I’m sure they made $600 million through this breech somehow?

🎶 “I’m a connnnnn mann, or maybe I’m a god? Zoomin‘ round the planet, in my hyper loopin‘ pod…” 🎶

Oh cool, so just a pain in the ass then.

And they all interrupt the “in flight entertainment” to read a VERY long and slowly delivered advertisement for their proprietary credit card (and in flight entertainment that you have to supply device for, so you end up with smaller screen, unstable connection, battery drain and watched at a painful viewing angle typically)

Willy Wonka, I invoke thee… please come express my feelings on this for me.

Except AI doesn’t say “Is this it?”

It says, “This is it.”

Without hesitation and while showing you a picture of a dog labeled cat.

“Who on earth” doesn’t only speak of quantity, it also speaks of quality.

The amount of decent, quality people with something to say and contribute to the Twitter is down to almost nothing, relative to what it was prior to elon.

You can lose “just” 20% of the cereal in your bowl of lucky charms… Yes, most of the mass is still technically in the bowl, but you can lose all the marshmallows in that equation, meaning you’ve lost all the color, texture and flavor that made the whole thing interesting in the first place - you’re then only left with the mostly flavorless, empty, gray, soggy kibble pieces. You’re mistaking a pulse, for a meaningful quality of life.

So, that’s modern Twitter, it’s the plain gray kibble* disintegrating in warming milk. And for “fun” they’ve actually added dog shit, rat poison and rusted razor blades to the kibble.

They increasingly can’t view those posts though.

And I’d argue that the general public actually does care, you can see this reflected in places like all EV sales rising EXCEPT for tesla, Twitter losing half of its advertising revenue (a reflection of elon/Twitter being toxic to their sales goals and the platform rapidly losing eyeballs) and of course basic meme culture. The public care enough to laugh at and reject him.

So actually a lot of reality in clear opposition of your unsupported opinion there…

Reality is much less people than previous. Careful of the metrics you’re looking at when they originate with elon - he’s notorious for creative accounting with the equivalent of counting a Twitter “impression” as anyone who typed a “t” into their search bar.

I understand your apprehension, sometimes the stubborn folks need to actually feel the pain before they realize they actually will give a little… Hopefully your community can move the person to shift

They use it because you visit

Who the fuck still uses Twitter?

This is like a press release about a random gopher farting in the woods in Prague - this “news” is mildly relevant to a total of 7 people in the entire universe.

Brave sucks and the people behind brave suck.

Stop expecting anything valuable from the “crypto” browser

Do you see a toilet or a diaper when you look at that “U”?

You’re not, OP…

also, feels pretty obvious you haven’t been involved in bidding jobs before - these initial numbers set expectations. If “dad” valued the kid’s talent and time, he would have said, “they’ll give you a number” and/or the message to kid would not have been closed, it would have been open. So instead of, “you’ll do this, thanks bye” it would be a question to kid prior saying, “I know a lot goes into your work, is $500 a good ballpark to give my friend for something like this?”

It’s about expectations and entitlement - you’re essentially my property, so I decided it would be this is indicative of a problem with “dad’s” approach.

If he was serious, your dad seems like a prick that sees you as an appendage that he owns…

This seems as good an opportunity as any to tell him to go fuck himself and learn some boundaries - not sure if you need to hear this, but blood doesn’t get a pass just for being blood. Make ALL the people in your life earn their place there by treating you decently.

The files are IN the computer.

“Just business”

Are you seriously trying to make the argument that elon “if you advertisers don’t like my performative bootlicking bullshit then go fuck yourself” musk is doing something for the good of a business and NOT because of his vindictive, forever 13 year-old, ultra-divorced, fermented hair plug influenced personal political positions?

You’re 1000% confusing this coincidentally being a move that might not get him banned in Russia, with that being the core motivation. There’s a disconnect in your comment, last two statements are valid, first is cookoo bananas.

Amazon has to do something to turn Alexa into a viable revenue source

All of this type of language is so misleading, it absolutely does NOT have to turn into a revenue source - at a restaurant you might lose money on the steak plate, but you make 20x your cost of the salad plate AND THE RESTAURANT’S REVENUE ACCOUNTS FOR THE ENTIRE FUCKING MENU COLLECTIVELY.

Yes, worse, but also more money on something you don’t own - you just don’t get it, bro… It’s progress sorry I always confuse those words, profits.