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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

That doesn't look like musk at all. :colbert:

(that figure is clearly doing exercise)

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Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

SirPhoebos posted:

Watch Elon undermine a casino.

Holy poo poo I am an incredible moron. Nearly 39 loving years on this Earth, and this is the first time it clicked that "undermining" also has a literal meaning.

sure okay
Apr 7, 2006





frappé frappé lemonade,
around the corner Elon's posts are made

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

kazil posted:



How can number be down? I said number be up!

It's because your employees are lying about everything going great to avoid having to deal with you, Elon.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
"user seconds" is the funniest thing he has ever come up with by far

Sankis
Mar 8, 2004

But I remember the fella who told me. Big lad. Arms as thick as oak trees, a stunning collection of scars, nice eye patch. A REAL therapist he was. Er wait. Maybe it was rapist?


Time_pants posted:

Holy poo poo I am an incredible moron. Nearly 39 loving years on this Earth, and this is the first time it clicked that "undermining" also has a literal meaning.

Yup! I think it was a siege technique in the medieval eras. They used to do it to castle walls and poo poo.

edit: the items are called "phoenix down" in final fantasy because they're feathers from a phoenix

Sankis fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Aug 9, 2023

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Sankis posted:

Yup! I think it was a siege technique in the medieval eras. They used to do it to castle walls and poo poo.

edit: the items are called "phoenix down" in final fantasy because they're feathers from a phoenix

"Why do they call them BBs? They're just ball bearings."

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

Time_pants posted:

"Why do they call them BBs? They're just ball bearings."

Oh god drat it...

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

E the Shaggy posted:

He 100% has some deal with advertisers that he personally will shill their products to stay on TwXtter.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689063481155158018?s=20

No I wouldn’t be surprised if he just does this for free because he’s hoping they’ll stay if he does, no agreement between them

RoboChrist 9000
Dec 14, 2006

Mater Dolorosa
So I get why Musk hasn't because this whole arc is about how the law does not apply to him, but how the gently caress has Dom Lucre not been arrested and poo poo for the whole CSAM stuff? Hell, how is 'Elon Musk personally unbans and pays money to a man who shared the world's most infamous piece of CSAM" not something the media is running with? Sure they like to carry water for fascist, but this is so loving salacious it seems like the sort of thing they'd be all over.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



E the Shaggy posted:

He 100% has some deal with advertisers that he personally will shill their products to stay on TwXtter.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689063481155158018?s=20

There was a survey of advertisers made where they specifically said they would strongly prefer his tweets not be seen alongside their ads. that news made him mad so he's deliberately responding to adverts in childish defiance

Hardcastlemccormik
Jul 19, 2022
I’ve never had Goldbelly cookies and Mangosteen but I assume both of them are better than a McDonalds Oreo Frappe.

Do the Lowtax checklist better, Elon

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I'm honestly shocked that, after the CSAM-reinstatement thing, the Brand-Safety Manager for (company) hasn't dragged the advertising manager to a pc to cancel every ad they have. It goes beyond 'unable to guarantee brand safety' into 'active and deliberate danger'.

* For (company) insert every company advertising with Twitter that has enough employees to have an actual advertising department.

vaginite
Feb 8, 2006

I'm comin' for you, colonel.



Sankis posted:

Yup! I think it was a siege technique in the medieval eras. They used to do it to castle walls and poo poo.

edit: the items are called "phoenix down" in final fantasy because they're feathers from a phoenix

Don't forget the x potion, it's called that because the people who named it are lazy and stupid. It had a cooler name that was more intuitive, the "full health potion" but the guy naming it insisted.

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

the little X in employee's handles points to this page:
https://twitter.com/X

which still has all kinds of bullshit posts from various dates in no particular order:


if you click about.x.com it leads to this page:
https://about.twitter.com/en


which still has the bird logo as a favicon and multiple references to twitter

click on the 'Status' link in the footer and you go here: https://status.twitterstat.us/





just fantastic stuff, good job elon, this is why you make the big bucks

vaginite
Feb 8, 2006

I'm comin' for you, colonel.



