Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

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This seemed on point enough to share here..


Some of the reasons he thinks Elon did his deliberate nazi salutes:

4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;

5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience would reflect his abject gesture back to him, thereby showing complete control and dominion over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.
 

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They already did something like this two years ago.
Yeah I dunno if BlueSky was affected then because it was still a closed beta and Jack Dorsey was still on board and running on about Musk being the person he "trusted the most" to run Twitter and all that. But yeah Mastodon links were definitely banned right after Musk took over and that major exodus started. Heck, he even banned links to Linktree, that's how petty he was. Eventually he was "shamed" into rescinding the bans because at that time he was still pretending he really wanted to support free speech neutrally and enough people complained about it.

But he's long since dropped that act, and the remaining Twitter population is mostly right-wingers I'm pretty sure, so I guess it was just a matter of time before it came back around.
 

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This post about Elon by his one-time friend Philip Low is really important and everyone should read it. The post there is in the form of a bunch of screenshots because it was originally posted on Facebook and whoever made this Reddit thread (rightly, IMO) doesn't think you should have to go to Facebook to read it. But anyway yeah, you ought to read that.
 

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According to the automaker's latest earnings report, Tesla made a net profit of just $2.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 — a 71 percent drop of $5.6 billion compared to the same period a year earlier, even though its revenue saw a slight bump.
That's bad, but we should note that Tesla's profits in 2023 were boosted by a one-time tax benefit of $5.9 billion, the New York Times reported.

Take that out of the picture, though, and it's still a staggering 23 percent plunge in its income from operating expenses for the fourth quarter.

For the whole year, meanwhile, Tesla reported a net profit of $7.1 billion, down from $15 billion in 2023.
Meanwhile, Tesla car owner are rethinking their choice in cars.
 

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Letting Elmo have control of the disbursement of U.S. Treasury funds will become a total disaster. Though I sympathize with Fiscal Assistant Secretary David Lebryk, I cannot agree with his decision. People like him are our only immediate defense against the dismantling of our government.

 

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Letting Elmo have control of the disbursement of U.S. Treasury funds will become a total disaster. Though I sympathize with Fiscal Assistant Secretary David Lebryk, I cannot agree with his decision. People like him are our only immediate defense against the dismantling of our government.

I'm gobsmacked that the lawmakers have seemingly abdicated their Independent branch powers with barely a whimper. Wasn't that one of the prized tenets of resistance to a dictator - don't give up in advance?
 

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There are so many hundreds of ways this is going to go badly that I can't even wrap my head around it. Conflicts of interest, abuses of power, data leaks, identity fraud, blackmail, ...

When and ***IF*** we ever recover from this 'Disruptor Dictator' and his puppet president bending our government over to take it up the ass... Social Security Numbers will all be useless. People will be begging for some sort of DNA-linked 'Real National Id', and the last shred of privacy will be surrendered.

Want a car or home? Want to drive across state lines or get past a dui checkpoint? What to buy alcohol or prescription meds? See a doctor or get a job? Have a bank account and credit card? Want to watch porn on the internet or vote? It'll all be linked to your DNA imprint and tracked. And anyone that doesn't submit will be treated as a non-citizen.... and all that implies.
 

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"Nominated for the Nobel Prize" means somebody sent a letter. There is not a selection committee. I could fire off a letter on University letterhead and make a nomination. There is zero chance it would be considered, but it would be a nomination.
 

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Via Amanda Marcotte's newsletter

The only real power the federal government has is the power of the purse. All other powers flow from that. If Musk is the sole arbiter of federal funds, which is what he's apparently appointing himself to be, the country isn’t a democracy. Congress becomes irrelevant. Even Donald Trump isn't the real president, just a figurehead. What Musk is doing is illegal, but if the public shrugs it off, he’s very likely to get away with it.
 

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Apparently Musk can game while being no where near his PS5. He must have an advanced version of the Neuralink in his brain.
Musk admitted by now to have used boosting services. Report by WP, so must be very importaaant.

 
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"Nominated for the Nobel Prize" means somebody sent a letter. There is not a selection committee. I could fire off a letter on University letterhead and make a nomination. There is zero chance it would be considered, but it would be a nomination.
Hear me out ....

I'm thinkin' Business Opportunity here! Kind of like Universal Life Church and their instant ordinations.

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