# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2182 "2025-04-12T19:32:26Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Go back and look at his SNL hosting appearance, and it’s clear he urgently wants to be seen as a Cool Funny Kid but he has zero ability to carry that off I read an article about his SNL gig recently. Apparently he made multiple threats to whip out his dick during the monologue to “see if it’s really live”, and refused to do a sketch about a Waffle House waitress turning down his advances because he didn’t understand how any woman could possibly not want to be with him. People have been banned from the show for less. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2183 "2025-04-12T19:51:44Z")
When you go so far right that you accidentally reinvent Maoism > **[https://preview.redd.it/musk-says-government-workers-should-be-moved-to-v0-hr817...](https://preview.redd.it/musk-says-government-workers-should-be-moved-to-v0-hr817cu4mfue1.png?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bd74dba1cf88f58bfd2545d9e121a85f507150f5)** ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2184 "2025-04-12T22:48:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > When you go so far right that you accidentally reinvent Maoism Yeah, let’s put all those hoity-toity professors and doctors to work in the mines! That’ll show them!!! Any Mao-style Cultural Revolution put into practice here would be VERY popular among MAGA types who deeply resent the educated, of course. So Elon is making a credible bid to get past his current shaky position in the Regime, by pushing for something the base will love. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2185 "2025-04-13T21:17:11Z")
As has been noted elsewhere, the Social Security Administration announced that it will be using Twixxex exclusively to make announcements. Would the appropriate word for that be “felatografting”? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2186 "2025-04-13T23:42:38Z")
Didn’t Skum just resell, pawn off, sucker a bunch of people to take TWIT off his hands? Did this slip by in the Great Stupid Blizzard of 2025? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2187 "2025-04-13T23:49:15Z")
He sold it to himself (an AI company he owns “bought” it). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2188 "2025-04-14T21:27:43Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > He sold it to himself (an AI company he owns “bought” it). . That’s right. So _he’ll_ be the one making money off forcing everyone to come to X for any and all Social Security-related information. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2189 "2025-04-14T21:56:26Z")
A lot of sites used to post a lot of embedded or screengrabbed tweets. Does he make money from those? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2190 "2025-04-15T02:08:51Z")
Embedded tweets, yes (indirectly). An embedded tweet registers as a view, and he is able to get more advertising dollars with more views. For a screenshot, the only benefit is increased mindshare. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2191 "2025-04-16T02:18:45Z")
And now, the tale of how Elmo tried to bully a woman he has never met into having children with him because he thinks the apocalypse is imminent and he needs to breed a race of ubermensch to rule the wasteland. [https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c](https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreifeymqihf6dtzauamzxsrvpuuyfziqsuipsqsnvvo57wpeokg7pru@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreifeymqihf6dtzauamzxsrvpuuyfziqsuipsqsnvvo57wpeokg7pru@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreia73glverwff2bisn7tpoo4zhz466qzdedpyrdua7a7olc535ktuu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreia73glverwff2bisn7tpoo4zhz466qzdedpyrdua7a7olc535ktuu@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreiaqtvwhnts4nyyowks3gzlzvfa7ofozzc56lyphlr7b7yxdztpore@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreiaqtvwhnts4nyyowks3gzlzvfa7ofozzc56lyphlr7b7yxdztpore@jpeg) I think we need to start thinking of this man as a cult leader. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2192 "2025-04-16T09:13:29Z")
Tesla has been committing odometer fraud en masse to avoid paying out on warranties. [https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/tesla-accused-of-using-sneaky-tactic-to-dodge-car-repairs](https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/tesla-accused-of-using-sneaky-tactic-to-dodge-car-repairs) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2193 "2025-04-16T09:24:54Z")
The Roman military unit isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when Musk refers to “legion-level”. > **[Bible Gateway passage: Mark 5 - New International Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%205&version=NIV)** > > Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man - They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him... ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2194 "2025-04-16T10:26:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tesla has been committing odometer fraud en masse to avoid paying out on warranties. > [@The original article](#): > > In the lawsuit, he claims that this routine should have averaged 20 miles per day; however, the vehicle’s odometer estimated 72.35 miles per day. Crumbs, they’re not even _good_ at bring sneaky. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2195 "2025-04-16T11:52:35Z")
Geez people, 20 miles per day in Earth miles is 72.35 miles in Martian miles. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2196 "2025-04-16T15:10:00Z")
> [@Smapti's link](#): > > “Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles,” reads the lawsuit. This is a claim made in the lawsuit so I don’t know if it’s true, but it should be easy enough to check. I know there are laws around manipulating odometers. Are there no laws against “predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers”? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2197 "2025-04-16T15:54:12Z")
I have strong doubts about the claims in this suit. I owned a Model Y and while I did not do a deep dive into odometer reading accuracy, there’s no way it was more than a few percent off _at worst_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2198 "2025-04-16T16:01:59Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > , there’s no way it was more than a few percent off _at worst_. The lawsuit alleges his mileage spiked during a time when he was making heavy use of the warranty, not that all Teslas are bring tampered with. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2199 "2025-04-16T16:08:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > > [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > > > , there’s no way it was more than a few percent off _at worst_. > > The lawsuit alleges his mileage spiked during a time when he was making heavy use of the warranty, not the odometers are generally faulty. Exactly. Per the article: > [@](#): > > The plaintiff in the lawsuit, a California man who purchased a used 2020 Model Y Tesla vehicle with 36,772 miles on it, noticed “peculiar patterns in mileage accumulation” during a time when he was consistently taking the car in for repairs due to issues with its suspension. > > He noticed an “abnormal spike in average daily miles driven,” despite having a “consistent driving routine” that involved “a short commute to work and occasional visits to the gym and local restaurants.” You know, I had actually seriously considered buying a Tesla at one point. Not now and not for the foreseeable future. I have lost all trust and confidence in this company. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2200 "2025-04-16T18:21:25Z")
Gotta’ read the fine print: is the warranty based on actual distance traveled miles, or does the tiny print specify some sort of theoretical “wear and tear” miles, computed by an algorithm that takes into account braking and acceleration, miles traveled at different speeds, etc.? Not that the latter isn’t greed-bastard sneakiness but it would be a different thing than outright odometer fraud. Lawyers get rich off this sort of stuff. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2201 "2025-04-16T18:46:38Z")
The warranty information (which must be listed according to law) just list a number of miles. A company might try to argue that the plain word “miles” is not well defined, but unless they explicitly denoted otherwise in the warranty information provided before sale (which Tesla has not), trying to claim some sort of theoretical ‘Nuh-uh, neener, neener’ miles rather than the commonly accepted actual miles traveled is a good way to risk a lot of new lawsuits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=110)