The Daily Wire Takes Up Elon Musk's Offer to Use Twitter As if It is a Free Speech Platform and Exhibit the Film <i>What Is a Woman?</i> -- But Twitter Employees Demand the Film be Censored, or Face Being Labeled "Hate Speech" and Shadowbanned

The Daily Wire Takes Up Elon Musk's Offer to Use Twitter As if It is a Free Speech Platform and Exhibit the Film What Is a Woman? -- But Twitter Employees Demand the Film be Censored, or Face Being Labeled "Hate Speech" and Shadowbanned

Shadowbanned, again. Seems like old times.

Jeremy Boreing
@JeremyDBoreing
Twitter canceled a deal with @realdailywire to premiere What is a Woman? for free on the platform because of two instances of "misgendering."
I'm not kidding.
Here's what happened:
2/16 One year ago today, we released What is a Woman?. To celebrate the occasion and expand the movie's already enormous impact, we decided to give it away for free for 24 hours on Twitter.
3/16 With Twitter's recent commitments to free speech, we thought it would be the perfect place to distribute the film and drive the conversation forward on one of the most important topics of our day.
4/16 Twitter responded with enthusiasm and offered us the opportunity to buy a package to host the movie on a dedicated event page and to promote the event to every Twitter user over the first 10 hours.
5/16 We accepted and signed an agreement. After we signed, Twitter asked to see the film to better understand what parts may "trigger" users, so they could better prepare their response. They said they were still all hands on deck for launch, so we sent them a screener.
6/16 After reviewing the film, though, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as "hateful conduct" because of "misgendering."
7/16 Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as "her," and a store owner uses the "wrong" pronoun in a confrontation with a trans person.
8/16 We reminded Twitter they removed "misgendering" from their policy, that the term "misgendering" itself is misleading, and that enforcing such a policy places them on the side of the most radical elements in society - the side most opposed to their commitment to free speech.
9/16 Twitter clarified they only removed "misgendering" from their policy because they didn't need to be that specific, but that they still consider "misgendering" abuse and harassment.
They gave us the opportunity to edit the film to comply.
We declined.
10/16 When we asked how much they would limit the visibility if we posted the film anyway, Twitter replied that our own followers would not be able to see it in their feeds. This, they said, is part of their "speech not reach" policy.
11/16 Of course, saying "you have the right to speak, but we'll make sure no one hears you" is a bit like saying "you have the right to cast a vote, but we'll make sure it isn't counted." That's not a right at all!
12/16 We brought all our shows to Twitter Tuesday because we believed Twitter was committed to free speech, especially on this issue.
After all, the @TheBabylonBee was silenced on Twitter over this very issue, and that in part prompted @elonmusk to purchase the platform.
13/16 The other tech platforms have already decided where they stand in the trans debate and demonetize and deprioritize all those who disagree.
Now, Twitter has joined the ranks of the other tech superpowers in ensuring one side of the debate is suppressed.
14/16 @elonmusk is not beholden to conservatives. He has the right to run his business as he sees fit. But if Twitter is going to throttle one side of one of the most important debates facing society, it cannot claim to champion free speech.

In the video below the fold, Matt Walsh says that Twitter representatives conceded that the ban on "misgendering" had been struck from Twitter's rules -- but they had only removed the clear banning of "misgendering." They still enforced the rule of misgendering, only secretly, without alerting anyone to the practice!

So that's what "free speech" looks like -- we'll just lie to you about the reasons you're being censored and throttled.

Many people who have signed up for the "Twitter Blue" service at $8 per month, or even the corporate service for a higher cost, threatened to cancel their subscriptions if Elon Musk did not fix this.

Elon Musk said this was a mistake:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
This was a mistake by many people at Twitter. It is definitely allowed.
Whether or not you agree with using someone's preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.
I should note that I do personally use someone's preferred pronouns, just as I use someone's preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners.
However, for the same reason, I object to rude behavior, ostracism or threats of violence if the wrong pronoun or name is used.

However, the minute the exhibition of the movie started, Twitter slapped a hateful content warning and announced that visibility would be "limited" -- throttled, shadowbanned, with people prevented from finding it (I couldn't find it when I searched for it, intending to watch it.

Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Our film got 3500 retweets in two minutes and then Twitter flagged it as hate speech and shut down retweets. They are terrified of this film.

A report from FilmLadd: Musk was part of the decision to censor the movie. He was in a Twitter spaces (a Zoom call, basically) with Jeremy Boering, and Musk gave the order to throttle the movie and label it hate speech.

FilmLadd
@FilmLadd

Woah! @JeremyDBoreing says in a twitter space that the @Twitter people who cancelled Daily Wire's #WhatIsAWoman said @ElonMusk was in the room and approved of the cancellation

She resigned, huh? I assume she resigned because even allowing the movie to run was a violation of her leftist principles.

Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer. Maybe he had to sign away any rights to manage the company to get loans or something.

Whatever the story, it appears that Twitter is enemy comms and always will be -- and Elon Musk paid $44 billion for nothing. (It's now said to be worth one third that, thanks to advertiser boycotts.)

Sean Davis predicted this back in March, when Elon Musk continued peddling the censors' line that "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of reach" -- in other words, shadowbanning and throttling doesn't count as censorship, and Twitter will continue using these methods to stifle conservative speech.

And that, as they say, is that.

Update: Maybe that's not that. Taq says Elon Musk himself tweeted out the link, which exposed it to, who knows, 100 million people?

Ace, regarding the sidebar story claiming Musk -- himself -- is shadowbanning and otherwise stifling Matt Walsh's movie:
https://is.gd/UGSdlh
"Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Every parent should watch this"
Retweets Daily Wire and embeds the whole movie. And since it's a Musk tweet it's gone even more viral than before. It looks to me like Musk is doing this as an end-run to get around the restrictions his handlers -- not him -- have imposed.
I don't know what else could explain what he just did here, other than he's not really in charge at the back end. Same folks as before are pulling those levers.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

@elonmusk reveals he’s still uncovering hidden censorship layers in Twitter’s code. pic.twitter.com/b4B1oBiSZU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 31, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

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1 Ace, regarding the sidebar story claiming Musk -- himself -- is shadowbanning and otherwise stifling Matt Walsh's movie:

https://is.gd/UGSdlh

"Elon Musk

@elonmusk
Every parent should watch this"

Retweets Daily Wire and embeds the whole movie. And since it's a Musk tweet it's gone even more viral than before. It looks to me like Musk is doing this as an end-run to get around the restrictions his handlers -- not him -- have imposed.

I don't know what else could explain what he just did here, other than he's not really in charge at the back end. Same folks as before are pulling those levers.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:03 PM (iKBwy)

2 It's going to take a long time to get the anti-Constitutionalists out of Twitter.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 02:04 PM (17s+e)

3 When I looked at it earlier today, it had retweets and stuff and no message about limited visibility.

I dunno.

But the Pritzkers are rich, and they will turn your children into freaks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

4 To be absolutely clear, the movie DID air on Twitter, but you had to find it yourself, you could not like, retweet or comment. I watched the whole thing there, for the second time, and I still recommend it.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:05 PM (MvF+J)

5 Yeah sidebar is misleading, this isn't Musk, its rebel elements in Twitter that he hasn't cleared out yet flexing and trying to stop facts and sanity from reaching people

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:05 PM (0hOvj)

6 I just started it ... there was a brief black box warning too quick for me to read

which is annoying but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up on NeoTwitter over it.

they'll learn ... hopefully

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (w0NJk)

7 I think I'm going to wait a bit before concluding that Elon is helpless or on the other side. No, I don't know what's going on here.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (eOEVl)

8 thanks, Taq, I added that.

Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (KRtlO)

9 So are there any civil rights left? I asking for a friend.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (NsE9F)

10 Speech Not Reach is *fabulously* leftist blather

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (+9oO3)

11 "I should note that I do personally use someone�s preferred pronouns, just as I use someone�s preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners."

What does he call Xi while he sucking his dick?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (to8pj)

12 I don't know what else could explain what he just did here, other than he's not really in charge at the back end. Same folks as before are pulling those levers.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:03 PM (iKBwy)

That means there's some very serious backdoor power plays going on here, and it's coming from people that are too key to the operation for Musk to be able to fire. So he has to find ways to work around them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (i9ffA)

13 I just shared and tweeted and quote tweeted it with no problem

it shows up on the main page with "what's trending" also

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:07 PM (w0NJk)

14 Yeah, right now it has 67,000 retweets. It does seem like the throttling was pulled a while ago.

Also, 46.7 million views.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

15 7 I think I'm going to wait a bit before concluding that Elon is helpless or on the other side. No, I don't know what's going on here.

yeah he's trying

there's a learning curve plus it's hard to hurt your Gay and Lesbian friends and family - even tho you aren't! you are helping! the other letters are screwing everything up for them even more than other people!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:08 PM (w0NJk)

16 I've seen all of Daily Wire's feature films, I think, and "What Is A Woman" is by far the best of the bunch.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:08 PM (MvF+J)

17 Just as frame of reference, the 46.7 million people who have seen What is a Woman on Twitter is just under half of the people who watched the MASH finale, 10 times more than some of FoxNews' best nights, and 100 times CNN's regular ratings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:08 PM (LvTSG)

18 If you are allowed to say whatever you want but you are put on an ice floe in the Arctic, is it really free speech?

Posted by: huerfano at June 02, 2023 02:09 PM (7zEAH)

19 So that's what "free speech" looks like -- we'll just lie to you about the reasons you're being censored and throttled.
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Yup. Par for the course. "We don't censor" just means "we don't tell you about censorship."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:09 PM (DU+/6)

20 Elon Musk said this was a mistake:

Elon Musk is a smart dude. But he's blind in the same way Trump is, and many others are. Just because he's "in charge", doesn't mean he's really in charge. And he seems to not understand that.

If Musk really wants to be in charge, at Twitter ? Gotta' have a purge. All through the ranks - as far down as he can see. Even if you lose a few loyalists along the way.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:09 PM (sQh5T)

21 "yeah he's trying"

Where does he find the time? He's got so many businesses, and a whole bunch of kids to father too.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:09 PM (MvF+J)

22 That means there's some very serious backdoor power plays going on here, and it's coming from people that are too key to the operation for Musk to be able to fire. So he has to find ways to work around them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (i9ffA)
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If that's the case, then at least one of those people should be fired, publicly, with great fanfare. As a warning to everyone else that they are *not* indispensable to Twitter.

If Twitter goes dark for a few months until they find a replacement, then that's also a stark message to the world.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (YIVH2)

23
I have a feeling Musk decides which way the wind is blowing then leans into it.

I personally don't give a shit about rudeness or not hurting someone's feelings if I don't commit to their personal pronouns or gender bullshit.

