Necrometer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 11:09 pm
his sense of humor couldn’t be worse
According to Bill Maher's audience, just saying the word "memes* is brilliant comedy now. Like, you don't even have to share lame bullshit on Facebook anymore like your divorced uncle, you can just say "memes" and then burst out laughing to let everyone know you just made a joke.
I still can't really process the sheer amount of stupid in these 20 minutes, I always want to say ten things at once. But I do think the worst moment is when Bill Maher says what he likes about Musk is that he has a sense of humor. Like, this is the guy who bought Twitter so that he could ban people for making fun of him, and he's your lord and savior in the apocalyptic war against the WOKE MIND VIRUS. Okay.
storm shadow wrote:This is what happens when people use the internet to get through adolescence, instead of drugs and heavy metal.
guys, freedom of speech is so SO important. the first amendment is being trampled on by all these corporations and their policies, and this has to stop. the constitution matters!
good thing I'll be dead soon, cause I'm tired of liars winning
I like what Elon is doing, and I agree with Ross that freedom of speech is an important constitutional right, because it makes it easier for me to openly praise Adolf Hitler (who I love).
Zerohero wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:59 am
cleaning out old stuff in the freezer--- old slice of leftover pizza..boom eaten back to life
Elon Musk is an Apollonian force who will help save this world from the forces of darkness. I'm being serious. Without him I would have no way to spread the teachings of Adolph Hitler, who plays a messianic role in my personal life. I thank Hitler on the Golden Throne of Christ for his gift, freedom of expression, which serves no role in the lives of men except as a window through which shines the Light of His Black Sun. I would never joke about this.
Zerohero wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:59 am
cleaning out old stuff in the freezer--- old slice of leftover pizza..boom eaten back to life
Necrometer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 10:58 am
lol you just reminded me that bill maher was crying that people couldn't deny the holocaust as hard as they wanted
find a better example, guy
To be honest, I'm kind of glad he's deteriorated into full-blown boomer conservatism. I used to agree with him about a lot of things, but it always made me feel dirty because of how fucking smarmy and painfully unfunny he was, and now he's just a cautionary tale about how if you had vaguely non-conformist views in the late 90s and never thought about anything again, you're probably just an angry grandpa now.
storm shadow wrote:This is what happens when people use the internet to get through adolescence, instead of drugs and heavy metal.
I guess Americans couldn't continue fighting communism forever, specially since communism imploded and died like 40 years go, so now they have created a new enemy, the "Woke mind virus" and Elon is here to save us all from it.
Krieg wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 5:48 am
I guess Americans couldn't continue fighting communism forever, specially since communism imploded and died like 40 years go, so now they have created a new enemy, the "Woke mind virus" and Elon is here to save us all from it.
This is what kills me. This guy literally has all the money on the fucking world but he’s so incredibly bad at the job of pushing his own propaganda. Why doesn’t he have an army of handlers teaching how to talk/post? He should be able to convince the masses how amazing how world view is and just have all the plebes eating out of his hand by now. I guess money can’t fix autism.
The firehose of stupid plussing of Twitter—it's a TV platform (for Tucker Carlson lol)! It's for podcasts! It's a dating app! It's Skype!—tracks back to his equally-incredibly-stupid idea of, and I quote directly from his own dumbass Twitter account, "creating X, the everything app"
You can't even get regular videos to play on the site half the time
Krieg wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 5:48 am
I guess Americans couldn't continue fighting communism forever, specially since communism imploded and died like 40 years go, so now they have created a new enemy, the "Woke mind virus" and Elon is here to save us all from it.
This is what kills me. This guy literally has all the money on the fucking world but he’s so incredibly bad at the job of pushing his own propaganda. Why doesn’t he have an army of handlers teaching how to talk/post? He should be able to convince the masses how amazing how world view is and just have all the plebes eating out of his hand by now. I guess money can’t fix autism.
From what I've read, the guy enjoys huffing his own farts far too much, and everybody who's not a lickspittle has either been fired or left his companies. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't enjoy taking advice. What a dumb little cunt.
The Bill wrote:Kids today with their artificially flavored kunt hands!
Toilet Fleet wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:08 am
"creating X, the everything app"
This was my favorite, by far. An app that lets you do everything you can do online in one place.
IT'S CALLED A FUCKING WEB BROWSER.
Funniest thing ever.
He wants to make the western version of what WeChat is in China. A single app that allows everything, social networking, communications, payments, online sales, dating, etc. The operating system becomes then irrelevant, it becomes simple middleware to run the X app.
You can't monetize the browser.
Of course it is a pipe dream, this is not China, we like our freedoms.
Krieg wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 5:16 amHe wants to make the western version of what WeChat is in China. A single app that allows everything, social networking, communications, payments, online sales, dating, etc. The operating system becomes then irrelevant, it becomes simple middleware to run the X app.
You can't monetize the browser.
Of course it is a pipe dream, this is not China, we like our freedoms.
It's more than just the flag-liberty of it all, the regulatory landscape is entirely flipped around in the US and EU vs. China. China actively cultivated a small handful of winners in e-commerce and maintains a walled garden re: outside players; the US and EU take a dim view of that kind of tech consolidation, and the only real place-of-origin restriction is when the US goes full Chinese Exclusion Act whenever an app developer isn't adequately hostile to Beijing.
Musk has shown he absolutely sucks at navigating U.S. regulators (see, e.g., his recent appellate loss over an SEC consent decree because he can't help but commit stock manipulation), and I guarantee any attempt to go vertical with X is going to be a series of very public pants-shittings.
