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  My dad took his life last year.
  Elon has been an annoying egomaniac up until now. This hits too close to home though. He’s now trash to me.
  Why is it that Elon gets to shit on us? Fire half his company and now leave the vulnerable with one less safety net.
  I wish we could fuck over Elon like he fucked us.
context: What is the actual purpose of this other than to once again have the spotlight on you and get everyone talking about you? >
  
  The media is reporting the suicide part because it's good bait, but this is the whole feature that warns about covid misinformation, too. Which has been annoying him for sure as he's been tweeting Fauci conspiracies. >
  
  But very rarely does a feature like this have to be removed to be changed. >
  
  You see this same kind of thing in politics all the time. If you wanna do something that will make you look bad (remove misinformation warnings) then do 2 bad things (suicide prevention and misinformation warning) and “walk back” the bonus shitty thing. You still get the shitty thing done but now the news cycle is “_ walks back on ” instead of “_ does ”
  Trump admin did this constantly. >
  
  Oh you mean the "Cock-Thumb" thing.. >
  
  Stay tuned for tomorrow where he back peddles again and we get a shiny new thread! >
  
  Tomorrow: “Suicide prevention will only be for Twitter blue subscribers” >
  
  He's already discussed getting rid of more ads and getting rid of the new feature that shows how many people saw your tweet on Twitter Blue. Basically, if you enjoyed Twitter well enough before he took over, you need to pay $9 or $12 a month depending on how you use Twitter (on app or desktop) >
  
  
  Basically, if you enjoyed Twitter well enough before he took over, you need to pay $9 or $12 a month depending on how you use Twitter (on app or desktop)
  
  If I'm required to pay anything above $0.00 to have the luxury of using Twitter, I would rather gouge my eyeballs out. Even though there are still peeps I like to see what they're posting, at this point in the game I'm more just there with my popcorn to see how bad this "genius" f@ck$ this thing up more than he already has. >
  
  I pay 0.00 today to not have anything to do about Twitter. >
  
  I pay $0.00/month for FB, and FB is some janky scum trash
  I guess FB is objectively $8/month better than Twitter now by comparison
  Also, less suicide judging on FB! That's a feather in your e-cap, zuck 👌 >
  
  That’s because Facebook isn’t a service it’s a data harvesting machine. You’re not the customer, you’re the product. >
  
  I assume you say the same about Apple and Twitter? Because blue, no data harvesting? >
  
  Oh no, the same is true of all social media companies for sure- I’m just saying the fact that it’s free doesn’t make it a better service to use >
  
  Just one of those "unnecessary microservices," I'm sure. >
  
  Disabling it allowed us to HTTP some of our Firewalls, and SSL some of our FTPs and SFTPs. Overall performance to the user is down, but incoming R2D2s and SSHs are up, which means in the long run, users will see more return on their SEO. >
  
  Are the C3POs and T-1000s up or down? >
  
  C-3PO are being taken out next, replace with a legacy BB8 system like in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. T1000’s are overkill. Going to switch over to TI-83’s. >
  
  NCC-1701 or NCC-1701D? >
  
  N. C. C... One. Seven. Oh. One. 
  No bloody A, B, C, or D. >
  
  I understood that reference dot gif >
  
  Good so now Twitter can go kill itself? >
  
  In game. >
  
  In the game >
  
  EA Sports, It's >
  
  It's only game. Why you heff to be mad? >
  
  I used to be incredulous about how effective measures like this we're in suicide prevention. That was until I started working in mental health. I've heard so many people tell me that when they're googling how many pills to take, etc.,  that that message is what gives them the second they need to think about what they're planning and reconsider their options. It's a shame to see it removed from Twitter. >
  
  Suicide prevention is a "game" of economies, it's about buying time to give someone to calm down. When I learned crisis intervention, one of the most effective questions in the hypothetical "about to jump in front of a train" call is "tell me what's going on". You have to give people time and alternatives to stop them from turning towards permanent fixes for temporary feelings, to use the cliche >
  
  God, what a harrowing thing to a read. This is why I finished my Psychology degree with the intent to treat Eating Disorders as a specialty. 
  Then I started reading the stats about how likely a patient is to be lost and I hard-shifted out of that entire life because I don't think I could handle losing someone like that. 
  Now I work in Video Games and don't have to worry about anyone dying on my watch. :( >
  
