This man knows de wai.
I hate to break it to ya but Twitter's stock price actually didn't dip that much. Their price was $30/share lower in March and they're currently well over $50.
Not that we should give up the fight, we just know what the goal is. Also it's pretty suspicious that despite losing $5bn in valuation, they only dipped a couple points. I have a feeling Dorsey or China was buying back shares while everybody else was selling them off.
One thing led to another and before you know it I was in the Top 15% of all creators on OnlyFans.
I want to go to there.
Agree that corporations can deny service on grounds of ideology
There go the cakes!
Rewatching Alex Jones' recap of the prequels I am reminded that Palpatine financed, at least partially, the Trade Federation in order to exacerbate the situation, and play both sides against each other in order to nab power when nobody was looking. Even with that included, I think my analysis above still stands. We know the Trade Federation had been conducting business with Naboo and other Republic planets, and we know Palpatine would rather see the Republic thrive than sell it out to the Federation powers. In Episode II, for instance, he is adamant of not letting the Separatists split the Republic in half, even if it's because he needs to keep his power consolidated.
Damn these are convoluted movies.
That is probably how it's done all day every day. I have a friend in government IT who told me that no matter what level of government people are at, they break security protocol all the time because nothing ever happens anyway. Seriously you could probably waltz into whatever state house is closest to you, find some politician's computer, get their entire email archive, and leave without anyone noticing.
That was the plan, but it didn't quite work out as intended. Pelosi did not expect anyone to steal her laptop or hard drives with classified info. If she had she would not be in the absolute meltdown panic mode she is now. Congress would have calmly started an impeachment proceeding, rather than screaming about it for the last week. Despite knowing what would happen, they got shook.
All these recent events are starting to make me see Palpatine's motivations in a whole new light. It's just a shame George Lucas, and really all creatives involved in Star Wars, weren't able to convey that story in a more effective manner.
Palpatine witnesses a universal superpower, the Trade Federation, attempting to take control of his home planet, Naboo, in order to control its trade lines. The Senate refuses to do anything about the situation, which gives Palpatine the opportunity to take over and clean up the problem. Even with him as Chancellor, the problem persists, and with no army to back him up, the Trade Federation (Globalists, EU, China, pick your poison) continues to run rampant. He establishes the Clone Army to finally hand the Trade Federation the response they deserve, but even so, the Republic's most revered warriors, the Jedi, are proving to be more of a hindrance than an asset, wanting to be "keepers of the peace," ie, pacifists, rather than the Knights and defenders of justice they once were. After the Jedi attempt to assassinate him just for his religious and political beliefs, and not wanting to keep the Republic in a constant state of War for the rest of eternity, he sends Anakin Skywalker to assassinate the leaders of the Trade Federation, executes order 66 to eliminate the near-useless and bigoted Jedi that almost had him killed, and reorganizes the Republic into the Empire.
Presumably, by this point, Palpatine's job is done. The oppressive universalists have been defeated, and peace has been restored to the galaxy. However, it's highly possible that rebellious factions, or remnants of the Federation, could spring up, and create Naboo situations all over again. Under his new Empire, he can't have any of that, so it is up to his armies, fleets, and his right-hand man, Darth Vader, along with an under-construction super weapon to prevent that from happening.
Over the next 30 years, the Senate is slowly phased out, moving from a representative body to a puppet organization and finally nonexistence by the start of Episode IV. Quite possibly the last remaining contrarian Senators were quietly eliminated as the Empire discovered their connections to the various Rebel factions, with the last one being Leia Organa, arrested for leaking classified information. Over the next few years, the Rebel factions slowly regain territory from the Empire, until finally Anakin turns on Palpatine and the Empire is destroyed, restoring the Republic to normalcy.
Not even gonna get into the sequel trilogy cuz I never watched 8 or 9 but it seems like they went with a very rudimentary "bad guy bad" approach, which is a shame, considering the depth of Palpatine's motivations previously.
Kinda makes me want to buy Twitter stock just to sell it.
We help em get their Twitter account back and this is how they repay us.
Only if you want RGB.
"Building a new PC? Can we interest you in a vacuum or a toaster?"
Lemme say this about Epik:
I switched my business's hosting over to them months ago.
Since then I have had very reliable site stability (99.5% uptime, although I literally JUST NOW got a Jetpack alert, what a strange coincidence eh?), and INCREDIBLY fast load speeds. Unlike GoDaddy, the PHP version is up to date, the email feels a lot more secure (and has greater spam/blacklisting controls, a feature GoDaddy abandoned), and their customer support is top notch and very knowledgeable. Plus, SSL is INCLUDED with hosting and not an extra cost, something nobody else offers. On a feature-set level alone, Epik is the best host around.
The fact that Epik stands up for free speech and condemns big tech for attempting to silence dissenting opinions is just icing on the cake.
When Google decided to shut down Play Music last year, I staunchly refused to move my tunes over to Youtube Music. Like hell I'm gonna listen to ads during my imported CD's.
In the midst of building a NAS MP3 library instead.
Go home, drunk, you're dad.
I don't consider pranking Democrat meet and greet zoom rooms to be violent acts so I'm gonna keep on doing that and flooding them with "baba booey" sound effects.
Gonna have to rename that pretty soon too.
I believe you mean "Washington Football Team."
This will be the naming convention of all football teams going forward, just you wait. New York and Los Angeles are gonna be in a pickle.
Give it a week and you're gonna see Twitter literally start advertising to try and bring in new users after everybody - even the media - leaves the platform because they're so bored without an Orange Man to pick on.
You guys have a new government every other week so I wouldn't be too concerned about that. I'm honestly kinda jealous. I wish we had as much turnover.
He's been out of the running for years. Since he still hasn't taken care of that whole "possibly a Canadian" situation, there's no reason to not give him hell if he runs.
And so that means we shouldn't prank the living crap out of em? And wear masks the whole time to make them hate masks?
Elections have consequences.
Semper Ludus.
Lavalamps.win when?