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quote:Tesla's founder Elon Musk wiped $14bn off its value after tweeting its share price was too high in his opinion. You must admit that wiping value at a rate of $500M per character is pretty impressive.
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Mak0rz posted:It's only a matter of time before Musk evolves to the final techbro stage: John McAfee Musk is too dull to become a McAfee. He's literally a billionaire married to a rockstar and his life is more boring than the average goon.
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May 2, 2020 00:28
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May 2, 2020 07:03
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Anora posted:I need to stop wondering what happened to people I used to watch on TV, cause like 90% of the time it's just "Is a loving idiot fueling other idiots, while being paid for by a Nazi." I've come round to that way of thinking too. If you are really lucky, they just got fat. Likewise I never read the twitter of anyone I really liked/respected. You're only going to be disappointed.
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May 7, 2020 12:40
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Jollity Farm posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/deanvannguyen/status/1258412519460397057 When you're in a poo poo-filled hole of transphobic hate that you dug yourself....keep publically making GBS threads yourself.
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May 7, 2020 16:46
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LordSaturn posted:I'd only heard that all this started with an episode of IT Crowd around that scenario, i.e. Trans Panic. Dude gets into a slapstick altercation with a woman he'd been dating, due to learning of her (former?) penis. The pushback from that made him mad, and everything since has been him refusing to learn or grow at all. Even at the time, that episode was very problematic and it aged like a wet turd behind a sofa.
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May 7, 2020 20:21
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wizzardstaff posted:It's very real and it's been operating that way for years. Can't find it right now but I remember an interview with the person who runs it; the thinking is basically "no one is going to read boring poo poo about smoke alarm expiration dates; we can't change the content but we can change the boring". Smart guy there. That's genius-level thinking. I suppose the only way you could make a facebook version of this strategy is to release graphics suggesting some kind of conspiracy, or use 'subtle' racism.
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May 10, 2020 16:42
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Knormal posted:Yeah, but try telling that to the Ogg Vorbis people. Just wanted to give this a hearty chuckle of appreciation.
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May 15, 2020 13:15
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Yikes. I like the swastika, and there are all kinds of them, but he chose the straight up, indefensable NSDAP Nazi loving hakencruz. There are 1000's of swastika designs that people wouldn't associate with Nazism for gently caress's sake. Maybe he should combine this with taking back the raised arm salute that American kids used to do when pledging allegiance at school.
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May 19, 2020 01:18
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Sexual Aluminum posted:If a third world child didn't die to unearth it, you don't love me. Do you think they got confused between lab-grown diamonds and moissanite/cubic zirconia? I'm pretty sure that once you wipe the third-world child's blood off a natural diamond, it is identical to a lab-grown one
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May 20, 2020 16:14
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So, what is it?
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May 20, 2020 17:05
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Lumbermouth posted:Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it! So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe?
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May 20, 2020 17:59
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J Detan posted:I really need to get off Twitter. If I keep seeing poo poo like this I'll pick up a drinking habit. I dunno: I read through the replies and they are 98% people completely dunking on him. Just a never-ending stream of insults about his fragile ego. It's actually quite affirming to see.
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May 20, 2020 22:45
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SiKboy posted:Off the top of my head, theres one episode of the IT crowd where the boss gets into a relationship with a woman who is perfect for him, when he discovers she's trans he gets into a fistfight with her (played for slapstick). When I saw the episode originally I thought the joke was supposed to be "The boss is such a toxic macho idiot that he throws away his perfect relationship", but apparently Glinner intended the joke to be "He punches a woman and its funny because shes trans. Also lol he slept with a transwoman". He was called out on it (in, IIRC fairly mild "Uh, I dont think you've thought through the implications of what you wrote here Graham" terms), and essentially made a deliberate decision to become Transphobic As gently caress. trickybiscuits posted:That's exactly how I read the entire episode too and I am extremely relieved to know that I am not the only one who did. See, I watched it when it came out and I read the 'joke' was "He punches a woman and its funny because shes trans. Also lol he slept with a transwoman", because all of the 'jokes'/actions were structured that way and it seemed pretty obvious to me that was the whole point of the girlfriend character. I also remember having a distinct 'hang on, this isn't right: a woman is being punched in the face' moment - not because I am super-woke, but because even back then - without the benefit of others highlighting the problem, it just seemed so obviously wrong. A later episode has Roy being sexually-assaulted and mocked for it and it only confirmed the previous conclusion. And I think Linehan is now nuts in a 'mental health' way - he's not just doubling-down on a lovely opinion, he's legit wrong in the head.
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May 26, 2020 23:02
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Loomer posted:Every sane (and most of us brokebrains) person - including, as far as I know, Matt Berry - reads the episode that way. His dream woman and he throws it all away through comic mishaps. There's a whole extended and pretty graphic fight scene that only works as humour if you think his girlfriend is just a man in a wig. If you think of her as a woman, it's not only distinctly uncomfortable to watch, it has no basic comedic element to it. It's a man punching a woman in the face - where's the comedy in that? E: it was a fundamentally-flawed episode at the time and it has only gotten worse with time. Moo the cow has a new favorite as of 23:15 on May 26, 2020 |
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Loomer posted:I do want to clarify that I’m not saying it isn’t transphobic, just that the read at the time for me was of it all as a joke on Matt Berry’s character being a bigoted lunatic who ruined his literal perfect relationship by being an absurdly over the top dickhead. It’s definitely transphobic stuff, especially with Glinner involved, but because of the style of humour that element slipped under the radar and got mixed into the humour of the Reynolds character. No worries, I don't think anyone thought you were giving it a pass and I completely get where you are coming from. For me, it happened to be something that hit me quite hard at the time and I've never forgotten that reaction I had. It was something that stuck in my mind and perhaps made me aware about some of the thoughtless prejudices that trans people faced and that I should be consciously aware of them. Plus, it turns out there are lots of awesome trans goons that I have encountered since then and it makes me more angry with this turd as time goes on.
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