Capitalism works right only when <Elon Musk> does stuff. Name is replacable

He is literally a man-child at this point

Always has been.
- Always has been.
  🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀
divorced man-child 🤓
- No amount of money can make living with Elon worth it
Many of billyonairs are
- I only know one Billy O'Naire, he is kind of a twat.

He's just upset zuck didn't pay $42B for his app

- The hard part is scaling and building a user base, but threads simply bootstrapped both off Instagram so it probably wasn't hard for them to make.
- Everyone who tried Ruby on Rails: can confirm.
I bet they copied some code for mastodon and paid Gargron to not try to go after them. That would definitely give them a huge lift. Otherwise, I don't see how they were able to quickly come up with this. Tech companies take forever to build stuff usually
- Sorry, you lost this bet. It's not mastodon they copied, but Instagram: https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads

I’ve just remembered “I’m a free speech absolutist, but not when it comes to parodies of me” and “tweeting my publicly available flight logs is sending out assassination coordinates”. What a joke of an individual. Cry more Elmo.

The same as they first in line to get government money and whine when extra cent goes to public needs.
- Using government subsidies to lobby against welfare...

No idea why people keep buying cars from this guy. Fuck this moron.

I'm in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It's amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there's a ton of ~~competition~~ cheaters now
- A conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he's a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn't have a response when I told him Musk doesn't sound like a good businessman.
- My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there's far more and better competition nowadays. And it's really seeming Tesla's are actively dangerous.
- What is at the top of your list? I'm leaning towards the Ford Mach E with awd but have only looked deeply at half of what is available. Tesla is at the bottom of my list also
- He chose to get cocky right when competition caught up
- Idk, from what I heard he barely spends his time with Tesla these days due to being preoccupied with twitter 😂
I would not buy cars from a guy who can't even manage a website.
- He did manage it. Managed to turn it into a pile of shit bigger than the one on Jurassic Park
I have even forgotten he is in cars business, more news from him when he is manipulating crypto prices
What grinds my gears the most is that every fucking manufacturer sucks at software and usability so hard it hurts every time. I rather have bad UX than bow to this moron though.
If you're in California, be aware that there's a hidden/sneaky "EV tax" and you'll be paying (nearly) double registration fees every year. Mine went from $330 to alamost $700.
Also public charging is starting to be a problem as there's not nearly enough charging stations and CA does nothing about it.
- I mean I wouldn't call it sneaky, it's not like a conspiracy or anything. Most states pay for road maintenance and projects from gas taxes. Since EVs don't use gas but still use roads they should pay their share too, so it makes sense it'd come from the registration. It's still way less than paying for gas or taxes on gas.
- You're also not paying gas taxes though. They have to make up the lost gas tax revenue somehow. Realistically, it should be based on the miles driven and the weight of the car (road damages increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle), but for now they just have that flat EV tax.
Try charging a non Tesla while on a road trip, you’ll learn fast.
- I just went MA -> TN -> OH -> MA and only had one place where all stations were offline, but they came back within a half hour.

I wonder if this guy is interested in touring the Titanic wreck

If only...
I would hope that company stays in business, making the world a better place
- That ship sank too, unfortunately.
The company shut down :(
- One might say the company imploded
Maybe he would be interested in going to space on his starship rocket, launched from his newly designed launch pad (by himself, no less, who needs rules and pesky engineers?)

I keep telling you that we need to eat the rich.

What kind of silverware should we use
- Theirs.
- If we're bbq'ing and you're using silverware I think you're doing it wrong, all bbq is finger food and bread is your napkin. It's like the only time eating like you're 6 when you're 56 is socially acceptable.
It's so much work though.
You have to really scrub them to get all the lotion and bronzer off. Then given they're absolutely saturated in recreational and prescription drugs you have to brine them for around a week.
Then it's another day in the smoker low-and-slow for something that's honestly not very tasty. They're "ok" if you soak them in BBQ sauce, but it's one of those things people eat just to say they did -- not because they taste good.
The least appetizing meal… Musk is all fat and squishy. Lumpy and yech. But I'll do my part. Sign me up.

It's not cheating to hire the workers you unceremoniously fired to save money asshole. It's called capitalism.

