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Should I step down as head of twitter
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ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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while I hope she succeeds, I also feel a bit like neither her nor musk should have custody of their children, unless she's grown up a lot since her river rafting days

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Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
Im a bit surprised that Musk wants the custody to begin with

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

ymgve posted:

while I hope she succeeds, I also feel a bit like neither her nor musk should have custody of their children, unless she's grown up a lot since her river rafting days

At least she seems more like someone who would spend time with the kid.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

gschmidl posted:

As a white person, I support beating Musk to death no matter the color of your skin.
You, as a white person, want to beat up an African-American!?

Gherkin Jerkin
Jan 22, 2006

With great power, comes great crunchability...

goatface posted:

You at least need to weight for demographics.

Elon weights for no man.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Elias_Maluco posted:

Im a bit surprised that Musk wants the custody to begin with

you're surprised that elon wants control over the children and to win against his ex?

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Grimes at least probably loves the kids. Elon just likes having props and leverage over his ex

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Data Graham posted:

I have to rely on logistics being handled by a guy who is super Elon-happy and insists on me taking the Starlink (in its original giant retail box) with me on every road trip, like I'll be doing in a week for Thanksgiving with family in hillbilly appalachia.

He loves the slickness of the initial setup via the phone app, where you set the dish out on the lawn and press a button on the phone and it starts rotating around until it locks onto a satellite and it gives you all this cool visual feedback and stuff. He is convinced that Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs, basically on the basis of this phone app and setup process where he apparently believes Elon is personally responsible for insisting on perfect visual polish and user experience and not tolerating any glitches or shortcomings. "This is what happens when you have a Jobs-like figure in charge of UX and making sure it's perfect, and you don't get that any other way"

I don't even know what to say to people like this. They're in for a rude awakening the first time they have to get tech support or anything goes wrong for sure, but just that they've gotten this far in their life and they don't recognize snake oil when they see it is ... just so saddening. You get disappointed by so much in life and all the powerful institutions you grew up under being revealed as being made up of flawed people no smarter than you or me, and you respond not by saying "well I should try to help make these systems better", but by throwing all your faith sight-unseen behind a Great Man who you treat as the avatar of all your hopes and dreams. Like humanity as a collective is hopeless, but it can be redeemed by a single individual human if all people will only blindly surrender him enough personal power

The only way this can go wrong is if not enough people have enough faith in the savior

:negative:

Thinking more about this, this is probably my fault, because earlier on I had a theory about open-source software that I kept harping on where I posited that good UX and consistent design doesn't happen in software you're not getting paid to create. Design requires money. Open-source stuff is written by hobbyists and tinkerers in their spare time who just need to get it going, with spit and baling wire, every project the domain of its own quirky iconoclastic maverick who assumes and hoards power due to the fact that they're not answerable to any paycheck-signing boss. Every time someone in an open-source project decides they have a better idea than you do about how the UX should work, they just fork it off and make their own version with blackjack and hookers, and you end up with Gnome and KDE and Nautilus and sixteen other flavors of environment none of which really work because they weren't properly designed by UX specialists, but tacked on by guys whose first love is the nuts-and-bolts backend stuff that directly meets a functional need and whose human interface is an afterthought at best.

That's open-source / free software, and if you want actual UI quality and design and workflow, you have to be part of a real company that pays you a salary and employs people whose specialty is to do that kind of design work, not just people who fancy themselves able to do the easy UX stuff once they're done with the nitty-gritty kernel hacking they really enjoy.

That was my theory anyway (obviously I think it's a terrible oversimplification at best now), and I think this guy took it and ran with it to say "You need an autocratic despot in charge of UX and design and to crack the whip on all his underlings so they don't get out of line, otherwise you'll just end up with more bifurcation and chaos and overall crappy UI. That's what Jobs did and it's what Elon does"

Then he just looks past godawful Tesla design decisions and SpaceX failures because who the gently caress knows I guess.

Never have theories, is my new theory

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

kazil posted:

Elon just likes having props and leverage over his ex

Hey that's unfair, he also sees them as a method of spreading his dna as much as possible.

Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012




...! posted:

I gotta be honest, I highly doubt that you are looking into it

concerning

Demon Of The Fall
May 1, 2004

Nap Ghost
if Catturd knew anything he would have booked Santa's Pub instead, which is a dive bar located in a double wide tailer with great karaoke. might have fit his fans more than having to drive to scary downtown Nashville

thankfully the owner isn't a chud afaik and hosts lots of LGBT friendly events

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Im a bit surprised that Musk wants the custody to begin with

It's probably a response to people pointing out that you never see Elon interacting meaningfully with his many children. "See, if I maintain control of this one they'll be forced to love me and then everybody will too!"

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!












looks like he deleted this one for whatever reason

Aramis
Sep 22, 2009



Yet his politics remain unknowable.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
It's fascinating to see real time radicalization

Horrifying mostly but also fascinating

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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God it's like he's a shut-in 16-year-old who just got access to youtube for the first time and immediately started down the Ben Shapiro rabbithole

Just the most credulous naïve motherfucker

F4rt5
May 20, 2006

Unknowable politics! Although he just agreed with a guy that spouts most of the crap this deranged individual did.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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



Posting at 8am in the morning about how much I hate other races

Evilreaver
Feb 26, 2007

GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!
Dinosaur Gum
I can't wait for the cybertruck to go on sale for 1.5 million per unit, or some other outrageously insane price they had to set because that's the only price point they would be able to set to make a profit, followed by the cancellation of all but three orders, thereby effectively selling none at all

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
lmao that elon spent 44 billion dollars to put himself at the center of a nazi echo chamber

most people just click on youtube links, but not the smartest man on earth

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

kazil posted:

Grimes at least probably loves the kids. Elon just likes having props and leverage over his ex

Grimes doesn't hate non-white or LGBTQ+ people, AFAIK, so he's probably trying to "shield" his kids from that.

Kale
May 14, 2010

Man loves his right wing bullshit and safe space, what can I say

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Data Graham posted:

Just a covid-level genocide against whites going on daily, and nobody is allowed to talk about it !!

WHO IS REALLY OPPRESSED I ASK YOU

:byodood:

The Green Book was racist because it wanted to keep people apart.

Kale
May 14, 2010

Does Elon mean to say that the MSM won't report on these incidents in the same way that they won't report on his extreme right wing opinions or to at least try to get him to explain how they apparently aren't, or does he mean something else? Who knows? :iiam:

Anyway for me it's all the obvious conspiracy theorist propagandist nutjob tells in the account profiles he's replying too. Like these are the accounts I would definitely trust the most and assign the most credibility too.

Kale fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Nov 13, 2023

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Data Graham posted:

Just a covid-level genocide against whites going on daily, and nobody is allowed to talk about it !!

But nobody died of covid? Zero new cases as of April 2020?

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
you think moose hired a nanny to take care of his kids or did he just camp them infront a tv auto playing youtube TRUTH.

lol at the mentally feral children rich people are making with their homeschooling.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
He hired a horse breeder. That's basically a child care professional.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007


Hey, turn that poo poo down man, the Game is on!

Teratrain
Aug 23, 2007
Waiting for Godot

goatface posted:

He hired a horse breeder. That's basically a child care professional.

Nah that's his alternative to hiring a lawyer specialising in workplace sexual harassment cases

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
They can multitask.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Foo Diddley posted:

lmao that elon spent 44 billion dollars to put himself at the center of a nazi echo chamber

most people just click on youtube links, but not the smartest man on earth

Gab just wasn't enough for those loving morons it seems

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

Gab just wasn't enough for those loving morons it seems

Cant own the libs if there arent any around

Foo Diddley posted:

you're surprised that elon wants control over the children and to win against his ex?

