• TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Folk should just go on Twitter and pretend they work there - spewing all types of horseshit and nonsense about the company and Moosk's takeover. See how long it takes before the nerds take notice and start shouting 'sir! sir! this person's saying bad things about you! sir!' and attempt to get you fired.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Dear @elonmusk,

      Sir, I too am concerned about the limited Android throughput functionalities. Perhaps tweaking the output vector defibrillator construct is called for? In any case - good luck!

      Sincerely, InevitableSwing

      • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The output vector thing was good but needs more machine learning mumbo jumbo, try throwing in shit like "natural language processing" or NLP, "clustering," "latent space," "feature extraction"

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Trying to learn and be helpful"

    Dude just jumped in to the middle of one of the most complex rube goldberg machines in the world, fired like 60% of the people who know how it works, and is now tearing random handfuls of machinery out because they're yellow and he doesn't like yellow.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If it weren't for the hype, the money, and the credulous rubes buying into the hype and worshiping the money, it would be pretty plain to see that a big adult baby is metaphorically breaking all the toys and smearing shit on the walls.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Looking through the engineer's timeline:

    As Twitter sinks to new lows Parag and Ned were reportedly asked to return but were only given 6mins to decide.

    Elon is a fucking child lmao

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Elon: "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse"

      People he critically needs back to salvage anything from this disaster: "I refuse"

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I remember when Gabe Newell, the gamers darling CEO, fired some announcer for a tournament, and called him an ass on Reddit. And reddit actually freaked out on him. Oh how far the :freeze-gamer: have fallen.

    • messengerbagsarecool [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      James Harding was actually reinvited to the latest Dota 2 tournament a couple weeks ago, so he is no longer in ass status

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    The Elon simps in the replies... 🤢

    It's hard to articulate exactly what the phenomenon is, but that combination of derision and stupidity is one of my least favorite things on earth. Like the "that's why he's the boss. listen and you might learn something." sort of people.

    That sickening combination of being both incredibly sanctimonious and incredibly wrong sends me into a rage without fail.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      derision and stupidity / sickening combination of being both incredibly sanctimonious and incredibly wrong

      Reddit​!

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That sickening combination of being both incredibly sanctimonious and incredibly wrong

      the non-western experience of having western libs endlessly lecture you

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Would Eric's initial comment be considered cause for termination under California law?

    If not, then, congratulations to Eric on getting the hell out of there and making himself eligible to sue the company.

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      And if that's not how it works out, congratulations to Eric on getting fired which was either his goal anyway or something he's probably fairly indifferent to considering the appropriate level of disrespect he clearly has for his shitty new boss.

    • 420stalin69
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      2 years ago

      It’s the USA of course this is legal.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Hilarious how acting like this in public for any other boss or ceo would be such a bad look but for epic bacon musk man it's just part of the show. Amazin' what you can get away with when you're the richest person in human history.

    • fifthedition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Everyone goes on about how this is his worst investment, $44 billion down the drain, etc. You know what happens when you're worth $150 billion and you lose $44 billion? You're still worth $100 billion.

      Food for thought.

        • fifthedition [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I don't know...he's very deeply into Twitter, wreckers are everywhere, the remaining staff hate him, advertisers are pulling ads, the whole US blob power structure are against him...it doesn't look good. My money is on, six months from now he declares bankruptcy and loses it all.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Crassus was richer that guy had a private army larger than the army of the biggest empire in the world

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This is a person with valuable skills trying to point out a mistake that Elon has made before it has too much of a negative effect. I think that will look pretty good on a CV very soon.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Self serving" bro, if he wanted to be self serving there's better ways to do it than publicly calling our a billionaire manchild with the power to fire him, lol.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He's already a senior dev at a FAANG, not like he could physically land a higher paying job in his domain.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        his inbox is gonna be full of recruiters now, if it wasn't already.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, very easy for him to make a lateral movement with the experience he has. My point is it's funny to say he did this for career progress, like what would the play be here? Become one of like 5 "cancelled for truth" substack guys who make more than he did at his current job?