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 An Outgoing Employee Gives Musk His Honest Opinion

Musk isn’t too forgiving of employees who criticize him — or give him answers he doesn’t like — as many episodes in the book illustrate. In one case, he was enraged about a decline in engagement on his tweets, and abruptly fired an engineer who suggested that the public’s interest in him had fallen off since the Twitter acquisition closed several months prior. But another employee, a data scientist who had already made up his mind to resign after turning over memos on how to run Twitter more effectively, was even more blunt with Musk. He explained that he had been excited about the takeover but was disheartened when, just weeks later, Musk shared blatant partisan misinformation about an assault by a home intruder on then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi. “It’s only really like the tenth percentile of the adult population who’d be gullible enough to fall for this,” the employee told Musk, who shot back, “Fuck you!” The departing data scientist left him with a piece of advice: “I hope you’ll declare bankruptcy and let someone else run the company.”

When Musk Learned What Twitter Users Thought of Him

Following a series of disastrous policy changes, Musk decided to hold an informal performance review for himself using one of his favorite Twitter tools: the polling feature. “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” he tweeted in December 2022 before embarking on a flight from Qatar to London. When he landed, he found that “57.5 percent of the more than 17.5 million accounts that had voted were calling for him to resign.” Between this rejection and the plummeting value of Tesla stock, Musk became withdrawn and unresponsive, with those who did manage to talk to him worrying that he was “in the throes of a manic event.” Speaking with on confidante, “Musk choked up and began to doubt his ability to run the company” in light of the poll results, saying, “I’m never going to recover from this.” He would, of course, go on to hire Linda Yaccarino as a replacement CEO in the new year — though as anyone still active on the site that soon became X will tell you, it continues to reflect his worst impulses and warped worldview.

 

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-wtf-character-limit-book-1235099284/

edit - they put it behind the pw after I linked it. Here's a unpw'd link https://archive.ph/u5qcI (don't tell tony it's here, thx)

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Gift link to the article here - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU4._9QJ.JjyiMJ5_LzSj&smid=url-share

I recommend reading the whole thing, but some choice paragraphs (emphasis mine):

 

It really outlines that the guy is a very very sad, pathetic and lonely man.

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We’re at this point in the movie with Elon. 

World's richest man spends his days and nights in fear.

I'd laugh if it's not just the constant need to be tweeting at all hours of the day to get the likes from 12 year-old incels, but the paranoia that's keeping him awake at night.

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World's richest man spends his days and nights in fear.

I'd laugh if it's not just the constant need to be tweeting at all hours of the day to get the likes from 12 year-old incels, but the paranoia that's keeping him awake at night.

Don't forget all those likes from bots. he feeds off the energy of bots. Their love means a lot to him, since he does not get it from his kids.

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Say what? 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/business/elon-musk-richest-person-trillionaire/index.html

TL;DR - this group estimated that his weath is increasing at a certain rate, so he will be a trillionaire by 2027.

 

I have to say that their math is a little wonky, they basically have his net worth doubling per year with little reason beyond THAT as why he would hit the mark. When you look at reasons why his financials have increased, the main reasons have been primarily increased compensation, not an increasing stock price. So I find the doubling of his money dubious.

This isn't to say it won't happen, but their math seems very generous.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/business/elon-musk-richest-person-trillionaire/index.html

TL;DR - this group estimated that his weath is increasing at a certain rate, so he will be a trillionaire by 2027.

 

I have to say that their math is a little wonky, they basically have his net worth doubling per year with little reason beyond THAT as why he would hit the mark. When you look at reasons why his financials have increased, the main reasons have been primarily increased compensation, not an increasing stock price. So I find the doubling of his money dubious.

This isn't to say it won't happen, but their math seems very generous.

quite possibly the stupidest "analysis" ever published from whatever the fuck "informa connect academy" is.

https://informaconnect.com/academy/companies-entering-trillion-dollar-club-in-2024/

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No one in the world has claimed trillionaire status – at least not yet. However, there are some likely candidates. The following are multi-billionaires who will probably become trillionaires sooner or later.

lulz. the fact that this gets turned into "elon musk is about to become a trillionaire" on here is a perfect microcosm of how idiotic our media and media consumption has become.

 

eta: their analysis was so careful and precise that they list musk's 2024 net worth to be 1.195 trillion already on their table even though they say he's three years away. awesome work.

