- MTLion3 ( @MTLion3@lemm.ee ) 217•1 year ago
Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior
- grte ( @grte@lemmy.ca ) 86•1 year ago
One reason why Musk bought Twitter this week is because he had little choice. The world’s richest man spent months trying to back out of the $44 billion purchase agreement he originally signed in April. But the uncertainty was so disruptive to Twitter’s business that it sued him in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force the deal’s completion, and a judge gave a Friday deadline to complete the deal or face a November trial that Musk was likely to lose.
This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He’s a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn’t want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It’s not deeper than that.
I’m sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it’s not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.
- MTLion3 ( @MTLion3@lemm.ee ) 22•1 year ago
Why not both? Because you’re absolutely right that he got fucked on a bad gamble and then tried to save face, but I can also easily see him trying to buy stuff just to stick it to the left. (But in all reality again you’re probably pretty solely right lol)
- w2tpmf ( @w2tpmf@kbin.social ) 141•1 year ago
This “technology” community is quickly becoming just as bad as the one on reddit.
The insane ravings and personal drama of a lunatic billionaire isn’t news about technology.
Even news about Twitter itself isn’t technology news. Twitter is a business that sells services. They don’t make or contribute to any types of technology.
The only thing that Twitter technology related is that their business operates on the internet. That’s it. Chewy.com or NYTimes.com is just as much “technology” as Twitter is.
- kitonthenet ( @kitonthenet@kbin.social ) 72•1 year ago
This is revisionist, that sequence of events was what caused him to start to play footsie with the idea of buying Twitter, the SEC saying that’s a big no-no is what made him actually make the offer to buy it and then he was forced by a court to finish the deal after a long legal battle to not buy it
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 77•1 year ago
Don’t forget the part where Dorsey literally conned him by playing to his ego. Jack cashed out almost a billion in cash to himself even though Twitter was close to bankruptcy. It was brilliant.
- Chariotwheel ( @Chariotwheel@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
What cracks me up the most is that Jack already had a Twitter clone in the works, ready to be released once Musk burns down the old plattform and people wish for Twitter but without Musk back.
- chaogomu ( @chaogomu@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
Bluesky isn’t exactly a twitter clone, it’s what Jack wanted Twitter to pivot to, but the board of directors refused to play ball.
So Jack spun up a separate entity and explicitly made it its own thing outside of twitter.
- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) English12•1 year ago
Probably not the last time this trick works on ol’ blockhead.
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year ago
oh man that’s my new insult for blockchain pushers
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Damn, what a slick move.
- onlooker ( @onlooker@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I missed that part. Where can I read more about this con?
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 53•1 year ago
They always tell on themselves.
- Jay ( @Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ) English45•1 year ago
You’re sure proving her wrong, right Elon? …Right?
- Ertebolle ( @Ertebolle@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.
To me this suggests that he first thought it would seem hip and contrarian to support his trans daughter, then he realized that actually the people he considers hip and contrarian are all about hating on trans kids now, and so swiftly pivoted to doing that. (I don’t imagine he had any strong feelings about his daughter as a person either way - it’s not like he was around for her childhood changing diapers or whatever)
- iByteABit [he/him] ( @iByteABit@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
Wtf is it with this guy and the letter X
jfc
- chaogomu ( @chaogomu@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
A lifelong obsession.
- averagedrunk ( @averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Everything in the 90s was Xtreme. He’s 52 which means he was in his 20s that decade. He got way into the X-Games, ate nothing but warheads extreme candies and Taco Bell extreme nachos, drank the 7-11 Xtreme Gulp, and watched the Extreme Ghostbusters.
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
That sounds sick actually lol
- Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 27•1 year ago
Obvious pattern w/ Elon blaming his stupidity on everyone else except himself. The media really should stop giving this jackass narcissist attention.
- Th4tGuyII ( @Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ) 24•1 year ago
Guys, he’s not that bad…
He’s only a money hoarding billionaire who came from a glut of generational wealth obtained through other’s suffering via his father’s Emerald mine, which Musk vehemently denies exists in order to build up his image of being self-made.
I mean it’s not like his father used that wealth to boost him up by being among the first angel investors in his first company, ZIP2, something else which he vehemently denies to keep up his self-made image.
