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https://twitter.com/VeraMBergen/status/1585633516074979331 How is this guy an elected official? This is the guy that had all of his siblings come out against him holding elected office. He is pretty much one of the last people I would consider up to the challenge of sorting this out....I dunno maybe Gohmert would be worse.
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ManBoyChef posted:https://twitter.com/VeraMBergen/status/1585633516074979331 He's running unopposed. It's loving crazy.
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ManBoyChef posted:https://twitter.com/VeraMBergen/status/1585633516074979331 Isn't this super unconstitutional?
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PeterWeller posted:He's running unopposed. It's loving crazy. Since Arizona drew their maps in 2012, Gosar's won by 40% each election. Since I was curious and looked it up since it was D in the other direction beforehand, turns out they just massively redrew it: Gosar's in AZ-4 in the post map. Here's the pre-2012 map: https://azredistricting.org/2001/Final/CongFinal.jpg and post: https://www.azredistricting.org/Maps/Tentative-Final-Maps/Congressional/maps/Tentative%20Final%20Congressional%20Map%20-%20Statewide.jpg
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Mooseontheloose posted:Isn't this super unconstitutional?
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Mooseontheloose posted:Isn't this super unconstitutional? It's potentially a Logan Act violation, but the act's not reliably been enforced, which makes it difficult to enforce now.
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Also the US economy grew 2.6% which mysteriously isn't talked about because we need to fit the economy is a disaster because of Joe Biden narrative.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Also the US economy grew 2.6% which mysteriously isn't talked about because we need to fit the economy is a disaster because of Joe Biden narrative. Dems haven't even bothered to defend the economy (which they absolutely should considering that most inflationary issues are outside of the President and the Fed's control, and companies are also being very greedy and raising prices under 'inflation') so that narrative isn't going anywhere
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Mooseontheloose posted:Also the US economy grew 2.6% which mysteriously isn't talked about because we need to fit the economy is a disaster because of Joe Biden narrative.
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cat botherer posted:Normal people are hurting. GDP growth rates bear little relation to that. It does not feel good to be at the grocery store, only to discover you are the marginal consumer.
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cat botherer posted:Normal people are hurting. GDP growth rates bear little relation to that. Hell, rent increases count towards the GDP. I get that but unemployment is low and the economy is growing. I agree inflation is a problem but people were declaring recession and doom for the economy and they aren't anywhere to be heard recently.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I get that but unemployment is low and the economy is growing. I agree inflation is a problem but people were declaring recession and doom for the economy and they aren't anywhere to be heard recently. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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Mooseontheloose posted:I get that but unemployment is low and the economy is growing. I agree inflation is a problem but people were declaring recession and doom for the economy and they aren't anywhere to be heard recently. I think you're right that there was a lot more focus on whether there was a "technical recession" 3 months ago than there is now that it is confirmed that we weren't. But, real income hasn't been going up for about a year. During the first 5 to 7 months of inflation in 2021, wages actually did rise faster than inflation. But, inflation has been outpacing wages for the last 10 months or so. So, people are actually losing relative spending power and have been for a while. The economy isn't horrible right this second, but it isn't great, has been getting worse for about 10 months, and there's a bunch of dangers (earnings reports, Fed decisions, stock market, low productivity, wages and inflation still growing quickly - with inflation being slightly faster -, and shortages) that it could get a lot worse in the future.
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cat botherer posted:Normal people are hurting. GDP growth rates bear little relation to that. Hell, rent increases count towards the GDP. the powers that b are happy at the growth, they will prolly moderately cheer about this in the news and that will trick some folk the growth is good news. the price gouging becomes more evident to folks if the economy is “technically” doing good and we’re seeing raiding prices. that’s why I came into this thread a couple days ago asking about economics Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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So Musk officially owns Twitter now?
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It's official tomorrow. The era of Musk begins. He had a call scheduled at 7:45 pm with all Twitter staff that was cancelled. Probably to let them know about stack sorting and the 75% of them that are getting fired. https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1585794168177115136
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Automata 10 Pack posted:the powers that b are happy at the growth, they will prolly moderately cheer about this in the news and that will trick some folk
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Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet?
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The era of Musk begins, and maybe the era of Twitter ends, so it might be worth it
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's official tomorrow. lol that musk fired the GC who, presumably, he is mad at for making him close on twitter
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet? Going to be super cool when Trump uses it to call for open revolt in two weeks.
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Twitter is a bad message board and I’m glad it’s going to die.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet? Absolutely the latter, which if we're particularly lucky* will finally kill that horrible platform. *We will not be that lucky.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet? Realistically, there probably won't be huge changes for the average user for a bit. The Twitter AI ethics department, health science department (which I didn't even know was a thing), and IT/content moderation department are all getting closed down or severely shunted immediately. Those will be the biggest changes right away, but they won't impact the average Twitter user much (except for maybe the content moderation).
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Twitter is going to bring back Trump's account and Musk will be in charge of the American WeChat and you're all going to be sorry because our country will be in even worse shape.
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Vote with you feet. 
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet?
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Eric Cantonese posted:Twitter is going to bring back Trump's account and Musk will be in charge of the American WeChat and you're all going to be sorry because our country will be in even worse shape.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I get that but unemployment is low and the economy is growing. I agree inflation is a problem but people were declaring recession and doom for the economy and they aren't anywhere to be heard recently. I think that people made too much of the declines in GDP earlier in the year, given how that data is revised over time and the exceptional circumstances of this economic moment, but there are a lot of reasons to be concerned about the economy right now, given the slowing rate of growth, the Fed's monetary tightening regime, and the tighter fiscal regime as compared to the pandemic stimulus period. Also, wages haven't been keeping up with inflation. cat botherer posted:You are aware how the unemployment (U-3) rate is calculated, right? Also, "the economy is growing" means little in isolation, and that is still going by how the government chooses to calculate the GDP, and the inflation rate. A voter seeing other people get richer, and themselves stay the same, is going to become resentful if anything. Doesn't really matter which U you use, or if you use a different employment metric, they are all recovering. 
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FlamingLiberal posted:Definitely the latter. He's going to have to cut expenses to an absurd extent and I imagine the place is going to go downhill quickly. I still think he’s going to cut expenses to the point that the site’s usability is severely impacted, so the quality of the content won’t really matter since you can’t read or create it
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Easiest $42 million ever for Agrawal.
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Sounds like a disaster for Twitter staff and society in the long run, but probably not huge changes for the average user right away. https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1585763155568754688
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Deleting my account tomorrow, and blocking Twitter’s hostname.
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Yiggy posted:Easiest $42 million ever for Agrawal. Dude can't even grief teamkill in the lobby right
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"wants subs to be 50% of revenue at some point" Wants to require credit cards to make an account "to help with bots." Out of all the crazy stuff, this is the most delusional thing Elon has said.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"wants subs to be 50% of revenue at some point" I don't think he understands that you have to keep users on board to even have a chance to keep the company afloat, and that making major changes are just going to cause people to bail
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's official tomorrow. Post says the deal closed already and that's why he could fire the execs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/twitter-elon-musk/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sounds like a disaster for Twitter staff and society in the long run, but probably not huge changes for the average user right away. His...tesla engineers...looking at the code...for twitter. Is that as absurd as it seems?
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Discendo Vox posted:His...tesla engineers...looking at the code...for twitter. Is that as absurd as it seems? Software engineers, presumably. Although I’m not sure I would trust the people responsible for autopilot on whether or not code is horrifying
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