A Timeline of Elon's Twitter Mistakes.

[@Sonichero151]

As a type 1 diabetic. Seeing eli lily lose billions over a fake account declaring they would stop price gouging a life critical medicine I need to Live has been the hardest I have ever fucking laughed in a long time.

[@matthewscheifer1169]

Unfortunately their stock price is right back up so they haven't actually lost anything. Hopefully California's plan to make their own insulin will start to bring the cost down.

[@volvo145]

It’s pathetic that the richest country on earth there do you have to pay for insulin here in Sweden it’s free and by the way Elon is making Twitter great again it hasn’t been that for like five years

[@Agnemons]

That all presumes that the fired engineers actually did something at all let alone effectively. If you have 100 idiots as employees, doubling the number of idiots doesn't make the company more effective.

[@guy-sl3kr]

Tfw the financial class makes their riches by exploiting people's literal ability to stay alive and it's not even a secret. USA moment 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@kritikadeval]

@@Agnemons Hi Muskbot, you seem to be lost.

[@SuperPal-tr3go]

The Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin impersonators are goddamn heroes.

[@ZijnShayatanica]

AGREED.

[@matthewscheifer1169]

I love what they did but unfortunately it's unlikely they had any real effect on the stock prices. Those companies go up or down a few percentage points every day.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

the Chiquita and BP ones were badass too

[@VeteranVandal]

I think one of them is from the more perfect union staff.

[@luisapaza317]

I laughed so hard at the BP Global tweet 😂😂😂😂

[@LeBonkJordan]

The sentence "Twitter no longer has a communications department" is really just the most powerful and also the most profoundly funny part of this whole thing

[@trippwraze1509]

“Twitter doesn’t have a Twitter department.”

[@Dungeonseeker1uk]

Musk has a well established hatred of general media, Tesla has no customer service department, support requests are handled by dealers and any email sent directly to Tesla is bounced back as undeliverable. Turns out having a free press reporting on your incompetence is not good for business. He's more than happy to have marketing press releases regurgitated with no fact checking ever taking place though.

[@Its_me_6]

Twitter no longer has Twitter

[@staticaleel5068]

As bender said once. “Now that is irony!”

[@littlesamu5920]

"In terms of Twitter, we have no Twitter"

[@Briarhoes]

Trump refusing to come back to twitter is easily the funniest thing to happen from all this. Like oh my god how embarrassing.

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

There's the element of his involvement with a competing platform through his DWAC SPAC (Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company who's using outside funds to acquire a social media company). There's a direct "conflict of interest" at a fundamental legal level because of this. I don't doubt, without this liability to this SPAC, he would happily hop back on twitter. makes complete sense that he would have pursued a social media presence through this rather than hope twitter (who wasn't run by elon at the time) would re-instate his verified account.

[@burnellbrowne4303]

WHO WANTS trump** ANYWAY? MELANIE is having a BALL as trump** runs around usa trying to DUCK INDICMENTS.

[@Macheath-n2b]

@@burnellbrowne4303 what? Boomer resistance liberals make no sense

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

​@@burnellbrowne4303Yeah, I'm sure she is happier not having to hide her infidelity from him and actually being able to have sex with an attractive person again. But that is me assuming their marriage was legitimate in the first place, and for some reason I can't yet explain, I don't believe that.

[@jayo1212]

@@jaymevosburgh3660 I doubt an attractive person would want to have sex with someone like her...

[@shmehfleh3115]

Fun fact: The thing Elon Musk said about watching his first child die in his arms? He lied about that, too. His ex-wife tweeted that their kid died in her arms, and Elon wasn't even around.

[@lisasteel6817]

Yep. Elon musk using a child’s death for personal gain, and it’s his own child. I am not surprised.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Is Musk about to become the next Hulk Hogan meme, brother?

[@someone3195]

Wow I didn't know that

[@jrmloh]

I imagine he was saying his ex-wife was proxy to himself. Dude just wants attention.

[@thaLAangel]

he also cheated on his pregnant wife grimes, which I'm sure is great for the child to know. He's clearly an empathic adult who cares about children :) lmao

[@Alex-cw3rz]

A right wing elon fan told me yesterday that he had removed all CP from the website, I pointed out that he actually halfed the team who remove this type of content and actually it is more common on the platform now. The person then claimed that all the people who worked on it before were leftists who love CP even though they were employed to remove it. Then even though I said there should be more people removing CP from the website, the right winger claimed I love CP and then ran away from the conversation... This is the mind of a right winger in this day and age.

[@sebastienvondoom8615]

I'm not American and I have no love for the Democrats but I do believe that the list of Republican politicians who have been arrested for possession of CP is like double or triple the length of Democrat Politicians who have been arrested for possession of CP. Every accusation is a confession when it comes from right wingers

[@anmolt3840051]

How many times did they call you a groomer though?

[@adrianchorolez5013]

I never see porn on twitter let alone cp, I don't know what all of those guys look up on twitter to see it allegedly that often

[@davidtaylor142]

Yeah. The word "groomer" just plays on a loop on their heads.

[@OhNotThat]

You literally cannot win with them. They think Elon banned pornography on twitter and literally nothing will change their mind on this objectively wrong and unreal statement of reality. Because at the end of the day, they want to believe they got what they want. And quite literally that's all their sad little world is now, they want to keep believing they're owning libs for their own morale sake and live vicariously through Elon Musk doing "whatever he wants to the libs". We are witnessing insanity.

[@justicebeske5704]

25:44 I love hearing elon musk say "if you're in enough lawsuits, you pick up a few things along the way", like the fact you get sued constantly seems like evidence you need a lawyer and don't know enough about the law.

[@Vesperitis]

That'd be like saying "If you're in enough car crashes, you pick up a few things about car repairs along the way."

[@justicebeske5704]

@@Vesperitis true

[@lttfan9185]

@@Vesperitis isn't it more like asking him if he has a driver's license, and he says "If you're in enough car crashes, you pick up a few things about driving along the way?"

[@tbotalpha8133]

It literally sounds like something Lionel Hutz, the old Simpsons character, would say.

[@katefriend4085]

Late to the party, but Musk is like the living embodiment of my old Dad's analogy of people who were "born on third base, but think they hit a tripple." It's kind of painful to witness...

[@spagheleton]

that's a fantastic analogy

[@christopherbeattie3126]

Great way to put it. Your old man has real knowledge

[@LillianWard-mw4qe]

My favorite expression

[@lowellp4603]

I’m stealing that.

[@rosalindcormier4384]

That expression is mine now. I take backs

[@rubenotero7100]

I spent 10 years as a cook and now I work in IT and going from only suspecting that almost all white collar work is conducted by self aggrandizing morons with more money than sense and a personal army of subordinates to do their work for them, to actually seeing and understanding the depths of their ineptitude has shaken me to my core.

[@justinwatson1510]

What do you mean? I've always been told that capitalism is a meritocracy and only the best and smartest people are in charge of things! Lol

[@TESkyrimizer]

Yeah I love working in fintech and bringing value to our shareholders who are... *checks notes*... big banks. Truly I am changing the world by helping banks make more money.

[@christophergreen6595]

I mean... I know you've MET a restaurant owner :p should it really be such a surprise?

[@viridianacortes9642]

Give me an example. I’m curious.

[@tonoornottono]

@@viridianacortes9642 live long enough and you’ll find examples for yourself

[@user-nw8nk9gp1f]

him reading the code ON PAPER is just so funny to me bc aint he the same guy whose development team had to almost COMPLETELY rewrite his self-taught code for being so terrible and clunky😭

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

Yes, but at least he could still become crazy rich if he would only sell whatever magic hormones he used to make his balding hair come back. I mean I couldn't even tell! 😂

[@HCG]

Yes lmfao, he’s utterly incompetent at nearly everything he does.

[@westerling8436]

​@@jaymevosburgh3660 hair transplant

[@fatalityin1]

Yeah, he was in paypal together with two Germans and they simply bought him out of the company, because they could not bear his code. Same thing funnily happened at tesla, but at that point he had enough fund to buy the others out

[@LeBonkJordan]

buying twitter for $44 billion to make it worthless in the span of 2 weeks is the closest elon musk will get to donating money

[@Drekromancer]

big if true

[@Melonist]

verizon tumblr levels of fumbling on his part

[@hashbash]

hahhaha

[@csmead209]

1 year later and I wish this was still true, considering he donated to a Trump SuperPAC

[@eda6654]

just imagining what that money could do ruins my faith in humanity

[@MrPooleish]

If nothing else, Elmo did manage to indirectly get Tate arrested by letting him back on Twitter.

