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~~Creator of roblox~~ Early Engineer at roblox, and roblox game maker thinks he should be able to run the world since he worked at roblox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

These are the mfs we need to do something about

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world's issues

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hot take. No, like actually atom-smashingly hot lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You inherited what from who now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If silicon valley built the modern world, that's a good reason that they shouldn't be allowed to run it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Because we didn’t grant you our approval to do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You didn’t build the modern world, you stole all the bricks and sold them back and are going for another round now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Outside of social media, and hijacking the internet to make it their personal surveillance apparatus, silicone valley built fuck all. What is wrong with these people?

For a bit of perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZQS4LBugk

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