I would go to my grave before I would tell a 68 pound Karen Carpenter she 'looked fat' just as to not hurt her feelings or be perceived as 'rude'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (enJYY)

24 I finally watched it this morning because I saw it in the side bar. Excellent film - thanks for putting it up there.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (0vhnj)

25 Thanks, Ace.

It's cool that he himself tweeted it. I found it because, since it's a Musk tweet, it gets put right up at the top under the "More Tweets" section. It looks like he's almost daring his handlers to deboost or otherwise hide his tweets, and so far they haven't.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (iKBwy)

26 Elon Musk is a smart dude. But he's blind in the same way Trump is, and many others are. Just because he's "in charge", doesn't mean he's really in charge. And he seems to not understand that.

this is a very common CEO problem

also the loyalty thing - all CEOs have this, and you have to understand why, but it's for sure a blind spot (sometimes). not sure how you move quickly as they like to do without it tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (w0NJk)

27 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (T4tVD)

28 Ace, regarding the sidebar story claiming Musk -- himself -- is shadowbanning and otherwise stifling Matt Walsh's movie:
https://is.gd/UGSdlh

========

Theory: Musk's short term solution for the throttling was just to promote it himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

29 Not a big fan of Matt Walsh on everything, but some of the Self owns he captured in this Film are just glorious.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (7NAVD)

30 If that's the case, then at least one of those people should be fired, publicly, with great fanfare. As a warning to everyone else that they are *not* indispensable to Twitter.

one of the head fat bishes in the T&S Dept quit because of this

that's how you win by "losing"!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (w0NJk)

31 "Also, 46.7 million views."

That, gentlemen, is a milestone in media history, if true.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (MvF+J)

32 I had no problem bringing it up this morning from a retweet by Elon. Didn't have a hour and a half to watch it but it loaded right up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (ouTlx)

33 MST3K was almost as prescient on the coming trans tyranny as Monty Python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CvTlQSrYY

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (9yUzE)

34 Why are they so afraid of this movie? Oh yea . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

35 Musk quickly and ruthlessly slashed all the personnel who weren't essential to operations. The problem he's got now is, what do you do when employees who ARE essential to our operations are insubordinate? You have to deal with them, but it takes time and careful planning if you don't want to blow your business up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (i9ffA)

36 Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer. Maybe he had to sign away any rights to manage the company to get loans or something.
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Maybe "all of the above." Or maybe it's more like, "he's in charge but the word came down from on high that if he doesn't play ball with Twitter, his other ventures will be either cut off from any and all government contracts (SpaceX), government approvals (SpaceX, Tesla) and interfered with until they become loss-making enterprises that destroy his capital (all of them)."

The latter would be my immediate first guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:12 PM (DU+/6)

37 31 "Also, 46.7 million views."

That, gentlemen, is a milestone in media history, if true.
Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (MvF+J)

========

Tucker Carlson's Twitter video where he details how the media lies to its audience has about 130 million views.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:12 PM (LvTSG)

38 35 Musk quickly and ruthlessly slashed all the personnel who weren't essential to operations. The problem he's got now is, what do you do when employees who ARE essential to our operations are insubordinate? You have to deal with them, but it takes time and careful planning if you don't want to blow your business up.

plus he PROBABLY doesn't want to just fire ALL the women...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:12 PM (w0NJk)

39 That means there's some very serious backdoor power plays going on here, and it's coming from people that are too key to the operation for Musk to be able to fire. So he has to find ways to work around them. Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (i9ffA)

Yup. I think there is probably something in the code that can't easily be worked around and that is known to only a few people, so Musk had to bypass the original tweet himself to override the shadow ban.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM (7B5FA)

40 "Not a big fan of Matt Walsh on everything, but some of the Self owns he captured in this Film are just glorious."

He lets the 'experts' boil themselves in their own foul gibberish. It's must-see.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM (MvF+J)

41 You know who else doesn't tolerate the trans freaks? The CCP that's who. Musk is Xi's front pocket.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM (to8pj)

42 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

43 Who the fuck knows what's actually going on there. It's good to see the film has a solid number of views. Walsh & Co. are really carrying the load on countering the transgender cult.

Posted by: Never thought I'd see the day when sexual mutilation was promoted in schools at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM (fiChp)

44 Whatever the story, it appears that Twitter is enemy comms and always will be -- and Elon Musk paid $44 billion for nothing. (It's now said to be worth one third that, thanks to advertiser boycotts.)

***

Or more likely it's now showing what it's actually worth. With all the shenanigans going on there, I seriously doubt the financials around that company were remotely accurate.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (wb1YC)

45 I could see it coming Musk was going to get rolled by Marxist employees he didn't get rid of.

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (A3bNj)

46 But trust Musk. He takes billions in tax money to build things.

He's a patriot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

47 I don't know what else could explain what he just did here, other than he's not really in charge at the back end. Same folks as before are pulling those levers.
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I see two possibilities on this:
1. There is wild insubordination within some bureaus at Twitter
2. Musk is bowing to pressure (restricting it), then bowing to pressure again by end-running those restrictions, leaving everybody confused.

If it's the former, there's some hope for improvement since Musk is pretty damn ruthless about firing people. If it's the latter, then it is what it is and Twitter 2.0 is a bit better than Twitter 1.0, but starting its slide backward.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (DU+/6)

48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

49 Speech Not Reach.

That's like the Pro Life Left's take on that particular right.

An unwanted baby has the Right to Life. It can live in a bucket in a hospital closet without a blanket or food for as long as it wants.

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (+9oO3)

50 "Tucker Carlson's Twitter video where he details how the media lies to its audience has about 130 million views."

What's the record for a feature film?

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (MvF+J)

51 plus he PROBABLY doesn't want to just fire ALL the women...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:12 PM (w0NJk)

what he needs to do is move it out of San Fran and to someplace like Lubbock or Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and then demand that every employee relocate there. That would get rid of most of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (i9ffA)

52 I am totally for "Visibility Limited" under this caveat:

Those accounts that specify their pronouns have their ability to view this "Hateful Conduct" restricted.

This is playing by their rules where they provide continued hateful and depraved conduct and scream at us to "change the channel" or "go somewhere else" if we don't like it.

I say that is good advice, they should take it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (YXHzG)

53 Just as frame of reference, the 46.7 million people who have seen What is a Woman on Twitter is just under half of the people who watched the MASH finale, 10 times more than some of FoxNews' best nights, and 100 times CNN's regular ratings.

It got a ton of views on Daily Wire and on Youtube when it was free as well.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (0hOvj)

54 23 Poor Karen Carpenter. That still breaks my heart. Such a lovely voice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (f800v)

55 But trust Musk. He takes billions in tax money to build things.

He's a patriot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Now you really *are* dipping into my shtick 😀

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (+9oO3)

56 And Daily Wire still has a retweet with the link to the movie.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 02:16 PM (ouTlx)

57 I could see it coming Musk was going to get rolled by Marxist employees he didn't get rid of.

As many as possible are staying under cover in Twitter for just this kind of moment, and for things like the 2024 election season.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:16 PM (0hOvj)

58 Elon just needs to find a few key people for Twitter that has a direct line to various conservative outlets that can alert him to all of this.

Elon cant be the only guy in the whole organization committed to this. he's spread too thin.

Moving Twitter out of San Fran would flush a lot of the turds out. Its not like you need to be in the Bay Area to run a business like this.

Posted by: Kukui at June 02, 2023 02:16 PM (uMFis)

59 also the loyalty thing - all CEOs have this, and you have to understand why, but it's for sure a blind spot (sometimes). not sure how you move quickly as they like to do without it tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (w0NJk)

The only guy I ever saw, in my corporate time, that seemed to get it was Jack Welch. Neutron Jack - as my Union Dad always called him. But Welch got a couple things right. He was always trying to bust GE into smaller entities - because he saw they got too big to be efficient. He was trying to short-circuit the end game of true capitalism where companies do well, grow, get fat, then die.

Jack Welch, of course, did not satisfy the wants of my Union Dad. Because Dad's dreams consisted entirely of getting that "great job" - then holding onto it for forty years. Kinda' like being a willing host for a parasite. Dad never figured out that everybody is trying to get more out of you than they give you.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (sQh5T)

60 Theory: Musk's short term solution for the throttling was just to promote it himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

Seems legit

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (JkGh+)

61 But trust Musk. He takes billions in tax money to build things.

He's a patriot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Now you really *are* dipping into my shtick 😀
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (+9oO3)

=====

That sounds gay.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (DRSnL)

62 Whether or not you agree with using someone�s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.

I should note that I do personally use someone�s preferred pronouns, just as I use someone�s preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners.

However, for the same reason, I object to rude behavior, ostracism or threats of violence if the wrong pronoun or name is used.

Again, when did catering to and promoting a mental condition become a valid treatment for said mental condition?

How long until we start celebrating schizophrenic's and multiple personalities?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

63 Not for nothing but I believe the government of Turkey told Twitter they needed to ban a few accounts, including one of Enes Kanter Freedom, a former NBA player, or Turkey would cut Twitter off within the country.

Twitter banned Kanter.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (KbCG3)

64 I am totally for "Visibility Limited" under this caveat:

Those accounts that specify their pronouns have their ability to view this "Hateful Conduct" restricted. ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (YXHzG)
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This is akin to how I think Twitter should go about handling the EU demands that it engage in state-mandated censorship. I would do so through absolutely malicious compliance. If there's something that would have to be censored under EU law, censor it for EU users. Instead of showing the user what he wanted to see, replace it with a message like, "The government of the European Union has determined that its subjects are unfit to view the requested content and it has been censored in accordance EU law. If your government's contempt for you offends you, click here to learn how to petition your MEP and associated offices. You can also click here to find out about VPN services terminating outside of EU territories."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (DU+/6)

65 Who are these advertisers who hate free speech?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (63Dwl)

66 I don't have a twitter account but when I went to twitter to see if I could find the movie it was literally pinned to the top.

It's pretty good, btw.

Posted by: MJ at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (zwDuR)

67 For experienced scotch drinkers only.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

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I tried Ardbeg. I felt it first in my knees - they buckled a bit. Woof. Like drinking a burning tire!

It is, as you say, not for the casual scotch drinker!

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (eSg7d)

68 >>How long until we start celebrating schizophrenic's and multiple personalities?

TikTok is Waaaay ahead of you.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (7NAVD)

69 33 MST3K was almost as prescient on the coming trans tyranny as Monty Python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CvTlQSrYY
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 02, 2023 02:11 PM (9yUzE)

"How do I treat a woman?"

With Thorazine.

Posted by: Or risperidone in the less severe cases at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (fiChp)

70
He lets the 'experts' boil themselves in their own foul gibberish. It's must-see.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:13 PM

After the first interview I had to turn it off. Not that others shouldn't watch it. But if you've ever cut down trees, the beginning of an hour long 'greatest hits' YouTube video of people cutting down trees and destroying their own homes in the process you know you don't wanna keep watching.

You can rebuild a home. Genitalia not so much.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (enJYY)

71 Not going to watch What is a Woman, no matter the venue - although I will try to up the view count however I can.

I don't need to watch it. During my life experience, I have definitively learned what a woman is.

Using the criteria I have developed is pretty foolproof.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (qoGsy)

72 Elon just needs to find a few key people for Twitter that has a direct line to various conservative outlets that can alert him to all of this. ...
Posted by: Kukui at June 02, 2023 02:16 PM (uMFis)
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Unless Boering is to be believed, in which case Musk himself gave the okay to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (DU+/6)

73 ...Twitter's is now a former head of trust and safety...

***

I knew what Ella Irwin was going to look like even before I saw her picture online.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (wb1YC)

74 Whether or not you agree with using someone�s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.

Its rude of them to insist on calling them something they are not. If I am a man and I insist you call me a cat, that's on me, not you.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (0hOvj)

75 What Taq said and what Tom Servo said.

Musk laid out the policy. It should be viewed by followers. But not propagated inorganically or attended by advertisement. I'm assuming that the intent includes follower's followers because in principle it reduces to the explicitly allowed case. Searchability wasn't spoken too but to me that's not important because you can follow the source.

