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[Elon Musk] A Quarantine Thread

HefflingHeffling No PicEverRegistered User regular
edited November 2023 in Debate and/or Discourse
A place to talk about Elon Musk, Super Genius. Some day he will catch that road runner.

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  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    In a the recent CNBC interview, Musk misquoted The Princess Bride when defending his erratic tweeting .
    “You know, I’m reminded of. There’s a scene in ‘The Princess Bride’ — great movie — where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, ‘Offer me money, offer me power, I don’t care,’” Musk told his interviewer, David Faber.

    “So you just don’t care?” Faber asked.

    “I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” Musk responded.

    Mandy Patinkin, who delivered the line in question in the movie, took offence to both the misquote and the misinterpretation.

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Mandy has always seemed a stand up fellow. (Carey too, it's nice to see them getting there dunks on inthese situations)

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    I don't get what it is with right wing doofuses and The Princess Bride. Reminds me of when Ted Cruz had a big mad because no one invited him to the table read of the movie they did during the pandemic.

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    That can't be Mandy Patinkin. There's no Blue Check!

    You're muckin' with a G!

    Do not engage the Watermelons.
  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    I don't get what it is with right wing doofuses and The Princess Bride. Reminds me of when Ted Cruz had a big mad because no one invited him to the table read of the movie they did during the pandemic.

    Honestly I just think it's a fun Gen X swashbuckling comedic touchstone that's quotable but also generally inoffensive and non-controversial. I don't think there's anything in particular about the movie is right-wing catnip although it's arguably less overtly political (and more watchable with your kids) than something like Python.

    Still, my guess is just that those guys are around the same age and the movie was popular at the time to quip between friends.

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I think in this case it's "the cool kids like Princess Bride, if I like Princess Bride they'll accept me!"

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Several ex-Twitter employees are suing Musk and X Corp, and the filings are filled with WTF gold:
    Elon Musk wanted a bathroom built next to his office in Twitter's headquarters so he didn't have to wake up his bodyguards in the middle of the night to go pee, a new lawsuit claims.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    That's nothing to be ashamed of, plenty of men his age have trouble getting their bodyguards up in the middle of the night.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?

    In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?

    In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.

    If he's just going to do it under the table, he doesn't actually need a special bathroom.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    All that money and he's being shifty about building a bathroom.

  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    emnmnme wrote: »
    An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?

    In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.

    It was specifically the Boring Company CEO, Steve Davis. Not that I'm trying to be a pedantic ass, but I think it matters in this case because that guy was acting as Musk's capo attempting to force employees to due a bunch of under the table, likely illegal shit to keep their jobs.

    In the same affidavit it makes it clear that Musk made a decision to never pay rent at Twitter HQ and to purposely use services rendered and not pay for them after, as an example firing janitors at Twitter HQ and not paying them for work completed. It further claims that it was a trio of people pushing all this contract fraud? to the employees including Mendoza, a venture capitalist who had invested in Twitter, Davis, and Davis' girlfriend Hollander who was living at Twitter HQ with her newborn infant.
    Indeed, Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, loudly opined that it was unreasonable for Twitter's landlords to expect Twitter to pay rent, since San Francisco was a shithole.

    It feels like there's enough in this affidavit to get Musk, Davis, and Mendoza personally sued by every vendor Twitter has ripped off, provided any of this was recorded or written down.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.

    Being Elon Musk must be exhausting.

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.

    Being Elon Musk must be exhausting.

    Yeah, he's pooped.

    Or he would have, if he had a closer bathroom

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    The question is, since he apparently didn't get his bathroom, does he just pee himself or does he have a little Elmo Training Potty for the corner

  • TetraNitroCubaneTetraNitroCubane Not Angry... Just VERY Disappointed...Registered User regular
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.

    Being Elon Musk must be exhausting.

    Musk must have an unreasonable fear of tall bald men and the number 47.

  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.

  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    Regarding the lawsuit: the actual complaint is that they got fired after they refused to break the law, plus they didn't get severance.

    https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/twitter-employee-lawsuit-v/e5d27a60a7b7d51e/full.pdf

  • Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    MorganV wrote: »
    Well, if he files plans with the city for a bathroom, then people will know where he is.

    He had to get it done under the table, as an anti-assassination targetting measure.

    Beginning the countdown now towards a new Hitman 3 level…

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    I'd rather just hire a crowd of people to follow him around and laugh at him.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    I'd rather just hire a crowd of people to follow him around and laugh at him.

