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Captain Ron

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  1. Gameday bitches!!! NLD just down the road!!!! LET'S. FUCKING. GO!!!!
  2. This mash up of many Zuckerberg interviews is a must. It has the Swisher/Mossberg one where he had a panic attack on stage when they grilled him like a steak And it has the entire meaty part of the interview where he self immolated himself over Holocaust denial.
  3. 6 years ago we got this: 2 years later to this https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/12/zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-facebook/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/opinion/facebook-holocaust-denial.html
  4. One other things @cmontexas, the guy is also news worthy for his flip flopping. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html And that's just something relevant today.
  5. Are you serious? I would seriously challenge you in this case to produce ANY article with substantive proof that Zuckerberg has anything at all to do with the TikTok ban. I mean sure there is a lot of noise that Meta would benefit form a ban, but I am talking actual work lobbying for the ban. We are talking about a law that passed Congress in March and was signed into law in April of last year. As far as his newsworthy-ness ... First off I lead with it - the guy just made a serious change to the policies of his primary social media company with serious social ramifications. They are capitulations to the incoming FOTUS administration. That alone is very much news worthy. I has been talked about in media a lot: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg-vs-democracy-facebook-meta-trump-fact-checking?utm_medium=email Beyond that the guy is running his mouth about stuff he doesn't know much about. And yes he did it on Rogan. And yeah, it's some incredibly dumb stuff: Sorry, but the guy is news worthy. People talk about him Yes, they talk about the TikTok ban, but not here. Oh and it wasn't a 1,000 word essay, if you count the edit note, it's only 281 words.
  6. Actually I think he's both, though maybe not diabolical. And I agree the guy is absolutely naive. So I started this thread with a lot of background knowledge of Zuckerberg, but I wanted the thread to run it's course for a bit. I've heard tons of things about him and his own interviews and in the end the guy has a 100% focus on whatever he can do to grow Meta and doesn't care the results. One story that has always stood out to me was from Filipino reporter Maria Ressa, she met Zuck at a lunch and was discussing harassment on Facebook in the Philippines Interviews with Frances Haugen (the Facebook whistle blower), she's talked about how Facebook knew discourse on the platform is divisive and a small change of their settings would make discourse nicer, but would potentially cost them a small fraction of revenue - NOPE. The guy simply is all about money. Right now Facebook's share price is $594. Mark is thinking how to get it to $594.01. And he doesn't give a damn if anyone is hurt for that $0.01. Hell, Scott Galloway joked on his pod today "Zuck would fuck his own mother if it would drive up their stock price." Beyond that, the guy is a fucking dweeb, but wants to be cool. Remember the year he had to make his own food? Either growing or killing it, because it was cool. At a large company event he wore a shirt that said “Aut Zuck aut nihil” Latin for “all Zuck or all nothing" because cool. Look at the picture in my first post. That perm, that shirt, that gold chain, the $900,000 watch. All trying to be cool. And failing. He made this, did anyone think it was cool or laugh at him? He tries so damn hard to be cool, to be an Alpha, but he is nothing but a beta.
  7. You will want to read this https://defector.com/a-tale-of-two-gooners?giftLink=ac112d2a4ebaa5236dfa4466426421b3
  8. Parent of the year here working on Messenger
  9. Captain Ron

    Sonos thread

    10 units across 2 homes, huge fan. Figured this deserved a mention since their app launch was complete shit.
  10. The only upside is that he would kill it faster than then ban would have.
  11. Because … the universe hates humanity
  12. A small rebuttle https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-fire-update-panhandle-weather-risk/
  13. Oh man, this reply to this post, LOL. Windows? Really?
  14. Is this really fair? Dak loses HOME playoff games. Love at least has to go on the road.
  15. Recently I was complaining about how much slop is served up by FB to a friend that uses FB pretty commonly (lots of posts, etc) - he said he doesn't have that. So I started a week or so of real engagement - Likes to posts, some quality comments, etc. It fixed my feed pretty quickly, with some good posts, etc. But once that week ended - my feed dropped off quickly - more slop. But if it needs me to constantly engage, that's not going to happen - I have a life, a job, I waste enough time here on Surly, I can't add FB to the mix. And frankly if they stop showing my friend's posts, they can't expect me to remain engaged with the platform. Ads are not going to keep me engaged.
  16. This is the type of stuff we shouldn't forget. In fact, if you haven't read it, you should: The Facebook Files This is the whole thing - 170+ pages. Topics: Highly recommended read.
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