The idea that popular people you want to hear from are on Twitter is the center of the whole service’s appeal. People are on it because popular people are on it. And basically, Musk’s plan with Twitter Blue requires that thinking to extend to his premium service. So now that we’ve reached his Hitler’s Birthday…

I’d imagine the problem lies more in a big sticker that says “X has taken steps to earn this and gave me their phone number” than the check itself. You can probably give someone a service they don’t want as part of the terms of sign-up; I doubt that gives you license to lie about how they got it.

His dad, from what I can gather, thinks Elon’s a bit of a dick. He’s not an easy child to love.

Being born rich is amazing. The complete luxury to be a public buffoon and fail repeatedly, and have it hardly matter.

Nah, he isn’t benefitting from the attention. He’s already too rich to fail, there’s no downside in showering him with negative attention and mocking him mercilessly on the very platform he operates.

It’s also notable that if he’s posting false statements to big name celebrities’ accounts and then admitting elsewhere that he’s doing to just to mess with them becaused he knows they’d view it as a negative, then in addition to the Lantham act violations, he’s handing them what I have to assume is a pretty decent…

Just because Big Man Moneybags buys the community center everyone loves and wants to turn it into condos doesn’t mean you let him. Sometimes you need to have a catchy chant and a bikini car wash to raise enough money to kick his butt back to the big city and leave us alone.

There are few things in this world that I’m certain of, but one thing that I know for sure is that Norm Macdonald’s ghost wouldn’t pay for Twitter Blue. This subscription is clearly the work of an imposter ghost. I suspect the ghost of Frank Stallone, who is alive, yet remains the ghost of Frank Stallone.

This is dumb from both sides. Musk is just invalidating his system, for sure. But also this is just another remind that the only thing you can truly do to stick it to Elon on Twitter is to just leave it.   

I didn’t finish it. :0 I enjoyed jumping back into that world and a lot of the nerdy heavy fantasy stuff, but pretty much every character in the show was so boring. I almost would have preferred a straight up nature or history documentary set in that world to the characters we got.

As always, read the article linked to, an in-depth journalistic article, filled with things that aren’t so stupid as to say, “but is this pretty obvious failure being seen (or at least spoken of) as a failure over in Bezosland?” Bezoland? Are you a child?

I have a feeling there’s a lot of linear channels who would love an audience of 9 million+ on a budget that equates to only a half of a days profits.

So what happened? Did people get three episodes in and discover this wasn’t Game of Thrones and there was no sex in it?

People here have already said they found it boring, slow, and disappointing.

Enjoyed this show a lot. I’m glad that Amazon are in so deep with what they’ve spent on it - financially and in reputation - that they can’t cancel it.

I found it mostly absurd and ridiculous when it wasn’t flat out boring. The hobbit characters were fun and charismatic, and Elrond and Durin had great chemistry, but every other character was a chore to watch. I have yet to talk to any of my friends or family who watched it who actually enjoyed it and are looking…

I finished it, but there were chunks where I was totally zoned out.

Going into it I knew it would basically be Tolkien fanfic but I was hoping it would at least not be boring Tolkien fanfic.

Oh, well I liked it. I won’t say it’s good, but even a chance to step into a lesser version of Tolkein’s world for an hour a week was enjoyable. We are living in Arda Marred, after all.

I made it halfway through the first episode and I was struggling to pay attention. I paused it and watched something else. I realized a few days later that I really didn’t care enough to go back, even if it meant on missing out on a little pop culture.