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New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

DoesntMatter22 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:25:53 +0000

Japan is a whole other level of respectful. I have seen a movie in the US in 10 years because when I go people are on their phones or talking

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled"

DoesntMatter22 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:19:07 +0000

Blue Origin in theory could make money some day. WP definitely not

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon"

DoesntMatter22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:24:19 +0000

It doesn’t say they had it in their possession for the last decade. It says they tested it for about a year. Not clear when they would have gotten it.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon"

DoesntMatter22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:23:08 +0000

Is there any actual evidence for this?

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Layoffs at Block"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:27:54 +0000

There's more but this is a most of them.

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Longer posts (up to 25,000 characters).

Longer video uploads (up to hours and multi-GB files).

For You algorithmic feed and Following chronological tab.

Grok AI chatbot integration (with image/video generation via Grok Imagine).

Audio and video calls (encrypted).

XChat encrypted messaging with vanishing messages and file sharing.

Creator revenue sharing from ads and engagement.

Creator subscriptions for paywalled content.

Articles for long-form publishing.

Community Notes expansion (crowdsourced fact-checking).

Communities for interest-based groups.

Bookmark folders.

Reader mode for threads.

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Video reactions/responses.

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New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Layoffs at Block"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:48:10 +0000

Valuation is not important. These are private market transactions. Ultimately all the investors made out well, and it seems the company is more profitable than it was before. At least expenses are way down and if those expenses are correct then they are paying off the debt and making a good profit.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:44:40 +0000

It's terribly painful to go and have to import everything you want to use when you want to use the Elixir console. That alone makes it not worth it to me.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Layoffs at Block"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:43:51 +0000

I couldn't possibly disagree with this more. Since the acquisition Twitter/X has had far more features at a far faster pace than in the 10 years prior. They've added all sorts of great stuff, and recently have been near the top of the charts in the Apple App Store.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Layoffs at Block"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:36:08 +0000

Mo biggie on revenue loss. They axed most of their staff and went from 2k devs to 30. Trade off seems fine

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:25:23 +0000

Elixir is nice but the console feels like the Stone Age by comparison. That drives me a little crazy

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:43:25 +0000

Rails powers nearly 15 percent of the US e-commerce. I love it. Any time I have to use another framework it feels like a huge downgrade. Rails has so many things that make it nice to use

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

DoesntMatter22 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:17:16 +0000

It was a great decision to drop LiDAR. The cars are running excellently without it

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

DoesntMatter22 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:33:03 +0000

Generally the people here are extremely against Musk so most things that are said which are positive, even if true, will get downvoted.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

DoesntMatter22 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:31:46 +0000

They will 100% fight it regardless. This is a massive verdict against them and it sets a bad precedent. There's no way they don't fight it. It's a ridiculously large verdict.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:15:35 +0000

Unfortunately you don’t understand what “overvalued” means. The price is what people are willing to pay.

Tesla is far more than a car company. Even someone who hates them can recognize that

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

DoesntMatter22 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:13:53 +0000

This will continually be appealed until it’s reduced.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:01:24 +0000

Not sure what relevance Musk selling shares has to do with profit they've made. That seems completely irrelevant.

That being said, yeah, profits were down a bit but a lot of that was stock compensation and other things. In practical terms they went from a cash position of 36 billion to 44 billion.

They are in a phenomenal position financially as they have very little debt. By comparison GM made 2.7 billion and Stellantis lost 20 billion.

Tesla is in such a great cash position that Apple only has about 10 billion more than them in cash.

The future looks fantastic.

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:17:42 +0000

Because it’s completely different. The US subsidized American buyers of the cars. The Chinese government is subsidizing foreign buyers in order to help eat foreign marketshare

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:18:31 +0000

A lot of it is subsidized by the Chinese government and also, BYD's sales in January were down 33%

New comment by DoesntMatter22 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

DoesntMatter22 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:15:53 +0000

Still making fantastic profit every quarter. So there's really no issue.