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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

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    #8462
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121361765#Comment_121361765

    I think the Tweet is an attempt to imply the thread's general laughter at Musk is somehow embitterment from emotive lunatics over Elon's apparent genius. He must be a genius cos people talk about him / laugh at him/ criticise him

    Like, OK. By Musk's own words Twitter has lost a tonne of value and the Cybertruck is a big old Homer but sure, we're all jealous. Lol



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    #8463
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121361868#Comment_121361868

    Technically, it most definitely is not improved. They've had more technical issues than they've had for years. They've been disastrous technically since he took over, this includes things like basic audio feeds going down. It's basically been hilarity for the engineering community to watch.


    In terms of the hate speech that you think should be out in the public. Since they've lost a huge proportion of their advertising revenue, it's pretty clear advertisers want nothing to do with it.



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    #8464
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121361916#Comment_121361916

    I'm now waiting for the "but but Musk stopped the paedos" box to be checked in the Elon Musk @ Twitter bingo.



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    #8465
    Harika
    Registered Users Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭Harika


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121361926#Comment_121361926

    He cannot even stop the paid! scammer advertisement with his face selling x-token



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    #8466
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    At other times he also brought back David Icke, Ron (Anon) Watkins and Kanye West.

    I for one won’t be expecting much from the middens heap for any kind of fact checking or potential for good.



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    #8467
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121358042#Comment_121358042

    It's not unusual to have such clauses.

    In 2017, Cena took delivery of an all-new 2017 Ford GT supercar. He then sold the car just a few months later, and in doing so violated the sales agreement, which stated that the Ford GT’s hand-picked customers, who were chosen through an application process, were not allowed to sell the car for at least two years. The contract was meant to discourage exactly this type of flipping, but everybody knows pro wrestlers don’t follow rules.



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    #8468
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121361926#Comment_121361926

    I had actually forgotten about that time Musk stepped in and reinstated the account that was distributing child sex abuse images.



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    #8469
    [Deleted User]
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    At this stage I'm just wondering at what point he gets board of Twitter, declares X's main business to be, let's say cryptocurrency (anything to save a bit of face) and he just closes the 'forum' aspect of it entirely.

    Realistically at this stage Twitter is completely destroyed. It's increasingly not the same platform it was a few years ago and what made it interesting is no longer there.



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    #8470
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,219 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121365493#Comment_121365493

    There's still some money to be made. In it's essence it's not the same, it's closer to truth social at this stage but even with a smaller user base it'll still generate some money from the social network aspects.

    I say "some money". It'll still be a shadow of what it once was.


    BTW, has anyone else who uses twitter noticed that besides all the really **** adverts they're also seeing sponsored posts from Enoch Burke?

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    #8471
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121365476#Comment_121365476

    Shush, don't be pointing out such inconveniences as things Musk actually did or "facts"; Twitter's better than ever, and Musk is a genius 'cos people are talking about him. We're all just saying Boo-Urns!



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    #8472
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,419 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121365678#Comment_121365678

    I dunno if it will make any money tbh. It took Twitter more than a decade to get to profitability, now they're haemorrhaging revenue and users while any good will they may have built up with suppliers and commercial partners is being chewed up with the way Musk is treating his staff and commercial partners



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    #8473
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,914 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    How will the Musk defenders spin this? Just completely blank it? Is this part of his defend free speech strategy by allowing child sexual abuse on the platform?

    ELON MUSK’S X, formerly known as Twitter, has not paid a fine imposed for failing to outline its plans to stamp out content depicting child sexual abuse on the platform, Australia’s internet safety watchdog told AFP on Tuesday... Last month, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant slapped a fine of $610,500 (Australian dollars) — around €360,000 — on the company for failing to respond to questions she sent in February, criticising the company’s “empty talk” on the issue.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/x-fails-to-pay-fine-in-australia-6222298-Nov2023/


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #8474
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121365941#Comment_121365941

    Twitter (and Facebook?) were famously incapable of making profit for years before Musk even started making stupid 420 purchase-price jokes: by Musk's own admission the valuation has tanked in his time there; we know important advertisers have (for now) abandoned the service 'cos its value has become severely lessened by bad press & moves like scrubbing the old verification rules; Twitter Blue made the quality of experience degrees worse; smaller stuff like the crazy API fees have killed 3rd party link-ups; and god knows what the EU privacy / data laws are gonna do 'cos AFAIK there's no movement by Twitter about that?

    I wonder what odds you'd get for Microsoft or someone swooping in and taking it over? Offer a "reasonable" price to let Musk walk away shirt relatively intact, while an established corporation with a small degree of good will gets to scoop up Twitter and restore goodwill.



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    #8475
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,427 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121366087#Comment_121366087

    I wonder what odds you'd get for Microsoft or someone swooping in and taking it over? Offer a "reasonable" price to let Musk walk away shirt relatively intact, while an established corporation with a small degree of good will gets to scoop up Twitter and restore goodwill.

    to walk away with his shirt relatively intact he would have to get near to what he paid. It is worth half what he paid, if even that.



