Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Homercles 10,205]

On 12/3/2022 at 11:10 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

22 and doesn’t speak English. But they’re in love. 

['stache 21,815]

13 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Twitter files cross eyed edition

 

 

I forget the origin story, but did he really leave it at a repair shop? If so, isn't it a crime for the owner to give it to anyone else? 

[Bateshorn 9,927]

13 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I forget the origin story, but did he really leave it at a repair shop? If so, isn't it a crime for the owner to give it to anyone else? 

The story is somebody brought in a damaged apple computer for repair and never returned. Most stores have some sort of “you gotta pick it up in XXXX time or it’s ours” policy. 
 

Because the guy can’t see, he can’t positively identify who dropped it off, which is wicked convient.

I don’t doubt some of the files and dong pics are Hunter Biden’s, but I’ve always assumed they were stolen from him or lost during a drug fueled bender and then this ridiculous scenario was fabricated without the store owners knowledge. Biden was such a degenerate crack head that he has to go with the “Anything is possible since I’m such a fuck up.” defense. 
 

The fact that Ashley Biden’s diary was also stolen in a similar time frame is….quite the coincidence.

Edited December 6, 2022 by Bateshorn

[Francisco 2.0 32,393]

3 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

The story is somebody brought in a damaged apple computer for repair and never returned. Most stores have some sort of “you gotta pick it up in XXXX time or it’s ours” policy. 
 

Because the guy can’t see, he can’t positively identify who dropped it off, which is wicked convient.

I don’t doubt some of the files and dong pics are Hunter Biden’s, but I’ve always assumed they were stolen from him or lost during a drug fueled bender and then this ridiculous scenario was fabricated without the store owners knowledge. Biden was such a degenerate crack head that he has to go with the “Anything is possible since I’m such a fuck up.” defense. 

To add; there is a Wikipedia article on this long sordid affair.  Here's the cliffs:

 

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Rudy Giuliani provided the materials to the New York Post after they were allegedly found on a water-damaged[31] MacBook Pro left at a Delaware computer repair shop owned by John Paul Mac Isaac.[32] Mac Isaac obtained the laptop in April 2019, claiming it had been dropped off by a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden and requested that the data on the damaged laptop be recovered.[1][33][9] Mac Isaac eventually brought the laptop to the attention of the FBI, who seized it in December 2019, under the authority of a subpoena issued by a Wilmington grand jury that had been investigating Hunter Biden for financial matters since 2018.[34][35] He asserted three years later that while he was copying individual files and folders from the laptop's hard drive to another device, he "saw some content that was disturbing and then also raised some red flags", including "criminality ... related to foreign business dealings, to potential money laundering and, more importantly, national security issues and concerns."[33] This caused him "to do a deep dive into the laptop once it became my property".[33] Mac Isaac contacted Giuliani, who he said was his "lifeguard"—voicing credence to the conspiracy theory that the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign was behind the murder of campaign worker Seth Rich.[36] Steve Bannon informed the New York Post of the laptop,[37] and he and Giuliani delivered a copy of the supposed laptop hard drive to the publication.[38] Weeks before, Bannon had boasted on Dutch television that he had Hunter Biden's hard drive.[38]

Giuliani was later quoted as saying he had given the copy to the New York Post because "either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out".[25] According to the New York Post story, a person—who Mac Isaac could not identify because he is legally blind[39]—left the computer at the repair shop to repair water damage, but once this was completed, the shop had no contact information for its owner, and nobody ever paid for it or came to pick it up.[40] Criticism has been focused on Mac Isaac over inconsistencies in his accounts of how the laptop came into his possession and how he passed it on to Giuliani and the FBI.[40][36] When interviewed by CBS News, Mac Isaac offered contradictory statements about his motivations.[41] Thomas Rid, a political scientist and disinformation expert at Johns Hopkins University, noted that the emails could have been forged or that forged material could have been mixed with genuine materials, a "common feature" of disinformation operations.[42] The Daily Beast reported that according to two "individuals with direct knowledge", multiple senior officials in the Trump administration and reelection campaign were aware of the laptop hard drive "several weeks" prior to the New York Post story.[43] Giuliani later confirmed to The Daily Beast that he had informed Trump about the material before the New York Post story.[44]

