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11 minutes ago, Sinnergy said:

Let me help you out. The only thing that made them swing states prior to the election is that they’ve gone both ways in the recent past. The fact that they all went one way doesn’t call into question the definition of a swing state, it calls into question the policies of the party that lost. 
 

The undecideds/independents in Wisconsin or Michigan are exactly who politicians should try to sway. They are the ones in the middle, still open to arguments. If you want to win the Presidency then you should have to win them. And one side one them resoundingly. Don’t bitch and moan.
 

Your message has left the middle like these people, oh and millions of working class that swung right, turned off by your policies. But instead of reflecting and adapting I see a lot of complaining. 
 

What is this unelected Elon doing making big decisions and policy?! Give me a fucking break. Joe Biden didn’t know what was going on. He had underlings running the show that most Americans don’t even know their names. And the entire media covered for him. Scandalous. And that’s democracy. Ok. 
 

This thread is so much sour grapes. go ahead and delete my comment. You’d prefer not to hear the message that the duly elected President ran on and was elected. Yall are so soft. 


To bring it back to Elon, yeah Doge is so terrible. They’re going around and digging into government systems looking for fraud. The average American approves of it. You shouldn’t want your tax dollars to be wasted on dumb shit. This is simple. 
 

I give you all your points and respect even those I don’t agree with. 
But, the fundamental difference between you and me is that despite agreeing on some things, I fundamentally do not believe that these are good and serious people, they have proven to be untrustworthy, have no respect for the law, have proven to be willing to do anything to further their interests and do not believe that they are acting in the best interest of the American people.  Not saying they are Nazi’s but people who are really dig them. 
So, in my opinion, it really comes down to whether or not you trust these people to act in your best interest or something even approximating that?   If you do, that’s cool. But I’m not going to apologize for thinking that opinion is really fucked up. 

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Drove a Tesla Plaid tonight. Musk’s a dick but man that was a nice car. My buddy didn’t want to put it in cheetah mode, so I can’t verify the 2.4 0-60. Probably best I didn’t test it tbh. 

Posted
27 minutes ago, Sinnergy said:

How specifically is Twitter pumping Tesla’s stock price?

 

Have you ever lost 5% in a day? I have. If you're that committed there are up days that big and bigger too. I promise Elon didn't sweat it. 

That you Gru?

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Posted
28 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Look in the mirror. 

This is like watching the extremely less talented Willie Mays flounder around the outfield for the Mets.  Musk/Trump has fried your ability to post.  

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

This is like watching the extremely less talented Willie Mays flounder around the outfield for the Mets.  Musk/Trump has fried your ability to post.  

Yet I still know how coin flips work. 

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5 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Every single time he uses the r word to attack someone he doesn’t like is exceedingly cringe-worthy to me. This is a child with no idea how to act. My niece just turned six amd she would never say something like that about another person and yet this guy has a press conference in the Oval Office acting like he is the president. Just incredible.

Let's be real for a minute. A not insignificant amount of people voted the way that they did because the world was better when when could say r*****ed, f**, tr***y, and, in certain company, n*****. They love this shit.

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, you are about to be on the doge chopping block.

https://www.kxan.com/news/tesla-recalls-over-376000-vehicles-due-to-power-steering-defect/

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Tesla is recalling 376,241 of its vehicles after reports that their electronic power steering assist could potentially fail due to a software defect.  The recall involves some 2023 Tesla Model 3s and some 2023 Tesla Model Ys, according to the recall report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

As explained by the recall, the affected Tesla models’ electronic power-assisted steering (EPAS) could become overstressed, causing potential loss of steering when the vehicle starts accelerating again after coming to a stop.

 

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Posted
4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

What name total is he up to now with this one?

Has to be at least 20. All but one post in this thread and crypto. Maybe mix it up a little.

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Posted
8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Both of them should be very insecure - Zuck's eggs are all in one (Facebook) basket, and Facebook succeeded because AngelFire, Friendster, GeoCities and MySpace failed spectacularly, and all of the walled garden communities were starting to lose their walls (Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe, etc.)  just a few years before FB got going. Now mix in that Microsoft-backed LinkedIn is headed towards a billion users (I doubt it will get there, but it's not far away). Hell, Pinterest had FB worried for a while

Zuck is now in prevent-defense mode (too soon?) - Threads should have been a twitter killer and FB had the resources to make it a twitter killer, but they were too paranoid that it would take users away from Instagram, so they've kept it deliberately stripped down/crippled, such that if you are a Threads user who wants private messages, you have to rely on Instagram for private messages (among other major problems with Threads).  It's fucking stupid that in 2025 a large (what should be a standalone) social media platform relies on another social media platform for private messages, but here we are.

