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

[Schulz2.0 29158]

10 hours ago, F250 said:

Nope, Methodist but I'll leave it to you to figure out why a Methodist would side with the Orthodox.

[CooterBrown 18244]

The talking donkey should invalidate anything else in the Bible.

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11 hours ago, F250 said:

Nope, Methodist but I'll leave it to you to figure out why a Methodist would side with the Orthodox.

I think I know why.

[royiv 9581]

Isn’t there a religion thread somewhere?

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On 11/28/2024 at 11:59 AM, Hefeweizen said:

He should hire Curt Schilling to run his game studio.

I just want to say that this was a really beautiful, deep comment for those who follow the video game industry (and maybe software in general), not because of Curt’s leanings but because of his business management…skills.  I remember watching it play out in real time and even had a friend that worked at 38 Studios, and I’ve read the articles, read the books that covered it, and it’s still amazing and hilarious at the same time.

Hell, I’ve thought about how I could get the state of Rhode Island to loan me $75 million, but first I’d have to have a Time Machine, go back in time, figure out in high school how to elevate my pitching to a level where I could pitch in college and then make it to the majors, and then win a World Series. It would probably be easier to go back in time and just sink everything I could into Apple stock and get the money that way.

Edited November 30 by atomheartbevo

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Free Speech Musk blocking thousands of Twitter accounts at the request of the Turkish government.

 

[Brisketexan 106284]

Free Speech Musk blocking thousands of Twitter accounts at the request of the Turkish government.
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BUT FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!!!

I was told this. Were they…gasp…LYING? Oh my stars, get me to a fainting couch!

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Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker? 

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46 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker? 

I would think like a Polish name. 

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Just now, workswithseed said:

I would think like a Polish name. 

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On 11/29/2024 at 8:18 PM, C-Man said:

[C-Man 27596]

Scottie Pippen is broken

[SizzleChest 8299]

[Underdog 29004]

Damn, thought that was a Star Wars/Star Trek villain. 

[InkaUtexas 26714]

Interesting.

 

 

[UpperWestside 6252]

49 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Interesting.

 

 

Good. Now let’s find out how many American journalists are willing to do the same thing. 

[Captain Ron 13073]

15 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

Good. Now let’s find out how many American journalists are willing to do the same thing. 

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

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On 11/30/2024 at 4:08 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker? 

yes

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15 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

I would not expect all of them to leave, but any journalist staying on there is aiding a narcissistic megalomaniac in making more money. A long time ago a coach told me you either take a crap or get off the toilet. I will not feel bad for those journalists that stay, whether I like them or not, and wind up covered in feces.

[InkaUtexas 26714]

30 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

I would not expect all of them to leave, but any journalist staying on there is aiding a narcissistic megalomaniac in making more money. A long time ago a coach told me you either take a crap or get off the toilet. I will not feel bad for those journalists that stay, whether I like them or not, and wind up covered in feces.

Agree. I think they can let their news desk be on it in a read only, no posting method. But get the fuck off it as individuals.

 

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3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Good. Now let’s find out how many American journalists are willing to do the same thing. 

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Agree. I think they can let their news desk be on it in a read only, no posting method. But get the fuck off it as individuals.

Now that Leon publicly admitted to throttling anybody posting links to outside sources, we are seeing a large wave of American journalists, bloggers, etc. bail or at least treat Twitter as read-only.  Musk link-throttling them hurts them big time, because they are all trying to drive traffic back to their blogs.

Its actually a huge fucking mistake for Twitter to throttle links in an effort to keep people browsing Twitter because it’s one more huge thing that will drive companies away.

[C-Man 27596]

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-loses-bid-to-get-56-billion-pay-package-reinstated.html

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[Chopper 17411]

I forget who was arguing with me that the judge would not be able to overturn the shareholder vote regarding Elonia's stock grant. Probably just another sock, long forgotten. 

[Parliament 14482]

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-tells-cybertruck-staff-not-to-report-to-work-2024-12
 

[BearMace 2239]

How great to see a billionaire giving workers paid time off at the holidays!  - Elmo Stans, probably

[Firemans4Horn 18485]

When I see a cybertruck driving in uptown Dallas I assume there’s a 20% chance my death is a result of one of those pieces of shit running me over. 

[Hefeweizen 5407]

31 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

When I see a cybertruck driving in uptown Dallas I assume there’s a 20% chance my death is a result of one of those pieces of shit running me over. 

The funniest thing to me is that I see them wrapped all the time.  The base version is so awful that the first thing people do is go put some clothes on their car.

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1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

The funniest thing to me is that I see them wrapped all the time.  The base version is so awful that the first thing people do is go put some clothes on their car.

