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#3143036 5-Oct-2023 11:15

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But you can't take a sheep into a New Zealand bank to pay a mortgage (unless the bank and you agree on the fiat price of the sheep)

I'd probably take a fiat over a sheep most days, but age and condition are deciding factors.

old rusty fiat 126 | fiat 126 | JJ justin | Flickr Award-winning lamb under investigation for performance-enhancing drugs | Fox News

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3150241 19-Oct-2023 18:27

Elon, is this a promise, a marketing stunt or are you just thinking out loud again? Seriously, you're running away from us? 😆👍

„X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.“ - They are not allowed to do that anyway, because only Mr. X does that. 🤠

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#3152221 25-Oct-2023 20:16

Washington Post: No Wonder Elon Musk Is Now Attacking Wikipedia

Not content with trashing one treasured website this year, Elon Musk has turned his sights on another: Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia founded in 2001, which has become to represent the very best of what the internet has to offer.

The world’s richest person and owner of X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, seems to have been rattled by a report published by Newsguard, a company that rates the trustworthiness of information sources. Late last week it offered some troubling statistics around misinformation on X pertaining to the Israel-Hamas conflict almost a year after Musk bought the website for $44 billion. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is an advisor to Newsguard.

“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money?” Musk wrote Sunday on X, referencing the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its appeals for user donations. “It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know…”

Musk then suggested he would give Wikipedia $1 billion if it changed its name to Dickopedia.

The Trumpian broadside was just the latest from Musk against sources of information that disseminate credible information. Yes, Wikipedia’s articles can be updated by anyone, but they are tightly edited by a team of thousands of mostly volunteer editors, and its guiding principle has always been that every stated fact requires a citation from a trusted, verifiable news source with recognized standards. Millions of college graduates can vouch for the system.

Of course, in Musk’s world, no media source can be considered trustworthy, particularly those that criticize him. Indeed, he claims his own Wikipedia entry is false, despite being heavily moderated and containing verified facts. One of his followers on X suggested someone had been paid to write a negative Musk entry on “Wokipedia.” Musk agreed, naturally.
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#3155946 4-Nov-2023 19:46

Elon Musk's platform for free speech seems to be shadowbanning people. American actor John Cusack can't be found when using the twitter search.
https://twitter.com/search?q=john%20cusack&src=typed_query&f=top

I'm not sure if it was this that upset him.
https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1586062435055800320

#include <standard.disclaimer>

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#3155957 4-Nov-2023 20:26

alexx:

Elon Musk's platform for free speech seems to be shadowbanning people. American actor John Cusack can't be found when using the twitter search.
https://twitter.com/search?q=john%20cusack&src=typed_query&f=top

I'm not sure if it was this that upset him.
https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1586062435055800320

Is there a Musk version of this....?

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#3156304 5-Nov-2023 19:32

Twitter => X => eggs 🤠

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#3158097 10-Nov-2023 16:42

A year after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Musk thinks the company is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop

Forbes: Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000

X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, appears to have begun ramping up efforts to sell disused user handles, kicking off a program previously signaled by billionaire owner Elon Musk.

Emails obtained by Forbes reveal that a team within the company, known as the @Handle Team, has begun work on a handle marketplace for the purchase of account names left unused by the people who originally registered them. In at least some cases, X/Twitter has emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase.
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#3160421 17-Nov-2023 09:24

Futurism: Tesla's expensive "cyberbeer" is apparently completely disgusting

Last month, Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla announced it was selling a "CyberBeer" and accompanying "CyberStein" for an eye-watering NZD 250 — all in the service, of course, of the long-delayed launch of its divisive Cybertruck.
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But if the latest reviews are anything to go by, it's an absolutely foul concoction.

"Tesla Cyberbeer is hot garbage," Tesla owner Brian Stone tweeted. "Not only is the lid RUSTED but the beer is also nasty."

The seven percent alcohol bottle of what's allegedly a liberally hopped Helles lager brewed by Buzzrock Brewing in California features an unusual polygonal design that "celebrates the angular exoskeleton of Cybertruck," per the company's website.