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He's only got 1 gear these days. All histrionics, all the time.

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I'm sure the usual actors will be along any minute to chastise Elon for his rhetoric that revs up the crazies and puts elected officials at risk.

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He's only got 1 gear these days. All histrionics, all the time.

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When he posts shit like this, my first thought is "what the fuck did he do, because that sounds like a man scared that he might need a federal pardon."

My second thought is somebody going down the road to Howardhughesville.

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When he posts shit like this, my first thought is "what the fuck did he do, because that sounds like a man scared that he might need a federal pardon."

My second thought is somebody going down the road to Howardhughesville.

Yeah, I just think it's the 2nd one there. He's red pilled himself so bad he can't help it anymore, his brain has been on purée for so long it's just leaking out of his ears. 

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I don't want to google "babyfur" in anyway, do I?

 

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Grown men dressing as and acting like babies.

 

 

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was that not self explanatory?

So I did google it - it's FURRIES that dress up as babies.

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On the day that Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in April 2022, I tried to game out how the acquisition might go. Three scenarios seemed plausible. There was a weird/chaotic timeline, where Musk actually tried to improve the platform, but mostly just floated harebrained schemes like putting tweets on the blockchain. There was a timeline where Musk essentially reverted Twitter to its founding ethos—one that had a naive and simplistic idea of real-time global conversation. And then there was the worst-case scenario: the dark timeline and its offshoot, the darkest-darkest timeline. Here’s how I described that one:

 

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The darkest-darkest timeline is the one where the world’s richest man runs a communications platform in a truly vengeful, dictatorial way, which involves Musk outright using Twitter as a political tool to promote extreme right-wing agendas and to punish what he calls brain-poisoned liberals.

 

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Some 29 months later, this appears to be the timeline we’ve living in. But even my grim predictions failed to anticipate the intensity of Musk’s radicalization. He is no longer teasing at his anti-woke views or just asking questions to provoke a response. To call him a troll or a puckish court jester is to sugarcoat what’s really going on: Musk has become one of the chief spokespeople of the far right’s political project, and he’s reaching people in real time at a massive scale with his message.

 

 

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Since his endorsement of Donald Trump in July, Musk has become the MAGA movement’s second-most-influential figure after the nominee himself (sorry, J. D. Vance), and the most significant node in the Republican Party’s information system. Musk and his platform are to this election what Rupert Murdoch and Fox News were to past Republican campaigns—cynical manipulators and poisonous propaganda machines, pumping lies and outrage into the American political bloodstream.

Though the mask has been off for a while, Musk’s intentions have become even more blatant recently. Following Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, in which Swift labeled herself a “childless cat lady” in reference to an insult deployed by Vance, Musk publicly offered to impregnate the pop star. And just this past weekend, Musk did the following:

amplified a conspiracy theory that ABC had leaked sample debate questions to the Harris campaign

falsely claimed that “the Dems want to take your kids”

fueled racist lies about immigrants eating pets

shared with his nearly 200 million followers on X that “Trump must win” to “preserve freedom and meritocracy in America”

insinuated that it was suspicious that “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” adding a thinking-face emoji. He subsequently deleted the post and argued that it was a joke that had been well received in private. “Turns out jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text,” he wrote in a follow-up on X.

 

Whether Musk is telling the truth about his assassination post or offering up a feeble excuse for his earnest trolling doesn’t matter. Although he’s trying to explain this post away as just a harmless bit of context collapse, what he’s really revealing is the extent to which he is captured by his audience, pecking out posts that delight the only cohort willing to offer the attention and respect he craves. The parallels to Trump may be obvious at this point, but they also account for Musk’s ability to dominate news cycles.

Like Trump in his Apprentice and The Art of the Deal eras, Musk before his political obsessions was a celebrity famous in a different, mostly nonpolitical context. Although Musk’s volatility, contrarianism, and disdain for the press were a matter of record before his MAGA turn, his carefully constructed popular image was that of a billionaire innovator and rocket scientist (Musk was reportedly an inspiration for Tony Stark’s character in the Iron Man movie franchise). Which is to say: Many people experienced Musk’s right-wing radicalization not as inevitable, but as a shocking departure. Right-wing diehards amplified him with glee, as proof of the ascendance of their movement, while liberals and the media amplified him as a distressing example of the proliferation of online brain worms in a certain slice of Silicon Valley.

