Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn’t we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

  • dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    If we fed every CEO of a Fortune 500 company into a wood chipper the only effect on the world would be fertilizing some plants.

    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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      7 hours ago

      Why so pessimistic? I’m pretty sure there would be much more positive change on the world from that purely hypothetical scenario.

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      17 hours ago

      I didn’t even think they would make a good fertilizer, just shove them in a can and fire them at a black hole, see if that eats them up.

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        15 hours ago

        It wouldn’t even want them. Watch as it regrets its mistake and chucks them back up as Hawking radiation.