I bet they copied some code for mastodon and paid Gargron to not try to go after them. That would definitely give them a huge lift. Otherwise, I don't see how they were able to quickly come up with this. Tech companies take forever to build stuff usually

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pietervdvn 11 points 3 years ago

Sorry, you lost this bet. It's not mastodon they copied, but Instagram: https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads

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SomeoneElse 130 points 3 years ago

I’ve just remembered “I’m a free speech absolutist, but not when it comes to parodies of me” and “tweeting my publicly available flight logs is sending out assassination coordinates”. What a joke of an individual. Cry more Elmo.

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tracyspcy 39 points 3 years ago

The same as they first in line to get government money and whine when extra cent goes to public needs.

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Anticorp 25 points 3 years ago

Using government subsidies to lobby against welfare...

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programmer_belch 2 points 3 years ago

Elmo truly is its own parody account

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const_void 114 points 3 years ago

No idea why people keep buying cars from this guy. Fuck this moron.

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scrubbles 112 points 3 years ago

I'm in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It's amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there's a ton of competition cheaters now

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Duamerthrax 40 points 3 years ago

A conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he's a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn't have a response when I told him Musk doesn't sound like a good businessman.

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Wooly 31 points 3 years ago

My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there's far more and better competition nowadays. And it's really seeming Tesla's are actively dangerous.

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Holzkohlen 4 points 3 years ago

Don't they have the highest amount of flaws among all car brands or something?

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Wooly 2 points 3 years ago

Sure seems like it, and I see an article every other week about the self driving aspect hurting someone or getting into trouble. Just not worth the hassle.

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thisbenzingring 15 points 3 years ago

What is at the top of your list? I'm leaning towards the Ford Mach E with awd but have only looked deeply at half of what is available. Tesla is at the bottom of my list also

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scrubbles 24 points 3 years ago

Mach e is up there. Currently number one spot is the Hyundai ioniq 6, it looks like a direct competitor to the model 3. Nissan leaf and I think Honda are in the running too. Idk gotta start test driving to really know. I'll still test drive a model 3, but from what I hear and see I probably won't go for it

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ophy 14 points 3 years ago

The Ioniqs are absolutely sexy vehicles, they're at the top of my list too!

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Rexios 8 points 3 years ago

I was in the same boat as you having the Tesla be my dream car until all this Twitter shit hit the fan. My roommate has an Ioniq 5 which I liked so much I got an Ioniq 6 as soon as it came out. I absolutely love it.

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GeminiFrenchFry 4 points 3 years ago

My friend bought a 22 leaf last year and from what I know, she loves it. It definitely took some getting used to! We still normally take my car on road trips, though.

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Venutianxspring 3 points 3 years ago

Man those Ioniqs look so good in person too. I'm considering buying one for my wife next year, if I can convince her to get ride of her beloved Prius

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netwren 1 point 3 years ago

Well their brake lights wouldn't turn on during regenerative braking and Hyundai has had some bouts of hacking scandals. But I have heard owners saying food things about them.

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degrix 8 points 3 years ago

I’ve had my Mach-E GT for two years now and it’s been very reliable and very comfortable. There were a couple of small hiccups early on, but I can’t see going back to non-electric cars. Would definitely buy it again!

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CalcProgrammer1 5 points 3 years ago

My parents got a 2021 Mach E and they love it. I've driven it a few times. I'm eyeing one for my next car too, though I've also been interested in Hyundai's offerings. I've never wanted a Hyundai in my life but their new EV lineup looks pretty compelling.

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thisbenzingring 1 point 3 years ago

Im not sure I could own a car with such an ugly tail end lol.... ::Shudder::

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ghariksforge 2 points 3 years ago

Hyundai Ioniq is a sexy car.

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smallerdemon 12 points 3 years ago

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Holzkohlen 2 points 3 years ago

Just include a reaching leg thingy as well then you can drive from the right side too. Musk, if you do this I will sue you for "cheating".

