Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

[pcosmar]

Hate this rag
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-...ay-as-twitter-boss-helping-user-named-catturd
but love the salty tears.

and I like Catturd.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1586177022216536064

https://twitter.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1586209231555936256

 

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081

Well, that lasted a day.

Total waste of 44 billion if you want a completely free, uncensorable system.

 

[Anti Federalist]

and I like Catturd.

LOL, so do I...how can anybody not like a political commentator named CatTurd?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Well, that lasted a day.

Total waste of 44 billion if you want a completely free, uncensorable system.

Meh, it was just our money to begin with anyway.

Not a big fan of Musk, not a big fan of Twatter, in fact, I hate it. The name and action associated with using it is infantile and the system of operation Orwellian in it's limited ability to make clear statements or communicate complex thoughts or ideas.

He does get a feather in his cap for sending those two Marxist Punjabis down the road to wherever they came from.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Posted without comment. He says it all.

I will say that, few years ago I would have thought that this was satire. Now you can't tell.

Video removed by the uploader.

 

[osan]

Anyone seen any Mean Tweets yet?

Anyone care?

Twitter seems so passé.

 

[acptulsa]

Video removed by the uploader.

Oh, is that what that says? I'm so glad you retyped that. It's so much more clear with the has been edited out.

You are just on the spot with the hard-hitting headlines.

 

[kahless]

Meh, it was just our money to begin with anyway.

Not a big fan of Musk, not a big fan of Twatter, in fact, I hate it. The name and action associated with using it is infantile and the system of operation Orwellian in it's limited ability to make clear statements or communicate complex thoughts or ideas.

He does get a feather in his cap for sending those two Marxist Punjabis down the road to wherever they came from.

I am glad he did that as well. But before everyone celebrates, I wonder who he is going to replace them with?

Musk made it pretty clear over 10 years ago he wanted Twitter. They are in decline now and he is in a better position financially. What better time to buy and revive the platform than to come in marketing himself as the savior of free speech.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Hate speech is free speech.

https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1586431561041293312

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[acptulsa]

Found online:

Breaking News. Barack Obama can’t control his crowd as they chant FJB. He is really upset and throwing a fit on stage. I can’t stop watching this.

I heard he wanted to stop filming so people wouldn’t share and tweet this clip. pic.twitter.com/2MAmlVfsqS

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) October 30, 2022

The page wasn't loading, so I clicked it. The page doesn't exist.

If you got up early enough, here's a treat: Google hasn't heard yet. It seems Twitter's censors are still more efficient than theirs.



"This is what I mean. I mean, we're having a conversation..." Yeah, Barack. A conversation. Where you don't get to just talk, sometimes you have to listen. You really hate that, don't you?

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

Ha ha! I just posted that and they took it down. I was was wondering if it was satire.

He's good at it though... It's only towards the end that you really think something is off.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Found online:

Breaking News. Barack Obama can’t control his crowd as they chant FJB. He is really upset and throwing a fit on stage. I can’t stop watching this.

I heard he wanted to stop filming so people wouldn’t share and tweet this clip. pic.twitter.com/2MAmlVfsqS

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) October 30, 2022

The page wasn't loading, so I clicked it. The page doesn't exist.

If you got up early enough, here's a treat: Google hasn't heard yet. It seems Twitter's censors are still more efficient than theirs.



"This is what I mean. I mean, we're having a conversation..." Yeah, Barack. A conversation. Where you don't get to just talk, sometimes you have to listen. You really hate that, don't you?

It's fake - or at least, the FJJB chant is. (Obama was heckled, though.)

There are still plenty others of the edited clip up on Twitter at the moment (see here: https://twitter.com/search?q=obama fjb&src=typed_query), so that guy might have deleted his tweet himself when he found out it wasn't real.

 

[acptulsa]

See what you mean. His speech was chock full of irony, though, considering the lies told about 1/6.



Not to mention the way he says it isn't the heckler's "turn" to talk, as if he'd actually get one. And the way the crowd drowns everybody out.

 

[osan]

As for Musk, I'm still out as to whether he's a good guy.

On the one hand, behold Space-X. Musk has made more advances in the practical realm of space travel in the past ten years than has NASA since they introduced the first shuttle. Talk about a seemingly moribund organization...

On the other hand, behold Tesla. Electric cars are a brutish and very ham-fisted scam and Musk is at the head of it. Until they contrive energy storage that tops off in thirty seconds, weighs the same as a cell phone, and will allow my vehicle to traverse the continental United Stated at least TWICE before needing a charge, the "promise" of electric vehicles is a lie, and one poorly told. Between the mind bending filth generated to produce a single battery, the ton each example weighs, volume sufficient to house a family of gypsies, the hazardous materials in their construction, the disposal issues, the impossibly short service life, the herniating cost, not to mention the propensity for them to spontaneously combust with some spectacle, electric vehicles are what I will confidently assess as non-solutions.

Heading the great scam of electric vehicles does not perforce make Musk a bad guy. After all, if you saw writing on the wall and had the means to make best advantage of the coming trend, can you say you'd forgo the opportunity? I would not. It could be that Musk was doing the Oprah method - Recall Winfrey's early days as a trash TV host, airing Jerry Springer like content. It made her cash and cred sufficient to allow her to go on to something that was at least superficially more respectable. Perhaps Tesla was Musk's leg up toward Space-X. I don't know the man, so I cannot say.

As for twitter, I'm not sure I'd have made the same decision, but if his stated reasons are true, then I can at least understand the move. Were I able to reduce the left to endless cases of burst arteries, I would be sore-tempted to avail myself of that guiltless pleasure.

 

[pcosmar]

On the other hand, behold Tesla. Electric cars are a brutish and very ham-fisted scam and Musk is at the head of it.

LOL,,
Tesla was Proof of Concept.

EVERYONE is playing Catch Up..

Not all of us love those OPEC Chains,, and petty whims.

Electricity is Freedom.

Gasoline is 5.00+ petrodollars a gal.

 

[Occam's Banana]

As for Musk, I'm still out as to whether he's a good guy.

"Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things [...and] bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind." -- Anderson Dawes, The Expanse

 

[ClaytonB]

 

[acptulsa]

 

[osan]

Electricity is Freedom.

Not yet it isn't. Not by a long shot. I say this as a mechanical engineer who has a fair grasp of energy systems and who miraculously managed to pass his class in thermo.

We are a quantum, at least, from truly viable electric vehicles. Until we solve the practical problems of energy storage, and that would be an absolute minimum, EVs will continue to represent the leap from frying pan to fire. Our state of the art in energy storage and conversion is positively medieval.