Elon Musk Concludes Twitter Purchase, and Immediately Starts Taking Out the Trash

And by trash, I mean the leftwing totalitarian executives who turned Twitter into the propaganda enforcement arm for The Regime.

According to the account linked here, the deal is closed.

The New York Times did not confirm the deal had closed at the time of this writing, but did report on the firing of the top executives.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives on Thursday, said two people with knowledge of the situation, as the billionaire closes his $44 billion takeover of the social media company.
The Twitter executives who were fired include Parag Agrawal, Twitter's chief executive, Ned Segal, the chief financial officer, Vijaya Gadde, the top legal and policy executive, and Sean Edgett, the general counsel, said the people, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
At least one of the executives who was fired was escorted out of Twitter's office, they said.

I'll bet that was the lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, who was an absolute true believer Jihadist against free speech. She's reported to have been highly emotional about seeing her little fiefdom of censorship pass from her grasp.

...

Mr. Musk, Mr. Agrawal, Mr. Segal, Ms. Gadde, Mr. Edgett and a Twitter spokeswoman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Agrawal, who was appointed Twitter's chief executive last year, had clashed with Mr. Musk publicly and privately in recent months about the takeover. Mr. Musk had also singled out Ms. Gadde, criticizing her for her role in content moderation decisions at the company.

Here's an article from April noting that Vijaya Gadde "cried" at the thought of losing her power as America's Censorious Speech-Queen.

Monday was an emotional day at Twitter -- even for its executives.
Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.

Gadde cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting. She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk's leadership.
Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said Gadde became emotional when discussing her team’s impact and the pride she feels in them.
...
Gadde, who has worked at Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter's trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter's "moral authority" and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.
She has shepherded Twitter through some of its most contentious political battles, including the decisions to remove all political advertising and to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill -- a position that has earned her devoted fans within Twitter, as well as a large contingent of right-wing critics.

She showed what a committed and dishonest ideologue is when she gaslit Joe Rogan and Tim Pool when she appeared on Rogan's show.

Here's where they "explain" why they were banning people for saying "Learn to Code."

Some are enjoying the ability to speak freely:

Greg Price
@greg_price11
* If you have a cock and balls, you are a man
* The vaccine doesn't work
* The election was stolen
* Climate change is a hoax
* Covid probably came from a lab
* Children's hospitals are doing sex changes on kids
* Ellen Page is a boring lesbian

What a terrible thing to say. I hope there are some serious consequences for this unauthorized exercise of First Amendment ~~rights~~ contingently-granted Regime permissions.

Are you sure that isn't just a foul wind of what's-gone-sour blowing from your down-under?

Matt Levine
@Matt_Levine_1
Replying to @TaylorLorenz
Say what one will about the replication crisis in social sciences... we are real-time watching replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment here on twitter dot com.

Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz

I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!

Hurt them, Space Daddy.

Hurt them all.

Deirdre Bosa
@dee_bosa
Replying to @dee_bosa
They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Ecclesiastes 3, 1-2, VDH Vulgate:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to learn to code.

This is “a day in the life of a Twitter employee.” No wonder @elonmusk is firing 75% of them pic.twitter.com/cAHOuni765
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 26, 2022

Reuters has a live camera up so we can watch the firings:

LIVE: Outside Twitter's San Francisco HQ after Elon Musk takes over https://t.co/bqM5rS7myp
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 28, 2022

Via Jane D'Oh, Parag Agrawal being escorted out of a board meeting (not really).

"What's-gone-sour" joke ripped off from Jerri Blank on Strangers With Candy.

By the way, who's this then-unknown guest star on Strangers With Candy?

Posted by: Ace at 01:42 PM

Comments

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1 First

Posted by: Bete at October 28, 2022 01:42 PM (jQJ+c)

2 Not first.

Posted by: EFG at October 28, 2022 01:42 PM (Ae67h)

3 Podium

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:43 PM (xhxe8)

4 On the plus side, some of them already know how to code.

Posted by: Bete at October 28, 2022 01:43 PM (jQJ+c)

5 Heard over loud speakers at Twitter Headquarters:

All the Eliot Loudermilks will be leaving early today.

Posted by: Elon Musk at October 28, 2022 01:43 PM (gmo/4)

6 Maybe now Ill open a twitter account.

Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (AwYPR)

7 Get your shit, put it in a box and get out.

Posted by: Elon Musk at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (gmo/4)

8 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Per the sidebar mystery click Collective Soul had some great songs in the 90's

Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (yezA1)

10 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

So a data scientist doesn't understand how monthly payments work?

If being out of work for a short period of time is going to get you in financial trouble because you just bought an expensive car...why did you buy the expensive car?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (ESjRY)

11 Twatter is a shithole and I won't be joining it no matter who owns it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

12 This entertains me.

I'm not going to become active on Twitter or anything (this place gives me enough dopamine, thank you very much), but it's important that the journalists' favorite social media platform suddenly isn't going to be shutting down uncomfortable truths...

11 days before a midterm.

It will help the flow of information.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (LvTSG)

13 Maybe not a good business practice but with the rule no Twitter for you without a account changed. Lots of Cafe videos I can't get.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (xhxe8)

14 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
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Oh my. There are no words.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (aeePL)

15 O/T, this could just be The Killer fucking with people again, but the NYT says Jerry Lee really is dead this time:

https://tinyurl.com/v79php4b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (AW0uW)

16 I think it moved.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (d2bW3)

17 learn to cook

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (kFrCu)

18 Damn top ten sponge?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (ufFY8)

19 I generally feel sorry for people who lose their jobs, but not for these jabronis.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (rJ48h)

20

Exclusive video of Elon firing all those twitter shits:

https://youtu.be/i2UVEHefL88

Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (VEsoa)

21 Musk ordered Tesla softheads to do a code review on Twitter's giant hairball. They should be done by 2027 maybe.

Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (24fqN)

22 The cost of Beejers in San Fran just went down.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (oyfLT)

23 Ha, top twenty.
I suck at this.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (ufFY8)

24 I'll bet that was the lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, who was an absolute true believer Jihadist against free speech. She's reported to have been highly emotional about seeing her little fiefdom of censorship pass from her grasp.

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The left has been defending her as a warrior FOR free speech recently.

It is to laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (LvTSG)

25 Stop, I can only get so erect

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (xvxyr)

26 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

He can learn to ~~code~~ make lattes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (Bd6X8)

27 The rumors are true.

I'm a bitch.

Posted by: Karma at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (lf83v)

28 re 15: the lady what played seven of nine?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (kFrCu)

29 Read the content.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (53oGX)

30 Last night I discovered you can now tweet these gems:

Learn to code, the 2020 election was stolen, J6 was an inside job, Fauci and the Chinese unleashed Covid on the world, Ivermectin and HCQ work...

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (ptqGC)

31 So Twitter might be elevated out of cesspool status?

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2022 01:45 PM (v0R5T)

32 Are you sure that isn't just a foul wind of what's-gone-sour blowing from your down-under?

ok. Ok, you got me.

I cop

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz, making the googly eyes at ace at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (dCxaZ)

33 Where is my Red Stapler?

Posted by: Twitter Dweeb at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (Z32m1)

34 That's my man Chris Pratt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (J2vNu)

35 Not for nothing, what man would ever rape Taylor Lorenz? Her annoying shrieking voice would make zombies run away.

Taylor, literally NO ONE thinks you're attractive.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (d2bW3)

36 "Its like the gates of that place I don't believe exists and I hate God AND YOU DADDY!!!!"
--Mz Lorenz

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (Ivdso)

37 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

38 Each one of these dirty geeky woke MFs should get just one month of hard labor for each shadowban they imposed. All I ask.

Posted by: Jewish Odysseus at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (bvp+i)

39 Twitter firings and Paul Pelosi. Coincidence?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

40 Vijaya can go shove a cookie in her veejay

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (xhxe8)

41 If you are gonna rape T. Lorenz, bring a whole hell of a lot of lube.

That bitch too old to make her own.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (NP6dc)

42 >>They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

There's cruel, and then there's fired by the guy you still have to pay off your car note to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (GgS0l)

43 Seeing as most of the people who are being laid off appear to be of Indian (dot) descent, is it appropriate to speak of karma?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (lf83v)

44 Is Senile Joe planning on killing this deal or did i just imagine it?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (eGTCV)

45 40 Vijaya can go shove a cookie in her veejay

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (xhxe

has own private Vee-jay? Wow. I'd choose Martha Quinn myself.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

46 Who would buy a used Tesla?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (fWTJL)

47 The CNN layoffs are going to be lit.

Chris Wallace's ratings are plummeting.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ptqGC)

48 note to lorenz taylor: even satan isn't interested in you.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (kFrCu)

49 DITL of Twitter is ridiculous.

No work done. None.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (NP6dc)

50 All content regulators must pee sitting down now, including thew women. I have spoken.

Posted by: Elon Musk at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (JzJvm)

51 Sandra Fluke > Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (ESjRY)

52 I don't understand putting your business headquarters in San Francisco. The excuse that this is where your employees live is bogus. People commute three hours each way from Hayward or two hours from San Jose or Milpitas.

Posted by: Synova at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (BD/yx)

53 42 There's cruel, and then there's fired by the guy you still have to pay off your car note to.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (GgS0l)

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Maybe he can try to sell the Tesla and see how great the secondary market is.

Then he can cheap out an buy a used gas car from 2006.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (LvTSG)

54 Would it be unkind to say Learn to Code?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie and Harvey at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (LldHk)

55 I still won't go back to Twitter but the schadenboner is yuge and luxurious

Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (yezA1)

56 48 note to lorenz taylor: even satan isn't interested in you.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (kFrCu)

Satan has no interest in those he aready owns.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (ynpvh)

57 1-877-CODE-4-KIDZ, learn to code today!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (yHsuS)

58 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
___

Aww.

Too bad.
So sad.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (sH61M)

59 Twitter HQ offices look like Big Pharma facilities in the 1990s!

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (dCxaZ)

60 note to lorenz taylor: even satan isn't interested in you.

I like her, I just don't like like her if you know what I mean

Posted by: 'Stan at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (ESjRY)

61 37 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??
Posted by: Elric Blad

Because they're better than you.

Posted by: Sen. Mike Lee at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (oyfLT)

62 44 Is Senile Joe planning on killing this deal or did i just imagine it?
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That was suggested until the seller's tipped Senile Joe 10% of the selling price.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (fWTJL)

63 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.

Just a thought.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (S9NBt)

64 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

My schadenboner just hit warp 10 and is speeding to the edge of the galaxy.

I hope "Daniel" not only gets his precious toy car repo'd, but that Elon Musk himself shows up with a tow truck to haul it away.

Hey, somebody suggest that to him, huh?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (AW0uW)

65 52 I don't understand putting your business headquarters in San Francisco. The excuse that this is where your employees live is bogus. People commute three hours each way from Hayward or two hours from San Jose or Milpitas.
Posted by: Synova at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (BD/yx)

========

These are the decisions of people awash in investor cash with no real plan for profitability.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (LvTSG)

66 Vijaya Gadde

Her name is Vajaya. LMFAO!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

67 None of these Twits didn't think to take precautions about being fired a few months ago?

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (Z32m1)

68 54 Would it be unkind to say Learn to Code?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie and Harvey at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (LldHk)

read ace's post, it's in there

*hint* Ecclesiastes. it's biblical

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (dCxaZ)

69 That "day in the life of twitter" holy crap what a stupendous waste of money. All these tech companies, so much money and so little idea how to spend it. Stop treating your employees like pampered princesses, for the love of God.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (Ivdso)

70 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system.

Pretty sure they are trying to bring it here

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (ESjRY)

71 61 37 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??
Posted by: Elric Blad
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Caste System - they know their place. And their cheap.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (fWTJL)

72 There's cruel, and then there's fired by the guy you still have to pay off your car note to.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (GgS0l)
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You're right! I hadn't even thought of that. Elon is giving ace a run for his money in the cruelty department. VDH, take note.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (aeePL)

73 Larry Elder@larryelder
Next @elonmusk
should buy the New York Times—and turn it into a newspaper.

-
There'd be mass suicides.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (FVME7)

74 Chris Pratt -- one of his first TV shots, before he was a regular on Everwood. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (J2vNu)

75 if you're making payments on something you don't "own" it

Posted by: whatchulookinat at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (fiQ0w)

76 The only thing I would change on the Greg Price tweet is the Climate change is a hoax bit, anthropogenic climate change is a hoax, the climate has been changing on the earth for four and half billion years, it's not going to stop changing until the sun goes red giant and consumes us.

So, that's it, the rest is spot on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (GgS0l)

77 Anyone visibly shaken by their firing will be rehired.

Then re-fired and laughed at.

Posted by: Elon Musk at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (JzJvm)

78 I would like to remind people right now of the stories of large corporations going into hiring freezes with plans to lay off large parts of their workforce in the coming months due to the recession fears.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)

79 this is an amazing turn of events

first Roe v Wade goes down, now the progs lose Twitter

what's next

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (geLO8)

80 Kari Lake has offered to make Elon a deal for moving Twitter HQ to Arizona.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (Bd6X8)

81 73 Larry Elder@larryelder
Next @elonmusk
should buy the New York Times—and turn it into a newspaper.
-
There'd be mass suicides.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (FVME7)

Which reminds me...no way the Rep will be Gov of CA; I'm writing in Larry Elder.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (ynpvh)

82

Shouldn't have doubled down on my Cialis this morning...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (6YNFT)

83 74 Chris Pratt -- one of his first TV shots, before he was a regular on Everwood. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (J2vNu)

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Comedy Central.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (LvTSG)

84 I gotta admit, I’m getting that same feeling like when Trump won in 2016.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (sHrmP)

85 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
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Cry me a river, asshole. Welcome to the real world.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (oo0rP)

86 I always called Elon's new toy Big Tw@tt, but now that he owns it outright, I'll go back to saying "Twitter". It's safe now.

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (dCxaZ)

87 flushing the poos

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (MLrvz)

88 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
.........

Learn to make Honduran tortillas and buy a street cart.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (v0R5T)

89 I endorse Thomas Bender's slight edit to the Reality Creed (my term).

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (OTzUX)

90 Greg Price

* If you have a cock and balls, you are a man . . . .

Free speech is tight!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (yHsuS)

91 Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz

I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!

_____

As if anyone would touch that dried up old whore. Errr...teenager.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (nMx88)

92 > They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

I have left a couple of companies after I noticed a small handful of top performers suddenly taking new jobs. Then I heard from friends about big layoffs or sudden downturn in the quality of everyday life experience in the workplace.

HOW could you not see this coming? At least take some steps to protect your finances when big changes are OBVIOUSLY headed at you!

These sorts of big changes are very rarely a secret or a surprise, although they do occasionally happen.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (eyxn4)

93 Those Twitter engineers are a scruffy looking lot.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (ZrXen)

94
Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (VEsoa)

95 The good news is, you won't need your Tesla if you don't have a job anywhere.

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (CaJIi)

96 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.

Yeah I do not grok the high level of communism in Indian workers, where the hell did that come from?? They clearly are not PERSONALLY so, they just think its good for everyone else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (Ivdso)

97 Does that vocal fry libtard Twitter employees actually work?
Sounded like she fucks off at the coffee and wine machine when she is not at 'meetings'.
Knock off some projects?
Like, maybe those meetings were 'projects'?

So, what is it that you DO here?

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ufFY8)

98 I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!

And I'm sending them as fast as I can!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz's alt account at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ESjRY)

99 Anyone visibly shaken by their firing will be rehired.

Then re-fired and laughed at.
Posted by: Elon Musk
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Possible Thread Winner

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (oo0rP)

100 91 Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz

I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!
_____

As if anyone would touch that dried up old whore. Errr...teenager.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 28, 2022 01:50 PM (nMx8

Only a teenager in base 30.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ynpvh)

101 >>They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Be twicce as hard now tht Paul Pelosi isn't driving up the cost of Blowjobs in the Bay Area.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (NP6dc)

102 Oh. Oh.......

@ErinInTheMorn

Remember that time when a billionaire was so pissed off at trans people that he bought a social media network?

