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That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.
by Merad 3y ago
That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.
- rapsey 3y agoNo it has probably been a plan since the beginning. He wants to build an everything app like wechat.
- dundarious 3y agoMost likely, both are true.
- tltimeline2 3y agoIf it was the plan from the beginning then why announce it via rambling tweets late at night, before it's even announced to the employees? LOLOLOL. UNICODE X "ICON" LOLOLOL
- cududa 3y agoIt’s a Unicode symbol that can’t be copyrighted that was suggested in a comment reply and the CEO had to spin the rebrand after Musk tweeted for 12 hours through the night with no sleep. He has no plan. How is that not painfully obvious at this point
- rapsey 3y agoMusk has owned x.com for many years. It goes back to paypal days.
- cududa 3y agoFirst of all by saying “the PayPal days” shows you have very little idea what you’re talking about and I’m not going to elaborate. Second of all, so what? What does that have to do with him just picking a Unicode character at 4am on a Saturday? Your argument was this logo change was planned. Okay, so he’s planning on turning it into a finance platform, and you’re saying it was “part of his master plan” to pick a logo at 4am that can’t be trademarked (because it’s just a Unicode character), such that any one can setup a login page for using the logo, to harvest X.com credentials, and they can’t do anything because they don’t own the trademark? Brilliant plan.
- rapsey 3y agoI don't understand the vitriol. Why do you care? It's like half the internet has Musk derangement syndrome.
- cududa 3y agoBecause you’re defending a grifter, claiming “this was all part of a plan” when it’s clearly either a manic episode or him on drugs.
- bamfly 3y ago> him on drugs. Hey isn't he still majority owner of SpaceX (Jesus, there's the X again, somehow that hadn't dawned on me yet)? Doesn't a huge proportion of their income come from government contracts? Aren't there... you know, some laws about that exact thing? Oh who'm I kidding, only the peons have to sweat about their lives being ruined by getting high on the weekends. Rich people are too good for that, of course. Besides, he's probably got bullshit prescriptions for most of it.
- cududa 3y agoI believe the WSJ reported that his security clearance is being reviewed over his ketamine usage
- Applejinx 3y agoAbsolutely. He's been open, even evangelistic about that, and anyone familiar with drugs can quickly recognize that it's a WHOLE other thing beyond your basic Joe Rogan bakemind routine. Elon has gone full Syd Barrett. It's not going to get better.
- cududa 3y agoI remember back in 2018/ 2019 in SF, when "microdosing" ketamine and/ or LSD started becoming big with tech folks. It was (and still is) always painfully and embarrassingly obvious when someone is "microdosing".
- opjjf 3y agoDo you really have to wonder? I think it's one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.
- datavirtue 3y agoIf I was a billionaire I would probably act like a spoiled 8th grader as well.
- BizarroLand 3y agoI'd like to think if I was a billionaire I would act the way that I think an ideal billionaire would, being shrewd with my money and making myself richer in an upright and respectable manner while also ensuring that the people who work with me get wealthy as well.
- dragontamer 3y agoProving to others that you can act like an 8th grader while pissing away $44 Billion (actually, closer to $33 Billion, maybe $24 Billion if we ignore the outside $9 Billion investors) on an asinine project and still living the life of private jets, and party yachts is the point. Flaunting your wealth attracts supporters in this day and age. People *like* rich assholes. Its fashionable, or at least it was in the 2010s. The pendulum of society is finally swinging back and demonizing this outrageous display of wealth but we're still in an age where people literally worship wealth. Not the "figuratively literally", I mean literally literally worship as per the prosperity gospel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology). Its not just Elon Musk, but also Arkk's Cathie Wood and Bill Hwang. ---------------- The outrageous displays of wealth is proof that you've achieved God's good graces. Its basically Mandate of Heaven (Chinese concept) except the American version of it.
- sbarre 3y agoI read a comment somewhere a while back: Once you make $999,999,999.99 dollars, congratulations you have won at life! All future income you make beyond $1B goes to helping society. You should probably get a say into where the money goes (so it aligns with your values, whatever those may be) but that's it. You are done enriching yourself personally. I kind of like that (although I'm sure plenty of people hate it).
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- itomato 3y ago“Best response goes live today.”
- 7moritz7 3y agoMusk sending the new branding to all his 14 devs on Sunday https://i.redd.it/g4i702g8xe751.png https://i.redd.it/g4i702g8xe751.png
- andsoitis 3y ago> That's hilarious. You don't have to make change atomically. Eventual consistency is sufficient and very practical.
- cutemonster 3y agoCombined with "Our [bird] logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it" I think it is indeed a bit funny
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