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- yuekit2
The CEO of CBS gave the most honest quote about Trump back in 2016:
"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS...the money's rolling in and this is fun." lol
He wasn't wrong, this event in particular really helped further destroy America's credibility. In China there were entire books and papers being written analyzing the decline of America after this.
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey, I think the motivation is probably the same...Trump was great for Twitter's business, during 2016-2020 they added users after which it leveled off. It made Twitter the center of the conversation, what crazy thing will Trump say next.
- Of course that's why Elon wants Trump back on Twitter...it's ALL about "Making Twitter Great Again! – Thanks Elon of saving the human race again!utopian
- Twitter leadership was happy to accept all the attention and new users when trump was spewing nonsense throughout his campaign and presidencynb
- They used Jan 6 as a reason but they also knew that there would be a steep steep drop off of new users joining because of an ex-president.nb
- They used him until he was no longer profitable. Elon won’t be better, but twitter has always been scummynb
- nb1
Tesla and EVs are cool but the best thing you can do for the environment is not drive a car.
Assuming you must drive, the second best thing you can do?
Don’t buy a new car. Take care of your current car and drive it until you die.
- Use public transport where possible.Chimp
- adult male seeking cargo bikeimbecile
- Are Tesla's EVs really that cool? Tesla's EVs are shaped like dung beetle with wheels.utopian
- Utopian be like http://2.bp.blogspot…nb
- Just don’t buy a new car. Even a Tesla takes a VERY long time to offset the environmental damage from manufacturing and shipping itnb
- Take the No.11 bus people. That's code for your legs.shapesalad
- Is everyone charging their ev’s with solar or hydroelectric?bezoar
- Many, many, many are. Again, the point is: don’t buy anythingnb
- look up the damage that gas production alone does and see if you still want to keep the old gasmobilemekk
- Just don’t buy anything evernb
- It’s the best thing you can donb
- an aging car does more damage than you think.sted
- utopian is bang on the money. and the pollution caused by lithium mining is appallinghans_glib
- Old cars are horrible for the environment.formed
- If well maintained, an old car fine. Clean your air filter, inflate your tires, change your spark plugs, use a thinner synthetic oil. Drive 10% under the limit.monNom
- Cars 20 years ago were getting similar mileage to todays vehicles, and they don't require any additional energy to manufacture.monNom
- EVs on the other hand are extremely energy intensive to manufacture (which is why they cost more). and their useful life is probably less due to battery wear.monNom
- Not to mention that the additional electricity generation for every additional EV is probably coming from gas-fired powerplants.monNom
- Which might be more efficient than an ICE engine, but when you factor in line losses, conversion losses (step down and AC to DC), and heat lost during chargingmonNom
- ...It might not be much better than a hybrid.monNom
- The best thing we can do to reduce our footprint is to make the things we already have last as long as possible. We save all the mining, transport, processing.monNom
- @monNom there are 182 countries in the world where you're going to find cars.
1st you have to fix the logistics for spare parts, than you have to get people tosted - care about this on a level what makes sure they everybody spends money! and time on clean your the filter, inflate tires, change spark plugs, etc.sted
- (still in 182 countries) right after this you can start teaching people how to "drive sustainably". These things require a lot of painful tools and the collabsted
- 182 countries.sted
- ya but if you like motorsports, you end up with 4 cars like me...BabySnakes
- Agreed. The above assumes a world where spare-parts are available. That's a whole other issue. Planned obsolescence is a "fuck you" to both earth and its peoplemonNom
- Krassy3
Tesla's stock slide raises doubts about Elon Musk's Twitter purchase
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/i…
- I guess the rest of the market must be doing great!Gnash
- jagara0
Timeline? Good interview, nevertheless.
- neverscared4
Elon Musk says Twitter deal on hold pending details on fake accounts; shares plunge 18%
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/…
lets make twitter maximum fun...
- he seems more than confused after grimes gave him the boot..neverscared
- LolKrassy
- Oh Elon....hahautopian
- Krassy2
Tesla has lost $400 billion in market value since Musk’s interest in Twitter became public
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/…
- utopian4
What are the chances that the narcissistic, megalomaniac, man-child Musk will fully pull out of Twitter deal?