Dabir posted:

Self assessed as 10/10 because it's so stable that it's impossible for it to ever get in a rollover

Yeah it's super stable as of now. But if it was real and could move, and thus was susceptible to the physics that say, Toyota has to deal with, I wonder how that shape would take landing on that point at 60 mph.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

The Saddest Rhino posted:

There was a survey of advertisers made where they specifically said they would strongly prefer his tweets not be seen alongside their ads. that news made him mad so he's deliberately responding to adverts in childish defiance

Oh yeah there’s that too

Buce
Dec 23, 2005


Hippocrass
Aug 18, 2015

That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.
So you see, Elon doesn't hate the Trans gendered, just trans gendered people!

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Hippocrass posted:

So you see, Elon doesn't hate the Trans gendered, just trans gendered people!

He isn't racists he just disliked people based off their skin pigmentation and phrenology calipers measurements!

That's just basic science genius stuff.

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
imagine being rich enough to eat or drink anything in the world at any time and you're making heart eyes at mcdonalds sugar water
what a loving waste of a life this guy's had

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

The Saddest Rhino posted:

There was a survey of advertisers made where they specifically said they would strongly prefer his tweets not be seen alongside their ads. that news made him mad so he's deliberately responding to adverts in childish defiance

The most hosed up thing about Elon Musk is that the more pathetic a story makes him seem, the more believable it becomes.

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo
I would still occasionally eat McDonald's fries if I became a billionaire


I wouldn't post about it though

Hippocrass
Aug 18, 2015

That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

InsertPotPun posted:

imagine being rich enough to eat or drink anything in the world at any time and you're making heart eyes at mcdonalds sugar water
what a loving waste of a life this guy's had

Jeff Bezos apparently eats at McDonald's all the loving time.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

maybealabia posted:

I would still occasionally eat McDonald's fries if I became a billionaire


I wouldn't post about it though

the app has any size fries deals for 1.29

billionaire for a day

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

The Lone Badger posted:

I'm honestly shocked that, after the CSAM-reinstatement thing, the Brand-Safety Manager for (company) hasn't dragged the advertising manager to a pc to cancel every ad they have. It goes beyond 'unable to guarantee brand safety' into 'active and deliberate danger'.

* For (company) insert every company advertising with Twitter that has enough employees to have an actual advertising department.

Good luck. If they believe being on the rapidly deteriorating hate speech-friendly social media site would net a dollar more than pulling ads would, then they'll keep doing it. Everyone in marketing was once an aspiring panhandler who gave up on their dreams.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Hippocrass posted:

Jeff Bezos apparently eats at McDonald's all the loving time.

it's healthy if you have enough blood boys

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

TulliusCicero posted:

Is Elon just like the scion of some lunatic Himmlerite or something? The obsession with fertility and wierd space poo poo gives me like wierd SS Aryan cult vibes

There's been multiple studies about this. People, by and large, are just straight up incapable of seeing their luck as luck and see it in born skill. Musk just believes he's rich through his own talents and owes it to the human race to have many kids.


One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.


David Brancaccio: So here are these players, one of them doing well because of a flip of a coin, the other one not doing well. And what happens to the players doing better? It kind of goes to their head?

Paul Piff: Yeah. I think what was notable was that, within just a couple of minutes, dynamics start to crystallize. The rich players start to take up more space at the table, so they actually take on a more physically dominant posture. They start making more noise. They start banging the table louder with their pieces as they move around. And over the course of the 15 minutes, one of the things that we noticed is that they actually became ruder in their behavior.

So one possibility is that rich players are kind of embarrassed by the situation, doing what they can to help out this other person who undeservedly is a poor player — and that’s actually the opposite of what we found. The rich player became ruder; became less sensitive to the plight of the other player. They started eating more pretzels and did so in ruder fashion; we had a bowl of pretzels positioned on the table as another way of watching dominance in our rich players. They start showcasing their property, their wealth, sort of exhibiting how well they’re doing.