The New York Post reported it had been shown an image purporting to show a federal subpoena that resulted in the computer and an external hard drive being seized by the FBI in December 2019.[22] NBC News reported the FBI had acquired the devices via a grand jury subpoena, though it was unclear if this was the subpoena cited by the New York Post, and was investigating whether the contents were linked to a foreign intelligence operation.[45] The Associated Press confirmed the existence of the FBI investigation into possible foreign-intelligence activity.[46] Citing a "US official and a congressional source briefed on the matter", CNN reported the FBI was specifically investigating possible connections to ongoing Russian disinformation efforts against Joe Biden.[23] In 2022, Mark Zuckerberg stated that an FBI warning about a possible Russian disinformation campaign prompted Facebook to remove content purporting to convey facts concerning the laptop story.[47][48]

According to The Washington Post, Mac Isaac was alarmed that the laptop was not mentioned during Donald Trump's first impeachment trial in early 2020.[33]

Hunter Biden stated in an interview published April 2021 that he was not sure whether the laptop belonged to him; he said there "could be a laptop out there that was stolen from" him, or he could have been "hacked" by Russian intelligence.[49] PolitiFact wrote in June 2021: "Over time, there has been less doubt that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden", concluding that the laptop "was real in the sense that it exists, but it didn't prove much", as "Nothing from the laptop has revealed illegal or unethical behavior by Joe Biden as vice president with regard to his son's tenure as a director for Burisma".[5] PolitiFact states that it is possible that "copies of a laptop" were obtained, instead of the actual laptop.[5] PolitiFact states that the Daily Mail published nude photos of Hunter Biden from the laptop, as well as other content focused on Hunter Biden's drug use and legal issues, but notes that Hunter Biden had already publicized his own drug issues.[5]

 

[wildcat09 29,354]

10 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

The story is somebody brought in a damaged apple computer for repair and never returned. Most stores have some sort of “you gotta pick it up in XXXX time or it’s ours” policy. 
 

Because the guy can’t see, he can’t positively identify who dropped it off, which is wicked convient.

I don’t doubt some of the files and dong pics are Hunter Biden’s, but I’ve always assumed they were stolen from him or lost during a drug fueled bender and then this ridiculous scenario was fabricated without the store owners knowledge. Biden was such a degenerate crack head that he has to go with the “Anything is possible since I’m such a fuck up.” defense. 
 

The fact that Ashley Biden’s diary was also stolen in a similar time frame is….quite the coincidence.

Around the same time, the GRU had hacked Burisma and probably were able to get some shit on Biden from that too. That, along with Trump's attempts to extort Zelensyy, and Rudy's trips to Ukraine to meet with pro-Putin oligarchs to try to drum up dirt on Hunter, made everything about the story extremely fishy. 

[Chopper 17,235]

Elon "Lizzie Holmes" Musk is fucken killing it animals

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEO

Rachel Levy for Reuters
Mon 5 Dec 2022 19.25 EST

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.

Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments. The federal investigation, which has not been previously reported, was opened in recent months by the US Department of Agriculture’s inspector general at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The inquiry, one of the sources said, focuses on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs how researchers treat and test some animals.

The investigation has come at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing, including complaints that pressure from Musk to accelerate development has resulted in botched experiments, according to a Reuters review of dozens of Neuralink documents and interviews with more than 20 current and former employees. Such failed tests have had to be repeated, increasing the number of animals being tested and killed, the employees say. The company documents include previously unreported messages, audio recordings, emails, presentations and reports.

Musk and other Neuralink executives did not respond to requests for comment.
 

spoilered the rest because it's lengthy

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Reuters could not determine the full scope of the federal investigation or whether it involved the same alleged problems with animal testing identified by employees in Reuters interviews. A spokesperson for the USDA inspector general declined to comment. US regulations don’t specify how many animals companies can use for research, and they give significant leeway to scientists to determine when and how to use animals in experiments. Neuralink has passed all USDA inspections of its facilities, regulatory filings show.

