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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: christopera]
#27768464 - 05/08/22 10:37 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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christopera said: When Twitter turns into 4chan nobody will visit it anymore, especially not the advertisers.
That is the problem, isn't it? I doubt Elon bough the platform to lose money.
What these guys don’t understand is the vast majority of Americans don’t have the same radical stance on free speech. A majority of Americans think that hate speech is not protected by the first amendment. They are going to be turned off by overt racism, doxxing, death threats and all the other kinds of shit you see when it’s anything goes.
Musk also wants to charge $3 a month, which is just hilarious. 90% of musks ideas are totally idiotic and will never be realized, so that may be one. I still think there’s a good chance this deal will not even happen. I’m also amazed that people think it’s a good idea for an oligarch to have private control of a huge media company.
Twitter is used around the world. Most countries have laws that would make “free speech absolutism” a very dangerous mine field for the company. Hate speech is a criminal offense in a lot of places.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27768476 - 05/08/22 10:47 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Track record seems pretty legit to me. PayPal, Tesla, and Space X. Also if even 10% of the ideas turn out to be good ones - of a person with his resources that’s probably a great success rate. There’s some people probably with similar resources with 100% bad ideas.
Assuming the deal does go through, I think he will integrate the tech into his cars somehow. I think cars are going to be tweeting about accidents instantaneously or something for self driving navigation and the normal pop. It’ll probably be a service people want to use/pay for, even though I currently would not pay for the platform, regardless of who owns it.(maybe for my mom)
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: ManianFH]
#27768498 - 05/08/22 10:58 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I think he will integrate the tech into his cars somehow. I swear cats are going to be tweeting about accidents instantaneously something for self driving navigation and the normal pop
My friend cancelled his Tesla order after trying out the self driving feature. They charge you $10,000 to test their software essentially and its way buggier than one would expect. You had to tell it if a traffic light was green, for example. It was very disappointing. After spending a day in that car, I realized that reliable and useful self driving cars are not in our immediate future. Maybe ten years. He’s a big hype man and most of his hype is bullshit. Hyperloop? Lol
Starlink is going to be a total market failure.
Here’s musk introducing his new android, which is just a guy in a full body suit dancing. It’s just total cringe and people eat it up. “Wow a car that can tweet. So amazing.” Lol
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27768508 - 05/08/22 11:03 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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koods said:
My friend cancelled his Tesla order after trying out the self driving feature. They charge you $10,000 to test their software essentially and its way buggier than one would expect.
This says it all really:
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Asante]
#27768530 - 05/08/22 11:15 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I guess they didn't test out that window demo ahead of time.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods] 1
#27768550 - 05/08/22 11:26 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I also heard similar stories about musk in hot water over selling people features that don't work as advertised
Take what I say with a grain of salt, it was an average guy, but although I'm impressed by his wealth, I'm not certain he's a "genius", probably a good investor
Again, I'm ignorant of his business of recent events and his technology, so idk
Hate speech sucks and I hope it's not polluted with overt racism
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: psi]
#27768560 - 05/08/22 11:33 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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psi said: I guess they didn't test out that window demo ahead of time.
Yes but at THE DEMO of a PROMINENT product aimed at the WORLDS RICHEST.
The fact that this was not just possible but also repeatable is the biggest PR horror imaginable.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Asante] 1
#27768569 - 05/08/22 11:37 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Ok now list what has worked out….
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Asante]
#27768578 - 05/08/22 11:41 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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My understanding with bulletproof glass is that the biggest priority is that it doesn't actually get breached by the impact, not so much that it remains completely unmarred. So I'd say the windows still "did their job", it's just that Musk and associate seemed to be expecting a different result from the demo. So Musk apparently did not have a good understanding of the product's capabilities, but I don't think the demo necessarily shows it to be a bad product.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: psi]
#27768588 - 05/08/22 11:45 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It’s because they hit the side of the door with a sledge hammer when the window was rolled down to demonstrate the metal doesn’t dent. It caused the window to then break when hit with the ball.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it went..
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Amanita86]
#27768599 - 05/08/22 11:52 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah sort of how the self driving cars work great as long as you don’t actually need them to drive themselves.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27768609 - 05/08/22 12:06 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Arguing about the failed launch there is kind of stupid. Tesla owns about 75% of the electric car market and they are still hanging on despite competition. Their brand recognition remains high despite quality issues the cars are well liked.
None of that has anything to do with what Musk will do with Twitter. There is no doubt they are planning on using it to make money and the 8kun model isn't it.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods] 1
#27768658 - 05/08/22 12:55 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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koods said: Yeah sort of how the self driving cars work great as long as you don’t actually need them to drive themselves.
The technology even with lane assist IMO is so fucking cool though. I use an older version in my leaf and being able to chill while the car does most of the work on a 20-50 mile stretch of freeway is Mind blowing to me, like I couldn’t fathom this would be a thing 20 years ago, and it’s here, albeit not perfect.
Musks Teslas are a step ahead of the competition just because they have millions, if not billions of miles of data to work with. It’s definitely a work in progress but they’ll be the first company to get there - I don’t know what the value is on such a feat but it’ll be a lot.
FWIW I’d pay 10k to have my car FSD even at the current tech level of Musks Teslas. Like how fast can I get this money to you, do you want 100s??
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: ManianFH]
#27768684 - 05/08/22 01:19 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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The self driving shit is not anywhere close to being a reliable consumer product. It’s worse than teaching a teenager how to drive. It constantly needs input and is certainly not relaxing. Charging people $10,000 to be an endless beta tester is pretty obscene.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27768773 - 05/08/22 02:31 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It's not as bad as you are making it out to be but it definitely isn't ready for driverless travel where there is no human oversight. You have to remember Google achieved true driverless cars a long time ago now. Waymo still operates them. There is however a lot more to releasing millions of driverless cars and letting them run wild than there was to Googles cars that basically drove preplanned routes.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: christopera]
#27769313 - 05/09/22 12:29 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Highway driving was fine. City traffic is not ready for prime time and probably won’t be for a long time.
When do you think you’ll be able to get shitfaced at a bar, tell your Tesla come to the entrance and take you home legally?
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27769320 - 05/09/22 12:38 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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How fast did the ipod turn into the iphone?
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Lynnch]
#27769323 - 05/09/22 12:39 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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7 years or so
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: koods]
#27769330 - 05/09/22 12:48 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Listen up Elon Musk
you're just a human
but I appreciate your ideas.
now stop talking bullshit and do something to actually help this world.
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Re: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. [Re: Fiery] 1
#27769440 - 05/09/22 05:31 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It’s funny when mouth pieces of known shit news stations and nobodies on a forum call him “dull witted” and criticize him like he’s never done anything…. Meanwhile etc..
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