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Just all feels like a waste of mental energy |
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your approach feels like a healthier one, to be sure. For me, it's not really the social media stuff itself that's annoying, but rather the way it's fed back into the entertainment that I've always been *hardcore* into. On the nerd side of things, I was never really into Star Wars or Superhero stuff (except Batman, I read a fuckton of that back in the day). For me it was Star Trek (all), Tolkien, The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Babylon 5... I LIVED for this kind of stuff. I never outgrew it. I was so fucking into LOST while it was airing, would bring my notes to work and we'd go over theories and shit every week. Every single one of those (well except LOST, but that didnt end so well) has had or will soon have its corpse dreged up and assfucked by gender studies majors diversity hired into the writers room. "Sensitivity readers" are utilized in every studio. I don't care how alt right this sounds, it's the truth. Wokeism manifest is some perfect melding of bullshit corporate culture and sanctimonious leftism. This blend creates just the worst kind of generic, smug, predictable writing. And they never apply it to an original peice of art... no-- it's always digging up someone elses work (someone who had talent), and "re-envisioning it for the modern audience." I'm annoyed at it and I don't know how to stop being annoyed at it. I don't give a shit about Musk himself, but from my point of view it's a step in the right direction. I truly don't care how I look voicing that opinion in the current climate. I've been watching more anime with my wife these days and it's helping to fill the void. |
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gosh has it gone, like... sort of like how orthogonal is like perpendicular, but in more dimensions at once? that's how this has gone sideways say, generously, that each employee costs $200k. that, when a company hires you, you gotta realize, way more than your salary goes out the door. so we're saying average $125-150k salary [for fucking california... shit i'd hope so] and be kind with the benefits, then overhead... so, yes, $200k per person, fired 3,700 people... yes, okay, now we're only losing $2mil per day instead of $4mil. then, blue checks, right -- i'm just fucking with the calculator here and i might be pulling a linda [top ten dumb secretary name] but you need like 7.6 million reliable monthly paid followers. then, also, when twitter says "238 monetizable users" they mean their ad spam coverage; i'm curious about how far the gap will be. how many will actually. pay. this. horseshit that what makes me giggle is that if everyone rejects it, and then no one has blue check, like, screw that shit -- the the algorithm to prioritize them does nothing, and he's essentially just sunk the asset for almost no gain. what makes me fall on the floor laughing is him not even taking a week to have a prima donna fit and streisand effect the fallout; my name is elon musk and i am the chief twit complaint |
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that i think this is also, really... he did start with town square, humanity, but he's fucking pissed the courts forced him to buy this shit and so let's fire all those assholes that pushed the deal through and then shit this thing the fuck up but then that's repressed and he's just sabotaging himself subconsciously |
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if you think about it: what if musk had actually, really, had a genuine belly laugh at everyone changing their verified accounts to "Elon Musk, Chief Complaint"? done something like change his official profile to "Elon Musk Parody Account" and... for real, the man used to have that sense of humor about himself, but i think trump must have raped him in a department store or something, because it does seem thoroughly gone. |
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Epics, shut up, too longwinded, can you please just get over yourself and summarize it with a succinct macro meme image like a decent human? |
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that i've not bothered with twitter in... almost a year, perhaps. that i am just offering this idea if anyone is bored i foresee a crappy future in which noone but pepsi and coca-cola pay the $8, so the corporate spam accounts dominate the feed, which, last i saw, is pretty much how it is already. but -- and here is the idea -- a campaign to "block anyone who has a blue check," that someone seriously bored -- like, deathly, seriously bored, fucking dedicated -- if someone that bored, could whip up some momentum and make it an actual movement, it could take down twitter. calling mermaidman. this is your chance to be a hero |
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i made this thread about musk deleting a tweet, and now i realize "musk deletes twitter" oh hell we just weren't quite there yet guy can't handle it |
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so it's like, now there's a stupid blue verified check for all the plebs and a silver one for all the corporations, so -- i'll remind everyone of it again -- i was suspended from twitter for tweeting something like, "i hope whoever made this decision dies in a fire" about a shit windows force crap widget push, and yeah, i'm being "threatening" so this seems exactly, complete poop; bait-and-switch: oh, actually, we're making a new blue check that's like the old one, pay $8 to be like all your favorite corporations and celebrities. that the silver checks will still be able to abuse the complaint system to stifle legitimate commentary about legitimately crap software. |
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new definition of blue check: $8 per shot at trolling elon musk cite: |
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