top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 94 points 3 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn't open it without Alexa. He wouldn't have been able to open it without wifi either.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you’re going all in on smart home shit, you should ALWAYS buy the products that work when the internet goes out, or when the local IoT network shits out.

    Example, fuck Hue lights. Gets Caseta switches that are wired in and can be used like real switches. Don’t get a smart lock that requires a phone or a wireless pays. Get one that also has a keypad that is hardwired directly into the lock and has a normal key hole. Carry the key just incase.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Recordings from the home’s smart doorbell appeared to show the delivery driver, whom Mr Jackson said was the same race as him, misheard an automated response from the device asking: “excuse me, can I help you?”

    Seriously, that's what it was? They'll ban him for that?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah. People lying about racism towards them (or as they called it "mishearing") can ruin other people's lives. Getting deprived of Amazon services for one week could be considered being lucky if we think about what happens to some people after such false accusations.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This article is factual yet also rage-bait. Suspending accounts is something he's doing now. Contacting employers of people working at car companies and investment firms is something he did five years ago. The article does not say he is contacting the employer of accounts he is suspending now; they leave you to infer that by placing both facts in the same headline but separate paragraphs.

    No love for Musk, avoid Twitter, etc.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Good to see we don't read articles here either, lol

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Even before gaining control of Twitter, Musk would take a proactive approach to addressing criticism.

    Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.

    During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess's employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee's brother.

    Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi's employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi's company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, "was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym," as disclosed in the report.

    Straight from the article, for anyone wondering.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    So much for free speech absolutism. I don't have to watch sports, as Musk fans going through the mental gymnastics to justify this is entertaining enough.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can we just abandon Twitter and Reddit en mass

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago

    It's almost as if this Elon Musk guy is a giant cunt or something.

  • source
  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "Let me speak to your manager!" - Karen Musk, 2023

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Such an whiny, insecure, little boy. Imagine you're getting a call from him because one of your employees trashed Tesla on Twitter. I would wonder where the camera is, because this shit couldn't be real.

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    Ho, more dirty dealings.

    Apparently he was unpopular with some other billionaires, who tried to escape from him in a submarine.

    He was putting the squeeze on them.

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Really want to know what the employer said.

    I can see "f off elon" resulting in elon suspending their twitter account. But any other answer past. "What the hell are you telling us for". Is unforgivable.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Ah, yes, Elon, thank you for informing me that Charlie said that you suck. It was about time for me to realize that Charlie is an incessant critic who deserves to be terminated immediately without prior notice or discussion. CHARLIE, COME HERE. *gunshots sound*

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Such a hard working, self-made Billionaire. Amazing. Utter thundercunt.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The dude seriously is the Space Karen

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    The dude is a scumbag that’ll go after your family, friends, employment, etc for doing nothing wrong. It’s in everyone’s best interest that Twitter go bankrupt and Elon be ruined

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    So much for free speech. The worst part is there will still be a brigades of mindless idiots and scumbags who will defend him.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    @Fmstrat omg, everyone get off Twitter. It’s literally a liability.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    If I was the employer, I'd want to know what my employee is still doing on Twitter. "Don't you know about Mastodon?"

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    Aaaand done. Now I've deactivated all my Twitter accounts too. ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯
    This #shitpimple ...Jeez... I can't even stand to be associated with the platform now.

    Edit: I just realized that the article is rage bait and that those two things have no connection to one another but still, I stand by my words and actions. I don't need Twitter in my life.

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago
    [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, what a fragile moron. He can't even handle criticism so he has to go and deactive their accounts and then call their Employers.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yet one more reason not to buy one of his fairly decent cars. I have 6 months left on my lease and want to try the electric world in retirement.

    Please don't call my employer, master musk....

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›