Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

[Satinavian]

Twitter is now a subdivision of a wider holding group: this holding group will be running a lot of these other operations as separate companies. Presumably these companies will have access to Twitter code (as Twitter code will presumably be the base to work from), but largely be independent. Plus, of course, presumably Musk can bolster Twitter's bottom line by having these other companies pay Twitter for code access, paid out of their independent budgets and so essentially paid for by investors.

Which other companies ? They simply don't actually exist yet. Twitter is the only one in the X umbrella that is more than an idea of what could possibly be.

There are only vague promises, no buisness plan or any actual investment. Musk has not made any mentions of putting more of his own money on the table and everyone else is just watching.

It is all just empty words. Until anyone actually commits a couple of billions to those plans, the other X-companies get proper names, adresses and buissness plans and hire people, i don't believe it. It is pretty much the same as Musks promises of homes on Mars. Theoretically possible but won't happen.

Also, if twitter goes down, insolvence proceedings will come for the code and data, it it was used elsewhere.

 

[Cheetodust]

This is reminding me of that crypto group that wanted to make their NFTs into a comic book and claimed that if they could take "just 1%" of total comic book sales that would be hundreds of millions of dollars. People gave them money because people are fucking morons.

 

[Thaluikhain]

This is reminding me of that crypto group that wanted to make their NFTs into a comic book and claimed that if they could take "just 1%" of total comic book sales that would be hundreds of millions of dollars. People gave them money because people are fucking morons.

1% of total, like of all comic book sales worldwide?

 

[Chimpzy]

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

I bet it was actually from carrying that sink into Twitter HQ

Anyway, the robotic wet blanket is weighing in

 

[Thaluikhain]

I bet it was actually from carrying that sink into Twitter HQ

Anyway, the robotic wet blanket is weighing in

Ouch! Like, not a great burn, but not a bad one either. Though, not going for a hard target there.

 

[Ag3ma]

Which other companies ? They simply don't actually exist yet. Twitter is the only one in the X umbrella that is more than an idea of what could possibly be.

There are only vague promises, no buisness plan or any actual investment. Musk has not made any mentions of putting more of his own money on the table and everyone else is just watching.

Well, yes. The whole thing is pie-in-the-sky at the moment. Musk has had a l-o-n-g time to work on his "everything app". He went off and developed Tesla instead.

At a cynical end, of course, this could be viewed as a way of solving Twitter's finance problems (created in large part by him). Twitter was a mature company and speculative investments were unlikely, but if Musk suggests rebuilding it it could be a way of persuading investors to pour money in just like they do with other major startups (Uber, Tesla, etc.)

 

[Cheetodust]

1% of total, like of all comic book sales worldwide?

Yup. There is literally no excuse for a full grown adult to believe that that is a thing that is possible.

 

[Thaluikhain]

(Upon further research, if you had a company of an entire 10,000 people, you might)

Oh, for the good old days when people were investing in bizarre railroad ideas. And at least they sometimes got double decker engines, or inline single track locomotives which kinda worked.

 

[meiam]

I bet it was actually from carrying that sink into Twitter HQ

Anyway, the robotic wet blanket is weighing in

The current prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was in a similar situation once, where some brash burly senator claimed he could totally win against him in a boxing match, the fight actually happened. Trudeau looks kinda skinny but he's actually athletic, the other guy was just a lound month that looked muscular but wasn't at all. Trudea won really quick iirc, it was pretty embarrassing.

 

[Thaluikhain]

The current prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was in a similar situation once, where some brash burly senator claimed he could totally win against him in a boxing match, the fight actually happened. Trudeau looks kinda skinny but he's actually athletic, the other guy was just a lound month that looked muscular but wasn't at all. Trudea won really quick iirc, it was pretty embarrassing.

My favourite example is Burlingame vs Brooks, where Burlingame provoked Brooks into calling for a duel, then accepted and decided upon rifles as the weapon, whereupon Brooks chickened out, because he was more into beating up unarmed people while his mates scared bystanders away with pistols.

Anson Burlingame - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ag3ma]

Trudeau looks kinda skinny

I don't think he's skinny at all: I think he's around average (or supposed to be average by a measure like BMI).

If he appears skinny, that's probably from the context that a large number of Westerners are either carrying quite a few more kilos of flab than they need, or by comparison to people doing serious weights to bulk up.

 

[Absent]

The current prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was in a similar situation once, where some brash burly senator claimed he could totally win against him in a boxing match, the fight actually happened. Trudeau looks kinda skinny but he's actually athletic, the other guy was just a lound month that looked muscular but wasn't at all. Trudea won really quick iirc, it was pretty embarrassing.

I love how we have institutions fully dedicated to make us believe we've sociallly evolved beyond gorillas.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I just wonder what's wrong with these nerd/business types that they have some macho fantasy that they could also take on Oleksandr Usyk in a fight. Isn't being CEO and largest shareholder of a $500+ billion company enough?

No one with that much money understands the concept of enough. They're also convinced that being good at business means that they are brilliant and great at everything else.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I love how we have institutions fully dedicated to make us believe we've sociallly evolved beyond gorillas.

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That's really unfair to Gorillas. Or any of the Great Apes except for Chimpanzees, who'd give humans a run for their money when it comes to being utter shitbags

 

[Chimpzy]

Elon Musk’s Twitter rewards far-right conspiracy theorist with ad revenue, even after posting child sexual abuse imagery on the platform

www.mediamatters.org

My favorite bit is the dude immediately whining he didn't get more (conveniently leaving out why he was trending in the first place, obvs)


I really want to know if Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino gave this a like too.

Special Counsel Obtained Search Warrant for Trump’s Twitter Account (Published 2023)

The warrant, obtained in January, is the first known example of prosecutors directly searching Donald J. Trump’s communications in the federal inquiry into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

www.nytimes.com

Weird, weren't they going to comply with government requests?

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That's really unfair to Gorillas. Or any of the Great Apes except for Chimpanzees, who'd give humans a run for their money when it comes to being utter shitbags

Thems fightin words right there

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Thems fightin words right there

I'm too old to fight wild animals bare handed these days so I'll just use my ute.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Chimpanzees have powerful muscles, they are good at leverage, and in a wrestling match would tear you apart. However, they are not built for endurance, or for running.

Interestingly, they are also not built for throwing things very well, humans can throw much harder.

So I recommend in a fight with a chimp, I might recommend you stay back and throw things at it, and run away if it charges you.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

So I recommend in a fight with a chimp, I might recommend you stay back and throw things at it, and run away if it charges you.

Still think hitting it with the ute at high speed is the best choice.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I misread that as uke, as in ukelele before. Ute makes much more sense.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I misread that as uke, as in ukelele before. Ute makes much more sense.

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The fuck would I hit a chimpanzee with a ukelele for? I've done some fucking stupid shit in my life but not even in the same postcode as that fucking stupid.