Oh well, what can you do? Rome is pretty hot this time of the year.

Probably just God making it spontaneously combust.

The rock was clearly designed by an omnipotent God, and can’t be the product of chance

The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)

Lol, he actually think the value of Shitter is still $45B, as when he bought it. That’s cute.

I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.

Gonna post some emo song to my Netlog

I know the perfect cure: a vacation to Mars on a Starship. It would remove any depression and drug addiction.

These are the same billionaires that donated millions to the inauguration. How’s that RoI on bribery going techbros?

It’s nice to see Bezos getting some hate too for his role in enabling right wing propaganda. Musk has been getting all of the attention lately.

They did release an official statement later in the day to explain the rejection: https://adevarul.ro/stiri-interne/evenimente/de-ce-a-respins-bec-candidatura-lui-georgescu-2427400.html

And the full document: https://www.realitatea.net/stiri/politica/cum-explica-bec-respingerea-candidaturii-lui-calin-georgescu-document-oficial_67cdfbf3430c6b3d205eb226

Unfortunately, it’s still kind of abstract and legalese, with not further proof of interference. And it’s mostly self referencing the previous annulment as the cause.

Călin Georgescu’s candidacy does not meet the conditions of legality, as he “by failing to respect the rules of the electoral procedure, violated the very obligation to defend democracy”, which is based on “fair, honest and impartial” elections.

While it’s good avoid another Putin lapdog, the way in which this was done might come back to bite them in the ass.

SpaceX can still pivot to a fireworks company and let decades old soviet rockets take people to the ISS. I’m sure that DOGE will cut the wasteful government grants this company gets.

Honestly, Vance seems even worse to me. Trump has that embarrassing grandpa vibe and he seems too stupid to make any important decisions on his own or realize what he’s doing. Vance gives me a determined murderous intent vibe.

It was put on TV on purpose to make Zelensky look weak and make the US look strong (it’s called propaganda) and so daddy Vlad can see that Trump is a good boy.

I can happily confirm that the woke mind virus is alive and well on Lemmy.

True, the likes might be manufactured. Don’t count on Google to moderate them

Looking at their profiles, they don’t look like bots to me. Maybe it’s just that MAGAs sound as stupid as a bot swarm.

At first, Zelensky rejected the proposal, but the two countries eventually reached an agreement on a revised version. Zelensky traveled to Washington to finalize and sign the deal.

However, tensions escalated when Zelensky tried to explain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lack of diplomacy to Vice President Vance. Vance accused Zelensky of “litigating” in front of the media and criticized him for appearing in photos with Democrats during the 2024 campaign. He also said Zelensky’s comments were “disrespectful” to the Trump administration.

This sounds just like a setup to humiliate Zelensky and justify this shit to the MAGA brains. Trump and Vance weren’t planning on signing the deal. Pure and simple propaganda. But MAGAs don’t have enough neurons to see it.

Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

So buying a major newspaper and firing (or putting pressure on) anybody who doesn’t agree with the new owner’s “pillars” is not coercion? Did Bezos get this buff from the mental gymnastics?

PS: surprised nobody mentioned Manufacturing Consent yet, which describes exactly what is happening here, and remains valid in the age of Internet

Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It’s like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.