Elon Musk

god i wish somebody blindly loved me like that

something weirdly touching in their faith that he became the richest man in the world through being some sort of genius instead of incredible luck of birth & government subsidies.

To be fair he did put the board in an impossible position and has done damage that will take years to fix. Doesn’t really matter if that was his intent.

trpdo_guy

The only self-proclaimed genius that lives up to the billing is GZA

No love for Kwame, the Boy Genius?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS7K2mybKBw

Yiiikes

I'm sure there are legal/fiduciary reasons you have to say that, Bret. But if I was still on the board, I'd be asking if we can just let this whole ugly episode blow over. Hopefully that's the plan and this is ceremony.

— Ev (@ev) July 9, 2022

lol

Trump attacks Elon Musk at his rally in Alaska: "He's another bullshit artist."

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 10, 2022

game recognize game

They certainly both have their stans who are convinced every blunder is a 6d parcheesi move

the matter will be adjudicated by twitter poll

pic.twitter.com/JcLMee61wj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022

man he keeps owning the libs

vaguely wondering if musk timed his termination of the acquisition to draw attention away from the twins story

"Another" bullshit artist? A rare moment of self-awareness from TFG.

xp not to draw comparisons to any political figures of late, but I feel like Elon's definitely leaned into the strategy of constantly doing some new bullshit to draw attention, and I don't think it's a calculated "don't look at that, look at this!" thing. just a never-ending stream of bullshit

tesla q2 results next week which he's been expectation managing about for a while now

vaguely wondering if musk timed his termination of the acquisition to draw attention away from the twins story

― 龜, Monday, July 11, 2022 8:49 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

nah having a ton of kids with a bunch of different women is something he's very much proud of and I think he gets off on the fact that pictures of the women he's sleeping with are going around

that said he definitely has that need to make every news cycle revolve around him at all times, each new controversy is a new opportunity to defend yourself and piss off the haters, plus (like Trump) there's probably something to be said for his shitposting being the reason for at least some of his success

If you give a narcissist some nookie

I feel like Elon's definitely leaned into the strategy of constantly doing some new bullshit to draw attention, and I don't think it's a calculated "don't look at that, look at this!" thing. just a never-ending stream of bullshit

― mh, Monday, July 11, 2022 10:18 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah now were into conversiongate

For improved quality of sleep, raise head of your bed by about 3” or 5cm and don’t eat 3 hours before bedtime

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022

Elon Musk’s spaceship blew up today. pic.twitter.com/dVfNtqdIGq

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) July 12, 2022

Responding to the video on Twitter, Musk said: “Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage”.

vaguely wondering if musk timed his termination of the acquisition to draw attention away from the twins story

It's the money. It's always the money. It's never not the money.

entire thing was clever ruse to

SELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5 BILLION of TESLA STOCK
(w/plausible excuse for doing it)

80% odds Elon pays $1B breakup fee
+ walks away with $7.5B liquidated
20% spends $100M fighting litigation

honestly think he can “land rockets”
but can’t fix ‘bots’? https://t.co/HTyOM3V36B

— Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) July 8, 2022

Uh oh

NEW: Elon Musk just said “it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset” after Trump called Musk “another bullshit artist.”

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 12, 2022

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the thing about not eating 3hrs before bedtime is actually pretty reasonable advice imo

(sorry)

So is raising the head of the bed if you find it difficult to breathe lying down. It improved my sleep quite a bit. Maybe he should stick to lifehacks

you can just have a good pillow. good advice for his twitter followers using a towel stuffed in a pillowcase

Much like the memes he posts, Musk just repeated good advice from others.

I don't know how you could engineer a worse "fuck off Trump" tweet but I guess he has a team working on it

I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.

Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2022

the thing about not eating 3hrs before bedtime is actually pretty reasonable advice imo

Why 3” or 5cm though?

3" is not the same as 5cm!

also no actual engineer would use cm as a unit of measurement. yuck

Depends how big your head is, I guess. If you're a normal human, 5 cm. If you're the Elephant Man, 3".

“sail into the sunset”

have i ever got cruise ideas for you two

Be launched into the sun

finally a practical use for those rockets!

3" is not the same as 5cm!

― micah, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:02 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this explains the paneling in Teslas

It's the money. It's always the money. It's never not the money.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, July 11, 2022 11:31 PM (yesterday)

eh, as i have pointed out itt musk sold more than $8.5B in 2021 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/elon-musk-sells-another-963-million-of-tesla-stock.html

selling $8.5B and having to maybe pay $1B (post-tax) of that as damages? doesn't make sense

he prob just wanted to buy twitter for a minute

as long as tesla keeps making certain milestones, or he's able to juice the numbers to make it look like they have, he gets to buy tesla shares at $70

he prob just wanted to buy twitter for a minute

― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:27 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he wanted, for one minute, to buy Twitter, or wanted to own Twitter for just one minute, but what a minute.

Who doesn't want a bright shiny toy for a tiny portion of their net worth? It's like one of us looking at getting a new 4K TV.

its like one of us looking at getting a new 4K TV, and we get a lot of attention for it (which is something we like)

obviously the poop emoji made it into the complaint pic.twitter.com/kPgRONZFo7

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) July 12, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXfuCgWXwAYvy2i?format=jpg&name=medium

Twitter notes that Elon isn’t allowed to terminate the contract if he himself has breached his own obligations under the deal. And then lists six ways that he breached those obligations pic.twitter.com/rYEMQ5qj4C

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) July 12, 2022

yeah that seems like the ball game tbh

No Twitter execs are going to jail when the court learns about da botz