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

[sportage]

If this guy were walking down 5th avenue talking to himself no one would give him an ounce of attention. He's nothing... And money doesn't make him something. Money doesn't cure stupidity. He's still a big nothing. He's like the guy who bought Campbell's Soup company and started canning dog shit, still calling it soup. Everyone knows it's no longer soup.
What we have here is an idiot and only an idiot. Best to just ignore it, and him.

 

[Pens1566]

Eh ... this is awful:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602373336679342080

 

[MomentsofSanity]

You must follow some weirdos. Only mention of this on my feed is in the trendings area.

Nope. It’s coming up as “Tech” news. And things like that when I click to turn if off. It’s like everything is a pro Elmo tweet in their algorithm. But always some random goober praising him. Always.

 

[cytg111]

Chapelle too? What the fuckclown is this moron thinking? All my heroes .. falling .. Lets just get 2022 over with.

 

[cytg111]

I cant wait to get Chapelle's "behind the scenes" take on this down the road... cause he MUST have realized this had the potential to bomb hard.
This has Rogan-dum-dum written all over it.

 

[quikah]

I cant wait to get Chapelle's "behind the scenes" take on this down the road... cause he MUST have realized this had the potential to bomb hard.
This has Rogan-dum-dum written all over it.

There are some longer versions on youtube that contain most of the incident, he made some half decent jokes about it. One thing missing is why was he even asked to come up in the first place. I would boo too if I paid $200+ to see Chapelle and he asks some random celebrity to come on stage.

 

[quikah]

Nope. It’s coming up as “Tech” news. And things like that when I click to turn if off. It’s like everything is a pro Elmo tweet in their algorithm. But always some random goober praising him. Always.

Don't know what to say. My feed is strictly people I follow, what they retweet or replies to something they tweet. (Ublock removes all the promoted tweets). On mobile the promoted tweets are mostly ads for games.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Don't know what to say. My feed is strictly people I follow, what they retweet or replies to something they tweet. (Ublock removes all the promoted tweets). On mobile the promoted tweets are mostly ads for games.

I don't even have a Twitter account, and I only view it via links on here, from Private Firefox, with UBlock, Privacy Badger, and I forget what all else. I regularly see random moronic pro Musk Tweets showing up when I click links to shit about like video cards and shit that has nothing to do with anything Musk is involved in.

Now, undoubtedly some of that is because of the rampant idiocy that perfectly aligns with the Elon cultists in some niche areas like video cards (where there's a lot of cryptobros), but sure seems like anything even tangentally related to Tech, random Elon defending or evangelizing Tweets show up.

 

[cytg111]

This is... Hilarious... or would be if it wasnt so sad. Full R.



The Fauci gain of function part is a Roganitis special too.

 

[Fenixgoon]

wow, from celebrated entrepreneur to....this

 

[amenx]

Chapelle (in the midst of all the booing): "It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience".

 

[repoman0]

Most of tech up bigly today, TSLA down almost 7%. I hope this idiot keeps destroying his companies so I can keep laughing.

 

[Pens1566]

Most of tech up bigly today, TSLA down almost 7%. I hope this idiot keeps destroying his companies so I can keep laughing.

Yeah, the narrative from Elmo sycophants that $TSLA is just following market trends is complete and utter bullshit. It's obvious if you look at the last 6 months or so. They're down way more than any other index/tracker. And it's not hard to understand why.

edit: typo

 

[Zorba]

The free market can address housing as the market demands.

It’s basic capitalism.

Except the last run up didn't prove that very effective even in places without building restrictions. A big problem is developers only build en mass when demand is way high. As soon as the market cools a bit they stop building. They are never going to build enough to lower prices.

 

[cytg111]

Had to look for it

This the same David Troy you think?

9:20 here… Peter Thiel, the Trumphard fascist that is also whispering in Elons ear..

The Network: The American and Russian Moralists Behind the January Insurrection

Heidi Siegmund Cuda talks to network disinformation specialist Dave Troy about how a trifecta of Conservative, Russian and military psyops tried to overturn global democracy

bylinetimes.com

Alright this shit managed to peek my paranoid curiosity…

 

[pmv]

So to be clear your fear is that without zoning developers will take out millions and millions in loans to build high rise buildings where no one will want to live. I'm sure they are grateful for your concern but I think it's best to let the free market figure this one out.

