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simple , in Clash of Twitter
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

Not realistic, they’d make very random gem numbers to confuse people as much as possible.

“Buy 295 gems for $4, or for a limited time get 699 gems for $10! Subscribe now for 295 gems a week for one month! Recharge your tweet limit for only 365 gems!”

jalda ,

Nah, Elon being Elon, he would use meme numbers. The API costs $42000 per month because 420 funny numer.

teuast ,

Somehow, every time I think Elon Musk has reached his zenith of cringe, he manages to outdo himself.

Fafner , in Clash of Twitter
@Fafner@yiffit.net avatar

Missed a golden opportunity to use an emerald instead of generic gem.

PoppinKREAM , in Clash of Twitter

The sequence of events from Elon Musk acquiring Twitter to now is an incredible journey.

  • Elon Musk bought a social media company for tens of billions, attempted to back out of the deal but couldn’t because of his ineptitude by signing away the ability to reneg on the deal.^[1]
  • Then there was the freedom of speech advocacy from Musk where he ultimately unbanned racists and then began sharing bigoted Tweets. But it’s only freedom of speech for his bigoted supporters, when authoritarian governments ask Musk to censor people/tweets he abides by their requests.^[2]
  • The site becomes inundated with the alt right, it’s become rife with bigotry.^[3]
  • There was the whole verified blue check mark debacle where verification became something you could pay for, with people making fake “official” accounts. For example a fake account impersonating a pharmaceutical company caused their stock to drop abruptly following a satirical tweet.^[4]
  • Twitter engages in mass layoffs and multiple things break on the site. There are also reports that they can’t pay rent in certain locations across the globe. Twitter is hemorrhaging advertisors, as they record a 59% reduction in advertisement sales.^[5]
  • Elon Musk posts tweets seemingly apologizing for some of the changes and says he will follow the will of the people by posting polls for users to vote on policy changes. Musk asks if he should step down, to which the majority vote in favour of his removal. He then goes on a tirade about bots after losing in the poll. He goes on to say that only paid subscribers will be permited to vote in future polls. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.^[6]
  • The crème de la crème is Elon Musk implementing a new restriction where you have to be logged in to see tweets and restricting the number of tweets you can view. Inadvertently DDOSing his own site.

  1. New York Times - Why Elon Musk Can’t Back Out of Buying Twitter, According to Twitter
  2. Forbes - Twitter Has Complied With Almost Every Government Request For Censorship Since Musk Took Over, Report Finds
  3. The Atlantic -Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network
  4. Forbes - Fake Eli Lilly Twitter Account Claims Insulin Is Free, Stock Falls 4.37%
  5. New York Times - Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
  6. The Guardian - Elon Musk breaks silence after 10 million Twitter users vote for him to step down
fossilesque ,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Holy shit, welcome you mad legend. Glad you made it to the other side.

Hiccup ,

You know Lemmy’s legit when it’s gotten PoppinKREAM’s seal of approval.

Mellibird ,

Omfg you’re here! I’m so fucking excited now! I would always read through your such well written and referenced comments!!! This is such an exciting moment!

Holodeck_Moriarty ,

Hey, it’s poppinkream!

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

Hell yeah PoppinKREAM is on Lemmy. We’ve made it boys!

ShlorpianMafia ,
@ShlorpianMafia@lemmy.world avatar

I would like to award your comment with one lemmy gold🏅

kronicmage ,

Wow this really feels like reddit again. High quality comment followed by low effort award post. All we need now is an award speech edit

instamat ,

🏅🏅 I’m feeling generous, have two on me

kubijoe ,
@kubijoe@programming.dev avatar

I wonder if we will get the Internet Historian feature-length special about it or some dude will generate it with AI first.

666happyfuntime ,

It truly has been a wonderful ride, is amazing that Spez could pull away last second and destroy reddit right before musk pulls this shit. 8 do thing when is all said and done musk will have fucked himself the hardest … I think anything can happen

CurlyWurlies4All ,
@CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net avatar

That whole not paying rent thing becomes even murkier when you dive into one of his many other lawsuits.

