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

[cactusflinthead 27,594]

Twitter did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the lawsuit outside regular business hours.

The volume of automated signup requests from the four defendants' IP addresses far exceeded what any single person could send to a person, which severely taxed Twitter's servers, the lawsuit claimed.

The case is X Corp Vs John Does 1-4, in the district court of Dallas County, Texas, no. DC-23-09157.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-reaffirms-tweet-reading-limits-put-due-data-scraping-2023-07-13/

[Redneck Mutha 7,935]

3 hours ago, Chooky said:

You fools! It's called cyber rust. It's the best rust money can buy. If you don't understand that, then I'm not gonna explain it to you. 

I don't understand it, but I did my own research which shows that rust is made with both oxygen and water.  Which we all know are essential for life.

Ipso facto, by including rust in the cybertruck, Elon is saving lives, ya stupid sips!

[Neonmoon 38,127]

The funniest thing is him still trying to make X happen 

[BearMace 2,183]

4 hours ago, Chooky said:

You fools! It's called cyber rust. It's the best rust money can buy. If you don't understand that, then I'm not gonna explain it to you. 

It's Cor-Ten you pleebs, obviously a planned feature. Duh!! The result will be super steam-punk and extremely hardcore. 

[dcbc 14,398]

I'm getting serious, homemade-submarine vibes from that cyber truck.

Edited July 13, 2023 by dcbc

[Francisco 2.0 32,313]

5 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I'm getting serious, homemade-submarine vibes from that cyber truck.

 

Thing is, instead of killing the occupants, this thing will kill other motorists in their cheaply built non-Elon engineered vehicles while the Cybertruck passengers will rest safely and comfortably in a cocoon of stainless powered by sunshine.

Or at least that is what the fanbois believe.

 

 

[Pig Bellmont 8,691]

Approving the design and then the subsequent attempts to bring the “cyber truck” to market should have been enough cause for Tesla shareholders to remove Elon as CEO. 

[NoName 16,286]

18 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I'm getting serious, homemade-submarine vibes from that cyber truck.

i watched some videos of them out on the road and they look so fucking ridiculous

 

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14uhqvf/cybertruck_spotted_in_austin_texas_presumably_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14vaj14/camo_cybertruck_spotted_again_in_silicon_valley/

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14o3q51/camo_cybertruck_prototype_spotted_on_the_highway/

 

 

 

[dcbc 14,398]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Thing is, instead of killing the occupants, this thing will kill other motorists in their cheaply built non-Elon engineered vehicles while the Cybertruck passengers will rest safely and comfortably in a cocoon of stainless powered by sunshine.

Or at least that is what the fanbois believe.

 

 

Much like the submarine tourists were "mission specialists," the occupants of the Cyber Truck are classified as "crumple zones."y

 

Disclaimer: The above statement merely represents my opinion about the aforementioned Cyber Truck a/k/a The Ugly Truckling.

Edited July 13, 2023 by dcbc

[Schulz2.0 28,761]

 

[Captain Ron 12,793]

1 hour ago, NoName said:

i watched some videos of them out on the road and they look so fucking ridiculous

 

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14uhqvf/cybertruck_spotted_in_austin_texas_presumably_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14vaj14/camo_cybertruck_spotted_again_in_silicon_valley/

https://old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/14o3q51/camo_cybertruck_prototype_spotted_on_the_highway/

 

 

 

 

 

It looks like an 80s Lambo had sex with a truck and this was the resulting baby

 

[Sawbonz 27,392]

Any pictures of the bed of this thing?

[Captain Ron 12,793]

5 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

Clara Barton might disagree. 

[F250 28,674]

8 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

Those are some deep thoughts along the lines of "The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman."

[SydneyCarton 47,836]

24 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

Cross Posting becuase Musk is a piece of fucking shit, as are Tate and Carlson. Evil.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/how-russian-soldiers-terrorise-ukraine-sexual-violence/

 

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One Russian soldier forced a four-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him in the presence of her parents, according to the report. The 22-year-old mother was raped, her husband sexually violated, and the pair were also forced to have sexual intercourse in the presence of the armed forces.

