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My man Musk made some interesting profile changes

The Gamer Triple H

Gold Member
Dude fucked up in a spectacular way during Christmas and is now course correcting in a bizarre way.

Keep in mind this is the guy who literally said he’d go to war over worries and objections over immigration, and said the people worrying were “subtards”. He sees the USA not as a country but as a means to an end and he doesn’t give a shit about it’s citizens, social cohesion, etc. It’s all about productivity and cheap labour.

Him and Vivek’s reputations were severely damaged.
Mask off moments for both of em in the last 7 days.

Then again, Vivek has always been a piece of shit.
 
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Elon Musk bad choice, a better nickname for you would be KETAMINE MAXIMUS🤗🤗
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
At this point it’s just sad. He’s the richest most loneliest man in the world who spends all day on twitter. Which would be ok if he didn’t spend $44 billion acquiring it.

It’s also sad what he’s done to twitter. As a tech bro , I’m actually sympathetic to what’s being discussed but the racism and hatred on my feed during this whole fiasco literally makes me want to vomit. It’s racism served on a platter to hundreds of millions of people rightfully angry about a very serious economic issue. But no, we need to be exposed to the worst in humanity who themselves only care about exposing the worst in other tribes. This time writing off 1.5 billion people.

The algorithm designed to push hate has completely ruined Twitter and made it a vomit inducing experience. Had to delete it for the second time in three months.
 

Trilobit

Member
Mask off moments for both of em in the last 7 days.

Then again, Vivek has always been a piece of shit.

That mask has been very clear for Swedes as Musk is basically trying to tear down important worker/corporation structures and change something that's been ingrained in them for a century. He has no regard for the inhabitants of a country and only wishes to serve his own goals, which basically is getting to Mars and creating a civilization there. He's wildly rich, but you don't know him as a philanthropist despite it. I don't perceive him as evil, just very autistic with one goal in his life which doesn't allow sympathy for others. The killing of the healthcare CEO must have terrified him as no person, no matter how rich, can shelter themselves completely from the common people.
 

Lunarorbit

Member
is this seriously what this place has become now?
I mean there's a reason tons of people went to resetera in the 1st place.

Seeing lots of threads since trump got elected about politics.

Lots of trolls and users who have zero emotional intelligence or common sense.
 

Dick Jones

Gold Member
Why are we platforming someone who voluntarily turned up to Jeffrey Epstein's house after Epstein was released from prison?

If we want to make a vague gaming connection, we know that he cheats at games. I don't care if someone wants to use cheats when playing, but those who publicly claim to be good while cheating can fuck off. Everyone can beat games with cheats so what's the achievement? It's not news.
 
Dude fucked up in a spectacular way during Christmas and is now course correcting in a bizarre way.

Keep in mind this is the guy who literally said he’d go to war over worries and objections over immigration, and said the people worrying were “subtards”. He sees the USA not as a country but as a means to an end and he doesn’t give a shit about it’s citizens, social cohesion, etc. It’s all about productivity and cheap labour.

Him and Vivek’s reputations were severely damaged.
Pretty much. It's fine to disagree with people respectfully and work toward compromise, but Musk went "full autistic" on everyone who doesn't think the way he does. Both of them went about arguing for this in some really stupid ways, and I don't trust either to limit themselves to ONLY great minds that the US absolutely needs to stay competitive.

I think a real easy solution to this is to tell corporate America that they can have all the brilliant minds to help them succeed that they want. But in order to assure those people are there for their intelligence instead of cheap labor or willingness to work absurd hours, those brilliant minds all have to be the highest paid people at your company, and they can't be worked anymore than your other employees. You want the best, you have to pay for the best.

Because the alternative possibility is employers can import talent who not only are getting paid less than the American workers they just replaced, but also their work is tied to a visa program where they will be removed from the country if they are let go from their job. There's way too much that can be exploited there.
 

The Gamer Triple H

Gold Member
You’re talking about the H1B thing? I don’t understand what the issue is. You think musk and Vivek are pieces of shit for being pro high skill immigration?

No, Vivek is a piece of shit for pushing a alzheimer's drug called intepirdine back in 2015. Him, his brother and his mom made millions off of it, claiming it would help millions of patients.

Then he sold shares before its clinical trial, which the drug failed. Investors lost millions, including pension funds.

Musk is a piece of shit for laying off thousands of americans who worked for Tesla, who he then replaced with H1B visa holders.
 

Rat Rage

Member
There are a lot of things to describe Elon Musk, but I don't want to start my new year with a lot of bad words...
 
No, Vivek is a piece of shit for pushing a alzheimer's drug called intepirdine back in 2015. Him, his brother and his mom made millions off of it, claiming it would help millions of patients.

Then he sold shares before its clinical trial, which the drug failed. Investors lost millions, including pension funds.

