I think that there’s value in substantiating accusations of racism. Proven things have more weight than accused things.
Stepping back and evaluating an argument to see if it even holds water is worth doing. Why even let them have the fig leaf if it doesn’t even cover the nibblies? Better to point right at the exposed peehole.
I agree with both parts of this post. Where I disagree is that your first paragraph hasn’t already been shown. We know Musk is racist, at minimum, because he has repeated, retweeted, etc. antisemitic comments.
I get ignoring that for the purposes of an analysis of what he would actually allege in a lawsuit. At the same time, however, I think that the evidence that he himself engages in the behavior that ADL tends to publish would probably be a good defense for their actions.
I am begging you to never attempt a metaphor again.
I wanted to go with “urethra” but figured that someone would nitpick to say that, that’s the whole tube on the inside and that you wouldn’t be able to see it no matter whether the leaf is correctly covering the area or not.
Also please never explain a metaphor again.
But keep in mind that “explain a metaphor” is merely a metaphor…
Or Sylvia Fine.
Then the word is meatus (three syllables).
Discussion of the metaphorical prick this thread is about is quite sufficient, thank you. Anatomical detail is really, really not needed.
a propos (a poster mentioning over @ the breaking-news thread that its easy for Musk push profits - while not paying your oustanding bills) - my answer was it does not alter your accounting its just slipping money from your left pants pocket into your right
… does musk have to have their books audited? … how would a big-4 audit firm go about the whole crazy X-mess (hey, did I just invent this phrase)? … those 100s of severence-lawsuits, non-paying rent, etc…
I have a hard time visualizing a serious audit firm signing off that their books are roger
Liabilities remain on the books until they are discharged, canceled, or expired. So no, it doesn’t go away just because you don’t pay it. But not paying it is only the first step, not the endgame.
Discharge means the debt is paid (what Musk is trying to avoid). Expired doesn’t mean the due date is passed; there has to be something that contractually obligates the creditor to claim the balance from the debtor. I doubt this is applicable to Twitter’s debts.
Instead, Musk is going for cancelling the debt, which allows Twitter to write off the liability. This might be the creditor waiving the balance (i.e., agreeing to settle for a partial payment), the debtor demonstrating some breach of contract, or through bankruptcy.
I bet musk is totally against student loan debt forgiveness.
More details on the Musk biography. He reportedly turned off Starlink communications as Ukraine was launching a drone sneak attack in Crimea, so the drones “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly.” Based on his conversations with senior Russian officials, he was worried the Russians would retaliate with nuclear weapons.
A businessman controlling the outcome of a battle and potentially the war? That’s some serious Bond villain-level shit.
That’s “guys with weird accents noticed before Musk mysteriously disappearers” level shit.
Sounds to me a lot more like a blowhard egotist creating his own delusional narcissistic narrative in his head and the biographer eating it up. Or at least the article in CNN makes it sound like the biographer eating it up. Elmo’s intelligence network had infiltrated Ukrainian high command and informed him of this sneak attack as it was underway, so he saved the day to keep us from all dying in a nuclear holocaust by turning off their Starlink just before they reached Crimea? Made even more absurd than that already sounds by the fact that Ukraine has conducted naval drone attacks at Sevastopol harbor, the Kerch bridge and even as far away as Novorossiysk? Riight… pull the other one.
sorry, but I must call BS here …
I cant visualize the UKR top command informing Elon Blofield, so he can just turn off (at 00:03 seconds on a countdown display) the internet there and safe the world from nuc. anhilation … right before offering a horse to a classy lady for giving him a handjob.
that’s the kind of stuff you might hear from Musk/Trump/et al … at least the ones with the highest level of narcicism … and they might believe it’s true - but that does not MAKE it true
He’s not infiltrating anything. He’s just in the loop on all of it because the US deployed his tech in a way that makes it vital.
@Smapti linked this earlier, but I’ll link it again:
And this does not use Elon as its source.
It’s a known fact that Starlink access was turned off during the attack. That isn’t Musk’s reporting.
Are you saying it was a coincidence it went down, and Musk is making up a reason after the fact? I’m not following you.
It sounds to me like something someone made up as a joke or something at the time. Someone said “I bet Musk turned off the satellites to mess up the attack!” Then it got spread around and people started taking it as truth. If it happened for real, there would be a lot of people and log files that could verify it. Musk didn’t go to the server room and switch it off himself. He would have had to ask one of the support people to do it. And there would be logs of the systems going off and coming back online. In a spy novel there’d be one hacker who did it all and then cleaned up the logs to hide the evidence, but in the real world it would involve many people and there’d be a lot of evidence left behind.
It wasn’t exactly covered up. The COO of SpaceX confirmed in February that SpaceX took steps to prevent Ukraine from using Starlink to control the drones.