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Anyone that thinks that Trump and his band haven't spent the last couple years sharpening their knives and planning their payback for the first 100 days in office is insanely shortsighted. Every evil gently caress in the country has reached out to the FPOTUS with whatever horrendous scheme they could cook up. Relying on incompetence during a second term is real galaxy brain type thinking.
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I have a whole wall of text about this but probably just better to post the short version... 2020 captured the GOP into the anti-vaxx orbit whereas before it had no solid political alignment or backing. With its adoption into the party platform and its amplification by fox news public health in general is at stake. More than most GOP potential candidates, DeSantis has flirted with removing all vaccine mandates, has done more to interfere with public health measures and appoint the most blatant science deniers to science-related positions. I am confident a DeSantis presidency, with a GOP led congress, would result in the end of vaccine mandates for schools and an elimination of most of the public health funding to research in the United States. This would have a knock-on effect of gutting higher education sectors primarily in deep-blue cities / blue states and further speed the brain drain of scientists leaving the field / leaving the country.
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Nov 6, 2022 17:36
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They'll just not let them leave the country then bing bong so simple
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Nov 6, 2022 17:52
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the only potentially effective way to defuse the antivaxxers at this point is to lean all the way into pretending COVID was a Chinese bioweapon and paint them as collaborators this plan may have other problems
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Nov 6, 2022 18:33
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I don't know man, these people are gold metal mental gymnasts. They were perfectly fine to believe it was a hoax while also literally bashing chinese people. I say chinese, half the time they'd probably just go after any east asians. Not exactly what you'd call a bright or moral bunch
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Nov 6, 2022 18:37
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shame on an IGA posted:the only potentially effective way to defuse the antivaxxers at this point is to lean all the way into pretending COVID was a Chinese bioweapon and paint them as collaborators If nothing else this’d be fun
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SerthVarnee posted:The accessibility community is also caught between a rock and a hard place, with a lot of the most prominent and knowledgeable advocates being completely tied to Twitter. All their networks are through twitter, all their linked studies, their walls upon walls of discussions about best practices are on twitter and almost the entirety of their audience has been reached through Twitter. I wanna say Microsoft and IBM have LinkedIn communities and groupings that are organized by Teams and other applications and don't rely on Twitter. It's more "research group" in form and function so fairly resilient to your concerns. I've worked with the Msoft Accessibility team on and off and they're working with other firms to cultivate distributed networks of disability and accessibility advocates. Might be worth getting in contact on LinkedIn.
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Tiny Timbs posted:If nothing else this’d be fun Fascism blaming the other/foreigners for internal issues etc. etc. Milo and POTUS posted:I don't know man, these people are gold metal mental gymnasts. They were perfectly fine to believe it was a hoax while also literally bashing chinese people. I say chinese, half the time they'd probably just go after any east asians. Not exactly what you'd call a bright or moral bunch Exactly. Not sure making Asians scapegoats (because as you mentioned, the right isn't gonna differentiate from east Asian ethnic groups let alone if they are even foreign nationals) for a group of people we've been unwilling to confront will end well for said minority group.
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They will go after any Asians. My wife and her friends are Filipino, and several of them have been berated in public by chuds. And this is in LA, not Georgia or someplace in the south.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:16
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Gold "metal". Bleh. Too late to change now
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Twitter updates for today: https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1589340368998264832 https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1589255100417323008 move fast and break things WAIT gently caress IT'S BROKEN GODDAMNIT delay it gently caress WHY DIDN'T THIS GET TESTED you're fired gently caress
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As an early Tesla owner, I can say that the idea that Tesla software engineers could be brought in as some kind of experts is comical.
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Madurai posted:As an early Tesla owner, mods? please ban this sick filth
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Immanentized posted:I wanna say Microsoft and IBM have LinkedIn communities and groupings that are organized by Teams and other applications and don't rely on Twitter. It's more "research group" in form and function so fairly resilient to your concerns. Oh I managed to get into contact with them. That part isn't the issue. The issue is that I'm climbing up a ladder and seeing it disappear below me just as I reach the ledge. I don't really care that much about having reached the ledge as I care about the general public no longer having that very same ladder to access the ledge.
