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AnOminous said:
The issue is "for cause." Elon can fire anyone he wants. That doesn't mean he can renege on their contracts if they had a provision for what occurs in the case of termination. Those usually also have an exception for "for cause" but just saying those magic words doesn't make it so.
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OK yeah, I read about that. Many think he will be able to pull that off. For some reasobn lower level workers. Honestly, he should give all the boot.

Off topic: been reading about the DHS leaks
Archeopthryx said:
Yeah. I want to see some people beg money to keep their checkmark.
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lmao lmao, first person I thought of was kevin
 
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OK yeah, I read about that. Many think he will be able to pull that off. For some reasobn lower level workers. Honestly, he should give all the boot.

Off topic: been reading about the DHS leaks
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I'm talking about the execs he fired. They have unlimited resources to litigate the issue as long as they want and do the whole Jarndyce dance thing.
 
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AnOminous said:
I'm talking about the execs he fired. They have unlimited resources to litigate the issue as long as they want and do the whole Jarndyce dance thing.
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No kidding! they are going to walk away with 24-40M and Dorsey gets, what? 1B cash?
 
I'm not convinced that Musk's Twitter is going to be the sea change for the internet that a lot of people think it is. He talks a big game about free speech but we all know you don't grow a successful tech business by letting people say whatever they want (thanks Blackrock), and at the end of the day he's a businessman who paid a lot of money for Twitter and he's going to do whatever he thinks will allow him to see a return on that investment. He didn't become a billionaire by being altruistic.
 
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Bussy Catalog said:
I'm not convinced that Musk's Twitter is going to be the sea change for the internet that a lot of people think it is. He talks a big game about free speech but we all know you don't grow a successful tech business by letting people say whatever they want (thanks Blackrock), and at the end of the day he's a businessman who paid a lot of money for Twitter and he's going to do whatever he thinks will allow him to see a return on that investment. He didn't become a billionaire by being altruistic.
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No, but he also didn't become a billionaire by being skilled, either. He was invested in the right companies at the right time or got big loans at the right time.

- Zip2 was the only venture he directly invested code into, and it got bought during the dot com boom for a ridiculously inflated sum to start him out.

- Next venture, X.com, was financial services and was one of the few tech segments to not crumble during the dot com crash. Confinity merged them into Paypal, but he got forced out as CEO because he was an idiot and kept trying to migrate their entire backend to Windows Server, which at the time was the tech equivalent of telling KFC to change its 11 herbs and spices into 11 fruit flavors. Paypal got bought out by eBay and he made a huge pile of cash from his company share.

- Next was SpaceX which he almost ran into the ground before finally getting something to actually reach orbit, then NASA bailed them out.

- Tesla at the same time was a nothingburger until it managed to produce a small number of cars around 2008, where it got infused with wads of cash from the US DoE. Most of his money is tied to Tesla, and most of the reason Tesla got off the ground at all was because of massive US government subsidies, low interest energy department development loans, and tax breaks for new EV purchases.

- Solarcity has been a legal and PR disaster for him ever since acquiring it and folding it into Tesla Energy. I don't think it's ever made money and it's been a huge anchor weighing down on Tesla's cash flow.

Throughout his entire career he's been stumbling from one company to the next. He's wealthy on paper but almost all of it is tied to stock options and holdings, with low liquidity or insulation from a bad class action suit, market crash or interest rate spikes. I think he's at a point where his wealth is "too big to fail", but he largely owes his success to the US government bailing him out or funding him early on.

The Twitter purchase has investors backing it, it's not solely Elon's money, and those investors are liable to want to see returns. Odds are very high that if Twitter doesn't start generating some serious revenue quickly, those investors will try to force him out of the company. Allowing every retard on twitter to spam "NIGGER" everywhere freely or bringing Trump back would probably cause half the advertisers to bail for the sake of their brand safety.
 
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ZMOT said:
containment exists for a reason (also applies to the farms, ironically)


reminds me of that anon novel where 44% or so was just the gamer word (can't find the screenshot atm)...
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You mean this?
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The blue check panic over the blue check changes are hilarious. $20/month sounds sharp to the individual, but really anyone who 'needs' to prove who they are on twitter is a business, and $20/month for a business account on any consumer facing service is pennies compared to the value being offered. Even the journoscum really can afford it, what with all their grifting.

Its a great move though, it adds an independent and irrevocable part to verification that allows anyone who actually wants it to pony up, and provides a decent bot filter. Very few bot operators are willing to drop $20 per account plus personal information to try and get through it.

Still got the feeling that $20 might be a "big ask" moment, and that it'll come down to $5/$10 whenever it actually boots out. Its achieved its goal of starting a convo around the whole thing.
 
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NOT Sword Fighter Super said:
Thunderfoot told me this wouldn't happen!
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Thunderfoot is a faggot.

Also while Elon is a fucking Grifter, worse case scenario is that twitter is exactly as it is now...best Case Scenario is that he drives it into the dirt and it goes away forever.
 
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