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Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

PsychoInternetHawk posted:

From what I've read a large amount of Italy's population problems stems from the government stubbornly attempting to promote a conservative culture and failing to economically/educationally adapt over the last few decades. The country is essentially raising a generation of incel shitboys who suck rear end and have no life skills, so very few Italian women are staying in Italy and and/or having kids with other Italians when they could do...anything else

Anyway I'm sure the world's most online and divorced man will know how to solve this problem.

modernity sunders yet another tradition, young men finding a woman to replace their mom while continuing to live with their mom

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Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

Good stuff

https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/1669755234585923584

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







Field Mousepad posted:

Is it me or are there like double the amount of ads on Twitter now in the past few days?

The ads aren’t as bad to me as them obviously pushing lame wannabe viral tweets. Like the above mentioned “name a battle.” And it seems to really emphasize people that retweet more instead of riffing.

Like I curated a timeline with a very specific sense of humor, politics, and crushing despair. Now all I get are retweeted “do birds far?” and ads for collapsible batons.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
https://twitter.com/GreasyLiLNephew/status/1669757840066588692

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

wow how could Disney be associated with Nazis

bigstupidjellyfish
Oct 25, 2010
Use ublock origin, it blocks all the ads.

I also have an extension called "control panel for twitter" which lets you remove all the algorithmic stuff plus gives a bunch of other options to tweak to your preference. Then I come in here to read the bad things elon and co have tweeted cause I sure as poo poo haven't seen it on my timeline.

If you're dead-set on using the "for you" tab I can't help you, I hated that poo poo even before Elon took over. I only follow a couple hundred accounts, mostly friends and art accounts though.

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
one weird trick to not see ads on Twitter

don't go on Twitter

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005
oh no I can't stand the idea of a friend of mine posting ten times quickly and seeing everything they post, I'll just let some algorithm I have no idea about control what I see instead

Wamsutta
Sep 9, 2001

lol reddit is absolutely loving cooked. their manchild ceo got full blown elon mode tech bro brain

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845?s=20

Godlessdonut
Sep 13, 2005

Wamsutta posted:

lol reddit is absolutely loving cooked. their manchild ceo got full blown elon mode tech bro brain

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845?s=20

Trying to be Elon without the cult of personality, lol

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


lol

Elon ruins Twitter's profitability, so of course this chud follows suit lmao

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


"Elon built a good business. He said so."

*pulls trigger*

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

maybe you should wait to see whether these amazing strategies actually work sir

Field Mousepad
Mar 21, 2010
BAE
20 billion in the hole, savvy business man :hmmyes:

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
The guy who cratered he market value of his conpany by at least 2/3s, we should emulate him i think

bigstupidjellyfish
Oct 25, 2010

Wamsutta posted:

lol reddit is absolutely loving cooked. their manchild ceo got full blown elon mode tech bro brain

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845?s=20

it is wild to me to see people in the business of social media fundamentally misunderstanding their product this badly. like reddit's "value" IS its large userbase. the fact that you can search any niche interest + "reddit" and probably find something. it's a lovely site and it's basically an accident that it happened to end up as big as it is. they should be happy if their revenue is enough to cover hosting fees, and tbh in an ideal world that's precisely how much money they'd have. that and enough to pay people to make sure there wasn't child pornography or other illegal poo poo on there. and to provide therapy to those people.

CubanMissile
Apr 22, 2003

Of Hulks and Spider-Men
They literally can’t imagine a scenario where laying off your workforce is not a good idea.

DesertIslandHermit
Oct 7, 2019

It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.
Big Tech following Musk's example of driving their businesses into the ground.

Elon Musk ftw

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
reddit needs to figure out searching because I have to use google to search reddit and get anything useful

LASER BEAM DREAM
Nov 3, 2005

Oh, what? So now I suppose you're just going to sit there and pout?

OctaMurk posted:

reddit needs to figure out searching because I have to use google to search reddit and get anything useful

They've been trying to make it better since the beginning. Never gonna happen.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Field Mousepad posted:

20 billion in the hole, savvy business man :hmmyes:

thirty, and that's if you generously value Twitter at 14b and ignore the damage to TSLA

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


LASER BEAM DREAM posted:

They've been trying to make it better since the beginning. Never gonna happen.

lol reddit hadn't genuinely been trying

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
They added text searching in images recently, which is nice I guess. Good for getting your favourite advice animals. Google has had that forever though.

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


it's time for digg to return

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
maybe Usenet will get good posts again

Virtual Russian
Sep 15, 2008

I think we should encourage more social media CEOs to make their websites totally unusable and undesirable.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Jazerus posted:

it's time for livejournal to return

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Dr. Killjoy posted:

she's going to ask musk to help develop a pro-natalist policy and within 30 years Italians will be extinct

he's the best expert on natalism for sure

anyway I don't think Elon Musk can afford enough horses to populate Italy

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



https://twitter.com/kenli729/status/1669788312821702694

lmao pivoting to video in tyool 2023

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!

They can't even manage a small (by internet standards) audio stream. I'm sure video will be fine.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


bigstupidjellyfish posted:

and it's basically an accident that it happened to end up as big as it is.

it wasn’t an accident. digg overhauled their site to 2.0, it was complete poo poo, and everyone moved over to the less poo poo site (reddit).

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
reddit is good, actually. mad?

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Reddit is a land of contrasts.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.




Tucker on Twitter baby

tenderjerk
Nov 6, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 358 days!

i hope this means more copyrighted movies :shobon:

19 o'clock
Sep 9, 2004

Excelsior!!!

bigstupidjellyfish posted:

it is wild to me to see people in the business of social media fundamentally misunderstanding their product this badly. like reddit's "value" IS its large userbase. the fact that you can search any niche interest + "reddit" and probably find something. it's a lovely site and it's basically an accident that it happened to end up as big as it is. they should be happy if their revenue is enough to cover hosting fees, and tbh in an ideal world that's precisely how much money they'd have. that and enough to pay people to make sure there wasn't child pornography or other illegal poo poo on there. and to provide therapy to those people.

it’s time we thought about the investors who want to invest in it.

PsychoInternetHawk
Apr 4, 2011

Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Grimey Drawer

Wamsutta posted:

lol reddit is absolutely loving cooked. their manchild ceo got full blown elon mode tech bro brain

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845?s=20

If his plan is to gut expenses, quickly suck up all the excess profit before the wheels fall off, and find someone else to hold the bag then it's not a bad plan. Social media services are probably pretty good to strip for cash because the amount of venture money involved is wild but it's not a tangible product with any real deliverable.

Elon's problem was buying Twitter for way too much money in the first place and getting his ego involved.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
elon was only forced to buy twitter because he got his ego involved. at first he had only bought a large stake in the public company and demanded a seat on the board of directors. when he got that and they weren't sufficiently sycophantic, he came in with a big swinging dick take-it-or-leave it $44 billion offer with a contract that twitter's lawyers had drafted to be as favorable as possible to the company, it was basically as ironclad as those things get

and then when he came down and realized what he'd done he tried to back out. lol, lmao

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16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Beeftweeter posted:

elon was only forced to buy twitter because he got his ego involved. at first he had only bought a large stake in the public company and demanded a seat on the board of directors. when he got that and they weren't sufficiently sycophantic, he came in with a big swinging dick take-it-or-leave it $44 billion offer with a contract that twitter's lawyers had drafted to be as favorable as possible to the company, it was basically as ironclad as those things get

and then when he came down he tried to back out. lol, lmao

cope

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