It’s also seizure-inducing
https://twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1685339679032287233/
Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can’t imagine they wouldn’t get forced to take it down.
I guess all he does is baiting headlines
he’ll only stop when it stops working. not happening anytime soon, sadly
Elon is the master of baiting.
Go away, baitin
Fuck all their neighbors, I guess
Jesus fucking christ, how is that still standing
How often do you get to break the law as a billionaire before you have consequences?
All of the times.
Is that on purpose or is the thing so badly made that it’s blinking like that?
Bad Chicken! Mess you up!!
That’s not good for business.
Wow. I’m not particularly sensitive, but that seems like the right amount of very bright strobe that gives me headaches in concerts, especially at night in the dark. That’s very much the level of trying to find out a way to get to the roof to unplug it.
That has got to be a joke. How come by now nobody shot it down?
I’m hoping you mean the city shooting it down, as in saying nope to it lol. Any responsible gun owner would ideally realize how terrible of an idea it would be to pop rounds at it, in a city center, with buildings behind it, knowing a good percentage of those shots will miss and go flying beyond it.
Odds are, the city will have something to say about it, and knowing Elon, he didn’t pull a permit so it’s a matter of time. That thing is an eye sore and a hazard.
Purely because it’s in CA. Even if you can get your hands on a gun you’ve only got 5 shots before you have to reload.
Is reloading super laborious or something? Is the goal to only need to reload once a day, maybe at night as your phone is recharging?
Absolutely not. Especially with said small mags, op said 5 but for Cali I believe it’s 10?
Either way that’s a small fucking mag even for a round like 5.56 (standard us rifle round). You could easily stuff 4-5 in your two pants pockets.
Sticking with the 5.56 example, push the mag in, hit the bolt release to load the first round, pull the trigger and the next is auto loaded. Pull the trigger for each bullet and when there are no more the bolt will stay locked back. You push the mag release button, mag falls out, then you just slide a new mag in. Hit the bolt catch release and it will load the next round.
It’s easy as fuck, no the goal isn’t to reload once a day. If anything the goal would be to hit the target with as few bullets possible x the person you replied to was just being facetious.
here is an excellent example animation that covers the entire sequence from load to fire. Most of it is irrelevant but if you actually care you can jump around using the chapters
The only laborious thing about reloading is putting each round in one by one. The video shows a 30 round mag so think of a mag 1/3rd of that for this post context. With stripper clips or a speed reloaded it’s easy and quick af. Realistically you’d go out with preloaded mags instead of a box of bullets you load on the fly. Always a good idea to take extra cartridges tho.
Thanks for a genuinely interesting reply! While I learned something from you, I still don’t know when I’d “go out with preloaded mags”. I don’t know what I’d expect to find out there which would require that sort of preparation, ha!
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I… don’t think that’s how it works…
Gun Simps: “You can’t have gun control because people don’t follow the law and will get them anyway.”
Also Gun Simps: “Nobody has guns in California because it’s against the law.”
Pick one way to be wrong, at least.
There are PLENTY of gun owners in Cali and your pockets can easily fit 4-5x 5 or 10 rd mags in your pants pockets if not more.
You can fire pretty quick between mag changes as well. Who the fuck is going around with a single 5rd mag?
The actual answer is because responsible gun owners would never just go shoot something down in the city just cuz it’s annoying to the other businesses around the sign
But at least you are shooting it down
Didn’t that actually just get overturned?
That explains it. This thing would drive me nuts in like two minutes
Seriously? It’s the actual sign?
It is. And it was done without a permit, so the city might fine him over it too. https://apnews.com/article/twitter-san-francisco-building-x-elon-musk-4e0ae2a3b1b838b744bb2dc494f5b23c
For once I hope the fine is not based on revenue
Aren’t there usually minimum fines anyway even if they’re based on revenue?
Yeah probably, just my poor attempt at a joke about X’s business rather than a genuine hope.
Heh, I can appreciate that. Just commented so nobody will use that as a justification why fines shouldn’t be based on revenue.
Twitter has tons of revenue, they don’t have profit.
Who cares? He won’t pay it just like he doesn’t pay the rent lol
That’s fine just board up his doors and tell him that he is unable to do any business until the fine is paid and then the offending material will be removed from the building by city provided workers and you take until his check clears the bank in order to finish and allow him back into the building you barricade off every single entrance and prevent entry to the building until you’re done just say it’s for safety sake we had to take this much time to make sure we did it correctly unlike what you did…
A fine for the billionaire rich is meaningless in most cases :/
Seriously?
A perfect summary of the public’s reaction to the entire rebrand.
And is that a CCTV camera on the right?
The camera is actualy a part of the logo.
At first, I just assumed it was a bird, but I think you’re right (or closer, at least). Maybe it’s some kind of antenna.
Might be a light sensor, too blurry to really tell
Well that looks like shit.
It’s perfect.
This has gotten WAY out of hand.
A bad idea is one thing. They happen all the time. Many executives would sell their souls for the kind of recognition that the blue bird had, but I suppose a good marketing team could have pulled off a successful rebranding.
This whole “x” fiasco, however, is a series of bad ideas done hastily, sloppily, and with little to no planning. It’s completely unjustifiable, from any perspective - unless you’re Elon, apparently.
All those blue bird icons on millions of sites. Good luck getting those to change to x. Of all the dumb moves Musk has made, this ranks as the second dumbest. Of course, the dumbest move was paying 44 billion dollars for a site that realistically was worth 5-10 billion, and that was before that knucklefuck took over and ran it straight into the ground.
Yeah. The more I think about it, the worse it is. Lately, I’ve been wondering how many businesses have professionally printed “Follow us on Twitter!” stickers in their windows and signs by their cash registers. Your local pizza place probably does. That kind of visibility and awareness is priceless.
Is Elon going to ship tens of thousands of replacement signs? No. Are business owners going to pay to replace them themselves? Some, maybe, but even then it won’t be a major priority. Hell, I didn’t take one elective class in marketing, and even I have a better understanding of the value he’s throwing away.
I mean all I have heard for days now is about this X thing. He memed it into existence and now it’s incredibly recognizable and talked about non-stop. God he’s such an ass.
Just one of the many signs this was a rushed decision he forced through without consulting anyone
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It’s amazing how countless people have labeled Elon a shit-posting edgelord, and yet, he keeps trying so damn hard to tell the world what we all already know.
We get it, dude. Now shut the fuck up and do a days worth of work for once in your life. I think we’re all quite tired of billionaire’s at this point.
I’d surely be walking into the building every morning with a paper bag over my head if I were somebody who was still stuck working there.
I have to imagine the only people who are still working there are just trying to stay in America.
This. Many of the people who still work there have no other choice. Their citizenship is tied to their employer. I feel sympathy for them.
he wants to be a Furher so badly
He’s definitely one step furher.
Just needs to add feet on to the X
It look like vandalism, someone broke into the building at night to put on their crappy sign.
This kind of describes what’s actually happened.
I mean someone who could do it professionally would probably professionally say no to such an illegal job
I didn’t realize he did it all himself.
What in the actual fuck?
This is like a physical embodiment of Poe’s law.
just barons doing baron things.
All the money in the world can’t buy taste
