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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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The Don said:
Only according to European slackers and communists. :rolleyes:

In the US of A, the greatest nation in the history of the world, employees achieve astonishing levels of productivity working exceptionally long hours for months and years at a time motivated solely by fear job insecurity their commitment to free market capitalism.
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Just finished Atlas Shrugged?;)
 
jimbob said:
Can even he afford to do that? He might like the notoriety but as well as the direct impact on Tesla's share price, he's going to reduce the value of any company where he's on the board, let alone has a controlling share.
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The lawsuits have started over Musk's remuneration, expect more when Tesla is effected by the Twit-in-Chief.
 
The Don said:
Only according to European slackers and communists. :rolleyes:

In the US of A, the greatest nation in the history of the world, employees achieve astonishing levels of productivity working exceptionally long hours for months and years at a time motivated solely by fear job insecurity their commitment to free market capitalism.
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Indeed in the UK our Government doesn't like employers forcing their employees to do abnormal hours. They believe that the employers should hire another worker instead and the employees should find a 2nd or even a 3rd jobs to rack up the hours required to make ends meet. That is how a government gets get the needy to do 70 hours a week while looking like they care about their wretched lives.
 
I'm really liking the new Twitter features. For example, the hexagonal badge means the profile picture is an NFT* and the blue check mark** means the account is paying $96/year to Elon Musk. You can tell at a glance that the guy below is both an NFT-bro and a Muskrat.

* "to use this feature, link your Twitter account to your crypto wallet" - yeah, right

** annoying you still have to click on it to find out if it was for verification or payment
 

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You see this whole thing is giving me a weird feeling.

He's failed too perfectly. A person known as a business tech mogul (whether or not that reputation is deserved is beside the point) buying a massive, well known tech company/service and immediately destroying it with this kind of speed and efficiency is just... too perfect. It feels off. It's a little TOO poetic. It's too much of an on the nose punchline to a softball setup.

This isn't the kind of stupid Musk strikes me as.

When a person who legally changes their name to "The Worlds Greatest Belt Maker" and owns the biggest belt company in the world and he buys the second biggest belt maker in the biggest belt company merger of all time and calls a press conference in the Belt Capital of the World on the International Belt Day to announce he's invented The Best Belt of All Time by buying up the 100 best Belt Patents that have ever been issued and he walks out on stage to the roar of the crowd, smiles, and waves, takes a deep breath to begin his speech... and then at that exact moment his pants fall down... well like I said a little too perfect.
 
JoeMorgue said:
You see this whole thing is giving me a weird feeling.

He's failed too perfectly. A person known as a business tech mogul (whether or not that reputation is deserved is beside the point) buying a massive, well known tech company/service and immediately destroying it with this kind of speed and efficiency is just... too perfect. It feels off. It's a little TOO poetic. It's too much of an on the nose punchline to a softball setup.

This isn't the kind of stupid Musk strikes me as.

When a person who legally changes their name to "The Worlds Greatest Belt Maker" and owns the biggest belt company in the world and he buys the second biggest belt maker in the biggest belt company merger of all time and calls a press conference in the Belt Capital of the World on the International Belt Day to announce he's invented The Best Belt of All Time by buying up the 100 best Belt Patents that have ever been issued and he walks out on stage to the roar of the crowd, smiles, and waves, takes a deep breath to begin his speech... and then at that exact moment his pants fall down... well like I said a little too perfect.
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Maybe or maybe you too are falling for the idea that Musk is playing 5D chess.

Maybe he's like Sam Harris's characterization of Trump. A man who is trying to make up a limerick as he goes along and then suddenly finds himself having to rhyme the end of the last line and not really knowing how to do it. The whole situation of buying Twitter in the first place is clearly a series of bad choices. Maybe he simply doesn't know the best way to run the company.

If you remember, he did similar things with Tesla, forcing his workers to come in during the pandemic, and apparently, according to lawsuits, segregating workers racially.

He also seems to be skirting dangerously close to getting done in many other lawsuits.

All this time, even if he is trying to destroy Twitter, he is trashing his reputation into the bargain. People who otherwise would invest in his ventures will think twice. It makes no business sense to do this.

Look also at SBF. This guy is behaving in ways that make no sense. Of course, we might think that there is more to it. But on the other hand, maybe he is just the kind of person who thinks he is insulated from stupid decisions.
 
Oh for sure I don't buy any version of the "LOL 5D Chess" thing. When I say "Musk was able to write the own perfect punchline failure to his own setup" makes no sense please note that no OTHER explanation makes any more sense either.

My point is if I told you a year ago a single bad agent could destroy Twitter in, what about a week, who would have believed me?

It's just yet another thing Real Life keeps doing that would be dismissed as a strawman if you suggested it comically as a joke a year prior.

"Elon Musk buys Twitter, it's goes out of business a week later" is an Onion Headline, not a very possible any day now Wall Street Journal one.
 
JoeMorgue said:
You see this whole thing is giving me a weird feeling.

He's failed too perfectly. A person known as a business tech mogul (whether or not that reputation is deserved is beside the point) buying a massive, well known tech company/service and immediately destroying it with this kind of speed and efficiency is just... too perfect. It feels off. It's a little TOO poetic. It's too much of an on the nose punchline to a softball setup.

This isn't the kind of stupid Musk strikes me as.

