Punished Miku
Gold Member
Just in case someone hasn't seen these. He's been putting these out for 3+ years. He has dozens of videos like this. Try to make it to the end. Rough.
This video is a year old.
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Just in case someone hasn't seen these. He's been putting these out for 3+ years. He has dozens of videos like this. Try to make it to the end. Rough.
This video is a year old.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
The NYT piece is wild.
What’s Gone at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper.
Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.www.nytimes.com
Tesla Cost-Cutting Measures so Hardcore Employees Are Bringing Toilet Paper From Home
Tesla has gone from production hell to bathroom hell.
www.thedrive.com
2019. Dude seriously hates paying for toilet paper.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Tesla Cost-Cutting Measures so Hardcore Employees Are Bringing Toilet Paper From Home
Tesla has gone from production hell to bathroom hell.
2019. Dude seriously hates paying for toilet paper.
It's like he's trying to make his employees quit
Punished Miku
Gold Member
He's been pretty open about doing that on purpose. Amazon as well.
Thaedolus
Member
Any kind of tl;dr? A family member signed up for star link and brings it camping with us and it’s been pretty great
Punished Miku
Gold Member
No. He is Musk enemy #1 and just searches for ways to point out he's a liar. For years now. Its a messy rant but has good nuggets in there. Its my guilty pleasure the last few weeks.
dr_octagon
Banned
Musk wants to outdo Bezos approach of building a culture where workers piss in bottles.The NYT piece is wild.
What’s Gone at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper.
Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
Everyone loves riding the pendulum on that sweet sweet upswing. The second half of the ride? Not so much!
Vicetrailia
Member
Exactly.
Buying a Tesla meant that you were helping to save the planet, and it was a status symbol.
The last one is no longer true. It’s now “shameful” to own one because he alienated his main customer base. Also if Elon Musk didn’t own Tesla and therefore would not have to control his messaging, there’s the thought that he would be a climate change denier, which is very possible.
All of this looks bad.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Tweets like this, smelly offices, dirty toilets and not paying their bills just shows what a low class of people he comes from. Proof that you can become a billionare but you cant wash off the cheapness. His father was apparently rich but married his own step daughter and himself just comes across as a crass, sleezy, and unsophisticated dude. Everyone bitches about WASPs, but at least they show some class.
dr_octagon
Banned
Yeah, it's translated to outside the US also. It's the go to electric vehicle.
Tesla missed or didn't care about mass market. Other manufacturers have caught up and there are plenty of options now.
The average person won't be able to afford a Tesla. This doesn't even include some of the practical issues including weather affecting battery. Also children mining for minerals for raw material (although that's electronics in general).
Jinzo Prime
Member
I still don't understand why Elon wanted to "get his hands dirty" with Twitter. He's rich, he could have hired someone to do whatever he wanted! Guess its narcissism, idk.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
This caused my brother to crash his tesla last March. We both left Toronto at the same time. I was driving my trusty $20k honda civic, him his $60k model Y. He had to stop every 1.5 to 2 hours because the temps randomly dropped to below freezing. I ended up a full 1.5 hours ahead of him and just missed some freezing rain. He then crashed while trying to avoid a stalled car on the highway. He had that auto break thing enabled to save on battery life so as soon as he stepped off the gas to avoid the stalled car, the dumb tesla pumped the breaks and the wet road caused his car to spin off the road crashing into trees. He said he was fighting the car's control as much as the slippery road. I wouldnt be surprised if there was something funky going on with tesla crash detection kicking in and causing the crash. My brother is a good driver and shouldve been able to overcome some slippery conditions.
Couldnt get it fixed either. Teslas cant be repaired so they totalled it and offered a new car but that would take 6 months to build so Progressive just gave him a check for $68k since thats what they were going for. He bought a BMW for $45k and never looked back.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
The dude claims to believe we are actually living in a simulation.
Elon Musk Says There’s a ‘One in Billions’ Chance Reality Is Not a Simulation
Elon Musk says he firmly believes reality is a simulation created by a superintelligence.
www.vice.com
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I love Musk because of the social media hilarity he brings. It is social media everyone. And tech people love publicly telling the world what’s going on behind closed doors. So Musk might as well roll with it and join in the public laughs.
