I bet they copied some code for mastodon and paid Gargron to not try to go after them. That would definitely give them a huge lift. Otherwise, I don't see how they were able to quickly come up with this. Tech companies take forever to build stuff usually
I’ve just remembered “I’m a free speech absolutist, but not when it comes to parodies of me” and “tweeting my publicly available flight logs is sending out assassination coordinates”. What a joke of an individual. Cry more Elmo.
I'm in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It's amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there's a ton of
competition cheaters now
A conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he's a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn't have a response when I told him Musk doesn't sound like a good businessman.
My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there's far more and better competition nowadays. And it's really seeming Tesla's are actively dangerous.
What is at the top of your list? I'm leaning towards the Ford Mach E with awd but have only looked deeply at half of what is available. Tesla is at the bottom of my list also
What grinds my gears the most is that every fucking manufacturer sucks at software and usability so hard it hurts every time.
I rather have bad UX than bow to this moron though.
If you're in California, be aware that there's a hidden/sneaky "EV tax" and you'll be paying (nearly) double registration fees every year. Mine went from $330 to alamost $700.
Also public charging is starting to be a problem as there's not nearly enough charging stations and CA does nothing about it.
I mean I wouldn't call it sneaky, it's not like a conspiracy or anything. Most states pay for road maintenance and projects from gas taxes. Since EVs don't use gas but still use roads they should pay their share too, so it makes sense it'd come from the registration. It's still way less than paying for gas or taxes on gas.
You're also not paying gas taxes though. They have to make up the lost gas tax revenue somehow. Realistically, it should be based on the miles driven and the weight of the car (road damages increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle), but for now they just have that flat EV tax.
Maybe he would be interested in going to space on his starship rocket, launched from his newly designed launch pad (by himself, no less, who needs rules and pesky engineers?)
If we're bbq'ing and you're using silverware I think you're doing it wrong, all bbq is finger food and bread is your napkin. It's like the only time eating like you're 6 when you're 56 is socially acceptable.
You have to really scrub them to get all the lotion and bronzer off. Then given they're absolutely saturated in recreational and prescription drugs you have to brine them for around a week.
Then it's another day in the smoker low-and-slow for something that's honestly not very tasty. They're "ok" if you soak them in BBQ sauce, but it's one of those things people eat just to say they did -- not because they taste good.
It's not cheating to hire the workers you unceremoniously fired to save money asshole. It's called capitalism.
Then again, every super wealthy capitalist doesn't actually want capitalism. They want feudalism, where nobody else is allowed to compete with them and if someone makes them angry they can banish them from society without trial.
Usually they don't allow competition, this one is a bit special because it involves two billionaires and it's basically a show-off.
The regular case is: they buy any potential competitor in an early stage and let it die. The 5% of the start-up CEOs that don't just take the few hundred millions will face a nasty attack where they steal employees or do some negative marketing or whatever sabotage fits.
“Competition is fine” says the guy that was born into wealth and was given a huge leg up in life. Although, I really hope they duke it out in court with Meta just so they burn through piles of money needlessly.
I thought being on retainer meant that they get paid to be ready to take on a case if needed and ensure they get at least partially paid for their services. I bet a major case like this would call for a whole team of lawyers all billing for hundreds of hrs of work. I don’t think a retainer would cover everything. I could be wrong though, I’m not a lawyer.
As if there's any secret to Twitter that any person couldn't figure out, we're talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.
Scaling it to Twitter’s size is the difficult part. Although Elon has been doing some excellent work in bringing decades worth of engineering work into decay within the short span of the past 9 months.
Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.
I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like "See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don't need?"
What they do is pass laws to make their cheating legal and therefore not cheating, while making actual honest competition illegal, and therefore cheating. The game is easy when it's rigged.
can we not drag elmo's good name through the mud? i understand it is to dunk on elon but elmo is a wonderful character from my childhood and my four year old daughter loves him also. i just don’t think it is fair to elmo
In the letter sent to the Zuck by his lawyers it's stated that ex-Twitter engineers still have access to Twitter trade secrets, which doesn't make much sense for people that haven't worked there for months. This means that either he is basically lying or Twitter is not able to secure itself because they probably have also fired the people in charge to do so