Well, theres the "win against the ex" part that makes sense. But nothing Ive ever seen about this man suggests that he gives a gently caress about the dozens of children he keeps putting into the world

Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Nov 13, 2023

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

♬ I Know You're Dying Trying To Figure Me Out♬

♬My Name's On The Tip Of Your Tongue Keep Running Your Mouth♬

♬You Want The Recipe But Can't Handle My Sound My Sound My Sound♬

♬No Matter What You Do Im Gonna Get It Without Ya♬

♬ I Know You Ain't Used To A Female Alpha♬
lmao that Elon comments on the exact same threads that Anthony Cumia reads and posts about every single day

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
No wedding ring on Catturd? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Data Graham posted:

I have to rely on logistics being handled by a guy who is super Elon-happy and insists on me taking the Starlink (in its original giant retail box) with me on every road trip, like I'll be doing in a week for Thanksgiving with family in hillbilly appalachia.

He loves the slickness of the initial setup via the phone app, where you set the dish out on the lawn and press a button on the phone and it starts rotating around until it locks onto a satellite and it gives you all this cool visual feedback and stuff. He is convinced that Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs, basically on the basis of this phone app and setup process where he apparently believes Elon is personally responsible for insisting on perfect visual polish and user experience and not tolerating any glitches or shortcomings. "This is what happens when you have a Jobs-like figure in charge of UX and making sure it's perfect, and you don't get that any other way"

I don't even know what to say to people like this. They're in for a rude awakening the first time they have to get tech support or anything goes wrong for sure, but just that they've gotten this far in their life and they don't recognize snake oil when they see it is ... just so saddening. You get disappointed by so much in life and all the powerful institutions you grew up under being revealed as being made up of flawed people no smarter than you or me, and you respond not by saying "well I should try to help make these systems better", but by throwing all your faith sight-unseen behind a Great Man who you treat as the avatar of all your hopes and dreams. Like humanity as a collective is hopeless, but it can be redeemed by a single individual human if all people will only blindly surrender him enough personal power

The only way this can go wrong is if not enough people have enough faith in the savior

:negative:

Drop the thing off a cliff and let the dude go through the RMA process. It’ll disabuse him of any notions of Elon musk’s greatness.

Also Musk buys children the same way I buy action figures. For display purposes.

coconono fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Nov 13, 2023

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012

Elias_Maluco posted:

Cant own the libs if there arent any around

Well, theres the "win against the ex" part that makes sense. But nothing Ive ever seen about this man suggests that he gives a gently caress about the dozens of children he keeps putting into the world

Yeah, this seems like it's purely a matter of ego on his part and the principle of winning. This man genuinely only seems to care about making more white kids due to his weird population decline bullshit. He doesn't seem to actually care about being a genuine father in any actual way, shape or form, or at least in any positive way beyond using them as photo opps. And god help you if you're one of his kids and you actually want to be your own person.

Also, Jesus Christ. It's so frustrating to see him post all that poo poo on his account, and it feels like it gets zero notice by the larger media. I mean, just look at it. We are so goddamn far form subtle at this point. We're watching the world's richest man get rapidly radicalized in real time like an edgy teen with zero media literacy.



IBroughttheFunk fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Nov 13, 2023

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Elias_Maluco posted:

Cant own the libs if there arent any around

it is so blatantly, blatantly obvious that they never actually gave a gently caress about :byodood:"wHyTe gEnOsIdE:byodood: and just want to annoy/offend as many people as humanly possible (or i should say inhumanly, as a bunch of this stuff is quite literally on autopilot). The FBI Crime Stats thing is so outdated at this point one can become desensitized to it if they have enough Internet Brain Poisoning like I have.

Like no actual criteria goes into those things it's just 'White Exburbian Vibes' used to justify Law Enforcement funding

BornAPoorBlkChild fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Nov 13, 2023

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?

Seth Pecksniff posted:

It's fascinating to see real time radicalization

Horrifying mostly but also fascinating

His politics are radicalising me

I now hold very radical viewpoints regarding his right to mortality

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

E the Shaggy posted:

No wedding ring on Catturd? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!

Maybe he takes it off for Turdcon because of all the hot turd ladies in attendance

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rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

steinrokkan posted:

Maybe he takes it off for Turdcon because of all the hot turd ladies in attendance

I cannot think of a room of more awful people that I would rather die than spend a few hours with than turdcon

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