five months ago) link
that game wingspan is absolute dogshit but it is a nice object tbf. i got it as a gift and played it once.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:11 (five months ago) link
Contemporary board games peaked with Settlers of Catan.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:26 (five months ago) link
No they didn’t
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:29 (five months ago) link
settlers is good but *turning to the fellas* its not a good as poker
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:31 (five months ago) link
Okay, Steve Albini
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 November 2023 03:59 (five months ago) link
not gonna sit here and argue with success know what im sayin fellas
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 November 2023 04:05 (five months ago) link
its the lag∞n martingale fellas
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2023 09:33 (five months ago) link
Musk named one of his children after a Warhammer 40,000 army.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 12 November 2023 15:12 (five months ago) link
Pandemic rules but woo boy not wanted to play it for a while. Ticket to Ride is ace, tho we don't own it and only play it with friends. Galaxy Trucker is better than Chess.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Sunday, 12 November 2023 21:47 (five months ago) link
I’ve made the mistake of getting into Star Wars: Legion.
It’s fun to have little Hoth dudes to paint
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:55 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvyhkF8Xr4
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 November 2023 04:09 (five months ago) link
that game wingspan is absolute dogshit but it is a nice object tbf. i got it as a gift and played it once.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 11, 2023 10:11 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 11, 2023 10:11 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I bought this to play with my daughter when it came out because she's a nature kid, and it looked cool as hell. We made it about halfway through the instructions. We were going through her old toys this weekend and that one was straight into the giveaway pile.
― peace, man, Monday, 13 November 2023 12:39 (five months ago) link
I like wingspan
― nxd, Monday, 13 November 2023 12:43 (five months ago) link
I have it too! Played it once! It was good but it has a half-hour setup!
Then I bought Birdwatcher, which
― imago, Monday, 13 November 2023 12:49 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sij5hel.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:19 (five months ago) link
lol I just saw that on Bluesky and thought "lagoon is going to love this"
― rob, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
haaa
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:22 (five months ago) link
btw just noticing how tiny that rear window is, guess there must be sacrifices to look very cool
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:35 (five months ago) link
also wasnt this thing supposed to be huge why is the bed so small, a tacoma (mid size pickup) could easily fit that bike in its bed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:38 (five months ago) link
ok i have done my research and the "production" model is smaller than the prototype, its kind of in between full size and mid size but has a larger than other pickups passenger area, think of it as a big subaru baja except uglier
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:42 (five months ago) link
my entire skin surface twinges every time i see a picture, those edges are sharp, i will cut myself if i just walk near one
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:10 (five months ago) link
yeah supposedly the first ones are going to be delivered this month but they dont look like theyre up to safety regs, cars arent supposed to have sharp corners like that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:16 (five months ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_SBNbHd4i30/ULKVZ-bKzNI/AAAAAAAAAbk/BgOk6QMNt7A/s1600/IMG_0587.JPG
― 龜, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:27 (five months ago) link
lol nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:28 (five months ago) link
It looks like one of those things where they build something exactly as a child has drawn it, to show how silly it would look in real life.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:29 (five months ago) link
thats actually what happened
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:29 (five months ago) link
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:31 (five months ago) link
ugh thanks phone
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:32 (five months ago) link
I'm a little surprised Musk didn't demand they give it triangle shaped wheels.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 18:31 (five months ago) link
The semi-octagonal fenders look like a joke. And it looks like it will bottom out going over speed bumps.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 18:36 (five months ago) link
Musk already got his engineers working on the next iterationhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yYWBGq3gL.__AC_SX300_SY300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 18:44 (five months ago) link
https://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/damnation8.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:18 (five months ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EUj2R32xzxY/TrDForsniCI/AAAAAAAAEu0/JZVHNrLvlos/s400/ARK_01.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:29 (five months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Star_Wars_Sandcrawler.png
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:40 (five months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Emerson%2C_Lake_%26_Palmer_-_Tarkus_%281971%29_front_cover.jpg
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:54 (five months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzYwOTIyNWQtZDczZi00ZmJkLTgzNDMtYzllYWZjN2FlZGY3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzk5MDQ0NA@@._V1_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:56 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2eR6ORb.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link
https://townsquare.media/site/698/files/2017/12/Bike-Dumpster.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
musk will never in a trillion years build anything as cool as the tarkus tank
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:01 (five months ago) link
https://eofftvreview.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/the-cars-that-ate-paris-1.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:01 (five months ago) link
xpost Say it louder so that he can hear you.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbxA66wQ0c
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:06 (five months ago) link
no gatepad why you wanna break your 10k s-works
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:28 (five months ago) link
i mean this is a person who has a cyber truck
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:30 (five months ago) link
josh lmao
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:38 (five months ago) link
he continues to innovate
Tesla Cyberbeer is hot garbage. Not only is the lid RUSTED but the beer is also nasty. This was a miss @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/Gb9u8YOc7X— Brian Stone (@briandstone__) November 15, 2023
Because I paid $75 per bottle. I forced myself to drink it all— Brian Stone (@briandstone__) November 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:44 (five months ago) link
i can give myself a little tetanus as a treat
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:46 (five months ago) link
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:47 (five months ago) link
did they just have a lil homebrew set up at tesla hq or something, its not like they couldnt have gotten a professional brewery to make them a good beer and put a cyber label on it, i guess thats not a disruptive process tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:49 (five months ago) link
Musk is probably dumb enough to think beer improves as it gets older and has had it sitting in shelves for like 8 years
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:50 (five months ago) link
Musk drinks beer like he smokes weed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
time to innovate by making a nasty beer, no one ever did thst before
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
― epistantophus, Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:29 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/48/0d/5f480ddd03461829281d9b58b60c082c.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:58 (five months ago) link
I'm honestly surprised that Elon's piss only costs $75/bottle.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:12 (five months ago) link
Adding insult to injury, buying one probably puts you on the list for a Cybertruck purchase.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:18 (five months ago) link
showing feet on X for elon musk's pee-beer? couldn't be me
― 龜, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:30 (five months ago) link
Wow, didn't realize that CyberBeer is real: https://cyberbeer.tesla.com/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:40 (five months ago) link
Every time I open this thread and it stays at the top, there's a brief, wistful moment where I imagine the days back when I was able to echo this post:
Who he?― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:40 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:40 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:43 (five months ago) link
Boy I dunno
I had to check this was real, but Elon is actually replying approvingly to a guy arguing "Hitler was right" because Jews are pushing "hatred against whites". pic.twitter.com/jkbr6bNDeG— Quantian (@quantian1) November 15, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:43 (five months ago) link
― treeship., Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
i think he should removed
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:47 (five months ago) link
elon musk is worth over 200 billion dollars. much of this wealth was built through the US government investing in his companies. the US is a country he immigrated to. as the owner of twitter he is probably the most influential single individual in terms of shaping media narratives. (arguable). and yet, he feels he is being oppressed by "jews"
― treeship., Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:51 (five months ago) link
remarkable
the replies on that elon tweet are horrific. actual neo nazis, many of them with celebrity names and blue checks next to their name.
― treeship., Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:15 (five months ago) link
That's it, I'm canceling my cybertruck order.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:45 (five months ago) link
*pours rusty beer in the trash*
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 November 2023 00:07 (five months ago) link
Musk's control of the Starlink communication satellites is more troublesome to me than his control of Xitter. Low earth orbital space is a highly limited resource that he has squatted in and there's currently no remedy in international law to evict him.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 16 November 2023 03:30 (five months ago) link
its always amusing to me how stupid the Cybertruck looks in actual photos because I actually thought the prototype looked somewhat cool. like yeah if I saw one pull up to me I'd at least gawk at it. but when you see the actual thing its hard not to laugh it looks like an RC car that got recalled for injuring children
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 03:45 (five months ago) link
It reminds me of the shop sink we had in high school.https://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/13G609_AS01
― nickn, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:07 (five months ago) link
All teslas look terrible. I am not a car guy, but I can tell that other luxury cars look much nicer than the weirdly monolithic teslas.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:12 (five months ago) link
I find it annoying he appropriated nikola tesla’s name. Should be called carX or some shit
he didn't, Tesla existed before he "founded" it by paying the actual founders a bunch of money for the title
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:13 (five months ago) link
Ah didn’t know that.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:15 (five months ago) link
and yes they dont look great in fact they all kinda look like 2005 Nissans to me. also the interiors look like shit, I mean I know I'm a hater but seriously it looks like model furniture from WG&R inside those
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:15 (five months ago) link
theyre so bad, absolute sucker shit
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:17 (five months ago) link
They’re everywhere around where I live. To be fair, BMW drivers are bigger jerks, even though their cars are far more attractive.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:17 (five months ago) link
I admit they are fun to drive and have seriously insane pickup which you'll probably never have to use but as someone who's also ridden in them a bunch it often occurs to me that whoever designs them wasn't concerned for anyone but the driver. its not just uncomfortable it's also really aesthetically ugly when you're in the backseat
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:18 (five months ago) link
Once I slowed down to let a BMW driver merge into traffic and he *still* flipped me off. I think it was a way of expressing a general hatred of everyone, even (especially?) people who do what he wants.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:19 (five months ago) link
Back to teslas — i anecdotally have heard of people using the “autopilot” feature to get home when shitfaced drunk. It is not at all safe to use it this way, as far as I know. Why did regulators allow it to go to market?
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:21 (five months ago) link
these things are effectively unregulated afaict
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:22 (five months ago) link
Absolutely bananas
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:23 (five months ago) link
I've often wondered if stuff like lane deviation warnings and radar cruise have made it harder to identify drunk drivers
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:26 (five months ago) link
yeah prob
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:27 (five months ago) link
All cars should come with the BAC blower interlocks and if you blow over the limit it should kill you
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:29 (five months ago) link
Where’s that innovation Elon?!?
these are the bold ideas we need in these troubled times
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:31 (five months ago) link
he'd probably just make it play Rick Astley while you were driving. I wanted to say Yakety Sax but that's actually kinda funny and not quite as beaten into the ground so it's not really Elon's style
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:34 (five months ago) link
Other electric cars also have insane acceleration, and aren't cunts.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 16 November 2023 05:34 (five months ago) link
My family and I were upgraded to a BMW on a recent vacation and my god, I loved driving that car. I had never driven one before. It was incredible.Of course, I will never be able to afford one, but….
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:28 (five months ago) link
Yeah, you can absolutely tell that BMW is putting the driving experience at the forefront of their decision process
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:33 (five months ago) link
Exactly. BMW interiors feel so cheap compared to their competitors.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:40 (five months ago) link
I’d say more simple than cheap? Austere but durable is a choice and BMWs feel like that to me. Teslas come off as more austere but cheap imo, I have no idea if the seats are more likely to rip or the plastic shows more scuffs or whatever but they feel like you’re in a early 00s SaturnI hate having all kinds of controls on a screen but it’s funny how other luxury brands do all kinds of weird angles, trim inlays, and wonky control systems (looking at you, weird Lexus moving touchpad thing that’s getting phased out) to seem more expensive
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 16 November 2023 13:34 (five months ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, 16 November 2023 14:04 (five months ago) link
isn't that where someone was trying to sell some anti-carjacking system that had flamethrowers?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 16 November 2023 14:34 (five months ago) link
every other car in the bay area is a tesla and I honesty don't have any issue with the drivers of those vehicles (also I drive a bmw and do not drive like a jerk). the worst drivers around here are in fucked up old kias, because they are 12 years old and they just carjacked it and are going 100mph in a 25mph zone.
I've ridden in teslas plenty and they are fun but I would absolutely never buy one because a) musk b) reputation for their quality is awful.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 November 2023 14:40 (five months ago) link
kia boys still out there? damn
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 16 November 2023 14:54 (five months ago) link
honestly driving in the bay area is kind of a pain in the ass because I'm convinced 75% of the people driving are high and just don't pay attention anymore (some guy drove into me at 2mph a few months ago, was stoned out of his mind, and then drove off while we were exchanging info)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:01 (five months ago) link
Kias definitely are a thing again but it's hard to recognize them because the logo looks like "KN"
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:04 (five months ago) link
lol one of the wildest branding choices
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:05 (five months ago) link
oh I don't mean a preponderance of kias. I mean the kia boyz
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:14 (five months ago) link
oh yeah that is definitely still happening, because I don't think Kia or Hyundai fixed the issue for owners
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:23 (five months ago) link
new kia logo is great, so \m/i wouldn’t say no to a kia stinger
― 龜, Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:42 (five months ago) link
I ended up with an iX as a loaner while some work was being done on my car and I would not call the interior of that car cheap-looking at all
I also would not buy it because I like regular meals, but man was that a nice car
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:04 (five months ago) link
It's been a couple years since I've been in one, but BMW seemed to skimp on things like electric seat adjustments where they seem pretty standard in equivalent Audi and Mercedes. Also, hated some of their control/layout choices.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:25 (five months ago) link
absolutely no shade on anyone here, there's not much else to say, but the richest person in the world, who now controls one of its most influential media channels, is an openly anti-semitic conspiracy theorist. seems like this should be receiving more attention in the press.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:28 (five months ago) link
certainly more attention than gaza-related campus cancellations, etc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:29 (five months ago) link
I'm not really sure what he's saying. Seems like some theory that Jewish people push the woke mind virus on Whites to make them depressed.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:37 (five months ago) link
yeah real its bad he should be put in a cubby
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:37 (five months ago) link
xp https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/elon-musks-disturbing-truth/676019/
(here is a link to the press after i complained this was not receiving enough coverage)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:38 (five months ago) link
however all the german lux brand interiors are prob pretty comparable, tho they each have their own style so its kinda a matter of taste, and the more entry level ones are not as nice as the more expensive one, tho theyre all pretty nice, especially new ones, feel like with new cars in general interiors are pretty effin good, with the exception of putting too much stuff in the touch screen, and maybe having to much stuff to control in general that will break eventually, pickups are the best for just having big physical buttons, theyre like these are big dumb guys theyre gonna want to push a large button with their fat fingers, which really thats all anyone wants
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:40 (five months ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I saw in St. Paul once this newer kia with this laminated basically FAQ card taped up in the window saying this is a newer model that doesn't not have the engine immobilizer flaw that Kia model years XXXX-XXXX have blah blah blah haha i'm assuming they'd had their window broken a few times
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:45 (five months ago) link
my gf had her car broken into twice (attempted thefts) and stolen once in like three months last summer
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:46 (five months ago) link
btw i just looked and all the big three german brands entry level cars come with front power seats, you might be able to get some racing seats optional that are manual for weight reasons, but thats be a rare performance set up on one of their special fast cars
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:49 (five months ago) link
I have a Hyundai which is going through the same thing and as a result of the recall upgrade to fix the security flaw they put a sticker in the window advertising the upgraded security and part of me wonders "is this just like daring someone to try?"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:59 (five months ago) link
its funny that no cars used to have that anti theft technology and people werent just steeling them like crazy but the fact that one type of car doesnt have it now has really captured the imagination of the youth
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:11 (five months ago) link
(to be clear my gf's car was a kia in question, she had to get rid of it in a small town in wisconsin where the kia boyz hadn't hit yet - someone we know's bf ended up not being able to get insurance on a kia after it was stolen three times)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:14 (five months ago) link
absolutely no shade on anyone here, there's not much else to say, but the richest person in the world, who now controls one of its most influential media channels, is an openly anti-semitic conspiracy theorist. seems like this should be receiving more attention in the press.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:28 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:28 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes, and the specific conspiracy he is boosting -- the idea that jewish people are supporting "mass immigration" to america with the intention of causing "white genocide" -- is the same exact conspiracy theory that motivated the pittsburgh synagogue shooter.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:14 (five months ago) link
it doesn't get much worse. i have no idea what to do with this information.
my friend had a elantra from that era but his was the kind that wasn't susceptible to the attack
didn't stop somebody from breaking in, trying it, and leaving behind a usb cable
― 龜, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:15 (five months ago) link
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, November 16, 2023 10:59 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'd leave it, i think the insane easiness of it was the thrill tbh, these kids aren't stealing other types of cars i doubt, it's basically like someone left a bicycle unlocked on a rack let's take it for a spin type mentality
the one time it was stolen they didn't even take anything out of the car just drove it and left it somewhere
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:15 (five months ago) link
new hyundais and kias are ok, right? my old impreza is on its last legs and suddenly i am feeling too cool to be driving a subaru.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:17 (five months ago) link
don't tell my impreza i said this.
what kind of impreza do you have?
― 龜, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:23 (five months ago) link
are there awd hyundai kias
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:24 (five months ago) link
Can someone jack EV Kias as easily as their gas-driven brethren? Can EVs get carjacked, or do they have, like, some biometric killswitch?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:25 (five months ago) link
xp 2014 base model. almost 200,000 thousand miles and very banged up from years of street parking.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:36 (five months ago) link
if it's a manual i'm sure you can sell it to some high school kid
― 龜, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:44 (five months ago) link
that Atlantic article is paywalled but yeah there's something to be said about dumb celebrities desperate for validation and how easy it is for them to fall into the waiting arms of Nazis. like I don't think it's so much that he's always had these views but he's an idiot who really wants to be liked and sound smart and that's kind of hard to do on the left when you don't actually know anything (and also run multiple union-busting businesses with famously terrible working conditions), but remarkably easy to do on the right, and that's how you basically wind up siding with a fascist belief system that you probably never really seriously thought about. you can see how this would happen to say the Dilbert guy but having it happen to the richest guy on Earth is pretty remarkable
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link
https://archive.ph/tGeFB
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:02 (five months ago) link
I think it is also that he’s always had these beliefs, to be clear
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:03 (five months ago) link
I haven’t really commented on it because I feel like this is exactly what he has been for years; I’m not even like “oh he said the quiet part out loud” because he is fundamentally incapable of being quiet.
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:04 (five months ago) link
he comes from a family that moved to south africa because they liked apartheid, and he segregates his factories. i don't see any reason to give him the benefit of the doubt here, even if he's not on record with the "hitler was right" stuff until now.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:05 (five months ago) link
i agree. frogbs is being too charitable. he grew up under apartheid and he likes the idea of a system like that.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:06 (five months ago) link
I guess what I'm saying is I don't think Elon himself is a guy who necessarily has developed serious political views because he seems to only view the world through the lens of himself. he'll say whatever he has to to make people think he's edgy and smart and the ultimate memelord. I realize this is giving him way too much credit for no reason but I really do believe if not for the armies of blue checks going "so true!" on everything he posts he would not be doing this
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:09 (five months ago) link
yeah saw someone theorize that the fall of apartheid was a formative and traumatic event in musks life and that the parallels with blm and me too really triggered him provoking him to be more vocal about his awful beliefs, which idk if its true but it really does all line up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:10 (five months ago) link
he grew up in south africa and then spent ten years working closely with peter thiel. the idea that he doesn't have sincerely held political beliefs seems dubious at best. i can see how recent events would encourage him to be more open about those beliefs, or make them feel more on-topic.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:11 (five months ago) link
I believe he bought Twitter specifically to do this. His entire argument was “free speech is being stifled, let everyone talk” and made it a priority to let u fettered racists back onto the platform. If there’s an echo chamber, it’s because it was his vision to create it. You’re looking at a symptom/attribute and treating it as a side-effect.
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:11 (five months ago) link
if that's in response to the last sentence of my post, that's fair.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:14 (five months ago) link
yeah otm, also due to solipsism he thought the new racist twitter would be popular and profitable xp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:15 (five months ago) link
“u fettered” should have been “unfettered”, I do not believe the other posters here are racists chained to their posting devices *insert PROVE ME WRONG dude here*
Also, that was a response to frogbs, I don’t think we are in fundamental disagreement
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:20 (five months ago) link
well look it's def true that he's almost certainly always been a rightwing shithead but I also think its true he wants to be a known and important figure in more mainstream/leftwing pop culture, from which he's been pretty roundly rejected. which I think caused him to seek that sort of validation on the right. I mean to me it looked like he was mostly unbanning those guys because he wanted them to like him. but idk yall are probably right that he's always been this way just a lot less public about it. by the way I'm not using "he just wants racists to love him" as an argument I just mean he's an extraordinarily needy guy which you don't see from insanely rich dudes who can singlehandedly influence US policy
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:40 (five months ago) link
I don't think there's any contradiction between Musk's racism and reactionary politics being both shallowly considered and deeply felt.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:44 (five months ago) link
I don't think he's spent much time thinking about any of it, but by god he knows the truth when he retweets it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:45 (five months ago) link
well... for people seeking a new electric car, there are now solid alternatives to Tesla, many of them
It'll be interesting to see how his bullshit affects car sales
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:47 (five months ago) link
I guess no but he definitely seems like a guy who can oscillate between Mitt Romney and Adolf Hitler depending on who he's talking to, because he is nothing but a dumb reply guy, his whole life is memes, he never has an original thought on his own. so yeah the fact that he made himself the eternal main character of Twitter is really gonna amp this shit way up
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
thank you to the failing new york times for heeding my call for more prominent coverage of this https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/elon-musk-endorses-antisemitic-post-ibm.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 November 2023 03:08 (five months ago) link
IBM doesn’t need any more association with Nazis than it already has certainly
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 November 2023 03:38 (five months ago) link
Not to perpetually beat the dead Reddit horse but I think that site was also formative of Musk’s political views (which means likely the YouTube right wing too). He’s said he has spent a lot of time on Reddit, most of his memes apparently came from there and the site is in many ways an alt-right pipeline. Especially if those creeps had some idea who he was there and were specifically targeting him. Of course as he was palling around with Thiel at the same time, Reddit would have just helped him to rationalize his prejudices, to be socialized among the creeps, and to have his biases confirmed — thereby cementing the work Thiel was presumably already doing on him.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 08:46 (five months ago) link
Feeling icky for looking at this article but just to make it perfectly clear this is a quote from an article from The D4ily $t0rmer from 2015:
There are many terrific pro-White communities on Reddit, including:(redacted)…to name just a few.These are all great communities that you should certainly consider joining for pro-White links and news. However, for White Nationalists, the really great thing about Reddit is that it provides quite a lot of fertile ground for recruiting young people into the pro-White movement.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 08:57 (five months ago) link
Thanks for reproducing racism in order to decry it
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 17 November 2023 11:01 (five months ago) link
Reading the Da1ly St0rm3r but shaking my head in disgust so people know I don’t agree as I frantically paste the content
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 17 November 2023 11:02 (five months ago) link
Agree that stuff doesn't need to be posted to make the point - we don't need to see the racism receipts.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 17 November 2023 11:57 (five months ago) link
He didn’t need the internet to make him racist. He and thiel have all kinds of creepy hierarchical ideas about human nature.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:11 (five months ago) link
Who cares why he is an asshole, on one level, but on the other hand, he isn’t a teen who got sucked into 4chan, he is the richest man in the world, and he is using his position to sow hatred in the US
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:13 (five months ago) link
yes, i don't see much point in pathologizing why obscenely wealthy white men happen to have horrible politics
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:13 (five months ago) link
One thing about this reddit connection is that reddit got cleaned up in recent years. So musk probably wants to make X the “new reddit.”
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:15 (five months ago) link
mentioning a white supremacist site you happen to read in order to decry Reddit is a weird flex honestly?
I don’t like social media illiterates upholding a literal right wing extremist-captured disinformation service as their go-to for balanced discussion.― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 02:33 (one month ago) link
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:24 (five months ago) link
lol remember this
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/business/media/elon-musk-politics-twitter.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:36 (five months ago) link
Yeah I don’t think “conservative” really captures that recent tweet…
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:38 (five months ago) link
“Why” he thinks like this is probably on interest only to a biographer.
Does seem sometimes like people are giving him the benefit of the doubt by saying he doesn’t actually think like this and is doing a bit because it’s funny or he’s not very bright or it will cause people to admire him.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:40 (five months ago) link
I think older people assume that the man behind tesla and spacex must be a reasonable person with considered beliefs.
Remember the kids rescued underwater by the diver? An older man I know, a very successful ivy league educated guy, believed elon helped resolve this issue. I told him no, elon wanted to use a submarine and when that didn’t work he baselessly attacked the diver who did rescue the kids as a pedophile. He said no — no way — elon wouldn’t behave in such a weird way.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:54 (five months ago) link
gyac is referring to this
Nuanced discussions are often lacking in the echo chambers of social media and the 24 hour news cycle. The only place where I've seen nuanced discussions about the topic are on platforms that favor more nuanced discussion, such as 4chan and (yes, believe it or not) St0rmf0ont.
which i'd like some clarification on, because i don't think reading and quote posting from ACTUAL NAZI SITES on ilx is acceptable behaviour tbh
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:03 (five months ago) link
You’re really not gonna let it go huh gyac. I have never regularly read the D.S. but since you seem invested in defending Reddit, or calling me out for criticizing Reddit or whatever, I wanted to make it clear how specific this association with actual literal Nazis is. Sorry to anyone else that found the language offensive, again I’m all for the mods doing any editing that seems appropriate.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:04 (five months ago) link
I have zero interest in defending Reddit. I don’t really understand why this is the second recent incident of you mentioning some Neo-Nazi site you read, as though anyone here was interested in the thoughts of their posters.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:06 (five months ago) link
Sorry Noodle what did you need cleared up there? My point was that Reddit is very specifically linked to S.F. and to /pol/ so the original quote poising it as a home of “nuanced discussion” was farcical imo. I mean yeah maybe nuanced compared to Twitter but that’s really a low bar to hop over. Pretty ridiculous this level of outrage in defense of Reddit when the actual offensive content in that quote was the names of fucking subreddits. (And to be clear the article I viewed was on the archive not their site.)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:08 (five months ago) link
////\\\\ //// \\\\parody ___///// gyac \\\\___
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:10 (five months ago) link
That worked well
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:11 (five months ago) link
i'm not defending Reddit either, i'm asking why anybody would read fascist websites, "regularly" or not, and asking you to think about posting actual racial slurs on this board, for illustrative purposes or otherwise
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:11 (five months ago) link
I could say the same about Reddit. That’s my point and yet whether you’re actively defending it or not, it seems to be given a free pass here.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:15 (five months ago) link
It's being given such a free pass that we are asking you to stop posting stuff from it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:54 (five months ago) link
viborg your argument doesn’t make sense— “this website is a racist cesspool, i shall quote noted racist cesspool site praising it as evidence that former is racist cesspool.” trust me when i say you didn’t need to quote the DS to get your point across. mods, plz, delete that awful post.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:55 (five months ago) link
reddit had the same obnoxious free speech contrarian stance where they allowed subreddit communities to fester for way too long with the defense that their content was banned from the front page. afaik they banned all those communities years ago, but not before people like Musk had proliferated. it’s just a normal internet cesspool at this point and not one that’s a notable shelter for hate speech. Musk thinking that their decision to oust those communities was bad and that twitter should let people post that garbage? probably something that occurred to him
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:04 (five months ago) link
I don’t think reddit and whether it’s good or bad in 2023 is at all relevant to the conversation other than as a historical reference on how not to handle hate speech, and I don’t think we need to cite an actual pro-nazi site to cite something that was broadly written about and documented at the time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:07 (five months ago) link
now reddit the just the only non seo trap how to site left
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 14:09 (five months ago) link
jfc I've seen people pick some weird hills to die on in an internet argument, but doubling down on quoting from an actual Nazi site to prove some incomprehensible point really might be a sign that you need to step away from the internet for a few days
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 15:10 (five months ago) link
redaction made
― mod, Friday, 17 November 2023 15:11 (five months ago) link
I have to say that cannonballing into a discussion about how Elon Musk sucks with “LOOK GUYS, THERE’S RACISM ON REDDIT” is making me laugh more than it probably should
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 17 November 2023 15:24 (five months ago) link
i admit that I don't see what the connection is at all
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 17 November 2023 15:30 (five months ago) link
i think the claim is elon musk, a man who grew up in south africa and then spent the first 20 years of his adulthood working closely with extremely political crank businessmen, and is a billionaire who runs like ten businesses (and is CTO of one, reporting into the CEO), gets his politics from lurking on message boards.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:19 (five months ago) link
His heel turn also probably as much to do when the unfettered hero worship of him by people on left and right stopped and someone dared to ask him why he was interfering with a cave rescue
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2023 17:07 (five months ago) link
This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk. I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate. https://t.co/N1tMHa1M1j— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) November 17, 2023
― JoeStork, Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:01 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wW1u9Ue.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:48 (five months ago) link
Burning piles of money, to scale.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:57 (five months ago) link
if i were the conspiratorial sort i would say that owning twitter was a good way of creating an anti-jewish army of american college kids via algorithms and targeted misinformation. but i'm glad i'm not that sort.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 November 2023 15:58 (five months ago) link
don't think there's any college kids on twitter in 2023 tbh
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 18 November 2023 16:01 (five months ago) link
yeah, tho using twitter as a bullhorn for his various bad beliefs is for sure part of the plan
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 16:04 (five months ago) link
lmao at the "thermonuclear" suit he plans to bring next week against the authors of this report for ... faking screenshots? i mean what's his case otherwise? https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 19:24 (five months ago) link
they're fine long as they don't bring L. Lin Wood out of (forced) retirement to represent them
― mark s, Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:02 (five months ago) link
musk has a way of saying hes going to sue but then not actually suing
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 21:53 (five months ago) link
I just watched a vid by a rocket engineering geek explaining that Musk's flagship rocket project blowing to smithereens again was actually a success because something called "the hot separation phase" at 140 km into the ascent into space worked like a dream!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 18 November 2023 22:11 (five months ago) link
hot separation phase also describes Musk's relationship with Grimes
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 18 November 2023 22:28 (five months ago) link
not great for twitter
Most of ESPN’s accounts were inactive yesterday after Disney announced on Friday that it was done advertising on X, formerly Twitter. Disney’s decision followed posts by platform owner Elon Musk agreeing with antisemitic and white power accounts. AwfulAnnouncing spotted the inactivity yesterday, noting that the main ESPN account has almost 50 million followers.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/19/23967681/espn-x-accounts-not-posting-disney-no-longer-advertising-musk-antisemitic-posts
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:22 (five months ago) link
countdown to DeSantis legislating that Disney has to rescind that decision
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 20 November 2023 03:27 (five months ago) link
ok so last night i dremt that i was a key designer-cog at SpaceX and we had just put five (5) full-sized rocket-cities up into the sky
we went outside to gaze proudly at them, naturally they were belching all kinds of flaming rocket fuel and smoke everywhere but they were also kind of amazing-looking up there, like massive skyscrapers hovering in the actual distant sky (credit here goes to my own astounding subconscious visual imagination here tho, and not the thin-skinned lizard-fella)
― mark s, Monday, 20 November 2023 11:15 (five months ago) link
wow scary
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_eCxroXkAAS62h?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:06 (five months ago) link
@cb_doge
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:08 (five months ago) link
Bro clearly studied the blade
― circa1916, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:37 (five months ago) link
this is a confession, we shd SWAT him
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:53 (five months ago) link
as threatening as a larper meme
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:06 (five months ago) link
I can't imagine why advertisers are staying away from this platform, it's so convivial and run by such a nice man.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:08 (five months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_ecW_1WoAA5a4N?format=jpg&name=small
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:08 (five months ago) link
TS: Large Graveyard filled with my enemies vs. Lonely Starbucks Lover
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:36 (five months ago) link
Imagine being the richest human on earth and spending your every waking moment showing all of the other people on earth the many many ways in which you are deeply + laughably pathetic. Like not just letting a deeply pathetic public moment happen and then hopefully fade from memory but every day being like 'oh, in case you'd somehow forgotten'
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 19:20 (five months ago) link
time to find out why the rockets have been exploding… all the way back to 2016: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23183/spacex-sniped-rocket/
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:40 (four months ago) link
It was really the second shooter from the grassy knoll.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:13 (four months ago) link
what if no-one shot the falcon 9 and the rocket just did that
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:28 (four months ago) link
no way, that can't possibly it because of "an odd shadow, then a white spot", don't you see?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:32 (four months ago) link
the space program is so doomed.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:35 (four months ago) link
There's a piece on New York magazine's website today about the Cybertruck, and it's actually pretty good on the vehicle's many flaws and the fucked marketplace into which Tesla is vomiting it, but it starts like this:
In the spirit of disclosure, I’m going to admit that I think driving a Tesla Cybertruck would absolutely rule. It’s a fast, weird fantasy car — the kind of concept that usually doesn’t make its way off the Javits Center showroom floor and onto the road. Yes, it looks like something out of a 1980s Ridley Scott movie and it’s made by Elon Musk, but at least you can tell it apart from every other passenger vehicle. Part of what makes it fun is how ostentatious the thing is. It’s the opposite of the anonymous wealth signifiers preferred by the Succession class and the tech titans who control our lives. (Parking it, though, would be a nightmare.)