Then again, every super wealthy capitalist doesn't actually want capitalism. They want feudalism, where nobody else is allowed to compete with them and if someone makes them angry they can banish them from society without trial.

Usually they don't allow competition, this one is a bit special because it involves two billionaires and it's basically a show-off. The regular case is: they buy any potential competitor in an early stage and let it die. The 5% of the start-up CEOs that don't just take the few hundred millions will face a nasty attack where they steal employees or do some negative marketing or whatever sabotage fits.

“Competition is fine” says the guy that was born into wealth and was given a huge leg up in life. Although, I really hope they duke it out in court with Meta just so they burn through piles of money needlessly.

I’m thinking their lawyers are already on retainer and being paid anyway? The money they waste will be taxpayers funding the court system.
- I thought being on retainer meant that they get paid to be ready to take on a case if needed and ensure they get at least partially paid for their services. I bet a major case like this would call for a whole team of lawyers all billing for hundreds of hrs of work. I don’t think a retainer would cover everything. I could be wrong though, I’m not a lawyer.

this one is so damn good :)

As if there's any secret to Twitter that any person couldn't figure out, we're talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.

Scaling it to Twitter’s size is the difficult part. Although Elon has been doing some excellent work in bringing decades worth of engineering work into decay within the short span of the past 9 months.
- Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.
  I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like "See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don't need?"

Welfare queen, that relies on government subsidies to run his business, accuses other billionaires of cheating in the market. Hilarious

It's not cheating to have a similar UI. Fuck off Musk.

It's not like twitters ui is even clever

What they do is pass laws to make their cheating legal and therefore not cheating, while making actual honest competition illegal, and therefore cheating. The game is easy when it's rigged.

What part of it is supposed to be cheating?

Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.
Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.
- This moron fired almost all team before that
- Also according the Meta communications director, "No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing,"
  https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1186367564/threads-meta-twitter-lawsuit
  Elon fired so many people he just thought some bound to have ended up in that team and was just shooting in the dark.
- Isn’t the FTC in the process of banning non-compete agreements? So the rules that Musk is claiming were broken are on their way out?

I'm sure Meta's lawyers are shaking in their boots lol

Finally, a competition where I’d like to see all parties involved lose as hard as possible

Wait, didn't he buy his way into Tesla and then forced out the previous CEO or something?

Yeah read the same stuff, it is his way to become innovator :)

I can't believe I'm rooting for The Zuck. Worse case of "enemy of my enemy" ever.

Though if Twitter does fall Meta should be next. It won't be, but it's nice to imagine.

We've really entered the Twilight Zone. I'm rooting for The Zuck to win this battle and I'm rooting for Disney in Florida.
- As much as Disney influenced my childhood, I definitely have my criticisms on their practices as a company.
  Them fighting Ronny is not one of them. I was gonna make a pun on Desantis, but I drew up blank

What a rube.

What is the context of his tweet?

Elmo is angy that Meta hired the employees he fired (or who quit because Twitter's a fucking dumpster fire) to build a Twitter-like service.
- can we not drag elmo's good name through the mud? i understand it is to dunk on elon but elmo is a wonderful character from my childhood and my four year old daughter loves him also. i just don’t think it is fair to elmo
- In the letter sent to the Zuck by his lawyers it's stated that ex-Twitter engineers still have access to Twitter trade secrets, which doesn't make much sense for people that haven't worked there for months. This means that either he is basically lying or Twitter is not able to secure itself because they probably have also fired the people in charge to do so
- Goddamn I fucking HATE Zuck the Cuck, but in this one specific case, gotta give the dude credit: That's hilarious

Why does he consider it cheating? Now hopefully facebook will fuck it up, as well, so they loose money and user base.

God's, he's really pathetic.

in his eyes, it was an ideal example of how capitalism, american dream, competition and free market works.
- Every capitalist loves free market for the other guy.

I'm just over here on Mastodon just straight chilling.

lol. He's way less smart than he seems...

Imagine if he would have no PR team behind him.
- Imagine if he would have no PR team behind him.
  or armies of sock puppet accounts that literally brought the Tony Stark hype to critical mass, making him the world's richest person.