 

[dcbc 14,398]

27 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

 

 

It looks like an 80s Lambo had sex with a truck and this was the resulting baby

 

In truth, it looks like the Pinewood Derby car I built without my dad's help in the third grade.

[Degenerate Gardner 4,081]

9 minutes ago, dcbc said:

In truth, it looks like the Pinewood Derby car I built without my dad's help in the third grade.

It looks like the car Homer designed that bankrupted his brother’s car company. All it needs is rally stripes.

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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

The funniest thing is him still trying to make X happen 

After the attention to detail we see with the Cybertruck and with Twitter, I'd love to do my banking with a company that will limit my ATM withdrawals to $60 a day, and that will only allow me to use my debit or credit card for purchases up to $500.  If I want to spend any more money somewhere, I have to pay Elon an additional $80 a month.

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4 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Twitter did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the lawsuit outside regular business hours.

The volume of automated signup requests from the four defendants' IP addresses far exceeded what any single person could send to a person, which severely taxed Twitter's servers, the lawsuit claimed.

The case is X Corp Vs John Does 1-4, in the district court of Dallas County, Texas, no. DC-23-09157.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-reaffirms-tweet-reading-limits-put-due-data-scraping-2023-07-13/

My gut says that it's Russian/Eastern European.  If they knew it was Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc., Musk would be putting their shit on blast all over twitter.

Then again, Musk may have fired the people who could do simple IP lookups, or dig deeper if they were using VPNs, etc.

[texasdago 7,552]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

 

 

 

 

Looks like the suspension of a 1982 Buick

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If you scaled it up, changed the curves to angles, enlarged the wheel wells, it almost looks like a mid-2000s Prius

[Pig Bellmont 8,691]

2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

Quick follow up: do you apply this to WWII?

[cactusflinthead 27,594]

5 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

Did you know that he's paying him to post content? Apparently it was announced while I was busy with work.

SIAP

Wow. Elon Musk wasn’t kidding. Content monetization is real,” tweeted an anonymous account called End Wokeness, with 1.4 million followers, accompanied by a screenshot showing earnings of over $10,400.

So far, the influencers who have publicly revealed that they’re part of the program are prominent figures on the right. Andrew Tate, for example, who was recently released from jail on rape and human trafficking charges, posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter.

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1679661663031787520?t=l80RxSHFHC3EqwUPQgT4kQ&s=19

[Neonmoon 38,127]

He still doesn’t understand the business model of Twitter 

[Francisco 2.0 32,313]

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

 

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On Thursday Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. But the offer won’t apply to all creators.

The first beneficiaries appear to be string of high profile far right influencers who tweeted before the announcement how much they’ve earned as part of the program. Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson, and Ashley St. Claire all touted their earnings

 

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“Wow. Elon Musk wasn’t kidding. Content monetization is real,” tweeted an anonymous account called End Wokeness, with 1.4 million followers, accompanied by a screenshot showing earnings of over $10,400.

So far, the influencers who have publicly revealed that they’re part of the program are prominent figures on the right. Andrew Tate, for example, who was recently released from jail on rape and human trafficking charges, posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter.

 

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“This is a nice turnaround from being banned by Twitter 1.0 for almost 2 years to now being paid to post Thank you @elonmusk,” tweeted far right influencer Rogan O’Handley, known as DC Draino.

But not all prominent right-wing Twitter contributors appeared to be part of the program. When asked if she was part of the program, Chaya Raichik, the creator of @libsoftiktok, offered a tongue-in-cheek response claiming that her relationship with Musk was thriving. She did not respond to a question about whether she was receiving payments under the program.

 

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Musk did not respond immediately to a request for comment emailed to him at Twitter and at SpaceX, another company he owns.