- Pretty good if he finds out it’s bloated with fake accounts and botsGnash
- ^ Isn’t that common knowledge ? Pretty obviousKrassy
- https://www.bbc.co.u…Gardener
- There has to be some other reason and he's using it as an excuse. Twitter bot armies is like.. Walmart Greeter tier knowledge.garbage
- If he was actually ignorant of that, his fanboys don't get to claim he's a genius anymore.garbage
- I actually suspected they were why he wanted Twitter: millions of bots to stoke his ego and give him a veneer of credibility.garbage
- ^ this.Krassy
- Twitter claimed their fake users weren't more than 5%. That sounds like a ton of bastards. If it's worse, you could understand why he would want to back out.CyBrainX
- Then he's playing stupid? There are surges around elections and product releases all the time, and it's been going on for years.garbage
- https://www.chron.co…garbage
- So is he stupid or completely dishonest? Pick one. Or both.garbage
- What do you know...so Tesla has been using bots since 2013 to manipulate stocks....go figure Elon!utopian
- He wants user data, that's all.i_monk
- Krassy2
Elon Musk can’t just walk away from his Twitter deal by paying a $1 billion breakup fee; Twitter can sue him for breach of contract.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/…
- investors of both companies should sue him tooBeeswax
- That escalated quickly.Continuity
- he can counter sue for being sold a false bill of goods._niko
- Right. Twitter claimed it had about 5% fakes.CyBrainX
- Stick a captcha into everyone’s next login. You can tell right away who’s realscarabin
- nb5
Since I get asked very often by Elon's critics what good @elonmusk has done, I thought I'd share a thread w/links.
Aside from his work with Tesla and SpaceX, I'll focus on what he has done to help our world and people in need.
A thread:
https://twitter.com/johnnacrider…- Brian Hall - "I am not impressed".
lol, fucking people.Nairn - One SpaceX Rocket Launch Produces the Equivalent of 395 Transatlantic Flights worth of CO2 Emissionsutopian
- Yes and people take those flights frivolously without a second thoughtnb
- Again (again) the long-term aim of SpaceX is to produce Methan fuel with zero emissions. Also, Blame the customer. At least SX re-use their rockets.Nairn
- It's such a spastic comparison, soft repeated by the mouth breathing eLoN bAd morons.Nairn
- I include my partner in that group - i asked her to justify Why she was so against Elon buying Twitter. Obvs. she didn't have a clue beyond eLoN bAd.Nairn
- Thankfully I don't know anyone who cares who owns Twitter.fadein11
- Personally I'm interested to see what he does, unlikely it will be worse than now. Good to see a real world example of a different approach to the problem.fadein11
- I don't get it. He's a dildo, fair-does, but that aside he's way more useful a human than most of those railing against him. Don't like him? Ignore him!Nairn
- He's way more useful than all the other multi-bajillionaire cunts that do fuck all other than squander their wealth on tat.Nairn
- Honestly - Put yourself in his shoes, and take on a bit of a Spectrum-aspect, and answer how you'd be in his situation?
I think he's doing ok, all given.Nairn - He is a twat tho, haha.Nairn
- I actually find his dialogue ultimately fascinating, it’s more the media hype he peddles that frustrates me. I don’t even think he’s this narcissistic personIanbolton
- And you’re right Nairn, I struggle to think of any other tech billionaire I’m happy being a tech billionaire. He’s a bellend, but excusable consideringIanbolton
- When you're worth a QUARTER OF A TRILLION fucking dollars, it's dead simple being a philanthropist.BusterBoy
- Be a philanthropist when you have fuck all money...that's impressive.BusterBoy
- Brian Hall - "I am not impressed".
- utopian0
One SpaceX Rocket Launch Produces the Equivalent of 395 Transatlantic Flights worth of CO2 Emissions
- Should we limit transatlantic flights then?formed
- ban bitcoin or spacex?shapesalad
- Here is utopian with the latest CO2 weather.sted
- neverscared just emptied his sackfadein11
- make it count elon https://www.theguard…neverscared
- he is canadian though .. nr.1 baby..neverscared
- at least some bozo super rich guys can fly to outer space... its def. worth it.neverscared
- PhanLo-2
Bants
-- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- lolKrassy
- guys send me 1 bitcoin and i'll send you 2 back.. my address is 0x010239....shapesalad
- drgs3
- NBQ006
I think he’s using the “bots” as an excuse to not buy twitter because he’s getting cold feet as the stock market is tanking and he’s seeing his TSLA billions being evaporated too.
Overall a shady move. Even more so than the “funding secured” to take TSLA private stuff.