It's a middle ground at the of the day we need the ads to subsidize the speech and organic reach is all we can really demand in the name free speech and organic reach is sufficient as long as right wing accounts are allowed to build followings, which they largely have of late.

I actually find Elon's response (see taq above) extremely encouraging. I can't judge the execution but will extend benefit of the doubt in line with Tom Servo above.

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (+EnXD)

76 If you think Elon is not serious about restricting gender reassignment surgery to adults, you don't follow what he's said publicly. He is strongly against it although he says adults can do what they want.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (ouTlx)

77 I don't need to watch it. During my life experience, I have definitively learned what a woman is.

Using the criteria I have developed is pretty foolproof.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:19 PM (qoGsy)
++++
Me, too. If the person grimaces, backs away, starts retching and then turns and runs immediately upon encountering me, that person is a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

78 The call is coming from inside the house!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (Jh1DM)

79 48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

If you like the flavor of seawater, iodine, and burnt Bandaids, sure.

Posted by: That shit is NASTY at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (fiChp)

80
Now you really *are* dipping into my shtick 😀
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:15 PM (+9oO3)

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That sounds gay.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (DRSnL)

I had nothing to do with it. I'm a victim of circumstance!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

81 >>I don't need to watch it. During my life experience, I have definitively learned what a woman is.

They are the ones who always Pepper Spray you!

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (7NAVD)

82 79 48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

If you like the flavor of seawater, iodine, and burnt Bandaids, sure.
Posted by: That shit is NASTY at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (fiChp)

========

Don't insult our burned mud water!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (LvTSG)

83 looked it up thanks to Black Orchid's comment: from Axios

"Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned Thursday evening, per multiple sources, after owner Elon Musk publicly rebuked his own staff over a content moderation decision."

This looks like the "big firing" that we were talking about. At this level, it's usually done as a resignation, when it's clear that that the Boss no longer has any confidence in you and is going to countermand everythig you do. She was the one who took over this position from Yoel Roth, so she was pretty high up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (i9ffA)

84 48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

That's my dream team, there.

Fun fact: my wife only started drinking Scotch after sampling some Laphroaig. Was the only bottle she'd buy there for awhile.

And if you want to try something similar, check out Smokehead. Much better than its gimmicky nature would lead you to believe.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (KbCG3)

85 *in uptalky voice* So it sounds like Musk has more trimming of the fat to do at Twitter?

I think he still has saboteurs in his midst, probably in communications related roles.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (ssESX)

86 Elon Musk is a smart dude. But he's blind in the same way Trump is, and many others are. Just because he's "in charge", doesn't mean he's really in charge. And he seems to not understand that.
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this is a very common CEO problem

also the loyalty thing - all CEOs have this, and you have to understand why, but it's for sure a blind spot (sometimes). not sure how you move quickly as they like to do without it tho
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 02, 2023 02:10 PM (w0NJk)

There's a line in the alt-history novel "The Stone Dogs" where one world leader talking to another world leader says that people following orders is the difference between being a leader and being "just an old man in an office".

A lot of people in the modern world think that they're leaders but they're wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (zhLdt)

87 Turkey told Twitter they needed to ban a few accounts, including one of Enes Kanter Freedom, a former NBA player, or Turkey would cut Twitter off within the country.

Twitter banned Kanter.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

And Musk responded to critics by saying "I had no choice."

Which is true. Play ball or no Twitter in "Turkiye".

But if other nations' governments have that power -- so does ours.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (iKBwy)

88 I think, out of compassion, professionalism, and ethics, doctors should refuse to mangle someone's body at their command. Yes, I understand you think you are the devil but I am not doing plastic surgery to attach horns and a tail on you, nor shall I turn your feet into hooves.

Because its WRONG to do so, violates my code of conduct, and is cruel to encourage you in your delusion or insanity.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (0hOvj)

89 Every time I try to drink Scotch I go into a panic thinking that one of my Pinball Machines is burning up.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (7NAVD)

90 71 Agreed, Tonypete. I was an ardent student of women’s studies before it was even a thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (f800v)

91 Every time I try to drink Scotch I go into a panic thinking that one of my Pinball Machines is burning up.
Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (7NAVD)
++++
This is a very specific problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (DU+/6)

92 Wow. A firestorm over the fundamentals of biology and physiology. Who woulda thunk? It's a mad, mad world.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

93 "If you like the flavor of seawater, iodine, and burnt Bandaids, sure."

C'mon guys, don't tempt me off the wagon.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (MvF+J)

94 91 Every time I try to drink Scotch I go into a panic thinking that one of my Pinball Machines is burning up.
Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (7NAVD)
++++
This is a very specific problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (DU+/6)

========

Theory:

Garrett is the Pinball Wizard.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

95 Well horses mounth: https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status

/1664616537947340800?s=20

"It's been a wild 24 hours. It began with Twitter labeling our film hate speech and completely suppressing it, and ends with all suppression lifted and Elon Musk himself tweeting out the film and urging people to watch it. A huge win."

Also this is a huge FU from Elon to the saboteurs.

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (+EnXD)

96 Me, too. If the person grimaces, backs away, starts retching and then turns and runs immediately upon encountering me, that person is a woman.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

Fuck, everybody responds that way to me. Does that mean I'm non-binary?

Posted by: Or simply a horrific freakish obscenity that never should have existed at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (fiChp)

97 >>This is a very specific problem.

They go from 'Do I smell smoke?',
to 2 Alarm Fire, pretty quick.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (7NAVD)

98 Garrett is the Pinball Wizard.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

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There has to be a twist.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (eSg7d)

99

TikTok is Waaaay ahead of you.
Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:18 PM (7NAVD)

Your point is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

100 91 Every time I try to drink Scotch I go into a panic thinking that one of my Pinball Machines is burning up.
Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (7NAVD)
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Garrett, don't drink Scotch. Drink Bourbon. Otay?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:24 PM (NsE9F)

101 Supple. Not Expressive.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:24 PM (7NAVD)

102
And Musk responded to critics by saying "I had no choice."

Which is true. Play ball or no Twitter in "Turkiye".

But if other nations' governments have that power -- so does ours.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (iKBwy)

Yeah Musk isn't going to war with US government. It's our Republic to keep.

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 02:24 PM (+EnXD)

103 I was an ardent student of women’s studies before it was even a thing.

I started as a young boy with girl studies. I eventually graduted up to women's studies, but I fear it is a life long endeavor

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:24 PM (0hOvj)

104 98 Garrett is the Pinball Wizard.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

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There has to be a twist.
Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (eSg7d)

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Think ace can tell us if he has a supple wrist?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

105 "Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer. Maybe he had to sign away any rights to manage the company to get loans or something."

And I'm starting to wonder if this isn't the Deluxe Advertising package. Nothing gets conservative attention quite like a Twitter ban. And Musk does know how to farm the controversy.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (ZyRtd)

106 84 48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

That's my dream team, there.

Fun fact: my wife only started drinking Scotch after sampling some Laphroaig. Was the only bottle she'd buy there for awhile.

And if you want to try something similar, check out Smokehead. Much better than its gimmicky nature would lead you to believe.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (KbCG3)
______________

Never saw a bottle of Smokehead or even heard of it. Odd. But if I see it, I'll try it. Whenever I see a scotch I haven't tried before, I'll buy it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

107 ========

Theory:

Garrett is the Pinball Wizard.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

He's deaf, dumb and blind?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

108 And Musk responded to critics by saying "I had no choice."

Which is true. Play ball or no Twitter in "Turkiye".

But if other nations' governments have that power -- so does ours.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:22 PM (iKBwy)

You, sir, have won yourself a chicken dinner.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (KbCG3)

109
You will travel to Mars, eat recycled shit in an underground tube, and die there.

Elon makes Klaus Schwab seem sane some days.

Posted by: Auspex at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (j4U/Z)

110 >>Garrett, don't drink Scotch. Drink Bourbon.

And Rye. This is my compromise.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (7NAVD)

111 This house sho gone crazy.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (8SAJV)

112 I think, out of compassion, professionalism, and ethics, doctors should refuse to mangle someone's body at their command. Yes, I understand you think you are the devil but I am not doing plastic surgery to attach horns and a tail on you, nor shall I turn your feet into hooves.

It takes the will to simply say no. The same as a painter saying "no miss, that color sucks - I won't do it".

Homey - now look around here. This board. You see many folks with the predisposition to simply say no ?

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (sQh5T)

113 Theory:

Garrett is the Pinball Wizard.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

How supple is his wrist? Let's ask ace.

Posted by: Supple like the well-worn leather strap of a designer messenger bag at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (fiChp)

114 They are the ones who always Pepper Spray you!
Posted by: garrett

Doctor, my eyes burn during sex.

"Do you think it's the pepper spray?"

HeyOhhhhhhhhh!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (qoGsy)

115 Apparently, Musk was still working on what happened and the Trust and Safety chief (what a beautifully Orwellian title, btw) quit just before the video was allowed to be linked. As with pretty much everything going on these days, wait two seconds and things will change. Musk is one of those guys I actually believe to be fiercely anti-ideological. I don't trust anyone in charge, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: red speck at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (Ny/Va)

116 Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog · 1h
It's been a wild 24 hours. It began with Twitter labeling our film hate speech and completely suppressing it, and ends with all suppression lifted and Elon Musk himself tweeting out the film and urging people to watch it. A huge win.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 10:33 AM

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (Vwz3I)

117 110 >>Garrett, don't drink Scotch. Drink Bourbon.

And Rye. This is my compromise.
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Did you give up Vespa riding?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (NsE9F)

118 55 But trust Musk. He takes billions in tax money to build things.
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But trust Boeing. They take even more billions in tax money to build things that don't even fucking work!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (OqSlY)

119 Never saw a bottle of Smokehead or even heard of it. Odd. But if I see it, I'll try it. Whenever I see a scotch I haven't tried before, I'll buy it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

Wife found it at Total Wine. About $50. Skull and cross bones on the bottle.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (KbCG3)

120 Wow. A firestorm over the fundamentals of biology and physiology. Who woulda thunk? It's a mad, mad world.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Getting crazier. Check out the CA "burnt flag" protests, new story and several Twitter wars are linked at Gateway Pundit.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (iKBwy)

121 11/16 Of course, saying "you have the right to speak, but we'll make sure no one hears you" is a bit like saying "you have the right to cast a vote, but we'll make sure it isn't counted." That's not a right at all!

You have the right to all the free speech you want in solitary confinement punishment in the Gulags, Comrade.
Don't let the guards hear though.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (xhaym)

122 Musk Carlson Whitlock. I can see a new media, post cable post Networks forming.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (4upfP)

123 How long until we start celebrating schizophrenic's and multiple personalities? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I think the best analog is anorexia. (@DivideByZero mentioned Karen Carpenter above.) When we see a teenage girl starving herself to death, we say she's mentally ill and try to help her, not cheer her on. As I've posted many times, if your body says you're one sex and your mind says you're the other, the problem isn't your body.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (7B5FA)

124 He's deaf, dumb and blind?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

he listens to music, so not deaf. But 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (i9ffA)

125 You know what a woman knows? They know what boys like.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (z3WCn)

126 Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer.

