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  1. 7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Holy shit I just legit laughed out at my fucking desk and now have to try and explain to everyone what the fuck happened to me. God fucking damnit. 

    First I'm going to pat myself on the back for nailing this bullshit in my last post:
     

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Second, and someone else here can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't RichardGere'sGerbil up there just SWEAR up and down at some point in the past few pages that he wasn't a bitcoin/digital currency guy? Holy fucking shit I'm doing. 

    The way over-the-top fake laughing as a rhetorical response peaked with the green-shirt-laughing-guy meme, but you are really trying to bring it back and make it impactful here, to a fair bit of cringe. Just some constructive feedback.

    Why is it that at attempt at objectivity is so offensive to people like you?

    To the question the title of this tread asks: is ELMO a visionary? I think most would say so. He probably ticks that box. Is he a Fraud? I think most would also say so, as well. So it stands to reason you are going to have mixed news (good, bad, and indifferent) when it comes to the guy and his business dealings. 

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  2. 1 minute ago, sidis said:

    if you're going to anguish in your martyr role here about how no one takes you seriously in your efforts to play the aww shucks, this was just an interesting read posts, perhaps you could at least post links to your material you find so interesting.  you have a real bad habit of not doing so.  for instance, in this case, you could have easily linked us all to "cointelegraph" for your source of interesting information.  https://cointelegraph.com/news/dogecoin-investors-accuse-elon-musk-of-insider-trading-in-amended-class-action-lawsuit

    Actually this is where I copy and pasted (via Bloomberg).

    https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rddE4mXKjvGw/v0

    Aw shucks.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    "Guys, I fucking swear for the last time that I am neutral/lean negative of Elon Musk, but I'm going to keep posting neutral and positive stuff about him and get super passive aggressive and pissy when people don't like my poorly sourced, agenda driven links or bullshit from Google Bard I can't fact check. Hell, sometimes I'll even post shit without a link, because I don't really care about facts or fact-checking anyway, or I'm scared y'all will laugh at my sources." 

    But the last thing i posted was egregiously negative and a black eye for Musk, right? See? I'm just like you! I get confused on weekly basis across a variety of threads on this fair board, and am not above Shiner Bock and will make sure to type ELMO and ELRON in all caps on this thread.

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  4. Read some interesting context on Musk getting sued for his pumping and dumping of Doge Coin (the lawsuit says he made $10bn, but it seems like a thin case and the wallet was actually owned by RobinHood?). Anyways, since this is mostly negative, I hope that it passes the gatekeepers who get really bothered when the posting of topical, relevant Musk news on a Musk thread is something neutral or can be construed as positive. The bold is my own emphasis which I found to be funny:

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    This is a securities fraud class action arising from a deliberate course of carnival barking market manipulation and insider trading by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, who hijacked an emergent pop-culture phenomenon to cross-promote himself and his companies, and to pad his obscene fortune, preying on the earnest hopes of vulnerable Americans, including war veterans, blue collar workers, and the elderly. ...

    Musk’s followers did exactly what he said. Musk’s pretense that promotion of Dogecoin was just well-meaning fun—not meant to be taken seriously—is not credible. It is Musk’s custom to publicly address serious topics glibly on Twitter. That doesn’t make him any less serious. Musk knows that the bulk of his followers are not sophisticated in business or investment, and Musk uses this knowledge to manipulate them. Musk is what is called an apex predator, feeding on and manipulating the hordes below, including his Twitter following which has grown to 141 million.

     

     

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


    Holy shit.  Where does Lori Wolfe, Sr. Staff accountant/Accounting Manager  at ITP Strategic in  The Colony, Texas, get off acting superior.  She's mad at this man because he's black --- something out of his control --- and meanwhile she goes three hundred+ pounds (something she CAN control) and feels like she rules because she's part of the master race. I tell you, sometimes it's downright embarrassing to be white.i Wolfe Sr Staff Accountant / Accounting Manager ITP Strategic The Colony, Texas

    Also she rents an apartment in a suburb in Texas. Nothing says being superior to others like having to live among the same people you think are inferior to you.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    The Duval County Jail and its medical provider offer up a new definition of excellent medical care:

    https://jaxtrib.org/2023/06/02/duval-jails-medical-provider-says-it-gave-quality-medical-care-to-man-who-later-died/

    Seems more like equal opportunity criminal negligence. How exactly is it racist for 2023? Except maybe the underlying institutional racism that has BIPOCs as majority of folks in custody? But that feels like a stretch given the purpose of this thread...

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    Armor Correctional has been sued in federal court at least 370 times between the creation of the agency in 2005 to 2018. Those lawsuits range from accusations such as medical malpractice to wrongful death and employment issues. Seventy-seven lawsuits were filed the year Jacksonville signed its first contract.

     

  7. On 6/2/2023 at 10:01 AM, HamsterHookah said:

    How can we make money on the upcoming disaster? I think I speak for everyone except you and bluto when I ask this.

    To reiterate, because as we know about history: one person’s chaos is another’s opportunity. These are the folks cashing in when things go wrong. Can we?

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-swan-debt-ceiling-mark-spitznagel-nassim-nicholas-taleb-18bb38f1?

  8. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    How long until he just makes twitter pay-only, or at least pay-only for those wanting to post/create stuff? Yeah, he can keep selling Tesla stock, but even that has its limits.

    Not completely related to Twitter, but I've read reading a lot the last week or so about how reddit is moving to a pay per use of their API model, which is a copy of what Twitter was doing. 

    Apparently this is because LLM's draw a lot from reddit (and ostensibly Twitter) and so, why give away free human speech/language for the AI overlords when you can get paid for it?