That Musk is polarizing is important, but what allows him to attract attention is this change of context. A far-right influencer like Charlie Kirk or Alex Jones is expected to spread vile racist conspiracies—that is what they’ve always done to earn their living. But as with Trump in his 2016 campaign, there is still a lingering novelty to Musk’s role as MAGA’s minister of propaganda. Many people, for example, still don’t understand why a man with unlimited resources might want to spend most of his time acting as a political party’s in-house social-media team. Musk has been a troll for a while, but his popular image as a savvy entrepreneur stayed intact until only recently. He was the subject of a largely flattering, best-selling biography as recently as last year. He appeared on the cover of this magazine in 2013 as a contender for the world’s greatest living inventor. In fact, even when Musk muses about how strange it is that no one has tried to shoot Harris, popular news outlets still cover it as a departure from an imagined status quo. On Monday, a New York Times article described Musk, a man who recently hosted a fawning interview with Donald Trump on X and has amplified conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate, as “the world’s richest man,” who “has established a reputation as an edgy plutocrat not bound by social conventions when it comes to expressing his opinions.”

That nearly every one of Musk’s utterances is deemed newsworthy makes him a perfect vector for right-wing propaganda. Take Musk’s role in spreading the nonsense about Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio. According to an analysis delivered by the journalist Gaby Del Valle on Vox’s Today, Explainedpodcast, Musk replied to a tweet by Kirk on September 8, in which the influencer had shared a screenshot from a Springfield resident on Facebook claiming that Haitians in the area were eating ducks, geese, and pets. Musk’s reply served to amplify the claim to his followers and admirers just two days before the presidential debate, where it was directly referenced by Trump onstage. The lies “left the ecosystem of right-wing Twitter partially because Elon Musk got involved,” Del Valle said. Like Trump before him, Musk is able to act as a clearinghouse for the fringier ideas coming from the far-right fever swamps.

Musk’s is the most followed account on X and, as its owner, he has reportedlyasked engineers to algorithmically boost his posts on the platform. (Musk has denied that his tweets are deliberately amplified, but the platform shows them even to people who don’t follow him.) The architecture of the site, most notably the platform’s algorithmically sorted “For You” feed, routinely features Musk and news about Musk, which increases the likelihood that anything the billionaire shares will reach a wider audience on a service that is still at least somewhat influential in shaping American political discourse. It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Musk is tweaking the algorithmic dials on his site or using X as a political weapon, but the truth is that Musk doesn’t even need to demand that his company boost a specific message. Musk has spent nearly two years installing his own account as X’s main character and shaping the platform’s architecture in his own image. The politics of X are inextricably linked to Musk’s own politics.

It would be far too simplistic to suggest that X is the reason for the chaos of our current political moment, or that Musk is solely responsible for the dangerous rhetoric that has contributed to terrorizing Haitian residents and thoroughly disrupting life in Springfield. Trump and Vance chose to amplify these messages too, and doubled down when called out on it. X is a comparatively small platform, past its prime. It was full of garbage before Musk bought the site, and its architecture goaded users into being the worst versions of themselves long before the billionaire’s heel turn. But under Musk’s stewardship, X has become the worst version of itself—a platform whose every policy and design choice seems intended to snuff out our better angels and efficiently raise our national political temperature.

X under Musk is a pressure cooker and an insidious force—not necessarily because it is as influential as it once was but because, to those who can’t quit it, the platform offers the impression that it is a mirror to the world. One hallmark of Fox News is its ability to conjure a political perma-crisis, in order to instill a pervasive sense of fear in its audience. X, with Musk as its de facto director of programming, has created an information ecosystem that operates in much the same way. But the effect isn’t felt just among MAGA true believers.

As we lurch closer to Election Day, it’s easy to feel as if we’ve all entered the Great Clenching—a national moment of assuming the crash-landing position and bracing for impact. One gets the sense that the darkest forces in American life are accelerating, that politicians, powerful billionaires, and regular citizens alike are emboldened in the worst way or further radicalized. Every scandal, gaffe, and tragedy seems to take on a new political significance—as a harbinger of a potential electoral outcome or an indicator of societal unraveling. And it is exactly this feeling that Musk and his platform stoke and feed off every day.