    Don't even need to hire people, most would do it for free.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Chall wrote: »
    The question is, since he apparently didn't get his bathroom, does he just pee himself or does he have a little Elmo Training Potty for the corner

    He definitely has started to strike me as a piss jug kind of guy.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    The question is, since he apparently didn't get his bathroom, does he just pee himself or does he have a little Elmo Training Potty for the corner

    He definitely has started to strike me as a piss jug kind of guy.

    He's definitely got a shit sock somewhere

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Archangle wrote: »
    In a the recent CNBC interview, Musk misquoted The Princess Bride when defending his erratic tweeting .
    “You know, I’m reminded of. There’s a scene in ‘The Princess Bride’ — great movie — where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, ‘Offer me money, offer me power, I don’t care,’” Musk told his interviewer, David Faber.

    “So you just don’t care?” Faber asked.

    “I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” Musk responded.

    Mandy Patinkin, who delivered the line in question in the movie, took offence to both the misquote and the misinterpretation.

    Okay, misinterpretation of the Princess Bride here aside... there's a full twenty seconds between being asked the question "So hey, what happens if a dude doesn't want to advertise with you any more?" and Musk starting his response. Had he... had he just never considered the possibility before?

  • madparrotmadparrot Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    All that money and he's being shifty about building a bathroom.

    I'm gonna guess it wasn't about the money, it was about the long permit process and he wanted it NOW

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    rules are for the poors; not the rich

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    rules are for the poors; not the rich

    I mean this is normally 100% correct

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • TastyfishTastyfish Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    I'd rather just hire a crowd of people to follow him around and laugh at him.

    Don't even need to hire people, most would do it for free.

    But you'd still need to provide the assassination coordinates.

  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    madparrot wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    All that money and he's being shifty about building a bathroom.

    I'm gonna guess it wasn't about the money, it was about the long permit process and he wanted it NOW

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    234. For example, Davis told Killian that Musk wanted to add a bathroom next to his
    office so that Musk didn't have to wake his security team and cross half the floor to use the
    bathroom in the middle of the night.
    235. Killian explained that it would take time to get the necessary permits, but
    promised to begin that process right away.
    236. In response, Davis instructed Killian not to bother with obtaining permits because,
    to paraphrase, we don't do that, we don't have to follow those rules.
    237. Shocked, Killian reminded Davis that if they did not get a permit, no licensed
    plumber would perform the work for fear of jeopardizing their license.
    238. Davis responded by instructing Killian to hire an unlicensed plumber instead.
    239. Now thoroughly bewildered, Killian attempted to explain that the use of licensed
    tradespeople was a condition of their lease, and that failure to abide by it would put them in
    breach of that lease.
    240. Davis responded that management did not care about any of this, that they weren't
    interested in ensuring that the work was performed in accordance with the standards required by
    the lease, by the City of San Francisco, by the State of California, or any other authority, they
    just wanted it done.
    241. It got worse.
    242. Musk announced via the Transition Team that he was going to be installing hotel
    rooms at Twitter HQ .
    243. Killian was initially told that the hotel rooms, soon renamed to sleeping
    rooms to avoid triggering the suspicions of the city inspectors, were just being installed to give
    exhausted and overworked employees a place to nap.
    244. Though the changes had initially been simple, if unorthodox--removing a
    conference table and installing a bed--Davis instructed Killian to begin planning for and
    implementing the addition of features like en-suite bathrooms and other changes to the physical plant.
    245. Concerned about how city inspectors would react to Twitter's plans, Killian
    emailed the Transition Team to note that the changes they had made thus far were limited to just
    furniture and therefore were code compliant, but that Twitter's future planned changes would
    require permits and more complicated code compliance.
    246. In response , Hollander visited him in person and emphatically instructed him to
    never put anything about the project in writing again.
    247. Hollander appeared surprised and distressed that Killian did not inherently
    understand that this was not a project for which Musk and the Transition Team wanted a written
    record.
    248. Hollander specifically conveyed that Davis in particular was upset that Killian
    had sent the email.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    How many billionaires does it take to build an unlicensed bathroom?

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    The billionaire doesn't build it, silly, they just 💩 in it.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    A billionaire pays people to build it and then claims they built it.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    A billionaire pays people to build it and then claims they built it.

    And then goes to court to officially say they built it.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.

    Howard Hughes did stuff.

    Musk wishes he was Howard Hughes.

    You're muckin' with a G!

    Do not engage the Watermelons.
  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    How many billionaires does it take to build an unlicensed bathroom?

    Apparently it's at least two, and one annoying spouse.

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"

    He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.

    Howard Hughes did stuff.

    Musk wishes he was Howard Hughes.

    Designed everything from bras, to ahead of the curve aircraft, truly an engineer for the record books.

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