  I remember reading a post where someone said they wanted to die, but wanted to wait until the release of a game they wanted to play.  Later, after they played the game and some time had passed, they realized they didn't want to die anymore.  So making a video game could help save lives :) >
  
  It's like a character in Bojack Horseman that says he was suicidal, but  the Knicks were having a good season and he wanted to see it out. >
  
  The View from Halfway Down is one of the best episodes of Television ever IMO. >
  
  That episode was so genuinely disturbing. 0_0 >
  
  I think that was the point. I've been told that when you're in a suicidal mindset that episode really captured the feeling. >
  
  Musk: "If they die, they die." >
  
  Many of you will die. But that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. >
  
  Ever since I can remember, I always knew I deserved to be dead! >
  
  Life is a terminal illness after all.
  Especially with the right amounts of hookers and cocaine. >
  
  "The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead."
  - Mr. Peanut Butter >
  
  This guy would disable 911 if he could. >
  
  Or charge you eight dollars to use it. >
  
  Only 8 dollars? This is a life or death service, that's a premium. >
  
  He will start at $200 but Steven King will haggle him down to $80 >
  
  Don't forget they'll double the price in rush hour >
  
  Upgrade to FSD at checkout and you'll never need an ambulance again! /s >
  
  I've reached my article limit of 0 articles apparently >
  
  12ft.io can bypass it for some sites. >
  
  "Well then they better do it and decrease the surplus population!"
  
  Elon Musk >
  
  Watch out Elon, there are 3 ghosts incoming >
  
  He tweets that all three ghosts told him to kill himself, but there's no suicide prevention feature to help him.
  "Sherd ah keel miself? Ah wheel i-bard bar tha resalt orv dis pole"
  The users overwhelmingly vote in favour. >
  
  Is he Swedish now, or something? >
  
  Apparently Grimes told Azaealia Banks no one else in his family has the same accent he does and no one really knows where it comes from >
  
  Or, of course, it broke and the half dozen employees still left there can't fix it whilst keeping the wheels spinning on the core business.  Remember, removing tech teams doesn't mean everything breaks immediately, but entropy wins in the end. >
  
  yeah, if anything the fact it's still going decently for this long speaks to the resiliency and fault tolerance of their platform/stack
  and Elon, the dumbfuck he is, shows up and says the only way they'll achieve velocity of feature changes is to do a total rewrite (probably the most boneheaded idea a CEO (or CTO could go with when they join) >
  
  Right, you 6 hardcore indentured employees, rewrite a social media platform from scratch, but this time do it all client side in JavaScript to make it future proof and servers cheaper. >
  
  What the fuck is wrong with him? >
  
  Narcissism and fear of trans people >
  
  Isn't his daughter trans? Christmas must be super awkward... >
  
  I'd reckon she doesn't attend. >
  
  She legally changed her name so she can disavow Musk completely. And Musk blames communism for his estrangement from her. >
  
  "Its elimination could add to concerns about the well-being of vulnerable users on Twitter. Musk has said that impressions, or views, of harmful content are declining since he took over in October and has tweeted graphs showing a downward trend, even as researchers and civil rights groups have tracked an increase in tweets with racial slurs and other hateful content."  
  Sure buddy, sure >
  
  He literally fired whole teams whose job was collecting and analyzing this data >
  
  Ah, the good old "We have better numbers now because I fired the people who produced accurate numbers" >
  
  Same thought process as "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any", concerning covid. >
  
  The Autopilot & Full Self-Driving Mode doesn't have this feature Enabled either. >
  
  
  Musk has said that impressions, or views, of harmful content are declining since he took over in October and has tweeted graphs showing a downward trend
  
  Ah, because Twitter usage in general is declining? >
  
  He probably just reclassified the content as not harmful. >
  
  Exactly.  Musk considers Nazis and Covid disinformation to be helpful content. >
  
  Elon: "I want to be cool and edgy, and nothing is edgier than not caring about death!" >
  
  "Suicide is badass!" >
  
  Ending one's life is an extremely serious choice that should not be decided by anything less than a twitter poll. >
  
  "I will abide by the results of this poll." >
  
  Okay, so he’s definitely getting haunted by three spirits. >
  
  Vodka, Whiskey, and... Gin? >
  
  He's South African, so maybe Van der Hum, Mampoer and Amarula. >
  
  That actually sounds like a rougher hangover than the 4 horsemen >
  
  I wonder if it's just... Unable to be maintained after he fired the people who kept it going, and doesn't know how to fix it >
  