--------

Christopher Wray and a cabal of Deep Staters now run & control Twitter -- like they have in the past.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (ChOqO)

127 82 79 48 If you wanna celebrate Pride month with a scotch with enough kick to fuck you in the ass, then go with Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or Ardbeg. For experienced scotch drinkers only.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

If you like the flavor of seawater, iodine, and burnt Bandaids, sure.
Posted by: That shit is NASTY at June 02, 2023 02:20 PM (fiChp)

========

Don't insult our burned mud water!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:21 PM (LvTSG)
__________

It's definitely an acquired taste. But once acquired, there's no going back. Interesting that almost everyone loves good smoked food. But many of those same people will recoil in horror at heavily peated (smokey) drinks.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

128 This, they said, is part of their "speech not reach" policy.

ah. the old "in a locked file cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a sign saying 'beware of the leopard'" maneuver. second time i've seen it this week.

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (v3pYe)

129 Is The Quartering reliable? I haven't much clue who that is. They are claiming everyone in the decision to ban the movie has been fired?

Not a clue if it's valid or true, but it would be consistant with the zero Effs to give Elon from his recent interview.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (z+89e)

130 Musk needs to start firing these fuckers wholesale and build up on the scorched earth.

Assuming, of course, that he is a "good guy".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (ufFY8)

131 I beginning to think life is cheap in countries with huge populations.

@BNONews 3m
BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (jzzG8)

132 When we see a teenage girl starving herself to death, we say she's mentally ill and try to help her, not cheer her on.

Speak for yourself. If I see her sitting down in front of a T-Bone, I'll cheer.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (sQh5T)

133 105 >>>"Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer."

See: government, FBI

Posted by: red speck at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (Ny/Va)

134 Meanwhile, Facebook and Instagram forced RFK Jr. to take down his campaign pages.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (MeG8a)

135 120

Getting crazier. Check out the CA "burnt flag" protests, new story and several Twitter wars are linked at Gateway Pundit.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (iKBwy)
---- tiny burnt flag in a flower pot = tempest in a teacup

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (ssESX)

136 Who are these advertisers who hate free speech?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Well, that would be about all of them.\

We live in a corporate-fascist country. The oligarchial leaders of it do as the Biden Junta tells them to do.
Do it! And then, we also have to ask, who is behind Joe Biden, because he is a dumb and mean old man.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (vcOmj)

137 You know what a woman knows? They know what boys like.
Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (z3WCn)

You asked for it.........

https://youtu.be/5UX2afsTqFI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

138 >>Did you give up Vespa riding?

I really wish I had some photoshop skillz for this:

https://tinyurl.com/2z93vcsj

Somone put Wicket's head on that bitch.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (7NAVD)

139 How supple is his wrist? Let's ask ace.
Posted by: Supple like the well-worn leather strap of a designer messenger bag at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (fiChp)

- touches thumb and forefinger, moves hand up and down in large sweeping motion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (i9ffA)

140 And I'm starting to wonder if this isn't the Deluxe Advertising package. Nothing gets conservative attention quite like a Twitter ban. And Musk does know how to farm the controversy. Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (ZyRtd)

Musk himself mentioned the Streisand Effect.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (7B5FA)

141 What a mess.

Posted by: pookysgirl is glad she isn't technically employed at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (dtlDP)

142
he listens to music, so not deaf. But 2 outta 3 ain't bad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (i9ffA)

I thought he played by sense of smell?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

143 It takes the will to simply say no. The same as a painter saying "no miss, that color sucks - I won't do it".

Also, in addition to the lack of will you note, there's money in it. A lot of money. Pressure is huge to do these, like it was with identifying Wuhan Flu victims.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

144 Put not your faith in politicians, nor billionaires.

Still I like Musk or his promotion team. SpaceX generates side revenue showing their launches. Instead of doing the NASA thing of making it boring for non math nerds SpaceX adds fun commentary and has taken full advantage of the ability to have camera streams from the launch vehicle itself and so on.

And launching the Tesla roadster for the Falcon heavy demo launch instead of just some bags of sand was brilliant. I never learned to navigate twitter and I haven't rejoined now that it is maybe more free and open. But its kind of like when a squishy R gets elected in a purple or blue state. Might not get anything much out of the deal but just seeing the tears and hearing the laments from the shrieking lefties is some satisfaction.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (3cGpq)

145 Musk Carlson Whitlock. I can see a new media, post cable post Networks forming.

Posted by: JmT

Musk Carlson Whitlock O'Keefe

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (iKBwy)

146 Christopher Wray and a cabal of Deep Staters now run & control Twitter -- like they have in the past.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (ChOqO)

Any evidence for that?

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (4upfP)

147 134 Meanwhile, Facebook and Instagram forced RFK Jr. to take down his campaign pages.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (MeG8a)

but those outlets aren't arms of the Deep State, oh no perish the thought.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (i9ffA)

148 To all Twitter twits who do not agree with my policies...

You're all fired.

Regards, Elon.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (Zvtjl)

149 Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer. Maybe he had to sign away any rights to manage the company to get loans or something.

Musk may well be using the SpaceX approach to Twitter: "Well we learned something from that catastrophic failure, and we will be moving on with that in mind"

I don't think Twitter is like a three employee dry-cleaner's. You don't just fire the desk clerk to make customer engagement better.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (xhaym)

150 >>I thought he played by sense of smell?

Tommy Rules is a fun way to play for dollars.

You cover up the PF from the top of the slings down.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (7NAVD)

151 I beginning to think life is cheap in countries with huge populations.

@BNONews 3m
BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP
Posted by: weft cut-loop

What, one car jumped the rails?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (qoGsy)

152
Any evidence for that?
Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (4upfP)

It's been redacted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

153 Speak for yourself. If I see her sitting down in front of a T-Bone, I'll cheer. Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (sQh5T)

Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant we don't cheer her on in starving herself to death.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (7B5FA)

154 123 How long until we start celebrating schizophrenic's and multiple personalities? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I think the best analog is anorexia. (@DivideByZero mentioned Karen Carpenter above.) When we see a teenage girl starving herself to death, we say she's mentally ill and try to help her, not cheer her on. As I've posted many times, if your body says you're one sex and your mind says you're the other, the problem isn't your body.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (7B5FA)
_________

True, although in the last round of anorexia hysteria there were elements of the modern "illness celebration" fetish going into effect. It never got to the point like with trannies, where we have to celebrate and congratulate them above all else, but that was the direction they were going. The times were different back then. People were not ready to cheer on mental illnesses. They are now.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

155 @146
Nope.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (ssESX)

156 Musk himself mentioned the Streisand Effect.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:29 PM (7B5FA)

Exactly! Plus he gets to smoke out some more traitors.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (ZyRtd)

157 I'm willing to give Musk the benefit of the doubt here (something I rarely do) and think this is insubordinate employees. Mainly because this is what liberals do in every job they're inexplicably given; they're so smug and self righteous they that really think the rules don't apply and they're being heroes.

Posted by: UGAdawg at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (tRd71)

158 @elonmusk reveals he’s still uncovering hidden censorship layers in Twitter’s code.

--------

The only solution is AI ChatBot MuskGPT.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (ChOqO)

159 Seems like efforts to limit the reach of the movie are likely having the good old Streisand effect

Posted by: Greg61 at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (99YkD)

160 There’s also some mental disorder (can’t remember the name of it now) where the sufferer believes that he or she is dead. So we should take such people at their word and bury them?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (f800v)

161 Musk himself mentioned the Streisand Effect.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Barbra has a big nose.

John has a long mustache.

The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (vcOmj)

162 Rebel News USA

@RebelNews_USA
Several high-profile Twitter employees have exited the company following their decision to undermine the leadership of Elon Musk in censoring the Daily Wire’s documentary on trans-affirming surgeries for minors, “What Is A Woman?

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (wb1YC)

163 But if other nations' governments have that power -- so does ours.
___

But in the US, we only use that power for good. If you go against the narrative, you lose your 'right' to free speech - for good.
- DHS/FBI/CIA/NSA/DOJ/DNC

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (fs1hN)

164 Is this the supple wrist thread?

Posted by: Sandra Flook at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (Xrfse)

165 Is The Quartering reliable? I haven't much clue who that is.

I do not know how reliable they are but I have enjoyed what I have seen of their content.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (0hOvj)

166 --------

The only solution is AI ChatBot MuskGPT.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:32 PM (ChOqO)

"You sure about that?"

- - - - Dead AI Drone Pilot

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Also, in addition to the lack of will you note, there's money in it. A lot of money. Pressure is huge to do these, like it was with identifying Wuhan Flu victims.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

Yeah. And not to sound like a Hippy or a Christian - because I'm neither - money may not be the root of all Evil, but it's in the team photo.

Easy for me to say, though. I latched onto a nice Upper Middle lifestyle decades ago. Better than anything I grew up with. And I simply kept it.

You have to be able to afford your principles. I was lucky, and hard working, enough to pay for mine.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (sQh5T)

168 this may turn out to be a way for Musk to flush a few more turds outta the system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (i9ffA)

169 @157
Agreed. I called them saboteurs.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (ssESX)

170 162 Rebel News USA

@RebelNews_USA
Several high-profile Twitter employees have exited the company following their decision to undermine the leadership of Elon Musk in censoring the Daily Wire’s documentary on trans-affirming surgeries for minors, “What Is A Woman?
Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (wb1YC)

========

Theory:

This was a mole hunt, and it succeeded beautifully.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

171 @RebelNews_USA
Several high-profile Twitter employees have exited the company following their decision to undermine the leadership of Elon Musk in censoring the Daily Wire’s documentary on trans-affirming surgeries for minors, “What Is A Woman?
Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (wb1YC)

Fired or 'resigned in protest?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

172 Never saw a bottle of Smokehead or even heard of it. Odd. But if I see it, I'll try it. Whenever I see a scotch I haven't tried before, I'll buy it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

Wife found it at Total Wine. About $50. Skull and cross bones on the bottle.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (KbCG3)

You can also try Balcones Brimstone. I've heard that they've changed the flavor a bit. Goes well with BBQ. Tastes like what you'd imagine alcoholic wood smoke would taste like.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (zhLdt)

173 Jeebus, I'm trapped in a TEAMS meeting with engineers talking excessively.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (NsE9F)

174 Is The Quartering reliable?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (z+89e)

Relatively so. If he's not sure about a source, he's pretty upfront about it. But he's the only one Pooky watches for cultural news because he's upbeat about winning the war, and Pooky needs that or he'll start buying baseball bats.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to keep things on an even keel at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (dtlDP)

175 Musk Carlson Whitlock O'Keefe
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:30 PM (iKBwy)

Haven't heard what O'Keefe is up to now.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (4upfP)

176 It looks to me like Musk is doing this as an end-run to get around the restrictions his handlers -- not him -- have imposed.

looks to me like twitter needs more ~~cowbell~~ firings

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (v3pYe)

177 "One of the employees in question, Maie Aiyed … served as the company’s program manager for brand safety"

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (wb1YC)

178 Looks like maybe a bunch of the censorious jackasses at twitter "resigned" due to this.

resigned = "elon told me to pack my shit up and get out".

