Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Admiral Yi]

The levels of trolling he does to manipulate share prices is insane. I kinda' wish the bluff offer gets accepted so he burns 40 billion.

I suppose if you consider one time when he made a dubious comment and didn't dump any shares as an insane level.

[Barrister]

Research animal died during research?  Stop the presses!

Neuralink does need to start using lawyers instead of monkeys as test subjects, though, to avoid unnecessary bad press.

Not sure if lawyer brains are similar enough to human ones, though.

[Barrister]

So apparently Musk has made an official bid to buy Twitter for more than 40 billion dollars.

FFS Elon.

[garbon]

So apparently Musk has made an official bid to buy Twitter for more than 40 billion dollars.

FFS Elon.

I think I'll leave Twitter if his hostile takeover succeeds.

[Barrister]

It's just that just one week ago he was going to join the board of directors, and was going to promise to NOT try to buy the company.  So this is clearly yet another hairbrained Elon Musk plan put together inside of one week.  When his companies already have eleventy-billion other things on the go right now (I want my Cybertruck!).

[alfred russel]

Why is this surprising? Mega billionaires want their own private media. Microsoft has MSN, Jeff Bezos has the washington post, and twitter may end up being musk's.

[Jacob]

Why is this surprising? Mega billionaires want their own private media. Microsoft has MSN, Jeff Bezos has the washington post, and twitter may end up being musk's.

Is anyone saying it's surprising?

[Barrister]

I'm seeing suggestions that Musk may just be fucking with people (which is also something he's known to do).  Filing with the SEC means he can't get into trouble with the SEC, but the purchase stock price of 54.20 sounds familiar...

He's not obliged to follow through with anything so far.  It's just an intention.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I don't think the current offer on the table is serious, but I'm not convinced he isn't (I hope he isn't...).

[alfred russel]

Why is this surprising? Mega billionaires want their own private media. Microsoft has MSN, Jeff Bezos has the washington post, and twitter may end up being musk's.

Is anyone saying it's surprising?

Yeah. Lots of people. Here in a headline:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-elon-musks-shocking-twitter-bid-could-just-be-mega-trolling

[HVC]

It's just that just one week ago he was going to join the board of directors, and was going to promise to NOT try to buy the company.  So this is clearly yet another hairbrained Elon Musk plan put together inside of one week.  When his companies already have eleventy-billion other things on the go right now (I want my Cybertruck!).

Get a f150 lightning. Even with the production backlog you're way more likely to get one

[Jacob]

Yeah. Lots of people. Here in a headline:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-elon-musks-shocking-twitter-bid-could-just-be-mega-trolling

Ah, I thought you were talking about folks on languish.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Get a f150 lightning. Even with the production backlog you're way more likely to get one

I want the F-100 Eluminator they teased last year.

[Josquius]

I'm seeing suggestions that Musk may just be fucking with people (which is also something he's known to do).  Filing with the SEC means he can't get into trouble with the SEC, but the purchase stock price of 54.20 sounds familiar...

He's not obliged to follow through with anything so far.  It's just an intention.

54.20 is familiar how?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

54.20 is familiar how?

It's a 420 (marijuana) joke.  Something Musk is very public about indulging in.