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Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Apr 25, 2022.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The Big Ragu, Jul 19, 2022
    #421
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  2. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    If the outcome of this is less influence for Musk AND Twitter then it's a win-win.
     
    CD Boogie, Jul 19, 2022
    #422
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  3. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Him and Donald can commiserate on how to lose billions.
     
    wicked, Jul 19, 2022
    #423
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    BTW, Tesla reported earnings after the bell. ... I won't bore people with details (shrinking gross margins) they don't care about.

    But they also revealed that they sold 75 percent of that massive bitcoin position they had added (almost certainly at a loss). The company would have been cashflow negative without the bitcoin sales. ...

    And the bitcoin sales, despite all the Elon Musk tweets about how he will NEVER sell bitcoin. ...

    Or this one from a few months back when the bitcoin price dropped:



    He's not only a carnival barker who will do reckless things with the money others have given him to steward. ... he's just a garden-variety bullshit artist.
     
    Last edited: Jul 20, 2022
    The Big Ragu, Jul 20, 2022
    #424
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  5. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    You have Musk pegged perfectly. He’s a garden-variety bullshit artist, with the same basic skill set as a cult leader.
     
    FileNotFound, Jul 20, 2022
    #425
    OscarMadison, BitterYoungMatador2 and tea and ease like this.
  6. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    You have Trump pegged perfectly.
     
    Regan MacNeil, Jul 20, 2022
    #426
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  7. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

     
    garrow, Jul 21, 2022
    #427
  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The Big Ragu, Jul 24, 2022
    #428
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  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    It's hard for me to balance Elon Musk's elite assholishness with the engineer who has booster rockets soft landing on a barge in the ocean.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jul 24, 2022
    #429
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  10. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Those engineers (has to be plural) are Musk's employees. He's neither the first nor will he be the last tycoon to get credit for the work for which he paid others. To be fair, recognizing what will work/what won't when the engineers come in with the plans is a very big talent as well.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Jul 24, 2022
    #430
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  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Bingo.

    He is: 1) a really bright guy, and 2) someone who dreams big. ... but who has gotten far in life on an extraordinary ability to plow through obstacles with bullshit and sophistry.

    He hasn't actually invented anything. Tesla itself was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, two engineers. Musk led the initial investment rounds for the company and became the CEO and that was with obscene money he made from his investment in X.com, which was more a matter of lucky mergers and the people around him having made him rich, than him having done anything that extraordinary.

    He gets credit as a visionary, but all he's really done in terms of tangible game-changing technologies over the last decade plus is to talk all kinds of crap and propose things that don't ever come to fruition.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 24, 2022
    #431
  12. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Never change. New York Post.
     
    HanSenSE, Jul 25, 2022
    #432
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