Elon Musk thread - Saviour of the Black Sea Fleet #SpaceKaren

[benji]

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

based.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

Stop complicating my overly simple worldview with your history and facts.

[jorma]

isn't far left generally considered to be the top left corner (and far right the top right corner) of that square? which would make chatgpt slightly more far left than grok

  

[Nintex]

Elon Musk would've voted against Apartheid very publicly to be able to be the only white guy to hang out with the 'cool' blacks, everybody knows it

[jorma]

Elon Musk would've voted against Apartheid very publicly to be able to be the only white guy to hang out with the 'cool' blacks, everybody knows it

what everybody knows is that the english voted against apartheid while the dutchies voted for apartheid 

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

Elon Musk is in Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro

[Nintex]

[benji]

[Nintex]

1st reply? 

[benji]

[benji]

@BadLegalTakes

[Nintex]

Hell yeah

We need this feature on the Bire.

[benji]

   

[Nintex]

[benji]

How did I miss this?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

[TylenolJones]

[Rendle]

Way too much hand movement. Waaay too much. How did that make it to final cut without someone telling her to just keep her hands by her side?

[chronovore]

It's really unnatural and unnerving. 

That edit is great.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

salty musk salty his aryan queen doesn't look his way.

[benji]

[Potato]

So, one question I have is, when Elon first took over he fired a bunch of engineers and a while heap of other people who seemed to be working on making Twatter a safe space for the freak squad. Has anyone really noticed a difference (aside from the freak squad)?

I remember people saying the whole site would fall over in a few months. This obviously hasn't happened, but has there been other issues or was there just a whole bunch of people doing not much at old Twatter?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

did you get into the chopin?

[Nintex]

It created a bigger difference in the tech space and it was mostly a self-inflicted wound of people working for the corpo tech companies.

When it happened a lot of tech folks started saying things like: "You can't keep servers online with just 2 people", "you can't manage your product without a product owner for every region", "watch it go down in 48 hours if they no longer have the GDPR compliance officer", "Good luck hiring folks without an inclusive and diverse HR team!", "Everyone will leave if you don't allow WFH!" and things like that. A lot of industry standard processes are also designed to increase the size of teams with various roles that have little to do with actually well... doing anything. 

Managers and CEOs of other (tech) companies had the same assumptions based on what their teams told them and the TED talks and books they consumed. And the general idea among the rank and file was that if your company has 1000's of employees, as long as it still has $0.01 in the bank you have no right to fire anyone. In fact your boss has no right to "demand" anything from you. If you are "unwell" and don't do anything for a month or simply spend your time writing newsletters about gay rights in Kenya, well that's the problem of the company not you. After all you are a special snowflake that brings a lot of "value" to this company or they simply "owe" you. For years there was a "simple" solution to this problem of rising "costs", just increase the prices. But inflation has made that more difficult because even if you increase the price 10%, you still need to increase the price by another 10% to actually increase the margin and your customers facing higher costs will adjust their plans (everything is a subscription after all) to deal with their rising cost or stop using your product entirely.

X was the first big tech company that went back to "what do we actually need?" and figured out that they could cut a lot of the fat and that there are less demanding people willing to do the same job. So while the algorithm on X sometimes goes haywire and there are more bugs in general it still functions about 95% - 99% the same with 75% - 80% less costs. So a lot of companies are now following this example, mandating people to work from the office for starters and cutting back HR and support roles. After all, no HR means less "automatic" hiring. 

I think over the next 2 - 3 years and perhaps even sooner all the big tech companies will shrink their employee numbers by at least 50%. There is just no reason to have that many people on the payroll. A big headache for governments in the future because "tech" had sort of become a dumping ground for people that well, wouldn't/couldn't be hired anywhere else.

[benji]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

if that was optimus, that would be a fantastic troll

[Uncle]

remember when one photo of a guy sitting in a tank, or spelling potatoe, or a single passionate scream was enough to tank a political career