Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I tried to delete a double post the other day but couldn't. Maybe if it makes a new page, you can't?

Hang on let me check

Nope, still works. I was just able to delete a post that started the next page. Someone probably posted before you got the chance to delete it.

No longer prepared to rule out that Elon Musk has a humiliation fetish.

News:
Response the next day:

He’s going.

All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

I need to eat some crow here, turns out Dime was right about Tesla stock... it's not just inter-fund trading driving volume like FAANG, several larger funds are slowly divesting even as Vanguard, Black Rock, etc. hold. ESG pressure?

BurtReynolds wrote:All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

I thought they were IRS agents?

B wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

I thought they were IRS agents?

Twitter (and Facebook) have a significant number of former FBI, CIA, and NSA agents on payroll for... reasons. I don't believe Burt was referring to the Federal payroll.

We've all been ratio'd this whole time.

Related, that random British dude talking about how terrible America is and claiming he was called a "Paki" in upstate New York.

Wow the availability of Pakistani tweets translated to English is definitely what’s gonna tip me over and start using twitter

Bammer wrote:Wow the availability of Paikistani tweets translated to English is definitely what’s gonna tip me over and start using twitter

Might make uncontrolled immigration untenable.

My sister (Dunning-Kruger idiot) is posting on FB about the Chinese “satellite” over Montana. She’s probably got posts about it going on insta, tik tok, parler, and her dozen blogs also.

"Coddling" is a foundational text for me, so despite some less than stellar writing I think Haidt is correct here:

He is careful to avoid the next logical leap in the changing social dynamics amoungst the young, but it's difficult not to make it when reading this.

Social media can be terrible for anyone’s mental health, regardless of age. But that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Just like anything really.

I don't know if this is a social media thing or not, but the fact that Google doesn't have some kind of protection against this bullshit is bonkers.

They had their own fuck up, but if I Google a restaurant, I want the restaurant. If I want to fuck the restaurant, I can download the DoorDash app on my own. I don't need Google to trick me into fucking the restaurant.

NOTE: I know this isn't actually DoorDash.