Personally, I'm quite impressed by someone who can go from being a plumber to the Prime Minister of a major country, and still stay true to their roots.
https://twitter.com/Gemma90917101/st...29876298121217
Edit: damn, it's a fake. Oh well.
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Personally, I'm quite impressed by someone who can go from being a plumber to the Prime Minister of a major country, and still stay true to their roots.
https://twitter.com/Gemma90917101/st...29876298121217
Edit: damn, it's a fake. Oh well.
That Worcestershire meme only works if you can't say it properly.
It's not wur, it's woo, like woof without the f.
It's kind of like that with Birmingham. It's pronounced birm-ing-um by the locals, people like me, largely due to the accent. If someone does pronounce it with a "ham", you might get the reply "where are you from? Alabama?".
I do say "ham" on the rare occasion I talk about Alabama's Birmingham, though it's largely me taking the piss.
"deleted by user" hmmm...
It's being reposted on other accounts. https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status...9wOB4RXtkCwh4g
I'm inclined to think that this is most likely driver error. People mistake the gas for the brake pedal all the time, and so many things need to go wrong for this to be caused by the vehicle.
Yeah people accelerate when they mean to brake but not for several blocks.
If it's human then the driver is very likely unconscious, maybe a heart attack, and has passed out with his foot on the pedal. It happens occasionally. But this could also totally be a fault with the vehicle.
I managed to paused the footage just before it hit the cart. Presumably that's where it gets nasty.
It's weird no matter how you explain it. Either the guy had a heart attack and managed to stay on the road for several blocks but not take his foot off the pedal, or the car just decided to overrule the driver and go nuts, or the driver just decided to go nuts.
None of them seem very likely, but out of the three I'll go with blaming the car.
Obviously whatever did cause this is an unlikely an event. It's extremely rare to see a car doing this whatever the cause. But people do fall unconscious at the wheel with a statistically significant frequency, I would have thought more often than the accelerator pedal sticking though [citation needed] obviously. Most people who pass out though, they will just swerve into a tree or whatever.
Here's a true story... I know someone, a biker (loosely affiliated with local biker gangs), who used to run a pub in Kidderminster, he had just bought himself a new car and parked it in the car park, went into the pub and started telling the regulars he had just bought a new car. Then a loud bang. He ran outside to see someone had crashed into his car. He ran to the drivers seat, opened the door intending to shout and possibly punch the driver, only to discover he was dead. That was a heart attack at the wheel.
Granted this incident looks nothing like that because it is driving in a straight line for some time at high speed. That looks like a car fault rather than an unconscious driver. But it's pure speculation.
That same biker guy, another story about him which is completely irrelevant but fucking hilarious...
He was in a pub toilet quietly enjoying a shit, when someone kicked the door open and puked on his lap. In the stunned seconds that followed, the intruder moved first and punched the biker in the face before running off.
Imagine that happening to you.
I wonder if it's a combination of events. The person passed out, their foot heavy on the gas pedal, and the self-driving car is like, "You control the speed, I control the direction. Let's Go!"
IDK. I know nothing about the actual workings of self-driving cars.
Gawd Mojo - its simple physics
Or gas pedal stuck under the floor mat. That one seems to be quite common. If that's what's happening you should always be able to slam the brakes and kill the engine that way, shift to neutral, or switch off the car. As much as I'd love to shit on Teslas, they have to meet regulations and pass inspection. I'd be shocked if this was down to an electronic fault that could not be remedied by hitting the brakes.
I’m guessing if Musk hadn’t bought twitter we wouldn’t hear about this.
there, I said it
Haha, awesome.
https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status...63245654896641
Sounds like a great place to work.
https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/sta...01188277538818
"Hey, employee, yeah you. You can either agree to work like a slave for me or take a hike. Think it over and then tell me by the end of the day."
TIL asking workers to work long hours = slavery.
Man, I've been slaved so many times in my life. I didn't even know that it's still slavery even if they pay me and I stay voluntarily, just 'cause hours are long.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
Help! Help! I'm being repressed.
This is the kind of stuff Twitter was made for...
(anonymous confessions)
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No idea about US labor laws, but I would be surprised if there were no legal issues with requiring people to work overtime under threat of termination. My company is so paranoid about this that if someone decides to just go home and turn off their phone the minute their contractual work day is over, nobody will even mention it... and many do. Go unions!
But he has bought twitter, so what's your point :D
They're going to study this in business schools for decades: Why you don't buy a social media platform as a narcissist nitwid billionaire with a desperate need for attention. Why the hell would he have the expertice to rebuild a social media platform? At least with companies like SpaceX he can do his little Kim Jong Un factory tour and go like: the thrusters on this one ought to be more shiney, ought they not? and someone in a white coat with a clipboard can go: oh certainly Mr Elon, daddy... I mean Sir! And everybody's happy.
