• snowboardbum@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Elon slashed twitters’ expenditures too. That lowered the service/experience. Our social contract doesn’t need the same.

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      12 days ago

      I hate Elon Twitter actions, but Elon actually cut a lot of their costs without any actual significant losses of quality.

      I don’t know what exactly is Elon stand on spending on moderation on the platform(there is a lot of pirated content there). I really don’t know if he removed moderation to have a better control and more freedom to do what he want or he did it to only cut costs.

      In all the cases, you got my point.

      Just because I hate him, doesn’t mean I should criticize everything he ever did in life.

      It’s ok to have a balanced view on people you love or hate.

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    12 days ago

    I worked at twitter when Musk acquired it. He asked everyone to print out their code. Its one of the stupidest things I have heard anyone say at work, ever. My code would be a stack of paper taller than me, mostly white space or generated code. No one would ever read such a thing, or be able to look through it. Its pathologically stupid. He’s just a rich idiot who people work around, not a leader of any sort. Everything at Twitter is broken now. Thats what he will do to ythe government too.

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    12 days ago

    Isn’t the Department of Government Efficiency going to have 2 heads? Doesn’t sound very efficient to me.

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      12 days ago

      LMAO

      Honestly I think it’s just a make-work job Trump gave them in his transactional sort of way. I think he dislikes Musk on a personal level (I have no evidence, I just presume that they have clashing egos and personalities.) I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a public falling out in which Musk gets mad that he isn’t important enough in the admin and badmouths Trump.

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      12 days ago

      It’s up to 3 heads, Majorie Titan Green has joined the crew of people Trump wanted to pay back but keep a distance from.

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    12 days ago

    Hey guys, turns out you’ll have lots of money if you stop paying pesky things like “employees” and “debt obligations”!

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    12 days ago

    He’s only the richest man in the world because of government contracts, not because he’s a brilliant or a champion of efficiency.