Senator Babet Absurd and demented of Starmer

Elon Musk Senator Babet Another 48 hours have passed, Elon, and your system STILL won't let me update my email address. Same infuriating message as before: "Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again."

Elon Musk Senator Babet I've been seeing that ever since I finally got my book of passwords and logged in, after a prolonged absence, so the idea that your system was responding to heavy usage on my part doesn't pass the straight face test. Elon, I need to update my email address. Today. Now.

Elon Musk Senator Babet I shouldn't get locked out of my account, for the rest of my life, just because somebody on your team either s c r e w e d up or worse, is just playing games. No user of any site should ever be treated in such a way. So when am I going to be allowed to update that email?

Elon Musk Senator Babet I want a day, I want a time and I want it now. And I don't want to hear any g o d d a m n excuses. You either know what you're doing or you don't.

Elon Musk Senator Babet One other thing, Mr. Musk - I know that this is more than just something that happened during your watch. I know that the whole "rate limiting" thing was your idea and that you're personally responsible for it.

Elon Musk Senator Babet If you do not clean up the mess you just made, that failure is going to have real world, downstream consequences that will go far beyond nasty words posted on a social media site.

Elon Musk Senator Babet You want to go to Mars. At some point, you're going to realize that your current plan for getting there won't work. You might even realize why it won't work. When that time comes, you're going to need people that SpaceX currently doesn't have.

Elon Musk Senator Babet People with more than those adorable little bachelor's degrees that seemed to be all the rage during the last few years. You're talking with one of those people, right now, and you're p i s s i n g him off, seemingly just to prove that you can p i s s him off. Bad idea.

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Elon Musk Senator Babet Yes, I chose to decorate the rant above. I reposted it to my profile. If I get locked out of my account because you and your team just LOVE LOVE LOVE to mess with the users, it will remain up, telling the whole story here.

Elon Musk Senator Babet While I tell it in person over on the more competently run Bluesky, where everybody on Twitter seems to be headed, these days.

Elon Musk Senator Babet Oh, and yes, I did have the sense to archive this archive.is/vYcLK tinyurl.com/elon-is-useless in both Archive Today and the Internet Archive, so if you were thinking that you'd just make this go away and tell a few "little white lies," later, that's not going to work.

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Six days later, after a certain amount of drama, I was finally able to do something that I should have been able to do the moment I logged in. I was able to update my email address. Annoying, but there are other users who've had to wait far longer.

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