So across all these different indexes we found that rich players, despite winning the game through really very little effort — because of the coin flip that went their way — they still acted as if they deserved to win and that the poor player deserved to lose.

Brancaccio: They think it’s their own awesomeness. You gotta love human beings, don’t you? We’re just such great people.

Piff: And I think that’s the kicker. At the end of the study, we ask rich players why they inevitably won, and they don’t talk about the flip of the coin. They talk about the things that they did. They talk about their acumen, they talk about their competencies, they talk about this decision or that decision or that thing that they did.

And I think that this is a basic human bias that’s true of all of us: When something good happens to you, we — I think because of the cognitive machinery that we’re equipped with — think about the things that we did that contributed to that success. And we see that in people who win in all walks of life. When you’re winning, you think about the things that you did to help you win. The problem is, that bias writ large, at least in the domain of inequality, it can get people who are winning at the game of life — who have more money, who have more privilege, who have more power — to think about their resources as things that they deserve, to be less likely to think that inequality is a problem because after all, they deserve what they have, and as a result, to be less willing to do things about it, to be less willing to contribute to people who have less, to be less willing to behave in ways that are compassionate, that help the needs of those who have less than they do.

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004

E the Shaggy posted:

He 100% has some deal with advertisers that he personally will shill their products to stay on TwXtter.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689063481155158018?s=20

So the question is, which is more pathetic here?

Is Mush, the richest man in the world, shilling for fast food companies for an extra buck... or is he just honestly posting corporate groveling tweets because he thinks it sounds "ordinary" and it'll make people like him? I mean the first is like watching someone in a tailored suit dig scramble after a penny someone dropped in a gutter and the latter is basically "How do you do, fellow kids consumers?"

cracker
May 12, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Philthy posted:

the app has any size fries deals for 1.29

billionaire for a day

Free fries on Friday with a $1 purchase in my hood

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer

InsertPotPun posted:

imagine being rich enough to eat or drink anything in the world at any time and you're making heart eyes at mcdonalds sugar water
what a loving waste of a life this guy's had

I sometimes give my chef the night off and let the chauffeur pick a drive-through at 2am to show that I can have plebeian tastes :colbert:

If you don't buy 100 Jack-in-the-Box tacos and tell the employees to just hand them things out all night to whoever, why are you even rich?

HamburgerTownUSA
Aug 7, 2022

Modal Auxiliary posted:

Grimes looks like she smells like a service bar mat after a Saturday double shift, which is weird because I've heard she's not even much of a drinker.

Azealia Banks told Grimes that she smells like a roll of nickels.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares



When I was a homophobic little poo poo when I was young and stupid, I too sealioned about THE CHILDREN / THE BABIES and I'm pretty sure only idiots and Christians believed I was telling the truth

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
tbf to eating McD. if I was traveling in the world and wanted a comfort food for my micro biome in my gut, I can say that McD's industrial food science makes the same product everywhere in the world.

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

PhazonLink posted:

tbf to eating McD. if I was traveling in the world and wanted a comfort food for my micro biome in my gut, I can say that McD's industrial food science makes the same product everywhere in the world.

no they don't

Rosalind
Apr 30, 2013

When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change.

PhazonLink posted:

tbf to eating McD. if I was traveling in the world and wanted a comfort food for my micro biome in my gut, I can say that McD's industrial food science makes the same product everywhere in the world.

Sorry but this just isn't the case. Here's an infographic showing just how much the Big Mac alone varies from country to country: https://www.amica-international.co.uk/blog/around-the-world-in-20-big-macs

This isn't even getting into how different fries can be prepared from country to country and not mentioning country-specific menu items.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

There's been multiple studies about this. People, by and large, are just straight up incapable of seeing their luck as luck and see it in born skill. Musk just believes he's rich through his own talents and owes it to the human race to have many kids.


One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.


