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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Musk has gone funny in the head. Does he not know the concept of brand-safe content?

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

His perspective is like a kid kicking a sandcastle that he gave another kid $10 to buy because he thought it was neat.

What does he care if Twitter doesn't make money? He is personally set for life, and the world would basically have to end for that to change.

Why does someone worth 11 digits of greenback currency have to understand what brand safe content is? He could shoot a man in the middle of the street and toss his equivalent of pennies to the witnesses and never see consequences.

All of this criticism he's seeing on public airwaves, and his reaction, is revealing him for what he actually is: The single most richly spoiled baby in all of human history.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

My guess is he probably knows more about it, than anyone else alive on earth today. /s
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/elon-musks-confusing-twitter-grab
I hope his arrogance will be his downfall, and not just from being #1 richest person in the world, but to actual bankruptcy.
I don't usually enjoy Schadenfreude, but Elon Musk has become such a cancer on humanity. I'll make an exception.

[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

schadenfreude.googled it. Adding it to my lexicon. Gonna be a challenge to learn it by a few days of overuse but I’ll manage.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

To me it's such a cool word, because I live in Denmark, and the German word adopted among English speaker is near identical to the Danish equivalent "skadefryd".
Maybe not obvious from the spelling for someone not familiar with both German and Danish.
It's funny when words spread between languages. Not just new words, but old words that describe concepts.
Schadenfreude is a very nice to have in your vocabulary, but if you want something even better, you should absolutely have "hygge" too, that's an even better word, and that's 100% danish. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge
The article says it's also Norwegian, which is true, but we were originally 1 nation, and I'm probably a little bit biased in that regard.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A fantastic word to sprinkle in whenever discussing world events or politics.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My guess is he probably knows more about it, than anyone else alive on earth today.

This is musk, not trump

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The link I provided quotes him for saying:

“I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth.”

So this is both of them, and frankly there is very little difference between them. Musk just used to manage a better front, but he has thrown the mask.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 16 points 1 year ago

I think he was always like this. It's just he's now ALWAYS in the limelight, and it's much more visible.

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