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Posted: 5/13/2022 8:46:49 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rtintwo: Can someone explain this to a Luddite like myself. I know one thing Elon was going to fix was spam bots and he claimed it was more than 5% of users. To me it would be a good thing that it’s less than expected. Edit: or does this mean Elon thinks twitter is lying and it’s much larger? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rtintwo: Originally Posted By Chokey:
Can someone explain this to a Luddite like myself. I know one thing Elon was going to fix was spam bots and he claimed it was more than 5% of users. To me it would be a good thing that it’s less than expected. Edit: or does this mean Elon thinks twitter is lying and it’s much larger? IMHO? Yes.  My personal belief is that Jack told him how this all really works. Told him where everything is hidden, told him which closets to look in. If it's 10% bots and not ~5%? Cheaper buying price. It looks like the way this is playing out, I think it's sort of gonna get exposed that it was a left wing clubhouse and also a media megaphone, which everyone on the right knew - But it wasn't really public, as in, Joe Q public on the street didn't know that, MOSTLY only we did. I think he's exposing the facade.  "Take controoooool of your platformm" |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 9:22:58 AM EST
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:17:06 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Freakinout: Which ones aren't made up? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Freakinout: Originally Posted By midmo: Originally Posted By Freakinout: Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By 1969GTX: I'm still banned for "hate speach" but I take joy in continuing to email appeals that go something like, "I'll be back on when you and your ilk are fired by you new owner. How does it feel knowing Elon is going to be your boss? I bet is stings. Alot. I'm pretty happy about that. Talk to you again." I would reply to let you know " alot" is not a word. all words are made up Alot of them are, anyway. Which ones aren't made up? It was a joke. 
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:19:57 AM EST
[Last Edit: Freakinout]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midmo: It was a joke. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midmo: Originally Posted By Freakinout: Originally Posted By midmo: Originally Posted By Freakinout: Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By 1969GTX: I'm still banned for "hate speach" but I take joy in continuing to email appeals that go something like, "I'll be back on when you and your ilk are fired by you new owner. How does it feel knowing Elon is going to be your boss? I bet is stings. Alot. I'm pretty happy about that. Talk to you again." I would reply to let you know " alot" is not a word. all words are made up Alot of them are, anyway. Which ones aren't made up? It was a joke. Eta meant  I was gonna make a pmag bet if ya had an answer for me, love free pmags 
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:24:05 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Geralt55: IMHO? Yes. My personal belief is that Jack told him how this all really works. Told him where everything is hidden, told him which closets to look in. If it's 10% bots and not ~5%? Cheaper buying price. It looks like the way this is playing out, I think it's sort of gonna get exposed that it was a left wing clubhouse and also a media megaphone, which everyone on the right knew - But it wasn't really public, as in, Joe Q public on the street didn't know that, MOSTLY only we did. I think he's exposing the facade. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EminentSaneGemsbok-size_restricted.gif "Take controoooool of your platformm" Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Geralt55: Originally Posted By rtintwo: Originally Posted By Chokey:
Can someone explain this to a Luddite like myself. I know one thing Elon was going to fix was spam bots and he claimed it was more than 5% of users. To me it would be a good thing that it’s less than expected. Edit: or does this mean Elon thinks twitter is lying and it’s much larger? IMHO? Yes. My personal belief is that Jack told him how this all really works. Told him where everything is hidden, told him which closets to look in. If it's 10% bots and not ~5%? Cheaper buying price. It looks like the way this is playing out, I think it's sort of gonna get exposed that it was a left wing clubhouse and also a media megaphone, which everyone on the right knew - But it wasn't really public, as in, Joe Q public on the street didn't know that, MOSTLY only we did. I think he's exposing the facade. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EminentSaneGemsbok-size_restricted.gif "Take controoooool of your platformm" Would be amusing if he exposes them, ruins them and then walks away. |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:29:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mooreshawnm: Would be amusing if he exposes them, ruins them and then walks away. or buys it for Pennies! |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:35:43 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? I guess youve never been downloading bikini pics of Jenny McCarthy and someone picked up the phone upstairs and you lost your connection
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Posted: 5/13/2022 10:36:54 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: I get what you're saying but I disagree. Reclaiming this lost ground and getting significant communication tools purged of leftist censorship is very important. I want to see him complete the purchase. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By SuperAlpha: Making a bona fide offer, doing due diligence, showing the entire world what's under the hood....and freaking out ultra loonies, showing their colors. He doesn't need to buy Twitter anymore. He showed the world how screwed up they are and how they lied to investors. I get what you're saying but I disagree. Reclaiming this lost ground and getting significant communication tools purged of leftist censorship is very important. I want to see him complete the purchase. Yep, this. The exposure verifies what WE knew, but the rest of the general public will forget by July. He has to finish the deal |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:17:11 PM EST
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:21:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: Originally Posted By Subnet: He's not wrong. And it's how forums like this work. Not that most people (other than you blessed heroes) give a shit, anymore. I've LONG felt that we've given up a lot, when we collectively abandoned them. And a lot of other things. I'm not kidding, when I insist that we'll collectively look back at the Internet prior to about 2008, and go..."Aw, shit. We fucked up". We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib.