[@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I]

Don't disrespect Elmo like that

[@timothymclean]

Elmo Nusk?

[@ember9361]

E L M O lmfao

[@scottthesecondcoming]

elmo husk

[@StudentSwope]

Elmo would've been a better pick for CEO.

[@IAmNumber4000]

As someone with dev experience, the thought of _laying off half the staff indiscriminately_ with no notice and no time to handoff permissions, update documentation, or explain their systems to new hires sounds like… yeah this company is f**ked.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Not to mention Tesla being fooked when the progressives that buy them figure out that Evil Lon Musk is a right wing product of Apartheid South Africa.

[@monicarenee7949]

Exactly. The people who think it’s fine have never worked in tech. I have survived multiple reorgs at my company working in the tech field. Each time you don’t necessarily know who’s getting cut but it’s announced that a reorg is coming, new leadership is installed, they spend time understanding the company and business, then cuts are made and those are not immediate usually some time spent for transition. He approached it completely wrong. The cuts may have been warranted, but his approach screams impulsivity

[@kiljaeden7663]

@@monicarenee7949 never mind people getting fired. My biggest professional dread is whenever one of my American colleagues announces their resignation and they give a two week notice as a courtesy. I just think: "Two weeks is not enough time for me to be doing my normal job and winkle any relevant information out of your head."

[@razrv3lc]

Yeah even if they replaced them, the site would crash and burn before the new guys could even learn to handle it.

[@hayuseen6683]

But haven't you heard? The great and powerful Wizard of Odd, Elon Musky, is a genius because _Money_, he'll use his shtuper brain to code all the datas and script all the apps.

[@hermitreunited3824]

Insane that he looked at a big empty office building and the suggestion to put it to use as a shelter for the unhoused, then turned around and demanded people come back and work instead. "Since doing something good for my employees also opens up a way for me to help the needy, why don't I just do something bad for the employees instead."

[@Geospasmic]

Even more insane because he didn't need to say anything

[@ironmilutin]

I mean, firing all employees probably made at least a few of them homeless, and then hiring them back to stay at the company crunching 24/7 only to fire them again later is kind of like making the office into a homeless shelter for a while

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

@Sarah Payne because he's incapable of shutting his mouth. ever.

[@FuelDropforthewin]

@@Geospasmic It seems to be a recurring theme in this video: All Musk needed to do was either not say anything or not do anything and the problem of the day would not have happened, or at least the impact would have been cushioned.

[@WlatPziupp]

@@ironmilutin "You're all fired, bye bye." "Wait turns out employees do work, come back and work three times as much for no extra money and keep in mind that we can and will fire you at any time we please" "Your devotion is insufficient, why do you feel the need to sleep when you could be doing work? Get outta heeeeere!" "remaining employees will now have to do five times the the tripled work. The whippings will continue until morale and output sufficiently increases. Undying love and dedication is mandatory" "Why are you worthless scum leaving when I told you to love us?!"

[@Ec360Gaming]

It's kind of crazy to me how musk spent 44 billion dollars to acquire Twitter, seemingly without even doing 10 minutes of research into how the app economy works. He keeps getting blindsided by the simplest things about developing and publishing software and it's absolutely hilarious to watch

[@jumpingchicken69]

I don't think that he ever actually wanted to buy Twitter as he filed multiple lawsuits trying to get out of it after the announcement. What I think happened was this whole thing was a big pump and dump scam that went sideways. Prior to the buy Elon had about a 9% stake in the company so his goal was to jack up the stock price with his announcement, sell his shares at the inflated price, then back out of the deal causing the stock to tank. But being the (phony) genius that he is he apparently forgot to actually examine the deal he was making and was legally forced to go through with it which meant that he had to sell a massive amount of Tesla stock to make good on his promise contributing to the collapse of Tesla's stock price. Basically he pulled a pump and dump but was so stupid he actually wound up holding the bag himself instead of selling it off to the suckers down the line like you're supposed.

[@MStonewallC]

It's almost like he got no experience from making money with Paypal because he never actually did any work when his name was plastered to it

[@pseudonym8791]

It’s probably more like that moment when you try to use God mode but forget to enable invulnerability before charging the boss rush headlong…

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

His simps will insist that the video game he made and sold when he was 12 makes him an expert on software development. Yeah, that's like calling someone a world renowned author for getting a short story published in a local magazine.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Probably Elon Musk are obsessed having everyone's attention and being the genious that know everything best, I guess also he did not actually wanted to buy twitter, it was just a way to get attention, playing his favourite role, suddenly, he had talked himself into legal obligations

[@zoobatzjr371]

18:25 Honestly the funniest part of the checkmark ordeal was Chiquita clarifying they hadn't overthrown a government since the 50's.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I assumed that was also an impersonator.

[@toricon8070]

the funniest part is that Chiquita did, in fact, overthrow a government during the '50s.

[@The-Singularity-X01]

Thing is, Chiquita and its competitors at the time were KNOWN to be involved in that kind of shit. Everyone had at least an inkling those companies were involved in some way, they just didn't know to what extent.

[@daanstrik4293]

@@toricon8070I’ll have to check that but if true thats the absolute cherry on top

[@CodexQuinn]

@@daanstrik4293 Google "Banana Republic" and check out wikipedia's page on it, as well as a couple other sources, because wikipedia is wikipedia.

[@jellyfishdonut]

Let's appreciate Elon Musk's tremendous achievements in the field of reducing the wildly unreasonable wealth of the world's richest person.

[@lol-ih1tl]

so basically all we have to do is to make sure that rich people make as financially disastrous decisions as humanly possible.

[@tornaghmalumenis6834]

I agree with this comment GLIMMAH

[@rook6972]

sure wish he spent it on something useful and not harmful!! lmao

[@maliksmith9003]

@@lol-ih1tl nah, then they'll go to the government for a handout and we'll be forced to foot the bill by people telling us that we don't deserve healthcare

[@DoveJS]

@@lol-ih1tl Nah, because that doesn't mean it's an efficient use of their money or efforts and it doesn't automatically help others out of a bad situation. Burning money like that could reduce inflation if it was, ya know, actually burnt but that's about it. Edit: Forgot to add, it could be great but only because anything this chaotic could have some good outcomes too lol

[@mueezadam8438]

It’s like watching the titanic crash, back up, crash again, throw safety equipment overboard to reduce weight, fire any crew who disagree with the captain- all the while the Hindenburg is barrelling out of the sky because said captain was also its pilot.

[@OhNotThat]

Don't forget intentionally sinking your own life rafts because it's mere existence represents an "easy way out" of the situation and having NO LIFERAFTS at all would motivate the crew to work harder at making sure the ship doesn't sink if there is no plan b. And when the boat sinks anyway, it turns out he kept ONE LIFERAFT anyway "just in case" you know for himself and leaves everyone else to die. He shrugs and blames crew and passengers for not wanting to not drown enough. It's on them for dying, maybe they should have put more effort into saving the ship!

[@genericname2747]

There's also a traincrash, somehow

[@Drekromancer]

This is really the feeling I got. I couldn't quite put it into words till you said that.

[@pugachevskobra5636]

Lmfao that's spot on

[@iloveplasticbottles]

The most beautiful and perfect analogy I've heard regarding this.

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

The best service he's providing is helping to destroy the very notion that billionaires are smarter/better than the rest and that we should listen to them.

[@glass.hammer]

Being a sheltered, literate child forbidden from social media, I came across Berkshire Hathaway and how it really made its money. That was my first lesson, tho I only understood many years later, that meritocracy isn’t real and the universe doles out fairness like gruel in Oliver Twist. We’re gonna eat the fucking rich just to survive and it’s going to be their collective stupidity responsible.

[@PrinceSnot]

in a world where people like musk are rich enough to never face REAL consequences, seeing them make complete fools of themselves with the entire world watching is at least kind of satisfying

[@Drekromancer]

Agreed. Now if only people would judge them for the consequences of their actions, instead of constantly bending over backwards to justify them as visionary geniuses somehow.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I find Elon's simps so baffling, one told me that twitter only needed 250 employees (when he's rehiring at 3,400) and the people who left were "activist" employees they never told me what a activist employee meant.

