If you can't afford to pay your staff enough for them to want to work for you, then your business has failed - you just haven't run out of cash yet.
Pay them properly, or admit that you don't have a viable business model.
Way back when I used to go to the football with dad - kids under 5 could take the train for free, but weren't allowed in the stadium, so I was 4 on the train, and 5 when we got to the stadium
Since when has a trivial thing like "the law" stopped him from trying to do something he wants?
Oh shit it hadn't occurred to me that the logical end state for Elon is running for president
At a previous employer, I worked with a client who used our platform and had 3rd party API integrations with companies called Skynet (a large logistics company) and InterWeb (a 90s era almost-PaaS that somehow survived the dotcom crash, pivoted into whatever they could find to charge people for, and went bankrupt a while ago).
Somewhere I have screenshots of emails I sent to the Ops team, asking them to "enable Skynet in production" and "turn off the InterWeb"
In the immortal words of Monzy:
I pull out my keyboard / and I pull out my gloc / and I dismount your girl / and I mount slash proc / cos I've got your pid / and the bottom line / is you best not front / or its kill dash nine
Meanwhile, a Linux user wipes blood off a sledgehammer with "SIGKILL" written on the handle
Even assuming 25% of Twitter users are bots (probably a significant over estimate), and even if half of Twitter's users quit in the next year, it would still be 150x bigger than mastodon
(Mastodon has ~1m MAUs, compared to ~421m for Twitter)
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