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[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 195 points 3 months ago

I just noticed that I like posts with "X ordered to do..." sooo much better than posts with "Elon says..."

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 61 points 3 months 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).

[-] Nima@leminal.space 14 points 3 months 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.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago
[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh....

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months 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.

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 132 points 3 months ago

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

[-] lulztard@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] lulztard@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago

but laws don't apply to billionaires 😭 /s

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

Well it's not like Musk was fined, the company has to pay.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months 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@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Mighty@lemmy.world 92 points 3 months 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

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months 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)".

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

Don't even acknowledge the current name of the site, just keep calling it Twitter.

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

"Trending on Occupied Twitter"

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It's just a special capitalist operation!

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months 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.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago

He literally still called the posts tweets so....

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago

I'm just sad we aren't at calling it "formerly facebook" instead of meta

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months 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.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, same as Alphabet. Neither of these renamed their key product either. Just put a new company on top.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months 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@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

X is simply too vague.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 80 points 3 months ago

This employee in question was an executive

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 67 points 3 months 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.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 19 points 3 months 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.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 25 points 3 months ago
[-] iamthewalrus@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Ex X executive is fun to say out loud.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

XXX-kyootive

[-] bastionntb@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months 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@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 60 points 3 months ago

It was more fun watching this loser lose before I realized it’s all they really do.

[-] fpslem@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

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

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months 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

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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

This is why I never read my emails.

[-] bryan@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Now that they won - the effort to collect what they won can start…!

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