Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

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If only the banks could have known that Musk had no idea what he was doing and would only make things worse. Oh, wait, it was patently obvious.
Yes and no.

On paper, Musk has a reputation as a guy who really understands tech, plans to slash the workforce to ribbons - bearing in mind that's been short-term profit-making wet dream for decades, perhaps even more so nowadays with the private equity firm model - and had grand plans for further development of the platform into banking / sales.

They could be forgiven for thinking Musk was merely "larger than life" in some of his social media mis-steps, and his record at Tesla etc. meant he wasn't so erratic and cack-handed that he'd annihilate the company's ad revenue by a much greater margin than any savings he made cutting staff.

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As a side note, I was reading with some interest about the arrest of several people connected to the death of Matthew Perry, several of which were medical doctors, and had given him large quantities of ketamine. Ketamine is being used for depression, albeit is still in trials for effectiveness, and used in a specific way in conjunction with psychological therapy - patients aren't just given a load of ketamine and take it when they feel a bit down.

It's in this context I note Musk takes ketamine. Musk's explanation would fit with the conventional use being trialled. But I also wonder... is that "real doctor" he talks about equally like the real doctors who treated Perry (and Michael Jackson, and Heath Ledger): because some real doctors can be fucking shitty ones that hand over huge quantities of drugs they really shouldn't just so long as they get paid enough.
 

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Haa, no way this will end up abused at all
Didn't they remove this a year or two back? Or this a different form of dislike, or did am confusing FKA Twitter with YouTube or whatever else?
 

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Didn't they remove this a year or two back? Or this a different form of dislike, or did am confusing FKA Twitter with YouTube or whatever else?
It's Youtube that removed dislikes. Twitter afaik never had them, just likes. Tho your confusion can easily be forgiven, since Twitters workings are now pretty much whatever whim its ketamine-addled manchild owner conjured that particular day.
 

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It's Youtube that removed dislikes. Twitter afaik never had them, just likes. Tho your confusion can easily be forgiven, since Twitters workings are now pretty much whatever whim its ketamine-addled manchild owner conjured that particular day.
Gotcha, cheers - it's so hard to keep up with what's going on with systems I don't use and which their makers are constantly fiddling with.
 
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I'm against this tho. Because without Brazilian Twitter, how will I learn of the new and increasingly stupid ways Bolsonaro manages to get itself hospitalized?
 
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I'm against this tho. Because without Brazilian Twitter, how will I learn of the new and increasingly stupid ways Bolsonaro manages to get itself hospitalized?
It's a stupid decision. Not only did that stupid Supreme Court judge ban X. They also banned Starlink, and are now viciously attacking VPNs because of Brazilian protectionism. Even the best leftist elected leader, which I argue is Lula right now, has to have a shit economic policy. Of course, people here rightly hate Elon for his social views, but Starlink is a good idea and would have connected millions of rural Brazilians to the worldwide web in a world where billions have no access to the internet. Also, the fact you need to use a VPN to access a website is shit that only autocrats in dictatorships use. If you are in a country that needs to use a VPN for any website that isn't the silk road, or a deep dark web website you're in a bad country or state and I do count the various porn bans in the US as a part of that.
 

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Elon Musk decided to amplify a tweet saying that only "alpha males" can be trusted to make good decisions and therefore should be the only ones allowed to participate in democracy.


Does he think he's an alpha male? Does he even lift, bro?
 
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It's a stupid decision. Not only did that stupid Supreme Court judge ban X. They also banned Starlink, and are now viciously attacking VPNs because of Brazilian protectionism. Even the best leftist elected leader, which I argue is Lula right now, has to have a shit economic policy. Of course, people here rightly hate Elon for his social views, but Starlink is a good idea and would have connected millions of rural Brazilians to the worldwide web in a world where billions have no access to the internet. Also, the fact you need to use a VPN to access a website is shit that only autocrats in dictatorships use. If you are in a country that needs to use a VPN for any website that isn't the silk road, or a deep dark web website you're in a bad country or state and I do count the various porn bans in the US as a part of that.
Seems like the VPN ban is taken back.
Starlink also complied as all the other ISPs and won't get banned.

It is only X that is banned and, well, i am OK with that. Hope it gets banned in the EU too.
 

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I've yet to see evidence on anyone who believes in the Alpha male stuff who doesn't consider themselves one. Excepting the Sigma male types, but they are just saying they are even more Alpha.
And the hilarious thing is that so many of them aren't. Not even remotely. They'd barely be a speedbump to anyone who'd actually thrive in the "ideal world" they imagine.