  Keep in mind he's incredibly ignorant of how software works and also probably insane
  He's probably just thinking that any feature he turns off will make the rest of the app "run faster" and therefore become more profitable -- he went on some ridiculous tangent at one point about how many people in developing countries can't use Twitter because it loads too slowly on their phone and if Twitter could fix that it could have two billion users >
  
  What the fuck could he possibly gain from this? He's literally doing things to be an asshole. >
  
  Boycott Musk and Twitter >
  
  I already closed my account, I don’t understand why people are still using it. If not Mastodon, then another app will pop up and some other billionaire sociopath will buy it and use it to whatever advantage. >
  
  Edit: perceived Accessibility. 
  I genuinely didn't know that Mastodon has a culture of utilizing alttext for images. I do know some people have experienced issues re:screen readers, but I'm not sure if that is a current problem still. 
  Something I feel I should have added: there's already well-established communities on Twitter and moving over can be difficult. 
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  Accessibility. 
  Mastodon doesn't have the same accessibility features as Twitter. 
  Alt text and screen reader compatibility make a huge difference. >
  
  That's definitely a reason and it's legitimately a good one for a lot of people but I'm very doubtful for most that it's the reason >
  
  
  I'm very doubtful for most that it's the reason
  
  The reason people aren't leaving en masse and deleting their accounts is very simple - most people aren't terminally online and don't get invested into this stuff like reddit users do. 
  Regular people will agree he's a bit of a whack job and doing some goofy stuff, but most people simply do not give a fuck. It doesn't impact them in any meaningful way, they'll never meet Musk, and they aren't emotionally invested into twitter. They use it for entertainment and that's it. 
  Look at the reaction of reddit to a video of some random person listening to loud music on public transportation. You'll see unbridled rage, hyperbole, and people acting like it's the most abhorrent behavior they've ever seen. Most regular people are just going to shrug if shown the same video. It doesn't affect them, they'll never see that person, and they won't spare that video a second thought. 
  The people hyper invested into this sort of stuff (on both reddit/twitter) are just very loud vocal minorities. For everyone single person who would leave, there are literally 1000 others who just browse twitter for fun and have never posted a single thing. >
  
  You may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. >
  
  Bro becoming Lord Farquaad >
  
  "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make," indeed. >
  
  The standard pro life conservative. Anyone surprised? >
  
  Musk comes over as a guy that says "if I can't make them love me, I give them a reason to really hate me"
  As soon as the image of the eccentric, philanthropic billionaire showed the first cracks, he went completely nuts and stopped pretending >
  
  Today on How Much of a Scumbag Can Elon Musk Be? >
  
  He’s seriously making some extra effort to stay in the news every god damned day. All i want for Christmas is a day without seeing headlines about this joker >
  
  Aim higher. All I want for Christmas is for Musk to lose so much money that he becomes irrelevant for the remainder of my life. >
  
  Maybe Musk is suicidal after seeing Tesla's stock price plummet, and he doesn't want anyone stopping him. >
  
  Nobody would >
  
  They should make a custom message for Elon's account
  "You're Not Alone, Help Is Avail--oh wait you're Elon Musk, never mind
  You are alone" >
  
  Elon Musk is kind of a prick. >
  
  Kind of? >
  
  Probably goes to a review queue that has an escalation policy and since there are no reviewers it hits his cell phone because he insisted on being who it all rolls up to and he is tired of being inconvenienced. >
  
  He had to do this right at the most crucial time of the year that it's needed? More suicides happen at Christmas than at any other time of the year. It's like he wants people to die. >
  
  Relax guys, the Green suicide prevention checkmark is only $7 a month. 
  However, for 8$ a month Elon will personally bully that girl in your math class until she kills herself. >
  
  Honestly I wouldn’t even be surprised if he announced a feature like that at this point. >
  
  He's haphazardly pressing every "do not push" button that there is.
  He's an obstinate child, simply looking for a response.
  He just happens to be wealthy enough to ruin hundreds of thousands of lives while playing with his toys. >
  
  Musk: Oh boy! Everyone is talking about ME again! Wheeeee! >
  
  Right before the holidays, when people feel the lowest often. Jesus, this dude. >
  