In all, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018, according to records reviewed by Reuters and sources with direct knowledge of the company’s animal-testing operations. The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed. Neuralink has also conducted research using rats and mice.

The total number of animal deaths does not necessarily indicate that Neuralink is violating regulations or standard research practices. Many companies routinely use animals in experiments to advance human health care, and they face financial pressure to quickly bring products to market. The animals are typically killed when experiments are completed, often so they can be examined post-mortem for research purposes.

But current and former Neuralink employees say the number of animal deaths is higher than it needs to be for reasons related to Musk’s demands to speed research. Through company discussions and documents spanning several years, along with employee interviews, Reuters identified four experiments involving 86 pigs and two monkeys that were marred in recent years by human errors. The mistakes weakened the experiments’ research value and required the tests to be repeated, leading to more animals being killed, three of the current and former staffers said. The three people attributed the mistakes to a lack of preparation by a testing staff working in a pressure-cooker environment.

One employee, in a message seen by Reuters, wrote an angry missive this year to colleagues about the need to overhaul how the company organizes animal surgeries to prevent “hack jobs”. The rushed schedule, the employee wrote, resulted in under-prepared and over-stressed staffers scrambling to meet deadlines and making last-minute changes before surgeries, raising risks to the animals.

Musk has pushed hard to accelerate Neuralink’s progress, which depends heavily on animal testing, current and former employees said. This year, the chief executive sent staffers a news article about Swiss researchers who developed an electrical implant that helped a paralyzed man to walk again. “We could enable people to use their hands and walk again in daily life!” he wrote to staff at 6.37am Pacific time on 8 February. Ten minutes later, he followed up: “In general, we are simply not moving fast enough. It is driving me nuts!”

On several occasions over the years, Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster, according to three sources who repeatedly heard the comment. On one occasion a few years ago, Musk told employees he would trigger a “market failure” at Neuralink unless they made more progress, a comment perceived by some employees as a threat to shut down operations, according to a former staffer who heard his comment.

Five people who have worked on Neuralink’s animal experiments told Reuters they had raised concerns internally. They said they had advocated for a more traditional testing approach, in which researchers would test one element at a time in an animal study and draw relevant conclusions before moving on to more animal tests. Instead, these people said, Neuralink launches tests in quick succession before fixing issues in earlier tests or drawing complete conclusions. The result: more animals overall are tested and killed, in part because the approach leads to repeated tests.

One former employee who asked management several years ago for more deliberate testing was told by a senior executive it wasn’t possible given Musk’s demands for speed, the employee said. Two people told Reuters they had left the company over concerns about animal research.

The problems with Neuralink’s testing have raised questions internally about the quality of the resulting data, three current or former employees said. Such problems could delay the company’s bid to start human trials, which Musk has said the company wants to do within the next six months. They also add to a growing list of headaches for Musk, who is facing criticism of his management of Twitter, which he recently acquired for $44bn. Musk also continues to run the electric carmaker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX.

The US Food and Drug Administration is in charge of reviewing the company’s applications for approval of its medical device and associated trials. The company’s treatment of animals during research, however, is regulated by the USDA under the Animal Welfare Act. The FDA didn’t immediately comment.
Missed deadlines, botched experiments

Musk’s impatience with Neuralink has grown as the company, which launched in 2016, has missed his deadlines on several occasions to win regulatory approval to start clinical trials in humans, according to company documents and interviews with eight current and former employees.

Some Neuralink rivals are having more success. Synchron, which was launched in 2016 and is developing a different implant with less ambitious goals for medical advances, received FDA approval to start human trials in 2021. The company’s device has allowed paralyzed people to text and type by thinking alone. Synchron has also conducted tests on animals, but it has killed only about 80 sheep as part of its research, according to studies of the Synchron implant reviewed by Reuters. Musk approached Synchron about a potential investment, Reuters reported in August.