Zuck is also willing to lose millions of users by loosening up moderation and letting misinformation and disinformation run rampant (which then generates clicks and ad revenue) because in the short term, all of the ad revenue from the misinformation/disinformation flowing freely now is good for his bottom line.  He's not looking a year or two down the line when things have gotten worse (a lot of FB user groups are starting to plot exit strategies to other platforms such as Groups.io) and there's always community-based platforms looking to horn in on FB's audience. FB has had a longer run at the top of the hill than its predecessors and competitors, many of whom had serious financial backing, and Zuck knows that LinkedIn, some of the smaller community-based platforms or user group-based platforms, and even a Google or Apple could probably put Facebook in the negative.

Zuck knows that if Google got their shit together on social media and truly leverages YouTube (2nd behind FB with 2.5 billion active users vs 3 billion for FB), or Apple decided to nudge into the social media arena, it would eat into FB.  And he's constantly attacking Apple because they keep (openly) working to block off FB/Meta access to the rest of your phone or at least make you aware that Meta wants access to it.

And most importantly, Zuck knows that serious FB growth is a thing of the past - a fuckload of FB users are aging out (dying off) while younger generations give no particular fucks about FB or even view it as the old person platform. And those younger generations are constantly bouncing around social media platforms. If they are on TikTok they aren't on Instagram.  So he's got to keep engagement up which is why misinformation and disinformation is running freely.

Musk should also be insecure for a lot of reasons - he didn't start Tesla (buying companies sometimes makes people insecure that the original founders could have done a better job), and he has to know that sales are not as good as he'd like, and we've all seen parking lots full of CyberTrucks in person, and most auto companies are rolling into their 2nd and 3rd-generation (or more) EVs with popular brands (F-150, etc.) catching some attention in their first-generation releases.  SpaceX relies so much on the US government, it makes sense that he's put his people into leadership positions at NASA. If Boeing gets their shit together on the larger stuff, or Blue Origin continues to progress, either one could start nibbling away at SpaceX's business (or worse, Boeing compete with the heavy lift stuff while BO takes low-end satellite launches away as it moves towards heavy payloads). 

And twitter is not going to make him even more rich, even if its value comes back up, because, like FB, twitter is tapped out - it's not going to continue to gain the numbers it once had, and if anything, as BlueSky and others take in more and more serious/official/famous people, organizations, or companies, it'll have a harder time.  And I still have to look a few times a week, and the ads are shit and can't be paying that much. And like FB, twitter is faced with younger people not having any loyalty for platforms and bouncing around whatever is trending.  

Hell, there are 11 social media platforms with more active users than twitter (and QQ, Weibo, and Pinterest aren't far behind). 

And the thing about FB and twitter, and this is not lost on Zuck, but it could be on Musk, is that there doesn't have to be one major platform suddenly coming up the ranks - social media can be death by a thousand paper cuts and it can also be a company willing to utilize their existing user bases.  YouTube has a lot of Instagram features (it's not just videos, there are discussion areas where YouTubers provide updates) and with its video shorts, we could wake up tomorrow and they piggyback that 2.5 billion active users into a new app focused on shortform videos (and photos) and social media updates, and the big-ass YouTubers with their tens and hundreds of millions of followers will be all over it.  What does it do to Instagram if it goes from 2 billion active users a month to 1.7 or even 1.5 in a month?  What does that do for profits/revenue, and what does that do for the stock price - in the span of a year it's went from $430 to $730, and it could easily drop down. What if LinkedIn/Microsoft spins off a new service that could be still tied to it, but is more of a personal vs business nature (Microsoft has the know-how, the users, things like Teams, etc.?  What if Apple decides to unify some of their services and push a barebones social media platform and Apple being Apple, skip most/all advertising.  They have the money to burn, and it would help sell more of their services.

TLDR: There are a lot of reasons both Zuck and Leon should be insecure.  They could fall just as rapidly as they rose, and there's plenty of money that could make that happen.

Would read again. After a nap.

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Elections in swing states aren’t like coin flips, though.  Depending on the definition, they’re just states that have a history in recent years of going either red or blue, and/or where pre-election polling is very tight. 
 

Tight polling is just that, tight polling. It’s not the same as odds of winning. Because of the way it’s done and difficulties of capturing certain voters and the reality of “vibe shift” it’s probably more likely that on Election Day states will disproportionally shift to one candidate rather than having a coin flip distribution. 

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Posted
15 hours ago, Chopper said:

Educate your friends and neighbors about their Teslas while you're breaking their glass and spray painting that shit  /only kidding about spray painting

 

It certainly shouldn't be surprising when Telsa drivers are right at the top of the worst drivers.