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fidodo 5 points 3 years ago

He chose to get cocky right when competition caught up

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billygoat 1 point 3 years ago

Idk, from what I heard he barely spends his time with Tesla these days due to being preoccupied with twitter 😂

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ghariksforge 21 points 3 years ago

I would not buy cars from a guy who can't even manage a website.

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Venutianxspring 9 points 3 years ago

He did manage it. Managed to turn it into a pile of shit bigger than the one on Jurassic Park

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TheGayTramp 2 points 3 years ago

https://i.imgur.com/2ZE0FU8.gif

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tracyspcy 15 points 3 years ago

I have even forgotten he is in cars business, more news from him when he is manipulating crypto prices

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Contend6248 4 points 3 years ago

What grinds my gears the most is that every fucking manufacturer sucks at software and usability so hard it hurts every time. I rather have bad UX than bow to this moron though.

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ghariksforge 3 points 3 years ago

Tesla's are extremely dangerous: https://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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mainaccount 3 points 3 years ago

If you're in California, be aware that there's a hidden/sneaky "EV tax" and you'll be paying (nearly) double registration fees every year. Mine went from $330 to alamost $700.

Also public charging is starting to be a problem as there's not nearly enough charging stations and CA does nothing about it.

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scrubbles 19 points 3 years ago

I mean I wouldn't call it sneaky, it's not like a conspiracy or anything. Most states pay for road maintenance and projects from gas taxes. Since EVs don't use gas but still use roads they should pay their share too, so it makes sense it'd come from the registration. It's still way less than paying for gas or taxes on gas.

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TGTX 11 points 3 years ago

Should be a variable charge like a gas tax placed on public EV chargers and not a one time yearly fee. There is a big consumption difference between a Hummer EV and a Smart EV.

EDIT: Not every state has thought clearly about additional EV fees. Starting later this year, Texans who drive electric cars will pay significantly more in registration fees than an average gas car driver pays in gas taxes each year…because it’s fucking Texas.

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Rexios 7 points 3 years ago

The issue with taxing public charging is you can just charge at home to avoid the tax. Also there are many public level 2 chargers that are free.

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animist 0 points 3 years ago

Are they going to put a monitor on your home charger then too?

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SuperIce 3 points 3 years ago

You're also not paying gas taxes though. They have to make up the lost gas tax revenue somehow. Realistically, it should be based on the miles driven and the weight of the car (road damages increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle), but for now they just have that flat EV tax.

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BB69 -3 points 3 years ago

Try charging a non Tesla while on a road trip, you’ll learn fast.

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Rexios 6 points 3 years ago

I just went MA -> TN -> OH -> MA and only had one place where all stations were offline, but they came back within a half hour.

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BB69 -2 points 3 years ago

I’ve never had a Tesla supercharger be offline.

However I’ve had several EA chargers derated, one at 30kWh. Not to mention broken stalls. Or how about EA charging me the full price even though I paid for their membership thing?

ChargePoint never hit full speed on my last trip.

A random CCS station did better than any of the big names.

Tesla is by far the most reliable, why do you think auto companies are changing to NACS?

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circuitfarmer 84 points 3 years ago

I wonder if this guy is interested in touring the Titanic wreck

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Contend6248 11 points 3 years ago

I would hope that company stays in business, making the world a better place

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zloubida 4 points 3 years ago

That ship sank too, unfortunately.

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prole 11 points 3 years ago

If only...

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Holzkohlen 7 points 3 years ago

The company shut down :(

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KingSnorky 19 points 3 years ago

One might say the company imploded

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Stan 12 points 3 years ago

They were under too much pressure.

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S_H_K 3 points 3 years ago

Can I interest you in a logitec joypad in this trying times? They are known to be sturdy.

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GentlemanLoser 4 points 3 years ago

Profits sank rapidly

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VitoCorleone 2 points 3 years ago

Maybe he would be interested in going to space on his starship rocket, launched from his newly designed launch pad (by himself, no less, who needs rules and pesky engineers?)

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Raphael 81 points 3 years ago

I keep telling you that we need to eat the rich.

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stevedidWHAT 30 points 3 years ago

What kind of silverware should we use

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sxan 57 points 3 years ago

Theirs.

