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Elon Musk is a nice chap
tom66:
Judges are also very good at calling out bullshit from the litigants and attorneys. I can't see this going well.
tom66:
Elon's lost it again.
Banned the Musk Jet account, promising to sue the creator, and then banning loads of journalists for tweeting about it. Involved in a debate in the 'Spaces' feature, which he ragequit after getting loads of questions from journalists, and then axed the entire feature afterwards which deleted the recording (fortunately, someone screencap'd the whole thing)
Also making a bizarre claim about a stalker threatening the life of his child but no report to LAPD and no dashcam video (despite the car carrying the kid being a Tesla - odd). Claims this was reason to ban the jet tracker, but there's no evidence the two events if they even happened are connected.
james_s:
Well as I've said before, it may not have been his intent, but if Twitter collapses I think the world will be a better place, at least until a clone pops up.
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 13, 2022, 01:43:38 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 13, 2022, 12:20:22 am ---Plus, starting wealthy is not a guarantee of achieving any success in business. Sure if you have lots of wealth and money working for you, you can just live a comfy life without doing anything.
But as to creating *successful* businesses, not that much. Many people having inherited have burnt large amounts of cash without achieving anything much.
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I read somewhere that it's very uncommon for family wealth to last more than 2-3 generations. Sooner or later you end up with somebody born into great wealth who develops no life skills other than pissing away large sums of money. My ex's mother for example inherited something like $2M when her dad passed away, she was nearly broke only around 3 years later. Still living in her ratty old doublewide that was not even paid off.
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My mother used to remark "From rags to riches and back again, in three generations". Very often, it's true!
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on December 14, 2022, 08:37:33 am ---So, allegedly Twitter is not paying rent anymore.
Additionally, they are looking at what the consequences of simply not paying the agreed severance packages would be.
:popcorn:
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In the first place, severance isn't required by law. And he wouldn't be the first, or the last, employer to not give their employees what they promised them. My father in law used to say about situations like that that was when two fools meet. The one that made the promise and the one that believed them.
But, second, if I was Elon I wouldn't be paying any severance to the employees that simply walked off of the job either. And in their own very public admissions, that's exactly what many of the Twitter employees did.
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