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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%
Total: 9490 votes
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Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009
Bill Maher is the answer to the question “Are liberals bad?”

He’s not even a bad liberal; he’s bad because of his liberalism.

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armpit_enjoyer
Jan 25, 2023

my god. it's full of posts


Can't wait for another Yacc tweet about #Sport

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Contact the fbi? Nah, reddit

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌
Note that moments after inadvertently encountering child porn and dutifully reporting it, he was still in the mood for a wank.

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

Breetai posted:

Note that moments after inadvertently encountering child porn and dutifully reporting it, he was still in the mood for a wank.

Lol if reporting content counts as engagement with the new twitter, and the algo helpfully provides more of the same

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"

armpit_enjoyer posted:



Can't wait for another Yacc tweet about #Sport

I mean gross obviously but also very funny to just search for the word porn.

parthenocarpy
Dec 18, 2003

Did someone say "sports?"

21st Cherry boy
Jan 28, 2004
i'm a girl, fucktard

parthenocarpy posted:

Did someone say "sports?"

No he clearly said porn

BrassRoots
Jan 9, 2012

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere - John Coltrane

21st Cherry boy posted:

No he clearly said porn

Twice

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

big black turnout posted:

Why does this thread seem to attract people who are very mentally unwell and also why are they still posting

e: my monitor is on god drat it

you may be surprised to learn this but elon musk is not really posting in this thread, his twitter posts are just being quoted

a7m2
Jul 9, 2012


Three Olives posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1701986211919962291

Jesus christ, gently caress this dude, just straight up Chinese propaganda.

He says "from their standpoint" and he poorly but basically correctly explains their standpoint. He's not stating his own opinion here.

You could argue China has a better claim on Taiwan than the US does on Hawaii since it's been a part of China for a lot longer. I personally don't agree with that argument, but it's not completely out there. I personally support both Taiwanese and Hawaiian independence if the majority of their populations want it (same with Catalonia, Scotland, etc). Taiwanese people at this time overwhelmingly support maintaining the status quo over full independence (84-88% depending on the source) so it's a little more complicated but I essentially support that. I can't find good figures on Hawaiian independence support.

gently caress Elon Musk and all but this particular video isn't bad.

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

armpit_enjoyer posted:



Can't wait for another Yacc tweet about #Sport

Well I'm definitely done... for now... maybe it'll go away and not keep getting progressively worse?

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




Guys Ukraine just completed the drone strike they planned for months when is Putin going to be launching the nukes Elon said they would use nukes he just wants to avoid nuclear war

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




I'm so scared of those nukes right now. I've shat myself. I'd piss myself too but my ketamine addiction has hosed up my liver real bad.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
I already died in a nuclear first strike by russia, it rules.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

mobby_6kl posted:

I already died in a nuclear first strike by russia, it rules.

Don't listen to this reviewer, this is obviously a positive review for access thing, they even admitted they got given a free preview of dying in nuclear explosions by russia and it is obviously biasing their opinion!

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

Okay. Hear me out. What if cancer cured Hitler?

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

That was one of the cool things about Sagan. He loved science, and he wanted to spread that love as much as he could. "The Demon-Haunted World" is basically dedicated to the idea that real science is incredibly cool, but because scientists don't get that message out, pseudo-science and outright bullshit get all the headlines, so maybe someone who understands science should write a book about the real science that's a lot cooler than the fake bullshit. I read the book for the first time a few years ago, and was struck by just how much Sagan's LOVE for science and the incredible beauty of the complexity of our world shines through from every page, and how infectious it is.

And then contrast that with ndt's incredibly tiresome "UMM ACKSHUALLY SANTA CLAUS COULD NOT FLY AROUND THE WORLD BEACUSE THE SPEED IT WOULD DEMAND WOULD IMMEDIATELY COMBUST HIS TUNIC WHICH..." scolding poo poo.

DeGrasse Tyson has a love for science in the same way the bazinga guy on Big Bang Theory has a love for science - to be a joyless fuckstain who sucks the air out of a room just to show how smart he is every loving second of the day.

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.

Escape From Noise posted:

Okay. Hear me out. What if cancer cured Hitler?

Too late. Bullets got there first.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Hippocrass posted:

Too late. Bullets got there first.

I was assuming they meant cancer cured him of a bullet in the head.

Which um, which giving hitler wolverine powers definitely still falls on the very bad side of things, and as cancer is already bad... um no change to cancers good/evil alignment I guess :shrug:

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

dr_rat posted:

I was assuming they meant cancer cured him of a bullet in the head.

Which um, which giving hitler wolverine powers definitely still falls on the very bad side of things, and as cancer is already bad... um no change to cancers good/evil alignment I guess :shrug:

As an untermensch I really wouldn't be into that.

Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Sep 14, 2023

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.

dr_rat posted:

I was assuming they meant cancer cured him of a bullet in the head.

Which um, which giving hitler wolverine powers definitely still falls on the very bad side of things, and as cancer is already bad... um no change to cancers good/evil alignment I guess :shrug:

Oh God!
Now he's Deadpool too!

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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

a7m2 posted:

He says "from their standpoint" and he poorly but basically correctly explains their standpoint. He's not stating his own opinion here.

