‘GameMill’, how appropriate.

But it does resonate strangely when a certain loud proponent of free speech and anticensorship quickly turns into a prolific censoring tyrant of the platform as soon as he’s able.

Imagine trying to sell companies and agencies a “gold checkmark” for a thousand dollars a month and then one guy just arbitrarily deciding he can unilaterally remove it whenever he wants. You pay a grand for maybe getting a gold checkmark, provided the website overlord doesn’t deem you unworthy.

Given that “X” is pretty much universal shorthand for “closing a window”, Musk couldn’t have picked a more appropriate name.

If a problem isn't solved by making things more rad, you just didn't make them *rad enough*

How about it slams too the ground as soon as the cat is cut...

I thought the MAGAts were all up for threatening phone calls and literal violence against House members’ families when it was Nancy Pelosi’s husband or Hunter Biden. Now they don’t like it all of a sudden when it’s their own spouses and children? Boo-hoo

while I’m more than 100% certain FTX did all kinds of criminal fraud, isn’t that description above just the basic description of the entire banking industry? Banks use their deposits to invest (while keeping X% as cash on hand mandated by regulation).

This is the only solution.

The problem with “move fast and break things” is that the “things” that inevitably get broken are always people. 

When car jacks are outlawed, only outlaws will have car jacks.

That libertarians aren’t laughed out of the room wherever they go is a major failing on humanity’s part.

I’m Cheech and Chong, and I approved this message.

It’s basically Prosperity Doctrine/Gospel, wrapped up in tech-bro buzzwords. Good People get rewarded with good lives. He has a good life, therefore he is a Good Person. Since he is a Good Person, any ideas that he has are good, especially those that support his continued success.

Yup. And I think once the initial real purchases are made, whatever that number ends up being, that's pretty much the end of the run. This is a niche product, not a mass market one. I don't know anyone who isn't a fanboi that's gonna want one of these hideous things, especially once the early reviews are out. People…

This is a guy who spent $45bn buying Twitter because he was mad people on there were saying mean things about him, after all. 

Bradley’s snark and straightforwardness would be perfect for this.

Don’t do Neanderthals dirty like that.

Why limit the analysis to European and Asian genomes? I think there would be significant findings if the analysis were expanded to Florida.