Social Media: The God That Failed

[Jorge]

I tried to delete a double post the other day but couldn't. Maybe if it makes a new page, you can't?

Hang on let me check

Nope, still works. I was just able to delete a post that started the next page. Someone probably posted before you got the chance to delete it.

[B]

[spike]

[McParadigm]

No longer prepared to rule out that Elon Musk has a humiliation fetish.

[Bi_3]

News:

Response the next day:

[dimejinky99]

He’s going.

[BurtReynolds]

All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

[Bi_3]

I need to eat some crow here, turns out Dime was right about Tesla stock... it's not just inter-fund trading driving volume like FAANG, several larger funds are slowly divesting even as Vanguard, Black Rock, etc. hold. ESG pressure?

[B]

All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

I thought they were IRS agents?

[simple schoolboy]

All those FBI agents they were hiring aren't gonna pay for themselves.

I thought they were IRS agents?

Twitter (and Facebook) have a significant number of former FBI, CIA, and NSA agents on payroll for... reasons. I don't believe Burt was referring to the Federal payroll.

[BurtReynolds]

We've all been ratio'd this whole time.

[simple schoolboy]

Related, that random British dude talking about how terrible America is and claiming he was called a "Paki" in upstate New York.

[Bammer]

Wow the availability of Pakistani tweets translated to English is definitely what’s gonna tip me over and start using twitter

[simple schoolboy]

Wow the availability of Paikistani tweets translated to English is definitely what’s gonna tip me over and start using twitter

Might make uncontrolled immigration untenable.

[Bammer]

My sister (Dunning-Kruger idiot) is posting on FB about the Chinese “satellite” over Montana. She’s probably got posts about it going on insta, tik tok, parler, and her dozen blogs also.

[Bi_3]

"Coddling" is a foundational text for me, so despite some less than stellar writing I think Haidt is correct here:

He is careful to avoid the next logical leap in the changing social dynamics amoungst the young, but it's difficult not to make it when reading this.

[spike]

Social media can be terrible for anyone’s mental health, regardless of age. But that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Just like anything really.

[B]

I don't know if this is a social media thing or not, but the fact that Google doesn't have some kind of protection against this bullshit is bonkers.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[B]

They had their own fuck up, but if I Google a restaurant, I want the restaurant. If I want to fuck the restaurant, I can download the DoorDash app on my own. I don't need Google to trick me into fucking the restaurant.

NOTE: I know this isn't actually DoorDash.