The twitter thing being completely out in the open is so bad for him. His whole thing is this real life Tony Stark image, and twitter is rapidly exposing him as the bumbling baffoon that he is.
Also, this.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/s...47172910796800
"The word I refuse to say (pause)...nuclear." lol
"Excuse me sir, we suspect you may be gay."
https://twitter.com/theipaper/status...47151406911489
you are right, any holes in his game will probably come to light pretty quick through twitter and he brought it on himself. But he had made some stupid ideas before and the media ate it up and put positive spin on it. Now they won’t bc he wants more open free speech on twitter.
That's the neat thing about unions: Pay is dependent on time in the trade with very little wiggle room.
But if your time in the trade has been doing a shit job, why should you get paid according to your experience?
That's just how unions do. If the union thinks you're making a bad name for them, I assume they can kick you out. Like I don't assume that being in a union is an excuse to just fuck off forever as if the union workers will get hired if they're not doing what they were hired to do.
It might be different here. If you're in a unionized trade, everything about your job is already negotiated by the union. You can pay union membership if you're happy with what they're doing, but it makes no difference. If you're inside a trade that has a union, you're automatically working under union conditions.
The company can always just not pay them. They can overpay someone if they want. What they can't do is pay someone less than union wage.
Twitter is currently abuzz with rumours of an impending shutdown as key workers quit over Musk's new contract "offer."
Ironically, Twitter could not be reached for comment because their whole comms team quit. #businessgenius
In other news, Qatar has now moved to ban alcohol sales at the World Cup.
The soccer hooligans will be disappointed, but thankfully will be sober so probably won't cause trouble over it.
Budweiser won't allow it. Qatar will soon learn that sponsors have more influence than governments. I mean, the fact they're asking FIFA tells you everything. The Qatari government are asking FIFA if they can ban alcohol sales in Qatar. Ludicrous.
lol I was wrong, banned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63674631
I'm gonna bet that Qatar have paid compensation to Budweiser.
I mean chances are that Qatar told FIFA 12 years ago that they wouldn't sell beer in stadiums but they agreed to pretend they will and announce they won't 2 days before the tournament begins so it doesn't impact on ticket sales.
Fuck knows. Of course, corporates at the stadium can still buy alcohol. Probably not Bud though.
Budweiser is mule piss, so I don't feel bad for the people. But thats shady AF to pull this stunt
£12.50 a pint apparently. That's around US$15. They absolutely take the piss out of the punters.
You can still buy beer at the fan zones, just not in the stadiums (with the exception of VIPs).
This is what happens when a Hatfield marries a McCoy.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/eight-rel...nto-bloodbath/
What shit show. Both Musk and Qatar
Musk is treating Twitter like some high-profile startup company.
The thing is, the employees in a startup company typically have a large share of equity in that company. Putting in insanely long hours for unstable income is countered by that equity in the young company. But in this case, the employees of Twitter do not have that equity. So it's not clear at all why they'd put up with being treated like that.
It's not all that clear what these countless Twitter employees actually do. Every day when I turn my computer on I expect Twitter to have gone offline due to being understaffed but it's still there.
Having Twitter on your CV (resume or whatever) is valuable in itself. Elon could fire everyone and he would be inundated with applications from people willing to work more hours for less money. This whole thing is hilarious because we have people suggesting Elon is starving his staff by withdrawing free lunches for people earning six figures. People hate Elon so much they're sympathising with highly successful people who have an impressive CV and will walk into their next high paid job.
"Hi, my name is Dave, I'm a coder and spent four years coding for Twitter. My salary is $125k. I expect a free lunch, dealbreaker"
"Ok, you're fucking hired mate, welcome aboard."
On the surface it shouldn't be more complicated than a message board, but I'm sure you run into some really special quirks when a site gets this large. So probably a good idea to keep the people around who know how to fix things? Just a couple of days ago they fired the guy who issues the door cards, and then locked themselves out of the offices and had to bring him back. That kind of thing will happen a lot under the surface after you fire 3/4 of your workfrorce based on intuition.
But the main reason it might actually go belly up is because advertisers are leaving and those servers cost money to run.
Started out trying to make twitter a free speech utopia... one week in he declares that everyone who posts anything "negative" gets shadow banned. :'D
https://images.hothardware.com/conte...elon-tweet.jpg
https://i.redd.it/br0svo1xws0a1.jpg
You don't have free speech in the context your imaging here either oskar. You can call me a wanker and that's only going to get mojo asking you to be nicer, but there are definitely things you can post that will result in me deleting it. Yet I advocate free speech.
