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  • “I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

    He’s been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.

    Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It’s not a value that’s always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.

    If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn’t even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault


  • They hit Murfreesboro, Tennessee,

    For those unaware (probably all you Limeys) that’s where Bonnaroo is. It’s one of the biggest music festivals stateside, and probably the closest to what you all have. Although I haven’t been in years or really know what Glastonbury is like these days.

    But its in a very rural area with very conservative locals.

    But the festival itself is obviously very liberal and LGBT friendly.

    Not sure if this is live or very recently filmed, but it’s currently happening right now.


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    Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

    From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

    I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

    So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

    There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.


  • They don’t have a real job…

    According to the disclosures, the terminated employees worked in Wells Fargo’s wealth- and investment-management unit.

    Time and time again, these funds don’t really beat the average of an index fund.

    But the Uber wealthy dont like being lumped together with regular people. So they pay commissions to get the same performance, resulting in less profits than an ind x when it’s all said and done.

    But the company points to the small parts that do over perform, and downplays the bad parts.

    Turn 1 million into 5 million, and it’s easy to forget there was another 10 million that’s worth 6 million now.

    Sure you up a million, but you’re focused on that 5x gain and not the 4 million loss. So before commissions it’s a draw.

    In real life there’s interest, inflation, and lots of other stuff that muddies the waters.

    It’s like their version of horse racing, they bet on a bunch and hope one hits it big and pays off the losses on the others. It’s the same as gambling and just as addictive.

    So if these employees were answering their phone when a big client calls and letting stuff sit, their performance was probably fine.

    Because it’s not a real job.


  • To be clear this isn’t official results, this is what musk is projecting.

    But the only think the big holders care about is their return rates. And they know Tesla is waaaaaaay overvalued. It’s all based on hype.

    So would Tesla be a better company free of musk?

    Undoubtedly.

    But they don’t care about that. Musk hype drove the stock price up, no real company would be so overvalued. Without continued hype, the price goes down, which might cause a run on the stock and might end the company.

    musk is Tesla. And it’s why the company will be nothing but hype. Doesn’t matter if the company loses money as long as stock price keeps going up.

    Making quality vehicles isnt their business model, it’s keeping the stock price up.



  • You should read the sidebar’s at least, they’re heavily biased, but upfront about it.

    It’s been their safe space longer than most other instances have been around. It’s also a good idea to look at modlogs when coming across a new sub/instance.

    Not everything shows up there though. Like if someone is banned and has all their content removed, it won’t all show up in the log. But when individual comments are removed, it’ll show you what was said.

    Don’t just assume everyone online will be upfront about their biases



  • Where has LW announced that they would be defederating?

    People kept saying it one of the recent daily threads people have been making.

    Which is what they are trying to achieve by promoting those communities in this post?

    You think posting repetitively here is the same as:

    If you want to build up alternatives, post and comment so they’re more active.

    How does that make sense?

    But if you want to move discussion off their communities make posts in those alternatives. That would actually do something.

    These posts are Susan G Kommen levels of difference making…


  • We getting one of these a day now?

    If you don’t like it, petition your admins (via posts on your own instance) to defed.

    If they don’t want to, find a new instance that does, or stay and block their instance so you don’t see their subs.

    If you want to build up alternatives, post and comment so they’re more active.

    I just don’t see the point of these posts when most Lemmy users have been around for a while and know what lemmy.ml is like by now.

    Be the change you want to see, post in those communities yourself instead of these daily announcements threads on an instance that’s already defederating apparently



  • You think the nuclear bombs were a genocide?

    Seriously, who “taught” you this stuff?

    I am genuinely curious where people presented all of this stuff you’re saying as history.

    Like, it’s almost like the only thing you know about civilian deaths in WW2 was American dropped nukes.

    There’s sooooo much that you’re missing. But unless you dropped out of school at a very young age, I can’t be the first person that tries to explain this to you

    So where are your opinions coming from?

    Is this a thing where you learned everything you know about a subject from YouTube videos?

    If so…

    Why?



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    If you think there was anyway they’d have surrendered without nukes then yes, I will agree that you are “not an expert”.

    For fucks sake, after the nukes there was still an attempted coup to prevent surrender…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident

    People thay think Japan surrendered because of loss of life, have no idea what they’re talking about about.

    Japan surrendered because they thought America had more nukes, and if they kept fighting then Japan would be left uninhabitable for centuries due to atomic contamination.

    The people who tried the coup, did so because they thought America didn’t have more nukes.

    They weren’t stupid,

    They weren’t, but honor was/is huge in their culture, and Japan was an empire for thousands of years.

    They’d have fought to the last Japanese civilian was alive

    They surrendered, and I know I’m repeating myself, because they thought their islands would be literally wiped off the face of the planet.

    Anything less wouldn’t have won the war and cost more lives on both sides.

    Even as a trolly problem, it’s not a tough call on if nukes saved lives.




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    I got a ban for pointing out the nuclear strikes on Japan killed less than the conventional firebombing runs leading up to it, and if nukes wouldn’t have been used a shit ton more people would have died.

    Like, no opinion on if what was morally right or not, just what the numbers worked out.

    It’s all trolls over there, when a rational person makes a community, the admins start drama there and troll the mods till they leave or get kicked out for stupid shit.

    I just blocked the whole instance. I never see any of their posts now, and as an unintended bonus I don’t even get notifications when their users reply to my comments.

    Like, it would be best if we defederated from them and that hilariouschaos troll instance.

    But I can just block them, works the same.