Hmmmmmm… Twitter advertisers fleeing… Not paying Twitter office rent… Mass employee firings… Selling off office equipment… Now selling off huge amounts of stock… Tesla stock price sliding downhill…
Is this what a death spiral looks like?
Elmo is now claiming prosecute had to ban elonjet because someone stalked faucis ex’s car last night - which makes no sense, since the account would’ve shown the stalker that prosecute was in a different state at the time, and the location of faucis jet is a matter of public record that you don’t need elonjet to find out about.
You (understandably) misunderstand prosecute’s statement to mean fauci was referring to an ex when prosecute twitted about lil X. Prosecute was actually referring to fauci’s son X Æ A-12. Legal name X AE A-XII, because the state of California doesn’t allow numbers or the character Æ on birth certificates. I really wish I was making this shit up.
The cadence of the thread title always makes me think of the Heavy D song “Now That We Found Love.” Now that Elon Musk… it’s weird.
Fucking damn it now I hear it when I read it too. 
The kid also has accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and others. The only thing Elmo accomplished by banning his Twitter account is making himself look like a petulant asshole, which he is. It has nothing to do with the actual tracking the kid is doing, which is based on public ADS-B flight data transmitted by basically every airliner and tracked by a large worldwide network of private operators.
Elmo wants to force users to either agree to tracking ads or pay to use the site, which is illegal under EU law.
More or less, yes. Many or most flight trackers will honour requests from private aircraft owners to block tracking info for their planes as a courtesy, but some will not. Falcon Landing LLC, a shell company associated with Tesla and SpaceX that owns Elmo’s three Gulfstreams, has made such requests to popular flight trackers, but not all have complied.
Community Notes strikes again!
Both are a bit easier to type than the nickname favored by another site I visit: Apartheid Tony Stark.
And I do love the use of Elmo’s preferred ‘pronouns’ in this thread.
I prefer “Phony Stark” myself.
Elmo’s next step: turn off Community Notes and fire whoever contributed that “added context”!
Indeed. I wasn’t particularly attached to the nickname, but in view of that fact that our self-designated litterateur and arbiter of SDMB standards of intellectual discourse has declared anyone who uses the “Elmo” moniker to be “pathetic”, I must make a point of using it at every opportunity.
While I feel it is OK to throw anything at all at Elmo, he’s a big boy after all. I find it dubious to carry his South African heritage after him. He’s done so much other dumb and despicable stuff I think it is deflecting from the real issues:
- Using his oversized social media presence for crypto pump&dump BS and other market manipulation. (This is plainly criminal)
- cheerfully overpromising on every parameter of any project he’s ever been involved in.
- a pathological need to be the “founder” of every company he bought, transparently lying to alter history.
- dubious treatment of minority and female employees.
- manipulating public opinion to sabotage (high speed) rail to sell more cars.
- using his status/money to harass everyone who criticizes or exposes him. (Latest example @elonsjet)
I agree, but I don’t think his South African origins are being used to ridicule him, but rather are being used in a more analytical sense to try to understand some of his weirdness, like his racism and perhaps misogyny and affinity for far-right extremists. But I’m willing to entertain simpler explanations. Perhaps Elmo could take inspiration from fellow South African Trevor Noah, who wrote an autobiography titled Born a Crime. Elmo’s bio could be Born an Asshole.
I have no problem with people bringing up his South African origins (as long as they get their facts straight, like where his dad’s emerald mine was and which White South African culture he’s from).
But nobody ever points out that he’s also half-Canadian.
Jesus! No need to go that far, Dibble! Report! Report! Report!
OK, I’ll point it out. His mother was Canadian-born but raised in South Africa. Elmo himself was born and raised in South Africa by his mother and South African father. He spent two years in Canada between the ages of 18 and 20 attending Queens University before moving to the US and eventually settling in California.
In what sense is Elmo – culturally or in any other meaningful sense – in any way “Canadian”? The title of Trevor Noah’s book comes from the fact that due to his mixed-race parentage, his birth itself was illegal under the apartheid Immorality Act. Perhaps that environment and culture affected Elmo a great deal more than the happenstance of his mother’s birthplace.
Musk sold $4 billion in Tesla stock this week
Agreed to buy Twitter for 3x is valuation in April, then proceeds to sell Tesla for less than half what it was worth in April.
Had he sold those 22 million TSLA shares in April, it would have netted him about 8 billion. And had he waited until now to buy Twitter he might have gotten it for 16 billion, and might not have needed leverage to do it.
This is the guy they’re calling a genius of some sort.
Thanks a lot, guys.
Now that Pross found Twit
What’s he gonna do…with it
To be fair, nobody told him there would be math.