I am ambivalent toward Elon. He’s been the spark behind some amazing achievements, no doubt. Perhaps he has a plan for Twitter, perhaps he wants it to fail - but those are decisions to be made by someone at a much higher pay grade than me.

The main focus of this thread was more to step back and appreciate how Chiefsplanet, using an interface that is now a relic of the Mid-2000’s internet (people probably used Netscape to first get on here!) is still alive and kicking.

Generally if an org needs their workforce to regularly work that much, there are some deep problems.

I'm not going to pretend to know how much manpower it takes to keep Twitter running but it is hilarious that when you go on Twitter and find people saying that Elon's cutting the fat and there are too many people, which may very well be right, but then also people defending the need to work 60+ hours consistently a week. Just skip right over the logical connection there.

He didn't take it over to fail, come on man!

But oh yes theres never a bad time to heap praise on this place, the more we're all allowed to bitch and complain and carry on like children... the more it entertains and informs

We are truly unique here, may we never change a single thing

I wouldn’t think he would buy it to burn it, but I’ve seen this weird split with folks ardently defending Elon where they’ll say he’s saving Twitter while also saying if he lets it fail that would be a “good thing for humanity” and a savvy business move to claim bankruptcy.

Honestly, all of that stuff is so far above my understanding that hey, maybe Elon is making a smart move if he lets it die, I dunno!

For folks who love Elon I will say this — he’s miles above Zuck and Bezos when it comes to billionaires.

And from the sounds of it, he would have backed out of it if his contract to buy it if it hadn't been so legally tight.

So there is a question of whether he wants to run it as a vanity project or if he wants to maximize his profits (or minimize his loss as the case may be).

And it will be curious to see how his scorched earth approach to Twitter's employees work out.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Learn to weld.</p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1593592648547328002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And now we’re quoting Ben Shapiro. It’s hilarious how dc is not allowed to leak unless it’s the right wing reeruns

I’ve enjoyed this conversation in the lounge. I hope it can stay.

It’s always a better forum when clay doesn’t speak

you don't believe in freedom of speech

yet my speech is freer than yours :evil:

lol okay bud. Maybe one of them will retweet you and then you can feel that sweet validation that you so desperately crave.

- That's hilariously inaccurate.

- Is "learn to weld" some sort of blatant political opinion in code form or something?

It hasn't been shipped off to DC yet, a rare feat only select guys like you can pull off/doff o the cap

I dunno. Let's investigate:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I see these same sentiments reflected over and over and all they do is reveal that the person saying it has never been around the working class in their life (let alone ever worked in what they think is a “real job”)</p>&mdash; Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) <a href="https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1593666684170149890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I am a lineman for the county...


Also this:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am starting to suspect some of these people actually may not be familiar with either the trades or blue collar workers.</p>&mdash; Deborah Ahrens (@Djuna22) <a href="https://twitter.com/Djuna22/status/1593783445993709568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Just talkin bout welding.


And of course who could forget?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Carpentry, obviously <a href="https://t.co/j0GZoH7wdP">pic.twitter.com/j0GZoH7wdP</a></p>&mdash; Kein Bartlett (@BubbbleBudddy) <a href="https://twitter.com/BubbbleBudddy/status/1593709624754151428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>