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stevedidWHAT 13 points 3 years ago

🍽️ sign me up

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Madison420 10 points 3 years ago

If we're bbq'ing and you're using silverware I think you're doing it wrong, all bbq is finger food and bread is your napkin. It's like the only time eating like you're 6 when you're 56 is socially acceptable.

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stevedidWHAT 6 points 3 years ago

That’s a valid point, what kind of cookware should we use and how should we catch the wild game?

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mypasswordistaco 5 points 3 years ago

Spits, large skillets, and crossbows.

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oatscoop 8 points 3 years ago

It's so much work though.

You have to really scrub them to get all the lotion and bronzer off. Then given they're absolutely saturated in recreational and prescription drugs you have to brine them for around a week.

Then it's another day in the smoker low-and-slow for something that's honestly not very tasty. They're "ok" if you soak them in BBQ sauce, but it's one of those things people eat just to say they did -- not because they taste good.

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some_guy 2 points 3 years ago

The least appetizing meal… Musk is all fat and squishy. Lumpy and yech. But I'll do my part. Sign me up.

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Landrin201 74 points 3 years ago

It's not cheating to hire the workers you unceremoniously fired to save money asshole. It's called capitalism.

Then again, every super wealthy capitalist doesn't actually want capitalism. They want feudalism, where nobody else is allowed to compete with them and if someone makes them angry they can banish them from society without trial.

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float 19 points 3 years ago

Usually they don't allow competition, this one is a bit special because it involves two billionaires and it's basically a show-off. The regular case is: they buy any potential competitor in an early stage and let it die. The 5% of the start-up CEOs that don't just take the few hundred millions will face a nasty attack where they steal employees or do some negative marketing or whatever sabotage fits.

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scrubbles 58 points 3 years ago

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Radioaktvt 54 points 3 years ago

“Competition is fine” says the guy that was born into wealth and was given a huge leg up in life. Although, I really hope they duke it out in court with Meta just so they burn through piles of money needlessly.

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Stan 5 points 3 years ago

I’m thinking their lawyers are already on retainer and being paid anyway? The money they waste will be taxpayers funding the court system.

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Radioaktvt 2 points 3 years ago

I thought being on retainer meant that they get paid to be ready to take on a case if needed and ensure they get at least partially paid for their services. I bet a major case like this would call for a whole team of lawyers all billing for hundreds of hrs of work. I don’t think a retainer would cover everything. I could be wrong though, I’m not a lawyer.

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Stan 1 point 3 years ago

I’m not a lawyer either. But this will definitely fuck up someone’s day at the pro shop.

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LeftHandedWave 44 points 3 years ago

Crying Manchild

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tracyspcy 4 points 3 years ago

this one is so damn good :)

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tourist 35 points 3 years ago

As if there's any secret to Twitter that any person couldn't figure out, we're talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.

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whoami 26 points 3 years ago

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Saneless 21 points 3 years ago

Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.

I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like "See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don't need?"

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whoami 12 points 3 years ago

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fidodo 2 points 3 years ago

Threads is bootstrapped off Instagram. People I know who tried it out like it because they don't need to rebuild their network, it just copies the Instagram followers over so you start with all your follows and followers. Instagram also has over 2 billion users so they probably just tacked this on top of the existing Instagram infrastructure and called it a day. Instagram already supported comments so the backend for this probably required minimal changes.

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AlexWIWA 33 points 3 years ago

Welfare queen, that relies on government subsidies to run his business, accuses other billionaires of cheating in the market. Hilarious

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jerdle_lemmy 31 points 3 years ago

It's not cheating to have a similar UI. Fuck off Musk.

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fidodo 5 points 3 years ago

It's not like twitters ui is even clever

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whoami 31 points 3 years ago

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Anticorp 31 points 3 years ago

What they do is pass laws to make their cheating legal and therefore not cheating, while making actual honest competition illegal, and therefore cheating. The game is easy when it's rigged.

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madmaurice 30 points 3 years ago

What part of it is supposed to be cheating?

