Because they know they will get a ton of likes from the echo chamber which doesn't care about facts.
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Elon Musk Proposes to Follow Through With Twitter Acquisition
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Unless "accomplish" has a new definition, this is incorrect.
Musk has one of the biggest echo chambers in the world, and your sitting right in the middle.
well you're wrong. plenty of people has witnessed elon engineering. even john carmack gave a personal testimony that elon really is an engineer.
They are in noooo position to do that. They're lucky he's buying them at the original price. It's more than they're worth.
software engineering is a subset of engineering. your arbitrary standard for what is an engineer isn't really all that relevant.
if calling a software engineer an engineer degrades the title of engineering, then so be it, but it's still engineering.
How dare you? Mainstream media hates this man, this man = bad!
Tell us the mainstream media sets your opinion without telling us the mainstream media sets your opinion lmao.
Will you still be posting these edgy opinions to Twitter once he owns it?
right.
point is, there's no reasonable way one can interpret those tweets as making money.
Sorry to inform you that using “literally” in a figurative sentence is perfectly acceptable, despite what internet-pseudo-intellectuals love to repeat to feel smart.
It can very well reinforce an obviously figurative sentence, like in “I laughed so hard my head literally exploded”.
Or it can make more ambiguous a figurative sentence, like in “I laughed so hard I literally peed all my pants”, since the context almost aways clarifies that it didn’t literally happen.
Think about it for more than three seconds: all figuratively said sentences have a different literal meaning that they’re supposed to express and the word “literally” only reinforces it and changes nothing.
The only exception I’d consider is when you add “literally” to a figurative saying. That would be expected to switch the meaning of the sentence to literal. Like in “my screwdriver literally isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed”.
But if I solve two problems at once and say “I literally killed two birds with a stone” but no bird is involved, it would be a poor use of the word.
Still grammatically acceptable and not the war crime that snob people on the internet claim it is, especially in informal contexts like… comments on the internet.
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Because they don't care about truth the way you imagine most people do. It's just about clout, and what they can get away with.
The people trying to gatekeep the title "engineer" are hilarious. Just because you or your girlfriend or wife or boyfriend or whoever got an engineering degree, doesn't make you any more of an engineer than Elon. A degree is a piece of paper. You can learn without going to a university.
The people trying to gatekeep the title "MD" are hilarious. Just because you or your girlfriend or wife or boyfriend or whoever got a medical degree, doesn't make them any more of a doctor than Elon. A degree is a peice of paper. You can learn without going to a university.
I have a title in the medical field, it's not MD or nurse, but I can get in a hell of a lot of trouble for saying I am what I am without a degree and the state & federal license and various certifications that back it up.
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Whose going to reward you for attacking? This is just a weird take. We all get off the narcissistic joy of sharing our nonsense takes. That’s what the internet is for and we all do it for free - hardly need Musk or anyone else paying us. The frisson of sharing opinions is enough😂
Confounded by inflation and economy in recession. Might be as you say but hard to know with all the other economic noise.
Explain regulator fines? I didn’t know the govt could regulate social media that way in the US.
When I studied literary criticism I never would have imagined I’d be living in a post modern world. Reality as I’ve known it for the balance of my life meaningless today. It’s interesting.
it has nothing to do with it being social media, it's for how the business is run, regardless of what said company does as a business.
I’d love to see them keep their word.
Come on everybody, let’s take all the seriousness down a few pegs, heck, all the pegs: this show is brought to us by Twitter AND Musk, can’t get any better.
Prepare all the popcorns you have around and enjoy 🍿
Prepare all the popcorns you have around and enjoy 🍿
Lol. Like I said. Over my head. I’m that pseudo internet intellectual half paying attention to a thread and making wild claims. 😬