• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    'course he will. Shit stains of a color… stain the same underwear together…

    eh. not as briliant as “birds of a feather”… but it works.

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    Gary Vee once said that he doesn’t traffic in money or selling products, he traffics in attention. Thats really stuck with me. Gary Vee is a grifter and a snake oil salesman, but he’s 100% right about the modern landscape of capitalism. The money is almost gone. It’s almost entirely hoarded by the billionaire dragons. Now the ruling class just pulls stunts like this to anger us and distract us from realizing that our lives would be so much better if these people no longer existed.

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    People I know who left Twitter are weirdly coming back, they feel bad about it but… We need to help these people

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      I just don’t get it. If Twitter was ever good, I still don’t think I could go back if I had to.

      But it was NEVER FUCKING GOOD.

      Some of the worst UI ever, the snarkiest, most narcissistic dweebs, lurking in every thread. Fuck Twitter. Fuck Twitter on every single day since it’s existed. I tried it. Zero good moments there. It’s fucking cancer that should be nuked from orbit.

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        Outrage addiction is a real thing… and it is a driving force in both news media and social media.

        And I say that fully aware of the doom-scrolling nature of this platform, amongst others…

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          Well yeah but for a variety of reasons, Twitter was shit. Worse than anywhere else.

          The design choice to strictly limit character length alone made it trash.

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        It was good. Sorry you only ever browsed the political part of Twitter and not comedians and friends!

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          I followed a variety of people I knew and didn’t.

          Twitter was political AF at its core. Apparently you forgot it was key to several political movements. This was the the best part about it. The bad parts were that the sea of shit takes on everything was endless and then once brand names started marketing with it it became fully trash. Then 2016 happened and it became way worse due to right wing fuck faces. Fuck Twitter. The only thing good about it was that it happened to exist at the right time politically. Do you really find that part of it to be the only thing wrong with i?

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            Back in the day I logged onto Twitter and read one-liners and other jokes. No politics, no celebrities. It was great.

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        Part of it is FOMO, but unfortunately, a lot of news is still broken on Twitter and it is still sometimes useful (I don’t use it myself, but others do) as a real-time source of news as it unfolds. There are also a lot of governments that use Twitter to post announcements.

        Like I said, I don’t use it myself, but I think all of those things contribute.

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    Ah, so him being a piece of shit who was the only one not to be allowed back was a lie. Surprising.

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    A dollar bill weighs about a gram. So 44 billion dollars is 44 million kg of paper. This would release about 16 MJ/kg upon combustion, so a total of 700 TJ of energy. This is about the same as an 150 kiloton nuclear bomb.

    So Elon Musk is destroying Xitter with the equivalent energy of a strategic nuclear warhead. This is some real creative destruction.

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    Sinking ship continues to poke holes in the hull. Only the weak, infirm rats remain. Other ships watch with morbid curiosity.