Lol everyone knows Elon Musk is doing this because we transed his daughter, took his wife, and banned his favorite transphobic accounts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ptqGC)

103 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Want to make $20 the hard way?

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ptElO)

104 >>>. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?

yes. super anti-PC too, despite being cocreated by Steven Colbert.

the black principal was named Principal Blackmun. Colbert and another male Teacher, Jeffrey Jellineck, were gay for eachother. Jellineck was flagrantly gay while Colbert played an uptight closet case.

Jerri Blank herself was drug addict whore nightcrawler who destroyed every life she came in contact with.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (C1Zwz)

105 Replying to @dee_bosa

They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Ohe Noes!!!!!

LMFAO!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

106 They are visibly shaken.
___________

Fact checkers have determined that this statement is partially false. These employees were not actually shaken, but were experiencing neurological responses to reality, which they have been insulated from lo these many years.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (lf83v)

107 >>>Are you sure that isn't just a foul wind of what's-gone-sour blowing from your down-under?

lol, so appropriately cruel

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (yHsuS)

108 SO SOON AFTER THE PAUL PELOSI ATTACK?

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (v0R5T)

109 94
Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (VEsoa)

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The economic numbers from yesterday? +2.6% growth for 3rd quarter?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)

110 It's ironic that had these people not savagely targeted, censored, blacklisted and deplatformed people they didn't like or agree with, if they'd had just left Twatter to be a much more free platform, they likely would not be walking out of the building with their stupid possessions packed in boxes. I have less than zero sympathy for any of them. They did it to themselves.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (sVtYq)

111 NOW RUN YOU CUR!!!
TELL ALL THE OTHER CURS THE LAW'S COMING!!!
YOU TELL THEM I'M COMING!!!
AND HELL'S COMING WITH ME!!!!

Posted by: Wyatt 'Elon' Earp, but not the commentor at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (CwQXo)

112 this is an amazing turn of events

first Roe v Wade goes down, now the progs lose Twitter

what's next
Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (geLO

Constitutional Carry in all 57 states? One can dream...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (3FiQa)

113 Normally I would feel bad at people losing their jobs. I wouldn't want it to happen to me. But these guys? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. They can all go fuck the fuck off. I'm gonna have a nice scotch and cigar on my roofdeck tonight and laugh my ass off at their pain and suffering. Can you overdose on schadenfreude? I hope not or else I might be in trouble.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

114 Like I said in the previous post, I kinda feel bad a little for the Twitterati who are being fired, that always sucks. Especially if you've been working an overpaid job with minimal work and tons of benefits; good luck finding another job like that.

But at the same time their attitudes and behavior make it very difficult for me to have much sympathy. These are the people that cheered on dictators from time immemorial, the kind that could be relied on to do the dirty work like shooting people in Katyn Forest or killing Cambodians for Pol Pot. They never went that far, but only because nobody asked them to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (Ivdso)

115 The good news is that they already know how to code.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (8Sy1u)

116 "Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments."

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (24fqN)

117 Delicious.

I hope Musk lives up to their fears and our hopes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (XvPQV)

118 >94
Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (VEsoa)

Banking on a 50bp rate increase instead of 75bp.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (Egb5W)

119 102 Lol everyone knows Elon Musk is doing this because we transed his daughter, took his wife, and banned his favorite transphobic accounts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (ptqGC)

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Wait...transing someone is a thing? It's not just a natural state?

They're changing people? They admit this?

Are they completely fucking stupid?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)

120 If they're shaking now, what are the Wokenistas gonna look like after Election Day?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (lf83v)

121 >They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

sell it and buy a used Ford for cash
welcome to reality

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (geLO8)

122 Someone have 'the rotten crotch'? as I gal I knew called it.

Posted by: Wyatt 'Elon' Earp, but not the commentor at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (CwQXo)

123 "I'm getting more rape threats than normal, but I can't log-off and miss the chaos!"

Spoken like someone truly in the grips of PTSD from all those meanies on Twitter.

Posted by: Ktgreat at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (ei7q6)

124 Lol everyone knows Elon Musk is doing this because we transed his daughter, took his wife, and banned his favorite transphobic accounts.

The left: Transexualism is completely normal and some people are just that way. This notion we are turning people is crazy!

Also the left: HAHA WE TRANSED YOUR KID LOSER.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (ESjRY)

125 Jane has to be many more, keep testing the waters

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (xhxe8)

126 Fortunately many if those fired already know how to code...

Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (yezA1)

127 104 Jerri Blank herself was drug addict whore nightcrawler who destroyed every life she came in contact with.
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (C1Zwz)

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The cult episode was my favorite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (LvTSG)

128 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

***

Beginning to see a reason yet why you got let go?

Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (wb1YC)

129 in one episode, Principal Blackmun and Steven Colbert (forget the teacher's name) force Jerri Blank to go undercover to get "the evidence" that a student that is suspected of being a retard is in fact retarded. She's told the telltale signs: When retards get angry, they gain the strength of an ape in frenzy, and, importantly, THEY *ALL* LIKE CAKE.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (C1Zwz)

130 Going long on Hot Pocket futures.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (oyfLT)

131 21 Musk ordered Tesla softheads to do a code review on Twitter's giant hairball. They should be done by 2027 maybe.
Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer
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Easier just to do minimal patches while moving to a new code base. Always more difficult to fix the transmission on a moving car.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (CXr4y)

132 @63 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.

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From what I've heard, most of them are upper caste. They're no more interested in destroying the caste system than I'm interested in voting for Brandon.

Posted by: junior at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (qm1fz)

133 94
Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
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To pump the market up for the next round of earning reports. This way they don't set new lows on the indexes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (fWTJL)

134 Daniel, you don't own a Tesla. The bank owns a Tesla. The only thing you own here is your own poor financial decision.

Posted by: Andrew Ryan at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (T4QtS)

135 Calling people "groomers" is okay again. And saying Rachel Levine is a dude is also cool.

Thanks, Elon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (ptqGC)

136 Is Musk going to move Twitter out of California?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (eGTCV)

137 if you're making payments on something you don't "own" it
Posted by: whatchulookinat at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (fiQ0w)

There's a dating joke in there somewhere, but I can't come up with one.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (AW0uW)

138 Chris Wallace's ratings are plummeting.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ptqGC)
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Were they ever high enough to plummet?

Posted by: Black JEM at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (xWZcb)

139 Would it be fitting if all the dead and cancelled Twitter Accounts would arise again on Halloween 2022?

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Z32m1)

140 >>>They are visibly shaken.

I've seen better.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (yHsuS)

141 Logged onto my Twit account for the first time since 2016. Let the shit posting begin!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Egb5W)

142 If they're shaking now, what are the Wokenistas gonna look like after Election Day?
Posted by: Adirondack
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Prediction: More screaming at the sky

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (oeYLT)

143 That bit with the Tesla is just glorious beyond words. So, so, so much stupid packed into so few institutions and the people who run them.

But of course it's hardly just Twitter. The entire advertising ("social media") sector seems dominated by idiotic ignorant miseducated Hitlerjugend - who probably have just properly absorbed the "education" they've been marinating in. Totalitarian, racist beyond description, ignorant (except for the technical aspects of making their little toys work), alien mindsets more suitable to North Korea or past nightmares like the Khmer Rouge.

And places like AAPL and of course Goolag as well. One of the biggest burdens on America and the planet generally, the infestation of "high tech" with people who are ignorant deluded toxic freaks in anything outside their narrow technical role or specialty.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (OTzUX)

144 Antifa recruiters will be very busy over the next few months.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (oyfLT)

145 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
_____________

Because everyone dumped billions of dollars of Meta stock (thank you Jim Kramer, you asshoe) and bought real stock in real companies.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (lf83v)

146 Vijaya is a name for a person. Hmm, strange name

Posted by: Clitora at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (M+Lyo)

147 We're such geniuses and so computerized and electronic-only that we need 7500 employees to...

Oh. This is awkward.

Posted by: twitter.com at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (ptElO)

148 Chris Pratt -- one of his first TV shots, before he was a regular on Everwood. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022

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Comedy Central.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022

***
No wonder I never heard of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (J2vNu)

149 This is a good day.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (I2/tG)

150 Deirdre Bosa
@dee_bosa

Replying to @dee_bosa

They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Greatest economy ever, Jack. Many good-paying jobs installing weather-stripping on doors and windows in older homes are available.

Posted by: Joe, clinging to life at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (AMIL/)

151 seriously- what is the deal with Elon Musk? Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (geLO8)

152 >>The economic numbers from yesterday? +2.6% growth for 3rd quarter?

Good argument to be made that was just the death rattle of our Export Markets.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (NP6dc)

153 oh wait, it was *Joffrey* Jellineck.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (C1Zwz)

154 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
......

Elon Musk, Repo Man.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

155 "and to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill"

Anyone remember the tweet that actually was the "final straw" to ban Trump?

I don't have the exact one handy, but it was to the effect of Trump sating he wasn't going to attend the inauguration.

Crack censorship job there, averted that disaster. Whew.

Posted by: can of spam at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (7oNMO)

156 I give Elon six months before he moves the company out of SF and its incredibly toxic environment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (Ivdso)

157 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (Ivdso)

With all due respect, CRT, I will never feel sorry for the commie stasi fucks who are getting their walking papers right now- just as I would not for the camp guard who gets hung at the Nuremburg trials or that NKVD officer executed by the Finns. Or that commie death squad shit executed by the South Vietnam officer in the famous photo.

They have all richly earned what they are getting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (CwQXo)

158 @102

>>Lol everyone knows Elon Musk is doing this because we transed his daughter, took his wife, and banned his favorite transphobic accounts.

So they admit they groom.

Ok Groomers, duly noted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (GgS0l)

159 148 No wonder I never heard of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (J2vNu)

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They made a movie (a prequel) a few years after the show ended. I have the DVD. It's funny stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

160 Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz

I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!

Go fuck your self is NOT a rape threat.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (G7Xz7)

161 Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz

I'm getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can't log off and miss the chaos!

Post them, you lying hag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

162 Taylor, literally NO ONE thinks you're attractive.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp

she appears to have strong ankles. come the burning times, and no more siesel, i may harness her horse faced ass to my plow for the vegetable garden

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (3CCua)

163 Bloomberg reported that Elon had Twitter engineer's access to Twitter code blocked and brought in his Tesla software engineers to analyze Twitter's code.

As a result, Twitter should be far more welcoming of diverse speech but may begin killing pedestrians.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (BJKQV)

164 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
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Oh dear. So sad.

Data team? If he's worth his salt, he'll be fine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (1fl3R)

165 >>>"I'm getting more rape threats than normal, but I can't log-off and miss the chaos!"

Things that did not happen except in that old bag's fantasies.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (yHsuS)

166 Daniel with the Tesla is looking at this the wrong way. Just think what he will be saving on parking fees.

Posted by: huerfano, stochastic commenter at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (dTFZY)

167 158 So they admit they groom.

Ok Groomers, duly noted.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (GgS0l)

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To be completely fair, they admit this all the time on TikTok. We're evil for noticing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

168 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
_______________

Isn't it a bitch that the guy who owns Tesla fired you and now you still owe money on the car made by the guy who fired you?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (lf83v)

169 Reuters has a live camera up so we can watch the firings:
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The internet is a weird place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (1fl3R)

170 Watch Musk tell Twitter employees they can either move with Twitter to TX or remain behind, unemployed, because their building is going to go condo.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (5pTK/)

171 uh-oh, look out Elon!

Furry Nation is mobilizing and intends to take you
DOWN!

https://tinyurl.com/4vaasccm

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)

172

I expect Nothing from Musk.
Indeed, I expect him to continue the status quo.

So anything positive he does will be a welcomed gift to me.

Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (VEsoa)

173 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
Posted by: Soothsaye

I assume this is just a dead cat bounce, prolonging the inevitable very long very bad crash.

There is no positive economic news to back this up.

Posted by: CanuckJack at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (2DDi4)

174 Trudeau is now selling Ukrainian war bonds:

I announced that, soon, we’re going to be offering government-backed Ukraine Sovereignty Bonds. Canadians will be able to go to major banks to purchase these bonds – and the funds will go to support the Ukrainian government, so they can support the Ukrainian people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (I2/tG)

175 104 >>>. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?

yes. super anti-PC too, despite being cocreated by Steven Colbert.

the black principal was named Principal Blackmun. Colbert and another male Teacher, Jeffrey Jellineck, were gay for eachother. Jellineck was flagrantly gay while Colbert played an uptight closet case.

Jerri Blank herself was drug addict whore nightcrawler who destroyed every life she came in contact with.
Posted by: ace
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I watched mebbe one or two episodes before dropping that series into oblivion. Cringe humor is not my favorite and it was clear that the actors in the series were damaged goods.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (CXr4y)

176 Going long on Hot Pocket futures.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Ramen noodles.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (oeYLT)

177 "Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments."

Daniel doesn't own a Tesla. The bank owns a Tesla. Maybe Joe will do a loan forgiveness exec decree?

Posted by: Dingbat at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (U09tN)

178 Here's an article from April noting that Vijaya Gadde "cried" at the thought of losing her power as America's Censorious Speech-Queen.

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Cry harder you mewling quim of a diseased cuntbucket

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (VTu1l)

179 Going long on Hot Pocket futures.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (oyfLT)
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So the two boxes I have in my freezer are now worth their weight in bitcoin? Awesome!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (YIVH2)

180 @151

>>seriously- what is the deal with Elon Musk? Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

At best he's a Chaotic Neutral Paladin/Thief RPG Character.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (GgS0l)

181 Vijaya Gadde's Twitter profile

Before:
Legal, Policy and Trust Lead @Twitter. Mom. Immigrant. Board of @GuardantHealth, @planet, & @mercycorps. Trustee at @nyulaw. Founding partner, @HashtagAngels.

After:
Board of @GuardantHealth, @planet, & @mercycorps. Trustee at @nyulaw. Founding partner, @HashtagAngels.

I had no idea Musk was so powerful that he not only fired her, he also made her not a parent and forced her to become a non-immigrant, too!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (1fl3R)

182 of, course, plowing the fallow field where i used to grow my fucks with progtard livestock pulling the plow appeals to me. they can at least work off the food debt they owe the world for the 'reset' their ideology caused.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (3CCua)

183 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats, or is she just desperate?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (Mzdiz)

184 178 Here's an article from April noting that Vijaya Gadde "cried" at the thought of losing her power as America's Censorious Speech-Queen.

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Cry harder you mewling quim of a diseased cuntbucket
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (VTu1l)

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She wasn't in it for the money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (LvTSG)

185 Daniel with the Tesla is looking at this the wrong way. Just think what he will be saving on parking fees.
Posted by: huerfano, stochastic commenter at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (dTFZY)
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And his electric bill! And he won't have to worry if Californians get told not to charge their cars again!

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (aeePL)

186 Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

I think his intellect is greatly overstated, but he's pretty good at taking advantage of opportunities. When he's not stoned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (Ivdso)

187 Isn't it a bitch that the guy who owns Tesla fired you and now you still owe money on the car made by the guy who fired you?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (lf83v)
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When he found out about Elon taking over Twitter, he probably ran out and bought a Tesla, hoping it would be the magic talisman that would allow him to keep his job.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (5pTK/)

188 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

Posted by: Soothsayer

The dollar is down by the same ratio.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (lTGtQ)

189 Parag being escorted out of Twitter board meeting:

https://tinyurl.com/s8etb6sh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (ptqGC)

190 Going long on Hot Pocket futures.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Ramen noodles.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (oeYLT)

Store brand mac-n-cheese.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (3FiQa)

191 Days like today are what make this place so damned much fun.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (wtvvX)

192 I had no idea that Collective Soul's "Gel" was on the Jerky Boys soundtrack until I read the sidebar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (1fl3R)

193 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!

Americans are Racist! We are just living our well defined cultural preferences handed down to us by our ancestors.

Posted by: Narindra of the Brahmin Engineering Mafia. at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (Z32m1)

194 How did these people not know this was coming? Seriously.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)

195 "Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??"

Because HR won't let white software engineers in the door. Learned that, too late, in 2016.

Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (24fqN)

196 "Matt Levine
@Matt_Levine_1
Replying to @TaylorLorenz

Say what one will about the replication crisis in social sciences... we are real-time watching replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment here on twitter dot com."

Impressive level of ignorance on display there, the Stanford prison experiment was fradulent from top to bottom. It was a play that was acted out in order to give the headlines they wanted.

Posted by: Sjg at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (gDSJf)

197 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

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Usually I interpret this as shorts covering after a significant drop to take their profits.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (VTu1l)

198 Oh, to be standing at mid-Market and watching the purple haired, multiply-pierced, waddle out with their boxes of personal effects!

Posted by: Dianna at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (YFlEv)

199 183 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats, or is she just desperate?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (Mzdiz)

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I'm sure she welcomes Elon Musk's idea of verifying all users, right? Then she can report these rape threats to police.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

200 >>>"and to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill"

Reinstating Trump's account today would be lit.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (yHsuS)

201 173 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
Posted by: Soothsaye

I assume this is just a dead cat bounce, prolonging the inevitable very long very bad crash.

There is no positive economic news to back this up.
Posted by: CanuckJack
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The Dow predicts the future, not the present albeit imperfectly. Investors are anticipating the curbing of fiscal fuel for inflation fire and the world going into recession ending a lot of inflation related interest rate hikes by central banks.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (CXr4y)

202 I assume this is just a dead cat bounce, prolonging the inevitable very long very bad crash.
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My theory is they keep the market up so they can crush it when the Republicans win the midterms. Its what the Senile Joe said. So it shall be done.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (fWTJL)

203 The media will be posting lots of tear jerking stories about former Twitter employees. It will take a heart of stone to keep from laughing.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

204 I watched mebbe one or two episodes before dropping that series into oblivion. Cringe humor is not my favorite and it was clear that the actors in the series were damaged goods.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (CXr4y)
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Yeah, I couldn't get into that series either. Seemed like the same stale jokes over and over again...Just wasn't funny to me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (YIVH2)

205 Gadde got cancelled. I find that sooooo satisfying I can hardly stand it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (sVtYq)

206 lorenz taylor is still a whole bunch a lot better than this one: actual quote (kanye west said something about her weight being unhealthy):

In her response, Lizzo expressed her desire to stay in Canada. "I feel like everybody in America got my motherf**king name in they motherf**king mouth for no motherf**king reason, I'm minding my fat Black beautiful business,' the pop star said.

[role model her]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (kFrCu)

207 Were any of the executive team American?
Die Freedom of speech even resonate with them?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (anj39)

208 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats

I am highly skeptical that ANYONE gets rape threats in DMs. Death threats, interpreting "someone needs to show you your place" etc as death threats, yes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (Ivdso)

209 Chris Pratt -- one of his first TV shots, before he was a regular on Everwood. I've never seen this Strangers With Candy series. Was it a cable comedy?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022

***
Looks like he was in the 2005 prequel movie, not the TV series in 1999. So this would have been while he was doing Everwood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (J2vNu)

210 "Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments."

I expect to see him with a carboard sign, "Will Censor For Food"

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (ptElO)

211 And here is Happy new Daddy Elon with his 8th son...
what a blessed event!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wc78n

*kid is kind of ugly tho*, no disrespect to Mr. MacDaddy Musk

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (dCxaZ)

212 Ecclesiastes 3, 1-2, VDH Vulgate:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to learn to code.
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A beautiful verse also put into a wonderful song.

Posted by: Ciampino - so many Rock songs taken from the Bible at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

213 So beautiful. These people lived like kings, and worked 8 hour weeks. Sure, they can still have their yoga rooms, wine fountains and 5 star chef meals at google, but I'm guessing Meta is cutting back on that stuff. I'd feel blessed if my boss had a taco truck show up on any given Friday.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (zB/T/)

214 177 and 134 - Horde mind strikes again.

Posted by: Andrew Ryan at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (T4QtS)

215 Do you guys have any idea how many Rape Threats that ace gets each week?

The number is staggering.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (NP6dc)

216 Watching the Day in the Life of a Twitter employee besides making me sick bet I could fire %90 and they wouldn't be noticed missing.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (xhxe8)

217 196
Impressive level of ignorance on display there, the Stanford prison experiment was fradulent from top to bottom. It was a play that was acted out in order to give the headlines they wanted.
Posted by: Sjg at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (gDSJf)

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So...the outrage is fake?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (LvTSG)

218 My schadenboner grew 3 sizes.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (ZMPCu)

219 Lorenz, the poor dear, might be forced off of Twitter because of nasty, rapey men.

If you want access to her lifestyle tips and other work, though, rest assured that you can follow her Substack.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (1fl3R)

220 176 Going long on Hot Pocket futures.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Ramen noodles.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Selling Starbucks and Whole Foods stocks.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (oyfLT)

221 Vijaya is a name for a person. Hmm, strange name
Posted by: Clitora at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (M+Lyo)

Her lips are sealed.

Posted by: The Go Gos at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (ufFY8)

222 The Twitter execs now getting fired thought that a poison pill they crafted when the deal was initially being discussed would save them. They are set to make millions as a result of being fired. I believe the Ex CEO got something like $38 million, and that censor wench got about $12 million. They didn't realize that's petty cash to a billionaire.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (TbpGr)

223 Dude needs to trade his Tez in for a Mazda3. I've had mine for nearly 7 years. Runs great.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (KAi1n)

224 Been gone and missed the Pelosi thread... Did they actually identify the perp ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (bs+z0)

225 199 183 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats, or is she just desperate?
Posted by: Miley
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Victimhood, fake or 'real' in the context of unlikely threats is valued by leftists as a tool to manipulate others.

In reality, no one really cares about her scraggly ass except mebbe the parents of her teen targets. Kellye Conway in particular.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (CXr4y)

226 215 Do you guys have any idea how many Rape Threats that ace gets each week?

The number is staggering.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (NP6dc)

========

You can stop anytime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (LvTSG)

227 Oh, to be standing at mid-Market and watching the purple haired, multiply-pierced, waddle out with their boxes of personal effects!
Posted by: Dianna at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (YFlEv)
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I hope we get eyewitness reports from San Franpsycho and SFGoth. I'm assuming the reason they're not here with us right now is because they left their offices to go watch the parade.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (aeePL)

228 I just watched the trailers for Don't Breathe and Don't Breathe 2, that is new to me. Stephen Lang is a good actor.

(Ike from Tombstone, the general from Avatar.)

Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (44ww/)

229 Put your shit in a box and GTFO.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (TbpGr)

230 >>In her response, Lizzo expressed her desire to stay in Canada. "I feel like everybody in America got my motherf**king name in they motherf**king mouth for no motherf**king reason, I'm minding my fat Black beautiful business,' the pop star said.

Thar she blows.

Posted by: Ahab at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (NP6dc)

231 Were any of the executive team American?
Die Freedom of speech even resonate with them?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (anj39)

Trust me, it's 80% Indian with a few token Asians thrown in. I've actually learned the monotone accent, although it's taken 25 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (zB/T/)

232 seriously- what is the deal with Elon Musk? Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

Posted by: DB
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Too early to tell. But, he certainly does not care what people think or say. He's his own man.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (oo0rP)

233
They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

Daniel should thank his lucky stars that he is not being LITERATELY shaken.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (CFGsC)

234 Overheard: "They have sold us down the Ganges!"

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (lf83v)

235 This whole twitter episode is delightful. I don't know where it's going, but I'm enjoying the now...as dirty, smelly hippies like to say.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (DcKNO)

236 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??"

****************************

Its all of tech really, and they represent cheap labor, and it shows.

I work for an international company and we once had a crack team of freedom loving and talented Singaporans, then the company decided such talent cost too much, fired them all and hired a bunch of elephant jockeys instead for a fraction of the labor costs.

Not a day goes by when Im not cursing these fucking indians out for fucking up just about every conceivable project I task them to work on, and then they work only 25% of the time because they are always having a holiday to celebrate the 5 billion gods they worship. Fuck that country.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (VTu1l)

237 Been gone and missed the Pelosi thread... Did they actually identify the perp ?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (bs+z0)
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Yes. It's in ace's post as an update. Also, Paul Pelosi is having brain surgery.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (aeePL)

238 LOL Mayra Flores is the first Mexican-born congresswoman, and she recently was rejected by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Her response: "Maybe I'm not the right kind of taco"

(hint: she's not a Democrat)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (Ivdso)

239 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats, or is she just desperate?

***

No more than the average feminist about to hit 40.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (wb1YC)

240 >>>The number is staggering.

so many death threats too

people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (C1Zwz)

241 222 The Twitter execs now getting fired thought that a poison pill they crafted when the deal was initially being discussed would save them. They are set to make millions as a result of being fired. I believe the Ex CEO got something like $38 million, and that censor wench got about $12 million. They didn't realize that's petty cash to a billionaire.
Posted by: Marcus T
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There actually might be some clawback if it can be shown that they were actively engaged in hiding bots and doing other destructive practices to Twitter's worth. Think that happened a bit during the market meltdown in 2008's aftermath.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (CXr4y)

242 Vajayjay Gadde
Can we deport it now?

Posted by: Uncle Festermans Reverse Goiter at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (YTBIQ)

243 re 202: the phrase i've been using. probably al gore rhythm driven computerized trading. the fact that the economy supposedly improved in the 3rd quatter probably means the fed will keep raising interest rates.

and with that a minor recession could lead to another housing market crash and goodbye and good night.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (kFrCu)

244 229 Put your shit in a box and GTFO.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (TbpGr)

----

That made me laugh out loud. Still laughing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (DcKNO)

245 In her response, Lizzo expressed her desire to stay in Canada. "I feel like everybody in America got my motherf**king name in they motherf**king mouth for no motherf**king reason, I'm minding my fat Black beautiful business,' the pop star said.

[role model her]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (kFrCu)

Well, you're less than nothing to me, no matter how fat you are.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (Mzdiz)

246 Rick Wilson is having a meltdown over Elon taking over Twitter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (ptqGC)

247 Does Taylor Lorenz really get rape threats, or is she just desperate?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2022 01:57 PM (Mzdiz)

Yes, Taylor pays me a buck a DM!

Posted by: Bot Wrangler at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (Z32m1)

248 Is it true that a large chunk of the twitter employees are Indian with a dot and they only have work visas through twitter ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (bs+z0)

249 240 people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (C1Zwz)

==========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (LvTSG)

250 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??
Posted by: Elric Blad
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Caste System - they know their place. And their cheap.
Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (fWTJL)
***

Because India produces more IT/Computer majors than our entire University System produces graduates. In anything.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (anj39)

251 I hope we get eyewitness reports from San Franpsycho and SFGoth. I'm assuming the reason they're not here with us right now is because they left their offices to go watch the parade.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:00 PM (aeePL)
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Maybe they are managing the AceCorp Popcorn(TM) concession stand...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (YIVH2)

252 Nancy is going to be wheeling around Paul as a prop for her new anti-gun legislation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (+EI+w)

253 Liberals are now trying to lean on advertisers, some of whom have said if Elon restores Trump's account they won't advertise again.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (TbpGr)

254 >>so many death threats too

Is it really Rape if you can walk away?

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (NP6dc)

255 Parag Naga, Natta, Notgonnaworkhereanymore

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (LldHk)

256 205 Gadde got cancelled. I find that sooooo satisfying I can hardly stand it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (sVtYq)

YES

I've had an especially rewarding two day stretch in my personal life, this whole Twitter thing is just the cherry atop the proverbial sundae

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (dCxaZ)

257
people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (C1Zwz)

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BWAHAHAHAAH

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (DcKNO)

258 Canada can keep her. Good luck feeding her...

Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (yezA1)

259 see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (C1Zwz)

260
Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments

So, #BraveResistanceFighter, stop making payments and really stick it to Elon Musk.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (CFGsC)

261 Maybe now Ill open a twitter account.
Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2022 01:44 PM (AwYPR)

Didn't have an account in the beginning when they were pretending to be about free speech, won't have an account now.

I have a Gab account that I basically never use. Other than purely business/emergency announcements, the concept seems pretty pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (z99Zw)

262 252 Nancy is going to be wheeling around Paul as a prop for her new anti-gun legislation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (+EI+w)

=========

"A hammer is an AR-15."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

263 I'm still letting it sink in.
Delicious. Like a hot bath after shoveling snow for hours.

Posted by: torabora at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (s+FHf)

264 Goolag, Meta and Blackstone set to axe thousands as well. I may have to call my doctor today.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (oyfLT)

265 Do you guys have any idea how many Rape Threats that ace gets each week?

The number is staggering.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (NP6dc)

How many NOT from croc-wearers?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (yHsuS)

266 100 - Only a teenager in base 30.

Lol

Posted by: Kratwurst at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (nIRE6)

267 My computer is telling me that the Dow is up 2.42%. I didn't ask it. It just is showing me.

S&P is +2/13%. Why are you doing this, computer? Just tell me the weather!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (to2dd)

268 seriously- what is the deal with Elon Musk? Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

Can't tell, but he is highly entertaining.

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (yZlY6)

269 Yes. It's in ace's post as an update. Also, Paul Pelosi is having brain surgery.
Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (aeePL)

Thanks I feel sorry for the old guy

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (bs+z0)

270 OT, the trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front, released on Netflix today. Looks spectacular:

https://tinyurl.com/y9tbyj8d

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (SIZS3)

271 7,500 employees seems a strangely large payroll. But I honestly don't know how this kind of business worksm

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (eGTCV)

272 Nancy is going to be wheeling around Paul as a prop for her new anti-gun legislation.
__________

He needs a bell like Hector Salamanca on Breaking Bad.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (lf83v)

273 Sweeter than sugar.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (eJn7u)

274 Vijaya Gadde has nice hair. I bet she has a bush the size of a small juniper.

Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (24fqN)

275 232 seriously- what is the deal with Elon Musk? Is he a savant, evil genius, alien, what?

Posted by: DB
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Too early to tell. But, he certainly does not care what people think or say. He's his own man.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (oo0rP)

He wants to be the real life Tony Stark (without the drinking, but with the women)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (exHjb)

276 I wonder the payment on a Tesla is.

Assuming 20% down and 6.5% and a purchase price of $50k for a model 3 on 60-month loan, his payment is around $780 per month.

Gotta keep that income up, son.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (1fl3R)

277 time because they are always having a holiday to celebrate the 5 billion gods they worship. Fuck that country.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 28, 2022 02:01 PM (VTu1l)

At least they are not eating our steak.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (ufFY8)

278 They're changing people? They admit this?

Are they completely fucking stupid?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
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We are very fortunate to have enemies that won't shut the fuck up about what they're really doing

Posted by: jhawk90 at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (27G8N)

279 I've gotten death threats online before, they meant nothing and were not in any way frightening, its just some idiot spouting off without thinking.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (Ivdso)

280 Any executive of a company that gets emotional to the point of crying in a meeting should be at the very least admonished on that point alone. I don't think that the Twitter demanders are going to see much traction with their list of demands.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (oiNtH)

281 Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa
Replying to @dee_bosa

They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

*sad trombone*

Posted by: Jeffery Toobin at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (AiZBA)

282 272 But he was hit with a hammer not shot!

Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (yezA1)

283 Re: Strangers With Candy. Maybe this explanation of various categories of hookers would appeal to AOC, because she's an economist.

https://tinyurl.com/722vndb7

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (8CMl+)

284 I think the Indian tech boom started at first sending first over there, then they started coming here.
My township is packed with Indians

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (xhxe8)

285 freakin sock

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (AiZBA)

286 My theory is they keep the market up so they can crush it when the Republicans win the midterms. Its what the Senile Joe said. So it shall be done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (fWTJL)

Bingo!

Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (exHjb)

287
Twitter appears to be a "big kids' day care". You're an ADULT, FFS, how about breaking into a sweat from actually working?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (CFGsC)

288 Isn't weird they've been telling us for hours Paul Pelosi will fully recover and is resting in the hospital, but now he's having brain surgery??