Dude (and of course the writer is a dude), you or someone looking out for you really should have cut that part.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:40 (four months ago) link
Car nerds are weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:59 (four months ago) link
I mean I don't necessarily disagree with that, I've gotten the opportunity to drive some oddly-shaped and extremely-modded vehicles and it is kind of fun. I can see it being cool to drive for a weekend or whatever. You'd certainly draw some attention I guess.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:00 (four months ago) link
that said, the Cybertruck, much like Elon Musk's face, only looks good from one particular angle, and every time you see a shot of it in the wild it just looks incredibly stupid. also lol @ the video of it struggling to go up a small hill. I can only imagine the sorts of problems these things are going to have.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:04 (four months ago) link
I love purpose-built projects that are specific to solutions, and they look how they look. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s less good. This, though, is awful looking, and doesn’t look like it can solve any problem. It’s like it’s meant for red carpet events or maybe the mall. What the fuck is it even doing?
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
there's a monkey's paw thing where imo it makes sense to wish car designs were more aesthetically adventurous/ambitious, but then the result is a clown car built by a nazi
― rob, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:26 (four months ago) link
You didn't bury those designs in the ... truck cemetery, did you?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:27 (four months ago) link
Who made who?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:30 (four months ago) link
Sometimes cars come back different.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:54 (four months ago) link
The Keep but instead of a Golem it’s a hideous truck driven by a Nazi and the movie ends happily.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:04 (four months ago) link
A weekend spent driving a Froot Loops donks would be way more fun than one in a Cybertruck
https://i0.wp.com/www.jenx67.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Froot-Loop-Donk-Car.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:54 (four months ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:54 (four months ago) link
They should make an EV Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, that would be more appealing than this Elon monstrosity.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 03:00 (four months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreibudbuwldxi62odkeupgs5al63uogqeselpgsovv6gqtzq7bpaq4y@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 03:50 (four months ago) link
I will be hornswaggled if Cybertrucks are actually street legal.
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 04:30 (four months ago) link
I wouldn't pull one over, who knows where Elon hid the epic ftw self-destruct button
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 04:38 (four months ago) link
They really do look like a VHS tape rewinder
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:15 (four months ago) link
except you know those things actually can go backwards
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:17 (four months ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:45 (four months ago) link
thought it was made out of metal not cardboard haha
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreihdbfx2wi5hfxhxdb7rmjqzfa2fsm2ssszn6wp2qpubzm23vaseoy@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:05 (four months ago) link
just a bit of freestylin' by the fabricator
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:22 (four months ago) link
imagine spending 80k on this thing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:24 (four months ago) link
I was joking that I was going to buy one as a bit. Everyone at work groans when I pull into the parking lot
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:26 (four months ago) link
whoa — “go fuck yourself,” Elon Musk says to Bob Iger and others who pull advertising from Xat this point it’s almost as if he’s watching the old Iron Man movies and doing a reverse Tony Stark impression pic.twitter.com/csXxeLH2wG— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) November 29, 2023
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:01 (four months ago) link
Quite a chyron there.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:02 (four months ago) link
"ANTISEMITISM WAS NOT MY INTENTION"
GO FUCK YOURSELF
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:02 (four months ago) link
lol sorkin totally baffled
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:04 (four months ago) link
when elon said "fuck bob iger"
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/436/943/93f.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:05 (four months ago) link
linda yaccarino is basically writing her resignation letter right now isn't she?
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:06 (four months ago) link
love Elon's Final Fantasy leather jacket
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:06 (four months ago) link
xpost Nah I think she's on this train for good:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-x-advertisers-1235683997/
In fact, it’s unclear what Yaccarino thinks of Musk’s views; after his Nov. 15 tweet endorsing an antisemitic trope as “the actual truth,” she touted the site’s “efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.” (Her views on Donald Trump are much clearer. Associates say she was an enthusiastic supporter. She was appointed to the President’s Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition during his administration.)....But an NBCU executive observing the chaos says Yaccarino’s see-no-evil stance is what he would expect. “In her mind, she’s committed to this,” he says. “I’ve seen commentary that she needs to leave. She’s not listening to any of that. She has this way of blocking out the negative and almost speaking her mantra until it becomes the truth. Or she thinks it’s the truth.”
But an NBCU executive observing the chaos says Yaccarino’s see-no-evil stance is what he would expect. “In her mind, she’s committed to this,” he says. “I’ve seen commentary that she needs to leave. She’s not listening to any of that. She has this way of blocking out the negative and almost speaking her mantra until it becomes the truth. Or she thinks it’s the truth.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:12 (four months ago) link
https://t.co/juWrT3CNxP pic.twitter.com/7OCz5D1R61— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 29, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:15 (four months ago) link
Truly words of a scholar:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreicpsacg2md4y4544zsmz2qkcj6tbz5j77mhq6y6muu2cmzdy4vx6i@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:24 (four months ago) link
“tell it to earth” — new borad descrip
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:28 (four months ago) link
elong looking to audience and desperate for their applause
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:51 (four months ago) link
silence actually literally deafening
lmao tell it to earth, good stuff
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:54 (four months ago) link
Earth to Elon: "Go fuck yourself"
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:09 (four months ago) link
whoa but wait they're gonna document it in great detail, yikes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:20 (four months ago) link
cant believe disney would do this to twitter
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:32 (four months ago) link
is Ned’s NYT thing actually from an interview?
― tobo73, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:40 (four months ago) link
Yeah, he was interviewed live onstage by Andrew Ross Sorkin at some kind of NYT-sponsored conference.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:42 (four months ago) link
Here’s a fuller version pic.twitter.com/rmAjAoax6T— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:53 (four months ago) link
includes tell it to earth
he can add 'chief brand tarnisher' to his impressive resume
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:56 (four months ago) link
director of earth telling
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:57 (four months ago) link
he resembles an amphibian of some sort, hard to pin down
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:58 (four months ago) link
earth whisperer
― Clay, Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:02 (four months ago) link
He doesn't seem well.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:05 (four months ago) link
It almost sounds like Elon is planning to leave the earth and is saying the mean advertisers won't have him to kick around anymore.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:07 (four months ago) link
he resembles an amphibian of some sort
Slippy Toad?
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:10 (four months ago) link
Elon is planning to leave the earth
The Poochie of Billionaires
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:21 (four months ago) link
musk knows he has no recourse when advertisers decide to jump ship, so he's trying to manufacture one out of nothing. the trouble is that documenting his failure "in great detail" is about the emptiest, most idiotic threat imaginable.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:28 (four months ago) link
Richest man on earth blames other people for not giving him their money.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:15 (four months ago) link
what the heck
Lmao you gotta see the comments https://t.co/5xpeRnKUEC— Your Santa (@SamFacto) November 30, 2023
https://i.imgur.com/i4Rcorz.png
https://i.imgur.com/X7k9zrG.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:41 (four months ago) link
thank god he cleaned up the bots
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:43 (four months ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:58 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
easy: frog
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:58 (four months ago) link
must be so wild to be the richest man in the world high as shit on prescription drugs up on stage almost crying telling other rich guys to fuck off
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:01 (four months ago) link
lol hes in orbit
This exchange is really illuminating. He is incapable of understanding the interviewer. He keeps repeating himself like he’s in some sort of fugue state. pic.twitter.com/gsDTZpg1OK— evan (@esjesjesj) November 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:07 (four months ago) link
what the fuck
https://i.ibb.co/rcpP5YM/c396d0e9-86d2-4b86-99d1-8ae0d5ad5db2.jpg
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:10 (four months ago) link
Elon has been watching the tapes of Charlie Sheen's months-long public breakdown and is all 'hold my cheap trucker speed'
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:54 (four months ago) link
Gotta say though, tbh, I'm a little concerned to see exactly which Bond villain he ultimately morphs into
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:55 (four months ago) link
― frogbs
Can't unsee this now, esp with this interview. The way he pulls his mouth down smugly after he's said something and juts out his jaw.https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-drg_sTx0n4s/Vz40FG5nNOI/AAAAAAAAIoo/tZgHhf_Gs0gz9YdzcDIXOoGucp7qCiwsACPcB/s1600/wind-in-willows.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 November 2023 05:29 (four months ago) link
That interviewer is awful
― anvil, Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:16 (four months ago) link
Musk: “The only reason I am here, Jonathan, is because you are a friend.” Andrew: “I am Andrew.” pic.twitter.com/ZTz7t7h8hv— Thomas B. Philly 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@TheeThomasB) November 30, 2023
― nashwan, Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:27 (four months ago) link
He's created this beautiful mind palace where his TO THE MOON DOGE LOL EXCELLENT MEME SIR reply guys represent what actual people think of him.
Waiting on Star Trek to go back scrub out all of their cringe-inducing Musk references.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:37 (four months ago) link
Gotta say though, tbh, I'm a little concerned to see exactly which Bond villain he ultimately morphs into― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 29, 2023 11:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 29, 2023 11:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, "tell it to earth" sounds like he's holding the world hostage. "Nice earth ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it because advertisers are boycotting my antisemitic platform." Or maybe just that he will use Twitter to unite the global antisemitic communities to institute total world fascism.
― peace, man, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:20 (four months ago) link
tbf "tell it to earth" is his first actual real original meme
let no one gainsay the bucket-load of ket as a solid basis for an interview
― mark s, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:29 (four months ago) link
*Taylor Dane voice* Tell it to the earth
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 30 November 2023 13:17 (four months ago) link
gotta hand it to him he wants nothing more in life than to be funny and I think he finally is
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:28 (four months ago) link
"So, um, no, no, totally, so, so, wha, the, no, a-actually wha-what this advertising boycott i-is, uh, is, is gonna do is it's gonna kill the company" -Elon Musk
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:30 (four months ago) link
Can someone convince this guy that he’s a talented musician? I want to hear how bad a MUSK album would be.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:31 (four months ago) link
He already did a terrible EDM song a couple years back . . .https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116427/elon-musk-song-edm-soundcloud
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:39 (four months ago) link
his head looks like a cybertruck
https://i.imgur.com/tCTKG3Q.png
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:40 (four months ago) link
That entire interview is so 'middle school kid pretending to be a badass after being called to the principal's office when he's actually shit scared'. And 'tell it to earth' is exactly the kind of sassmouthed-yet-petulant utterance I'd expect from that theoretical 11-year-old.
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:01 (four months ago) link
kids, that there's a lizard with a (overstretched) mask
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:05 (four months ago) link
I want to hear how bad a MUSK album would be.
don't tell me no-one loves me, ayyyiii
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:38 (four months ago) link
“I am Andrew.”
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:44 (four months ago) link
we are all andrew now
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:04 (four months ago) link
i am on record in this very thread as standing against the bodyshaming of elon musk
but with that said jesus fuck his face has taken on a startlingly simon weston quality recently
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:06 (four months ago) link
I think the biggest danger he poses at present is if he's genuinely not worried about his money, and I don't think he is, then he's almost certainly going to donate an election-cementing amount of money to the Trump campaign. if your position is "there's no way Trump isn't going to win," cool whatever, but money wins the election, period. in a brighter time some rogue element would eliminate both these guys for the greater good, and it would be a moral good to do so imo, but we don't live in that time.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:13 (four months ago) link
presidential elections have so much money in them already even elon level sums dont move the needle much i mean whats the 71st campaign ad someones seen really do for them that the 70th didnt, smart billionaires put their money into congressional/state/dogcatcher races
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:16 (four months ago) link
also I don't really think Elon likes Trump anyway, I mean he's arguably the one guy who kinda could drive engagement on the dead dumb bird site again
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
was pointed out that he is starting to resemble Mac's mom on It's Always Sunny, which now I can't un-see
https://i.imgur.com/m9830Vb.jpg
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:31 (four months ago) link
― groovypanda, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:37 (four months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OS-L9cJnL.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:38 (four months ago) link
holy shit that song. Don't Doubt Your Vibe lol this is... it's exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:10 (four months ago) link
there's just no real way to spend the amount of money he's got access to. some insanely rich people buy megayachts that cost millions a year just to keep in service, and that's without ever even taking them out from the dock. money's mostly an imaginary construct at that point because it's no longer something that is at all linked to your ability to thrive. you don't even use money in the normal way, you just leverage assets and stock and ask the banks for cash when you want it
this has to be terrible for someone like elon who thinks driving himself to a data center and unplugging a bunch of servers and throwing them into a moving truck is a good idea. he's absolutely not in a position where he personally should be doing shit like that. he has to hate a good portion of his life, because he has to know that the honorary engineer title, the bitching about tiny details on cars, sleeping at the office so he looks busy, tweeting 24/7, none of it seems fulfilling
he really seems like a guy who wants to make decisions and do things and be congratulated or booed. that's all he's got left
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:55 (four months ago) link
as a few people have speculated something really does seem to happen to your brain when you spend so much of your life just pointing at a thing and immediately getting to have that thing. kinda fucked up that we've structured our entire society around capitalism and the dude who won the capitalism lottery turned into a miserable sack of shit who needs to be cranked out of his mind at all times
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:31 (four months ago) link
It is sadly funny that the richest guy in the world fell for all the same grievance/conspiracy shit that the economically distressed/forgotten man is supposed to fall for.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:50 (four months ago) link
as a few people have speculated something really does seem to happen to your brain when you spend so much of your life just pointing at a thing and immediately getting to have that thing.
― frogbs, Thursday, November 30, 2023 1:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
you dont even have to be mega rich there are tons ordinarily affluent people, vacation house owners, who live their lives like most people they encounter are their servants, tho im sure the effect is much greater with the richest people in the world
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:51 (four months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/IP5IjxjLAV— the information pimp (@BirdRespecter) November 30, 2023
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:04 (four months ago) link
everyone keeps calling him the richest man in the world but it is very important that we remember he is only the *second* richest, below bernard arnault of LVMH moët hennessy louis vuitton, who make things ppl actually want and like (booze and handbags)
― mark s, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:08 (four months ago) link
isnt the CYBPRFRVKK supposed to launch today
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:15 (four months ago) link
yeah the event is happening now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:15 (four months ago) link
xxpost Sorry he's listed as Bernard Arnault & Family-- that's like calling the Jackson 5 the top selling solo artist.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:20 (four months ago) link
Elon most definitely looks like he's Cybering with his Truck in that photo
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:22 (four months ago) link
the real richest person in the world is me
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:25 (four months ago) link
true wealth is making good* tweets
*bad
― mark s, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:27 (four months ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:27 (four months ago) link
dolly partons coat of many colors except its about posts
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:28 (four months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/86gZzFn.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:04 (four months ago) link
Jon Cryptid ⚰️ @jon-christian.bsky.socialA Cybertruck customer walked up to Elon and said "I haven't slept in three days" and Elon just said "okay"
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:10 (four months ago) link
That's fine. You can just turn on the self driving feature.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:13 (four months ago) link
Even fans don't seem to be particularly happy with this launch. Range is a lot lower than expected, somewhere around 250 mi, and the price is a lot higher than people expected, $60,000 plus for the basic model, and if I saw correctly that one won't be out until supposedly 2025 or something. I am all in for the mocking.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:19 (four months ago) link
my coworker: "They showed it beating a Porsche 911 on a drag strip, and it was towing a second 911!"me: "OK"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:19 (four months ago) link
as a few people have speculated something really does seem to happen to your brain when you spend so much of your life just pointing at a thing and immediately getting to have that thing. kinda fucked up that we've structured our entire society around capitalism and the dude who won the capitalism lottery turned into a miserable sack of shit who needs to be cranked out of his mind at all times― frogbs, Thursday, November 30, 2023 1:31 PM (two hours ago)
― frogbs, Thursday, November 30, 2023 1:31 PM (two hours ago)
― 龜, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:24 (four months ago) link
is $60000 the actual sticker price for the cheap version? there's something on there about the $7500 tax credit + "estimated gas savings" which makes me think the real price is more like $72000
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:40 (four months ago) link
250 miles is the range without any load. If it’s anything like the ford then expect half that for anyone who actually uses it as a truck (lol).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nS0Fdayj8Y
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:42 (four months ago) link
oh wait ok $60k is the actual price it's just listed at $49k to trick people
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:43 (four months ago) link
though it does say "estimated delivery price" and people probably aren't getting these for another 18 months so I'm assuming the price is gonna jump another $10k because that's what Tesla always does
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:46 (four months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ft47ossanieozukpgh2utd2x/bafkreify2wgysqoft45cfyv7f5gskignb4m5bpnmbirlmf5ynvhuhhzvcu@jpeg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:02 (four months ago) link
yeah best to play it safe and get an extender for your penis extension
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:23 (four months ago) link
Omfg from many posts ago i was now about snidely to type “welp that bed section is ‘ideal’ to carry more battery power,” but it is fucking what they actually are SELLING. i’m— i got nothing
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 00:36 (four months ago) link
as long as the mall is only 125 mi away it’s gtg already
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 00:38 (four months ago) link
I honestly thought the more ubiquitous they became the better people would get at identifying and avoiding scams but then I forgot that I'm an idiot
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:06 (four months ago) link
Not sure I'm gonna be able to resist constantly honking/flipping the bird at these things when I finally start seeing them on the road.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 1 December 2023 04:10 (four months ago) link
I don't think I'll be seeing them at all honestly I genuinely don't think there's a market for them
― frogbs, Friday, 1 December 2023 04:16 (four months ago) link
Yeah, I'm in the bay area...
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 1 December 2023 04:24 (four months ago) link
our condolences
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 1 December 2023 12:18 (four months ago) link
just remember, if you see one, do not acknowledge the driver in any way or look directly at the cybertruck unless necessary
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 1 December 2023 14:43 (four months ago) link
At least not without those ridiculous solar eclipse glasses.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 December 2023 14:48 (four months ago) link
They make the cybertrucks out of slow glass. You can stare at them and watch the past.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 December 2023 15:05 (four months ago) link
"we are all andrew now"
feeling this so deep
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 1 December 2023 15:30 (four months ago) link
Where we’re going, we don’t need … roads.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 December 2023 17:20 (four months ago) link
The ceremony started with Musk driving the truck on a stage in darkness and hopping into the bed to talk about it.
"It's the most unique thing on the road," he said. "Finally the future will look like the future."
John DeLorean would like a word
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:43 (four months ago) link
Finally the future will look like shit.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:48 (four months ago) link
flux capacitor in the cyberturck checkmate bitch u got memed
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:50 (four months ago) link
As would the people behind the Pontiac Aztek
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:01 (four months ago) link
when i consider the predictive accuracy of the aztek it freaks me out
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:05 (four months ago) link
every commute in that thing will end like, "dude you've blown the transaxle, you're just grinding metal...ease down."
― omar little, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:07 (four months ago) link
https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/doge-box-plans
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:07 (four months ago) link
Owners of Azteks were said to be highly satisfied.. I think there was even a camping tent that attached to the cargo area
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:11 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9gaEiQAxY
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:18 (four months ago) link
Back in 2000 Fox had this dystopian Sci-Fi series with Jessica Alba & Michael Weatherly called Dark Angel (set in...2019), and instead of having a custom future car for Weatherly to drive, they had the genius idea to use new Azteks.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:22 (four months ago) link
xps I used to work with a guy who used a wheelchair for whom the Aztec functioned well for getting himself and his chair in and out.
― visiting, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:23 (four months ago) link
they look so normal by today's standards... headline of the accompanying article: The Pontiac Aztek: Who’s Laughing Now?
Universally panned and quickly discontinued, it’s clear that, almost 20 years on, the Aztek has made fools of us all.
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/pontiac-aztek-rear-1585319857.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:30 (four months ago) link
lol yeah it does look normal, just another crossover
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:34 (four months ago) link
xps James Cameron’s Dark Angel, now on FoxI don’t remember a whole lot other than Jessica Alba was in it, but I think a later season featured an animal-human hybrid cat person. Very prescient show
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:46 (four months ago) link
Discussion of the Aztek immediately makes me think of Breaking Bad. The choice of Walt's car was obvs given great thought.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:14 (four months ago) link
for me it's the second season of Survivor, when Colby won this car and had to demonstrate all of its great camping features with his visiting Mom in the Australian Outback.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:05 (four months ago) link
one of the most pathetic and funniest reply chains i’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/4bFVLRL6IN— beer person (@CantEverDie) December 5, 2023
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:51 (four months ago) link
sure i may have spent thousands of hours of my life shooting video game people but i draw the line at video game cops, good day sir!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:58 (four months ago) link
amazing these are the same people who want the fate of the world to hinge on a computer saying the n word
― rob, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:10 (four months ago) link
Tesla’s labour dispute in Scandinavia has escalated after a union in Denmark said it would no longer transport vehicles to Sweden, where the US electric-car maker is locked in a battle over workers’ rights.
Denmark’s largest union 3F announced the move on Tuesday, saying its dockworkers and drivers would no longer help move vehicles bound for Sweden.
Swedish union IF Metall is in an increasingly bitter struggle with Tesla over the carmaker’s refusal to sign a collective agreement in which labour conditions are set by employers and unions.
“IF Metall and the Swedish workers are currently fighting an incredibly important battle. When they ask for our support, we take part, of course,” said Jan Villadsen, head of 3F Transport.
Swedish cleaners, dockworkers and postal workers have already tried to support the striking Tesla mechanics. Norwegian dockworkers have also said they would refuse to unload Teslas destined for Sweden.
The dispute involves only about 130 mechanics at Tesla’s workshops in Sweden, many of whom are still working as normal.
https://www.ft.com/content/4143c3ca-e2fd-48bb-b9b7-715454f1d28f
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
A long but interesting newsletter article about all the ways Musk is currently burning money with Twitter:
https://wheresyoured.at/p/elons-gordian-knot
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:12 (four months ago) link
i like that guy on bsky/twitter, but tbh i find his long form writing unreadable
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:38 (four months ago) link
still kinda weird to me that as a weird twitter OG he went on to become some sort of internet investigative reporter? and presumably has a profitable substack?
― 龜, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:14 (four months ago) link
lol I don't know him outside of seeing his name on Twitter, I assumed he was a The Nation columnist I'd never heard of based on the people who quoted/retweeted him.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:21 (four months ago) link
he owns a small marketing agency iirc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:35 (four months ago) link
he certainly doesn’t have an editor
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:36 (four months ago) link
i think he does have an editor lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:36 (four months ago) link
idk why those facts about the poster in question are available to me but your welcome
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:52 (four months ago) link
Duh, you’re the editor.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:00 (four months ago) link
oh siht
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:04 (four months ago) link
“…you’ve *always* been the editor.”
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:06 (four months ago) link
I . . . corrected them.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:11 (four months ago) link
https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man?fbclid=IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:16 (four months ago) link
https://i.insider.com/656a5a5d58e7c0c29a28f706?width=2000&format=jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:18 (four months ago) link
IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlMnew Musk offspring just dropped
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 02:48 (four months ago) link
Pretty sure that's his twitter password.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:01 (four months ago) link
have we heard anything about his kids through all of this? some of them are teenagers now, they gotta be feeling nothing but embarrassment
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:07 (four months ago) link
Why, yes.
Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61880709
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:10 (four months ago) link
Are we to understand that no CEO is calling for Musk to be removed from the Twitter board, because that would be a better top story rn than his deranged attacks on Iger who is also bad.
― nashwan, Friday, 8 December 2023 15:13 (four months ago) link
The CEO has taken some pretty firm public positions this week tbf
Welcome to the world Grok — the ultimate ride or die.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 7, 2023
Over 40 million people per day use X in Japan — today I’m one of them!! pic.twitter.com/eRGRZq0LxN— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023
.@RockstarGames — gaming is one of our most popular topics. Drop that trailer here — give the people on @X what they want!! https://t.co/sU3hHk9pgQ— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023
And it’s not done yet- see you for the bowl games! Oh and……really?? GO NOLES! https://t.co/GYxDO8FiJ3— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023
People in Japan spend over 1.5 billion minutes on X each day. The most popular topic? Gaming 🎮— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023
Today @elonmusk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at @dealbook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position. X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people. We're a platform that allows… https://t.co/PSmSKRkJSq— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 30, 2023
Video views for the @NBA are up +39% year over year on the platform. It all happens on X.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
Now this is how @X celebrates Small Business Saturday! 🎉💪 https://t.co/jLi2tVpNW9— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
Users like posts a *million times a minute*. That’s a lotta love—and it all happens on X.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
― bae (sic), Friday, 8 December 2023 16:30 (four months ago) link
If I had that job, I would be making those tweets, but I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 8 December 2023 17:48 (four months ago) link
Frantically trying to make "It all happens on X!" into the next "Things go better with Coke!" when your entire marketing budget is your own CEO salary must be exhausting.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:19 (four months ago) link
I heard it on the X
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:21 (four months ago) link
That's a lotta love--and it all happens on X (NSFW)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:29 (four months ago) link
ai bots, crypto scammers, nazis, it all happens on x
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2023 18:59 (four months ago) link
I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send
For that job, it helps to have an inability to feel any semblance of emotion, especially empathy
― octobeard, Friday, 8 December 2023 19:37 (four months ago) link
tfw grok is woke:
https://i.imgur.com/fD9zfU8.png
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 13:40 (four months ago) link
sir, weve lost grok
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:58 (four months ago) link
the woke has broken containment
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp2rekq4quhdq5fe2bkxigns/bafkreicwitjfbx7sqtha7mycdoifp4z2wbom5wshmwaons5436onfhbmdu@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:18 (four months ago) link
its pretty funny they think that 1 this computer program is on the verge of sentience 2 it has betrayed them
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:24 (four months ago) link
i like how when they try to reason with it its just all im a computer i have no idea what any of this means, and theyre like tragically the intelligent machine has gone woke
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
Good bit on the lameness of Grok’s alleged humor
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23992489/xai-musk-grok-humor-chatbot
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:54 (four months ago) link
lol iirc this was the genius level question that inspired building grok in the first place
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izpllsvcyml7mcwanxfzdgkf/bafkreigl2anxnw6eoukaufqzn4kueckjwtml7sufaou4zrl3g33sfx4ot4@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:09 (four months ago) link
i wonder what they used to build this thing, maybe some open source stuff that already had the woke built in, or maybe even elon realized that making a racist chatbot just isnt going to go over well
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:11 (four months ago) link
wonder if that response is hardcoded
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:14 (four months ago) link
an AI that tortures everyone who did not directly contribute to the advancement of this joke: woko's basilisk
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:16 (four months ago) link
ahh lol theyre just using chatgpt and training the voice a lil
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kyhug2d25ipcy4rscu3hdlhz/bafkreiaqj4berwsj75c5no4k2q47truu4gqtxn755teadzhost5x7osbxe@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
that makes a lot of sense as they got this thing off the ground real fast
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:18 (four months ago) link
time to deploy the jemblificator
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:18 (four months ago) link
Yaccarino make a post without using an exclamation point challenge
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:25 (four months ago) link
funnily enough I think asking an AI bot to keep answering that question will actually make it dig in deeper, it's not going to change it's answer
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:48 (four months ago) link
It's probably finetuned on one of the many open source datasets out there for assistants, most of which get their data from GPT-4 outputs. You see it happen a lot on smaller OSS models too.
― carson dial, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:55 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GA6X9iJaoAA0TOh?format=png&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:54 (four months ago) link
Musk is going to kill Grok before the year is done pic.twitter.com/FUyBht3xnT— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) December 9, 2023
― groovypanda, Sunday, 10 December 2023 17:11 (four months ago) link
Musk is hosting a "Spaces" chat with a group including Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Vivek Ramaswamy, Matt Gaetz, and Jack Posobiec. Whee.
This will bring the advertisers back. pic.twitter.com/NbUJreuyeG— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 10, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 December 2023 21:17 (four months ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 December 2023 22:15 (four months ago) link
The first virtual space to actually produce fumes.
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 December 2023 22:33 (four months ago) link
The Travelling Will-Roofies
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 02:24 (four months ago) link
Scandinavian labour unions cucking foreign Capitalists one solidarity strike at a time. 1) Postal service says fuck off in solidarity with auto industry strikes2) Pension fund pulls investment in solidarity3) Workers from different Swedish industries, Denmark's largest trade… pic.twitter.com/iC5LOzLnaM— Yugopnik 🇵🇸 (@yugopnik) December 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 December 2023 15:54 (four months ago) link
its funny that its all over a couple hundred machinists who he couldve easily just given what they wanted
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 15:59 (four months ago) link
lol response xhit “🎶 No one knows what it's like... to be the bad cuck... to be the sad cuck... from the emerald mine... 🎶”
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:02 (four months ago) link
Behind Blueskies
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:12 (four months ago) link
i've read Vivek didn't mute during that spaces chat and everyone could hear him pissing
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:16 (four months ago) link
I like that it was Alex Jones who pointed out the sound of pissing.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:28 (four months ago) link
Musk is hosting a "Spaces" chat with a group including Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Vivek Ramaswamy, Matt Gaetz, and Jack Posobiec.
