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But that Fleetwood Mac album is so worth it! 
TTFN - Kent
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That's their best album IMHO, not a single mediocre song. I'm happy of having bought the LP (well, my wife gifted it to me).
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Musk is paying them for 60 days (Feb 2, 2023) and locking them out of Twitter's systems. This complies with the US WARN act and California Law as well as protects Twitters only real asset - their software.
modified 4-Nov-22 16:59pm.
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I've been through acquisitions before. Including one where we learned we got acquired on a Friday afternoon; on Monday morning, people from HR from the bigger company called us all into the boardroom and read out names of people who should stay there for further instructions. Everyone else was told to go back to their desks.
Those who stayed in the room were then given a check and told to pack up. During the meeting, our IT guy had been busy revoking access to company resources.
Different country, different rules, but I don't really see that Twitter employees have much of a leg to stand on.
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The speed of dark.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man: Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
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Geee! I am sooo impressed! A triple!
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Amazing how the tides seem to have turned against Elon. Three years ago the fanboys would have outnumbered the detractors by at least 10 to 1. Now I'm seeing comments with like ratios of 300 to 16 against him.
Quote: webGLdude wrote:
Was he always such a d*ck?
Yep.
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Yeah, its difficult to swim against the tide of SJWs, cancel culture, virtue signalers, Hollywood and the DNC. 
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It may be hard to go against those groups, but Elon's tweets and actions have made it pretty easy to dislike him without those group's involvement. 
edit: Antagonizing Lou Paskalis, the COO of MMA Global, an international marketing company that works with such high profile companies as Anheuser-Busch, McDonald's, Yum! Brands, WalMart, Ford, Pandora, Bank of America, Hilton, Meta, T-Mobile, and many many many more - not a smart move: reddit thread, follow-up screen shot.
That is such a stupid approach to take with one of the most powerful advertisers in the world part of me thinks it must be faked. But I haven't seen anything that show that to be the case. [search] - it was real.
modified 5-Nov-22 2:37am.
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Maybe, but those groups certainly add to the ratios you mentioned.
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If you believe in that crap then you need to add the RNC to your list as well. That is enough politics. Everybody wants to hate everybody, and it is extremely old. 
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I've got no beef with Elon.
He let's us know where he stands, unlike many others in the power game.
He wants to make Facebook open, not one-sided crap. A good thing.
He also has a vision about exploring space I share.
Just saying.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Neither Stephen King is happy with him and his plans.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear intelligent until they start speaking.
I'm not a fan of Musk, and this move once again shows he cares little for others.
I've got to hand it to him though, he does something right!
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He doesn't care for others? Sure, he's a blue sky, opinionated arrogant jerk at times.
On the other hand, just think of the number of people he employs.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: just think of the number of people he employs
So do all of the world's dictators.
Just because you need people to do your work and make you money doesn't mean you care for them 
Musk threatened to relocate a Tesla factory from California to Texas because he didn't approve of COVID measures.
Leaving the thousands of factory workers unemployed (or forcing to relocate) wasn't his concern.
How much he trusts people became obvious when he said remote workers just pretend to work and he'd fire anyone who'd want to work from home.
Telling people they're out of a job (one they've had for years) over a mass email again shows just how little he cares for people.
I'm quite certain Musk is a sociopath and maybe a bit of a narcissist.
It's not even that I disagree with him (not always anyway), it's just the way he does things that rubs me the wrong way.
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Oh sander - seriously? That's about a 50 mile wide brush / leap you made there. My point was your assumption that a CEO or whatever the hell he is these days, does not "care" for people.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The speed of dust - Spaceballs docet.
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Was at the pool today and needed to pee, so I did it at the deep end.
The life guard noticed and blew his whistle so hard I nearly fell in.
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I'll tell you what normal people do. Go to the bathroom. Pee in a bottle. Open the bottle underwater. Save the bottle for future use.
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Sounds like way too much effort.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I would be A.B. Normal
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Just like a young girl or an old man.  
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This is just a philosophical starting point for a discussion. I don't want it to get religious or overtly political, so let's leave our deities and our political parties at the door. Otherwise, I'm interested in your thoughts.
Posing for argument, the death of civilization, and our eminent collective demise that would follow - or at least for most of us - i don't want to get hung up on that: Is it really any different than your personal death? We are so attached to the idea of projecting ourselves into the future vicariously through The Child - have we ever asked ourselves if it *really* matters? It's not like we'll actually live any longer. Yet this clinging to life is so dear we even do it beyond ourselves. While I can understand the value of that as a simple social animal, we don't live in caves anymore. We're not simple as to not be able to look at the continuation of the species and ask ourselves what the point of it really is.
Please don't misunderstand me above, as this isn't so much about petty nihilism, but I'm trying to raise a question with it.
Why are we here, and I mean absent some sort of artifice we create to rationalize our existence?
What I mean by that is what is core drive, aside from survival? Don't we need one? Haven't we moved past the bread and water phase of existence? As a species, what are we really trying to accomplish, other than base continuation?
I don't know if I should hide after writing this. Just trying to pose a starting point for a potentially interesting discussion topic.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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