Posted by: GMan at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (GfWuY)

179 173 Jeebus, I'm trapped in a TEAMS meeting with engineers talking excessively.
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (NsE9F)

=========

That's me about twice a day every weekday.

I just want them to fix their damn defects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

180 Buried lede:

Twitter still has a bunch of leftist moles in its organization.

Posted by: MartynWW at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (Ur3df)

181 If Musk really wants to be in charge, at Twitter ? Gotta' have a purge. All through the ranks - as far down as he can see. Even if you lose a few loyalists along the way.
Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:09 PM (sQh5T)

That's nice dear, why don't you go back and keep whaling on your inflatable "punchy-Trump" doll in the back yard?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (xhaym)

182 Any evidence for that?

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (4upfP)

---------

Sorry, I should put a /sarc tag in my nic -- although I was only half-joking and wouldn't be surprised to find out that that was true ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (ChOqO)

183 But 2 outta 3 ain't bad. Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (i9ffA)

Someone called?

Posted by: Zombie Meat Loaf at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (7B5FA)

184
Theory:

This was a mole hunt, and it succeeded beautifully.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

Didn't Musk send out an email to a few dozen employees with individualized typos so they could catch a leaker?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (z+89e)

185 @BNONews 3m
BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 02:28 PM (jzzG

Don't trains in India usually have more than 2 cars attached?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (zhLdt)

186 I beginning to think life is cheap in countries with huge populations.

@BNONews 3m
BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP
Posted by: weft cut-loop

What, one car jumped the rails?
Posted by: Tonypete

When they're all riding on roof and hanging on to the sides.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (+Wcyp)

187 See, when you're not on Twitter, you don't have to think about this shite.

Posted by: DB - at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (geLO8)

188
Haven't heard what O'Keefe is up to now.
Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (4upfP)

Founded OMG (O'Keffe Media Group) and is still releasing sting videos.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

189 Jeebus, I'm trapped in a TEAMS meeting with engineers talking excessively.
Posted by: Puddinhead

I usually get trapped in TEAMS meetings with salespeople talking incessantly.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (vcOmj)

190 You can also try Balcones Brimstone. I've heard that they've changed the flavor a bit. Goes well with BBQ. Tastes like what you'd imagine alcoholic wood smoke would taste like.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I was gifted a bottle of Balcones Texas Pot Still Bourbon. Kinda tough for me to like.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (qoGsy)

191 Jeebus, I'm trapped in a TEAMS meeting with engineers talking excessively.

Problem One - good engineers don't talk. We can't talk well. We do. Sometimes, we can explain what we did. Sometimes.

Problem Two - no good engineer willingly attends a meeting. See Problem One.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (sQh5T)

192 Is The Quartering reliable?

Mostly, yes. He's pretty upfront about things he's not sure about, and sometimes his takes are a little off (the vp of marketing at AB has not been fired, but he keeps saying she has been).

Sometimes he's too much of a fence sitter, but hey, he's a fellow Wisconsinite!

Posted by: GMan at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (GfWuY)

193 And not to sound like a Hippy or a Christian - because I'm neither

Then what do you identify as? Inquiring minds need to know. Or maybe not.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (Xrfse)

194 BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Were most of the injured inside the train, or hanging onto it?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (iKBwy)

195 I think Musk himself knows that he's going to have to eventually fire *everyone* who worked for Twitter before he got there, except for a few full autistic asians who do nothing but live in code world 24/7. The question is how to do this gradually enough so that you don't kill the company along the way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (i9ffA)

196 175 Haven't heard what O'Keefe is up to now.

being sued by project veritas, mostly.

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (v3pYe)

197 But 2 outta 3 ain't bad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (i9ffA)

But he won't do THAT!

Posted by: Meat Loaf at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (ufFY8)

198
Is this the supple wrist thread?

Posted by: Sandra Flook at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM

The hidden secret to the perfect hand job has been revealed in my latest book. Use your mouth! Buy the book or you'll regret it!

Posted by: Mr. Clickbait at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (enJYY)

199 The insubordinate employees need to be found, fired, and sued for great damages. (firing is not enough, this is a deliberate act of ? destruction/sabotage)

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (Cus5s)

200
When they're all riding on roof and hanging on to the sides.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (+Wcyp)

That Top Gear episode where they tried to take over the lunch delivery was enlightening on the lifestyle over there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

201 178 Looks like maybe a bunch of the censorious jackasses at twitter "resigned" due to this.

resigned = "elon told me to pack my shit up and get out".
Posted by: GMan at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (GfWuY)

----
DURING PRIDE MONTH?!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (ssESX)

202 F'n hordemind. 😂

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (iKBwy)

203 Yeah I do get the sense that Elon uses this kind of thing to uncover more people that need to be fired.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (0hOvj)

204 Is The Quartering reliable?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Sometimes, but he is an ass who loves stirring up internet drama, occasionally pissing on other content creators for little or no reason. When asked to explain himself, he launches into a victimhood rage.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (jzzG8)

205 Problem Two - no good engineer willingly attends a meeting. See Problem One. Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (sQh5T)

How do you know when an engineer's an extrovert? When he stares at the other person's shoes when he talks.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (7B5FA)

206 "One of the employees in question, Maie Aiyed … served as the company’s program manager for brand safety"
Posted by: Azathoth

I wouldn't have hired her simply based on the spelling of her name alone.

Yeah, I'm really old school.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (qoGsy)

207 170 162 Rebel News USA

@RebelNews_USA
Several high-profile Twitter employees have exited the company following their decision to undermine the leadership of Elon Musk in censoring the Daily Wire’s documentary on trans-affirming surgeries for minors, “What Is A Woman?
Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (wb1YC)

========

Theory:

This was a mole hunt, and it succeeded beautifully.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

Wholeheartedly agree. The thing that surprises me would be that his MO is well-known, and techies should know better, but their hatred of conservatives blinds their ability to see obvious traps laid for them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (/iWhV)

208 BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP

***

Glad to hear the other 4,800 are uninjured.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (wb1YC)

209 Fired or 'resigned in protest?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Firing senior executives is messy. Here's how it usually goes: you're pulled into a conference room with other big-shots and you're told, "Here's the deal. You're out of here. Now you can make us fire you - in which case this is messy, public, very destructive, you get nothing and I'm going to call all of my industry pals to strongly encourage them not to give you the time of day. That's Option 1. Option B is that you resign. For personal reasons unrelated to the business. Now. If you do that, you walk away with a year's severance paid out as salary including maintenance of your benefits, all of your options and restricted stock will vest as expected, and we don't sabotage you as you try to find your next job. So which is going to be?"

The specifics can change, but that's the gist of how it works, especially for SVPs and above.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (DU+/6)

210 That Top Gear episode where they tried to take over the lunch delivery was enlightening on the lifestyle over there.

Clarkson's Farm is 10% about farming, 20% about humor, and 70% about how all of England is an out of control HOA.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (0hOvj)

211 Sorry, I should put a /sarc tag in my nic -- although I was only half-joking and wouldn't be surprised to find out that that was true ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (ChOqO)

Humor is lost on some. Me in this instance.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (4upfP)

212 Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:33 PM (sQh5T)

It's actually "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." (1 Tim 6:10a) So don't feel guilty about being successful as long as you're not greedy.

Posted by: pookysgirl, official finance manager for the nuthouse at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (dtlDP)

213 The Daily Wire Takes Up Elon Musk's Offer to Use Twitter As if It is a Free Speech Platform and Exhibit the Film What Is a Woman? -- But Twitter Employees Demand

Time to start firing employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (GIBR7)

214 I think Musk himself knows that he's going to have to eventually fire *everyone* who worked for Twitter before he got there, except for a few full autistic asians who do nothing but live in code world 24/7. The question is how to do this gradually enough so that you don't kill the company along the way.

The old "fix the airplane in mid-flight" trick. Like working at any automotive or chemical plant.

I wonder why he chose to buy it, instead of destroying it.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (sQh5T)

215 I think the best analog is anorexia. (@DivideByZero mentioned Karen Carpenter above.) When we see a teenage girl starving herself to death, we say she's mentally ill and try to help her, not cheer her on. As I've posted many times, if your body says you're one sex and your mind says you're the other, the problem isn't your body.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:27 PM (7B5FA)

Quick, put that fat bitch on an 800 calorie a day diet and schedule her for gastric bypass surgery!

Posted by: If anorexia were treated like gender dysphoria at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (fiChp)

216 203 Yeah I do get the sense that Elon uses this kind of thing to uncover more people that need to be fired.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:38 PM (0hOvj

Shoulda bug bombed the whole place. Hired foreign visas to do their work.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (6VKyY)

217 Buried lede:

Twitter still has a bunch of leftist moles in its organization.

Posted by: MartynWW at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (Ur3df)

-------

Like Trump should have done on Day One -- beginning a process to eventually fire every Executive Branch federal employee and rebuild maybe 10% back from scratch -- Musk should have done the same at Twitter.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (ChOqO)

218 BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP

Why did Donald Trump make this happen?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (ppBhU)

219 Hope that derailment didn’t happen at Marwar Junction.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (f800v)

220 Maybe just fire the a**holes? I mean for any normal company that's what would happen.

Posted by: Haywood at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (eDNn2)

221 191 Problem Two - no good engineer willingly attends a meeting. See Problem One.

*agile has entered the chat*

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 02:41 PM (v3pYe)

222 BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP

That is horrible. Imagine the triage and stress testing on all elements of the emergency services.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2023 02:41 PM (YXHzG)

223 Clarkson's Farm is 10% about farming, 20% about humor, and 70% about how all of England is an out of control HOA.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (0hOvj

Spot on. The rules and restrictions his farm manager delivers with a straight face were ludicrous.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2023 02:42 PM (6VKyY)

224 I still contend two or three people, tops, are all that's needed to run Twitter. That's not counting development, which at this point probably needs a pause so Musk and his crew can crawl through the code and unfuck what they can and remove what they can't. That's time consuming if you only have a couple developers/coders that are trustworthy.

All the while deep embedded ticks keep jacking with the application and doing stupid shit on the management side. The ability to throttle, censor or otherwise manipulate tweets shouldn't be in the hands of fucktards like it is now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2023 02:42 PM (Q4IgG)

225 Didn't Musk send out an email to a few dozen employees with individualized typos so they could catch a leaker?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (z+89e)

IIRC, former employees at Tesla and/or SpaceX went public warning that he does that. Don't know if he ever did at Twitter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:42 PM (zhLdt)

226 Shoulda bug bombed the whole place. Hired foreign visas to do their work.

Would make sense to have Indian programmers working on Twitter's Python code.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (YXHzG)

227 Last I read twitter's workforce is about a third of what it was prior to Elon's purchase.
Lots of dead wood.
Lots of "what is it you would say you do here?" type employees.
Some who literally did nothing.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (MeG8a)

228 195 I think Musk himself knows that he's going to have to eventually fire *everyone* who worked for Twitter before he got there, except for a few full autistic asians who do nothing but live in code world 24/7. The question is how to do this gradually enough so that you don't kill the company along the way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:37 PM (i9ffA)

Thing is, the people resigning are high-level types who may dictate shit but have no actual hand in the building of anything. Twitter could exist without replacing a single one of them.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (KbCG3)

229 You guys are making me want to stop for a bottle of Scotch

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (A3bNj)

230 Didn't Musk do a mass firing earlier when a bunch of employees publically attacked him?

Posted by: NL at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (eGTCV)

231 BREAKING: At least 70 killed in India train crash, more than 500 injured - PTI/AFP

***

Glad to hear the other 4,800 are uninjured.
Posted by: Azathoth

In only four cars.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (GIBR7)

232 @221
At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (ssESX)

233 I still contend two or three people, tops, are all that's needed to run Twitter. That's not counting development, which at this point probably needs a pause so Musk and his crew can crawl through the code and unfuck what they can and remove what they can't. That's time consuming if you only have a couple developers/coders that are trustworthy.