When Mom says we have The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants at home...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:44 (four months ago) link
You have to imagine that the piss was the most valuable thing shared there
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:45 (four months ago) link
yeah listening to Ramaswamy pissing in a bottle>>>Ramaswamy talking
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:52 (four months ago) link
gives him a chance to rhyme "freestyle" with "peestyle" in his raps
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 20:59 (four months ago) link
BREAKING: Tesla is recalling nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US to date to fix an autopilot fault. This follows a two-year government investigation into a series of crashes linked to the Autopilot system. 🔗 https://t.co/mbpmQvj8MX📷Getty pic.twitter.com/NyE6OZwLGO— WIRED (@WIRED) December 13, 2023
*remote software update
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:24 (four months ago) link
"some have worked out these systems can be fooled by hanging a weight over a steering wheel spoke" -- me when it's time to tweet
"in extreme cases, drivers have been caught illegally sitting in the back seat while autopilot was switched on" -- lol suddenly having to control a speeding car from the back seat is literally one of my recurrent nightmares
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:40 (four months ago) link
How does this not immediately invalidate your business and tank your stock
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:58 (four months ago) link
This feature should never have been made available for personal automobiles. . Are they idiots? Did they not know people would ignore the tepid warnings and stop paying attention when using a feature called fucking Autopilot???
― treeship., Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:38 (four months ago) link
It makes me so angry that deadly technology can just be pushed out into the marketplace with no accountability. “Move fast and break things” should not include human bones crushed by unmanned automobiles.
― treeship., Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:39 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKiOcpbh3Ks
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:40 (four months ago) link
They should be recalled for real. If fully self driving cars can be safe, fine. Until then, keep them off the road.
― treeship., Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:41 (four months ago) link
look u can't make an omelette (le epic self-driving car with fart effect horn sounds) without breaking a few eggs (colliding with and immolating hundreds if not thousands of humans)
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:44 (four months ago) link
predictably Elon dickriders all over that thread pointing out it's an over the air software download, even though the article says that and it's still indicative of a major issue with the technology
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:45 (four months ago) link
-- lol suddenly having to control a speeding car from the back seat is literally one of my recurrent nightmares
― mark s, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:40 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
wait what, me too, is this a common thing???
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhnrrLxQEVQ
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:08 (four months ago) link
Yeah, it amazes me that this feature was just allowed to be put out there with absolutely no regulation or long term safety studies. Just, here you go! Good luck at surviving lol.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:13 (four months ago) link
especially given how strictly regulated the auto industry generally is, just more proof that when you have as much money as Elon Musk you can pretty much do what you want
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
It's not just out there for people to fuck around with, aren't there actually government sanctioned driverless taxis in, like, San Fran and Los Angeles? Just insane.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:22 (four months ago) link
yeah i cannot imagine releasing autopilot, as done, to the public, but i guess we to suppose that their refusal to attempt to install any controls on the system (eg limitation of use to certain hiways) is some weird libertarian _avoid liability with this one weird trick!_, like they can just "ay driver, you got this, don't be a madman! but also, imagine the sleep you could catch up on. damn, imagine sex in the back seat while being driven by a robot. ha that's hilarious! welp. gotta go. stay tuned for downloads! you take care now!" *wink* *horrendous carnage* "damn. that's on you, i guess."
even safety systems/limits will have a certain failure rate. so do they think that placing safety systems/risks which might fail is too risky, liability wise? while letting drivers play 52 pickup is less risky to them? for automobiles?! batshit crazy. i truly cannot imagine what their regulatory counsel said to get here.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:43 (four months ago) link
xpost Well after their major fuckups here Cruise got kicked to the curb in SF. I think the other one is still going? But I guess it actually 'works'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:44 (four months ago) link
A friend posted from the backseat of one of those driverless SF cabs the other day and everyone was like ARE YOU NUTS GET OUT OF THERE.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:22 (four months ago) link
Some Driverless IA car is going to solve the Trolley Problem by deciding that every pedestrian is a potential Hitler and running them all over.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:25 (four months ago) link
better not question it if you want to be favored after the singularity
― treeship., Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:38 (four months ago) link
― treeship., Wednesday, December 13, 2023 10:39 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:41 (four months ago) link
look we’re all being v negative about tesla’s self-driving tech but i think u need to remember it’s clearly labelled as a beta version so let’s all just relax, put outlet feet up on the dashboard and veer wildly into a passing cyclist
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:50 (four months ago) link
elon's weird mom currently attacking joe biden on twitter
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:57 (four months ago) link
can't sue a beta version, very clever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:57 (four months ago) link
someone asked why elon’s mom needs all those dalmatians and now I can’t see her without thinking about it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:59 (four months ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
aw yeah thats the stuff baby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:04 (four months ago) link
she is really evil looking lol
Elon's mom has got it going on
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:09 (four months ago) link
I remember reading a story about a guy snoozing in his Tesla on Hwy 101 south of San Francisco, they had to chase him for 40 miles before he woke up - and thinking, 'this is not good, not good at all'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:13 (four months ago) link
would be amazing if it was safe to do that, alas
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:16 (four months ago) link
"I am at a loss as to how customers continue to use the product not as intended. clearly this is just a few bad apples"
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:20 (four months ago) link
"for occasional relief of driving-related duties and obligations"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:27 (four months ago) link
we have that - they're called buses and trains
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
Driverless cars don't kill people, drivers sleeping in the backseat kill people.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 2:29 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
those are good too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
buses and trains are socialism, why should my tax dollars pay for a cushy transit system that isn't very affordable and doesn't get you where you need to go quickly. only car drivers are Americans
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:30 (four months ago) link
Amtrak Joe has a spending bill he wants you to peruse
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:32 (four months ago) link
in the future a car will just be a self driving bed you jump into as it drives past
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:32 (four months ago) link
training sessions will be offered to prepare you for the jump
tuition fees may be paid in Ethereum
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:35 (four months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Little_Nemo_Japanese_poster.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:38 (four months ago) link
If you think about it, no one would get hit by cars if there were no people. Driverless cars, pedestrian free world.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:44 (four months ago) link
Imagine all the peopleNot existing today
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:50 (four months ago) link
Anyone who has existed within the same space as motorists should surely just assume that many of them are going to flagrantly disregard the things that they are supposed to do. Estimating conservatively, I'd say I'm nearly run down about three times a week while walking to/from work by people who just absolutely positively must make that left turn at this precise moment, vehicular manslaughter charges be damned.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:04 (four months ago) link
And that's the debate, right? Are cars without drivers actually any worse than cars *with* drivers?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:11 (four months ago) link
I lost two very close friends to car accidents. One of them mowed down by a drink driver, the other was an unconscious passenger after the dickhead driver crashed into the side of a house and she was killed by fire as the injured driver crawled out of the wreck. Both responsible drivers had to face legal accountability in a court of law, same should apply to tech billionaires putting out experimental vehicular homicide machines on the streets.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:14 (four months ago) link
Yes?
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:16 (four months ago) link
(That was an xpost to Josh)
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:17 (four months ago) link
can a car be drunk
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:23 (four months ago) link
wasn't a huge part of the Tesla hype from like 2017-2019 the fact that they would soon drive themselves? in fact isn't that how their stock price got so high? are the driver assist features not called "autopilot"?? like uhhh yeah of course some people are gonna take that literally
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:42 (four months ago) link
i was eventually struck bike commuting fractured skull severe tbi 2 mos in hospital. most drivers are pretty cool and kind if annoyed. but they are careless as FUCK, and sone shit cannot be undone.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
i have no trust wrt to robots until they actually FEEL risk and FEAR guilt.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:24 (four months ago) link
and relentless typos. endless typos.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:25 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgw8MEwTVwM
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:32 (four months ago) link
i always assume now that every vehicle around me is being driven by someone who will make the worst possible decision w/r/t me and my safety.
huge thread, can't load it, so maybe this was posted already.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/briefing/us-traffic-deaths.html
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:35 (four months ago) link
the Tesla hype from like 2017-2019
Afaict, that's still the hype fans buy into. Full self-driving, any day now. Any ... day ... now ....
And yeah, I didn't mean that self-driving cars were in some way better than human drivers, just that human drivers already suuuuuuuuuck and it's hard for me to believe (as much as I don't want them) that self-driving cars would necessarily be worse, at least statistically. Literally every single day I see something that either enrages me or shake my head or makes me breathe a sigh of relief. People blowing through stop signs and red lights. People driving at night with their headlights off. People making insane u-turns in busy intersections during rush hour. I have friends that have witnessed literal gun fights between speeding cars, like something out of an action movie. There's a hot dog stand here that has been boarded up since October, when a car crashed into it. Needless to say, the hot dog stand is not in the middle of the street.
It does blow my mind that even a relative handful of self-driving cars are out there. I don't even know how the insurance works on that, or how the legality works. Who is at fault if a self-driving car crashes? The car manufacturer? The software maker? The passengers? The owner of the company? All of the above and more, probably. I'm shocked there hasn't been a big multi-pronged lawsuit yet.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:53 (four months ago) link
these fruits never fall far from their poisonous treeshttps://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/trump8.jpg?w=2048
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 14 December 2023 09:40 (four months ago) link
that's Donald in prosthetics i can't be fooled
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:28 (four months ago) link
That image explains so much about his hairstyling choices, and much more besides
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:31 (four months ago) link
It does blow my mind that even a relative handful of self-driving cars are out there. I don't even know how the insurance works on that, or how the legality works. Who is at fault if a self-driving car crashes? The car manufacturer? The software maker? The passengers? The owner of the company? All of the above and more, probably. I'm shocked there hasn't been a big multi-pronged lawsuit yet.― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:53 (yesterday) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:53 (yesterday) link
it makes no sense to me at all
― treeship., Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:43 (four months ago) link
it was already a fraught proposition to force me onto the road with the average driver, now I might get killed because a car didn't see me or mistook me for a traffic light
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:46 (four months ago) link
the self-driving thing is dumb and nearly every other automaker has lane detection, emergency braking, and some version of adaptive cruise control now, and most work better than teslaif you want something that approaches self-driving, I think the comma.ai openpilot kits outperform tesla’s offering and they work in a bunch of vehicles
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:35 (four months ago) link
recall tesla decided to go with some cheaper version of self driving tech that the entire rest of the industry thought was dumb and bad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:38 (four months ago) link
tesla self driving tech: why is it so bad and hated?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:54 (four months ago) link
xpost Iirc the standard is Lidar but Tesla went with something else.
Here's another question I have. Do you need a driver's license to be driven by a self-driving car? Isn't the presumption that if something went wrong, the passenger could take over?
The self-driving taxis, do you still sit in the back? Do you have access to the wheel/radio/A/C? Can you control those things with your voice?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:03 (four months ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/20231211123948/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/briefing/us-traffic-deaths.html very distressing
the answer is for no one to leave their dwelling
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:17 (four months ago) link
older teslas did have lidar. apparently elon’s bluster about how they didn’t need it was because he stopped paying the lidar vendor and
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:27 (four months ago) link
The bar set for my young Aussie relatives is sooooo much higher than it is here. In Australia there are all these license levels that limit where and how you can drive until you're, like, 20. (ILX Aussies can correct me.) My sister in the UK, it took her at least a couple of tries to pass her license test, something she assured me was quite common there. But here in the US, states like Iowa let you get a permit at 14. 14! Iirc, one time my wife went in to take a test to renew her license and somehow forgot to do an entire page, but still passed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:34 (four months ago) link
i passed my test in the uk and new york state. the NYS test is a joke.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:48 (four months ago) link
luckily all the drivers i see in new york are excellent, the best in the world, so i guess the test doesn't matter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:49 (four months ago) link
PBKR's Dad: Did you pass?PBKR, Age 16: Yes!PBKR's Dad: You got lucky.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:52 (four months ago) link
Florida's driving test doesn't include parallel parking (I learned how to via Youtube). in fact, my test didn't even leave the parking lot.
keep these things in mind if you ever plan to visit here and wish to bring your own vehicle
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:59 (four months ago) link
Montana roads have weird quirks (a center lane that's just for turns, the fact that you can make a turn directly from a 25 mph road onto a 70 mph highway) but I passed the road test on my second try and now have a driver's license for the first time in 30 years. (I originally got my license at 19 in NJ but was a terrible driver, so I literally surrendered it — mailed it back to Trenton — in the early 90s because car insurance was ruinously expensive after multiple accidents. But there's no public transportation where I live now, so just letting my wife drive me around was untenable.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:09 (four months ago) link
I never took a driving test because you could do well enough in a drivers education course and skip it, unless you ended up getting randomly selected I probably could have used a little more instruction. I think I’d rate my driving as average now, although the number of absolutely bizarre moves I’ve seen people make lately make me think that maybe the average is slipping
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:16 (four months ago) link
All you bad drivers confessing your road sins explains so much of what I see out there. Have you considered self-driving cars?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:22 (four months ago) link
xxp I took several amazing drives across Montana in the summer of 91. IIRC, at least back then, the speed limit was more of a suggestion.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:41 (four months ago) link
In the absence of stringent licensing standards, I keep hoping that the specter of a vehicular manslaughter trial is at least occasionally enough to encourage motorists to pay some modicum of attention to the world around them. Even though I'm sure we all can agree that concerning ourselves with the well-being of others and the actions we can take to avoid actively compromising that well-being is soooo dumb and boring, gah.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:44 (four months ago) link
half of all drivers are worse than average! I’m just realistic
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:27 (four months ago) link
I am an excellent driver.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
My eldest is a tow truck driver. She regularly extracts cars from situations that are truly mystifying. You might be surprised at the number of cars that end up in trees.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
half of all drivers are worse than average! I’m just realistic― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, December 14, 2023 2:27 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, December 14, 2023 2:27 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
has this country ever considered raising the skills of the average driver via education and testing? something to think about.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:50 (four months ago) link
Counterpart: thinking is stupid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
The keys to good driving are alertness and patience. Most drivers lack these qualities even when they aren't behind a steering wheel.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
It's hard to be patient when you're surrounded by stupidity. Of course, being surrounded by stupidity is what makes it important to be alert.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:58 (four months ago) link
Raising license standards would require us to have more alternatives to driving, can’t have that. Buses create poor people out of thin air!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:01 (four months ago) link
Haha, one of the Metro Atlanta counties voted down light rail a few decades ago because they thought it would bring crime. Right, someone's gonna jack your 72" TV and carry it home on the train.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:02 (four months ago) link
In Australia there are all these license levels that limit where and how you can drive until you're, like, 20. (ILX Aussies can correct me.)
Yeah basically. You can get a license at 16 but its a Learners permit, you have to have a fully licenced driver with you at all times and can have zero BAC. I think theres also limits to the kind of car you're allowed to drive (you cant drive overpowered V8s for example). You have to have the Ls for 120 hours of driving and then pass a full driving test for Provisional (P) license which is in 2 parts,12 months on P1 then 3 years on P2. after that you're good to go on a full license with none of the speed/car restrictions.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:39 (four months ago) link
My (takes breath) brother-in-law's sister's son bought a beat up truck at the start of his license process. As he got his hours and gradually moved up his ranks he fixed up the truck, and the truck was more or less good to go just as he was. And a week later, he crashed it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:43 (four months ago) link
I kinda feel like all prospective drivers should have to log like 100 hours with a psychologist in the passenger seat gauging their general mental and emotional fitness to pilot a multi-ton death machine.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:44 (four months ago) link
Driver's ed used to be part of the public school curriculum. I think some schools still offer it, but most do not. Private driving schools are an alternative. Having three kids who took the course, I'd say it produced . . . mixed results.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:46 (four months ago) link
xpost And then the only way to pass the test is to admit you shouldn't be driving. The only way to win the game is not to play the game!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:46 (four months ago) link
Our high school offers driver's ed, it's super useful, and if you pass it, you don't have to take the test at the DMV.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:47 (four months ago) link
Speaking of curriculum
Elon Musk has plans to open a new university in Texas, according to tax filings.
Bloomberg reported the filings show Musk donated $100m to his charity, The Foundation, to establish a primary and secondary Stem school in Austin – and later to seek accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges for launching a university.
The Foundation said the curriculum for the school and university would “combine formal instruction by experienced faculty in subjects such as mathematics, science, engineering and physics, alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects, and labs”.
Not the 'Musk Foundation' - THE FOUNDATION, as if there were no other
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:49 (four months ago) link
Further echoes of Kanye. Will the teachers be AI terminals?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:50 (four months ago) link
Cool, yes, let's get more people out there making cars crash and rockets explode and creating online nazi hangouts, please and as quickly as possible
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:01 (four months ago) link
Nazi Moon Mars Base
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:02 (four months ago) link
They can have it, I would be thrilled if every Nazi moved to Mars.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:08 (four months ago) link
With no space suits.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:09 (four months ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, December 14, 2023 4:46 PM bookmarkflaglink
anybody can drive around on a closed course in circles, but at least it teaches you how to start the car and get it moving without running over someone in a parking lot
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:10 (four months ago) link
supposedly someone in my brother's driver's ed class crashed the car while dicking around
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:12 (four months ago) link
Give that man a license.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:14 (four months ago) link
I nearly ran the car over a raised median in driver's ed. TBF I really had like zero idea what I was doing or how to control the dang thing.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:21 (four months ago) link
our teacher tried to scare everybody by showing videos of people burning alive in car wrecks and the aftermath and calling them "crispy critters" and warning us we'd turn into critters if we didn't learn how to drive and that maybe 25% of us would be critters even if we drove perfectly
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:22 (four months ago) link
One day of our class was spent watching a video of a Jeep using its winch to get out of a sand dune. Maybe useful info for future Cybertruck owners.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:24 (four months ago) link
I did driver's ed at Sears, we had to do a lot of real driving but our parallel parking was a couple of cones in the parking lot. Given how often I'm doing 80 to keep up with traffic in a 75 zone, it's weird to get flashbacks of the terror the first time my instructor was like "okay, time to get on the highway!" and the limits were all still 55 around here then.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:27 (four months ago) link
I got yelled at because I panic braked and swerved when a dog ran into the road in front of us. "Just hit the dog" is technically a sound bit of advice but I'd probably still risk my life and anyone in another lane if that happened.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:30 (four months ago) link
I hate driving (and dont drive) and part of that is thanks to my mother trying to teach me and being a complete panicky freakouter. I was trying to slowly pull the car over onto a grassy shoulder (in a country town with NO traffic) and she fucking shrieked at me OMG OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING as if I was just idly running off the road.
Fuck that shit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:32 (four months ago) link
I taught both of my kids, and I did my best to stay quiet and neutral but boy did I breathe a sigh of relief once we got home and I changed out of my sweat-soaked shirt.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:47 (four months ago) link
Same here. Although, two of my three kids who drive are better drivers than I am now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:48 (four months ago) link
I know it's rockist and all but I do think learning how to drive on manual transmission forces you to think more about what you're doing. Neither of my kids drive yet, but the thing I keep telling them is, this is the most dangerous thing you will do every day. You need to pay attention to it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:24 (four months ago) link
Good luck finding a car with manual transmission in the US.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 December 2023 03:29 (four months ago) link
Yeah, we got to watch the death movies in high school too. A couple of years later I saw some of the same movies being projected behind the Butthole Surfers while they played, which lessened the impact somewhat.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:31 (four months ago) link
After driving only stick since 1990, our cars are now automatic only and I feel the opposite. Not having to think about shifting keeps my hands on the wheel and me focused on the road. It's also much nicer when you do a lot of stop-and-go driving.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:32 (four months ago) link
I own one, but we bought it in 1997. We're willing to sell it to any interested ilxor for a fair price!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:32 (four months ago) link
"okay, time to get on the highway!"
^^^ very vivid memories of this, a nightmarish white-knuckle experience of sweat and absolute terror.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:39 (four months ago) link
My driver's ed instructor taught me how to whip shitties and do J turns.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 15 December 2023 04:32 (four months ago) link
Oh I know, and I'm not rockist enough to buy one just to make my kids learn on it. But it does require a different level of engagement. I think engagement is good when you're learning to drive.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 December 2023 04:44 (four months ago) link
And PBKR, I agree. Mostly thinking about learning to drive, just the mechanics of thinking about when you're accelerating and decelerating, thinking about the machine you're operating.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 December 2023 04:46 (four months ago) link
xxxps, still occasionally get a dissociated feeling sometimes thinking about how millions of us are zipping around at 80mph in two tons of steel. The only comparable feeling I get is sitting still on a runway and watching a jumbo jet take off on a parallel runway. We’re all constantly spitting in God’s eye.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 15 December 2023 06:20 (four months ago) link
You shouldn’t be driving 80mph probably
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 15 December 2023 06:22 (four months ago) link
i tried to learn to drive and got worse as the lessons went on
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:35 (four months ago) link
i love that this turned into manual vs automatic because i read the article upstream yesterday (without seeing the follow up discussion above this post). driving later yesterday i got thinking about 75% of cars in europe are manual-- it sorta freaked me out wrt driving behavior. despite visits there, i had no idea of that difference in man/auto norms.
for me, and to me, it's a huge change in driver behavior and engagement. there is significantly less required attention with automatic imo.
i learned and lived to 30 y/o only on manual. i mostly got automatic because it allows more space for the distractions of kids. and to be sure, i don't think i was consciously thinking "hey i can be more dangerous and pay attention to things off the road." it was just clearly "easier" to me. but in thinking last evening, that ability to engage in distracted driving is the precise effect. and probably i still wouldn't wish to return to manual for most matters, automatic transmissions are geared and shift behavior is adequate for how i drive now.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:27 (four months ago) link
came to thread hoping to comment suchly and was only a little surprised the thread jumped on it meanwhiles.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:29 (four months ago) link
I recently test drove a couple of cars with my 22 year old, who was buying his first new-ish car. He saw a VW Golf, very sporty, with a five-speed. He stalled it out about five times in a left hand turn lane lol. To be fair, it had a really sensitive clutch.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:38 (four months ago) link
My sister and sister-in-law both had to learn to drive stick on the other side of the car/road, I can't even imagine.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:43 (four months ago) link
the first time I drove stick it was the company truck for this factory I was working at. I had to go to a place 25 miles away and it was terrifying. because I really didn't know how to drive stick. and I told them that repeatedly. but apparently I was the guy who had to do it (because I'd only been working there 3 weeks I guess) so I got a 2 minute tutorial and was sent on my merry way. I think I stalled it out at every single intersection. but then the second stickshift I drove it was mostly fine. this truck's clutch apparently was just really bad. thanks, guys!
― frogbs, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:49 (four months ago) link
That's why they call them clutch players, because if given a two-minute tutorial on how to drive stick they get it done.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:54 (four months ago) link
having yoru kid drive you for the first time is truly a test of the nerves
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:46 (four months ago) link
having your kid teach you how to drive even more so
esp when the child seat doesn't get high enough
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:05 (four months ago) link
My kid passed his test about three hours ago (UK). He's had a fucker of a time since the pandemic and it's the one thing he can focus on without impediment; I couldn't be happier for him. (And I can genuinely say I've always felt safe with him in the car.)Now I've got to sell a bollock to afford the extraordinarily expensive insurance.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:34 (four months ago) link
Fwiw, I'm glad I learned manual. It was never really presented as a choice when I learned (early 90s) - everyone taught in manual and you had to properly search out someone teaching automatic.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:35 (four months ago) link
I learned manual on an 91 Ford Ranger we called the Deranger in the Humboldt hills, bless those days.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 16 December 2023 00:44 (four months ago) link
I learned to drive manual on a 1979 VW Rabbit, which was old even then (1990)
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 16 December 2023 00:49 (four months ago) link
I'm terrified of my kid driving. She's 14 so I should probably start letting her practice in parking lots. She's pretty erratic and clumsy as it is, I can't imagine what driving is going to be like. She has driven an old car out at my parents place in the country and that wasn't too bad.
I'm glad we're not in Houston anymore. That would be a shit city for a new learner.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 16 December 2023 05:01 (four months ago) link
I've driven a tractor at slow chugging pace through a field, and electric go-karts, dodgems, but no fucking chance a car on the roads and motorways with many other vehicles. That's just an insane idea. Once a boss offered me a more than decent payrise and he offered to pay for a few months worth of driving lessons if I showed some genuine interest in getting a driving license. I said thanks, but no thanks.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 December 2023 09:39 (four months ago) link
If I had to learn to drive with a manual, I would never have learned how to drive. I've tried several times to learn how to drive one and failed each time. It's like middle school algebra: something I should be able to do that seems to be forever beyond me.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 16 December 2023 10:19 (four months ago) link
I passed my driver's test on automatic. Then a year later got a car that was manual so had to learn that. My Dad and I got in a huge shouting match in the car after he had given me the basics, so I yelled at him to get out and I figured out the rest.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 16 December 2023 13:40 (four months ago) link
I passed my test in an automatic as well. in the UK that means I can't legally drive a manual which is just as well for everyone else on the road. I haven't driven a car since my wife died and not sure if I will again tbh. parking it here would be a total nightmare anyway
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 16 December 2023 13:59 (four months ago) link
One of the things I'm grateful to my father for is teaching me how to drive. His laconic and patient nature served him well as a driving instructor. He drove us out to some dirt roads outside the city and just let me make mistakes on our three-speed 1978 Chevy Malibu until I figured it out.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 December 2023 21:24 (four months ago) link
worst manual transmission experience: one time the last 14-foot u-haul available when i was moving was stick, and first gear got you to like 5mph, second to 15, third to 25, etc. -- merging onto an interstate was deeply unpleasant
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 December 2023 21:56 (four months ago) link
Most of the cars I’ve owned have been manual - I grew up on them and I always appreciated how dealers would discount them because most folks couldn’t drive them. My car insurance agent once told me that the best anti-theft device is a manual
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 December 2023 22:29 (four months ago) link
Also my fave parts of early The Amazing Race episodes was watching folks completely lose it when confronted with a manual
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 December 2023 22:31 (four months ago) link
i have adhd and double vision, which i thought was a normal everyday thing but apparently isn't? i don't think i have strabismus, either. i just see two of everything unless i get these special glasses with "prisms", which means i can't order them online, they have to be ground by hand, probably with a stone mill or something. also, apparently other people can just move their eyes to the left and right to see laterally, like, to check in the rear-view mirror? i can't do that. i have to turn my head to see what's in the rear-view mirror. this is incredibly dangerous and i probably shouldn't be driving! nobody's ever told me i'm not allowed to drive, though, only that i'm a bad driver.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 December 2023 22:38 (four months ago) link
i'm 48 years old and i'm figuring this out now for the first time in my life, lol. apparently it's my left eye. i literally can't move my eyes to look to the left of me. i can look fine to the right of me, but i can't look to the left of me. this might also be related to the way one of my eyes is always squinty. when i get double vision i squint one of my eyes because that way i can see one of things again.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 December 2023 22:41 (four months ago) link
I have no idea how an automatic even works. I don't think I've ever even been in a car with automatic gears. I can only think of one person I've ever met who said she had an automatic.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:01 (four months ago) link
Hmmmm. Shall I say it again?
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:02 (four months ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, December 14, 2023 10:32 PM (two days ago)
what kinda car is it?
― 龜, Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:48 (four months ago) link
A Subaru Legacy station wagon (it has a sticker under the Legacy nameplate that says "Brighton" - whatever that means). It was the bare bones model. No extras. We did buy the four little floor carpets for it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:59 (four months ago) link
The Amazing Race thing still happens once in a while! Generally the contestants know this is a thing to practice beforehand, but they can still get flummoxed in the heat of the moment.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 December 2023 00:11 (four months ago) link
a traditional automatic works by using one of multiple variations on traditional gearing and automatically shifting between them, with varying results depending on the age and model of the car. some have settings to shift more aggressively or less so to get better fuel economy newer vehicles, especially electric ones, use a continuously variable transmission. there are a few mechanisms, but imagine the gear that controls the ratio being cone-shaped. so there are not distinct gears, there’s a spectrum of ratios you can move through depending on current speed and desired acceleration, etcif you’re worried that this is drive-by-wire, I wouldn’t. nearly every vehicle has had some drive-by-wire aspects for many decades
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 17 December 2023 02:19 (four months ago) link
I have no idea how an automatic even works.
I mean that's kind of the point, they just do. you press the accelerator and the car goes forward
I had a much better time when I tried to learn to drive in the 90s, cars only had 4 gears then. now they have 5 or 6, I just can't do it, my left hand is too unco-ordinated. the instructor would tell me to go from 1st to 3rd and I'd put it in 5th and the car would stall. or even worse, go down from 5th to 4th and I'd put in 2nd. then he'd get mad and tell me I'm fucking up his gear box. you told me to do it mate, not my fault you're a shit teacher
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 02:44 (four months ago) link
anyway most of the stuff I'd been told about automatic cars was absolute bullshit. oh they can't deal with hills? total bollocks. I lived in Hastings at the top of a really steep hill, my car zipped up it like it wasn't even there. my mum's car was manual and shuddered the whole way up there. it's all lies
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 02:48 (four months ago) link
On steep downhills it is kind of nice to be able to gear down manually as an adjunct to braking. Other than that the continuously variable automatics I've driven are as good or better.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:45 (four months ago) link
I always found changing gears incredibly stressful whereas breaking is really easy so I don't really know why it would be better. this is something the US has got right
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:49 (four months ago) link
I don't really know why it would be better.
Chances are you've never descended a road that starts at 9500 ft above sea level and ends at 1000 ft. Brakes can overheat and fail in those circumstances.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:52 (four months ago) link
everything i know about car transmissions (which is very little) comes from having built lego kits. they're really good! although mine did not feature a synchromesh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:57 (four months ago) link
xp true and that's a thing that people do all the time
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:59 (four months ago) link
Maybe not all the time, but in the western USA it certainly has its applications, especially if you predictably spend time driving in the mountains because you enjoy spending time in the mountains and they are accessible nearby.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 17 December 2023 04:09 (four months ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 December 2023 08:05 (four months ago) link
nearly every automatic transmission vehicle has an equivalent to engine braking or downshifting, at least everything I’ve driven has?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 17 December 2023 15:22 (four months ago) link
chipping away chipping away: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-crash-1234930544/
― mark s, Sunday, 17 December 2023 17:51 (four months ago) link
xpost Yeah, some automatic low gear. L2, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 December 2023 17:58 (four months ago) link
moving to an automatic next month, probably for good at this stage id imagine and ill miss the control but will get used to it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 December 2023 18:04 (four months ago) link
I drove manual transmission autos exclusively for 30 years. Now I drive an automatic 95% of the time. There's not a lot to miss. It's all just driving, but some driving involves more left foot/right hand activity.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:07 (four months ago) link
almost no manuals are sold anymore in the usa anymore its around ~1% rip
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:09 (four months ago) link
Yous are all fannies. It's just a gear stick and a clutch.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:28 (four months ago) link
I feel like we are having a debate from 1988
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:33 (four months ago) link
chances are you've never descended a road that starts at 9500 ft above sea level and ends at 1000 ft. Brakes can overheat and fail in those circumstances.I'll remember this next time I drop my daughter off at violin lessons and run to Target
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:35 (four months ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:37 (four months ago) link
I love it when ilx tells everyone how to drive
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:39 (four months ago) link
You should see the football thread.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:48 (four months ago) link
i am nearly 56 and have never driven an automatic.i kinda like the whole process re manual.in my head : automatic = more stuff that can go wrong.i like my cars to be simple and basic.as little s/w in charge as possible.and yeah, i know, old man shouting at the clouds meme etc ..
