i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that otherwise normal intelligent people are so fucking addicted to fake validation from fake “friends” that they continue to consume (PAY FOR) bullshit like twitter
Especially when they can get upvotes for free on Lemmy
1 upvote = 1 dopamine
Here you go friend, have some free drugs
Can I have some drugs too? I’m joshin’ hard man
Would you suck their wang for it
hand job is last offer
Real talk, hand jobs are kind of underrated.
Maybe the reason is the left’s lack of work ethic (‘go fast’ rather than ‘do it right’) and, in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace (‘fastest mario’).
(am I trying too hard, I really want to bring this copypasta back. I wish lemmy had more copypasta shitposts)
No haha never haha that’s not something I would do ha ha ha
I could really use a fix right now me friend
I got you, fam.
1 downvote = 1 dopamine too!
Engagement is all that matters!
Even 0 engagement is fine if i made myself laugh from my own comment. That = 1 dopamine too!
But upvote dopamine has a short drug half life
I’m also continously surprised by how socially codependent people are.
humans are social creatures by nature but the issue is the way that people go about fulfilling those needs in the most useless, destructive way possible
As long as the socialibility of the human creates another human who uses the same tools to also make a human, etc., the system works and will require no changes.
its not like we are in a healthy society that can offer meaningful human connection
this is like that moment in a cartoon where a character looks at their feet, notices they’re standing on air, and fall down
As the sociologist Brooke Harrington puts it, if there was an E = mc2 of social science, it would be SD > PD, “social death is more frightening than physical death.”
i wasn’t talking about people being socially codependent, i was talking about how people are addicted to bullshit social media to the point that they neglect actual social interaction with the people (i.e. friends and family) who are literally in physical proximity to them. all to amass fake “likes” for their feed
It’s because they’re actually bigots and enjoy being in the company of other bigots who don’t call them out.
$45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it’s going straight to Fascists’R’Us.
Remember when Elon said he’d gladly solve world hunger if someone gave him a plan to do so?
and then someone did, and he didn’t
Did this actually happen? Do you have a source? Genuinely curious.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/elon-musk-un-world-hunger-famine/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/index.html
there’s plenty of news sources covering the streams of promises he’s made, and none that report on the delivery (because he didn’t do it and never will)
Thank you for posting this. This pretty much says it all. What a shit head. “It’s not clear if Musk or Bezos have seen the plan and will ultimately decide to lend their support. Spokespeople for Musk’s companies did not respond to requests for comment.”
Even if I was using that money entirely selfishly I could come up with so many better things to do.
Frankly, setting it on fire would be a better use.
The KLF-style
It breaks my heart to think about that.
This is just an example of what America does every second of every day. Valuing money more than people.
Example of what capitalism does every second. The problem is bigger and older than America.
america is like the fruiting body of the capitalist fungus, what you see is a tiny indicator of an infection that has roots that continue on for miles.
Why do you think Vance is the VP pick? He is Peter Thiel’s removed, who is Elon’s removed. They are not even trying to hide it anymore.
Elon made most of his money through companies that heavily rely on government subsidy. He is now funneling this money to someone who will control government contracts. Do not mistake the US for a democracy. It is an oligarchy.
Always has been a country founded by slave owners. The “American dream” is just the carrot to dangle in front of people. “If you work hard, you will make it”.
It did used to be true. Sort of. Upper middle class used to be attainable
curiously that was when labour unions held a decent amount of sway, i’m sure there’s no relation though
No, it’s purely a coincidence that all of the Republicans want to go back to the 1950s, which heavily benefited from massive unionization, massive government-supplemented programs, the ABC departments, the Green New Deal, The highest tax rates this country has ever seen…
It was great for the working man in spite of all the help for the working man, not because of it! /s
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance. That’s why they say “take back America”. From the elites, ignoring that they are the rich elites.
Perpetual victim mentality.
Wait is this why we don’t have rich people building giant monuments and libraries and art galleries with their names prominently on them anymore? Because they actually think they’re the underclass??
Because seriously some of the most fire art galleries I’ve been to are the ones that are paid for by the worst fucking exploitative billionaires you’ll ever read about. Shout out to the Guggenheim, btw
I mean damn if Rockefeller plaza isn’t nice.
