306

What are some notable blunders in history that resulted in huge loss? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bady@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

228 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Loss in terms of money or efforts. Could be recent or ancient.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The value of "X" has been repeatedly downgraded. It's estimated at around $15b by fidelity. They've demolished their own brand by renaming themselves and how you interact.

This is before you get into the whole "twitter has been loaded with debt from the purchase of twitter and so is even more unprofitable than it was before" part of the debacle.

[-] traveler01@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Twitter was never worth 44B in the first place. Probably X has more users now than before.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

It's easy to check a fact before putting your foot in your mouth.

Twitter.com's unique visitors declined 3.3 percent YOY in March 2023.

One of my favorite aspects of Lemmy is that bootlickers are very easy to spot and don't have loads of other bootlickers to support them.

[-] traveler01@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Also I’d appreciate you didn’t take the discussion to insults.

Be respectful.

[-] traveler01@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Not according to Elon Musk

Who has the more credible information, the literal owner of the company or some random website?

[-] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The owner of the website certainly has no reason to inflate their numbers...

[-] traveler01@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Unlike previous administration, he doesn’t have investors to please.

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk is no George Washington.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023

306 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

43945 readers

421 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS