My GOD the twitter drama is exploding. As of today, here are a couple updates for anyone interested:
The “insulin is free” tweet from the fake-verified Eli Lilly account tanked the company’s stock, along with the stocks for two other major BioTech firms, by up to 4%
The “we’re suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United States, et al” tweet from a fake-verified Lockheed Martin account tanked Lockheed’s stock today
Since 8:00AM this morning there has been a tweet claiming Elon Musk was starting a program called “Elon’s Tots” wherein he would pay off people’s student loans
Numerous politicians and pundits have been targeted by trolls leveraging verified accounts to fuck with their public images, and many of them aren’t being addressed nearly as fast as the fake-verified Elon Musk accounts
Twitter is allegedly worth ¼ of what Elon bought it for
Tesla’s stock has allegedly fallen by 50%
Elon has said Twitter may have to declare bankrupty
lmao
This is proof of two things, both of which ought to have been common knowledge by now:
1) The stock market is a ponzi scheme. (How else do you explain a stock’s “value” tanking due to a joke?)
2) Capitalism punishes you for doing the right thing. (The specific jokes–that the market presumably thought were serious–were pretenses of doing this.)
“Capital does not consist in the fact that accumulated labour serves living labour as a means for new production. It consists in the fact that living labour serves accumulated labour as the means of preserving and multiplying its exchange value.”
From Washington, D.C., the rings would only fill a portion of the sky, but appear striking nonetheless. Here, we see them at sunrise.
From Guatemala, only 14 degrees above the equator, the rings would begin to stretch across the horizon. Their reflected light would make the moon much brighter.
From Earth’s equator, Saturn’s rings would be viewed edge-on, appearing as a thin, bright line bisecting the sky.
At the March and September equinoxes, the Sun would be positioned directly over the rings, casting a dramatic shadow at the equator.
At midnight at the Tropic of Capricorn, which sits at 23 degrees south latitude, the Earth casts a shadow over the middle of the rings, while the outer portions remain lit.
