New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors

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[–] 150 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Why doesn't it surprise me that Elon didn't give a shit about his neighbors?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Libertarians think it's their sacred duty to be belligerently annoying with their property as possible.

    Literally had one tell me that defending property rights is a stronger moral imperative than helping someone dying of thirst the other day.

    That would of course change the moment they were the thirsty ones.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    You are absolutely spot on when it comes to right wing neo-libertarians. But off base when it comes to actual libertarians. And you can use this small point to infuriate any Rothbard acolyte you come across. If you suggest that they aren't libertarian, and instead just deeply selfish. Having that fact pointed out. Will wound them on a deep personal and emotional level. Because they've built their life around having plausible deniability for being assholes.

    Actual left libertarians tend prioritize the freedom of everyone. Not just themselves and their property. Many left libertarians refrain from voting out of principle and not just laziness. Voting for something, no matter how much they like it. Could negatively impact someone else's freedom. The anarchist end get pretty squirrely sometimes still. But on the whole they're not all that bad. Nothing like their pretend right wing counterpart.

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  • [–] 109 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Why is everything Elon does, or by extension Twitter, newsworthy? I'm so sick of hearing about this fucker every day.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago

    Because Twitter is something many people use and is part of our lives. The terms tweet and retweet is in our lexicon and a lot of breaking news appear on twitter. It's clearly important to us and as evidenced by Mastodon, Blue Sky, and Threads, we humans want a form of twitter. I agree and it has some utilitarian use. There's something "internety" about short blips of info with quick vids if necessary that anyone can access.

    It may not seem important, but with Google trying to push DRM browsing, their search algo shitting itself, reddit crapping itself, Youtube being Youtube, etc. the old internet as we knew it is dying. The old internet being the free one we knew that wasn't centralized, full of forums, and felt a different kind of alive. I think that's why the news for Twitter is important.

    Now, do we need to know about the people complaining about the X sign? Maybe not, i kind of don't think so, but it is nice to have a record of it for future reference. It most likely didn't need to reach my all/local page but people upvoted it.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He wants attention cuz daddy no longer gives him it

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's because his daddy is giving it to his step-daughter.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    People down voting you don't know that Musks dad is fucking his now pregnant step sister that he raised (groomed) since she was a child.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    As I clicked to load comments, I thought to myself that there hasn't been a single article that presented anything he's done with Twitshit as positive. I wondered if that's bias or whether he's fucked up on every change. But you're right. I'm ready to stop hearing about it. It sucks when children are billionaires.

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    [+] 97 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)
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    [–] 57 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    All Elon has to do is... nothing. He doesn't have to come up with 'hilarious' tweets, he doesn't have to make an everything app, he doesn't need to run any of his companies. He could retire right now and just do whatever he felt like in his private life.

    But he's such a needy little attention whore that he won't do that.

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    [–] 52 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    That's very annoying sign. Why it has to pulsate? That company should be fined.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It what?

    glowing, pulsing and strobing

    Holy shit. It cycles through a bunch of animation presets like a giant fucking set of high beam Christmas lights or a modded out Nissan Z.

    In not even going to link a video, because it comes dangerously close to the photosensitive seizure threshold in some parts. Also because the video was in a tweet.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    was in a tweet

    I doubt that's what they're officially called anymore. No idea what Musk thinks they should be called now. X-cretions?

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Another day, another publicity stunt.

    I think stunts worked out well for Musk's image initially because he was seen as "Iron Man IRL" and his... widely imaginative ideas were seen as genius and innovative.

    However, as his current image has now become "middle schooler in a grown man's body with way too much money", all of his stunts only reinforces that image into his descent into the butt of the joke. He of course, doesn't seem to understand that and only looks to double down.

    It's good that we're all sick of hearing about him at this point, because that's the reputation a person like him deserves.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It feels more and more like a cry of help "Look at me! Please look at me!"

    So boring urgh

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    He's always been like that. You just never noticed it until the illusion shattered to reveal the terrible person behind it.

    This is also the reason why even smart people fall for scams too. People are emotional and only see what they want to see.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago

    I love how even the news isn’t calling Twitter “X,” even when it’s talking about the stupid giant pulsating X Elon put up as a giant DivorcedMan signal.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This, like the rest of it, is on purpose. He wants to create a "they are hostile to me in SF despite my desire to stay in the city, so I will now relocate Twitter to Texas". Ultimately, he wants to destroy Twitter as it was previously a place used to organize movements (Arab spring, Saudis are #2 investor in Twitter behind musk) and amplify information about the embarrassing failures and crimes of fascists like him. Destroy the validity (and even basic functionality) of the site, and less people hear those messages.

    Chronically-divorced megalomaniac coward who's daddy didn't/doesn't love him.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    What an insecure aged boy Musk is

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He's showing us how much smarter he is than the rest of us and why he deserves the billions he has.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's in the US, isn't it? And that's nothing a bullet or two can't fix...

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Destroying property is a no no in the states. Ironically if children were slaves (therefore property) we might actually get somewhere in having better laws protecting them from getting shot

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wasn’t that logo supposed to be temporary? Sure doesn’t seem temporary if they’re installing a sign on the offices.

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    its gone btw.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    It is hard to come up with a better metaphor for a pathological need for attention than a 20 foot tall icon, shining brighter than the sun, and strobing into elderly people's apartments.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    ah our dayli reminder that Musk is a cunt that does not care about other people...

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    He just Musk'd up the neighborhood.

    He's worse than a Spaceball

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Wannabe dictator acts like a giant crybaby and tries to get attention, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

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