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[-] [email protected] 195 points 10 months ago

I just noticed that I like posts with "X ordered to do..." sooo much better than posts with "Elon says..."

[-] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago

I prefer the latter, because it's so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there's nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.

it's super irritating.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh....

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn't going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it's referring to the platform.

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[-] [email protected] 132 points 10 months ago

Surprise, Space Karen, places other than the US have actual employee protection laws.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago

I'm always baffled how US slavers fall for that trap again and again.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The US doesn't fall for anything; the pols are paid to not work for the people. It's greed, not idiocy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

How is it not idiocy to get burned by european labour laws time and time again? Greed makes stupid.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

but laws don't apply to billionaires 😭 /s

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Well it's not like Musk was fined, the company has to pay.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Since he's the sole owner it's pretty much the same, it's profits (hahahaha) that's not going in his pockets.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I thought Sauia Arabia put up a shed load of cash as well ?

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[-] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago

you know what I always stan for? "former Twitter". I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn'T work

[-] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

I've been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

Instead of "X (formally know as Twitter)", the time has come for "Twitter (currently called X)".

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Don't even acknowledge the current name of the site, just keep calling it Twitter.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

"Trending on Occupied Twitter"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's just a special capitalist operation!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he's calling it. don't show his site the courtesy he doesn't show to his own daughter.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

He literally still called the posts tweets so....

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I'm just sad we aren't at calling it "formerly facebook" instead of meta

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I'm not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.

I don't quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that's more subtle.

X can fuck the duck right off.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, same as Alphabet. Neither of these renamed their key product either. Just put a new company on top.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say 'that's meta' you have to stop and think, which may be why I've seen that phrase really die out.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The meta rebranding is not as evil as the hostile takeover of Twitter. So I am inclined to accept that name change but I do not know really what using meta means.

I don't use FB, if I did I would still say FB. I use WhatsApp and I don't call that meta. I guess the individual products just keep their names here.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is also the difference that Facebook the service is still called Facebook. Only the company name changed, but not the product name. Where for Twitter, he renamed both the product and the company.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

X is simply too vague.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago

This employee in question was an executive

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ex X executive is fun to say out loud.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

XXX-kyootive

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Of course. Not like they'd order the same for the custodian or whatever. But because they are of high status they get protected.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Otherwise he would have gotten 1 figure less, and then we would never have heard about him.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

It was more fun watching this loser lose before I realized it’s all they really do.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

Shame it wasn't a class action suit. $600k is peanuts compared to $600k per violation.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

my exact thoughts, every single employee who received this email should have sued his ass. You are only required to work as much as your contract details and this a clear instance of workplace bullying

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

This is why I never read my emails.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Now that they won - the effort to collect what they won can start…!

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