― mark e, Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:06 (four months ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, December 17, 2023 10:22 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is true most automatics have S and/or L gears for that sort of thing, also you can pump the breaks down a mountain to avoid overheating
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:09 (four months ago) link
i do not know how to drive a "stick"
― treeship., Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:10 (four months ago) link
its not that hard good to learn if you have the opportunity
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:16 (four months ago) link
manuals used to get better gas milage than automatics but thats no longer true, new automatic transmissions of all types (planetary, dual clutch, cvt) work really good in general now, also a lot of the new related tech like adaptive cruise control is good too, manuals can be fun to drive and def feel more connected to the true mechanical nature of cars, but crawling around in traffic with them kinda sucks
double-declutchingly* heel-and-toe away goes roger mexico**
*for the real stick-hedz **not ilx's roger mexico
― mark s, Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:22 (four months ago) link
i always request an automatic when renting in the UK, and would never buy a manual.
computers are better at changing gear than me (and most other people).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:42 (four months ago) link
I've only ever had manual cars but I guess I'll get an EV in the next 10 years or so so my manual days will be over. I quite like driving manual - I've had driving lessons in both the US and UK and it's more our crazy roads that make it harder here rather than the gears.
― kinder, Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:52 (four months ago) link
This thread used to be a lot more entertaining.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 December 2023 21:05 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqL-2ZCPpjA
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 December 2023 21:20 (four months ago) link
I've had driving lessons in both the US and UK and it's more our crazy roads that make it harder here rather than the gears.
I learned to drive in the UK ahead of a move to the US and yeah the combination of larger roads and getting an automatic car made being a new driver a lot easier.
― visiting, Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:26 (four months ago) link
Just whiling away the time as we wait for Mr Musk's next surpassingly stupid episode. He seems to be laying low rn.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:30 (four months ago) link
i made it my pandemic hobby to learn how to drive a stick. it’s fun as hell and all i want to do is to road trip in my manual car
― 龜, Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:52 (four months ago) link
gets it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:52 (four months ago) link
aimless that’s a cool ride you have. if i had room i’d take you up on the offer. my favorite era of subies aesthetically
― 龜, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:01 (four months ago) link
As a lifelong Alfa tragic it kills me to see their range 80% SUVs and, I think, no manual transmissions. Clinging to my 159 Ti.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:33 (four months ago) link
also you can pump the breaks down a mountain to avoid overheatingor I can give them a hard tap when the car in front of me slows down a lot more quickly than I anticipated I think the last time I drove down from mountains lag∞n was in my car and that happenedso you guys hear anything stupid about Elon Musk today? nobody’s leaked the timeline on whether he knew his ex was releasing a toy called Grok and he named the stupid dad joke chatbot the same thing, or if it was vice versa
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:39 (four months ago) link
Man all this talk of mountains makes me miss driving those curvy-ass parts of the 5 between Redding and the Oregon border. Fuck.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:45 (four months ago) link
Or the 299! What an amazing road.
This is way off topic, but I was driving from SF up to a memorial service in Tacoma in late September 2018 and the Delta Fire broke out in Shasta County CA north of Redding. They closed Highway 5. I asked people at a restaurant in Redding which way I should go, and they said take 299 to 89 and go around to the East.
Well, that didn't work out at all. About a quarter of a mile from Redding on 299 the traffic was at a complete standstill. I went back to Redding and asked again, and they said take highway 44 to the south and east to 89. It was clear, and wended its way through a serious pine forest, with Mount Lassen visible in the distance, and was one of the most amazing roads I have ever driven on.
― Dan S, Monday, 18 December 2023 00:16 (four months ago) link
I think the last time I drove down from mountains lag∞n was in my car and that happened
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, December 17, 2023 6:39 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
nice, good times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:05 (four months ago) link
wild how theres one tattoo in that video, different times (before tattoos were common)
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:18 (four months ago) link
engine braking is cool, i don’t think it’s widely taught. i understand some roads like pikes peak will have brake check stations on the downhill where they make you pull in to measure the temperature of your brakes, to make sure thryre not so hot as to cause brake fade. if you are an engine braker you can impress them with low temps.
― 龜, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:26 (four months ago) link
they should have a special engine breaker sticker to give to the good people
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:39 (four months ago) link
they should have a like a speed gun but for like brake temp and like salute you when you drive by engine braking all cold brakes like
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2023 01:43 (four months ago) link
they should play a bugle as you cruise by on ice cold breaks
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:44 (four months ago) link
but if your breaks are overheated they should shoot you with guns
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 01:45 (four months ago) link
they should stop you for not having like....snow chains on your brakes so cold
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2023 01:46 (four months ago) link
elon better be reading this i bet he is tho
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2023 01:47 (four months ago) link
This is way off topic, but I was driving from SF up to a memorial service in Tacoma in late September 2018 and the Delta Fire broke out in Shasta County CA north of Redding. They closed Highway 5. I asked people at a restaurant in Redding which way I should go, and they said take 299 to 89 and go around to the East.Well, that didn't work out at all. About a quarter of a mile from Redding on 299 the traffic was at a complete standstill. I went back to Redding and asked again, and they said take highway 44 to the south and east to 89. It was clear, and wended its way through a serious pine forest, with Mount Lassen visible in the distance, and was one of the most amazing roads I have ever driven on.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 18 December 2023 02:04 (four months ago) link
i was driving on 101 in humbolt once and got rerouted cause of landslides, driving on quasi sketchy mountain roads in torrential rain with all the detoured traffic trucks and whatnot, hours to go before i sleep
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 December 2023 02:09 (four months ago) link
he gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistakethe only other sound's the sweepof an almost unused pedal brake
robert frosty brakepads, stopping by clutch on a snowy evening beautiful
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2023 02:18 (four months ago) link
Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:02 (four months ago) link
Andrew Lundeen, of Santa Rosa, California, was driving his wife’s 2018 Model 3 in August when he rode over a speed bump and lost power steering.
Lundeen said in an interview that a Tesla service manager told him that a power-steering connector had corroded. The manager said the likely cause was a car wash, which he described as a known problem.
Lundeen paid $4,400 to replace the steering rack and a wiring harness.
“This is the only car that I’ve ever heard of where a car wash can damage the wiring,” Lundeen recalled telling the manager.
Lundeen said he was so shocked by the manager’s frank explanation of Tesla’s part failures that he wrote it down: “All I can tell you,” the Tesla manager said, “is we’re not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet.”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:44 (four months ago) link
i like the idea that ford has been working the bugs out for 100 years lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:47 (four months ago) link
iirc, it was around year 53 when Ford figured out how to not make water ruin their cars
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:49 (four months ago) link
MUSK cybercitybus will be a bad municipal investment
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
I’m picturing Teslas having a little clothing tag hanging from the inside of the hood that says “HAND WASH ONLY” in small print
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:00 (four months ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:11 (four months ago) link
"Do not remove this tag under penalty of Elon Must doxxing you on X"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:13 (four months ago) link
shifting the blame to the customer by saying they washed it when cars encounter water in many non car wash situations, low ridiculous behavior
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:15 (four months ago) link
more Tesla nightmares https://fighttorepair.substack.com/p/teslas-a-vocal-opponent-of-the-right
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:43 (four months ago) link
i actually rode in a tesla last night for the first time.
one of those revel taxis that are cheap because VCs are setting money on fire again.
just a model 3, but it was a very uncomfortable ride (suspension) and the interior looks like shit.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:51 (four months ago) link
its wild in an era of crazy good interiors theyre getting away with that shit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:57 (four months ago) link
I got angrily beeped at and a "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE" from a Tesla driver yesterday because I had the audacity to pull over to the side of the road with my blinkers on to pick up my son after school. There was a whole open lane right next to me for the guy to drive around, but I know what happened: He started gunning the accelerator straight out of a stop sign and was probably not even actually watching the car in front of him until he almost rear-ended me. What the fuck yrself dude.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:07 (four months ago) link
you had the audacity not to conform to his expectation of what you ought to be doing
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:18 (four months ago) link
The Tesla has definitely replaced the Bimmer as the asshole driver's car of choice.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:43 (four months ago) link
yea I've probably mentioned this before but it's pretty wild how terrible Tesla interiors are and how little thought is given to the experience of anyone outside of the person driving the car. it's given the same degree of care as the fake staging furniture you see at WG&R.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 19:45 (four months ago) link
I got angrily beeped at and a "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE" from a Tesla driver yesterday
Maybe that car beeped at you on its own, and the shocked/embarrassed driver was yelling at the car?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 22:30 (four months ago) link
The Tesla has definitely replaced the Bimmer as the asshole driver's car of choice.it ought to have done by now, but roadie (cyclists) chatter here is still nope, not yet.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:13 (four months ago) link
gonna be hard to pass bmw cause of the whole drivers car aspect they have
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:16 (four months ago) link
So far I only know one Tesla owner that has gotten rid of their Tesla. Actually, two! One before Musk showed his true colors, the other after. Musk aside, neither had any love for the car, and simply upgraded to a more luxury vehicle from another more commonly lux maker.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:31 (four months ago) link
it really is too bad about Beamers, I drove a rental one for a week and I absolutely understood why someone would want that car
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 December 2023 01:16 (four months ago) link
id still drive one idc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 01:23 (four months ago) link
wish they were still sending us wagons tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 01:24 (four months ago) link
everyone with a BMW should resemble James Spader
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 December 2023 01:31 (four months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 December 2023 02:01 (four months ago) link
i've got a nephew in law who advised me with reassuring self-mocking eye-rolls "seriously, i've never had or driven anything but a bmw since i was a kid, and i don't plan to change that." i shrugged and said "also seriously, you seem way too cool a person to say that, but at least the cars are pretty nice."
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 December 2023 03:54 (four months ago) link
he should mix it up, get an audi
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 03:56 (four months ago) link
my friend who kept buying interesting yet fatally flawed cars has a bmw in the back yard or large garage the previous homeowner installed. just a guy who can’t help but buy deals and can’t have things fixed. thankfully he doesn’t seem the type to acquire a Tesla that’ll spontaneously combust
the bmw was from a bad lemon year, I think the transmission was what killed it but I think three of the four windows wouldn’t roll down right
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 21 December 2023 07:14 (four months ago) link
New BMWs are pretty uggo IMO, I still long for an E30 325is coupe. Late '80s 3-series and 5-series BMWs were some of the best looking cars ever, sharp lines without being too much of a boring commuter car.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 21 December 2023 07:37 (four months ago) link
One era-appropriate Blaupunkt upgrade and I'd have to start buying CDs again.
https://media-r2.carsandbids.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=2080,quality=80/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/photos/9eDejlwd-QrtkFbV452-okm70PfbVf.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 21 December 2023 07:40 (four months ago) link
Everyone with a Tesla, James Woods
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 21 December 2023 13:54 (four months ago) link
yeah older bmws were so much better the tasteful sedan that secretly rips was such sick concept, the new ones look like they rip and arent tasteful, some of the new ones are cool but they really abandoned their whole scheme, they had a good thing going
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 13:59 (four months ago) link
FWIW, my daughter, who drives a tow truck, says you would have to pay her to drive a European car, any European car. I trust her assessment, she deals with breakdowns and wrecks all day every day.
I've never asked her what she thinks of Tesla, but I assume she'd laugh.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:08 (four months ago) link
european cars are def not as reliable, but neither are american cars or korean cars, basically japanese cars are just too good, the thing about european cars is that the repairs are more expensive, safety wise i dont think theres a huge difference, unless you take into consideration bmw driver behavior haha
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:17 (four months ago) link
For sure, Japanese cars are her jam, especially Lexus.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:18 (four months ago) link
yeah lexus is the sweet spot if you want a nice and reliable car, some of them are even a lil fun 2 drive
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:19 (four months ago) link
FWIW, my daughter, who drives a tow truck, says you would have to pay her to drive a European car, any European car. I trust her assessment, she deals with breakdowns and wrecks all day every day.I've never asked her what she thinks of Tesla, but I assume she'd laugh.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:19 (four months ago) link
Good question, I'd have to ask.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:23 (four months ago) link
I have rented a BMW 228i and an Audi A6 on more than one occasion, no question they are fun to drive.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:26 (four months ago) link
a friend has an s3 that i wish to own and zip around in, amazing lil city car
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:29 (four months ago) link
bmw 2 series is cool too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:30 (four months ago) link
I used to own a Dodge Challenger RT. That was a thrilling car to drive, but the thrill faded after a while.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:31 (four months ago) link
sick
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:51 (four months ago) link
i had a audi a6 wagon rental in the UK and it was easily the nicest family car i've ever been in. unbelievably comfortable. i assume ownership is a nightmare.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 21 December 2023 16:51 (four months ago) link
My 2011 A4 had 120k and never had an issue (other than having to add oil once in a blue moon) until I got rear ended on the LIE by a giant Dodge Ram pickup and it was totaled.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 21 December 2023 16:56 (four months ago) link
if you got a new or low milage audi et al im sure it would run perfectly for years, cars generally are so good now, its more when you get over 100k that the reliable cars start to separate themselves, tho normal maintenance will always be more in a german car than in a toyota, and obvs all that affects the resale value too, tho if you really just want the nice car with no worries you can always lease too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 16:59 (four months ago) link
My 2011 A4 had 120k and never had an issue
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, December 21, 2023 11:56 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
that four cylinder was known as being particularly reliable, i had a 2012 with no issues that my dad wreck at similar milage
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 17:01 (four months ago) link
no wait im tripping i had the 2002
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2023 17:03 (four months ago) link
what you're looking for when renting is different, but fwiw i always choose anything but an american car when renting. impossible to overstate how unpleasant a jeep or whatever is compared to the worst possible nissan SUV.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 21 December 2023 17:14 (four months ago) link
if we keep this up for another coupe of weeks maybe we can make elon musk disappear
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 21 December 2023 20:50 (four months ago) link
Pouring one out for my 1975 530i. It already had 150K miles on it when I bought it for a dollar in 1991 and never complained when I added another 100K miles on it over the next 7 years. Replaced it with a used '86 535i which was a better car in all respects but less fun.Over the year a couple of free level 2 chargers have opened up nearby and without fail, it's always the Teslas who hog them up all night - never moving them even after they've been sitting at 100% for hours.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 December 2023 21:56 (four months ago) link
I might change my mind about the existence of God if Elon got run over by an autonomous Cybertruck.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 22:37 (four months ago) link
I would be a believer if Elon was incinerated to death in a burning Cybertruck that auto-locked the doors.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 December 2023 22:55 (four months ago) link
"I'm sorry, I can't do that Elon"
*crispiness intensifies*
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― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 December 2023 22:57 (four months ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, December 21, 2023 2:40 AM (seventeen hours ago)
naturally theres a company that specializes in 80s/90s euro car stereos but with modern bells and whistles
https://www.retromanufacturing.com/collections/bmw
― 龜, Friday, 22 December 2023 01:22 (four months ago) link
says you would have to pay her to drive a European car, any European car
I feel like we only see a fraction of euro models on this side of the pond... they have so many nifty little cars that are never imported to the U.S. (Skoda? Renault?) but are extremely common over there, and the newer models seem to be decent quality. We only get the luxury models (and a few Jettas etc. which are probably built in Tennessee)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 December 2023 01:50 (four months ago) link
Example: Will the new MG electric make it over here? Doubtful
https://carsguide-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,t_cg_hero_large/v1/editorial/story/hero_image/mg-cyberster-uk-reveal-my24-1001x565-%281%29.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 December 2023 01:53 (four months ago) link
How often is it something like conflicting safety standards or whatever that keeps certain cars or brands from US shores? That's what I always figure. Like, in Italy an airbag's minimum inflation is something something PSI, but in America it's a different number, so the cars don't pass muster, something like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:35 (four months ago) link
yup thats basically it
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:37 (four months ago) link
Yeah, it's that but also California's more stringent emissions standards (CARB); if it can't sell in CA, they won't bother importing. Hence the VW dirty diesel scandal
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:38 (four months ago) link
speaking of safety standards, useful piece on why they can only be applied after launch in the US (unlike in e.g. europe), which is why the cybertruck is launching here now, and has no specific plans to ever launch in the US https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/cybertruck-safety-elon-musk-tesla-danger.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:41 (four months ago) link
I have a 1983 mercedes sl but I never drive it. theoretically accepting offers tbh
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:43 (four months ago) link
xp There's also the issue of dealer networks.. like Skoda or Holden or Vauxhall might actually be owned by GM, but those names are so weird and exotic that dealers might be afraid to be associated with them. They did relaunch Alfa Romeo in the U.S. a few years ago, but I don't actually see that many on the road
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:46 (four months ago) link
GM sold Vauxhalls in the States for a brief period in the '60s before switching to Opel as their preferred 'captive import'.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 03:04 (four months ago) link
The Big Three all imported their European marque compacts over here back then, with Chrysler bringing in both Simcas and Rootes, and Ford trying out both Anglias and Cortinas from the UK.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 03:08 (four months ago) link
I have a B&W photo of the Simca my dad owned for a couple of years, parked on the street in front of our house, circa 1968. In the background you can see our neighbor's Cadillac parked in their driveway.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 22 December 2023 03:32 (four months ago) link
dodge/chrysler are owned by stellantis now fwiw. alfa romeo too. so more like big two
― 龜, Friday, 22 December 2023 06:01 (four months ago) link
One of the final Pontiac models - the G8 was a rebadged Holden Commodore imported from Australia. A guy I worked with long ago had a G8 GXP which had the V8 from a Corvette paired with a six-speed manual. Hell of a car.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 December 2023 06:06 (four months ago) link
Those 2000s GTOs were also Holdens, and had Pontiac survived, they were on track to become all-Holden. The last Pontiac brochure had a preview spread of upcoming models which included those Holden El Camino-style car/trucks (forget the model name).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 06:20 (four months ago) link
Holden Ute. The Pontiac was going to be in the G8 line.
Huge Image of The Pontiac version
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 06:29 (four months ago) link
My family is from Detroit, they were GM all the way. I remember we had a few Opels back in the 60s. Not good cars.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 14:34 (four months ago) link
xp That Pontiac looks even worse than the Aztek.
The Opel GT looked dope but was an underpowered POS IIRC.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 December 2023 14:35 (four months ago) link
My dad had a Sunbeam. He loved that car even as he acknowledged it was terrible.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 14:36 (four months ago) link
car-ignorant car tale from yesterday--
i saw a 2022 rs6 c8 at downieville exit on i70, waitin for its master to get coffee. as a know-nothing i was amazed by its cool waves. i complimented the owner when he returned (asked him the year, only way i know it).
i asked my buddy when he got back "did you see that rs6 that was parked next to us"? he said "i missed it-- all 600hp of it." i said "BULLSHIT! NO WAY?" "yeah. hope you didn't ding it." what a world.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 22 December 2023 16:23 (four months ago) link
You would be amazed how that post reads to someone who is actually car-ignorant
― bae (sic), Friday, 22 December 2023 17:27 (four months ago) link
I had to use Google translate.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 December 2023 17:40 (four months ago) link
A few years ago I saw an Audi R8 pull out of a strip club at 3 in the afternoon and immediately rear end an Econoline. It looked very expensive.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 December 2023 17:43 (four months ago) link
One of my best friends just swapped out their old compact SUV for an EV, so his wife was considering replacing her old Audi with a newer EV model, too. She found one she liked and her jaw dropped at the price.
Is the R a European thing? My wife has a Mini, and whenever I search for help about things in forums it's always stuff like "the R56 is known to have these problems," or the like, but I have no idea what the R means. Revision? Model? I just know of it as her 2018 Mini Cooper S.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 December 2023 17:52 (four months ago) link
Nerd jargon, series codes for BMW stuff. E30/E34/E36/etc. showing you’re not just a noob who calls it a 3-series.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 December 2023 18:09 (four months ago) link
xp looks like it’s the specific codes for revisions and packages. so instead of saying a year and hatch/convertible/S/cooper package, enthusiasts can abbreviate it. it’s so esoteric it’s on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hatch
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 22 December 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
We had two Mini Coopers. Neither one made it to 75k and they both had many, many issues before that.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 22 December 2023 18:33 (four months ago) link
There was a kid down the street from me that had two Opel Mantas... he would work on them all the time, but I don't think I ever saw them actually running. Cool looking cars, though
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 December 2023 18:39 (four months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, December 22, 2023 12:52 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
companies have internal codes for the different generations of their models, so if you know those you can refer to the mini cooper made between 2016-2020 or whatever which is helpful cause the engine might be different than another year but also it might be the same
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 December 2023 00:40 (three months ago) link
in that case the r prob doesnt really mean anything important but when r in used in public facing naming it means racing which is a cool car word
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 December 2023 00:45 (three months ago) link
The R stands for “really fast”
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:46 (three months ago) link
it stand for rrrrrrrmmmm (sound of car engine)
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 December 2023 01:47 (three months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izxpomdyri45gzhppiiyattq/bafkreidf2nqjtawgljnlwa6he4v3fxpbbxkew6wfdketmnppyunabd5xye@jpeg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:17 (three months ago) link
stupidity on parade
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:34 (three months ago) link
Elon reminds me of those Nobel prize winners who feel qualified to opine on matters they know nothing about
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:56 (three months ago) link
Jesus fucking Christ.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
he reminds me more of a really bad forums poster
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:22 (three months ago) link
love cheong jumping in there all i wasnt a c section but my head is very large sir
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link
What a weird flex. "My brain was too big for my mother's constricting vaginal canal." Call yr therapist bro.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link
So transparently thirsty
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link
"this is how macduff was able to outwit macbeth"
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:34 (three months ago) link
Having a hard time believing Felix from Chapo didn't write those posts as parody. X's echo chamber has somehow made those two even more laughably stupid
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:36 (three months ago) link
musk has ten children and never noticed their heads get bigger after theyre born
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:37 (three months ago) link
he breeds the children, but I've seen no indication he does the whole 'parent' thing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
TBF Musk does not interact with or look directly at his seedlings
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:00 (three months ago) link
he has former employees to handle that stuff
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:07 (three months ago) link
he had one of the kids in the office like an accessory! someone at twitter was quoted as saying it was surprising he was a dedicated parent, but then, as they’re doing some marathon “how do we make twitter cheap and more X” meeting the toddler was being tired and fussy at 11pm
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:40 (three months ago) link
His “emotional support human” (his words)
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 January 2024 06:40 (three months ago) link
Disproving meritocracy one tweet at a time.
What if I told you these two things are related pic.twitter.com/SmAsT0NSTR— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 5, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 5 January 2024 09:34 (three months ago) link
lol @ expecting a twitter link to work
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 5 January 2024 12:09 (three months ago) link
The last of the few folks I knew in SF that owned Teslas had sold them in the past year but man after visiting SoCal (LA/OC/SD) over the past couple weeks, it's insane how many there are. One neighborhood had at least one in every driveway.
Yes I realize how car culture is vastly different here than there but no wonder this idiot has so much money.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:12 (three months ago) link
Yeah, LA is rotten with them.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:13 (three months ago) link
Don't spend as much time in Sf as I did a couple years ago but they're everywhere in the east bay. My next door neighbors in berkeley (old couple with a few live-in failsons) have 3.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
They are ubiquitous in Maryland these days.
― peace, man, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:59 (three months ago) link
I should get a pic of the Tesla charging station in the parking lot of the mostly-dead mall in Tupelo.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:13 (three months ago) link
omg theres one at the dead mall near me too
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:23 (three months ago) link
elon really has dilbert guy brain, just assuming he's smarter than everyone else so everything he thinks must be true and profound
― c u (crüt), Friday, 5 January 2024 21:52 (three months ago) link
‘dead mall charging sta.’ is all time end of civ vibe.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:36 (three months ago) link
Haha my nearby mall is not dead, but about 40% of it is empty and the Tesla charging station is located right at the furthest point of the dead portion.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:38 (three months ago) link
Dead malls are great locations for charging stations so no one is hurt when the Teslas catch on fire.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 5 January 2024 23:14 (three months ago) link
There are loads of Teslas in my part of the UK. It used to be a novelty to see one; now, it's every 30th car or whatever. They're nearly all white in my experience. Two teachers at my school drive them. I want to ask them 'the fuck are you affording that on teacher's wages?' but don't want to be gauche.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 January 2024 10:38 (three months ago) link
Tesla Sales Rebound After Steep Price Cuts
To maintain sales, Tesla cut prices, offering Model 3s on its website for well under $30,000 after factoring in the tax credits. By late December, the number of lower-priced cars listed on the website appeared to have dwindled, suggesting that the strategy had succeeded. But the price reductions cut into Tesla profits, which fell 44 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 6 January 2024 13:59 (three months ago) link
thats a pretty nice deal tbf
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 January 2024 14:14 (three months ago) link
Is there any emerging schism in tesla fans being anti-Musk in more than just a "I wish he'd stop mouthing off and tanking our stocks" way?
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 6 January 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
https://archive.ph/O6a3f
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 January 2024 03:04 (three months ago) link
our hard working ceo can have a little illegal drugs as a treat
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 January 2024 03:12 (three months ago) link
probably naive but this being in the WSJ and not, like, daily beast feels like a biggish deal.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 January 2024 03:56 (three months ago) link
its such a weird situation how musks aura has made his companies so much more valuable than they should be, basically makes him untouchable
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 January 2024 03:59 (three months ago) link
From the WSJ article:
Musk is intrinsic to the value of his companies...
Probably unconsciously, this nicely sums up the penchant for the 'free market' to add totally irrational factors to the allocation of trillions of dollars of capital, creating periodic outcomes such as bubbles, panics, and crashes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 7 January 2024 04:07 (three months ago) link
Musk is intrinsic to the value of his companies
economists go boom
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 04:36 (three months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3kieh7qsgce2r
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 January 2024 04:59 (three months ago) link
how exactly is that news I honestly thought that was common knowledge
― frogbs, Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:02 (three months ago) link
until this there was i think only one WSJ story about him on ketamine at parties. this seems different in that it describes specific incidents of drug use affecting his work.
his performance at the pre-acquisition twitter all hands sounds a lot the late/slurry/rambling meeting described at spacex: 'It couldn’t be learned if Musk was under the influence that day. But after the meeting, the SpaceX executives privately talked about their worries Musk was on drugs. One described the event as “nonsensical,” “unhinged” and “cringeworthy."'
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:09 (three months ago) link
unless I missed it the article doesn't mention stimulents which to me seems like the thing he's almost certainly on
― frogbs, Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:23 (three months ago) link
Tell it to Earth
― jaymc, Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:35 (three months ago) link
NYT: Critics suggest that titan of industry must deal with diversions
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:49 (three months ago) link
https://i.insider.com/5b9235bb5c5e5254548b59f5?width=700
"Needs more meth!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:55 (three months ago) link
He seemed pretty high in that Andrew Ross Sorkin interview.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:59 (three months ago) link
Part of the issue directors have grappled with over the years is whether drug use by Musk is to blame for his unusual behavior, or if it is something else, such as his consistent lack of sleep, which he has talked about.
Uhmmmm...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 7 January 2024 09:45 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j05F88cEO8
Crybaby does K all day~~~
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 7 January 2024 11:41 (three months ago) link
the WSJ isn’t going to complain about stimulants because that’s the drug class of the business world!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 7 January 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
as long as you have a prescription
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:03 (three months ago) link
the “cocaine can get you a felony” bit seems a little undersold and perfunctory
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 7 January 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
imagine how annoying elon is on coke lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 January 2024 17:10 (three months ago) link
Apparently we don't need to imagine.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 January 2024 17:11 (three months ago) link
Spiro called the description of the SpaceX incident “false as has been confirmed by countless people who were present.” He declined to elaborate on what specifically was false or describe the countless people.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 7 January 2024 21:54 (three months ago) link
lol very good
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 January 2024 22:04 (three months ago) link
The Flashbulb's Youtube persona is somewhat annoying but he gets a pass for shitting on Tesla's self driving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 7 January 2024 22:49 (three months ago) link
ed niedermeyer (author of ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors) on bluesky, about the wsj story
WSJ ain't printing this if there is any risk of Linda denying it
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreicvdmw33hxllwlmoj4ukqzv7cwbdl6sugd32im4x4zszu5avvxtyi@jpeg
Like, it's not that surprising or interesting that drugs play a role in Musk's erratic behavior. The fact that the board of a car company that's worth more than the rest of the industry combined can't do more to reign in their druggy ego monster CEO than belatedly tattle? Now that's a story, baby! If Musk runs Tesla into a wall and the board can't mitigate the damage there will be much farther reaching consequences for lots of people than if they can
Every big potentially litigious piece of Musk reporting leaves a ton on the legal cutting room floor. There is a LOT more out there.
― mark s, Sunday, 7 January 2024 22:50 (three months ago) link
oops i missed this:
Fave detail in the Elon drug story is the former Tesla board director who refused to stand for re-election in 2019 because of Musk's drug-fueled out-of-control behavior. The fact that Tesla's corporate governance standard is "run away and tell the WSJ four years later" is kinda the real issue, no?
― mark s, Sunday, 7 January 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
yeah the board are getting extremely sued if this is true (and has consequences lol)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 January 2024 23:07 (three months ago) link
"everything is securities fraud" — M. Levine
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 7 January 2024 23:36 (three months ago) link
the time to publish this probably would have been when tesla’s stock tanked last year. as long as the stock is relatively stable, nobody cares because money machine go brrrr
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 January 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
a brrring money machine is pretty nice
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 January 2024 01:23 (three months ago) link
Is the money machine cold
― Pat Methamphetamine Trio (is this anything?) (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 January 2024 02:06 (three months ago) link
ice cold baby
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 January 2024 02:07 (three months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmyqirafcp3jqdhrl7crpq7t/bafkreiae24zcis6plxsz4rfs3don7n6kcpcqect34mlx3qqbtp3ukkqqei@jpeg
video https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1yOEmqLf8T
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 January 2024 02:16 (three months ago) link
the end reveal and comment are *chef’s kiss*
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 January 2024 03:11 (three months ago) link
The hacked Teslas self-driving themselves into an expressway pileup was a nice touch in Leave The World Behind
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 January 2024 04:03 (three months ago) link
xp: what's the "end reveal"?
― peace, man, Monday, 8 January 2024 12:04 (three months ago) link
possibly my own online names aren't as good as they could be but imagine deciding to call yourself "greggertruck"
― mark s, Monday, 8 January 2024 12:07 (three months ago) link
― Pat Methamphetamine Trio (is this anything?) (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 January 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
yeah, the zoom out showing there are two people making a video clip and the comment.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 January 2024 14:58 (three months ago) link
Nothing to see here. Just the owner of this site doing a little race science while warning that black people's low intelligence will lead to deadly airplane crashes. pic.twitter.com/tXY9iUowD3— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 10, 2024
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 15:46 (three months ago) link
I hope Musk is on that plane.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:35 (three months ago) link
It'd be OK if the fiery crash Musk dies in is in a Tesla, too. Or even in a plane piloted by, you know, some genius white pilot.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 23:28 (three months ago) link
Tesla factory workers are getting a break.
