# 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:** 36
**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 21, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/701 "2024-10-21T00:51:38Z")
It’d be a real hoot if all the people who registered decided to vote for Harris. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/702 "2024-10-21T04:05:55Z")
Now a company called [Wiwynn is suing](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/server-dealer-keeps-hitting-at-elon-musk-for-usd61-million-bill-wiwynn-sues-x-for-unpaid-it-infrastructure-products) X for an order placed by Dorsey’s Twitter for bespoke equipment. Musk has not paid the bill, and they are seeking sixty million for their product. It seems to be kind of a complicated situation. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/703 "2024-10-21T22:44:55Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I’ve heard it used by a co-worker in the US…who happened to be a British ex-pat Some of my coworkers insist on referring to a parking space as a “park.” (As in, “I saw someone took your park this morning!”). They are not British, and to my knowledge have never been to any countries that use this terminology. ---
**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 22, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/704 "2024-10-22T15:22:05Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I’ve never heard “car park” used in the US. > > But I did love the image of people’s cars all going to the park on Saturday to play with the other cars. And if they’re self-driving cars, they can go to the car park on their own. “Okay, you can go out and play, but I want you home _before_ you need to turn on your headlights! And no playing ‘Honk Honk Ditch It’, understand?” ---
**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 22, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/705 "2024-10-22T20:22:07Z")
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**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:** [October 22, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/706 "2024-10-22T21:07:14Z")
I’m guessing Tim is a little pissed off at Musk at the moment, what with the fake video Musk has been circulating. ---
**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 23, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/707 "2024-10-23T20:22:40Z")
Justice Department to Elmo: your lottery is probably illegal and you’re looking at up to five years in prison. > **[Justice Department warns Elon Musk that his $1 million giveaway to registered...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/elon-musk-justice-department-letter/index.html)** > > The Justice Department warned Elon Musk’s America PAC in recent days that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, people briefed on the matter told CNN. His “Kamala will put me in jail if she’s elected” claim is gonna be a self-fulfilling prophecy. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/708 "2024-10-23T23:00:30Z")
I hate to admit his political trollery could ever be right, but I will reluctantly make an exception for just that one. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/709 "2024-10-24T08:00:13Z")
My (extremely layman’s) understanding is that the law in question requires awareness that the practice of offering a reward for voting or registering is illegal. So the DoJ is now making sure Musk can’t claim he “didn’t know” if he persists in this. ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/710 "2024-10-24T08:23:48Z")
More legal trouble! > **[Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/tesla-warner-bros-sued-for-using-ai-ripoff-of-iconic-blade-runner-imagery/)** > > “That movie sucks,” Elon Musk said in response to the lawsuit. Short version: Musk holds his Tesla cybercab event on the Warner Bros backlot. The two _Blade Runner_ movies were released by WB, so Musk apparently believes the franchise belongs to WB and he can freely use its imagery, and he builds some of his presentation around it. At the last minute, they discover that _Blade Runner_ is entirely owned by a different company called Alcon Entertainment; WB was just the distributor and has no rights to it. With hours to go before the event, they ask Alcon for permission to use media from the movie. Alcon turns them down flat. And then, during the presentation, Musk shows images that aren’t actually from the movie but are clearly derived from it, probably constructed in the eleventh hour with AI tools, and he explicitly references the movie in his remarks while showing those images. Alcon is now suing him for infringement, and their complaint is a thing of beauty. > [@](#): > > “Musk has become an increasingly vocal, overtly political, highly polarizing figure globally, and especially in Hollywood,” Alcon’s complaint said. If Hollywood perceived an affiliation with Musk and Tesla, the complaint said, the company risked alienating not just other car brands currently weighing partnerships on the _Blade Runner 2099_ TV series Alcon has in the works, but also potentially losing access to top Hollywood talent for their films. > > The “Hollywood talent pool market generally is less likely to deal with Alcon, or parts of the market may be, if they believe or are confused as to whether, Alcon has an affiliation with Tesla or Musk,” the complaint said. > > Musk, the lawsuit said, is “problematic,” and “any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech, into account.” Musk is “defending” himself by saying none of this happened, and if it did happen it doesn’t prove anything, and either way the movie sucks so who cares. What a pathetic, pathetic little man he is. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/711 "2024-10-24T19:14:52Z")
Musk hates one of my favorite movies? I feel like a better person today. j ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/712 "2024-10-24T19:44:48Z")
Elmo has cancelled his illegal giveaway. > **[Elon Musk super PAC skips daily $1M giveaway to registered voters after DOJ...](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-voter-giveaway/)** > > A super PAC founded by billionaire Elon Musk, a Donald Trump supporter, declined to move forward with its daily $1 million giveaway to a registered voter Wednesday after receiving a warning from the Department of Justice.Musk had promised that... ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/713 "2024-10-24T19:54:08Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Musk hates one of my favorite movies? I feel like a better person today. Contrasting > In response to the lawsuit, Musk took to X to [post](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1848767146685567268) … , “That movie sucks” on a post calling out Alcon’s lawsuit as “absurd.” to what he said earlier > “You know, I love _Blade Runner_, but I don’t know if we want that future,” Musk said at the event. combined with his desire to copy the imagery for his advertising event, leaves me in doubt that that his claim that it sucks have anything to do with its artistic merits. > [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo has cancelled his illegal giveaway. Doesn’t this leave him open to a class action law suit by those people who signed his petition under the impression that they would have a chance at a million dollars? Finally even if he reneged on the payment, isn’t just making the offer enough to violate the law? If I tell 100 people I’ll pay them $50 to vote for Harris, I’m pretty sure that’s a violation even if pull a Trump and refuse to pay them after they voted. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/714 "2024-10-24T19:55:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Doesn’t this leave him open to a class action law suit by those people who signed his petition under the impression that they would have a chance at a million dollars? I certainly hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/715 "2024-10-24T19:57:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Treppenwitz](#): > > > > Musk hates one of my favorite movies? I feel like a better person today. > > Contrasting > > > In response to the lawsuit, Musk took to X to [post](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1848767146685567268) … , “That movie sucks” on a post calling out Alcon’s lawsuit as “absurd.” > > to what he said earlier > > > “You know, I love _Blade Runner_, but I don’t know if we want that future,” Musk said at the event. Aw. Now I feel like a worse person again. j ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/716 "2024-10-24T19:59:16Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Aw. Now I feel like a worse person again. Sorry, but I just couldn’t live with my self if I allowed you to have self-esteem under false pretenses. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/717 "2024-10-24T19:59:45Z")
But hey, at least you aren’t Elon Musk! ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/718 "2024-10-24T20:00:52Z")
Gee thanks. j 😉 ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/719 "2024-10-24T21:00:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo has cancelled his illegal giveaway. I’m curious, but not curious enough to go to the Xitter site: if Musk had notices of his Million-Dollar Giveaway all over the site before today … are they all still there? You know, so that the rewards of inducing people to register and then to give all their personal info to Musk can keep flowing in? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/720 "2024-10-24T21:06:17Z")
> **[All The Ways Elon Musk Is Supporting Trump’s Campaign](https://theonion.com/all-the-ways-elon-musk-is-supporting-trumps-campaign/)** > > Elon Musk, one of the Trump campaign’ most powerful donors, recently announced he will give away $1 million daily to swing state voters who sign his PAC’s petition. Here are all of the other ways the billionaire is working to get Trump elected.... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=37)