Two matte ceramic beer steins, "fired to mirror the form of Cybertruck," come in the box as well, making for an awkward drinking experience.

The company has already sold a number of bizarre products, including its own brand of Tequila, a surfboard, and even a seemingly-counterfeited Cybertruck-inspired cat bed.

But the actual beer sounds like it was more of an afterthought.

"Why does the Tesla CyberBeer feel like something I’m gonna get alcohol poisoning from," Tesla guy Jeremy Judkins tweeted.

"Should you drink the rust from the Tesla CyberBeer top?" another confused customer asked.

"I think this is what they mean by being Musked," another user replied.
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#3160423 17-Nov-2023 09:31

Business Insider: Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

Tesla has released the sale terms for its long-awaited Cybertruck ahead of its November 30 release.

Owners of the EV pickup truck are banned from reselling their vehicles during the first year.

Elon Musk hopes to produce a quarter of a million annually by 2025.

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#3160432 17-Nov-2023 09:54

kingdragonfly: Futurism: Tesla's expensive "cyberbeer" is apparently completely disgusting

Last month, Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla announced it was selling a "CyberBeer" and accompanying "CyberStein" for an eye-watering NZD 250 — all in the service, of course, of the long-delayed launch of its divisive Cybertruck.
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But if the latest reviews are anything to go by, it's an absolutely foul concoction.

"Tesla Cyberbeer is hot garbage," Tesla owner Brian Stone tweeted. "Not only is the lid RUSTED but the beer is also nasty."

The seven percent alcohol bottle of what's allegedly a liberally hopped Helles lager brewed by Buzzrock Brewing in California features an unusual polygonal design that "celebrates the angular exoskeleton of Cybertruck," per the company's website.

Two matte ceramic beer steins, "fired to mirror the form of Cybertruck," come in the box as well, making for an awkward drinking experience.

The company has already sold a number of bizarre products, including its own brand of Tequila, a surfboard, and even a seemingly-counterfeited Cybertruck-inspired cat bed.

But the actual beer sounds like it was more of an afterthought.

"Why does the Tesla CyberBeer feel like something I’m gonna get alcohol poisoning from," Tesla guy Jeremy Judkins tweeted.

"Should you drink the rust from the Tesla CyberBeer top?" another confused customer asked.

"I think this is what they mean by being Musked," another user replied.
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You don't buy a beer that costs that much to actually drink it.

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#3160482 17-Nov-2023 11:24

I guess the same will be said for the Cybertruck.

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#3161087 19-Nov-2023 10:47

The latest SpaceX test fight has ended in what the flight director calls 'a rapid, unscheduled, dis-assembly' ie it blew up.

And a SpaceX watcher commented that the flight was reasonably successful as it didn't destroy the launch pad this time.

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#3161094 19-Nov-2023 11:06

Thermonuclear lawsuit coming on Monday

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/18/elon-musk-to-file-thermonuclear-lawsuit-as-advertisers-desert-x

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#3161095 19-Nov-2023 11:07

Musk seems to build social media sites the way he builds rockets. Will it get there in the end?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3161111 19-Nov-2023 12:37

X / Twitter is a private company. You can't force anyone to advertise on it.

In the US the bar for libel / slander /defamation is extremely high. If all parties were in the UK, where this is easier to prove, Musk would still lose the case.

I'm really getting sick of the top 0.01%.

In the US, in the 1950's and 1960's an income of US $200,000 ($1.9 million today) put you in the 91% tax bracket. (Married couples filing jointly hit the 91% mark at US $400,000.)

In 1958, for instance, the chief executive of U.S. Steel, Roger Blough, made around $300,000 (US $2.58 million). Now the S&P 500 CEO make 6.5 times that average of $16.7 million, while marginal rate dropped from 91% in the 1950's to 37% in 2022

The Republicans love all things from the "good old days", the 1950's. Why not bring back that tax rate?

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