  1. Elon doesn’t pay rent, one member of the transition team told Hawkins. Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.
  2. Both Killian and Hawkins were told that for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it when that amount came due that Musk operated on a zero cost basis"

And

  1. Between the demands that he effectively participate in theft and fraud and instructions to take actions inviolation of California law and that could put his colleagues lives at risk in the event of a fire a possibility only increased by the unlicensed use of space heaters Killian had no choice but to walk away from the job he had dedicated over a decade of his life to .
PoppinKREAM ,

Hey, thanks for the source! Oh my goodness, this is awful. I’ll have to go through this court filing.

shotgun_crab ,

TIL that Lemmy supports references. What a neat feature.

NotSpez ,

The gems are is the post. The gold is in the comments.

hatedbad ,

don’t forget that the new CEO, hired to bring advertisers back, has a non-compete clause preventing her from working with advertisers

lokoluis15 ,

You know we’re in the right place when these golden PoppinKREAM posts are here.

Platforms are nothing without these true internet content creators.

PillowTalk420 , in I want to believe
@PillowTalk420@lemmy.world avatar

Gold is a better conductor than copper and gold also does not corrode. So they actually are better cables, since the thing the cable does is made significantly easier and less prone to failure when the wires and connectors are gold and not copper or some other metal that doesn’t conduct electricity as well.

ic33 ,

Gold is a worse conductor than copper. The benefit is just protection from corrosion.

(Copper conductivity is 6 * 10^7 S/m, gold is 4*10^7 S/m. Silver is 6.3 * 10^7, but very prone to corrosion).

Raphael , in Refugee Redditors as they make the move.
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

Now we need lemmy.in

sombrero ,

I dream of a world with a nsfw community on lemm.ee/c/smash

Chthonic ,

Or maybe lemm.ee/c/datpeepee

TheGoldenGod , in [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!
@TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t be the only one who expected a shittymorph ending, with in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

Lexam , in I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans

Mmm yeah, look at those moist beans!

Gregu , in I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans
@Gregu@lemmy.ca avatar

As a white person I must upvote the beans.

SpaceToast ,

As a late night talk show host, I want these beans on me.

notsofunnycomment ,
@notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz avatar

You were the white person on the right time.

Fortychops , in in the end he paid $44B just for this pic as anything else is going to $0

What a fucking douche bag he is

TheRaven ,
@TheRaven@lemmy.ca avatar

A week later, he uprooted thousands of lives by laying them off, without even understanding how the product worked. His severance was well below what was initially promised, and he often mocked those who were laid off, or encouraged others in their mocking. Douche bag is a gentle way of putting it.

Cheez ,

His severance was well below what was initially promised

Except for that one guy who had a massive contractual severance package and they tried to renege on firing him.

TheRaven ,
@TheRaven@lemmy.ca avatar

You mean Iceland’s person of the year who made it his personal mission to make Reykjavík more accessible for people in wheelchairs? The guy who Elon used HR’s privately disclosed info to publicly mock for his disability which he also used as illegal justification for his firing?

missingno , in [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!
@missingno@kbin.social avatar

Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or never read this question again?

spaceribs , in [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!

feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!

Are you staring in the sequel to Rampart?

czarrie OP ,
@czarrie@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for your question about Rampart. Unfortunately we have no news to share about Rampart.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

I won’t stand for this! ^Fortunately^ ^I’m^ ^already^ ^seated.^

dx1 , in in the end he paid $44B just for this pic as anything else is going to $0

It’s not even funny.

Saltycreams , in in the end he paid $44B just for this pic as anything else is going to $0
@Saltycreams@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The joke was a long con. He came there to “sink” the company

Nomecks , in [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!

If you were in a room with Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, could you stop fellating yourself long enough to give disappointing blowjobs to all your heroes?

2ez , in in the end he paid $44B just for this pic as anything else is going to $0

It’s kind of sad how much Elon wants the internet to validate him.

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