[@Kth77]

I’m guessing an activist employ is a twitter employee who is willing to point out how bad Elon’s decisions are or refuse to work twice as hard for the same pay and worse working conditions.

[@Onomatopoeia4u]

That seems par for the course. Saving grace of all this is Elon is finally being outted to the general public as the theif, fraud, and scam artist he's always been.

[@TESkyrimizer]

Everyone thinks Twitter engineers are twiddling their thumbs collecting paychecks all day but even a deceptively simple social media app is constantly having backlogs, features, bugfixes, refactoring, devops, scalability concerns... etc. No private corporation is throwing their money to pay people for nothing. Managers might be stupid but they aren't idling either.

[@SDZ675]

It's not like he could fuck up Twitter any harder. It was already a cesspool bleeding money in the first place. Only bigger favor Elon could've done for humanity is to just delete Twitter from the world forever.

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

"Activist employee" probably means left of Goebbels in this context.

[@consentclub614]

I'm not disappointed by the inevitable downfall of twitter (thanks elon) but I'm concerned to see entire communities that rely on crowdfunding collapsing because of one manchild's greed. I left Twitter last year but I know a lot of people who rely on social media for connection because they're housebound or bedbound.

[@syeblaize]

Look up Beau of the Fifth Column's video about the death of twitter. It's called "Lets talk about finding your network after Twitter...". Spread it around. Its good advice. Twitter is/was a critical component of our social fabric, but it was also a flawed system, and rife with hate and violence. Its not necessarily a net loss seeing it go. At least its death will open more people's eyes to the danger of hyper capitalists. People will move on, find each other again, and if not, find new community. And a terrible human is punished and humiliated (not nearly enough) for his hubris.

[@suzbone]

Twitter has played huge parts in real life organization during emergencies, too. So useful, yet so squandered for money and power 😔

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Seeing how easily the wealthy rip down things built by others... always depressing.

[@thatladyraych6646]

As a person who left Twitter a while ago for mEnTaL hEaLtH, I have never laughed so hard at screenshots of tweets. The joy that seized my hardened heart when I glimpsed the downfall of Eli Lilly was nigh incomparable. Praise be to these posters, these diabolical mememakers - their work has elevated the gruesome bowels of the interwebs and should be studied for generations.

[@awandererfromys1680]

I remember the late nineties when memes were just funny images. If anyone back then had told me that one troll could bring down a billion dollar company with just a single sentence I would have called them crazy. Now it's happening left and right. Crazy times.

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

This. So much this

[@sourgreendolly7685]

@@awandererfromys1680 You know, it's sometimes hard to forget the good that's come with the internet's progress and popularization but that's not nothing lol

[@awandererfromys1680]

@@sourgreendolly7685 Not the hero I expected but here we are lol

[@ZijnShayatanica]

Imagining Rudy Giuliani stuck on his back like a turtle made me laugh so hard I cried.

[@arielcahn7728]

Elon Musk: "Twitter's commitment to brand safety is unchanged." Also Elon Musk: **Changes the recognisable brand into a standard font single letter**

[@elfappo9330]

it's so fuckin funny.

[@ThinkingReality]

Well, just for reference, the thing you missed right before sending this: Kanye went on Alex Jones and publicly and loudly praised Hitler and the nazis, posted even more insane antisemitism on twitter, then got banned from twitter. Really impressive stuff. I recently saw the Trope Talk episode on "Idiot Plots", and I feel like if someone tried to write this saga out, it'd get that label. Incredible shit.

[@FunctionallyLiteratePerson]

@Lind Morn supposedly it's only a 12hr ban iirc

[@PS-dm1dq]

You just cant make this shit up

[@Legomyegoorj]

Reality is stupider than fiction, apparently.

[@Fen_Fox]

still can't believe how many people still support Kanye at this point. Everything about him in news and stuff always has his rabid supporters in the comments saying that Kanye is king and he's perfectly sane and that adidas and the companies that stopped supporting him were gonna regret it. absolutely baffling

[@JimmyKay1976]

Did Kanye's blacklisting from Hollywood and financial institutions help or hurt his argu..... eh, nevermind

[@armandk.armand3608]

From an engineering perspective, a few other things to note: 1. The matter of firing tons of engineers leading to not enough employee time to keep twitter running is worse than it sounds. It's absolutely not a one-to-one ratio. Employee numbers can be a weird thing for this kind of highly interconnected work. On the one hand, hiring more employees does not increase productivity linearly; in fact, sometimes bringing on more people can _decrease_ it. On the other hand, despite this worse-than-linear increase, firing existing employees can also cause a worse-than-linear DECREASE in productivity. Unless you're very selective about your firing -- which has obviously not happened here -- you end up firing people who have near-imperceptible yet critical hands in random things, creating a knock-on effect spidering its way through the org, potentially blocking everyone who relied on those things for days/weeks/months. Where I work, if a random 20% of everyone suddenly disappeared, we'd be utterly kneecapped by the sheer weight of system permissions disasters. 2. Elon was hiring/firing engineers based on the AMOUNT of code they had written recently. (Because, like you said, printing out and reading everyone's code over the past month to determine their employment is just doo-doo nonsense; so what else are you gonna do except count the pages?) If you've worked in software at all within the last, I dunno, 20 YEARS, you will immediately recognize a problem: The more experience you have, the more you're doing design/review and the less you're actually typing in the code for your thing. Having been at a senior level for not even that long, compared to when I first started, I'm probably writing 60% less actual code despite working on much more _stuff_. You're too busy planning and documenting the design for new requested features, monitoring people who implement the individual parts, and communicating with other teams about how certain changes will interact with each other. It's like firing your arms because your hands do all the work of typing. 3. He wants engineering managers to spend 20% of their work time writing code. This is absurd and impossible. Like, completely. You'd just have to work for 25% more hours in the day. If he's making everyone work 24/7, the managers would have to use a time machine to work 30/7. If this sounds like whining, like your manager at your job seemingly does nothing all day, yes, their work seems _easier_ than yours from your perspective. And it might be in reality -- I'm not a manager, I wouldn't know. But with engineering managers, you are definitely at least _busy_ that whole time. Even when it's for stupid garbage, that stupid garbage is mandatory. My manager wishes he could spend that much of his time writing code, but it's just not a thing that's possible. Hell, I don't even know if _I_ spend 20% of my time writing code; the line between writing code and something-else-ing code is actually kind of blurry. 4. elon fired the keycard guy and the next morning was like "why keycard not work :(" lol lmao ebic musk winz0rz

[@birdbrainiac]

To add to your code length point: good programmers will write the same program in fewer lines than worse programmers. So by getting rid of the people who wrote the fewest lines, he might be getting rid of the best programmers and keeping the worst ones.

[@rdean150]

I love your analogy of firing the arms because the hands do all the typing. It's definitely true. Sometimes senior engineers get the pleasure of immersing themselves in the actual writing of code, but more often the majority of our time is eaten up with code reviews, planning, documenting, and meetings to discuss those plans. The people who understand how everything fits together usually are not the ones implementing the individual components. It's literally like architecture. The people who designed the layout for the entire high-rise, ensured that it was engineered to meet the physical and economic requirements of the project, and drafted the blueprints are not the people operating the cranes, turning the wrenches, or installing the plumbing. Except in this analogy, even the implementation of the components can be quite difficult, and most architects work their way up from being the wrench turners and wish they more time to be able to turn wrenches again because it's more rewarding than meetings lol. Anyway, I completely agree about the likely-fatal damage that Musk has already done by indiscriminately firing half of the workforce, and then issuing a toxic ultimatum that no self-respecting, experienced engineer would accept, resulting in the immediate resignation of between 1000 - 1400 of the remaining employees. That means that in a matter of about 2 weeks, the company lost some 75% of their employees, including many critical engineers who carried in their heads the foundational, institutional knowledge of the system. All of this with *zero* handover or knowledge transfer process. This scenario is the ultimate demonstration of the critical importance of having a strong culture of documentation and information discoverability. Or, given the circumstances, the ultimate demonstration of why engineers might want to never document anything at all. Because if an asshole like Elon Musk suddenly buys out the company and sacks everyone, it will feel so good to watch it go up in flames without you.

[@armandk.armand3608]

@@birdbrainiac While true, I don't think this is the biggest factor in amount of code written. In my experience, code-line-writing shrink is more about experience and knowledge of the codebase moving your concerns, and also how complex the problem being worked on is. I also didn't really want to introduce essential merit, "good" programmers vs "bad" programmers, into the statement here, as I don't think it's the main factor that should be emphasized. It's more important that they're firing the people who have the most experience and knowledge of that workplace, not how good their brain does logic puzzles.

[@armandk.armand3608]

@@rdean150 To be fair it's not quite true that no self-respecting, experienced engineer would accept the terms. A good amount of the people accepting the terms are on work visas, and basically _have to_ accept them or they risk deportation. They may very well recognize that they deserve better, but just aren't able to get it. It's not just elon simps and self-loathing sadboys staying on.

[@geoff5623]

as someone working with a team of several people on a codebase that is now a few years old, it's also difficult to extract large coherent pieces of code that are unequivocally mine. Very few pieces are wholly new code written by a single author, compared to maintenance and improvement to existing features. I could spend hours or days isolating and fixing a bug, making a relatively small change that is pretty meaningless when viewed without context. Since the person who wrote the original code is no longer with the company, I'm also now the expert in that system, and can fix further issues substantially faster than someone else who isn't familiar with it yet.

[@shelbypowell9919]

As someone who doesn’t use Twitter, Twitter is best experienced through montages. I have not laughed so loud in public in years

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

Yeah, haven’t laughed this hard since TAY.

[@antonystringfellow5152]

I used to use Twitter. It was an excellent platform, for many people and for many reasons, but one that has been corrupted by the total ass that is Elon Musk. Once he took ownership, I had to leave for the sake of my own peace of mind (my conscience).

[@des4929]

@@jacobrzeszewski6527even then TAY was just a bit sad but this is truly hilarious

[@lanastara6026]

I feel like this video would deserve a part 2 but then I feel like it would be 2 1/2 hours length by now.

[@michimatsch5862]

Cringe Corner? Maybe? Otherwise we won't be getting videos for a few months while they try to get everything into a reasonable length.

[@JihadItUpToHere]

Sounds fantastic.

[@davidmeyer4506]

Would be more content to watch so i wouldnt be mad at all

[@rattailtony2900]

Make it a collab with Dan Olson and it'd be the single greatest video made by either of them

[@idontknoq4813]

Oh dear.......

[@Renthur1]

Didn't his ex also call him out about lying about the whole "child died in his arms" thing because in that specific circumstance SHE was the one it happened to?

[@ThoughtSlime]

I made a note of that on screen, but didn't say it out loud, but yeah

[@glass.hammer]

tbh it’s too awful to say out loud. Elon clearly didn’t care that she had to relive that, and if that isn’t the most narcissistic thing a coparent can do, i’m not ready for what is.

[@Spindash1]

@@ThoughtSlime Oh, I missed it because KZbin's close captions show up right on top of it! Oops.

[@SongwritingDeconstructed]

@@glass.hammer let's not forget that at the time when she cried openly about it, he told her her grief was 'manipulative' and she needed to move on. She was expected just to memory hole it so as not to inconvenience him. For him to then whip it out like some kind of trump card when he didn't give a shit at the time is beyond reprehensible

[@Ostermond]

@@glass.hammer Judging by the fact that his eldest daughter basically wants absolutely NOTHING to do with him and might have very well been the victim of transphobic abuse from him (she's trans after all), I'd hardly call him a parent at all.

[@sirpikapika1129]

Id like to mention that, to make fun of Twitter's checkmarks, Tumblr let users buy TWO blue checkmarks for a one-time purchase of 7.99 Literally all it does is put 2 checkmarks next to your name... AND THEY STACK. You can get as many useless checkmarks as you want. Ive seen people with so many i couldn't read their name

[@EmiStar070]

It's up to 24 and it's great . Tumblr has been having a lot of fun with the fact that we're not the most disfunctional social media anymore. We're not even the worst BLUE site

[@reginaburks7414]

A tweetypet like muskrat isn't strong enough to join tumblrclan. ... I'll see myself out.

[@k9_kadaver]

@@reginaburks7414 me after copying popular tumblr posts

[@vanesslifeygo]

"I've seen people with so many I couldn't read their name" I could have used that money....... :(

[@funkytime69]

@@vanesslifeygo stop trying to guilt trip people for enjoying themselves

[@Jpeg.g]

Elon playing chess: “I am going to sacrifice both of my knights, and my king, and my rooks, and both of my bishops…and all of my pawns.”

[@ochuspin]

Even more true since in that case he’d lose before even sacrificing everything

[@guard13007]

Didn't realize he was a queen. xD

[@jamesphillips2285]

@@guard13007 [They] DID insist [they] are "not cis".

[@jorgeluz9560]

He wouldn't sacrifice the bishops because they look like boobs and that's funny!

[@SarastistheSerpent]

He’d sacrifice his queen too because queens are “woke”

[@nannesoar]

"That's like reading a novel with all the words in alphabetical order." Thats the best analogy I've heard in a while 🤣

[@adityanegi1604]

Would that be a just a limited dictionary lol

[@GleefulNihilism]

I have been saying for years that Elon isn't nearly as smart as he or his fans think he is, most of what he's accomplished due to his "intelligence" was really due to him having rich parents if you look at it honestly. That used to be a hugely controversal statement. Since Twitter, I've noticed that people fight me a *lot* less on that.

[@glass.hammer]

My dad is a fanboy who’s willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because he jump started the electric car movement in this country. I’m not knowledgeable enough to opine on the truth in that, but I thoroughly believe that he’s counteracted all of the good that he may have done in the last few years.

[@aro2866]

@@glass.hammer I get the feeling your dad isn't aware that Elon patented the Tesla charger to deliberately hinder the adoption of electric vehicles in the US. Elon Musk absolutely despises people being able to drive electric cars overall. What he actally wants is people driving Teslas specifically.

[@GleefulNihilism]

@@glass.hammer Elon did make electric cars more popular, but saying he jumpstarted the Electric Car movement is like stating Ray Kroc jumpstarted the Fast food Hamburger movement.

[@hayuseen6683]

Yet he could gave done 1000% more, for the environmental and transport accessibility factors, by making user-first green public transport infrastructure. The electric car business selling you microtransaction seat warmers is like getting rid of plastic straws: capitalist performance of environmentalism that doesn't address the problems but will still (theoretically) make money and earn good will.

[@unholyiiamas]

There are several great KZbin channels that have documented how Musk is full of it for several years now in great detail: Thunderf00t, Adam Something, Common Sense Skeptic, etc.

[@Duskets]

The best part about the ease of accessing information in this day and age is that future generations will see firsthand how horrendously inept the absurdly wealthy really are, and how much of that wealth stems from pure, dumb luck mixed with exploitation and not some perceived 4,000 IQ business decisions. The myth of meritocracy is dying in real time.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Good!

[@promordialoooze864]

Elon’s handling of Twitter reminds me of the Always Sunny episode where they decide to make Paddy’s Pub a place that embodies freedom and has no rules and slowly worse and worse things go wrong and they realize first hand that rules exist for a reason

[@NorthernKitty]

I think you just described Florida and Texas.

[@tungvudang9414]

@@NorthernKitty and also all of crypto

[@ananimal9779]

@@NorthernKitty or the town that got rid of as many taxes and social services as it could, then got overrun by bears

[@bogg7zed102]

There's a difference between rules and censorship.

[@NorthernKitty]

@@bogg7zed102 Mmmm, but there's also a difference between censorship and infringing on your Constitutional right to free speech. For example, go to a public restaurant and start cussing out the wait staff or customers and see how long it takes before they "censor" you by kicking you out. Now realize that Twitter, like a restaurant, is THEIR premises, a gathering place they host for THEIR customers. You are their guest, and they can absolutely censor you or kick you out for saying obnoxious things or trying to stir up trouble with your speech. You see, your "free speech" doesn't trump theirs and what they don't want broadcast on their premises, so they don't have to host it. Come see me when the government sets up and hosts a social media platform and we can talk about censorship infringing on free speech.