 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/elon-musk-trump-posts/679937/

 

 

 

 

 

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Since his endorsement of Donald Trump in July, Musk has become the MAGA movement’s second-most-influential figure after the nominee himself (sorry, J. D. Vance), and the most significant node in the Republican Party’s information system. Musk and his platform are to this election what Rupert Murdoch and Fox News were to past Republican campaigns—cynical manipulators and poisonous propaganda machines, pumping lies and outrage into the American political bloodstream.

Though the mask has been off for a while, Musk’s intentions have become even more blatant recently. Following Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, in which Swift labeled herself a “childless cat lady” in reference to an insult deployed by Vance, Musk publicly offered to impregnate the pop star. And just this past weekend, Musk did the following:

amplified a conspiracy theory that ABC had leaked sample debate questions to the Harris campaign

falsely claimed that “the Dems want to take your kids”

fueled racist lies about immigrants eating pets

shared with his nearly 200 million followers on X that “Trump must win” to “preserve freedom and meritocracy in America”

insinuated that it was suspicious that “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” adding a thinking-face emoji. He subsequently deleted the post and argued that it was a joke that had been well received in private. “Turns out jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text,” he wrote in a follow-up on X.

 

Whether Musk is telling the truth about his assassination post or offering up a feeble excuse for his earnest trolling doesn’t matter. Although he’s trying to explain this post away as just a harmless bit of context collapse, what he’s really revealing is the extent to which he is captured by his audience, pecking out posts that delight the only cohort willing to offer the attention and respect he craves. The parallels to Trump may be obvious at this point, but they also account for Musk’s ability to dominate news cycles.

Like Trump in his Apprentice and The Art of the Deal eras, Musk before his political obsessions was a celebrity famous in a different, mostly nonpolitical context. Although Musk’s volatility, contrarianism, and disdain for the press were a matter of record before his MAGA turn, his carefully constructed popular image was that of a billionaire innovator and rocket scientist (Musk was reportedly an inspiration for Tony Stark’s character in the Iron Man movie franchise). Which is to say: Many people experienced Musk’s right-wing radicalization not as inevitable, but as a shocking departure. Right-wing diehards amplified him with glee, as proof of the ascendance of their movement, while liberals and the media amplified him as a distressing example of the proliferation of online brain worms in a certain slice of Silicon Valley.

That Musk is polarizing is important, but what allows him to attract attention is this change of context. A far-right influencer like Charlie Kirk or Alex Jones is expected to spread vile racist conspiracies—that is what they’ve always done to earn their living. But as with Trump in his 2016 campaign, there is still a lingering novelty to Musk’s role as MAGA’s minister of propaganda. Many people, for example, still don’t understand why a man with unlimited resources might want to spend most of his time acting as a political party’s in-house social-media team. Musk has been a troll for a while, but his popular image as a savvy entrepreneur stayed intact until only recently. He was the subject of a largely flattering, best-selling biography as recently as last year. He appeared on the cover of this magazine in 2013 as a contender for the world’s greatest living inventor. In fact, even when Musk muses about how strange it is that no one has tried to shoot Harris, popular news outlets still cover it as a departure from an imagined status quo. On Monday, a New York Times article described Musk, a man who recently hosted a fawning interview with Donald Trump on X and has amplified conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate, as “the world’s richest man,” who “has established a reputation as an edgy plutocrat not bound by social conventions when it comes to expressing his opinions.”

That nearly every one of Musk’s utterances is deemed newsworthy makes him a perfect vector for right-wing propaganda. Take Musk’s role in spreading the nonsense about Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio. According to an analysis delivered by the journalist Gaby Del Valle on Vox’s Today, Explainedpodcast, Musk replied to a tweet by Kirk on September 8, in which the influencer had shared a screenshot from a Springfield resident on Facebook claiming that Haitians in the area were eating ducks, geese, and pets. Musk’s reply served to amplify the claim to his followers and admirers just two days before the presidential debate, where it was directly referenced by Trump onstage. The lies “left the ecosystem of right-wing Twitter partially because Elon Musk got involved,” Del Valle said. Like Trump before him, Musk is able to act as a clearinghouse for the fringier ideas coming from the far-right fever swamps.