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (DcKNO)

289 Goolag, Meta and Blackstone set to axe thousands as well. I may have to call my doctor today.

Just come around to the back. I'll let you in...

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (CaJIi)

290 109 94
Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
Posted by: Soothsayer the Senile TV Encyclopedia at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (VEsoa)

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The economic numbers from yesterday? +2.6% growth for 3rd quarter?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
________________________

This plus some good earnings news today (like from AAPL). The market has been on an upswing for a week-plus. But only bad economic news is reported on this site . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

291 When someone pointed out that the Tesla In Space looked like a special effect, he said that there wasn't any ambient occlusion where they were filming. He used the phrase correctly. This is my single data point where he says something I know a little about, but not many others do.

Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (44ww/)

292 Are you not entertained?!

Posted by: JackStraw aka Maximus at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (ZLI7S)

293 Because India produces more IT/Computer majors than our entire University System produces graduates. In anything.

Posted by: Diogenes

=====

If they are as skilled as the mechanical engineers I work with, I'll assume their code features at least 2 infinite loops per routine

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (/cmh5)

294 276 I wonder the payment on a Tesla is.

Assuming 20% down and 6.5% and a purchase price of $50k for a model 3 on 60-month loan, his payment is around $780 per month.

Gotta keep that income up, son.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (1fl3R)

=========

Apparently the insurance you buy through Tesla is really cheap. It's some way to get the customer to agree to hand over as much data to Tesla as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

295 I can't help but notice a lot of Indian-American execs are big on the woke totalitarian BS. Trying to implement a caste system here or something?

Posted by: weew at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (+m+uH)

296 Twitter appears to be a call center out of India.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (MxrV/)

297 >see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Posted by: ace

of course
it all makes sense now in time for the evening news

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (geLO8)

298 >>>They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

He believes in karma, yes?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (yHsuS)

299 The only way I would restart my twitter account is if they paid me to do it, and guaranteed book sales from being there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (Ivdso)

300 If Daniel is worried about making the payment, I wonder when. Because if he's being responsible, the has three months' expenses socked away. If he doesn't have that, he shouldn't have bought the Tesla.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (1fl3R)

301 Doctors have upgraded Mr Pelosi from "stable" to "Fetterman".

Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (44ww/)

302 213 So beautiful. These people lived like kings, and worked 8 hour weeks. Sure, they can still have their yoga rooms, wine fountains and 5 star chef meals at google, but I'm guessing Meta is cutting back on that stuff. I'd feel blessed if my boss had a taco truck show up on any given Friday.
Posted by: clutch cargo
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Google has hit middle age and its P/E valuation is now realistic 18.39--recessions hit advertising pretty hard as marketing is an easy thing to cut for companies actually selling something. Google has also announced a hiring freeze. So, the largesse is probably going to go by the wayside for the plebes in short order. People look at google as a tech company when most of their revenue comes from a small core that does AdSense--the rest of the company is designed to feed AdSense data on users of google products so they can resell that data to business.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (CXr4y)

303 It's really glorious to watch all these people who spend their lives on Twitter write the world will end now that Musk has taken over, then quickly state they aren't leaving Twitter. That's Because they are fat, slovenly, loathsome schlubs like Jonah Goldberg and have nothing else to fill their pathetic lives with- except carbohydrates.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (TbpGr)

304 7,500 employees seems a strangely large payroll. But I honestly don't know how this kind of business worksm
Posted by: That NLurker guy
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7,500? Pfft.

Posted by: The IRS at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (WTJmT)

305 Is it true that a large chunk of the twitter employees are Indian with a dot and they only have work visas through twitter ? Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (bs+z0)

Yeah, like anyone would ever get deported.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (7B5FA)

306 Wonder if Elon fired the people behind the employee letter listing all their demands on the new owner of Twitter.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (N39Ws)

307 259 see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (C1Zwz)

So how soon until we get "White leftist," a variant of "White Hispanic"?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (nMx88)

308 > Goolag, Meta and Blackstone set to axe thousands as well. I may have to call my doctor today.

Meta and Blackstone have both lost hundreds of billions of dollars in market value this year. I fully believe they'll axe employees soon.

Google has been talking about a hiring freeze and they've put their people on notice that they need to be more productive. I don't think it's likely they're going to be doing mass layoffs in the near term. If I were at Google, I'd be considering my options, certainly.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (eyxn4)

309 I wonder how many employees will get the message the days of playing while pretending to work are over at Twitter?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (5pTK/)

310 Livecam of the dam at Liberal Tears Lake.

https://tinyurl.com/mr358247

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (+R5dc)

311 CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories
Posted by: ace

Sounds a bit like a last minute Reichstag Fire.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (ZrXen)

312 If they are as skilled as the mechanical engineers I work with, I'll assume their code features at least 2 infinite loops per routine
Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (/cmh5)

Inscrutable javascript does that.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (AiZBA)

313 295 I can't help but notice a lot of Indian-American execs are big on the woke totalitarian BS. Trying to implement a caste system here or something?
Posted by: weew
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Long history of bringing in outsiders to do dirty work. They are in essence disposable and of little threat to the barons.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (CXr4y)

314 198 Oh, to be standing at mid-Market and watching the purple haired, multiply-pierced, waddle out with their boxes of personal effects!
Posted by: Dianna at October 28, 2022 01:58 PM (YFlEv)

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Easiest way to identify and eliminate the riff raff.

You have pink or purple hair, out you go. There is no law that prevents an employer from basing employment on the use of unnatural hair coloring.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (RXZZv)

315 243 re 202: the phrase i've been using. probably al gore rhythm driven computerized trading. the fact that the economy supposedly improved in the 3rd quatter probably means the fed will keep raising interest rates.

and with that a minor recession could lead to another housing market crash and goodbye and good night.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (kFrCu)

Could be worse. In Canada they do not have 30 year fixed rate mortgages. Weird huh? Imagine having a 3 or 5 year variable mortgage?

Canadians are seeing monthly mortgage payments go from <$1,000 Canadian to $3,000 or $5,000 Canadian due to higher interest rates.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (Z32m1)

316 Apparently the insurance you buy through Tesla is really cheap. It's some way to get the customer to agree to hand over as much data to Tesla as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)
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Sure, but my hypothetical up there is just the purchase payment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (1fl3R)

317 and they only have work visas through twitter ?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (bs+z0)

Welcome back to Mumbai, bitches.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (ufFY8)

318 I can't stop looking at the Parag argwal being escorted out tweet

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)

319 Gagge is kinda cute/
id like to get into her Vajaya

Posted by: avi at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (cBCwV)

320 288 Isn't weird they've been telling us for hours Paul Pelosi will fully recover and is resting in the hospital, but now he's having brain surgery??
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:05 PM (DcKNO)

Paul Pelosi is transitioning to Fetterman.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (nMx88)

321 It's really glorious to watch all these people who spend their lives on Twitter write the world will end now that Musk has taken over, then quickly state they aren't leaving Twitter.
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Hmm. Like those saying that they would move to Canada, if Donald elected.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (WTJmT)

322 What was the name of that Euro Rapist guy who talked about Rape like it was Art?

Ace did some great Threaads on him a few years back.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (NP6dc)

323 297 >see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Posted by: ace

Of course All right wing conspirests make hemp jewelry and go nude in the Castro... Duh

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (bs+z0)

324 297 >see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Posted by: ace

He was anti-Covid...that's what they are gonna run with for "right wing" conspiracies...

Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (exHjb)

325 Dad's nudist jewelry maker was right.

Posted by: Christine Pelosi at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Ctfzr)

326 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.

The high-caste types like Vajayjay Gadde *like* the injustices of the caste system, and they appreciate that Democrats are trying to institute it here.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (ZGrMX)

327 Are you not entertained?!
Posted by: JackStraw aka Maximus
__________

What we do on Ace of Spades echoes in eternity.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (lf83v)

328 Replying to @dee_bosa

They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.

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As I remember a lot of blue checks told pipeline workers to just get another job after Biden shut down the Keystone.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (OgrpQ)

329 CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Would those be the ones that were proven true, or the ones that have not yet been proven true?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Ivdso)

330 Rejoice! Elon just freed you from job lock!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (xvxyr)

331 People look at google as a tech company when most of their revenue comes from a small core that does AdSense--the rest of the company is designed to feed AdSense data on users of google products so they can resell that data to business. Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (CXr4y)

It's been rumored that Musk wants to use Google to create a ubiquitous payment platform (PayPal or Venmo-like) that also takes crypto.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (7B5FA)

332 this all reminds me of the oct 1987 stock market crash, when all the people who had gotten rich with jobs i couldn't get suddenly found themselves up to their ears in debt and had to start selling pretty much everything they owned. fortunately no one names lorenz taylor was hurt.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (kFrCu)

333 Livecam of the dam at Liberal Tears Lake.

https://tinyurl.com/mr358247

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (+R5dc)

No more drought.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (AiZBA)

334 I'm confused. Did Pelosi AND the attacker both have hammers?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (ptqGC)

335 What I'm hearing is if you work for Tech from home you are likely to be the first fired.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (fWTJL)

336
As I remember a lot of blue checks told pipeline workers to just get another job after Biden shut down the Keystone.

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Yes! Great point.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (sVtYq)

337
people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves
Posted by: ace

No, we're telling you to die beneath your overloaded shelves.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (CFGsC)

338 316 Apparently the insurance you buy through Tesla is really cheap. It's some way to get the customer to agree to hand over as much data to Tesla as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)
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Sure, but my hypothetical up there is just the purchase payment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (1fl3R)

=========

Gonna be honest...I had a thought that I vomited out that I felt was tangentially related.

Here is the Daily Daddario to distract you from my random thoughts:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhpn6v

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

339 Wow. Musk firing all those people during pride month. Sad.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (TbpGr)

340 >>see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

See Fool Nelson's twitter. He's an acid dropping, God hating loon.

@eskSF

>>My sources also name the suspect in this morning's hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley.
>>He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester.
>>Things appear set to be bizarre for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw aka Maximus at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (ZLI7S)

341 As I remember a lot of blue checks told pipeline workers to just get another job after Biden shut down the Keystone. Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 28, 2022 02:09 PM (OgrpQ)

Daniel probably already knows how to code, so he has that part of it licked.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (7B5FA)

342 I get to leave about 2:30 to go to the physical therapy place.

On the bad side: I confirmed my jury pool status. There was nothing on the website or on the card they sent me, but the "register" website says that stupid face diapers are required in the courthouse. Now that could be left over from last year. But if it's true? That confirms my determination to get out of it, even if I have to ask for a delay or extension.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (J2vNu)

343 As I remember a lot of blue checks told pipeline workers to just get another job after Biden shut down the Keystone.

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Yes. And now it's okay to tell them "Learn to code."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (ptqGC)

344 funemployment! maybe now you can get a zillion dollar writing deal like that actress got

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (kFrCu)

345 It's really glorious to watch all these people who spend their lives on Twitter write the world will end now that Musk has taken over, then quickly state they aren't leaving Twitter.

****

Jonah Goldberg is feverishly fast forwarding through old Simpsons DVDs looking for just the right reference for his tweet about Elon.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (wb1YC)

346 I don't recall anyone writing articles questioning how I was going to make my mortgage and car payments after I was laid off from my last job. There are people let go from jobs all the time, these people deserve no more sympathy just because they worked at a trendy company.

Posted by: Darury at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (rs3VY)

347 The video of a typical day at Twitter is beyond belief. The girl in typical upvoice "Played some foosball with my friends to uwind". Unwind from what? You haven't even worked yet on that day. At the end, red wine on tap. At work.

I think these "employees" are in for quite the rude shock.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (oiNtH)

348 I imagine the "data engineers" fired so quickly worked in the "social engineering" wing of censorship, or in one of the many crap projects that were sucking up money and doing nothing.

The ones doing useful work would likely be kept around to help show new people where things are, if not kept on as non-political.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (eoQWY)

349 297 >see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

Posted by: ace

It's probably the "Mattress stores are money laundering centers" conspiracy, but any port in a storm.

Posted by: Wally at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (FJYfm)

350 Is Musk going to move Twitter out of California?
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Of course.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (xWZcb)

351 > CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

$100 says those "right wing conspiracy theories" are simply common holdover conspiracy theories leftists fully embraced up until five minutes ago like companies starting war for profit (but Ukraine's different!) or big pharma lying to pad their profits (but Pfizer's mRNA thinger is totally 1000% safe!)

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (eyxn4)

352 It's really glorious to watch all these people who spend their lives on Twitter write the world will end now that Musk has taken over, then quickly state they aren't leaving Twitter.

========

Because they're fighters and won't cede ground to fascists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

353 I'm sure there is a severance package for every employee and CA does have unemployment.

If I was an unscrupulous employee that knew he was going to be laid off I would sustain a WC injury. CA WC is a money maker.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (MxrV/)

354 "people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves
Posted by: ace "

I always found the ones making fun of your messenger bag a bit more loathsome. But that's just me.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (TbpGr)

355 I've been laid off before. I can empathize, but I sure don't feel sorry for them. It's part of life. In every job, there is a start day and and end day. And your first mission is to set aside part of each paycheck to cover for that end of job day. If you don't, shame on you.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (anj39)

356 Breaking: Trump on the firings.

https://tinyurl.com/46bk9h3a

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (yHsuS)

357 Apropos of nothing, I found a Spotify playlist yesterday called "Dramatic Classical" with the tagline "When you're a 19th century villain with excellent taste in music."

Another other one called "overly dramatic classical music that slaps." LOL.

I shall relate this to the story at hand by saying there would be several pieces of music on those lists that would enhance this story. Or, maybe just Yakkety Sax.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (aeePL)

358 Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (TbpGr)

this is the best day ever for them, and they don't even know it! They now will have endless opportunities to virtually slap-fight all those magats and Notsees

It's no fun just constantly agreeing with everybody all the time

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (dCxaZ)

359 I used to tell my teenage son to take out the trash.

Then I’d add “And I don’t mean date a Kardashian.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (T0qGO)

360 293 Because India produces more IT/Computer majors than our entire University System produces graduates. In anything.

Posted by: Diogenes

---------------------------
The nasty fact is that our best and brightest don't go into engineering and increasingly medicine because it is cheaper for employers to shop for people on the world market and they make fewer demands on employers (especially those on visas). So, an American with an engineering degree from a top school is looking at investing over 100k or more before they earn dollar one. Someone from a cheap uni overseas is not.

BTW, engineers are not interchangeable as are doctors due to the quality of degree received.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (CXr4y)

361 356 Breaking: Trump on the firings.

https://tinyurl.com/46bk9h3a
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (yHsuS)

Love it

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (bs+z0)

362 What was the name of that Euro Rapist guy who talked about Rape like it was Art?

"After that, I had plenty of rapes, too many to count. But there was nothing wrong with that. The girls wanted to be raped."
--Gerard Depardieu

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (Ivdso)

363 >>The video of a typical day at Twitter is beyond belief.

Isn't it?

I mean...it's not like you have to haul and stack boxes of Tweets as part of the job. Just, do SOMETHING!?

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (NP6dc)

364 "people are always telling me to die underneath my shelves
Posted by: ace "

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And that's only the horde.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (DcKNO)

365 Apparently the insurance you buy through Tesla is really cheap. It's some way to get the customer to agree to hand over as much data to Tesla as possible.

Same as the regular insurance companies that give you eye-popping discounts if you add a datalogger to your car so they have live telemetry on your speed, direction, and location at all times. (And of course the FBI definitely isn't tapping into that).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (ZGrMX)

366 Thousands more wokesters being made available to the industry...which is crumbling as it is.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (oyfLT)

367 Here is the Daily Daddario to distract you from my random thoughts:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhpn6v
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:10 PM (LvTSG)
++++
TJM uses "Daily Daddario"
It's highly effective!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (1fl3R)

368 Long history of bringing in outsiders to do dirty work. They are in essence disposable and of little threat to the barons.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:07 PM (CXr4y)

True. In Eastern Europe the Barons and Landowners often used Jews to do the landlord duties like collecting rents. Every few years the peasants would revolt and take their anger out on the Rent Collecting Jews. It was called a Pogrom.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (Z32m1)

369 The video of a typical day at Twitter is beyond belief. The girl in typical upvoice "Played some foosball with my friends to uwind". Unwind from what? You haven't even worked yet on that day. At the end, red wine on tap. At work.

