Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
He would have to start selling off stock for that. I don't see him giving up his roles at Tesla and SpaceX just to keep playing around on Twitter as it burns.
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Guilty_AI
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Horrible choice in energy drink consumption. Wait... is this an ad?
Flatline
Banned
Horrible choice in energy drink consumption. Wait... is this an ad?
Redbull is the Apple of beverages, too expensive for what it offers, overmarketed to a ridiculous degree and at the end of the day it's just caffeine. I'd rather drink coffee.
funkygunther
Banned
Narrator: has never worked at Twitter
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Horrible choice in energy drink consumption. Wait... is this an ad?
Never understood what's wrong with coffee as a caffeine delivery vehicle. Red Bull tastes like a chemical experiment gone wrong.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
One of the few things I can actually agree with you on. Energy drinks are miserable and I would rather drink the worst cup of coffee than a thimble of that acid water.
Remember the YouTube apocalypse? They all eventually come back.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
The post isnt about Peter Yang, and the turnover problem being referenced was at Twitter, not the advertiser.
Yup.
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The Book Reader
Banned
As if any of that never existed before. As if it doesn’t exist on mastodon, or any other corner of the world.
Toons
Member
Not to the same magnitude. Not showing to the same large base.
No one cared about mastodon til it became obvious twitter was going to be Elon personal sandbox he'd use to learn code lol
strange headache
Banned
This is how frikkin' uninformed and clueless the media talking heads really are. Why should anybody care what these people think?
They say to give to space to hate, but here they are outright telling you to despise their new scapegoat of the month.
The funniest part is how the media attacks are becoming more and more desperate. They are literally begging you to hate Musk now.
Look at this spineless weasel. Dude clearly doesn't want to migrate, but the groupthink and peer pressure are palpable.
Meanwhile Musk is reimplementing essential child protection functions making Twitter a safer place where it actually frikkin' matters.
The Book Reader
Banned
I’ve seen a lot of talk around the internet regarding Twitter’s content moderation and whether or not Elon is doing enough, specifically when it comes to DCMA takedowns. The part I don’t really understand is everyone was heavily against it happening before Musk bought the platform. Especially on platforms like YouTube . But all of a sudden, someone needs to hold Twitter accountable for the very thing people hated about what YouTube became. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have content moderation when it comes to legality, I’m just simply pointing out that NOW it’s all of a sudden a big problem that a specific political party feels needs to be addressed. It’s absolutely insane.
strange headache
Banned
Free speech matters, no matter how much of a dirty word the establishment is trying to make it. Absolute free speech being an unattainable ideal doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive for it.
Toons
Member
You're trying to hard.
Content moderation has literally always been a big issue and talking point.
In fact certain folks only started complaining about it when some figureheads started getting banned from YouTube and the like.
Keep in mind everyone cheering twitter on now hated it less than a month ago. And it still hasn't really changed since the buyout.
The Book Reader
Banned
Im just trying to understand.
Toons
Member
Being banned from Twitter or YT isn't a suppression of speech.
You're always free to spew BS on your own site you made yourself.
Thats what Alex Jones did.
Toons
Member
Does it matter? Content moderation is needed i don't think that's in debate at this point.
Twitter isn't the arbiter of free speech. It's a website with rules and a code of conduct. Absolute free speech is a non starter there. The only thing thats changed is whats considered crossing the line.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
It was never being flaunted or given the green light before.
People and companies are going to hesitate being associated with a platform that openly allows hate speech and breaks the law.
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strange headache
Banned
Nobody is cheering "Twitter" on. People are congratulating Musk for putting the double standard on display.
If Twitter were truly so unimportant, why is the media making such a fuss about it?
Because we all know that the social media platform has a big influence on public opinion making and being ostracized from it is a matter of free speech.
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VN1X
Banned
Actually most of it is just sugar these days if I recall correctly. I think it used to contain more caffeine back in the day but has been heavily reduced, at least in most markets.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Red Bull is all marketing.
The difference is coffee is marketed anywhere from dirt cheap McCafes to more expensive Starbucks stuff in a low key way, while drinking a Red Bull is promoted as everyone becomes a death defying stuntman.