Tesla said will temporarily stop production at its factory outside Berlin. Attacks on ships in the Red Sea mean the factory cannot get the parts it needs to maintain operations. https://t.co/a9sNjCILCK— DW News (@dwnews) January 12, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 12 January 2024 10:23 (three months ago) link
"race science"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
Stainless steel exposed to certain substances can corrode–and the Cybertruck is no different. So if you go for a drive in the summer and bugs splatter across the solid stainless “grille” of your Cybertruck, you’ll want to scrape them off immediately. And if you park your Cybertruck outdoors, you may need to scrub the tree sap and bird poop off daily during all summer.
In the winter, your Cybertruck will be exposed to road salt during every drive. And Tesla specifies that you’ll have to wash that off immediately too. Tar and grease from the road could be a year round problem. And Tesla adds that you may need a bottle of denatured alcohol to get those last two removed.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-youll-have-to-wipe-dead-bugs-and-bird-poop-off-your-cybertruck-asap-to-avoid-corrosion/
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:48 (three months ago) link
i hate to say anything nice about the new nazi e-truck but a tarnished stainless steel truck might actually look cool. i always kinda liked how old steel spoons looked.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:54 (three months ago) link
yeah was thinking instead of going the clean it every day route they couldve just said over time it develops a distinctive and unique patina
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
Yeah, part of me thinks it could be kind of cool to let a Cybertruck get completely grimy and corroded and post-apocalyptic-looking. But none of the saddos who buy the things would ever do that. Instead they'll be out there buffing them clean every time they get home from anywhere.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
conversely couldnt they have just sealed it with some clear stuff
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:57 (three months ago) link
i had sorta guessed deloreans had been clear coated i see not
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:21 (three months ago) link
seems like a strange oversight for the two stainless steel cars to both make
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:25 (three months ago) link
maybe it doesnt look as cool idk prob looks pretty similar tho
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:26 (three months ago) link
i don't know shit about cars tbh but i'm guessing whether it looks cool or not it will absolutely tank any resale value these things might theoretically have?
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
amongst other similar issues
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link
"buffing my Cybertruck" = 2024's top masturbation euphemism
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:20 (three months ago) link
cyber is now cockney rhyming slang for non-cyber
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 January 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
There is a Cybertruck on display at the Petersen Museum with what looks like bullet holes in the driver's side door. I didn't read the sign, not sure what the point is.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 22:03 (three months ago) link
its prob the one musk shot in a marketing video
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 22:06 (three months ago) link
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 January 2024 02:44 (three months ago) link
xxpost : https://www.teslarati.com/bullet-tested-tesla-cybertruck-displayed-petersen-museum/
― StanM, Sunday, 21 January 2024 11:11 (three months ago) link
Wasn't the DeLorean aluminum bodied?
― nickn, Monday, 22 January 2024 07:59 (three months ago) link
Elon Musk visits Auschwitz. I guess if he wants to see another expression of antisemitism he could also click on his own app. pic.twitter.com/336terATWH— Guy Walters 🇺🇦 (@guywalters) January 22, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 January 2024 14:34 (three months ago) link
it sucks I can't even be some irony poisoned Cybertruck fan because Elon sucks so god damn much. I mean the thing is so gloriously stupid and ugly and impractical that I almost kinda respect the drive it must've took to actually get something like this made. you know how some people still insist on driving stickshifts just to make things more difficult for them? the Cybertruck takes that up to an entirely new level. like oh hold on guys it rained today so I have to wash the thing front to back otherwise it'll corrode. no we can't take that route. there's a tiny hill and it'll get stuck. sorry my car's in the shop, it needs an $80,000 frame job because a piece came loose. of course it's not covered by warranty, are you insane? yeah still love the car though
― frogbs, Monday, 22 January 2024 14:53 (three months ago) link
Did I see something about it even being contractually forbidden to resell it?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:43 (three months ago) link
for the first year, not unheard of for rare cars to prevent flipping
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:50 (three months ago) link
irony poisoned Cybertruck fan
Rejected JBR display name
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:01 (three months ago) link
the cybertruck has a three on the tree model i think they are trying too hard
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:13 (three months ago) link
I was thinking about where to place Elon on a spectrum of charlatanry -- on some level actually shipping ridiculous promises like a truck made of baking sheet pans, however late and mispriced or underspec'ed, puts him ahead of someone like Elizabeth Holmes, but probably more people will unnecessarily die from Elon's products than from Holmes (but part of that is Holmes got stopped)?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:39 (three months ago) link
You have to figure in Elon's ability to generate hordes of followers who will defend his charlatanry no matter how outlandish.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:50 (three months ago) link
Dude just went to a concentration camp site to do a photo op. That is a pretty high roll of a 20 sided die of a$$hole.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:04 (three months ago) link
its actually worse than that immediately after he gave a presentation arguing that X would've prevented the holocaust
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
my stepmom got me his biography for Xmas, and I quietly re-gifted it to my cousin's husband without reading a word beyond the title
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:31 (three months ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link
Lmao rekt
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-drops-on-q4-earnings-miss-warns-production-growth-rate-will-be-notably-lower-than-2023-212357382.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:21 (three months ago) link
it's okay he can fall back on his profits from twit-oh no
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:11 (three months ago) link
― dead precedents (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:12 (three months ago) link
(chortles gleefully) Musk may slip partway down the list of the top ten richest humans!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:26 (three months ago) link
watch this if you want to see a cybertruck get smoked by a small subaru crossover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AH4eyJCwbE
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:00 (three months ago) link
a fun read, not really about musk but about the biographer, walter isaacson
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 26 January 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
biographer / charlatan bracket:michael lewis vs isaacson vs SBF vs musk
I'm inclined to think SBF was less of a charlatan than musk but not sure why. Maybe he's just in a more huckster-y field to begin with?Also, ironically maybe there's "utility" in his inadvertently exposing tenured philosophers as craven hucksters themselves by association.With Elon, I guess he revealed who Grimes really was.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 26 January 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
oh damn, sam kriss is writing again? good for him waiting until everyone forgot about the sexual harassment allegations
― ivy., Friday, 26 January 2024 18:19 (two months ago) link
Elon’s making noise about Neuralink so people will stop paying attention to Tesla’s stock drop, right? Big “our tunnel is on track” energyIn any case, time for a rethinking of the Michael Crichton pulpy sci-fi work, The Terminal Man
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link
elon has put a chip in my brain, i can now self host windows server nt
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:55 (two months ago) link
has any independent testing been done of this or are we all just supposed to take Elon at his word again?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:57 (two months ago) link
seems the only info is a tweet by elon saying they did it lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:03 (two months ago) link
they performed the surgery while riding on the hyperloop on the way to announce the new generation of teslas
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:27 (two months ago) link
https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/a9a/d93/199e6be3ec88bc79966bd4c5558f1157d9-grape.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:50 (two months ago) link
i hope he is ok
BREAKING: Elon Musk cannot keep his $55 billion compensation package from Tesla, as judge sides with shareholders. https://t.co/bGRhzIPK8P— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:27 (two months ago) link
What are the chances that has teeth?
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
Interesting caption on that photo
File - Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves as he arrives at the annual political festival Atreju, organized by the Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy political party, in Rome, Dec. 16, 2023.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:33 (two months ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 5:28 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
same court and judge that made him buy twitter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:39 (two months ago) link
🫡
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:44 (two months ago) link
It's OK, Elon will just give himself cyberteeth and bite back.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:47 (two months ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/5/5d/Jaws_%28Moonraker%29_-_Profile.png/revision/latest?cb=20210402141715Elon Musk, 2025
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:48 (two months ago) link
Goddamithttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Jaws_%28James_Bond%29.jpg
Funding secured
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:02 (two months ago) link
how bad do you have to fuck up to be mad at the state that exists solely to facilitate corporate functions
Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:51 (two months ago) link
$55 billion LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:53 (two months ago) link
an honest wage for an honest days work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
Well he finally tweeted something that made me laugh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link
Though it’s got nothing on Trump’s “if you need legal services I strongly suggest you DONT hire Michael Cohen” one
A Delaware judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the investors who challenged billionaire Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package as excessive, a court filing showed. The judge found that Musk’s compensation was inappropriately set by the electric-vehicle maker’s board and struck down the package. If the decision survives any potential appeal, the Tesla board will have to come up with a new compensation package for Musk.
Maybe they can agree to something more reasonable and austere, like $45 BILLION
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 00:46 (two months ago) link
salute Richard Tornetta
Isn’t this the Board’s decision to make?The suit was filed by Richard Tornetta, some unknown heavy metal drummer who owned only 9 shares at the time the suit was filed!How does a drummer with 9 shares even know enough about the compensation package to file a suit? Very fishy https://t.co/DZ82pXu6AH— Milton Matthews (@MiltonMatthew16) January 30, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 00:50 (two months ago) link
this guy's band photo from metal archives presented without commenthttps://i.imgur.com/4xKciR6.jpeg
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:00 (two months ago) link
lookin good fellas
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:03 (two months ago) link
how sad do you have to be to be a twitter investigator caping your way to argue for Elon Musk getting $56 billion
― omar little, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:06 (two months ago) link
I look forward to Musk trying to turn Tesla into a Wyoming LLC or something
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:14 (two months ago) link
Tesla Motors (Jersey) Ltd.
"Come to Nevada, we'll let you do whatever the fuck you want"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link
Musk rueing incorporating tesla in Delaware and omitting to mention that he wasn’t there when Tesla was incorporated.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:29 (two months ago) link
he prob believes he was at this point
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:31 (two months ago) link
i skimmed the ruling quickly and my gut says there's a decent chance this gets overturned on appeal because delaware loves capitalism
but the facts here are pretty bad... delaware's in a tough place
― 龜, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 05:14 (two months ago) link
Saying “I was negotiating with myself” doesn’t seem great
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:26 (two months ago) link
Read this as Tonetta and now extremely disappointed.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:57 (two months ago) link
think what ultimately may be hard to reconcile is that delaware loves shareholders... so here, this comp plan was good for shareholders since it forecast 10x'ing the stock price. but it was also bad for shareholders because it diluted shareholders by giving a bunch of stock to musk.
so is it good or bad for shareholders where they could 10x their stock (good) at the expense of some dilution (bad)? is setting a goal of 10x enough to overcome bad process? will delaware abide seeing companies start incorporating in nevada?
― 龜, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:52 (two months ago) link
Presumably they easily saw that the forecast of 10x stock price was as thorough a piece of bullshit as every other Tesla/Musk forecast.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:14 (two months ago) link
You can't get much past a heavy metal drummer.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
exploding teslas by the river in the summer
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 February 2024 00:44 (two months ago) link
and that's all right with me
― dead precedents (sleeve), Thursday, 1 February 2024 00:46 (two months ago) link
he bought one share for each of his nine cymbals
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 00:46 (two months ago) link
this mfr thinks he studied engineering
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m7w6mfn35d53chutrzjzgkng/bafkreiezwryqglvsvetbkwnut2v6vavnv46ob4bjasacpic5vy2lxv4b2u@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 February 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
huh. i thought he wanted to mainline that govt funding into his private ass pocket
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Saturday, 3 February 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
also he has lied repeatedly about having a physics degree. his actual degrees were likely bought instead of earned.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:18 (two months ago) link
Looking back on the early posts itt is funny. Some nailed from the beginning what a snake oil salesman he has always been, others fell into the hype of cool space tech genius that he never was.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:32 (two months ago) link
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:40 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
if only we couldve turned back here
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/hedlikeahole.bsky.social/post/3kkk3vebmq22a
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 4 February 2024 02:26 (two months ago) link
$2 Frankenstein pork sac
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 4 February 2024 15:08 (two months ago) link
azealia banks is very gifted at insults
― treeship., Sunday, 4 February 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
its cannon that grimes smells like a roll of nickels
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 February 2024 17:41 (two months ago) link
"the flaccid musings of this albino toad looking hangnail" lol. Pretty good board description of X.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 February 2024 18:03 (two months ago) link
tesla stock price starting to get interesting
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:43 (two months ago) link
is there some trigger for something or something
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 16:50 (two months ago) link
this was a good read https://bondangle.substack.com/p/tesla-moving-the-goalposts-works
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2024 17:03 (two months ago) link
its interesting, people myself and others, thought the real danger to tesla was the big car makers seriously getting into electrification, and i still think that, but also telsa is getting beat by other electric only carmakers, byd selling more cars, rivian and lucid making better cars
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 17:47 (two months ago) link
my feeling is there's been a slow realization over the past 12 months, and especially the past three, among the good faith normie tesla bulls (incl. institutional investors) that it's just a car company, and car companies have no real bottom in terms of valuation, and meanwhile the rest of the nasdaq is going up. i don't know if there's a personal margin call or anything like that, although since he's posting great replacement stuff today, let me say i hope so.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
ah i see yeah will be interesting to see how long people can fool themselves into thinking telsa is going to grow into the biggest company ever
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:13 (two months ago) link
my favorite normie bull btw is https://twitter.com/garyblack00. over the past few months you can gradually see him realize it's not a good bet any more, and losing his patience with his dumpster fire shitcoin/AI influencer mentions.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
haha musk sabotaged his empire by pushing blue checks to the top of replies
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:19 (two months ago) link
was thinking about the musk compensation lawsuit situation, its pretty funny he got all these bonuses for insane stock price growth put in the contract, and while the line was very unlikely to go up that much theres still no reason to have a scenario where you give the ceo $50b, but via conning retail investors he got the contract, then he conned retail investors into driving the stock up to the point where he actually recieved the $50b, amazing performance tbf you can only tip you cap, and it wouldve worked if it wasnt for one meddling death metal drummer
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:20 (two months ago) link
This has to be the hardest, most futuristic exit of a Cybertruck owner anyone has ever seen thus far 🔥pic.twitter.com/7uY8tbg7IO— Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) February 4, 2024
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link
also the stagiest
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
I've seen a few similarly performative clips like that, so I assumed they were performative. On the other hand, you still need the dumb car and the dumb goggles, so maybe they are for real? As in, real douchebag?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
I would like to congratulate Poochie on transcending his former status as a purely fictional character, well done m'boy
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:38 (two months ago) link
shouldve gotten hit by another cybertruck at the end to really make it
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
I was really hoping for it.
― peace, man, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
We can't possibly be that far from one of those Logan Pauls or Mr. Beasts to buy a pair of them to crash into each other.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:52 (two months ago) link
Why isn’t this soundtracked to “Vogue”?
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
look I'll give Elon this the guy does seem to be legitimately good at keeping the stock price propped up. like I remember $30k Model 3s and Full Self Driving being promised nearly a decade ago, before it was known what a huckster and lunatic Elon really was. but despite him breaking nearly every promise and instead delivering one of the dumbest, most impractical vehicles known to man, he's still got the stock price high, as though his cult's belief that Tesla is gonna suddenly drive all the legacy automakers out of business overnight is suddenly gonna manifest any day now
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link
One reason I've heard of people not selling their stock is that the price is so inflated that the capital gains will be astronomical. They're cursed to hold it up forever, like Atlas.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link
It would also be interesting to know what percentage of Tesla stock is held by small individual investors. Even if they aren't all true believers in Musk, their psychology is a different beast than what drives institutional investors. If they rode the stock on its way up they'll be loathe to abandon their connection to that euphoria.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:04 (two months ago) link
Matt Levine has mentioned some numbers/estimates, it's a meaningfully higher percentage than the S&P 500 average I think
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:11 (two months ago) link
the meme stock phenomenon, which in retrospect telsa mightve been the first, is interesting cause retail investors are driving the price and institutional investors are happy to come along for the ride, but what happens when institutional investors decide the rides over (its not good)
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:15 (two months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 5, 2024 2:00 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
its just taxes you still get to keep most of the money
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:30 (two months ago) link
Yeah, better to have a huge gain than a huge loss.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:33 (two months ago) link
if they are $tsla hodlers its just 15% of the gain
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:34 (two months ago) link
I wonder if that is more of an issue if you are a casual investor that put your life savings into this one stock.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
? you pay the taxes with the money you get from selling the stock
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:38 (two months ago) link
yeah, capital gains taxes don't really diminish once you retire, but if your total income is low when you sell stuff off you can fiddle around a bit
the only way tesla made sense to me was if they just fudged things long enough to piece the company out into licensing deals and selling off parts. other auto companies held shares because they saw some promise! the only thing that they've got so far is that the other automakers are now licensing the supercharger connector. I don't think they're further ahead on the self-driving crap (which will never be "full" self-driving) than their competitors, it's just that no one else is dumb enough to let consumers enable it in a really visible way. other companies are making electric cars that accelerate quickly and are actually repairable
their niche is apparently "thing that looks cool that does stuff competitors don't" as far as differentiating themselves, and their offering is... cybertruck
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:54 (two months ago) link
these guys are too kind to the cyber truck, dont really have any taste, are overly interested in novelty, and are dorks, but pretty good review overall they went deeper on the real physicality of the thing than other stuff ive seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNE-NyaYBcg
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
yeah, that's kind of the target market. it's not creating or adhering to an aesthetic, it's just novelty in the vein of "check this shit out"
kind of like watching a guy do a shot and then a backflip off of a picnic table. the chive-ass truck
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:12 (two months ago) link
keep cyber and truck on
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
telsa design wise altogether is kind of just a bad aesthetic poorly executed, but the cyber truck takes it to the next level, but maybe its better cause at least its silly, tho on the other hand it is awful
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
like what is this were gonna give the car sick ass doors, but only on the back seat
https://i.imgur.com/u5mdgfh.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
for some reason I hate that less than "we're gonna make the window have to roll down a little bit to exit the vehicle"
someone's going to tell me that they borrowed the window thing from a sports car design and I don't care
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:24 (two months ago) link
yeah thats truly inexcusable, it is excusable on some 1980s italian sports car cause thats not for commuting
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
lol the gull-wing doors made me (half)recall some prime alex cockburn snark from the 90s abt delorean: like repeatedly tried, always failed
― mark s, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:43 (two months ago) link
also: https://dinkytvspace.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/captain-scarlet-catalogue.png
― mark s, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:45 (two months ago) link
crate containing radio active isotopes
― mark s, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:46 (two months ago) link
One of my best friends recently bought a Tesla. No idea what model. It completely surprised me, I had no idea he swung that way. He's very excited because they came to the house to fix a problem. It will be interesting to see his evolution.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
gull-wing doors look cool. now imagine parking your vehicle in any normal parking lot slot, with cars in both adjacent spaces, then swinging up your gull wing doors. so not gonna happen.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
think generally if you're a retail TSLA shareholder sitting on massive gains, you're paying long term capital gains tax, which is favorable at a flat 15-20%... if you're making $100,000 from selling your stock you're giving up $15-20k but you're also getting $80k of cash... regardless of what tax bracket you're in
so i don't think it's a tax reason that's holding back retail shareholders from selling. they probably just have FOMO from fear of selling too soon. and now are probably on the wrong side of the S curve. hah hah
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2024 21:08 (two months ago) link
telsa is getting beat by other electric only carmakers, byd selling more cars
― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2024 12:47 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
guess byd was a gas car company and only stopped making them a couple years ago fyi
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link
i was in china just recently and saw a lot of BYDs on the road (it stands for Build Your Dreams) they looked good the company is definitely building some dreams
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2024 21:23 (two months ago) link
A friend of mine has a Tesla. Something was wrong with the charging - that is, it wasn't - which took several repair attempts and returns to the dealer. Eventually they discovered it was something wrong with the charging port, and replaced it. I asked my friend if Tesla paid for it all, and dealt with picking up and returning the car, and he said yes, but was still super pissed at all those wasted hours and days of failed repair attempts, not to mention a long stretch without a car.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 21:28 (two months ago) link
Wall St. Journal really going hard on the "Musk is a druggie" beat. Which might annoy me in other cases but hey, have at it.
Multiple directors of Elon Musk’s companies—some who have used drugs with him—have deep personal and financial ties to the billionaire entrepreneur, and have profited enormously from the relationship https://t.co/4IIOq8aWzI https://t.co/4IIOq8aWzI— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 7, 2024
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 04:30 (two months ago) link
Was stuck behind a Tesla yesterday that had their turn signal on for about 20 city blocks. Guess they don't have the technology to solve that just yet.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:48 (two months ago) link
next software update
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:52 (two months ago) link
musk revealed a fraud, tesla fans don't know where to turn
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:58 (two months ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, February 5, 2024 2:55 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol yeah no shit, I was just sandwiched in between two huge fucking trucks in a ramp the other day, our parking infrastructure was not designed for these vehicle sizes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:49 (two months ago) link
those tesla doors tbf have hinges in them so they dont take up too much space while opening tbf, but putting them on the back seats and not the front is still very funny
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
Last week I actually had to sit in a lobby for about 20 minutes to wait for one of the absolutely massive pickup trucks parked on either side of me to leave before I could even think about getting in my car. Had a few moments of, "wait, what the fuck am I actually going to do if they don't leave?" because there was literally mere inches on either side (jackass #2 was kind enough to back in to his spot to make sure he could get out unimpeded though!).
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
I see a Model Y driving around every so often, it’s so ugly in person. There’s nothing particularly offensive about it (vs. the Cybertruck) but the entire package is hideous.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 8 February 2024 17:03 (two months ago) link
i modded a sunroof button onto my fob. take that dinotruckers!
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 February 2024 17:07 (two months ago) link
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/tesla_cybertruck_rust/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link
I saw one in the flesh last weekend
Amazing there's no clear coat, what a dumb omission... you'll have to be out there with Bar Keepers Friend and a green scrubby pad
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:28 (two months ago) link
look if there's one thing Cybertruck owners are probably good at, it's this: cleaning things on a regular basis
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:31 (two months ago) link
Maybe you need to treat it like a cast iron pan. Soak it in oil then hit it with a flamethrower to season the exterior.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:51 (two months ago) link
Cybertruck Lodge Edition
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
I get the feeling that 'this corrosion' is just the first of many problems to come with this vehicle, but early adopters won't admit the issues
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
It's not the first! The wheel covers are known to fly off and they also seem to be causing unpredictable wear on the tires
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:04 (two months ago) link
I'm just going to cover my cybertruck with human skin
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:09 (two months ago) link
That feeling when your cybertruck is finally delivered.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-03/23/17/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-03/sub-buzz-29101-1490303746-8.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto
Later, when you realize what you've done.
https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trump-sad-getty-img.jpg
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:39 (two months ago) link
amazing things are happening with elons burner account
https://i.imgur.com/69VESKi.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 05:05 (two months ago) link
how are we all sleeping on this story: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/16/foremost-group-ceo-angela-chao-died-after-car-went-into-texas-pond.html
on this thread bcz the car was a tesla, it backed her into the pond, and the texas ranch belongs to her BiL mitch mcconnell
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:11 (two months ago) link
She was one of my college classmates (I did not know her)
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:12 (two months ago) link
wow, from a cursory search there doesnt seem to be any reputable reporting saying it was a telsa at this point fwiw
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:16 (two months ago) link
also "Foremost Group" ok but whats the name of the group haha
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:17 (two months ago) link
they made up that it was a tesla bcz that changed the story from wtf front page news to ho hum dog-bites-man
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:20 (two months ago) link
also in highly non-reputable sources i'm reading that she was a high-up member of the CPC
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:21 (two months ago) link
a quick twitter search is telling me the tesla was hacked
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:24 (two months ago) link
This is the link that was shared among my alumni group; also no mention of Tesla: https://www.tradewindsnews.com/people/angela-chao-dies-in-car-accident-as-foremost-group-mourns-charismatic-and-visionary-leader/2-1-1597405
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:25 (two months ago) link
fwiw this was a front page story on nytimes.com when it happened.
any conspiracy angle is presumably coming from trump fans rather than tesla haters.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:27 (two months ago) link
yeah it is trump guys
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link
ok lol i heard it from a muslim communist on bluesky tho (fact)
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:32 (two months ago) link
Wait what is the conspiracy? How is Trump involved? what happened, i’m confused
(tbc I don’t care all that much about the alleged Tesla connection, I just don’t get why it would be coming from a Trump-related conspiracy)
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
iirc trump sic'd his followers on elaine chao (and spread rumors of CCP involvement) after she resigned on jan 6 and was rumored to be one of the cabinet members involved in the inoking the 25th amendment. and he hates mcconnell.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:37 (two months ago) link
and this seems like a messy event at the mcconnell ranch including an obvious cover up (not admitting it was a tesla)
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:39 (two months ago) link
this guy seems to be the prime pusher of the tesla theory idk if hes trumpy def seems a lil trumpish at least
‼️ Angela Chao’s death at a private Texas ranch in Blanco, County is suspicious. ‼️ Chao entered her Tesla and backed into a pond on the ranch and passed away. Chao, almost certainly a high-ranking member of the Communist Parry of China (she sat the board of state-owned pic.twitter.com/luN0NodLiZ— 🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 (@Jkylebass) February 14, 2024
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:43 (two months ago) link
Angela Chao didn't kill herself, and a car backing up into the pond was not an accident. She drove a Tesla that's easily hackable, but why Angela was she the target, or was she used as a warning to someone else?— Jericho (@JerichoXVI) February 20, 2024
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:46 (two months ago) link
‼️
― mark s, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
Oh that's sad. I met her a few times in New York in the 90s when she worked at Smith Barney with my friend. She was nice and I hadn't thought of her since. I had no idea who her sister and inlaws were until Covid and then I was kind of shocked she had married Bruce Wasserstein and wondered if family pressure had let her to that.
― felicity, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/jWwMwqr/MV5-BNDk2-Nz-E0-ZTEt-OTI0-My00-Mz-Rh-LTk3-Mj-Mt-NTUw-Nz-Rl-YWMx-Njc0-Xk-Ey-Xk-Fqc-Gde-QXVy-Mz-A0-Mz.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
I was kind of shocked she had married Bruce Wasserstein
― felicity, Thursday, February 22, 2024 1:51 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh gosh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:59 (two months ago) link
ok heres the deep trump state promoting it
Brian Costello Tells Steve Bannon that the Angela Chao the sister-in-law of Mitch McConnell, Died after reportedly backing her Tesla into a pond. pic.twitter.com/iatVEMUC00— Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) February 14, 2024
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:05 (two months ago) link
in lieu of r/conspiracy:
I took a look at the property and it appears there is a significant fence between the garage and the pond (would take a tremendous effort to back into), but there are numerous bridges and crossings on the way in to the compound that she might have just rolled into, esp in the middle of the. night in rural Texas with little to no street illumination.
https://www.landandfarm.com/property/893-acres-in-blanco-county-300276/
This is kind of grim because this video opens with perhaps her final resting place and seems to concentrate on all the water features of the property:https://www.landandfarm.com/property/893-acres-in-blanco-county-300276/
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:08 (two months ago) link
whoops, grim video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fb3XqBE4LM
FWIW, "tesla accidents backing into pond" ---> About 1,540,000 results. Circumstantial hearsay from Tesla haters, fans, etc. If she was using full self-driving on the Tesla, it could have very well backed into the pond on its own.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
who these claimants are says more about justice and tesla than i enjoy knowing. tho tbh i am not spending extra to know these stories
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:41 (two months ago) link
Comrade Full Self Driving
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 22 February 2024 22:52 (two months ago) link
Musk released a full of shit statement claiming that the first neurolink patient is "able to control a mouse using only their thoughts," and my first thought was mouse the animal, and that this was like "Willard," and I thought, cool! Only just now did I realize they meant a computer mouse, and I thought, lame.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:20 (two months ago) link
also certainly untrue
― mark s, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:25 (two months ago) link
I'm guessing a mouse pointer onscreen, rather than the actual mouse?
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:26 (two months ago) link
feel like that's been done already, I recall hearing about stroke victims 10 years ago being able to control something with their thoughts that could allow them to communicate
that said until Elon can actually prove it I assume this is nothing but more stock price manipulation
― frogbs, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:39 (two months ago) link
yeah that tech has been around for 20+ years and you can do it without an implant
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:46 (two months ago) link
theres an old nova episode where alan alda steers a boat with his thoughts
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 14:47 (two months ago) link
tfw my cybertruck is steered by my intrusive thoughts
― mark s, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:01 (two months ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
Has Musk ever steered anyone wrong?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:58 (two months ago) link
Does neurolink come with a self-driving mode?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
I heard if you pay for the neurolink blue checkmark level you get to steer a randomly selected Tesla with your mind.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
My cybertruck telepathypilotTM took me straight to small, loose, ledge upstep where we got stuck and i died of thirst.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-says-rivian-needs-to-cut-costs-massively-and-its-execs-should-live-in-the-factory-or-the-tesla-rival-will-die/ar-BB1iJTOkhehe. “and i say that in everybody’s best interest. not so much me— but rivian, investors, and especially truck buyers. you don’t want to end up with an unsupported truck.”
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:19 (two months ago) link
I’m glad Matt Sweeney got his Guitar Moves video series back from Vice after they shuttered Noisey.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:31 (two months ago) link
Yes, having "execs live in the factory" is good for production.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:33 (two months ago) link
execs sleep in the cars
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:40 (two months ago) link
I think we can attribute many of Elon's decisions to lack of sleep.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:44 (two months ago) link
He should introduce a Smart Bed.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:57 (two months ago) link
oh yes, rivian should absolutely thank elon for his concern trolling their potential customers and investors. amazingly selfless of him to help out a competitor!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:06 (two months ago) link
He is thinking of the Earth first, business second.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:09 (two months ago) link
I've started seeing Rivian - unlike Teslas they actually do look kind of futuristic in a way, like they'd be driving around in a William Gibson novel set 20 years in the future. Not quite good looking but at least more interesting than the Tesla blobs or Hot Wheels.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:42 (two months ago) link
They stand out because there are not that many of them and they are not Teslas. See also: Lucid.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
Rode in a Rivian Uber last summer in Boulder, I liked it more than riding in a Tesla for sure.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:57 (two months ago) link
visited one at about 10500 ft on the colorado alpine loop a year and a half ago, seemed nice enough. rather doubt it was going all the way round, but perhaps. had to be very heavy. i would enjoy seeing a cybertruck limping around even the bottom of that.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 February 2024 21:06 (two months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 23, 2024 3:55 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fart
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
Is that another luxury EV?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 21:59 (two months ago) link
yuck ycuk
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 February 2024 22:01 (two months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qfflfersmonljuxmm6iyb445/bafkreibvtbhnj5umglxbvh7ewassptig4eqou6dpciii3xuyyoiazzt5oa@jpeg
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2024 00:28 (one month ago) link
solid business plan
― z_tbd, Monday, 26 February 2024 00:38 (one month ago) link
ran some numbers 1.8 / 2 * 3
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2024 00:42 (one month ago) link
People just love changing the email addresses that they've used for a long time. It keeps one's internet life fresh and interesting!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 26 February 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
i just tracked down the original tweet am afraid i must report that the guy was joking, my bad
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 February 2024 00:48 (one month ago) link
ELON MUSK’S TUNNEL REPORTEDLY OOZING WITH SKIN-BURNING CHEMICAL SLUDGE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-sludge
but enough about x the everything app amirite
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 14:12 (one month ago) link
"You’d be like, 'Why am I on fire?'" one person who worked on the Hyperloop tunnels told Bloomberg.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link
“Tesla’s German gigafactory is polluting Berlin’s drinking water”: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-accused-polluting-german-rivers-132031339.html
"Musk is the ugly reflection of our collective ineptitude, apathy and stupidity": https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid/
(the second is from a month ago and may be a repeat; first is from yesterday)
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:05 (one month ago) link
You mean to tell me the divorced drug addict who's adopted sister had kids with his dad, has ten kids of his own from four different women, and bought Twitter for $30 billion over market while on a ketamine bender so his Nazi friends could come back has never been to therapy? pic.twitter.com/0UaX5HaOMl— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) March 1, 2024
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 1 March 2024 13:06 (one month ago) link
These fuckin guys
BREAKING: The legal team for a shareholder who voided Elon Musk's Tesla pay package asked a Delaware judge in a Friday court filing to award them 29 million shares of the electric vehicle maker as fee, worth about $5.95 billion. https://t.co/0PiJcGs9tY— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) March 1, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
seems fair
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:05 (one month ago) link
Don’t ask, don’t get
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link
love my cybortruck but i think it is not good that it tries to kill me and my family if i may sir
Love @tesla and my @cybertruck but “catastrophe failure” with steering and brakes while on a road trip with wife and toddler…. Pretty pretty pretty not good. Oh and service center not open today. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/vfvevsRsh8— Matthew Chiarello (@ChiarelloERISA) March 3, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2024 01:47 (one month ago) link
You have a first gen platform, expect issues. It’s better to shake it out in town for at least 3-5K miles before a roadtrip.— Saugar Maripuri (@saugarmaripuri) March 3, 2024
Early adoption problems.— Magikarpe Diem (@Letitgoku) March 4, 2024
When you buy 1st gen products. You are inherently a beta tester…Glad your family is ok after that.— Daniel C Bittencourt (@danielcbit) March 4, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2024 01:52 (one month ago) link
Snort. We're all beta testers with those self-driving deathtrap behemoths on the road. I don't recall signing a release OK'ing getting hit by one of those things while they work out the kinks.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 13:14 (one month ago) link
Tough this one as, as far as I can tell from the instructions leaflet, the toddler goes in the trunk.