Yeah, because servers never fall over and hackers never look for exploits.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (YXHzG)

234
The specifics can change, but that's the gist of how it works, especially for SVPs and above.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (DU+/6)

I remember a large corp where 2 senior execs were having a power struggle for succession, and employees knew it was over when a notice was posted: "We are sorry to say that Senior VP X... has decided to leave our corporation, and is moving to New Mexico to pursue his lifelong interest in horse ranching."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (i9ffA)

235 232 @221
At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (ssESX)

========

Project managers might as well get measured by the metric of how many meetings they run all the way to the end of the posted time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

236 Pooky needs that or he'll start buying baseball bats.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to keep things on an even keel at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (dtlDP)

I can relate to the frustration. Remember that all that Summer of St Floyd pledged money is working it's way through the system right now and it amplifies the stupidity and distorts it to seem more prevalent than it would otherwise be.

Fortunately, I'm world class stubborn and way too to stupid to know when to quit. AS long as they keep surgically removing healthy organ systems from children I'll keep screaming that they are evil Mengele wanna be fux.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (z+89e)

237 What is needed is a few more movies.

“What Is A Sodomite?”

“What Is A Democrat?”

“What Is A Communist?”

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (R/m4+)

238 You can also try Balcones Brimstone. I've heard that they've changed the flavor a bit. Goes well with BBQ. Tastes like what you'd imagine alcoholic wood smoke would taste like.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I was gifted a bottle of Balcones Texas Pot Still Bourbon. Kinda tough for me to like.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (qoGsy)

They have lots of different stuff. I'm not wild about the bourbon. I like "1" and Lineage. True Blue is not bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (zhLdt)

239 217 Buried lede:

Twitter still has a bunch of leftist moles in its organization.

Posted by: MartynWW at June 02, 2023 02:35 PM (Ur3df)

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Like Trump should have done on Day One -- beginning a process to eventually fire every Executive Branch federal employee and rebuild maybe 10% back from scratch -- Musk should have done the same at Twitter.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:40 PM (ChOqO)

Trump One's excuse is that very, very few people saw the extent of the rot in the Federal Government - rot that extended to outright insurrection against the POTUS. I count myself in that category - and I was fairly cynical before.

Now, however, there's no excuse for the next Republican POTUS to at least try and do that. If that's too difficult because of civil service regs, I'd simply start relocating whole departments to the America heartland. The rats will then begin to 'self-deport' - as Romney once said about illegals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (/iWhV)

240 You guys are making me want to stop for a bottle of Scotch
Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (A3bNj)

And your problem with that is??

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

241 @221
At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.

I find it inspiring. It's inspired me to work on getting out of IT.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (Bd6X8)

242 Clarkson's Farm is 10% about farming, 20% about humor, and 70% about how all of England is an out of control HOA.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (0hOvj

Spot on. The rules and restrictions his farm manager delivers with a straight face were ludicrous.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2023 02:42 PM (6VKyY)

Rules and regulations only apply to certain people.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (4upfP)

243 Humor is lost on some. Me in this instance.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (4upfP)

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It's difficult telling the difference in a world that's beyond parody, and where the Babylon Bee is often the prescient "paper of record."

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (ChOqO)

244 Is The Quartering reliable?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Jeremy seems okay, except that he keeps plugging his coffee and takes a while to get to the damned point.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (ufFY8)

245 At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

All the while claiming that Agile Methodology helps to get rid of meetings!

Let's discuss reduced meetings at our twice daily scheduled Stand-ups.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (qoGsy)

246 You guys are making me want to stop for a bottle of Scotch

According to my math - we'll all be dead in a few decades. So why NOT stop and grab one ? A good one.

If you can pay cash ? And I assume you can. Enjoy. Trade your labor to that store that brought you a bottle of scotch, and those folks that made it. A fair trade in my book.

None of us are getting out alive. Enjoy the simple pleasures while you can.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (sQh5T)

247 That sounds gay.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (DRSnL)

Leach us to our month!!!

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (tik86)

248 Leave. FFS

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (tik86)

249 Over at Twitchy there is a thread noting that several Twitter would be censors have left. Musk aught to do several somewhat conservative documentaries or movie releases to smoke the rest out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (ALKJB)

250

Leach us to our month!!!
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (tik86)

248 Leave. FFS
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:46 PM (tik86)

LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

251 240 You guys are making me want to stop for a bottle of Scotch
Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (A3bNj)

And your problem with that is??
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

If he's on the wagon it's an enormous problem.

Posted by: Just putting that out there at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (fiChp)

252 Either Musk's a liar, or his employees are insubordinate, or he just isn't actually in control of Twitter any longer. Maybe he had to sign away any rights to manage the company to get loans or something.

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He hasn't fired enough people at Twitter. He better get onto it if he wants to keep the company.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (3JfbU)

253 Lots of "what is it you would say you do here?" type employees. Some who literally did nothing. Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (MeG8a)

One of my favorite characters on Silicon Valley is Bighead, who gets paid a very nice salary to sit on the patio with other people like him from companies that got acquired and Hooli is putting on the beach to keep them from going to a competitor and occasionally ask questions about their former companies, but don't need them for day-to-day operations. It's satire, of course, but it's not too far from reality. It's not uncommon for traders to be paid for several months before they can come to work because their new employers don't want to get sued by their former employers.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (7B5FA)

254 249 Over at Twitchy there is a thread noting that several Twitter would be censors have left. Musk aught to do several somewhat conservative documentaries or movie releases to smoke the rest out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (ALKJB)

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Gotta change up tactics.

Ban some prominent Muslim for anti-gay rhetoric, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (LvTSG)

255 Humor is lost on some. Me in this instance.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (4upfP)

Happens to the best of us.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (tik86)

256 The weekend is here!

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (xhxe8)

257 People who think that firing a federal employee is easily done have never fired a federal employee.
Especially if said fed is part of a protected class, which almost all are now.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (MeG8a)

258
If he's on the wagon it's an enormous problem.
Posted by: Just putting that out there at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (fiChp)

Your point is valid. But simply stopping and buying some isn't the problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

259 @7

>>I think I'm going to wait a bit before concluding that Elon is helpless or on the other side. No, I don't know what's going on here.

The Deep State isn't just a governmental construct, it's a whole of society construct.

And ridding ourselves with of at every level of abstraction is going to be a chore.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (up/3i)

260 253 Lots of "what is it you would say you do here?" type employees. Some who literally did nothing. Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (MeG8a)

One of my favorite characters on Silicon Valley is Bighead, who gets paid a very nice salary to sit on the patio with other people like him from companies that got acquired and Hooli is putting on the beach to keep them from going to a competitor and occasionally ask questions about their former companies, but don't need them for day-to-day operations. It's satire, of course, but it's not too far from reality. It's not uncommon for traders to be paid for several months before they can come to work because their new employers don't want to get sued by their former employers.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (7B5FA)

Interestingly enough, on Wall Street that's called going on 'garden leave'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (/iWhV)

261 Knew a girl in college so thin you could trace her circulatory system. Ironically she was beautiful, wonder how she turned out.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (z3WCn)

262 Uh oh......

Queensrÿche just came across the playlist.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

263 I find it inspiring. It's inspired me to work on getting out of IT.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 02, 2023 02:45 PM (Bd6X

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This too was the story of ShainS.

I retired from software development after being forced to do my first "pair programming" gig.

Fuck that shit -- I started refusing lab partners in college because I don't need to carry someone else on my back.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (d2dRs)

264 I grew up in a world in which the boss was the boss and everybody else knew they weren't the boss. It's a very different world now.

Posted by: NL at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (eGTCV)

265 Wife received two Liquor Smokers out of the blue. We did not order them - someone else did. But the address was ours. We promptly regifted them. I still can't understand why anyone wants to smoke good liquor. Is that a thing?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (NsE9F)

266 257 People who think that firing a federal employee is easily done have never fired a federal employee.
Especially if said fed is part of a protected class, which almost all are now.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (MeG8a)

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It'd be fun to see how a court case would play out where the head of the executive branch personally fired a non-appointed underling, and the underling sued to keep the job.

Does the court side with the underling or the elected head of the executive branch?

The answer, of course, is: which party holds the presidency?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

267 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (DU+/6)

268 LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh yeah, laugh it up, Scotch Brite Boy

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (tik86)

269 LOL. Again.

zerohedge @zerohedge · 28m
Elon Musk Becomes World's Richest Person (Again) After Luxury Bust Hits Bernard Arnault

[And, yes, I know who is KING!! shifts based on things like stock prices.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 02:50 PM (Vwz3I)

270
“What Is A Sodomite?”

“What Is A Democrat?”

“What Is A Communist?”

What Is a Miserable Socialist?

I am tired by years of carrying a double burden. Years of taking minutes, reading polemics, keeping up with Facebook arguments and Twitter arguments and WhatsApp arguments and actual arguments. Tired of managing my own depression while also serving as emotional support to countless people, some in truly desperate circumstances. Tired of the moral acrobatics of keeping a job that must be politically kosher, personally satisfying, and paid well enough for me to survive in this city. Tired of feeling guilty for surviving.

I am tired and I understand much better why those women stopped writing Marxist book reviews or attending eight-hour conferences on sunny Saturdays. Why they got management jobs, moved to suburbia, married people that were not political. They did it because the alternative was to keep at it and become bitter.

https://is.gd/R4fhak

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 02, 2023 02:50 PM (9yUzE)

271 Clarkson's Farm is 10% about farming, 20% about humor, and 70% about how all of England is an out of control HOA.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 02:39 PM (0hOvj

Spot on. The rules and restrictions his farm manager delivers with a straight face were ludicrous.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2023 02:42 PM (6VKyY)

That shrug of the shoulders and quiet compliance from the farm manager was infuriating.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:50 PM (KbCG3)

272 267 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (DU+/6)

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Mouth is too big for head. Substandard example of a woman.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:50 PM (LvTSG)

273 Wife received two Liquor Smokers out of the blue. We did not order them - someone else did. But the address was ours. We promptly regifted them. I still can't understand why anyone wants to smoke good liquor. Is that a thing?
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (NsE9F)

Some local bars have wood they light on fire and cover with a glass, then pour whiskey in the glass after it's contained the smoke for a spell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

274 and I insist you call me a cat, that's on me, not you.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

This! Just because someone calls himself a thoroughbred racehorse doesn't mean he's gonna be allowed to run in the Kentucky Derby.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (Wy1BU)

275 267 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (DU+/6)
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Noice. She looks Persian to me.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (ssESX)

276 Haven't heard what O'Keefe is up to now.
Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (4upfP)

Releasing videos via OMG and being sued by the board of Project Veritas for "toxic leadership and financial irregularities" so vast that your Senator would ask "That is not allowed?"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (xhaym)

277
Oh yeah, laugh it up, Scotch Brite Boy
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (tik86)

Uh.....what? The insult confuses me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

278 "We are sorry to say that Senior VP X... has decided to leave our corporation, and is moving to New Mexico to pursue his lifelong interest in horse ranching."
Posted by: Tom Servo

" . . . and grow dental floss."