[@McShavey]

I absolutely love the razor sharp sarcasm everywhere in this. It's perfect.

[@aquatictrotsky1067]

I always quote "just a business genius, is the thing" whenever a new story of Elon's stunning incompetence comes out.

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

The programing thing is so insane based on his standards YandereDev would be the best developer alive on earth rn. He just randomly started shutting off microservices cause he doesnt like them which destroyed twitter for a while. This man has no tech expertise he just has money and he spends it to look smart.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Dev can finally get a real job while he works on the magnum opus of gaming, just 12 more years to go!

[@seyspectra]

I actually haven’t heard anything about Yandev since 2020. I wonder how he’s doin.

[@tatzecom]

@@n48_art see if we put in just a few more if-statements, the whole thing will work juuuuust fine

[@Chris-fh3db]

@@tatzecom donate to my patreon to see if I can fix this new bug of my code gaining sentience !

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@n48_art Complete? So it's not incomplete, just unfinished?

[@modelmajorpita]

A fun fact about the $8 price point is that it would actually need more people to use it than you estimated because while twitter blue no longer is ad free it still does reduce the ads users see, which means if 20% of the userbase is paying for it than twitter can't sell as many ads, so it has to get even more people to sign up to make up for the lost ad revenue.

[@potocatepetl]

Come on, people that do not want to see adds on Twitter (!!), chose an add blocker, don't pay for twitter blue just to see less ads. That would be just stupid. It's Twitter....

[@daraghokane4236]

@@potocatepetl I want to see more adds on twitter no problem with them

[@joshuacole6543]

also at one point Twitter Blue promised more tailored ads, which obviously implies less tailored ads for the majority of users. now, as an advertiser, would you be encouraged to spend more on a platform that intends to make its ad delivery less effective on purpose for the grand majority of it's user base?

[@potocatepetl]

@@daraghokane4236 sure, if adds don't bother you, than you continue using it as it is. but paying for twitter blue just to see a little less adds makes no sense.

[@darrienjones8917]

@@daraghokane4236 Wait why do you want there to be more adds. I understand keeping the level the same but why do you want more?

[@AlexanderBlues1228]

Elon’s ‘print out your code’ flex reminds me of how Jack Warner, who was reportedly illiterate, insisted on personally reviewing every script for every Warner Bros. production. He would flip the pages and hand it back, saying that it “look’s good”, or words to that effect. Eddie Seltzer, who ran WB’s animation studio after Leon Schlesinger sold out, insisted on doing the same, despite the fact that animated cartoons aren’t scripted like movies; they’re storyboarded. According to Chuck Jones, Seltzer couldn’t figure out what the animators did all day.

[@glass.hammer]

Suffer. They suffer all day.

[@hayuseen6683]

This is what happens when people whose job is making number go up are given the lead of people whose job is making it work.

[@Hadihadi-wr8mt]

But common people knowledge about writing & reading code is from the Holywood movie and they think it works like the movie : just klik this klik that, random typing keyboard and boom 5 minute later a new program finished

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

@@Hadihadi-wr8mt Don't forget the crucial part of saying 'I'm in' when you're done

[@jellysecret]

ive tried teaching my boss about some of the things i do on a daily basis, and every time he acts like its rocket science. the big boss never has a fucking clue. their job is to sit around and look busy.

[@RecolitusMorbus]

A year later, Elon continues to struggle retaining advertisers. So much so that he's trying to sue former advertisers for leaving, lol.

[@timothymclean]

Bear in mind that this is an ongoing story. It's likely that more mistakes have been committed or uncovered if you watch this video long enough after its publication. Dinnertime, for instance.

[@naomistarlight6178]

Elon Musk is the One Piece manga of shitty business decisions

[@mickeynotmouse]

Bear in mind. All the time. I love bears 🐻

[@c-r3187]

Roar!!! Salmon is delicious!!! Roar!!! 🧸 🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸

[@accountid9681]

As a coding student who has to write exams on paper you have no idea how annoying it is knowing that I might need to deal with paper copies of COMPUTER PROGRAMS when i've GRADUATED

[@glass.hammer]

Interviews. The pain is real.

[@NonaMoreau]

Why tho, why on paper?

[@burushifudara]

@@NonaMoreau Education is dysfunctional

[@HungerGamesFan00]

thats less annoying and more of a waking nightmare

[@HungerGamesFan00]

@@NonaMoreau practice. also, to make sure theyre not just googling the answers

[@camelpimp]

im still having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that tumblr very well might outlast twitter

[@Lucinoxe_Halliday]

cockroach of the internet, baybee

[@darrienjones8917]

And here we thought it would never make it

[@WolfWalrus]

Tumblr is a cockroach, it will outlast every goddamn website on the Internet

[@mrboerger1620]

Truthfully Tumblr can't die not until I become a god

[@deltahalo241]

Hell, Newgrounds might outlast Twitter

[@lark613]

Please Mildred, we need a sequel. We need video record of how hard Twitter has crashed and burned since this video came out.

[@concept5631]

He could make 10 sequels.

[@vanilakai]

Let's take a look at the share price and user growth charts

[@insomnial8153]

This is so hilarious to watch as someone who never even used twitter, but when you think about it this is actually a really sad situation for those employees. They got their livelihoods stripped away just like that by some random billionaire who couldn't even begin to understand a fraction of the knowledge they have. Hope they can find better places to work

[@tallymanz6756]

From what I've heard, tech experts in their field are highly sought after. Especially after they've worked for a prestigious place like twitter.

[@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061]

Tumblr tried to headhunt ex-twitter employees actively and so tumblr got the equivalent of the "Follow me" and added a few feature in the last week or so.

[@AmeliaMastervally]

I thought a lot of them lived/worked from Ireland. Ya know... Unions...

[@antonioyeats2149]

My understanding was most of the employees at Twitter weren't really working much anyway. Though on the other hand the 100 hour work weeks are kind of ridiculous. Maybe it was a part of a plan to do month on months off?

[@RoyallyWhat]

it's wild watching this video less than 3 weeks after it was uploaded and thinking "wow, there could already be a part two at this point that would easily be the same length"

[@izzeallerdyce]

and now, whooo boy!

[@BaphometGaming69]

Now, hoooly shit

[@lfemomo77]

And now, this can just be an ongoing series

[@idontknoq4813]

Oh dear.......

[@MuttonErase]

It could be a 12 part docuseries at this point

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

I love that Elon said the $8 dollar check was the only way to stop bots and trolls, while at another point called it power to the people. Well, trolls are people, too. He gave the trolls the most power he could have for the low low price of $8. And it was beautiful.

[@the_kombinator]

You couldn't pay me $8 a month to use that shit platform.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

@@the_kombinator haha, oh, me too, but it's still funny to watch the highlights from outside!

[@dragonfell5078]

Based. The trolls, not the Muskrat

[@vahn_legaia]

..and it was short lived. It was a great move, like him or not.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

@@vahn_legaia great move? How? So he could lose all the advertisers and billions in revenue. For what? A couple million worth of blue checks that he promptly gave up on? Sorry, it was a dumb move.

[@dasfowler]

Its telling that this video is 9 months old and already needs a full length update because so much has happened...

[@elhazthorn918]

He's the type of person who sets up two different accounts, pretends to argue with himself, forgets to switch accounts, then attacks anyone who calls him out on it.

[@dutchmilk]

sound like economic explained

[@LasagneAlForno8297]

didnt he literally do something like that

[@Lurmmings]

@@LasagneAlForno8297 yeah, he had a sock puppet account where he roleplayed as his own kid and forgot to switch accounts.

[@LasagneAlForno8297]

@@Lurmmings BAHAHAHAHAA

[@claytonandres1194]

I don't know if you mentioned it (I'm still watching) but we can't emphasize enough that letting the employees choose whether to quit or commit to extra hours with no overtime pay specifically targets international workers who have visas tied to Twitter so he essentially made most people quit so he could extract extra unpaid labour from his immigrant workers

[@SamiiYou]

I dunno, from the perspective of a corporate psychopath that's actually quite ingenious.