Google is even worse. There are "nap pods".

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (ajvaO)

370 for many of these people learning to code will mean learning things like 'adam and eve on a raft wreck em.'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (kFrCu)

371 262 252 Nancy is going to be wheeling around Paul as a prop for her new anti-gun legislation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2022 02:02 PM (+EI+w)

=========

"A hammer is an AR-15."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

Don't give them ideas. Every AR-15 has a hammer.

Posted by: Gref at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (AMIL/)

372 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 28, 2022 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

Originally tech hired foreigners on H1B because they were cheaper and good enough.

Once there was a sufficient percentage of them in the company, they arranged to hire "people who look like them" rather than those icky Americans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (z99Zw)

373 365 Same as the regular insurance companies that give you eye-popping discounts if you add a datalogger to your car so they have live telemetry on your speed, direction, and location at all times. (And of course the FBI definitely isn't tapping into that).
Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:12 PM (ZGrMX)

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We did that. We put it in one car at a time, the car we leave in the garage while we drive the other one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

374 Just think of all those mentally ill dudes in dresses driven to despair by an outbreak of freedom of speech.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (eGTCV)

375 >>"After that, I had plenty of rapes, too many to count. But there was nothing wrong with that. The girls wanted to be raped."
--Gerard Depardieu

Ha - No. He had 3 names and a suspicious likeness to the World's Most Interesting Man.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (NP6dc)

376 Jerri Blank: a boozer, a user, and a 3 time loser

Posted by: whatchulookinat at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (fiQ0w)

377 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system. Instead of trying to destroy this country.

Just a thought.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 28, 2022 01:48 PM (S9NBt)

Ironic that they looked to impose a caste system here, amirite?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (eoQWY)

378 Have not considered Twitter or Goolag or Faceplant "tech companies" since they grew beyond their original small size. Advertising companies, that's all they are. As whig said, the "tech" mostly just feeds data to the advertising portions.

Have used the term several times with people, who at first are puzzled, but mostly sort of limply agree after a small bit of explanation.

And WhyTF would you need even 500 employees at Twitter, much less 7500? Just a simple advertising web bulletin board, glorified.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (OTzUX)

379 351 > CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories

$100 says those "right wing conspiracy theories" are simply common holdover conspiracy theories leftists fully embraced up until five minutes ago like companies starting war for profit (but Ukraine's different!) or big pharma lying to pad their profits (but Pfizer's mRNA thinger is totally 1000% safe!)
Posted by: bonhomme
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The dude's wife is apparently Russian in origin. Might have something to do with Ukraine aid.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (CXr4y)

380 367 TJM uses "Daily Daddario"
It's highly effective!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (1fl3R)

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Pokemon nerd!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

381 "They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments."

Biden will sign a bailout to help these poor tech workers who have been, through no faulty of their own, been so mistreated.

wOUDL IT BE CRULE TO NOOTE THAT dANILE UNDOBEDLY HAS A HUGE, sf STYLE RENT OR MRTGAE PAYMENTI going to geUSS dANIL HAS AN ENROMOSU RENT

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (MxEKc)

382 Then he can cheap out an buy a used gas car from 2006.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 01:47 PM (LvTSG)

He doesn't need a car if he has no job to go to.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (y9h4n)

383 just in ... Pelosi attacker was a disgruntled Twitter employee that was fired ... upset Nancy did not stop Musk from taking over.

... j/k

Posted by: illiniwek at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (Cus5s)

384 I would think the demographics of Trump loving, God hating, acid dropping nudist professors from Berkley would be vanishingly small.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (ZLI7S)

385 I feel somewhat sorry for the landlords that rent to these worthless shit stains.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (oyfLT)

386 Jeebus the typical Twitter Day. My last job I was happy that we had a microwave. And oddly enough that company was solvent, is still solvent and my stock value is through the roof. What say you Twitter, how are things looking for you financially?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (2NHgQ)

387 An African-American takes over Twitter, and the Twitterati lose their minds.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (a3Q+t)

388 I've gotten death threats online before, they meant nothing and were not in any way frightening, its just some idiot spouting off without thinking.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

me as well. i give them the street address of an old battery commander from active duty, tell them i'm standing in the driveway with my dick out and for them to come suck it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 28, 2022 02:14 PM (3CCua)

389 "Because they're fighters and won't cede ground to fascists."

It's going to be fun to watch them try to create an argument in response to truthful statements now that momma won't save them by deleting challenging questions and banning anyone who exposes them as fabulists and mendacity peddlers.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (TbpGr)

390 Ace, the greatest moment in internet history would be if you get access to your account back, and ther first thing you do upon your return is post a video of you banging David French's wife.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (W75v2)

391 There are people let go from jobs all the time, these people deserve no more sympathy just because they worked at a trendy company.
Posted by: Darury

Not to mention all of the people who were let go not because they weren't needed, not because their job was outsourced, but because they didn't bow to the Gods and get a vaccine that was not a vaccine.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (oiNtH)

392 All the little birds on Twitter Street
Love to hear the Elon go tweet tweet tweet
Rockin' Elon.tweet.tweet.tweet
Rockin' Elon.tweet, tweedle-lee-dee
Blow rockin' Elon

Posted by: Clitora at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (M+Lyo)

393 This is going to be great!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (u82oZ)

394 OT, the trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front, released on Netflix today. Looks spectacular:

https://tinyurl.com/y9tbyj8d
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2022 02:04 PM (SIZS3)
***

Damn!
Now all I can thing about is my old friend Les. Kinda like a grandpa to me when I was growing up at the small airport near where I lived. I'd help him in his shop and we rebuilt old airplanes. He was a pilot in WW 1. A great guy...with a lifetime of impairment from getting gassed at his airfield once. He was the first to talk to me about the brutality of the war.
Sobering.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (anj39)

395 Oops.

Would it be cruel to note that Daniel undoubtedly has a huge. SF style rent or mortgage payment?

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (MxEKc)

396 Let's face it.

Lizzo has been pissed off ever since they took her picture off of the syrup bottle.

CBD hardest hit.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (e6UQI)

397 I certainly hope the algorithms playing the market aren't running based on the GDP number, because that was entirely the selling of our strategic petroleum reserves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (lTGtQ)

398 >>I would think the demographics of Trump loving, God hating, acid dropping nudist professors from Berkley would be vanishingly small.

At least... since CBD graduated.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (NP6dc)

399 He was anti-Covid...that's what they are gonna run with for "right wing" conspiracies...

Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (exHjb)

Everything that is not regime propaganda NPC code update is "right wing conspiracy theory."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (yHsuS)

400 Kari Lake has offered to make Elon a deal for moving Twitter HQ to Arizona.

If he moves it -- and he should -- he'll probably move it to Austin to be close to Tesla and SpaceX.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (nfrXX)

401 >>>The video of a typical day at Twitter is beyond belief.

there is no actual 'work' depicted
just perks

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (geLO8)

402 If I was an unscrupulous employee that knew he was going to be laid off I would sustain a WC injury. CA WC is a money maker.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (MxrV/)

In CA, the smart employees filed a racial discrimination report with HR last month, or maybe sexual harassment. Now HR won't let them be fired for some time, fearing lawsuits.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (wBpKf)

403 389 It's going to be fun to watch them try to create an argument in response to truthful statements now that momma won't save them by deleting challenging questions and banning anyone who exposes them as fabulists and mendacity peddlers.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:15 PM (TbpGr)

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If Musk gets control of the bot problem, and the bot problem is as large as some people believe, it's going to be a massive, massive hit to the ego of these people when their minions don't come out to terrorize people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

404 This is going to be great!
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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If you say so.

For those of us that do not use twitter, just another day.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (sH61M)

405 And WhyTF would you need even 500 employees at Twitter, much less 7500? Just a simple advertising web bulletin board, glorified.

I understand the tech involved and if you went really extravagant I could probably figure out something for maybe 40 or 50 employees to do there, but 7500 breaks my brain.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (ZGrMX)

406 Yeah I do not grok the high level of communism in Indian workers, where the hell did that come from?? They clearly are not PERSONALLY so, they just think its good for everyone else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:51 PM (Ivdso)

Probably advanced British educators imported to India. They have very conventional European ideas from those I know.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (eoQWY)

407 Mood Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

"For What Its Worth"

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (Z32m1)

408 https://tinyurl.com/bdhhpn6v

Lookatthosebewbs
Big. Juicy. Bewbs!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop, channeling AOC at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

409 I wonder if memesmith Carpe Donktum will re-emerge?

Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (NpAcC)

410 Brain surgery on an 82 year old man is not good.

So it really looks like Nancy had her husband whacked.

She knows she's probably out as speaker and was angling to be appointed Ambassador to Rome, so she's trying to setup an, Under The Tuscan Sun future for herself.

Very cruel indeed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (GgS0l)

411 > People look at google as a tech company when most of their revenue comes from a small core that does AdSense--the rest of the company is designed to feed AdSense data on users of google products so they can resell that data to business.

Is that still true? I know for a long time it was true, but Google Cloud has been raking in the bucks too.

Also, their ad group is wrapped up in "services" which includes Android, Chrome, YouTube, and hardware like the Pixel and ChromeCast. So those other things often get tossed in the same bucket with ads when you're talking about that revenue stream.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (eyxn4)

412 401 >>>The video of a typical day at Twitter is beyond belief.

there is no actual 'work' depicted
just perks
Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (geLO

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It's only right we see that grifter who made the video standing outside twitter holding a box.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (DcKNO)

413 395 Oops.

Would it be cruel to note that Daniel undoubtedly has a huge. SF style rent or mortgage payment?
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7-11 has nationwide opportunities for Daniel. He can change the Slushee Machine, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (fWTJL)

414 @409

>>I wonder if memesmith Carpe Donktum will re-emerge?

Carpe Donktum has said he will be re-instated by Monday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:17 PM (GgS0l)

415 When I first saw "Day In The Life Of A Twitter Employee" on Libs of Tik Tok yesterday, I nearly rage-stroked. Girl sounds like she's twelve, and someone said she's probably making $200,000+.

I hope Elon does away with the yoga room, free meals, rooftop play area, wine bar, etc. Make these snowflakes earn their keep.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ptqGC)

416 Ha - No. He had 3 names and a suspicious likeness to the World's Most Interesting Man.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:13 PM (NP6dc)
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I think I know who you mean. He raped a maid at a swanky NY hotel he was staying in and said something like it wasn't rape, she wanted me to do it, what's the problem?

He's some big deal, maybe French? Business guy, I don't know, I'm 29 and can't remember stuff like I could when I was 28.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (aeePL)

417 The "progressive" babies just can't handle life on life's terms. Welcome to the real world, douchebags.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (Xrfse)

418 The only thing I would change on the Greg Price tweet is the Climate change is a hoax bit, anthropogenic climate change is a hoax, the climate has been changing on the earth for four and half billion years, it's not going to stop changing until the sun goes red giant and consumes us.

So, that's it, the rest is spot on.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 01:49 PM (GgS0l)

Picky, picky. The essence of Twatter is brevity. And the Gaia cultists themselves almost never employ the "anthropogenic" modifier in day-to-day rants.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (y9h4n)

419 >>At least... since CBD graduated.

Right, I meant to add that part.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ZLI7S)

420

ELON GAVE MY ANUS CURLY WHIRLEY

Posted by: Twitter Bloatware Engineer # 5280 at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (KMAIs)

421 If he moves it -- and he should -- he'll probably move it to Austin to be close to Tesla and SpaceX.

He's already said it's going to Texas, not necessarily Austin though.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ZGrMX)

422 Elon needs to leave their accounts active, but take away their ability to block followers.

Posted by: Roy at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (UIHJb)

423 Feel free to not work at another company. Now GTFO. - Elon

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (oyfLT)

424 It's been rumored that Musk wants to use Google to create a ubiquitous payment platform (PayPal or Venmo-like) that also takes crypto.
Posted by: Caesar North
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That would make sense. Especially since PayPal has shot themselves in the head along with their subsidiary VenMo by adopting wokery idiocy. That era of tech companies defying gravity on P/E is dying. Mature companies have to be more careful stewards of investment and avoid offending potential customers.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (CXr4y)

425 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhxe8)

426 Carpe Donktum has said he will be re-instated by Monday.

Supposedly all bans (including Trump) will be lifted by Monday.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (ZGrMX)

427 Maybe these commie executives of Indian extraction can go back to India to address and fix the injustices of the caste system.

They can get jobs as lunch pail delivery people in Mumbai.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (gmo/4)

428 Inflation is being driven by packaged goods, people!

If you're feeling a pinch, just switch to generic Kaboom!

This isn't rocket science.

Posted by: Jos. Robinette Biden at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (a3Q+t)

429 Who is "Space Daddy" ?Mark Zuckerberg's alien father?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (4hTQU)

430 I give Elon six months before he moves the company out of SF and its incredibly toxic environment.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (Ivdso)

he's already said that's the plan. It might be quicker since he's firing most of those that would have to move.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (eoQWY)

431 Forbearing of things to come. These people should be unemployable from now on.

Lean to code. Fuck that. Lean to panhandle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (BFigT)

432 It's better for all--including himself--if Trump stays off Twitter

Posted by: JoeF. at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (mR6Gs)

433 That confirms my determination to get out of it, even if I have to ask for a delay or extension.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
______________________

During voir dire (jury selection) take every opportunity to answer a question from the attorneys. Talk all you can. One side or the other is not going to like what you have to say and you'll either get challenged for cause or they'll use a peremptory strike on you.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (SIZS3)

434 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists

In my experience, most high-caste Indians are hard left and most low-caste Indians are hard right. Not unlike what's happening in the West, really.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)

435 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhxe

It's all the curry. It rots your brain.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (gmo/4)

436 Breaking: Trump on the firings.

https://tinyurl.com/46bk9h3a
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:11 PM (yHsuS)

I didn't read it yet. Did he take back what he said about Musk when the purchase was up in the air?

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (MxrV/)

437 431 Forbearing of things to come. These people should be unemployable from now on.

Lean to code. Fuck that. Lean to panhandle.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (BFigT)
_________________

Learn to suck dick for $20 just like in town

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

438 @stillgray 6m
Beep beep boop. Gina Carano is back.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (IyrhE)

439 Who was the male version of Titania McGrath? I miss that guy, and hope he returns to Twitter.

Posted by: Wally at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (FJYfm)

440 He's some big deal, maybe French? Business guy, I don't know, I'm 29 and can't remember stuff like I could when I was 28.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:18 PM (aeePL)
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I seem to remember that he was going to run for President of France and this 'may have been' a dirty tricks setup to derail that, as in fact happened. We'll probably never know.

Posted by: Ciampino - gerbils are not squirrels at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (qfLjt)

441 >>He's some big deal, maybe French? Business guy, I don't know, I'm 29 and can't remember stuff like I could when I was 28.

Yeah - That guy.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (NP6dc)

442 Yoga room and gyms are getting fairly common in office buildings.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (xhxe8)

443 They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments.
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I wish I could help, but I don't want to.

Posted by: Phoebe Buffay at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (uUKp3)

444 Would it be cruel to note that Daniel undoubtedly has a huge. SF style rent or mortgage payment?

Daniel. Repeat after me: "Would you like to supersize that?"

There...you are ready for your next adventure in life. Bear in mind you will be competing with some of the graduates of the University of Washington, but I'm sure you will do well.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (anj39)

445 Watching the Day in the Life of a Twitter employee besides making me sick bet I could fire %90 and they wouldn't be noticed missing.
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (xhxe

Would certainly go up as even the competent ones have to attend a lot of mandatory meetings with the rest of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (eoQWY)

446 On a positive note, all those poor snowflakes will have the upcoming elections to cheer them up.

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM (MxEKc)

447 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhxe

As with Americans, those with high tech jobs, or professionals tend to be leftists, small business owners tend to be more conservative

Posted by: JoeF. at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (mR6Gs)

448
Like a boss.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (uUKp3)

449 so, of course the other thread died when I posted this, but , Reagan was not the one who started closing mental institutions, it was Kennedy
https://tinyurl.com/mrcmpucp

Posted by: ziggggeeee at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (AsMdZ)

450 I hope Babylon Bee is back stat. And Juanita Broderick. And everyone who was banned by the leftist twits at Twitter.

Love following Mollie, Gutfeld, and others.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (ptqGC)

451 Everyone can rest easy.

Andrea Mitchell has broken the code.

