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Just now, SimonBolivar said:
Maybe some of that homemade stuff from West Virginia that'll make you blind where you can't find the website anymore?
I think that's too many characters for a handle.
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Just now, SydneyCarton said:
I'm an illiterate swine, but you can't read my writing. The point I'm making isn't for you, obviously.
We all look forward to your next handle iteration. Also, panhandler is one word.Do you have any requests for the next handle?
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Just now, SydneyCarton said:
Yes, I'm an illiterate swine. I know what a turn of phrase it, but the thing about a turn of phrase is that it has to make fucking contextual sense, you twit. But lets follow your line of thought to completion. This Beatiful website, that hates you, is also wildly partial, and repeatedly rejects you while showing no such distaste for people who you find to be mediocre. I can definitely see why you'd find it beauiful. I'd suggest you also like spiking yourself in the balls repeateddly for fun, but, well, we can all see what you do with your free time at a Beautiful website that perpetually rejects you. Listen man, Self Harm is a real mental issue and you should seek help.
I can't read your writing, it's like listening to the ramblings of a pan handler. Are you saying anything? What do you need? Get to the point.
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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
If you believe this site is Fair, and lets assume this site is great because of its cross-section of people, what does it say that this site has rejected you time and time again? But yes, I'm the mediocre one here.
I mean fair as in beautiful, not impartial. It's a turn of phrase, you illiterate swine.
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1 minute ago, longhornmatt said:
Yeah, but as we’re all painfully aware here, they can also be uninteresting.
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1 minute ago, Celery Man said:
The version of this where.... "yeah this is totally a failure for Elon Musk but it doesn't mean he's a dumbass because gambling $44bn to buy and tear down every single Applebees in order to create the Whole Foods of Wal-Marts for him is like spending $200 on a pair of shoes for you" is really just the best argument that people shouldn't be allowed to have that kind of wealth.
Now this is an argument that is interesting.
The problem is, as I've stated in the past, there is no possibility to *NOT* have billionaires within the framework of our flavor of American Capitalism (shareholder capitalism) that you can own (create/buy/manage) and grow businesses that can get as big as they need to be to support our GDP/population much less *checking notes on the latest nVidia stock price* one of the five, trillion dollar companies.
We'd need a bloody revolution and complete tear down of our social/economic order and machinations.
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2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I'm shocked that a known troll, banned like a dozen times, finds "provocateurs" interesting.
Equally shocked am I that the most mediocre man on this fair site is boring.
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4 minutes ago, NoName said:
he is neither interesting nor brilliant if that makes it more clear for you. you liking someone who is pretty generally accepted to be a huge asshole is not shocking.
also totally ignoring that no one has even tried the concept because there is no market for the concept - of course.
if it was all a misunderstanding, why haven't they taken it down today then? i'll wait on the response.
Do you understand the definition of interesting? Provocateurs can be interesting.
Nobody has tried the concept therefore there is no PMF? I'm not sure I 100% agree with your police work, Lou. You often come across as having only a superficial knowledge of topics, especially as they relate to business and double especially as they relate to the tech industry, so I'm not sure why you think you have definitive input on anything, but it's clear you aren't into have conversations and discussions, thus I don't attempt to respond to you.
And to your last point, I have zero idea why. I suppose it could be because of your conspiracy theory reasons that have been debunked by objective reporting like the one I linked, but at the end of the day I don't really care. I'm not in the dunk contest to feel better because I'm sad someone bought my favorite social media site and changed it, as if I were entitled to it like it was a public good.
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The odds of him having a natural/organic heart attack at that age and fitness is like lottery level. It's one of three things:
1) There is a congenital health/heart issue that has hitherto been undisclosed by the family because it's none of our business, fine
2) Trauma like the Bills football player who took a helmet to the heart at 30mph
3) Drug use
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8 minutes ago, NoName said:
if you think Jack fucking Dorsey is an "interesting business mind" you haven't read jack shit about him or how he does business.
of course you, of all people, think Jack Dorsey is some brilliant business mind.
go read Hatching Twitter if you think he is anywhere close to some brilliant person, much less a brilliant business mind. you have what a ton of people actually think of him very clearly outlined in it. the fact that Noah, Biz and Evan don't talk to him at all anymore kind of says it all.
fuck off.
