It will be interesting to watch Musk's 900 children battle each other to become God-King
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:08 (seven months ago) link
I'm imagining Grimes commanding an army like Alexander the Great's mother
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
i find elon's approach to fatherhood to be disgusting.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:10 (seven months ago) link
His office mini-fridge must be a real horror show.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:25 (seven months ago) link
but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:26 (seven months ago) link
He also keeps the horse embryos in there so he can thaw them out and exchange them for handjobs
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link
what an absolute fckn spanker
(à propos of nothing, it just rose unbidden to my fingertips)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link
Add in his followers as "tarnished" and we got a plot for Elden Ring 2
― octobeard, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:23 (seven months ago) link
ay, at one point in this spiral grimes has a comment like "i don't expect normal people to understand" and you know what?
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:28 (seven months ago) link
Elon Ring 2
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:36 (seven months ago) link
His office mini-fridge must be a real horror show.but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:23 (seven months ago) link
Elmo is certainly starting to gain the lumpen potatoey countenance of Mohg.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 22 September 2023 04:49 (seven months ago) link
this dude is so hopelessly pathetic
That was fast pic.twitter.com/ztYxN53P6Z— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 23, 2023
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:29 (seven months ago) link
what a dork
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:50 (seven months ago) link
What a fucking dork. Both of them.https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-infinite-rebuy
There’s a scene in Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk that unintentionally captures the essence of the book:-----"Levchin was at a friend’s bachelor pad hanging out with Musk. Some people were playing a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. “There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds,” Levchin says. “Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said “Right, fine, I’m done.” It would be a theme in his life: avoid taking chips off the table; keep risking them.-----That would turn out to be a good strategy. (page 86)There are a couple ways you can read this scene. One is that Musk is an aggressive risk-taker who defies convention, blazes his own path, and routinely proves his doubters wrong.The other is that Elon Musk sucks at poker. But he has access to so much capital that he can keep rebuying until he scores a win.Isaacson, our narrator, doesn’t grasp the difference. He doesn’t understand poker well enough to recognize Musk as the grandstanding sucker at the table. So he portrays Musk’s complete lack of impulse control as a brilliant, identity-defining strategic ploy. (If you go all-in and lose six times, then go all-in a seventh time and win, then you’re still down five buy-ins.)
-----"Levchin was at a friend’s bachelor pad hanging out with Musk. Some people were playing a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. “There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds,” Levchin says. “Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said “Right, fine, I’m done.” It would be a theme in his life: avoid taking chips off the table; keep risking them.-----
That would turn out to be a good strategy. (page 86)
There are a couple ways you can read this scene. One is that Musk is an aggressive risk-taker who defies convention, blazes his own path, and routinely proves his doubters wrong.
The other is that Elon Musk sucks at poker. But he has access to so much capital that he can keep rebuying until he scores a win.
Isaacson, our narrator, doesn’t grasp the difference. He doesn’t understand poker well enough to recognize Musk as the grandstanding sucker at the table. So he portrays Musk’s complete lack of impulse control as a brilliant, identity-defining strategic ploy. (If you go all-in and lose six times, then go all-in a seventh time and win, then you’re still down five buy-ins.)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 September 2023 20:54 (seven months ago) link
if he really is just shoving every single hand you can't even say he "sucks at poker". he's not even playing the game. just mindlessly gambling at a huge disadvantage. and if he left right after doubling up which is the point where you can actually make people nervous that's even dumber.
― frogbs, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:15 (seven months ago) link
needs a 'game theory' tweet rn
― 龜, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:16 (seven months ago) link
elon played hold 'em as a child but found it too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 2 personal cards, no random map or spawn position, only 10 players, etc.
