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Threatening to cut off internet to Ukraine in the middle of a war, casing journalists off twitter, chasing black, queer, and other marginalized people off twitter and allowing racists and bigots to take over, unbanning people posting kiddie porn, or people inciting armed conflict. Firing hundreds of people and not paying them, not paying bills, firing a spotlight into people's apartments from twitter HQ. Starting an entire company to drill tunnels for no reason other than to disrupt plans for a train network. Disregarding all advice and blasting a concrete pad into high velocity fragments and causing widespread damage. Pushing faulty self-driving cars that kill people.

Yeah, sounds great

> chasing black, queer, and other marginalized people off twitter and allowing racists and bigots to take over,

Pretty much every claim you made is misleading or false, but this one is particularly egregious. That never happened, but a lot of people like to repeat the same lies in unison pretending it did

Unbanning Donald Trump and Kanye West.

Wait. So your "evidence" for that claim is the act unbanning a black person and a former president?

You're effectively telling me that the claim is invalid

lol concrete pad. Wow, really scraping the bottom of the barrel there aren't you? How did this affect you negatively exactly?

So you're fine with kiddie porn on twitter then?

No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before.

> No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before.

How is Twitter unbanning someone, who was banned for posting child pornography, being more aggressive in getting rid of it?.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter...

>> Experts said that even photos that are partially obscured, such as the image shared by the influencer, typically qualify as illegal child sex abuse material, or CSAM.

>> In fact, the image in question had drawn more than 3 million views and 8,000 retweets, according to Twitter statistics on a cached version of the tweet from Tuesday.

Hmmm.

It would be more accurate to say that they have been more aggressive in preventing third party observers to track CSAM on twitter:

Twitter Failing To Deal With Child Sexual Abuse Material, Says Stanford Internet Observatory (Jun 6, 2023,)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt...

* Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory say the company failed to deal with 40 items of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) over a period of two months between March and May this year.

* Research such as this is about to become far harder—or at any rate far more expensive—following Elon Musk’s decision to start charging $42,000 per month for its previously free API.

There's no kiddie porn on Twitter

Sibling comment went for some twitter rebuttal, which isn’t appropriate here (or anywhere, really); a better reply is challenging the goodness, utility, or execution of those schemes themselves.

His cars are expensive but poorly built for a luxury vehicle and are, at a macro level, greenwashing to perpetuate car culture.

His rockets are a folly for the super-wealthy. If that is you, congratulations! But I’d be wary of the fate of the most recent experimental sarcophagus for the elite.

Starlink is neat and has a noble aim, though as currently (and foreseeably) implemented it won’t be serving that goal at all; it is an expensive service with high upfront costs and no availability in regions most in need of either coverage in general (the majority of the African continent) or rural areas (for which SpaceX receives considerable funding for). It’s also raised concerns about a crowded sky, but that’s for someone more informed to chime in on.

And as per the brain chips, the rate of dead research monkeys should tell you that they won’t be going anywhere with that. If you know anyone in biomedical research, you should talk to them about that: you’ll be amused.

1) They are actually quite cheap now, with incentives in multiple states you can get them for under 17k. 2) They have way lower cost of ownership. They are definitely not expensive. The model 3 is close to the same price as a Honda accord, which is anything but a luxury vehicle. 3) "His rockets are a folly for the super-wealthy." His rockets are now providing some of the most remote people on the planet with internet for the first time and opening up opportunities for learning and otherwise that were just unthinkable prior to this. 4) The rockets are saving tax payers an enormous amount of money that they were burning on far more expensive offerings from others. 5) The fact that the FDA has approved human trials should be evidence that they are moving forward.

You have an extremely pessimistic view towards virtually everything that Musk does, which is absolutely comical. I'd love to see what type of person you look up to. Stalin maybe?

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