Facts.

Elon tried so hard to back down from that deal. I'm not sure why it took actually signing that deal to realize he had been hosed.

If I was an executive at twitter, I would have absolutely done everything possible to get Elon to pay that $44 billion.

They didn't "drop it". It's still there. Scroll all the way to the bottom.

They simply removed it from higher profile places and don't mention it until the very end. Sort of a jab at the old policy.

Let's go! First post using sync! Hands down the best client when it came to reddit.

I've tried literally all of them. ALL OF THEM.

For the reddit clients, they came and went, but sync stayed on my phone and I always eventually came back to it. If that's not testament of a phenomenal app I don't know what is. The competition for the lemmy clients is honestly hotter than I expected but sync remains on top. None so far match the level of fluidity, customizability, and polish sync has.

My usage of lemmy went up by 5x today because of this. $99 feels pretty steep, but eh. Add it to the pile. Pretty sure it's over $300 at this point 7 years in. Lol.

To the years of mobile lemmy browsing ahead.

Fun fact: the top 10% now account for approximately half of all consumer spending which equates to about 30-35% of US GDP. First time since we started tracking it and first time in a long long while that's happened. Wealth inequality has indeed matched the guilded age. Maybe even surpassed it but it doesn't quite seem like it yet. Just matched.

Also the stock crash isn't about stocks. It's about capital and labor investment. When things go bad, the small to medium sized businesses struggle the most which then Blackrock and the like swoop in to buy them all at steep steep discounts. That is ultimately a smarter long term play than buying "slightly" discounted stocks. IE the stock play is as you said. It's mostly rich folks that own it but the rich don't own all businesses yet. Recessions are a chance to do just that which from looking around we already seem to be in with the amount of layoffs and small to medium sized business struggling mightily. The internet omni-presence and ability to earn money sitting at home is too strong for a standard recessionary environment and indicators to show up to the same degree as before. Or at least that's what I think.

Why choose?

I wear both.

A regular watch for telling the time and a smart watch (Fitbit sense) for notifications and general fitness tracking.