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smart money says he was having another "private at $420" moment and replied to hillary clinton's tweet with something he knew was utter trash because he thought it was a funny troll. then, wait, shit, i'm a CEO, billions at stake here; shit shit delete it |
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HGH and LSD, fuckin A |
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during home invasion, his old man apparently killed three men with two bullets, he also reminds me of Barry Humphries |
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and hair plugs azelia bank$ went on this instatwitter rant saying she was over to work with grimes on music and they totally ignored her because elon was freaking out and feeling bad about his $420 tweet and she concludes "that's why you don't tweet on LSD" and reportedly he sent that tweet as his tesla was autodriving him to the airport. that, who knows if it's true, but i rather adore that image -- elon musk flying down the highway in a self-driving car, tripping on acid, and tweeting something that i'm sure was utterly hilarious to him in that state |
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he can have twitter all to himself now, but i strongly advise to hire a shadow cabinet, like any good supervillain would do. |
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cool band name generator: shadow bureau shadow ottoman shadow [kitchen] island |
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isnt it worrying that musk owns twitter? |
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i dont worry about things like that, it was owned by somebody before and it will after. it never was "free" it is weird though that one person has that much money, continuously generating more. how long can he withstand buying himself a presidency? |
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the one thing about elon musk... there was some, like, surprisingly teary interview he did with, rolling stone maybe? and he said things like: "i'm terrified of being alone" and "there's no worse thing than going to bed alone" and describes how he was basically left alone in a house growing up with a few maids whose only instructions were to stop him from breaking things, he escaped into books, he learned to hate being alone then in some of his verbiage about acquiring twitter, there's a bit like: "...humanity, whom i love" and, actually, i believe this is genuine. musk is literally the opposite of a psychopath: that, actually, other people are everything to him. but he is still a mere human, acquiring power on the level of... he could probably declare war on russia by himself if he were in the mood. he won't do something like that, but all the throughput has obvious ego-distorting consequences, even if the overall intent/character-alignment is, actually, mercifully, the opposite of rupert murdoch. then he's a bit too ayn rand libertarian and you can see how this begins to get out of control and lead us to some technocratic future where a few rich twats colonize the galaxy and everyone interesting is left drowning on earth scaling this down: it's cool to watch him fire twitter's entire executive team. i mean, doesn't a part of you think: can we do that for google next? but, hey, now what? the answer is alright: he's calling in friends, family, to help him storm in and analyze. network of trusted people. seems a solid approach. but already: "we'll sell blue checks for $20, but personally i think they're worth $2" -- again, just super massive popcorn.gif, but, hey, now what? |
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ok, shit, i think i see his plan for twitter now "blue checks for $20, they should be $2" -- what he wants is to facebook-ize it, where it's Your Real Name and the fee is trivial for the blue check so they can force everyone to get one or be spam-filtered and... A) $2 per user over twitter userbase willing to put up with it could indeed be profit B) it will solve the bot problem he's been complaining about that continuing on B) he's spoken of it being a town square, and, yeah, he wants Your Real Name, trivial fee to keep people from making random accounts that what i was on twitter for was stuff like "shit my dad says" and shit his dad says be like "it's not your backyard. it's the dog's backyard. do you poop on the back yard? no. if you poop on something, you own it." and now part of my move-in routine is forever: poop in the place. now i own it but separation of concerns, i don't think this sort of silliness can co-exist with the all-verified town square concept, because people can't create stupid anonymous accounts to mock PHP bros or whatever. i guess all that shit is supposed to go to tiktok and telegram and bleh. i've held off on bothering but i now have a few sources of burner numbers and if donald trump is going back to twitter, perhaps i should too |
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$2 is not a trivial fee for the privilege of using a website that's designed as a bad compulsion lol i can't tell if he's deliberately planning to tank twitter or if it's the normal kind of stupidity |
