That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
And take on a salaried wage and then never see their family or friends or do anything outside of providing for the new owner of their workplace.Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:49 pm But...but... Musk only wants "extremely hardcore" employees. I mean, he said, "“This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
How are they going to prove that they're "hardcore' if they can't work until they collapse?
I clicked an ad about fancy popcorn and on top of inundating my feed with popcorn ads, today the snail mail brought me a paper popcorn catalog.Skinypupy wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:17 am I have no idea what I googled or what I interacted with that triggered the algorithm, but my Twitter timeline in now about 40% wolves. “Wolf of the day”, “Beautiful Wolves”, “Majestic Wolf”, “Natures Best Wolves”…a whole bunch of accounts randomly showing up in my timeline showing pictures and videos of wolves.
It’s very weird.
You need to read the tweet just shared by malchior over in the Deathwatch forth estate thread in P&RSkinypupy wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:16 am Musk is truly just a conspiracy-addled MAGA memelord who now happens to own one of the world’s most pervasive communications platforms.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/sta ... 2573605888
Makes The NY Times “We don’t know what political side he is truly on” article from last week all the more hilarious.
He's always said he was unbiased, yet he does things like this which show his true colours. He's a troll that happens to own a social media platform, thus making his voice the loudest and allowing for like-minded opinions to surface, meanwhile silencing more reasoned voices.Skinypupy wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:16 am Musk is truly just a conspiracy-addled MAGA memelord who now happens to own one of the world’s most pervasive communications platforms.
What could possibly go wrong?
They do seem to lose all compassion and empathy when the wolf can't reach their own door anymore. IDK if Musk was ever compassionate to begin with.Smoove_B wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:31 pm It's almost like...at a certain point money turns many, many people into absolute garbage.
He's likely always been this way, only now it's more visible because of his platform. He's hard to read because he's such a polarizing figure. He's like a kid who says one thing then says, "I was joking, chill out." when he doesn't like what's being said in response. So, I think he does a lot to get a rise out of people just to see how they'll react.Carpet_pissr wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:27 pm For someone who hasn’t followed him, but does follow political news pretty closely, I have to say this was quite a surprise. Mostly that it’s been kept more or less under wraps for so long. Or maybe he’s been radicalized recently?
Just seems like he went from zero to 160 in terms of MAGA (Qanon?).
Reminds me of my Dad in a way - both the radicalization (and I don’t use that word lightly or jokingly) and the…suddenness.
Our country is very sick.
Elon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco on Sunday night after he was invited onstage by comedian Dave Chappelle. And the footage is pretty rough, even if you don’t particularly like Musk.
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle said near the end of his set at the Chase Center.
The crowd erupted into a mixture of cheers and boos, before the boos clearly won out, according to footage posted on Twitter. [Update, 6:40 a.m. ET: The footage appears to have been deleted from Twitter for some reason, but you can still watch it below.] The booing got louder as Musk wandered around onstage with a microphone in hand. Musk started pacing and waving, clearly unsure what to do about such a negative reaction.
“Cheers and boos, I see. Elon...” Chappelle said.
“Hey Dave,” Musk responded, prompting another wave of boos from the crowd.
“All these people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, you have terrible seats,” Chappelle said, apparently trying to save Musk’s dignity by calling the people who are booing poor.
Phones weren’t allowed inside the stadium for the show, but at least one person snuck theirs in and captured the bizarre exchange, posting it to Twitter.
It’s almost as if my statement on not being traditionally conservative or liberal is a transparent lie and I am nothing more than 4Chan troll steeped in the worst of race-centric misogyny who is also an excellent investor… but nahhh.
Musk ended up winning the lawsuit when the cave diver sued him for defamation and the jury agreed it was a joke. Still, tells you all you need to know about Musk.Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out and called one of the rescuers of the boys soccer team trapped in a Thai cave “pedo guy” because he felt insulted by the man. That was what Musk and his lawyer argued Tuesday, as Musk testified in a defamation suit brought by the rescuer.
