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It was annoying, anyone, especially verified could change picture and name to someone else and write some bullshit. Most of people wouldn't notice the handle, only the name and picture, and that's how fake news might spread. Lately there were a lot of verified profiles that changed their profile pic and name to Elon Musk and were trolling.


This has always been the case and it has always been fine.


Surely context would show that these are parodies, not impersonations.

Are these people trying to impersonate Elon Musk, or are they parodying Elon Musk on their clearly-marked "not elon musk" (due to the handle) accounts?

I'm inclined towards the latter.


iOS doesn't allow sideloading, and the only available store takes 30% from developers, that is anti-competitive.


Not everyone should go to University. It makes it's value smaller


If the value becomes smaller, wouldn't it automatically result in fewer people going to university?


That sounds logical but it doesn't typically work like that. Instead you need to then do even more than get a bachelors degree.

Also known as education inflation.


it's like gold. the more people have gold, the less valuable the gold is, because it's no longer scarce.

i don't agree that more university students devalue universities however. on the contrary, more university level education is in my opinion the best response to less jobs and automation.

we need ever greater and greater parts of our society in higher education to study, research and teach, because all the low level jobs will eventually be automated away.

but imagine what our society can do if we are all educated to the level of a college professor. with more educated people we can address issues such as pollution and climate-change much more easily, and this can only speed up the advancement of our society.


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