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Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
He playin pokémon go to a different website

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DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!
War....

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



The nazi who played fact yahtzee

Serfer
Mar 10, 2003

The piss tape is real



chess is too easy, no tech tree, only 8x8 board

Elon is playing fact polytopia

Meat Miracle
Oct 24, 2010

Schmoe Cwead posted:

everyone else is playing fact checkers

elon is playing fact chess

makes sense he'd stick to a game where the whites are advantaged

don't think he's a fan of pawn promotion though

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Schmoe Cwead posted:

everyone else is playing fact checkers

elon is playing fact chess

yorkinshire
Apr 28, 2009

In space no one can hear your dope beats.
3d polytopia

shackleford
Sep 4, 2006

WrasslorMonkey posted:

Does that mean they will have to give Elon 6% of a billion dollars if twitter is found in violation?

i think by "turnover" they mean annual gross revenue or something? not profit/loss. so e.g. if in 2023 twitter brings in $1B of gross revenue but has expenses of $2B, the most the EU could fine them would be $60M (6% of $1B), regardless of whether they turned a profit or not? idk i'm not an accountant.

there is a loophole however!

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2348 posted:

What impacts does the proposed Digital Services Act have on platforms and very large platforms?

All platforms, except the smallest (employing fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million), are required to set up complaint and redress mechanisms and out-of-court dispute settlement mechanisms, cooperate with trusted flaggers, take measures against abusive notices, deal with complaints, vet the credentials of third party suppliers, and provide user-facing transparency of online advertising.

In addition, very large online platforms and very large online search engines, reaching at least 45 million users (i.e. representing 10% of the European population) are subject to specific rules due to the particular risks they pose in the dissemination of illegal content and societal harms.

Very large online platforms have to meet risk management obligations, external risk auditing and public accountability, provide transparency of their recommender systems and user choice for access to information, as well as share data with authorities and researchers.

twitter was at 1,300 employees back in january, are there any newer numbers since then or have all the employees who keep track of those kinds of things been fired

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

shackleford posted:

i think by "turnover" they mean annual gross revenue or something? not profit/loss. so e.g. if in 2023 twitter brings in $1B of gross revenue but has expenses of $2B, the most the EU could fine them would be $60M (6% of $1B), regardless of whether they turned a profit or not? idk i'm not an accountant.

Elon, laughing loudly, shows the EU twitter's actual ad revenu and cuts them a check for ten dollars.

Glumwheels
Jan 25, 2003

https://twitter.com/BidenHQ
The EU doesn’t generally gently caress around, so good luck to Musk and his favorite “anti-propaganda” grifters (who just spew far right bullshit)

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
elon musk will be selling twitter to the EU

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
they call it the eu because when you see it you say ew :elon:

16-bit Butt-Head has issued a correction as of 01:34 on Oct 11, 2023

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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



Fact of war

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


elon is going to buy th EU

mcbexx
Jul 4, 2004

British dentistry is
not on trial here!



"Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world."
- Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl9RWOvRY4

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Surely fines must be based off revenue not profit, or at least have minimums for large companies. It's not like multinationals haven't been intentionally offshoring actual profits to tax havens for forever now.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


dr_rat posted:

Surely fines must be based off revenue not profit, or at least have minimums for large companies. It's not like multinationals haven't been intentionally offshoring actual profits to tax havens for forever now.

6% of global revenue.

so what like $80 for current Twitter?

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

mcbexx posted:

"Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world."
- Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl9RWOvRY4

should warn us when linking to reactionary yt accounts like that. but i thought that guy was a huge fan of musk, and now he's all shockedpikachu.gif about what he's done to twitter?

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

Serfer posted:

chess is too easy, no tech tree, only 8x8 board

Elon is playing fact polytopia
I just looked up his chess tweet and lol that one of his complaints is that both players have the same pieces to play with. Not fair!

Skull Servant
Oct 25, 2009

mcbexx posted:

"Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world."
- Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl9RWOvRY4

"True"
- Elon Musk

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


This just went up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6z4H_geX5A

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
concerning

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys
*elon musk voice* piss

Dr_0ctag0n
Apr 25, 2015


The whole human race
sentenced
to
burn
https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1711898036144943423?s=20

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

WrasslorMonkey posted:

Elon, laughing loudly, shows the EU twitter's actual ad revenu and cuts them a check for ten dollars.

Lol you’d have a better chance of getting money out of Trump.

Upsidads
Jan 11, 2007
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates


Blockchain id login

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
more like blogchain

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012


This was fine. Nothing new, nothing terribly funny.

My biggest gripe is towards the end when the journalist said something like "Musk hasn't failed much, he's launched rockets, made cars" and the interviewee said "that's not media," to which he replied "is media harder than rocket science?" She explained, correctly, that they are just different things and just because you're good at basketball doesn't mean you'll be good at baseball, or something to that effect.

The better response imo is that Musk knows nothing about rocket science, or the engineering behind building cars, and he's not even really a coder, developer, engineer, etc. He's just a rich, pushy rear end in a top hat that somehow has a magical ability to get people much smarter than him to get things done and/or take credit for other people's accomplishments.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1711927250344456683
the adl is bad again

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004


sweet, thanks. going to save it for a weekend watch

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1711959679423688802
e:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1711963448916025787

Malloc Voidstar has issued a correction as of 05:36 on Oct 11, 2023

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020


how can one man be so epic, based and ftw all at the same time 😲😲😲

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

elon musk will be selling twitter to the EU

That would be a net positive, given their better handling of copyright than american-based companies. Less "You must remove this specific video because it used like 5 seconds of the Nintendo Mario theme" stuff and would be more compliant with Internet Archive type systems.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

And you are the guy paying this fucker a subscription, you stupid moron

edit: vvvvvvvvvvvvv alright, less bad. but he could have refused it like dril

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Elias_Maluco has issued a correction as of 11:58 on Oct 11, 2023

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Elias_Maluco posted:

And you are the guy paying this fucker a subscription, you stupid moron
matt binder is one of the accounts that got a 'complimentary' twitter blue subscription from musk because musk was mad at him
the new york times had one for a while too

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

Elias_Maluco posted:

And you are the guy paying this fucker a subscription, you stupid moron

edit: vvvvvvvvvvvvv alright, less bad. but he could have refused it like dril

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Malloc Voidstar posted:

matt binder is one of the accounts that got a 'complimentary' twitter blue subscription from musk because musk was mad at him
the new york times had one for a while too

The extension I use shows him as "Verified" not "Paid" as well. I wonder if he still gets the paid twitter blue perks

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
i think if you are assigned blue then you can use its features but can't receive any ad revenue

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


[guy who destroyed his brain via twitter] People should see the disinformation and decide for themselves.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1712096627412857006

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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Concerning

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