Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

SpaceX is a testament to the genius of the engineers Musk employs. TwitterX is a demonstration of the man's abilities.
 
a_unique_person said:
His reasoning and thinking on X prove otherwise.
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Indeed. He certainly had his talent and luck, but he seems to have grown arrogant and foolish as he seeks either approval from an unhealthy crowd or to exploit them.

Trausti said:
The self-landing rocket is a marvel. What have you done today?
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A self-landing rocket is a marvel. How much do you think that Musk actually had to do with the brain work of the design and overall process of making it reality?

That's not to diminish what he actually has done. Selling the prospect to potential investors? He fairly certainly did that. Acting as CEO for the company? Apparently, that's a super easy job for Musk, because he can do that for a bunch of big companies and still have a remarkable amount of time to trawl through social media, among other things. Alternately, he's likely delegated the duties that normal CEOs would do to people who are distinctly more competent at those duties and are involved for most of those companies, leaving him with quite a lot of free time in place of actual work. Either way, his contributions seem to have little that actually refute the qualities suggested. Trying to give sole credit to Musk for things like a self-landing rocket is disingenuous to an extreme.
 
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well if you want to slob his knob on that he owns successful companies, there's a thread for that. this is the thread for the unsuccessful social media company he runs and spends an inordinate mount of his free time over sharing on
 
Andy_Ross said:
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I would like to see some evidence of his claim.

Both companies, like all of the biggest tech companies, rely heavily on Republican pro-business attitudes and polices to suppress legislative challenges to their anti-competitive and privacy-violating practices, worker exploitation, and tax evasion. Google in particular is anti-union and donates to climate change denialist organizations; more immediately it has found itself in some unexpected antitrust legal trouble and could really use another Republican supermajority to defang antitrust regulations before Google gets too badly hurt.

My feeling is that Musk just assumes these companies "disproportionally donate to Democratic" interests because they sell rainbow merch on Pride Day or use words like "green" and "sustainability" in their PR despite the fact that they individually consume more electricity and water than some small developed nations.
 
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Darat said:
I've never used Twitter a user so no idea how it works, I take it currently it's as if someone here putting someone on your ignore list also puts you on theirs and the change is to make it like our ignore system i.e. you stop yourself seeing someone else's tweets?
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Yes, that's pretty much it.

In fact, that system is also there. It's called "mute" so you don't see their tweets, but they see yours. The block makes it both ways.
 
Darat said:
Elon Musk dilutes X's block feature

Good or bad move?
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At present, when you block someone, they are barred from both interacting with you on X and from seeing your posts.
In the next X update, blocked users will still be able to view your content.
“High time this happened,” said X CEO Elon Musk in a post. “The block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post.”
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My guess is this is because his troll army like seeing if their victims are posting about them after the trolls have been blocked.
 
dirtywick said:
well if you want to slob his knob on that he owns successful companies, there's a thread for that. this is the thread for the unsuccessful social media company he runs and spends an inordinate mount of his free time over sharing on
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Well he owns one company that recently became profitable and whose lifetime losses still exceeds its profits. Most of the other companies Musk owns/owned are either naked scams or welfare queens.
 
Orphia Nay said:
My guess is this is because his troll army like seeing if their victims are posting about them after the trolls have been blocked.
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Probably to force people who have blocked him to see his content as well. I mean, it's usually always about him. He just can't handle the fact that there are people on his platform that aren't seeing his words because of the block feature.
 
It's a sad reflection on the world we've built that the richest man in it is such a whiney bitch.
 
3point14 said:
It's a sad reflection on the world we've built that the richest man in it is such a whiney bitch.
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I think that's an unavoidable feature of the Billionaire Economy: they are the Whales, surrounded at all times by hundreds of smaller fish feeding off their spoils with no other job than to keep the whale happy.

It confused them greatly when they are confronted with a Reality that isn't actively being filtered by their professional sycophants.
 
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