It’s not like he went on to use the money he got from selling ZIP2 to become an
early angel investor“co-founder” of X.com, which he then essentially forced the actual founders out of before selling that onwards as well.It’s not like he then went onto use almost the exact tactic to force/sue his way into being a “co-founder” of Tesla.
And it’s definitely not like he had a friend get appointed Administrator of NASA, who conveniently decided to award SpaceX almost $300 million, despite them not having flown any rockets yet.
His daughter is obviously worried about nothing, and he just needed to prove her wrong by cack-handedly buying out the platform she used to speak out
in order to control herin the name of free speech. - gerryflap ( @gerryflap@feddit.nl ) 22•1 year ago
I’ve hypothesized before that he just bought Twitter to destroy a platform for “woke” people, but it’s still weird reading it out like this. This whole thing reads like destroying one of the biggest social media platforms while wasting billions of dollars is about the same level of investment for him as buying a new phone is for me. Not insignificant, but also something he just does on a whim. And honestly I think his daughter will not exactly like him more after this lol. Rich cunts like Elon buying whatever they fancy just to gain more power is exactly what she’d hate if the article is to be believed.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 22•1 year ago
“I’m a transphobic dickhead who flirts with Nazis on Twitter but no no it must be the evil socialism that drove my daughter to hate me”
- Konlanx ( @Konlanx@feddit.de ) 17•1 year ago
Being rich implies you are evil. If you were good, you would give back to the people who create your wealth.
A good person understands they are not entitled to that much money with so much bad things in the world nor need it in the first place to live a decent live.
- Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@lemmy.ml ) 17•1 year ago
“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.
“If you want
to just be a niche playeran iconic name, PayPal is a better name, But if you wantto take over the world’s financial systemit to be impossible to reliably websearch and talk about outside a very specific context, then X is the better name.”Fixed that for you.
There’s a reason why people still call it Twitter, you know.
He said in April: “Twitter could become what X.com should have been, and we can help save free speech in the process.”
And a potato could become a bell pepper to save my gulasch. Sadly it won’t because reality doesn’t magically revolve around my belly button, and it wouldn’t even if I were rich. So instead I’m making some curry.
Musk should learn to cook.
Mr Musk suggested charging people to be verified to eliminate bots, bring in cash and help transform it into a payments platform - fulfilling his “original vision” for X.com
Ignorance on the nature of his own platform. Even if you demanded a single cent out of it, saner people won’t put their credit card info there, simply because they want to reduce the amount of data that you can vulture out of them.
In other words he flushed the baby alongside the dirty bathtub water.
Mr Agrawal had tried to resign. // “But we beat him,” said Mr Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro.
TIL Musk behaves like an internet shitposter.
- NuPNuA ( @NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year ago
Ever think how ironic it is that people who didn’t care about an actual virus and downplayed it and any attempts to mitigate it for two years are now obsessed over the “woke mind virus” which is totally made up?
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I’ve just seen it as more projection on their part.
Because there is a mind-virus that’s been infecting our political discourse, but it’s not what they’re referring to.
- hottari ( @hottari@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
MSM: Keeps churning out click-bait headlines
Also MSM: “Why are our numbers down?”
- lilShalom ( @lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ) 8•1 year ago
If he spent more tike with his daughter instead of running these businesses she wouldn’t have turned out like your typical alt left extremist leaning lemmy user.
- StarServal ( @StarServal@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
alt left extremist
Please define this.
- lilShalom ( @lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ) 5•1 year ago
You already know what it is. You just want someone to spend your day arguing with. I dont have the time. You go far enough to the left or right and you end up at the same place. They want to burn things down and start over. There are tons of people like this on here. They justify their existence by making villains out of the other side.
- StarServal ( @StarServal@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
So you can’t.
- Knoxvomica ( @Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ) 8•1 year ago
Tell us how you really feel.
- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) English5•1 year ago
If you mean he would have had more opportunities to indoctrinate and radicalize her, I can’t dispute that.
- lilShalom ( @lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ) 3•1 year ago
She wouldnt be trying random things to fill the void in her life of daddy not being there.
- Ubermeisters ( @Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ) English4•1 year ago
What in the Muhammad are you talking about