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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
He’s lost over 100 billion, and is now second, with a drop to third distinctly possible, given the ongoing share sell off.
Oh my god please stop
I mean for real
How many dozens of millions will it take?
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Thaedolus
Member
Try to imagine a cringe so hard all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Anyway this saga continues to deliver the lulz. The banning links to other platforms and then rescinding the policy hours later is just another indication that this thing really could be dead soon.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
funkygunther
Member
Raistandantulus
Member
It seemed maybe he was mumbling to himself here, but that'd be introspective. He's probably getting a lot of those offers.
Save the Twitter, save the world!
Clear
Member
Why cringe? Lex seems like a good guy and he's definitely sufficiently credentialed to be of technical service on the engineering side.
The Cockatrice
Member
Phunkydiabetic
Banned
Didn't you ban people because they were linking or discussing other forums? They were talking about dpad or iconera or something? At the very least I remember Teezzy being banned for that but I'm pretty sure there were more.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You don't get banned for linking to other forums. You get banned for trying to undermine this one.
Thaedolus
Member
The skillset of being a successful CEO goes beyond being a good guy geek.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Is he trying to say that he didn't deserve it either? It sure sounded like he wanted it.
Clear
Member
Still disagree about it being cringe, especially as I'm of the opinion that what makes for a successful CEO is frequently antithetical to being pro-social and humanitarian.
Thaedolus
Member
To me it's dripping in faux-humility/groveling
Punished Miku
Member
"Sorry too many options, let's redo the poll."
Thaedolus
Member
Vox populi, vox dei*
*incoming “lol you bots sure now how to vote we’ll have to try this again filtering for bot activity oh look the people still want me…”
Thaedolus
Member
My buddy was all in on that until recently and ended up cancelling his spot in line and getting a refund.
The Musk star dimming is definitely having an effect on the other entities. But at least SpaceX seemingly is still rocking and rolling
AJUMP23
Member
He bought power totally different.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The means of acquiring power has no bearing on whether one still wants it or not.
AJUMP23
Member
If you buy it you definitely want it. Because you spent capital to gain it. He even overpaid for it.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Punished Miku
Member
Your point is meant to be ironic, but they literally have created an ideology that justifies double standards for billionaires. It's not self-interest when they seek power, because they're thinking 10,000 years into the future with elite brains we can't possibly comprehend (kind of an inherently classist, and anti-democratic idea when you actually look at what they're openly saying) and all their power accumulation is entirely selfless and designed to benefit humanity (try and say that with a straight face).
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/un...y-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/
Please just enjoy the article if you want and don't get into any politics. It's just describing what "longtermism" is. Not meant to be partisan. There's also a great monologue about it on Breaking Points if you don't want to read.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
Bunch of 
AJUMP23
Member
I thought my sarcasm was evident. And when it wasn’t I explained it.
Raistandantulus
Member
That does give more context to Musk's fumbling esoteric explanation and niche audience remark during the neuralink presentation a few weeks ago.
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Toons
Member
I gave you the context. Someone literally posted "f*** hitler" and nothing else.
He was triggered by that.
Sonik
Member
If someone replies to you with "fuck Hitler" to something that has nothing to do with fucking Hitler, the insinuation is that you're a nazi obviously
Context matters
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Eh...feel like it's more likely he'll ignore the poll and come up with excuses.
But it's pretty close to a toss up as he was probably pretty close to bailing anyways due to investor pressure from $TSLA.
But it's pretty close to a toss up as he was probably pretty close to bailing anyways due to investor pressure from $TSLA.
PhoenixTank
Member
I have secretly dreamed of buying twitter just to burn it to the ground, so in that respect he is doing a bang up job.
That said, probably best if he steps down from public eye and opts for a Dark Knight Rises level of reclusion at this point tbh.
That said, probably best if he steps down from public eye and opts for a Dark Knight Rises level of reclusion at this point tbh.
Midnight Bliss
Member
He should put someone in charge who refuses to come back to twitter and has made their own social media platform. 
Amiga
Member
Best place for breaking information if you know where to search and who to follow.
basic Twitter search and trends are the opposite.
pramod
Member
Yeah i agree, while any owner would be annoyed if you were sharing links to another forum and saying "hey this place sucks lets leave", Mastodon etc is so insignificant compared to Twitter, it would be like someone on reeset spamming neogaf links.
SlimySnake
The Contrarian
I wonder if its time to buy some Tesla shares or if Elon has been exposed as a hack for good. He's clearly clueless about how to run these modern tech firms, and tbh, all those Space Ex failed rocket launches are now looking like Elon pushing his scientists to the brink. This whole working all hours of the night and sleeping at work doesnt work when you are trying to innovate like real scientists and techies at his companies. The nueralink article i read about them killing 500 dogs because he was pushing for faster results is just insane. hope he gets investigated over that.
Even Tesla took forever to improve their manufacturing rates because of his stubborness. Even now, if you crash your Tesla like my brother did, they cant really fix them so you either have to wait 7 months to build you a new car or you take the payout from your insurance and buy a BMW instead.
Even Tesla took forever to improve their manufacturing rates because of his stubborness. Even now, if you crash your Tesla like my brother did, they cant really fix them so you either have to wait 7 months to build you a new car or you take the payout from your insurance and buy a BMW instead.
Punished Miku
Member
Thunderf00t on youtube basically talks like he's Elizabeth Holmes.*
*this post is not investment advice.
ShadowNate
Member
The man needs to take a minute.
Whatever he's doing with the rushed policies and twitter polls (my God, anyone with even a short lived experience on social media knows what a joke such polls are) is obviously spontaneous or naive at best and, no wonder, it fails spectacularly.
Maybe carefully build or (re)build a council of select people and make more planned decisions or something. Take. your. time. Do it as right as possible.
Or burn the whole thing down. It's been an abused irredeemable hell hole for longer than 5 years.
Either way.
Whatever he's doing with the rushed policies and twitter polls (my God, anyone with even a short lived experience on social media knows what a joke such polls are) is obviously spontaneous or naive at best and, no wonder, it fails spectacularly.
Maybe carefully build or (re)build a council of select people and make more planned decisions or something. Take. your. time. Do it as right as possible.
Or burn the whole thing down. It's been an abused irredeemable hell hole for longer than 5 years.
Either way.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
He has been silent all day.
And I don't think it will be resignation. It will be a search for a replacement while he sticks around. That or he appoints a interim CEO/board in his place while the search happens and then he just fucks off to Tesla or SpaceX.
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Pegasus Actual
Member
It would appear that the Twitter new CEO poll is going down to the wire...
Aaaaaand the winner is Boaty McBoatface!
(the crowd goes wild)
Aaaaaand the winner is Boaty McBoatface!
(the crowd goes wild)
Toons
Member
It wasn't a response to him though.
Sonik
Member
What was it a response to?
Toons
Member
It wasn't a response. It was a general tweet iirc