Businesses care more about profit than they do morals. The only reason they take political positions is because they think it will impact positively on their profit. The vast majority of businesses only care about that. So while some might threaten to pull advertising revenue, and while some might for a while, so long as hundreds of millions of people continue to regularly use Twitter, companies will advertise. And in the meantime, Elon's rather deep pockets can easily cover losses. He's a stubborn wanker, he'll cough up for at least a few years.Quote:
But the main reason it might actually go belly up is because advertisers are leaving and those servers cost money to run.
People are using Twitter to say that Twitter is dead. It's a trending hashtag.
Fucking hilarious.
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. I'm not a free speech absolutist. Speech was already free on twitter by any sensible standard. They only handed out bans for outright hate speech, death threats or deliberate disinformation. What does it mean to bring free speech to a platform like that? Obviously it means hate speech, death threats and deliberate disinformation should fall under free speech.
When he took over there was a sizable uptick of hatespeech but then he said: no actually, that's still getting banned. Then he started banning parody accounts which was not bannable before. Almost like they had a well established system to identify real accounts. And most recently he says anything "negative" (by the standard of a right wing billionaire) will get shadow banned, which is effectively the same as an outright ban.
So we went from: no hate speech, no bots and no disinformation campaigns to: no pardody and "anything negative." Brought to you by someone setting out to create a "free speech" platform... and that's just, if nothing else: hilarious.
At least two accounts I follow were banned for parody. One of them with over 1M followers. Still banned.
This isn't entirely true though. People regularly get away with sending death threats and hate to JKR.Quote:
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Well, the intention was to get rid of the scammers. If he's going to sell blue ticks, he needs to make sure people can't use the name of someone famous to exploit stupid people. But his methods were a bit agricultural. He's obviously bitten off more than he can chew, and he's blindly hacking his way through the dense forest rather than trying to figure out the best route. But he'll get there. He's just so stupidly wealthy and so stupidly stubborn. He'll keep Twitter going if it costs him half his capital, at least until he can credibly sell it for a loss in a few years. That's if he never gets in control of this. Chances are though that he'll learn how to adequately manage a massive social media site.Quote:
Then he started banning parody accounts which was not bannable before.
But he brought JBP back (who got banned for an embarrassing tirade about how Elliot Page is a woman, will always be a woman and he will never stop talking about it) and on his first day on the platform he's calling for people who use internet speak to be banned. The reason might shock you.
https://i.imgur.com/iQdceZS.png
That was already implemented with blue checkmarks, which he decided to sell for $8. Obviously people are going to impersonate celebrities for $8. Why else would you pay for a blue checkmark?
And they didn't ban people just for scamming. They banned obvious parody accounts. It was a pretty fun day though, I give him that.
https://i.imgur.com/rbeEnju.jpg
No idea who JBP is but he's clearly a dribbling moron. That's not Elon's fault.
Unless JBP is friends with Elon? Is Elon letting his buddies back so they can post utter nonsense like this? Or is Elon saying it's perfectly ok to post moronic statements like this (which I agree with)?
If we're being serious, then I can respect the opinion that sending death threats is free speech, so long as that applies to everyone. So if someone pops up in your inbox with a detailed death threat, you're legally ok with that.
Personally though I do believe some speech should be illegal, primarily threats.
I strongly believe that whenever you send someone a death threat you should qualify it with "in a video game" to cover yourself legally.
I think adding a [parody] caveat should suffice.
Or maybe just the sarcasm potato.
I recently upset hundreds of Karens on Twitter because I didn't use the sarcasm potato.
What, nicer about Elon?
He called a rescuer a "paedo" on Twitter because the rescuer didn't want to use Elon's child-saving invention. I think that is enough to qualify the word "wanker".
It's a mild insult by British standards. It literally means jerkoff. I can call Elon and any other public figure a jerk, right? So I can call him a wanker.
I mean we regularly use the word "idiot" to describe public figures without ruffling feathers. I'd be less offended being called a wanker than an idiot. To be called an idiot you have said or done something stupid, an act of shame. To be a wanker you just annoyed someone.
It's a swear word here in the UK but not a harsh insult by any means.
lol I'm so stupid, can't believe I actually took you seriously.
Her reaction is more entertaining than the song lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-wVthFPTM&t=565s
Is there anything better than Saudi Arabia beating Argentina in a World Cup game?
Yes, it turns out there is. Japan beating Germany in a World Cup game.
This is great so far. I'll enjoy this until England lose.