omaha hi-lo addresses these limitations
― Clay, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:32 (seven months ago) link
that story makes no sense you cant just double down in poker the most you can win in a hand is the amount your opponents have and you need their cooperation for that they can just fold
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
also memorizing cards has no value in hold em the only cards you see are the ones youll be able to see the whole hand
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:42 (seven months ago) link
i mean you could go all in every hand but you will probably lose
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:45 (seven months ago) link
well I've heard of home games where you can buy in up to the biggest stack but something tells me the author here doesn't know anything about poker or gambling either and is using the term "double down" incorrectly. I kinda have doubts he's just shoving every hand but I can totally see him getting all-in with the worst of it over and over again
― frogbs, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:30 (seven months ago) link
Lose five hands, win one, declare victory.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 September 2023 22:31 (seven months ago) link
you miss 100% of the hands you don't go all-in on
― symsymsym, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:43 (seven months ago) link
i could see him shoving every time to show that he doesnt care about being good at poker which he obviously does
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 September 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
Isaacson cites this 'Levchin' as his sole informant for this story, which he appears to deliver mostly unaltered. Apparently neither of them knows anything about poker.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 September 2023 23:05 (seven months ago) link
that story makes no sense you cant just double down in poker
ppl misuse the term "double down" but there is a betting strategy across all games that says if you lose, double your wager on the next hand, I guess if you have unlimited funds this is a totally workable strategy?? I think that is what people mean by it
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 02:50 (seven months ago) link
you're talking about the Martingale strategy. that wouldn't really work in poker though. if you lose 5 buyins chances are it's not gonna be to the same player 5 times. so you couldn't really make it all back in one hand. also typically in poker there's a limit to how much you can buy in for in a cash game. though I'm guessing they suspend that rule for Elon Musk
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 02:59 (seven months ago) link
even if you could buy in for whatever you want the double bet doesnt necessarily exist, its not like roulette where the house will just take whatever action
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 03:11 (seven months ago) link
"Great meeting with the President of Hungary about the population collapse crisis!"
this man is a nazi.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:50 (seven months ago) link
"I don't actually have any cash on me, but I can put up several vials of my sperm as collateral."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:51 (seven months ago) link
having started replaying the video game Cyberpunk 2077, I have been reminded that at the beginning of the game you're asked whether you'd like to live a quiet life or go out in a blaze of glory
apparently Elon crashed his then-girlfriend's voice recording session for the game...
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:42 (seven months ago) link
Apparently they patched any mention of him out of the game since?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:05 (seven months ago) link
he was never in the game https://www.pcgamer.com/no-that-wasnt-elon-musk-in-cyberpunk-2077-says-senior-quest-designer/
That wasn't Elon musk, it looks nothing like himWho came up with this nonsense? https://t.co/usPO94IFhD— Patrick K. Mills (@PKernaghan) September 22, 2023
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:09 (seven months ago) link
yeah, he was never in it despite his epic attempts to get included
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:17 (seven months ago) link
I muted this pretty quickly. I may have ended up spreading misinformation, but a couple of videos and articles said that the guy on the left was a Musk cameo a couple of weeks before 2.0 released and they did end up changing it so regardless of intent it is funny.— Virus_Kid (@_Virus_Kid_) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:25 (seven months ago) link
so regardless of intent it is funny
is it tho
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:31 (seven months ago) link
everything is funny now :|
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:38 (seven months ago) link
laughing crying emoji
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:39 (seven months ago) link
Weird silence from him on his new preferred party trying to cripple his main business. Weird silence from Republicans on the fact that their hero owns an EV company. Weird. https://t.co/SVVnNLCMSc— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 28, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:40 (seven months ago) link
Isn’t SpaceX his biggest biz
― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 September 2023 02:47 (seven months ago) link
regardless of intent it is funny
new board description obv
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 September 2023 02:53 (seven months ago) link
Seems like Elon Musk's brain worms really kicked into high gear overnight. pic.twitter.com/CP9zFArbnp— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 2, 2023
― groovypanda, Monday, 2 October 2023 05:44 (seven months ago) link
In 2018, I filed the first defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones, ultimately discrediting him in court. Today, I am proud to announce I have filed suit against yet another notorious disseminator of false information: The owner of this platform, Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/YpvTz2JxBp— Mark Bankston (@BankstonAtLaw) October 2, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:24 (seven months ago) link
rip Bankston's twitter account
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 15:30 (seven months ago) link
get elons ass
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:42 (seven months ago) link
A friend saw him stuck in gridlock traffic the other day and thought about defacing his douchemobile truck but realized there's probably security detail running in parallel.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:11 (seven months ago) link
is it a cybertruck?
― blurry picture of mostly amorphous feelings (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:27 (seven months ago) link
I was driving my son and two other 8 yos around this weekend and they were talking about Teslas non-stop.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:32 (seven months ago) link
That lawyer's thread is worth reading, if one is able or so inclined.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:42 (seven months ago) link