Elon Musk: He only experiences Dunning-Krugerrand

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Should I step down as head of twitter This poll is closed.
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waffle iron: Jan 16, 2004

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1593474503996280833

I thought this tweet thread was good, but nothing mind-blowing to the readers of this SA thread. Something to share with your slightly normal centrist co-workers.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:51

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# ? May 29, 2024 21:18

MasterSitsu: Nov 23, 2013

Elon Musk is trapped in his vehicle while its on fire

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:51

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Waffle House posted:

Its authors should sue the poo poo out of Musk when he starts to wind back to sneeze about it

Mass libel suit, sounds good to me.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:52

madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Can't post for 5 hours!

BadOptics posted:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." for some people is the box next to their monitor.

In the current year, about 98% of what keeps me alive, warm, safe, fed, or entertained is effective magic to me. That�s just how life is today. I know a lot about a very, very small slice of the world (as most people do), and have juuuust enough knowledge of the rest not to kill myself by accident.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:53

kw0134: Apr 19, 2003; I buy feet pics🍆

kw0134 posted:

Musk's exposure to Twitter's losses is already fully baked in. He was going to put up some Tesla stock as collateral but managed to ~~swindle~~ sweettalk a bunch of other entities to take an equity stake too. Of the purchase price, plus fees, roughly 55% was paid by Musk and is owned outright, and the remaining is split between debt held by Twitter and equity owned by others. That debt is already deeply underwater, by the way, though the banks haven't tried to syndicate and offload them off their books the rumor is that there are no potential buyers for more than 60 cents on the dollar for the non-investment grade bonds. Twitter's debt was already junk before Melon took over and, uh, it's not gotten any better. But that's a Twitter problem, not a problem that personally threatens Musk's other wealth.

Musk will still handily be a billionaire even if he mails the keys to Twitter HQ to Citibank in lieu of foreclosure*. Though we can write the 25(ish) billion off completely he's poured into this pit, but his greater wealth loss has been the drubbing Tesla stock has taken in the past year. This is a minor debacle for his wealth, which says more about how hosed up late stage capitalism is than anything.

(*Yes I know that's not how it works, shut up, it's a joke.)

Just to quote myself because people have a misunderstanding of how the deal is structured and what Musk's exposure is currently.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:54

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

how long until his tweeting level declines to the point he posts a photo of himself dabbing in front of the servers? or has that already happened?

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:54

Beefed Owl: Sep 13, 2007; Come at me scrub-lord I'm ripped!

Demon Of The Fall posted:

I heard or read Twitter is going to have to pay 1b/y towards their debt

That's just interest Twitter has to pay a billion dollars in interest every year that doesn't even knock down the principle balance

Twitter never made a billion dollars in a year not even close.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:54

madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Can't post for 5 hours!

Serious_Cyclone posted:

I think a slow bleed-out until it's nothing but Musk chuds and glitchy services nobody uses is a more satisfying death than for the site to just go offline one day.

A slow bleed-out allows it to continue having an influence on broke-brained assholes. A sudden death will rid us of suffering through the law of diminishing returns.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:54

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Beefed Owl posted:

That's just interest Twitter has to pay a billion dollars in interest every year that doesn't even knock down the principle balance

Twitter never made a billion dollars in a year not even close.

And Elon's dumbass moves have chased off what little money they had.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:55

Radio Paranoia: Jun 27, 2010; It is now safe to turn off your computer.

jadebullet posted:

What's the difference between a Tesla and Musk's Twitter?

The people inside of Twitter can still get out as it burns to the ground.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:55

madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Can't post for 5 hours!

Beefed Owl posted:

That's just interest Twitter has to pay a billion dollars in interest every year that doesn't even knock down the principle balance

Twitter never made a billion dollars in a year not even close.

And that�s to say nothing of the actual operating expenses of running the loving company lmao

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:55

madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Can't post for 5 hours!

Another Bill posted:

I know horny is prohibited but humina humina humina

Brains are sexy, you�re good.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:56

Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

jadebullet posted:

What's the difference between a Tesla and Musk's Twitter?

The people inside of Twitter can still get out as it burns to the ground.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:56

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

davecrazy posted:

This loser is a recruiter???

https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1593622087603625988?s=20&t=29ULy3FzN4sz9W0K8DuveQ

Someone should very slowly and with pictures explain to this rear end in a top hat that you could in fact fire 100% of Twitter's (or Google's) employees, and things would run fine ... for a few days. But the first time someone needed to pay bills, fix bugs, reboot servers, change out some broken hard drives or design a new feature, the whole thing would collapse.

So maybe hold off on the Business Genius Elon rear end pats until it's been at least a couple of days since he fired 90% of Twitter's employees.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:57

BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Someone should very slowly and with pictures explain to this rear end in a top hat that you could in fact fire 100% of Twitter's (or Google's) employees, and things would run fine ... for a few days. But the first time someone needed to pay bills, fix bugs, reboot servers, change out some broken hard drives or design a new feature, the whole thing would collapse.

So maybe hold off on the Business Genius Elon rear end pats until it's been at least a couple of days since he fired 90% of Twitter's employees.

No I think we should trust the recruiter whose actively hostile to the idea of recruiting

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:58

That DICK!: Sep 28, 2010

Headhunters just got a lot more literal

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:59

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

No I think we should trust the recruiter whose actively hostile to the idea of recruiting

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:59

EvilBlackRailgun: Jan 28, 2007

Imagine owning and driving a Tesla

# ? Nov 18, 2022 17:59

ReidRansom: Oct 25, 2004

kw0134 posted:

Remember the Fail Whale?

Not until I read those words.