I said interesting business mind, not brilliant. Show us on the doll where JD touched you, NoName.
Also,
"Local police told The San Francisco Standard that it was a misunderstanding:
At approximately 12:39 P.M. officers assigned to Tenderloin Station responded to the area of 10th and Market Street regarding a report of a possible unpermitted street closure.
Through their investigation officers were able to determine that no crime was committed, and this incident was not a police matter. “Police on the scene said someone with Twitter had a work order to take the sign down but didn’t communicate it with security and the property owner of the building,” the Standard added." https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23140317/twitter-sign-sf-hq-removal-demolition-police
Again, 8/10 on the dunk.
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2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
PM Derka. He can consult (payment in Taco Bell) you in the ways of improving your Surly standing.
That's it. I'm offended.
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4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
If twitter were a person it would be eligible to vote in the next presidential election. This may go down as the most mismanaged acquisition in history. Already the most expensive self own IMO
I mean tweeting is now a verb. Tweets are what people call social media posts. It’s like get me a kleenex or go xerox this for me and grab me a coke while you’re over there. This stupid fuck is throwing that away
Yes, there is a ton of social equity and capital in the name/logo/company. Trying to monetize and turn that social "IP" into dollars was a struggle for some of the most interesting business minds (Dorsey, Bret Taylor, Elon), so it's a rip the bandaid and sink or swim transformation.
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15 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
Being in a sorority helped my daughter land an internship with top consulting firm. Could she have gotten it without being in a sorority, maybe, but probably not. She was asked to be in a social/interview event her Freshman year (2nd week of school) because her upper classman sorority sister needed bodies in the event. The following year, the recruiter remembered her and asked her to apply to internships.
That's interesting, I guess. Thanks for sharing.
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12 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:
Please stop or just get banned for the 30th time and get the fucking clue.
This isn't just piling on Elon because he Elon'd today. The guy isn't making good decisions. This tweet really encapsulates everything that Elon has done wrong with Twitter.
If the guy made a good decision, it might get some credit. But anything good he might do, is getting outweighed by about 30 things that are just inexplicably dumb.
And Twitter > X isn't just a redesign, this is throwing away brand recognition that is at some rare level that most companies only dream about. There is nothing about THIS move that makes any sense. Hell, you didn't see Facebook throw away the brand with Meta, that just was a parent company name with Facebook under it.
He's trying to make a financially fledgling social media company into Tencent/WeChat. Will it fail? Probably, because Elon is screwing it up. But it's a transformational gamble which isn't that much of a gamble relatively speaking for the world's richest man who, last I read, lost like $13bn in one day the other day, and is still $20bn+ richer than the Louis Vuitton guy in 2nd place. So who cares?
From my perspective, ultimately Twitter wasn't a growth business and struggled to be profitable and there wasn't a path for wild success/riches as an organization. Elon is trying to turn it into the aforementioned Tencent/Wechat catchall and it will either 10x for him or zero out. The only people that seem to care that Elon is risking (and likely going to lose all of) his $44bn are the people that hate him. Why is that?
Also, I guess people feel entitled to their toy (old Twitter) and are mad that someone bought it and tanked it and are really trying/hoping that Threads makes it.
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This ain't ever happening. Like the guy said, a $2bn price tag? That will never turn a profit.
QuoteWill it ever be more than fanciful artwork, though?
Mansion says the park will open in 2026. That’d be grand for the families (and economy) of northeast Oklahoma, but it may be a tougher road ahead.
Industry expert Robert Niles runs Theme Park Insider, and his analysis raises questions for American Heartland:
How’s it getting financed? “$2B? That’s the current market cap of the entire Six Flags chain.” Niles says “even a $100m park would struggle to make back investment.”
