Elon Musk

idk if I were lending money to someone to buy a software company I would make them covenant to offer experienced technical staff sizable retention incentives

This is what’s so infuriating about Mr. Epic Reddit Man. He all but announces he’s ripping people off by naming it “Godot” — you can just see him tittering to himself — and still people are too dense to catch on because they’re content to simply bask in his imaginary glow.
― Chris L, Monday, November 28, 2022 2:26 PM (five hours ago)

i mean, this literally is

https://i.ibb.co/M27DZ8t/image.png

also didn't musk admit that the hyperloop was lobbed over the wall for the express purpose of defeating california's high speed rail proposal? seems like the boring company is the same stratagem. the playbook is old - see ford/gm convincing cities to pave over light rail and train in the 40s/50s in favor of the auto-mobile and a car for every family. the car needs to be destroyed!

agree

idk if I were lending money to someone to buy a software company I would make them covenant to offer experienced technical staff sizable retention incentives

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 28, 2022 7:34 PM (seventeen minutes ago)

it's often the case that companies get bought so the buyer can fire staff and pocket more money for themselves, and that's the whole incentive for buying the company. it's the private equity leveraged buyout playbook. that usually takes course over several months/years though, a controlled burn with plenty of backstops, not in just a few weeks like here!

Do the banks actually get paid in the end tho when your Guitar Centers or Toys R Uses finally go under

i'm not an expert there but my understanding is that by the time a company is finally circling the drain, a lot of its debt will have been sold and resold until it ends up in the hands of distressed debt investors, who chiefly specialize in bringing guns to a knife fight.

the fact that elon's underwriting banks here still hold the debt is extremely unusual and is more a factor of how drastically the macro debt markets have deteriorated since the deal was struck back in march rather than anything elon did. but of course, elon's actions haven't helped matters at all.

Oh yeah good point I forgot that part of this colossal fuck-up

Guitar Center has been "circling the drain" for going on 20 years now

Elon fanfic is hilarious

It would be insane if it turns out @elonmusk had a long game of buying Twitter- knowing apple & Android would drop him- to launch a secret phone he had made two years ago, making his $44B Twitter investment into a $300B phone company..

— Jason “Storm Chaser” Nelson (@Storm4Congress) November 28, 2022

lol wtf, how would massively overpaying for twitter have any relevance to building a phone?

4d chess, maaaaaan

44b chess

fanboys should just write a horny Miami bass paean to Musk at this point, cos that's about the level of their obsession atm

"we like the cars that go boom"

A lot of people were like that with Trump too. I seem to recall Mr. Dilbert saying all the Putin stuff was just to earn his trust so he could stab him in the back later

lol sleeve

Same energy as Elon and Tesla

“I will not accept that it’s a highly dangerous road”
From ITN archives. pic.twitter.com/snILgnwvPi

— Stephen R Jones 🇺🇦 (@Meliden) November 28, 2022

Hmmmmmmmmhttps://t.co/6ELisTqFcq pic.twitter.com/mDIP31Y0Eg

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 29, 2022

ok!

Elon Musk said that Twitter will unveil three verification badge colors: blue, gold, and gray. Blue will be reserved for individuals (both those paying for Twitter Blue and verified individuals of interest), gold for companies, and gray for government. https://t.co/LxlVrq9IPm pic.twitter.com/xBMDA3rR64

— IGN (@IGN) November 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw

where's the brown badge

I expect to be assigned a yellow six-pointed star

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

Sorry meant to post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmvAUmvLA4

Musk also said that all verified accounts will be "manually authenticated" before the check appears on the profile.

hows he planning to do this since he fired everyone

he didn't say how long it would take

6-7 month wait time

you tweet at him and ask for verification and he runs it past catturd2

lol

NEW: Email from Elon to Twitter engineers and designers: "Anyone writing software or doing design should be on the 10th floor of SF HQ. It is intended to be dense and intense. Thanks, Elon."

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 29, 2022

dense and intense famously the friends of computer programming

i am dense and intense

get to the 10th floor asap

lol just go have a lan party in whatever stupid house you have Elon

It smells funny in there

https://thenerdstash.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/duct2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mAsl03WQY

How much will it cost to get one of those awesome Herschel Walker badges? #onethread

Starting to think Elon paid 44m for Twitter NFT

“dense and intense” is also how ppl describe Elon

https://i.ibb.co/hLSfFZF/Fis-N0-Zv-VUAAAq-Bx.jpg

I doubt Buddah would think Musk is correct

underrated weird thing about that photo is the mirror behind the table just reflecting the lamp and whatnot

seems fine

Breaking news: The EU has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be banned in Europe unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderationhttps://t.co/lbFJfnvrwb pic.twitter.com/w6r3bQmJwv

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) November 30, 2022

Stop being Woke, Europe!

Lol saw one of his fanboys say "WELL TWITTER IS BASED IN US SO EUROPEAN LAW DON'T MATTER".

Be amazed if he doesn't adopt that hilarious legal reasoning only to dirty delete tweet after his lawyers msg him

Are you serious?! pic.twitter.com/7QPkHXhT4E

— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) November 30, 2022

thats bigotry against high net worth individuals

Money is speech, therefore taxes are censorship. And you can't advocate for censorship on Elon's Free Speech Bazaar.

(how does he tweet with a locked account?)

in many cases theyll unlock you once you delete the naughty tweet