David Brancaccio: So here are these players, one of them doing well because of a flip of a coin, the other one not doing well. And what happens to the players doing better? It kind of goes to their head?

Paul Piff: Yeah. I think what was notable was that, within just a couple of minutes, dynamics start to crystallize. The rich players start to take up more space at the table, so they actually take on a more physically dominant posture. They start making more noise. They start banging the table louder with their pieces as they move around. And over the course of the 15 minutes, one of the things that we noticed is that they actually became ruder in their behavior.

So one possibility is that rich players are kind of embarrassed by the situation, doing what they can to help out this other person who undeservedly is a poor player — and that’s actually the opposite of what we found. The rich player became ruder; became less sensitive to the plight of the other player. They started eating more pretzels and did so in ruder fashion; we had a bowl of pretzels positioned on the table as another way of watching dominance in our rich players. They start showcasing their property, their wealth, sort of exhibiting how well they’re doing.

So across all these different indexes we found that rich players, despite winning the game through really very little effort — because of the coin flip that went their way — they still acted as if they deserved to win and that the poor player deserved to lose.

Brancaccio: They think it’s their own awesomeness. You gotta love human beings, don’t you? We’re just such great people.

Piff: And I think that’s the kicker. At the end of the study, we ask rich players why they inevitably won, and they don’t talk about the flip of the coin. They talk about the things that they did. They talk about their acumen, they talk about their competencies, they talk about this decision or that decision or that thing that they did.

And I think that this is a basic human bias that’s true of all of us: When something good happens to you, we — I think because of the cognitive machinery that we’re equipped with — think about the things that we did that contributed to that success. And we see that in people who win in all walks of life. When you’re winning, you think about the things that you did to help you win. The problem is, that bias writ large, at least in the domain of inequality, it can get people who are winning at the game of life — who have more money, who have more privilege, who have more power — to think about their resources as things that they deserve, to be less likely to think that inequality is a problem because after all, they deserve what they have, and as a result, to be less willing to do things about it, to be less willing to contribute to people who have less, to be less willing to behave in ways that are compassionate, that help the needs of those who have less than they do.


Oh psychology, it’s such a goofy discipline sometimes

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Piff: And I think that’s the kicker. At the end of the study, we ask rich players why they inevitably won, and they don’t talk about the flip of the coin. They talk about the things that they did. They talk about their acumen, they talk about their competencies, they talk about this decision or that decision or that thing that they did.

And I think that this is a basic human bias that’s true of all of us: When something good happens to you, we — I think because of the cognitive machinery that we’re equipped with — think about the things that we did that contributed to that success. And we see that in people who win in all walks of life. When you’re winning, you think about the things that you did to help you win. The problem is, that bias writ large, at least in the domain of inequality, it can get people who are winning at the game of life — who have more money, who have more privilege, who have more power — to think about their resources as things that they deserve, to be less likely to think that inequality is a problem because after all, they deserve what they have, and as a result, to be less willing to do things about it, to be less willing to contribute to people who have less, to be less willing to behave in ways that are compassionate, that help the needs of those who have less than they do.[/i]

It's extremely funny that you can have a situation where one player clearly has double the advantage of the other player and they'll still say they won because they played better. lmao

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Mistle posted:

I sometimes give my chef the night off and let the chauffeur pick a drive-through at 2am to show that I can have plebeian tastes :colbert:

If you don't buy 100 Jack-in-the-Box tacos and tell the employees to just hand them things out all night to whoever, why are you even rich?

If I had a company, I'd have inhouse cooks and a cafeteria keeping the underlings fed with a broad menu selection. And retain a few to work late with an understanding that past 6pm there better be something simple and greasy on the menu for anyone working late/oncall to regret the morning after.

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Neddy Seagoon posted:

If I had a company, I'd have inhouse cooks and a cafeteria keeping the underlings fed with a broad menu selection. And retain a few to work late with an understanding that past 6pm there better be something simple and greasy on the menu for anyone working late/oncall to regret the morning after.

Didn't Twitter do exactly this?

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