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White Fragility in action: the Elon Musk story

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Britain's current PM, whoever that is
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »

    This is some tryhard trying to sound formal but has no idea how to do it stuff

    Musk trying to be coy just comes off as him doing lame-ass supervillain talk. He sounds like fucking Phantom Limb.

    Except in this instance, we know what those little hard chunks are.

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    asofyeunasofyeun Registered User regular
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    UK doing crypto reminded me of El Salvador, where the president has decided to promote crypto, and i wondered how that was going - not well, it appears

    their president has doubled-down on investment in bitcoin, of course

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    DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    We unalived his workpromise nowedly

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2022


    I like the idea that building inspectors would be doing something about fentanyl if it weren't for them inspecting buildings.

    Couscous on
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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    it's on their to-do list, okay?!

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    KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    love media just reporting completely unverified stories as true fact

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    LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    The fun part of that SF Gate article he links is the number of times it right out says “we were unable to confirm the veracity of any of these claims”

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    the media straight up lying about the lethality of fentanyl is an actual literal cop psyop

    it's goddamn miserable

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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    Wasn't he supposedly against exploiting children's deaths for politics or personal gain like, yesterday

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    cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    https://gizmodo.com/twitter-beds-tweeps-elon-musk-beds-hardcore-1849858059
    Elon Reportedly Wants His Most ‘Hardcore’ Tweeps to Sleep in Beds at Twitter HQ

    Internal sources reportedly said that the bedrooms come packed with unmade beds, orange carpet, and ‘drab’ curtains.
    Based on the report alone, it’s hard to tell how many rooms were converted into bedrooms in total, but the employee Forbes talked to said there were now “four to eight per floor.” Another anonymous source reported the beds were on a largely empty floor of the San Fran office, and that it could be an amenity for employees who were already putting in late hours.

    Though, just like many employees dragging their bodies into work on a Monday might think, one employee also told Forbes that the beds at least looked “comfortable.”
    One anonymous employee quoted by Forbes said the company gave staff no notice that some of their office space was being converted into bedrooms. The act of putting bedrooms inside Twitter’s offices all seems to be part of billionaire owner Elon Musk’s attempts to “hardcore”-ify all those who survived cuts. Last month, Twitter demanded that employees sign up for a new “hardcore” version of Twitter or quit, but that didn’t work out so great when many employees reportedly went for a severance package instead.
    Converting office space into bedrooms sounds like it would be a building code violation

    Hey!!! This sounds like a huuuuuuge sexual harassment/assault nightmare in the making!! Just saying, building codes schmilding codes, putting siloed mass bedrooms in a business seems like a phenomenally bad idea, just my immediate two cents as a thinking person.

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    ChallChall Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »


    I like the idea that building inspectors would be doing something about fentanyl if it weren't for them inspecting buildings.

    What do you think they're inspecting the buildings for, Elon? Better hide your Fentanyl stash in the Executive Suite

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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    the media straight up lying about the lethality of fentanyl is an actual literal cop psyop

    it's goddamn miserable

    They literally give pregnant mothers fentanyl as like, the second line of pain management behind an epidural! It's used during surgery all the time! It's utterly insane that the media just ran with it being goddamned Joker Venom so cops can get a month off and say that somebody threatened their life for having literally any drugs on them!

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    LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited December 2022
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    the media straight up lying about the lethality of fentanyl is an actual literal cop psyop

    it's goddamn miserable

    As a emphasis to Pip’s point here, there’s even a recent research paper out there by a doctor who spilled an entire bag’s supply of medical use liquid fentanyl on his bare hand when it ruptured during handling.

    Spoiler: he was completely fine, despite the claims that even a little fentanyl being enough to kill you via skin absorption.

    Lanz on
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    LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited December 2022
    mrpaku wrote: »
    Wasn't he supposedly against exploiting children's deaths for politics or personal gain like, yesterday

    Who needs any kind of ideological consistency and coherency when you think that you can basically bamboozle a public you think is naught but drooling simpletons who easily divide into “worshippers” and “haters” by just pressing on collective anxieties to bend them to your side

    The world’s richest conman

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    You know Musk doesnt really have the Poster's Spirit because he doesnt even go after the city for all the homeless people without beds.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Britain's current PM, whoever that is
    Because you can't use san fran not helping the homeless to score points with anyone. Like that's what he and his tech bros want them to do.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Britain's current PM, whoever that is
    Solar wrote: »
    The British government won't get Crypto to take off in the UK because the British government is not competent at doing literally anything.

    They tried to send immigrants to Rwanda and spent millions without sending a single one. They tried to implement online safety laws and failed repeatedly because they can't come up with anything workable. They tried to build hospitals and built nothing. They tried to build a high speed rail network and have spent a lot of money getting nowhere

    The Westminster government could pass legislation saying a Royal Marine Sniper was going to be posted to the roof of every train station to shoot people randomly in the head and I'd be entirely unruffled because 1) nobody would be at the station because the rail staff are all on strike 2) the Royal Marine's rifle wouldn't work because its still in contractor development and 3) they'd never get them up there anyway because the cabinet minister responsible for it resigned six months/two administrations ago and the new one is too busy being investigated for setting up the buying of dodgy PPE during lockdown from a lingerie business magnate turned Baroness who bought a peerage and then turned out to be laughably corrupt

    They're shit. They can't do anything. They really can't, that's neither hyperbole or a joke. That's why the country is in such a shitstate. It'd be funny except we're about to have the worst winter in terms of poverty/services/recession/etc in about 40 years.