Sheesh, this is confusing. I didn't think you were a huge fan of the free market. Conversely, nor did I think Greenman was a big fan of central planning and state control.

No wonder the Tories are themselves quite confused by it all, with half of them proposing to slash all planning regulations in the name of 'encouraging growth' and the other half up in arms at the potential damage to 'English heritage' from "over-development".

And in villages all over the country half the residents complain bitterly how hard-done-by they are because there's 'no affordable housing for the young', while the other half (maybe even some of the same half) complain angrily at proposals to build new housing, because it will spoil their view or damage the 'character' of the village.

Where I am (in the city) multi-story buildings have in the last few years gone up on all four sides of me, on what were previously either undeveloped land or single-story buildings. One result being I've lost much of my daylight and have to keep my bedroom curtains closed because there are now windows directly facing them. I'm reconciled to it - as there's clearly a need for more housing.

But...
Many of the buildings here are already high-rises, and when they first went up, decades ago, replacing what were previously terraced houses, part of the quid-pro-quo for the loss of traditional gardens and the greater housing density, was that there would be large areas of open space around blocks, that would be a sort of 'communal garden'. That was very much part of the high-rise ethos of the time.

Only now they are proposing to infill exactly those bits of open space with more mid-to-high-rise housing. Which seems a bit dishonest and sneaky. Plus I sometimes think they are infilling every bit of open space left within the city because they are so reluctant to spoil the pretty views of the wealthier people further out in the 'Green Belt'.

I freely admit to being confused myself about the whole topic.

 

[pmv]

Banks and institutional investors who put money into these projects famously don't care if you can fill them at the modeled rents. lol.

I was just recently nostalgically watching some old clips of The Goodies from the 1970s. Particularly the one where they get encased in a large solid concrete block, that's been put up where Kew Gardens used to be.

This bit seems relevant to the above:

Graeme: (in response to Bill criticizing his architectural design of the buildings as plain blocks of concrete) "That's the whole point, you fool. Look, do you realise that the rent on that place is going to be 4000 pounds per square foot. And that's per minute!"
Bill: (taken aback) "Nobody can afford that, can they?!"
Graeme: (forcefully) "Well of course they can't, so there's no point wasting money putting doors and windows in, is there?! Goodness me! As a matter of fact, there's no rooms in there either and that's so the squatters can't move in ... I've thought of everything!"

 

[Pens1566]

This the same David Troy you think?

9:20 here… Peter Thiel, the Trumphard fascist that is also whispering in Elons ear..

The Network: The American and Russian Moralists Behind the January Insurrection

Heidi Siegmund Cuda talks to network disinformation specialist Dave Troy about how a trifecta of Conservative, Russian and military psyops tried to overturn global democracy

bylinetimes.com

Alright this shit managed to peek my paranoid curiosity…

Yeah, I think it is. I wasn't familiar with the name on the article when I first read it so I went looking for his other work as he looks like a freelance investigative reporter. Seems to be in line with other pieces and his twitter feed.

 

[MrSquished]

I think there has to be some zoning restrictions, but a fraction of what they are today. I do not believe that housing should be a pure free market, but today it is way way way too restrictive.

Also building should be tied into making sure the infrastructure is there to handle it.

 

[fskimospy]

Sheesh, this is confusing. I didn't think you were a huge fan of the free market. Conversely, nor did I think Greenman was a big fan of central planning and state control.

No wonder the Tories are themselves quite confused by it all, with half of them proposing to slash all planning regulations in the name of 'encouraging growth' and the other half up in arms at the potential damage to 'English heritage' from "over-development".

And in villages all over the country half the residents complain bitterly how hard-done-by they are because there's 'no affordable housing for the young', while the other half (maybe even some of the same half) complain angrily at proposals to build new housing, because it will spoil their view or damage the 'character' of the village.

Where I am (in the city) multi-story buildings have in the last few years gone up on all four sides of me, on what were previously either undeveloped land or single-story buildings. One result being I've lost much of my daylight and have to keep my bedroom curtains closed because there are now windows directly facing them. I'm reconciled to it - as there's clearly a need for more housing.

