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Splicer posted:Whoever is in charge of the UK right now must be so relieved. Oh God I had a panic attack there, and had to check it wasn't me yet. Seems I've dodged it for another day, but it's only a matter of time. 
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Decon posted:StarLink customers buying a subscription because they're in remote places and/or just fanboys I guarantee the bulk of the money Starlink has made is because the DoD bought it for Ukraine at an exorbitant markup price and it was used to great effect, then he got on the phone with Putin and started loving with it when people told him to gently caress himself
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Nov 11, 2022 17:04
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Splicer posted:Whoever is in charge of the UK right now must be so relieved. Why? How did they even shoot their own foot this time? Do they even have any feet left to shoot?
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Nov 11, 2022 17:05
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zedprime posted:Elon is hardly an infinite money haver in this case. He's leveraged up to his elbows to have done this without getting out of Tesla and if he can't reap the payments he's gonna have to keep selling Tesla stock (which he's already started.) He needs something coming out today if he wants to remain half as relevant as he was before the sale. yeah he needs 1 billion in positive cash flow to make his interest payments each year. Yes Elon's worth more than that but its not in cash its in stock. And when you sell a billion dollars in stock the worth of the rest goes down by a lot because of how supply and demand works. So he has to find a billion in profit in a company that's only ever even been in the black two years out of what 14? Again and again his problem is: he paid 44 billlion for an 8 billion company
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:yeah he needs 1 billion in positive cash flow to make his interest payments each year. Yes Elon's worth more than that but its not in cash its in stock. And when you sell a billion dollars in stock the worth of the rest goes down by a lot because of how supply and demand works. So he has to find a billion in profit in a company that's only ever even been in the black two years out of what 14? two quarters
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Nov 11, 2022 17:07
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If only I were intelligent enough to even begin to comprehend Musk's eight-dimensional chess moves!
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Nov 11, 2022 17:09
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MrQwerty posted:two quarters Out of 14 years! BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Again and again his problem is: he paid 44 billlion for an 8 billion company Billionaire grifter grifts himself to own the libs
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MrQwerty posted:I guarantee the bulk of the money Starlink has made is because the DoD bought it for Ukraine at an exorbitant markup price and it was used to great effect,
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MrQwerty posted:I guarantee the bulk of the money Starlink has made is because the DoD bought it for Ukraine at an exorbitant markup price and it was used to great effect, then he got on the phone with Putin and started loving with it when people told him to gently caress himself Oh, for loving sure that's where the bulk of Starlink's money is from. Elon's poo poo is all propped up by the US govt.. But, as far as actual individual customers go, I'd bet it's a mixture of like 66% fanboys and 33% said fanboys friends who happen to live in rural places and got convinced. Elon's businesses are this meme but the poles are labeled "DoD", "DoE", "insert 3 letter govt org here". My lazy rear end doesn't feel like opening paint to do it.  But as far as Elon's limited experience with actual flesh and blood individual customers goes, again, it's largely fanboys in various states of captiveness, and their unwitting friends. Dipshits that are convinced he's "such a good engineer" because he bought someone else's work and claimed credit for it.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:11
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He was in a huge rush to get in there and make changes before the midterms and "democratize" blue checkmarks so that the liberal media doesn't have an outsized influence due to being verified. If everyone in QAnon got one, then it would become a place with "balanced discourse". Sane CEOs would spend the first 5-6 months in meetings proposing and discussing any potential changes.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:12
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Decon posted:Get on the right wing grift train, probably. Just whole cloth make poo poo up about how the left set him up for failure because they hate free speech. hes a manchild who wants to be liked by everyone. he doesnt have it in him to take a hardline position like that. thats why he goes 'i vote republican! you should too!' but refuses to actually talk about policies or politics.
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Endorph posted:he's too much of a coward for this is the thing. if he wanted to go all in on rightwing grift he already would have. he backs down constantly on just about everything, as proven by twitter blue already being disabled. He clearly thinks of himself as a centrist, middle-of-the-road dude, but he's been in a right-wing information bubble for so long that he'll post crazy stuff like that Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory without realizing just how crazy it sounds to the rest of us outside of his bubble.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:18
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Data Graham posted:A coworker and I have the credo "strong opinions, weakly held" Elon needo the credo
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Nov 11, 2022 17:21
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Wow everybody, this is so exciting! I got a free Twitter Blue subscription with my brand-new
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China thinks Elon is a dumb small idiot.
