RIP Twitter

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KB5252 said:
I'm convinced at this point our entire society is group A individuals whining about being offended by group B and vice versa. Bunch of whiney little schmucks. "They won't let me post about _______", "words are violence" etc.

Everybody needs to listen to how their great grandparents lived, unplug for a few hours a day and experience something real.
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We need to send the average complainer (and I mean on both damn sides of the aisle) to any country that isn't the US or western Europe and let them see what it really feels like to get ragged.
 
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McDad said:
The stark difference between my real life daily experience and the constant refrains on the socials is like there is an alternate dimension or something.
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It will suck you in sometimes. I was thinking the other day that we are probably at the event horizon for societal collapse and if we were pets we'd have already been collectively "humanely euthanized".



Then I remembered it was just the Internet and unplugged.
 
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KB5252 said:
I'm convinced at this point our entire society is group A individuals whining about being offended by group B and vice versa. Bunch of whiney little schmucks. "They won't let me post about _______", "words are violence" etc.

Everybody needs to listen to how their great grandparents lived, unplug for a few hours a day and experience something real.
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My superpower in life is I can’t be offended. I used to not even understand the meaning of the word.
 
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VolTull said:
How would we do that? They're dead.
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You could volunteer at the senior center or just go eat breakfast where the local old people go. We have a local restaurant where all the older folks eat breakfast every day and they are amazingly welcoming.
 
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Need an answer to this question if I'm going to run ads on Twitter. Submitted it wondering how long it's going to take, given the narrative of an under-staffed team. Didn't even get that far.

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Grand Vol said:
He may not get it right the first time, but you cannot deny the tenacity and his ability to do things others say are "impossible."

He's not a person to bet against by any means.
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The idea that somebody would say never bet against him when we're in a thread that's all about a gigantic failure of his is just kinda funny. Should've bet against the hyperloop.

What has he done that was "impossible"? He's done great work, but I don't think making electric cars, launching satellites/rockets, and devaluing a social media company are impossible feats. It's all been done by others.
 
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n_huffhines said:
The idea that somebody would say never bet against him when we're in a thread that's all about a gigantic failure of his is just kinda funny. Should've bet against the hyperloop.

What has he done that was "impossible"? He's done great work, but I don't think making electric cars, launching satellites/rockets, and devaluing a social media company are impossible feats. It's all been done by others.
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Oh, Huff, don't be a simpleton... you sound like one of those rabid liberals that got mad conservatives weren't getting banned on Twitter any longer.

You hate him, I get it. But don't devalue the accomplishments he's done in these fields when others couldn't or haven't.

And time will tell on Twitter.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Oh, Huff, don't be a simpleton... you sound like one of those rabid liberals that got mad conservatives weren't getting banned on Twitter any longer.

You hate him, I get it. But don't devalue the accomplishments he's done in these fields when others couldn't or haven't.

And time will tell on Twitter.
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Completely disingenuous. You can't explain what was impossible so you just attack me and deflect. Pretty pathetic.

I don't hate Musk. I want him to be successful because he's trying big and important things.

Twitter isn't over. It can carry on forever this way. He can do something cool with it and make it into something else someday, but he's completely failed at making it a better social media company. Maybe he can pivot it into something else, but I can promise you the plan wasn't to drop its value by 75%. Even if he makes it into this crazy successful smart web 3.0 platform that interacts with all these different components of our lives, it won't change the fact that his starting point would have been a million times better if he didn't fail at running a social media company. That is a failure regardless of what happens from here.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Completely disingenuous. You can't explain what was impossible so you just attack me and deflect. Pretty pathetic.

I don't hate Musk. I want him to be successful because he's trying big and important things.

Twitter isn't over. It can carry on forever this way. He can do something cool with it and make it into something else someday, but he's completely failed at making it a better social media company. Maybe he can pivot it into something else, but I can promise you the plan wasn't to drop its value by 75%. Even if he makes it into this crazy successful smart web 3.0 platform that interacts with all these different components of our lives, it won't change the fact that his starting point would have been a million times better if he didn't fail at running a social media company. That is a failure regardless of what happens from here.
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Let's see about "impossible"

Dude made electric cars mainstream. Something that hadn't been done by any major car manufacturer. Is the concept new? Not at all. Has the widespread use and promotion been done before?

No, it has not.

And reusable rockets aren't a "new" idea either. But companies just couldn't (or wouldn't since one time use jacks up the price) do it and said it couldn't be done.

He did it... pretty successful at it too.

I see you mentioned Hyperloop... funny you said that since the idea was his but he had no financial stake in any of the companies doing the work. The closest thing was the Boring Company which hadn't had a lot of work to date.

And Twitter... do you honestly think the value of the company is where it's at? Let me ask this; if he went public tomorrow, how long would it take for those shares to skyrocket (no pun intended) on the market? Even if they do go out at "valued" price, brokers and investors will snag them up like they are free. Because they will do nothing but go up in price.

There is a lot he can and maybe should do with Twitter. And who knows what will happen. But to make the claim that Twitter is a big "fail" of his isn't necessarily coming to fruition yet. He's had it what, a year? A little longer? And if you want to give the "go **** yourself" comment he made, at a minimum, quote the entire thing in context.
 
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