Not just a genius, a fecking polymath on the level of Leonardo da VinciIt's so funny that after all these terrible decisions, he still saved by far the worst one for last. Pissing off the advertisers, firing 80% of the staff causing the site to break in new ways every weak, bringing back all the worst people on the right - that's all bad. But then he decided to change from one of the most recognizable names in the tech world, with one of the most recognizable logos. A name that has such reach that it's spawned genuine words from it such as "a tweet" and "to tweet". Something basically any company which isn't Google can only ever dream of.
But that's still not the worst part. The worst part is X. Not only does it say nothing about the business, it's near universally connected to online pornography. It's also completely useless for visibility and search results, being a letter of the alphabet.
It's so dumb. And this is the man certain people called a genuis not that long ago on this forum. A fecking genius
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Always remember what the inimitable Michael Jordan once said - feck them kids.
Whether you're on the wind up or not...
Sign was just dismantled.
100% he and his tech bros are going to spin this as "we knew the sign was going to cease to eXist, this was just an eXemplarily eXample of marketing"Sign was just dismantled.
If something is not broken, do not fix it.
I do not understand what the problem with Twitter was, when Musk bought it?
I do not understand what the problem with Twitter was, when Musk bought it?
I am not as read up as others but I think they struggled with how to make it more profitable, and with general direction
He paid multiple times its value so had to make it more profitable to justify paying a hugely inflated sum. Its basically a series of stupid decisions after stupid decision to justify the previous stupid decision.
He said society was infected with a woke mind virus and he was going to save us (by letting more facist's post on twitter presumably)
I've been wondering about that myself, with regards to the sign. It's such an easy one, large obnoxious flashing sign is put up and it's annoying people there. You'd always think it's a dick move, no matter who put it up. As it's Musk though they're compelled to defend it. One guy said no residentials are in sight of it so this makes it ok, some people used verifiable evidence to show he was wrong, and he just sarcastically segued into rhetoric about how it's dumb to complain about the sign with all the homeless and dirty streets there are. I wonder if they're self aware and do it for attention, or if they're genuinely oblivious to any flaws and think his decisions are always correct.Whether you're on the wind up or not...
Bit like the white knight comment, while he's the one defending a stranger from any criticism.
Such a tortured genius.
Too many libs on it.
No, he just believes every thought is worth exploring, because he is an egotistical moron.
Alas, another one for the collection of people I never liked.
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Musk always strikes me as the type of person who walks into a room full of engineers, shouts "Brain Enhancing Hats for Badgers" and then fecks off. In five years - once the engineers have taken this shite idea and turned it into something tangible - Musk takes full credit for everything because he was the visionary 'big idea' guy behind the thing.
The beard is an abomination.
He 100% did that on purpose, he's a teenage edgelord stuck in the body of the richest man on the planet, utterly pathetic.
Oh there's not even a shred of doubt that he did it on purpose.
That’s harsh on teenagers, most of whom wouldn’t find that even mildly amusing.
That's true, I apologise unreservedly to any teenagers I may have offended.
I don't know, a grown ass redcafe user posted today that M-she-U is a "clever" pun to mock the number of women with prominent roles in the Marvel series of movies (MCU).
My teenage students think musk's humor is the definition of cringe. If one of them had posted this pic they would've been mercilessly mocked.
No wonder if goes well with the rest of the face
He has managed to turn the blue ticks into basically the opposite of what they were originally intended to be. Now I automatically either skip their comments entirely or read them with a "fake until proven otherwise" mindset. I know some of those blue ticks are people who paid for them because they genuinely need the visibility, but many of them (most?) are just Elon sycophants and more generally right wing loons and conspiracy theorists, and everybody knows it.
Peaked
So about the same, if you don't consider shipping.Peaked
Anyway, apparently blue checkers discovered the rare phenomenon of inflation. Good for them.
How does a billionaire CEO not know this?Peaked
Maybe when he'd said he'd get one if his brain chips installed he wasn't joking. Had it installed and it's reduce his mental capacity to that of an 11 year old. Would explain a lot.
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I do agree Kill the Boer is going too far. Granted he did a shite job at Palace, but he won 4 league titles in a row with Ajax.
You can't read threads now on X (lol) without an account?
Another pitiful attempt by Musk to force people to sign up to “X”.
Seems so
Is not new for many users without account (like me). I cant read threads since he started meddling with the limiys a few weeks back. It seems that is affecting more people now
I open twitter once in a blue moon so that may very well have been happening for weeks without my noticing. I do remember shortly after the limits fiasco I couldn't even read single tweets. Oh well.
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That was Twitter honey, this is X.