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• On the post: Elon, After Personally Driving Away Advertisers, Tells Them To Go Fuck Themselves (Repeatedly), And Says ‘Earth’ Will ‘Judge’ Them For Killing ExTwitter

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 12:33pm

  Yeah, he's almost certainly is seriously unwell due to undergoing and that can lead to suicide, so I don't want to joke about it. But at the same time I have no sympathy for him whatsoever. He's a truly awful person who karma has finally decided to kick in on. He's quite literally the sole person responsible for everything bad that's happened to Twitter and himself since he bought it.

• On the post: Elon, After Personally Driving Away Advertisers, Tells Them To Go Fuck Themselves (Repeatedly), And Says ‘Earth’ Will ‘Judge’ Them For Killing ExTwitter

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 12:23pm

  So Musk will be Tweeting the same shit out any second now...

• On the post: Elon, After Personally Driving Away Advertisers, Tells Them To Go Fuck Themselves (Repeatedly), And Says ‘Earth’ Will ‘Judge’ Them For Killing ExTwitter

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 12:05pm

  No, it's most likely narcissistic collapse with part of it happening live on TV:

  Narcissistic collapse happens when a person with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) becomes unable to uphold their grandiose, confident image due to a perceived fatal blow to their reputation. This leads to a breakdown which manifests as angry outbursts, irritable or defensive behavior, and verbal or physical aggression. Internally the person with NPD feels a loss of sense of self along with perceived rejection and abandonment. It can result in harm to the person with NPD and those around them.

  That explains everything about the video. This suggests things at Twitter are far worse than we think they are and that the end is nigh. Things had to have gotten so bad that they've forced Musk to admit to himself that he has failed, although he'll never admit it to others. He's only going to get worse from here and suicide is a real possibility.

• On the post: ‘AI’ Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System’s Worst Tendencies

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2023 @ 01:01pm

  I had to wait six months to see a cardiologist this year, even though I was having symptoms that could have possibly been a clogged artery. (Turned out to be my blood pressure meds causing side effects, despite my taking them for many years.) The cardiologist simply had no earlier slots available for a new patient. People dragging up the waits bullshit clearly don't use medical care much. Or they're lying. Can't rule that one out.

• On the post: As Elon Musk Endorses Bigoted Nonsense, Advertisers Find Their Ads On Nazi Content

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2023 @ 07:41pm

  My guess is she negotiated a hefty golden parachute and is going to stay around until Twitter's burnt to the ground to get it. Jokes on her, though. By that point Twitter won't have any money to pay it out.

• On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 04:40pm

  I'm pretty sure they're incapable of felling good about themselves.

• On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 04:37pm

  I think that's unlikely because of the rebranding. People who haven't been following the Musk follies won't know that X is Twitter and will think it's a porn site instead. Who the hell wants to bank with a porn site?

• On the post: The Great Paywall Of Musk Will Consist Of $1/Year To Tweet

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 10:36am

  I used the second one and the third failed when I tried it, so it's been used already as well. Thanks!

• On the post: The Great Paywall Of Musk Will Consist Of $1/Year To Tweet

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 10:31am

  Ignores Hacked Accounts & Stolen Credit Cards

  This totally ignores that a lot of spam comes from hacked accounts. Usually ones that have been dormant for a long time, but the user had reused a password from some site that got hacked. Those accounts will still be able to spam away without a fee. In fact this would make them more valuable to spammers and would likely increase hacked accounts being used for spam. This will also do nothing to prevent spammers from using stolen credit cards to pay the fee. They don't care, it's not their money. And when the real owner of the card notices the fraud Twitter will get hit with a chargeback. That'll cause them to lose money. Not to mention if there's a ton of chargebacks their payment provider may drop them. Then they wouldn't be able to accept any payments from users until they find a new one. But of course Musk doesn't realize any of that happens, so he didn't consider it. The only thing he's "genius" at is being stupid.

