Twitter under Musk....

[winjim]

The fact remains that EVs as currently produced are not going to solve anything. Fewer cars and smaller cars would help.

Makes us the consumers think we're doing something beneficial while the real polluters maintain the status quo.

As I've said before, I've been taking my own bags to the supermarket for 35 years but the planet still seems to be on fire.

 

[the snail]

 

[C R]

Seems like the proper maga are unhappy about the influence of uppity immigrants like Musk and Ramaswami, and a few of the proper maga posted a few unflattering xitts* about the both of them. Of course free speech absolutist Musk did as expected and removed the blue ticks from the xitter* accounts of said magas.

Bannon has come out on the side of the magas. It will be interesting to see which way Donald I goes.

*In galician the x is pronounced like sh.

 

[Beebo]

Seems like the proper maga are unhappy about the influence of uppity immigrants like Musk and Ramaswami, and a few of the proper maga posted a few unflattering xitts* about the both of them. Of course free speech absolutist Musk did as expected and removed the blue ticks from the xitter* accounts of said magas.

Bannon has come out on the side of the magas. It will be interesting to see which way Donald I goes.

*In galician the x is pronounced like sh.

My problem is that in this instance Musk is correct. Highly qualified immigration is always going to benefit any country.

 

[Ian H]

My problem is that in this instance Musk is correct. Highly qualified immigration is always going to benefit any country.

What does it do for the rest of the population that other immigration doesn't?

 

[C R]

My problem is that in this instance Musk is correct. Highly qualified immigration is always going to benefit any country.

It is complicated. The US hba1 system is almost an indentured labour system, which is not a good thing. OTOH, the magas would be perfectly OK to allow US "talent" to be used as indentured labour, so for the rubes that voted for Trump it will make no difference who comes out on top.

 

[C R]

It is complicated. The US hba1 system is almost an indentured labour system, which is not a good thing. OTOH, the magas would be perfectly OK to allow US "talent" to be used as indentured labour, so for the rubes that voted for Trump it will make no difference who comes out on top.

Too late to edit, the tech visas are H-1B, hba1c is a fraction of hemoglobin bound to glucose used to monitor long term glucose control in diabetics.

Oh, and Trump seems to have come out on the side of the oligarchs.

 

[Mr Celine]

My problem is that in this instance Musk is correct. Highly qualified immigration is always going to benefit any country.

Apart from the country the highly qualified emigrated from.

 

[tarric]

Too late to edit, the tech visas are H-1B, hba1c is a fraction of hemoglobin bound to glucose used to monitor long term glucose control in diabetics.

Oh, and Trump seems to have come out on the side of the oligarchs.

This is what the people that think the likes of Trump are on their side never seam to understand, he and his like will always come out on the side that makes them the most $$$$$$ while they are left with the bill.

 

[C R]

So now that the xitter magas turned on him Musk is asking xitter users to post more beautiful and positive messages. Oh, bless, you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

 

[tarric]

So now that the xitter magas turned on him Musk is asking xitter users to post more beautiful and positive messages. Oh, bless, you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

And that's the reason I don't think the bromance between him and Donald will last, both have very large ego's but also very fragile ones and neither likes to be out shown.

 

[Ian H]

I do like a good egghorn.

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

Apart from the country the highly qualified emigrated from.

I think those with regular criticism on Isreal here would disagree. As it's one of the countries having an so called brain drain.
But if all smart people want to leave a certain country doesn't that also relay and important message/warning to those in charge?

 

[Psamathe]

What makes Musk think that because he's rich he can start interfering in political governance in other countries? His now outspoken support for AfD seems to have cause a bit of an outcry in Germany (outside AfD supporters).

Personally I don't regard him as being particularly clever. He may be rich but people can get rich from being in the right place at the right time. I once worked for an "entrepreneur" who was pretty poor at business but created his successful company because he was "right place right time" and he took the opportunity (he actually had little choice about taking it). I consider Musk the same. If he was good businessman he would not be destroying other people's investment in Twitter.

But even if he thinks he's a good business person what make him start thinking he's good at politics and determining legislatures, particularly where others rather than himself will be suffering the consequences of his misjudgements. He seems to have moved beyond "self-interest" in his interference in UK and German politics.

I rather arrogantly regard myself as pretty good at one discipline but recognise that I'm very poor at many other things. I consider it a sign of a stupid person when they cannot recognise their own limitations.

Ian

 

[glasgowcyclist]

What makes Musk think that because he's rich he can start interfering in political governance in other countries?

Greed.