• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I would be happy if all tech left the city. It used to be a hipster village of social non challants and detected alternative social movements. A shining, hairy, culty, body odor having, punk rock city on a hill.

    The tech takeover ruined the city and contributed directly to the epidemic levels of homelessness seen because it made the city effectively so expensive non millionaires can’t survive there. Most long time san Francisco families ended up moving out.

    Take all the rest of tech with you please Mr. Musk. Make San Francisco an affordable city again.

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      18 days ago

      It’s too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.

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      20 days ago

      I mean the bitch wants to go to Mars. I say we let him. And maybe he’ll finally understand the complete piece of shit he’s been when he is running out of oxygen or is freezing in the vacuum of space because he decided to piss off or remove all the actual intelligent people and was left with the bottom of the barrel pseudo-engineer who created and developed his mars rocket.

      It’s a fun thought experiment, anyway.

      Make sure to take a photo of your roadster as you’re gasping for air, Elon!

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            18 days ago

            No misunderstanding. I know Texas does have issues. Which is a major reason I doubt people want to move there besides all the witch hunts and other bs. A nice house in hell is not the same as apt in heaven.

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          18 days ago

          The rich engineers weren’t the demographic affected by the “rolling” brownouts. The people in McMansions had power the entire time, while the people in apartments were shitting in grocery bags because their toilets had frozen solid from lack of power for heating.

          The “rolling” brownouts were really just rolling around the same poor areas.

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      19 days ago

      it literally could not be anywhere else. Texas is a safe-space for oligarchs and bigots. That’s why Elon and Joe Rogan and all these other asshats left CA for TX.

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      19 days ago

      Texas, where woke goes to die.

      Blexus!?

      Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

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        18 days ago

        Texas, where woke goes to die.

        Blexus!?

        Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

        Weeps in despair in South Carolina

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          18 days ago

          Young people need to register and vote. If they did, SC would be blue reliably.

          All but 2 states honestly…

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              18 days ago

              This might not be the answer, but it is important. This is one of the last videos Beau did before he retired and his wife is taking over. It is still one of my favorite channels, but keep this in mind especially for the next several months, and beyond if things don’t go our way.

              Let’s talk about maintaining hope…

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      20 days ago

      Considering how many Bay Area tech workers with zero morals leave cali for Texas purely for lower taxes and how Texas loves that, I’m sure they do

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    20 days ago

    Didn’t Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?

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    20 days ago

    He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.

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      19 days ago

      He really is the DJ Khaled of technology

      Damn, this is fucking spot on. I’ll be Musk wouldn’t make it to the end on Hot Wings either.

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    This will have very little effect on SF in the long-term 😂🤣 All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking X to whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

    So, to recap:

    • we have a huge office that will eventually bring in another major company,
    • the area keeps all of its best talent, and
    • we get rid of the grifter that regularly refuses to pay their rent/lease, taxes, and insurance bills?

    Hell yeah, of course this is a win.

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      20 days ago

      All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking Xitter

      At this point, for how he treated his employees, we can assume that most of the ones left are visa hostages that would be deported the day after being fired or incompetent people that faked their way to the spot and can’t find another job that pays the same. Or musk stans, but he fired even that simp that slept in the office floor in order to be more “productive”.

      They are trapped and follow him everywhere

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        17 days ago

        Depends on the visa, but usually you get a grace period to find another job. Not a walk in the park but no one is getting auto-deported either.

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      20 days ago

      whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

      Pretty sure he’s headed to Texas.

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      I imagine most of whoever is left at Twitter is on a visa, so yeah, they probably will follow Musk wherever he says to go. The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.

      Now, if Biden were to grant the power to protect re-employment to other companies for those on L visas, Musk is probably utterly fucked.

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        The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.

        Musk is very anti-remote-work, so they have to do this anyway. Moving to Texas is only slightly less jarring than moving back to their home country which, in my experience, most people on visas visit regularly anyway.

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      20 days ago

      Anyone hardcore enough to still be working at that dumpster fire is there for the long haul, they will follow Formerly Twitter in to the gates of hell, seemingly.

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        20 days ago

        I’m guessing some of them (if on work visas) don’t have a lot of mobility. That doesn’t mean they will be as productive as someone else. Seeing colleagues go to other companies and being treated better on day one has a toll on worker morale.

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        20 days ago

        Of? Companies leaving CA due to liberal laws? That’s kinda been CA’s thing since forever.

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          20 days ago

          Another lemmy echo chamber… It’s pointless to show another kind of opinion. And I’m not far right or anything. I don’t even care about US politics.

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            17 days ago

            An echo chamber of what, exactly? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make 🤷‍♂️

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            19 days ago

            Another lemmy echo chamber… It’s pointless to show another kind of opinion.

            Sounds like you maybe just have a habit of entering conversations on topics you don’t know much about (and in this case self-admittedly don’t even care about), so you get a lot of people who are more informed and do care expressing their disagreement with you?

            Have you considered just not doing that?

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            An echo chamber for calling CA liberal? That’s just well documented reality my guy.

            You don’t care about US politics, which means you probably don’t know much about them. So it very much seems like you’re speaking about something you don’t care or know about. Then when I, a person who does very much care about US politics, chimes in with insight you call it an echo chamber.

            Honestly, it seems like you want to just say whatever you like and then rant and dismiss anyone who knows the topic and pushes back. Ironically, that sounds exactly like how an echo chamber works lol.

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    19 days ago

    Although i hate hearing about him, i do like seeing his face and body rapidly deteriorating.

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      18 days ago

      And that’s after he spends a ton of money to get it fixed. If he weren’t rich, he’d be bald by now, for example.