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that's exactly the point twitter was -- is, still, on some levels -- a website designed as a bad compulsion. but then jan 6 and it's become a sort of town square, that i am willing to grant this. then, though, like i said, separation of concerns -- it cannot be both a town square and a bad compulsion, shit-my-dad-says site. the $2 is not for the bad compulsion privilege, because, if this goes how i suspect, that's increasingly less what the platform will be for. instead the $2 is a maintenance fee that is there mostly to prove you are a single, real person. blue checks kind of like a backstage pass now, he wants to turn it into the stamp on your hand you get at the door. that, really, i am sad to see twitter turn into some town hall, but it's where we've landed and it may actually be a decent choice. but then implementing this is a nightmare Sisyphean clusterfuck of sub-choices and yeah, i do worry about how it'll pan out |
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"the one thing about elon musk... there was some, like, surprisingly teary interview he did with, rolling stone maybe? and he said things like: "i'm terrified of being alone" and "there's no worse thing than going to bed alone" and describes how he was basically left alone in a house growing up with a few maids whose only instructions were to stop him from breaking things, he escaped into books, he learned to hate being alone then in some of his verbiage about acquiring twitter, there's a bit like: "...humanity, whom i love" and, actually, i believe this is genuine. musk is literally the opposite of a psychopath: that, actually, other people are everything to him." thought you were a man of logic da fux is this all about? "it is weird though that one person has that much money, continuously generating more. how long can he withstand buying himself a presidency?" this^ "acquiring power on the level of... he could probably declare war on russia by himself if he were in the mood. he won't do something like that, but all the throughput has obvious ego-distorting consequences, (...) then he's a bit too ayn rand libertarian and you can see how this begins to get out of control and lead us to some technocratic future where a few rich twats colonize the galaxy and everyone interesting is left drowning on earth" and this^ is the concern for me here. you worry about the chinks buying and controlling stuff but if elon musk does the same thing its somehow for the better of humanity? |
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on billionaires it has Gates as an example. they're both bad in their own way. but Musk is also alt right-adjacent and just plain evil (look how he smeared a rescue worker as pedo). and yeah, you don't want him near anything concerning free speech |
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He is such a massive twat, he is like your average 15 year old 4chan user. |
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re: the blue tick 8 dollar thing he's gone and pissed off the celebrity users, the whole point of that site is that you can talk to celebrities on it. for a 'genius' billionaire he aint that smart. he's gone and pissed off the staff by sacking them rudely at 3am in the morning and wiping their hard drives. what's to stop them making a new site called "lefty" where the celebrities and luvvies get to feel special and the serfs get to kiss the ass of the celebs? you just know he's going to add dogecoin payments to the site, maybe good to buy a little bit of dogecoin in case it goes up in value, perhaps not. elon's a cryptobro magnet. not saying he doesn't have good ideas up his sleeve, probably will charge money and compete with youtube and every other major site out there. lefty, the site where elon doesnt fuck things up! |
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lol he has managed to piss everyone off its funny, I don't think he realises the value lies within the userbase rather than inherently anything worthwhile the site can offer, he has really fucked up this time cos of his massive hubris/ego just so he could say all sorts of shit and insult people |
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they say his iq is 155, his eq must be 5 by eq i mean empathy skills |
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hes pissing off the right kind of people |
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They way I look at it is the people who are complaining about free speech have all these things like parler, truth social, gab etc.. where they can say Nigger or whatever to their hearts content, the truth is they just want to go on twitter to argue with lefty liberal types cos they enjoy pissing them off. Free speech is great but so is freedom of action so he is finding out that generally people who are a bit more mentally mature just think its a load of old bollocks are are leaving |
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Fundamentally I'm not arsed either way, he spunked 44 billion up the wall cos of his massive galactic size ego/hubris |
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and it's not like it's his money from his personal bank account, there's some well dodgy saudis involved according to the bbc |
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yeah the whole thing stinks of shit more or less, the only people left on it are going to be the usual mix of libetarians, christo-facists and extreme left wing russo apologists. Anyone else who just wants a bit of a chat will fuck off |
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yeah like i said above the sacked staff can easily code their own twitter, change the name, get the hype of the mainstream press then humiliate elon |
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Putting politics aside, i just find Musk a total dickhead, when he called that guy a pedo cos he said his submarine would hinder their rescue operation it just showed he has the fragile ego and mentality of a 12 year old |
