tangentism
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- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 1 week ago:
I’ve had some first hand experience of the Guardians IT systems and they can barely find their arse with both hands
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 1 month ago:
Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”
For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies
“Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”
Epic days to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 2 months ago:
It will become an Olympic event where you have to get from the shelf to the till before the price changes!
- Comment on Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum 3 months ago:
schadenfreudilicious!
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 3 months ago:
Google isn’t blocking one of the biggest adblockers. It’s killing chrome!
Those who aren’t using an adblock won’t notice any difference but everyone else will just migrate to a non chromium browser
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 3 months ago:
And don’t come to me with the “but shares are not money”.
WTF are you on about? Where did I even alude to even suggesting that? Sounds like you’re really desperate to simp for him.
His companies are notoriously overvalued and he is massively over leveraged so those who devise those wealth chart tables are chatting shit.
The real wealthy are incredibly private about their worth whereas boastful egotists like musk are all show no substance
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 3 months ago:
I don’t think musk does have that much money though. He’s leveraged to the eyeballs & his businesses (Tesla & Space X) are not profitable without govt subsidies while starlink had repeatedly failed to meet targets & has competitors about to cut into it’s market.
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 3 months ago:
I have my suspicions that Peter Thiel is assisting him to a degree as Twitter serves his purpose.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
