Great shot. This angle conveys how ridiculously big that bridge is a lot better than a wide shot. The traffic heading off into the distance gives you the scale very effectively.
“If detonated, they would not damage the reactors but would create an image of shelling from the Ukrainian side,” the statement on Telegram said. It said the Ukrainian army stood “ready to act under any circumstances”.
In his nightly video message, Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to “simulate an attack” on the plant. “But in any case, the world sees – and cannot fail to see – that the only source of danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is Russia. And no one else.”
Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian military provided no evidence for their assertions”
"If detonated, they would not damage the reactors but would create an image of shelling from the Ukrainian side,” the statement on Telegram said.
Not gonna lie, that’s pretty smart. Now if Ukraine decides to start shelling the plant, they can just pretend that it’s actually Russia that detonated some charges.
I think that’s a pattern we’ll start seeing more and more.
I rode this train. Top tip, when booking your seats, book the table with 2 seats, not the table with 4. Then you’ll be on the side of the train on the inside of the curve, and get the best view of the train over the viaduct (looking backwards or forwards out the window)
we tried to book the 2 chair VIP experience, but couldnt belive how quickly it filled up. Ended up sharing a seat with another couple who were there from germany, and it was a great time!.
I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they’d be better posting here).
Lemmy is a shit-show… but it’s OUR shit-show and we’ll adjust, and clever people will develop.
Right on man. My last comment on R3dd!t told people the amount of time they spent figuring out how to still use 3rd party apps, they can direct that effort into learning how to participate in the Fediverse. Got a hundred-ish downvotes so that means a hundred people now know Lemmy exists.
He’s impulsive and doesn’t know when to shut up. I got the distinct impression that, initially, he was absolutely not serious about buying Twitter. It was a joke/jest. BUT, because his antics affected their stock price he actually got forced into the purchase and now he’s desperately trying to figure out how to make the purchase worth what he actually paid, which is fine and all, except he seems to be leading by impulse, not by consensus or logic. He wakes up in the morning, has some random ass idea and implements it without any oversight. Even his new CEO straight up admitted that she is basically a straw man CEO who will offer no friction to anything Elon wants to do.
This is pretty much what ive thought all along. He already owned a huge chuck of twotter when he said he’d buy it. The Ftc called him out and accused him of market manipulation. He then tried everything thing he could to weasel his way out of buying twitter but failed. Now he’s purposely trashing the site so he can declare bankruptcy and get his money back. That’s my theory at least.
This is pretty much what ive thought all along. He already owned a huge chuck of twotter when he said he’d buy it. The Ftc called him out and accused him of market manipulation. He then tried everything thing he could to weasel his way out of buying twitter but failed. Now he’s purposely trashing the site so he can declare bankruptcy and get his money back. That’s my theory at least.
When a company declares bankruptcy the only money anyone gets back are the value of the company’s assets. Which some quick googling indicates is somewhere around $14B. So $30B less than what he paid for it.
I’ve heard Twitter was actually worth somewhere around $25B when he bought it. If he did nothing and left it alone for a year and then sold it, yeah he’d have lost around $20B from the whole mess, but that’s still better that driving it into bankruptcy.
I think it’s more an ego thing. He obviously overpaid for Twitter, and he can’t admit he made a mistake, so he’s trying to find a way to blame the mistake on the “woke” left or whatever.
I’m really intrigued what the composition of that 14B is. I’m doubting that they have big investments in the stock market, or oil fields, or whatever. It’s clear that the core IP of Twitter can be largely re-coded by a few bored guys (we’re here aren’t we?). If the actual value of Twitter is in the name and userbase, and that gets trashed, then it’s certainly not worth 14B.
The code needed to handle as many users as Twitter has isn’t trivial.
But yeah most of the value is in the brand and the userbase. A big factor with social media is how it allows people to build friend networks that are bound to the platform. People can esily move to another platform, but convincing all of their friends to do the same is much more difficult. It’s insidious how it locks people in.
The fact that Musk is behaving like a complete asshat and people re staying there anyway just goes to prove how valuable that social media lock in is.
Of course AOL was valued similarly… just before the dot com bubble burst.
I’m gonna miss Joey, spent a lot of time scrolling. I’m still using it for now until the API changes kick in, then I’m probably gone from Reddit for good after I sort through the saved content that I actually care about.
I’m very curious to see how (actual) websites / ways to access this data will change how Lemmy not only deals with this as a potential security issue, but how it will change the culture of Lemmy and they way people interact on here
Obviously I’m concerned with the ramifications as well, but I’m also very intrigued how things will go
I think it would be good to have some kind of a concept of “trust levels” between federated instances where the default level isn’t full trust. Then the amount of information that gets shared depends on the trust level.
Things these days should be designed with the fact that there’s bad actors out there, some driven purely by greed, some driven to specifically cause problems either for individuals (trolls) or society in general (troll farms). And it isn’t always clear who is who.
Back when Amazon Smile was a thing, I had Amazon notifications turned on (a prerequisite for earning charity donations), and had Tasker set up to automatically dismiss them so they wouldn’t bother me.
It only existed so they would get to stop paying google for click-throughs. They ended it because enough people use the apps or go straight to the website now. Was never about charity.
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