Play Nice The NM Devil's Chessboard Thread - Part II

[Val Keating]

How firing their own weapons has put Australia's soldiers at risk of brain injury

Doctors suspect mysterious brain injuries in soldiers repeatedly exposed to blasts and explosions could be the cause of memory loss, headaches, fits of rage and an increased suicide risk.

www.abc.net.au

I wonder if the mysterious mTBI caused is actually CTE? The symptoms seem very similar.

 

[Del191229]

Its worth remembering just how multicultural and ethnic Russia really is. And how biiiiiiiiiig.

 

[Del191229]

No doubt he’s playing the game, clicks for cash.

What came of the sexual assault accusations?

Haven't followed it but IIRC cops were getting involved.

 

[Del191229]

 

[Del191229]

This is really interesting

 

[krakouers]

LOL

 

[Del191229]

These US right wing kulturkampf types are so funny. Ancient Greek literature hey, no chance you'll encounter GAYNESS there lololololol

 

[Del191229]

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LOLOLOL so good

 

[Val Keating]

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He didn’t buy it for profit, he bought it for influence. The bloke has money to burn.

 

[Dan]

LOL

You can't compare different sectors of Christianity to Islam.

Look at the history of Lebanon.

 

[Dan]

Hmmm...

 

[Val Keating]

Hmmm...

Does Putin make Ramzan blow him, or does he let Ramzan get someone else to do it?

 

[Chadwiko]

He didn’t buy it for profit, he bought it for influence. The bloke has money to burn.

1. If he bought it for profit, he failed dismally. He took the world's #1 most important social media platform and turned it into a laughing stock.
2. If he bought it for influence, he failed miserably. He has tanked his own reputation over the past 24 months to the point he's now personally a laughing stock.

And this is the guy who wants to put computer chips into our brains?! Hard pass, thanks.

 

[Val Keating]

1. If he bought it for profit, he failed dismally. He took the world's #1 most important social media platform and turned it into a laughing stock.
2. If he bought it for influence, he failed miserably. He has tanked his own reputation over the past 24 months to the point he's now personally a laughing stock.

And this is the guy who wants to put computer chips into our brains?! Hard pass, thanks.

1. He didn’t buy it for profit.

2. The platform has grown in engagement since he took ownership…look it up.

The advertisement revenue is down, but again, Musk didn’t buy to make money. He can run it at a loss and it won’t affect his day to day life at all, he’ll still be absurdly rich, even if Twitter collapses tomorrow hes so rich that future generations of his family will be wealthy. When someone is the known richest man in the world (outside of the Saudi’s, Putin etc..) spends a third of their fortune just to control a social media platform, knowing it’s not worth what he paid, but he did it anyway…because he can afford it.

3. If you think twitter is a laughing stock, I assume you’re no longer on the platform?

 

[Dan]

Elon could find a cure to all forms of cancer and Chad would still post his dissensions.

 

[Del191229]

This is why taking Ukranian claims (or Russian) on face value is a mug's game

 

[Del191229]

1. If he bought it for profit, he failed dismally. He took the world's #1 most important social media platform and turned it into a laughing stock.
2. If he bought it for influence, he failed miserably. He has tanked his own reputation over the past 24 months to the point he's now personally a laughing stock.

And this is the guy who wants to put computer chips into our brains?! Hard pass, thanks.

I don't know if Twitter was the world's most important social media platform but hard agree on the rest.

 

[Chadwiko]

1. He didn’t buy it for profit.

I think he didn't mean to buy it at all, actually.

2. The platform has grown in engagement since he took ownership…look it up.

Hahaha no it has not. Elon has sneakily used very specific metrics to try and make it look like engagement is up. But it's unequivocally down.

Here's some 2024 sources for you to "look it up";

As of February 2024, the social network’s daily app users in America had fallen by 23% since November 2022, just after Musk completed his takeover.
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Twitter usage in US ‘fallen by a fifth’ since Elon Musk’s takeover

App users for social media site, rebranded as X, down by 23% since November 2022 according to Sensor Tower

www.theguardian.com

The U.S. user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022, the first full month of Musk’s owning the app, and in total it’s down 23% since then, Sensor Tower said. The numbers were nearly as bad worldwide, as daily active users on the mobile app fell to 174 million in February, down 15% from a year earlier, the firm said. The worldwide user base has been flat or down every month during Musk’s tenure began except one, when it grew slightly in October and then resumed falling, according to Sensor Tower. Other social media apps experienced modest increases in their worldwide user bases during the same period, according to the research, with Snapchat growing 8.8%, Instagram 5.3%, Facebook 1.5% and TikTok 0.5%.
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Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts

X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks.

www.nbcnews.com

The advertisement revenue is down

Big understatement lol

3. If you think twitter is a laughing stock, I assume you’re no longer on the platform?

Nowhere near as much as I used to be.

 

[Del191229]

I think he didn't mean to buy it at all, actually.

Yeah his big mouth wrote a cheque his butt literally can't cash.

He's "loaded" but so was Alan Bond once.

 

[Chadwiko]

Yeah his big mouth wrote a cheque his butt literally can't cash.

He's "loaded" but so was Alan Bond once.

Not only that, but Elon had to take out huge loans from multiple banks to actually buy Twitter, and he hasn't repaid them.

It's causing the banks involved big issues;

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has ended up as the worst buyout deal for banks since the financial crisis

The WSJ reported on Tuesday that the debt for Musk's Twitter purchase has been stuck on banks' balance sheets, eating into the ability to fund other deals.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Del191229]

 

[Del191229]

Not only that, but Elon had to take out huge loans from multiple banks to actually buy Twitter, and he hasn't repaid them.

It's causing the banks involved big issues;


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Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has ended up as the worst buyout deal for banks since the financial crisis

The WSJ reported on Tuesday that the debt for Musk's Twitter purchase has been stuck on banks' balance sheets, eating into the ability to fund other deals.

www.businessinsider.com

Yeah saw that earlier in the week. Tbh he's a spiral now on a whole range of things that won't end well.

Nailing his dick to █████ such a bad move politically, his cars have already been overtaken by Chinese and now Western models and his space business is entirely reliant on government goodwill.

let alone his personal affairs unravelling. You can see why Grimes left him, and she's nuttier than a squirrel's shite herself.

 

[Chadwiko]

I still laugh at the people who said silly nonsense like 'real leftists should vote RFK!'

 

[Del191229]

Burnt-out Bushmaster apparently found in Kursk after incursion into Russian territory

Ukrainian forces are believed to have used Australian-supplied Bushmasters as part of their recent surprise incursion into Russia, with evidence emerging of at least one of the armoured vehicles apparently destroyed inside the western border region of Kursk.

www.abc.net.au

Did Ukraine give us a heads up they would use our equipment to invade Russia?

 

[Del191229]