[@glass.hammer]

This is more or less how the Tyson chicken plants kept a strangle hold on undocumented migrant workers. To the point where they were basically the whole population. The plants were death traps with horrifying conditions, but Tyson had a tendency to pay the medical bills to prevent migrants’ statuses leaking to the government and to continue to take advantage of barely healthy, barely functioning, desperate people. My parents saw many, many of these patients. They had virtually no choice. Of course Tyson was raided. Many times. They saw no justice. That’s how this will play out. Department of labor will absolutely _try_ to throw the book at Twitter. All it will do is send work visa dependent migrants packing. And, as the child of immigrants, it is barely easier to successfully apply for a permanent visa to the US than cross the jungles of Guatemala. US gov will have less effect on the longevity of Twitter than another random manic decision by Elon Musk.

[@someone3195]

Yeah, up to that point, I was thinking, nah, I wouldn't stay. But then, I remembered I'm not American either, and I would be working with some type of visa. I imagined myself in that position and I was like, wow, no one can make me leave.

[@TheBonkleFox]

some things never change.

[@WraithMagus]

You need to go into how he became a "self-made stable genius" in the first place, because it's equally hilarious. (Hint: Daddy ran African Blood Mines and bought him into social circles where actual smart people made him money.) It really gives lie to the whole mythos of "Musk the Tech Genius" when you realize he never made any of the things that he's famous for, he just impulse-buys shit that sounds like it will make him cool after someone else has already made it and looking for money to expand.

[@antonystringfellow5152]

This is what he did with Tesla. Of course, now he lies about the company. claiming he bought a shell company with the intention of turning it into a manufacturer of battery-powered cars, when in reality, he spent $6.4 million on a company that was about to start production of a lithium battery-powered sports car. He was born into money and used that and BS to build up a false persona. Sound like anyone else we know?

[@autobotstarscream765]

So basically, he's not Tony Stark, he's Iron Spider with Tony telling him that if he's nothing without the suit, he shouldn't have the suit?

[@someone3195]

@@autobotstarscream765 Sjsjjs, that sounded like a good analogy

[@razrv3lc]

@@autobotstarscream765 he’s Phony Stark. The only patent his name is on is those Tesla door handles that are notorious for breaking and being unable to access if the car is frozen over in cold conditions because they can’t come out of their recessed hole lmao

[@wednesdaysmith922]

Don't forget his mommy!

[@SkylightCiel]

Those like 2 days on twitter where everyone was impersonating big companies have got to be some of the funniest times I've ever had on that website.

[@aedyaedyaedy]

The foreshadowing joke is absurdly funny to me. I’m not sure why, but I love when someone does a joke so many times it stops being funny only for it to wrap around and become funny again.

[@ginxxxxx]

unfortunately, that is foreshadowing for mental illness...

[@blackshard641]

Mike Myers calls this comedy torture and it's one of his favorite things too

[@regulargoat7259]

@@blackshard641 i thought you meant the serial killer from the halloween movies for a second there lmao

[@simonvandugteren6010]

The Sideshow Bob rake joke is my all-time favourite example of this.

[@NonaMoreau]

My sense of humor in a nutshell

[@hellabisys]

Every day we get closer to being able to say "remember when Twitter was a thing?"

[@brokenrecord3095]

@Lind Morn XP is a zombie? I remember when it was a thing. Some people even still have computers running on it.

[@kanicman]

its never been more popular than right now, so could be a bit of a wait

[@razrv3lc]

@@kanicman popularity doesn’t mean profits. Unless it starts making money, it’ll die regardless lol

[@kanicman]

​@@razrv3lc 'popularity doesn't mean profits' said no private company ever.

[@somethingforsenro]

remember when twitter was a thing? all we have is x now.

[@kate2late91]

That "If you've been in a enough lawsuits, you pick up a few things" is so funny. My partner and I went to law school and rented an apartment during that time. We left a couple years ago and they tried to take our entire deposit, we said nah mate we'll go to the tribunal. Took 2 years to get there and then the real estate agent was trying to establish himself during the tribunal by saying " I have been to some many cases at this tribunal"- there is a reason you're always at the tribunal. Anyway our landlord ended up having to pay us $1600 AUD, when they wanted to take our whole bond :)

[@concept5631]

Nice

[@Noahrama]

2 years ? 🥶

[@antonioyeats2149]

Lol assholes. I swear landlord's are always trying to pull some slick joint

[@Artoooooor]

THe pathology is a neeed for lawyers at all. Law should be so simple that everybody expected to abide it can understand and abide it AND defend himself from the ones breaking it.

[@mdd4296]

@@Artoooooor buddy even if law was written like a kindergarten book you wouldnt be able to read/remember/apply 10% of all the thing NECCESSITY for it to be fair and comprehensive without training, much less bringing it up in your defense. Let's say for example you need building standard down to the nail you could use one certain type of building. Those are all thing neccessary to be defined by law but good luck getting a layman to do all that reading much less inspecting the house.

[@LeBonkJordan]

let's be real, the whole "parody" label thing was just musk getting mad that people were impersonating and mocking him specifically

[@6inTruder]

My only disappointment is that you didn't touch on Elon's degrees. Oops! I mean his honourary degrees. Because he dropped out of university and someone later bought him those degrees so he could legally stay in the USA.

[@Nanook128]

Wait, what?

[@river_brook]

He has two bachelor's degrees in science and physics, and "doesn't have a degree" seems to hinge on the distinction between a BS and a BA, which I don't know and I don't know if the people talking about it know either, if "fake degree" is what that fact has warped into. He did drop out of Stanford after two days, and is still an ass, though. Please don't shit on this man with fake information; the real information is already damning enough.

[@Izerion]

@@river_brook he didn't graduate for the physics degree. There's no record of him in the list of graduates when he claimed he got his degree. He just lied about it because technically he was illegally in the US during that period if he wasn't in education.

[@Izerion]

@@river_brook he did graduate bachelor's of economics though so he has a degree at least.

[@itsthatocean]

I think the main takeaway is that he's lied by omission about his degrees, not correcting people and being forthcoming about his actual qualifications

[@Arushi701]

Elon getting voted out as CEO on another one of the polls he used to take decisions on is just poetic

[@janfgfdx5165]

He won't, his baby ego won't let it happen

[@nonchalant-turtle]

I think a better analogy for reading printed code would be trying to understand the skill of architects working on a large structure by photocopying random 1 inch squares of each of their contributions and seeing how well they drew the lines. It is a nonsensical way to understand something as complex as Twitter's codebase.

[@hayuseen6683]

I like that analogy.

[@zorkmid1083]

A much better analogy.

[@SongwritingDeconstructed]

sending your publisher the ten best words you used in a sentence that week while writing a novel would also serve as an analogy

[@trigger7ff6]

i'd absolutely LOVE to spend several months printing out and putting color coded pieces of twine and such on something like the minecraft codebase to see how it all works, but gotta say: i dont have enough room for that, and i'd rather not appear like a conspiracy theorist.

[@hank_says_things]

I would love to see a sequel to this vid now. Elmo just can't stop stepping on rakes and it's a beautiful thing.

[@carydorse705]

Also Just like in Twitter as a whole, half the German Twitter staff were also fired without notice or reason. So every single one of the laid off employees went to ver.di, a union spanning 2 million employees in the sales and services sector, who are now not only helping the fired employees sue musk for violating labor laws, they're also setting up a union and a worker's council with the remaining Twitter employees in Germany.

[@antonioyeats2149]

Yep Germany for ya

[@karkador]

beautiful

[@sayari2547]

😂😂 fuck yeah

[@megamanxhunter]

Living in Germany, I know about ver.di, since my girlfriend is affiliated with them at the moment. They help employees with legal counsel as well.

[@ramr7051]

Lovely to hear

[@lukasblur3500]

Let's start from the first mistake that set this whole thing in motion: his dad not pulling out.

[@PrettyOkayRay]

the catharsis of watching each and every purposeful misstep he's made is so, so gratifying I hope he installs his own brain chip

[@beanmanlev]

Why would you be so emotional about him?

[@justinwatson1510]

@@beanmanlev because he is a terrible human being and most people enjoy seeing a bad person struggle as a result of their own stupidity and hubris?

[@dc9662]

@@beanmanlev Is your point, "emotions bad?" If so, is your source, "Trust me, bro?"

