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Today, we’re announcing the Official Elon Musk is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends Monument Design CommitteeFor just $10, you can join a movement of like-minded people working together to force a moment of introspection upon the world’s richest, ugliest little bitch.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

There are so many psychos in America, hard to pick one. I would rather send Sam Altman a message, I believe he is the sickest of all of them.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Unfortunately Sam Altman didn't try to steal CAH's land.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's wild. Sam Altman sucks but he's tame compared to others

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think you haven't heard the interview where he talks about the "suicide" of one of his employees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji

Watch this interview:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1o9ewpv/sam_altman_discusses_the_mysterious_death_of_his/

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

I didn't say he wasn't evil. But Peter Thiel exists.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

That's a weird way to profit off of class angst

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 1 points 15 hours ago

In my opinion, Musk is so worthless, that he doesn't deserve any sort of monument or anything of that sort. I've known so many losers! Do they get a monument? Naaah, they're just the butt of gossip and that's the end of it.

I know Musk is more damaging, but stuff like this is excessively ineffective at changing anything.

If you want public art, we can actually fund timeless art.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there any way to make the monument noisy as fuck and wildly carcinogenic for those living nearby?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

wildly carcinogenic

Background noise for Texas.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I'm thinking more like tungsten carbide wind chimes with a plutonium-gallium core in each chime. It could flash blue.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Cards Against Humanity might as well be run by the Onion.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who wants to fuck with Elon Musk?

Kalshi odds are saying most people think Elon's hoping for the answer to be "children."

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Who cares what a shitty gambling site "says"?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You seem to have missed the joke.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You screwed your joke by unnecessarily attaching it to a brand and making it look like an ad.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or it was a simple layered joke making fun of both Elon's pedophilia and that things that fucked up are actually allowed on those shit gambling sites.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

settle down yall

[–] 5318008@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, it's the aggregated opinion of people who use the site. Kalshi doesn't set the price; people making the bets set the price based on the odds others are willing to accept.

There's a sampling bias for sure, but since the odds given for this bet are based on how much people are willing to pay for that bet, this gives a very good approximation for how people actually feel about something.

It actually ends up being more reliable than most opinion polls in that way.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Besides the fact they nobody knows what is being done behind the scenes to ensure results are (or aren't) fair, using a sample of individuals that are all attempting to play the system against each other deeply and irreparably biases the data.

On top of that, jokes like the one I responded to and comments like yours only serve to legitimize a "service" thats sole purpose is to squeeze every penny from its users. It doesn't provide anything beneficial to anyone but its owners.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -2 points 22 hours ago
[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

How about something visible from space so it shows up when flown over and more importantly, when satellite maps are updated.

Grasses / trees planted in a shape or phrase would be cool.

[–] SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

CAH and The Onion are bound to have a merger one of these days.

[–] clifmo@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

According to the Lancet reckless indiscriminate cuts to USAID is directly responsible for 14 million deaths.

Including millions of children. Elon Musk has killed literally millions of children.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago

Which is why when we are only confiscating entire fortunes from some families, and imprisoning them for their crimes, Musk will suffer a far worse fate.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A statue of someone putting their whole head up their own ass would be good

[–] comador@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

A meme almost as old as the Internet, yet still worthy of Musk:

I thought a limp starship would be cool

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 1 day ago

Every time I think of Musky, I always think about the time Musky got bullied off the internet. Always cheers me up.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 day ago

Elon Musk is a fucking Theseist

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna start fucking downvoting censors

The text isn't censored

Instead, you should just read the text. And downvote all posts that have text only in an image.