Stupid World

[Ocean1]

I note that crime reporting on Fox News has been reduced 50% since the midterm elections. It would seem that the effort to show the US was an unsafe place under the Democrats didn't go to plan
I anticipate that here, until our elections we'll get ramraids and victim interviews all over TV3. It's quite illuminating to watch and compare our two main news channels. Media bias ? Oh surely not.

I'm sure that as long as he media are constantly alluding to and supporting the principles of tekanga and te treaty they'll continue to be fiscally rewarded accordingly.

What's the extent of the corruption so far? $155M innit?

[Al Bundy 4eva!]

Twitter CEO Elon Musk says user signups at all-time high, touts features of "everything app"
Signups were averaging over two million per day in the last seven days as of November 16, up 66 per cent compared to the same week in 2021, Musk said in a tweet late on Saturday.
REUTERS NOVEMBER 27, 2022 / 11:16 AM IST in



https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/bu...p-9607771.html

[Al Bundy 4eva!]

Twitter CEO Elon Musk says user signups at all-time high, touts features of "everything app"
Signups were averaging over two million per day in the last seven days as of November 16, up 66 per cent compared to the same week in 2021, Musk said in a tweet late on Saturday.
REUTERS NOVEMBER 27, 2022 / 11:16 AM IST in



https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/bu...p-9607771.html

Elon Musk

"I think I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months"


3....2...1....and enter the salty kiwi biker's

[pete376403]

But do regular users pay anything to use twitter, to make up for all the advertisers? "Musk has said that Twitter was experiencing a "massive drop in revenue" from the advertiser retreat, blaming a coalition of civil rights groups that has been pressing the platform's top advertisers to take action if he did not protect content moderation."

[Al Bundy 4eva!]

But do regular users pay anything to use twitter, to make up for all the advertisers? "Musk has said that Twitter was experiencing a "massive drop in revenue" from the advertiser retreat, blaming a coalition of civil rights groups that has been pressing the platform's top advertisers to take action if he did not protect content moderation."

Don't know

But a billion users per month is a lot of customers, should non woke companies want to use the Twitter platform to advertise.

[R650R]

Elon Musk

"I think I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months"


3....2...1....and enter the salty kiwi biker's

I think that’s a bit optimistic as a billion users is about same as population of all western nations combined plus a few more. The other 7-8 billion people in the world are living in the sticks and prob wouldn’t even know an app let alone twitter or be interested in the snippets of info on there.

[mashman]

Central Bankster Admits They Plan To Control Us With Central Bank Digital Currencies...

Marketing and advertising will be happy ......

[mashman]

Don't know

But a billion users per month is a lot of customers, should non woke companies want to use the Twitter platform to advertise.

1 in 8... The most useful communications tools developed in-house by tesla/spacex/twitter in one app. Probably doable if appX is the dogs and requires a twitter signup.

[pritch]

It seems Musk has decided to pick a fight with this guy. Just after posting a tweet advocating civility Musk smeared Alex Vindman. He might look somewhat studious but Vindman wears a Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart ribbon for being wounded in action. He is parachute and Ranger qualified.

If it comes to a fisticuffs, my money's on Alex.

[onearmedbandit]

I'm very surprised Musk's mouth hasn't got him into some serious strife yet. But hey the clown show isn't over yet.

[TheDemonLord]

It seems Musk has decided to pick a fight with this guy. Just after posting a tweet advocating civility Musk smeared Alex Vindman. He might look somewhat studious but Vindman wears a Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart ribbon for being wounded in action. He is parachute and Ranger qualified.

If it comes to a fisticuffs, my money's on Alex.

Slight clarification - He does indeed where the Ranger Tab, which means he's completed the Ranger School - which is a leadership and small tactics school.

But the common understanding of Ranger Qualified is that someone has completed RASP/RIP, wears a Ranger Scroll and was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment - AKA Door Kicking Bad-ass SF Operator.

I have no comment on Alex or whatever is happening atm - but I've seen in many places people conflating the Tab vs Scroll.

[pritch]

Slight clarification - He does indeed where the Ranger Tab, which means he's completed the Ranger School - which is a leadership and small tactics school.

