In Mercury dimes.
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There wouldnât be enough Greeks to fill the laughing chorus requirements.
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I am looking forward to the movie version of all of this to come out. I imagine people subtitling the scene of Elon ranting at his remaining sycophants in an otherwise empty Twitter Headquarters to repurpose it for various âElon reacts toâ memes
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Streaming video. It needs more than two hours.
But whoâs going to play Elon?
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Bruno Ganz?
ETA: aw, he passed away 3 years ago
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I donât know. If Downfall took 2½ hours, maybe you could get this done in a 2½ minute short. Thatâs about the length of the Benny Hill theme, for the record. 
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Helge Schneider.
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Peas and carrots! Peas and carrots!
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While the schadenfreude of watching Musk destroy his reputation and far too many billions of dollars is great, it still means the destruction of the community that got me through the early days of transition and I have a lot of friends there.
The mood last night amongst my mutuals there was a mix of laughing at his incompetence, watching in fascinated horror as our community is threatened with destruction, and the last day of summer camp when everyone is desperately trying to share ways of staying in touch once itâs all over.
Twitter can be a real hellsite at times (I have 272462 accounts blocked), but itâs also how a lot of marginalized people, especially those in smaller more remote communities without much of a local scene found community. I will mourn its death.
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Why so short? 4 minutes 35 seconds seems much more appropriate.
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Yeah, no, but, yeah, no.
Both would look way too competent and purposefully scheming, no matter how dumb theyâd play the character. How about telling the story as an absurd comedy and casting Macaulay Culkin?
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The young one or stranger current one?
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If youâre going for absurdist comedy, what about Melissa McCarthy? Has the double advantage of probably seriously pissing off his stans.
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Both! The movie should cover his whole life - from when he invented emerald mining as a child to the time he had to boobytrap the twitter headquarters because all the employees were trying to sneak in and sabotage it before he could
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I think Alfred Jarry already did.
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And thatâs the part Iâm not happy about; how this debacle negatively affects real people.
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I understand a lot of those communities have been making the migration to Mastadon but I know itâs never easy starting over. I just saw one recent convert comparing the task of finding the people they followed on Twitter to hunting PokĂŠmon.
Good luck finding/building whatever comes next!
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suddenly a bunch of immensely self-important people were confronted with hundreds of people, often deservedly, calling them shitheads every day.
By calling them shitheads, I mean often calling them shitheads backed up with good arguments. And a lot of those arguments were from people of color and other âriff raffâ such as people who went to lesser schools than Harvard.
That part broke a lot of brains, and I do think a lot of the âwoke backlashâ in our elite periodicals comes precisely from that. A bunch of elite white people who thought they were smarter than everyone were called out for their bullshit, and they went completely insane.
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Is this task not easier because Google searches? What am I missing?
In most cases Iâve seen folks are posting alternate means of connection all over the place. Seems a cursory search on the interwebs would return locations post haste.
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