I can confirm if Windows ever required a subscription I’d be swapping to Linux so fast. So Fast.

It’s why everyone stopped making agreements with Russia. They have no obligation to hold to the agreements, their word is worth nothing.

“If I keep repeating the lie, then eventually someone will believe me” - Putin

Deleted my X recently - not looking back.

About fucking time.

The intrusive thoughts are winning …

Right…stock as collateral in a loan.

It’s amazing what bullshit Billionaires can do.

Also those losses are per corporate entity so he gets to use those caps multiple times on each corporation and on himself.

“We had a 2% reduction in profits this year guys, 😭”

“The company lost money?”

“What? Oh no! But we made 3 bn in profits last year and we only made 2.8bn this year… So to make up for the shortfall, we’ll be reducing 401k contributions.”

“…didn’t the CEO get a 200million bonus-”

“WE ALL NEED TO MAKE SACRIFICES!”

Yep… And every time there’s an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip out the prisoners…

However to the prisoner’s credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they’re doing.

Why? What are they going to do… Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.

Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.

Buying Twitter and tanking it lets him write off a huge amount of money for 2023 and get his taxes back from the previous year.

Also he gets to leverage Tesla stock as the company is growing more fiscally viable… Why does that matter? Why sell before it takes off??

Elon bought Twitter with $12.5bn in loans… Secured with the same value of Tesla stock. He didn’t sell it…

So it’s almost free money. If the stock takes off he can make out like a bandit, pay the loan off with 1/2 the value of the real stock once it rises, but despite making money can still claim an overall loss on Twitter…

This is why he doesn’t give a fark if Twitter lives or dies. If Twitter dies it’s a write off, but because half the investment is literally a loan against Tesla stock he still treats it like free money…

Please remove Quora links…

Every time I click a Quora link it takes me to a completely unrelated question to the one I clicked on.

I swear that site is doing this deliberately to make it seem like it has more traffic than it does.

I’m convinced that Elon is intentionally killing the platform.

Nice

The nothing phone never got me really excited

The concept was neat but not great.

Framework laptop remains my new hope for the future of laptops tho.

Oh man…

Can’t wait till they see Nimona.

I have news for you…

Thank you! Glad to see it’s working, and yes it is.

Already seeing some stuff superior to reddit (post length, thumbnail attachment, etc)

They forget the users are their base, not their employees, or are bought by idiot billionaires who think they can turn the platform I to another money printer (or tax write-off)

Spez in particular saw Twitter and thought that would be a great idea.

I don’t think he understands he’s about to be CEO of Tumblr 2.0

Ah, that’s good to know!

I put my community to English/Espanol as my coauthor is fluent in Spanish - but I hope other than that it’s just a hold over.

We thank you for many things over here - and very few of us expect Lemmy to run smoothly with the reddit refugees coming over.

I, for one, am thankful for text limits not being a thing!

However having to select my language on every comment is a bit… meh? Hopefully that can be something delegated to a user setting drop down down the line… but this is still Beta, so I’m not busting anyone’s chops over it.