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Yeah, Twitter's business model was not working before, but I think it had a chance. However, now it has an extra hole of 44 billion plus the interest that Elon has paid for it with loans. It is also struggling with advertisers at the moment, lost millions desperately needed in weeks. But we'll see, it's still a huge platform and that's power. SpaceX's business model is, my private company does the work the government used to do with NASA before, but now to projects' expenses I have to charge the money I add to my own pocket and my shareholder's pockets. It's a good model for private big pockets, not for taxpayers' where the money came from before and still comes from now. Tesla was a good business model as well. Electric cars are a good thing, but now he got in the shoes of Twitter. Does it change anything? Well, it could be, because Tesla buyers were people with money, but with some concern about the environment, so in general leaning to the left. Elon has placed himself unequivocally in the right, so it could repeal his potential clients of Tesla. Also, one of the marks of Tesla was not to advertise because the product was so good that didn't need it. But the man is begging companies to advertise on his platform and give him money now. If I was a big company owner, and I'm sure they know who they are in their rich people circles, I'd tell Elon I wouldn't advertise in his company now and do it somewhere else instead. In fact, without having to tell him anything. Mike Lindell can advertise his pillows though. Tesla is also a great business model as it has a little big help from daddy state in the form of subsidies. Yeah, everyone is paying for those cars, whether you drive them or not. Oh, for the cars and for the dividends for the Tesla owner and shareholders. I almost forgot to mention that.

No, I'm not sure at all, who knows... But Twitter ironically got quite interesting with all this drama, so it could be. I did leave it though, but I'm one person. It's really a personal gain to leave those kind of social media for most people, certainly for me. The value they provide doesn't make up for the time they take from you. Twitter was successfully designed to be addictive. Not by Elon Musk, has to be said.

Kanye literally saying he likes Nazis and a lot of things he loveeeeees about Hitler. A lot of things.

Elon is at war with Apple. Is it a genius move or a childish tantrum? Twitter is growing, more people are signing than left, apparently. I believe it, people love drama and Elon is bringing much of that. But will they stay there for long once the drama gets old? Not so sure about that. He still will need to make a profit though.

Is Elon Musk out of his mind or what? Freedom of speech includes advertising wherever you want to. If Apple doesn't want to advertise on Twitter, what is his problem with that? Crazy. Twitter is not just Twitter now, is Twitter-Elon Musk, whether he likes it or not. He is also endorsing one political party over the other, which may be understandably a concern for some companies that want to appeal to everyone, not just conservatives. Twitter is still working thanks to inertia, even with the previous and actual economical losses, but so many voices and ears were and are still there.

According to Ben Shapiro, Kanye has assembled the Antisemite Avengers team. lol Kanye West, Catholic ex-gay Milo Yiannopoulos, and the neo-nazi Nick Fuentes, all of them with Tim Pool. Also, Sneako somewhere there. Ye brought at least Nick Fuentes to Trump. I'm sure that Trump personally doesn't have a problem with that, but this Fuentes is too nazi for average or moderate Republicans, so that was a bad move for him to make.

It was predicted and expected by some that a Red Wave would turn the Senate and the House to the Republican side. Well, that has not happened, seems Democrats and young people particularly have moved their asses to cast their votes. I Just wanted to share these two maps, as it can be a bit misleading to see the two colors divided by the land, because when you do it by counting the actual number of votes, it is not as red.

Herschel Walker is asked what message he has for the new generation of voters that don't know how it was to grow up without the Internet. His message is that if they don't like America they can leave and go somewhere else. Lovely man. He does prefer werewolves to vampires though. That's important.

Yeah, nice try twisting this into the exact opposite. Rightists are much more sexually repressed than leftists overall. As I said, most people on the left are cool with Hunter Biden doing drugs and having sex, that doesn't bother us at all. Well, crack is not the best choice, and there is certainly some danger about its usage, but we are much more tolerant about drugs in general and less repressing. The same about sexual experimentation. The ones trying to make a scandal story about it, those are the ones you are referring to. I also want to add that I don't consider it fine to reveal intimate images of other people, I don't care what political views they have. I do respect privacy and I would say the same if it was one of Trump's sons in a similar situation.