Synchron declined to comment.

In some ways, Neuralink treats animals quite well compared with other research facilities, employees said in interviews, echoing public statements by Musk and other executives. Company leaders have boasted internally of building a “Monkey Disneyland” in the company’s Austin, Texas, facility where lab animals can roam, a former employee said. In the company’s early years, Musk told employees he wanted the monkeys at his San Francisco Bay Area operation to live in a “monkey Taj Mahal”, said a former employee who heard the comment. Another former employee recalled Musk saying he disliked using animals for research but wanted to make sure they were “the happiest animals” while alive.

The animals have fared less well, however, when used in the company’s research, current and former employees say.

The first complaints about the company’s testing involved its initial partnership with University of California, Davis, to conduct the experiments. In February, an animal rights group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, filed a complaint with the USDA accusing the Neuralink-UC Davis project of botching surgeries that killed monkeys, and publicly released its findings. The group alleged that surgeons used the wrong surgical glue twice, which led to two monkeys suffering and dying, while other monkeys had different complications from the implants.

The company has acknowledged it killed six monkeys, on the advice of UC Davis veterinary staff, because of health problems caused by experiments. It called the issue with the glue a “complication” from the use of an “FDA-approved product”. In response to a Reuters inquiry, a UC Davis spokesperson shared a previous public statement defending its research with Neuralink and saying it followed all laws and regulations.

A federal prosecutor in the northern district of California referred the animal rights group’s complaint to the USDA inspector general, which has since launched a formal investigation, according to a source with direct knowledge of it. USDA investigators then inquired about the allegations involving the UC Davis monkey research, according to two sources familiar with the matter and emails and messages reviewed by Reuters.

The investigation is concerned with the testing and treatment of animals in Neuralink’s own facilities, one of the sources said, without elaborating. In 2020, Neuralink brought the program in-house, and it has since built its extensive facilities in California and Texas.

A spokesperson for the US attorney’s office for the northern district of California declined to comment.

Delcianna Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, said it was “very unusual” for the USDA inspector general to investigate animal research facilities. Winders, an animal-testing opponent who has criticized Neuralink, said the inspector general has primarily focused in recent years on dogfighting and cockfighting actions when applying the Animal Welfare Act.

Employee concerns

The mistakes leading to unnecessary animal deaths included one instance in 2021 when 25 out of 60 pigs in a study had devices that were the wrong size implanted in their heads, an error that could have been avoided with more preparation, according to a person with knowledge of the situation and company documents and communications reviewed by Reuters.

The mistake raised alarm among Neuralink’s researchers. In May 2021, Viktor Kharazia, a scientist, wrote to colleagues that the mistake could be a “red flag” to FDA reviewers of the study, which the company planned to submit as part of its application to begin human trials. His colleagues agreed, and the experiment was repeated with 36 sheep, according to the person with knowledge of the situation. All the animals, both the pigs and the sheep, were killed after the procedures, the person said.

Kharazia did not comment in response to requests.

On another occasion, staff accidentally implanted Neuralink’s device on the wrong vertebra of two different pigs during two separate surgeries, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter and documents reviewed by Reuters. The incident frustrated several employees who said the mistakes “on two separate occasions” could have easily been avoided by carefully counting the vertebrae before inserting the device.

The company veterinarian Sam Baker advised his colleagues to immediately kill one of the pigs to end her suffering.

“Based on low chance of full recovery … and her current poor psychological wellbeing, it was decided that euthanasia was the only appropriate course of action,” Baker wrote colleagues about one of the pigs a day after the surgery, adding a broken heart emoji.

Baker did not comment on the incident.

Employees have sometimes pushed back on Musk’s demands to move fast. In a company discussion several months ago, some Neuralink employees protested after a manager said that Musk had encouraged them to do a complex surgery on pigs soon. The employees resisted on the grounds that the surgery’s complexity would lengthen the amount of time the pigs would be under anesthesia, risking their health and recovery. They argued they should first figure out how to cut down the time it would take to do the surgery.