We play USA on Friday. I expect USA to put up more resistance than Iran but England should still be far too strong for them. I did expect Wales to beat USA though so maybe they're better than I realised. Or maybe Wales aren't as good as they were two years ago.
3-0 England is my prediction.
She's a bit annoying but mildly funny at times. I get he's a fucking nut and hilarious to watch but he's the best drummer in history and she's laughing at his silly faces instead of thinking holy shit what a great drummer.
I mean I didn't watch it all, maybe she sucks his drummer dick later on.
It's her naivete I find endearing.
As for Moon, his performance on this song was good, it wasn't great. He was well past his peak due to alcoholism and drug abuse by this time. Still a better-than-average drummer, but not the Moon of the late 60s/ early 70s. Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophrenia were his peak.
She could suck mine all day every day if that would cheer you up.
Quadrophenia is all of the Who at their peak, just incredible. I agree with you, Moon obviously went downhill as his career progressed, but even then he was still world class at the end.
She's not my cup of tea but don't let that fool you into thinking I'd ask her to stop.Quote:
She could suck mine all day every day...
True, but the songs were better on Who's Next and Who are You. Who's Next is easily their best album.
I mean her personality is goofy in a likeable way but her looks are A+. And that's from someone who doesn't normally go for black women.
Disagree. Their two best songs for me are I've Had Enough and Love Reign O'er Me. I mean imo they're the two best rock songs of all time.Quote:
True, but the songs were better on Who's Next and Who are You. Who's Next is easily their best album.
Who's Next and Who Are You are both fantastic though so I can tolerate your opinion on this matter.
I'm the same, I'm not generally attracted to black women but those I do find hot are nearly always 10/10. But this girl isn't really doing it for me.Quote:
I mean her personality is goofy in a likeable way but her looks are A+. And that's from someone who doesn't normally go for black women.
It surprises me that USA hasn't really adopted football as a national sport. I'd have expected the natural American instinct to dominate everyone else would have elevated football to an important status.
Nobody else in the world gives a fuck about American football. Or baseball. Or basketball. Or hockey. There's a very small group of nations who are competitive in these sports. Even cricket and rugby have greater global appeal. USA should give a shit about football because it's played the world over.
"My son may be a mass murderer, but thank Jebus he's not gay."
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/sta...19454900805649
I think we might have found the source of the shooter's homophobia.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope you have things in your lives that you're thankful for.
Happy that thing you celebrate.
You too Mojo
Ours was in October. We ate lots of turkey and gravy
I had turkey and gravy yesterday but that was my staff Christmas meal.
Not many things I like more than toast turkey and homemade gravy
i can’t eat much of it anymore bc I did gastric bypass surgery and my stomach is really small now
Best. Alibi. Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkcYzcc1Lw
Not so sure. I mean she's not arguing he zipped himself up in the suitcase in a game of hide and seek. She's claiming they agreed it would be funny if he got in, and then taunted him when he was saying he couldn't breathe, saying "that's what you get when you cheat on me".
I don't think this is a viable defence in court. I could be wrong though.
England 0 USA 0
Dull game, USA were better and unlucky to not win. England need to avoid a 4-0 defeat against Wales to qualify, USA will qualify by beating Iran.
I want that two hours of my life back.
I'm really curious what the actual sentence will be. She's on second degree murder charges. There's no way they can prove premeditation. She'll probably get away with under a decade for what is a pretty horrific murder.
...she's 42 in the video. Stay off the booze kids! stay hydrated.
I'd like to see Iran beat USA to qualify. They looked a lot better against Wales than against England so they'll have some confidence. And this world cup has already showed us that it's not easy to predict outcomes.
At this point, I'd say the main contenders are France, Brazil and Spain. Given they are practically at home and they beat Argentina, I think you have to take Saudi Arabia somewhat seriously, though it would be sensational for them to even make the final. But they are used to the conditions. The humidity won't affect them like it will the Europeans.
Needs to work on her poker face lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5xdA2AjuE
No. Fucking. Way.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/s...16769272381440
I would post this in the physics questions thread, but I'm afraid the answer is: no.
It is no.
It's not that this couldn't happen, but... the front of the car bounces off the top of the moving truck. The roof of a shipping truck isn't designed to support any weight, let alone bounce the heavy end of a car off them.
The top of the red bus looks pretty unscathed, too. Not that it's designed to hold any more weight, but you'd at least expect it to leave a mark, even if it was built to do a stunt like that.
Good points. Another possible giveaway is that it looks like it was animated in Powerpoint by a toddler. :D
The comments are suggesting that if you think this is real you probably think Toy Story was a documentary.
Which I think is a bit harsh.