[@beanmanlev]

@@justinwatson1510 in pretty sure he's not struggling. It just seems a weird thing to get emotional about considering all the real problems going on in the world

[@superawesomeninja2]

@@beanmanlev like the problems that he (Elon) contributes to?

[@milesward1211]

To put Musk's financial losses in perspective, he has lost a Bill Gates in personal wealth this year. Since this video came out he lost another 20 billion dollars.

[@timothymclean]

Elon Musk lost half of his fortune, going from over $260 billion in September to $126 billion in December. He's now worth $215 billion. (Source: Forbes) Dude is too rich for consequences.

[@baron2062]

@@timothymclean As the end of this video said, he's literally too big to every actually lose that much money. No matter how much he rakes into the fire, he cant throw it away as quickly as he makes it

[@somenameidk5278]

@@baron2062 i think the reason his wealth goes up and down so much is that the tesla stock that makes up a majority of it bounces up and down in value a lot

[@merphul]

what's equally shocking besides the depth of how idiotic and obvious his mistakes are, is that I'm really hard pressed to find a single change he's done that has yielded anything positive from or even potentially positive in the foreseeable future. Every move either takes another whack at the profit model of Twitter or makes adult discourse on Twitter more difficult.

[@glass.hammer]

there hasn’t been enough time to allow any of these decisions to yield profit, but I think in a disgusting way, this will work out for him. like the bullshit conservative social media site that was born and died on AWS dime. Twitter maintains a huge amount of its own infrastructure, and assuming that musk doesn’t burn it all, he might just create a profitable even more morally bankrupt company. After investing millions approaching a billion dollars of his own assets into this sinking ship.

[@summers7554]

I sat in my senior year engineering college course with a professor that told us that _while the field engineering doesn't have all the grand popular intellectuals that physics or chemistry has, we have to rep the ones we do have, like Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk_ (and yes, his slideshow had those two men beside each other 🙃)

[@naj2276]

That is so embarrassing 😂

[@antonystringfellow5152]

I read this comment 4 times and still don't understand it. Either your genius is too advanced for me to comprehend or English isn't a language you're familiar with.

[@naj2276]

@@antonystringfellow5152 a professor compared Nikola Tesla, a renowned and highly accomplished physicist and engineer, with Elon Musk who engineered…. nothing.

[@tatiana4050]

@@naj2276 idk one could say Musky engineered death of twitter and his own decline.

[@amys0482]

Musk is def a thomas edison

[@jamie8703]

I will never get tired of seeing this man fail

[@vahn_legaia]

I wish I failed like he did, then I'd be rich too.

[@grumpyou1138]

@@vahn_legaia Not for long.

[@sucktitles]

@@vahn_legaia Point is.. if most of the people would fail in even a fraction of how Musk is doing, they'd go homeless. I know for the time being we still sustain a hardon for capitalism, but it would be nice if we opened our eyes and understand that nowadays it's starting to look like the opposite of something that rewards skills and merits. When you're born with a slots machine that hands out more jackpots than it sucks up money, the biggest moron can pull a lever.

[@daveroche6522]

Fun fact Jamie - 'epicaricacy' is the English word for 'schadenfreude'. Enjoy!

[@vahn_legaia]

@@grumpyou1138 I'll meet you back here in 4 years. Let's see who was right.

[@andrewmat]

Some people are saying that "printing code is fine" and it really isn't, for a lot of reasons. You may print a small function that you are proud of writing, but this doesn't show much about your work. It's like evaluating a book by its best sentence, or a sports team by its strongest person. I could say so much more about my work in one paragraph than in three pages of code. Printing code is simply the stupidest way to evaluate your work, there's no way this is fine.

[@daviddavid5880]

Dude. I am SO glad you brought up that whole "We'd prefer evil masterminds at the wheel" thing. I've been feeling that for decades. I can cope with smart powerful evil. I can't cope with these rudderless billionaire morons just randomly shooting holes in society. Give me a savvy James Bond Villain any day.

[@MySerpentine]

And this is kind of the true death of information. If you can't even verify that people are who they say they are . . .

[@munyiotieno4111]

Dr Doom oppresses the Latverians he rules over, but at least when Galactus shows up he protects them from being devoured

[@lisetteeliseparis7070]

Right on

[@willissudweeks1050]

That’s insane. You’d rather have a guy that bribes politicians to get what they want to others detriment than a guy who does dumb twitter shit? What hole in society? I think Elon is cringe but what you’ve said is absurd.

[@willissudweeks1050]

@@MySerpentine More like the death of twitter being taken seriously. You can’t kill information haha

[@sopsop97]

the "we'd rather have an evil mastermind than a buffoon on a rampage" thing is so real, i'm european and watching the US elections the past two times was kind of like "i do not know nor care who the person running against trump is but i pray to god they come out on top"

[@EmiStar070]

If Dr doom was in charge, he'd at least try to make whatever system he imposed on everyone work effectively

[@jwljwljwwwwl]

Europeans opinions on western politics is wildly ignorant, your statement proves that. Bidens administration has been one of the worst in many years, by alot, and we all knew it was going to be this bad.

[@lordjaraxxus5418]

boy... you got what you wish for. the guy who cares about anything but the united states... you might even get payed by the U.S. soon at this rate as well. though I hope you were not in Germany... because they could have used trump's advice on get out of Russian gas back in, what as it, 2018?

[@PexiTheBuilder]

Every time hearing about US election I'm wondering how they go straight to second round of elections, where is first round of election where those 2 are selected?

[@DesertRainReads]

@@lordjaraxxus5418 you forgot to add /sarcasm to the end of your sentence. Trump never made any advice of that nature. He's been giving Putin blowies on the regular.

[@TmOnlineMapper]

Elmo Muskrat, the free speech absolutist that personally banned countless accounts that impersonated him, after stating he would not do such a thing emphazising free speech.

[@Kwatcher100]

I prefer Elongated Muskrat, but to each their own.

[@Khandrake]

Free speech is absolute until I get consequences

[@rowenadangersign]

"To put that into perspective, think of a dollar. A hundred billion dollars would be a hundred billion of those" sooooooooo glad I just found your channel

[@sfukuda512]

It is strange to think that a person like Elon would have been unimaginably more wealthy than he already unimaginably is by ... doing nothing.

[@Jehannum2000]

Same could be said of that Facebook ("Meta") guy - what's his name?

[@adamkruschwitz7692]

Fun fact about printing out code: career programmers who have done cyber crimes against the government are generally banned from ever using a computer in the future, so some of those developers continue their careers by writing their code on paper

[@morgantrias3103]

Yeah, reading code on paper is fine. Writing code on paper feels horrific to me, but I was still expected to do it in several exams and well, I got my degree, didn't I? In fact I think I printed my code out to hand in my final project/dissertation. Which. Thank fuck because that thing did NOT run.

[@Uuuuhhhhhh]

@@morgantrias3103 it can work as long as there are no references to code used in different files.

[@morgantrias3103]

@@Uuuuhhhhhh I'd say that if you're trying to review one person's code, it's actually helpful to have all their code on one page and ignore any code it calls (written by other people). Like one of the main appeals is that in any decently complex project, just FINDING THE FUCKING FILE WITH THE RIGHT CODE IN is about half the work.

[@marknificence2474]

I'm 32 years old, and I've been watching content on KZbin for quite a while. This is the first video, ever, that I've felt warranted a like, comment AND subscribe from me after only watching one video from the creator. Says a lot about my personal policies, yes, but the point is it's an impressive feat. Well done, sir.

[@bethanythatsme]

Loved hearing your voice in Lil Hoot's banning vid. The way the leftist community rallied around her warmed my salty ol barnacled heart 🖤

[@fangal12]

The fact that the shit show actually got worse since you dropped this video is both hilarious and completely on trend for Elmo

[@mrboerger1620]

The fact that Andrew Tate is in jail is amazing

[@link7417]

Elmo?! No please Elmo I don't wanna sit in your lap

[@alicethemad1613]

Seeing Twitter tank is fun and all but I am really worried about the artists (especially nsfw ones) who have most of their work and following on there. As of now, especially since the tumblr nsfw ban, there aren’t really any good places for artists. Tumblr is okay but the ui isn’t super intuitive or productive, Instagram is NOT built for art and the cropping is a big problem, pixiv is mostly non English speaking, and deviantart is sort of dead. Twitter was a huge deal for artists especially because it was an easy way to take commissions. Now all those artists will have to scatter and pick another platform. Though if Twitter does go down I hope tumblr reverses that nsfw ban, because people will FLOCK there and we can finally let nature heal and return to 2013.