But the common understanding of Ranger Qualified is that someone has completed RASP/RIP, wears a Ranger Scroll and was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment - AKA Door Kicking Bad-ass SF Operator.

I have no comment on Alex or whatever is happening atm - but I've seen in many places people conflating the Tab vs Scroll.

Agree but disagree. "Ranger qualified" means he passed the 61 day course. Currently it seems that virtually every US Infantry officer is expected to have done that.

[R650R]

It seems fake news wants real money... of course this has nothing to do with the ending of the govt propoganda slush fund....
Given that stuff journo’s have been complicit in the dumbing down of journalism via several mechanisms they’ve made their own bed here. It will interesting to see what “news” we miss out on during the strike....
And really working for someone that has a giant orange banner begging for donations/subs at bottom of every story should be a red flag.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/13060...ustrial-action

[husaberg]

Agree but disagree. "Ranger qualified" means he passed the 61 day course. Currently it seems that virtually every US Infantry officer is expected to have done that.

There have been a few that died on the course.
image iot was a bit harder than trumps miltary career....

Historically, the graduation rate has been around 50%

Ranger Physical Fitness Test (RPFT) requiring the following minimums:
Push-ups: 49 (in 2 minutes, graded strictly for perfect form)
Sit-ups: 59 (in 2 minutes)
Chin-ups: 6 (performed from a dead hang with no lower body movement)
5 mile individual run in 40 minutes or less over a course with gently rolling terrain

Combat Water Survival Assessment, conducted at Victory Pond (previously called the Water Confidence Test). This test consists of three events that test the Ranger student's ability to calmly overcome any fear of heights or water. Students must calmly walk across a log suspended thirty-five feet above the pond, then transition to a rope crawl before plunging into the water. Each student must then jump into the pond and ditch their rifle and load-bearing equipment while submerged. Finally, each student climbs a ladder to the top of a seventy-foot tower and traverses down to the water on a pulley attached to a suspended cable, subsequently plunging into the pond. All of these tasks must be performed calmly without any type of safety harness. If a student fails to negotiate an obstacle (through fear, hesitation or by not completing it correctly) they are dropped from the course.

Combination Night/Day land navigation test – This has proven to be one of the more difficult events for students, as sending units fail to teach land navigation using a map and compass. Students are given a predetermined number of MGRS locations and begin testing approximately two hours prior to dawn. Flashlights, with red lens filters, may only be used for map referencing; the use of flashlight to navigate across terrain will result in an immediate dismissal from the school. Later in the course, Ranger students will be expected to conduct, and navigate, patrols at night without violating light discipline. The land navigation test instills this skill early in each student's mind, thus making the task second nature when graded patrolling begins.

A 2.1 mile buddy run, followed by the Malvesti Field Obstacle Course, featuring the notorious "worm pit": a shallow, muddy, 25-meter obstacle covered by knee-high barbed wire. The obstacle must be negotiated—usually several times—on one's back and belly.
Demolitions training and airborne refresher training.

Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) training was removed as a part of a new POI at the start of 2009; it was reinstated with Class 06–10. The Combatives Program was spread over all phases and culminated with practical application in Swamp Phase. However, MACP has been removed from Ranger again, starting with the Combatives Program in Mountains and Florida and followed by the removal of RAP week combatives in class 06–12.

A 12-mile forced, individual ruck march with full gear on roads and trails surrounding Camp Rogers. This is the last test during RAP and is a pass/fail event. If the Ranger student fails to finish the march in under 3 hours, they are dropped from the course. (12 miles is approximately 20,000 metres.)

[pritch]

But do regular users pay anything to use twitter,

No. The income was from advertising. Twitter is world wide, people in poor countries couldn't pay. People in authoritarian countries would have trouble paying.

Musk tried to charge $8.00 for a verification mark. To increase sales he just gave the mark to anybody who payed $8.00 which missed the point of verification.

He seems to have seen the light to an extent and is no longer selling them to anybody who just pays $8.00. He is sending out reminders to verified people telling them they owe $8.00 but it seems many of them have already departed.

He is still fiddling with the way Twitter operates with no understanding of how it is supposed to work or what it actually does. The major topic of conversation is alternatives to Twitter. Sadly there is no directly comparable site. Yet.

I won't pay for Twitter, currently I'm just waiting to see how this plays out.