The caffeine in both are basically the same amount per serving size. But going by TVs ads I'd bet the average person thinks Red Bull has like triple the power. Red Bull spends a ton on marketing.
Red Bull even says this on their own website Q&A. https://www.redbull.com/int-en/energydrink/how-much-caffeine-is-in-a-can-of-red-bull
The difference is coffee is marketed anywhere from dirt cheap McCafes to more expensive Starbucks stuff in a low key way, while drinking a Red Bull is promoted as everyone becomes a death defying stuntman.
The caffeine in both are basically the same amount per serving size. But going by TVs ads I'd bet the average person thinks Red Bull has like triple the power. Red Bull spends a ton on marketing.
Red Bull even says this on their own website Q&A. https://www.redbull.com/int-en/energydrink/how-much-caffeine-is-in-a-can-of-red-bull
How much caffeine is in a can of Red Bull?
One 250 ml can of Red Bull contains 80 mg of caffeine, about the same amount as in a cup of home-brewed coffee.
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The Book Reader
Banned
Explain it to me like 5.
LegendOfKage
Member
She's a leftest, and definitely uninformed when it comes to this specific situation, but she's also usually pretty principled when it comes to her support of free speech. I disagree with her about some things, but she's generally a great example of free speech not just being a left / right thing.
Flatline
Banned
Jesus fucking Christ wtf am I reading, mega-corps colluding to deplatform people and push for certain narratives and agendas through mass censorship is not suppression of speech. This is painful to read.
Saying Ellen Page is a woman is not hate speech no matter how much they want it to be.
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
Clearly that cannot be true of Berlin due to it’s size.
pramod
Banned
I can't see that anything has changed for the typical user except that hated enemies of the left are now being let back onto the platform.
Azurro
Banned
I'm so happy you are angry. It means the changes are working, you are a perfect barometer of the type of person that needs to be pissed off in order to know a platform is balanced.
Woke screeches aside, apparently it has an all time high activity and only a miniscule amount of people actually left. I am actually spending time on the platform.
Consider me an Elon Musk fan now.
Slicker than your average
Banned
Who's your main lol
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Angry? I've been laughing my ass off for two weeks watching Musk repeatedly fail in a very public manner. He implemented an $8 subscription that immediately failed for all the reasons that people said it would before it released and cost some companies billions in stock prices which forced them to pull their ads from the site. Then he came out and said hate speech will be allowed but not "super boosted". The return of the deservedly banned accounts is just another negative that advertisers will add to the pile as well. Advertisers that Musk needs in order to just break even on the massive debt he has saddled the company with let alone for the company to be profitable. Not only that Musk has been exposed as the sophomoric dudebro that he always was. The mystique of the genius billionaire has been erased.
So no I'm not angry. I'm entertained lol
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
You, Toons, Akimbo, and others have been screeching endlessly in this thread about how "evil" Musk is and desperately hoping that the platform dies, meanwhile we can see in your post history you were all pro Twitter prior to his take over because it was ideologically aligned with your world view.
Come off it.
Azurro
Banned
Nobody_Important
lol, you really are grasping at straws. Advertisers are not actually leaving, activity is at an all time high and Musk already let go of 4000+ parasites employees plus thousands of contractors at Twitter.This thing is going to grow and become so much better. As I said, you are a perfect barometer, if people like you are screeching, it means a place is well moderated. They should implement a similar policy in mainstream media and Hollywood as well. The world would go back to being a sane place.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I have always had issues with social media as a whole. Twitter, FB, TikTok, Reddit, and Instagram all have their significant positives, but they have come at the cost of some incredibly costly negatives. I have said that many times over the years. As for how I treated Twitter before? It wasn't openly allowing hate speech and unbanning all the accounts that were deservedly banned. They also weren't setting their verification system on fire, monetizing it, and then allowing trolls to steamroll the platform with impersonation accounts with Blue Check Marks. They didn't even learn their lesson either because they still intend on pushing it through after "fixing" it. Add to that all his ridiculous memeing and trolling?
