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[tarheelhockey]

Early morning wellness check on Elmo

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Oh. Oh no.

I for one am shocked that Elon wasn’t prepared for the jump from private to public.

 

[Lempo]

due to rampant degree farm abuse in India that has caused a handful of my own employees to be silently terminated overnight).

Oh.

 

[Lempo]

I for one am shocked that Elon wasn’t prepared for the jump from private to public.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I for one am shocked that Elon wasn’t prepared for the jump from private to public.

The same saying remains true as when he first bought Twitter:

"Hypersensitive narcissist buys criticism factory"

Except now he's put himself in the spotlight of people who aren't "terminally online" and they're starting to realize what those online have known for years: Musk is a manchild that can't handle being told "No"

 

[Svechhammer]

The same saying remains true as when he first bought Twitter:

"Hypersensitive narcissist buys criticism factory"

Except now he's put himself in the spotlight of people who aren't "terminally online" and they're starting to realize what those online have known for years: Musk is a manchild that can't handle being told "No"

And he's going scorched earth. Been terminating accounts of anyone who second guesses him yesterday...

That account now doesn't even show as suspended. It shows does not exist, it was wiped off the app after this reply

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

The same saying remains true as when he first bought Twitter:

"Hypersensitive narcissist buys criticism factory"

Except now he's put himself in the spotlight of people who aren't "terminally online" and they're starting to realize what those online have known for years: Musk is a manchild that can't handle being told "No"

IMO, he bought twitter for one reason only and had nothing to do with the success of Twitter, free speech or censorship. He bought twitter to control the news narrative and impact an election in his own favor, and it worked. His net worth is almost double what it was right after he bought Twitter.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

IMO, he bought twitter for one reason only and had nothing to do with the success of Twitter, free speech or censorship. He bought twitter to control the news narrative and impact an election in his own favor, and it worked. His net worth is almost double what it was right after he bought Twitter.

For sure, though I'll add that controlling the narrative goes along with free speech. It's hard to push disinformation if Twitter is constantly correcting you. But if he controls what's being seen, he can push whatever narrative he desires. And that worked especially well when he used the political divide to push those narratives.

But a good portion of one side of that divide has left the platform for bluer skies, and being pro-immigration is staunchly against the side that remains, so he's left with censorship to try and silence those dissenting voices on his platform

 

[Svechhammer]

And again, he's silencing everyone because what he is saying is absolute bullshit and people on every side are calling him out on it.

This is exactly what I saw in the market this year. Right now is a terrible time to be unemployed in the tech industry. Companies are hiring, but they aren't hiring you, they're looking for cheap overseas labor. The RTP is loaded right now with companies that have signed contracts with the state to massive tax credits for filling out their local campuses, and satisfying those contracts by importing cheap H1B workers instead of putting those jobs in the hands of the local population. The last 3 companies I've been in had campuses where more than 50% of the workforce was here from India on a H1B visa. Meanwhile those kids right out of college from State, Clemson, GT, VT, etc are facing an increasingly steeper uphill climb just to get an entry level job.

And what really grinds my gears about this is that you have these dumbass extremists on every side trying to make this some kind of white people vs not white people when in reality Elon and Vivek are spitting in the face of every American. This is a crisis of the American labor market and it should piss off everyone regardless of your skin color. If you hold a US Passport, they are outright saying they don't think you are smart enough to employ.