# 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:** 364
**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:** [October 26, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7266 "2023-10-26T23:39:02Z")
Say what you will about the relative merits of the Canyonero but at least I’d be willing to be caught dead in it ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7267 "2023-10-27T00:08:03Z")
Hey, my Subie is dying (I have a thread about this) and I need an AWD electric vehicle. I’d drive it (although I wouldn’t pose with it by any means) if one was given to me. Or it was under… wait, I’m trying to calculate the reported dual drive AWD option, 300 mile range and other useful to me features and the needed discount to offset the ugly (even if my inner 12 year old likes it) and the stink of Musk (huuuyyyge) … $15-20k? Yeah, I could probably make myself pay that much considering the state of my current car. Hey Eloon, if you’re reading this, feel free to contact me via DM once you can’t unload these past a few well heeled and overpaid fanboys! Aren’t I generous? 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7268 "2023-10-27T01:18:44Z")
I’m really beginning to believe that Elmo has some developmental disorder where he’s stuck at about age 14. The “69” and “420” jokes, the poop emoji, the weed. The Cybertruck looks like something that a seventh-grade boy would draw in his spiral notebook, because it looked “bitchin’ cool”. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7269 "2023-10-27T01:30:51Z")
Meh. It’s more or less confirmed Something about growing up wealthy seeking the attention and approval of borderline or even outright narcissistic and abusive fathers seems to lead to severe cases of arrested development and delusions of grandeur. See also: Donald Trump Maybe it also leads to some truly atrocious personal taste, given the Cybertruck and Trump’s well known penchant for interior design out of the wannabe dictators’ handbook ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7270 "2023-10-27T01:48:58Z")
Methinks there’s an element of old versus new money: Old money has taste, doesn’t need to display its wealth; new money tries to buy taste, the gaudier the better to show off how much moolah they’ve got. ETA: I live in an area with very rich old Yankee aristocracy (e.g., the Gen. George Patton family) and while they live well in good houses, they just don’t go in for flaunting it; their homes aren’t ostentatious McMansions and they blend in rather than striving to stand out. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7271 "2023-10-27T01:50:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Every time I see a picture of that thing it’s like I’m realizing for the first time how ugly it is. No kidding. What sort of moron is going to pony up 100k for this POS? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7272 "2023-10-27T02:08:15Z")
Elmo deleted the Maine shooter’s account - but not before the internet managed to discover he was an alt-right MAGA/Elmo fanboy. > ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7273 "2023-10-27T02:26:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It makes me think of when I had shop class in high school and realized the day before a project was due that I forgot to do it, and so just kind of half-assed it all in a half hour. It’s like that happened to someone, but they had to make a vehicle. Alternatively, it’s like someone spent a year designing and building it, but that “someone” was seriously not right in the head, perhaps being guided by psychedelic dreams or imaginary disembodied voices. Or as our **Beck** would say, “that guy ain’t right”. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7274 "2023-10-27T02:27:29Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Or as our **Beck** would say, “that guy ain’t right”. 😆 Elmo’s bad, bad, bad. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7275 "2023-10-27T02:35:03Z")
Don’t people who buy trucks often want to do … you know … truck stuff with them? It doesn’t look like you could haul anything with it, or tow anything, or do any truck stuff with it. It’s not just ugly it looks pretty useless. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7276 "2023-10-27T02:39:08Z")
Hey, c’mon. You can shoot at it. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7277 "2023-10-27T02:40:25Z")
Oh yeah! I guess there is that. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7278 "2023-10-27T03:25:22Z")
Hell, my [2006 Scion xB](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:06-Scion-xB.jpg) can haul more stuff (six hay bales; ten shavings bags) than that abomination. Looks way cuter, too. Of course, you have to fold down the rear seatbacks. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7279 "2023-10-27T03:36:54Z")
That is cute. I used to drive my three goats around in the back of some crappy little hatchback. The back seats had burned out of it so it was roomy for my critters. It wasn’t cute at all, but we got a lot of double takes. And yeah, I used to haul a lot of stuff in that old car. I bet it carried a lot more than that plug ugly “truck”. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7280 "2023-10-27T04:09:28Z")
Elmo has given the remaining employees who he hasn’t fired one year to make Twitter replace the entire international banking system. > **[Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank](https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-elon-musk-2024)** > > Musk wants your “entire financial life” on his platform. > [@](#): > > "When I say payments, I actually mean someone’s entire financial life,” Musk said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by _The Verge_ . “If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.” [![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610aec5190cbf577be327936/a59aa5a0-b1ff-404b-94ab-c43851a5dae8/bold.jpg) ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610aec5190cbf577be327936/a59aa5a0-b1ff-404b-94ab-c43851a5dae8/bold.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7281 "2023-10-27T04:53:30Z")
> “If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.” Says the man who owns the platform that owes $13 billion to the banks. > “It would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year,” Musk said. Yeah man, that would be completely mind-blowing. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7282 "2023-10-27T04:54:42Z")
Well, according to his previous predictions, SpaceX should already had an uncrewed mission to Mars by last year with a crewed mission in the next year. That’s since been pushed back at least 5 years, which itself still seems …far-fetched. So, let’s say none of us should be holding our breaths waiting to get rid of our bank accounts ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7283 "2023-10-27T05:15:07Z")
With one breath, he seriously entertains the prospect of eliminating accessibility to his communications platform in one of the largest and wealthiest markets in the world because he can’t be bothered to comply with its rules and regulations. In the next breath, he says he’s full speed ahead on plunging into one of the most highly regulated business sectors, if not _the_ most, in the entire consumer-service marketplace. This guy. I mean, Jesus, this fuckin’ guy. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7284 "2023-10-27T05:16:59Z")
‘It’s not a bank, it’s a Xank, so the rules do not apply.’ Elon ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7285 "2023-10-27T05:19:59Z")
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