• TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Didn’t Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?

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      21 days ago

      I’d love to see it fail completely. I’m hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.

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        21 days ago

        You saw the investor list, right? There’s a LOT of people on there who miiiiight not consider direct financial profitability to be the point of their investment.

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          20 days ago

          Top shareholders of Twitter include:

          1. Elon Musk (owns 78.7% of the company)
          2. Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%)
          3. Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison (3.0%)

          WTF they really need to relocate the evil lair in a volcano

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          20 days ago

          That’s true, but I’d imagine running a site like twitter actively costs money. If advertisers aren’t paying, who is? Do they go to their investors and ask for money? For how long could Elon personally afford to run Twitter with all of its development costs?

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      21 days ago

      What benefit does musk get from killing twitter? He’s getting something out of it.

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      20 days ago

      I mean the bitch wants to go to Mars. I say we let him. And maybe he’ll finally understand the complete piece of shit he’s been when he is running out of oxygen or is freezing in the vacuum of space because he decided to piss off or remove all the actual intelligent people and was left with the bottom of the barrel pseudo-engineer who created and developed his mars rocket.

      It’s a fun thought experiment, anyway.

      Make sure to take a photo of your roadster as you’re gasping for air, Elon!

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    21 days ago

    Bye Nazi-toddler, don’t let our tolerance and diversity hit your ketamine addicted ass on its way out, you piece of human garbage.

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        20 days ago

        I have no doubts that he frequently does that, as well as other controlled substances. But it’s okay for him to abuse drugs; he’s rich and powerful after all! Though it would be interesting to see his head under an MRI with T2 and see how many Olney’s lesions he has.

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        20 days ago

        Well now when some rando on the internet told you otherwise, you know better :D

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            20 days ago

            “small amount once every other week” - his words - doesn’t change anyone’s behaviour, nor does it cause outbursts like “they want to extort me with money? fuck them!”

            so question is how much cocaine does he take in between ;)

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              20 days ago

              Okay, how about others’ words?

              Reports include direct accounts from Tesla board member Joe Gebbia, “where Musk took ketamine recreationally through a nasal spray bottle multiple times.”

              Also-

              In the winter of 2022, former Tesla board member and friend of Musk, Larry Ellison, pushed Musk to visit his private Hawaiian island for a dry out, according to WSJ sources. This seems to have been the worst period for Elon’s drug bender, as other friends encouraged him to take Ellison’s offer, or attend rehab.

              https://qz.com/elon-musk-drugs-telsa-rehab-1851227230

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                20 days ago

                None of this can be proof he doesn’t take other drugs.

                Also, I appended the original comment after you replied.

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                  20 days ago

                  He does take other drugs. But ketamine is apparently the big one.

                  And the thing you appended is about trusting Musk. I’m literally saying to go by the direct accounts of people who have been around him.

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        20 days ago

        I believe the quote I read from someone who knows him was something like “He microdoses ketamine daily, and macrodoses at parties”

        I wonder if he pisses his pants yet? He must have K bladder by now, unless there is some super rich people secret to avoid it.

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          20 days ago

          Wow, because of your comment I’ve googled ketamine bladder and now I can’t consider K as a relatively safe drug anymore.

          20 - 90 % of users got irreversible urinal tract ulceration and significantly reduced functional bladder capacity.

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      20 days ago

      Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.

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      20 days ago

      “Turn around!” they begged him, as he strode slowly towards the desert sun, but he knew enough of Lot and of Orpheus, that it would only bring them ruin if he did. So heavy was his heart, that he glanced back with melancholy love, and thus the fair city of San Francisco turned to salt. He kept on walking into that desert sun, a heavy heart keeping him anchored to calls of vultures naysaying his poor sense of direction…

      ~Honestly good riddance to both. I have never seen more narcissists in my life than I have in SF.~

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      20 days ago

      Rich people really seem to think that them just having shitloads of money in a location makes that place better. I’m a midwesterner and even I know San Francisco has serious issues from how in about a generation or two it went from a working class industrial and military city to home of several of the wealthiest companies and filled with enough upper working class people to skyrocket cost of living.

      So to Elon, don’t bring X to my city either

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        19 days ago

        And they are now bringing that problem to Texas. Along with a bunch of liberals.

        Good. Texas is a big enough state it should be blue.

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    19 days ago

    I would be happy if all tech left the city. It used to be a hipster village of social non challants and detected alternative social movements. A shining, hairy, culty, body odor having, punk rock city on a hill.

    The tech takeover ruined the city and contributed directly to the epidemic levels of homelessness seen because it made the city effectively so expensive non millionaires can’t survive there. Most long time san Francisco families ended up moving out.

    Take all the rest of tech with you please Mr. Musk. Make San Francisco an affordable city again.

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      19 days ago

      It’s too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.

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    20 days ago

    He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.

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      19 days ago

      A s that’s after he spends a ton of money to get it fixed. If he weren’t rich, he’d be bald by now, for example.

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      20 days ago

      it literally could not be anywhere else. Texas is a safe-space for oligarchs and bigots. That’s why Elon and Joe Rogan and all these other asshats left CA for TX.

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      20 days ago

      Texas, where woke goes to die.

      Blexus!?

      Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

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        19 days ago

        Texas, where woke goes to die.

        Blexus!?

        Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

        Weeps in despair in South Carolina

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          19 days ago

          Young people need to register and vote. If they did, SC would be blue reliably.

          All but 2 states honestly…

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              19 days ago

              This might not be the answer, but it is important. This is one of the last videos Beau did before he retired and his wife is taking over. It is still one of my favorite channels, but keep this in mind especially for the next several months, and beyond if things don’t go our way.

              Let’s talk about maintaining hope…