I can go to twitter.com and instantly start twittering. I have no idea how to even see a mastodon feed, and I'm not going to download some app when I don't even know if found the right place.

"We're gonna build dystopian, low-quality garbage nobody is asking for, and bet our entire company on it. Who thinks this is a good idea and wants to keep their job?"

"We all do, Mark. We love your idea. And we love you. You're so handsome."

tax the billionaires until they are millionaires. We could be using this money for health care and getting the homeless back on track and fixing bridges. We don't need people like Musk, we need a society that functions.

I knew the obesity epidemic was getting out of hand, but this is ridiculous.

barely even twenty years ago.

With a cassette-tape drive.

I'd show them the series of version control commit messages I made as I created the code. There would be a clear and obvious, mostly-logical progression of code-creation, failed experiments, commented-out snippets taken from stack overflow posts that can be tied to my name, and tons of other evidence incrementally added over the course of many days or weeks as the code is slowly built. This record would very difficult to fake convincingly. Even if I was a weirdo who didn't use version control, I'd still make occasional backup copies of the whole code directory every few days, or something similar, and this record would exist. Nobody sits down to write something like bitcoin in one go without backing things up along the way, it's just too complex a codebase for that to be reasonable.

There's added sugar in everything. Added sugard in hamburger buns. Added sugar in your friggin' breakfast sausage. So much added sugar everywhere. There's almost nothing you can buy that hasn't been pumped full of extra calories.

But no, it must be microplastics, yeah, that's the ticket.

It's just technology. America spends trillions on military spending. If they DON'T have Stark Technologies' predator-camouflage anti-gravity battle drones that move at mach 1000 THAT would be surprising.

That's way bigger than they make it out to be. Sure it was online, but it shows he cares more about a random, meaningless win than about the sport of the game. That's not a healthy way to approach competition.

This is your two-decade warning, You have twenty years left before egrep/fgrep support is utterly and finally removed forever. Don't dawdle, folks, this is not a drill!

"Musk also reveals he's been thinking about electric cars since high school, as "the way cars should be, if you could just solve range..."

Here's an idea. If long-range public transportation, such as high speed rail, were convenient and ubiquitous then shorter-range electric vehicles for everyday in-city use would instantly feel a lot more viable. He's not a visionary, he's a tunnel-visionary.

This is what's killing EVERYTHING. I care a million times more about a good story than impressive visual effects. A good story should stick with you ling after you leave the theater and make you think. Every superhero movie I've seen in the last couple of years was the opposite of that. No stakes and instantly forgettable within minutes of leaving the theater, no effort whatsoever except in the CGI department. The worst part is the ACTUAL comic books often have powerful, engaging stories, so it's clearly possible to do with superheroes. The subpar drivel is a choice being made, and it's killing the whole genre. I don't even watch them anymore until they're free on some service I already subscribe to. I don't have a spare dime to pay for a movie ticket that I'm not 100% sure isn't going to be garbage, and recently they all are exactly that.

I'm going back to hosting my own servers.

...they're all "mobile games" which are the worst kind of game. No thanks. Spend more money on hiring good script writers, please, Netflix.