Although I’m not a fan of ev cars. And that hyperloop thing he tried plugging as the wave of the future I think came to a halt. What a scam that was. And when he badmouthed that Thai rescuer that was absurdly in bad taste.
Although I’m not a fan of ev cars. And that hyperloop thing he tried plugging as the wave of the future I think came to a halt. What a scam that was. And when he badmouthed that Thai rescuer that was absurdly in bad taste.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
the way he's running the company is very third world like. We are a first world country where employees deserve to be treated well, and they shouldnt have to sleep in the offices, bring their own toilet paper, work in unsanitary conditions, sit in meetings with breastfeeding women, sleep on the floor, get laid off and then berated as useless hacks. Can these laid off workers even put their twitter work on their resumes now that hes publicly called them lazy and unmotivated?
It's one thing to demand excellence, and another thing altogether to demean and treat everyone like shit. Steve Jobs was a cunt but Apple was not run like this. It has always been rated as one of the best places to work. Their offices are literally in $5 billion compound. I can promise you it doesnt stink.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Elon Musk suffers biggest loss of wealth in modern history with net worth collapse
Elon Musk has suffered the biggest loss of wealth in modern history, with his net worth dropping by more than $200billion (£166bn).
www.nme.com
Hoddi
Member
It's hardly a secret that Tesla was overvalued but it's still weird to see it in this context.Elon Musk suffers biggest loss of wealth in modern history with net worth collapse
Elon Musk has suffered the biggest loss of wealth in modern history, with his net worth dropping by more than $200billion (£166bn).
It's hard to quantify how much his Twitter acquisition factors into this. But it's probably cost him way more than 44B at this point in time.
Toons
Member
The worst part is this type of stuff is intended specifically for the people with the least amount of critical thought ability. Vague nonsense fir them to nod their head to prepackaged in an easy to digest meme. Designed not to be argued against because it doesn't actually say anything. Allows you to essentially let everyone else fill in the blanks and bear no true accountability of the words
Thirty7ven
Banned
You can’t marry fame, specially when you got so much to lose.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
RAÏSanÏa
Member
It's another sign Elon Muskva is sinking.
Besides being poor outreach since babies raised by wolves already know what it means in context, it's showing he's detached from reality, thinks little of the capacity of others(maybe an attempt to take advantage of the unsure), and is clinging to dated self-aggrandizing affirmations that indicate he's intellectually stagnant and terminally in a loop from the mind virus inflicted by swallowing the co-opted red-pill meme.
FunkMiller
Member
I mean, you'd think he'd realise that quoting from an incredibly progressive movie, made by two subsequent trans-women, would probably undermine his position somewhat, but I guess thinking too deeply into these things isn't how this stuff operates.
dr_octagon
Banned
It's a sci fi movie, lots of action, kung fu, cool dialogue, good music and robots. The irony is lost on him, a billionaire who would be a villain in the movie for holding such control with a communications platform.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
dr_octagon
Banned
He is cybertruck shaped so makes sense.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
The way I think of it, when he posts he is holding a press conference for the whole world. He was the richest man in the world. Both twitter and tesla are in flames. He gets up on a stage with a microphone, investors on the edge of their seat waiting for encouraging news, and instead he lights a joint and starts telling everyone they have tiny testicles if they can't break out of the matrix. Then he walks off the stage and his company stock continues to sink.
chromhound
Member
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
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While I wouldn't be shocked...
This is just some guy saying "New Scientist" says so, i swear... w/o linking to anything at all lol
While I wouldn't be shocked...
This is just some guy saying "New Scientist" says so, i swear... w/o linking to anything at all lol
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
“Sources familiar with the matter told Electrek that teams at several Tesla facilities are going to some extremes in attempts to cut costs, including skipping on ordering office supplies – even toilet paper.”Tesla Cost-Cutting Measures so Hardcore Employees Are Bringing Toilet Paper From Home
Tesla has gone from production hell to bathroom hell.
2019. Dude seriously hates paying for toilet paper.
Is it some teams or this coming from the top? Anyways, this is the case where stupid savings should be stopped from the top.
