[Brazelton] Twitter
- Thread starter Dave
- Start date
I’m guessing he assumes that everyone will pay for blue check marks, so you’ll know it’s a bot if they don’t have one, since no one will pay just to troll someone. And, of course, everyone has enough disposable income for yet another subscription…
Ah yes, those overseas-based troll farms bankrolled by national governments are totally too poor to pay for blue-checkmarked trolling accounts...
Does NO ONE remember Something Awful, where folks were more than willing to burn a Hamilton just to fuck with people?
Nah. I'll stay with Twitter long enough to find out where all my favs move and then it's nothing but me watching the trash fire burn.
Nah. I'll stay with Twitter long enough to find out where all my favs move and then it's nothing but me watching the trash fire burn.
He's gotten especially worse since he got dumped.
Exclusive | Elon Musk and Grimes break up after three years together
“We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms,” the SpaceX founder told Page Six.
pagesix.com
There's quite a bit of research by now that at a certain point being too wealthy and powerful is actively harmful to mental health; there's pretty much no peers left and your relation to others deteriorate. The Citizen Kane effect, if you will.
Who can Musk consider equals? Zuckerberg? Bezos? That's pretty much it. There's quite a few wannabes (*cough*Trump*cough*, Ye, Bloomberg) but really... That's it. Oh, sure, there's some Vanderbilts and Kochs and Saudi princes and whatever, but they're a different kind of rich and powerful.
If Musk was US born he'd probably be eyeing the presidency just for kicks, but that's out of reach.
GasBandit
Staff member
I still have a whole slough of "Hope you got 10 bucks" memes stashed in my image hoard.
If he needs an example of how having a paid barrier of entry does absolutely nothing to stop trolls and cheats, all he needs to do is look at any not free to play competitive game that actively perma bans people caught cheating, cause all those people do is buy another account once the one they're using is banned.
Zappit
Staff member
I think it was always there, but a big cult following really blew up his ego that he could do no wrong.
I think it was people slowly coming around to the fact that he's full of shit. He'd been saying for so long that self driving cars were 1-2 years away, spaceX would be going to mars soon while the rockets were still blowing up, giving Puerto Rico power batteries that didn't end up working and then finally the cave submarine incident. After that he really just seemed to lean into the idea that there's no such thing as bad press.
It's like when that scuba diver called him out on a grandstanding with a categorically bad idea he just could not handle the idea of not being irl tony stark like he'd spent so much time and money cultivating
GasBandit
Staff member
I've heard it said several times, Elon Musk thinks he's Tony Stark, but he's really Justin Hammer.
He could end would hunger, -or- he could use even more of his money to make people stop making fun of him on the internet...
It was a tough call
And remember after he asked Twitter if he should pay taxes he ended up paying like .5% of his net worth in taxes for probably the first and only time
'The Expectation Is Literally To Work 24/7': Elon Musk Orders Twitter Staff To Work 84-Hour Weeks As 75% Of Employees Face Being Fired
According to a new report, Musk ordered his staffers to work 12-hour shifts seven days a week to meet newly implemented deadlines to overhaul the platform.
Is this serious? Because if it is serious, it sounds serious.
I mean, this just sounds like Musk has a pathological hatred of whatever he deems "laziness."
--Patrick
Uh huh. And I’m sure he’s putting in 84 hour work weeks at Twitter during this time as well.'The Expectation Is Literally To Work 24/7': Elon Musk Orders Twitter Staff To Work 84-Hour Weeks As 75% Of Employees Face Being Fired
According to a new report, Musk ordered his staffers to work 12-hour shifts seven days a week to meet newly implemented deadlines to overhaul the platform.radaronline.com
Is this serious? Because if it is serious, it sounds serious.
I mean, this just sounds like Musk has a pathological hatred of whatever he deems "laziness."
--Patrick
In addition to his 84 hour work weeks at SpaceX and his 84 hour work weeks at Tesla? Of course. And in his downtime he's a full time ambassador and political analyst.
If 75% of them are getting fired (and likely don't know who among them), they should just all quit and tell him to get fucked.
I was told that basically a lot of the current employees have stock options, and while normally the stock option is the right to buy stock at a discount, because Twitter is no longer a publicly traded company, for every share of stock the employee was allowed to buy, they now just get a bonus of 54.20 (the epic weed number Elon valued twitter at). This basically multiplied the amount twitter has to spend on stock options by up to 10x. That’s the real reason Elon wants to get rid of everyone, because suddenly a bonus valued at 5k is now $50k.
