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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

"I don't like attention."

-- Guy that gave multiple interviews about all the attention he is getting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He doesn't like negative attention and is too dumb to realise that was the only thing that would happen by buying such an obvious "I'm dumb and a dickhead" statement piece.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's all marketing for his pot shop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

How bad at you at selling weed are you that you need to do this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t what gets me into a dispensary a second time.

Feeling like I can ask a dumbass question, get a coherent answer, and they will have product in stock at the promised price; gets me in the second and subsequent times.

Hypothetically, of course, but no different from the local booze warehouse, really. My loyalty is to the place where I asked someone “I see you’re out of x, what’s similar?” And they a) tapped out because it wasn’t their area of expertise and b) connected me with the person who could provide options and talk about that particular niche ad infinitum.

Don’t be flashy if you run a dispensary, just know your stuff and educate your staff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

be on weedmaps (or whatever your state uses online), have your stock up to date, and most importantly, don't just sell by the 1/8.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Scratching a stranger’s car is never okay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and the Chelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because the law drops the hammer on them BIG time.

Hell, activists use to spike old wood trees marked for clear cutting back in the day. This would cause the saw blades foresters would use to explode in their face,, in fact George Alexander, a millworker, was severely injured when a saw blade shattered after contact with a tree spike and cut his jaw in half.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

George Alexander would then form a band, drop two hits, then write for other artists away from the limelight.

Oh wait, that's Gregg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

His name is Jason Alexander, he only played a character named George.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not only did he get an unpopular truck, but he still uses Reddit. This guy is 0-2. What’s next?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He uses Twitter. Probably watches Televised News

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone that supports muskrat is an automatic pos in my book. He's an evil degenerate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've never liked that nickname, just because muskrats are pretty cool and don't deserve to be brought down to that shithead's level.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're right it's a disservice to the glorious beings that are muskrats. How about we just call him... sir shitstain nazi mckfuckface?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the minority of people who really like the design, I just wouldn't ever consider buying anything from Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

he really should not have bought Twitter that is what I think pissed people off the most

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Think he didn’t really have much of a choice given his public comments, and the fact that to lay folks those comments were credible because he has the resources to follow through.

If I posted “BRB, buying Twitter and taking it private,” it would be a joke. But coming from someone who already has a crazy amount of money, positions in companies, etc., and who knows or should know the ins and outs of securities law…

That was an ill fated statement that he should never have made and probably expected to be taken as a joke. Don’t think he expected the Twitter board to take the chance to cash out and call it good, either.

For someone with that level of impaired judgement to be running companies…. Jeez, how do I pull that off? I can rant publicly, I just don’t know the magic incantations that being in billions.

Hope that MFer gets meme stocked, shorted, and pump and dumped. As we’ve seen again and again, it doesn’t take all that much to do those things.

Am abs against the meme stock crowd, they are straight up bad actors, but might be able to do some good here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is getting out of hand. Like it went from a few jokes to straight up bullying and being toxic to people who didn't do anything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, risking charges just to lash out at a billionaire by attacking someone using their product is absolutely crazy. It's unhinged even without the risk of charges, especially of all the things to attack an electric vehicle - do people not remember how we'd dog on the manchildren that did similar things to prius?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Last trump election there was huge push online to make the right as uncivil as possible. It seems like this round its the left because talking to a lot of these people are reminding me of what it was like speaking to the right pre election.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

They're intentionally supporting Elon, so yeah they are