“I think that there are some conservative content creators who are unhappy,” said Kris Ruby, a conservative influencer and president of Ruby Media Group. “It doesn’t seem even across the board. I don’t think the playing field is level.”

She said some on the right who weren’t included in the program, despite meeting all the criteria, are venting in private. “Most conservatives don’t want to go up against the wrath of Elon and what happens when you criticize him,” she said. “We’ve seen that he’s not really applying the terms of service equally across the board.”

Twitter claimed, in a blog post, that creators’ share of advertising revenue would be based on a calculation of replies to their posts and monthly impressions. The program is only available in countries where Stripe, a payment platform, supports payouts, and recipients must pay for Twitter Blue, the platform’s monthly subscription service, to be eligible.

Not all creators who want to monetize will be able to. Creators who apply to the program will have to pass “human review” and there is currently no open application for those interested in joining.

Some nonpolitical contributors expressed frustration with the lack of transparency from the company over the rollout of the program.

“My tweets have generated 100s of millions of impressions for Twitter every year,” Matt Navarra, a social media strategist who runs the tech-focused newsletter and community Geekout, posted on Thursday. “And I’ve been on the platform for 15+ years. It’s pretty lame there is no payout coming my way. Twitter has never generated any income directly for all the content I have put in to it.”

Former Twitter staffers who worked on creator-focused products expressed skepticism over the rollout, with several calling it a PR stunt. One former Twitter executive who worked on creator partnerships and who asked to remain unnamed to avoid retaliation, said that, “any kind of content monetization we’ve done in the past was based on a revenue model. This just feels pulled out of thin air for a specific subset of creators that he wanted to placate.”

The former Twitter executive also cast doubt on Twitter’s revamped metrics, including impressions. “The numbers are totally and completely bogus,” she said. “It’s all completely made up. It really feels like they’re arbitrarily writing checks to people they like, which is not a sustainable creator strategy.”

Latasha James, a full-time YouTube creator in Detroit, said that Twitter is too volatile for content creators to invest much time in. “As a creator, I seek out monetization opportunities with brands and platforms that seem well-funded and stable,” she said. “Twitter has been the opposite of stable for the past year, so I’d definitely be wary of relying on their monetization program to make a living.”

Others agreed that even if Musk were to offer every creator a payout, the site’s rightward turn would keep them from posting.

“He’s censoring speech that he doesn’t like and amplifying speech that he does and he’s picking the people that he wants to have a voice on the platform and silencing others,” said Rathbone DeBuys, a musician and content creator in New Orleans, who monetizes on TikTok. “It seems like there’s no rhyme or reason to it. He’s decided arbitrarily that these are the people who are going to make money off the platform because these are [his] friends.”

“I try to respect my values in my business and I feel like the things Elon has been doing are not aligned with my values,” said Lu Levy, a YouTube content creator and digital business coach for content creators. " … I already get such good monetization on other platforms, especially YouTube, it’s just not worth going against what I believe in.”

The timing of Musk’s announcement comes on the heels of Twitter rival Instagram announcing that its Twitter-like app Threads had surpassed 100 million sign ups in under a week, making it the fastest growing app of all time. Jordan Lintz, owner of HighKey Enterprises, a public relations firm, said that he thinks Threads should takes a cue from Twitter’s new monetization offerings. “Threads user retention is going to slip eventually,” Lintz said. “I think whoever provides the best monetization will win the retention race. It’s something Threads might have to look into.”

Jules Terpak, a content creator and digital culture expert, said that as someone who tweets a lot, the prospect of earning money from posts is appealing, but she’s watching to see how Musk will handle thorny issues like content theft and bots. She’s also wondering if this new monetization scheme is sustainable, given Twitter’s struggle to retain advertising revenue.

“As soon as I’m seeing these amounts, my first question is how is this going to be sustained,” she said. “The track record so far with Elon’s ownership is that a lot of things that sound very pretty, then you see them in action and there’s these more negative nuances to it.”

