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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
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Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



War Wizard posted:

His initial investment in Tesla is an actual good thing since until then car companies were purposely killing their own electric car initiatives despite popular public support. He likely watched "who killed the electric car" and realized it was an untapped market.
an investment he almost immediately used to push the founding ceo out of the company and steal two roadsters from him while bloating the cost with vanity features and ditching the company's plan to produce more general consumer-oriented models rather than just high-end sports cars.

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Buce
Dec 23, 2005


is this a cry for help, Elmon? I mean, more than usual.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Nitrousoxide posted:

It was getting in the way of maximizing trans kid dying.

The sliver lining is we can all tell Elon to kill himself and prove he's in a simulation 24/7

YerDa Zabam
Aug 13, 2016



CBD Corndog posted:

Definitely post screenshots of Musk tweets cause he's a serial deleter, who gives a poo poo about the rest.

namaste

Polititweet has all his deleted stuff.
It's quite the read actually.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Tippecanoe posted:

god this man just shrinks at the slightest confrontation

I was listening to this when it happened. It cannot be stressed enough that the chat was filled entirely with Elon fans. That video is edited in a way that makes it seem confrontational, but it was more like

"Elon, I love you and have invested in Tesla for 25 years and you are the smartest most handsome man ever. Some people say *negative things* how do you respond to that?"

"Well, erm, uh, deflation, tesla, uh, um, er"

"Yeah Elon, you are right there is absolutely deflation. You are so smart and everything you say is right, my confidence in Tesla is now stronger than ever"

The Postman
May 12, 2007

Yeah I don't understand why they even edited it. It's way more pathetic in reality.

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




lmao watch Glass Onion

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Frank Frank posted:

Wtf is the point of private likes? The whole point of dumb bullshit like that is brag

I can tell you the point for some of them: How many lovely transphobes have been caught "Like"ing things like trans porn stars? How many screenshots have we had where we go "haha of course Elon liked this asskissing post"?

DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

they've got binders full of women

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

a reality too dark to be a joke in terry gilliam's brazil

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
I can only assume he's fired everyone who knows how it works and none of his cronies have any interest in learning about such matters.

Or the cruelty is the point. That theory cannot be discarded.

Tippecanoe
Jan 26, 2011

goatface posted:

I can only assume he's fired everyone who knows how it works and none of his cronies have any interest in learning about such matters.

Or the cruelty is the point. That theory cannot be discarded.

It's hard to say which of elon's decisions are because of cruelty and which are because of incompetence. a little from column A, a little from column B

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost

E the Shaggy posted:

Oh Jesus this is why isn't it

He's 100% the kind of shitbag who thinks mental health problems or situations where someone might need help don't exist and people just need to toughen up (because mental health problems don't really exist for the rich, given their lives are consequence free)

Tea Party Crasher
Sep 3, 2012


Suicide prevention is for paying customers only

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



A billionaire village idiot who can't speak intelligently about anything is one of the best statements against capitalism I can think of. So thanks for leading by example, Elon.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

A billionaire village idiot who can't speak intelligently about anything is one of the best statements against capitalism I can think of. So thanks for leading by example, Elon.

I dunno, I have seen sources that say he can hold his own with any engineer in a conversation.

yook
Mar 11, 2001

YES, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG IS ABSOLUTELY A KAIJU

kazil posted:

I dunno, I have seen sources that say he can hold his own with any engineer in a conversation.
I’ve heard that from somewhere too, so it must be true.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



kazil posted:

I dunno, I have seen sources that say he can hold his own with any engineer in a conversation.

His mom still thinks her special boy is a techbro genius.

PsychedelicWarlord
Sep 8, 2016


https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1606408842417512455?t=2a7OJyLnDNcDU-Vg_-BZQQ&s=19

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013




:tif:

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

yook posted:

I’ve heard that from somewhere too, so it must be true.

You might be Confused

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner
Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures

Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline


https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-finances-complicated-by-declining-wealth-twitter-pressures-11671834066?mod=hp_lead_pos1


Historically, Mr. Musk has been a cash-poor billionaire, depending upon so-called margin loans—borrowing backed up by his shares—for his personal expenses and business investments while holding on to his Tesla shares and benefiting from their rising value.

Mr. Musk's current Tesla holdings, not including exercisable options, total 424 million shares worth about $52 billion at Friday's closing price of $123.15 a share.

Simply put, if he could tap all of those shares as collateral under Tesla's rules, he would be allowed to borrow about $13 billion. That is only a bit more than he planned to borrow in April as part of the original Twitter deal using just 40% of his shares as collateral, underscoring how his borrowing power has shrunk with the collapse of the car company's share price. He later scrapped those proposed margin loans to fund the deal amid investor concerns over the risk.

Tesla's board of directors has limited his borrowing power to essentially 25 cents on every dollar of share value, according to regulatory filings. As the shares fall in value, he must comply with the 25% limit. The risk to Tesla shareholders, as the company describes in its regulatory filings, is that he may have to unload a lot of shares at once to generate cash. He has never disclosed at what price he would need to pony up more collateral.