“It’s hard on the little piggies,” one of the employees said, referring to the lengthy period under anesthesia.

In September, the company responded to employee concerns about its animal testing by holding a town hall to explain its processes. It soon after opened up the meetings to staff of its federally mandated board that reviews the animal experiments.

Neuralink executives have said publicly that the company tests animals only when it has exhausted other research options, but documents and company messages suggest otherwise. During a 30 November presentation the company broadcast on YouTube, for example, Musk said surgeries were used at a later stage of the process to confirm that the device worked rather than to test early hypotheses. “We’re extremely careful,” he said, to make sure that testing is “confirmatory, not exploratory”, using animal testing as a last resort after trying other methods.

In October, a month before Musk’s comments, Autumn Sorrells, the head of animal care, ordered employees to scrub “exploration” from study titles retroactively and stop using it in the future.

Sorrells did not comment in response to requests.

Neuralink records reviewed by Reuters contained numerous references over several years to exploratory surgeries, and three people with knowledge of the company’s research strongly rejected the assertion that Neuralink avoids exploratory tests on animals. Company discussions reviewed by Reuters showed several employees expressing concerns about Sorrells’ request to change exploratory study descriptions, saying it would be inaccurate and misleading.

One noted that the request seemed designed to provide “better optics” for Neuralink.

 

[Chooky 13,307]

Will Efron post popcorn emojis in anticipation of his corporate messages and emails? 

[Chopper 17,235]

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"Pharmaceutical implant device industry CEOs are impressed with Elon Elizabeth Holmes Musk's plan to have robots perform discretionary and useless brain surgery with no neurosurgeon present, utilizing only robots. They are drooling over Holmes-Musk's method of ignoring FDA regulation and the way Neuralink burns through cash with zero results. The way Holmes-Musk pressures employees for immediate results regardless of their attainability and practicality -- or even whether the company's goals pass a basic smell test -- is seen as trend-setting in the reclusive CEO suites of his competitors, who are indeed jealous and watching closely. 'Holmes-Musk has created an unworkable yet deadly solution in search of a problem and here in our C-Suite that's viewed as revolutionary yet intriguing,' said one CEO who ask to be unnamed. The CEO expressed admiration for Holmes-Musk's strategy of burning through employee after employee. "The giant unspoken secret in our industry is that nobody gives a fuck about employee turnover and we almost universally hold professional neurologists in disdain. The faster we can do non-beneficial brain surgery without a neurologist looking over our collective shoulder, the better."

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by Chopper

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I give it 12 hours before he responds that it was only 1,100 animals that died or something.  He can’t help himself, even though the smart thing would be to remain silent on the matter.

[atomheartbevo 89,670]

 

 

Yeah, “they” hate people with disabilities.

[Pig Bellmont 8,719]

World’s richest man needlessly killing thousands of animals is straight Disney villain 101 Dalmatian stuff

[Celery Man 20,950]

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42 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

World’s richest man needlessly killing thousands of animals is straight Disney villain 101 Dalmatian stuff

He’s probably obsessed with his own mortality.

[MrBig 5,398]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I give it 12 hours before he responds that it was only 1,100 animals that died or something.  He can’t help himself, even though the smart thing would be to remain silent on the matter.

Elon will double down. He’ll say the “Twitter Files” made him and Neuralink a target of the federal government. The timing of the Twitter files release right before the news that Neuralink is under investigation is very convenient for Elon. He’ll blame the Twitter files for the government going after him, even though the feds have been looking into Neuralink’s animal welfare practices for a while. 

[Chopper 17,235]

from the recruting board

 

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by Chopper

[NoName 16,352]

lol evidently there is going to be a Day 2 of twitter files. and Elon apologized saying "We" needed more time

 

[Nivek 16,930]

On 12/4/2022 at 12:57 PM, Goredho said:

Said another way, the truth is what anyone with the required resources can make you believe.  There is no standard for factual veracity.  Funny, America reached its apex when there were far more standards for factual veracity than what Elon is enabling.