The attack on Paul Pelosi was just another continuation of the J6 tragedy.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (wb1YC)

452 Is that a "real" Twitter employee?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (4hTQU)

453 Yoga room and gyms are getting fairly common in office buildings.

Why not? Who really wants to do a real day's work anymore? Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

454 Elon, get rid of the people who don't wear enough pieces of flair.

Posted by: Archer at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (gmo/4)

455 Elon has secretly replace 75% of Twitter's workforce with nothing.

Let's see if anyone notices.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (ZLI7S)

456 Doesn't Musk joke that he could turn Twitter HQ into a homeless shelter because on any given day over 95% of the people didn't show up?

We call that a "clue" about what's about to come down.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (TbpGr)

457 I was most surprised by the wine bar.

She "poured" a huge glass of red wine and then went up to the rooftop lounge to decompress after a long day of using amenities.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (DcKNO)

458 @405

>>I understand the tech involved and if you went really extravagant I could probably figure out something for maybe 40 or 50 employees to do there, but 7500 breaks my brain.

Well, I had to recently open a help desk ticket because of an issue with Microsoft D365 and PowerBI, it required a teams call with no less than 3 engineers, it took them nearly an hour trying to figure out what was wrong before giving up and simply deleting all of my credentials and recreating my user.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (GgS0l)

459 I have said that's where I picture him.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (ZrXen)

460 455 Elon has secretly replace 75% of Twitter's workforce with nothing.

Let's see if anyone notices.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (ZLI7S)

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Heh, exactly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (DcKNO)

461 I dont understand why a website needs employees at all.
I mean, put it on the server and forget about it.

Posted by: espinostifer at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (wWnRQ)

462 Ecclesiastes 3, 1-2, VDH Vulgate:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to learn to code.
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A beautiful verse also put into a wonderful song.
Posted by: Ciampino - so many Rock songs taken from the Bible at October 28, 2022 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

I cannot stand "Turn, Turn, Turn." An overrated and overplayed song, IMO.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (AW0uW)

463 Yeah I do not grok the high level of communism in Indian workers, where the hell did that come from??

Almost all of senior-level Silicon Valley Indians are Brahmins or other high-caste Indians. They believe in a highly-structured society, where they are at the apex.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (I2/tG)

464 Hi guys. Slow news day huh?

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (sn5EN)

465 You should see the 23 y.o. narcissist employee of Meta who posted her typical day. It's actually worse than the Twitter one.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (ptqGC)

466 Hammer dueling, EI "the Thumpening" is a time-honored arbitration.

Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (44ww/)

467 Well, I had to recently open a help desk ticket because of an issue with Microsoft D365 and PowerBI, it required a teams call with no less than 3 engineers, it took them nearly an hour trying to figure out what was wrong before giving up and simply deleting all of my credentials and recreating my user.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (GgS0l)

Is the solution to every Microsoft problem to shut off the computer and reboot?

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (e4GqK)

468 Andrea Mitchell has broken the code.

Only the broken are able to break the code.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (Xrfse)

469 Can we haz everyone tweet that boy from kindergarten cop saying boys have a penis and girls have a vagina now without fear of the stazi?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (0Qrr3)

470 I hope Elon does away with the yoga room, free meals, rooftop play area, wine bar, etc. Make these snowflakes earn their keep.

The only thing I saw in that video that should be kept was the video meeting pods, that's not bad. Excessive, but at least useful for a business.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (Ivdso)

471 Yeah - That guy.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:21 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (a3Q+t)

472 462 I cannot stand "Turn, Turn, Turn." An overrated and overplayed song, IMO.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (AW0uW)

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It's no You Spin Me Round.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

473 "Inflation is being driven by packaged goods, people!

If you're feeling a pinch, just switch to generic Kaboom!

Posted by: Jos. Robinette Biden"

Or bugs. Low fat, crunchy and cheap. Whats not to like?

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (MxEKc)

474
The attack on Paul Pelosi was just another continuation of the J6 tragedy.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (wb1YC)

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OFFS

It was a retard, nudist, protester. Known as a local nut.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (DcKNO)

475 Bourbon Chicken, did you see the sidebar? LOL!

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (aeePL)

476 I love the idea of these folks driving Teslas

Posted by: Gray Man - PAUL PELOSI FOR SENATE at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (fmga0)

477 Oh, the Humanity!

Has Parag Agrawal been seen holding up a sign saying "Will censor for food"?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (TgBWG)

478 >> I dont understand why a website needs employees at all.
>>I mean, put it on the server and forget about it.

Ah, the Ace of Spades business model.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (ZLI7S)

479 Andrea Mitchell has broken the code.

The attack on Paul Pelosi was just another continuation of the J6 tragedy.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:22 PM (wb1YC)

That thing has a one track mind and it's a goat path.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (AiZBA)

480 462 Ecclesiastes 3, 1-2, VDH Vulgate:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die;\

In all seriousness, this is my favorite passage in the bible...ended up in my high school valedictorian speech.

Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (exHjb)

481 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhxe

As with Americans, those with high tech jobs, or professionals tend to be leftists, small business owners tend to be more conservative
Posted by: JoeF

Both of these statements are relevant to what's happened to Loudoun County Va.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (ZrXen)

482 I think Musk could parlay it into buying whatever owns google.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (buTO7)

483 I dont understand why a website needs employees at all.
I mean, put it on the server and forget about it.

Posted by: espinostifer at October 28, 2022 02:23 PM (wWnRQ)

What happens if you ban yourself? Asking for no particular reason.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (yHsuS)

484 "Yoga room and gyms are getting fairly common in office buildings"

I'm hoping for a pistol range. I actually put that in as a suggestion.

People were like, ping pong table, foosball table, meditation room, yoga parlor. I was like, nope. Either a pistol range or powerlifting room.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (TbpGr)

485 466 Hammer dueling, EI "the Thumpening" is a time-honored arbitration.
Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:24 PM (44ww/)

I tell ya it was like Strets of Fire in there!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi husband at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (0Qrr3)

486 The attack on Paul Pelosi was just another continuation of the J6 tragedy.

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Telling security to stand down and then instigating... Wait, that's probably not what you meant.

Posted by: Gray Man - PAUL PELOSI FOR SENATE at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (fmga0)

487
Also, their ad group is wrapped up in "services" which includes Android, Chrome, YouTube, and hardware like the Pixel and ChromeCast. So those other things often get tossed in the same bucket with ads when you're talking about that revenue stream.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Historically YT has lost megabucks, Chrome brings in no dollars itself because 'free' and Android is licensed at a nominal rate because licensing on using an open sourced linux base gets really complicated fast. Pixel is a rounding error to google with scant market share mainly used to demonstrate new functions in Android causing upgrades of phones with usually more spying built in.

The consistent earner for Google is AdSense which in 2021 composed 80 percent plus of Google's revenues (as per CNBC article). As far as cloud services go, Google is far behind market leaders AWS (Amazon) and Microsoft (Azure).

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (CXr4y)

488 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?
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Because everyone dumped billions of dollars of Meta stock (thank you Jim Kramer, you asshoe) and bought real stock in real companies.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 01:54 PM (lf83v)

Socila media : Meta freefalls, Musk takes over Twitter, Red Tsunami, and the party's just getting started.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (6eRlp)

489 My account was permanently suspended because I told someone who was gloating about refusing to have children what a beating it is to have to take care of elderly distant relatives because they have no one else, and if he was really that noble about not polluting the world with children, he should time things to die before becoming a burden on a second cousin twice removed.

Perma ban. And that was their excuse. I know the real reason: because I frequently sent leftists REEEING straight to the report page by saying something like abortion is murder.

And there's no way to get around it. You can appeal all you want, but unless you go get a new phone and start over, there is no way to get anyone at Twitter to review your case fairly.

Posted by: the other coyote at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (0mN7F)

490 Trudeau is now selling Ukrainian war bonds:

I announced that, soon, we’re going to be offering government-backed Ukraine Sovereignty Bonds. Canadians will be able to go to major banks to purchase these bonds – and the funds will go to support the Ukrainian government, so they can support the Ukrainian people.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2022 01:56 PM (I2/tG)

I still have some of those worthless zinc pennies. I wonder if the bonds will be offered in one-cent denominations?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (y9h4n)

491 Oh, even temping I did plenty work, but loved the perks at Chiat/Day advertising. Free breakfast donuts, coffee, bagels and schmere, a very good very cheap cafeteria. At Deutsch advertising they had free cocktails in the afternoon. Good times.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (QqMaK)

492 37 Why are so many twatter employees foreign-born Indians??
Posted by: Elric Blade

and why do so many of them hate free speech? India gained it's independence with free speech.

Posted by: x at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (ZC2go)

493 I cannot stand "Turn, Turn, Turn." An overrated and overplayed song, IMO.

As much as I like the song, there needs to be a moratorium on "Paint it Black" used in movies. They trotted out its moldering corpse for Black Adam, for an overwrought slow motion scene.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (Ivdso)

494 Musk fixed the glitch.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (buTO7)

495 To the rest of you people working at Twitter, I'm sure your jobs are safe.

I mean, there's no way that a guy who currently is 90% of America's space program and who sent a sports car to Mars as a goof is in any kind of position to figure out how to automate all of your jobs.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (wb1YC)

496 @467

>>Is the solution to every Microsoft problem to shut off the computer and reboot?

Engineers Maxim: Hitting the BBS will solve 90 percent of problems, the other 10 percent you leave for the night crew.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (GgS0l)

497 Interesting tidbit:

My long ago permanently suspended twitter account has been deleted, and I was able to open a new account using the same email, and ph #.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (CCf67)

498 Fortunately many if those fired already know how to code...
Posted by: steevy at October 28, 2022 01:53 PM (yezA1)

Yeah... about that... I'm a software engineer and you'd be surprised how many "coders" can't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (z99Zw)

499 Taylor Lorenz, I notice, is too old and homely for even B-B-Biden to sniff. Maybe that's really why she's crying.

I remember after the great Newman interview, Milo advised Jordan Peterson not to believe claims of "death threats", but to demand evidence. It's one of their go to gambits.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (TgBWG)

500 I didn't read it yet. Did he take back what he said about Musk when the purchase was up in the air?

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:20 PM (MxrV/)

It's not a real statement. It is a gif.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (yHsuS)

501 What's this about Pelosi getting his ass hammered?

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (sn5EN)

502 was a retard, nudist, protester. Known as a local nut.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM

You forgot collector of MAGA wear

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (xhxe8)

503 467 Well, I had to recently open a help desk ticket because of an issue with Microsoft D365 and PowerBI, it required a teams call with no less than 3 engineers, it took them nearly an hour trying to figure out what was wrong before giving up and simply deleting all of my credentials and recreating my user.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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After conquering rivals like Lotus, WP, etc., Microsoft's culture has become Office is not done until it won't run.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (CXr4y)

504 Nice, I made the sidebar.

*fistpump*

Posted by: BourbonChicken (he/Grimaldus/Reclusiarch) at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (44ww/)

505 Certainly not all, but majority of Indians sure seem to be Leftists

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhxe

My impression is that a caste system is there along with the fact that Indians who didn't grow up here and don't know much about freedoms and the constitution are leftists IF they are white collar/ high tech workers. The guy at the local dry cleaners or the one running a convenience store tend to be much more conservative. The guy running the dry cleaning place and came here in his 20s and is now in his late 50s is probably as conservative as I am.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (4hTQU)

506 Posted by: Nova local at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM (exHjb)

It's been quoted at every funeral I have attended.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (MxrV/)

507 Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

-

Yesterday they announced that they were pretending that the recession we were pretending we weren't in was over.

Posted by: Gray Man - PAUL PELOSI FOR SENATE at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (fmga0)

508 In CA, the smart employees filed a racial discrimination report with HR last month, or maybe sexual harassment. Now HR won't let them be fired for some time, fearing lawsuits.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 28, 2022 02:16 PM (wBpKf)

Why do I feel Elon will not play that game? Yes I terminated many people with harassment claims. I also terminated almost everyone that was allegedly harassing them. I will let the mediation services resolve these claims.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (Z32m1)

509 Interesting tidbit:

My long ago permanently suspended twitter account has been deleted, and I was able to open a new account using the same email, and ph #.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (CCf67)

Freedom of speech is a thing again, and the left is losing it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (ptqGC)

510 Needing to take care of Paul would give Nazi an excuse to step down before she loses her position.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (eGTCV)

511 If twitter is truly free, then Taylor Lorenz's birth certificate should be n available

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (/cmh5)

512 Oh, even temping I did plenty work, but loved the perks at Chiat/Day advertising. Free breakfast donuts, coffee, bagels and schmere, a very good very cheap cafeteria. At Deutsch advertising they had free cocktails in the afternoon. Good times.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (QqMaK)
___

Must be nice.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (sH61M)

513 >>>Why is Dow Jones +700 today?

IDK, but mortgage rates shot up to 8% today.

Posted by: x at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (ZC2go)

514 What happens if you ban yourself? Asking for no particular reason.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:26 PM

To be fair, that's about as likely to happen as your shelving collapsing is.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (a3Q+t)

515 As with Americans, those with high tech jobs, or professionals tend to be leftists,

==
I think this is because you can change software to make it what it is and not what it was supposed to be. In the mechanical world the machines have to work before they leave the dock. There are no over the phone patches like software. Software is a made up world where you just keep trying to get it right... and nobody chews you out for shipping shit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (u4CEu)

516 499 Taylor Lorenz, I notice, is too old and homely for even B-B-Biden to sniff. Maybe that's really why she's crying.

I remember after the great Newman interview, Milo advised Jordan Peterson not to believe claims of "death threats", but to demand evidence. It's one of their go to gambits.
Posted by: Eeyore
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She lies about her middle age and targets teens with her cancel culture crap. She is objectively evil. By the way, one of her relatives works for the Way Back machine and do ya know that you can't find her past record of mean tweets etc. from it.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (CXr4y)

517 >>I cannot stand "Turn, Turn, Turn." An overrated and overplayed song, IMO.

Agree.

I hear a Rickenbacker and I dive for the Off Switch. I blame McGuinn.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (NP6dc)

518 I remember after the great Newman interview, Milo advised Jordan Peterson not to believe claims of "death threats", but to demand evidence. It's one of their go to gambits.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 28, 2022 02:28 PM (TgBWG)

I consider any death threat without a video clip to be imaginary, and probably 90 percent of those with video evidence are self directed.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (eoQWY)

519 IDK, but mortgage rates shot up to 8% today.
____________

And my savings account pays .00000000000012 percent in interest.

Per year!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (lf83v)

520
From what I've heard, most of them are upper caste. They're no more interested in destroying the caste system than I'm interested in voting for Brandon.
Posted by: junior

I much prefer the Sikhs we get here in the San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, and they're BIG into trucking.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (n+4am)

521 it required a teams call with no less than 3 engineers, it took them nearly an hour trying to figure out what was wrong...
--------
After some effort, I reached a responsive engineer at TI, to whom I explained that their cross-assembler for one of their uP's was producing the wrong object code.

'Not possible', he said, 'that has been in the field for over a year.'

An hour later, he called back, rather embarrassed. 'You're right'. I took the occasion to point out that I had interviewed with TI upon graduation, but was not offered a job.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (SbsCg)

522 During the early 2000's when we first relocated to Silicon Valley my worked for a dot com start up. I was amazed at the amount of "stuff" the employees had access to. And it was a very small outfit. The investors at the time were throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at ventures that really only needed a folding table, a couple laptops and (at the time) a DSL connection. Yet they had a chef, yoga, sauna, etc.

