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I don't think he can make this everything app work. He wants the financial banking part because it's a very lucrative business, with millions of people paying small fees for millions of transactions. There are already others working on it. One is still PayPal, I still use it, but there are others. There's no way I would trust my savings or earnings to X, Elon Musk, or any other everything app either. For financial matters, it feels more secure an app that does this one thing right, and that's okay. The thing is, he is also killing Twitter in the attempt. Twitter was huge, only a fool would underestimate what it already was. It could have worked financially too, with some time and good management.

His base is with him because...

Joe Biden is using her words in his official campaign.

They escaped the Matrix, now they have to escape the prison.

He is the superior Illuminati, and we can not comprehend his mind. That or he is stupid as fuck. He is so deep in his debt hole of bad decision-making since he purchased Twitter that he can't think straight. Brand names have value, Twitter's name was still quite valuable because it's known and used all over the world. X is not a good name, he tried that in PayPal too, and his business partners kicked him out for almost destroying the company's chances with his awful instincts. He got a good out deal, as PayPal succeeded so much and was sold to eBay for millions. Also, he says he wants to control with X, let's say a number, half of the world's online banking. He is humble, just half. Let's all invest in the visionary again. That's how he has operated for the last 20 years. I think he is closer to a con man than to a businessman. So he wants to eat all the currently working online banking competitors without a huge debt like him how? For example, by giving money to his selected blue-checked dickrider rightwing goons on Twitter. Sorry, X. Okay, Elon. This is fun as fuck. Continue, please.

Really? That's crazy. If it wasn't uncomfortable enough to watch a movie about this theme, they want to emphasize it that way. I usually watch what are considered controversial movies, apart from the cool blockbusters that I like, but I was going to skip this one. It's not the first one to cover this anyway. But since we are talking about this, US right-wingers have been going quite bonkers about these things with stuff like Qanon and Pizzagate. Do they want to fight the sexual exploitation of children and pedophiles? Fine, left-wingers too, but be serious about it.

So what would be the message of the movie? Let's find the criminals and incarcerate them? No objection, fine by me.

Oh man, did he do all that? She totally increased my support for the old man!

Putin probably wanted to break the grain deal before, but now he got the excuse. The counteroffensive is going bad as fuck for Ukraine, they are not regaining any territory at all. I think what Russians are doing is letting Ukrainians erode themselves because they are seeing their losses are being big, and then they may force a treaty or go with a new offensive. I hope it's the first one.

It's not silly, it's business. Mastodon sucks, it has not a good system to interact in, and an awful uncatchy name. Bluesky is kind of okay, but it's hardly taking off, with still invite-only policy, very slow growth, and the train is not waiting. Threads has had a good launch, even if it may be a bit inflated, but it's the most likely to attract influencers, celebrities and companies as followers are automatically imported when they join from Instagram. That's a huge advantage for them, and for the platform, because they will bring users. I'm from Europe, so I can't really investigate much, but I've read of celebrities already having big numbers in Threads for this reason.

But that's what it's supposed to be, like a place to follow what and who is interesting for you, and read, write, and interact with short messages, replies, and reposts. It's not trying to be something new, it's competing with Twitter for the same slot, no secret.

So you haven't been forced. Well, that's a relief.

Maybe he is, is that not fair game? Okay, maybe not. Zuckerberg owns Facebook and Instagram, they are his assets in social media precisely, so it's understandable he uses them to a degree to promote Threads. Elon did ban links to competitors at some point, which I would also understand, the problem is he announced himself as a freedom of speech absolutist, which doesn't fit with that discourse. The question is if enough users stay and engage in Threads in the future. My instinct tells me they will, but, as said, time will tell.

Well, I can't say for sure, but where I read the news it says this number is in fact organic demand, here the link. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/10/twitter-traffic-is-nosediving-as-metas-threads-hits-100-million-users.html Time will tell if it success or not, there may be some time when both sites compete. But one has a huge debt and the other hasn't.

