I do think he was essentially forced to buy it.

he was, but it doesn’t contradict what i said. if he had a way to back out of his stupid bragging offer for 1b, and all he cared about was money, the reasonable thing would be to pay the fine, instead of paying 44 billion for something that doesn’t generate profit.

More to the point though, I do wonder why he didn’t just pay the billion dollars to get out of the deal

I don’t know that he’s not in it for the money.

your first sentence explains he is not in it for money, if money were the concern, eating the 1b fine would be logical thing to do (i am not fact checking that 1b piece of information, i trust you on this).

with his 270 billion net worth - which by the way includes assets not necessarily liquid cash

that’s how it works, no one has 270 billion in cash

I think the point is to destroy it so he doesn’t have to pay back what he borrowed to buy it.

that doesn’t make sense, destroying twitter doesn’t absolve him of obligation to return money he borrowed.

it’s just that he could take big risks

yes, that is definitely part of his success. and since this strategy got him to position of richest person in the world, it is pretty clear that “genius at losing money” is not really accurate description of situation.

as for twitter, he clearly is not in it for the money, otherwise he wouldn’t be there to begin with. he originally hoped to buy position of cheered and admired hero and when he failed, he settled for a position of hated douchebag. infamous still means people know you, i guess 🤷‍♂️

that’s why he is the richest person in the world with 270B net worth.

look, i hate the asshole as much as the other guy, but changing meaning of words and underestimating the enemy never helped anyone.

Firefox has container tabs for this exact sort of things, whatever is inside is hermetically separated and cannot leak into other tabs, but It is desktop feature.

https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+container+tab

That’s not what they said.

“Embodies every negative attribute” is not the same as “every attribute embodied by him is negative”.

a useful idiot

Useful idiot has specific meaning. It is someone who is so dumb that you can convince him to betray his country for free and he does believe he is doing right thing.

I am pretty sure this piece of shit is getting paid.

Short of walking up to strangers and asking, “hey, can I compare your feed to mine?"

You can create your own alternative accounts…

ok, i fixed that 😆

Wouldn’t that technology make them easy to rewind fast-forward?

what baffles me is not that someone does this (not that i condone that) but that person in his position does that signed with his work email (or email that isn’t total burner)

When moron who publicly bragged about acing the dementia test calls you dumb - priceless. For everything else there is MasterCard.

i am disappointed that the photo is not accompanied by the address.

For profit company is usually not ran as democracy, so employees don’t really choose the CEO, it is the other way around.

I still always say I was born in the 80s out of habit…

I always say 1900 out of habit… I was at least once rejected as too old :D

You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.

that’s survivorship bias… we just don’t know the names and faces of the smart ones ;)

well, that’s probably not best way to do it…

i find it strange that there would be shots fired and the perpetrator would survive to tell a tale.

on the other hand, the secret service agents must despise that dipshit more than anyone, since he willingly put their lives at risk multiple times, so i have hard time imagining they would be in on any sort of pre-planned PR show…

Well he does, and some people say he is really a genius player. Maybe the best one ever.