America's Worst Drivers, by Car Brand

And I have to believe any Autonomous Driving Technology is going to be better than humans when you have Ram, Tesla and Subaru drivers on the road. Take those off the road and our insurance rates would drop significantly.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Hard Times said:

It certainly shouldn't be surprising when Telsa drivers are right at the top of the worst drivers.

America's Worst Drivers, by Car Brand

And I have to believe any Autonomous Driving Technology is going to be better than humans when you have Ram, Tesla and Subaru drivers on the road. Take those off the road and our insurance rates would drop significantly.

Some water head had their model Y cruising at 65 in a 75 in the left lane on 290 yesterday going Hou->AUS. They do seem to be more inattentive and uncertain drivers, which makes for a less predictable and more dangerous driving environment. 

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1 hour ago, Hard Times said:

It certainly shouldn't be surprising when Telsa drivers are right at the top of the worst drivers.

America's Worst Drivers, by Car Brand

And I have to believe any Autonomous Driving Technology is going to be better than humans when you have Ram, Tesla and Subaru drivers on the road. Take those off the road and our insurance rates would drop significantly.

Altima drivers need a shout out, esp with paper plates (which are thankfully on their way out)

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11 minutes ago, Nivek said:

He is the most thin skinned pussy around.  He absolutely gives a fuck, but pretends he doesn't.  Remember when he told advertisers to go fuck themselves, and now wants to sue companies for not advertising?  He is also surrounded by 20 yr old children who he empowered to like him because they were largely unhireable by anyone else due to their ethical failures, he hires people to play video games for him so he can claim to be the best at something.   And he is targeting government organizations which have or are investigating his malfeasance.   He didn't buy hair plugs and try to remove images of himself because he gave no fucks.  He absolutely cares.  He is an empty vessel of a person and probably watches old Andrew Dice Clay comedy specials and thinks that is masculinity defined.  

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, bluto said:

Altima drivers need a shout out, esp with paper plates (which are thankfully on their way out)

Saw a funny meme that said (after all the delta and AA issues) “yall owe the Nissan altimas of the sky an apology” talking about frontier, spirit, Ryanair, etc.

Posted
1 hour ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

If Elon agrees to remove himself from politics, I will donate a few inches from my huge hog to him. It's not just a massive penis, it's a beautiful massive penis. 

All of us should join you, I’m willing to go from a modest thick 9-incher to something even really small like seven and a half. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Colonel Sanders said:

I don't even know what this tweet means.  Fucking morons.  Guess I'll be sure to check my email to understand something that someone did last week. Glad I'm not on vacation. 

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This is literally just being a dictator at this point

 What the fuck

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6 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Definitely shouldn’t…

But also would.

Definitely would. But what we understand as would is not what broke dick Elon is talking about. He is talking about another round of IVF because his penis doesn't work and he thinks sex is yucky.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Colonel Sanders said:

I don't even know what this tweet means.  Fucking morons.  Guess I'll be sure to check my email to understand something that someone did last week. Glad I'm not on vacation. 

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Screenshots of the email itself are circulating and the “failure to respond” ultimatum is not in there. Unsurprisingly since it’s established law that federal employee resignations have to be voluntary.  I’d not open the email and just wait for any actual agency guidance.  OPM has no authority to fire or accept resignations except for OPM employees. 
 

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Posted
14 minutes ago, F250 said:

Very early in my career, I worked for telecom company where new management took over and required daily updates like what Elon is requiring.

Some of us spent more time writing daily updates than actual work. It takes a lot of time to throughly document the most mundane tasks.

- Launched email client. Synched email client with mail server. Began reading email marked as unread. Discovered an email stating my password in the ticketing system was going to expire. Made a note to log into ticketing system to change password at a later time. Continued to analyze the importance of various internal emails I received. Began Multitasking by checking the voice mails on my desk phone while sorting and analyzing email.

 

The reality is that Elon will feed this into AI and begin blasting what he thinks is evidence of fraud, waste, abuse across Twitter. 

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4 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The reality is that Elon will feed this into AI and begin blasting what he thinks is evidence of fraud, waste, abuse across Twitter. 

Yes, more than likely.

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With regards to  the new OPM announcement/email, most government HR departments are already overwhelmed and understaffed, and they and legal have to spend enormous amounts of time and energy answering legitimate questions about this stupid shit.  This is the exact opposite of government efficiency.  Most government employees want to do their jobs to the best of their ability.  Fuck off Elon, you pathetic leech. 

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Posted
55 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Yes but think of the havoc and potential comedy

Ya know, if it wouldn't absolutely overwhelm the already stressed or end up on some trailer to a camp, one can come up with a lot of interesting responses to that email. Think of a USPS employee who works at the service counter and deals with the citizenry. @RDCanecutter could write a creative week's worth of gold here.

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