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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 year ago

The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (34 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.

—Michael Gretzky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn't "do the same thing over and over and expect different results". He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's just a big fan of X11.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Nobody's a big fan of X11

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty terrible trademark

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell that Apple.
Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.

Musk is not a very smart man.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Weren't legally obligated, that we know of. There could have been a fee paid at delivery of the deal being made, since that's how this firm and the firm that Musk hired to sue the old firm charge. They keep the billable hours down in order to keep the price low unless they win and then there is normally a "winning fee".

Without context it makes it seem that the payment was out of left field when it was business as usually, especially since Musk didn't want to actually go through with it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pvt. Musk is under Alien Control

Pvt Musk is going berserk!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shoot down that UFO! We can't lose our Furry funding!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

what company is he gonna buy now, and name it S ?

and what company is he gonna name e ?

and what company is he gonna name y ?

https://electrek.co/2016/07/30/tesla-vehicle-naming-convention-sexy-model-y-elon-musk/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Did you mean "inXanity"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He looks older in older pictures, creepy

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