Normally when people wrap an automobile it's for advertising reasons, but people are trying to disguise the things.

[BearMace 2239]

I can't wait until the first wraps start getting replaced in any sort of numbers as they change ownership only to reveal that the wraps somehow didn't protect them and they're actually corroded under them because Elmo insisted on only the shittiest alloy. 

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Elon Musk's Neuralink expands offices in Austin area

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Elon Musk’s footprint in Central Texas continues to grow. His brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, will expand in the area with more space and job openings. This comes after Musk already moved several of his headquarters to the region. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, construction on the $14.7 billion building started this July.

Filings showed it will be a 112,000 square foot facility on 37 acres of land in the east Austin suburb of Del Valle. It will include a three-story building with offices, a machine shop and manufacturing space.

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Neuralink posted multiple job openings on its website in the Austin-area for positions like engineers, software specialists and manufacturing technicians.

According to state filings, the project is expected to be completed in May 2025.

"You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to work at Neuralink."

 

Apply | Neuralink - Animal Care Intern in California.

Edited December 3 by atomheartbevo

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13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Elon Musk's Neuralink expands offices in Austin area

"You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to work at Neuralink."

 

Apply | Neuralink - Animal Care Intern in California.

$14.7 billion? That’s some excellent reporting, KXAN.

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"So I just found a major flaw in the Cybertruck’s design. Let me show you,”  “The headlights are actually hidden down below and can you guess what the issue might be in the wintertime?”

“These headlights are amazing. They’re extremely bright. However, I found that the snow is building up right in front of the headlights. So that can be a major problem when you’re driving in the wintertime because if snow builds up right here, the headlights are going to be completely blocked,”

Look Joe, when I designed this thing as a 10 year old back in the 80s, there wasn't much snow where I lived so why the fuck would I have been worried about it?

Sorry that somebody found my sketchbook and decided to put it into production, and if I had it to do over, I would have connected some wires to the metal near the lights to make it hot so the snow would melt.

Edited December 3 by atomheartbevo

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19 minutes ago, royiv said:

$14.7 billion? That’s some excellent reporting, KXAN.

I'm amazed they actually got the number right.

And I'm betting somebody on twitter pointed out the filing to them.

[Captainant 28272]

Can anyone do a wellness check on Pronghorn?

https://www.devx.com/daily-news/fbi-disrupts-russian-ai-bot-farm-spreading-ukraine-disinformation/

The FBI, in collaboration with international partners, has seized control of a Russian-owned artificial intelligence-driven social media bot farm that spread propaganda on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). The bot farm was developed by Russia’s state-run RT News Network and operated by Moscow’s Federal Security Service using AI. The Russian state-sponsored actors used the covert Meliorator software to benefit Moscow’s agenda.

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Can anyone do a wellness check on Pronghorn?

https://www.devx.com/daily-news/fbi-disrupts-russian-ai-bot-farm-spreading-ukraine-disinformation/

The FBI, in collaboration with international partners, has seized control of a Russian-owned artificial intelligence-driven social media bot farm that spread propaganda on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). The bot farm was developed by Russia’s state-run RT News Network and operated by Moscow’s Federal Security Service using AI. The Russian state-sponsored actors used the covert Meliorator software to benefit Moscow’s agenda.

That’s huge, but at the same time, does it matter? Musk was utilizing all of his Twitter resources to influence the election and was doing it openly.

It’s hilarious that with everything he’s done, he still didn’t get the big payout he was hoping for.  I wonder what that would have done for Tesla’s stock if he had won that case.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Claims DOGE Will 'Scrutinize' Federal Loans to Tesla's Enemies

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On Monday, the Biden administration announced a $7.5 billion federal loan to a company called StarPlus Energy LLC, which has been contracted to build two electric vehicle battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana. Those plants will be utilized as part of a joint venture between EV maker Stellantis and car battery maker Samsung SDI. ABC reports that, at full capacity, the plants could produce enough batteries to power approximately 670,000 cars annually. You’d think that, in the eyes of the ostensibly nativist Trump administration, homegrown manufacturing jobs would be a good thing. There’s a problem, however: Stellantis is notably a rival of Tesla.

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Characterizing it as a last-minute “spending spree” by the outgoing Biden administration, Ramaswamy vowed to investigate the loan to the electric car maker. “Biden’s midnight spending spree is illegitimate & should be rescinded,” Ramaswamy wrote on X, a platform also owned by Musk. “The Department of Energy just announced a staggering $7.5BN loan to StarPlus, a JV that includes Stellantis (whose CEO resigned just yesterday).”

