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GreenBuckanneer posted:Every single time I've gone, they have two of the 8 teller spots manned, and have at least 15 people waiting, I assume it's like that all day long. Maybe, but it's not exactly support for Elon's point, since not having sufficient tellers or digitized information is likely a result of not enough funding, for which the solution would be more funding, not "government bad" or whatever.
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Konar posted:Yeah he is a real swirling mystery of intentions and definitely not an obvious moron spoiled man child. I can only read that line as venomously sarcastic, and from the tone of the article, I'm pretty sure the author intends for it to be read that way.
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Mar 9, 2023 17:44
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Earwicker posted:entirely regardless of elon's (lack of) skills in the relevant departments, improving twitter is not why he bought it. he just wanted to control the narrative about himself and also to some degree about american and global politics
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Earwicker posted:entirely regardless of elon's (lack of) skills in the relevant departments, improving twitter is not why he bought it. he just wanted to control the narrative about himself and also to some degree about american and global politics elon bought twitter because he's dumb and addicted to twitter hth
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't understand how Twitter is still operative with that idiot firing people and forcing major code changes without review. I guess they built the systems to be incredibly resilient, even to manchild meddling. you're posting on a VBulletin forum that's been getting propped up by load-bearing slurs by a succession of mostly whatever random volunteers impressed the wifebeating cookie addict founder since 2001, by all evidence shitpost factories are just incredibly robust.
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Mar 9, 2023 17:46
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:I'm baffled that anyone is still working there at this point. I'd never be in that position, since I doubt I have the technical chops and would definitely be a bad culture fit, but if I was still a Twitter employee now I'd hang on to the bitter end, just to say I did. I think the people there genuinely care about what they're doing- like it was a mission and not a job- but I don't give a poo poo, so I'd just enjoy the spectacle of it dying messily.
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Mar 9, 2023 17:52
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kw0134 posted:This gives Elon too much credit who admits readily he has no plan. He's poo poo at running a company because he's a dilettante who thinks his natural "brilliance" will reveal some hidden way that will make people adore him and make him billions of dollars. Even now, he's grasping for his next dopamine hit, not enacting some nefarious plot.  im not saying he had a plan, im saying he bought a site because he was mad about people making fun of him and his rightwing buddies. thats not a plani was responding to someone talking about how twitter probably could have been made more efficient with various cuts etc. and i'm saying that while that might technically be true it has nothing at all to do with what happened
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Mar 9, 2023 17:56
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Seth Pecksniff posted:
Honestly I find this hilarious because of how dumb it is.
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Mar 9, 2023 17:57
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I think you will get to the bottom of this
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Mar 9, 2023 17:58
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kazil posted:elon bought twitter because he's dumb and addicted to twitter hth He bought twitter so he could read Grimes private DMs. Now he reads private conversations in order to see if he can release them to do damage, like he did with Biden/previous management, or to secretly blackmail them. Wouldn't put it past him.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:00
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Earwicker posted:
I'm pretty sure they were just saying someone not stupid could have so the cuts aren't the problem, it's Elon that is the problem. They are dunking on him in a round about way. At least that was my read.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:00
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lol new twitter files dropping e: lmao it's 51 tweets long
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kazil posted:lol new twitter files dropping I don't think I can handle a bombshell this big
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kazil posted:
can't you make massive tweets now?
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Earwicker posted:
Just crazy brain nonsense driving his decision making.
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pixaal posted:can't you make massive tweets now? Working on it!
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Mar 9, 2023 18:07
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Twitter Files: Miss Lippy's Car is Green
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Mar 9, 2023 18:08
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I drop massive tweets every morning.
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mysterious frankie posted:I'd never be in that position, since I doubt I have the technical chops and would definitely be a bad culture fit, but if I was still a Twitter employee now I'd hang on to the bitter end, just to say I did. I think the people there genuinely care about what they're doing- like it was a mission and not a job- but I don't give a poo poo, so I'd just enjoy the spectacle of it dying messily. I could understand that mindset if the company was doing something truly impressive or important. Like, I dunno, curing cancer or making super cheap solar cells out of perovskites finally practical. But its just Twitter. A restrictive (and crappy) by design social media website where most of the content is disposable and garbage. Maybe I'm daft but I could never see it as anything more than a way to get pay the bills. Especially if they treat you poorly and the boss sucks.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:09
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I'd still be there because I have such crippling social anxiety that the idea of having to meet someone new to do an interview is traumatic to the point I'll do almost anything to avoid it.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:13
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So what's the likely end game for this? Musk sells Twitter goes under and Musk dumps Tesla stock to pay for 10 years of court cases Musk admits defeat and reverts Twitter back to how it used ot be with lots of trained staff etc Another outcome I'm going with Musk sells it along with a massive meltdown about wokes and shadow governments
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Mar 9, 2023 18:14
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Handsome Ralph posted:I've always liked Higgins since I heard this exchange Coming back to this super late, but yeah, he's a very nice man, and he's 100% not afraid to tear the face off a lovely person.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:14
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kazil posted:lol new twitter files dropping I thought you were just joking, but Jesus loving Christ: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830168673546245
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Mar 9, 2023 18:18
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Tai posted:So what's the likely end game for this? Musk unloads it for <2% of what he paid. New owners spend years rehabilitating Twitter and they get it back to a functional platform but what momentum it had is lost forever. Twitter becomes a dead, gay forum slowly bleeding people away.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:19
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Taibibi released ANOTHER Twitter Files this morning. This poo poo is becoming comical. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633876365651918848?s=20
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Mar 9, 2023 18:20
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his av is a twitter bird Oh its even weirder  Look how I'm attacked and beaten for you!