And when taxes were higher for the gilded, unions were stronger, and infrastructure and education were valued and of course, an underclass to exploit.

[Chopper 17,235]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

He’s probably obsessed with his own mortality.

Probably?

3 minutes ago, NoName said:

lol evidently there is going to be a Day 2 of twitter files. and Elon apologized saying "We" needed more time

"We" is lyin' Stark-Holmes-Musk and his merry band of misinformation pushers, covid minimizers and russian election interference deniers?

[babysdaddy 2,724]

 

Baker got fired today

[Captainant 27,669]

5 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

 

Baker got fired today

lol that's a weird way to launder a NY Post op-ed that's circularly referencing Taibbi from earlier, but ok

Edited December 6, 2022 by Captainant

[babysdaddy 2,724]

Just now, Captainant said:

lol that's a weird way to launder a NY Post op-ed that's circularly referencing Taibbi from earlier, but ok

lol I follow Elon, as I'm sure you do, and that's how it popped up, but ok

[Chopper 17,235]

I was today years old when I learned the guy was working there at all, let alone until today. The surprising thing is that he was still there after Elon Holmes-Musk took over, if he was somehow aligned with the lefties, as the wingnuts allege. If you read Elon Holmes-Musk's statement about firing him, he's cloistered it in wiggle words so that he appears to be saying something he's not, unless you're reading it with the slanted eye of a wingnut. “in light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue”

[Chopper 17,235]

4 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

lol I follow Elon, as I'm sure you do, and that's how it popped up, but ok

lol where in Holmes-Musk's timeline is it because his retweets may have invisible ink

[babysdaddy 2,724]

his tweets with replies.  why you so mad, bro? 

[Chopper 17,235]

1 hour ago, babysdaddy said:

his tweets with replies.  why you so mad, bro? 

Mad? I took a moment to scan the guy's feed, since I'm not so dim that I'd follow him or bother to check his feed unless there were a good reason to. In so doing I noticed that you gave an unclear, incomplete or misleading answer to a very simple question, bro. I thought you might want to take the opportunity to clarify. An opportunity that you skipped. Noted. It's that simple. 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Chopper

[babysdaddy 2,724]

Mad? I took a moment to scan the guy's feed, since I'm not so dim that I'd follow him or bother to check his feed unless there were a good reason to. In so doing I noticed that you gave an unclear, incomplete or misleading answer to a very simple question, bro. I thought you might want to take the opportunity to clarify. An opportunity that you skipped. Noted. It's that simple. 

Welcome to the ignore list. You and immaculate vibes. Congrats

[wildcat09 29,354]

Taibbi has somehow found a way to beclown himself even harder. I didn't think he had it in him.

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5 hours ago, NoName said:

lol evidently there is going to be a Day 2 of twitter files. and Elon apologized saying "We" needed more time

He better roll out fast, given that the animal slaughter story is picking up some steam.  Sounds like the feds can shut Neurallink down.

I like all of the Musk fanbois pretending that the feds doing this is in response to Hunter's dick pics, and not Musk trying to speed the research up.

And they are acting like this is the only thing the feds can do to Musk, ignoring the fact that if the feds yanked a few contracts, SpaceX would start losing a lot of money.

[Francisco 2.0 32,393]

The main reason Elon spent $44 billion was to gain more friends.  Every reply is a dopamine hit, and he probably sleeps 2 hours a day because he's too busy checking out his replies.  

 

 

 

[texasdago 7,573]

If I didn't know any better and if Elon was older, I would think he was behind this project...

 

But maybe he's working on it from his own angle.  

[Chopper 17,235]

13 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

Welcome to the ignore list. You and immaculate vibes. Congrats

I'm really going to miss your insightful words. Please, please don't... for the love of god.

[Chopper 17,235]

11 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

The main reason Elon spent $44 billion was to gain more friends.  Every reply is a dopamine hit, and he probably sleeps 2 hours a day because he's too busy checking out his replies.  

