JGP Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Truly delectable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 This thread is a doozy, but the first few seconds of the second clip got a massive guffaw out of me Elon, at length, is no more than a fantastically lucky bullshit artist lol DanteGabriel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) The End Cometh edit: Doth It Ever Edited November 18, 2022 by JGP Mindwalker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindwalker Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 So much winning! Another very stable genius. Matrim Fox Cauthon, Crixus, Prince of the North and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 24 minutes ago, JGP said: The End Cometh edit: Doth It Ever The ancient Greeks could never write a comedy this hilarious. JGP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay Mr. Musk, Twitter’s new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html Quote Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk had given Twitter employees to decide whether to stay or leave their jobs, the social media company appeared to be in disarray. Mr. Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers whom they deemed “critical” to stop them from leaving, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. He sent out confusing messages about the company’s remote work policy, appearing to soften his stance on not allowing people to work from home before warning their managers, according to those people and internal emails viewed by The New York Times. All the while, two people said, resignations started to roll in. By the deadline, 5 p.m. Eastern time, hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay, the people said. Their exits added to the turmoil at Twitter since Mr. Musk, 51, completed his $44 billion takeover last month. The billionaire has laid off half of Twitter’s 7,500 full-time workers, fired dissenters and told employees that they need to be “extremely hard core” to make the company a success. On Wednesday, Mr. Musk gave Twitter’s remaining employees just under 36 hours to leave or commit to building “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.” Those who departed would get the three months of severance pay, he said. He positioned the move as a way to make the company the most competitive it could be, though the action also provided an opportunity to further cut costs and purge the firm of disaffected workers. The shedding of so many employees in such a compressed period has raised questions about how Twitter will keep operating effectively. While Mr. Musk has brought in some engineers and managers from his other companies, such as the electric automaker Tesla, many of them are just coming up to speed on how the social media service works, five people said. Mr. Musk and Twitter, which no longer has a communications department, did not respond to requests for comment. Twitter faces not just internal challenges with Mr. Musk’s ownership. On Thursday, seven Democratic senators called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the company had violated a consumer privacy agreement with the agency since Mr. Musk took over. The letter followed the resignations of Twitter’s security executives last week after Mr. Musk appeared to change some of the company’s data security practices. Those “reported changes to internal reviews and data security practices” at Twitter have put consumers “at risk,” the lawmakers wrote. They included Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey.A spokesman for the F.T.C. declined to comment. The agency previously said it was “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.” Mr. Musk has said he plans to abide by the privacy agreement. ....; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 minute ago, Tywin et al. said: The ancient Greeks could never write a comedy this hilarious. Well, they had Persians to fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 7 minutes ago, Zorral said: Well, they had Persians to fight. Nice the latter could be so kind to provide shade. JGP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Zorral said: Well, they had Persians to fight. And each other. Also serious colonizers those Greeks. They were eclipsed of course as everything eventually is, but despite their many faults that was one hell of a fucking civilization, competing leagues and city-states. Edited November 18, 2022 by JGP Secretary of Eumenes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Love the "extremely hardcore" line. Apparently Musk wants to run Twitter like ECW. Except it took years for Paul Heyman to run that into the ground. Tywin et al. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 12 minutes ago, DMC said: Love the "extremely hardcore" line. Apparently Musk wants to run Twitter like ECW. Except it took years for Paul Heyman to run that into the ground. Did a Hardy Boy ever miss a table by ten feet? Or more directly, did Elon even climb the ladder before it fell? This shit is next level. You cannot keep giving your workforce one days notice if they want to keep their jobs. You really can't do it when a lot of those same people are well off and/or super desirable talent. Elon certainly made some other tech companies much better off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Some people did a lot of work to write a paper telling us whether social media has been good or bad for democracy. I am sure you will all be shocked to know that the answer is: it's both. About 13:30 if you don't want to watch the whole video. But why would you not want to watch the whole video? 18 minutes ago, DMC said: Love the "extremely hardcore" line. Apparently Musk wants to run Twitter like ECW. Except it took years for Paul Heyman to run that into the ground. Sounds like that Euro punk you have to deal with in Disco Elysium. Full. On. Hardcore. Hard. Full. Hardcore. Yeah! Or something like that. JGP and Martell Spy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 5 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said: Did a Hardy Boy ever miss a table by ten feet? The Hardys weren't in ECW. Or at least the actual ECW before Vince bought its assets from bankruptcy. C'mon. Tywin et al. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said: Nice the latter could be so kind to provide shade. Ah. We see what you did there. That wall . . . . Tywin et al. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varysblackfyre321 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) Conservative genuinely seem to think most people who are quitting Twitter are doing so over their culture war nonesense. Edited November 18, 2022 by Varysblackfyre321 JGP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varysblackfyre321 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Tywin et al. and JGP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Who could have foreseen that? Oh, yeah, anybody. Tywin et al. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorschach - 2 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, mormont said: Who could have foreseen that? Oh, yeah, anybody. That's not true. Elon Musk would beg to differ. Tywin et al. and Larry of the Lake 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 "Space Karen." JGP, Crixus, Prince of the North and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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