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Nov 6, 2022 21:21
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Nov 6, 2022 21:37
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Teslas have been around a while now right? I could see someone early adopting them not being totally terrible before it became clear how much Musky and also his cars clearly sucked
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Milo and POTUS posted:Teslas have been around a while now right? I could see someone early adopting them not being totally terrible before it became clear how much Musky and also his cars clearly sucked the big initial sales pitch was "we put a bunch of laptop batteries in the trunk to power it!" so it was never a really well thought out thing, even on the surface. I know I always assumed that there was more that the journos missed, but no, it was always exactly as dumb as it appeared
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Nov 6, 2022 21:56
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Sure but I doubt most people honestly give that much of a poo poo about the technical details of their cars. God knows I don't.
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facialimpediment posted:Twitter updates for today: I wonder if even for a second musk considered a good faith effort to clean up harmful content and bots, reassuring advertisers, and implementing new ideas slowly after thorough testing. He seems similar to a billionaire character from the show Silicon Valley who lucked into a billion with a bet on “internet radio” but since then had no clue what to do with his money and got annoyed when someone did the math and realized if he’d done nothing but buy CDs he’d have far more money.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I wonder if even for a second musk considered a good faith effort to clean up harmful content and bots, reassuring advertisers, and implementing new ideas slowly after thorough testing. I have always wondered if he’s actually a good investor or just incredibly lucky. Like Zip2 and X.com sucked, but it allowed to get into PayPal, which was revolutionary at the time. He jumped on Tesla and turned a bullshit quality product into something people with more money than sense loved. SpaceX and OpenAI are fairly great because he’s pretty hands off, despite his title of founder and chief engineer. Then he goes and memes himself into Twitter and publicly burns it to the ground. I think he thought he was actually good at software engineering instead of being ahead of trends and able to throw ludicrous amounts at money to corner the market.
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Nov 6, 2022 22:30
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the twitter situation should answer all your questions about if elon is actually any good at investing
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maffew buildings posted:the twitter situation should answer all your questions about if elon is actually any good at investing hell it should have answered all those questions back in april when he offered to buy it at 40% above market
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I have always wondered if he’s actually a good investor or just incredibly lucky. Like Zip2 and X.com sucked, but it allowed to get into PayPal, which was revolutionary at the time. He jumped on Tesla and turned a bullshit quality product into something people with more money than sense loved. SpaceX and OpenAI are fairly great because he’s pretty hands off, despite his title of founder and chief engineer. Then he goes and memes himself into Twitter and publicly burns it to the ground. I think he thought he was actually good at software engineering instead of being ahead of trends and able to throw ludicrous amounts at money to corner the market. maffew buildings posted:the twitter situation should answer all your questions about if elon is actually any good at investing He is not even a software guy. He's a loving mine owner, he knows how to extract wealth cost of human life and the environment, that is all he will ever be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfHXt1ZQhg
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shame on an IGA posted:hell it should have answered all those questions back in april when he offered to buy it at 40% above market Sure, but this makes it seem like he’s Trump level dumb. He actually had some success pre Twitter so I wonder if he was just lucky, huffed too many of his own farts and outplayed himself, all of the above?
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https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1589396844131782656 It's day 9 and Elon is now taking action against the El0n accounts mocking him. Things are going well!
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RIP comedy on Twitter, it came back only to die again a week later
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RFC2324 posted:the big initial sales pitch was "we put a bunch of laptop batteries in the trunk to power it!" so it was never a really well thought out thing, even on the surface. I know I always assumed that there was more that the journos missed, but no, it was always exactly as dumb as it appeared A huge array of 18650 cells was the best idea that Tesla ever had. It predates Musk muscling in on the company and worked quite well. It’s obsolete now, but in 2008, it was the bomb.
