Well, at least it’s literally true, which is a standard the things he says don’t often meet these days.
Can’t see the tiny thumbnail, and I don’t give clicks to Musk’s Nazi playground. What does it say?
This is the link I used for the image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GB0CFWmXsAAe62P?format=png&name=900x900
twimg is twitter image hosting. No worries. I’ll live without it.
Sorry, idk that.
I just found this. It has the same quote.
Don’t apologize.
First of all, musk gets NOTHING from people directly linking to the image hosting servers. In fact, it’s essentially stealing from him.
Second of all, sure, that guy didn’t click it. But whomever was going to type it out for him was going to click it anyways. All he did was pass the buck.
If this person wanted to read the quote, they have the same Google as you and I.
This was just sanctimonious theatre. Don’t apologize for getting sucked into the most boring off Broadway play ever performed.
He also saved me from clicking to twitter, so he comes out ahead.
First of all, musk gets NOTHING from people directly linking to the image hosting servers. In fact, it’s essentially stealing from him.
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It’s not stealing if it’s willingly made available. If somebody doesn’t like hotlinking, their recourse is to return a 4xx HTTP response. Your claim leads to “ToS violations are criminal” sorts of arguments, and we shouldn’t go down that road.
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The real problem with hotlinking is that the image could become unavailable or turn into something completely different without warning. Although I still hotlink sometimes out of laziness, I recognize that it’s better to save and re-upload.
I admit the “essentially” qualifier is doing some heavy lifting.
But you’re ultimately expending some miniscule amount of someone else’s resources in a way that they received no benefit, especially where the expected path to those resources (which you’re avoiding) do provide benefit.
It’s a razor edge either way. If you’re on principal avoiding using the resource out of fear of “supporting” because you could accidentally generate a fraction of a penny on advertising impressions or bump the stock price a trillionth of a penny due to contributing to a reported active user count, it should be clarified that in this way, neither of those things will happen. The opposite will. You’ll burn a fraction of a penny of AWS time.
And yah, there is a risk of content switcharooing. I think in the context of a content aggregator that is heavily engaged by recency, it’s not something I PERSONALLY would stress about. If it stays stable for another 48 hours, it’ll almost certainly never be accessed again via Lemmy.
At least that concern is valid.
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No need to dramatize someone that wasn’t being dramatic, just mildly disagreeable, and on something you seem to obstensibly agree with on principle too…
I hate the “I have some personal issue with your link source” routine because it’s a negative pressure against posters and god knows Lemmy doesn’t have enough posters to begin with.
and dramatizing someone having an opinion you don’t agree with isn’t also negative pressure?
Ah, another person of class I see, reading PlayBoy Magazine for the articles… 👍
Sounds fake
Late edit: but provably real
The interview is real exactly when it’s cited, but it’s just behind a pay wall. https://www.playboy.com/magazine/articles/1990/03/playboy-interview-donald-trump/
Well okay, I’m just surprised he always talked like that, I figured it was age related
He has always talked like that, and it is age-related: his speech patterns haven’t changed since he was eight.
Also kind of crazy he would be supporting the Chinese simply out of love for authoritarians, the early 90s were a very different time in East-West relations.
Is it really crazy that a jackass who constantly abused people throughout his life to lord his power over them would look up to abusive authoritatians?
Makes me wonder if there are quotes of him praising Stalin and Mao somewhere
That’s not really true. He was once able (whether he chose to or not is a separate matter) to speak in complete sentences while recalling specific information.
