• teft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How about we just ignore him and call it good? He thrives on attention and like a two year old he doesn’t care if it’s good attention or bad attention. As long as we are talking about him he is happy.

    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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      I more or less view this as seeing someone doing something stupid and responding by pointing my finger and laughing. Ultimately, if Elon is foolish enough to take pride in people laughing at him I don’t really care, it’s still fun to laugh at him.

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    Elon Musk says “tweets” will become “x’s”

    I guess he’s moving the servers to Texas

  • saegiru@lemmy.world
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    Hot damn, this is the most satisfyingly hilarious pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. Musk has got to be the absolute richest moron on the entire planet, and possibly in all of reality itself. What the absolute hell is he thinking??? Is this some kind of 5-D chess thing where he is going to somehow get a payout for tearing it down Producers-style?

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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      He’s off and on the richest guy on the planet and he’s a moron so my take is yes, he’s the absolute richest moron on the entire planet.

  • Liome@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I am definitely calling it ex-twitter.
    I hope this catches on, I’m sure Musk will hate it.

    • comfortablyglum@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I was thinking this or “formerly known as twitter”, and if he changes it back ‘formerly known as “formerly known as twitter”’.

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    1 year ago

    He’s not pining, he’s passed on! The bird is no more, he ceased to be! This is an EX-bird!

  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    You need to break up to be considered an ex, and most Twitter users aren’t going anywhere (or they would have 8 months ago)

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      1 year ago

      Actually, I think all the reasonable people left Twitter a long time ago…it’s all bots and right wing nut jobs left there.

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        The evidence really doesn’t bear that out. Twitter has lost some people, but there are plenty of people still on there. What I keep on seeing is people saying that they’re leaving twitter, they might even deactivate their accounts, and then they’re back on it a little while later. It reminds me of when kathy griffin used her dead mothers account to bypass her twitter ban. They’re just addicted.

        Incidentally, griffin created a mastodon account and hasn’t posted in months, and I strongly suspect her (locked down) Twitter is active.

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        There is, but they’d have to actually put the twitter crack pipe down for that, and a lot of them talk a good game right up until it’s time to actually do it.

        I would be better for the world if they did.

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        Changed to X Æ A-XII because numbers weren’t legal, pronounced “X Ash A Twelve”, nicknamed “X”. And the second was Exa Dark Sideræl (pronounced sigh-deer-ee-el), now known just as “Y” or, according do Grimes, “?”, because it’s pronounced “Why”.
        So Musk has children called X and Y, two companies called SpaceX and X, and Tesla has Models S, 3 (E), X, Y.
        Why Musk? No, not you, I’m asking your dad.

        • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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          I wonder if the fact that he has Asperger’s impacts his naming system. I mean this in the most non critical or judgmental of the condition.

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      Which one? He can’t seem to figure out what birth control is, so he has ten children with three women at this point.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is akin to Joker setting a pile of cash on fire. At least the fire Joker started created some warmth.

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    It’s suddenly going to get a lot harder to verbally say I’m an ex-twitter user and know that people will understand what I mean.

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    I wonder how this will affect the roll-out of Chirpy in the new cities:skylines game. Thinking on it, the rocket launch system is already called ChripX… Paradox was ahead of the curve here.