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:I could understand that mindset if the company was doing something truly impressive or important. I mean, I don't agree that twitter is important*, or that you're doing something valuable by developing or maintaining the platform. My experience with interviewing at large tech companies like Twitter is that the employees definitely feel like they're changing the world, so it's no great leap to assume that before the buyout Twitter was hiring starry-eyed dreamers, and those who remain with the company probably feel like absolute garbage. *I say this as someone who has stayed away from Twitter since its inception, so maybe it was great for humanity, idk, but from a distance it sure seemed like a lovely way to write and read information that boiled users' brains in piss.
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Mar 9, 2023 18:23
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doesn't that dipshit tabibbi know you can post your screeds in one massive tweet no one will read now??
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priznat posted:doesn't that dipshit tabibbi know you can post your screeds in one massive tweet no one will read now?? lol he can't he's legacy verified not subbed
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Hes a Tucker Carlson of sorts as far as upbringing and family.
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A couple odds and ends from today's testimony: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633856229054267393 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633857837574275073 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633861071894368266 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633873417958211587 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633875161316474881 Testimony's still ongoing as of this post, Rupar's doing a good job keeping track of this shitshow. God, Taibbi is such a little weasel. I'm glad he's intensely frustrated that barely anyone gives a flying gently caress about the Twitter files. IBroughttheFunk fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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kazil posted:lol he can't he's legacy verified not subbed Haha
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mysterious frankie posted:My experience with interviewing at large tech companies like Twitter is that the employees definitely feel like they're changing the world, so it's no great leap to assume that before the buyout Twitter was hiring starry-eyed dreamers, and those who remain with the company probably feel like absolute garbage. I'm sure theres a handful of people who've bought into the BS but by and large I can't see anyone seeing working there as a normal everyday wage earner actually having any loyalty or dreams about working there. Everything I've heard about the place, even before Elon bought it, is that it was never all that great to work for unless you were higher up the chain. mysterious frankie posted:*I say this as someone who has stayed away from Twitter since its inception, so maybe it was great for humanity, idk, but from a distance it sure seemed like a lovely way to write and read information that boiled users' brains in piss.
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happyhippy posted:He bought twitter so he could read Grimes private DMs. lol he bought twitter because he made a dumb joke bid (weed number lol!!!) and the courts held him to it. That's it. He was kicking and fighting it all the way trying to get out of the purchase. He's been trying to spin it as if it was his plan all along for ages but I really don't think there was an actual deeper reason than this, he just wanted people on twitter to pay attention to him and like him but he didn't actually want it. Just like when he said he was gonna donate 6 billion for a plan to solve world hunger, or the Flint water thing, or the Thai cave rescue, or any of the other examples. He just makes big statements to get praise, because #ElonCares, and then hopes everyone forgets about it before he has to follow through. This time it didn't go away.
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the important thing is the Babylon Bee is unbanned and can continue it's mission to carry out major crimes against humor
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Steadiman posted:lol he bought twitter because he made a dumb joke bid (weed number lol!!!) and the courts held him to it. That's it. He was kicking and fighting it all the way trying to get out of the purchase. He's been trying to spin it as if it was his plan all along for ages but I really don't think there was an actual deeper reason than this, he just wanted people on twitter to pay attention to him and like him but he didn't actually want it. nah, tweets arent legally binding, he actually did set out to buy twitter with contracts and lawyers and stuff during one of his manic phases
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Matt Stoller thinks this is loving Elon Musk pretty bad. I can't follow the legal logic though. https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1633882238335975430 IBroughttheFunk posted:Testimony's still ongoing as of this post, Rupar's doing a good job keeping track of this shitshow. God, Taibbi is such a little weasel. I'm glad he's intensely frustrated that barely anyone gives a flying gently caress about the Twitter files. Taibbi has an unfortunate ... I dunno facial tick or something where he always looks like he's loving smirking.
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