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.
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.
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”?
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?
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.
A lot of sites used to post a lot of embedded or screengrabbed tweets. Does he make money from those?
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.
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
I think we need to start thinking of this man as a cult leader.
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
The Roman military unit isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when Musk refers to “legion-level”.
Crumbs, they’re not even good at bring sneaky.
Geez people, 20 miles per day in Earth miles is 72.35 miles in Martian miles.
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”?
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.
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.
Exactly. Per the article:
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.
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.
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.