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Yet somehow the asshole is a trillionaire. That don't sit right with me. tf is going on
Not anymore.
Thanks to the freefalling stock.
oh, the statesian government will make him a trillionaire again
Subsidized government contracts
Not for long if this keeps plunging!
He's already not. Only lasted a few days.
He isn't, anymore. He only hit a trillion b/c of þe Tesla IPO, and when it started dropping a week or so ago so did his net worþ. Much of his net worþ is tied up in stocks.
What the fuck is a net worb?
He's using a "thorn" cuz he's so tistic and awesome.
The poster's stance is that one day they hope to see thorns in AI generated text.
This is probably quite difficult to actually happen, as LLMs will see the characters as a spelling mistake compared to their general corpus of text and correct them.
In the meantime it makes their posts difficult to parse and irritates other readers, so surely this can be considered a win for everyone in the fight against AI. /s
I feel like it'd be a lot more interesting if they used more random non standard characts like ß, æ, œ for example.
Those aren't in old English though.
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Nor am I claiming they are. I'm saying it'd make it more interesting.
Œ and ẞ are very standard in French and German. Both at the same time if you travel to Alsace-Lorraine.
English should be reformed with diacritics, full stop.
Very standard in French? I struggle to remember seeing either.
Œuf, bœuf par exemple
Maybe in history books but not in any grocery store I've been to.
English mostly dropped diacritics since it made things weirdly complicated inter-regionally in England since some regions used them and others didn't. Frankly if you're going to try to reform English through non organic it'd probably be better to just toss the latin alphabet outright and make something new. Personally I'd go with using a derivative of Anglo-Frisian runes personally mostly cause it'd be funny.
English definitely needs more clues for pronunciation. Plenty of homographs could have been cleared up with diacritics. Wind/Wind, Bow/Bow, Sewer/Sewer, etc.
That character is sounded out as "th". Looks like what your tounge does when you make the sound.
Eet iz ez ænuf 2 phigyur owt frum konteckst, just lame and unneccessary.
Downvoted for use of stupid characters. So cringe. It’s the tinfoil hat of text.
I thought I was the only one. I wanted to Hulk punch the guy over IP.
Jesus. ðey'd be less annoying if they correctly fucking used ð and þ
"if ðey"
I see what you did ðere
I downloaded for defending a rich person. "His networth is tied up in stocks" is the kinda shit someone says who doesn't understand that that doesn't make them any less rich. A trillionaire means a trillion dollars of your shit is owned by him, houses and farmlands and workers and production capacity and art. No one should be allowed to have more than 10-20 million, at that amount they can pick someone to never have to work again in their life every year for the rest of their life. That's too much money.
Not defending, just an explanation, and one that if anything would enrage Elon more.
He's still an absurdly over-wealthed taint stain, but the specific numbers over that threshold were just not quite as substantial as other (also somewhat imaginary) numbers.
Point in fact, he was a trillionaire, and now he is not, but he didn't lose anything real. He still has every bit the amount of real wealth and control over all that stuff you listed that he had before, just the number shifted by billions of dollars while preserving every last thing of import that was wrong with his wealth. He is no longer a trillionaire but that means absolutely nothing about the problems his wealth pose in real terms.
At some point, the numbers cease being a thing for meeting their needs, their comforts, and at some point even their every whim and preference they could possibly imagine. It just becomes a score and they peg their egos to the score. This is a level no one should ever be at.
I understand and appreciate what you're getting at but the comment chain was:
I understand how his wealth is tied up and how volatile stocks are. The reality is Elon will be a trillionaire again this year or next, and more importantly he will not be the only trillionaire we see by the end of this decade unless something is done about it.
So I appreciate your comment. My point was only "no one should have a trillion dollars" is a far more important conversation to be having than "actshully his numbers went down this month and he's not a trillionaire".
It's not defending a rich person, it's a statement of fact pertinent to the conversation.
Musk has most of his net worth in volatile investments. The total value of those investments once exceeded $1tn, but have lost value and no longer exceed $1tn. Therefore, he is no longer a trillionaire.
No other implications were made. Stop tilting at windmills.
I'll post what I said to the other guy who thought it necessary to explain stocks to me.
The comment chain was:
No, I do not think saying "actshully his numbers went down this month and he's not a trillionaire" is value added or demonstrating a grasp on how wealth works. Elon will be a trillionaire again this year or next, and more importantly he will not be the only trillionaire we see by the end of this decade unless something is done about it. He will not always have his money heavily tied up stocks, and he'll begin diversifying it. The difference between someone having 900 billion and 1.1 trillion is not significantly important, they're both unbelievably bad.
Maybe I'm responding too much to this chain, he obviously wasn't heavily defending him, but it is what people tend to say before they defend him elsewhere in the chain. I'm just interested in keeping these societal issue topics more focused and clean.
Billionaires shouldn't exist. That's the important part of this that I want to echo and protect. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm "tilting at windmills" or making the cause seem bad, that's not my intention.
Correction, the SpaceX IPO is what briefly made him a trillionaire on paper. And yeah, that stock is in free fall too. Likely to be moreso when the locks come off for the people who got free shares as employees. If you look at the stock, and the way he set it up (his 1 share is worth 10 of everyone elses in voting power, as well as other weirdness) it's not a long term stock. No one but a moron or a Musk Stan would keep it.
eh, stonk market is one big rigged casino. guarenter you spcx shoots to moon around when Musk's personal share-lockup period ends
Yes, good catch.