When You Ignore That It's Horrible That Things Like This Can Even Happen, Elon Musk Is Honestly A Fascinating

When you ignore that it's horrible that things like this can even happen, Elon Musk is honestly a fascinating and funny case study. Here's a man who has built his entire reputation on:

Supposedly being highly intelligent

Never making mistakes due to point 1

If something goes wrong, it's not his fault due to point 2

He's coasted along on this reputation because capitalism has created an endless supply of doofuses who think anyone who has money probably did something to deserve it (he just inherited it) so all he has to do is throw money at projects that seem smart and futury and as long as they make a minor profit or produce something cool, his reputation is reinforced.

It's not truly reinforced, obviously, because anyone with reasonable critical thinking skills can see that he's not actually a scientist, he's at best an investor who got lucky a couple times, and regularly takes the credit for stuff his employees make, but he's got enough of the aforementioned doofuses that he's gotten by so far.

He could've honestly kept out of the spotlight and just made infinite money if he wasn't also an egomaniac who needs constant approval and attention. But then, for clout, he made a statement that he was going to buy Twitter. And Twitter held him to his word. And due to point 2, he can't walk that back, because he never makes mistakes.

So now he's lost 44 billion dollars because he couldn't watch his mouth and cared too much about his reputation to just pay the 1 billion dollar fine to go back on his offer. So, due to point 1, he has to make it look as if he totally was going to really buy Twitter all along, and he totally has real plans for it. But Twitter is losing money, hard. So he starts looking for ways to make his money back. And somehow lands on... monetizing the system which verifies user identities.....?

No, totally a good idea, see point 2. Implementing it right away. People are misusing the new system? Not his fault, see point 3. But Twitter is largely funded by advertising, and advertisers can see what's going on. So they start pulling out, which means Twitter just loses MORE money. Musk just dug himself a deeper hole. And now he's just panicking while trying to convince everyone he's got it under control. Digging deeper and deeper.

He's fucked. He's just totally fucked himself. And he's taking the planet's biggest social media platform down with him. All because he can never admit making a mistake. Fucking hilarious. A cautionary tale of magnificent proportions. Tens of thousands of lives are going to be affected by this, as the platform they use to spread their work goes up in flames, and it's horrible, but as we are suspended in the ennui, we can at least watch this moron blow up into fireworks. Amazing.

on an unrelated note I have this thing

Bluesky Social

Reski (@iwontbeforgotten.bsky.social)

hi I make musics arts and gamings

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iwontbeforgotten

3 months ago

rpg maker vx ace is only free for another 25 hours!!!! if you want to make stupid and bad shit like this or maybe think you MIGHT want to fuck around with rpgmaker someday then i would recommend getting this!! i dont know how it compares to other engines but i can definitely say ive been having fun with it

info about the clip:

farmer sprites made by my friend clockman. i dont know if he has a tumblr or not

the pinkman joke probably wasnt that funny but it was one of my earliest ideas. i wanted to experiment with how to go about implementing a second party member and my thought process was "oh a pink man, to go along with the blue test character! a pink man. much like the boy from walting white."

i made almost all the visuals here! all character sprites (minus the farmer), all the tilesets, the battle background, also the shitty border around the text. i only didnt do the icons for PINKBLAST and FARMER'S DELIGHT. also the tileset for the first few seconds while i talk to TAXI is the default one, i didnt make it

all music is mine, aside from the victory jingle. i'm not experienced in making music so i only did stupid dinky little loops

this isn't gonna be a game if it wasnt obvious. this is me trying to figure out what i'm capable of creating. its also for making funny clips to show my friends.

this room is the most complicated thing ive ever managed to make in rpgmaker and its honestly very simple

i didnt know trying to use FORCEFEM in the overworld would make a sparkly little sound effect. i didnt tell it to do that. it cracked me up so bad

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iwontbeforgotten

2 years ago

Vivi going to mage school

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iwontbeforgotten

7 months ago

huh. I wonder if Tumblr thinks that men are a lower grade type of human by default for some reason

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i got at least four posts in a row of unironic Hey did you know that Men are Bad Always and Girls are exempt from any type of criticism Ever

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iwontbeforgotten

1 year ago

You. You get it

I've been pointedly refusing to use the term "content creators" to refer to artists anymore, because I want to make art for me and the people I care about, not the endless demands of the algorithm. I'm not trying to Produce Content, I want to make art.

So it is deeply, deeply irritating when I use the word "artist" in a post and it gets endlessly reblogged with people asking "but what about writers? but what about actors? but what about musicians? but what about [x]?"

All types of art are included in the term "artist," god damn it. "Artist" does not just mean "someone who draws pictures."

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iwontbeforgotten

2 years ago

He's like a newborn animal

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iwontbeforgotten

1 month ago

the most annoying people are people who don't understand storytelling. they be like "oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning". yeah no shit. that's why the story begins here

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<- prev no stop I’m giggling this is like someone who said silent hill 2 remake was bad because they had to make it scary like they were angry about manufactured tension as if there’s inherent tension like no shit they had to make enemies spawn at certain times to make it scarier it's inherently tense because it's set in USA

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iwontbeforgotten

1 year ago

I went to tumblr from twitter to save the remains of my mental health but I think it became worse but like in a different direction now I just forget how english works

RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen

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reblog text also i say shit like “internets” and “you don't have enough memory in your memory card” more

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