BallsInTheShredder

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

My point is, look I'm a dumb white hick. I've never ran anything as significant as this. Just from the way the guy talks I can tell he has eons more experience than I do. His track record? Jesus Christ.

Still, if I were him I would've just.. stopped. Long, long ago.

Yet he hasn't. Admittedly, I'm a dumb fuck yet smart cookie compared to some but honestly what are the odds that with zero experience I could make better business decisions than this guy?

Make it make sense, ya know? Explain to me like I'm 5 why he would make decisions that are so obviously detrimental to the company? What are the odds that I could give better business advice than this guy?

Yet this is what he's doing. He's either purposely destroying it or has some weird master plan and I'm not sure I can be convinced otherwise tbh. We all see it, as bad as he seems to be there's no way he doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Makes sense thanks

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Honestly I feel like that killed Twitter more than many other changes.

People tell me "there's no way he (musk) would intentionally crash his own company - it makes no sense - "he's just terribly bad at business!"

But is he really THAT bad? In what world could these changes be made in which he's actively trying to improve the company? If nothing else, seeing the negative backlash, bad publicity and dropping number of users wouldn't any sound minded business owner at least temporarily undo some of these changes?

With any business, if you make a change that causes you to lose customers and get bad publicity.. don't you try to mitigate the damage done? Who goes balls to the wall on obviously bad decisions?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What's "ratioing"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hello

Edit: it works I can comment now! It's been months, not sure if an error from this or lemmy.. would hate to say lemmy.. hope I can switch accounts and comment now using the account I'd like to (at the moment)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A pack of ramen is like 29 cents where I'm from..a single fucking potato is $1 no shit so, maybe area specific?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Haha! Idk why but I somehow love you as a person already lol, that's all I needed to know you're a good dude or dudette

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What doesn't? Is healthy food cheaper or does it not suck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That, and bombs. Nice username btw

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Nope, none of that. Can't even support our veterans that fought in the past wars that taxpayers had to pay trillions for but they can afford the salaries of the soldiers currently out there. It's like when a corporation cuts the 401k's of thousands of employees then turns around and hires thousands more...

The yachts ordeal is yet another example. All this $ frivolously spent on excess before basic needs of citizens are being met. The U.S could damned near be a utopia if we'd elect some people with common sense and quit voting in corrupt politicians.

I could rant about this for hours as it's just basic stuff. It's petty and boring so read on at your own risk.

We can't afford guns until the needs of the common people have been met.

We can't afford to imprison people for trivial stuff when they're not an active threat to society.

Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Food is a right. No one should have to decide between paying the rent and eating a proper meal.

Housing is a right and shouldn't be a for profit industry. Buying up tons of land in a scheme to get wealthy isn't good for anyone.

Banks just.. shouldn't exist the way that they do. Neither should the credit system, predatory loaning practices etc. Prices just keep going up due to this.

If banks/credit ceased to exist and loans stopped being made, then the price of things would have to adjust to reflect what the average person can actually afford which just makes sense right? If an average person can't make enough to afford their own home at regular wages within a few years by their self then either they aren't getting paid enough or asking prices are way too damned high.

There are just some practices in this world that are bad for it. Everyone knows the shit but no one will do anything because the people with the power to actually enforce change are benefitting too much from the same system to kill it.

Oh, and another one. Flint Michigan is supposedly enacting an (iirc) $9-10 million dollar bill to repair/replace their pipes in order for the people their to have clean drinking water and not get sick or die from lead poisoning. $9-10 mill would make all that difference yet our government won't pay it even though we're spending the better part of a trillion each year blowing things up. How petty is that? Can't take a penny out of our war money so people can have clean drinking water.. pathetic!

 
 

Left Reddit because of boost. Came to Lemmy for promises of boost. Now have Boost for Lemmy.

It is complete.

Also, it's everything I'd hoped for! I've been using a different Lemmy app every few weeks since leaving Reddit. Some weren't even functional. The remaining functional ones just weren't what I needed, comments didn't appear right, the keyboard constantly switched to the previous sentence and deleted words, etc it's just been one problem after another trying to use this platform.

Have been on Boost for Lemmy all of 5 minutes and it's like a blessing sent from heaven. Everything works as I need it to.

See how I went down from the last paragraph? On my last app (the best I'd found so far) that would mean about a minute of struggling to make it stop reverting to the last paragraph and deleting things. That isn't happening anymore and it feels great.

I have my options to italicize and embolden text back, right where I'm used to them.

It's just amazing, thanks Ruben I have been awaiting this release for a while.

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