Yeah, man. Guess what, not everything is about you. We all have our own sack of problems. Welcome to the world!

To feed right-wing conspiranoics for longer? Not that they need much either, they kind of produce their own garbage from nothing anyway.

What's big? Hunter Biden doing drugs and having sex? We kind of like that on the left, good for him. We are not grannies like you. Was he using his last name for his own benefit and business? So what. I'm not against that either.

Not all misinformation is equally relevant. If I lie online with a fake story of two birds on my roof, who cares, that doesn't have any repercussions. If someone spreads misinformation about a disease or an election result, real cases, you know what I'm talking about, that's different, Flat-Earthers are loonies, but I don't think their ideas have many significant negative repercussions overall, so that's why they may not be de-platformed like others. That's the job of moderators to value, a machine or an algorithm cannot do it, and there are no clear lines.

I don't mean to convince you about the value of anything, you seem to have your mind made up. But I'll share some thoughts anyway. We human beings not only live through our lifespans but have also developed a natural curiosity about different fields such as science, natural history, human history, astronomy, etc... We want to know, we value knowledge for itself, and it drives us. When we find a fossil of a giant or tiny animal that lived millions of years ago, we observe the type of stones of a mountain or the mountain itself, they give us real pieces of evidence of a bigger picture of time. We make the puzzle as accurately as we can with many blank spaces, we probably make wrong assumptions along the way, but yet we do pretty well overall with the resources we count. About human history, we have the biological pieces of evidence of evolution found in excavations, like human skeletons mostly. Things we know now about these matters people wouldn't be able to understand 2000 ago. So with this understanding of ourselves as living beings that evolved from the animal kingdom, what has made us different from other animals? The use of complex languages and the capability to significantly transform objects and our surroundings, civilization. It is not static, we are using it right now because we inherited it from the ones that were before us. Yeah, I'm typing letters on a laptop in my bedroom and that can be viewed on any other device in any part of the world. That's cool. I'm rambling. The further to the past we go, the more difficult is to find evidence of civilization, so the more ancient, the more valuable in these two senses. Because it was difficult to find and because they tell us a real story of something that was done or happened at the hands of our ancestors so long ago. I don't fucking care if these shreds of evidence are Mesopotamian, European, Asian, African, or American, and I don't think you should either.

Elon Musk has discovered that managing Twitter was more complicated than sprouting easy slogans like 'I'm a freedom of speech absolutist', something he has proved not to abide by once in charge. He has confronted many public figures that brought a lot of users to the platform like Stephen King, while he was on good terms with weirdo anonym users like one called Catturd. Sorry, but this is not a genius move, it's the opposite. Most of the advertisers left by their own decision, no activist group did that, he lied, and he is a coward for blaming imaginary scapegoats. The paid blue verification situation was a fiasco. A wise manager comes to a company, first observes, then fires, then hires. He got rid of half his staff in the first week. and he sent an ultimatum email to the rest asking for 80-100 work weeks. I'm not even sure if this last is true, because it sounds absurd. His employees are leaving and he had to bring engineers from Tesla and money from SpaceX. SpaceX is private, okay, but all their contracts are bought exclusively by the government, so in the end, it's taxpayer money. The government and NASA sent men to the moon in the 60s with no help from private companies getting their pockets and money sacks bigger. Shareholders want profits first. Twitter was so big that it was difficult to destroy, but he is getting closer and closer to it. If he seals the deal, I don't think he'll recover the image of the visionary he had in the eyes of the world before. He fucked up a lot. Let's see what else he does.

