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explain··on [dead]
That isn't whataboutsim.

Trump didn't do it, and Biden did.

explain··on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1M to Trump's Inaugural Fund
Fantastic news.
explain··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Maybe, for the first time ever.

Though historically when Spotify has come close to making a profit, record labels see it as an opportunity to demand more or pull out.

explain··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Spotify pays 70% of their revenue to music rights holders.
explain··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Spotify pays 70% of revenue to music rights holders.

They aren't profitable.

explain··on Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion [pdf]
It would only be possible to collect the money if he has it, which he doesn't.

It may be $7 million in total value, but I believe the actual money was $1.75M. The other $5M would be uncollectible debt being forgiven.

explain··on Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide
Need to adjust relative to their revenue
explain··on Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion [pdf]
Context for those who aren't up to date.

InfoWars does tens of millions in revenue per year, but is nothing without Alex Jones.

A Jones-friendly bid was made for $3.5M, while Onion bidded $1.75M.

Onion won the 'auction' (where you get a single bid, and no knowledge of other bids), because with their bid also came commitments from some of the Sandy Hook families to drop their claims for compensation ($1.5B in total). This $1.5B was never collectable in the first place.

explain··on Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion [pdf]
And per ToS, accounts cannot be sold.

A company can be sold including its assets (its X account), but not a personal account - which Jones' account is.

@InfoWars and @AlexJones are different issues entirely.

explain··on Elon Musk was the Saturday Night Live host who made cast members cry
> Fineman's costar Bowen Yang revealed over the summer that an unnamed host made multiple cast members cry because he "hated" their ideas.

> Fineman said Musk made her "burst into tears" after she "stayed up all night" writing a sketch for him, only for him to react poorly to it. "I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, 'It’s not funny.'" Musk, she said, then "started pawing through my script saying, 'I didn’t laugh. I didn’t laugh one time,'" recalled Fineman.

The horror.

explain··on Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
£50 now.
explain··on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Running the 800th most popular website in the world (25-50M pageviews per day) on a 1GB VPS (Spring Boot, MariaDB, Redis)

Very possible.

explain··on Elon Musk seizes @America handle on X to promote Trump
>Elon Musk has taken over another popular X handle

> The @America handle was once dormant. But on Saturday, as Musk appeared at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, the account started tweeting pro-Trump/anti-Harris statements.

explain··on Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
Petulant.
explain··on Cloudflare is enhancing KV performance, but wildcard clear is still absent
Not the place to be using AI
explain··on Court orders Google to uninstall pirate IPTV app sideloaded on Android devices
Then I would consider Google's apps to be malware.
explain··on Twitter publishes the names of 7 account owners that led to Brazil ban
Yeah, all of whom have their names in their usernames or their profiles.
explain··on [dead]
Full quote:

> Once Tesla fully solves autonomy and has Optimus in volume production, anyone still holding a short position will be obliterated. Even Gates.

explain··on Fake Elon Musk livestreams promoting crypto scams have plagued YouTube for days
Days? 3 years
explain··on 500k Books Have Been Deleted from the Internet Archive's Lending Library
Fantastic news.

They should not have pirated so many books during COVID.

The economics of local and physical loaning don't translate to online, which is global and instant.

explain··on Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund
old
explain··on Can we 'reset the internet' to make it safer for children?
No, be better parents.
explain··on [dead]
Step 2: have another one of your accounts answer this question offering a solution to this totally legitimate query of yours.
explain··on Meta's Threads Now Has More Daily US Users Than Musk's X
Sure, lol
explain··on Something happened to video content creation
> And the worst part? they get to take a significant cut from the creator's income! Seriously?!

Yet the service which is writing this, costs $245/month + $1.99/month for each subscriber? More expensive than the alternatives.

explain··on YouTube tests moving title and comments to the sidebar, and everyone hates it
Everyone hates every change. Doesn't it get tiring hearing every few months about how [placeholder] service is finished because of a new design?

They will get over it.

explain··on X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. Chatbot Grok made it up
Users made it up*
explain··on Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
Maybe, but Throne at least does a better job of obscuring it.

A quick look at Throne shows no link to sex workers (their entire Twitter following is Twitch streamers), while OP's service follows exclusively "brats", "dominatrixes", "findoms", etc.

Not attacking OP's service though.

explain··on Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors.

That would be a problem out of Stripe's control and public pressure won't solve that.

Just go straight for a payment provider which is set up to work with that kind of stuff.

explain··on Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners
They serve programmatic ads like anyone else.

That's all this means.

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