Octopus Overlords

Kraken wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:11 am

Punisher wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:58 am

Zaxxon wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:17 am Something about leopards and faces…

Maybe this election may actually turn out to be the best.
They all can't get what they want and maybe the entire thing will implode beyond repair.

Turns out billionaires and deplorables don't have much in common. Who could've imagined?

Grifman wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:07 am LOL, just saw someone call Musk President and Trump Assistant Secretary of Golf!

Victoria Raverna wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:42 am Billionaires that support Trump are worse than those deplorables.

Grifman wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:23 pm America First!

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1 ... NcXCfN8s1g

So what do the MAGA nativists say now?

Victoria Raverna wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:28 pm Trump sided with the billionaires on H1-B visa. He doesn't need those racist MAGA supporters now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7gxp02yo

Max Peck wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:50 pm Trump can't run again (barring a MAGA coup, Constitutional amendment, or pliant legislative and judicial branches that agree that the Constitution is just a piece of paper), so it is technically correct to say that going forward he doesn't need to worry about pleasing the people who voted for him.

Max Peck wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:06 am He'll only be a lame duck if the GOP manages to lose control of the House and/or Senate come the midterms.

Max Peck wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 2:50 pm

Holman wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 1:27 pm Musk spoke up in favor of legal immigration because he believes Americans are too stupid and want too much money compared to engineers from Asia (who can also be coerced to work extreme hours due to their immigration status vulnerability).

Vivek Ramaswamy went all-in on "we need H1-B workers because Americans aren't up to the job" to back up his Dogelord:

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/18 ... 9945234507

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it.

Arguing that immigrants rule, Americans drool is a bold case to make to MAGA, but let's see how it works out for him. At least his blue checkmark is safe.

Kraken wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:12 am

Max Peck wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:06 am He'll only be a lame duck if the GOP manages to lose control of the House and/or Senate come the midterms.

Oh, I trust them to do that. A whole lot of people are going to be hurting two years from now, whether they realize who betrayed them or not. I don't dive deep into this stuff, but it's my understanding that the Senate map favors the Dems next time. I like their odds of taking both houses.

Blackhawk wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 7:47 pm

Kraken wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:12 am

Max Peck wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:06 am He'll only be a lame duck if the GOP manages to lose control of the House and/or Senate come the midterms.

Oh, I trust them to do that. A whole lot of people are going to be hurting two years from now, whether they realize who betrayed them or not. I don't dive deep into this stuff, but it's my understanding that the Senate map favors the Dems next time. I like their odds of taking both houses.

This assumes that their voting 'reforms' don't change the math.

Max Peck wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:50 pm Trump can't run again (barring a MAGA coup, Constitutional amendment, or pliant legislative and judicial branches that agree that the Constitution is just a piece of paper), so it is technically correct to say that going forward he doesn't need to worry about pleasing the people who voted for him.

Alefroth wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 3:02 am

Max Peck wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:50 pm Trump can't run again (barring a MAGA coup, Constitutional amendment, or pliant legislative and judicial branches that agree that the Constitution is just a piece of paper), so it is technically correct to say that going forward he doesn't need to worry about pleasing the people who voted for him.

I think he still needs his base as a way tp threaten legislators who don't do his bidding. Part of the fear of Trump is having his base turn against you.

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has reportedly hired foreign workers with H-1B visas after a wave of layoffs in the U.S.

Electrek reported on Monday that Tesla recently "ramped up its use of H-1B visas to replace U.S. workers it let go during a wave of layoffs earlier this year."

Current and former Tesla employees confirmed the car company's move in recent days, Electrek said. Tesla reportedly laid off at least 14% of its 120,000 workers in 2024.

Over the past week, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA movement have been furious with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy after they called for an increase in H-1B visas and suggested U.S. workers were inferior.

Musk is also Tesla's CEO and largest shareholder.

The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked speculation after changing his name on his social media platform X to "Kekius Maximus".

The tech mogul - and close confidant of US President-Elect Donald Trump - offered no immediate explanation for the name or his new profile image which depicts the character Pepe the Frog - a meme that has been used by far-right groups.

The move has sent ripples through the cryptocurrency world, sending the value of a memecoin - a digital currency inspired by internet memes - that shares the same name skyrocketing.

In the past, Mr Musk has influenced crypto prices with his social media commentary, but it was not immediately clear if he had any involvement in this particular memecoin.

