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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 92 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I assume he got rich how most people get rich, luck and being a sociopath.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    And also by being a vaporware scam artist. Thunderf00t on YouTube has a whole collection of videos showcasing Musk's whole repertoire of bullshit.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    yea..... that's pretty much all Thunderfoot posts about nowadays.... he hella fell off, for multiple reasons. But like, a decade ago he used to talk about scam kickstarters, atheism, interesting science topics, etc. And then in those debunking science videos he would bring the math and receipts that made it fun to watch... But then in the past 5 years it's just been Elon... nearly every video is about Elon. It's obsessive.

    And tbf, that's not the only ick around Thunderfoot. I mean, he did kinda get his start during the Anti-SJW culture war shit doing anti-femisist ragebait videos. Basically occupied the same spaces as Sargon, Bearing and GradeAunderA.... and he's never really "grown" out of that, or addressed it, let alone apologized for it. He harps on Elon, and sometimes Trump/AlexJones/StevenCrowder but he's never really talked about how he and his ilk helped bring them about.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    His latest video was exploring 'anti-baking soda' as a potential novel way to do CO2 capture at scale.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvxNmStSC3M

    He also 'got his start' before Anti-SJW youtube was a thing. His first series that popped off, back in the day, the day being 2008ish, was "Why do People Laugh at Creationists?'.

    I don't know that he ever ... explicitly collabed with Sargon or any of those guys, but yeah he did exist in roughly the same genre-space, around the GamerGate era of i dunno, 2013 to 2015, ish?

    While he has covered Elon a lot, thats because he started calling bullshit on Elon's nonsense since way, way before that was common... he's been tooting his own horn a bit, following around 10 years of Elon's trolls telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about, and well, it turned out he did.

    He literally has a personal grudge against Elon Musk.

    For all his faults, he is one of the oldest, OG youtubers, since damn near day 1, who is also still around, and hasn't imploded.

    His first vid is 19+ years old, so, 2007ish, and its calling out GWB as a war mongering liar.

    All that being said, if you want a more recent youtube channel thats basically just mostly been tearing Musk to shreds, with science: Common Sense Skeptic.

    By 'more recent' I mean they've only been around for 5 or 6 years, I think.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    A surprising number of people do not understand how getting rich works. Literally anyone can do it. You simply need to do whatever everyone else refuses to do.

    You take on the risks. You debase yourself you compromise any and all ethics. You whore out for shareholders who will give you endless money to shield them from consequences they directly funded.

    It’s profitable because there is always demand for a new villain and damn near nobody wants to do it. For a good fucking reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    You seem to be mistakenly conflating getting rich with increasing wealth. Just about nobody gets rich. Many people leverage their existing wealth to gain more. Frequently, that exchange is the start of what is now defined as enshitification.

    Everyone cannot do it. Fundamentally its easy: Have money and pick something to middleman. Waste capital until you 'disrupt' that flow. ????. Maybe profit. Who the fuck cares? You got yours. Repeat.

    Simple: have wealth. Easy.

    Step one is have money to make money. Aside from being the result of two wealthy people fucking... care to detail how so many people are checking that box?

    Certainly - there ARE paths to wealth... but they are rare, risk heavy, and frequently are destined to be prey to a resource rich competitor.

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