X, the moonshot factory
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Re: X, the moonshot factory
#92Re: X, the moonshot factory
#93Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out the…
Re: X, the moonshot factory
#94Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out the…
> there are massive opposing idiots out there willing to kill themselves for being quoted by musk etc. Straw man aside, calling your opponents idiots says more about you than about your opponents.
Re: X, the moonshot factory
#95Everybody wants to have the "cool factor" of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Heck, Musk even copied the logo outright.
Wow - has this guy ever had an original thought. The Twitter landing page looks like something from the mind of a prepubescent boy pumped on “xtreme” products of the early 00s
Re: X, the moonshot factory
#96Why is every rich asshole obsessed with “X”? Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon Tesla car with X Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X” Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)
* tesla’s cars were S, X , 3, and Y, for that motivation in particular
* x is a bit of a weird letter in the english language, not super common
* x from algebraic notation
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.
>the next big thing which recently got disbanded A redesign that only applies to 30% of the website? A new video player that's even more broken?
Re: X, the moonshot factory
#98Is this another shot at Elon Musk? Not sure where all the hate for him came from. Was it the hardline free speech direction he took Twitter, reinstating conservative accounts? That seemed to be the downward turning point in his popularity.
Re: X, the moonshot factory
#99Re: X, the moonshot factory
#100Why is every rich asshole obsessed with “X”? Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon Tesla car with X Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X” Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)