But...
Many of the buildings here are already high-rises, and when they first went up, decades ago, replacing what were previously terraced houses, part of the quid-pro-quo for the loss of traditional gardens and the greater housing density, was that there would be large areas of open space around blocks, that would be a sort of 'communal garden'. That was very much part of the high-rise ethos of the time.

Only now they are proposing to infill exactly those bits of open space with more mid-to-high-rise housing. Which seems a bit dishonest and sneaky. Plus I sometimes think they are infilling every bit of open space left within the city because they are so reluctant to spoil the pretty views of the wealthier people further out in the 'Green Belt'.

I freely admit to being confused myself about the whole topic.

I have always been a fan of the free market. I am also a fan of regulating the free market.

Lots of regulations are good, but lots are bad and that’s the issue here. Bad regulations are causing mass human suffering.

 

[MrSquished]

Except the last run up didn't prove that very effective even in places without building restrictions. A big problem is developers only build en mass when demand is way high. As soon as the market cools a bit they stop building. They are never going to build enough to lower prices.

Well that would not hold up around here at least in this desirable market. In the last 20 years here they'd have built a ton more units if there weren't as many zoning restrictions. A shit ton. A slow down post 2007 but it would have picked right up again shortly after. A ton of buildings are kept shorter or not approved due to trying to ask for a variance change, or take years to get approved. This is of course a very desirable real estate market. I can guarantee you Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens would also have had a ton more units with less zoning restrictions. I think this would be true for a lot of very desirable housing markets where demand is astronomically higher than supply - all over the country.

They spend plenty of time trying to get variances to build higher or bigger. I do believe in zoning laws, including some that say for an x unit skyscraper, this many parking spots have to be included, also amount of green spaces, some percentage of affordable housing, etc..

Edit: there also need to be adjustments on the rules that make it more profitable to keep commercial spaces empty rather than accept an actual market rate for them. This is a terrible thing.

 

[MrSquished]

Elon disbands Trust & Safety council, shortly after accusing the former Safety head of Twitter a pedo. Seems to be a trend with Elon, calling people he doesn't like pedos. What an absolutely shitty human being.

Musk's Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group

Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council. That's the advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.

apnews.com

 

[Vic]

Elon disbands Trust & Safety council, shortly after accusing the former Safety head of Twitter a pedo. Seems to be a trend with Elon, calling people he doesn't like pedos. What an absolutely shitty human being.

Musk's Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group

Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council. That's the advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.

apnews.com

Reading through the various threads about this on twitter, it seems apparent that Musk is inciting a right-wing mob into believing that all LGBT are 'pedos' and 'groomers.'
This has taken a very dark turn.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Yeah, the narrative from Elmo sycophants that $TSLA is just following market trends is complete and utter bullshit. It's obvious if you look at the last 6 months or so. They're down way more than any other index/tracker. And it's not hard to understand why.

He's dragging down company reputation with his own: (Up with Conservatives, but still negative, and even if they Like Musk, the don't like EVs, so dumb move):

Elon Musk’s Twitter Politics Add to Pressure on Tesla’s Brand Image

Democrats in particular have soured on Tesla in recent weeks, survey finds, though the car maker’s customers remain loyal.

www.wsj.com

On Nov. 7, for the first time since YouGov began tracking Tesla in 2016, more respondents in the U.S. reported a negative perception of Tesla than a positive view.
...
YouGov found that self-described liberals now view Tesla more negatively than conservatives, though conservatives also have a negative view of the brand on average, according to the firm’s most recent data.

 

[zinfamous]

This is... Hilarious... or would be if it wasnt so sad. Full R.

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The Fauci gain of function part is a Roganitis special too.

Elon can go de-vaccinate himself. what an insufferable, highly uneducated cvnt this piece of shit truly is. Seriously, all this guy does these days is expose to anyone paying attention that he napped his way through his overly priveleged life, built on slave labor and murder.

Fuck this useless asshole. I never thought there would be a more untalented successful joke than Steve Jobs, but here you go. Good work, dickburger Elon.

Now I either have to wait for Tesla shares to ease their way back up to the "meager" price I paid for them before selling them, or just assume this turd river is going to be forced out by common sense, decency, and actual shareholder demand (seriously--isn't this the point of publicly owned companies? How has this useless collection of snot not been completely kicked out of Tesla by now? what the holy fuck)