What if Musk pulls Twitter out of the EU? What fraction of their revenue is that, I wonder?
Normally this would be too crazy to even consider, but… this is Musk we’re talking about. I’m sure he hates the EU government’s guts already. And that totally sounds like an impulse decision he would make.
Or Musk could pull Twitter out of the EU.
That would be so wonderful. The EU economy would probably take off just from the saved time/brainpower, lol.
If the U.S. even thought about invading Mexico, I would support Mexico arming themselves to the teeth.
But Mexico is clearly not worried about it. It would be so catastrophic for the US, even if it somehow succeeded.
How would the US react if the Russians supported Mexico in joining a military pact against the US, so that the Russians could build military bases and install short range nuclear weapons in Mexico and point then at the US?
This a convoluted scenario, as why would they do this in the first place? The US, as big of an asshole as it is, is not invading Mexico. Mexico is not the least bit worried about it.
Ukraine was very worried about Russia invading them, for years, for legitimate reasons. And what does Russia do to alleviate those fears? Repeatedly threaten them, then actually invade.
A gun happy neighbor you are complicated friends with is very different than a gun happy neighbor who is repeatedly saying they want your house. If the situation afterwards feels unfair, well, that’s Russia’s fault for getting there in the first place.
And if the U.S actually postured itself for invading Mexico, for heavens sake, I would want them to arm themselves to the teeth.
My impression from reading Institute for the Study of War’s blogs is that Putin is a “moderate” in the perverted sense. There are actually much worse people, with real power in Russia, that could conceivably take power, and he kinda keeps everyone in line.
So maybe the people in a position to depose him have no interest in doing so, not just for their own interests but because the resulting power vacuum would not be fun. And I’m sure he makes the possibility extremely difficult.
There is one guy who tried, and actually came surprisingly close: Yevgeny Prigozhin. He started a small rebellion, and it might’ve worked with a slightly different roll of the dice. He seemed kinda populist and Trumpy to me, with a lot of grassroots support from the more militant factions in Russian politics, especially on social media… if Trump was the leader of a notorious mercenary outfit.
He died in a plane crash exactly 2 months later. I’m sure its a total coincidence.
More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.
The outcome always seems to be “what’s most beneficial for Netanyahu’s survival.”
And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?
Makes sense. Thieves filtering for easy marks is probably older than writing.
A lot of people suck in the real world.
Agreed, this just looks like a miss.
Who knows why, but it doesn’t seem like for-profit Game of Thrones.
More than just a dispute over data, though, the Wikipedia editors argued that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts as more of a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information.
Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies,” compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika, and praised Elon Musk just days after the Twitter owner endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” last November.
Is this the story of the world now? Some old rich guy watches a little too much TV/Twitter and sends a major organization off the rails?
…I guess it always has been.
I get why, but I’m still a little surprised they haven’t done it already.
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That would have been a marketing nightmare lol
Is it that dramatic though? NBC calls it “a widely expected move”
I’m sure the annotations will be intelligent and insightful…
No, it ended when attention optimization and monetization became the objective.
If social media was all “dumb” it would be totally different, though I suppose keeping third party monetization out is always difficult.
Because it makes the line go up?
Sustainability doesn’t matter. Musk’s hype holds the market value up (in the short term), and kicking him out could tank it from the controversy alone. That’s all that matters.
I like to think many investors are buy and hold, long term institutional, Warren acolytes or whatever, but in reality the outlook is just so short for so many people now. What matters is the next day and the next quarter, and they can just bail out after that.
Indeed, though I prefer skipping extensions on mobile because (as said above) native implementations tend to be faster and more power efficient.
Ublock is probably an exception though. It’s quite fast.
An old Snapdragon 845 phone, lol. A razer phone 2.
It just feels sluggish. Pages render slower, especially larger ones, and it eats more battery, especially with extensions like adblockers running.
It’s especially apparent because the RP2 is like the oldest 120hz phone. Bromite (aka chromium) feels like butter in comparison.
Twitter’s business is advertising. If they shun the EU, EU companies just aren’t allowed to buy ads without getting in hot water themselves.