… because how are millions getting there? The site is “miles away from any major city or airport.”
How can a park without popular tie-ins attract enough visitors? Disney World attendance is slumping despite the pull of Mickey, Marvel, Star Wars, and more. American Heartland’s biggest IP is… freedom?
The best news here: We all win no matter what.
If American Heartland gets built, we’ll have fun in a few years with the inevitable fried monstrosities on its concession menus.
If it doesn’t materialize, we’ll get to revisit the long list of foiled theme parks, including our favorite pipe dreams: Kansas’s Land of Oz and Virginia’s Disney America.
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What is the value proposition for wanting your daughter to be in a sorority, again? Is it solely trying to put her in the best light for a potential husband who can provide a higher probability of success/comfort?
That feels a bit...barbaric. But I'll allow it, we are but barbarians in silks styled by Italians.
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17 hours ago, Celery Man said:
Obviously this thread is mostly dunking on Elon, mostly by people who are happy to see his endeavors at Twitter fail, and sometimes whatever he’s doing is characterized through shit tinted glasses. But I just really don’t get how the story can be told that it was anythinf but incredibly fucking stupid to… spend $44bn on Twitter to do what this tweet sums up. Fire the staff, alienate the users, chase off the customers, remove the value, and fucking rebrand? You could hire any number of incels and people desperate for work visas in a way that would destroy much less value across all of your businesses and keep up the whole illusion. How does any of this make sense in a world where Elon Musk isn’t a dumbass?
Right.
And I know it's not exactly in the spirit of this thread but you have shown a curiosity and growth mindset to business psychology (at least from what I infer from the pop psychology/business book thread) and so this might interest you: https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/why-do-people-hate-redesigns
It's an interesting look at in general why people hate redesigns and how to minimize blowback, and while there is probably some of that going on with Twitter->X, it's not happening on this thread. This thread, like you have surmised, is now just a bunch of hammers who see anything Elon does as a nail, regardless of anything.
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Lastly, since we are all Texas Exes presumably, when you are ready for a seed round, maybe try here first: https://news.utexas.edu/2022/11/29/ut-austin-seed-fund-launched-with-first-investment/
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Also, as someone who has recently had to dig into some of the specifics, it's important to determine what stage of funding you are looking for. Since you don't have the foggiest of your pitch deck, I will assume you are pre-revenue and probably still in an idea conception stage, where you don't have a product built out and haven't proven PMF. You are probably not going to be raise a red cent in this environment outside of your friends and family if that is the case.
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If you want to pay for the advice/service, here is as good a place as any: https://www.deckdoctors.xyz/
Be forewarned, there is a cottage industry is littered with former VC's (more like, former lowly analysts who worked in fundraising) who shill their "experience" as being part of the teams who have seen thousands of decks and distilled the best practices down, etc. etc.
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On 7/21/2023 at 3:17 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:
This - look, DAC was and is a real-deal outlaw biker and titanic asshole, but he's also an eccentric genious who in his day challenged hypocrisy and social taboos in ways that were transgressive in the 70's and COMPLETELY out of bounds today. But he always punched up, not down. Comparing him to a doughy poseur like Jason Aldean is just stupid.
For example when Anita Bryant was making herself famous and rich crusading against gays at a time when they were already pretty much despised and shunned from society, DAC wrote this song, involving his own experiences with gays, in prison and beyond.I like DAC. The most surprising thing about him, which in hindsight shouldn't have been surprising, was that he was gay in prison.
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6 minutes ago, mdmost said:
Is it fun being a troll about everything, all the time? On some level it must feel good, like heroin or something.
You tell me, unless your troll post question was a rhetorical one?
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19 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
Shut the fuck up Chrispy!!!
Lighten up, that was funny. Is it fun being miserable about everything, all the time? On some level it must feel good, like heroin or something.
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2024 NBA draft - Bronny in the top ten?
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BuT AkShUlLy it's because heart attacks in young men at the peak of their physical fitness is totally normal and common and can be expected from time to time, just as a natural cause.