The word "people" in her tweet is very generous. Weird how elmo hasn't mentioned bots since taking over the company yet the bots are as out of control as ever over there. But that's axios for you. And yet axios doesn't even take a minute to run his followers through a bot counter. Before he purchased the company I read his bot followers were 50%, a couple weeks I read it was up to 70%. I'm not saying those numbers are accurate just what I've read and recall. However, it's very odd that axios would put out an article about engagement without checking.

[Chopper 17,235]

I think I'm going to turn my office HQ into an apartment complex without city approval seems like an idiotic idea. And elmo's response is probably dumber than you could guess.

 

San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection said Tuesday it was investigating a complaint that Twitter had created makeshift bedrooms at its headquarters in the city, as new owner Elon Musk seeks to instill a "hardcore" culture at the social media company.

"We need to make sure the building is being used as intended," Patrick Hannan, a spokesman for the department, said in an email. "There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays. These codes make sure people are using spaces safely."

"No one is above the law," he said.

The complaint - sent on Twitter to San Francisco's 311 service - came after Forbes reported that multiple rooms in Twitter's office were being converted into sleeping spaces, describing them as "modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors."

Musk appeared to confirm the report, writing on Twitter: "So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?" He tagged San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D), whose office did not respond to a request for comment.

Twitter, which gutted its communications team in a round of mass layoffs after Musk took the helm, did not respond to a request for comment.

The apparent installation of bedrooms at Twitter's headquarters comes after a product manager at the company shared a photo of her sleeping on the floor of what appeared to be a meeting room. "When your team is pushing round-the-clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork," she said in reference to the photo of her wrapped in a sleeping bag.

"We are reaching out to building representatives so we can conduct a site inspection as part of our investigation," said the Department of Building Inspection's Hannan. "If we find suite 900 no longer meets the building code, we'll issue a notice of violation, which will be posted to our website and at the site, just like all notices of violation," referring to Twitter's headquarters at 1355 Market Street.

"San Francisco treats all complaints and property owners the same," he said, noting that anyone with "additional information or photos that would assist our investigation" could send them to the department by email.

[956 Worldwide 34,715]

Everyone who isn’t a Musk fanboi or an H1B visa holder left Twitter and now Elon is making foreign workers sleep at the office. 
 

Just completed the investigation. 

[wildcat09 29,354]

17 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Everyone who isn’t a Musk fanboi or an H1B visa holder left Twitter and now Elon is making foreign workers sleep at the office. 
 

Just completed the investigation. 

Musk is weeks away from paying those visa holders in company scrip.

[kevwun 15,788]

If he moves Twitter HQ to China, he can use slave labor.

Edited December 7, 2022 by kevwun

[hayden_horn 11,362]

42 minutes ago, Chopper said:

I think I'm going to turn my office HQ into an apartment complex without city approval seems like an idiotic idea. And elmo's response is probably dumber than you could guess.

 

San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection said Tuesday it was investigating a complaint that Twitter had created makeshift bedrooms at its headquarters in the city, as new owner Elon Musk seeks to instill a "hardcore" culture at the social media company.

"We need to make sure the building is being used as intended," Patrick Hannan, a spokesman for the department, said in an email. "There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays. These codes make sure people are using spaces safely."

"No one is above the law," he said.

The complaint - sent on Twitter to San Francisco's 311 service - came after Forbes reported that multiple rooms in Twitter's office were being converted into sleeping spaces, describing them as "modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors."

Musk appeared to confirm the report, writing on Twitter: "So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?" He tagged San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D), whose office did not respond to a request for comment.

Twitter, which gutted its communications team in a round of mass layoffs after Musk took the helm, did not respond to a request for comment.

The apparent installation of bedrooms at Twitter's headquarters comes after a product manager at the company shared a photo of her sleeping on the floor of what appeared to be a meeting room. "When your team is pushing round-the-clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork," she said in reference to the photo of her wrapped in a sleeping bag.

"We are reaching out to building representatives so we can conduct a site inspection as part of our investigation," said the Department of Building Inspection's Hannan. "If we find suite 900 no longer meets the building code, we'll issue a notice of violation, which will be posted to our website and at the site, just like all notices of violation," referring to Twitter's headquarters at 1355 Market Street.

