Neddy Seagoon posted:

He did, most likely a one-off random-looking manually-paid amount to make it look it like there's gold in them thar tweets posts.

Which anyone can tell you is classic scam bait.

...! posted:

No, nothing about it was random and he never put serious effort into making it look like it was. He paid a handful of far-right guys and that's it. And catturd2 is extremely pissed he didn't get picked

ShadowHawk posted:

Tesla doesn't even reset the cars they sell certified pre-owned. Mine came with the previous owners address and garage door opener on the home screen, along with his kids names in the cell phone memory. It wasn't even charged.

Tesla did go to the trouble of removing the legally required front license plate frame, though.

...! posted:

No, nothing about it was random and he never put serious effort into making it look like it was. He paid a handful of far-right guys and that's it. And catturd2 is extremely pissed he didn't get picked

vaginite posted:

Did they at least scrape their charred remains out of it?

The Awesomesaurus posted:

redshirt posted:

Scraping is against the law!

Parkingtigers posted:

Uh, not to get this into big derail (because you know what we're like) but that's pretty much the opposite of what happened. To be clear, they were both awful, but they disagreed on the details of how to be awful so much that America aligned with China, it being seen as the smaller red menace, against the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split

ShadowHawk posted:

Tesla doesn't even reset the cars they sell certified pre-owned. Mine came with the previous owners address and garage door opener on the home screen, along with his kids names in the cell phone memory. It wasn't even charged.

Tesla did go to the trouble of removing the legally required front license plate frame, though.

ShadowHawk posted:

Tesla doesn't even reset the cars they sell certified pre-owned. Mine came with the previous owners address and garage door opener on the home screen, along with his kids names in the cell phone memory. It wasn't even charged.

Tesla did go to the trouble of removing the legally required front license plate frame, though.

...! posted:

You didn't just buy a Tesla... you bought a used Tesla? Just want to make sure I'm understanding this properly.

DeeplyConcerned posted:

naturally, I'm curious. What color is it? Do you ever use auto pilot? Have you ever run over a small child in the Tesla has the tesla ever caught on fire has the tesla ever run into an emergency vehicle does the Tesla talk to you? Do you talk to it? Can you connect your phone to the Tesla? Does the Tesla have a seat warmer? Can you escape out of the back if it catches on fire? can you put gas in a Tesla?

Dabir posted:

Did you send him a letter telling him to complain

ShadowHawk posted:

No I silently deleted it cause approaching some random stranger I have no connection to and saying "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE" felt kinda weird?

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.

ShadowHawk posted:

No I silently deleted it cause approaching some random stranger I have no connection to and saying "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE" felt kinda weird?

SRQ posted:

lol that address thing is an actual crime in Europe

Parkingtigers posted:

I'm late to Grimes chat, but I had never heard any of her songs and I looked up the one with the biggest numbers and it was poo poo. You can barely make out the words, no strong melody, and halfway through it ran out of lyrics and just repeated a line to the end. But most of all she sounded vocally like she was copying the 1980s one hit wonder Japanese Boy by Aneka.

ShadowHawk posted:

I never used autopilot, nothing about anything of it would make me trust it

Unlike my old civic it does have bluetooth and that seems to play through the speakers though it has a strange behavior of autoplaying whatever random thing was on my phone when I get into the car, even if it was some youtube video I paused hours ago

It does have seat warmers and I never had that on a car so I don't really know if I'm getting quality butt-warming or run-of-the-mill butt-warming

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To be considered eligible for creator ads revenue sharing you must:

1. Be subscribed to X Premium or Verified Organizations.
2. Have at least 15M organic impressions on your cumulative posts within the last 3 months.
3. Have at least 500 followers

PhazonLink posted:

work
for
mom/musk?

Halisnacks posted:

So if the creator ads revenue share participants are actually hand picked by Elon, could X be found to have committed fraud?

The site makes it seem like eligibility is just a numbers game:

Obviously making a Twitter Blue X Premium account necessary will mean this skews heavily rightwing, but could they actually deny catturd and other subscribing chuds with followers without it being fraudulent?

Machai posted:

Work From Mars

Neeksy posted:

I'm trying to figure out if it's more of a ponzi scheme or pyramid

Neeksy posted:

I'm trying to figure out if it's more of a ponzi scheme or pyramid

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689963696703848449?t=s4l6Ixr3oCYfY5h3TXb7iQ&s=19

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689963696703848449?t=s4l6Ixr3oCYfY5h3TXb7iQ&s=19

Panfilo posted:

Halisnacks posted:

I don’t think it’s either. I think the closest analogy is a lottery ticket: buy this and you could in theory receive more than you spent, but in practice you will get nothing or much less than you spent cumulatively over time.