On July 15, 2018, Musk tweeted “pedo guy” in reference to Vernon Unsworth, one of the people involved in the Thai cave rescue that saved 12 boys and their soccer coach that same month. Musk took the stand for about four hours in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday and argued that he did not intend for the words “pedo guy” to be a statement of fact but rather as an insult after Unsworth provoked him
Lin Wood was the attorney opposing Musk.Kurth wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:48 pm I think we knew all we needed to know about Musk after he called that cave diver a pedo guy when they were trying to rescue the soccer kids in Thailand and the cave diver dismissed Elon’s ideas about using an submersible robot:
Musk ended up winning the lawsuit when the cave diver sued him for defamation and the jury agreed it was a joke. Still, tells you all you need to know about Musk.Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out and called one of the rescuers of the boys soccer team trapped in a Thai cave “pedo guy” because he felt insulted by the man. That was what Musk and his lawyer argued Tuesday, as Musk testified in a defamation suit brought by the rescuer.
On July 15, 2018, Musk tweeted “pedo guy” in reference to Vernon Unsworth, one of the people involved in the Thai cave rescue that saved 12 boys and their soccer coach that same month. Musk took the stand for about four hours in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday and argued that he did not intend for the words “pedo guy” to be a statement of fact but rather as an insult after Unsworth provoked him
Also, I just realized who Elon’s attorney was in the defamation case: Lin Wood.
Yes.
That Lin Wood.
Zaxxon wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:04 pmLin Wood was the attorney opposing Musk.Kurth wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:48 pm I think we knew all we needed to know about Musk after he called that cave diver a pedo guy when they were trying to rescue the soccer kids in Thailand and the cave diver dismissed Elon’s ideas about using an submersible robot:
Musk ended up winning the lawsuit when the cave diver sued him for defamation and the jury agreed it was a joke. Still, tells you all you need to know about Musk.Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out and called one of the rescuers of the boys soccer team trapped in a Thai cave “pedo guy” because he felt insulted by the man. That was what Musk and his lawyer argued Tuesday, as Musk testified in a defamation suit brought by the rescuer.
On July 15, 2018, Musk tweeted “pedo guy” in reference to Vernon Unsworth, one of the people involved in the Thai cave rescue that saved 12 boys and their soccer coach that same month. Musk took the stand for about four hours in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday and argued that he did not intend for the words “pedo guy” to be a statement of fact but rather as an insult after Unsworth provoked him
Also, I just realized who Elon’s attorney was in the defamation case: Lin Wood.
Yes.
That Lin Wood.
Yep. I misread that. A real legal eagle, I am.I love how he calls the left unhinged, when he's in the thick of the far-right extremist territory.Carpet_pissr wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:43 am “Technically”??! LOL. Ok, man.
You can’t ‘smartest man in the room’ your way out of being loudly boo’d by thousands.
OTOH, it’s kind of just a red/blue-ometer isn’t it? I bet if no Musk was on stage, and Dave asked the audience to cheer if they are Republican, and boo if they are Democrat, you would not be able to notice a difference (compared to Musk’s ‘reception’)
Ken Follett wrote:"The trouble with being a tyrant is that your position is so insecure. You can't relax your grip for an instant. As soon as you show weakness, the smell of blood is in the air and the jackals gather. Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than loved, but he was wrong. A popular leader can make mistakes and survive, up to a point. A tyrant can't."
Interesting take. I'd point out that tyrants often get to decide what is a mistake and what isn't. Typically along the lines of "If I did it, it wasn't a mistake."Rumpy wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:28 pm
Ken Follett wrote:"The trouble with being a tyrant is that your position is so insecure. You can't relax your grip for an instant. As soon as you show weakness, the smell of blood is in the air and the jackals gather. Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than loved, but he was wrong. A popular leader can make mistakes and survive, up to a point. A tyrant can't."