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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

That sentiment was also echoed by Cesare Fracassi, the director of the Blockchain Initiative at the McCombs School of Business.

Business schools are such a fucking joke. 

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5 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

I had been told on good authority that there have only been 2 fatalities all time by Tesla's autonomous driving. @Guadaloopy promised!!

 

 

You are conflating auto-pilot data with FSD data.  They are different.  I stated that there have been two confirmed fatalities associated with FSD in over 2.5 billion miles driven by FSD vehicles.  That's all I said.  Nothing more, nothing less. 
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6 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

It's crazy to me how some people just have the cockroach ability to never get cornered, never get stomped out for the long game, they just somehow get away with it all. Reminds me of the Trump meme "all well, nevertheless..."

He can’t pull Tesla back from where it looks like it’s headed sales-wise.  He’s completely turned off the biggest chunk of people who would happily buy an EV, and the people he is catering to either can’t afford it, don’t have the infrastructure to support it, or are not going to give up their gas- and diesel-burners.

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15 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Business schools are such a fucking joke. 

Law schools are behind the times, still teaching that the rule of law, precedence, and stare decisis matter. I bet they still cling to the antiquated idea that no one is above the law. 

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https://archive.is/2025.02.20-045506/https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-hinted-at-possible-deal-trouble-in-talks-with-ad-giant-to-increase-spending-feb122a6#selection-5913.0-6055.342

 

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A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X.The message was clear, according to multiple people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else. 
X CEO Linda Yaccarino has made comments that seemed like similar warnings in conversations with Interpublic executives, according to people with knowledge of those talks.
Interpublic leaders interpreted the communications from X as reminders that the recently announced $13 billion deal to merge Interpublic with rival Omnicom Group could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government, some of the people said. They also had a front-row seat to Musk’s continued criticism of advertisers that ditched X since he bought it in 2022, when it was known as Twitter.
Interpublic has recently signed a new annual deal with X for potential client spending, people familiar with the agreement said.
“We do not make spending commitments on behalf of clients to any partner or platform, and decision-making authority always rests with the client,” an Interpublic spokesman said. Yaccarino and representatives from X didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday. 
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

Days after the Interpublic-Omnicom merger was unveiled, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, launched a probe and said the tie-up raised anticompetitive concerns. Interpublic and Omnicom work with an ad trade group that the committee investigated last summer, and which the committee determined in a July report might have violated antitrust laws by withholding ad spending from social-media platforms and conservative media outlets.
X filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in August, accusing the World Federation of Advertisers, an ad trade group, and several big brands such as candy maker Mars and CVS Health, of coordinating an illegal boycott of X following Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the platform in late 2022. 
The trade group shuttered an initiative dedicated to safeguarding marketers from harmful content after the suit was filed. It has said that the lawsuit misconstrues the purpose and actions of its responsible media efforts.
X upped the ante in early January by alerting the court that it planned to add more names to the lawsuit, which left advertisers fretting for weeks over whether they would be next. On Feb. 1, X added about a half-dozen more advertisers to the litigation. 
“Some of the advertisers we work with have expressed that they feel there is an implied threat from X that they could be added to the lawsuit if they don’t return to X,” said Ruben Schreurs, chief executive officer of Ebiquity, a consulting firm that works with advertisers.
That legal threat has hung over the industry, including in sideline conversations during CES in January, a major event that attracts top advertisers, agencies, and media and tech companies.
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WPP offices in London.

Yaccarino and her top staff met with executives from several large ad companies including Omnicom Group and Dentsu during the conference, according to people familiar with the matter. During a meeting with WPP executives, Yaccarino pushed the London-based firm to sign an annual upfront deal, according to people familiar with that meeting, and later sought for spending commitments above prior levels, one of the people said.
Ad companies often sign deals with media and tech firms to set annual spending targets, which enable them to secure better ad rates and perks for clients. The pacts typically allow for agencies to adjust if client demand drops. While advertisers control spending, the brands often follow agency recommendations on where to direct their money. Some agencies that had annual agreements with X let them expire after the client exodus in 2022.
WPP is still negotiating with X, a person familiar with the discussions said. Publicis Groupe, the world’s largest ad company by net revenue, is in the process of signing a nonbinding annual ad pact, according to a person familiar with the matter. 
The push for agency agreements follows a flurry of brands returning to spending on X, including Amazon, the Journal reported. Apple has also returned, according to a person familiar with the matter, and telecom company Verizon is also planning to begin spending again on X, according to a person familiar with the matter. 
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A trader works in front of a monitor displaying the Omnicom Group logo at the New York Stock Exchange.

One ad-buying executive said Yaccarino brought up X’s antitrust litigation during their recent discussion and detailed X’s intention to find out which agencies and advertisers colluded to withhold spending from X. 
New brand safety tools that help advertisers avoid having their ads appear near content they deem as unsuitable and extra premium content, like from the NFL, have helped X convince some brands and agencies to return, industry executives said. They said the rebound may also be driven in part by fear over the continuing federal antitrust lawsuit and Musk’s growing power in Washington.
“We now see brands returning in quite significant numbers, because the easiest route is to just spend a minimum viable amount on the platform,” said Ebiquity’s Schreurs. “Not because they want to advertise there and run their ads adjacent to the content on X, but because they are afraid of legal and political ramifications of not doing so.”

