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It wild probably still end up hurting Twitter more than it hurts Elon though, Tesla stock will probably bounce back if demand for their cars continues but Twitter’s valuation would likely be depressed for quite a while if they can’t force the deal through or pull off some really impressive user growth in the near future.

The Marxist theory element here is that value is created by the workers through their labor but the capitalist class of corporate managers siphon off a portion of that value to make their profits while also removing any control the workers might have over the output if their labor.

The pixelated censoring feels weird in a feature film, why didn’t they just do some creative framing if they wanted to keep the PG-13 rating?

TikTok showed Facebook and Snap how vulnerable they are to new social networks luring away their users with new features. The hardware efforts of both companies could get them more permanent investment from customers but first they need to make something that lots of people actually want to buy.

Some real CRT vibes in that side image.

This is a very insignificant argument but I think the last image is just from a weird angle.

The lights are off in that picture but it doesn’t look like there’s any way to physically hide them. Shouldn’t really matter if they’re just capacitive buttons though.

Presumably more senior people would get raises above the base rate of pay that reflect additional knowledge and experience. I don’t think they’re advocating for everyone’s wages to be identical.

The more abstracted you get from real events, the more difficult it becomes to define misinformation. Few people are going to complain about removing blatantly false info during an active shooter situation, but once you start getting into the protracted causes and effects later on there’s more space for disagreement on how to interpret things.

That’s definitely a big part if the market, but I’m not convinced that there’s no space for a repairable/upgradeable alternative. Plenty of people use laptops for work/utilitarian purposes and aren’t as interested in aesthetics and cutting edge components.

It continues to be depressing that the slogan of online innovators has shifted from "Information wants to be free" to "everything should be a financial asset".

Iron Man also worked as a stand-alone movie though, mostly due to how much people liked Downey Junior’s portrayal of Tony Stark. I haven’t seen all of Marvel’s recent shows but some of them don’t seem all that compelling apart from the connected universe thing.

But what would Elon know about inflated marketing claims?

Elon has a great record of flouting financial laws so far, I’m not convinced that meaningful legal consequences exist for an individual with so much financial leverage. Does Twitter have the cash reserves to pursue a drawn-out lawsuit while their stock price tanks?

Unfortunately for artists, there’s no simple way to have an image taken off a blockchain, whether the picture is encoded directly into the chain or added as a link that’s hosted somewhere else. "Once something has been minted to the blockchain, even if after that it’s acknowledged as an infringement, actually having it removed from the blockchain is quite unlikely," says DeviantArt CMO Liat Gurwicz. The copyright status of NFTs is complicated and largely unsettled in court, and associating a crypto token with a piece of art isn’t traditional copyright infringement.

What is the point of this then? Is there any viable future for NFT art beyond just recreating copyright law?

While this could just describe a normal price increase, Verizon would prefer to keep playing weird psychological games with its customers instead of just raising the base price of their plans.

He can’t run as a republican unless he kowtows to Trump so needling the democrats isn’t a great way to set up a presidential run. He could go for a Ross Perot style third-party run but that seems like even more of a long shot in our hyper-polarized political climate.

…the post says that the idea is "inspired by the best stable coinproject [sic] in human history, the US dollar."

Fiat currency is actually looking pretty good these days.

Unless you have access to billions in capital you’re not even playing the game.

Do you really think Spotify subscribers who can already stream any song are going to want to pay for music they already have access to?

People in South Asia still use the swastika as a religious symbol though. For most Americans the letter Z doesn’t immediately conjure up fascist associations so I’m not sure why we need to purge it from our iconography.