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asal 30 points 3 years ago

Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.

Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.

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tracyspcy 15 points 3 years ago

This moron fired almost all team before that

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Contend6248 2 points 3 years ago

This is just delicous

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coldv 8 points 3 years ago

Also according the Meta communications director, "No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing,"

https://www.npr.org/...

Elon fired so many people he just thought some bound to have ended up in that team and was just shooting in the dark.

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ziggurism 2 points 3 years ago

Lol that’s hilarious. Court case will probably just be quietly withdrawn. Or loudly thrown out.

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coldv 1 point 3 years ago

I like the thought of a long awkward silence in the courtroom and Elon's lawyer quietly shuffle out.

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ziggurism 5 points 3 years ago

Isn’t the FTC in the process of banning non-compete agreements? So the rules that Musk is claiming were broken are on their way out?

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axtualdave 7 points 3 years ago

NCAs are already largely unenforceable anyway. Federal and state laws prohibit them except in cases of direct competition and the employee having specialized knowledge or skills. And even then, they can't be for long periods of time, and if they would prevent the employee from a livelihood they can't be enforced.

Usually what happens is someone who has a NCA will be hired by a new employer. That employer will see how long the NCA is in force and just have the employee on the payroll but not working until it expires. That, or they will pay the penalty in the NCA, whichever is cheaper.

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ziggurism -5 points 3 years ago

Twitter is in direct competition with Facebook/meta/threads. And Twitter layoffs were 6 months or less ago. And these guys presumably have specialized knowledge.

So it seems like many of the criteria would be met.

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Xanvial 3 points 3 years ago

NCA usually for employees that resigned. That would be messed up if they can just hire some smart people and immediately fires them to block them for joining competitors

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fidodo 3 points 3 years ago

And it's already illegal in California where both Twitter and Facebook are headquartered

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FrankTheHealer 30 points 3 years ago

I'm sure Meta's lawyers are shaking in their boots lol

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cultsuperstar 26 points 3 years ago

Wait, didn't he buy his way into Tesla and then forced out the previous CEO or something?

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tracyspcy 15 points 3 years ago

Yeah read the same stuff, it is his way to become innovator :)

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JusticeForPorygon 25 points 3 years ago

I can't believe I'm rooting for The Zuck. Worse case of "enemy of my enemy" ever.

Though if Twitter does fall Meta should be next. It won't be, but it's nice to imagine.

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DharkStare 11 points 3 years ago

We've really entered the Twilight Zone. I'm rooting for The Zuck to win this battle and I'm rooting for Disney in Florida.

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JusticeForPorygon 5 points 3 years ago

As much as Disney influenced my childhood, I definitely have my criticisms on their practices as a company.

Them fighting Ronny is not one of them. I was gonna make a pun on Desantis, but I drew up blank

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Contend6248 23 points 3 years ago

What is the context of his tweet?

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interolivary 74 points 3 years ago

Elmo is angy that Meta hired the employees he fired (or who quit because Twitter's a fucking dumpster fire) to build a Twitter-like service.

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jdeath 46 points 3 years ago

can we not drag elmo's good name through the mud? i understand it is to dunk on elon but elmo is a wonderful character from my childhood and my four year old daughter loves him also. i just don’t think it is fair to elmo

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Notyou 17 points 3 years ago

I thought the same when people described those 2 jabronis that fucked up the end of Game of Thrones as D&D. Like come on, fam. D&D is way cooler than those 2.

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Duamerthrax 7 points 3 years ago

Give Wizards of the Coast enough time, and it wont be.

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ghariksforge 23 points 3 years ago

It's not even clear if Meta hired anyone from Twitter. You don't need any secret sauce to build something like Twitter.

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Klear 8 points 3 years ago

According to them they did hire some former Twitter employees but didn't have them working on threads.

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osmn 8 points 3 years ago

It doesn't even matter, Elvis fired them, slandered them on Twitter, and now he's upset that a different company hired them??? Are they supposed to just stay unemployed?

