Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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Vic

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I don't think he's lost his mind, but he's clearly losing his cognitive ability. There is no shame in that, it happens to a lot of old people. In my opinion it's one of worst parts of our march to death as it robs a person of everything that makes them human.
Some old loser rando who's never accomplished jackshit in his life is accusing the President of the United States of losing his cognitive ability.
 

KMFJD

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things are definitely not going well , they usually pre-sell around 600-900 million in ads for the following year at around this time, this year it's almost nothing

~ This means that instead of heading into 2023 with 15-20% of 2023 already secured as they typically would have, Twitter heads into next year with almost none of that. All because of Musk's red pilled edgelord approach.
 

cytg111

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I don't think he's lost his mind, but he's clearly losing his cognitive ability. There is no shame in that, it happens to a lot of old people. In my opinion it's one of worst parts of our march to death as it robs a person of everything that makes them human.
Sort of like you did blasting into this thread? *woooooosh* old man :).
 
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Zor Prime

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to me that sounds like he got rid of a lot of efficient coders?
Supposedly he asked managers to give him a list of expendables under them ... which would be the way to go if you're wanting to get rid of people. Seems odd to use lines of code as a qualifying metric.

Poor bastards churning out assembler code got shown the door first if that's the case.
 

K1052

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God damn. Getting some NK Rocket Man vibes here.
What is he threatening? Turning the platform alt right? Torpedo midterms? What?

That he's going to get his followers to harass the ad agencies and companies that don't want to do business with a whiny chaotic edgelord who could damage their brands. Which uh sort of proves their point.
 

Muse

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I'd like to see Twitter shrivel up and die, Elon lose his $44 billion, poof! Serve him right. A messaging app that allows a limited number of characters/post is a jerk's idea to begin with. And the whole idea of following people is absurd.
 

MrSquished

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Lines of code is one the worst ways to meaningfully measure developer productivity and quality. It incentivizes shit practices, this tells me Musk and those who advised him on this know fuck all about running a software organization.

I think many of us got that impression with the vaporware and bullshit experience of AI driven cars and taxis that are a shell of what has been consistently promised year after year by Musk. Not to mention that joke of a humanoid robot display.
 

zinfamous

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To you and I it's unimaginable wealth, to someone looking at their portfolio and seeing the bottom line, it's reality. That has to have an effect on your world view. Pissing away $44B is annoying, but not life changing. Musk could do it five times and still be fabulously wealthy.

Sounds like you're on the verge of understanding why it's necessary to tax the wealthy vastly more than other humans, because you seem to realize that it really doesn't effect them in any comparable way.
 
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It's great. He is taking Tesla resources away to work on Twitter, while firing a shit ton of the resources Twitter already had to implement all these 'features' he wants to implement. And showing that he is a highly unstable business leader at this point, so caught up in his own warped narcissistic fragile skinned mind. Couldn't write it any better.
Waiting for the lawsuit from Tesla shareholders for using Tesla employees for Musk's personal endeavour to burn $44 billion with a separate corporate entity; seems like a breach of the fiduciary duty that Musk, as CEO of Tesla, has to Tesla and the shareholders.
 
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