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FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



rndmnmbr posted:

I hope the response is a universal "lol okay, triple my pay first." Or "lol okay at $$$ contractor wages," that would be okay too.
You couldn't pay me enough to go back to that shitshow

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bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
the oracle and alibaba thing they did was pay 450, 500, 600k for certain peeps (who would usually be getting paid like 250, 300, etc)

are they gonna do that here? prolly not

bob dobbs is dead has a new favorite as of 20:52 on Nov 7, 2022

Chaotic Flame
Jun 1, 2009

So...


FlamingLiberal posted:

You couldn't pay me enough to go back to that shitshow

I'd go back for double/triple and do the absolute minimum while getting paid stupid money while I job hunted for the longer-term place

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

FlamingLiberal posted:

You couldn't pay me enough to go back to that shitshow

You know, we say that, but they guy who would spend $44B on Twitter might actually be able to still scratch together enough money to get me to rearrange deck chairs and play the violin for a year while I take notes for my tell-all best-seller.

“Uncle Subjunctive, tell us again about the time the dumb stinky man banned the use of vowels.”

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1590724257608134657

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1590619676467683334

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1590619676467683334

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1590822878274097152

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
This is the best possible use of account verification. :bisonyes:

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1590794421418790935
I guess the PR people didn’t write enough lines of code to make the cut.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

This is something that the Yes Men would do.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/BamaBonds/status/1590801975339540480

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

a good start

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Investors should give me forty‐four billion dollars.

I promise that I will lose less than eighty percent of it in seven months.

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.

Platystemon posted:

I promise that I will lose less than eighty percent of it in seven months.

Muskter's Billions.

Eh, I'll workshop it.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/SA__moment/status/1590866448553238528

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
For comparison, the Medellin Cartel is reported to have lost ten percent of their annual revenue, or a little over two billion dollars, to physical damage to their cash.

I suspect that this was mostly theft and water damage, maybe some fires, but everyone likes to quote the “eaten by rats” statement from Roberto Escobar’s book.

Platystemon has a new favorite as of 04:11 on Nov 11, 2022

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Is there anyway Musk can go broke from Twitter

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
At the very least this is confirming to everyone that in most important ways, Elon Musk is deeply stupid

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Is there anyway Musk can go broke from Twitter
I don't know what his non-Tesla assets are, so I'd guess no, but he could definitely be forced to literally sell all his Tesla holdings in extremis.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It's almost impossible for a billionaire to stop being a billionaire, but I'm open to the possibility that this can be a field Musk is actually a pioneer in.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Elon could probably make a living on Cameo if it came to that.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/SpaceXOfficiall/status/1590918313265098752

https://twitter.com/RobIox_US/status/1590710434424041472





This is the funniest Twitter has ever been.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
It’s shocking how every time someone tries extreme libertarianism, they quickly find out that actually some rules are there for a reason. And that you may even need something like, oh I don’t know, a governing body to enforce them.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Sometimes Chesterton’s fence is there for a reason!

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.
from

quote:

One engineering manager was approached by Mr. Musk’s advisers — or “goons,” as Twitter employees called them — with a list of hundreds of people he had to let go. He vomited into a trash can near his feet.

I hate them dragging our good ok passable name into this muck with them :argh:

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Apparently they finally suspended Twitter Blue new subscriptions

aw frig aw dang it
Jun 1, 2018


Trabant posted:

from

I hate them dragging our good ok passable name into this muck with them :argh:

sensible response to goons

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's almost impossible for a billionaire to stop being a billionaire, but I'm open to the possibility that this can be a field Musk is actually a pioneer in.

It's funny you mention that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasew...mits-to-forbes/
https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1591071832823959552

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1591133819918114816

RagnarokZ
May 14, 2004

Emperor of the Internet

There's so much comedy and failure here.

Musk's idiotic subscription program with zero due diligence, all to attempt to cover the massive debt he's saddled Twitter with.
The Parody accounts themselves.
Whatever due diligence the investment companies apparently DON'T have at all.

Anything else?

Skrill.exe
Oct 3, 2007

"Bitcoin is a new financial concept entirely without precedent."

RagnarokZ posted:

There's so much comedy and failure here.

Musk's idiotic subscription program with zero due diligence, all to attempt to cover the massive debt he's saddled Twitter with.
The Parody accounts themselves.
Whatever due diligence the investment companies apparently DON'T have at all.

Anything else?

The concept of free insulin being a tremendous negative impact to a company instead of a human right?

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/litcapital/status/1591172069965713409

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Platystemon posted:

This is something that the Yes Men would do.

They actually had to put effort into their impersonations rather then spend $8 funbux though.

BIG FLUFFY DOG
Feb 16, 2011

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.


the billion dollar tweet

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/adambroach/status/1591120030887878656
Thread

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

We were wrong Musk made Twitter good holy ga moley

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

I had a professor who made a name for himself by being the first person to seriously propose having stock trading bots monitor twitter posts. I should read his paper to see if he accounted for anything like this happening.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


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Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

The Moon Monster posted:

I had a professor who made a name for himself by being the first person to seriously propose having stock trading bots monitor twitter posts. I should read his paper to see if he accounted for anything like this happening.

I honestly would have considered 4 years of Donald Trump to be a good test run for "If an official account says something dumbfounding, don't immediately act on it, check first"

That aside, I'm definitely enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing Twitter slowly disintegrate, as musk screams about throwing more bodies at the problem but cheaply. Calling it, Twitter attempts to outsource to some yes men IT firm in India.

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