[@ShOscar]

twitter and tumblr have always both been big pieces of shit. want NSFW art? go to Newgrounds. i heard there are a lot of NSFW artists on that platform, and artists in general.

[@twistsnakeanklesvids261]

Every art platform really seems to be messing up, too. Looks like Pixiv is letting credit card companies choose what's appropriate, DA and Artstation have been making some poor choices about AI art... not sure where people should go at this point.

[@mogsy1313]

the fact this is ALREADY outdated, absolutely insane

[@darkwater124]

2 weeks later and there's already enough material for a part 2. Shout out to the uncomfortable cringe at the Dave Chappelle live show.

[@FWDDGS]

For engagement! For the eyeballs! FOR LORD OCULON!

[@yerocb]

ALL HAIL LORD OCULON!

[@MsGrandTheftAutumn]

EYES FOR THE EYE GOD! ENGAGEMENT FOR THE ENGAGEMENT THRONE!

[@sourgreendolly7685]

ENGAGEMENT FOR EYES ON THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE EYE GOD ON THE ENGAGEMENT THRONE

[@klisterklister2367]

👁👄👁

[@FinntasticMrFox]

I have been on this ride, and upon stepping back and seeing it all laid out, I am still completely and utterly blown away by how wild and out of control it is.

[@NyaSupreme]

Spoilers for y'all not on Twitter.... It has only gotten much much worse

[@Mrwayneps3225]

Damn, how bad it is!

[@timo4463]

​@@Mrwayneps3225big KZbinrs now left the Platform Espacislly someordenarygamer The Post that mentiond that Had litteraly only racists comments

[@bretthansen3739]

I don't know why this incredibly minor point stuck in my brain, but there actually are uses from reading/writing code on paper. They didn't apply here, but it's not completely without value. I still frequently write first versions of small bits of code on a notepad from time to time, and a printout of a piece of code can be helpful if it doesn't access much outside code. I might use it to scan for things like arithmetic errors if I just REALLY felt like using a highlighter to help myself focus or something, but never serious debugging. (Don't get me wrong, I've never actually printed code to work with it, it just wouldn't neccessarily be without any value)

[@brokenrecord3095]

I can see working out the logic for a piece of code on paper, but I kinda don't know how useful a paper copy could be for anything extensive when proofreading code. Whenever the code calls some outside function, what are you going to do? dig through a box of sheets looking for the page on which that function is written? also many IDEs offer things like color coded text or mouseover "help" flyouts which one imagines wouldn't work so well on the printed page

[@bretthansen3739]

@@brokenrecord3095 If it was someone reworking a function you were already familiar with or you were checking for things like correctly iterating through a data structure I could see it having some value. I was addressing the idea of reviewing code on paper not making sense as a blanket statement, not implying Musk was doing anything that made any sense whatsoever.

[@morgantrias3103]

Yeah, as a computer science grad with some ongoing contact with programming, idk what the problem is with printing out code. Yeah okay functions would be difficult to "jump to" but a well named function it might be obvious and debugging those functions would be seperate. I have a hard time looking at screens due to astygmatism and migranes. So yeah, printing code out isn't something I DO but it's something that would potentially benefit me a lot. (I really wish e-ink screens were available for coding). I hated writing code on paper for exams at college and uni though. That's torture.

[@bretthansen3739]

@@morgantrias3103 Yeah, I've had handwritten code reviews at almost every tech interview I've ever been to (although it was on a white board, not paper). It's all a out what you're looking for. I hated handwritten code in classes too. I prefer it only be for my own reference when I'm typing it up later.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

OMG! Somebody that actually checks his own work.

[@DrAnarchy69]

I am perpetually in glee seeing Twitter, a site I absolutely abhor (from before Musk bought it), absolutely tanking. I am beyond words as to how happy I am Twitter is dying.

[@Geospasmic]

I feel the same way, I get a huge dopamine hit whenever news of a new Elon fuckup comes out. I know other bad stuff is going on but the guy has been such a little shit for so long I have to enjoy his Curly-esque floor spin

[@xXRighteousNessXx]

Between Elon burning twitter to the ground and watching Kanye West turn into the Black White Supremacist I'm in heaven.

[@arigadatred5395]

seriously. twitter has pretty much always been unbearably awful. I hope it dies for good, and no one mourns it.

[@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463]

@@arigadatred5395 What about artists who are trying to get out there?

[@Bionickpunk]

Yes, let it burn and the toxic twitter stans go insane due to the drug withdrawal.

[@SilverAlex92]

"If a rock with googly eyes were the CEO of Twitter, it would do a better job at management than Elon Musk by virtue of not doing anything" I died XD Amazing video, amazing jokes, the foreshadowing thing was super funny, but the rock with google eyes got me

[@Transblucency]

It's hard to know at this point. I don't know whether the rock would be so magnificently capable of tanking two companies at the same time.

[@juniperrodley9843]

@Robert Wright nah they're right (nuf said)

[@Thojouno]

Every billionaire represents a theft from mankind.

[@malcire]

Your description of microservices is probably the best layman explanation I've heard.

[@FlowsLikeHotLava]

I was talking about Elon stans the other day and had a total glitch when I was trying to think of their favorite phrase "4 dimensional chess" so instead I said "7 layer chess"...ya know like...7 layer dip?... TBH I think that's a way better way to describe Musk's supposed "genius" and I'm totally sticking with that going forward.

[@DocKrazy]

I don't know if I can credit you for this one organically if I talk about this, but this sounds about right

[@TexanWineAunt]

Really enjoyed the tonal modulations of TS’s voice throughout this video. Just a great performance vocally. I also agree with what was said and laughed my ass off.

[@JavierRo_100]

Elon is literally living on the "You can buy cheats but you can't buy IQ" phrase

[@Lucifersfursona]

IQ is a eugenics invention people like elon adore so

[@SqualidsargeStudios]

Well he does have experience, he is lacking brains and since that sad sack can’t buy it that thing pretty much buys irl cheats

[@ferrisffalcis]

i love this one. great content, great vibes, very thought slime. You've done a great job

[@ricardoludwig4787]

The people I feel the worst about are the artists and sex workers that are going to lose significant amount of their followings, and many of the sites that people are turning to in the absence of twitter have significant problems (like tumbler being a healthier environment, but being terrible in terms of discoverability). Sex workers have it even worse as the lax moderation of twitter in this was one of the few genuinely good aspects of the website as it allowed them to just exist and help find clients in an environment that wasn't completely dedicated to it like onlyfans

[@glass.hammer]

Instagram has been a great alternative for artists for a while, having dated a smaller artist. And the slight absence of horrifyingly toxic echo chambers of “with us or against us” communities has been a welcome change. But for long form content creators, it’s been a kick in the teeth. Here’s to mastodon and computer literacy to bring us out of hell.

[@heretichazel]

Yeah, as someone who's around a lot of sex work circles and even has started dipping my toes in myself on Twitter, this is going to absolutely fucking suck if Twitter dies entirely because it's 100% the best place for it ATM. Reddit is probably the next best, but even then it's significantly worse and harbors much less of a sense of community than twitter

[@concept5631]

@@heretichazel Sorry to hear that. Hope things work out for you.

[@justinkroboth360]

"A second Tesla has hit the World Trade Center" is probably my favorite from all this bullshit, but the insulin one and the Lockheed Martin one were very close behind. So many from which to choose!

[@theefartman]

elon musk is like me playing chess: i let them take all my pieces, then say "AHA! you fell right into my trap!!!" knowing there was no trap and i'm about to lose

[@yoshiman9521]

Happy to see these types of videos back! You look much better and I hope you're doing better mentally too

[@DamienDrake2940]

People aren't shocked about the collapse of Twitter. What shocks us is the speed that it's happening at and how public he is doing it.

[@genericname2747]

Dude saw that we expected the website to be destroyed, so he decided to speedrun it

[@ArvinisStAkoni]

this video is peak comedy, thanks for the upload Mildred

[@nicolaszenho]

the only W elon has taken during this whole thing was him removing loli porn from twitter