X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.
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    billiam0202
    44m ago 100%

    You mean Trump's Twitter clone? Depends on how you define "worth." The total stock valuation is worth that much, but that's because stocks are largely bullshit priced based on how buyers feel. Someone keeps buying the stock, so the price reflects that.

    If you're talking about the company itself, it's not worth dick. They have a six or seven digit revenue compared to eight or nine digit losses- there is absolutely no way the stock price represents the "true" value of the company. Given that Trump owns 60% of the shares it's absolutely certain that someone is using it as a way to funnel money to Trump outside of campaign finance laws.

    Also, they don't have that many users.

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  • X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.
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    billiam0202
    8h ago 90%

    Just wait until enough sane people have left Twitter; it'll then implode and the fascist Nazi shitheads will migrate.

    They don't want an echo chamber- they want to be able to shout their slurs and right-wing bullshit at you while you can't respond. It's exactly why places like Voat and that shitty T_D knockoff crashed. Once the ratio of right-wingers to non-right-wingers on Twitter hits a critical amount, they'll start looking for other places to infest.

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    billiam0202
    21h ago 100%

    At the same time, the way that the EC favors the GOP causes the spoiler effect of the Green Party to be amplified compared to Libertarians.

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    billiam0202
    21h ago 75%

    One day we might even be able to elect a candidate who isn’t the “lesser evil”

    Literally impossible in the US unless one of two things happen. Either:

    1. Both the current major parties fracture, and the resulting two parties that will occur thereafter align themselves on axes that are dissimilar to the ones that the current two parties are aligned on, or

    2. Laws are passed to remove FPTP and winner take all so that not voting for a Republican or Democrat has an actual influence on the vote.

    The current system in the US is statistically proven to result in two majority parties controlling the government. The only effect that voting third-party does now is to spoil the votes for the majority-party candidate most closely aligned with that third-party.

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  • Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'
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    billiam0202
    2d ago 100%

    To make astronomically large spaces fit in the game engine from 2009, they made everything infinitesimally small.

    In fairness, when Star Citizen first went in to development CE3 was a modern engine.

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  • Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products
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    billiam0202
    2d ago 100%

    Same thing as Trump.

    Doesn't matter how perfect your contract is, as long as they can afford to fight the lawsuit longer than you you're gonna lose.

    You'd think people would learn to not contract with these assholes at all.

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  • Evil Riker
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    billiam0202
    2d ago 100%

    They wrote about heroes saving the world, therefore they wrote good.

    That what they wrote is so memorable to us means they wrote well.

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  • Harris makes another play for disenchanted, swing-state Republicans
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    billiam0202
    2d ago 50%

    "Disenchanted Republicans" aren't the fascists. They're the ones who don't want to vote for the fascists, but have been swayed by fifty years of Republican propaganda to be uncomfortable voting for Democrats.

    If you want to de-polarize this country, reaching these people is vital. They need to start realizing they have to vote for ideas not parties.

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  • US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions
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    billiam0202
    3d ago 100%

    If you get killed by a robot, you can at least die knowing your death was the logical option and not a result of drunk driving, road rage, poor vehicle maintenance, panic, or any other of the dozens of ways humans are bad at decision-making.

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  • 23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable
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    billiam0202
    3d ago 97%

    You know what's really stupid?

    Every American who has private insurance right now, could pay that exact same amount instead to the federal government and let it pay our medical bills, and it would result in more people getting care and less cost for the healthcare industry.

    Of course, for some reason, some people are strongly opposed to the destruction of a multi-billion-dollar rent-seeking middleman industry and also opposed to healthcare going to certain, shall we say, melaninistically-blessed Americans.

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  • Tim Walz breaks free from his bubble
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    billiam0202
    4d ago 97%

    Convincing Republican voters it's okay to vote for a Democrat when the Republican candidate is a fascist is a political strategy, yes.

    Glad you seem to understand that.

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  • www.pcgamer.com

    A Warhammer 40,000 space marine is not just your usual sci-fi super soldier. They are hulking behemoths, 10 feet tall (and about 10 feet wide too). They don't move like people, they move like freight trains. They have the physical bearing of an industrial freezer unit and the emotional intelligence of a crocodile. They do not retreat and they do not surrender, and their 9-to-5 is fighting the worst things you can possibly imagine over and over in a completely futile forever-war.

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    www.pcmag.com

    [A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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