You could argue China has a better claim on Taiwan than the US does on Hawaii since it's been a part of China for a lot longer. I personally don't agree with that argument, but it's not completely out there. I personally support both Taiwanese and Hawaiian independence if the majority of their populations want it (same with Catalonia, Scotland, etc). Taiwanese people at this time overwhelmingly support maintaining the status quo over full independence (84-88% depending on the source) so it's a little more complicated but I essentially support that. I can't find good figures on Hawaiian independence support.

gently caress Elon Musk and all but this particular video isn't bad.

It’s just the normal stupidity of Musk finding geopolitical situations he only sorta understands (the Hawaii thing suggests to me he’s had someone use that analogy to him) that affect the lives of many millions and deciding he needs to weigh in.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Philonius
Jun 12, 2005

a7m2 posted:

He says "from their standpoint" and he poorly but basically correctly explains their standpoint. He's not stating his own opinion here.

You could argue China has a better claim on Taiwan than the US does on Hawaii since it's been a part of China for a lot longer. I personally don't agree with that argument, but it's not completely out there. I personally support both Taiwanese and Hawaiian independence if the majority of their populations want it (same with Catalonia, Scotland, etc). Taiwanese people at this time overwhelmingly support maintaining the status quo over full independence (84-88% depending on the source) so it's a little more complicated but I essentially support that. I can't find good figures on Hawaiian independence support.

gently caress Elon Musk and all but this particular video isn't bad.

China's view of Taiwain being a breakaway province makes very little sense. If anything, the PRC are the breakaways.

Hawaii would only be a good comparison if we had a 2nd civil war, the confederacy wins, and then presses a claim on the US government in exile in Honolulu.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Regardless of how accurate the story is about the sentiment of the Taiwanese, it's dangerous to accept at face value the propaganda of a country that's in the position to be the oppressor

I feel like a better example of kinda-sorta would have been puerto rico or a different non-state territory anyway. The genius savant of international politics knows those exist, right?

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?

dr_rat posted:

Don't listen to this reviewer, this is obviously a positive review for access thing, they even admitted they got given a free preview of dying in nuclear explosions by russia and it is obviously biasing their opinion!

Someone painted a list of pronouns on the warhead and now I'm a shadow on a wall, fist raised in the air, a silhouette only broken up by the deluge of tears I was crying mid anhiliation powerwashing the ashes away

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape

Yes Mr musk, the moh scale exists

It's not like getting diamond tipped poo poo is tricky
Or that tungsten carbide is notoriously easy to chip or crack
Or that the truck is stupid holistically

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

You can't even loving offer a truck bub.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Captain of Industry Elon Musk and his Boerden Metal car.

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
This is obviously a paradox and thus will make the universe explode.

Did you not listen in physics class!!!

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
wouldnt coating the outside of the vehicle with tungsten on a whim for a completely dumb reason add a bunch of weight

the truck already looks like it can barely move, turn, or climb a very small incline

FurtherReading
Sep 4, 2007

thathonkey posted:

wouldnt coating the outside of the vehicle with tungsten on a whim for a completely dumb reason add a bunch of weight

the truck already looks like it can barely move, turn, or climb a very small incline

Elon Musk is asking the question "why not make the plane out of the same material as the black box" unironically.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

thathonkey posted:

wouldnt coating the outside of the vehicle with tungsten on a whim for a completely dumb reason add a bunch of weight

the truck already looks like it can barely move, turn, or climb a very small incline

Unmoving trucks are safer than moving trucks. This is a safety feature!

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

thathonkey posted:

wouldnt coating the outside of the vehicle with tungsten on a whim for a completely dumb reason add a bunch of weight

the truck already looks like it can barely move, turn, or climb a very small incline

buddy, it can tow infinite weight. this wouldn't matter at all.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

thathonkey posted:

wouldnt coating the outside of the vehicle with tungsten on a whim for a completely dumb reason add a bunch of weight

the truck already looks like it can barely move, turn, or climb a very small incline
Coatings are usually very thin so I doubt it would be significant amount of extra weight. The real problem is that it's just a dumb waste of time and money. Like his "bullet proof" glass.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Depends how thin a layer you plate on.

They use tungsten coatings in rocket nozzles. This could just be him trying to shuffle money around again.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Call Your Grandma posted:

buddy, it can tow infinite weight. this wouldn't matter at all.

hey nobody has ever accused me of being the world's smartest man

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Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009

Pirate Radar posted:

It’s just the normal stupidity of Musk finding geopolitical situations he only sorta understands (the Hawaii thing suggests to me he’s had someone use that analogy to him) that affect the lives of many millions and deciding he needs to weigh in.

One of the things with Twitter is that the point of it (or at least one of the points of it) is to encourage users to weigh in on things they only sort of understand. Arguably it could be relatively harmless to have a platform where non-experts can opine on things that interest them; can amateur hobbyists ever discuss geopolitics, military history, etc.?

But then you get to prominent people with huge audiences like Musk and Rowling who get treated as experts on things like geopolitics and gender even though they are just your standard non-expert idiot like most of us.

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