So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Something tells me she's a lot brighter than you.

😉

What a tool. Dinosaurs went extinct before mammals took over. The only dinosaurs that survived abandoned land and took to the sky and became modern birds

He’s spewing simple narratives to the simps that follow him. Ignore the systematic genocide of the Native Americans (or is First Nation People the correct term now?), the racist policies and Laws that California had in place well into the mid 20th century to prevent non-white immigrants from buying land and starting their own enterprises.

Thankfully Twitter doesn’t have the reach it had 2 years ago and his ramblings and disinformation aren’t used as the basis on articles in the mainstream media anymore.

Or ketamine.

Oh like this you mean?

Cool calm and collected.

From blueticks being used to signify verification, to "Anyone can have a bluetick if they pay for it", to "You can pay for a bluetick, but we'll give you the ability to hide it because people might make fun of you for it", and now we've reached "We're going to give loads of accounts blueticks for free"

I mean, you have to have over 2,500 subscriber followers, not just followers, but they've still set that bar incredibly low just to force well-known accounts into having a bluetick. Probably because the illusion of "Celebs only want blueticks to feel more important than everyone else" has continuously been shattered by the low uptake of blueticks once you had to pay for it, causing them to force the blueticks on accounts with about 1m+ followers, and now dropping the bar lower to also including those with 2,500+ subscribed followers.

Dont forget you can hide your bluetick now, its incredibly obvious to see who is though as they stand out huddled in at the top of comments among other visible blueticks, also if they comment at you they show up in your notifications under the verified section

As individuals, they seem to provoke a strong response. Thanks for the information.

I did see another tweet a few days ago that, as this policy applies to people who have more than 2,500 subscribed followers (so not just followers or even bluetick followers, but actual subscribed followers), the best estimate of the number of people who would get Premium for free: 8. And 4 of those (including Musk) would get Premium+ for free for having more than 5,000.

This seems more like a "If you subscribe and get loads of subscriber followers, wonderous things can happen!" ploy to entice people rather than being of any benefit to anyone.

This is what comes to mind so often:

A grown man… had to say to another grown man (his boss)…. "Your meme game is strong"

An adult grown man used those words, and then had to go home, talk to his partner or family about his day at work, and admit that he had to say that to another grown man.

That was poorly worded (suprise) as tons of people complaint today about it. It means 2500 blue tick followers.
On the plus side, you can hide your newly gained free blue tick, for free! The shame of it!

I know at the time he started Space X I thought he was cool. By the time of the Thai diver I was either certain he was an asshole or that confirmed it but I can't remember for certain.

In hind sight that should have been a massive red flag, as we've seen with QAnon etc. it's a special type of person that casually accuses others of being a pedophile.

Yep usually a few cans short of the six pack, or are just projecting

In other Musk news, he recently had to sit for a deposition because someone is suing him for damages because Musk falsly suggested a 22 year old Jewish guy was part of a Neo-Nazi brawl that was captured on film.

Not only did he have no real recollection of it and believes he should be able to do it anyway because FREE SPEECH, but he also had to admit he used a fake Twitter account for his own son and would roleplay as his son.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-burner-account-role-play-toddler-son_n_66140de1e4b0c063ffb9e8a0

Although the account is not mentioned by name in the deposition transcript, Monday’s court filing contained an exhibit of the @ErmnMusk account that was shown to Musk during his testimony.

Asked about the account during the deposition by attorney Mark Bankston, who is representing Brody, Musk confirmed it was his but dismissed it as a “test account.”

“No, I would not use this account,” Musk testified. “It was just used for — for testing.”

Musk repeated the claim later in his testimony.

“I briefly used this account as a test account,” he said.

In 2022, Musk used the account while interacting with Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of MicroStrategy and a Bitcoin promoter, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.

Musk asked Saylor, “Do you like Japanese girls?” in one post and said the following to Chesky in another: “I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun.”

In an April 2023 post on the account, Musk wrote, “I will finally turn 3 on May 4th!” Musk and Grimes’ son, X Æ A-12, was born on May 4, 2020.

In Monday’s court filing, Bankston alleged that Musk deleted the account in February, on the same day as the court’s discovery order. The posts can still be seen across internet archive websites.

On a mental level, there's just so much wrong with Musk. I know he has autism or Asperger's or whatever the hell it's called these days, but there's something deeper at fault too. Certainly not all the cylinders are firing with this guy. His casual disregarding nature says there's more going on than just being rich and not going a damn.

There comes a point when even loaded, arrogant, wankers sit back and say to themselves, "Jesus, what the hell am I doing?"

Pretty sure one of the main principles of Libertarianism is to say that people should donate to charity rather than paying the government in taxes, while actually just keeping your money for yourself.

Some info on muskrat's deposition on his defamation case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musk-denies-knowing-whos-suing-him-to-dodge-defamation-suit