 

 

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,313]

 

 

 

[Captain Ron 12,793]

15 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Any pictures of the bed of this thing?

 

 

[Blotto 23,424]

On 7/12/2023 at 10:57 AM, Pasken said:

Y’all know he’s not the world’s richest man, right? Those lists are about who has the most valuable public assets. He doesn’t have all that money in liquid and there are a lot of people who are richer but don’t have most of their money tied up in public stocks. That’s why he goes to the Saudi’s to beg for money.

Wrong. Nobody in that $100B+ Club is sitting all on liquid cash. That's not how you get to be "world's richest." Stocks are actually a fairly liquid asset, and I do know that elmo was able to sell $20B of Tesla stock last year alone,  so he seems liquid enough. But if you claim there are "a lot of people" who are richer, why don't you go ahead and give me 5. 

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#5fb8555f3d78

Edit -according to the WSJ, he sold $39 billion in stock since Nov 2021. So presumably your list of many people will all be sitting on at least $40B cash. 

Edited July 14, 2023 by Blotto

[Brian Fantana 6,667]

2 hours ago, Blotto said:

Wrong. Nobody in that $100B+ Club is sitting all on liquid cash. That's not how you get to be "world's richest." Stocks are actually a fairly liquid asset, and I do know that elmo was able to sell $20B of Tesla stock last year alone,  so he seems liquid enough. But if you claim there are "a lot of people" who are richer, why don't you go ahead and give me 5. 

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#5fb8555f3d78

Edit -according to the WSJ, he sold $39 billion in stock since Nov 2021. So presumably your list of many people will all be sitting on at least $40B cash. 

[MrBig 5,281]

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

 

This is the type of dumb shit the cyber truck designers didn’t think about. What if you want to grab something from the back of the truck? You can’t just reach over from the side by the wheel. You have to fucking go all the way into the truck bed from behind to grab something you want. 

[Captain Ron 12,793]

11 minutes ago, MrBig said:

This is the type of dumb shit the cyber truck designers didn’t think about. What if you want to grab something from the back of the truck? You can’t just reach over from the side by the wheel. You have to fucking go all the way into the truck bed from behind to grab something you want. 

A truck designed by a person that would never use a truck in his life.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Captain Ron

[Blotto 23,424]

18 minutes ago, MrBig said:

This is the type of dumb shit the cyber truck designers didn’t think about. What if you want to grab something from the back of the truck? You can’t just reach over from the side by the wheel. You have to fucking go all the way into the truck bed from behind to grab something you want. 

Just buy a monkey that will ride around in the bed and hand you shit when you need it. That seems like a worthwhile tradeoff to enjoy your newfound social status as a CyberTruckDude. How much could one monkey cost....$10?

Edited July 14, 2023 by Blotto

[Chooky 13,296]

18 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Just buy a monkey that will ride around in the bed and hand you shit when you need it. That seems like a worthwhile tradeoff to enjoy your newfound social status as a CyberTruckDude. How much could one monkey cost....$10?

Then you have to feed the monkey and buy a monkey toilet. And any monkey that can lift as much as i can is concerning. This truck monkey proposal just doesn't sound like good monkey business. 

[Blotto 23,424]

10 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Then you have to feed the monkey and buy a monkey toilet. And any monkey that can lift as much as i can is concerning. This truck monkey proposal just doesn't sound like good monkey business. 

Counterpoint: you're gonna be swimming in so much poon in that pussywagon that even the chimp is getting laid. 

[Grade of D as in David 13,253]

17 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

Elon reading this thread:  “Hmm, technically if a monkey is sold as an accessory that comes with a Tesla, and we teach the monkey to drive, we would have achieved full self driving.  Interesting.”

Right turn Clyde 

[Brisketexan 104,537]

A truck designed by a person that would never use a truck in his life.

10000000% this.

