My understanding is that Twitters revenue was

  5   billion in 2021
  4.4 billion in 2022 (When Elon made bid and took over company)
  3.4 billion in 2023
  2.6 billion in 2024
  2.9 billion in 2025

What's the operational cost now? 10K to 2K employees. 30 Engineers.

It doesn’t cost much to keep the lights on. As far as I know, X post-acquisition is not investing in innovation anymore.

Musk might have been right that shifting to KTLO mode was a good idea, but the company would still be better off if someone other than him had bought it and done the same thing.

It's hard to have nuance in KPIs.

Precisely like code

  Clarity > Cleverness

Do you mean Firefox specifically? Because you can donate to Mozilla: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/donate/ it's that you can't specify where you want the funds to go.

yes, I do mean Firefox specifically. Mozilla fundation is not Mozilla corporation. The money you give to the fundation is for their charity work, none of that goes to the development of Firefox.

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Were we the crows?

Checks in their current form need to be sunsetted. Either have a way of printing a check locally that have QR codes that include recipient's name and the sender's financial institution. No static routing and account numbers.

Minimally we should make spoofing harder and use some basic TLS type technology for calls.

Unfortunately the US Dollar is devaluing. In the past year the dollar went down by 11%. That means SP 500 which has gone up 13% in the past year has only gone up 2% for a European.

The DXY dollar index:

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/.DXY?qsearchterm=dollar%20index

The big move down happened March-June.

Coincides with major tariff actions by the admin

It's a matter of perspective, for the US administration, that 11% drop is reason for celebration.

Their goal is to make American blue collar manufacturing jobs viable again, and part of the plan is to make it cheaper for other countries to buy their goods.

It's not the first time the dollar has been intentionally devalued.

> Their goal is to make American blue collar manufacturing jobs viable again,

It's one of many stated reasons.

What the real reasons are is not really important IMO. But my money would be on something much more sinister and selfish

This means that from a European point of view, US investments are 11% cheaper.

This could be attractive depending on your view of the future of the US dollar and US stock market.

Well no thanks, the US is going the same path Hungary and Turkey, just with a 10 year difference, autocrats are never good for business.

As soon as Trump came in power I sold all my dollars and I was wise to do it.

Expect things to go much more worse from here, this is only the beginning. For now the FED has relatively been untouched, it's not going to stay pristine forever.

yup, by going after Powell he is threatening the rest of them to vote the way he wants in the future.

While it would be great if people of the US started to show some backbone and resist this fascist takeower, I'm quite pessimistic. What's going on makes me really sad.

OTOH it's not too late!! We have seen trends like this turned around before.

Not if the European invested in currency hedged vanguard sp500s

The fact that the EUR/U$S parity did not change much means EUR devaluated about the same, doesn’t it?

EUR/USD increased ~13% in the past year

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=USD&view=1Y

No the $ devalued against the euro by about 11% in the past 12 months. Look at a chart.

False. Dollar has crashed against Euro.

drop capital gains tax on EU stonks and watch the flight. there are a million ways they could make this attractive

If you are rich enough, it isn’t rocket science to avoid capital gains taxes in the EU. And by rich enough, just a few hundred K. (See the related FIRE Reddit boards)

> drop capital gains tax on EU stonks

Right, because it's not like France already has a large primary deficit or anything.

confused sounds in voiced glottal fricative What capital gains tax?

In general those things work pretty bad. Then someone will just make an EU company that owns US shares to do a tax arbitrage.

PG is obsolete.