Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Edge-]

It's so weird to me. If I was a billionaire with a company that sells consumer products, I'd just keep my mouth shut on politics in general. Hell, I'd probably just minimize my social media presence in general. Make a burner account if you REALLY feel the need to do something like that. I guess narcissism is a hell of a drug.

He literally has main character syndrome so extreme that he must be the one to save humanity and bring us to mars. Nobody else can be allowed to save humanity, it can only be him.

Why would he hide behind a burner account? The people need to know his opinions so he can lead us to our glorious future. Do you not know how dank his memes are, pleb? Are you not wowed and amazed and impressed by his knowledge of everything, including his suggestions how to quickly rebuild a bridge? Elon and his beautiful mind have thoughts, and until he can stick a Neurolink chip into your brain so that he can deliver them straight to your head whenever he thinks they're important enough (everything will always be important enough), he needs to go to the Twitter machine to share it with the world.

Like, homeboy genuinely, honest-to-god thinks he's the main character, and surrounds himself with people who enable that.

Otherwise yes, it seems so fucking obvious to the rest of us to just shut the fuck up and enjoy our billions and figuring out what terrible problems we could just dump money on to try to fix it. Or just buy/build a bunch of artificial islands because we're detached from reality and have nothing "better" to spend our money on.

[D Luniz]

I'm in that boat myself. Just bought a new car 5 months ago, decided to get an EV, ruled a Tesla out completely because Musk is a dangerous plank.

What's mind-blowingly stupid is that Musk is courting the far right, who are notoriously anti-EV. He's spitting in the face of the demographic who buy his company's cars. It's astonishing that he doesn't see that, especially now that Tesla has real competition in the EV space.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a significant push from shareholders to have him removed in the not too distant future.

That's the thing with these people that want to be seen as great. You notice how many tried to get attention from the "left" by being a talking head but not actually doing anything, then jump to the right and they're a star.

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It's so weird to me. If I was a billionaire with a company that sells consumer products, I'd just keep my mouth shut on politics in general. Hell, I'd probably just minimize my social media presence in general. Make a burner account if you REALLY feel the need to do something like that. I guess narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Aka, the Michael Jordan method

[Gorsameth]

outside of "influencers" no ones career has ever improved by posting on social media. But say the wrong thing and you can get ruined.
There is no upside outside of feeding your own ego and plenty of downsides.

[Cthulhu 2020]

https://twitter.com/RichardStrocher/...65403710095803

AI-generated image of the most conservative looking man ever
Also apparently that's a woman's jacket according to the suit guy on twitter, but it's still AI
Name is "Richard Strocher"

18.
Single.
Alpha Male.
Wildly Successful.
Passionately pro-Trump.

Do you find this attractive?

Every conservative is taking this post 100% seriously and thinks this is real and is interacting with it in the most conservative ways possible.



:Amongus:


Probably one of the best twitter trolls of the last year

[Dontrike]

https://twitter.com/RichardStrocher/...65403710095803

AI-generated image of the most conservative looking man ever
Also apparently that's a woman's jacket according to the suit guy on twitter, but it's still AI
Name is "Richard Strocher"

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKRuRDPXUAAFkgo?format=jpg&name=large[/IG]

Every conservative is taking this post 100% seriously and thinks this is real and is interacting with it in the most conservative ways possible.

:Amongus:

Probably one of the best twitter trolls of the last year

That looks like a side character in a Blade movie that's "human" until they are revealed they work for vampires.

[Belize]

It's so weird to me. If I was a billionaire with a company that sells consumer products, I'd just keep my mouth shut on politics in general. Hell, I'd probably just minimize my social media presence in general. Make a burner account if you REALLY feel the need to do something like that. I guess narcissism is a hell of a drug.

That way of thinking is why you're not a billionaire.

No, seriously. Show me one single one of these pricks that isn't a narcissistic asshole that exploited everyone around them on their way up. Oh sure, when they grow older they might grow *a bit* of a conscience, but that's not how they got filthy rich in the first place.

[Ivanstone]

It's so weird to me. If I was a billionaire with a company that sells consumer products, I'd just keep my mouth shut on politics in general. Hell, I'd probably just minimize my social media presence in general. Make a burner account if you REALLY feel the need to do something like that. I guess narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Its the Barre Seid lesson. No one ever heard of the fucking dude. He was a billionaire who ran his company well and treated his employees decently.

And then in his 90s he gave away his $1.5B company away to conservative shitheads to make more conservative judges. And that was after donating $1B to those same shitheads over the previous 20-30 years. That's how you commit true evil.

[Milchshake]

LoL ...But but but… Elon promised!

REUTERS : TESLA SCRAPS LOW-COST CAR PLANS

• Entry-level Tesla car won’t be built, three sources tell Reuters
• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said
• Strategy shift comes as Tesla faces competition from China EV makers including BYD

Remember kids, TESLA absurd valuation was based it's potential as a mass car manufacturer ... and it's gone.
Also remembering a few years ago, when Tesla went around trying to get BIG Auto to licence their "self-driving technology". Evryone rejected it, because it was bad.
Also back in the day. Elon inventor of electric cars tried to licence his EV technologies ...

Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.
The automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”
Tesla shares fell 4% after the Reuters report.

But atleast leeroy still has chicken twitter.

