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I feel the same way about LP's posts.
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Not all of us are so fond of internet ideological echo chambers.
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You misspelled my initials.
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Not all of us are so fond of ignorance, stupidity and trolling that we value it as "diversity of opinion".
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I wouldn't label LP's post any of those things. I've disagreed with a good deal of LP's posts, but I have never once thought he wasn't being genuine.
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I certainly wasn't referring to LP. Among those with whom I differ greatly and regularly, I value LP's input more than most if not all.
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Reports are that this is being taken down whenever posted on Twitter.
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Bugger. Beat me to it. Makes you wonder if all these free speech fuckwits know the difference between "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom from Consequences"
The former is code for the latter.
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What is so odd with Musk is that he wasn't particularly that vocal about these things before, but now he is posting all sorts of trollish stuff on Twitter. Kind of maybe doing an Andy Kaufman, but there isn't any real joke.
Musk appears to be a more successful version of Trump, where as, the more we get to know him, the worse and more hollow of a person he is. And even his business "genius" persona is starting to become unraveled. Effectively throwing money at people and taking the credit for their genius. If it happens. He seems to have learned his Boring Company was going to lack that capability.
The truly interesting thing is that Musk bought Twitter based on an alleged desire to save free speech. Yet, he seems to be just squandering speech on his platform now... as a troll. Yes, trolling is speech, but it is wasted speech with no intent other than to piss some people off and turn some others on.
Musk appears to be a more successful version of Trump, where as, the more we get to know him, the worse and more hollow of a person he is. And even his business "genius" persona is starting to become unraveled. Effectively throwing money at people and taking the credit for their genius. If it happens. He seems to have learned his Boring Company was going to lack that capability.
The truly interesting thing is that Musk bought Twitter based on an alleged desire to save free speech. Yet, he seems to be just squandering speech on his platform now... as a troll. Yes, trolling is speech, but it is wasted speech with no intent other than to piss some people off and turn some others on.
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And now when you click on someone's blue check mark (the check mark that existed before Muskrat's changes) you get this message
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On the Muskrats 'genius' reputation... For some time, watching all his grandiose project getting debunked, I started wondering if all he is doing is taking ideas from old sci-fi stories and comics, thinking 'we must have the technology to do that now' and saying he is working on it as if it was his own idea. Like the hyperloop was thought up a hundred years ago. Now if the engineers he hired can make the tech advances, great! But then he tries to take credit for it as if he was Tony Stark, or an Ayn Rand character, (or Edison for a real world example). But mostly he has become the Master of Vaporware as I call him.
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The bore tunneling is quite possibly the worst. He was allegedly trying to use an existing technology under the guise of something new... to move lots of people. His plan was cheap... because it was underbid and in practice it didn't accomplish a lot, capacity or performance wise. The worst problem was, his genius was to make "subways" inefficient, by using cars.
His apparent "genius" was that it would be much cheaper to simply tunnel smaller holes. And while cheaper and faster, it wasn't remotely useful because he was using cars... and one or two single lane tunnels. This sort of plan was definitely a sign of Musk isn't a good engineer and sure the heck not a paradigm shifting one. He wants to think he is Nikola Tesla. Instead, he is a rich guy who got lucky.
His apparent "genius" was that it would be much cheaper to simply tunnel smaller holes. And while cheaper and faster, it wasn't remotely useful because he was using cars... and one or two single lane tunnels. This sort of plan was definitely a sign of Musk isn't a good engineer and sure the heck not a paradigm shifting one. He wants to think he is Nikola Tesla. Instead, he is a rich guy who got lucky.
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More Twitter melt down problems for Musk.
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Although the company had previously committed to pay out two months pay and one month's severance pay to laid off employees, Musk has been mulling rescinding that pledge, even though he knows it would embroil the company in costly labor lawsuits.
"Mr. Musk’s team is now reconsidering whether it should pay some of those months... or just face lawsuits from disgruntled former employees," the Times reports. "Many former employees still have not received any paperwork formalizing their separation from Twitter."
In addition to all this, the Times reports that Musk has even stopped paying rent for Twitter's office space.
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www.rawstory.com
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Although the company had previously committed to pay out two months pay and one month's severance pay to laid off employees, Musk has been mulling rescinding that pledge, even though he knows it would embroil the company in costly labor lawsuits.
"Mr. Musk’s team is now reconsidering whether it should pay some of those months... or just face lawsuits from disgruntled former employees," the Times reports. "Many former employees still have not received any paperwork formalizing their separation from Twitter."
In addition to all this, the Times reports that Musk has even stopped paying rent for Twitter's office space.
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Elon Musk mulls axing severance pay for laid off workers and has stopped paying rent at Twitter offices: NYT
A new report from the New York Times claims that Twitter CEO Elon Musk is making a number of cost-cutting moves at the social media company and may not even pay out severance packages to workers whom he laid off earlier this year.Although the company had previously committed to pay out two...
www.rawstory.com
Right wing "free speech" = right wing trolling. Suppress dissenting voices, though.
What's the point in labor lawsuits? It's unlikely there will be any value by the time such a suit was won.More Twitter melt down problems for Musk.
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Although the company had previously committed to pay out two months pay and one month's severance pay to laid off employees, Musk has been mulling rescinding that pledge, even though he knows it would embroil the company in costly labor lawsuits.
"Mr. Musk’s team is now reconsidering whether it should pay some of those months... or just face lawsuits from disgruntled former employees," the Times reports. "Many former employees still have not received any paperwork formalizing their separation from Twitter."
In addition to all this, the Times reports that Musk has even stopped paying rent for Twitter's office space.
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Elon Musk mulls axing severance pay for laid off workers and has stopped paying rent at Twitter offices: NYT
A new report from the New York Times claims that Twitter CEO Elon Musk is making a number of cost-cutting moves at the social media company and may not even pay out severance packages to workers whom he laid off earlier this year.Although the company had previously committed to pay out two...
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One could make the case that when Musk offered three months salaries to those who quit rather than continue employment, that was a broken contract. Not with Twitter, but Elon Musk. They could get their 3 months severence, court costs and punitive awards. And this high handed nonsense demonstrates Musk is not a man of his word. Might make it hard from here to hire badly neded expert engineers.
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