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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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    1 month ago

    Back when I was still on Reddit, I made a comment on a chess sub saying that in chess you are not allowed to make your king “commit suicide” to explain how a stalemate works. One day later I got a message about suicide prevention because someone flagged me for promoting suicide.

    What a dumb site.






  • I bet this thing was actually worth only $25.

    The markups have become insane on Amazon.

    I remember when Amazon first started there were good deals on good quality items. Then as they secured a dominating position on the market prices started going up but at least the low quality junk items were relatively rare and easy to identify so it was worth a little premium. Then they got rid of that and now it’s almost all overpriced junk items sold by shady sellers now.

    I almost never use Amazon now unless it’s for something specific that I can’t find anywhere else.



    • Claims in an interview that he is qualified to handle a social media company on the internet because he has “put internet in space”
    • Buys a financially struggling company for way too much money
    • Dismantles everything that made it attractive
    • Insults and fires the most competent employees who are trying to stop him from destroying the platform
    • Doesn’t pay the employees he fired owed severance, further discouraging the best of the workforce from ever applying to work there
    • Turned it into something so repulsive and toxic that the users and advertisers start to leave
    • Told the advertisers to “go fuck themselves”
    • Tried to sue the advertisers into returning, further discouraging any new advertiser from ever doing business with him
    • Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about
    • Abuses his admin powers to steal a handle with the name he wanted from its owner, further eroding the user’s trust in him handling the platform
    • Continues ruining the platform, turning it into his personal soap box to push his (toxic) ideas and abuses his powers to reduce the visibility of those he doesn’t like while claiming to be radically pro-free speech.
    • Alternative platforms have gained momentum and have reached critical mass and will soon become the new default platform people will flock to. High profile users leave.
    • Whines and bitches about the company not making any money.

    Hey guys, I’m starting to think that this guy’s fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business