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- DirkMcCallahan ( @DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.ml ) 79•1 year ago
The miniseries on Twitter’s collapse is going to be epic.
- Haibane ( @Haibane@lemm.ee ) 52•1 year ago
Get a black dude (or even better a black lady) to play Musk and watch the entire right spontaneously combust.
- BobKerman3999 ( @BobKerman3999@feddit.it ) 42•1 year ago
Non-binary black lady for the best effect
- Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 49•1 year ago
Oh man can you imagine how great this would be if they got hit with a 3 day eviction notice for damaging the property?
That would be so fucking funny
- fiat_lux ( @fiat_lux@kbin.social ) 48•1 year ago
Can we now start pronouncing X as ‘errrr’ when referring to the company? It would be good not to taint the good name of the letter entirely.
And it does say ‘er’ on the side of not-his-building.
- Uniquitous ( @Uniquitous@lemmy.one ) English23•1 year ago
I call it Xitter, using the Chinese pronunciation of Xi.
- 6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•1 year ago
Brb gotta take a xit
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) 42•1 year ago
The Police actually stopped a rich guy from doing something illegal?
- RandomLemming ( @RandomLemming@lemmy.ml ) 25•1 year ago
Honestly, this is a comedy that needs to be seen to be believed.
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
Slight shame that the contractors didn’t start from the end. It could have been funnier if they had taken off the “er” instead.
- phx ( @phx@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
My thoughts the same, though it should have been the “ter” to properly describe Musk.
Then again, having “twit” misspelled might have been even more on-point. Maybe they can just add the X and become Twit-X
- popemichael ( @popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org ) 18•1 year ago
To er is to be Musk
- donuts ( @donuts@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
er
- tom ( @tom@lmmy.tvdl.dev ) 13•1 year ago
You need to have permits to change signs on your own building?
- Ram ( @ram@lemmy.ramram.ink ) English43•1 year ago
It’s the heavy machinery required to do it that’s the problem. This is also not Elon Musk’s building, but a building Twitter rents. The building management company were the ones who called the police.
- tom ( @tom@lmmy.tvdl.dev ) English7•1 year ago
Ah that explains. Didn’t know he was renting the building.
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year ago
Companions like this very rarely own property. They rent space from the property management companies that bought the land and constructed the buildings.
- malchemy ( @malchemy@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Forgot about that shit. The guy’s such a scumbag. Hasn’t paid rent since he moved in and then tried to renovate? He seriously needs to be knocked down a few billion pegs.
- clutchmattic ( @clutchmattic@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Most of those IT platform companies only rent their premises as it helps improve the balance sheet and quarterly results by moving “capital expenses” into “operational costs”
- OttoVonGoon ( @OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
I believe part of it is that managing huge buildings is actually a pain in the ass and requires specialized experience to do efficiently, so many companies end up saving money by not owning their buildings.
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
Well that, and the fact it costs huge amounts of money to own land in cities.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Does it not cost even more to rent?
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I have no idea. But good luck finding unclaimed land with or without a giant office building on it in the middle of a major city. Adding the cost of land and construction and all the taxes that come with it plus the time needed to build everything?
- Joe Breuer ( @jmbreuer@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
The way I heard it elsewhere (Google should help), Twitter/Elon actually had the necessary and correct permits (for using heavy machinery on the street/sidewalk and redirecting traffic around it).
Unfortunately, that detail was not correctly communicated to building security, who called the police believing there was no permit.
By the time the misunderstanding could be cleared up, the workers & heavy machinery had… “vacated premises” already, leaving the work in its half-finished state.
- Ram ( @ram@lemmy.ramram.ink ) English1•1 year ago
Do you have a source on that?
- Joe Breuer ( @jmbreuer@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Ah, here it is.
This is comical beyond belief lmao
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 10•1 year ago
That’s gonna mess with Elon’s baseball stats. Now he has an er.
- Albbi ( @Albbi@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Definitely an unforced er.
- تحريرها كلها ممكن ( @PanArab@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
“it is my building!” – Elon, probably
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
It seems like this gets even more amusing about twice a day. Anyone wanna guess what might happen next?
- Square Singer ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
At some point Musk will get arrested. For what I haven’t decided yet.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Something sexual, I think. Even as recently as a few months ago, I would have said “he’s a jackass, but he’s not that stupid,” but now, well…
- nzodd ( @nzodd@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
He already sexually harassed some poor flight attendant, and literally a day before made some kind of stupid announcement about being a Republican as some sort of stupid way to dodge it
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Oh, yeah. With all the other outrageous assholery, I forgot about that. Scumbag.
- Square Singer ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Sounds plausible to me.
- OttoVonGoon ( @OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
I would only be very minorly surprised if Musk is arrested in the middle of a small town in Louisiana, covered in his own shit and clumsily trying to hump a crocodile. And yes, I know that crocs aren’t native to Louisiana.
- Wren ( @wren@sopuli.xyz ) 7•1 year ago
You can’t make this stuff up, this is hilarious and beyond apropos
- whataboutshutup ( @whataboutshutup@discuss.online ) 6•1 year ago
At this point it sounds like intentional.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
Thanks for the heads up on Taylor. I am now following her!
Taken out of context, that sounds creepy AF.