• @NeoNachtwaechter
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    19527 days ago

    I just noticed that I like posts with “X ordered to do…” sooo much better than posts with “Elon says…”

    • just another dev
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      6127 days ago

      I prefer the latter, because it’s so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

      • @[email protected]
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        1427 days ago

        exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there’s nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.

        it’s super irritating.

          • Billegh
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            627 days ago

            Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh…

        • skulblaka
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          327 days ago

          Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn’t going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it’s referring to the platform.

          • @[email protected]
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            227 days ago

            i have tried with various formats and unfortunately none of them work, or they just ignore the attempt.

            i appreciate you trying to help, though. i honestly just kinda wish it would change names again so it’d be easier to somehow block. lol

            • skulblaka
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              127 days ago

              Ah, fair enough. I’m almost certain some sort of regex wizardry would be able to solve this problem, but I’m not nearly enough of a wizard to tell you what the proper spell would be. And that’s assuming your filter even supports regex.

              Best of luck dodging headlines, I guess.

        • just another dev
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          027 days ago

          Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    13227 days ago

    Surprise, Space Karen, places other than the US have actual employee protection laws.

    • @lulztard
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      5227 days ago

      I’m always baffled how US slavers fall for that trap again and again.

      • @[email protected]
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        627 days ago

        The US doesn’t fall for anything; the pols are paid to not work for the people. It’s greed, not idiocy.

        • @lulztard
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          627 days ago

          How is it not idiocy to get burned by european labour laws time and time again? Greed makes stupid.

        • @[email protected]
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          727 days ago

          Since he’s the sole owner it’s pretty much the same, it’s profits (hahahaha) that’s not going in his pockets.

          • Hanrahan
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            727 days ago

            I thought Sauia Arabia put up a shed load of cash as well ?

  • @Mighty
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    9227 days ago

    you know what I always stan for? “former Twitter”. I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn’T work

    • Codex
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      5627 days ago

      I’ve been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

      Instead of “X (formally know as Twitter)”, the time has come for “Twitter (currently called X)”.

        • Codex
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          2127 days ago

          “Trending on Occupied Twitter”

          • @Plopp
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            426 days ago

            It’s just a special capitalist operation!

      • @pyre
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        2227 days ago

        just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he’s calling it. don’t show his site the courtesy he doesn’t show to his own daughter.

      • @spongebue
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        1727 days ago

        I’m not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.

        I don’t quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that’s more subtle.

        X can fuck the duck right off.

      • @CaptPretentious
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        426 days ago

        I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say ‘that’s meta’ you have to stop and think, which may be why I’ve seen that phrase really die out.

      • @LittleBorat3
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        326 days ago

        The meta rebranding is not as evil as the hostile takeover of Twitter. So I am inclined to accept that name change but I do not know really what using meta means.

        I don’t use FB, if I did I would still say FB. I use WhatsApp and I don’t call that meta. I guess the individual products just keep their names here.

        • @[email protected]
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          There is also the difference that Facebook the service is still called Facebook. Only the company name changed, but not the product name. Where for Twitter, he renamed both the product and the company.

    • @Dkarma
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      927 days ago

      X is simply too vague.

    • edric
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      6727 days ago

      Yeah it’s worth noting that the employee in this case had the resources to fight. Hopefully other regular non-executive employees can use it as precedent for their own lawsuits.

      • @[email protected]
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        1927 days ago

        Not sure how different it is in Ireland, but here in Australia you’d have spoken to the fair work ombudsman and they’d go and “fight” this for you.

        Seeing as the article says “Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission” handled this, kinda sounds like a similar situation rather than wealth having anything to do with it.

        • @shalafi
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          227 days ago

          In America the various states have labor boards, but almost no one knows this and gets taken advantage of.

          Last thing an employer wants is a call from the labor board. They default to the employee is always right, burden in on the employer to prove otherwise.

    • @[email protected]
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      627 days ago

      Of course. Not like they’d order the same for the custodian or whatever. But because they are of high status they get protected.

    • @NeoNachtwaechter
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      Otherwise he would have gotten 1 figure less, and then we would never have heard about him.

  • @fpslem
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    4027 days ago

    Extremely hardcore.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      4327 days ago

      Shame it wasn’t a class action suit. $600k is peanuts compared to $600k per violation.

      • @iAvicenna
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        826 days ago

        my exact thoughts, every single employee who received this email should have sued his ass. You are only required to work as much as your contract details and this a clear instance of workplace bullying

      • @LittleBorat3
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        226 days ago

        Exactly this has to have happened several times where are all the others fired for this?

      • @OriginalUsername7
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        927 days ago

        If coos don’t want to their they shouldn’t get paid.

        I think this should be “If COOs don’t want to work there, they shouldn’t get paid”.

        Or are getting somewhere else

        No idea on this bit. Maybe “or should get a job somewhere else”?

        • @Cheems
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          227 days ago

          I sure am, that’s how I got the nickname, “The flash”

      • @[email protected]
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        026 days ago

        It’s very simple. If person fails to do their job you fire them. People supporting there must be a meaning behind

        • Krzd
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          1127 days ago

          What.