LegendOfKage
Member
Yep. I've included a good example of this "nothingburger" below.
Under threat of regulation and intervention, the government was telling twitter to remove content based on what it considers misinformation. Why should we accept that the government should decide the truth? Here's a very important point concerning what would have been considered misinformation 20 years ago.
This is from the Wall Street Journal. Here we have a Standford professor who was silenced by Twitter for spreading the "conspiracy theory" that maybe we should target vaccines and other medical aid to those who need it the most, and not shutdown schools. That was considered "misinformation" so radical that it must not ever be allowed to be seen by anyone who doesn't already follow the person suggesting it.
Can you see why many feel that the government encouraging this kind of censorship under threat of regulation is getting uncomfortably close to circumventing the first amendment?
Why are you so devoted to wanting to be told what you're allowed to say, and someone deciding for you what opinions are right and wrong?
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gothmog
Gold Member
I imagine most people that quit did it quietly.
Sonik
Member
Yeap, the virtue signallers are always the biggest hypocrites and liars.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
This is a weird comment.
ManaByte
Member
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Huh?
That quote is about users leaving Twitter, not employees.
WTF kind of comment is yours anyways? Twitter employees have "puppetry degrees" and working at Twitter isn't a "Real job" lol?
ManaByte
Member
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
And?
That's just like.. tech companies.
They do that because they have to attract high-valued workers.. who are valued highly because a company successful at leveraging them will make a lot more than they pay them.
They also do that because many expect you to be at the office for 10+ hours.. it's a strategy really pioneered by Microsoft in the 90s.
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Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
The fundamental issue for me is that if you accept that these huge social media platforms wield such immense social influence that they are potentially capable of affecting electoral behaviour, then we have a huge problem for democracy without independent oversight.
Essentially as they have the capability to be employed as propaganda networks, they need to be insulated from partisan political control.
They are just too appealing a tool for any group's political arsenal. Everyone knows this, and its why there's been so much kerfuffle over Musk's takeover.
Essentially as they have the capability to be employed as propaganda networks, they need to be insulated from partisan political control.
They are just too appealing a tool for any group's political arsenal. Everyone knows this, and its why there's been so much kerfuffle over Musk's takeover.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Remember that time Elon ran a public poll asking if he should step down? That was weird.
LegendOfKage
Member
winjer
Gold Member
Elon Musk becomes the first person in history to lose $200 billion
In 2021, Musk became only the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of $200 billion---Amazon's founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos beat him to that...
www.techspot.com
So how is your 2023 going so far
FunkMiller
Member
Elon Musk becomes the first person in history to lose $200 billion
In 2021, Musk became only the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of $200 billion---Amazon's founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos beat him to that...
So how is your 2023 going so far
The sad thing is there's still an army of people who will defend his recent actions... despite the fact that all evidence shows it's been a disaster.
Zathalus
Member
What am I missing here? I had the same perks when working for AWS, apart from the red wine on tap.
Free drinks and snacks, amazing coffee, meditation and prayer rooms, gym and yoga, awesome canteen, sound proof meeting pods, top floor was a relaxing social area with views of the city, and multiple areas with TVs, PS5s, pool tables, etc...
Do people at AWS do not know what they are doing either?
Mistake
Member
Whelp, looks like it was a good idea for twitter to ban links to this place
odysee.com
Twitter Alternative Mastodon REVEALED To Be A Safe Haven For Creeps! 40% Of All Content Of Kids!
Get PIA Below https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/TheQuarteringYT
odysee.com
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Do you have a better source for that?Whelp, looks like it was a good idea for twitter to ban links to this place
Twitter Alternative Mastodon REVEALED To Be A Safe Haven For Creeps! 40% Of All Content Of Kids!
Get PIA Below https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/TheQuarteringYT
Because The Quartering isn't exactly reliable.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I think I'll wait for another outlet to cover it I guess. The Quartering is heavily biased and specifically tailors his videos to fit around the stories he wants to tell.
He also hero worships Musk so him covering a competitor of Twitter also seems a bit fudgy.
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