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



The Last Call posted:

Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures

Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline


https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-finances-complicated-by-declining-wealth-twitter-pressures-11671834066?mod=hp_lead_pos1


Historically, Mr. Musk has been a cash-poor billionaire, depending upon so-called margin loans—borrowing backed up by his shares—for his personal expenses and business investments while holding on to his Tesla shares and benefiting from their rising value.

Mr. Musk's current Tesla holdings, not including exercisable options, total 424 million shares worth about $52 billion at Friday's closing price of $123.15 a share.

Simply put, if he could tap all of those shares as collateral under Tesla's rules, he would be allowed to borrow about $13 billion. That is only a bit more than he planned to borrow in April as part of the original Twitter deal using just 40% of his shares as collateral, underscoring how his borrowing power has shrunk with the collapse of the car company's share price. He later scrapped those proposed margin loans to fund the deal amid investor concerns over the risk.

Tesla's board of directors has limited his borrowing power to essentially 25 cents on every dollar of share value, according to regulatory filings. As the shares fall in value, he must comply with the 25% limit. The risk to Tesla shareholders, as the company describes in its regulatory filings, is that he may have to unload a lot of shares at once to generate cash. He has never disclosed at what price he would need to pony up more collateral.

Ah, so that's what people were talking about when they were screaming "Margin Call!!!!" a couple of days ago.

Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

gently caress me he's so lovely at this. I could've done a better job when I was 15 and I was a total moron at 15. Another case of a rich guy being totally worthless.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Chainclaw posted:

do we know it's actually Elon posting? He owns that one AI company everyone's going nuts for with the GPT3 text or whatever, he loves putting his Tesla on self driving, so many he put his twitter on autopilot?

from what I understand he doesn't own it or have any control, he's just one of the many tech groups who threw money at it (including microsoft, amazon, etc)

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Stare-Out posted:

gently caress me he's so lovely at this. I could've done a better job when I was 15 and I was a total moron at 15. Another case of a rich guy being totally worthless.

He is only a rich guy because his father owned Emerald mines in South Africa during the slave time

Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

He is only a rich guy because his father owned Emerald mines in South Africa during the slave time

Yeah so he's even worse than your typical rich guy even. He's not just a smug rich fucker, he's an arrogant rich fucker who is bad at everything but only keeps at it because of his braindead bootlicking fanbase. It's like a perfect storm of poo poo.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Stare-Out posted:

Yeah so he's even worse than your typical rich guy even. He's not just a smug rich fucker, he's an arrogant rich fucker who is bad at everything but only keeps at it because of his braindead bootlicking fanbase. It's like a perfect storm of poo poo.

He ain't your typical rich guy. He bangs his head angst the walls of his factory because it has yellow lines.
I think he may not be very smart

Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

He ain't your typical rich guy. He bangs his head angst the walls of his factory because it has yellow lines.
I think he may not be very smart

Yeah, like I said, he's worse than a 15 year-old me, in both handling wealth and tech, and that's saying something. Dude's a loving moron, a flab of pasty dead flesh animated only by the slight tingle of acknowledgment from other imbeciles and the resulting twitches lever the fates of the largest social media platform in the world and his company of murderous automobiles. It's a glorious mess and he's stubbornly bashing his head against the wall to own the libs. Perhaps I'm being naive in how much it manages to amaze me that he's loving this up so badly.

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots
Wait so the guy who got puhed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a kid whose dad killed himself just took away Twitter's suicide help poo poo? Who could have seen this coming?


We need to find this guy some stairs.

AlmightyBob
Sep 8, 2003

He also removed the anti child exploitation stuff too

Doug Sisk
Sep 11, 2001
What happened to those margin calls we were promised, was the $140 limit for tesla share price made up?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Doug Sisk posted:

What happened to those margin calls we were promised, was the $140 limit for tesla share price made up?

Yeah all the numbers were made up. Nobody actually knows

Doug Sisk
Sep 11, 2001

Tiny Timbs posted:

Yeah all the numbers were made up. Nobody actually knows

I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

AlmightyBob posted:

He also removed the anti child exploitation stuff too


Congratulations, Twitter is now illegal under UK law and has to go on a black list or pay 40% of it’s yearly revenue in fines

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know

learnincurve posted:

Congratulations, Twitter is now illegal under UK law and has to go on a black list or pay 40% of it’s yearly revenue in fines

Yeah I was thinking this goes against several regulations or in the US I feel like you could get some grant money just for having it.

I don't see how this could possibly save money, I don't know why he would do this other than for the lolz.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Tiny Timbs posted:

Yeah all the numbers were made up. Nobody actually knows

Interesting

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

AlmightyBob posted:

He also removed the anti child exploitation stuff too


what a piece of poo poo!

Tippecanoe
Jan 26, 2011

AlmightyBob posted:

He also removed the anti child exploitation stuff too


Ghislaine Maxwell unbanned from twitter

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

learnincurve posted:

Congratulations, Twitter is now illegal under UK law and has to go on a black list or pay 40% of it’s yearly revenue in fines

good luck getting them

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