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[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 187 points 2 years ago

The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (25 children)
[–] a1mlezz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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[–] Butters@lemmywinks.com 7 points 2 years ago

You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.

—Michael Gretzky

[–] lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn't "do the same thing over and over and expect different results". He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

So they tasted good? If not, where's the difference?

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[–] Kerfuffle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 40 points 2 years ago

The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's just a big fan of X11.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 years ago

Nobody's a big fan of X11

[–] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

There's no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

[–] Kerfuffle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a pretty terrible trademark

[–] onichama@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell that Apple.
Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

[–] MaoWasRight@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.

Musk is not a very smart man.

[–] Hoagie@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Weren't legally obligated, that we know of. There could have been a fee paid at delivery of the deal being made, since that's how this firm and the firm that Musk hired to sue the old firm charge. They keep the billable hours down in order to keep the price low unless they win and then there is normally a "winning fee".

Without context it makes it seem that the payment was out of left field when it was business as usually, especially since Musk didn't want to actually go through with it.

[–] hanni@lemmy.one 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make

[–] ThaNook@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

yep. The fact that lemmy is even needed goes to show how millionaires are never to be trusted.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Kempeth@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!

[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pvt. Musk is under Alien Control

Pvt Musk is going berserk!

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shoot down that UFO! We can't lose our Furry funding!

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

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[–] fades@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

what company is he gonna buy now, and name it S ?

and what company is he gonna name e ?

and what company is he gonna name y ?

https://electrek.co/2016/07/30/tesla-vehicle-naming-convention-sexy-model-y-elon-musk/

[–] romanrld@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Did you mean "inXanity"?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He looks older in older pictures, creepy

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