It’s not all him, several other people invested in both. According to some article Elon owns 79% of X, and only 54% of xAI (barely enough to control it). Since the valuation of X in the deal is about $20 billion more what others have estimated ($12.3 billion), it definitely seems like it’s a corrupt bailout 46% funded with other xAI investors’ money, basically netting Elon $8 billion overnight.

That being said, the other investors in xAI are easy marks like Marc Andressen (famous for funding Adam Neumann’s project that came after WeWork) and various Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.

There’s a million things you could do with that. The musk of kleptocracy? I dunno.

Or you could do a bunch of other Elon refences - Don’t buy from klepto-guy, gimme a Model FU, Elon owes a horse by now, etc.

Elon’s blaming DDOS. You know I heard that the people who bulit Twitter did a great job figuring out how to handle those. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened them?

Everyone drives a car with one fucking seat.

It would be highly immoral to do any actual vandalism because that would give them sympathy and therefore would further the goals of Elon and others who want their bootlickers to be seen as some sort of rebels against wokeness.

But mocking them by writing dust or adding your own bumper stickers without doing any serious permanent damage is at least defensible.

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Maybe you will should’ve picked a more marketable slogan than the one that makes it sound like you wanna just let criminals win. There’s a difference between a fascist and a gutless politician. Trump is the former, Biden is the latter. What leftists need is the ability to recognize shades of grey and the notion of getting somewhere step by step instead of trying to convince people to leap all the way down the stairs.

When Democrats lose, there’s endless navel-gazing and wondering what went wrong. If there was enough minority outreach, if there was enough non-minority outreach, what policies should’ve been passed or left on the cutting room floor.

When Republicans lose, they simply don’t give a fuck. No one on the right was asking after Trump’s loss in 2020 whether it was a mistake to let him run again or if he should’ve done an interview with Charlamagne the God. They just doubled down on Trump.

The point isn’t to say Democrats should be more like Republicans. Republicans are a loony cult, no one should be like them. The point is that there is an extreme and insane double standard, and anyone who acts like Democrats are the ones who need to be harsher on their candidates is hard to take seriously.

This idea originated as a Stephen Colbert joke in 2010. As always I’m sure some will call this some sort of self-aware troll by Trump, but what are the odds of that.

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Ok sure just let the US keep the second best train system and the #1 city for park access, also the people that would be most down for this.

Don’t forget DC. Everyone forgets DC.

It would be great if both the east and west coasts join Canada. Then there’s a new leader of the western hemisphere to replace the US, better and more modern.

We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people’s feeds.

I thought this was common knowledge. Users have been talking about how everyone is getting flooded with right-wing posts on r/twitter ever since Elon took over.

I think he’s sugar-coating it because their bonds are about to go up for sale. From the article:

While equity investors have reportedly slashed the value of their stakes by as much as 78 percent, the Journal reports, “banks hope to sell senior debt at 90-95 cents on the dollar, while retaining more-junior holdings.”

If they were breaking even, the bonds wouldn’t be getting sold at a loss. Keep in mind, the bond holders get paid before the stock holding investors, so if they’re taking a loss, the equity investors are getting nothing (hence the 78 percent cut, basically their share is only worth the odds of a miraculous turnaround). That doesn’t happen with a company unless it’s losing money.

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The ol’ Ellen Pao

Yes. People still lend Adam Neumann money, despite his record of epic failure. When you have the skills that get other people to pay the bills, failure is not a problem.

He was a first mover on podcasts, and already being a reality TV celebrity he got a lot of big guests early on.

When they ramble on about something you don’t care about or actively don’t want to discuss, say “Hey I don’t like this conversation, can we talk about something else?”

Yellow: “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”
Red: “What? Why don’t you wanna talk about this, is it because you secretly hate me or are hiding something? Now I know we need to talk about it until I’m convinced you’re hearing what I have to say on this topic.”