Musk offers to buy Twitter

[dada_dave]

An expensive toy for someone who can afford to lose it.

It’s barely possible that our economic system allowing the accumulation of wealth to the point where an individual’s net worth can eclipse the GDP of a midsize country is not healthy for media or democracy.

Elon Musk's wealth has dropped more this year than the GDP of many countries

Twitter's new owner falls down a rung in wealth rankings for the first time since overtaking Jeff Bezos in 2021.

www.cbsnews.com

He lost $100 billion dollars, which by itself is more than the GDP of the listed countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland) and has at minimum 1.5 times that left to burn.

Of course truthfully his net worth is tied up in Tesla stock and is almost certainly… overvalued. In my opinion. But what do I know.

 

[Yoused]

It’s barely possible that our economic system allowing the accumulation of wealth to the point where an individual’s net worth can eclipse the GDP of a midsize country is not healthy for media or democracy.

I also have some issues with billionaires using their wealth for absurd tourism. Some things are best left be.

 

[dada_dave]

I also have some issues with billionaires using their wealth for absurd tourism. Some things are best left be.

I’ll admit that I’m not above being tempted to make a sick joke about being a good start a la “what do you call a 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?”, but being real people as well as one passenger being described as a “son”, especially if that’s a kid (I dunno if he is or not - I would hope that they only take adults on something like that), then that’s too far even for me*.

That said, I remember my Dad once opining years ago about the latest group to go missing climbing Mt Everest and rescuers desperately trying to reach them that if you’re going to do an incredibly risky and dangerous activity as a tourist that you should maybe have to sign waivers that you understand the dangers and that no one else is going to risk their lives trying to rescue you. I dunno, but there’s certainly a logic to it.

*And yes I recognize that I essentially made the in-poor-taste joke about rich people by writing how I was tempted to make it. I do actually earnestly hope that they’re okay and will surface and feel for their families right now. Still though, there’s going to be a lot of expense and potentially risk involved trying to help them. This isn’t just getting in a car/plane/or even helicopter. Stepping out of your house involves risk. Getting into a sub and going deep into arctic waters is something else and that should be acknowledged.

 

[Eric]

But feel free to rock the N word all day long.

 

[KingOfPain]

But feel free to rock the N word all day long.

Nuclear?
But Elon clearly is quite selective what he considers offensive or not.

 

[dada_dave]

We live in such a dumb timeline

 

[Eric]

I welcome this new platform, there's definitely a vacuum now that so many have left Twitter and using the word "sane" as part of your marketing strategy makes sense.

 

[Eric]

We live in such a dumb timeline

Sounds like this is a real thing. No fan of Zuckerberg but he exercises and know jujitsu, Musk has to have a driver take his pudgy lazy ass up the block to Starbucks, hoping to see a real ass kicking here.

 

[dada_dave]

Sounds like this is a real thing. No fan of Zuckerberg but he exercises and know jujitsu, Musk has to have a driver take his pudgy lazy ass up the block to Starbucks, hoping to see a real ass kicking here.

Yeah I heard Zuckerberg actually does martial arts. This is still so cringey and stupid.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Sounds like this is a real thing. No fan of Zuckerberg but he exercises and know jujitsu, Musk has to have a driver take his pudgy lazy ass up the block to Starbucks, hoping to see a real ass kicking here.

Ever notice how fascist leadership tend to have the same body type that’s a far cry from what anybody would consider superior?

 

[Eric]

 

[dada_dave]

 

[Cmaier]

 

[Eric]

And now this, glad I left that dumpster fire a long time ago.

 

[Cmaier]

And now this, glad I left that dumpster fire a long time ago.

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Mastodon is rife with Tesla jokes, along the lines of “verified drivers get 60 left turns per day, but unverified drivers get 6.”

 

[MEJHarrison]

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That reminds me of a story from back in the caveman days of the internet. It's when Usenet was the big thing. The details are hazy now of course. But essentially some guy was sick of some content (likely porn). He wrote a script to fix the problem and was planning to install it on his side. A bunch of smart admin types told him it was a mistake. He decided he'd run it anyway and let the results speak for themselves. And that's exactly what happened. His made a "bad post". His script picked it up and posted that you're not allowed to make a "bad post", quoting the original post of course. And then his script picked up "you're not allow to make a 'bad post'" and posted a warning back to the group. And then his script picked that up. Tens of thousands of posts later, he did apologize for not listening to advice. It was all very amusing. I've not thought about that guy in decades until reading that.

That's probably the most fun I ever had on Usenet. I was the admin for Lewis and Clark College back when I worked there.

 

[dada_dave]

And now this, glad I left that dumpster fire a long time ago.

But only in the app apparently, they seem to have forgotten to apply it to the web browser

 

[Cmaier]

That reminds me of a story from back in the caveman days of the internet. It's when Usenet was the big thing. The details are hazy now of course. But essentially some guy was sick of some content (likely porn). He wrote a script to fix the problem and was planning to install it on his side. A bunch of smart admin types told him it was a mistake. He decided he'd run it anyway and let the results speak for themselves. And that's exactly what happened. His made a "bad post". His script picked it up and posted that you're not allowed to make a "bad post", quoting the original post of course. And then his script picked up "you're not allow to make a 'bad post'" and posted a warning back to the group. And then his script picked that up. Tens of thousands of posts later, he did apologize for not listening to advice. It was all very amusing. I've not thought about that guy in decades until reading that.

That's probably the most fun I ever had on Usenet. I was the admin for Lewis and Clark College back when I worked there.

I used to love usenet.

 

[Eric]

Mastodon is rife with Tesla jokes, along the lines of “verified drivers get 60 left turns per day, but unverified drivers get 6.”

Reddit is also hopping with this story. It sounds like he just wants the echo chamber of his right wing followers and they're the only ones really paying anyway so it will just further separate them from the rest of the world.

He also could've simply said "we can't afford the bandwidth" instead of the scraping bullshit talk.

 

[jonblatho]

But only in the app apparently, they seem to have forgotten to apply it to the web browser

It could be that the rate limiting is per-platform, but I'm rate-limited both on iOS and on web.

If Twitter’s really at a point where they allegedly have to (noticeably) rate limit post views on their own client, regardless of the reasoning, stick a fork in them.