Of course I am going to treat Twitter worse than I did before. Because it IS worse than it was before and Musk was advertising that it would be before the sale ever went through. I don't get why that's so hard to understand.
The only saving grace is that the circus is at least entertaining to watch.
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Toons
Member
The site has a code of conduct you agree to when you sign up. Is a library suppressing your speech when they tell you to quiet your voice? It's the same concept. Their house, their house rules.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
where do you think/want people to go when twitter eventually shits the bed to the point even the cancerous users don't want it anymore? lots of them seem like they're migrating back to tumblr
Toons
Member
Same difference in the end is it not?
The media makes a fuss out of unimportant stuff all the time.
If you wanna make a case for words on Twitter being protected speech then you're gonna have a heck a time convincing anyone that code of conduct are unconstitutional now.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
What? Twitter always allowed hatespeech, as long as it was against particular groups. Now *real* hatespeech is banned, while not silencing people for stating objective facts and scientific realities.
The verification system was always on fire and heavily monetized. People were spending hundreds to get verified and it was even proven in this very thread that people were not being verified for political and personal reasons while being DM'd ways to pay employees to get that verification.
It is things like this that you happily ignore to try and paint the modern Twitter as something worse than what it once was - when it is objectively better now than it was. That isn't to say that there isn't a fucking ton of work to go to make it less of a stain on humanity, it still very much is, but better than what we had.
And this just proves you can't even be objective and are letting your personal ideologies cloud your vision of reality.
Scotty W
Banned
Found on 4chan
You will never be able to understand a woman's experience of life
Imagine how stupid you were about playing video games or watching shit like anime when you were 13 and everything seemed equally new and great to your unformed brain, then imagine the entire world is encouraging you to do that and telling you you're already an adult and everything you say is good and valid. That's a woman. They're basically in an involuntary MDMA trip for 10-20 years on end, no human being could survive the amount of frivolous simple pleasure + social reinforcement to keep giving in to the pleasure that women are bombarded with in their youth.
It's genuinely cruel to expect much else from them on their own. It's like trying to talk someone tripping on ecstasy down and get them to be sober and reasonable. Women can literally get pleasure-drunk on seeing bright colors, they see a bitch they don't even like that much in the street and instantly start laughing and screaming with her hysterically. They can cry at a commercial and their orgasms last ten fucking minutes for god's sake. Stop burdening these strange retarded creatures with demands that they be serious and responsible.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Advertisers are not actually leaving? lol
This thing is going to grow and become so much better. As I said, you are a perfect barometer, if people like you are screeching, it means a place is well moderated. They should implement a similar policy in mainstream media and Hollywood as well. The world would go back to being a sane place.
I guess I just imagined all the advertisers leaving and the articles covering them. That's my bad I guess.
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Toons
Member
Lol I have nothing in my post history that is pro Twitter at all from any point.
Nothing in my post history is particularly anti Elon either. I'm reviewing things as they happen. Which I'm allowed to do, even if you will always be not far behind to shield and deflect from literally any criticism of this corporate running billionaire whos also somehow for the little guy.
Christ almighty I'm making and effort to be civil and lighthearted. Chill.
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Toons
Member
Uhhhhhmmm .... yikes?
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
look man a lot of your troll posts are A tier bait but this is just not it chief, you really should have reread that and thought long and hard before you decided it was a good idea to post that on GAF
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
No they did not. They banned people for hate speech all the time. I saw it happen. The fact that they couldn't keep up with everyone and only got the big fish or the ones that were reported the most is a whole other issue.
The moderation sucked, but there WAS moderation. Now there is basically none. For now at least. Because that will be changing given that it breaks the law of several countries.
That's a shit system, but it's still better than just handing out blue check marks to literally everyone. It makes it impossible to tell at a glance who is actually a legitimate source of information or some donut that shelled out $8 to troll.
Please stop trying to drag politics into this. It adds nothing to conversation and has nothing to do with my valid criticisms of what Musk is doing.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Was wondering how long it was gonna take you to post that.
Originality was always your strong suit.
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