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@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 One final point, part of this is defining what we mean by value. To your last point there is "sale value" and then other forms of value extraction (like the ones you mentioned above and before). If we are talking about that broader form of value, I totally agree with you.

@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 Fair point. Also getting ready outside of my wheel house. So I, like everyone else will just have to watch and see.

I remember people were so smug and certain that Elon was going to lose a ton of money buying twitter. I never believed that (I’m wrong about plenty of other things). Anyway, a lot of our reasoning is motivated by what we’d like to be true.

@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 We have yet to see how X navigates the next few years, especially, not if the Trump administration exits the midterms in a significantly weakened state or fails to effectively deal with things like the war and other geopolitical factors. Lots to be seen.

@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 Definitely xAI was initially trained off of Twitter. I think the jury is still out on it as an actual platform. I also think much of the value of xAI currently has more to do with Elon himself and his current relationships to the Trump administration than anything else. /1

@sattingstacks @inshallahdiva Both. When is published under K. A.

@inshallahdiva Which one is K.A.?

She’s JK Rowling’s Mario

This is as close as Protestantism has ever gotten to an actual series of bars.

@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 Which honestly isn't a bad place for it to be.

@S___Elliott @the_sigh_op2 Since it isn't a public company, there are no public evaluations, so we can't go on that. So until a sale happens, as Donald Trump's legal team has argued about the value of Trump's brand, the value of X is really whatever Elon said it is on any given day. /2

@SethFreemont @WayofLono @poe_collector They did do one. Someone else referenced it.

@mattBernius @WayofLono @poe_collector No problem! I think they did a reddit ama years ago where I read this. It had lots of cool info, worth looking it up if your a fan

Animorphs was huge for me as a kid and the books became increasingly more serious as I aged with them. They came out when I was 8; I was reading at a college level and longed for more emotionally challenging stuff. These helped shape my sense of morality at a very young age.

@bdquinn Of course the first thing defenders and anti-anti-Trumpers will say is that he never said having people rise up was a goal of this operation. Because that's about all they have left in terms of defense.

If you're trying to bring a country to its knees, regardless of cost, bridges and power plants are fair game. However, we started this whole thing with saying we wanted the Iranian people to rise up and take out the government. This is an odd way of going about that.

Somehow managed to clean this up into something that only sounds a little demented (expressly saying that civilian infrastructure will take a priority).

I love these goofy anti-education losers because they think you just rocked up with a chisel at 18 and someone said 'ok so do what you want, enjoy, cathedral there please'. The guilds and apprenticeships were hardcore. It was a degree, as we'd understand it, and highly specialised

People freaking out about Artemis “losing radio contact for 40 minutes” are basically announcing they have never learned how the Moon works. This is not a malfunction. This is not a crisis. This is not NASA “losing the spacecraft.” This is literally the most predictable part of a lunar mission. When Orion swings behind the Moon, the Moon physically blocks radio signals. Radio waves travel in straight lines. They cannot pass through 2,000 miles of rock. Every Apollo mission had the exact same blackout. Artemis II is doing a lunar flyby, so it gets the same geometry. NASA planned for it. They scheduled it. They briefed it. They published it. They even explained that the blackout lasts about 40 to 50 minutes because the Moon is in the way. During that time, the crew is not “lost.” Orion’s onboard computers keep flying the spacecraft. The astronauts keep working. Mission Control just cannot talk to them because the Moon is blocking the line of sight. This is called the “period of loss,” and it is a normal, expected part of every crewed lunar mission. So no, Artemis won’t “go dark.” It will go behind a giant celestial body that blocks radio waves. That is not a scandal. That is basic physics. If someone thinks this is suspicious, they might want to sit down before learning what happens when the Sun sets.

This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.

@AGretz Well you gotta work on it in the minor and college leagues first to make your way up to the majors!

I have seen first sips of beer. This is not a first sip of beer lol

DOGE tried to shut down Smithsonian’s department of preserving this exact music

In "peaceful" 1975, the murder rate in NYC was 22 per 100,000 residents, with more than 1,600 homicides recorded. In 2025, the murder rate in NYC was 3.6 per 100,000, with 305 murders recorded. Even a dumbshit like Hercules here can do that math.

NYC murders, 1975: 1645 NYC murders, 2025: 308 NYC murders, first three months of 2026: lowest in recorded history