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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Brovane

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In EU the situation is not that rosy. In 10 yrs it will be a frenzy because the end of combustion engine... I hope

Why is the EU not that Rosy? There are DC charging stations also in the EU. They even managed to narrow down to a single plug type, unlike North America.
 

nakedfrog

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I'm going to exercise restraint and only use one GIF to portray my actual reaction to this. Give my elephant a call, Musky!

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Heartbreaker

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Apparently Muskie is failing to pay everyone, including Amazon for hosting service, but Amazon is also an advertising customer, and threatening to pull ads, though I think they should play more hardball, and just stop hosting until they pay up.
 

fskimospy

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This is what it was in response to:
I am so glad I saw Elon for who he was back in 2009 and didn't go to work for him.
He never came up in my life much so until recently I had a pretty low grade, modestly positive view of him. (Basically, rockets and EVs good, calling a rescue diver a pedo weird and bad). Not anymore! What a gigantic piece of shit.

He and Scott Adams seem to be on the same trajectory, I guess rich guys who were insulated from criticism for most of their adult lives who, once exposed to it, got extremely mad. Both of them seem to have thrown away enormous fortunes (Musk's of course being way larger) because they want to argue with people on the internet. In Adams' case it's hilarious because he's only hurting himself but for Musk it is still hilarious but also sucks because he's taking other people down with him.
 

Sunburn74

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It's funny, my next car hundred percent would have been a Tesla until he took over twitter (a platform I don't use). Now my next car hundred percent will be something else, probably a Honda or something. I just can't support this guy and the Twitter takeover really finally revealed to the world who he is.
 

ivwshane

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It's funny, my next car hundred percent would have been a Tesla until he took over twitter (a platform I don't use). Now my next car hundred percent will be something else, probably a Honda or something. I just can't support this guy and the Twitter takeover really finally revealed to the world who he is.

I was looking at their solar shingles and battery back up systems. I’m going to pass now.
 
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quikah

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What has been your experience with using EV DC Charging infrastructure?

What I have found personally is lack of consistency, reliability and ease of use around DC Charging Infrastructure. Consistency, reliability and ease of use is what Tesla has in it's Superchargers that other manufactures don't have.

I have a Tesla, so I only use superchargers. The only issue is the older generation chargers have 2 chargers on a shared circuit, so if 2 cars are charging off that you will get half power. The charging etiquette is to pull into every other space until you have no choice. The built in navigation makes planning trips around good charging stops easy.

Only other place I charge is at work with a chargepoint L2 AC charger (I get 3 hrs free each day). It is fine, annoying that you need to use an adapter. I rarely charge at home at the work charging covers most of my needs.
 
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K1052

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Oooooooooofff

The guy he canned wasn't just some ordinary employee. He was getting paid salary for selling his company to Twitter and was on a "do not fire" list because of the vast (undisclosed) lump sum the company would then have to pay out. Who wants to bet that Musk didn't even bother reading this guy's employment contract before firing him and admitting he fired him due to his disability.

This guy's lawyers are going to be fishing in Lake Musk with dynamite.
 

Fenixgoon

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Oooooooooofff

The guy he canned wasn't just some ordinary employee. He was getting paid salary for selling his company to Twitter and was on a "do not fire" list because of the vast (undisclosed) lump sum the company would then have to pay out. Who wants to bet that Musk didn't even bother reading this guy's employment contract before firing him and admitting he fired him due to his disability.

This guy's lawyers are going to be fishing in Lake Musk with dynamite.
and to make musk even shittier, the guy has muscular dystrophy. though being a senior director for twitter in the pre-musk era, that was apparently not a problem.


Following the exchange with Musk, Thorleifsson said in a tweet that Twitter’s HR head had confirmed he is no longer employed at the company.

“Which is totally ok and it happens all the time … They usually tell people about it but that’s seemingly the optional part at Twitter now,” he said. “Next up though is finding out if Twitter will pay me what they owe me per my contract.”
may the odds be ever stacked in this guy's favor.
 

KMFJD

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Oooooooooofff

The guy he canned wasn't just some ordinary employee. He was getting paid salary for selling his company to Twitter and was on a "do not fire" list because of the vast (undisclosed) lump sum the company would then have to pay out. Who wants to bet that Musk didn't even bother reading this guy's employment contract before firing him and admitting he fired him due to his disability.

This guy's lawyers are going to be fishing in Lake Musk with dynamite.


excellent read on this situation, America's most divorced dad is gonna owe him a lot of money and it's hilarious how he baited the dumbass (he sold his company to twitter for $100 million)
 
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K1052

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Translation: My lawyers have read his employment agreement and explained how totally fucked I am and that I have exposed the company not only to breach of contract liability if I do not pay but an employment discrimination lawsuit that I will loose.



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