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:35:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mooreshawnm: Would be amusing if he exposes them, ruins them and then walks away. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By Geralt55: Originally Posted By rtintwo: Originally Posted By Chokey:
Can someone explain this to a Luddite like myself. I know one thing Elon was going to fix was spam bots and he claimed it was more than 5% of users. To me it would be a good thing that it’s less than expected. Edit: or does this mean Elon thinks twitter is lying and it’s much larger? IMHO? Yes. My personal belief is that Jack told him how this all really works. Told him where everything is hidden, told him which closets to look in. If it's 10% bots and not ~5%? Cheaper buying price. It looks like the way this is playing out, I think it's sort of gonna get exposed that it was a left wing clubhouse and also a media megaphone, which everyone on the right knew - But it wasn't really public, as in, Joe Q public on the street didn't know that, MOSTLY only we did. I think he's exposing the facade. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EminentSaneGemsbok-size_restricted.gif "Take controoooool of your platformm" Would be amusing if he exposes them, ruins them and then walks away. Lmao, starts his own twitter 
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:40:08 PM EST
[Last Edit: Geralt55]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
I wonder if this was a chess move today. Twitter might have been dragging things out to create time to hide the digital bodies. Elon today: "Eh, if this really does take months? Maybe more will come out and the price will fall  "Tbh this whole thing feels like a .biz version of the movie Law Abiding Citizen starring Elon Musk  |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:42:18 PM EST
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Why aren't Twitter execs being charged with fraud?
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Posted: 5/13/2022 2:44:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BangStick1: Why aren't Twitter execs being charged with fraud? by the FBI? |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 4:48:17 PM EST
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Posted: 5/13/2022 4:48:48 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By happycynic: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/vladimir-putin-laughing_zpsov82lsef_GIF-129.gif Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By happycynic: Originally Posted By Freakinout: by the FBI?  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 6:27:08 PM EST
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Posted: 5/13/2022 6:51:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSrGf7wXEAEUxLn?format=jpg&name=small 
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Posted: 5/13/2022 8:53:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
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Posted: 5/13/2022 8:56:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSrGf7wXEAEUxLn?format=jpg&name=small Umm, I love me some trump, best president ever. Sorry don, it’s not enough. |
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Posted: 5/13/2022 9:44:26 PM EST
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Posted: 5/13/2022 9:51:49 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2022 7:21:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
I was wondering why he did that, then just read the Musk waived DD on the deal. I can't imagine why he would have done that, given the obvious questions about the amount of bots and info that might have been withheld or misstated by the company. If a waiver of DD was a deal term that initiated with, and was being pushed by the BoD, it should have been a red flag. He can still back out, but between the breakup fee and the loss his stock would take, it would be pretty significant. Then again, maybe take a hit on the breakup fee, hope the share price tanks, and then make a repriced offer. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 7:59:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shaggy: I was wondering why he did that, then just read the Musk waived DD on the deal. I can't imagine why he would have done that, given the obvious questions about the amount of bots and info that might have been withheld or misstated by the company. If a waiver of DD was a deal term that initiated with, and was being pushed by the BoD, it should have been a red flag. He can still back out, but between the breakup fee and the loss his stock would take, it would be pretty significant. Then again, maybe take a hit on the breakup fee, hope the share price tanks, and then make a repriced offer. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shaggy: Originally Posted By Chokey:
I was wondering why he did that, then just read the Musk waived DD on the deal. I can't imagine why he would have done that, given the obvious questions about the amount of bots and info that might have been withheld or misstated by the company. If a waiver of DD was a deal term that initiated with, and was being pushed by the BoD, it should have been a red flag. He can still back out, but between the breakup fee and the loss his stock would take, it would be pretty significant. Then again, maybe take a hit on the breakup fee, hope the share price tanks, and then make a repriced offer. 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 2:02:17 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2022 2:25:55 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
Troll level over 9000! Never has fuck you money been used so incredibly. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 2:31:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Troll level over 9000! Never has fuck you money been used so incredibly. he is lashing at them all the way to the barn isn't he. fuck you money has a quality very few of us will ever have. but he is using it, in the way we would. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:05:03 PM EST
[Last Edit: spidey07]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: he is lashing at them all the way to the barn isn't he. fuck you money has a quality very few of us will ever have. but he is using it, in the way we would. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: Originally Posted By spidey07: Troll level over 9000! Never has fuck you money been used so incredibly. he is lashing at them all the way to the barn isn't he. fuck you money has a quality very few of us will ever have. but he is using it, in the way we would. Great tycoons in American history had fuck you money. They used it to crush their enemies. True fuck you money is rarely seen in American history. But we’re seeing it now, used for the good of our nation. And I dare say the world. Twitter was/is the modern day printing press, and it was used for evil. Elon buying Twitter will be written about in history and impact as the printing press. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:07:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Troll level over 9000! Never has fuck you money been used so incredibly. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Originally Posted By Chokey:
Troll level over 9000! Never has fuck you money been used so incredibly. 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:13:20 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:22:35 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Great tycoons in American history had fuck you money. They used it to crush their enemies. True fuck you money is rarely seen in American history. But we’re seeing it now, used for the good of our nation. And I dare say the world. Twitter was/is the modern day printing press, and it was used for evil. Elon buying Twitter will be written about in history and impact as the printing press. absolutely. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:23:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnowboundinNH: @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnowboundinNH: Originally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. The CDs only came in after a long campaign of floppies. The floppies could at least be re-used, if I recall correctly. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 3:26:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bohr_Adam: The CDs only came in after a long campaign of floppies. The floppies could at least be re-used, if I recall correctly. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bohr_Adam: Originally Posted By SnowboundinNH: Originally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. The CDs only came in after a long campaign of floppies. The floppies could at least be re-used, if I recall correctly. Floppies and CD's could be reused |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 4:04:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnowboundinNH: @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnowboundinNH: Originally Posted By transplanted: Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: We were fucked long before then. My mission in life is to build a time machine so I can go back, find whoever invented the free AOL disks, and strangle them in their crib. @WinstonSmith What's an AOL disk? @transplanted Back in the old timey days we had to load software on our computers to use the internet. Well, not necessarily to use the internet but to connect to whoever our internet provider was so they could give us access to the internet. Discs for AOL usually came bundled with a new computer, plus AOL sent them out as junk mail so every couple of weeks you’d get an AOL disc (a CD) in the mail. I recall them being on display at the end of the checkout at the grocery... free for the taking |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 5:53:16 PM EST
[Last Edit: Geralt55]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
 Attached FileThe soundtrack.   The Young Turks Election Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated. Congrats my guys, despite the fact that if you search "The young turks meltdown", your "suggestions" will bury this video It's most certainly the case for my searches It finally climbed over 8 million views anyway. We just love it that much and keep finding it anyway, tooootally-not-fucked-with Search-AlgorithmTM or not.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 6:04:42 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Freakinout: Floppies and CD's could be reused The CDs couldn't be rewritten, just used as beer coasters or microwaved to make art. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 6:18:35 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2022 6:25:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: The CDs couldn't be rewritten, just used as beer coasters or microwaved to make art. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: Originally Posted By Freakinout: Floppies and CD's could be reused The CDs couldn't be rewritten, just used as beer coasters or microwaved to make art. Well no, I thought you meant multiple people could load software with em. It's been a long time since I've needed a floppy disk |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 6:35:25 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
Wow... yeah... big difference what I see. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 7:13:40 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2022 7:57:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
 Opinion: - Part of me thinks twitter was trying to drag this out so they could clean up the messes before Elon gets there. - IMHO Jack told Elon where everything is buried. Twitter's loyalist team (the people who took over while Jack was there, and run it after he left) assumes this is the case and they're scares hitless. - Elon started poking at the bot problem, confirming their fear. - To get them to hand him the keys, he's more or less playing chicken. "K fine, if you want to drag this out to hide your fuckups, then I will expose it anyway and end up lowering the price. "- Parag releases the statement about the deal "being done soon." - Elon then starts poking at the other things he knows about - NOW They're really freaking out, and they HAVE to make threats of their own. "We'll haul you into court for ________________" says the censor-fetishist lawyer-lady from the Tim Pool podcast, hiding behind her office/title and not using her name. IIRC someone has said, he'd have like, break a deal, and THAT would cost him money, to re-negotiate at a lower price. I think he's hinting at that ^ with his tweets about "owning the libs being expensive." He might do it. If price A is - his original offer Price B is - a big penalty for backing out + the NEW lower offer, BUT he saves money on Price B? Technically, it was Smart BusinessTM  |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 8:00:12 PM EST
[Last Edit: Geralt55]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nexttime: Wow... yeah... big difference what I see. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nexttime: Originally Posted By Chokey:
Wow... yeah... big difference what I see. Oh The AlgorithmTM Want to know how scared and upset they are, how petty they are? Google the world's richest man. I did. Here's what I got.  Attached File................... Google returned 2019 results because, fucking why? Why do that at all? You actually have to look down and see, "Oh wait, Elon Musk is WAY richer than he is, in this... Pre-Pandemic-Trump-Still-In-Office number?"  He's getting the Trump-treatment. If he wasn't a self made person/billionaire, he 100% would have been fired from his job/cancelled. Because he's RICH-rich, they are freaking right the fuck out. A person that famous, they can't Arkancide easily, throw that into the mix.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 8:52:44 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:12:20 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSvPtWeXsAYnTHS?format=jpg&name=large Makes sense, the account itself is fake. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:31:11 PM EST
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My puts may not expire worthless next week after all. How about that?