When a person who legally changes their name to "The Worlds Greatest Belt Maker" and owns the biggest belt company in the world and he buys the second biggest belt maker in the biggest belt company merger of all time and calls a press conference in the Belt Capital of the World on the International Belt Day to announce he's invented The Best Belt of All Time by buying up the 100 best Belt Patents that have ever been issued and he walks out on stage to the roar of the crowd, smiles, and waves, takes a deep breath to begin his speech... and then at that exact moment his pants fall down... well like I said a little too perfect.
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This isn't just his pants falling off, this is way more than that. This is him then going on to jack himself off, while inserting objects into his nether orifice, in full public glare, and what's more doing that not just the once but continuing to do it over and over again.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out, afterwards, that he's on drugs, or maybe he's had a psychotic episode, or a nervous breakdown, or whatever, and is somehow putting on a bold face and trying to bluff his way even while he himself knows he's clueless about all this. No matter how rich the man is, and no matter how narcissistic, but given the 44B hit, and given the further roll-on hit to his NW off of this, there's no way all of this are the actions of someone who is quite sane.
 
Must be nice to have your mental coping mechanism be "Buy billion dollar social media company and wipe your ass with it for the yucks" instead of just buying a bottle of Jack Daniels like us normal schlubs have to make do with.
 
kookbreaker said:
Twitter will make Musk a millionaire.
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I'm a pathetic idiot Hot Wheels collector and I often run into the "whatsitworth" collector in the store. This is the guy that picks a car off the peg and asks me, "What's it worth?". I generally reply, the store wants a dollar for it, so I'd say it's worth a dollar. They'll then reply with, "Yeah, but what's it worth?" as if they've found a true treasure worth more than the store wants for it. I point out there are millions of Hot Wheels made every year and the odds of even one of them being valuable is mind boggling slim.
That's when I ask them if they'd like to know the secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels. This always perks up their interest, so I tell them the first step is the hardest part, if you can get past the first step, the rest is easy. Now they're really interested. I repeat, the first step is the hardest, and ask, "Are you ready to learn the secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels?" Of course they say, "Yes!"...
So I tell them, "The secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels is, Start with a large fortune. You can then easily make it into a small fortune collecting Hot Wheels."
 
Long story short whenever someone fails in such a specific way that the jokes write themselves, it raises me ole' eyebrows a bit.

But mayhaps I'm just overthinking it. As many public crash and burns as we see I guess some of them being "Mad Lib Fill in the Blank" level perfect is bound to happen every now and then.
 
Mike! said:
I'm a pathetic idiot Hot Wheels collector and I often run into the "whatsitworth" collector in the store. This is the guy that picks a car off the peg and asks me, "What's it worth?". I generally reply, the store wants a dollar for it, so I'd say it's worth a dollar. They'll then reply with, "Yeah, but what's it worth?" as if they've found a true treasure worth more than the store wants for it. I point out there are millions of Hot Wheels made every year and the odds of even one of them being valuable is mind boggling slim.
That's when I ask them if they'd like to know the secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels. This always perks up their interest, so I tell them the first step is the hardest part, if you can get past the first step, the rest is easy. Now they're really interested. I repeat, the first step is the hardest, and ask, "Are you ready to learn the secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels?" Of course they say, "Yes!"...
So I tell them, "The secret to making a small fortune with Hot Wheels is, Start with a large fortune. You can then easily make it into a small fortune collecting Hot Wheels."
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No matter how much of an ******* Musk is, no matter how demented, how callously indifferent to anyone other than himself, and as we're now seeing how completely clueless and how spectacularly incompetent --- incompetent at least in this specific instance --- but one thing you've got to give him, he's got a weird sense of humor, even when everything's going down all around him. I don't do twitter, and I can't link to it; but I remember reading --- zero recollection where I read it, might even be sometihng linked to in this thread, or more likely somewhere else --- about him tweeting out this exact same joke, saying something like this, "So how do you become a millionaire in social media? Answer, Start out a billionaire". No matter how much of a total *******, but guy's at least got that much of self-awareness, and in the midst of callously screwing everyone up, himself included, at least he can take a half minute off to laugh at himself.
 
Yeah "I find humor is other people's misfortune" is SUUUUUUUUUCH a rare qualities these days. Musk is certainly a bigfoot riding a white unicorn on that level (rolls eyes.)
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah "I find humor is other people's misfortune" is SUUUUUUUUUCH a rare qualities these days. Musk is certainly a bigfoot riding a white unicorn on that level (rolls eyes.)
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No no, agreed, it is one thing to laugh just at oneself, and quite another to laugh at others' misfortune; especially given that those others don't have the big fat parachute of crazy vast personal reserves to buffet the blow that he has. Not supporting him for a minute. But still, he did crack that exact same joke recently, so clearly he's at least possessed of that much self-awareness, and can, no matter what else, laugh at himself in the midst of all of his. (Not that that in any way makes up for that huge pile of "what else", but still.)
 
I think it has already been mentioned here, but the fact that there are legions of people who laugh at his jokes, might actually be one of the things that has been his undoing.

He would be a bollocks comedian if he didn't have a bunch of simpering sycophants there to laugh at his jokes. It's almost certain that when a person as vain as he clearly is, and used to getting his own way, wades into an area where people are skeptical or outright hostile to him, he is going to have more difficulty. He might think that the cloying attempts at humour will win the day, but they won't.

On top of this, you also have the terrible heuristics that Warp 12 embodies. This is the idea that people who are not as rich as Elon Musk have no business pointing out that things he is doing are mistakes or bad for business. How many submarines have you sent to Mars? Huh huh?
 
If you're having trouble understanding why it's such a big deal that Twitter is losing all its staff because "it's just a web site, it's mostly already written, right?", here is a thread that goes through a lot of the operation problems that Twitter probably has to deal with daily.

https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/1593541177965678592?s=20&t=va_Iet2g3VYa0RrSgVQpJg

It's very long, but you don't need to read all of it by any means to get a flavour of the problems of running a web site used by hundreds of millions of people every day.
 
If anything this whole fiasco is yet another object lesson in how little IT staff is respected.
 
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