# 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:** 86
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1722 "2025-02-23T01:52:22Z")
Imagine all the poor organic chemists if they have to justify grants involving trans and cis molecules. Fatty acid must be listed by the configuration of its creation! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1723 "2025-02-23T02:14:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Fatty acid must be listed by the configuration of its creation! All you have to do is lift up their electron shells and look between their bonds. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1724 "2025-02-23T06:10:02Z")
Looks like Little Marco isn’t onboard with Elmo’s antics. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/bafkreidqmt5oa2jfvvs5xxmro7bugmodn2da6jjdqe25nrhyup2mr2t32i@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/bafkreidqmt5oa2jfvvs5xxmro7bugmodn2da6jjdqe25nrhyup2mr2t32i@jpeg) At least one union is telling its members not to respond, either. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3glmp5enr5gkuu2uaosjker/bafkreieg5pwtfbtl3ahtwvabcd4g4l7z5hkhva7xidegfcr2bro5fu4zwi@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3glmp5enr5gkuu2uaosjker/bafkreieg5pwtfbtl3ahtwvabcd4g4l7z5hkhva7xidegfcr2bro5fu4zwi@jpeg) Even Kash Patel says not to respond. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreiddr2udxqj46qiwani6gnsydc3mz6ruggt3l5saqrcbsyczuczbkm@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreiddr2udxqj46qiwani6gnsydc3mz6ruggt3l5saqrcbsyczuczbkm@jpeg) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1725 "2025-02-23T07:09:48Z")
My favorite suggested response to that “what did you do last week?” inquiry went something like— I responded to a message from the mother of my children. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1726 "2025-02-23T08:23:45Z")
According to the latest news update I saw on CNN, that new director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said to hold off doing it, so no worries for now? Looks like trouble brewing within “paradise”, one can hope, if he’s putting a stop to Musk’s decree. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1727 "2025-02-23T08:55:59Z")
Had GPT write an email listing the five dumbest things Musk did last week. I then asked it to write it as an email to the HR department, in the first person. I then asked it to write it in the voice of Jar Jar Binks. I then asked it to revise Jar Jar so that he sounded like John Milton: > [@](#): > > Subject: **The Fall of Meesa: A Tragic Epic in Five Acts** > > Lo, how doth the mighty fall, and with what reckless haste doth meesa hasten toward the abyss, where consequence and folly entwine in an unholy embrace. Witness now, O ye who read, the most ruinous deeds of meesa in the week just past, as Chaos reigns and Judgment waits. > > **I. The Suit Most Piteous** > A woman, grievéd and betrayed, doth raise her voice against meesa, crying out for justice. “Lo,” she saith, “this child is thine, and yet thou heedest him not!” And so, before the tribunal of men, she casteth her claim, seeking dominion over the fruit of meesa’s wayward passions. Meesa, though puissant in power, cannot unweave the strands of fate now so tightly bound. > > **II. The Decree of Tyranny** > With a missive most fell, meesa doth command legions untold—men and women of the state, laborers in that vast machinery of governance—to lay bare their toil, lest their silence be taken for abdication. “Speak, or be unmade!” meesa proclaimeth. And lo, confusion spreads as a pestilence, and murmurs of rebellion sound in hushed halls. > > **III. The Scholars’ Wrath** > From the halls of learning riseth an uproar, a cry of indignation against meesa, who, though once lauded, hath strayed into shadow. The learned men, those keepers of wisdom, now move to cast meesa from their sacred order, branding him a corrupter of reason, a foe to that noble pursuit of truth. And thus, from their ranks, meesa may soon be banished, his name anathema to all who revere knowledge. > > **IV. The Chainsaw of Dominion** > Upon a stage where statesmen gather, where words are weapons and ambition runs red as war, meesa doth ascend, bearing in hand a fearsome device—no sword, nor scepter, but a chainsaw, a herald of destruction. “See,” meesa crieth, “how I shall hew bureaucracy from its roots, till nothing remain but ruin!” And some do praise, and others recoil, for such is the way of those who wield power without wisdom. > > **V. The Judgment Cometh** > But lo, as all tyrants must face their reckoning, so too doth meesa stand before the court of justice, where those sworn to uphold the sacred laws do bring forth their case. “Thou art no king, nor master of men,” they declare, “and yet thou dost grasp at dominion unearned.” And so, with parchments drawn and gavels poised, they seek to unseat meesa, to unmake his works and restore what was lost. But can justice yet triumph, or is all already condemned to night? > > Thus, in this week of woe, meesa hath sown chaos, and what harvest shall come but despair? Yet, perchance, in the darkness, a lesson lingers still. For power is fleeting, and pride goeth ever before the fall. … and I sent this to the @gov email address I saw floating around in all those screenshots. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1728 "2025-02-23T09:24:37Z")