Fair. Going vegan happens mostly on stage green, which makes sense, although I've seen some stage orange self-proclaimed libertarians on a few occasions being vegan. Stage yellow people can continue being vegan too, I don't see why not. Vegans don't cause more animal death than non vegans, that statement is incorrect, is actually the contrary. Be or not be vegan, but don't fool yourself with some misleading comments you may read. You can make money in stage yellow, you have integrated some of the good things of orange and green, and combined them. Then you cannot use any means to get there. You gotta be conscious of where your money comes from, and perhaps say no in the instances that it comes from the suffering of other people or maybe the environment. That's why stage orange make more money, because they don't give a fuck. Is that good? Not caring if your business is polluting a river where people used to drink or people die because of lack of proper medical attention or because they make money from selling land mines that end up blowing up children's limbs or lives? You tell me.

My advice is that you revisit the discipline from stage blue to learn how to use capital letters and also the value of separated paragraphs in your writing. That way your ideas will be easier to read and understand by others. I'm not an orthography nazi, but these kinds of comments are a pain. Sorry.

Low energy Trump, his announcement speech was boring, and people were prevented to leave the event in Mar-a-Lago by security.

The house definitely goes red, 218 seats were required and Republicans already have 219. This means they can pursue investigations on the Biden crime family, as they call it, and who knows what other stuff. Look, I'd like to say it's good Democrats are held accountable somehow, but at this point, I don't expect any good-faith attempts from Republicans, it's not their thing. I've read they would need cooperation from the Senate to enact their lunatic agendas, and that they don't have, so let them bark.

Okay, challenge accepted!

This can't spark WW3 because it was Ukraine who fired, not Russia. Assuming it was an accident, which I do, Ukraine is at fault for this, one has to own his own mistakes. But of course, there is a case for blaming Russia in a bigger context as the initial war perpetrators.

Beware, Herschel Walker is on campaign. lol Let's be clear, I'm not saying he can't win. Voters too often are like: 'You don't think we will elect this dumb fuck for governor? Hold my beer.'

One more seat for the Democrats, Arizona goes blue, therefore, so does the Senate. Katie Hobbs has defeated Kari Lake, another pro-Trump MAGA loonie. It's an important victory in a swing state, even more considering Kari Lake is a 2020 election result-denier. So the Senate right now is 50 - 49, and the last seat will be decided in Georgia between Warnock and Walker. Come on, Walker is just not suited for the job, he has a hard time being coherent, don't Republicans have some standards? Not to mention his and their hypocrisy in the abortion matter. It's crazy! If Democrats get 51 seats, Republicans won't be able to block legislation so easily and the Trojan horse Joe Manchin alone won't be enough either. They still have Kirsten Sinema though and there may be more ready to be activated when needed. But that's yet to be seen, there's a positive trend for progressive legislation right now.

Coronavirus, the war in Ukraine, and corporate power and greed. Governments, in wealthy countries at least, don't need to get in debt, there is money, they just need to tax the rich corporations that are making more and more money, and inequality is increasing and increasing, This has to be addressed as the main problem. Governments spending is not the problem, corruption aside which is mostly induced by corporations as well, the spending on necessary infrastructures and other kinds of services bring a better life for the people and even jobs, which also make the grounded economy work better. The problem is the funding, and the solution is taxing wealthy corporations.

Yeah, having read more about Bluesky, it seems to be more like a protocol or system to avoid centralization. They are going to launch Bluesky Social as a trial, that part is true. However, if they think that an engineering and algorithm protocol is going to make their way out into lack of moderation by real people making decisions, I think they are going to fail the same way Elon has. There are sociological matters happening in these kinds of platforms that mathematics can't solve, as Leo has pointed out. Maybe an alternative won't prevail but Elon will have to learn many lessons the hard way, as he is right doing right now. He has also a financial problem. Who is gonna pay for it? Who is gonna pay 44 billion dollars plus interests? People are not willing to pay for subscriptions for what they had free before. Is he going to cry to daddy state like companies more than often do when things get difficult? YouTube has proved to be a very solid platform over time and I don't think Twitter has a chance of replacing it. Discord has its niche too. Twitter had its own big niche functioning, but it has to know what it is, if Elon wants to change it into something else, I think it will fail.