But for sure everyone feels like the victim all the time now regardless of how well off you are. Maybe we are growing immune to shame? I dunno but I miss people like Hershey building a free theater and a nice garden because his employees would strike.
Pretty much, they wanna be the goodies instead of the baddies, but they don’t wanna change anything, so they’ll just be the baddies while pretending otherwise
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance.
Pretty sure Stephanie was saying the people still using Twitter love to think they’d join the resistance, but won’t even stop using Twitter. Not that Elon thinks he’s the resistance.
Yes. And what I’m saying is that Elon and the people still using Twitter think they are the resistance. I’m saying they won’t leave Twitter because they think they are the resistance.
None of the queer people I know think using Shitter is a good thing. It’s just that the ones still on Shitter don’t care enough about fighting fascism.
Populism 101
Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I’d like to see less of it on here. It’s just truth social with deeper pockets.
Damn that would be so cool
A good solution is to take screenshots so it only counts as one visit instead of everybody viewing the post driving traffic to Twitter.
Or better yet, Mastodon / federated microblogging platforms.
Kbin/Mbin has this feature where you can block posts from a certain domain, maybe Lemmy does too? https://lemmy.ca/post/684030
Connect on Android has a few very cool features like keyword/community/domain blocklist!
Thanks! Already use connect and haven’t tried this. I’d prefer it on the instance side for greater impact, but this is nice. I already use it to block instances and communities but didn’t realize it could filter links.
One thing I’ve learned is that “committed to donate” does not equal “has actually transferred and paid the actual money”
So it’s just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.
This is a good point. Musk, like Trump, is well known for making huge promises that amount to nothing. He wouldn’t even own Twitter if a court hadn’t forced him to make good on his promise to buy it.
Maybe it’ll be like the Twitter bid and we’ll see a lawsuit in which everyone loses.
That’s 45 people a month that wouldn’t have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump’s crime empire, money go BRRRR.
I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven’t used it a single time since.
Samesies.
Never used it besides random thot media posts I wanted to check out. Everything else has been rehosted.
Facebook was the longest to quit just like most people say. It’s the only way I communicate with my nan, or marketplace, or etc. Even that for me was… 6 years ago now?
They know they could get around it in reality. We all lie to ourselves in different ways and accept certain things while ignoring others. It’s how humans survive, but let’s not lie to ourselves at least lol. The raindrop thinks it caused the flood and all that.
Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.
Since this was posted on Mastodon: OP, consider to post this on
!best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
too, if you like.
Btw, cool that Stephen King joined the Fediverse. I didn’t know that.
Might wanna reread that name
Wow I didn’t know Stephen King transed their gender
Dammit!!! 😂
This is exactly what I was afraid of.
If you were a fan of that community they’ll reopen it if you’re willing to moderate*
He couldn’t even end world hunger.
Imagine how many people could be debt free with a fraction of that…
Even if they did leave, SpaceX/Starlink and Tesla are dumping money onto him. He’d still have plenty of money to throw at the guy with the least progressive tax plan.
He could have less, though.
This. This i like.
I don’t see how. Worst case, he just owes the loans instead of also paying salaries.
Don’t buy a Tesla, don’t use Starlink, checkmate Musk!
You sonuva removed. I’m in.
He doesn’t make money on Twitter. He loses money. Twitter is only valuable for the users it has, and that’s not monetary.
So if people leave, he loses even more money.
That is to what I was alluding.
Weeelllll, priorities may be just a bit different when living in a territory annexed by the literal Nazis. Not using Twitter doesn’t really just have the same urgency as the Gestapo rounding up your neighbors.
Not that I’d be caught dead using Twitter, especially now that that reich-wing manbaby and waste of perfectly good carbon Musk owns it. I created an account ~15 years ago because I had to test the Twitter integration of a thingamajig at work, but I never used it for anything else. I did read some Twitter stuff in the early days of the Ukraine invasion via one of the frontends, but so much of it was garbage that I stopped bothering after a while
You really don’t want to be using the social media that’s effectively run by the same people as the gestapo. It’s super likely to be controlled at this point, and thus not effective for activism or otherwise underground action/defense in a fascistic country
You want to be on a more uncontrolled internet place, where communication can be more effective. Communication and coordination is vital
Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.
I deleted my old account when he rebranded it to ecks.
I prefer Xitter 💩