Threads is getting quite an attention, it seems. So many people and companies were disgusted with Elon Musk's Twitter, but with a lack of alternatives, they had to stay. For so many was a matter of promotion and business, and hard to let go. The sentiment that I'm hearing is that Zuckerberg is not great, but preferable to Musk, who has been so abhorrent in running the popular social media platform. It can crush Musk, in fact it should, according to capitalism rules, investors take risks and can win or lose. So now what? Twitter was not financially well before him, and he added 44 billion to the hole. Someone explain to me why Musk should not be bankrupted after this huge failure. It's also funny how he complains about ex-employees of Twitter he fired getting into Zuckerberg's bus, if they really did. What are they supposed to do according to him? Stay unemployed and die of hunger? Are they not allowed to get new jobs? What is wrong with him? They totally should find another job and offer their knowledge and skills for a wage, not to screw him, but because they need to eat and I don't think food is given for free in the supermarkets in this economy. Is it wrong to find a new job now? Threads has already hit 100 million users, and is not available in the EU yet for legal reasons.

What Zuckerberg has in his favor is that influencers, companies, and people in general will be able to import followers from Instagram, so won't be like starting from zero like in other newborn platforms. There's a fight, metaphorically speaking, and I'm not sure if a real one too...

Does one person thinking that not voting doesn't change anything and not doing it matter? Okay, no. Does thousands of people going through the same process matter? Yessss, absolutely!!!! There are two traps. One is to think that you only matter as a part of a group. The other is to think that you only matter as an individual. Both are important, is it that difficult to understand?

I'm not sure. More weapons or more kisses.

I'm rescuing this thread, there are relevant news. Humanity's greatest mind, genius Elon Musk, has had another brilliant idea to promote his social media platform, which he bought for 44 billion dollars. The great idea is to limit everyone the number of Tweets they can read per day, wow! It seems that the huge Google Cloud bill that he doesn't want to pay is behind this decision. He has been making so many awful decisions, the inertia of an already popular platform has been keeping it alive. But he could lose it, alternatives are getting better, Zuckerberg is launching Threads, Dorsey's Bluesky is taking off. Mastodon, Tribel and Post Social suck, they don't have a chance. MAGA people have Truth Social, Elon couldn't even get Trump back, and he tried.

Antivaxers are wrong, vaccines have saved millions of lives. There is a very interesting history of the smallpox vaccine which was discovered in the late XVIII century by the English physician Edward Jenner. The disease had a huge mortality rate and it was killing millions of people all over the world. The Spanish crown, who had also suffered death from the disease firsthand, agreed on spreading the vaccine through the kingdom, with great success. But there was a problem with getting it to the colonies in America. Without any modern technology, it couldn't survive such a long journey. The Balmis Expedition found a solution for that, which would be considered quite unethical by today's standards. They used 22 healthy orphan kids as carriers of a lighter variant called cowpox, infecting all of them one by one during the long trip, so it would survive until the destination. The system worked, the vaccine reached its destiny, and millions of lives were saved overseas, getting immunity for both cowpox and deadly smallpox. I think the kids survived too. It's considered a feat in the history of medicine. People forget.

Of course it's good for the economy. These young guys will be spending their money in the real economy, real businesses instead of paying a debt. These are the people that put the money they earn back into the circuit, not the most rich ones. Biden was reluctant at first, I remember what he used to say about it. He will make some valuable points with potential voters, that's true, but I think he is being genuine now. His first attempt failed, but if he makes it happen in another way, he'll be dribbling selfish conservatives and proving himself. We'll see.

Cocaine? My level of surprise is... not big.

I don't think he has any chance of succeeding with those conspiratorial ideas, which is for the better. But it's a pity he hasn't developed a more on-Earth and also progressist mindset, because with that, and his surname, he could have rocked it and pushed things for the better.

Light drinks and people drinking them were already gay before this advertising campaign with a trans person. Real men don't drink light. When did that change?

No, he is not. But his son is.