Also known as the Wal-Mart business model.

Could you do a better job than him

“I could’ve not drunk-bought Twitter, thereby saving $44 billion.”

Step 3: Profit!

I can say that some websites don’t work on Firefox

threads.net comes to mind. That annoyed me until I opened the console and saw that it was because of an infinite number of cross-site origin violations, at which point I lost interest in Threads.

Oh, just for contrast: imagine someone who graduates from med school, immediately gets a job as a neurosurgeon making $200,000/year — No, let’s say she really works hard, and is very good at her job, and spends wisely, and actually manages to save $200,000/year. Let’s say she manages to keep this up every year for 50 years. How much does she have when she retires? $20 million, less than if Elon Musk lost 99% of everything, and then lost 99% again.

“Pravda” is Russian for “Truth”. I find it ironic that TFG named his social media site after a newspaper that’s synonymous with "shameless propaganda’.

But he’s not. He’ll be fine. He’ll always be fine.

It’s hard to comprehend just how vastly, mind-bogglingly rich the ultra rich are, so consider: according to Wikipedia, Musk’s net worth in July 2023 was about $239 billion. That means that he could lose 99% of everything he owns, and then lose 99% of what was left, and be left with over $20 million, more money than most of us will see in a lifetime.

He’s not going to be applying for EBT any time soon. Hell, he’s not going to be selling off the spare Lamborghini any time soon.

Who would have thought actively courting Nazis would make risk averse corporations stop using your ads!

Nobody could have foreseen this! Nobody! Unless by some miracle they happened to look up who’s advertising on far-right platforms like Gab or Pravda Social.

BURNINATED!

Yeah, there’s a lot to be said for letting the hosting be done by people who know what they’re doing.

I splurged for my birthdays a few years ago and got a Waterman Expert, and then a Carène. Combine that with a Clairefontaine notebook, and it’s completely frictionless, like writing on room-temperature ice.

I prefer the feel of a fountain pen, myself.