Firstly, does he really think it’s going so great over there that wealthy people think it’s worth $5M to get in? More likely they will just wait for the fire sale and buy up the land cheap.
Second if you have 5 mil, do you need to go there for work?
You know how sometimes your get so frustrated at someone you struggle to eloquently articulate your dislike of them because there are so many facets to that dislike. This is how Elon makes me feel these days. I struggle to put it in the simplest terms.
It really bothers me that he thinks he deserves pity while denying it to others. It bothers me that his attitude towards money comes from never having had to worry about it. It bothers me that he thinks that he can take actions that threaten people’s livelihoods and even their lives and expects to be loved for it. It bothers me that the only way he can rationalise why people hate him is that they have brainwashed or paid by the left rather than having legitimate grievances with him. It bothers me that he thinks if you aren’t a billionaire it’s because your are lazy/don’t deserve to be and that their hard work is not equal to his. Lastly it bothers me that I don’t know if he genuinely holds these positions or if he just uses them as justification to do horrible things.
In MAGAland everyone except George Soros agrees with trump and musk and the only possible reason that people don’t, is bribery
“Here is your big mac meal”
“but I ordered a McChicken sandwich”
“don’t worry, our AI suggested swapping your order because it predicted you actually prefer chicken based on your order history which it got from facial recognition when you walked in so we started preparing it before you ordered which also meant we’d get your order out 9.4 second faster! Isn’t it so clever, eh?”
“what about my drink, I didn’t order diet coke?”
“we gave you diet because our AI indicated that you probably have diabetes based on body weight analysis and McDonald’s is committed to healthy eating as well as maximising profits”
“I want to talk to the manager.”
“the manager was replaced by AI last month, corporate felt on site managers were one of the biggest expenditures for the branches and felt AI can offer more value. I’m sure the AI will be able to help you at that terminal over there. If not, we can escalate to the corporate AI which is authorised to offer 1% off coupons and has a slight antisemitism problem…”
“the terminal over there? The one with the queue 30 minutes long?”
“yep, that’s the one. Have a great day!! Oh it looks like our conversation took longer than the time we saved. Oh well, isn’t AI though”
Precision 3581
This is my ~8 month old work laptop.
Is a Dell.
2 usb c not pictured.
You have options.
AI: Dave, turn right and walk across the bridge.
Dave : But AI, there is no bridge
AI: I am 99% sure based on 99 billion images that there should be a bridge
Dave: ok , you’re the smart one
Dave: aaaargh . . . .
SPLAT
Anything which drives nails into the xitter coffin is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. Bluesky may not tick many people’s boxes here on lemmy, but this migration shows that lots of people wanted to leave xitter but didn’t see an option. Threads clearly didn’t attract them, likely due to the owner. I hope it nothing else, Bluesky is a less toxic place and xitter and musk become less relevant. In the long run Bluesky may end up being another head of the hydra , but for now, it’s not, and it may get people used to the idea of federation.
I feel like using percentages would be more meaningful. The Dow Jones peaked at 381 just before crashing in 1929. So using absolute numbers can’t be compared because the entire DJ wasn’t worth the drops we are seeing today.
I in 1929 it lost~10-12% on its worst days
So far Trump is losing ~5% approx each day
It’s not exactly a stellar endorsement. I’m only saying that you are comparing things at today’s dollar value, when the value of currency changes over time.
This Wikipedia page shows that the worst days by percentage are not where we are yet.
However… Rank, President (AFFILIATION), date, DJ, Point loss, %loss
1 Reagan ®, 1987-10-19, 1738.74, −508.00, −22.61%
2 Trump ®, 2020-03-16, 20188.52, −2997.10, −12.93%
3 Hoover ®, 1929-10-28, 260.64, −38.33, −12.82%
4 Hoover ®, 1929-10-29, 230.07, −30.57, −11.73%
5 Trump ®, 2020-03-12, 21200.62, −2352.60, −9.99%
6 Hoover ®, 1929-11-06, 232.13, −25.55, −9.92%
7 McKinley ®, 1899-12-18, 58.27, −5.57, −8.72%
8 Hoover ®, 1932-08-12, 63.11, −5.79, −8.40%
9 T. Roosevelt ®, 1907-03-14, 76.23, −6.89, −8.29%
10 Reagan ®, 1987-10-26, 1793.93, −156.83 , −8.04 %
All republicans. I note that the biggest daily gains were also republicans but most of them are related to the big drops e.g a day, week or month later, so they basically tank the index then the index recovers some time later.