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  9. 23 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Lol. Why give basic income? It will hurt profits if they increase costs by subsidizing those takers

    In a world where we valued humanity and dignity over shareholder profits, it would be awesome. But my bet's on dystopian because there sure are a bunch of greedy "fuck you I got mine" type of folks out there

    I've thought UBI was an end game conclusion for some time now. At some point, enough people are displaced that the critical mass will be empowered to revolt and damage the system. Billionaires and corporations will cede to UBI, as UBI will be politically mandated at some point. 

    Andrew Yang was just a decade too early.

  10. 34 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

    This is becoming a very special season. I haven't had much fun going to games since 2016 when we had 8 walkoff wins at home and went 36-11 in one run games. I had a feeling we couldn't sustain that luck in the playoffs but this year just feels different. Reminds me a lot of 2011. Hopefully we end it differently. 

    Yea, I got the feeling early on and didn't know if it was because of the team or the new rules but I was back in the boat like I hadn't been since...2015 I think was the last time I made watching the Rangers appointment TV.

    I've watched more baseball in the last 6 weeks then the last 6 years combined and I love this team.

  11. Even as the Hollywood writers strike grinds on, the folks who put their words into Action! agreed to a tentative contract agreement with the major studios.

    The Directors Guild of America, the union representing film and TV directors, said it inked a “historic” three-year contract with producers that addresses some of their biggest concerns.

    AI: The labor deal asserts that generative AI is not a person (huge) and that it cannot replace guild members’ responsibilities.

    Gun safety: The contract bans live ammunition on set following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of Rust in 2021.

    Residuals: Foreign residuals—a type of royalty that’s been eroded in the streaming era—will get a 76% bump for the biggest streaming services.

    The Guild and its negotiating leaders framed the contract as a big win for directors that gives them “unprecedented gains.” The union members will show whether they concur when they vote on the proposed contract tomorrow.

    Big picture: The agreement with the directors resolves just one of three high-stakes labor negotiations in Hollywood right now. As you know, more than 11,000 writers have been striking for five weeks, and actors will also vote on whether to authorize a strike by 5pm PT today.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    I don’t know about a job “fair” but I went to a Microsoft virtual career thing in 2020 (got a link sent to me from a coworker but I don’t think it was a thing that was closed or anything) - i “raised my hand” and said hi here’s my background I’d love to learn more and got hooked up with an internal recruiter immediately who saw me through the process of interviewing with the right team. I didn’t get a job out of it but it was a definite thing that was worthwhile as compared to firing my resume at their resume shields.

    And once you are invited or go to that sort of thing, they keep you in a mailing list and will reach out to you when they have a need or are doing another in person event in your metro

  13. 16 hours ago, naija said:

    haven't seen a lot of movies this year, but agree with this. quite surprising.

    Same.

    I didn't think the first one could be topped, because it kinda came out of nowhere and surprised me with how awesome it was. But it did. Very creative and fun and action-packed while also being emotionally driven. Fantastic movie.

  14. 2 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Midway through final season. I still hate Greg with the might of a thousand suns.  His voice. His punchable face. He’s the exact person I imagine sits in the surly CR all day 

    Not an unpopular opinion. Greg without Tom is garbage. But them together? Magic.

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  15. 11 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Now this is a boycott I hope takes hold. I'd love for the lines to be shorter when I take the kids to Six Flags later this month.

     

    This will be interesting to watch unfold for sure.

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  16. I’m not a soccer fan so I didn’t get the nod to the name of Trent’s book until I just read this:

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    BOOK CLUB

      

    Pep Guardiola. 

    Last weekend he won a third successive English Premier League title. And is still on track for a historic treble this season. 

    But a decade ago he reached even greater heights with FC Barcelona. Not only did they beat everyone in front of them, they did it playing a style of soccer no-one had seen before. 

    Underneath it was an incredible culture of performance, humility, and teamwork. He captured ‘lightning in a bottle’. 

    In the marvelous The Barcelona Way, Professor Damian Hughes combines unique stories from this period with management theory. 

    The result is a fantastic set of management tools that are demonstrated to work in a high performance environment. 

    If you find most leadership books too abstract or theoretical (as I do), you might like this.

     

     

  17. 1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    I think people gravitate to Trump and Elon because those two play on their worst impulses and treat people they don't like in an absolutely shitty way because they have enough money to not fear any consequences from it. So these fanbois love it because they can't do it in their own lives without losing their livelihoods and it becomes sort of a larping experience where they can live vicariously through them. 

    I think there is a lot of psychological truth to this theory. Not sure you could ever prove it, but sounds right to me 

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  18. 1 hour ago, Chopper said:

    What's the feeling on how much overlap exists between

    --elron/tesla fanbois who think his chinese forced labor camps are just as cool as elron seems to,

    --the people who smeared Lebron James for playing a game of basketball in China,

    --and the people who called covid the chinese flu and are certain the epidemic was an attack by China on the USA?

    I can't have the guy that can understand a basic TV show and completely ruined the Succession thread tell me it's not okay to be anti-China for Covid-19.

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  19. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    Excellent observation, actually. The short version is that as a society, we not only do not value humanizing our fellow travelers or treating people with basic decency and empathy….we actually demonize those things.
    “Being decent and considerate” is the worst thing you can be in the broken brain of 2023 Tribal America. Its all me, no “we,” except perversely, people play up how cruel and selfish they can be to impress the “we” that is (what they think is) their tribe. Thus, Elon playing up his individualism and egotistical narcissism to impress….a tribe of the biggest loser incels the world has ever seen.

    Elon is a huge nerd and internet troll. It's his personality.

    He also happens to be the world's richest man with more privilege and resources than anyone ever has had before him.

    Combine those two things and you get what we've got.

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