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redditmigrant 15 points 3 years ago

In the letter sent to the Zuck by his lawyers it's stated that ex-Twitter engineers still have access to Twitter trade secrets, which doesn't make much sense for people that haven't worked there for months. This means that either he is basically lying or Twitter is not able to secure itself because they probably have also fired the people in charge to do so

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EvilColeslaw 2 points 3 years ago

IIRC some of the employees who still have company-owned computers, etc have tried numerous times to return them with no response from Twitter. Like you said probably because those people were fired as well.

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Justice 12 points 3 years ago

Goddamn I fucking HATE Zuck the Cuck, but in this one specific case, gotta give the dude credit: That's hilarious

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CataclysmZA 4 points 3 years ago

For the longest time Twitter has been reportedly a fantastic place to work at, and they had some great engineers who would never be lured away to other companies for any amount of money.

Except for the unlikely scenario where Twitter is circling the drain and Meta comes in with an offer to build a competitor from scratch using all the tools at their disposal.

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stallmer 23 points 3 years ago

What a rube.

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samokosik 17 points 3 years ago

Why does he consider it cheating? Now hopefully facebook will fuck it up, as well, so they loose money and user base.

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CrypticFawn 16 points 3 years ago

God's, he's really pathetic.

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traveler01 14 points 3 years ago

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tracyspcy 13 points 3 years ago

in his eyes, it was an ideal example of how capitalism, american dream, competition and free market works.

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avidamoeba 13 points 3 years ago

Every capitalist loves free market for the other guy.

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traveler01 1 point 3 years ago

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avidamoeba 2 points 3 years ago

Depends on what you mean by doing well. It doesn't follow that they're making money from those 200M users. But they do have those users. If Meta can convert them to Threads, then they could make more money from them, given they actually have advertisers.

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jelloeater85 13 points 3 years ago

I'm just over here on Mastodon just straight chilling.

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nomadjoanne 10 points 3 years ago

lol. He's way less smart than he seems...

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tracyspcy 4 points 3 years ago

Imagine if he would have no PR team behind him.

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demesisx 5 points 3 years ago

Imagine if he would have no PR team behind him.

or armies of sock puppet accounts that literally brought the Tony Stark hype to critical mass, making him the world's richest person.

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justdoit 9 points 3 years ago

Personally I support referring to all social media corporations as cheaters, what’s the problem here?

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stebo02 3 points 3 years ago

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badnew 9 points 3 years ago

Elongated Musketeer should’ve fucked off to Mars years ago

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Cheems 8 points 3 years ago

Cheating is when you start a competing business

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CifrareVerba 8 points 3 years ago

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jaackf 4 points 3 years ago

And PayPal, right?

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CifrareVerba 1 point 3 years ago

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tracyspcy 1 point 3 years ago

he invested in tesla and got rid of founders, don't know if "stole" applicable here 😂

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CifrareVerba 2 points 3 years ago

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tracyspcy 2 points 3 years ago

he is a parasite

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tst123 6 points 3 years ago

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bunny_funeral 6 points 3 years ago

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squaresinger 5 points 3 years ago

Why is the ape accusing the robot of cheating?

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alliswell33 5 points 3 years ago

You have to be a huge piece of shit to get people rooting for the reptile that is Mark Zuckerberg.

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tracyspcy 1 point 3 years ago

Who told that zuck is different? :)

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karbonkel 5 points 3 years ago

Competition is when things cannot be like your product

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tracyspcy 3 points 3 years ago

like oil market or pepsi and coke etc etc ?

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Gingerlegs 4 points 3 years ago

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yopyop 3 points 3 years ago

Says the guy who cheats law.

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ghariksforge 3 points 3 years ago

Is this real? Seriously?

What a loser.

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ericlewisauthor 3 points 3 years ago

Says the illegal immigrant.

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Hbombone 1 point 3 years ago

Where's the meme?

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Atiran 1 point 3 years ago

He’s the biggest grifter in history.

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primalmotion 3 points 3 years ago

He has an orange baboon as a friend that is also a strong contender to the title.

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Lanky_Pomegranate530 1 point 3 years ago

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