This is the same guy trying to build some paradise city in another third world country.

This is going to end with him brutally murdered in his huge paradise office by a race of half human, steroid infused crazed people with implants in their head.

Those are US Army soldiers, paid by the US government. Control of the state reserves is only delegated to the Governor, because that makes sense. The individual governors can freely send them to areas which are in need. But the President can take back control at any time. If the governor of Texas decided to take the reserves under his direction and attack the US, they’d be placed right back under US control.

They are not a “Texas” army. They are part of the US Army delegated to Texas.

Of course, but they aren’t a Texas army. The President can just decide to move them out or use them as needed.

The US government is paying those soldiers.

Each state has a National Guard unit, but it’s still part of the US Army. That’s what it’s called a National Guard.

I guess Texas doesn’t understand they don’t have an army, but the US government already has a massive base right in the center of Texas.

They can secede and then ask the US and Mexico for aid when they collapse, but there won’t be a civil war. Idiots.

I’m not clear on why on-air talent for a show wouldn’t be eligible to be credited if the show won an Emmy.

Basically an executive at ESPN wanted the on air talent to get statuettes too, so he submitted fake names, had them re-engraved and gave them to them to the on air people.

Not much of a scandal.

Exactly, just more propaganda. Remote work is the future.

Yes, it says, ‘don’t buy depreciating assets’ and ‘buy things that appreciate in value, opposed to blowing all your money on consumer items.’

If that sounds like advice you’ve heard before from many other places, it’s because it’s not new, it was just wrapped in a good title. It’s astonishing how much a book with a good title can sell if it lands just right.

This is true, and I also think the ‘lack of an algorithm’ keeps many people away. While many of us don’t want to be force fed a list of ‘for you’ messages, a lot of people are hoping to get traction for viral tweets and build an audience of people who will get/read/respond to their posts, and that engagement doesn’t exist on Mastodon in the same way.

They were close, but the company management felt they were not likely to have sustainable, predictable profits that would match what their investors wanted and they said that they really didn’t have any ideas on how to bring in more revenue. When Musk offered them way too much money, it was a no brainer - take heaps of cash, walk away from a loser business, no more stress. That’s why they were quick to sue him to force the deal through.

You have to consider that investors in Twitter wanted the company to become Apple, Netflix or Facebook, and that wasn’t (isn’t) going to happen.

You may be right. I’ve also noticed it seems the user base has changed over the years. It used to be that many of the people on HN were actually devs and many of them were based in Silicon Valley. Many commenters in years past were closely connected to the companies and people in the bay area tech scene. That’s no longer the case.

Recently, I saw a thread regarding Netflix releasing their streaming data - and there were multiple people starting the reasons why Netflix released the data, and they were authoritatively posting that is was a strategic move, or that they were positioning their ad sales teams to have ammunition for 2024.

Then, a few days later, it was revealed that the reason Netflix released their stats was that is was part of the new SAG agreements. Not ONE of the Hacker News ‘experts’ were even close. Not ONE of them even mentioned the new SAG contract. They had no idea what they were talking about.

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Yes, and I was inundated with techbros claiming that’s not how it works. I mean there is some argument in some cases where you can get some tax write off based on losses, but a true valuation is only what you can sell for.

It never was. I argued with people on Hacker News at the time, and those idiots I was arguing with think that if someone is foolish enough to overpay for something, it’s worth the amount they paid.

They literally believe that if someone pays a million dollars for a box of dirt, that box of dirt is worth a million dollars - no concept that it’s only worth what you can sell it for.

$12.5bn is still too high. When Musk bought it, maybe it was worth $8B, but since no one has figured out a way to make Twitter profitable, even that figure would be based mostly on equipment, branding, etc. Since Musk had bought it I say ita worth maybe $3B and will continue to drop.

There’s no revenue and Musk has no ideas that hadn’t already been tried.

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Maybe the US could stop flooding Mexico and Central America with guns for the cartels, which is driving people North to seek safety?

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There already is a process to allow immigrants to spread around the country, what Texas is doing is delaying and circumventing that process, making it take longer and cost more. I say send Texas the bill for their nonsense.