 

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Brisket - Well yea. I mean we have a little over half the country who seems to believe that we live in a complete shit hole that’s circling the drain and the only way to save it is to burn it all down and start over.

Gee, I wonder where that idea might have come from? Regardless, here we go I guess.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon Musk is the greatest threat the Republic has faced since the Civil War.  He is a clear and present existential threat to the continued operation of the United States as an actual democratic functioning Republic, as opposed to a nakedly wholly owned subsidiary of evil oligarchs.

There is zero hyperbole in my statement above.  For real.

But hey, all those idiots who weren't willing to vote are protesting now. "We didn't vote for this" 

Uh yeah, you did, because you threw a tantrum over some issue and sat out like big babies.

Kinda missed your chance there, so you fucking morons. 

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Trump Kicks Off Legal Chaos by Revealing Elon Musk Actually Runs DOGE

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During an appearance at the Future Investment Institute Summit in Miami, Trump told attendees at the Saudi investment fund event exactly what Musk’s real job is.

“I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency, and put a man named Elon Musk in charge,” Trump said

For an administration that loves to tout its own radical transparency, they sure seem to want to mislead Americans on who is really calling the shots at DOGE.

The Trump administration filed a court declaration Monday asserting that Musk’s official title is “senior adviser to the president,” a position that holds “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.” It also claims that Musk isn’t a DOGE employee or its administrator, but an employee of the White House. 

The filing flies in the face of Trump’s original announcement naming Musk the head of DOGE, as well as everything we’ve seen from Musk since, as the unelected bureaucrat has taken aim at essential federal employees, sending agencies scrambling to hire them back. Most recently, he and his friends at DOGE pretended to save money by eliminating fictionalized government contracts. 

Monday’s filing came as Musk faces legal scrutiny in federal court this week. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ultimately declined to issue a temporary restraining order against Musk and DOGE Tuesday, saying that it wasn’t yet clear that their actions would cause irreparable harm. 

By obfuscating leadership, it seems that the Trump administration wants to avoid accountability for its actions. U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled last week that DOGE should be considered an “agency,” although Trump was “curiously” avoiding calling it that explicitly.  

“This appears to come from a desire to escape the obligations that accompany agencyhood—such as being subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act—while reaping only its benefits,” Bates wrote in his order.

So when he's in court, trump says elmo is just an advisor. When he's talking to the Saudi sovreign wealth fund, elon is in charge of the now most powerful department in government. 

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Posted (edited)
19 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Trump Kicks Off Legal Chaos by Revealing Elon Musk Actually Runs DOGE

So when he's in court, trump says elmo is just an advisor. When he's talking to the Saudi sovreign wealth fund, elon is in charge of the now most powerful department in government. 

If he's an employee of the executive branch, is he required to divest ownership of his companies?

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20 minutes ago, Bevo Num1 said:

If he's an employee of the executive branch, is he required to divest ownership of his companies?

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Someone just showed me a clip of muSSk today doing a short interview, high as a kite, wearing dark shades and mostly incoherent. Can't be hard to find.

 

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Also he's pushing the Mars angle because is supposed to have a landing in 2026 on the Moon. It has as much of a chance of happening as what he's talking about now of going Mars in 2026.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Maybe he'll do enough drugs he kills himself.

I mean, we've reached the point in this timeline where I will be ridiculously overjoyed by the deaths of TWO people now, so....yeah.

Fucking OD, Elon, and do the world the greatest service you could possibly do.

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When you’re responsible for as many people losing their livelihood as he is, and as many people’s benefits being removed as he is, eventually one f them will snap and put a bullet in his head or blow him up.

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28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, we've reached the point in this timeline where I will be ridiculously overjoyed by the deaths of TWO people now, so....yeah.

Fucking OD, Elon, and do the world the greatest service you could possibly do.

At times, I think one of the scant few remaining scenarios that result in our country returning to decency within the next two decades hinges on this particular supervillain's mental breakdown being spectacular enough to cause an internal shadow battle between a large portion of the psychotic murderous fraternity of insatiable zealots that somehow assembled into the death regime that is now pulling the strings. If Elon just up and died, that might actually remove the biggest wildcard in the deck. 

 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, we've reached the point in this timeline where I will be ridiculously overjoyed by the deaths of TWO people now, so....yeah.

Fucking OD, Elon, and do the world the greatest service you could possibly do.

Only two? Surely I thought I was following you on the ledge now I’m wondering if I’m ahead. Yikes.

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42 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

We need to become spacefaring because in one billion years the sun will boil the oceans.  Modern humans are 200,000 years old. 

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Cowboys should have at least one more playoff win by then, so that’s nice 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

We need to become spacefaring because in one billion years the sun will boil the oceans.  Modern humans are 200,000 years old. 

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Did he just Wayne Gretzky / Michael Scott himself?

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3 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

When you’re responsible for as many people losing their livelihood as he is, and as many people’s benefits being removed as he is, eventually one f them will snap and put a bullet in his head or blow him up.

Probably more than a few people out there right now.

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Posted (edited)
4 hours ago, troph said:

Only two? Surely I thought I was following you on the ledge now I’m wondering if I’m ahead. Yikes.

He no longer cares about when Bob Stoops or Barry Switzer die.  He will head to the bar and have a drink, sure, but he’s getting softer with age.

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