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In the same post, Ramaswamy also took aim at Rivian, another electric car company that rivals Tesla. “This $7.5BN splurge to StarPlus comes less than a week after the Energy Department shamefully announced a $6.6BN “loan” to a failing Rivian plant in Georgia, and just weeks after Americans voted decisively to end the wasteful spending of the Biden-Harris administration,” he posted.

Investigating your rivals/trying to stop loans to them (all the while Tesla receives a shitload of money from EV tax credits, carbon credits, etc....

[DigglerontheHoof 21497]

Elmo needs to get got. 

[Captain Ron 13073]

 

as noted on the Bluesky post I got this from - this is a galaxy Brian idiot move for a platform that you want to disseminate real time information on. 

[Captainant 28272]

2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

as noted on the Bluesky post I got this from - this is a galaxy Brian idiot move for a platform that you want to disseminate real time information on. 

It's almost like he's using it as a disinformation platform, or something 

Edited December 5 by Captainant

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2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's almost like he's using it as a disinformation platform, of something 

Or he’s tired of getting quote-dunked.  It’s Musk, he hates to be made to look like a clown.

[TwiceHorn 31868]

 

19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Vivek Ramaswamy Claims DOGE Will 'Scrutinize' Federal Loans to Tesla's Enemies

Investigating your rivals/trying to stop loans to them (all the while Tesla receives a shitload of money from EV tax credits, carbon credits, etc....

Well, Vivek seems to know a thing or two about fraud.

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On 12/3/2024 at 12:20 AM, royiv said:

$14.7 billion? That’s some excellent reporting, KXAN.

You could buy like 50 thousand del valles for that amount 

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Texas Observer doing work with unmasking racist Twitter trolls

https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/

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Through reviewing posts on X, web archives, leak databases, and other social media profiles, the Observer identified the following individuals as the anonymous operators of neo-Nazi X accounts, which had a collective 500,000 followers at their peak: Cyan Cruz, a 40-year-old marketing professional who appears to have lived in Austin and Amarillo and operates the X account TheOfficial1984; Michael Gramer, a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire, operates the X account 9mm_SMG, and has claimed to have a house in Galveston and to be spending time in Dallas; Robert “Bobby” Thorne, a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano, who operates the account Noble1945 and previously operated the account Noble_x_x_; and John Anthony Provenzano, a 30-year-old who appears to live in Virginia, operates the account utism_ (formerly known as JohnnyBullzeye), and, according to a tip and a records request response from the U.S. Navy, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland—where the Navy manufactures explosive ordnance.

These individuals are part of a broader ecosystem of far-right accounts that have rapidly expanded their reach in recent months. They are among the most popular white nationalist and neo-Nazi accounts on X whose operators have not yet been publicly identified. (While this article was in production, the Anti-Defamation League also identified Cruz as the operator of TheOfficial1984.) Their rise to prominence tracks with a dramatic decrease in moderation of hateful content on the platform, which dropped from 1 million moderated accounts in 2021 to only 2,361 accounts in the most recent 2024 X transparency report. Posts from these individuals have received tens of millions of views over the last year and a half. The accounts have also attracted the attention of major public figures. Two of the accounts have received replies from the X account of Elon Musk, who has said he writes all of his own X posts and who, as reported by Mother Jones, has amplified users who promote pseudoscientific arguments that those of European descent are biologically superior. Three of the accounts are followed by a sitting congressman, and many other right-wing media figures and outlets follow at least one of the four accounts.

 

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On 12/3/2024 at 12:39 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Look Joe, when I designed this thing as a 10 year old back in the 80s, there wasn't much snow where I lived so why the fuck would I have been worried about it?

Sorry that somebody found my sketchbook and decided to put it into production, and if I had it to do over, I would have connected some wires to the metal near the lights to make it hot so the snow would melt.

The caption is gold:  "I can't believe Tesla didn't think of this..."

Yeah, us too

 

[NoName 17003]

On 12/2/2024 at 2:51 PM, atomheartbevo said:

 Musk link-throttling them hurts them big time, because they are all trying to drive traffic back to their blogs.

Just to be clear they were always bad about it and folks had posted for years about limited click through rates from Twitter but throttling it even more is dumb.

Twitter has been a poor way to reach actual people vs any other social media and has been that way for a long time. Way before Elon.

He just somehow made it an even worse proposition so people instead of throwing a small % of budget on twitter ads now just spend it entirely anywhere else

[Foosters 18142]

4 hours ago, Captainant said:

Texas Observer doing work with unmasking racist Twitter trolls

https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/

 

Robert “Bobby” Thorne, a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano, who operates the account Noble1945 and previously operated the account Noble_x_x_;

Hope it was worth it, Bobby.