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CumBlast Radius Jr posted:China thinks Elon is a dumb small idiot. Yilong Ma exists
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Again and again his problem is: he paid 44 billlion for an 8 billion company crime weed fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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Endorph posted:he's too much of a coward for this is the thing. if he wanted to go all in on rightwing grift he already would have. he backs down constantly on just about everything, as proven by twitter blue already being disabled. You're right that he's a coward and a manchild, but a coward and a manchild backed into a corner is likely to do stupid/crazy poo poo. Especially when the likeliest people to "throw him a rope" are established right wing grifters. Like DaveWoo said, he's already so lost in the right wing infobubble that he posted the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory unironically. I don't think he'll be a successful grifter. I just expect that to be his pivot, at least briefly, before he finally fully collapses into obscurity. He'll be a brief puppet grifter that they'll tout around as the "brave, smart engineer whose businesses were wrongly dismantled by the left" much like Peterson is the "brave, smart psychologist and self help guru whose academic career was wrongly ended by the left". But, unlike Peterson or Shapiro and so on, he has no capacity for public speaking. Or he'll just continue being a rich as gently caress CEO of multiple companies and continue peddling "how hard it is to be a CEO just look how hard it was to keep Twitter afloat" while spending his days shitposting and playing video games because Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink will get no strings attached bailouts because justice is a loving joke in America and we wouldn't know a meritocratic system if it kicked us in the collective balls.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:. And when you sell a billion dollars in stock the worth of the rest goes down by a lot because of how supply and demand works. I remember finding a public trade link that shows what a certain person is trading and seeing Zuckerberg selling 10 stocks of Facebook per 5 minutes or something. Is that what one would have to do to prevent instant devaluing? (I forget where I found it. worked at a trading company as a data analyst and found the service visible even when not authenticated)
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Nov 11, 2022 17:26
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Zuck isn't human enough to expect him to behave in an understandable manner.
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If Elmo had just changed nothing initially, and then allowed all the nazis back and even pushed them forward, he probably could have recouped his losses over time with $$ from the fascists. Or am I missing something? I mean, that is what it looked like he was gonna do at the beginning.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:36
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He needed to massively increase income to pay the interest on his loans.
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Decon posted:Get on the right wing grift train, probably. Just whole cloth make poo poo up about how the left set him up for failure because they hate free speech. the right wing grift train makes you millions or a few hundred million dollars. not billions. Elon Musk can't get on the right wing grift train, people like Musk and Thiel *are* the train.
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goatface posted:He needed to massively increase income to pay the interest on his loans. LMAO. Well, he's certainly done that.
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goatface posted:Zuck isn't human enough to expect him to behave in an understandable manner. I looked into other people like Gates, president of Sony, and people from Apple and this is a common thing it turned out. I think this is a way for them to have income without working. This service exists specifically for people with high stock quantities so they can be monitored to make sure they aren't doing weird stock trades.
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Nov 11, 2022 17:40
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The man made a binding offer that wasn’t financially sound, and now he’s stuck underwater
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He has a fundamental lack of understanding of what free speech is, and also that you don’t own the humans who work for you or contribute to your website. Spitting image, I’ve never met a nice South African from 1986 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64bid6
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learnincurve posted:He has a fundamental lack of understanding of what free speech is, and also that you don’t own the humans who work for you or contribute to your website. This is the most upsettingly British thing I've ever seen.
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learnincurve posted:He has a fundamental lack of understanding of what free speech is, and also that you don’t own the humans who work for you or contribute to your website. Well, that's no problem; he doesn't see his employees as humans.
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Waltzing Along posted:If Elmo had just changed nothing initially, and then allowed all the nazis back and even pushed them forward, he probably could have recouped his losses over time with $$ from the fascists. Nah, the grift train wouldn't have bailed him out for the amount Twitter needs to survive after chasing off its primary income which was ads.
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EVIL Gibson posted:I remember finding a public trade link that shows what a certain person is trading and seeing Zuckerberg selling 10 stocks of Facebook per 5 minutes or something. Is that what one would have to do to prevent instant devaluing? Yes. It’s a function of daily volume, how much you can offload. When I sell my class A shares, I call my “I banker” and tell him how much I want to liquidate. He looks at the daily volume and determines a reasonable timeframe to unload to shares to minimize stock value impact. He then shoots it over to one of the traders on his team who gradually sells throughout the day/week(s).
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Nov 11, 2022 17:59
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The amount of money Elmo needs to keep Twitter’s debt in check is staggering. Almost anything worth discussing is still only like 5-10% at the absolute best case. It’s hard to really put into words how loving stupid the financials of this deal are.
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Nov 11, 2022 18:01
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EVIL Gibson posted:I remember finding a public trade link that shows what a certain person is trading and seeing Zuckerberg selling 10 stocks of Facebook per 5 minutes or something. Is that what one would have to do to prevent instant devaluing? EVIL Gibson posted:I looked into other people like Gates, president of Sony, and people from Apple and this is a common thing it turned out. I think this is a way for them to have income without working. It's also a thing to have ironclad protection against insider trading problems: you want to sell stock, but what if something bad happens the week after? That looks real bad. So instead CEOs and other people with important positions hand their stock to a 3rd party and say "sell this over the course of the next month" or even "hold this for six months and then sell it". That way whatever happens to the company, their stock trade was legal and above-board. This sale was set up before any of the bad news happened or could have been predicted by anyone.
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Gubbinal Girl posted:This is the most upsettingly British thing I've ever seen. It was the b-side to the chicken song that was number 1 for 3 weeks, and was a watershed moment in turning the UK public against apartheid - it was this pressure (along with the Queen calling her a massive racist in a private meeting) that forced thatcher into agreeing to sanctions against SA at the end of the year I wouldn’t Google the chicken song
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How much more money does Elon Musk have to lose before he’s forced to be someone’s butler?
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learnincurve posted:He has a fundamental lack of understanding of what free speech is, and also that you don’t own the humans who work for you or contribute to your website. It sucks that the new Spitting Image show is not only crap but it also got all of the good original series videos pulled off YouTube. So thanks for finding the actual video of the song.
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Nov 11, 2022 18:08
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