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (qoGsy)

279 ========

Mouth is too big for head. Substandard example of a woman.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:50 PM (LvTSG)

The better to blow you with.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

280 Knew a girl in college so thin you could trace her circulatory system. Ironically she was beautiful, wonder how she turned out.
Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (z3WCn)

Olive Oil her predessessor?

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (4upfP)

281 How does Puddinhead's neighbor's misaddressed wife hold her Liquor Smokers???

By the tongue!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (Vwz3I)

282 Whatever the story, it appears that Twitter is enemy comms and always will be -- and Elon Musk paid $44 billion for nothing. (It's now said to be worth one third that, thanks to advertiser boycotts.)

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My suggestion is the same as earlier, fire them all if you want to retain ownership. Twitter is an app, you only need 10 employees tops to run it. Five technicians to make sure it works and five employees selling ad space.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (3JfbU)

283 . I still can't understand why anyone wants to smoke good liquor. Is that a thing?
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (NsE9F)

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Nostalgia for the taste of licking an ashtray is strong in some people I guess.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (5kumV)

284 Didn't Musk send out an email to a few dozen employees with individualized typos so they could catch a leaker?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 02, 2023 02:36 PM (z+89e)

That was my suggestion, but I doubt Musk is using me as a security resource.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (xhaym)

285 It'd be fun to see how a court case would play out where the head of the executive branch personally fired a non-appointed underling, and the underling sued to keep the job.

Does the court side with the underling or the elected head of the executive branch?

The answer, of course, is: which party holds the presidency?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

I suspect that the Pendleton Act means the employee would win.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (zhLdt)

286 More Twitter twats traipse off:

@zerohedge 2h
*TWITTER'S HEAD OF BRAND SAFETY AND AD QUALITY IS LEAVING: WSJ

*Departure of A.J. Brown From Twitter Follows Exit of Ella Irwin, Another Top Safety Expert, on Thursday -- WSJ

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (jzzG8)

287 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (DU+/6)

Great! And so do the 300 close friends she sells her pictures to..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (Keyt1)

288 Now, however, there's no excuse for the next Republican POTUS to at least try and do that. If that's too difficult because of civil service regs, I'd simply start relocating whole departments to the America heartland. The rats will then begin to 'self-deport' - as Romney once said about illegals. Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2023 02:44 PM (/iWhV)

Entire departments need to be eliminated, which will require Congress's help. You can't tinker around the edges. Recombine HHS and Education into HEW again, eliminating a bunch of SES positions in the reorg. Return DOE to a DOD nuclear weapons agency and a civilian energy science agency that runs the national labs and eliminate the overhead. The problem is that some subcommittees would lose jurisdiction and some chairmen would lose their fundraising ability to twist contractors' arms, so Congressional leadership would have to be involved from the get-go.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (7B5FA)

289 Can humans have more than 2 nipples?
Extra nipples are fairly common. They are generally unrelated to other conditions or syndromes. The extra nipples usually occur in a line below the normal nipples. They are usually not recognized as extra nipples because they tend to be small and not well-formed.
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I dated a girl in HS that had two normie boobs and six tiny nipples down her belly. All I could think of was my dog.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (NsE9F)

290 > At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.
______________

That, and people who love to hear themselves talk, and talk, and talk.

And talk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (Q4IgG)

291 Uh.....what? The insult confuses me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought you were laughing at my typo as Jordan xerself is often wont to do. But that was no insult, just pure respect.

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (wkk9P)

292 If TJM disappears for a while Dolly probably has him occupied.

Posted by: NL at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (eGTCV)

293 This! Just because someone calls himself a thoroughbred racehorse doesn't mean he's gonna be allowed to run in the Kentucky Derby.
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Doo-dar! Doo-dar!
Somebody bet on the bay!

Come on, you must know that one!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 02:55 PM (Vwz3I)

294 285 I suspect that the Pendleton Act means the employee would win.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:53 PM (zhLdt)

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An interesting SCOTUS ruling would be to rule the Pendleton Act unconstitutional. It already essentially gives employees of the executive branch higher say in the running of the US government than the American people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

295 I overestimated how many employees Musk needs to run Twitter. He just needs 5 tech guys to make sure it works, automate ad space sales.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 02:55 PM (3JfbU)

296 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Her knees appear to be a bit scuffed.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:55 PM (qoGsy)

297 Some local bars have wood they light on fire and cover with a glass, then pour whiskey in the glass after it's contained the smoke for a spell.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

I assume that's because a good Islay is too expensive?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (zhLdt)

298 @270
The story of "How I was tempted by living a normal, sane life, but persevered."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (ssESX)

299 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Is that an Eric Cartman Sharpie-drawn hand puppet on her right hand? She looks jiggly.

Posted by: micky at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (3byMq)

300 Some local bars have wood they light on fire and cover with a glass, then pour whiskey in the glass after it's contained the smoke for a spell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Wife bought me one of these for Christmas. It's awesome. Smells amazing and the torch is fun as hell. In all honesty, it doesn't add a whole hell of a lot but the aroma is...intoxicating.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (KbCG3)

301 People who think that firing a federal employee is easily done have never fired a federal employee.
Especially if said fed is part of a protected class, which almost all are now.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:48 PM (MeG8a)

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I'm aware of it to some degree, but reject it. It would be interesting to watch millions of fire feral employees file a class action lawsuit ... as it takes 30 years to wind its way through the courts.

BTW, my father was a high school principal, and it took up two years of near daily documentation to finally get rid of an illiterate teacher (some foreign affirmative action hire who managed to coast to a Masters degree in some idiotic subject). Idiocy, and one of the reasons why we can't have nice things ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (+GUcx)

302 Great! And so do the 300 close friends she sells her pictures to..
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This is ... SPURTA!!!

Posted by: persian looking chick at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (Vwz3I)

303 It's going to take a long time to get the anti-Constitutionalists out of Twitter.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 02:04 PM (17s+e)

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It takes a couple of minutes to type an email saying you're fired and click on send.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 02:57 PM (3JfbU)

304 277
Oh yeah, laugh it up, Scotch Brite Boy
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (tik86)

Uh.....what? The insult confuses me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

I believe he is challenging the natural origin and authenticity of your sponginess and suggesting you are perhaps made of cellulose and artificial abrasive fibers.

Posted by: That would be my best guess at June 02, 2023 02:57 PM (fiChp)

305 A good start would be DHS, seeing as how they collaborate with Antifa.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 02:57 PM (MeG8a)

306 Old and busted: Mannix and his girls versus FenSpoke
The New Hotness: Mannix and his girls versus FenSpoke AND TJM

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 02, 2023 02:57 PM (f800v)

307 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

If you squint you can almost the Golden Palace of the Himalayas.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at June 02, 2023 02:58 PM (xPJvm)

308 Again, states need to assert the "negative supremacy clause" argument applies to big tech Section 203, saying "we're going to regulate and we're going to ignore federal courts telling us to stop."

That is, while the Supremacy clause preempts state law in a matter, if the federal law is not sufficiently enforced-- and the supremacy protected-- here, that they are allowing big tech to be publishers but enjoy provider immunity contrary to the law, then the federal government has abandoned its claim on the matter.

Think of it like adverse possession; if you don't repel encroachment on your property, you lose the ownership.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2023 02:59 PM (YDaBn)

309 297 Some local bars have wood they light on fire and cover with a glass, then pour whiskey in the glass after it's contained the smoke for a spell.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

I assume that's because a good Islay is too expensive?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 02:56 PM (zhLdt)

A spoonful of hot tar and a couple drops of iodine and you'd never know the different.

Posted by: Good Islay is an oxymoron at June 02, 2023 02:59 PM (fiChp)

310 I dated a girl in HS that had two normie boobs and six tiny nipples down her belly. All I could think of was my dog.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Shirley she would kick her leg when you scratched her belly.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:59 PM (qoGsy)

311 "Top Safety Expert"

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The idea that Twitter needs "safety" people working there is pretty damn funny.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 02, 2023 02:59 PM (i7Q7S)

312 *difference

Fucking autocucumber.

Posted by: Good Islay is an oxymoron at June 02, 2023 03:00 PM (fiChp)

313 At the risk of derailing things....
Agile was embraced in part by people who love meetings.

Holy crap yes.

I pissed off a business analyst after we had a meeting ABOUT HAVING ANOTHER MEETING and said that this bullshit is pointless and that if they want me to actually get any real, tangible work on a product done, they need to stop.

Posted by: GMan at June 02, 2023 03:00 PM (GfWuY)

314 This busty blonde in a dress knows what a woman is:
https://is.gd/1lqCVX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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That camera could have used a flash.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 03:00 PM (4F3ju)

315 Thing is, the people resigning are high-level types who may dictate shit but have no actual hand in the building of anything. Twitter could exist without replacing a single one of them.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:43 PM (KbCG3)

The purpose of management is to coordinate and adapt production and processes to current and projected needs, and to change it when reality expresses itself. Management needs to be able to point the talent in the right direction and make sure the brains run on time. It is essential with large organizations.
However, most management want to burrow into their office with a door and never do anything to jeopardize their 401K while harvesting the perks of controlling the lives of others.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 03:00 PM (xhaym)

316
I thought you were laughing at my typo as Jordan xerself is often wont to do. But that was no insult, just pure respect.
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 02:54 PM (wkk9P)

Gotcha. Wasn't laughing at the typo, just the response.

If I wanted to make fun of your typo, I would've said I saw the typo open for some rando band at some rando venue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

317 Elon or the underlings??

@AOCpress
This account doesn’t exist
Try searching for another.

AOC parody account wiped.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (Vwz3I)

318 ---------

That camera could have used a flash.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 03:00 PM (4F3ju)

I'd prefer it have used x-ray vision.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

319 @VTK 270 -- read the article

"If the reality of being an independent working woman is the coupling of the longest period of wage stagnation since the Napoleonic Wars, with a gender pay gap of 15.5% and near-total responsibility for emotional and reproductive labour, then the idea of escaping the rat race for a life of domesticity might look mighty appealing."

A moderate understanding of supply and demand, applied to the labor markets, might indicate that increasing the supply of labor with tens of millions of women might have a depressive effect on both men's and women's wages, indeed it may make them stagnate. (Of course, tens of millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, also don't help, but on the other hand tens of millions of babies have been aborted.)

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (7B5FA)

320
"Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned Thursday evening, per multiple sources, after owner Elon Musk publicly rebuked his own staff over a content moderation decision."

She looks like a porked-out Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (r+5Gi)

321 Nood. Ace broke things again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (zhLdt)

322 Twitter was worth $44B (market cap) and made no money.

It's worth a lost less, probably $30B but will make somewhere around $5B this year.

I think that's not terrible.

Posted by: MJ at June 02, 2023 03:02 PM (zwDuR)

323 After hearing the awful Scuttlebutt rap song by Awkwafina in the new Little Mermaid film (here, but I'm not responsible for ear cancer: https://youtu.be/QKlQu_p97KI ), I had to look for more Awkwafina. I'd heard the name, but knew nothing about her, and people kept making fun of her gravelly voice.