"San Francisco treats all complaints and property owners the same," he said, noting that anyone with "additional information or photos that would assist our investigation" could send them to the department by email.

man, i'm so glad all those facebook moms saved all those kids lives on halloween from the multicolored fentanyl

thank you father elon for leading us bravely into the future.  ps, are you on drugs?

[Chopper 17,235]

When an asian massage parlor gets busted for human trafficking one of the giveaways per LEO is always that the workers were sleeping at the workplace. I'm looking forward to elmo's trial for human trafficking.

[We’reTexas 1,473]

58 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

man, i'm so glad all those facebook moms saved all those kids lives on halloween from the multicolored fentanyl

thank you father elon for leading us bravely into the future.  ps, are you on drugs?

He’s referring to a 10-month old that somehow ingested fentanyl last week in one of the nicest areas of the city, which is, I hate a say, a fair point to make. 

[Felix 607]

What does the Building Inspections department have to do with fentanyl?  You mean cities have different departments that do different things?  Fascinating.

 

[hobbes2702 13,033]

42 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

He’s referring to a 10-month old that somehow ingested fentanyl last week in one of the nicest areas of the city, which is, I hate a say, a fair point to make. 

[We’reTexas 1,473]

9 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Oh ffs he was commenting on the across the board ineptitude of San Francisco government except when it comes to performative shitting on tech companies, which is a fair point. I’m not defending him but was clarifying that he was referring to a real incident, not Halloween fentanyl moral panic. 

[hobbes2702 13,033]

Just now, We’reTexas said:

Oh ffs he was commenting on the across the board ineptitude of San Francisco government except when it comes to performative shitting on tech companies, which is a fair point. I’m not defending him but was clarifying that he was referring to a real incident, not Halloween fentanyl moral panic. 

And it’s really stupid and completely unrelated. He’s not making any point, let alone a fair one.

[NoName 16,352]

once again, birdwatch clarifies dumb posts

[Post Oak 20,213]

I always knew being born white and rich was a fucking massive headstart on life but until Elon, I never knew just how consequential it was.  It's as if Humble Beast's family owned a diamond mine.  I mean seriously.  Imagine if immortal was a Walton.  It's the same fucking thing.

[SydneyCarton 48,106]

13 minutes ago, NoName said:

once again, birdwatch clarifies dumb posts

And of course, Elon swoops right in to imply a conspiracy in spite of birdwatch. 

[Pig Bellmont 8,719]

1 hour ago, Felix said:

What does the Building Inspections department have to do with fentanyl?  You mean cities have different departments that do different things?  Fascinating.

 

Exactly. Cops/drug prevention/criminal prosecution have exactly zero to do with building code enforcement. “Hey Texas, how dare you collect property taxes when you can’t run a foster care system without killing kids”. See how dumb that sounds?

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

I think we all deserve an answer as to why building code inspectors aren’t preventing infant deaths due to fentanyl in San Francisco.

[Chopper 17,235]

2 hours ago, We’reTexas said:

He’s referring to a 10-month old that somehow ingested fentanyl last week in one of the nicest areas of the city, which is, I hate a say, a fair point to make. 

 

1 hour ago, We’reTexas said:

Oh ffs he was commenting on the across the board ineptitude of San Francisco government except when it comes to performative shitting on tech companies, which is a fair point. I’m not defending him but was clarifying that he was referring to a real incident, not Halloween fentanyl moral panic. 

I'm still unsure what the allegedly inept SF city government has to do with a 10 month old ingesting fentanyl. How is the city related to whatever happened? I'm struggling to see how his point was "fair" and not "totally fucking absurd and arguably insane."

[Celery Man 20,950]

23 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

I always knew being born white and rich was a fucking massive headstart on life but until Elon, I never knew just how consequential it was.  It's as if Humble Beast's family owned a diamond mine.  I mean seriously.  Imagine if immortal was a Walton.  It's the same fucking thing.