Elon Musk

Walking around handing out $100s to every person I encounter would be fun.

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019

Walking around handing out $100s to every person I encounter would be fun.

John D. Rockefeller used to do this! Except he passed out shiny dimes.

new bil, who dis

the guy who just retired? his days are numbered

🧐

Much will come to light as Fauci loses power.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

Do we have to post all his lousy tweets in here, we know where to go get them

well it is his thread

I can’t really dispute that

So few understand this

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022

An open invitation for con artists to pimp their cryptocurrencies in his replies. The man has a scam kink.

This will surprise many

the last tweet @taylorlorenz sent before elon musk kicked her off twitter: asking for comment for a story pic.twitter.com/DYAjlHcaqU

— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) December 18, 2022

lol

Elon Musk posted a picture of his live location at the World Cup. Elon Musk’s account should be suspended for doxxing the Twitter CEO.

— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) December 18, 2022

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— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022

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— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022

It’s amazing how fundamentally he misunderstands what social media is and why people use it. It’s like someone buying a soccer team for 250% of its actual value and then getting all livid that the players can’t use their hands

seems like he basing it off his experience which is obviously completely atypical

I mean this site was plenty exhausting during the Trump years but it’s so much worse when the dude actually owns the site and just makes up dumb rules on the fly

idk trump was genuinely bad for the world, this is just kinda funny imho

one of those first as tragedy then as farce type situations

Kind of like how many of the Paulie Walnuts storylines on Sopranos were intended to be pathetic mirror images of Tony's.

Bet he didn't enjoy it. Looks bloomin miserable. https://t.co/WG3T9dmP90

— Jeremy Morris (@russophiliac) December 18, 2022

For my sins I’ve been on the internet a long time, but I can not remember seeing a forum—of any size—where the mod’s mother was posting about how his bad decisions are actually good. https://t.co/yLgy2X6vT6

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 18, 2022

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brb, getting my mom to start posting to ilx & arguing that all my posts are otm

sums it up

IT IS IMPORTANT TO SPEND YOUR DAY DEFENDING THE ULTRA WEALTHY ONLINE

THEY COULD SEE YOUR POST AND DECIDE YOU GET TO BE THE GUY WHO TURNS A CRANK THAT GRINDS HUMAN BEINGS IN A FINE PASTE

AND WHEN YOUR DAY IN THE GRINDER COMES, THINK OF WHAT PROUD GOO YOU WILL BE

— NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) May 15, 2020

xp

Yeah, I do call AsiaKitty 'the problem child'...what with all the A's she gets and academic and sports awards she wins, so maybe you are right. She got an F once on some quiz where she did all the math backwards by mistake. I posted it up proudly on the fridge. "Right on, Asia! Glad to see you have finally started to RELAX a little :)"
Boy, did THAT piss her off!

I laughed more.

12 year olds are so easy to tease. Actually, I think she was 10 then.

You should see when I get dressed slowly.

"Mom, you are gonna make me LATE!"

"Yeah, but Asia, you don't want to ALWAYS be on time. They might get used to it."

But as soon as she starts posting under a name like "schlongdong" I'll selling those damn Foo Fighter's tickets on Craigslist.org !!!!

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:35 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wonder if the World Cup was his "pls don't dismember me I'll get you your $13bn investment back" meeting.

Haha! Based on his expression, it probably was.

some great posts on the HN thread where they're pouring one out for the the world's stupidest lisp programming and finally realizing musk might not be all there

e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044183
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044989
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044371

*programmer

Not that I care about his happiness but dude truly seems like a guy who doesn’t enjoy much of anything.

I'm just about as sick of reading about Musk as I am about Trump, and many sites I've read have replaced Trump with Musk as new bete noir.

if Musk is depriving Trump of media attention, then I can live with that trade off. Musk is much less dangerous to my mental health.

I missed this chat earlier but anybody who thinks that bill gates is a force for *improving* public health in the global south is naive to the point that I hope they have someone who checks in on them to make sure they're okay regularly

Not that I care about his happiness but dude truly seems like a guy who doesn’t enjoy much of anything.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

None of these guys seem to actually enjoy anything.

aside from occult human sacrifice parties you mean

rich Silicon Valley nerds are big on non-sacrificial orgies too IIRC

Poor guy flew all the way to Qatar to ask for more money and they said no.

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

This might be the most successful cyberbullying campaign of all time

No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

So what the fuck happened in Qatar?

He bet all the remaining money he has on a French victory.

forum mod meltdown Path 3, Stage 9: "it has become clear that no one appreciates the sacrifices i've made to keep this board running" https://t.co/DLOuckspH1

— Actually, (@eaton) December 19, 2022

forum mod meltdown Path 3, Stage 9: "it has become clear that no one appreciates the sacrifices i've made to keep this board running"

send Musk complete Buffy DVDs (NOT remastered!!!) or he will ban more journalists

You must like pain a lot. One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

Wonder what happened in May?

mad @ saudis?

Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

has he been cracking open fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant the last five hours