Like I've asserted before; Twitter could be run from my basement with a couple laptops, a server and the internet by me and my wife. And still only work 8 hours a week.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (BFigT)

523 "Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa
Replying to @dee_bosa
They are visibly shaken. Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn't know how he's going to make payments."

Learn to code.

Posted by: timactual at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (Cmxuw)

524 I hear a Rickenbacker and I dive for the Off Switch. I blame McGuinn.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:30 PM (NP6dc)

Fuck you, man

Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (mR6Gs)

525 Well, I had to recently open a help desk ticket because of an issue with Microsoft D365 and PowerBI, it required a teams call with no less than 3 engineers, it took them nearly an hour trying to figure out what was wrong before giving up and simply deleting all of my credentials and recreating my user.

I mean, there's a reason literally no big tech runs on Microsoft tech.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (ZGrMX)

526 "Now HR won't let them be fired for some time, fearing lawsuits. "

The executives tried that gambit by creating what they thought would be a poison pill. It they were fired it would end up costing Twitter over $50 million. Musk told them to get their shit and GTFO. I don't think he gives a shit who he fires.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (TbpGr)

527 Needing to take care of Paul would give Nazi an excuse to step down before she loses her position.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 02:29 PM (eGTCV)

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Exactly what I was thinking.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (OgrpQ)

528 Like I've asserted before; Twitter could be run from my basement with a couple laptops, a server and the internet by me and my wife. And still only work 8 hours a week.

At the scale they're at you'd probably need a couple of AWS instances for servers, but yeah.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (ZGrMX)

529 They needed 7500 employees instead of 500 because 7000 were sick, on vacation, AWOL, or off on maternity leave.

Posted by: torabora at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (s+FHf)

530 The 3d quarter earnings reports are the last hurrah for a while, I think. The fundamental question of energy supply and demand has not been addressed. When the SPR runs dry and the foreign oil and gas producers squeeze us for the last nickel, then the real pain starts.

The Dems have grifted "Green Energy" for so long and so hard that there's not enough grift to go around.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (6eRlp)

531 526 "Now HR won't let them be fired for some time, fearing lawsuits. "

The executives tried that gambit by creating what they thought would be a poison pill. It they were fired it would end up costing Twitter over $50 million. Musk told them to get their shit and GTFO. I don't think he gives a shit who he fires.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (TbpGr)

========

He just spent $44 billion on a money losing piece of shit. I don't think he's broken up about spending another $50 million to get rid of the annoying shits who won't contribute.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

532 Personally, I think all blue-collar trades should have a week-long strike.

See how that works out.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (sH61M)

533 Now HR won't let them be fired for some time, fearing lawsuits.

Easy solution: fire HR.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (Ivdso)

534 Afternoon.

Do former Twatter employees know how to code already, or were they just paid to take meeting, map after lunch and behave like spoiled brats?

Posted by: Robert at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (1Yy3c)

535 "Well, I had to recently open a help desk ticket because of an issue with Microsoft D365 and PowerBI,"

365 is the devils work. It is the biggest piece of shit ever coded. Especially if you have Teams. It's Blue Screen hell every day.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (TbpGr)

536 I just found out from the media that I am responsible for the violent attacks by lefties.

Posted by: Climate of Hate at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (U4tGE)

537 @503

>>After conquering rivals like Lotus, WP, etc., Microsoft's culture has become Office is not done until it won't run.

I still run Lotus 123 in a VM, sometimes I want to see if I can dig up an old impact dot matrix printer and some form feed paper and print out some old spreadsheets and smoke some cigarettes and harass a secretary for old times sake.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (GgS0l)

538 So how long will it take to add an Edit button to Twitter? Like a day?

Posted by: Wally at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (FJYfm)

539 Go fuck your self is NOT a rape threat.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 28, 2022 01:55 PM (G7Xz7)

The only way Taylor Lorenz would have sex with Taylor Lorenz is through threat of violence so it sort of is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (z99Zw)

540 Posted by: the other coyote at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (0mN7F)

Demand re-instatement again.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (Z32m1)

541 Oh, even temping I did plenty work, but loved the perks at Chiat/Day advertising. Free breakfast donuts, coffee, bagels and schmere, a very good very cheap cafeteria. At Deutsch advertising they had free cocktails in the afternoon. Good times.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 28, 2022 02:27 PM (QqMaK)

Ad agency I worked at in the early 80s in Atlanta was similar. It was like real life Mad Men.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (ptqGC)

542 Due to staff shortages at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, surgeons had to be called in from Children's Hospital in Boston.

Paula Pelosi is doing fine and she sends her thanks for all of your well-wishes.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (lf83v)

543
I still run Lotus 123 in a VM, sometimes I want to see if I can dig up an old impact dot matrix printer and some form feed paper and print out some old spreadsheets and smoke some cigarettes and harass a secretary for old times sake.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (GgS0l)

That shit's funny right there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

544 Not a single twitterati was not at work because of required military service.

Posted by: torabora at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (s+FHf)

545 The only Sikhs I normally see are the ones working in liquor stores. That seems to be a thing with them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (T0qGO)

546 After some effort, I reached a responsive engineer at TI, to whom I explained that their cross-assembler for one of their uP's was producing the wrong object code.

'Not possible', he said, 'that has been in the field for over a year.'

An hour later, he called back, rather embarrassed. 'You're right'. I took the occasion to point out that I had interviewed with TI upon graduation, but was not offered a job.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (SbsCg)

I remember finding that out that a TI compiler was mangling up the code to call a function. 100 percent worthless and had to go back to the previous version.

Might have been the same one.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (eoQWY)

547 I don't see how twiter makes any money.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (sn5EN)

548 I might be misremembering, but isn't Taylor Lorenz from a filthy rich family? If so, you'd think she'd have better things to do with her time and money than to harasses little kids.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (BFigT)

549 I think I broke my pants.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 28, 2022 02:34 PM (TU8Tj)

550 spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

Posted by: x at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (ZC2go)

551 Microsoft's legacy:

Word Perfect was better than Word.
Quatro Pro was better than Excel.
Dbase was better than Access.

I hated to have had to change and learn inferior, much inferior, software to do business with my customers. Literally when doing simple tasks with this new software, employees knew not to come near the boss's office because of swearing and yelling.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (u4CEu)

552 Way I looked it up Tayor is like 38 or 39 now

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (xhxe8)

553 I hear a Rickenbacker and I dive for the Off Switch. I blame McGuinn.

*stink-eye* - Chris Squire

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (ZGrMX)

554 Go fuck your self is NOT a rape threat.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 28, 2022 01:55

Good point.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (eGTCV)

555 BTW, in case no one else has commented on this yet, the "fired data engineers" are fakes - crisis actors who suckered the reporter.

Posted by: can of spam at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (7oNMO)

556 @535

>>365 is the devils work. It is the biggest piece of shit ever coded. Especially if you have Teams. It's Blue Screen hell every day.

Yeah well, I used to have a proper ERP, Bill of Materials, Change Order and Reporting Management System then my company got bought out and this is the abomination they stuck us with.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (GgS0l)

557 I still run Lotus 123 in a VM, sometimes I want to see if I can dig up an old impact dot matrix printer and some form feed paper and print out some old spreadsheets and smoke some cigarettes and harass a secretary for old times sake.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Ah..., the good old days. One word: Okidata

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:35 PM (SbsCg)

558 I mean, there's a reason literally no big tech runs on Microsoft tech.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:31 PM (ZGrMX)

We're not exactly big tech, but they choose to use it and have constant headaches. You'd have to have an IT team on call, I would imagine, if you were to tie yourself to MSFT in any appreciable way.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (yHsuS)

559 @elonmusk

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (ZLI7S)

560 He just spent $44 billion on a money losing piece of shit. I don't think he's broken up about spending another $50 million to get rid of the annoying shits who won't contribute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

Their bennies and their toadies probably exceed that figure anyhow.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (eoQWY)

561 "I dont understand why a website needs employees at all.
>>I mean, put it on the server and forget about it.

Ah, the Ace of Spades business model."

Ah horse hockey.

Show me another site where the tech bubba spends three hours every morning on the site, interacting with the commenters?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (uLr+K)

562 bluebell, Dominque Strauss Kahn. He was head of the IMF.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (aRKFD)

563 I still have a Fujitsu DL2400 24-pin dot matrix printer. I bet it still works.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (6eRlp)

564 So how long will it take to add an Edit button to Twitter? Like a day?

Probably, but I think that goes against the idea behind Twitter being spontaneous and in the moment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:37 PM (Ivdso)

565 And my savings account pays .00000000000012 percent in interest.

Per year!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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90 day tbills are paying nearly 4 percent right now and TIPS inflation bonds are about 9 percent. Get your savings out of a bank if you don't need them immediately.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:37 PM (CXr4y)

566 Gina Carano is back on twitter. Here's Drunk3p0 talking about it.

https://youtu.be/cUZK9zmdc7U

She wasn't banned but she had gotten tired of twitter's bullshit. Apparently just her saying "hi" to people was worth giving people a warning about how dangerous she is.

Posted by: buzzion at October 28, 2022 02:37 PM (aRLgQ)

567 I'm hoping for a pistol range. I actually put that in as a suggestion.

That would be expensive. Backstop, ventilation, sound proofing, etc. A 10 meter air gun range would be easy and cheap. Even if you spring for the nice electronic scoring system.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2022 02:37 PM (nfrXX)

568
I hear a Rickenbacker and I dive for the Off Switch. I blame McGuinn.
Posted by: garrett

Fook off, wanker.

Posted by: Zombie Lemmy Kilmister at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (n+4am)

569 Oh, by the way...
Booger

Posted by: Dr Johnny Fever at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (vd8XM)

570 If you are here on an H1-B visa and are fired, how long before your visa expires? I’m thinking it might be difficult to get another job here during a recession.

Posted by: EveR at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (MUpk6)

571 Too bad that I can't power my car with a tankful of progressive tears.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (aoFfE)

572 Word Perfect was better than Word.
Quatro Pro was better than Excel.

True, but they did get better. Then, at least in the case of Word, got worse again. Adobe has followed a downward trend, now a bunch of their features don't even work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (Ivdso)

573 Life is seldom fair.

Posted by: To be fair and In fairness at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (Xrfse)

574 Get your savings out of a bank if you don't need them immediately.
______________

I know. My point is that the same bank that loans money for 8 percent only pays microscopic interest.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (lf83v)

575 The former Twats even though some may make 200K a year, are I am sure leveraged out to the max. They have no concept of delayed gratifications and any ability to wait until they can actually afford something but must have it NOW. The latest tech devices, clothes, high-end restaurant meals, apartments, homes, vacations, etc. Living in the Bay area just makes everything grossly at a higher cost and the bills are still going to come due. Tough. Some may learn a lesson from this but I have my doubts.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (oiNtH)

576 Oh, by the way...
Booger
Posted by: Dr Johnny Fever at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (vd8XM)

We've GOT BUSH!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

577 The left puts vast amounts of energy into making conservatives feel isolated. From using "extremists" to describe something 75% of the country agrees with to refusing to cover the March for Life or even acknowledge its existence.

That's why they hated Rush so much. He let us know that we weren't alone. And that's why they manipulate follower count and likes on Tweets.

The ending of that will be the most important change to Twitter.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (BJKQV)

578 Oh no. A washed up actor is leaving Twitter.

Ken Olin @kenolin1

Hey all -
I'm out of here. No judgement.
Let's keep the faith.
Let's protect our democracy.
Let's try to be kinder.
Let's try to save the planet.
Let's try to be more generous.
Let's look to find peace in the world.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (ptqGC)

579 I don't know if this has been said, but real "data engineers" aren't going to be fired, period. People who "engineer" the data will be.

Posted by: Lost My Cookies at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (/N8ur)

580 559 @elonmusk

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (ZLI7S)

Told y'all an African-American would show us what real diversity looks like.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (KbCG3)

581 If you are here on an H1-B visa and are fired, how long before your visa expires? I’m thinking it might be difficult to get another job here during a recession.

IIRC from a former coworker who got the ax in that situation it's 30 days.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (Bd6X8)

582 >>Fook off, wanker.
Posted by: Zombie Lemmy Kilmister at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (n+4am)

Guitar. Not Bass. You can't discern a Ric Bass.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (NP6dc)

583 Word Perfect was better than Word.
Quatro Pro was better than Excel.
Dbase was better than Access.

It's worth noting that Word and PowerPoint were both decent Mac programs that MS ruined.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (ZGrMX)

584 I still have a Fujitsu DL2400 24-pin dot matrix printer. I bet it still works.
Posted by: mrp
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*!*
Where do you get ink cartridges for that...oh, wait. Never mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (XnsY+)

585 Life is seldom fair.
___

It's never fair.

Just the way it is.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (sH61M)

586 I guess those Twatter employee babies' "We Demand..." letter went over about as well as old man gas in church.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (sVtYq)

587 And my savings account pays .00000000000012 percent in interest.

Damn what kind of super elite luxury bank are you at?

Just kidding, but yeah savings account rates are absolutely ridiculous and wrong. Banks make so much money and are penny pinchers to an excessive level.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (Ivdso)

588 If you are here on an H1-B visa and are fired, how long before your visa expires? I’m thinking it might be difficult to get another job here during a recession.
Posted by: EveR at October 28, 2022 02:38 PM (MUpk6)

Heh. Its not like they'll be asked to leave the country or anything......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

589 bluebell, Dominque Strauss Kahn. He was head of the IMF.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (aRKFD)
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That's it, thanks. I had gotten as far as Dominic someone or other but then I drew le blank.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (aeePL)

590 see sidebar, CNN now claiming David DePape believed in right wing conspiracy theories
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2022 02:03 PM (C1Zwz)

Born and raised in Powell River, B.C. A sleepy little mill town on the coast, and about as far north as you can go up the coast by road. And it takes two ferry rides to do that much. Sounds like he has been partly red-pilled. Most of us here would at least partly agree with his takes on Gerbil Worming, the Coof, and J6.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (b4+Jg)

591 I had an Okidata 9-pin DM printer. Built like a tank, ran like a charm.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (6eRlp)

592 Cannolli > Ken Olin

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (lf83v)

593 Ken Olin

Who?

No, really, who? This name is completely unfamiliar to me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (Ivdso)

594 Per story at TGP...

Okay, who had "Miss Universe pageant bought by Thai ladyboy" on their 2022 BINGO card?

Collect your winnings at the window.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (YJwUM)

595 Earlier today I considered posting, in jest, that Fox News projects Kelly wins over Masters. I decided not to, because those kind of jokes give me a little bit of a twitch immediately before I process fully. Today, however Fox News literally DID project Hobbs as winner over Lake, by 6%.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (UUCk+)

596 he just spent $44 billion on a money losing piece of shit. I don't think he's broken up about spending another $50 million to get rid of the annoying shits who won't contribute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

Won't Contribute? They will actively SABOTAGE Twitter just to get back at Musk. You thought Trump and the Deep State was a vicious cold war? Twitter would be a hot war of sabotage and harassment if Musk leaves those Twits in place. And they will gladly crow about their crimes too.

Musk locked all Twitter Engineers out of the Software at noon on Wednesday. He brought in Starlink, Tesla, and other Musk Companies Software Engineers in to ride heard on the Twitter Software. They are probably combing the code to see if there are any booby traps encoded into it right now.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (Z32m1)

597
dBase > Access

It didn't have to be that way.

Posted by: zombie FoxPro at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (a3Q+t)

598 My IRA lost over $3000 last quarter

but EVs for America's future, right

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (geLO8)

599 548 I might be misremembering, but isn't Taylor Lorenz from a filthy rich family? If so, you'd think she'd have better things to do with her time and money than to harasses little kids.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Those with generational wealth can be objectively evil people because they have the insulation by wealth from their actions.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (CXr4y)

600 I'll bet the Paul Pelosi thing is some kind of Dahmer/Victim CosPlay gone bad.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (qOuuc)

601 >>I mean, put it on the server and forget about it.

Ah, the Ace of Spades business model.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2022 02:25 PM (ZLI7S)

And the server is a 486.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (XIJ/X)

602 Ken Olin

Who?

