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Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion

TomC said:
Um What?
It was a caricature of the cybertruck.
A crayon drawing stuck to a refrigerator, depicting a "space age" truck. At the bottom of the paper someone had written, in black marker, " -Elon age48 "

Sorry if I did it wrong.
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When you post the twitter link, make sure the address end in 20 digit number and without the "?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E" jazz. Like

https:// twitter .com/KarinaVinnikova/status/1731314661197324460 (without the spaces obviously)
 
Honestly, @Patooka, I appreciate your efforts. But I just don't care enough to learn a skill that will become obsolete the next time Musk farts.

I saw a funny image on another forum. I thought that I could copy/paste the Xitter post here. Obviously not.

But I really don't care very much. It was just a bit of a giggle I planned to share. Part of the giggle was that it was posted on Xitter, at least for a moment.
I have no interest in doing that again.
Tom
 
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The high cost of free speech.

www.businessinsider.com

Elon Musk's luck has finally run out

Buying Twitter was the biggest gamble of Musk's career. Now he — and his empire — are cracking under the pressure.
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"With the company still burning cash and $1.3-1.5 billion in annual interest due over the past year, I had expected Twitter to live on borrowed time," Bryan wrote in a note to clients. She said that even if Twitter tapped the loans available to it at the beginning of the year, the company may be almost out of options. "The year is over, so Twitter's cash may be nearly if not already dried up—along with Elon Musk's options," Bryan wrote.

Because of the way that Musk operates, the social-media company's troubles pose a threat to his whole business empire. Despite being the second-wealthiest person in the world, Musk is curiously cash poor. He doesn't take a salary from Tesla, and while he owns about 20% of the EV maker, public documents filed in March show that about 63% of those shares are "pledged as collateral to secure certain personal indebtedness." You know, like the private jets.

This is why using Tesla stock to source cash all the time gets hairy. If Tesla shares fall below a certain level, the banks can call in those personal loans — leaving Musk on the hook. And the quickest way for Tesla's stock to drop off a cliff is for investors to get wind of a big Musk sale. And of course, he needs to make sure that he still holds on to all the Tesla stock he's pledged as collateral to the banks. Unfortunately, though, the easiest way for Musk to fill the gaping hole in Twitter's balance sheet is to sell Tesla shares. You see how this could be a problem.
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"The only thing we're waiting on is for Elon to cry uncle," said Bryan.
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Hopefully a Musk-free Twitter survives. God knows what would fill the void. Social media abhors a vacuum. I can't imagine nothing could exist in its place.
A Musk-free Tesla will survive. There's too much value there. I thought and still do think other vehicle manufacturers will eat his lunch. I did not foresee the idiocy of their thinking that overpriced, overweight pickup trucks was the best initial course of action. They went for the high profit margin vehicles, targeting some of the people least likely to buy an EV.
Can he fuck up SpaceX? I hope not. The US can't afford to lose SpaceX. With nearly 100 launches this year, two thirds of which are Starlink, all others US launch companies combined pale in comparison. SpaceX is too big to fail.
What happens to Elon? I can't imagine Elon getting his shit in one sock. Emotional maturity occurs in the teens, early twenties. After that, you're stuck with yourself.
 
TomC said:
Honestly, @Patooka, I appreciate your efforts. But I just don't care enough to learn a skill that will become obsolete the next time Musk farts.
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TomC said:
I saw a funny image on another forum. I thought that I could copy/paste the Xitter post here. Obviously not.

But I really don't care very much. It was just a bit of a giggle I planned to share. Part of the giggle was that it was posted on Xitter, at least for a moment.
I have no interest in doing that again.
Tom
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I just followed your link. I saw nothing giggle-worthy, because the thing you wanted to share was already buried under newer posts. You also didn’t say anything about what you were linking, aside from it being funny. That’s why it’s better to learn how to do the direct link.
 
Just like Tesla iS jUSt a CaR cOmpAnY! X is jUSt a sOciAL mEdiA cOmPAnY! Once all the smoke clears the inflated value of both will silently pop like a snot bubble.
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
That’s why it’s better to learn how to do the direct link.
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That assumes I'll ever want to do it again. I won't.

I've never cared for Twitter, never had an account. Especially not now. Sometimes I click on something, it takes me to Xitter, and I kinda feel like I've dropped my phone in the toilet of a red neck bar. I only saw that because it was on another forum.
Oh well. It won't happen again..
 
I don't think tesla will burst for a while, tesla still owns something over 50% of the electric vehicle market, but that is steadily coming down. That leads me to believe it won't be a bust in the sense of a sudden drop, just a gradual adjusting of the market (unless something really volatile happens to that market).
 
www.forbes.com

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues

Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium+ subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usual...
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Elon Musk has been pitching xAI’s “Grok” as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you. Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usually devoted to Elon, are able to use Grok to their heart’s content.

But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a “politically neutral” AI, unlike “WokeGPT” (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.

Grok is woke, too.

This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to “train” Grok to say the “right” answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just…manually tell Grok to say no.
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:hysterical:
 
Gospel said:
Just like Tesla iS jUSt a CaR cOmpAnY! X is jUSt a sOciAL mEdiA cOmPAnY! Once all the smoke clears the inflated value of both will silently pop like a snot bubble.
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Kinda reminds me of an old joke, probably about Slick Willy Clinton.

"Would you buy a car from this guy?"

So, what's up bruh. Would you buy a car from this guy?
Tom
 
Worldtraveller said:
I don't think tesla will burst for a while, tesla still owns something over 50% of the electric vehicle market, but that is steadily coming down. That leads me to believe it won't be a bust in the sense of a sudden drop, just a gradual adjusting of the market (unless something really volatile happens to that market).
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Tesla did a helluva thing. They showed the legacy carmakers that there was indeed a market for EVs. When they debuted the Model S, it was a revelation. An EV didn't need to be a quirky little hyper-efficient car like the EV-1. It could be sleek. Sexy. Even an aspirational vehicle. Then they came out with the Model 3. Can't afford the expensive Model S? Here's something within reach. It sold like hotcakes.

But then they rested on their laurels. A new Model S or Model 3 is pretty much indistinguishable from one that came out years ago. Tesla has gone from the sleek, sexy new company to - sorry owners of these cars - the Nissan of EV production. Pumping out the same products as they have for years and not quite grasping why they're losing market share.

Ford, GM, the VW/Porsche/Audi group and others have taken the lesson that Tesla taught them and are running with it.
 
Ford said:
Tesla did a helluva thing. They showed the legacy carmakers that there was indeed a market for EVs.
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Not really. Sales of EVs have plateaued and gas powered car sales still number one. Ford are struggling to get rid of their EVs and are losing money with every car sold to the tune of billions of dollars.
 
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