All the very cool and useful features that legacy truck makers (with a century+ experience building trucks) are putting in, like bed storage, tailgate steps, etc, that make a truck even more useful?
Those are for beta cucks. Real truck guys want a truck that’s functionally fucking useless as a truck. That’s what a manly man would do, Andrew Tate and Tucker told me!

[956 Worldwide 34,411]

The Cyber Truck looks like it does and has problems with surface rust because stainless steel is a terrible material to use for a car. When your inspiration is the DeLorean someone close to you should gently step in to remind you “that’s not how cars work.” 

[Celery Man 20,881]

the delorean was also a piece of shit
(i know that fits with the point you're making above)

 

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

10000000% this.

All the very cool and useful features that legacy truck makers (with a century+ experience building trucks) are putting in, like bed storage, tailgate steps, etc, that make a truck even more useful?
Those are for beta cucks. Real truck guys want a truck that’s functionally fucking useless as a truck. That’s what a manly man would do, Andrew Tate and Tucker told me!

honestly the thing that makes my F150 one of my favorite vehicles ever is just how much of that useful shit is in there. They've made 12 billion of these things, they can't afford to get it wrong, it is astoundingly full of useful features.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Celery Man

[Captain Ron 12,793]

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,313]

 

 

 

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He really is trying to turn it into a small club made up of only people that he likes.

Good luck with X.com Elon!

[joe dirt 285]

18 hours ago, MrBig said:

This is the type of dumb shit the cyber truck designers didn’t think about. What if you want to grab something from the back of the truck? You can’t just reach over from the side by the wheel. You have to fucking go all the way into the truck bed from behind to grab something you want. 

obvious solution is obvious

 

 

[956 Worldwide 34,411]

10 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Look, it’s just because ok? 

[Celery Man 20,881]

10 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

So, *somebody* at Twitter decided which select few creators they would pay money to and among the people who made the completely arbitrary cut is someone who is currently under indictment on rape and human trafficking charges. Now it is impossible to keep track of who anybody is or what their actions mean, but from the sound of it this guy is a real jerk.

Edited July 15, 2023 by Celery Man

[Captain Ron 12,793]

1 hour ago, joe dirt said:

obvious solution is obvious

 

 

Hey UK dumbfucks that bought the wrong handed Teslas, no one forced you to buy anything. 

[956 Worldwide 34,411]

The Cybertruck is also NOT going to have an “exoskeleton.” It’s going to be a unibody construction with a structural battery pack and they’re gonna hang those stainless steel panels on it. And aside from stupid Elon tricks like getting hit with a hammer, it’s just going to make the same thing heavier and affect top performance and range accordingly. 

[NoName 16,286]

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Hey UK dumbfucks that bought the wrong handed Teslas, no one forced you to buy anything. 

Funny enough story 

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-gave-uk-owners-this-clawed-backscratcher-instead-of-right-hand-drive

They purchased a RHD and got a LHD

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Earlier this year, Tesla axed the right-hand-drive Tesla Model S and X. The move greatly upset many overseas owners in the United Kingdom who have been waiting years for their Tesla order, leaving the only option as switching to a left-hand-drive car instead. There's just one problem: The U.K.'s infrastructure isn't built for LHD cars.

To solve this problem, Tesla came up with a fairly low-tech solution. New owners taking delivery of an LHD Model S or X in the U.K. are being supplied with "The Reacher"—Tesla's version of a grabber stick meant to help owners reach things through the window where drivers of RHD carsare normally seated.

 

 

[Celery Man 20,881]

who won the fuckin war, huh?

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

Hand picking Andrew Tate to get paid to spew his hate is insane.

@immamac motion to rename thread “Elon Musk: Huge Piece of Shit”

[Chooky 13,296]

23 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Hand picking Andrew Tate to get paid to spew his hate is insane.

@immamac motion to rename thread “Elon Musk: Huge Piece of Shit”

But free spee. Freespee.