― nashwan, Monday, 4 March 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link
a century of product safety law and regulation is no precedent when you are selling a cybotruck. just sellin it and being a fucking LEGEND, that's all.
― the kwisatz sasquatch (Hunt3r), Monday, 4 March 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link
and you buyer, the greater fool. sucka.
bad software has trained these people to eat shit, they like it even
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link
Beta testing cars isn't really a thing.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:59 (one month ago) link
lol yeah, testing cars is a thing, a thing car companies do a lot of to make sure their cars work before selling them
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:01 (one month ago) link
you can see all kinds of road testing pics online! usually they have a weird wrap on to obscure what the body looks like
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
the wrap is so annoying let us see the unfinished cars
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link
A Tesla Cybertruck crashed into the Beverly Hills hotel sign last night pic.twitter.com/0rjtLGHeCj— LA Scanner (@LAScanner) March 4, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 00:34 (one month ago) link
the stainless steel Yugo
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 00:47 (one month ago) link
You can't buy that kind of publicity!
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 02:30 (one month ago) link
Saw someone on Twitter say "The driver crashed because he was tweeting a woman to tell her she was wrong"
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 08:30 (one month ago) link
I hope the toddlers got out ok, check the glove compartment.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 09:58 (one month ago) link
tbf that is a tricky intersection
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:33 (one month ago) link
beautiful photo
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreig6sxf6ilwdm5zl5batntj7ngisz7t3x7mmpzjkyktlsmekaxtomq@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link
seems like there could be something wrong with the cybotruck there arent that many of them out there
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreias52d3oyqujxzw2gj2alzlp7esbqelyvqaqpa35hr26hz53ddekq@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:33 (one month ago) link
They should recall the company. Hell recall Elon
― octobeard, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link
Hell doesn't want him.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link
wheres he gonna move now
EARLY RETURNS in Austin: Jose Garza, the progressive DA whose opponent was endorsed by Elon Musk today, is up big in the early vote.— Taniel (@Taniel) March 6, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:14 (one month ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
Garza won in case you're wondering
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:41 (one month ago) link
“Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse” should filed be listed among “Reasons that Western Civilization died”— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:32 (one month ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:40 (one month ago) link
i never knew a shitstain could have such a big ego
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:41 (one month ago) link
"died" past tense.. seems to be chugging along pretty decently
I think we're starting to see the real Elon though, finally
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:49 (one month ago) link
feel like never before has wealth been this separated from self-awareness
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:52 (one month ago) link
#ExWifeGuy
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:57 (one month ago) link
The context of why he's saying that is even more important - he's bitching because someone ELSES "rich ex-wife" is... gasp... giving away all her riches to the needy!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:32 (one month ago) link
Like, it isnt even his? Its Bezos'? Elon mate give up already, you look like a potato on legs and are nowhere near as useful.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:33 (one month ago) link
So much of the right-wing mindset just boils down to, "They'll never take my gold heh heh hee, NEVER!"
To the extent that they hate other rich people giving money away because it might give people ideas.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:56 (one month ago) link
What if we gave a guy whose media diet consists entirely of Joe Rogan episodes and “feminist college students gets OWNED” YouTube videos all the money in the world?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 March 2024 05:09 (one month ago) link
should filed be listed
― bae (sic), Thursday, 7 March 2024 06:37 (one month ago) link
Elon actually deleted that one? hah hah
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link
even for him that's an embarrassing tweet
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:21 (one month ago) link
Mackenzie Scott should take over Twitter
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/maxberger.bsky.social/post/3kn4wryvee226
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
saw the famed cybertruck "in the wild" yesterday, looked even dumbed than i'd hoped
― Clay, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:19 (one month ago) link
its bulletproof so if you see one you can shoot it thats considered ok
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:23 (one month ago) link
Somebody down the hill from me has one, it looks like it needs some Easy-Off oven cleaner
I've been wrong before, but this might end up being one of the greatest laughing stock lemons of the personal car era
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:50 (one month ago) link
The Yugo is the bar and may never be dethroned. But cybertruck is the undisputed champion at its price point.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 March 2024 04:14 (one month ago) link
gotta give the pinto some love
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:19 (one month ago) link
cars are so much better now it would take a drugged up sleep deprived billionaire to make a really bad one
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:20 (one month ago) link
idk, at least the yugo didn't blow up like a pinto iirc? anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02P2JO7yfc
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:22 (one month ago) link
my grandfather drove pintos for years cause the exploding problem was fixed but the name was trashed so you could get them for cheap lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:25 (one month ago) link
classic grandfather behavior
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:35 (one month ago) link
I saw a cybertruck on the streets last night. It's smaller than I was expecting, which made it all the more ungainly looking. Looked like something you would see in a low-budget sci-fi movie where they take all the body panels off of a suburban and replace it with a bunch of welded-on "aero" made out of commercial restaurant sinks. 100% troll move against the Musketeers - you must show your devotion by tithing $100K and literally encasing yourself in rolling embarrassment. The presumably bulletproof exterior will block most scorn and ridicule. Presumably.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 March 2024 06:59 (one month ago) link
what other examples are there of this precise flavor of mass devotion?
obviously there's trump, but even the people buying trump steaks don't justify it by suggesting that trump is leading humanity to the stars. and there are cults like heaven's gate etc., but none of them involved the richest person in the world
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 07:12 (one month ago) link
Ape NFTs
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 March 2024 07:33 (one month ago) link
lol i guess so!
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 07:49 (one month ago) link
i suppose chatGPT has already created its own cohort of these
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 07:51 (one month ago) link
Looked like something you would see in a low-budget sci-fi movie where they take all the body panels off of a suburban and replace it with a bunch of welded-on "aero" made out of commercial restaurant sinks.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, March 8, 2024 1:59 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
but none of them involved the richest person in the world
I know that he was for a while and he may be again but I've noticed news reports and videos continue to refer to him as such lately even when he isn't (Bernard Arnault leapfrogged him and Bezos and Zuck are close enough to Musk in supposed net worth for those three to likely be constantly overtaking each other).
― nashwan, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
trump bragging he’s richer than musk wld be fun how can we make that happen
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:58 (one month ago) link
Cybertruck is like Elon Musk's face it only looks good from one angle
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 16:16 (one month ago) link
Crypto for sure, although it lacks a single figurehead.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:56 (one month ago) link
Fittingly, though, Musk has had his hand in crypto.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:57 (one month ago) link
there have been striver cults around rich guys yr henry fords yr warren buffettes or even pre politics trump, social media may have tweaked the situation with elon tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 18:53 (one month ago) link
lol I just learned that this dumb truck has a paired attachable "cybertent" or some nonsense that is supposed to go on the back and that they are selling for $3,000. And that reportedly is a POS.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:20 (one month ago) link
c'mon you can't post that without posting the pic of the concept art vs. the final product
https://i0.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/03/tesla-cybertruck-meme.jpg?w=1500&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1
― 龜, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:23 (one month ago) link
― c u (crüt), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link
I’m convinced, here is my $$$$$
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:28 (one month ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
Surely that can't be real.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:40 (one month ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6txrci7pszrjvaugjmjqc3to/bafkreighv6berdxq6ph5jmbg3f2gac4f4pg5a6nuxpelt7s5yp4fnc5zgi@jpeg
― mark s, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:44 (one month ago) link
total aztek *ripoff*
https://www.drivingline.com/s3/drivingline.prd/media/2321838/pontiac-aztec-overland-18.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:45 (one month ago) link
Maybe it looks better without the rain fly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:50 (one month ago) link
if you have a normal pickup you can just get a cap and sleep in there no tent needed
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:53 (one month ago) link
https://www.recoilweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/landmaster-damnation-alley-958x639.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
we have a kelty car tent, universal, attaches to most cars, cost about $100 on sale
https://images.etrailer.com/static/images/pics/k/e/ke53tr_21_1000.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
that tesla tent looks like it is available for $19 from 8 companies with different AI generated names and product photography on amazon
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
The Temu special.
― nickn, Friday, 8 March 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
concept art vs finished product is "We have a Cybertruck at home, but it's the Cybertruck"
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 March 2024 23:28 (one month ago) link
why isnt it sitting on the bed what is its sitting on ???????
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y4ziklh6w6q3zencduqpdmiv/bafkreifzvxmzp7wekbbidzbfgjgwjhni6pghoeggdf4ao7ikfagc7urbbm@jpeg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 March 2024 17:37 (one month ago) link
awful https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/angela-chao-made-panicked-call-before-dying-in-completely-submerged-tesla-on-texas-ranch/
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:18 (one month ago) link
Christ that’s horrific
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:49 (one month ago) link
biting my tongue as hard as i can
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 9 March 2024 20:14 (one month ago) link
one down
― bae (sic), Saturday, 9 March 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link
“…this was not a typical accident…”
…because a billionaire was involved
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 9 March 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
thanks sic. I was going to make a joke about Tesla and a pond taking Mr. Choppy's job away from him, but
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 9 March 2024 21:51 (one month ago) link
If we had effective government Teslas would have been recalled or banned years ago and Musk in jail for stock manipulation but alas we rely on him for our space program lol.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 March 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
amazing to think mcconnell just isnt going to do anything at all, a true reptile
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 March 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link
I think I saw this story on an episode of the Blacklist.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 10 March 2024 01:58 (one month ago) link
Any time I’ve gotten into a Tesla, the damn door handles are inscrutable, maybe that makes it harder to rescue someone.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:05 (one month ago) link
theyre electric too so if the power is out cause say youre submerged in water and inside the car you have to use a back up handle that you might not even be aware of, not sure how you open them from the outside without power, likewise gear shifting is done via the touchscreen tho by law there is a physical shifter too, hate this type of shit door handles are solved they work and dont cause anyone any problems
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:12 (one month ago) link
Right, there were shitty dudes on social networks today trying to explain that "she would have been able to open the doors if she had read the manual."
― peace, man, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:14 (one month ago) link
I hate all the bullshit they set in motion that other EVs (and other cars?) seem to have as well. Like, dumb door handles, giant iPad screens, that sort of bullshit.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:15 (one month ago) link
Like, fine, introduced new technology, add features and new buttons, whatever, but why change the fundamental things that don't need to be changed, like steering wheels or handles?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
new lux cars use their huge multiple screens as a marketing lure dont we all get enough screen time
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:18 (one month ago) link
I was getting into a Tesla rideshare recently and the door handle sprouted out of the door when the driver pressed a button to let me in. I was honestly afraid to grip the handle to open the door, because I didn’t know if it would retract and crush my hand. I said so to the driver and he said it happened to him once. F that.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link
lol unbelievable
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:34 (one month ago) link
For $5/mo. you get a firmware override of the Titan sub simulation.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 10 March 2024 05:44 (one month ago) link
the rivian tent looks good https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/08/rivians-new-treehouse-rooftop-tent-comes-with-a-movie-projector/
and at least there's an actual prototype, not just concept art
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rivian-r3x-hatchback.jpg?w=1390&crop=1
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:13 (one month ago) link
I'm not a camping guy, but all of these car-tent situations seem to be pretty point-missing to me
― rob, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
lol when my brother in law would go camping in the outback, he would just pack a big sheet of plywood to slap on the roof to give them a snake-free place to sleep.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
― rob, Monday, March 11, 2024 10:20 AM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah kind of agree, tho ive not camped a lot in high snake areas, actually i have camped in places with lots of rattlesnakes but theyre very easy to avoid and also snakes arent active at night due to being cold blooded, camping on top of your car looks very silly but is prob nice from the pov of it being a flat surface, tho you would need to park your truck on flat ground for that to be true, i think i saw one of the new fancy trucks can adjust its suspension to go flat when parked, you could also just bring a sleeping mat and a bag and sleep on the ground, or sleep in the back of your car/truck a vehicle it sort of like a tent
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link
ive also never seen one of those roof tents irl prob theyre not that popular due to being silly
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
the whole line about how this stuff wouldn't happen "if only they read the manual" is so ridiculous to me, like do people actually ever read the owner's manuals cover to cover? isn't a huge part of modern technology design the fact that you shouldn't have to explain how things work? isn't that how Apple became the biggest tech company in the world, because everyone could use their stuff without getting confused?
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:49 (one month ago) link
yeah its very dumb and bad
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:55 (one month ago) link
same people who assess threat levels at the supermarket, latent jason bournes
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:58 (one month ago) link
car camping is pretty popular in the US and prob the default option at a lot of state and national parks, at the end of the day the car camp solutions are just an intermediary step to a RV
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:59 (one month ago) link
if you read the manual you would remember that to get out of the tesla you simply have to remove the speaker grills or fold the back seat down while the car is filling with water
Remember, this is how you’re supposed to get out of a Tesla when it’s lost power and you’re panicking in an emergency… https://t.co/Wyk1AuBYHS pic.twitter.com/yBL890QUJg— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) March 10, 2024
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:00 (one month ago) link
snakes arent active at night due to being cold blooded
As I understand it, this can work against you, since snakes are attracted to your heat and cuddle up next to you for warmth in the night. And then when you wiggle too much or wake up, you're both in for a surprise.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:03 (one month ago) link
xp - it is absolutely insane that those vehicles are legal. jesus christ I didn't realize!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link
"if only they read the manual"
Yeah, this makes sense for unique or infrequently used features, but it shouldn't be the case for stuff like, say, opening doors. Maybe one exception is the latches they now put in trunks to prevent you from getting locked in, that would probably be good to know before it's too late.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link
the back seat manual door "handle" is truly insane, the front door one is just gravely negligent
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link
at the end of the day it's hard to escape a submerged car no matter what you do. think the best advice is to keep a glass breaker in the glove compartment at all times?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC68mflUEwc
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link
Those dumbass bullet/rock/arrow proof windows, can they be smashed open in an emergency? Or are they just another deathtrap feature?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:07 (one month ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, March 11, 2024 11:03 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
theyre not gonna curl up with you if theyre already inactive, and tbh the idea of an animal just curling up with a bigger animal seems pretty dubious, also spots where people tend to camp flat open areas arent really snake places snakes like nooks and crannies places where they can keep a low profile rocky scrubby spots etc, can understand australians being particularly weary tho as australia is trying to kill them
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:14 (one month ago) link
“door handles are solved they work and dont cause anyone any problems”^^^^So much stupid new crap these days comes down to this basic principle, it’s annoying af
― brimstead, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:15 (one month ago) link
much like what's going on with Trump I can't help but wonder if Ford or Chevy or Nissan started pulling this shit.
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link
tfw when animal curl up w/bigger animal xp
https://www.pafa.org/sites/default/files/artworkpics/1985_17_l.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link
the lion is like wtf is going on bro should i eat these guys
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:20 (one month ago) link
CCTV footage of Musk on site that fateful nighthttps://j.gifs.com/KB1Y2e.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:24 (one month ago) link
Maybe one exception is the latches they now put in trunks to prevent you from getting locked in, that would probably be good to know before it's too late.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, March 11, 2024 11:05 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
its funny cause those are by law designed to be very easy to spot they even glow in the dark, so on the off chance you find yourself in the truck youll prob be fine, if youre in the part of the car where humans usually ride youre on your own tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
xxpost lol those big cats look embarrassed to be caught not eating those (probably meant to be) newborn babies.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
they even glow in the dark,
You go in first to confirm, I'll just wait out here and open it up when you knock.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
think the best advice is to keep a glass breaker in the glove compartment at all times?
we have one in the center console and one in the glove box and then plan c is apparently you can remove the headrest and try with the metal stalks on that.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
plan a: don't buy a 900-acre sprawling ranch property with multiple big deep lakes
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
just dont let the kids get ahold of it lol xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
Musk has disrupted you all by installing software that breaks the entire car.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:34 (one month ago) link
that mythbusters video said 11k cars went into the water a year with only 300 deaths, wonder if that includes water thats not deep enough to cover the car tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:36 (one month ago) link
I wonder if anyone has ever suffocated in a dry-docked submarine?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
haha seriously. when I got them I was like "how do I know these work, it sure would be fun to try them. just a little tap."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:46 (one month ago) link
some quick googling sez that the resqme glass breakers are recommended. buying a couple!
― 龜, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
you should totally find a junked car an break the windows xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
re: camping, the new rivian 2 has fold flat seats front and back, that seems more useful than the ability to put a tent on the roof.
from 9:30 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Gt_PUyldc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
resqme is what we have. glass breaker and seatbelt cutter in one.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:50 (one month ago) link
i keep a sleeping bag/mat/camping pillow in the back of my outback, its not the best place to seep but no worse than a tent
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
Unclear why y’all are driving into lakes to begin with
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:52 (one month ago) link
youre telling me when youre cruising along some beautiful lakeside country road you dont want to just turn in there be serious
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
yeah we do it all the time on road trips. kids get to pick a song or "lake time".
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2024 15:55 (one month ago) link
I wasn't worried about my car flying into a lake but now I'm worried a tesla's going to autopilot itself into the side of my car when I'm driving next to a body of water
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
lol that's exactly the scene I was picturing
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
its not the best place to seep but no worse than a tentcars are worse to sleep in than a tent in deserts and mountains bc they are much colder than a tent, due to being enormous piles of metal and not on the ground
― bae (sic), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:09 (one month ago) link
^learned that the hard way in boy scouts
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link
more than offset by the fact that theyre insulated
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 18:12 (one month ago) link
i slept in my car in the nevada desert after driving all day listening to a podcast about the manson family lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
all teslas should autoplay manson family podcasts
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
tesla 3 charlie edition
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 18:21 (one month ago) link
rooftop tents are necessary in high croc activity areas
― micah, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:43 (one month ago) link
submersible rooftop anti-croc tent
― mark s, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:44 (one month ago) link
snakes are typically pretty good climbers though
― micah, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:45 (one month ago) link
The CT and its tent are clearly missing the point. The point of having a roof tent is to show you have a roof tent by keeping it, your awning, duckboards etc. on view at all times. How else would you be able to demonstrate that you’re ready for a 3 day bogging in a whole pit full of snakes on the way to Woolies?
My neighbour goes to work in this monstrosity and, despite the nearest crocodile being more than 2300km away; He’s ready.
https://tinypic.host/images/2024/03/11/IMG_7144.jpeg
― Ed, Monday, 11 March 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
https://gohikevirginia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/four-crocs-flickr-katsuuu44.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link
I have slept in all kinds of places— offramps, hobo jungles, on the ground at 10,000 feet during a cold snap, etc. There is no issue with car tents, but like all "car camping"— that is, campsites where you pull up and then pitch a tent on your car or on the ground next to your car or whatever— it just isn't anything like actually camping. Glamping is its own thing, but to call it "camping" is a misnomer.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:59 (one month ago) link
(and yes, I am aware that this makes me sound like an elitist, but I think all kinds of getting outdoors are great— I also have done my fair share of glamping!)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
the glampgrounds of our country
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:05 (one month ago) link
When I think of "glamping" I think of people that pull up in their massive RV with every single creature comfort from home inside. While I get your point about camping in a tent right next to your car, I don't exactly think it's "glamping" if you are still sleeping on the ground, cooking food with a fire, etc etc.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
a good kind of camping you can do out west cause theres so much public land is just as a free place to stay overnight, i used to go to the hot springs in steamboat co and there national forest right there just drive in there find a flat spot to crash and then look around when you wake up
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:15 (one month ago) link
national forests are great you can do whatever you want there are no laws in the national forest
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
If you’re not shitting in something at least strongly resembling a toilet it’s not glamping IMO.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:17 (one month ago) link
I always think of 'glamping' as white canvas tents on wooden platforms, maybe a vase of flowers and a sheepskin throw, crumpets & espresso in the morning.. sort of like a safari
Sleeping in a tent on the ground is camping, in my book
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
cold glampin' with flavor
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link
the thing about car camping as far as like being in a campground with a bunch of other parties nearby is its just not that good, if youre camping in a nice spot and your car is nearby i see no problem, im not totally clear on what qualifies like if you take your sick 4x4 and traverse some wild terrain then camp is that car camping cause thats very nice, i mean the only time your car isnt nearby is if you hiked in then thats backpacking, thats the way rei categorizes its tents car camping and backpacking iirc, having the car is nice tbh cause you can keep a lot of stuff in there that you might like to have while camping
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:30 (one month ago) link
i think glamping involves having a really nice semi permanent tent that someone else set up for you, its a tent thats a hotel room basically, being in a koa campground is not glamorous its shitty actually
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:32 (one month ago) link
I stayed last summer at a rustic campground on Hwy 20 between Ft. Bragg & Willits, near the Jackson Demonstration Forest & the Lost Coast - there was a creek, but no faucets, and just a really smelly pit toilet; no reservations, just first come/first serve. That really keeps the crowds down, even in August.. I nearly had the whole place to myself
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:32 (one month ago) link
Camping sucks, sleeping in a car sucksI have slept on a beach and got woken up by the ocean spray. It suckedBeds, rooms and suchlike are ideal for sleeping in Those other sleeping arrangements can be the price of admission for getting to certain places or doing certain things but have little value in & of themselves, cause they suck is how I break it down to an ex-tent
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 11 March 2024 22:41 (one month ago) link
camping is fun its an activity you can do with friends go somewhere nice and sit around a fire roast a hot dog eat some beers whats not to like you might not sleep that well but its ok youll sleep again, sleeping in the car is just useful sometimes its not supposed to be fun
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:45 (one month ago) link
um camping is just sleeping without a fixed shelter while doing fun remote things, with friends if u r lucky. going camping to “camp” seems v v silly to me. i am about to go camping in mexico. if there’s reasonable cheap safe room avail, i’ll go for that for sure.
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:10 (one month ago) link
I have a weird angle because I live in the most terraformed, maybe least public land area and you get some state campgrounds with the fire ring and parking lot at most up a hill or KOA campgrounds or w/e and maybe a rare area you could hike into, but that’s probably the next state over outside of the lakes governed by the Army Corps of Engineers with maintained dams it’s like, private land everywhere. both sides of rivers are private land, sometimes with no trespassing signs! it’s insanewhen the entire Bundy ranch shit with people who were super angry they couldn’t just let their animals roam around federal land happened it was just silly and foreign to me!Elon is worse than those people by far. just letting all his rocket pad debris blast into a neighboring wetland. working off the public money for space crap, sustainability credits. just a hatred of the commons he regularly exploits
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
are u in TX? becuz that’s one reason i picked mexico.
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:14 (one month ago) link
I backpack fairly deep into wilderness areas, but over the decades I've accumulated enough lightweight gear that I can maintain a basic level of comfort nearly the whole time, as long as I'm not too picky about dirt, sweat and bugs, or eating rehydrated food. It's still about seeing nature and having some fun. I don't know, maybe table would call it glamping, too.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:17 (one month ago) link
if you're eating food and you have a sleeping bag, it's glamping
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:21 (one month ago) link
if youre not doing fun remote activities then hold on excel crashed
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:23 (one month ago) link
anyway that tent is a joke, let's keep focus on the south african asshole
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link
shoulda built a cybersprinter van imo
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:31 (one month ago) link
ya that wouldve been smart, or just a normal pickup
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:35 (one month ago) link
this is a good way to think about it— like, is there a fire ring? picnic bench? pit toilet or actual running water with toilet on a larger campground? that’s glamping in my book.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, March 11, 2024 3:28 PM (one hour ago)
this is dumb, all of these things are still camping, glamping is when there's a floor
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 11 March 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link
Aimless, you’re a backpacker, what you’re doing isn’t glamping. At the end of the day, this is very silly, we just have different ideas of what camping is.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 00:08 (one month ago) link
to me the earth is the floor, maybe thats just me
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link
table's definition is pretty weird because at least here on the EC it means that p much all state-run campgrounds are actually glampgrounds?
https://parks.ny.gov/camping/campsites/default.aspx
Most sites have a picnic table, fire pit or ring and nearby restrooms and many include amenities such as electric, water and sewer hook-up, and platforms.
yet these campsites are reserved for $20 a night... a glamp experience at a decidedly non-glamp price!
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:48 (one month ago) link
he’s obviously exaggerating with “to me, that’s glamping!” but idk setting the bar pretty low is funny
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:00 (one month ago) link
do u even camp bro
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:03 (one month ago) link
if you don’t have to carry your poop out and leave no trace, that’s glamping
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:05 (one month ago) link
some places in the usa unwinterized cabins are called camps, but staying in one isnt called camping, much to think about
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:07 (one month ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, March 11, 2024 5:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i got a roof tent, boy i'm not trampin
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:08 (one month ago) link
John Cougar Melonglamp
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:14 (one month ago) link
The way in which I personally do a thing is the only way to do that thing and if you do it differently you need to come up with a whole new word for it, sorry I don't make the rules except that I do
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:19 (one month ago) link
Notes on Glamp
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link
I love the outdoors and being outdoors and going to new outdoors places and campfires and even spending the night in the outdoors, but camping sucks. It's like you spend all this time and effort and money to simulate living at home in a wildly inferior way that leaves you tired, achey, dirty, and hot/cold. Give me a cabin any day. It doesn't have to be glamping, I don't need running water or a flush toilet and shower, I just need a roof and walls and a bed. And a wood burning stove, if it's cold.
We used to go camping, as a crew, and one by one families dropped off. The final time was when we went somewhere, a well-regarded site, and it was in the '90s and humid and full of mosquitos and mud, and after the first night even the most pro-camper among us knew we would probably never do it again.
(BTW, fun fact, up until at least through the late '80s, a lot of US highway rest stops were still "rustic," without flush toilets. Maybe this is still the case, I've never encountered one myself, but my wife tells me they were staples of her visits to Nebraska.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:29 (one month ago) link
is how I break it down to an ex-tent
utter king-level posting from wins here, gone unremarked upon for a whole day. a prophet is without honor in his own country, shame
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
I've only ever done a little bit of overnight backpacking, and a fair amount of car camping, and overall I agree that it's more trouble than I want to put into it. I love hiking, but I much prefer a good long day hike that I can do with a minimal pack and preparation (and be home in time for a nice bath and dinner). I know people who really love the entire backcountry experience, though, and I respect and admire their dedication.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:45 (one month ago) link
its not a big deal doesnt require any big investment just lay down in the woods
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:47 (one month ago) link
Y'all are forgetting one of the best aspects of camping: the terrifying noises in the night.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link
i was running in the mountains at night once when i heard the craziest sounds of i guess an animal being killed idk it was so loud and strange, mountain lion territory
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:01 (one month ago) link
raccoon fight outside your window at 3am is bad enough in a house
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:02 (one month ago) link
ive had a moose walk right by me like ten feet away while i was lying in my sleeping bag, very dangerous animal
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:03 (one month ago) link
Screech owls sound like humans being tortured.
I love hearing furtive footsteps in the leaves right outside the tent.
In all seriousness, I love backpacking and camping. I've been doing it with my kids for years, it's a great way to bond. But being in a remote place with only the resident creatures for company takes some getting used to.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
xp I keep thinking that in the lower 48 because I've seen some huuuge ones in northern Minnesota but some friends in Alaska were seeing them everywhere last week. Not sure if it's a different type of moose or if the younger ones just roam around everywhere up there
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link
My sister encountered one a couple of years ago in Colorado. She said it was terrifying.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
ive seen tons of moose you just gotta keep your distance be respectful and so forth, the big bulls with full racks are amazing, fuckin huge beasts
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:08 (one month ago) link
one time i was running the woods and almost ran right into one, it was just a small female tho about horse size, we both took off opposite directions
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
Foxes sound like a woman being attacked, it's horrifying.The sounds most familiar to me from camping are some neighboring site hooting it up till the early hours, and the inevitable sound of someone waking up in the middle of the night, unzipping the tent, then wandering off in the bushes to pee.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
xxp This one moseyed right up to the campsite, they couldn't really keep their distance. I guess it ambled off after a while. Maybe it was hoping for s'mores.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, March 12, 2024 10:04 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i heard weirdest funniest bird at night once and then did the call for a bunch of people before one finally told me it was a barred owl, cartoon ass sounding owl get real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link
Iirc there used to be a late night infomercial for some Faces of Death sort of video called When Animals Attack, or something like that. Mostly it was recreations, but as I remember it there is one real death in there, and it's somebody being stomped by a moose. The video doesn't show the apparent preceding several minutes of these dumb people throwing snowballs at the moose.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
worth a try you know
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:25 (one month ago) link
timely article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/moose-encounter-what-to-do.html
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:40 (one month ago) link
However, the clearest sign of imminent trouble — in the form of an animal weighing 1,000 pounds or more coming at you — is if a moose’s tongue is out and it’s licking its mouth, he said.