    And Chris Grayling was only minister of three of those departments!

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
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    You know Musk doesnt really have the Poster's Spirit because he doesnt even go after the city for all the homeless people without beds.

    Whoa whoa whoa, buddy. You start down that line of thinking and you might just end up at higher taxes for corporations, and maybe even… wealth redistribution.

    And that wouldn’t be very Elon of you.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Imagine trying to convince Musk of anything he doesn't already believe.

    stroke his ego enough and i'll bet he'll believe anything

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    MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    At work I just verified somebody's current employment at Twitter as they're applying for a new job.

    Good luck person leaving Twitter.

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    A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
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    Magell wrote: »
    At work I just verified somebody's current employment at Twitter as they're applying for a new job.

    Good luck person leaving Twitter.

    I can't believe you found someone left to verify their employment.

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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    A duck! wrote: »
    Magell wrote: »
    At work I just verified somebody's current employment at Twitter as they're applying for a new job.

    Good luck person leaving Twitter.

    I can't believe you found someone left to verify their employment.

    they had a blue checkmark on their shirt so

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    MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    A duck! wrote: »
    Magell wrote: »
    At work I just verified somebody's current employment at Twitter as they're applying for a new job.

    Good luck person leaving Twitter.

    I can't believe you found someone left to verify their employment.

    They use a third party website that verifies it. I'm sure a phone call would not have been answered.

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    ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
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    EinzelEinzel Registered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    Einzel wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    I got that part yes

    I didn't until like last month. I was pronouncing it like "yee"

    Based on the biblical argument, shouldn't that be how it's pronounced?

    I'm not directing any snark at you or specifically anyone else, but no it should be how the person whose name it is pronounces it to the best of one's ability

    I've never heard him speak so I don't know what that would be.

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    this is always a big time of year for the hair- and watch-buying businesses

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
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    Einzel wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    Einzel wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    I got that part yes

    I didn't until like last month. I was pronouncing it like "yee"

    Based on the biblical argument, shouldn't that be how it's pronounced?

    I'm not directing any snark at you or specifically anyone else, but no it should be how the person whose name it is pronounces it to the best of one's ability

    I've never heard him speak so I don't know what that would be.

    As in Yeezy

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    Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Ye pronounces his name as “yay”

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
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    I think it's pretty clear that it's not clear at all (unless you've heard him speak it).

    If you've only ever seen it in print, it's basically a toss up between Ye as in Kanye, or Ye as in Yeezy / Yeezus?

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Ye pronounces his name as “yay”

    that's weird i pronounce it "racist slapnuts" hmmmmmmmmmmm

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    Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Ye did a show with the founder of the Proud Boys yesterday.

    Some of his amazing insights:
    - All pornography is pedophilia, because those women are someone's daughter
    - The women in pornography are sexual predators
    - When Ye becomes president he will have to outlaw gay marriage because the bible

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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Ye very publicly has a porn addiction so this is a baffling twist even among baffling twists

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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Ye very publicly has a porn addiction so this is a baffling twist even among baffling twists

    not to mention the sudden realization that all porn has a woman in it

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Yeah most everything else that guy says is very rational and consistent

    Broke as fuck and the bills past due, all amounts assist and are kindly received.

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    Sir FabulousSir Fabulous Malevolent Squid God Registered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
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    This story always pissed me off because it's supposed to be like 'aw they loved each other so much they were willing to part with their most prized possessions' but my boy gets the short end of the stick.

    Like, I know some people are really attached to their hair. I'm not arguing it's not a sacrifice. But it's going to grow back. You'll get to use that hair brush eventually. Probably within a year.

    Watches don't just grow back. Bro's got a useless strap forever.

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    KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    also all rightwing/fascist talking points are known for being non-hypocritical and logically consistent

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    ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    Tox wrote: »
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    This story always pissed me off because it's supposed to be like 'aw they loved each other so much they were willing to part with their most prized possessions' but my boy gets the short end of the stick.

    Like, I know some people are really attached to their hair. I'm not arguing it's not a sacrifice. But it's going to grow back. You'll get to use that hair brush eventually. Probably within a year.

    Watches don't just grow back. Bro's got a useless strap forever.

    He can use that strap for his wallet. Hopefully it's actually a badass chain.

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    JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
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    Ye did a show with the founder of the Proud Boys yesterday.

    Some of his amazing insights:
    - All pornography is pedophilia, because those women are someone's daughter
    - The women in pornography are sexual predators
    - When Ye becomes president he will have to outlaw gay marriage because the bible


    I watched a clip of it and then watched a mirror of it for....1 minute 20 seconds and it literally ruined my entire fucking day.

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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Yeah most everything else that guy says is very rational and consistent

    i'd set my watch by him if i hadn't sold it

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    Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    Britain's current PM, whoever that is
    Ye did a show with the founder of the Proud Boys yesterday.

    Some of his amazing insights:
    - All pornography is pedophilia, because those women are someone's daughter
    - The women in pornography are sexual predators
    - When Ye becomes president he will have to outlaw gay marriage because the bible

    The recent Knowledge Fight episode on Ye with Alex Jones has so much of this

    He says he looooooves Hitler. That's not my emphasis, that's his

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