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what would you call the new twitter? there should be two twitters, one owned by elon, the other with common ownership right wank, the nutty site and left wank, the celebrity and serfs model |
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who remembers a comic about jocks and neds or some shit like that? it was an english comic similar to the beano but it was about northern kids and posh kids or something? trying to remember it. the two twitters could be like that, rival gangs sort of thing |
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oh yeah i remember, can't remember what it was called |
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was it Bully Beef and Chips? |
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nope |
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going to sleep now see yas |
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ok mate speak soon!! i think i know the one you mean though |
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wasn't "oor wullie" was it? the scottish beano-alike |
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I think he might have meant the jocks and the geordies from the dandy |
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yes |
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for what its worth, the thoughts of celebrities never were that clever and i never was fond of a follower phenomenon. reason and logic never should become a popularity contest i hope it falls hard and good riddance |
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very few celebrities set a good example, like ali did, going to prison instead of war. artists can let their work speak for them and give interviews, write books; they have a huge platform. they dont need twitter. but i dont need a celeb to retweet some bs, they may have not really gotten insight of. its way to easy to retweet with a click of a button without really knowing the facts about a topic. it is potentially dangerous imo and on the other hand enables idiots to gather attention. |
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He is such a toxic arsewipe, everyone who sucks him off on his timeline needs to have their head checked |
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40 billion dollars washed down the drain |
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What it Musk was one of us? |
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Just a belb like all of us |
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I can almost guarantee elon is a piece of shit to be around. i dont think you get to be the richest man in the world without being a piece of shit. he claims to be on the autistic spectrum too, which seems true enough from what I've seen. Pedo comment doesnt trigger me, I won't even pretend I care. If that triggers you so hard to post about how evil he is that you make a post on xlt, you're a beta male What I do greatly enjoy are the tears from the people who feel personally threatened by his de-censorship, and de-wokeifying of a platform centered around discourse. He IS doing that, from waht I can tell, and I'm 100% behind it. You can pretend all you want that it's just about saying nigger, that's an easy strawman to burn. |
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you can pretend that woke culture doesnt exist all you want but right now I'm playing NEED FOR SPEED: PAYBACK (2017) Every single boss is a woman. And by woman, I mean a woke man in a female skin with an alpha attitude. This was a decision by committee, in order to not "offend" the people who live on twitter and wouldnt even play the game. The one male they added was a marxist who, in his $150,000 custom car with corporate decals everywhere, told me he races to "fight the bourgeoisie." After I kicked his faggot ass, he told me to "stay woke." NFS, as a series has the best arcade racing and some of the best gameplay in any game, so I'm still playing. I want to upgrade my mclaren 720s. |
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after i dismantled the marxist my forced character (a black, british male who decided to move to Las Vegas to race offroad... we've all met this guy, right?) raced against a "don't need no man" southern belle who put together a crew of rugged, desert racers competing for millions of dollars. |
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Yeah PC stuff can be annoying, but I don't let it dominate my mental attention, there is so much stuff out there that I never have to interface with all this stuff, plus fundamentally it doesn't matter Culture will change and morph and there is nothing we can appreciably do to alter how other people behave. I just get on with my own life and leave it up to them, I've seen on social media specifically in America its a gigantic culture war and people get majorly pissed off about it, and spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about it, that's their prerogative I suppose, perhaps If was younger I'd feel like my identity and interests were more under attack, but now I'm 40 its all starting to see pointless to get involved, I just read a book instead. Now If it reached the point where I was about to imminently be dragged off an chemically castrated and made to wear a pinny, I might have something to say, but in the main I'm really not arsed! |
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