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Today, we’re announcing the Official Elon Musk is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends Monument Design CommitteeFor just $10, you can join a movement of like-minded people working together to force a moment of introspection upon the world’s richest, ugliest little bitch.

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[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there any way to make the monument noisy as fuck and wildly carcinogenic for those living nearby?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

wildly carcinogenic

Background noise for Texas.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'm thinking more like tungsten carbide wind chimes with a plutonium-gallium core in each chime. It could flash blue.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who wants to fuck with Elon Musk?

Kalshi odds are saying most people think Elon's hoping for the answer to be "children."

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Who cares what a shitty gambling site "says"?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You seem to have missed the joke.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You screwed your joke by unnecessarily attaching it to a brand and making it look like an ad.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or it was a simple layered joke making fun of both Elon's pedophilia and that things that fucked up are actually allowed on those shit gambling sites.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

settle down yall

[–] 5318008@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, it's the aggregated opinion of people who use the site. Kalshi doesn't set the price; people making the bets set the price based on the odds others are willing to accept.

There's a sampling bias for sure, but since the odds given for this bet are based on how much people are willing to pay for that bet, this gives a very good approximation for how people actually feel about something.

It actually ends up being more reliable than most opinion polls in that way.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Besides the fact they nobody knows what is being done behind the scenes to ensure results are (or aren't) fair, using a sample of individuals that are all attempting to play the system against each other deeply and irreparably biases the data.

On top of that, jokes like the one I responded to and comments like yours only serve to legitimize a "service" thats sole purpose is to squeeze every penny from its users. It doesn't provide anything beneficial to anyone but its owners.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are so many psychos in America, hard to pick one. I would rather send Sam Altman a message, I believe he is the sickest of all of them.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's wild. Sam Altman sucks but he's tame compared to others

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you haven't heard the interview where he talks about the "suicide" of one of his employees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji

Watch this interview:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1o9ewpv/sam_altman_discusses_the_mysterious_death_of_his/

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I didn't say he wasn't evil. But Peter Thiel exists.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

That's a weird way to profit off of class angst

[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

How about something visible from space so it shows up when flown over and more importantly, when satellite maps are updated.

Grasses / trees planted in a shape or phrase would be cool.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A statue of someone putting their whole head up their own ass would be good

[–] comador@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

A meme almost as old as the Internet, yet still worthy of Musk:

I thought a limp starship would be cool

[–] clifmo@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to the Lancet reckless indiscriminate cuts to USAID is directly responsible for 14 million deaths.

Including millions of children. Elon Musk has killed literally millions of children.

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 1 points 1 day ago

In my opinion, Musk is so worthless, that he doesn't deserve any sort of monument or anything of that sort. I've known so many losers! Do they get a monument? Naaah, they're just the butt of gossip and that's the end of it.

I know Musk is more damaging, but stuff like this is excessively ineffective at changing anything.

If you want public art, we can actually fund timeless art.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Cards Against Humanity might as well be run by the Onion.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 2 days ago

Every time I think of Musky, I always think about the time Musky got bullied off the internet. Always cheers me up.

[–] SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

CAH and The Onion are bound to have a merger one of these days.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago
[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna start fucking downvoting censors

The text isn't censored

Instead, you should just read the text. And downvote all posts that have text only in an image.