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Wistful of Dollars posted:someone troll musk into buying the forums. If it puts astral in charge of the self driving software at Tesla, I’m for it.
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the_steve posted:There will 100% be some users who will make a big show of clutching their pearls and announcing the closing of their account forever because of the bad orange man being allowed back on it. Yes, right after they all move back from Canada; the place where they fled in droves in Nov, 2016.
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imagine having ever owned a twitter account in the first place hosed up, man
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I have never had a twitter account. Place sucks dude. So one of the ballot measures we are voting for in this floridas midterms is a millage tax that will help pay for funding mental healthcare for schools. The unfortunate problem with these funds is they will also go to charter schools. I am kinda at a loss for what to do with this. I really think more mental healthcare is a must but I am absolutely angry that public funds are going into private hands in this way. Any other florida goons have any ideas?
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Oct 28, 2022 13:06
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I believe the FL Dems are saying to vote no on all three amendments
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FlamingLiberal posted:I believe the FL Dems are saying to vote no on all three amendments Sounds like the true leftist answer is to vote "Yes" then. ManBoyChef posted:I have never had a twitter account. Place sucks dude. Is that a local issue? According to Florida's website, these are the only three statewide ballot measures: quote:LRCA Amendment 1 Taxes Authorizes the state legislature to pass laws prohibiting flood resistance improvements made to a home from being taken into consideration when determining a property's assessed value for property tax purposes
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will this be a twitter renaissance, or is it going straight into the toilet? In the long run, it's definitely heading for the toilet, but Musk is notoriously subject to changing his whole stance at a whim - as was demonstrated when he basically begged Twitter to sell to him, signed a binding contract with no path to back out, and suddenly decided he didn't want Twitter anymore. So we don't know how quickly he'll come up with bad ideas, or how stubbornly he'll stick to them in the face of pushback. But that chaotic management style will inevitably drag Twitter down, even if he ends up backing down from the worst ideas. His currently stated plans for Twitter are all dumb and bad, but there's no telling how fast he'll move to implement them.
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cr0y posted:Isn't the Twitter deal financed by Tesla stock so basically the entire thing is a house of cards? Don't forget that part of his ownership was the Saudi prince loaning his shares to Musk to achieve his buyout, so I can imagine there's some interest involved. Everyone on Twitter's board knew what they were doing, they're going to make out like bandits fleecing Elon.
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Oct 28, 2022 13:53
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twitter was always a toilet, its just some people did the work for us of picking out the few kernels of corn in it
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Oct 28, 2022 14:03
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Oct 28, 2022 14:11
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News just broke someone broke into Pelosi’s house in SF and beat the poo poo out of her husband so much he needed to go to the hospital
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Oct 28, 2022 14:12
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skylined! posted:Whoa. Pretty wild. Apparently, it wasn't an attempted robbery gone wrong or anything like that. Motive currently unknown. He's apparently severely injured, but nothing permanent and expected to eventually make a full recovery. Still probably not great for an almost 83-year old to get beat so much he requires multiple days of hospitalization, though. If they were going after Nancy, they did a bad job researching. They found out her address, but didn't realize she was in Washington D.C. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1585978234876870658
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Pretty wild. With the decades of stuff he has been involved in privately it's possible this wasn't tied to Nancy at all. 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. Worth noting that Vijaya mentioned here was fired like an hour or two later. Apparently Elon didn't like what he heard in this convo despite this revenue VP trying to stay upbeat. Morale at Twitter HQ must be pretty precarious right now; can't imagine it won't tank completely in the coming weeks.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I believe the FL Dems are saying to vote no on all three amendments I did. They all looked horrible.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sounds like the true leftist answer is to vote "Yes" then. https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/10/21/results-2022-lake-county-voters-to-decide-on-school-safety-tax-measure/ This is it, but the verbage on the actual ballot states that a proportionate share shall go to charter schools. I am completely against privatizing our education system. It leads to bad outcomes for poor people.
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ManBoyChef posted:https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/10/21/results-2022-lake-county-voters-to-decide-on-school-safety-tax-measure/ Okay, it is a local issue. Yeah, there are quite a few places with public charter schools, where the purpose is to just make it so that your school quality is not determined by your zip code and fund schools evenly. Or, some rarer instances where they are charter schools because they have a specific curriculum, like being a Spanish-immersion school or trade/tech high school. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Lake County charter schools in Florida are not a publicly-run racial equity/integration project that gets funding from the state to make up for low local property taxes.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:News just broke someone broke into Pelosi’s house in SF and beat the poo poo out of her husband so much he needed to go to the hospital Rand Paul's neighbor again?
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cr0y posted:Isn't the Twitter deal financed by Tesla stock so basically the entire thing is a house of cards? Not really. Elon is selling 30b of Tesla stock but the (public) margin loan against his Tesla stock got taken out of the deal.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Pretty wild. People get pretty heated about drunk driving.