- If twitter didn’t have some contract in place when he so urgently wanted to buy it then it’s their own fault.NBQ00
- Are you even on twitter?grafician
- Not really, just a dummy account to lurk and see some content. But i never tweet.NBQ00
- So Elon won't buy Twitter because of bot accounts like the one you have?grafician
- You don't get it.NBQ00
- tesla, a pump and dump scheme. The guy is in cahoots with the CCP. Lithium batteries - lots of natural gas is used to dry out the lithium as its processed...shapesalad
- A diesel engine is more environmentally friendly in terms of pollution to energy output over it's life of use, than all these EV cars.shapesalad
- But sure, save the eco with EV's and shooting rockets up.shapesalad
- ^ Problem solved: https://www.thetruth…monNom
- Elon is def pulling out of the deal.Krassy
- He is asking dumb questions now as part of his plan to justify not purchasing: https://twitter.com/…Krassy
- Or he's kicking up a fake fuss, so people bail, price drops, he gets a cheaper offer done.shapesalad
- He pumped a doggy shitcoin - you think he's not playing pump and dump games here? He pumped and dumped grimes too.shapesalad
- Let's not forget that charging your "eco friendly" EV with electricity that is generated by coal and or gas (aka) fossil fuel. Fucking morons!utopian
- LoL @ "He pumped and dumped grimes too.'Krassy
- yepBusterBoy
- lol pump and dumperMrT
- Elon Cuck********
- grafician0
"#UPDATE Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was assured that fewer than five percent of accounts on the platform were fake"
- grafician-1
Very reasonable
- After twitter caught publicly lying, maybe Facebook group is next as they have even more bots :))grafician
- Also tolerating bots on your platform so to not mess with the "engagement" numbers and drop the stock, is peak social mediagrafician
- You know Elon was buying Twitter stock since xmas, then when it pumped after his silly $4b offer, he dumped his twitter stock in profits.shapesalad
- Now he's trying to get out of it all, as he planned - course he's not buying it, it was a pump and dump scheme.shapesalad
- However, he mis calculated, cos he's a bit impulsive - and didn't factor in macro shit pulling Telsa stock price down. Now he's scrambled eggs....shapesalad
- And you think he doesn't like a good pump and dump? Look at what he did with Doge coin, and oh.. tesla stock. one giant pumping dumping scheme.shapesalad
- This must be thrilling news for all the Wokeus dei. Why aren’t they celebrating ?Gnash
- the neo trumpneverscared
- He locked in a price... Twitter board called his bluff... I am sorry he just looks like a clown at this point. Twitter has never been some leftist illuminati.jonny_quest_lives
- If anything it's been a weaponized tool for wannabe strong men and Elon himself. He knows possibly half of Twitter accounts are fake.jonny_quest_lives
- He's probably paid several companies himself to create an army of Tesla stans to help pump his company's stock price.jonny_quest_lives
- "@Teslarati" probably needs to go on a walk talk to friends but is probably too busy posting gigafactory updates to pump stock or is just a bot.jonny_quest_lives
- https://futurism.com… 44billions and a poop emoji.. musk did his own research... none i guess.neverscared
- Twitter board: "Where's our $54.20 per share? Musk: "But Bots!" Twitter board: "Where's our $54.20 per share? TESLA stans: "eLoN iS gEniUs!"jonny_quest_lives
- mort_0
Say teleprompter one more time.
- neverscared1
Musk says he’ll be voting for GOP, says Twitter has ‘very far-left bias’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a podcast episode on Monday that he would be voting for Republicans in the upcoming November midterm elections after “overwhelmingly” voting for Democrats in the past.
https://thehill.com/policy/techn…
must be the midlife paranoia he that has catched on to him...
- the new gop darling...neverscared
- He wants to be president - and republicans are dumb...SlashPeckham
- USA needs more than 2 parties, no?shapesalad
- SHOCKING: Billionaire businessman plans to vote republican!!!! Who would have thoughtnb
- BusterBoy6
What a fuckwit...the bloke is fast becoming a parody of himself. Anyone that says Democrats have become the party of hate and "as a result I will vote Republican" has serious issues.
Stick to cars and rockets pal...most don't give a fuck what you think about anything else.
- Texas changes peopleYakuZoku
- Let's just pray that he's doing all this crap to stir crap up. I don't put much stock in anything he "says", but his actions are pretty successful.formed
- Way to fix Twitter!instrmntl
- very fine people on both sides.neverscared
- The bonkers thingn is this Howard Forman guy is spot-on.
That said, our guy Elon seems to be slipping into some parallel dimension where paranoia is ...Continuity - ... the de facto lifestyle.
When it comes down to brass tacks, the overwhelming majority of people simply don't give a fuck about him one way or another.Continuity - He's just another hyper-rich kid who's gone all loopy, and has an over-grand idea of his own importance.Continuity
- ^Krassy
- the irony is, the way you all talk, you are proving his point. All I read on this site is HATE, mostly toward viewpoints that don't align with your ownFawnDog
- Is he running for president?sea_sea
- A: Musk is an idiot.
B: I still think re-appropriation of (((this))) is a bad idea, and kind of weird that a Yale professor would do it.garbage - He finally identifies as a Republican, duh!
• loves corporate subsidies/welfare
• sexually assaults women
• lies about everythingutopian
- NBQ000
I would still buy a Tesla because the company is more than just him and existed before him.
But he's becoming an asshat with an opinion on everything.
Back then when he insulted the Thailand rescuer as a pedo it was shameful and I wanted to forgive him but his idiotic tweets started to pile up more and more. From the stupid crypto memes to other dumb stuff it seems he just loves attention on twitter.