In that case, Mr. Libbey said, it’s no longer a question of if the moose will charge. “It’s going to happen,” he said.
licking its lips in anticipation of stomping you out
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:43 (one month ago) link
free the killfiled owl
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:47 (one month ago) link
was passing thru rocky mountain last fall during what apparently was rutting season. saw lot of rutting elk, sounded like a horror movie. not sure if i can reliably tell the difference between elk and moose but i'm pretty sure an elk would be just as capable at stomping me out
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link
did you go to estes to see the elk did you see the marmots people getting so close to elk there is wild
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:51 (one month ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, March 12, 2024 9:02 AM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I lived in a complete shithole of a house in college where raccoons had taken up residence in the dirt basement and used to hold 3AM scream quorums directly under the floorboards of my bedroom, a real treat
I love that this is what the Musk thread has become
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link
I guess that part of the reason why I enjoy camping is the backcountry experience, to a degree— I honestly think that being uncomfortable is worth it, especially if that is what’s required to experience real wilderness. So I recognize that part of my definition is borne from a sometimes latent or contradictory dislike of modern comforts and culture and all that they bring.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:56 (one month ago) link
We had a marmot trying to grab snacks from our backpack at Rocky Mountain National Park a couple years ago.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:57 (one month ago) link
In the forest near me there are black squirrels that screech like monkeys. Squirrels in New Jersey are gray and pretty much silent, so the first few times I heard this I was pretty unnerved.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:01 (one month ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 10:51 AM (seven minutes ago)
yeah definitely saw some people getting close to elk. the elk were overrunning the place, even some of the park rangers came out of the visitors center and were taking video on their phones, so i knew it was a special occasion
did see the marmots but it wasn't at rocky mountain
actually now that i'm thinking about it i was taking the shuttle back from bear lake when we passed an elk on the side of the ride. as we drove past it headbutted the side of the bus, i think i have video
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:02 (one month ago) link
just uploaded it in 4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6USFa7c1NE
it was bad, at other places where there were elk near the road people were stopping their cars and holding up traffic, getting out to photograph, bad!
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:16 (one month ago) link
me after a few pints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxo8X5uIWRE
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:25 (one month ago) link
Camping with friends in college was a lot of fun. Sometimes it was car camping, sometimes we'd hike our stuff in a little ways but nothing serious.
I have carried this love of camping on with my children, but it's a very, very different experience. At the mention of "camping" my tail starts to wag because it used to mean drinking too much and staying up too late and partying with close friends. Now it means packing an absurd amount of stuff to keep the family happy and comfortable and I'm constantly trying to keep them from tracking dirt into the tent and it's a whole fricking thing. The last time we went I convinced myself that it wasn't worth it anymore. If the kids beg to go camping we'll do it, but I'm not bringing it up.
I love experiencing nature but I really, really love my bed.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:38 (one month ago) link
we passed an elk on the side of the ride. as we drove past it headbutted the side of the bus, i think i have video
― 龜, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:02 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao this rules
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link
Give me a few days in the Winds or Big Basin over a bed anytime.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
Years ago my friends and I were passing by (relatively speaking) Yellowstone in the winter, so we decided, what the heck. We detoured to the one open entrance and had the park more or less to ourselves, except for all the elk, who clearly had the same idea. They were everywhere, from the visitor center and otherwise empty parking lot on out. We basically ignored them while we walked around, kind of keeping our distance the best we could but not really avoiding them, because we couldn't. We figured, eh, they're like deer. When we got back to a computer or book or whatever we had at the time and looked it up, we learned, no, they are not like deer.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:57 (one month ago) link
Big cats, moose, elk, other animals ... it still kind of is the musk thread ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:59 (one month ago) link
It's the "(Nothing But) Flowers" effect.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link
this counseler i had told me once "i don't go camping, i was homeless for 3 years, i'm done with living outside".
― brimstead, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
I love watching Vanlife videos and also car camping. Is it camping? It's definitely fun.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:17 (one month ago) link
a dream of mine is to get a sprinter van camper conversion - sort of like a hipster rv. smaller than your typical RV, some of em come in 4x4 configurations, they look cool and good
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57ef0117579fb34c2451c73b/1667317354542-96A73B5GHHCSZ3Q585DY/20221024-IMG_9753.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:57 (one month ago) link
a more realistic one would be a honda element camper - they sell off the shelf conversion kits for these. be careful that nobody tries to steal your catalytic converter, tho!
https://www.freewaycamperkit.com/img/element-gal-1.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
friends have a vw camper van not the classic model a newer one its pretty sweet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:06 (one month ago) link
tho i drove it and did not love it felt very tippy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:07 (one month ago) link
The Honda Element aftermarket has stayed pretty warm due to the camper possibilities even though they stopped making them a long time back
I've seen some decent Ford Transit conversions and iirc at least one ilxor has experience in installing solar on conversions
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:09 (one month ago) link
龜,i like this huge nerd's videos about his van build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
apparently you can't link to a channel. here's the first video in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B8tSMOO60M
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:18 (one month ago) link
ooh looks nice - subscribed
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:42 (one month ago) link
Camping in Australia, you get to be kept awake by koalas feeling sexy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz7NEMUeqK4
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 21:11 (one month ago) link
I lived in a converted 14 foot UHaul box truck for four years, fwiw
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
one of the interesting things about vanlife videos lately is a lot of parts of the US have become (apparently) much more actively hostile towards people who try to sleep in their vehicles... would like to see a video about the no doubt constellation of many different groups who are resolutely against the vanlife concept.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:38 (one month ago) link
you mean yuppies, NIMBYs, and frothing environmentalists who live in comfy mansions?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:55 (one month ago) link
because there’s #vanlife and then there’s living in your car, truck, van, converted bus, whatever. the latter people are poor, and aren’t wanted around. the former hashtag types are overwhelmingly rich and can do whatever they want because they’re rich. none of my wealthy pals who have done #vanlife stuff were ever bothered by cops or neighbors— we were harassed constantly just for parking on a quiet, nearly abandoned street.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:57 (one month ago) link
property is theft man
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:44 (one month ago) link
the vanlife folks on youtube who clearly have lots of money are who I am talking about though... they are now in fact being bothered by cops and neighbors
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:53 (one month ago) link
time for #houselife
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:55 (one month ago) link
Real Houselifes of ILX
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:31 (one month ago) link
just do the clarence thomas life (lol he doesn’t actually do that) and park at Walmart. I assume you need pretty good blinds because those parking lots are bright
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:45 (one month ago) link
vanlife account thats just pictures of walmart parking lots
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:47 (one month ago) link
I’d check it out
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:50 (one month ago) link
The best vanlife account out there, and one that's worth your time is Yagai No Moriko (Yt link) who's minivanlifeing it in the remote forests of Japan - one of the most fantastic places out there.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 06:58 (one month ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 11:34 (one month ago) link
that is a correct response imo, wasn’t tryna aim at u tabes
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:24 (one month ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreifrz33nsgfjifxqlvlrynf2dm6kr3ffw7pixlh444dlmo6t7tjnuy@jpeg
vs
https://i.insider.com/554baf78eab8eaa82f7f298f?width=750&format=jpeg
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-larry-ellison-team-up-ai-farming-tool-starlink-2024-3
I work in what we'll call an adjacent field to this and this is just insanely dumb. Also, mask fully off now that Elon's collaborating with possibly the worst legacy SV asshole
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
ellison musk bro down never in doubt
https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#7
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:12 (one month ago) link
the mind geniuses of innovation valley
[2022-04-17] Elon: Any interest in participating in the Twitter deal?Larry: Yes ... of course 👍Elon: CoolElon: Roughly what dollar size? Not holding you to anything, but the deal is oversubscribed, so I have to reduce or kick out some participants.Larry: A billion ... or whatever you recommendElon: Whatever works for you. I'd recommend maybe $2B or more. This has very high potential and I'd rather have you than anyone else.Larry: I agree that it has huge potential... and it would be lots of funElon: Absolutely:)[2022-04-26] Larry: Since you think I should come in for at least $2B... I'm in for $2B 👍Elon: Haha thankss:)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:16 (one month ago) link
looooooooooooool
News from me…#TheDonLemonShow pic.twitter.com/PzlKuvkZtj— Don Lemon (@donlemon) March 13, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:25 (one month ago) link
lmao how did he not know what the deal was
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
You forgot to tell us why he canceled you. Odd that you would neglect to mention that.— Turkey Vulture (@Datura_species) March 13, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
Parag: Also: my email to company about AMA leaked already+ lots of leaks from internal slack messages: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/07/musk-twitter-employee-outcry/ -I think there is a large silent majority that is excited about you bring on the board, so this isn't representative. Happy to talk about it-none of this is a surprise.Elon: SeedyElon: *awesome (damn autocorrect!)
you were right first time AC
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:38 (one month ago) link
lol at Don Lemon not recognizing the true floor of non-objective subservience.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link
reading Musk's relationship wih Parag collapse in just days is gold
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
Elon: Haha awesomeElon: Maybe Airbnb's algorithm thinks you love tractors and donkeys (who doesn't!)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
Elon Musk and Don Lemon are escalating towards what could be a bitter contract dispute after X’s owner abruptly terminated its agreement to broadcast a show hosted by Lemon — but Lemon does not have a signed contract.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/13/2024/don-lemons-deal-with-elon-musks-collapses-over-interview
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:54 (one month ago) link
breach of promise!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:00 (one month ago) link
yeah i mean he prob has some sort case but still does not come off as being very savvy here
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:02 (one month ago) link
"We pinky swore!"
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
dealing with elon better to get cash up front
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link
so the rocket got up to space this time but not back (in one piece)
i feel like back will be the dealbreaker for the moonfarers
― mark s, Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:01 (one month ago) link
fuck the video of the boosters landing on the moored boats is almost enough to sell ME on elmo’s model, but then i think of the myriad costs and his total non-responsibility for it and, “whoo, glad that passed.”yes. adj myriad. the way i werz taught it lol. 🧐
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:12 (one month ago) link
pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1LTw48ymQ
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:04 (one month ago) link
brought to you by starlink™️
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:27 (one month ago) link
looking terrific nearly all the way down!
― mark s, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:30 (one month ago) link
lol those two shitheel mouthpieces with their heatshields
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link
art is good again: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mexican-artist-crushes-tesla-under-221059336.html
https://i.imgur.com/VogjpMl.png
― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:32 (one month ago) link
baller
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
some great re-entry footage there tbf, the superheated plasma footage looks cool and it seems a feat the cameras were still working at that stage. lol, shame the attitude control was seemingly non existent and it looked like heat shield tiles were falling off all over the shop. total cowboy operation.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link
new mario kart looks sick xxp
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:41 (one month ago) link
NASA is investing about $4 billion into the starlink system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/14/spacex-starship-launch-live/
follow the money bayybee
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
What's crazy is these videos of the cybertruck failing at doing basic truck stuff are always posted by fans of the car that think they're showing off pic.twitter.com/6IKTuhe2af— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 18, 2024
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
"just made a run to Target and back without a wheel falling off - let's see you try that losers!"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
these guys are in a tough spot cause they want clout and cyber truck fails get numbers, also the cyber truck fails a lot
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 March 2024 17:14 (one month ago) link
yesterday I saw my first cybertruck in the wild. the owner had painted it matte black. it was amazingly ugly and surprisingly small. I could probably take whatever its maximum load is, fit it in my 27 year old Subaru station wagon, then take it anywhere the cybertruck could go.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:19 (one month ago) link
The Cybertruck looks like it will be followed by a bunch of magnets
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 March 2024 17:32 (one month ago) link
dont think twitters doing too good
Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.socialLol. Listening to Elon Musk on a Twitter Spaces with Missouri's AG, Elon just suggested that activists calling on advertisers to stop advertising on Twitter "might be a RICO violation"
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3knz4mzi4u32a
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 01:07 (one month ago) link
elon’s entire shtick is “this is a thing I heard of”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 03:41 (one month ago) link
imagining Elon in a conference about biology hearing “enzymes” and he says something about considering binding sites and people nod
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 03:43 (one month ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI9POKYXgAAyuCw?format=jpg&name=large
― 龜, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:12 (one month ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:14 (one month ago) link
i am more impressed with the diligence and care that into that wrap job than i have been with cybotruck so-- Exceeds Expectations
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:19 (one month ago) link
Unfortunately for Don Lemon, I don't know if what X has can legally be considered "shows."
― Chris L, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
xp otoh "cold cuts for a hot planet"
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:22 (one month ago) link
i love to be reminded of global warming when im trying to get a sandwich
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:24 (one month ago) link
what's colder than cold cuts
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link
Funky Cold Medina?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
PRIME ROOTS ... catering the climate apocalypse your way
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:43 (one month ago) link
also "prime roots" what i could see it for a vegan place maybe like instead of a cut its a root which is a plant, starting to think the place that dressed their cyber truck up as a sandwich doesnt have the clearest messaging
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:47 (one month ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szsou2omw65m4soo6ptbb6iz/bafkreig227lyccuoarqsa2anjlstrrzjzlajpx2o673czvrucv4sghrvny@jpeg
https://bsky.app/profile/burgerbot.bsky.social/post/3ko2n6qtyms2t
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7a3QDtK.png
https://bsky.app/profile/swolecialism.bsky.social/post/3knzc5kvrl42h
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:20 (one month ago) link
its ironic cause people did like musk then he bought twitter and now they dont
Yeah, welcome to social media, Elon.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:32 (one month ago) link
he was genuinely surprised to get booed at that chappelle show
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:48 (one month ago) link
he thought people loved him when he really just had good pr
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link
cannot imagine how much that level of success fucks with your head, being the third biggest boat dealer in the greater wilmington area absolutely drives people insane
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link
I would probably become a complete monster but I'd like to think I'd at least try to keep a low profile
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:56 (one month ago) link
Most billionaires do! There are something like 750 billionaires in the US, but I can only name a couple, and the fact that they are generally assholes may be why I can name them.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:00 (one month ago) link
if i was a billionaire i would be the good one :)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:01 (one month ago) link
i am the good one
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:03 (one month ago) link
were in a billionaire fight now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:04 (one month ago) link
MMA cage match.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:05 (one month ago) link
no billionare fights are just sweating in a chair
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:08 (one month ago) link
Mother May I cage match
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:08 (one month ago) link
spreading rumors on nantucket
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:20 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he's definitely much more disliked now but his real overt villain arc began with the Thai cave rescue thing
does seem to be a thing with rich/famous rightwing people where they just go fully mask off after getting publicly humiliated. like Trump after Obama roasted him, Chappelle after he was told the trans stuff was way more mean than funny, Aaron Rodgers after trying to trick the public about his vaccination status, hell even the Dilbert guy once he was caught sockpuppeting. none of 'em are capable of pulling back either, you just remain a miserable lump of garbage your whole life
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link
Hey, when they're right, they're right, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
the rodgers one is best to me cause he destroyed his excellent pr by going on podcasts, its somehow funnier if its podcasts, just dont go on there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:16 (one month ago) link
In the master race, Elon is driving a seriously underpowered vehicle.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
its also funny because there were a number of anti vaxx athletes out there including some fellow starting QBs and nobody remembers who any of them were (except Kyrie lol), in fact it's almost an understandable position for them, like I'm in peak physical shape do I really need this? instead Rodgers goes "uhhh yeah I'm immunized" talking about some insane herbal treatment he was doing, got caught lying and just immediately became *this guy*
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:37 (one month ago) link
yeah he couldve even stopped then and salvaged his image but he kept going on podcasts and saying increasingly dumb bad things
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
he was considered a smart interesting guy, the alt qb, but it turned out he was a total effin idiot, which we found out because of podcasts
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:41 (one month ago) link
hes been on so many podcasts
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:42 (one month ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:37 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Kirk Cousins didn't get vaccinated presumably for weirdo Christian reasons and everyone forgot cuz he just kept up his aw shuck routine and just kept saying it's a private medical decision and I respect everyone's rights to make those decisions blah blah blah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:44 (one month ago) link
im sure a bunch of athletes just kept it secret which is obvs the best choice if you can get away with it, kyrie was only outed cause of a ny workplace rule
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:48 (one month ago) link
It was a bad sign when he wanted to be the jeopardy host.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:50 (one month ago) link
ha forgot about that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
iirc that was during a contract negotiation? like he was trying to scare the Packers into thinking he was just gonna be the next host of Jeopardy instead of playing footback...frogbs correct me if i'm wrong
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:53 (one month ago) link
it was indeed during negotiations but I don't think there was any risk of him actually quitting football. I think he just wanted to do it once. he wasn't terrible at it either
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:55 (one month ago) link
for me the bad sign is when these stories started coming out about him being a diva on the Packers and mysteriously shutting his entire family out of his life and he responded to it all by just saying "oh they're all just jealous haters". outside of Bears fans Rodgers didn't really have haters back then. he sure as hell has 'em now though
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:57 (one month ago) link
feel the signs he was a jerk were always there, that look he has when he's pissed that teammates or coaches have let him down (again), always got a bad vibe.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link
apparently even the conspiracy nut stuff had leaked out to people in the know but i dont follow football closely so i had no idea just got the aaron rogers is smart and good storyline
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:02 (one month ago) link
xp you can get away with that when you've won a championship and are taking your team to the playoffs every year, but yeah it comes off a lot differently when you're not playing well and even Dan Orvlosky is starting to question why you're just throwing to the same 2 guys over and over.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:08 (one month ago) link
also its hilarious how thoroughly he trashed his legacy and public perception with this, like whenever he's brought up people now think of the conspiracy wacko first and the football player second. its crazy because he's still in the league and it really wasn't all that long ago he won back to back MVPs. I mean he isn't Joe Flacco or Matt Ryan, he's arguably the best regular season QB ever and now he's just permanently known as "oh this fuckin guy". could've been avoided but I guess the allure of the podcast was just too much for him to handle
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:26 (one month ago) link
yeah an alltimer easy, thrown away for podcasts
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link
It's funny because almost every quarterback is a fucking idiot racist fascist or worse but at least they do it in the traditional stylee
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:51 (one month ago) link
being a celebrity conspiracy guy is funny cause no one wants to listen to conspiracy guys but if youre a celeb they will listen to you but once they hear what you have to say theyll hate it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:55 (one month ago) link
kyrie, same sitch
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:56 (one month ago) link
He still alive?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:37 (one month ago) link
yes he hit an amazing buzzer beater the other night
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:39 (one month ago) link
a bunch of articles have just floated by about Larry Ellison being just as much of a shithead doing many of the same things as Elon, some worse, but people don’t care because he’s not tweeting. buying 90% of a hawaiian island and wrecking it for the inhabitants he seems to be trying to force into indentured servitude, but he doesn’t tweet about it. bill gates used to draw big heat but mostly because everyone had to use windows
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:40 (one month ago) link
elons in a tough spot cause his celebrity powers his businesses but he fucked it all up
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
A self driving @Tesla drove straight into my parked car in a residential area and Tesla Insurance has no way to directly contact them so I am stuck with no car and a Tesla adjuster not returning any calls for nearly a week. @elonmusk your cars, app and insurance suck.— Drunk Uncle (@DrunkUncleATX) March 19, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:00 (one month ago) link
Kyrie is definitely similar but I think he’s more of a genuine weirdo whereas Rodgers always has to be the smartest person in the room
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:37 (one month ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/vpsreports.bsky.social/post/3ko3ocwh5432a
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:23 (one month ago) link
I hope the curb is okay
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 11:21 (one month ago) link
My only regret is he wasn't giving Roger Stone a lift at the time.
I guess Tesla is good now.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 11:25 (one month ago) link
lol DJPthe not wearing seatbelts is the cherry on topI bet they had those Punisher seatbelt blanks they sell so macho guys who don't want to wear a belt can stop the car from beeping
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 11:40 (one month ago) link
ums, I had gone my entire life not knowing such a thing existed and you ruined it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 11:53 (one month ago) link
I'm pretty sure the vaccine killed them
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 13:52 (one month ago) link
The vaccine is a good shot.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.threads.net/@amescoestate/post/C4wE3ivPoMb/?xmt=AQGzV2B9frzfP54mh0vYWWPvRpMk5-YhouSiax-rIK_lkA
love to fix my brand new cybertruck with duct tape ($300 option at dealer)
― 龜, Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:30 (one month ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:33 (one month ago) link
sorry PBKR! had to share the horror I guess
Toxicology reports came back on Angela Chao who drowned on her 900 acre ranch after reversing her $TSLA into a lake (after a Pitbull concert) and her BAC was 0.233 (vs TX legal limit 0.08), Elon must be elated it wasn't a vehicle error.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
whoops!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:27 (one month ago) link
That’s a lot of alcohol. Sad!I still haven’t seen a cybertruck in the wild and am ok with that
― tobo73, Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:40 (one month ago) link
failed to meet reserve https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3RyYX4Nx/2024-tesla-cybertruck-foundation-series
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 23 March 2024 02:24 (one month ago) link
no way all those preorders turn into orders.the preorder deposit was $100.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 23 March 2024 07:57 (one month ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m7w6mfn35d53chutrzjzgkng/bafkreiaxcfdjmxybf2ujidzan663taxmfgsvo2nub45yctorglvzawoo5m@jpeg
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
Saw my first cyber truck in the wild last night. Wow! Bright red.
― tobo73, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:34 (one month ago) link
it's crazy how quickly the Tesla became the douche bag's car of choice
― budo jeru, Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:58 (one month ago) link
I thought they only came in stainless steel. (Until I got to Montana, I thought Tesla cars only came in white, but I've seen blue and red ones around here.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:32 (one month ago) link
you can get an aftermarket vinyl wrap put on there, i seen a black one online
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:08 (one month ago) link
they come in stainless streel and in italian hoagie
― 龜, Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link
White was for several years the only Tesla color that wasn't $1,000-$2,500 extra cost which made it more popular. Black was originally the one no-extra-cost color; now it appears that grey is.
― Lee626, Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
it's not the reason, but it'd be funny if the unfinished look was meant to be a prompt for people to wrap or paint their own vehicles because Elon refuses to let them do an interesting color on the other models
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link
https://bondangle.substack.com/p/tesla-q1-trends-rockslide
$TSLA fundamentals getting worse, tbd if the stock price will continue to reflect that
― 龜, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:22 (four weeks ago) link
whats it say
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:28 (four weeks ago) link
i dunno i just read the first graf above the paywall cuz i'm not a subscriber but the first graf sounds bad
― 龜, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:35 (four weeks ago) link
lol it does sound bad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:41 (four weeks ago) link
I mean you have to go back to pre-pandemic to find a time when people were actually excited about Tesla, all they've done since are self-driving features which don't work and the dumbest looking truck in the history of trucks
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:42 (four weeks ago) link
previous article linked there (from 1/26/24) isn't behind paywall
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:49 (four weeks ago) link
If you reuse the truss steel that fell, it could be functioning in 3 to 6 months.The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2024
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 March 2024 18:01 (three weeks ago) link
we should all heed the thoughts of such a gifted engineer
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 30 March 2024 18:19 (three weeks ago) link
Such a grifted engineer
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 March 2024 18:20 (three weeks ago) link
i was the actual guy— the guy— who yelled freebird at skynerd. i was 6.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 March 2024 20:03 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-dives-into-advertising-after-years-of-resistance-87810a4b
pathetic
― 龜, Sunday, 31 March 2024 00:58 (three weeks ago) link
Cybertruck drives off lot, immediately breaks with critical steering issue pic.twitter.com/OtOy7Ttysd— Elai (@elaifresh) April 1, 2024
lol can you imagine trying to navigate this error screen on a highway
― 龜, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:20 (three weeks ago) link
awful stuff
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:30 (three weeks ago) link
What are you talking about, everyone knows that looking at your phone while you're driving is only dangerous because the screens are so small. This solves the problem by making the screen the size of a small TV, if you can't easily read that wall of text while you're driving, maybe get better glasses, grandpa.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:33 (three weeks ago) link
Bathtub curve. Failures tend to occur either right away or much later on. It’s under warranty, they’ll fix it. I’ve owned a non-Tesla that drove off the lot with a critical drivability issue.— CakeLasers (@CakeLasers) April 1, 2024
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:40 (three weeks ago) link
skill issue
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 1 April 2024 22:54 (three weeks ago) link
Warranty – also anecdotal
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 April 2024 22:58 (three weeks ago) link
GETTING WORSE!!! HELP MEEEEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY CYBERTRUCK????? 😭😭😭 @wmorrill3 @elonmusk @Tesla @cybertruck pic.twitter.com/I7bFRUMRtA— Lamar MK (@LamarMK) March 30, 2024
another bad cybertruck steering vid
cybertruck apparently uses a variable steering ratio tech i wonder if that's got something to do with it
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:26 (three weeks ago) link
i wouldve just bought a nice car instead
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:28 (three weeks ago) link
Or a nice computer.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:29 (three weeks ago) link
i would just run linux on a ten year old laptop jk im a mac user
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:45 (three weeks ago) link
Tesla Inc. suffered its first year-over-year sales drop since the early days of the Covid pandemic.
Tesla handed over 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That fell well short of analysts’ average estimate for 449,080 deliveries. The stock fell 7% in early New York trading.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:51 (three weeks ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:07 (three weeks ago) link
hell id be happy to sell one car gotta start somewhere you know
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:37 (three weeks ago) link
have to wonder if his personal popularity is finally having an impact. that or the fact they're selling the same shitty cars they designed in 2017. this is not happening to other car companies iiuc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:45 (three weeks ago) link
some marketing company saying as much fwiw
According to a recent survey by corporate reputation management platform Caliber, as first reported by Reuters, the carmaker's reputation is plunging in part due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior, putting off potential buyers.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/buyers-avoiding-teslas-elon-musk-toxic
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:52 (three weeks ago) link
Look, I'm not trying to get @GROK (pronounced GROKE) fired, but it's definitely gone WOKE and is now calling @elonmusk a bigot and a racist for his attacks on DEI. A story in four actsNo wonder Musk hates AI so much, eh @ChatGPTapp, @GoogleAI? pic.twitter.com/E6wPDFutsB— Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) April 3, 2024
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 10:53 (three weeks ago) link
not sure if it was this thread it was mentioned on, but the guy calling in to Infowars turned out not to be Musk, and was probably doing an impersonation.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:56 (three weeks ago) link
lol they’re fucked
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 April 2024 15:16 (two weeks ago) link
“Elon’s directive is to go all in on robotaxi,” that person said.
https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/68/TFU08-toy_Overcharge.jpg
― President Keyes, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:28 (two weeks ago) link
waymos are pretty cool. but when you look at a waymo and you look at a tesla there’s a pretty big tech gap.
― 龜, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:41 (two weeks ago) link
Maybe this genius disruptor should just try *raising* prices on everything, see how that works.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:42 (two weeks ago) link
you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:04 (two weeks ago) link
Actual footage of Waymo in operation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUtXMNizVo
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 16:15 (two weeks ago) link
given the fash shit he's been posting on his shitty website recently I cannot wait for this dickhole to shart his way out of business. at least delorean made a cool-looking car and wasn't a nazi fuck.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:33 (two weeks ago) link
If he really wanted to kill "woke" he would introduce a new car called the Tesla Woke.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 17:10 (two weeks ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2024 17:37 (two weeks ago) link
Robotaxi unveil on 8/8
hmm well played sir epic 8/8 haha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:06 (two weeks ago) link
plenty of time to invent the robotaxi
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:09 (two weeks ago) link
Will the robotaxi dance like the Charleston like his “android” announcement?
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 April 2024 03:04 (two weeks ago) link
PULL OVER SAFELY vehicle shutting down https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:225g4y2e35b4fylvbsbe752f/bafkreie4dusixk2piu6usoc7kfcsvj6tds7rwmi77rmyghc4lbrjwsyf64@jpegPULL OVER IMMEDIATELY unable to drive https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:225g4y2e35b4fylvbsbe752f/bafkreidg3rb5avimwo7k3fzgqv7y4jysjuukvz4bcguq46ggsvgkiz6cmi@jpeg
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:28 (two weeks ago) link
Wait, is "Exiting and re-entering vehicle may restore operation" actually a real thing lol
― groovypanda, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:52 (two weeks ago) link
Kind of gives a new take on blue screen of death.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:58 (two weeks ago) link
exit and re-enter, when come back bring dust-cloth
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:13 (two weeks ago) link
Brings new meaning to the word "crash." Or I suppose, in this case, potentially brings back the old meaning.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:25 (two weeks ago) link
lol @ exiting and re-entering the vehicle, surely the "turn the router off and then on" of vehicle repair.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 7 April 2024 03:15 (two weeks ago) link
Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. Well, not "the wild": downtown Kalispell, MT, pulling out of a Starbucks drive-thru. It really does look silly and fake in person, like a bad movie prop, and every dimensional plane (height, length) seems off somehow. The driver, a bro in his mid-thirties, I'd guess, saw my wife and me observing him and smiled sarcastically and waved. We nodded back.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:52 (two weeks ago) link
I saw my first one locally the other day too. Yup, looked dumb.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:23 (two weeks ago) link
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:41 (two weeks ago) link
During his deposition, Musk admitted he has a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit against him, said he thought Brody’s attorney was the one suing him, and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X.
Musk also made broader admissions about his failures with X — which has plummeted in value since his takeover in 2022 — saying he “may have done more to financially impair” the social media site than help it. Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link
he shd stick to role-playing as his toddler self
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:13 (two weeks ago) link
I read through part of that transcript and felt like I aged several years. It’s just so tiring
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 April 2024 21:40 (two weeks ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsllkcuektaoegm2g5xkpkvq/bafkreidewshgfdvvjguvu47ahsepdat3nvt5d5tjqfs2mrmban2peub4ui@jpeg
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:05 (two weeks ago) link
lol even he says "formerly known as Twitter"
― visiting, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:53 (two weeks ago) link
I mean, he's wrong!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 April 2024 23:07 (two weeks ago) link
the ending where his lawyer is like “yeah this isn’t going to be released, right?” and the plaintiff’s attorney is explaining you need to set up the protective order BEFORE the deposition is great
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 April 2024 23:44 (two weeks ago) link
yeah that's as good as it gets for law stuff
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:28 (two weeks ago) link
Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.
Drove down the block, stashed the burner in the bushesStepped to nursery with the Huggies for the tushes
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:31 (two weeks ago) link
and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X
Not surprising, but that is not good when you are trying to defend a defamation claim.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:42 (two weeks ago) link
xp 10/10
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:41 (two weeks ago) link
except "drove part way down the block, system fault required me to exit the vehicle, stashed the burner in the bushes"
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:42 (two weeks ago) link
tweets from elon’s burner account, a thread: pic.twitter.com/82Y0Kx1QJ5— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 25, 2023
it starts like someone trying to be cute with a test account but gets real weird and cringey fast
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:01 (two weeks ago) link
theres a second burner
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreigrz3utf37vznrhs5ythz3mo2wlh4zll7jvt2yzkq6p3auxeiehf4@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:13 (two weeks ago) link
“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” Musk testified.