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Apparently throwing them in a Lotus was also a winning idea, because you can't murder for those original Teslas now.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I wonder if even for a second musk considered a good faith effort to clean up harmful content and bots, reassuring advertisers, and implementing new ideas slowly after thorough testing. i think he does think he's making a good faith effort to solve twitter's problems as they appear to a person with a ton of privilege and a 99.99th+ percentile follower count (along with bonus problems from being someone whose replies are known fertile ground for anyone looking to grow a crypto scam), albeit combined with someone who's also saddled the company with so much debt that cutting half the staff is a reasonable approach to take in a desperate attempt to break even. unfortunately, good faith doesnt magically teach you how to run a social network when you never have before, hence the whole "we don't need to reassure <the reason for almost all of our revenue>" aspect of the takeover. the other half comes from extreme "im the worlds best businessman and very big brained" hubris where he thinks that the problems and solutions are just so obvious lol Oxygenpoisoning posted:I have always wondered if he’s actually a good investor or just incredibly lucky. Like Zip2 and X.com sucked, but it allowed to get into PayPal, which was revolutionary at the time. He jumped on Tesla and turned a bullshit quality product into something people with more money than sense loved. SpaceX and OpenAI are fairly great because he’s pretty hands off, despite his title of founder and chief engineer. Then he goes and memes himself into Twitter and publicly burns it to the ground. I think he thought he was actually good at software engineering instead of being ahead of trends and able to throw ludicrous amounts at money to corner the market. the whole predicting the market aspect of investing is largely luck. VC firms arent made on incredible insight, they're made by diversification (with some constraints), lining up business relationships among their investments, and dumping a shitton of capital to try and capture a market. they still have plenty of poo poo fail and pass on investing in plenty of things that do well. musk is arguably a far better marketer than he is investor, at least in the case of tesla, and maybe more willing to invest in hardware-intensive (capital-intensive) markets with large (auto) or no (commercial spacecraft) existing players
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1589396844131782656 Lol that’s gotta be the preferred way to leave the site if it isn’t already, preferably while spamming up the replys of one of his remaining advertisers
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I disagree with the premise that white nationalist terror is a line for Facebook and YouTube.
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https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/1589450486276534272?s=46&t=NtSog5t1hLG_CrnHt970TQ EDIT: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1000560049389907969 Oh, so that's happening. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/1589450486276534272?s=46&t=NtSog5t1hLG_CrnHt970TQ Ahahhha didn’t even take him 10 days the advertiser stampede tomorrow is gonna be ridiculous. Wait that’s from 2018? Well still, doesn’t help
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I have always wondered if he’s actually a good investor or just incredibly lucky. Like Zip2 and X.com sucked, but it allowed to get into PayPal, which was revolutionary at the time. He jumped on Tesla and turned a bullshit quality product into something people with more money than sense loved. SpaceX and OpenAI are fairly great because he’s pretty hands off, despite his title of founder and chief engineer. Then he goes and memes himself into Twitter and publicly burns it to the ground. I think he thought he was actually good at software engineering instead of being ahead of trends and able to throw ludicrous amounts at money to corner the market. As the thailand cave crisis and the shipping of starlink to Ukraine showed, Musk is very good at jumping on trends, and he inherited a shitton of cash for jumping on treads. And in both cases Musk's true nature only came through later when people realized Musk didn't actually care about people at all, between the crazed submarine idea + pedo accusations and lying about what SpaceX was actually charging the Ukrainians. But he is really skilled at jumping on bandwagons early despite being an idiot manager and a far-right rear end in a top hat who has donated to a lot more alt-right people than you'd think. The only real exception to this is SpaceX. SpaceX exists because the Russian space companies tried to cheat and scam Musk so much that he invested a majority of his fortune into creating a competitor out of pure spite. SpaceX's original purpose was to drive the Russian space industry into bankruptcy as an act of revenge. But even that mirrors the present, where Musk has risked most of his fortune because some people mocked him on Twitter.
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Hear me out, what if we run a social media site like somethingawful, but all the rules for comedy are made by a pre-death right wingy lowtax https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/1589403341771022336?t=TkZ9Qk8ZvL-TRO1cIoMPow&s=19 https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1589487189670465536?t=rmwfUAPgvVvpOIbtd_R8xg&s=19 Edit: https://twitter.com/DannyVegito/status/1588237959236653057?t=GwuSRYl_xOgb595dBd8cVA&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Props to Kathy Griffin for staying relevant.
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