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Facebook's "Threads" has lost more than half of its users (www.bbc.com)
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[–] chase_what_matters 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.

[–] gotnuffin 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Here's his prequels

Elon Musks failed Solar City

Elon Musks failed Boring Company

Elon Musks failed Hyperloop

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.

[–] hardcoreufo 8 points 2 years ago

Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.