  Suicides always go up around the holidays. This is an awful time to take away a few moments of pause that might save a persons life. >
  
  Does Elon have an explicit goal of increasing the suicide rate of trans kids? >
  
  His TSLA investors call this week devolved into him ranting about trans people and one of his own top investors having to try and steer him to another topic. Grimes left him for Chelsea Manning, and he has a trans daughter he hasn't seen in years who recently disowned him. His daily thoughts are ruled by ways he can get back at trans people for the crime of, apparently, existing. >
  
  How many more billions of wealth is he determined to make go poof just so he can rant at the world about his own personal insecurities instead of spending a fraction of that in professional help? >
  
  Have you considered that if he still cared about money he wouldn't have bought twitter? It's a money pit that rarely turns a profit. Obviously his "passion" is in political matters now >
  
  He thought he could sign the contract with Twitter and then back out. He spent months in court arguing he was "tricked" and complained about bots or shit. Contract was clear as day and he was forced to abide by it.
  Everything since is one long tantrum. >
  
  I don’t get it. Sure, politics, democrats, republicans, pac money, etc. It makes sense why Elon bans/unbans these things. 
  But in what fucking world does banning suicide prevention make sense? People of all politics and backgrounds make use of this service. >
  
  According to some others in these threads it's apparently the same system that helps control COVID and political misinformation. >
  
  This is so messed up. I actually can say that I saw someone tweeting suicidal thoughts so I DM’ed them and talked them through throwing up the pills and booze they took to end it and months later I still get messages thanking me for “being there”. Elon is out of touch with reality. >
  
  Ok is no one reading the fricken article:
  "we have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that."
  Twitter is in shambles but don't be fucking naive and read a cherrypicked post title. >
  
  It cannot be stressed enough that a lot of the changes Musk has made have centered around removing features that helped protect LGBTQ+ individuals from hate.
  It's also not coincidental that Musk has brought back so many anti-gay, anti-trans, right-wing opportunists to the platform, either. 
  Neither is it a coincidence that SpaceX and Telsa employees have complained about anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination with way more frequency than most industries. 
  Musk is attacking the queer community at a time when right-wingers are justifying the murders of queer people, calling our very existence amoral, sexual and bad, and referring to us all as dangers to children (their go-to technique for censoring and oppressing whatever they don't like). >
  
  All because his daughter won't talk to him >
  
  And his wife left him for Chelsea Manning >
  
  Why are people still using it? >
  
  Elon: Suicide prevention feature only available to verified account subscribers >
  
  Imagine not having a stage environment to "revamp" features on... >
  
  Yeah someone ironically misused this feature! Let’s remove it so we can’t ever attempt to save someone that might need it. 
  What a fucking epic cunt he is. >
  
  Is Elon trying to tank Twitter? Its honestly the only explanation. >
  
  Yes.  But his overall goal is to help Putin tank the US dollar. >
  
  Does it really need to “go down” while you revamp it? Is it really more complex then just leaving it up on live before you upload the new feature as it overwrites it? >
  
  Just when I think they can’t go lower…they go lower. >
  
  He was voted off the island, why is he still doing stuff?? >
  
  Watch him bring it back after 24 hours, and claim that he invented it. >
  
  Does this mean we can tell him to "kill himself" and he won't flag it? I'm just wondering how far they are going now. >
  
  This is a non story if they are revamping things as they say. >
  
  I don't know about the Twitter feature, but on Reddit it is mostly used to harass people >
  
  Can people stop saying "sources say" and just actually link or explain what the source is. I had sex with every other person I had met before I was 14 "sources say".
  Including one of my parents "sources say". >
  
  “Kill yourselves, poors. Do it. I don’t care.” >
  
  What the hell is wrong with this man, seriously???! The suicide prevention information is important and it works! >
  
  I'm glad the entire world is beginning to see what a narcissistic, hateful, far-right piece of garbage this guy is. He has no redeeming qualities and if there were any justice in this world, he'd be shunned and destitute. >
  
  Man this title is bait, I hate Elon as much as the next guy but trimming off the piece of information at the end really sells a different story >
  
  Any reason why he decided to scrap this? Did someone tell him only democrats are suicidal? >
  
  It could be a lot of things, ranging from him firing the people who understood how to maintain that feature, to him deliberately trying to appeal to edgy conservative creeps who think "suicide prevention" is making society weaker. >
  
  Actually no fuckin reason to do this