[Paranoid Android]

Shocking Elon's AI Twitter Gronk is shit:



https://x.com/BrettRedacted/status/1776323701148930404

As you can see Elon's shit AI is picking up memes or just false news and actually putting this in their "Trending" section. This just happened yesterday when again in trending was; "Iran attack Tel Aviv" yesterday.

Good job Elon, you brilliant man.

[Edge-]

I'm mostly still pissed off he chose "grok" because that's a very good word that has a very good but niche meaning and it shouldn't be associated with some low-effort chatbot bullshit.

[The Stormbringer]

LoL ...But but but… Elon promised!

REUTERS : TESLA SCRAPS LOW-COST CAR PLANS

• Entry-level Tesla car won’t be built, three sources tell Reuters
• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said
• Strategy shift comes as Tesla faces competition from China EV makers including BYD

Remember kids, TESLA absurd valuation was based it's potential as a mass car manufacturer ... and it's gone.
Also remembering a few years ago, when Tesla went around trying to get BIG Auto to licence their "self-driving technology". Evryone rejected it, because it was bad.
Also back in the day. Elon inventor of electric cars tried to licence his EV technologies ...

Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.
The automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”
Tesla shares fell 4% after the Reuters report.

But atleast leeroy still has chicken twitter.

Wanna bet he also got massive government assistance in the form of tax write-offs, subsidies, and various other things because he said he was going to be making those "low cost family cars" that he has decided to get rid of? Because I think that's a sucker's bet, he definitely did. Someone in the government should be taking back every penny, every certification, every license, every whatever that they helped him get.

[Rasulis]

If you are not aware, there is an on-going talent war in the Bay Area. Microsoft poached DeepMind. Meta poached engineer from Apple car project. Meta in turn had three of its top engineers poached. It's a free-for-all right now.

Tesla is no spared. Musk is forced to give his engineers $180k bonuses to keep them from getting poached by OpenAI.

Elon Musk Boosts AI Engineer Pay in ‘Craziest Talent War’

[Elegiac]

LoL ...But but but… Elon promised!

REUTERS : TESLA SCRAPS LOW-COST CAR PLANS

• Entry-level Tesla car won’t be built, three sources tell Reuters
• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said
• Strategy shift comes as Tesla faces competition from China EV makers including BYD

Remember kids, TESLA absurd valuation was based it's potential as a mass car manufacturer ... and it's gone.
Also remembering a few years ago, when Tesla went around trying to get BIG Auto to licence their "self-driving technology". Evryone rejected it, because it was bad.
Also back in the day. Elon inventor of electric cars tried to licence his EV technologies ...

Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.
The automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”
Tesla shares fell 4% after the Reuters report.

But atleast leeroy still has chicken twitter.

Can’t wait for him to start meddling in SpaceX once Tesla’s crashed and burned, lol. It’ll be funny to see all the surprised Pikachu faces popping up when American spaceflight gets set back half a century due to private sector incompetence.

[s_bushido]

Can’t wait for him to start meddling in SpaceX once Tesla’s crashed and burned, lol. It’ll be funny to see all the surprised Pikachu faces popping up when American spaceflight gets set back half a century due to private sector incompetence.

I mean...billions are already being literally burnt on blowing up rockets, and everyone cheers because "we learned stuff!!!" As if we haven't been successfully sending shit into space for well over half a century.

[prwraith]

I mean...billions are already being literally burnt on blowing up rockets, and everyone cheers because "we learned stuff!!!" As if we haven't been successfully sending shit into space for well over half a century.

I mean active prototyping has a place. But also yes

[Edge-]

I mean...billions are already being literally burnt on blowing up rockets, and everyone cheers because "we learned stuff!!!" As if we haven't been successfully sending shit into space for well over half a century.

Not to get too off topic, but literally yes that's how it works. That's how SpaceX has reusable boosters - they blew a ton up figuring out how to land them. And now they have a reliable launch platform that dramatically lowers the cost of getting things into orbit, and also the US no longer relies on Russia to get astronauts and supplies to the ISS (and those missions are cheaper) which is great. Nobody else is doing what SpaceX does, even if a few are trying really hard.

Literally the way we learned to launch almost every major new rocket was by blowing it up a bunch to figure out all the flaws and design errors. That's how you make them reliable enough to use to begin with. No amount of simulation can match real world testing, especially when you're trying to do "impossible" things like land boosters.

Mind you the credit goes to the incredibly smart and talented people he hired to run SpaceX. Elon gets to take the credit, but SpaceX has succeeded because of the people he's hired, not his day to day leadership (as we're seeing those effects with Twitter).

[Cthulhu 2020]

I honestly hope Elon's fragile ego goes into overdrive now that everyone knows he wasn't involved in the design of anything he owns. Dude tried to have this Tony Stark image and even paid to have himself in several TV shows as "the genius inventor Elon Musk". Now everyone knows he can't invent for shit and just managed to hire the right people. If he takes any active role at Tesla or SpaceX design/production it's all gonna crash and burn around him.

[diller]

• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said

The world isn't even close to ready for self driving taxis, what a dumb decision.

[Dontrike]

The world isn't even close to ready for self driving taxis, what a dumb decision.

It's at minimum (in my opinion) five years away from normal self driving cars at their most basic level. "Self driving" taxis sound like it will end up on an airport runway sooner than getting you home. Hell, Uber/google maps still doesn't quite understand how to get to certain locations, no way Musk has figured it out.

[Twdft]

IMO to make self driving really work every car needs to use it. Cars have communicate with each other.