Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

quadraginta said:
I don't disagree, but it sounds like the issue is the way your jurisdiction chose to implement their payment system.

I've seen more than a few municipalities change from individual coin operated meters (at considerable savings) and they have all had a number of centralized pay stations which take coins, bills, and credit cards. Some (as happened here in Durham) later added an alternative to pay by smartphone app. But it definitely isn't the only available method to pay.
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Not so much "chose to implement", rather not bothering to upgrade an old system. Free parking is so prevalent here that few find it necessary to feed a meter. We are not exactly in the forefront of technology here. Suits me fine.

Anyway, trivial sidetrack has run its course.
 
I was curious, so I looked to see what they had to say about the whole thing in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality had a page on their website about the mobile payment app in Sydney.

Among other things they had this to say;

Additional information to remember:

Parking meter time limits vary throughout the Downtown area

If you receive a parking ticket, paper tickets will still be issued, not through the mobile app

You do not have to use the mobile app in order to pay, standard methods of payment for parking remain unchanged​

As I said, this has been my experience everywhere I have seen the changeover from individual coin-operated meters.

Were you talking about some other location?
 
quadraginta said:
I was curious, so I looked to see what they had to say about the whole thing in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality had a page on their website about the mobile payment app in Sydney.

Among other things they had this to say;

Additional information to remember:

Parking meter time limits vary throughout the Downtown area

If you receive a parking ticket, paper tickets will still be issued, not through the mobile app

You do not have to use the mobile app in order to pay, standard methods of payment for parking remain unchanged​

As I said, this has been my experience everywhere I have seen the changeover from individual coin-operated meters.

Were you talking about some other location?
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Nope, that's where I live. You are obviously way more interested than me. I have never used a meter. Just occasionally seen a person plug in a few coins. Never seen a meter checker, never mind received a parking ticket. In any case for those who choose to pay there are options available that do not require smartphones, unlike the example posted by TurkeysGhost that I commented on.
 
Twitter's mysterious brother...Racer X

(That was a seriously obscure TV joke which you have to be very old to get)

wtf? Renaming Twitter to X? Is there supposed to be some logic behind this?
 
I Am The Scum said:
Twitter has officially changed its name and logo in the google app store. If you search for "twitter" there, you will not find it. You will still find "X" at the top of the list, but it kinda feels like when you search for something and you get a few sponsored results before the correct one.

Probably not the best way to onboard new users!
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A single letter brand is crazy for searching on.
 
Darat said:
Going on his record so far, I'm certain his everything app is as much vapourware and spin as all his other product "announcements" turn out to be. Of course if he can get it hyped up he may be able to turn that vapour into idiots willing to sink more money into X.
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This. It's why I've been suspecting for a while now that Musk's photo should be in the dictionary next to the "tinkerbellend" word that Cracked coined a long time ago. If you want an illustration of someone who acts like they'll literally die if people stop talking about them, and has to do more and more outrageous posts and stunts to stay in the public eye... yeah, Musk is the perfect example.
 
Having already declared war on employees, users, advertisers, partners, lenders and landlords, Musk is going after his neighbours. He’s installed an excessively bright unicode character atop the former Twitter building, which seem to achieve little other than floodlighting the apartment windows on the other side of the street.

https://twitter.com/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

I wonder if photosensitive epilepsy even crossed his mind.
 
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Shrinker said:
Having already declared war on employees, users, advertisers, partners, lenders and tenants, Musk is going after his neighbours. He’s installed an excessively bright unicode character atop the former Twitter building, which seem to achieve little other than floodlighting the apartment windows on the other side of the street.

https://twitter.com/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

I wonder if photosensitive epilepsy even crossed his mind.
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I'd buy a rifle. Man, that's outrageous and I doubt it will last more than a few days.
 
Shrinker said:
Having already declared war on employees, users, advertisers, partners, lenders and landlords, Musk is going after his neighbours. He’s installed an excessively bright unicode character atop the former Twitter building, which seem to achieve little other than floodlighting the apartment windows on the other side of the street.

https://twitter.com/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

I wonder if photosensitive epilepsy even crossed his mind.
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But you've got to hand it to him, that the blinking, as if Twitter/X was defective, is a nice touch.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
I've been of the opinion for at least the last few weeks that Yaccarino sees this gig as her pension fund and is acting accordingly; doing enough plamásing to keep the boss happy and nothing else.
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I could easily see it either being an extremely difficult, unpleasant job of having to run around putting out fires as best she can, or a very great, do-nothing job where she knows that Musk is still going to personally run everything and she just has to phone in a bare-minimum effort.
 
Shrinker said:
Having already declared war on employees, users, advertisers, partners, lenders and landlords, Musk is going after his neighbours. He’s installed an excessively bright unicode character atop the former Twitter building, which seem to achieve little other than floodlighting the apartment windows on the other side of the street.

https://twitter.com/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

I wonder if photosensitive epilepsy even crossed his mind.
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Apparently Twitter has refused to allow city inspectors roof access on two occasions to date. At what point do they escalate this by showing up with a warrant and cutting power until the building is brought into compliance?

Knowing Musk's approach to things, I would not be surprised if this thing is structurally unsound and ends up plummeting into the street. San Francisco is known for strong winds.

The San Francisco Department of Building and Inspection says it has been unable to inspect a new black “X” logo on the roof of Elon Musk’s social media company formerly known as Twitter for two days in a row after the company declined access to the structure.
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https://deadline.com/2023/07/x-logo-permits-san-francisco-headquarters-elon-musk-twitter-1235450978/
 
TurkeysGhost said:
Knowing Musk's approach to things, I would not be surprised if this thing is structurally unsound and ends up plummeting into the street. San Francisco is known for strong winds.
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Photographs have shown that it does not appear to be bolted to the building in any way. Rather, it has a square steel frame that is held down by sandbags.

Also, the footage of the X sign shows that it is so bright that it causes a lens flare effect, similar to what you get when you point your camera at the sun.
 
Apparently, Twitter's new motto is "Blaze your glory"

I know how stupid that sounds. I'm not making it up. It sounds like something a life coach from a cut scene in Idiocracy would say.
 
I Am The Scum said:
Apparently, Twitter's new motto is "Blaze your glory"

I know how stupid that sounds. I'm not making it up. It sounds like something a life coach from a cut scene in Idiocracy would say.
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Musk is a dumb guy's idea of what a smart person is. Moronic and empty self-help style slogans like this are entirely fitting of that pattern.

I doubt Musk was ever a brainiac, but I subscribe to the theory that being rich often makes people dumber. That level of wealth and power heavily insulates people from the effects of their actions. That level of money severs your link to a more rational world. People are generally nice and servile no matter how you act, the consequences of dumb actions are often easily dealt with, often without the person even knowing, and so on. A total departure into fantasy land.

Musk is totally unmoored from reality, surrounded by orbiters of weird fanbois and paid yes-men that assure him his farts smell like roses.
 
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