So yeah, I guess Twitter has spent the last decade really building up its backend, only for now this. Elon truly is an absolute moron who has just lucked through life and having people mistake that for talent.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:02

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

kw0134 posted:

Just to quote myself because people have a misunderstanding of how the deal is structured and what Musk's exposure is currently.

Although it should be noted that the 'drubbing' Tesla stock has taken is going to be nothing compared to what'll happen to it going forward with the Musk sheen solidly evaporated, and the worse he does with Twitter the worse that effect is going to be.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:02

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

EvilBlackRailgun posted:

Imagine owning and driving a Tesla

Reminder that multiple members of congress do.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:02

Hardcastlemccormik: Jul 19, 2022

Elon slacking the 5 people who show up for work today: so how�s that microservice shutdown I asked for? Also are we on track to launch Twitter Blue today?

Esther: sir everything on this dashboard I don�t understand is red

Elon: did you just interrupt me? You�re fired. Go gently caress yourself. Anyway, the rest of you. What if Twitter was a bank

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:04

Buce: Dec 23, 2005

madmatt112 posted:

and have juuuust enough knowledge of the rest not to kill myself by accident.

yeah, you say that now, but just you wait.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:05

Gros Tarla: Dec 30, 2008

EvilBlackRailgun posted:

Imagine owning and driving a Tesla

I did before!

Sold that piece of poo poo after it left me stranded in a parking lots at -30c, when the windows froze and thus would not let me close the door (they have to lower to clear the frame). I had my newborn with me at the time.

Absolute nightmare of a car, even before that.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:06

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

madmatt112 posted:

In the current year, about 98% of what keeps me alive, warm, safe, fed, or entertained is effective magic to me. That’s just how life is today. I know a lot about a very, very small slice of the world (as most people do), and have juuuust enough knowledge of the rest not to kill myself by accident.

Learn until you cannot learn any more. The 20/80 thing generally works and 80 is more than enough. Fill your brain with glorious knowledge. Be able to hold up your end of a polite conversation on any subject for at least 5 minutes.

COMPREHEND.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:06

Underwhelmed: Mar 7, 2004; Nap Ghost

BadOptics posted:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." for some people is the box next to their monitor.

"Any sufficiently intelligent action is indistinguishable from stupidity"

Elon Musk -world's smartest, richest, funniest and most well hung man on Earth or Mars

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:07

Sockser: Jun 28, 2007; This world only remembers the results!

I tried to do a dump of my data
It required 2FA

The verification text never came

lol.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:07

Withnail: Feb 11, 2004

twitter should just start using some banner ads

porblem solved

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:08

kw0134: Apr 19, 2003; I buy feet pics🍆

MikeJF posted:

Although it should be noted that the 'drubbing' Tesla stock has taken is going to be nothing compared to what'll happen to it going forward with the Musk sheen solidly evaporated, and the worse he does with Twitter the worse that effect is going to be.

Tesla is a special case of dumb because it's currently valued as though it has won the EV car race and is enjoying the profits thereof. A sane valuation would be about a quarter, if that, of the current price of ~$178. But people have been predicting TSLA's price collapse for a long time now and I don't know if this will be it, finally, to bring people back to their senses. Moreover it's finally profitable and it has some real revenue. It's possible it can in fact tread water until its cash flow catches up, but that's a long way away.

The market can be irrational longer than you're solvent, basically. And despite it all there's a lot of Musk stans who can't get enough of the ol' Boer dick.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:08

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

Facebook already been laser targeting prominent members of various specialist twitter groups and making them ambassadors for their particular hobby, and it started when Musk took over. Snake Facebook just got Amanda, who is a high profile older trans lady who immediately got 50 guys on facebook telling her she was holding her snake wrong

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:08

Non Krampus Mentis: Oct 17, 2011; Scrungus Bungus from the planet Grongous

EvilBlackRailgun posted:

Imagine owning and driving a Tesla

My dad has one.

He likes to turn on the fart machine app at random while driving.

I am trying to figure out how to murder it without him knowing it was me.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:09

Butterwagon: Mar 21, 2010; Lookit that stupid ass-hole!

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649533585543169

Show me your good code. You know, the best stuff. Only the most salient lines. For very important reasons.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:09

Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

Withnail posted:

twitter should just start using some banner ads

porblem solved

Put that and they will make their money back in no time.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:09

feelix: Nov 27, 2016; THE ONLY EXERCISE I AM UNFAMILIAR WITH IS EXERCISING MY ABILITY TO MAKE A POST PEOPLE WANT TO READ

goatface posted:

Learn until you cannot learn any more. The 20/80 thing generally works and 80 is more than enough. Fill your brain with glorious knowledge. Be able to hold up your end of a polite conversation on any subject for at least 5 minutes.

COMPREHEND.

shut the gently caress up, inspirational image macro

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:10

Buce: Dec 23, 2005

learnincurve posted:

Facebook already been laser targeting prominent members of various specialist twitter groups and making them ambassadors for their particular hobby, and it started when Musk took over. Snake Facebook just got Amanda, who is a high profile older trans lady who immediately got 50 guys on facebook telling her she was holding her snake wrong

ain�t nobody tell me how to hold my own gotdam snake

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:10

Waffle House: Oct 27, 2004; You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

Butterwagon posted:

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649533585543169

Show me your good code. You know, the best stuff. Only the most salient lines. For very important reasons.

This sounds like a good time for a goatse reply

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:10

Hardcastlemccormik: Jul 19, 2022

Butterwagon posted:

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649533585543169

Show me your good code. You know, the best stuff. Only the most salient lines. For very important reasons.

Only the most pungent for and while loops.

# ? Nov 18, 2022 18:11