Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Jaxyon posted:

Don't know Nebraska politics was he facing a serious challenge or getting out ahead of a scandal? It's odd to give up a gravy train like that, though I guess being dean of a major school is an easier gravy train.

Tiny Timbs posted:

That’s just kind of a nonsense-sounding standard that doesn’t seem like it would apply to very many people on earth at all.

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According to Bremmer, Musk said Putin told him these goals would be accomplished “no matter what,” including the potential of a nuclear strike if Ukraine invaded Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Bremmer wrote that Musk told him that “everything needed to be done to avoid that outcome.”

OAquinas posted:

So uh, isn't he flirting with Logan Act issues there? Not that rich people ever see consequences for their actions or anything.

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Why would a self-sufficient man or woman want to date anyone like the current modern standard of a man? What we culturally accept men to be is a loving disgrace.

Main Paineframe posted:

I can't think of a bigger red flag of institutional rot in Twitter than newly instituting stack ranking in 2022. It's an infamously bad practice in the tech industry, notorious for its longtime use in Microsoft, where its numerous flaws have been very well documented. Throwing Twitter's entire workforce into a crab bucket and only keeping the first 25% to climb out could very well be devastating.

Zophar posted:

It's because the current NE Governor wants to be in the Senate and his handpicked successor can appoint him to the empty seat.

Clarste posted:

University executive positions these days are mostly a way to funnel large amounts of public money into private hands. They probably arranged it for him as friends.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Pretty wild.

Apparently, it wasn't an attempted robbery gone wrong or anything like that.

Motive currently unknown.

He's apparently severely injured, but nothing permanent and expected to eventually make a full recovery. Still probably not great for an almost 83-year old to get beat so much he requires multiple days of hospitalization, though.

If they were going after Nancy, they did a bad job researching. They found out her address, but didn't realize she was in Washington D.C.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Sounds like a disaster for Twitter staff and society in the long run, but probably not huge changes for the average user right away.

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1585763155568754688

Involuntary Sparkle posted:

I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024.




Edit: this is the worst snipe.

-Blackadder- posted:

Crist still got blown out.

As did Clinton after she clobbered Trump in debates.

It's long been known that Debates don't shift opinions.

It wouldn't be DeSantis' debate skills that would doom him, it'd be his questionable ability to generate Trump-level enthusiasm and his weird unlikable prick personality. It's also unknown if his 3rd World Iron fist dictator schtick will actually play on the national stage.

Regardless, Trump clearly is afraid of him. And the Midterms aren't helping. But don't take my word for it.

But since Trump is almost certainly running, DeSantis would have to beat Trump in the primary (which apparently people seem to think is somewhat unlikely) if he were to face Biden. Which leaves us back at DeSantis just softening up Trump.

But who knows, maybe we'll get a nightmare scenario and Trump and DeSantis will unite. Doubtful Trump's ego would allow it, but the Harris/DeSantis debates would be uniformly terrible.

Main Paineframe posted:

He's just trying to claim that Twitter had a bunch of completely obvious wasteful spending (and, by implication, that the previous management were way more incompetent than he is), and so it's good that he's making massive cuts.

Cutting back on employee perks such as free meals is a sign of desperation and belt-tightening, so he's trying to frame it as a completely ridiculous expense that no one was even benefiting from. That way he looks like the smart CEO finding totally wasted money in the budget, instead of the flailing CEO desperately cutting everything he can to try to stave off a cash flow crisis.

Incidentally, current Twitter employees have suggested that he's including the rent that Twitter pays on the square footage of the kitchen as part of the cost of providing meals.
https://twitter.com/nickrw/status/1592083472805687297

Tiny Timbs posted:

Why wouldn’t you include facility rent as part of the total cost for the food service though?

Failed Imagineer posted:

Maybe you wouldn't, to Elong that probably sounds like a genius move

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

why bring up the house of representatives if the legislation cant pass the senate?

i dont ever expect the democrats to codify it even if presented with a supermajority, just as they've failed to do so in the past, but it's discouraging to hear the president go "well that's the ballgame, guess its a holding pattern for the next two years" even after democrat voters turned out in better-than-expected numbers

Old Surly posted:

Is Trumpo for sure announcing tonight?

Morrow posted:

Some folks have their visas tied to their employment.

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People who decided to stay still believed in Twitter’s mission of giving people a voice or had visas tied to their jobs or other personal reasons, two people said.

FlamingLiberal posted:

This was discussed on the most recent Chapo, but once the big auto companies start putting out electric vehicles (and they will be cheaper than Teslas) on a regular basis, Tesla is hosed

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

How far away is Big Auto from actually pumping out electric cars on a Tesla scale?

Madkal posted:

I live a province (Canadian here) where Tesla's are ubiquitous as gently caress. The people driving them aren't doing it because they are electric but because it's kind of a status symbol. When BMW or Mercs or whatever start making electric cars as quickly and as expensive as Tesla's then I can see them taking a hot here. I don't think Tesla is worrying about the coming of Nissan Leafs.

FizFashizzle posted:

West knoxville is ground zero for the kind of place that would consider a Tesla a status symbol 10 years after release. if it's something someone working a commercial insurance gig given to them by their father in law can get underwater on, they'll be all over it. This vid could be from Turkey creek and it wouldn't surprise me.

https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1563654605413703680?s=20&t=EgxuqlPWlVtXumjkcKCpkQ

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Yeah, I know. Even though it was probably the right thing to do, it still feels kind of funny/crazy that they traded someone named "The Merchant of Death" for a WNBA player who got arrested for a vape cartridge.

Brutal, but sadly probably true.

Epic High Five posted:

Okay the last bit explains it then, shame he wasn't one of those ethical arms dealers. Griner being freed from her obviously horseshit spy game charges is absolutely worth the population of death merchants going up like 0.01% even assuming he's not too much of a liability to ever go back into it, imho

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Yeah, it's this.

She is basically playing chicken now and saying "If you run Ruben Gallego against me, it will probably split the vote and give the seat to a Republican. Since he can't primary me now, you can't keep me off the ballot."

She says that she "intends to keep her committee assignments" which is essentially saying she will still caucus with the Dems. That means this is entirely about attention and trying to position herself for re-election.

According to her former staffers, she legitimately believes she is going to be the first female President and first independent President by "making both sides mad" at her. This sort of supports that because she is actively taking steps to make sure she is on the ballot in 2024.

Levitate posted:

I'd have to wonder if the Democratic Party would rather take the risk of a split ticket and losing the seat than deal with her for another term. I doubt they like to be "blackmailed" like this and by someone who's already shown they won't support the party's agenda.
e: plus if she's really that unpopular with the people who voted her in there's certainly be a big risk of her not beating a halfway decent republican challenger even if there was no dem challenger as well.

Rigel posted:

A lot of it is going to depend on who the GOP nominates. We are going to need to hope for some crazyman (or crazywoman) far right wing poo poo to win the nomination. If they nominate a smiling, harmless, well-spoken standard Republican and Sinema insists on running 3rd party, then we may be screwed.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

So when are the full returns just going to be posted online?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Going through the returns report now.

A lot of this could technically be cleared up by Trump providing the substantiating paperwork and isn't direct proof of anything on its own, but all of it together is pretty suspicious and his attorney has been fighting the IRS's requests that he needs to provide substantiating documents for them for the last 7 years.