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Posted: 5/15/2022 10:18:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By raven: My puts may not expire worthless next week after all. How about that? 
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Posted: 5/15/2022 10:34:33 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Geralt55: IMHO? Yes. My personal belief is that Jack told him how this all really works. Told him where everything is hidden, told him which closets to look in. If it's 10% bots and not ~5%? Cheaper buying price. It looks like the way this is playing out, I think it's sort of gonna get exposed that it was a left wing clubhouse and also a media megaphone, which everyone on the right knew - But it wasn't really public, as in, Joe Q public on the street didn't know that, MOSTLY only we did. I think he's exposing the facade. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EminentSaneGemsbok-size_restricted.gif "Take controoooool of your platformm" This is essentially what I said earlier. Musk has people in the know feeding him information. He's too smart to put this much money up unless he already knows the answer. Dorsey's sudden exit is still unexplained. During the "Orange man bad" years, there was probably a huge groundswell in Twitter, saying "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!!" What I think may have happened is that Dorsey allowed a Golem to be created with bots, shadowbans, and "trending tools," and as all Golems do, it served their purpose for a while. It didn't take long for the wokes to realize the power that the Golem had to push their narrative, and silence any dissent. So they fed it. Then they wrapped the entire business around the Golem. Now it's the Golem that really runs twitter, under the hood anyway. Now it's to the point that they are misrepresenting the true value of the company to the shareholders by under-reporting bots and other deeply manipulative activity. The Golem is now so central to Twitter, and playing such a key role, that removing it entirely is no longer possible. Especially right now - changing their user counts by what could be some 35-50% with a purchase in play would kill the deal, send people to jail, and burn the whole company down. Dorsey probably said something like: "Guys, I'm not going to jail for this... we gotta stop it..." And their reply was probably something like: "Okay white male, if you don't like it, you can leave and we'll appoint this chubby vegetarian indian guy in your place." |
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Posted: 5/15/2022 11:06:55 AM EST
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A good lawyer never asks a question he doesn't already know the answer to.
Musk knows exactly what's doing here. |
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Posted: 5/15/2022 12:26:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fargo007: This is essentially what I said earlier. Musk has people in the know feeding him information. He's too smart to put this much money up unless he already knows the answer. Dorsey's sudden exit is still unexplained. During the "Orange man bad" years, there was probably a huge groundswell in Twitter, saying "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!!" What I think may have happened is that Dorsey allowed a Golem to be created with bots, shadowbans, and "trending tools," and as all Golems do, it served their purpose for a while. It didn't take long for the wokes to realize the power that the Golem had to push their narrative, and silence any dissent. So they fed it. Then they wrapped the entire business around the Golem. Now it's the Golem that really runs twitter, under the hood anyway. Now it's to the point that they are misrepresenting the true value of the company to the shareholders by under-reporting bots and other deeply manipulative activity. The Golem is now so central to Twitter, and playing such a key role, that removing it entirely is no longer possible. Especially right now - changing their user counts by what could be some 35-50% with a purchase in play would kill the deal, send people to jail, and burn the whole company down. Dorsey probably said something like: "Guys, I'm not going to jail for this... we gotta stop it..." And their reply was probably something like: "Okay white male, if you don't like it, you can leave and we'll appoint this chubby vegetarian indian guy in your place." Are you a wizard? |
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Posted: 5/15/2022 2:04:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Subnet: He's not wrong. And it's how forums like this work. Not that most people (other than you blessed heroes) give a shit, anymore. I've LONG felt that we've given up a lot, when we collectively abandoned them. And a lot of other things. I'm not kidding, when I insist that we'll collectively look back at the Internet prior to about 2008, and go..."Aw, shit. We fucked up". Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Subnet: Originally Posted By Chokey:
I've LONG felt that we've given up a lot, when we collectively abandoned them. And a lot of other things. I'm not kidding, when I insist that we'll collectively look back at the Internet prior to about 2008, and go..."Aw, shit. We fucked up". It's like discussion being shifted from local pubs to massive stadiums, where the stadium authority determines what you see and whose voices are heard. I always have this in the back of my mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engineering_of_Consent |
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