This coming from the giant man-baby who shut a guys account down for posting about where his planes would land because he said it was a *threat to his family*!!!!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:38 (two weeks ago) link
Well yeah - he means "it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on me, the only verifiable human"
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 06:32 (two weeks ago) link
wow @ this exchange
Elon is being deposed in a lawsuit saying he made slanderous claims about someone he doesn't know, and immediately does the same thing to the lawyer deposing him pic.twitter.com/zrq7VfERlw— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 9, 2024
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:46 (two weeks ago) link
Can't Elon just use the "I was high when I said that" defense
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:49 (two weeks ago) link
I don't think it can be understated how often you're talking to lawyers for some reason or another when you're involved in that many binding legal entities (corporations, boards, whatever else) and despite it being a commonplace thing, Elon's immediate thought is "lawyers only exist to take my money" regardless whether it's someone else's or his own
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:51 (two weeks ago) link
Elon's statements there aren't slanderous, they're just dumb.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:52 (two weeks ago) link
stupid sexy slanders!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:56 (two weeks ago) link
He doesn't think he harmed Ben Brody despite knowing nothing about him because social media rarely leads to people being harmed. Just shocking arrogance.
Thr case is weaker than the Alex Jones case as Musk's comment was somewhat couched. But the case will bring up more embarrassing material and he might settle to avoid that.
Also the lawyer he brought wasn't admitted pro hac vice so I don't know if his objections will have any weight in court. Brody filed a motion against Spiro today.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:01 (two weeks ago) link
hes only asking for a million dollars musk should just give it to him sorry bout that mate
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:03 (two weeks ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ltjrnyaxxua6bstlgayvu4j7/bafkreibzq4yfqevoxaqpab2dpylj36qyajbpzuod27cgw3cgs7gzyrsxei@jpeg
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ltjrnyaxxua6bstlgayvu4j7/bafkreigjo6wg6hgtmvatanwrwz4ydif33se6nvteclf3ao4xebng6xvotm@jpeg
https://bsky.app/profile/jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social/post/3kpsbugs7n32h
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 18:56 (two weeks ago) link
Mr. Tesla
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 18:56 (two weeks ago) link
mr tesla, the king of space x
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 18:58 (two weeks ago) link
I always see those emojis as hamburgers
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:15 (two weeks ago) link
can't believe that's a real one, I remember seeing it and thinking someone faked it. fucking yikes
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:18 (two weeks ago) link
But isn't it supposed to be Elon's kid tweeting? Why not "I hate you Mom. Why did you leave Mr. Jackpots? Helllllllllll-ooooooooooooo."
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:22 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAb3J7WONhE
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:27 (two weeks ago) link
its fake sorry https://bsky.app/profile/fullslack.bsky.social/post/3kpsvckl7vr2f
it’s him pic.twitter.com/E0YPvf1Ies— full slack (@full_slack) April 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:06 (two weeks ago) link
The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”
Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.
“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”
On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
― Number None, Friday, 12 April 2024 09:27 (one week ago) link
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 12 April 2024 12:18 (one week ago) link
What a rotten company, starting from the top
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:36 (one week ago) link
This video is hilarious, even if you don't speak Russian. Some Russian rapper is driving around L.A. in his Cybertruck and just getting angrier and angrier about the shitty quality of basically everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Nmb7UTAjQ
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 13 April 2024 20:19 (one week ago) link
you can get some pretty bad auto generated translated captions on there if you want fyi
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 April 2024 20:22 (one week ago) link
How the fuck are these things legally on the road pic.twitter.com/iqDKDVHpRm— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) April 14, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 14 April 2024 21:37 (one week ago) link
jesus christ
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 April 2024 21:45 (one week ago) link
it's a legit question in general, how are any of these cars on the road? can I just legally make a car and sell it without going through any sort of oversight?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:16 (one week ago) link
This shit would be a lot funnier if the Cybertrucks weren't driving around on the same roads as the rest of us.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:20 (one week ago) link
what are they doing over there that they cant even get the break pedal to stay in place
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:23 (one week ago) link
that pedal looks like a spatula
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:25 (one week ago) link
“It’s not an ar-15 it’s a …” in this case the accelerator lol
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:36 (one week ago) link
The federal government’s safety regulators are captured by industry so anything goes man, caveat emptor!
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:25 (one week ago) link
If this were the 1950s though Elon would be in the same hot water for fraudsters and snake oil salesmen as Wilhelm Reich and L. Ron Hubbard.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:29 (one week ago) link
all cybertruck deliveries reportedly halted due to the accelerator issue it seems like
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 01:09 (one week ago) link
recall (pun intended) that there was a massive toyota recall in the aughts due to a similar issue. really fucked with toyota's image as ol' reliable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicle_recalls
i remember this because we had a corolla at the time
gotta put some more glue on there
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 April 2024 01:12 (one week ago) link
https://twitter..com/Scottcrates/status/1779528552716865932cool guy alert
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 April 2024 02:38 (one week ago) link
hes like, imitating poses from Marvel movies. its really embarrassing
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 02:43 (one week ago) link
I mean, I dunno. maybe it wouldn't be embarrassing if someone cool was doing it. I just fuckin hate this guy so much
He knows enough to keep smiling. That much has been dinned into him. The poses he strikes are silly and surely he could be coached better on this, but it's low stakes for him and he doesn't care enough to be good at it. Hard for me to care much either. He's an ass in so many other, more important ways that this particular asininity is trivial.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 02:56 (one week ago) link
nah I think it's still a kinda important window into his mind, like the way he's just thinking epic memeface all the time no matter the situation. the fact that he wants to be the real life Doge meme informs most of his decisions first and foremost and has actually became a very good case study in how that turns you into a Nazi
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:09 (one week ago) link
he looks like a K'd up incel in an ill-fitting suit
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 15 April 2024 03:13 (one week ago) link
Musk and Marvel movies occupy exactly the same cognitive space for me. I don’t think it’s that much of an insult to either since each is the shittest thing possible.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:15 (one week ago) link
Musk is a racist transphobe who's squandering his cash to promote fascism and bring about a second Trump reich. I can understand your not enjoying these movies made for children but I don't really think they're equivalent.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:18 (one week ago) link
he was probably like this when he just had daddy's millions but
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:19 (one week ago) link
Actually I guess we know he was exactly this lame pre-billions, the McLaren story with Peter Thiel, his obsession x.com, etc..
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:21 (one week ago) link
obsession w/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:22 (one week ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:34 (one week ago) link
Big news to start the morning via my BN colleagues @danahull @EdLudlow: @Tesla to cut workforce by 10% globally. Check out the piece 👇🏻 https://t.co/fHs4qqeeI9— Corey Cantor🌕 (@CoreyBCantor) April 15, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 15 April 2024 11:31 (one week ago) link
"There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done.”
Imagine how terrible the situation must be there for someone to successfully convince Musk to do anything sensible.
Musk: Now is the perfect time to launch our self-flying car!Exec: Elon, that was just a picture one of your kids doodled. Musk: My child is a genius, like me. Start production now!Exec: But Elon, there is no product. Musk: Well, sell down-payments on my future flying car, let the people reserve one. How long until we can get one operational?Exec: Back of the envelope ... 20 years?Musk: Let's aim for 2026! How much will it cost?Exec: We would need to hire thousands of people, and develop technology that does not exist yet.Musk: Great, this is what I do! How much will that cost? Exec: Magnitudes more than what we have. We can't even offload these Cybertrucks.Musk: Hmm. What if we made the Cybertruck fly?Exec: We just can't do that.Musk: You're fired. You!Exec 2: Me?Musk: Can we make a flying Cybertruck?Exec 2: Yes?Musk: That is the can-do attitude we need! You get a big raise. I will transfer you novelty crypto. Exec 2: I was looking at the books, Elon. And we're kind of in the red. Musk: Red is cool!Exec 2: Um, no, Elon, red is not cool. Black is cool.Elon: That sounds woke. You're fired. Who else is here to say yes. Actually, never mind, fire 10% of everyone. We need to cut costs. And start work on the flying Cybertruck now!!!! And make it run on crypto! And have it emit fart sounds from the clouds! And use a stronger glue on the parts this time. And make it cost half as much, but make twice as much money. And send it to Mars! And make it submersible. But also AI, like KITT. And have it solve crimes, too. Not mine, but other crimes. Woke crimes. And do it now!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:55 (one week ago) link
https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-hCdpVXbN-subtitled.jpg
https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-zEzmz2yj-subtitled.jpg
― kinder, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:50 (one week ago) link
In Tesla news today - the Cybertruck's accelerator pedal falls off and gets stuckhttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-accelerator-pedal-may-be-to-blame/
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:28 (one week ago) link
thankfully they haven't sold that many so the recall will be easy to deal with
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:36 (one week ago) link
Elon: Can't we just deliver this fix via software?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:38 (one week ago) link
a good gas pedal that doesnt fly off your foot while youre driving
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:48 (one week ago) link
just stick it back on with some gum
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:51 (one week ago) link
funny thing about quoting the ITYSL sketch is that steering wheels have fallen off of Teslas too
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:56 (one week ago) link
also the fact that Elon truly has no good car ideas
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:57 (one week ago) link
drive them through tunnels isn't a good idea?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:58 (one week ago) link
The sliding gas pedal is extra dumb on the Cybertruck - if any vehicle's design would justify some exposed rivets and bolts it's that monstrosity.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 April 2024 21:39 (one week ago) link
Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:20 (one week ago) link
It's almost like Elon put the whole Tesla Corporation into the cargo bed of a cybertruck and then decided to test his claims about the cybertruck's amphibious abilities.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 22:41 (one week ago) link
>Image of cybertruck jumping off canyon cliff thelma and louse style<
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 15 April 2024 22:57 (one week ago) link
I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have, like not company stock or corporate valuations but money in the bank or easily accessible low risk funds, blue chip stocks etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:53 (one week ago) link
Isn’t Elon basically homeless
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:17 (one week ago) link
Lives in a Cybertruck down by the river, IIRC.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:25 (one week ago) link
I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 15, 2024 8:53 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they have credit lines
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:27 (one week ago) link
i don't understand money stuff really
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:40 (one week ago) link
you pay less in interest on a line of credit than you would by paying taxes so all of your assets aren’t really liquid. the most common thing a normal person would get is a home equity line of credit, secured against your home’s accrued value. imagine that, but the security is *waves hands* all your assets
he did sell off Tesla stock to contribute $27B to the twitter sale but the bank loans were secured by the company, not him (https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover). so if twitter goes bust, it’s the other investors and the banks that take a bath. he already did his twitter money deal and if he runs it into the ground he can probably write it off as a loss on his taxes for the next decade
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:42 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ORKd96p.jpeg
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:10 (one week ago) link
Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 15, 2024 6:20 PM (four hours ago)
18 years, that's crazy. his net worth is probably in the 9 figures. hard to feel sorry for him
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:13 (one week ago) link
what the fuck is he talking about
This guy is the dumbest motherfucker on earth pic.twitter.com/zhxfAHvqST— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 16, 2024
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:30 (one week ago) link
like he's invented a scenario in which AI is killing millions of people and the thing that terrifies him is that it'll kill too many white people
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:36 (one week ago) link
the ai designed and implemented a genetic engineering program so that now there are babbies with 13 or 14 or more fingers
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:47 (one week ago) link
Would be more forceful if the (correct) Elon critic wasn’t paying Elon for exposure.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 06:40 (one week ago) link
Elon bought Twitter so he could essentially spend every day shouting via it, "I am the Emperor and I am naked as fuck"
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 07:57 (one week ago) link
lol @ the cybertruck message board there are so many damn issues with this thing
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/forums/issues-repairs-warranty-recalls.66/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:37 (one week ago) link
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:40 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think he is, a bunch of people got blue checks over the last couple weeks against their will
also one more thing that bothers me
https://i.imgur.com/kE5lGFn.png
"namespace" is a term which actually means something, anyone who's ever done any programming should be familiar with it, and he's using it to refer to the pool of available usernames on Twitter. like this comp sci shit is supposed to be one area he's actually competent in but all the evidence just points to him being a huge idiot there too. people are so eager to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's awkward and dorky, instead it's more like what if Sheldon from Bing Bong Theory was actually just a huge dumbass. I mean take it from me, I played Magic: the Gathering for 15 years, these people absolutely do exist. sometimes they have emerald mines and government contracts I guess.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:45 (one week ago) link
bullies snatched my namespace
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:56 (one week ago) link
if only there was something that Elon Musk, owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp, could do about these "bot armies"
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:00 (one week ago) link
pretty funny how he claimed he was buying twitter to get rid of the bots
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:01 (one week ago) link
“if i did it (that is, added more bots to twitter)”
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:17 (one week ago) link
he also claimed he was making a car where the steering wheel did not just whiff out the window when you are driving
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:19 (one week ago) link
a great yoke that doesnt fly off your hand
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:24 (one week ago) link
Great user names like Cindy0737396354
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:25 (one week ago) link
odd that he didnt understand that firing everyone would effect things like controlling spam, sure you can keep the core product running kind of ok but all the other stuff is going to massively suffer, and those things matter people dont want pussy in bio in their replies
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:28 (one week ago) link
what happened to his plan of charging all new users $1 to register?
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:46 (one week ago) link
xp He probably believed, and still believes, that the problem could be fixed easily by just writing the right magic code that will solve all the problems and Twitter employed all those humans because of woke or something. I’m surprised he isn’t babbling on now about how “AI” will fix everything.
― President of the Canadian Council of Bassoonists (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:54 (one week ago) link
He speaks like a midlevel manager who's picked up the latest buzzword round the conference table and starts using it every other sentence.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:55 (one week ago) link
this giy is worth billions, this toilet gonna flush sooo long, or we can just say the serenity prayer for about 5 billion minutes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:04 (one week ago) link
Another day, another cybertruck fail"CT windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin, rest of vehicle seems fine. None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage but they had lots of dings in their body. Pretty disappointing, will let y’all know how much it costs to fix"https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1c07zlw/ct_windshield_did_not_withstand_a_freak_sudden/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 05:55 (one week ago) link
Truck seems to be entering the league of the Edsel and the Pinto in automotive legend
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:09 (one week ago) link
ddr2sodimmWonder if flat shape and shallow angle makes it easier to break. Bad either way.
booboothechickenIf that theory holds true, the good news would mean that it’s much more resistant to the more common occurrence of rock chips being kicked up from the road. Just bad for the small chance of things falling from the sky.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:12 (one week ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/tesla-asks-shareholders-to-re-ratify-musk-s-56-billion-payout
would be funny if this failed. unfortunately it probably won't
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:19 (one week ago) link
aww
“Because the Delaware Court second-guessed your decision, Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years that has helped to generate significant growth and stockholder value”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:26 (one week ago) link
the cybertruck can withstand gunfire but not the car wash
$TSLA Cybertruck owners .. 1) do NOT wash your car in sunlight and 2) do NOT tell Tesla SCs that you drove it through a car wash (like this guy) even if you turned on Car Wash Mode. They will void your warranty. 💀 pic.twitter.com/eXpaxlm2X6— Stonk King (((🌕))) (@StonkKing4) April 16, 2024
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:33 (one week ago) link
How is Tesla not getting class action sued into oblivion? I guess more to follow…
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:48 (one week ago) link
yeah gotta think it coming
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:49 (one week ago) link
well, they are like school in summer tbh
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:50 (one week ago) link
What's a Tesla SC?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:02 (one week ago) link
Service centre?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:04 (one week ago) link
Ah, that makes sense. They also have Super Chargers, and I was pretty sure it wasn't that.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link
real $TSLA-heads pivoting to the LIVER KING lifestyle (never wash yr ass, never wash yr cybertruck)
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:56 (one week ago) link
someone sent this to me and I'm fucking dying pic.twitter.com/LIj2F9OAwE— mr pussy (@_mrpussy) April 17, 2024
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:32 (one week ago) link
lmao get em
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:33 (one week ago) link
Tesla should be renamed Douchewagon anyway, it would be more accurate.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:01 (one week ago) link
Tesla’s stock tumbled below $150 per share, giving up all of the gains made over the past year as the electric vehicle maker reels from falling sales and steep discounts intended to lure more buyers.Shares in the Elon Musk-owned company slid nearly 4% in intraday trading Thursday, in what what now stands as the third worst week for the stock in 2024, a year that has been dismal for Tesla investors. The Austin, Texas company’s shares are down 12.4% this week and more than 39% this year.Shares of Tesla Inc. last traded for $150 in January 2023.
Shares in the Elon Musk-owned company slid nearly 4% in intraday trading Thursday, in what what now stands as the third worst week for the stock in 2024, a year that has been dismal for Tesla investors. The Austin, Texas company’s shares are down 12.4% this week and more than 39% this year.
Shares of Tesla Inc. last traded for $150 in January 2023.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:14 (one week ago) link
"don't wash your car in sunlight" is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link
Does anyone know what types of damage might occur if I breathe on my Cybertruck wrong
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:23 (one week ago) link
amazing how Elon used to claim this thing could be used as a boat when it can't even survive the carwash
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:25 (one week ago) link
I wash my cy-ber-truck at night, so I can so I can
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:01 (one week ago) link
washing cybertruck at night, elon's delight washing cybertruck in morning, owners take warning
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:04 (one week ago) link
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:04 (one week ago) link
total recall https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 12:48 (six days ago) link
Most ev makers do a lot of “recalls” but 90% of those are over the air software updates. This is different.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 12:49 (six days ago) link
Makes sense, because those fuckin things look like one of the "Total Recall" Johnnycabs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:52 (six days ago) link
soap made the pedal fly off while youre driving
“an unapproved change introduced lubricant (soap) to aid in the component assembly of the pad onto the accelerator pedal,” and that “residual lubricant reduced the retention of the pad to the pedal.”
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:52 (six days ago) link
We used lubricant instead of glue to attach your accelerator. Oopsie!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 19 April 2024 12:55 (six days ago) link
cybertruck owners shafted by lube
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 April 2024 12:56 (six days ago) link
at least they wont have to repair too many of them
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 13:00 (six days ago) link
in other news
Jesus fucking Christ he’s such an idiot pic.twitter.com/hf7iRNigeg— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 19, 2024
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 April 2024 13:02 (six days ago) link
Just popped over to check out a Tesla investors forum. Usually they are neutral at worst, because it's all about the $$$, but they seem pretty down on Musk. They'd prefer he be out at the company, and they for sure wish he was not posting all the time, which they believe (and they may be right) directly correlates with the poor operation of the company. Not just because people now conflate twitter/Tesla/Musk with right-wing trolling, but because Musk himself is so impulsive and unable to control himself. Personally, I say fuck 'em all, but I wonder if Musk left Tesla (which I don't see happening) and a "normal" CEO were brought on board, could the company turn things around again? Or would it, too, become so "normal" that it would keep fading?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2024 13:07 (six days ago) link
it's funny seems like a lifetime ago but I remember when Tesla was seen as this vaguely liberal yet luxury eco friendly signifier
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 13:20 (six days ago) link
its funny/ironic cuz using soap on the install is probably exactly the kind of ‘hack’ that elon was probably pushing internally back when he was ‘sleeping at the factory’ to make more model 3s or w/e
― 龜, Friday, 19 April 2024 13:30 (six days ago) link
That's how we can tell that either this is the real Musk, or he is mentally ill (or both), because he seemed to have a good thing going for him and fucked it all up, apparently intentionally. Bezos, I'm sure he's a huge twat, but he seems to have the sense to keep his mouth shut. Trump, he used to have this vague liberal veneer to him, too, and yeah, he's gone full heel as well, but he is old and was always a stupid asshole.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 April 2024 13:32 (six days ago) link
with Bezos its kind of a "don't hate the player hate the game" situation, he's doing the kind of shit you might expect from an obscenely wealthy person. meanwhile Elon spends all his time being a terrible reactionary shitposter like any number of Nazi losers, who are either getting paid for it or are teeangers. Elon is neither, in fact he's like actively losing billions of dollars doing this shit
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 14:20 (six days ago) link
Really cool that 'unapproved changes' are happening in the manufacturing process
― kinder, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:04 (six days ago) link
theyre just taking a page from boeings playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/politics/spirit-aerosystems-boeing-737-max.html
― 龜, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:11 (six days ago) link
its funny elons blaming the soap when it really is a batshit design that should never have made it out of autocad or w/e hell auto engineers use to design cars
― 龜, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:14 (six days ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, April 19, 2024 8:00 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
the sheer number and variety of problems and defects that have surfaced in cybertrucks so far based on this incredibly small sample size...i can't quite wrap my brain around it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 16:15 (six days ago) link
i don't know that Tesla can fully recover, i think that specific design on the main fleet is pretty tiresome to a lot of people and at some point if you're driving a white tesla and you're at a stoplight with six other white teslas, it's a little embarrassing, and there are other better looking EVs out there now.
― omar little, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:16 (six days ago) link
just out of curiosity i looked it up and Ford sold 750,789 F-150s in 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 16:16 (six days ago) link
it's still a hot-shit vehicle to own to a certain degree but it doesn't feel like a long-term respectable brand, and i think the cybertruck is such an ugly failure it shows a company that doesn't have a clue.
― omar little, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:17 (six days ago) link
Cybertruck seems destined to be the Pinto of this generation, known solely for people dunking on it. though it's way more expensive which makes it a lot more embarrassing
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:25 (six days ago) link
and yeah Tesla's reputation has cratered in a way I've never really seen, I mean I remember people getting all stoked just for the chance to ride in one, now the main thing I hear is "they're kinda ugly aren't they?". Elon himself isn't helping by being a total embarrassment, it's not even like a party line thing as it is with Trump, he only appeals to a specific type of incel Nazi
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:27 (six days ago) link
would be funny if the next gen teslas just copied the hyundai evs which prob have the best ev design language right now
― 龜, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:05 (six days ago) link
the sheer number and variety of problems and defects that have surfaced in cybertrucks so far based on this incredibly small sample size...i can't quite wrap my brain around it― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
Anecdotal data from my city, I've only seen 2 (TWO) Cybertrucks of ~10 that were not on the back of a tow truck = 20% not being towed (for being inoperable or parked illegaly, I know not).
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:13 (six days ago) link
3,878 seems not that many sales across nearly six months?
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:21 (six days ago) link
they cant make enough
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:22 (six days ago) link
yes i guess it's deliveries not sales
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:25 (six days ago) link
also stock just dipped below 148
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:27 (six days ago) link
it should go to zero thats what id pay
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:29 (six days ago) link
tesla as the plucky underdog penny stock of the future
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:30 (six days ago) link
Trump, he used to have this vague liberal veneer to him
I’m sorry, what
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 19 April 2024 19:49 (six days ago) link
(stock might end the day below 146 lol)
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 19:50 (six days ago) link
Trump used to be a Dem donor who would sign his name to climate pledges and the like lol
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 19:51 (six days ago) link
(nope there was a late little rally 👎🏽)
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2024 20:05 (six days ago) link
Musk OUT wouldn’t help Tesla. A new CEO isn’t going to make FSD real and if one came in and actually made the real world product better it would still be valued at car company prices instead of tech unicorn prices.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:13 (six days ago) link
Everybody dunked on his compensation package but without his relentless lying and hyping it would be a $35 stock so maybe he did create all that “shareholder value.”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:15 (six days ago) link
It would help Tesla but it would destroy their stock price. People buy Tesla because Musk.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:16 (six days ago) link
People buy Tesla because Musk.
I said to my wife over lunch that the fact that the Cybertruck recall impacts fewer than 4000 vehicles means that the Musk cult is a whole lot smaller than the press a) realizes or b) is willing to acknowledge.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:17 (six days ago) link
People buy tesla *stock* because musk, I should have said.Fwiw though for now at least they’re selling cybertrucks as fast as they can make them. The fact that they have not sold many is evidence they have not made many, not that musk is or is not an unusually popular CEO.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:57 (six days ago) link
elon made a website asking for his fifty billion dollars back https://www.supportteslavalue.com
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:01 (six days ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 21:14 (six days ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, April 19, 2024 3:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i mean what's tesla without the musk cult? makers of kinda boring looking and somewhat overpriced EV cars and potentially one of the biggest disasters automotive history in the cybertruck?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 21:15 (six days ago) link
when they originally agreed to give him the $50b it was tied to extremely unlikely future stock gains, then the stock went nuts, now he wants that money straight up, why would anyone agree to give it to him its very silly hes trying to extort them by saying hell work more at his other companies if he doesnt get it but hes already doing that, if owning 10% of the company already doesnt motivate him to actually work there why will another fifty billion, the whole situation is absurd, they should just give me the money to work on secret projects
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:30 (six days ago) link
rip institutional bulls. just the cranks now.
We were correct to reduce our $TSLA position from 12.2% in Sept 2022 to 2.7% today because of our concern about deteriorating fundamentals. In hindsight we should have sold our entire $TSLA position rather than kept a small % of it. We were right that cutting prices wouldn’t… https://t.co/bAP97xDIdO— Gary Black (@garyblack00) April 20, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 April 2024 20:24 (five days ago) link
thats good the cranks can buy all the stock then vote to give elon his fifty billion back
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 April 2024 20:32 (five days ago) link
We don’t care about reality, we believe
After all those hours of conversations with bulls, you still don't get it, Gary. It's not that you're wrong, it's just that those things don't matter much to us.True bulls are invested for >10-20 yrs. We are not traders, we are investors in the greatest entrepreneur of all time.— Val 💃 (@ExcusedEarly) April 20, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:49 (four days ago) link
For over a decade Bernie Madoff looked like the smartest, most successful investor on Wall Street and wealthy people clamored to be allowed to participate in hedge fund. It was like owning a license to print money.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:41 (four days ago) link
All the crypto HODLs said exactly the same thing
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:54 (four days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/leFmrNv.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:34 (three days ago) link
you to love to see it
https://i.imgur.com/tzu9dtO.png
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:39 (three days ago) link
dipped below 140 briefly :)
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:40 (three days ago) link
that's https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-21/tesla-cuts-china-us-prices-after-sales-slow-inventories-rise
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:03 (three days ago) link
deliveries down (by 20%? time) to cut the workforce (also by 20%)!
*invoices for $56b*
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:15 (three days ago) link
*some of that's for editing my own posts*
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:16 (three days ago) link
we shuold see if we can sell ilx to elon for $44b
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:27 (three days ago) link
more like $44burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:37 (three days ago) link
$77B
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:15 (three days ago) link
Is Tesla inflating odometer to show more range, ding lessors with over miles and duck repairs under warranty? As I return my leased Model Y I noticed the odometer is off by 20% vs my Lexus RZ. Turns out other Tesla owners have a similar concern. Is Musk gaming the Tesla odometer? https://t.co/jM8Pmf6U1D pic.twitter.com/h4BB0iiar6— Facts Chaser 🌎 🤦🏻♂️ (@Factschaser) April 22, 2024
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 23:58 (three days ago) link
thats really messed up
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 00:00 (two days ago) link
if true at those inflation rates that’s funny for simply being so obviously catchable. i mean car nerds can be pretty merciless with their personal data capture imo. in fact one reason i def doubt these q’s is that it woulda been caught long ago?
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:40 (two days ago) link
could be new
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:41 (two days ago) link
the stupidest possible explanation is that its tracking kilometers and calling them miles
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:43 (two days ago) link
hmm. that wld be dumb. remember that mars probe that crashed because its measures calcs had inconsistent imperial/metrics standards? the possibility of a km/mi problem at tesla is somehow proof that elmo should def keep his sights aiming for his personal mars mission or whatever.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:49 (two days ago) link
tesla earnings call today; excited for new lies
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:56 (two days ago) link
elo "x" musg currently having a public spat with the Australian Government re defending Twitter's right to circulate video of a stabbing in a church
there will be no winners here, the govt will accuse him of being a lousy corporate citizen, he will get a little elon hard-on about it and cry 'censorship' & 'freedom' - perhaps statistically insignificant number of bozos might decide they want him to be next President of the USA
but the main effect will be to render the Tesla brand even more fucking toxic
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:25 (two days ago) link
oh lol I just saw that tweet about Australian sales figures quoted above, maybe he was just looking to act out and this gave him an opportunity
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:26 (two days ago) link
One of the EV YouTube channels I follow posted their "we lost Cronkite" video on their dismal cybertruck experience. Yeah, sure, a software update will suddenly give your CT locking differentials.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:30 (two days ago) link
maybe teslas are measuring every bump in the roadlike the freshmen physics troll of measuring the land-sea boundary
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:45 (two days ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/tesla-stock-in-no-man-s-land-after-43-rout-ahead-of-earnings: "The company’s shares are weathering the longest rout since late 2022, tumbling nearly 19% over the past seven days" (posted a couple of hours before the stock market opens; sub needed for further gems)
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:07 (two days ago) link
here you go https://archive.ph/V1Kcc
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:08 (two days ago) link
👍🏽😇
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 12:28 (two days ago) link
meanwhile enjoy it while it's pure
https://i.imgur.com/QxQlnAC.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 13:44 (two days ago) link
she got all made up for this, sad
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izxpomdyri45gzhppiiyattq/bafkreier4eicstowsic7mv2rjndsoo2mkosv2klwuwpybnhiuyqeq5gquy@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:35 (two days ago) link
I'm going to guess Taylor's people didn't return his call
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:44 (two days ago) link
I checked and she's still with ornaldo bloomps and probably not having surrogate children with Elon but who can tell
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:08 (two days ago) link
Great car
https://i.ibb.co/9hYGqzc/FB-IMG-1713970236034.jpg
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:07 (yesterday) link
"the car is now in Fred Flintstone mode"
tbf you could buy a much more expensive metal brick
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:09 (yesterday) link
why did the stock go up when their numbers are bad?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:49 (yesterday) link
mustve been not quite as bad as expected, also its just gone down a lot recently
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:51 (yesterday) link
maybe this too lol
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.ioBig takeaway from the Tesla earnings call is that Elon doesn't want to do anything to shore up sales, because he'd rather try to use the idle GPUs in parked Teslas as a distributed AI supercomputer... which doesn't make sense, but even if it did, it would still be stealing from your customers.
https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.io/post/3kqtjuvuggc2q
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:58 (yesterday) link
hes still got it baby
juicing the stock 10% with an extremely vague "announcement" re: an affordable car shipping in a few months. got to hand it to him,
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:00 (yesterday) link
he is honestly amazing at this stuff tesla would absolutely be out of business now were it not for his grifting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:02 (yesterday) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:49 AM (sixteen minutes ago)
part of the decline pre-earnings was due to rumors that tesla was trashing its low-cast EV project, but then elon reversed course during the actual announcement
i also think some of the gain is probably due to short-covering (which creates buying pressure)
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:07 (yesterday) link
does this short-covering mean that those traders lost out -- because they were gambling on the price falling further than it did -- or that they've made the profit they wanted so they don't care
or does it all depend?
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:23 (yesterday) link
fun fact they probably juiced yesterdays results with some accounting tricks related to one off FSD income. that will become clear tomorrow when they file a 10-Q. expect a drop tomorrow imo.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:00 (yesterday) link
Mr guess Musk saw that episode of Silicon Valley where they used the cpus in the refrigerators and just figured he could do that with his cars.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:45 (yesterday) link
― mark s, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (one hour ago)
based on what the stock price has done in the past couple of months i think it's a decent chance the short sellers made some money
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:59 (yesterday) link
is tsla a meme stock yet
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:12 (yesterday) link
has been all along
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:15 (yesterday) link
Tesla has benefited enormously from Chinese EV subsidies. Its numbers will be a lot worse if those go away.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:48 (yesterday) link