• On the post: Math Problem For Linda Yaccarino: If 90% Of The Top Advertisers Have Come Back, But Are Only Spending 10% Of What They Used To, How Screwed Are You?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 10:23am

  My bet is Twitter offered them a ton of free impressions with any ad buy, so Visa said "Okay, here's $10 for a few impressions." and got a bunch of free ad impressions for basically nothing.

• On the post: Elon Musk Seems Really, Deeply Committed To Making Sure The FTC Has More To Investigate

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 03:39pm

  That's an uncanny resemblance to a real Muskbro comment. Did you have to remove your brain temporarily to achieve such accuracy, or were drugs involved? ( ¬‿¬)

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2023 @ 12:32pm

  It's not a problem from a technical standpoint. Just a bit of server-side code to check the request for the image is from a Twitter/X server, then use ImageMagick to embed the article headline in the image. Then no matter who links to it the image will contain the headline. But that doesn't solve the issue with vision-impaired people using screen readers. And it's also dancing to Musk's tune, so why bother? There's a good chance he'll quietly change this back before long anyway. He's as mercurial as a toddler hopped up on sugar and meth.

• On the post: The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2023 @ 05:31pm

  Also, even if all four wheels are touching, if they're on a single tile that tile is experiencing the full 2000lbs of weight. So wheels or not, it can still damage the floor. Musk, of course, was too stupid to understand this and demonstrated his stupidity openly. I'll bet he did damage tiles and NTT's still trying to get him to pay for the damage.

• On the post: The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2023 @ 05:25pm

  If you use a lot of regulation to stop capitalist abuses and provide a strong welfare state you can get benefits for everyone in society. You also need to tax the top earners at a very high tax rate, to prevent things like billionaires sucking up all the money and hoarding it. What we have now is not that. Republicans have spent decades dismantling regulations, allowing companies and people to abuse the system, often with impunity. (cough Elon Musk cough) (See also: Polluting the environment and ignoring climate change.) They also kept cutting taxes on the top tax bracket. During the entire post-WWII boom period (1950 - 1973), the top rate was 70% - 91%. Then Reagan came along and cut the rate first to 50%, then later even lower in the upper 30s. Loopholes inserted into the tax laws by lobbyists for the rich insure they don't pay anywhere near that either. At the same time they were also cutting welfare programs. All this combined stagnated incomes for almost everyone but the top earners, made it damn near impossible to get out of poverty and become a productive financial contributor to society and wiped out a large portion of the middle class. And I didn't even mention our fucked-up medical system that puts most Americans one medical crisis away from bankruptcy. What you're defending isn't the system we have now, while the people responding to you are criticizing the current system. This makes you look out of touch at best, carrying water for billionaires at worst.

• On the post: The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2023 @ 05:10pm

  And no country that called its system communism was actually communism. Instead they were Marxism, highly modified communism that led to the problems the Soviet Union so aptly displayed. That's not to say I think communism would work, just that there's not been any large scale experiment with it yet.

• On the post: Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2023 @ 03:21pm

  He's going to really lose it once he rolls them out and they tank. He'll blame everyone but himself, of course.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:42pm

  He's also forgetting that news media did that with Facebook, then Facebook fucked them over. They aren't going to make the same mistake again, especially not for a Nazi bar website.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:40pm

  Even as stupid as Musk is, I'm shocked he thought it was a good idea to announce to the world he's 300lbs+. The only way that'd be anything close to a weight to be proud of was if he was 7'8" tall, and even then it'd just barely squeaking into the normal weight BMI category.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:34pm

  Well, except most people are used to the old system and won't know that the image is a link to click on. Hard to phish someone if they don't click on the link, and even harder when they don't notice the link in the first place.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:33pm

  Succinct headlines should be the goal for news media and used to be, they've gotten lazy in the Internet era. So that's one teeny-tiny good thing this change might cause: forcing publishers to start having actually succinct headlines again, instead of long click-baity ones. (Do note: this is not an endorsement of the change. It's still dumb as hell and shouldn't be done. And it probably won't actually get them to change anyway.)

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