You may have seen the name bandied about on social media, especially in political circles where alt-right activists and avid Donald Trump supporters lurk. Usually it is brandished as a kind of epithet, seemingly to ward off the effects of liberal arguments, and it often is conveyed in memes that use the image of the alt-right mascot, Pepe the Frog: “Kek!”

Kek, in the alt-right’s telling, is the “deity” of the semi-ironic “religion” the white nationalist movement has created for itself online – partly for amusement, as a way to troll liberals and self-righteous conservatives both, and to make a kind of political point. He is a god of chaos and darkness, with the head of a frog, the source of their memetic “magic,” to whom the alt-right and Donald Trump owe their success, according to their own explanations.

In many ways, Kek is the apotheosis of the bizarre alternative reality of the alt-right: at once absurdly juvenile, transgressive, and racist, as well as reflecting a deeper, pseudo-intellectual purpose that lends it an appeal to young ideologues who fancy themselves deep thinkers. It dwells in that murky area they often occupy, between satire, irony, mockery, and serious ideology; Kek can be both a big joke to pull on liberals and a reflection of the alt-right’s own self-image as serious agents of chaos in modern society.

Most of all, Kek has become a kind of tribal marker of the alt-right: Its meaning obscure and unavailable to ordinary people – “normies,” in their lingo – referencing Kek is most often just a way of signaling to fellow conversants online that the writer embraces the principles of chaos and destruction that are central to alt-right thinking, as it were.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued billionaire Elon Musk, saying he failed to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock in a timely manner in early 2022, before buying the social media site.

As a result, the SEC alleges, Musk was able to underpay “by at least $150 million” for shares he bought after he should have disclosed his ownership of more than 5% of Twitter’s shares. Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and later renamed it X.

“As the SEC retreats and leaves office — the SEC’s multi-year campaign of harassment against Mr. Musk culminated in the filing of a single-count ticky tack complaint against Mr. Musk under Section 13(d) for an alleged administrative failure to file a single form — an offense that, even if proven, carries a nominal penalty,” Spiro added.

The SEC’s current chair, Gary Gensler, plans to step down from his post on Jan. 20 and it is not clear if the new administration will continue the lawsuit.

Jaymann wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 4:50 pm LOL, that escalated quickly.

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Zaxxon wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:22 am Why deny when his new best bud will be in charge in a week?

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:44 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:22 am Why deny when his new best bud will be in charge in a week?

President Musk does not need the help of peons like Trump!

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, according to an official involved with planning the event.

They will have a prominent spot at the ceremony, seated together on the platform with other notable guests, including Trump’s Cabinet nominees and elected officials.

Musk said on X that he was “honored” to have such a prominent spot at the inauguration.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:57 pm 'His" PoE2 hardcore character is dead.

Of all the things to lie about .

geezer wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:57 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:57 pm 'His" PoE2 hardcore character is dead.

Of all the things to lie about .

"...Musk revealed that Invoker Monk Percy_Verence was his character using his gaming-focused X profile; cyb3rgam3r420..."

Dafuq is this guy's problem? Does he actually think "X" and "420" are cool and edgy? What a f'n child.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:33 pm

geezer wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:57 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:57 pm 'His" PoE2 hardcore character is dead.

Of all the things to lie about .

"...Musk revealed that Invoker Monk Percy_Verence was his character using his gaming-focused X profile; cyb3rgam3r420..."

Dafuq is this guy's problem? Does he actually think "X" and "420" are cool and edgy? What a f'n child.

They're not only cool and edgy, they're S3XY!

Zaxxon wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:43 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:33 pm

geezer wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:57 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:57 pm 'His" PoE2 hardcore character is dead.

Of all the things to lie about .

"...Musk revealed that Invoker Monk Percy_Verence was his character using his gaming-focused X profile; cyb3rgam3r420..."

Dafuq is this guy's problem? Does he actually think "X" and "420" are cool and edgy? What a f'n child.

They're not only cool and edgy, they're S3XY!

S3XY was dumb but at least a tiny little bit entertaining. Now we have ASS (Actually Smart Summon), 69/420 references wherever possible, etc. Embarrassing.

Zaxxon wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:43 pm S3XY was dumb but at least a tiny little bit entertaining. Now we have ASS (Actually Smart Summon), 69/420 references wherever possible, etc. Embarrassing.