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    #8476
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121366222#Comment_121366222

    Undoubtedly, but given Musk's phenomenal wealth to start with, I would trust his accountants to lessen the impact of selling on. He's more able to walk away relatively intact than most wealthy folk.

    Unless of course he's so dogged about the Everything App he goes full Spruce Goose on the thing and drives himself to distraction mutating Twitter into his folly. He seems unsound enough that that's more likely.



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    #8477
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,419 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Musk is Spruce goosed given that Tesla are also in financial bother with his cybertruck looking like it's going to be a massive flop. and Tesla were already massively over valued

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    Twitter soaked up all of Musk's liquid wealth, and now the golden goose is tanking because of Musk's ludicrous hubristic cyber truck that musk ploughed ahead with despite most of his engineers hating the design and concept

    https://news.yahoo.com/tesla-engineers-secretly-started-designing-170708336.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlbVQMtpiR3_GlmIdcBZe2Pb5L2DxFrBJXS5L4LkH74-DE5nBqiti1atU65vZUl2OhDYf0I_PCr2MYOgrx8cEmKDq89U28yM60gWWUPLhKjp3Dx_DvkkOdFW7Wk5ocyPSQFj_aUGfaVmTnpkXj0ZC9-h1UZa6nKtie9eQgQ5ZHF#:~:text=Some%20Tesla%20engineers%20%22hated%22%20the,lines%20and%20stainless%20steel%20body.



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    #8478
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,465 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121366497#Comment_121366497

    That does seem like the latest oncoming train, more so than Twitter perhaps; 'cos like the internet itself it's a fairly abstracted, amorphous entity that doesn't have a centre as such to focus on; the Cybertruck could be ruinous for Tesla in the shape it is now being a manufactured entity, and it's hard to see how or where the thing becomes a financial success. IIRC production is already troublesome for normal Teslas right?



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    #8479
    clampedusa
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭clampedusa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121367035#Comment_121367035

    Im just glad for the option to speak relatively freely (over there).

    A great many people in Ireland are too, including those you know personally and in your local community, im sure they dont approve of all things Twitter/Musk.

    You must see the value in being able to self express, what if Assange or MLK had been silenced.



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    #8480
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,503 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i have some unfortunate news for you about MLK.



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    #8481
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,985 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121367685#Comment_121367685

    Not sure if your typical Musk supporter would consider it "unfortunate".



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    #8482
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,914 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121367675#Comment_121367675

    So you're happy to cheer on what Musk is doing, and give no straight answer on child sex abuse. Just cryptic nonsense. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude you have no issue with child sex abuse being shared on Twitter. And in cheering on what Musk is doing with Twitter, you are also cheering on his policies which allow child sex abuse to be shared.

    Or you can clear it up for us, and give a clear comment expressing your concern about Twitter being fined for its failures on policing child sex abuse.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #8483
    clampedusa
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭clampedusa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121367789#Comment_121367789

    Well if thats true then thats a big black mark against him, Im just thankful for the part where people are able to have open mature debate.

    So if Musk is replaced thats fine, as long as the philosophy of open discussion, which he instilled, stays. The opening of discussion still goes in one column of his book, regardless of what goes in the other. Thats for courts.



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    #8484
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 23,427 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    @clampedusa threadbanned

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



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    #8485
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,822 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121357580#Comment_121357580

    There's no way that piece of garbage is going to be allowed to be sold in Europe.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #8486
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121368097#Comment_121368097

    By and large the already small number of pick-up trucks purchased in Europe are bought by those with an actual professional need for them.

    They are not the "lifestyle choice" vehicle they are in the US and no one who uses their pick-up for actual work is going to buy one of these.



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    #8487
    nachouser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Yours for only 420k.



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    #8488
    Snooker Loopy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Snooker Loopy


    This is genuinely chilling shlt. The operative phrase Musk is positioning himself to agree with above all is "Hitler was right" in the first tweet. The tweet he directly responds to is pushing Gemma O'Doherty level "great repacement", "Kalergi plan" insanity.

    Will Israel go after him in the same way they went after Paddy Cosgrave (who is, to be clear, an unmerciful gobshite), despite what Musk has said here being exponentially more despicable than anything Cosgrave has ever said on any topic? My strong bet is no, they won't, because they fear him and the power he has. Cosgrave was small fry in comparison. We should all fear the power Musk has. He's an out of control headcase and he's a genuine Jew hater.

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    #8489
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    On the Special K again.



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    #8490
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,931 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Maybe he's had some of the Pervitin he kept for emergencies instead.

    Can't wait for the "CNN bad" driveby post.



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    #8491
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121126664#Comment_121126664

    Bit of an asshole is understatement of the year. Hes an evil c**t.



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