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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
lol found this gem in the replies

https://twitter.com/BrandiAtkinson/status/1590426314368221184

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Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed

Okay that's actually kinda heartbreaking.


Especially after the, uhm, "alleged research nootropic microdosing"-energy of that idea. That poor PM is gonna be banked with Twitcoin, and lose everything.

the talent deficit
Dec 20, 2003

self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture





Chill Monster posted:

I am fairly sure that since Musk used Tesla stock as collateral for the loan, he would be on the hook if Twitter defaults on that loan, though I could be wrong.

The secret ingredient that makes this whole rich-man idiot-rear end hubris bonfire so lmao is that even if Musk magically figured out how to make twitter profitable, the company has been saddled with so much debt from the buy-out and lawsuit against Musk that the debt service payments would still break Twitter's back

there's two different loans in play. (more than two, but two big ones)

one was taken out by the holding company that elon bought twitter with. that's the one secured by tesla shares

one was taken out by twitter itself and is secured by twitter assets (what assets? who knows)

both have to be paid back. the 1 bil annually is just for the loan twitter took out. the other one probably has lower interest payments because it's secured by real assets

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

quote:

I grew up in a Christian cult (rules for girls: no pants, makeup or jewelry, no TV, no secular music... it was a very small/insular community)

this is just called being Pentecostal. Still glad she's out but "cult" lol

Gorman Thomas
Jul 24, 2007
Musk just iterating on the car pre-order/FSD 0% interest consumer loan scheme lol. He's got nothing else.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Gorman Thomas posted:

Musk just iterating on the car pre-order/FSD 0% interest consumer loan scheme lol. He's got nothing else.

he also has his tube fetish but twitter offers no way to indulge it

Heavy_D
Feb 16, 2002

"rararararara" contains the meaning of everything, kept in simple rectangular structures

http://twitter.com/dril/status/560972275022045185

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


was Elon looking at all those “double your Bitcoin” scams using his name and thinking “you know what? I can do that”

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed
Private broken now:

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1590209737240772614

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Jonny 290 posted:

this is just called being Pentecostal. Still glad she's out but "cult" lol

it really does read like she's just talking it up a bit

in contrast the guy i knew that actually was in a legit cult was heavily pushed to give his kidney to a random stranger

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590409080673566722

"we'll keep their $8"

elon has never been on these forums has he

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
There is bunch more musk jibberish from that twitter spaces call he did.

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590413194069446656

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590415444229656576

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590418100243292160

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590420516757655552

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
https://twitter.com/dashiellwood/status/1590432688569462785
https://twitter.com/dashiellwood/status/1590434917753958400

lmao

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Lain Iwakura posted:

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590409080673566722

"we'll keep their $8"

elon has never been on these forums has he

the something awful business model

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


I hope he likes chargebacks

Payment processors love them

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


something awful dot com

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

raminasi posted:

i've met more than one person who got out of a cult but clearly never repaired some of the damage it did them

same but with religion in general

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed

Lain Iwakura posted:

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590409080673566722

"we'll keep their $8"

elon has never been on these forums has he

Elon doesn't know what a chargeback is.
Elon doesn't know that a scam only needs to make $9 for every $8 it spends on verifieds.
Elon doesn't know those looking to do things much more heinous than theft will use verifieds to do things the site will never catch because the results will be off site and IRL.

He. Knows. Nothing.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Lain Iwakura posted:

today is the one-year passing of lowtax

:pray:

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


Ultraklystron posted:

Elon doesn't know what a chargeback is.
Elon doesn't know that a scam only needs to make $9 for every $8 it spends on verifieds.
Elon doesn't know those looking to do things much more heinous than theft will use verifieds to do things the site will never catch because the results will be off site and IRL.

He. Knows. Nothing.

hell yeah

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


:munch:

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

its a lowtax day miracle

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
so yeah he wants to turn twitter into tiktok because he understands payments and not advertising.

like this is a valid thing and i've always said that this is what twitter should do, just sell site features. The only trick is that this in no way will ever be worth anything near 44 billion dollars. Frankly I'd be surprised if it was worth 1 billion dollars.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

Cold on a Cob posted:


is he snorting meth or something?

If you include meth-adjacent pharmaceuticals then yes, almost certainly.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

rotor posted:

so yeah he wants to turn twitter into tiktok because he understands payments and not advertising.

like this is a valid thing and i've always said that this is what twitter should do, just sell site features. The only trick is that this in no way will ever be worth anything near 44 billion dollars. Frankly I'd be surprised if it was worth 1 billion dollars.

he literally wants to turn it into a bank. filed with fincen even

quote:

The social media company last week filed registration paperwork to pave the way for it to process payments, according to a filing with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, which was obtained by The New York Times. The move comes as Mr. Musk seeks to transform Twitter after purchasing the company last month for $44 billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/twitter-payments-business.html

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
lol, he thinks twitter is a software company

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed
like 20 years later and he's still just mad Thiel kicked his rear end outta PayPal for trying to move the servers to Windows.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Beeftweeter posted:

lol, he thinks twitter is a software company

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Ultraklystron posted:

like 20 years later and he's still just mad Thiel kicked his rear end outta PayPal for trying to move the servers to Windows.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

Cold on a Cob posted:

it really does read like she's just talking it up a bit

in contrast the guy i knew that actually was in a legit cult was heavily pushed to give his kidney to a random stranger

As an 11-year-old I was encouraged to donate my allowance to our guru as a "love offering"

(Not by my parents, fortunately, but this may be part of the reason that they were never granted the honor of the guru assigning them a new name)

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Beeftweeter posted:

he literally wants to turn it into a bank. filed with fincen even

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/twitter-payments-business.html

yeah but like for direct impact on twitter i think its turning it into onlyfans which makes sense but in no way will that ever be worth anywhere near 44bn.

TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless

Lain Iwakura posted:

today is the one-year passing of lowtax

And yet his spirit lives on

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
anyway it's hilarious that its finally obvious that he's turning his back on the ad industry which is the only thing that could have made him his money back, and its extra hilarious because he's doing so because he couldn't be fuckin bothered to ask anyone who knew what they were doing and had to do everthing himself.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



hoep u got eight bux

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

rotor posted:

yeah but like for direct impact on twitter i think its turning it into onlyfans which makes sense but in no way will that ever be worth anywhere near 44bn.

i'm not seeing it really. i mean i suppose they could start charging subs to access content, but that will literally kill the platform (i realize that's not necessarily a deal breaker for elon. i just don't see how it'd work)

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Beeftweeter posted:

lol, he thinks twitter is a software company
he also thinks the same about Tesla

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed

Beeftweeter posted:

i'm not seeing it really. i mean i suppose they could start charging subs to access content, but that will literally kill the platform (i realize that's not necessarily a deal breaker for elon. i just don't see how it'd work)

No, here's the Digg Moment:

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1590429349701787648

Verified view by default.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

he's saying that thing about hate speech during a thing meant to reassure advertisers??

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
shot:


chaser:


it's ios only lmfao

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

rotor posted:

anyway it's hilarious that its finally obvious that he's turning his back on the ad industry which is the only thing that could have made him his money back, and its extra hilarious because he's doing so because he couldn't be fuckin bothered to ask anyone who knew what they were doing and had to do everthing himself.

he is so amazingly stupid

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