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Should I step down as head of twitter
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No 69 0.73%
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FurtherReading
Sep 4, 2007

kazil posted:

lol Elon must be in a really poo poo mood, hasn't tweeted since Tuesday

Has this been his biggest gap in tweets since he bought twitter?

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Renreeja
Oct 11, 2007

Toplowtech posted:

The Kuato scene but both the carrier and Kuato have Elon's face.

The Kuato was Kissinger, thats why the host is going off the rails

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
woo! who out there is getting their new CYBERTRUCK today?? beep beep honk honk!!

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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smh if it doesn't play La Cucaracha

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Mozi posted:

woo! who out there is getting their new CYBERTRUCK today?? beep beep honk honk!!

Oh nooo it was today? I thought it was tomorrow. My pleather trousers with SMEXXY emblazoned on the rear end are still drying :supaburn:

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
im getting a Khybertruck

made in afghanistan

higher safety rating

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

Alan Smithee posted:

im getting a Khybertruck

made in afghanistan

higher safety rating

I want a '90s hilux with a gun mount in the bed <:mad:>

Tac Dibar
Apr 7, 2009

drilldo squirt posted:

What's with all these people who want Elon to be good because he is rich or something?

It seems to me that Elon is the personification an entire worldview, and so he HAS to be good. For a lot of people I think he directly represents a few fundamental beliefs:

1) Rich people deserve to be rich. Capitalism is a just and fair system that rewards people who deserve it.
2) Technological progress will help us overcome any oncoming problems, and we are heading towards Star Trek world (minus the socialism).
3) The future is dependent on the efforts of a few extraordinary individuals.

These beliefs have become so strongly associated with this particular individual that he cannot be allowed to fail. If he fails, the belief system is harmed.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Fat Albert in a can posted:

He sounds like he’s had a stroke

He sounds like the meth addicts explaining how they just need five bucks because their car broke down but they gotta buy a bus ticket because their sister is in another city, see, and we need to get at least twenty bucks for gas

Like I've heard that exact pausing and ramp up quick speaking a thousand times from fiends.


Tac Dibar posted:

It seems to me that Elon is the personification an entire worldview, and so he HAS to be good. For a lot of people I think he directly represents a few fundamental beliefs:

1) Rich people deserve to be rich. Capitalism is a just and fair system that rewards people who deserve it.


These beliefs have become so strongly associated with this particular individual that he cannot be allowed to fail. If he fails, the belief system is harmed.

My boomer mother-in-law routinely said "how did this happen, rich people don't make mistakes" after the Oceangate implosion.

It's the same for Elon. "he's rich, he must be smart" "he's rich, he must be good"

Just insanity.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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It could also be that he just sucks at talking.

I mean, the meth too but also that

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Seems like more people in society need to be made familiar with the concept of "failing upward". Like not enough people have been exposed to it (despite nearly all of them recognizing their own idiot bosses as soon as you point it out)

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?

Data Graham posted:

smh if it doesn't play La Cucaracha

It'll be fart noises, Elon made it

Thora
Aug 21, 2006

Look on my Posts, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Meth heads have better prosody.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

Data Graham posted:

Seems like more people in society need to be made familiar with the concept of "failing upward". Like not enough people have been exposed to it (despite nearly all of them recognizing their own idiot bosses as soon as you point it out)

Elon managed to find a way to make actual capital fail upward with no cap by posting on the internet

MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Nov 30, 2023

Durzel
Nov 15, 2005


TulliusCicero posted:

Every time I see it I think of Christopher Moltisanti saying it

Man she really is dead behind the eyes isn't she?

Like most corporate PR people can at least fake empathy
Pretty much confirms the THR report that she was stridently covetous of a CEO position that she now has, everything and everyone else be damned.

Interesting point made in that article about how she is not the sort to listen to anyone advising her that she needs to get out, as her ego and desire for the title obviates such advice.

Kinda feels like when - absent hope or control over the trajectory of the Trump administration - people were projecting onto Melania Trump some kind of moral compass, talking about how she might be giving coded signals from the inside, then she comes out wearing that "I Don't Care, Do You?" coat. Lol.

Linda will never leave, she is 100% going down with the ship, and glad of it.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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



Twitter

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Myron Baloney
Mar 19, 2002

Emitting dimensions are swallowing you

Platystemon posted:

“Absolutely no reason.”

Disables inventory tracking.

And it's been at least like 4 years of that, hasn't it? lmao

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Looking into it

WeaponX
Jul 28, 2008



TulliusCicero posted:

Every time I see it I think of Christopher Moltisanti saying it

Man she really is dead behind the eyes isn't she?

Like most corporate PR people can at least fake empathy

“X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people.” Is an insane sentence lol

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

WeaponX posted:

“X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people.” Is an insane sentence lol

Oh it’s independent of information all right

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

teen witch posted:

*Oh it’s independent of information -alt right!