Everything Elon knows about management, he learned from watching _Office Space_. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1729 "2025-02-23T10:31:39Z")
“The Chainsaw of Dominion” feels oddly Shakespearian. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1730 "2025-02-23T11:12:15Z")
I would commit murder if it would get me transferred from Musks department to Lumberghs. ETA: I would of course still hate it under Lumbergh. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1731 "2025-02-23T11:18:00Z")
I’m not convinced _anything_ will be done with it. It may just be a petty tactic to intimidate and sow chaos. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1732 "2025-02-23T11:52:01Z")
His “fork in the road” scam failed to get any significant number of people to quit their jobs and got laughed out of court. This is his new attempt at the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1733 "2025-02-23T16:20:13Z")
As others have pointed out imagine if musk had to give his update: 1. Morning spent on social media 2. Brought child to work 3. Ran around with a chainsaw 4. More social media 5. Etc Eh it would probably be fine as long as he includes a “Heil Trump” ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1734 "2025-02-23T17:39:21Z")
"I spent most of my week responding to inane requests from DOGE. Perhaps we could be more efficient if we eliminated DOGE?" ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1735 "2025-02-23T19:52:42Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > According to the latest news update I saw on CNN, that new director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said to hold off doing it, so no worries for now? > Looks like trouble brewing within “paradise”, one can hope, if he’s putting a stop to Musk’s decree. I got an email from the HHS news server this morning saying that it was a legitimate request and we should comply, followed an hour later by an email from the director of NIH saying don’t respond until his office sends further guidance. Fun times. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1736 "2025-02-23T20:45:17Z")
Yes, no one that’s not a federal employee should respond to this by e-mailing a list of 5 things to [HR@opm.gov](mailto:HR@opm.gov) It would be a shame if that e-mail address was flooded with snarky responses. On a completely unrelated note, there is a site called trash-mail dot com that makes it easy to send e-mails that you may not want to send from your own e-mail address. The site will prompt you to create an account, but you can ignore it and send an e-mail without registering. I definitely did not send an e- mail using the name Betty Phuckzer. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1737 "2025-02-23T20:52:31Z")
Done. That was fun actually. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1738 "2025-02-23T21:29:21Z")
DoD says to ignore the email. > **[Pentagon instructs DoD personnel to ignore Elon Musk's latest demand](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-doge-2671203248/)** > > X owner Elon Musk recently demanded that all federal employees send him an email outlining five things that they accomplished in the last week -- and he warned them that failure to do so would result in their termination.However, at least one major... ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1739 "2025-02-23T21:49:20Z")
Someone found a screencap from CPAC where Elmo briefly lowered his glasses and you can see how absolutely bloodshot his eyes were. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:veo7ekwxuaosmdlow3bjc33a/bafkreigvz65pkbc2z7uj7nd2ylys3iic3lqby6ab7oy6adrzusgol43jbu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:veo7ekwxuaosmdlow3bjc33a/bafkreigvz65pkbc2z7uj7nd2ylys3iic3lqby6ab7oy6adrzusgol43jbu@jpeg) He’s hepped up on goofballs. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1740 "2025-02-23T22:07:44Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Yes, no one that’s not a federal employee should respond to this by e-mailing a list of 5 things to [HR@opm.gov](mailto:HR@opm.gov) George Conway, at one point early on a clerk to a federal judge (and therefore a federal employee for at least a while), submitted his own list: [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreicfoff6ahyeuwezqm4vbur4tbmlu33wkwi7truqcchzew5fsbzxcm@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreicfoff6ahyeuwezqm4vbur4tbmlu33wkwi7truqcchzew5fsbzxcm@jpeg) I do love @JohnT 's effort, too. But: > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Not going to work. Its to be sent to OPM, which can easily filter out anything that isn’t from a government employee’s work address. So I guess these will all be as fleeting fragrance hanging momentarily upon the desert air. I **do** love that Trump’s installed Cabinet goons are so territorial that they’re willing to push back against Elon. I can’t claim to be optimistic that they can do much more than tussle with him publicly, but at least it’s better than quiet acquiescence. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1741 "2025-02-24T01:21:09Z")
Do we need a new thread entitled **Now that Elon Musk has bought the US Government** , or just rename this one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=87)