Musk’s is the most followed account on X and, as its owner, he has reportedlyasked engineers to algorithmically boost his posts on the platform. (Musk has denied that his tweets are deliberately amplified, but the platform shows them even to people who don’t follow him.) The architecture of the site, most notably the platform’s algorithmically sorted “For You” feed, routinely features Musk and news about Musk, which increases the likelihood that anything the billionaire shares will reach a wider audience on a service that is still at least somewhat influential in shaping American political discourse. It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Musk is tweaking the algorithmic dials on his site or using X as a political weapon, but the truth is that Musk doesn’t even need to demand that his company boost a specific message. Musk has spent nearly two years installing his own account as X’s main character and shaping the platform’s architecture in his own image. The politics of X are inextricably linked to Musk’s own politics.

It would be far too simplistic to suggest that X is the reason for the chaos of our current political moment, or that Musk is solely responsible for the dangerous rhetoric that has contributed to terrorizing Haitian residents and thoroughly disrupting life in Springfield. Trump and Vance chose to amplify these messages too, and doubled down when called out on it. X is a comparatively small platform, past its prime. It was full of garbage before Musk bought the site, and its architecture goaded users into being the worst versions of themselves long before the billionaire’s heel turn. But under Musk’s stewardship, X has become the worst version of itself—a platform whose every policy and design choice seems intended to snuff out our better angels and efficiently raise our national political temperature.

X under Musk is a pressure cooker and an insidious force—not necessarily because it is as influential as it once was but because, to those who can’t quit it, the platform offers the impression that it is a mirror to the world. One hallmark of Fox News is its ability to conjure a political perma-crisis, in order to instill a pervasive sense of fear in its audience. X, with Musk as its de facto director of programming, has created an information ecosystem that operates in much the same way. But the effect isn’t felt just among MAGA true believers.

As we lurch closer to Election Day, it’s easy to feel as if we’ve all entered the Great Clenching—a national moment of assuming the crash-landing position and bracing for impact. One gets the sense that the darkest forces in American life are accelerating, that politicians, powerful billionaires, and regular citizens alike are emboldened in the worst way or further radicalized. Every scandal, gaffe, and tragedy seems to take on a new political significance—as a harbinger of a potential electoral outcome or an indicator of societal unraveling. And it is exactly this feeling that Musk and his platform stoke and feed off every day.

 

Glad someone has posted this, I was just getting ready to, but I don't need to.

 

Just for a higher profile:

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This was the section that got me:

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So this was interesting. Tuesday the FAA proposed a find of $633,009 for SpaceX for failing to follow licensing requirements on two 2023 launches. That's proposed, not actually fined AND $633 THOUSAND dollars, I didn't leave out any numbers there.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-proposes-633009-civil-penalties-against-spacex

 

Leon took it well:

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First off, these were FAA licenses, I'm not sure how this is overreach. And again, this was $633K!!!! WTF is he bitching about?

 

However, to steal one from @Chopper:

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Today only saw them sending an open letter to the FAA:

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So this was interesting. Tuesday the FAA proposed a find of $633,009 for SpaceX for failing to follow licensing requirements on two 2023 launches. That's proposed, not actually fined AND $633 THOUSAND dollars, I didn't leave out any numbers there.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-proposes-633009-civil-penalties-against-spacex

 

Leon took it well:

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First off, these were FAA licenses, I'm not sure how this is overreach. And again, this was $633K!!!! WTF is he bitching about?

 

However, to steal one from @Chopper:

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Today only saw them sending an open letter to the FAA:

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Unrelated to public safety? Does nobody remember the shitstorm he kicked up down in Brownsville?

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https://jalopnik.com/cybertruck-owner-s-manual-says-its-hitch-is-only-design-1851653010?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_reddit

Huh WD may have kicked an anthill for the cybertruck. He finally got around to looking in the owner's manual (lulz) and found that it says the factory-installed trailer hitch is only rated for 160 pounds of vertical load! How the hell did this thing pass DOT and NTHSB certification?

 

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https://jalopnik.com/cybertruck-owner-s-manual-says-its-hitch-is-only-design-1851653010?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_reddit

Huh WD may have kicked an anthill for the cybertruck. He finally got around to looking in the owner's manual (lulz) and found that it says the factory-installed trailer hitch is only rated for 160 pounds of vertical load! How the hell did this thing pass DOT and NTHSB certification?

 

You'd be lucky to hitch a middle schooler to that

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