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





Along with all the ketamine, he's taking all the ozempic right?
Which explains the very shrivelled face.
Or maybe he just uses formaldehyde as part of his skin care regime.

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.



he looks like he's in physical pain

Renreeja
Oct 11, 2007

information independence must be the new economic anxiety

massive spider
Dec 6, 2006

Tac Dibar posted:

It seems to me that Elon is the personification an entire worldview, and so he HAS to be good. For a lot of people I think he directly represents a few fundamental beliefs:

1) Rich people deserve to be rich. Capitalism is a just and fair system that rewards people who deserve it.
2) Technological progress will help us overcome any oncoming problems, and we are heading towards Star Trek world (minus the socialism).
3) The future is dependent on the efforts of a few extraordinary individuals.

These beliefs have become so strongly associated with this particular individual that he cannot be allowed to fail. If he fails, the belief system is harmed.

Further thsn that, there’s a particular kind of hustlebro capitalism lover that is enamoured with the idea of “unconventional” and “out of the box thinking” being the true secret method of the CEO. Elon being unhinged plays directly into this.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Data Graham posted:

I can't get over his petulant little tantrum about how "All the woke companies are going to KILL Twitter with their BOYCOTT! It's all THEIR fault! Everybody will see it's THEIR fault! It's not MY fault! I'm a good boy!!"

Like he thinks history will judge Disney and Apple poorly for "blackmailing" him ("we won't pay you unless you change your tune about the Jews" lmao yeah that's totally
what blackmail is) and will judge him well for speaking truth to power or some poo poo

The average person doesn't use Twitter and if they do they won't have noticed who's advertising and who's not. They'll just hear news stories about how companies have pulled advertising because Elon made antisemitic tweets, and they'll be like :shrug: when it finally shuts down

Honestly I saw it more as a brief moment of lucidity in the midst of his bipolar ketamine trip, like; "Oh my god, the advertisers are gonna kill the company when they pull out... :stare:", before sinking back into his rambling toddler fugue state.

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


massive spider posted:

Further thsn that, there’s a particular kind of hustlebro capitalism lover that is enamoured with the idea of “unconventional” and “out of the box thinking” being the true secret method of the CEO. Elon being unhinged plays directly into this.

i love the idea that "out of the box thinking" for elon is literally, LITERALLY, reinventing the wheel but worse.

it's so loving pathetic.

Thora
Aug 21, 2006

Look on my Posts, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

Neddy Seagoon posted:

rambling toddler fugue state

Also the name of my 90s technogothindustrial cover band.

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
well elon has gently caress you money
"elon had to borrow money to buy twitter. most of his net worth isn’t actual money. It’s inflated stocks."

well advertisers are all trash, am i right
"twitter owes a billion a year in interest. without ad dollars, twitter is pissing money down the drain"

well elon remains a stable billionaire genius #winning #bazinga
"elon looks like ww2 era dhampir with gout"

space uncle
Sep 17, 2006

"I don’t care if Biden beats Trump. I’m not offloading responsibility. If enough people feel similar to me, such as the large population of Muslim people in Dearborn, Michigan. Then he won’t"


Edit: bad at math

space uncle fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Nov 30, 2023

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Truly blazing his glory

Butterwagon
Mar 21, 2010

Lookit that stupid ass-hole!

space uncle posted:

A $100 bill weighs 1 gram, so $100,000 weighs 220 pounds.


math checks out

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Slotducks posted:

i love the idea that "out of the box thinking" for elon is literally, LITERALLY, reinventing the wheel but worse.

it's so loving pathetic.

I was drawing cars with yoke type wheels when I was fuckin 8

Then I got older and started driving and realized why they are shaped like a circle

It's not because everybody in a century of automotive industrial design is just stupid and unimaginative, turns out

space uncle
Sep 17, 2006

"I don’t care if Biden beats Trump. I’m not offloading responsibility. If enough people feel similar to me, such as the large population of Muslim people in Dearborn, Michigan. Then he won’t"


Butterwagon posted:

math checks out

Whoops that was for $1 bills

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Data Graham posted:

I was drawing cars with yoke type wheels when I was fuckin 8

Then I got older and started driving and realized why they are shaped like a circle

It's not because everybody in a century of automotive industrial design is just stupid and unimaginative, turns out

you know what's really fun?

when you've got your car on FSD and it's about to kill you and you have to grab the wheel, but it's mid turn so you completely whiff on where the wheel would've been, but because it's a yoke, you're just grabbing air crunch bash smash enjoy your little ding dong as it relieves itself of control approximately 0.00004 seconds prior to impact.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


free speech is when you have corporate sponsorship

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

shyduck posted:

free speech is when you have corporate sponsorship
Free speech is when you can slur the non-elite castes but can't say everyone needs food and a place to live.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Toplowtech posted:

Free speech is when you can slur the non-elite castes but can't say everyone needs food and a place to live.

Tyranny is when other people expect you to be nice

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