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[Rich B]

So now Elon isn't enforcing his new rules if he doesn't like the person being impersonated..

[Gavster]

You watched it then Gav?

Yeah, it was really good, thanks for the recommendation!

[Gavster]

I think in all probability there'll be a week or two of fuss and posturing by all sides, then it'll settle back down into exactly as it always has been. An echo chamber of clans and pile-ons.

Truth

[Rich B]

I think in all probability there'll be a week or two of fuss and posturing by all sides, then it'll settle back down into exactly as it always has been. An echo chamber of clans and pile-ons.

Truth

if there's enough money left to keep it as a going concern...

[tim]

I reckon they need Beany and about 3 others. It's only a bit of text and the odd meme.

[Beany]

I reckon they need Beany and about 3 others. It's only a bit of text and the odd meme.

I'm too busy with my day job.

[Rich B]

To be fair, she could be talking about anything and I'd watch it..

[Gavster]

I always laugh when people are discredited for being given money by their parents. It's a huge privilege which can provide a head start, that's for sure, so I'll check that. However, there are millions of people who have been given/inheritied tons of money, from a few thousand upwards and 99.9% of them are not millionaires. It still takes a special talent to take 50k/100k/1m and multiply it, rather than simply spend it.

[Jobbo]

It still takes a special talent to take 50k/100k/1m and multiply it, rather than simply spend it.

Hasn't Trump taken his father's money and turned it into a smaller sum than he inherited?

ETA: not the full picture, as you might expect, but yes as at Oct 2021: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexand ... the-sp500/

[ZedLeg]

I always laugh when people are discredited for being given money by their parents. It's a huge privilege which can provide a head start, that's for sure, so I'll check that. However, there are millions of people who have been given/inheritied tons of money, from a few thousand upwards and 99.9% of them are not millionaires. It still takes a special talent to take 50k/100k/1m and multiply it, rather than simply spend it.

I don't think anyone is saying Musk doesn't have any talent, he's definitely fallen into that fallacy of thinking because he was successful in one place he can be successful anywhere.

I also think that Musk only gets picked up on it so much because he tried to downplay how well off he was when he was young.

[Gavster]

It still takes a special talent to take 50k/100k/1m and multiply it, rather than simply spend it.

Hasn't Trump taken his father's money and turned it into a smaller sum than he inherited?

ETA: not the full picture, as you might expect, but yes as at Oct 2021: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexand ... the-sp500/

Trump's presidency had a negative effect on his business. For many years he was a brash, objectionable figure, however when he became president that was multiplied and seemed to have a toxic effect on his businesses, which would tie in with not recovering post-2020.

[dinny_g]

I also think that Musk only gets picked up on it so much because he tried to downplay how well off he was when he was young.

that and passing other people's achievements as his own. Or at least allowing people to think other people's achievements are his and not correcting them...

But for me, it was the way he went after that Diver who rescued those Kids in the cave. an incredible and entirely unnecessary level of cuntishness...

[Gavster]

[Beany]

"planning to starve"

That's a bit hyperbolic even by my standards FFS.

[Gavster]

"planning to starve"

That's a bit hyperbolic even by my standards FFS.

Aye, the idea that not having an open buffet of free food served all day is equivalent to starvation is a blisteringly privileged swipe at the ~800 million people in the world who are actually starving.

[Rich B]

Of course no one will be starving, but It sounds like he's looking to destroy any culture they have (which is something Twitter always played on as strong - Tweeps). Removing WFH, previously enjoyed benefits, job security, etc will just lead to people leaving.

Stuff like providing food isn't just a free gift - it keeps people in the building, eating with their colleagues, more collaboration and working longer hours. It's Elons choice if he doesn't buy into that thinking - but treating well qualified people with plenty of transferable skills badly is obviously a risk.

[Rich B]

This is the company that their employees chose to join over all the others out there:

https://careers.twitter.com/en/tweep-life.html

[tim]

Private company in being run as the owner wishes shocker.

[Rich B]

Private company in being run as the owner wishes shocker.

yep, as I said, it's his choice.

(Does this fit into the "weird nerds defending Elon" meme?

[Beany]

Verification is going back to the way it was, more or less. Whether it's part of Blue, chargable or not is yet to be seen.