The first thing to come up was her song "My Vag". She sounds normal...not gravelly at all. The song is mediocre, just a serious of "yo mamma" style jokes about how her vag is better than your vague. "Imma let the whole world know, your vag looks like Janet Reno". Or "My vag, speak five different languages, told your vag 'Bitch, make me a sandwich'". Classy.

https://youtu.be/z726OPwCnjE

Posted by: Ashamed Moron at June 02, 2023 03:02 PM (NCgXW)

324 Top Safety Expert

Evidently this is Swahili for Censorship Expert.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 02, 2023 03:02 PM (Wy1BU)

325 Elon or the underlings??

@AOCpress
This account doesn’t exist
Try searching for another.

AOC parody account wiped.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (Vwz3I)

Wow. And it was a verified account, too. So much for $8 bucks getting you respect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

326 "Top Safety Expert"

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The idea that Twitter needs "safety" people working there is pretty damn funny.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 02, 2023 02:59 PM (i7Q7S)

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"Safetyism" is ironically one of the latest religious sects of The Leftist Death Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 03:02 PM (4F3ju)

327 Elon or the underlings??

Underlings...absolutely. Elon apparently though that account was funny.

Posted by: GMan at June 02, 2023 03:03 PM (GfWuY)

328 The current situation at Twitter reminds me of the end of the episode "Severed Dreams" from Babylon 5:

Garibaldi's talking to Sheridan about how they're shipping out all the people that want to go, and the ones they want to get rid of (Nightwatch, mainly.)

Garibaldi: "We got all the ones we know about, but that leaves all the ones we don't."

Sheridan: "We're going to have a problem with sabotage for a while."

Garibaldi: "Almost certainly."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 02, 2023 03:03 PM (nRMeC)

329 Irony alert:

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 · Jun 1
BREAKING: JP Morgan just downgraded Target's stock, after its longest losing streak in 23 years citing "too many concerns rising’.

Happy Pride Month Target!!

Elon Musk @elonmusk
Won’t be long before there are class-action lawsuits by shareholders against the company and board of directors for destruction of shareholder value

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 03:03 PM (Vwz3I)

330 I spoke to some Twitter employees and this seems to be a combination of middle management needing to be fired and a backend bloatcode that doesnt have to ability to undo flags for this type of campaign. The tell will be when they do it again, if the same issue comes up.

BTW, what Daily Wire did wasn't cheap either, it costs like 350K to do that kind of promotion.

Posted by: The Unfaucinated and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 02, 2023 03:03 PM (VTu1l)

331 TWITTER'S HEAD OF BRAND SAFETY AND AD QUALITY IS LEAVING

I'd laugh at the title, except xhe probably "earns" 10-15x what I do.

Posted by: spindrift at June 02, 2023 03:04 PM (ivvNA)

332 That means there's some very serious backdoor power plays going on here, and it's coming from people that are too key to the operation for Musk to be able to fire. So he has to find ways to work around them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2023 02:06 PM (i9ffA)

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How about firing them out of a cannon? Musk has those, right, and the bodies will leave the atmosphere?

Posted by: The_Hoser at June 02, 2023 03:05 PM (N66D6)

333 "... for destruction of shareholder value"

That is the phrase I was searching for yesterday!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 02, 2023 03:05 PM (MeG8a)

334 Nood. Ace broke things again.
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That's not nood but that too is reality.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 02, 2023 03:05 PM (Vwz3I)

335 As we say in La Cosa Nostra, The feds are hard to beat: they make the rules, they print the money, they own the nukes.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 02, 2023 03:05 PM (nnp+f)

336 See, while the federal government and it's goons will win at every federal court, they have no mechanism to force Texas to give Twitter their servers back, which were seized due to violation of the Texas Constitution.

When the Supreme Court chickened out over Texas' election challenge, they almost let the secret out.
The dirty secret they were hiding is, they have no power to force any state to do anything-- it's all voluntary.

Because they knew if they took it up, PA was going to tell them to fuck off. As they had already told them once.
That was the real reason they cowered and ran away.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2023 03:06 PM (YDaBn)

337 Or maybe it's more like, "he's in charge but the word came down from on high that if he doesn't play ball with Twitter, his other ventures will be either cut off from any and all government contracts (SpaceX), government approvals (SpaceX, Tesla) and interfered with until they become loss-making enterprises that destroy his capital (all of them)."

The latter would be my immediate first guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 02:12 PM (DU+/6)

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And that's where the junta gets their revenge.

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 03:06 PM (3JfbU)

338 Musk tweeting the movie is awesome. I think he has investors that helped him make the purchase and may be the reason he doesn't have dictatorial control.

Please don't abandon Musk now with knee jerk action. It's a war with lots of battles to come.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 03:06 PM (UpUEm)

339 If I wanted to make fun of your typo, I would've said I saw the typo open for some rando band at some rando venue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

LOL not queensryche though

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 03:07 PM (wkk9P)

340 "his seems to be a combination of middle management needing to be fired and a backend bloatcode that doesnt have to ability to undo flags for this type of campaign"

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Yes. Musk said yesterday that the issue "will be fixed tonight." (and they had likely pushed updates early AM).

There isn't some magic button they press.

A lot of this post is filled with hysteria that just isn't true (the idea Musk approved the censoring is just stupid).

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 02, 2023 03:07 PM (i7Q7S)

341 FYI Scotch Brite is the top selling brand of sponge in America and is known for its toughness, durability and quality.

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2023 03:07 PM (wkk9P)

342 What, one car jumped the rails?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2023 02:31 PM (qoGsy)

One guy stood up as they passed under a low bridge, swept all the rest off the roof of the car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2023 03:08 PM (r+5Gi)

343 "One of the employees in question, Maie Aiyed … served as the company’s program manager for brand safety"
Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 02:34 PM (wb1YC)

Put the hot iron on the steer, not your ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2023 03:11 PM (r+5Gi)

344 When the Supreme Court chickened out over Texas' election challenge, they almost let the secret out.
The dirty secret they were hiding is, they have no power to force any state to do anything-- it's all voluntary.

Been saying this forever. One party runs over the judiciary. The other party keeps obeying the judiciary.

Which side do you think wins ? And why do you think Roberts does what he does ?

He does it because you will obey, and they will not. Just like the mom that beats the kids because that husband won't.

Posted by: Fool Me Once at June 02, 2023 03:12 PM (sQh5T)

345 How did he get all those people to agree to go on film with him and make fools of themselves?

Posted by: Caliban at June 02, 2023 03:12 PM (iC8vi)

346 Feels to me like when this whole thing went public Musk HAD NOT seen the movie, and asked for an explanation of why they were screwing his PR up, and they told him it was to ban evil hatred that was LITERALY VIOLENCE, so he initially agreed... but when it virally blew up on him he finally decided to watch it himself, and that's when he demanded her resignation and tweeted it.

That would explain the sequence of events - he was dumb enough to trust a far left to tell him what he should censor, and he finally looked for himself and realized what a toxic ideologue he was still employing.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 02, 2023 03:13 PM (setIA)

347 Matt Walsh provides a good rundown of the timeline of events here:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1664698227726200835

Posted by: Gran at June 02, 2023 03:14 PM (GM3/s)

348 A moderate understanding of supply and demand, applied to the labor markets, might indicate that increasing the supply of labor with tens of millions of women might have a depressive effect on both men's and women's wages, indeed it may make them stagnate. (Of course, tens of millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, also don't help, but on the other hand tens of millions of babies have been aborted.)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2023 03:01 PM (7B5FA)

Be aware also that the continual creation of free money to support the banks who have no assets to back them up has depressed the purchasing power of the increased wages. Wew have inflated so badly no one can survive on just one paycheck while we are earning what would have been considered a princely salary in 1973

Posted by: Kindltot at June 02, 2023 03:15 PM (xhaym)

349 Twitterverse is shot through with anti-americans.
Cesspool.
Musk has a lot of work to do.

Posted by: torabora at June 02, 2023 03:15 PM (T4GDJ)

350 #348

There ARE assets to prop up banks. They're overpriced houses. But that's an argument for another day.

Posted by: torabora at June 02, 2023 03:17 PM (T4GDJ)

351 Knew a girl in college so thin you could trace her circulatory system. Ironically she was beautiful, wonder how she turned out.

I knew a girl in high school she was so pale she was like 80% albino, but not quite. Her hair was super pale blonde, she looked frail and absolutely breathtaking. I hope she did well.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 03:18 PM (0hOvj)

352 Not for nothing but I believe the government of Turkey told Twitter they needed to ban a few accounts, including one of Enes Kanter Freedom, a former NBA player, or Turkey would cut Twitter off within the country.

Twitter banned Kanter.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 02:17 PM (KbCG3)

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I think Tucker Carlson used to have Kanter often on his program.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 03:19 PM (3JfbU)

353 Musk is one of those guys I actually believe to be fiercely anti-ideological. I don't trust anyone in charge, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Posted by: red speck at June 02, 2023 02:26 PM (Ny/Va)

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Me too, I think he is quite logical in his reactions.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 02, 2023 03:20 PM (3JfbU)

354 JimT, she could sing, dance and was a cheerleader. Not oily at all.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 03:28 PM (eo57b)

355 Christopher Taylor, you had an elf encounter.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2023 03:29 PM (eo57b)

356 Trying to watch this what is a woman and work is not working

Posted by: Summer at June 02, 2023 03:42 PM (lKbSw)

357 Ka-Ching!
That’s the sound of Tryth Social, Gab, and SocialGalactic ringing up sign-ups.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at June 02, 2023 03:55 PM (PS49u)

358 Looks like Elon iin charge of Twitter is like President Trump in charge of the Executive Branch: both had/have to deal with saboteurs within.
I'll cut Elon a hell of a lot of slack for his buying Twitter and supporting free speech, even if there may be hiccups from time to time. The man knew he would take an initial loss on his investment and did it anyway.
Bully for him!

Posted by: Hammer Dog at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (9M063)

359 Does the court side with the underling or the elected head of the executive branch?

The answer, of course, is: which party holds the presidency?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

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Hell Trump couldn’t even get Acosta booted from the press room for bad and unprofessional behavior.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 02, 2023 05:27 PM (L1HeT)

360 What is a Liberal Democrat?! A pathetic always whining little snowflake and Collage Grad

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 02, 2023 05:56 PM (wGqjj)

361 A lot of the content moderation in major social media is done by bots, and things I've heard from former Twitter employees indicate that the code is an absolute freaking mess. Which is par for the course in any large codebase. A plausible explanation for this is that Musk was entirely well-intentioned but something deep in the bowels of the platform auto-throttled the post based on pattern-matching, and Musk was unaware it would do this and had no way of locating that code so it could be disabled.

How *likely* that is is another matter, but I've seen similar things happen in large, complex platforms.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 02, 2023 06:42 PM (DiCKO)

362

Finally, my paycheck is $ 8,500 A working 10 hours per week online. My brother’s friend had an average of 12K for several months, he work about 22 hours a week. I can not believe how easy it is, once I try to do so. This is what I do....

AND GOOD LUCK.

HERE====)> www.apprichs.com

Posted by: Karen Estrada at June 03, 2023 06:42 AM (bxYCe)

363 Musk is doing a good job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

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