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skylined! posted:Worth noting that Vijaya mentioned here was fired like an hour or two later. Apparently Elon didn't like what he heard in this convo despite this revenue VP trying to stay upbeat. Morale at Twitter HQ must be pretty precarious right now; can't imagine it won't tank completely in the coming weeks. None of the top twitter execs are going to survive, because they very personally embarrassed Elon and cost him tens of billions of dollars. Of course, they all had twitter stock cashed out at 54.20 and they don't want to work for musk so really there's not much downside.
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If I could get fired but walk away with 10's of millions of dollars, sign me up.
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davecrazy posted:If I could get fired but walk away with 10's of millions of dollars, sign me up. Pretty much. Why do you think Twitter fought so hard to make sure he couldn't back out of the deal? Elon is pretty dumb. He got very mad that some kid was posting his flight plans online and Twitter wouldn't shut it down, so his trolling/attention-seeking instincts kicked in and he offered to buy the company for about 27% more than it was worth. He apparently thought he could just say "psyche!," walk away, and they would just be annoyed with him, but want to keep their company, so they would leave him alone.
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skylined! posted:With the decades of stuff he has been involved in privately it's possible this wasn't tied to Nancy at all. I reckon it'll tank for a few weeks/months while Elon makes his "improvements." The whole reason he bought it in the first place was just to soothe his ego and punish people who were making fun of him and unban some of his friends. The business decisions are just him swinging his dick around to prove to himself that he's a big brain genius, but eventually he'll get bored and wander off and leave it to be handled by someone who can at least salvage it and patch enough holes for it to try to recover. Twitter itself has enough cultural inertia that it isn't going to be replaced by anything anytime soon, so that gives them time.
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evilweasel posted:None of the top twitter execs are going to survive, because they very personally embarrassed Elon and cost him tens of billions of dollars. Of course, they all had twitter stock cashed out at 54.20 and they don't want to work for musk so really there's not much downside. Not to mention the golden parachutes.
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Most of the charter schools around here are basically so people can make money on education. The standards suck too. It is also so they can just fire teachers without recourse.
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ManBoyChef posted:Most of the charter schools around here are basically so people can make money on education. The standards suck too. It is also so they can just fire teachers without recourse. Yeah, that is just 98% of private charter schools in general. I was joking that Florida, of all places, would have a network of public charter schools devoted to racial and funding equity.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, that is just 98% of private charter schools in general. I was joking that Florida, of all places, would have a network of public charter schools devoted to racial and funding equity.
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They confirmed that the guy who beat Paul Pelosi was looking for Nancy and used a large 2-handed hammer. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1586024100954537985
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I wonder when we'll start seeing convictions against right-wing political terrorists start getting held up by the courts.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They confirmed that the guy who beat Paul Pelosi was looking for Nancy and used a large 2-handed hammer. I would have thought that the Speaker and her immediate family was under Secret Service protection, is this not actually the case here?
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Solkanar512 posted:I would have thought that the Speaker and her immediate family was under Secret Service protection, is this not actually the case here? Not their wheelhouse
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Solkanar512 posted:I would have thought that the Speaker and her immediate family was under Secret Service protection, is this not actually the case here? According to the Post, the Speaker gets Capitol Police protection but not family.
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Solkanar512 posted:I would have thought that the Speaker and her immediate family was under Secret Service protection, is this not actually the case here? I thought so too, but it turns out the Secret Service only protects the president, VP, immediate successor to the president if there is no VP, their immediate families, former president and VPs plus spouses and minor children, candidates for those offices, and sufficiently important foreign dignitaries. The President can also deploy them to protect other government officers abroad as situations warrant. I would have expected Congressional leaders to have private security, though, especially in 2022
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haveblue posted:I thought so too, but it turns out the Secret Service only protects the president, VP, immediate successor to the president if there is no VP, their immediate families, former president and VPs plus spouses and minor children, candidates for those offices, and sufficiently important foreign dignitaries. The President can also deploy them to protect other government officers abroad as situations warrant. Even if Pelosi did have security herself, she wasn't actually there when it happened and Paul Pelosi was alone in their house.
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He was just a big fan of Nancy Pelosi and, conveniently, Misery.
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Having flashbacks to a very agitated and disheveled tweaker on the BART engaging me in political conversation and ranting about Nancy Pelosi.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They confirmed that the guy who beat Paul Pelosi was looking for Nancy and used a large 2-handed hammer. jesus christ, hammer against 82 year old is attempted murder. Honestly shocked he survived.
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FishBulbia posted:jesus christ, hammer against 82 year old is attempted murder. Honestly shocked he survived. I mean he was probably trying to murder the equally-old Speaker of the House
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I mean he was probably trying to murder the equally-old Speaker of the House ANYONE getting beaten by a goddamn hammer is attempted murder, guys. Old people may be more frail and bruise easily but its not like your average 20 year old has bones that can stand up to steel.
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