# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 301
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6006 "2023-07-31T22:30:11Z")
> **[Elon Musk Forced to Take Down Disastrous 'X' Sign on Twitter Building After 3...](https://jezebel.com/elon-musk-forced-to-take-down-disastrous-x-sign-on-twit-1850693383)** > > The removal of the blinding eyesore follows complaints from aggrieved neighbors in San Francisco and a general dumpster fire of a rebrand rollout. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6007 "2023-07-31T22:50:09Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > I don’t know whether this hypothesis of mine -that Elmo is far smarter than he appears, though still a monumental screwup- would survive scrutiny. No, that’s a hypothesis that would certainly not survive scrutiny. And it sounds like you have doubts, too, since your very next sentence was: > [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > he is heading an organization that he was forced to purchase after he impulsively signed a binding contract that he falsely figured he could wriggle out of. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6008 "2023-07-31T23:41:15Z")
Elmo, who claimed earlier this year that AI would destroy civilization and all research needed to be stopped immediately, now says his AI is going to scrape every tweet ever twitted to learn how to imitate human speech. > **[Elon Musk Will Train His AI Project Using Your Tweets](https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-will-train-his-ai-project-using-your-tweets)** > > Musk sheds more light on his plans for xAI, a new startup to counter OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. 'We are definitely the competition,' he says. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6009 "2023-08-01T00:28:25Z")
So, will it start churning out pornographic Nazi cat posts? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6010 "2023-08-01T01:11:04Z")
_Is it possible that if you cross “a cross” with “a hole”, you get a crass hole?_ More seriously, shouldn’t Musk be allowed to put whatever symbol he wants on the building provided he follows protocol and gets the right paperwork? San Francisco has some lovely parts but it is not like that is the biggest or most obtrusive eyesore… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6011 "2023-08-01T01:20:01Z")
“Finally, Twitter has joined the Nation of Islam” A friend of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6012 "2023-08-01T01:34:33Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > provided he follows protocol and gets the right paperwork? That’s the part that keeps tripping Elmo up. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6013 "2023-08-01T01:42:46Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > it is not like that is the biggest or most obtrusive eyesore I saw a video of that thing strobing. If it were flashing into my window I’d be soooo pissed off. The lighting, at least, couldn’t have been more aggressively obnoxious if someone had set out consciously to be as aggressively obnoxious as humanly possible. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6014 "2023-08-01T01:43:15Z")
Did you see any of the videos of that thing illuminating and flashing? Highly disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6015 "2023-08-01T01:44:40Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > More seriously, shouldn’t Musk be allowed to put whatever symbol he wants on the building provided he follows protocol and gets the right paperwork? Sure, just add the four cross strokes and you’ve got the swastika he was going for the whole time. Agile trolling! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6016 "2023-08-01T01:51:59Z")
I’ve also seen reports that the X was held in place with sandbags and that lights were already starting to “droop” off of it. That thing was DEFINITELY going to kill someone when (not if) it fell off the building. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6017 "2023-08-01T02:00:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > That thing was DEFINITELY going to kill someone when (not if) it fell off the building. It wouldn’t have killed them if they were . . . agile… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6018 "2023-08-01T02:04:20Z")
I didn’t see any videos - these things suck up too much oxygen as it is. Obviously some symbols are beyond the pale. Perhaps he should have skipped the light fandango. I thought I had seen some pretty awful ways to go, but that has to be near the top of the list. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6019 "2023-08-01T02:25:48Z")
This made me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6020 "2023-08-01T02:28:14Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > It wouldn’t have killed them if they were . . . agile… But what if the lights fell from 20,000 ft high? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6021 "2023-08-01T02:32:26Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > This made me laugh! It gave me PTSD. The one bit of Elmo’s sex life I’d managed to forget… thanks @Smapti. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6022 "2023-08-01T03:00:11Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I didn’t see any videos Strobing starts at about 0:10 [https://twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1685339679032287233](https://twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1685339679032287233) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6023 "2023-08-01T03:02:47Z")
20,000 lux under the X? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6024 "2023-08-01T03:28:29Z")
Now that it’s be reported in [various sources](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/tech/x-sign-twitter-elon-musk/index.html), I wanted to bring up one specific chunk: > “Over the weekend, the Department of Building Inspection and City Planning received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure, including concerns about its structural safety and illumination. This morning, building inspectors observed the structure being dismantled. A building permit is required to remove the structure but, due to safety concerns, the permit can be secured after the structure is taken down,” Hannan said in an email to CNN. > > “The property owner will be assessed fees for the unpermitted installation of the illuminated structure. The fees will be for building permits for the installation and removal of the structure, and to cover the cost of the Department of Building Inspection and the Planning Department’s investigation,” he added. Anyone want to give odds on Eloon stiffing the city for all of the fees, permits, inspection, and investigation? Just kidding, no one would take that bet. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6025 "2023-08-01T03:41:33Z")
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