No, really, who? This name is completely unfamiliar to me
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

*shrugs*
Some folks are more into Hollyweird than others.

Posted by: SMH at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (sH61M)

603 >>>Oh no. A washed up actor is leaving Twitter.

>>>Ken Olin

Who?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (yHsuS)

604 >>Dominque Strauss Kahn. He was head of the IMF.

That's the Guy!

Thanks.

Those Ace Threads were funny as fuck. Ace could most definitely resurrect that guy for a Taylor Lorenz Thread.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (NP6dc)

605 I wonder how many saw and will conclude race is over. Interesting "mistake" in the usual direction.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (UUCk+)

606 And my savings account pays .00000000000012 percent in interest.

Per year!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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90 day tbills are paying nearly 4 percent right now and TIPS inflation bonds are about 9 percent. Get your savings out of a bank if you don't need them immediately.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:37 PM (CX

And put it in another bank. My savings account is paying almost 2% . Still losing money because of inflation but its just one of the eggs in my basket.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (MxrV/)

607 *!*
Where do you get ink cartridges for that...oh, wait. Never mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (XnsY+)

I bet there's a Y tube video that explains how to restore old printer ribbons.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (6eRlp)

608 I looked up Ken Olin's body of work.

I'm still saying, "Who?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

609
And the server is a 486.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (XIJ/X)

8088 with the 12.5 Mhz Turbo option.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

610 I still run Lotus 123 in a VM, sometimes I want to see if I can dig up an old impact dot matrix printer and some form feed paper and print out some old spreadsheets and smoke some cigarettes and harass a secretary for old times sake.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2022 02:33 PM (GgS0l)

I have Lotus 123 running in an XP Virtual Box machine on my office desktop right now. I recently tossed a workhorse dot matrix from the 80's that would not die. Problem was the ink ribbons were getting crazy expensive and the Centronics connector. Simply not worth keeping in use anymore.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (e4GqK)

611 Nood

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (yHsuS)

612 They suspended me for calling Chuck Schumer a piece of shit, and saying he should fuck off and die, something the bluechecks say all the time about MAGA.

This was in May.

Since then, any time I click a link here at AOS that takes me to Twatter, I get the blocking message from them "you can remove your tweet" bullshit, and I ALWAYS renew the appeal and say, "first amendment bitches your bluechecks say that shit all the time."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (4ZE6o)

613 We're not exactly big tech, but they choose to use it and have constant headaches. You'd have to have an IT team on call, I would imagine, if you were to tie yourself to MSFT in any appreciable way.

Sure. I mean, everyone succumbs to Craptive Directory and SExchange eventually, but our actual product servers are Linux.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (ZGrMX)

614 Told y'all an African-American would show us what real diversity looks like.
Posted by: The Central Scrutini

I speak fluent ghetto. Can I help?

Posted by: Barbara Biilingsley at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (vd8XM)

615 Musk locked all Twitter Engineers out of the Software at noon on Wednesday. He brought in Starlink, Tesla, and other Musk Companies Software Engineers in to ride heard on the Twitter Software. They are probably combing the code to see if there are any booby traps encoded into it right now.
Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (Z32m1)

He had a lock on the codebase for months, since the deal was announced.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (eoQWY)

616 She has shepherded Twitter through some of its most contentious political battles, including the decisions to remove all political advertising and to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill

Chief dictator and censor cried, did she?

And Trump was suspended days after Biden stole the election, they only made it official on January 7th. And it wasn't an "attack" on Capitol Hill. How many ridiculous ways can this report be wrong or lying? Its like a clinic in bad, biased reporting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (Ivdso)

617 Peak Lena Olin >>>>>>>> Ken Olin

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (T0qGO)

618 Yeah, Ken Olin who?? I have never heard of him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (sVtYq)

619 Do you guys have any idea how many Rape Threats that ace gets each week?

The number is staggering.
Posted by: garrett

You only count as one per day not one every time you find a quarter in the sofa and up the bid.

Posted by: DaveA at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (FhXTo)

620 Just last week, Joey Biden hosted about twenty liberal twitterati in the WH.

They are freaking out on Twitter right now because they hate the right having freedom of speech, but can't leave because they are paid to tweet out whatever Joey's flying monkeys order them to.

It's hilarious.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (ptqGC)

621 I looked up Ken Olin's body of work.

I'm still saying, "Who?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

Best known as a Steven Spielberg lookalike.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (yHsuS)

622 >I looked up Ken Olin's body of work.

let's look up Lena Olin's body

Posted by: DB at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (geLO8)

623 I'm guessing that very soon 7000+ former twitter employees are going to be quite concerned with 12%+ inflation and 10% mortgage rates.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (u4CEu)

624 They are probably combing the code to see if there are any booby traps encoded into it right now.

I am certain they are finding back doors and traps galore.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (Ivdso)

625 And the server is a 486.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 28, 2022 02:41 PM (XIJ/X)

8088 with the 12.5 Mhz Turbo option.
_____________

You guys are the reason I can't sign onto AOL at 33 baud.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (lf83v)

626 Today, however Fox News literally DID project Hobbs as winner over Lake, by 6%.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (UUCk+)

In fair... no, fuck that shit. It was a Fox television station in Phoenix, not Fox News.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (AiZBA)

627
IIRC from a former coworker who got the ax in that situation it's 30 days.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (Bd6X

Just checked the Consular FAM, and that is correct. Do people overstay? Yep. That's what immigration lawyers are for. Big business and lobbying.

Posted by: Moki at October 28, 2022 02:44 PM (JrN/x)

628 Today, however Fox News literally DID project Hobbs as winner over Lake, by 6%.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM

Complete with vote counts for each. Strange that these "test" "errors" always favor the Democrat. Every single time.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 28, 2022 02:44 PM (YJwUM)

629 Word Perfect was better than Word.
Quatro Pro was better than Excel.
Dbase was better than Access.

It's worth noting that Word and PowerPoint were both decent Mac programs that MS ruined.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:39 PM (ZGrMX)

In the 1980's I ran everything with Borland SW. It worked.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:44 PM (Z32m1)

630 >>>Oh no. A washed up actor is leaving Twitter.

>>>Ken Olin

Ha! The ego of that guy to think people are listening to him for political advice!

Posted by: That Guy from Star Trek at October 28, 2022 02:44 PM (FJYfm)

631 547 I don't see how twiter makes any money.
-----------------
All media is a protection/extortion racket. You make money providing protection or practicing extortion. Its pretty simple.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 28, 2022 02:44 PM (fWTJL)

632 570 If you are here on an H1-B visa and are fired, how long before your visa expires? I’m thinking it might be difficult to get another job here during a recession.
Posted by: EveR
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Those are tied to the employer that sponsors you. I think in effect they have to go back but in reality find some other sponsor or become an illegal.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (CXr4y)

633 Watch the "a day in the life of a Twitter employee" and realize that women have taken over the world without firing a shot. Don't worry the barbarians are beginning to pound on the gates so it's only a matter of time now.

Posted by: DFCtomm at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (OHy0b)

634 Taylor Lorenz's snizz looks like a day old cinnamon roll... heavy on the frosting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (u4CEu)

635 -
Dominque Strauss Kahn

Is that pronounced Da Minkey?

Posted by: irright at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (SchQD)

636 Oh, yeah, forgot about the "demands letter" from the Twitter employees.

HHAHAHHAAHAHHAAHA

Dumbasses.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (DcKNO)

637 Irony of ironies - I referred to JoJo from Jerz as a bimbo and got a permanent ban (under appeal) on 'liberation day.' I've said and done much worse. Not necessarily proud but something is still rotten inside.

Posted by: Patchy at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (I/Pe0)

638 In the 1980's I ran everything with Borland SW. It worked.

I'm not that 29, but I ran everything on Watcom C/C++ in the 90s (plus SoftICE for a debugger) and it worked.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (ZGrMX)

639 Chief dictator and censor cried, did she?

And Trump was suspended days after Biden stole the election, they only made it official on January 7th. And it wasn't an "attack" on Capitol Hill. How many ridiculous ways can this report be wrong or lying? Its like a clinic in bad, biased reporting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
---------------------
Quite literally a cry bully.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:46 PM (CXr4y)

640 Well, this does explain why the drug zombies wandering the streets in Philly supposedly vote at an absurdly high rate and always for Democrats.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (ESjRY)

Given that places like Philly report 160% turnout, I don't know why they bother.

Remember the 2016 audit in Detroit that got canceled when they started opening boxes that claimed to contain several hundred votes for Hillary but only had about a dozen ballots?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:46 PM (z99Zw)

641 Olin was in the cast of 30 something for a frame of reference on his important work. When was that? The '80's?

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2022 02:47 PM (oiNtH)

642 I can't help but notice a lot of Indian-American execs are big on the woke totalitarian BS. Trying to implement a caste system here or something?
Posted by: weew at October 28, 2022 02:06 PM (+m+uH)

They all went to university, got fed all that information, and have a history of caste that justified why that information is valid, and that information tells them that their preconceived values on caste are valid/

It is hard to break out of a logic trap like that. Especially when they live in a Wealthy Western city that has homeless sleeping on the street just like the bad old days back home.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2022 02:47 PM (xhaym)

643 In the 1980's I ran everything with Borland SW. It worked.

I'm not that 29, but I ran everything on Watcom C/C++ in the 90s (plus SoftICE for a debugger) and it worked.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 28, 2022 02:45 PM (ZGrMX)

Mem'ries, like the pounding in my mind.
Misty mountain colored sunsets,
ease my sore behind.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:48 PM (AiZBA)

644 I like the part where you tell software engineers to learn to code

Posted by: MikeD at October 28, 2022 02:49 PM (EhFM4)

645 I have been enjoying the liberal tears and hope the Biden DOJ doesn't enforce their misinformation rules and stop the free speech.

I've also seen interesting articles linked on Insty about plans to create a youtube rival (how nice would it be for demonitized conservatives to have a place too?).

Posted by: Iris at October 28, 2022 02:49 PM (foa6+)

646 And put it in another bank. My savings account is paying almost 2% . Still losing money because of inflation but its just one of the eggs in my basket.
Posted by: polynikes
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For the most part, putting them into very short term fed securities is what banks do and they make money off the rate differences. That is why banks will always be inferior in yield to t bills.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2022 02:50 PM (CXr4y)

647 Learn to Sew

Posted by: Paco Pacem at October 28, 2022 02:50 PM (9j9ti)

648 Musk locked all Twitter Engineers out of the Software at noon on Wednesday. He brought in Starlink, Tesla, and other Musk Companies Software Engineers in to ride heard on the Twitter Software. They are probably combing the code to see if there are any booby traps encoded into it right now.
Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (Z32m1)

He had a lock on the codebase for months, since the deal was announced.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2022 02:42 PM (eoQWY)

For the True Believers, rules and regulations with the Devil aren't enforceable. Double and triple check and assume that you didn't catch them all.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:50 PM (6eRlp)

649 Could be worse. In Canada they do not have 30 year fixed rate mortgages. Weird huh? Imagine having a 3 or 5 year variable mortgage?

Canadians are seeing monthly mortgage payments go from
Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:08 PM (Z32m1)

Back when I had a mortgage, I could choose fixed or variable rate. I chose fixed, and it is now long since paid off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2022 02:51 PM (b4+Jg)

650 "I don't understand putting your business headquarters in San Francisco."

If nobody else said it...

Elon just finished building a MASSIVE building east of 130 in Austin, I believe to make those tonka trucks of his.

Thinking he'll have the room to move twattie over there, no problem.

Posted by: Box Culvert, aboard the banana boat to chaos town. at October 28, 2022 02:51 PM (fynqA)

651 @160 --

Not often I laugh out loud at an online comment, but that one did it!

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 28, 2022 02:51 PM (L1gyN)

652 Today, however Fox News literally DID project Hobbs as winner over Lake, by 6%.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 28, 2022 02:40 PM (UUCk+)

In fair... no, fuck that shit. It was a Fox television station in Phoenix, not Fox News.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (AiZBA)

It was a test AP Election Package. What I do not understand is why they do not Code a Big Red "TEST" over the graphics.

When I worked the emergency drills, we had it drilled into us to say "This is a Drill" before and after every message we said over the phone to our drill counterparts in the next facility, much less if we were talking in a room. You would say this is a drill about 300-500 times in every drill, and stamp 20-50 papers with a big RED "This is a Drill" Ink Stamp. Which was a great way to relieve frustrations about accidents caused by "Loss of Gravity" "The River Dried Up" and equally bogus conditions.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 02:51 PM (Z32m1)

653 My first personal/business computer was a Kaypro 4 with dual 5 1/4 DSDD and 8 megabytes of memory that was turbocharged. I wrote many business proposals and machine quotes on that thing. Finally gave it to one of my software consultants for his "museum." Wish I had kept that big beautiful boat anchor.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 28, 2022 02:51 PM (u4CEu)

654 Hiya Moki !

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2022 02:52 PM (T4tVD)

655 Well, this does explain why the drug zombies wandering the streets in Philly supposedly vote at an absurdly high rate and always for Democrats.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2022 02:43 PM (ESjRY)

Given that places like Philly report 160% turnout, I don't know why they bother.

Remember the 2016 audit in Detroit that got canceled when they started opening boxes that claimed to contain several hundred votes for Hillary but only had about a dozen ballots?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 28, 2022 02:46 PM (z99Zw)

A good state election department would set a goal to audit 5-10% of the entire state on a rotating basis, and the legislature would fund it too. It would give them something to do in between election seasons. Do 10% of "LG City", 10% of "other 25 Cities," 10% of "Sml Towns" and 10% of Rural Townships. Audit every thing from Voter Rolls, to ballot logs to ballots, to recorded and reported results. Repeat every year.

Posted by: rd at October 28, 2022 03:01 PM (Z32m1)

656 If Taylor Lorenz is getting threats of violence in her DMs, why does she think those are now unpunishable?

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at October 28, 2022 03:10 PM (31l4A)

657 Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Yummy!

Posted by: bearski at October 28, 2022 03:14 PM (Bhsk7)

658 I joined yesterday first time ever. I wonder how many millions of people are going to join

Posted by: Joe Fingerblaster at October 28, 2022 03:16 PM (W+TLY)

659 I just don't get the whole twater thing it seems pretty much worthless to normal people. And he's gonna let the muskmobile people mess with it? It will crash & burn shortly. But whatever, I really don't care.

Posted by: Bob at October 28, 2022 03:19 PM (vHUcF)

660 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to learn to code.

Cruel ace is best ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2022 03:25 PM (Wnv9h)

661

I still have a Fujitsu DL2400 24-pin dot matrix printer. I bet it still works.
Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2022 02:36 PM (6eRlp)

I loved dot matrix printers! They were quite versatile, considering they were technologically on par with my 10 MB hard drive.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 28, 2022 03:32 PM (CCf67)

662

If Taylor Lorenz is getting threats of violence in her DMs, why does she think those are now unpunishable?
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at October 28, 2022 03:10 PM (31l4A)

She's getting DM's?

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 28, 2022 03:34 PM (CCf67)

663 Being laid-off hurts. I spent 8 months in 2009, 2 months in 2011, 9 months in 2012, 6 months in 2018, and 9 months in 2019 looking for work.

The last 15 months was while paying for followup visits after major cancer treatments (chemo, radiation, surgery). I had companies ghost me, a recruiter die, a company hire me and then not provide a start date (they rescinded the offer 24 months later), and yeah, unemployment doesn't last that long.

God carried me, in spite of myself.

I feel compassion for those folks. Maybe they can learn to code like they told other folks to do? I heard Python is popular.

Posted by: setnaffa at October 28, 2022 03:48 PM (bYETr)

664 Twitter Bird cleans his cage of all the vermin and filth

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 28, 2022 06:29 PM (wGqjj)

665 Hahaha I love how invested y'all are in this. Like a bunch of losers on the playground always got picked last.

Fucking weirdos.

Seriously dude just grow up. Tesla daddy isn't gonna make it better. He's gonna make fools our of you.

100% guarantee you'll be more butthurt than ever one year from now.

Enjoy your lil Tweety playground, boys!

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