Musk is a piece of shit for laying off thousands of americans who worked for Tesla, who he then replaced with H1B visa holders.
Yeah, it doesn't work like that. Company CEOs can't sell shares whenever they want. They're planned way advance to avoid this exact scenario. There's ton of laws and regulations against this.

And if a pension fund is investing in a small biotech company, they deserve to get fucked. Biotech companies are notoriously volatile. That's a failure of their fiduciary duty.
 
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thefool

Member
Last week was good. He got kicked in the teeth and learnt (what the other side also didn't knew) people will not blindly follow him.
 

The Gamer Triple H

Gold Member
Yeah, it doesn't work like that. Company CEOs can't sell shares whenever they want. They're planned way advance to avoid this exact scenario. There's ton of laws and regulations against this.

And if a pension fund is investing in a small biotech company, they deserve to get fucked. Biotech companies are notoriously volatile. That's a failure of their fiduciary duty.

The thing is, the company Axovant Sciences was a subsidiary of Roivant Sciences, the main company he founded. He sold his shares of Roivant when it went public, and he insulated his losses when Axovant stock tanked.

So he raised $300+million to make Axovant, made it a subsidiary of Roivant, then sold shares of Roivant when the subsidiary was valued at 3 billion. Then Axovant fell apart when the drug failed Trials
 
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SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Pretty much. It's fine to disagree with people respectfully and work toward compromise, but Musk went "full autistic" on everyone who doesn't think the way he does. Both of them went about arguing for this in some really stupid ways, and I don't trust either to limit themselves to ONLY great minds that the US absolutely needs to stay competitive.

I think a real easy solution to this is to tell corporate America that they can have all the brilliant minds to help them succeed that they want. But in order to assure those people are there for their intelligence instead of cheap labor or willingness to work absurd hours, those brilliant minds all have to be the highest paid people at your company, and they can't be worked anymore than your other employees. You want the best, you have to pay for the best.

Because the alternative possibility is employers can import talent who not only are getting paid less than the American workers they just replaced, but also their work is tied to a visa program where they will be removed from the country if they are let go from their job. There's way too much that can be exploited there.
There needs to be some kind of legislation around this. Like you can’t layoff Americans first. Layoff h1bs and shutter foreign studios before you can start laying off Americans. iirc, this was something that was promised by a previous administration.

we also need to limit H1Bs to people who invested in u.s universities and got education from the u.s. there is a different visa for geniuses, i dont know what its called but use that for einsteins.

i work with several indians after our QA work was contracted out to indian companies and they are awful. just trash. not because they are stupid or uneducated, but because their mindset is simply not the same. they lack the problem solving and analytical thinking thats taught in american schools. they speak and understand english but they cannot understand our workflows, and way of doing things. some of these guys have been working with us for over 3 years and are worse than some of the new hires from american universities. The indians i went to university with were exceptionally smart and bright, give those guys H1B visas after they graduate.
 

Kraz

Banned
A dated reference, but he's falling back on what he knows.

This frog character always reminded me of the greedy one from Pan's Labyrinth
 

FunkMiller

Member
I am surprised that people are being surprised. We are merely in line for the roller coaster at this point in time. The ride hasn't even started yet, but some of you should make sure to look up to see which ride you're about to step onto.

The amount of people who are going to try to deny they’ve been conned and played for fools is going to be off the charts.
 

FunkMiller

Member
Dude fucked up in a spectacular way during Christmas and is now course correcting in a bizarre way.

Keep in mind this is the guy who literally said he’d go to war over worries and objections over immigration, and said the people worrying were “subtards”. He sees the USA not as a country but as a means to an end and he doesn’t give a shit about it’s citizens, social cohesion, etc. It’s all about productivity and cheap labour.

Him and Vivek’s reputations were severely damaged.

And Trump backed him up all the way.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
16 people dead and for what?

Fuck killing people to maake a statement
These two incidents are surely linked. The actual physical/human death damage is insignificant.

BUT, the stereotyping and political fallout will be huge. When you got a middle eastern guy who looks like an ISIS supporter (according to finding a flag or whatever) and the other one killed himself in a Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel, all that does is support conservatives views.

Whatever statements these two psychos had in mind doing what they did gives people the wrong impression.
 

Jinzo Prime

Member
These two incidents are surely linked. The actual physical/human death damage is insignificant.

BUT, the stereotyping and political fallout will be huge. When you got a middle eastern guy who looks like an ISIS supporter (according to finding a flag or whatever) and the other one killed himself in a Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel, all that does is support conservatives views.

Whatever statements these two psychos had in mind doing what they did gives people the wrong impression.

I don't care what "impression" they were trying to give, I care about the needless waste of human life. We shouldn't try to rationalize acts of terror, we should fucking stop them from happening.
 
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