Elon's Antics

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After all the tantrums, Starlink will comply and block X in Brazil as requested by the court.

15 days tops and Musk will fold.
Took him 16 days, but he did. Blocked the fascists accounts and X is looking for a legal representative in Brazil. Hopefully, countries around the world learned the lesson.

In the end, what he managed to accomplish was tarnish X reputation even more and make something like Bluesky a real alternative to X. Absolute genius.
 
Took him 16 days, but he did. Blocked the fascists accounts and X is looking for a legal representative in Brazil. Hopefully, countries around the world learned the lesson.

In the end, what he managed to accomplish was tarnish X reputation even more and make something like Bluesky a real alternative to X. Absolute genius.
How smart are the lawyers in Brazil and how does the legal system work when it comes to not paying your lawyers in relation to cases in Brazil?
 
How smart are the lawyers in Brazil and how does the legal system work when it comes to not paying your lawyers in relation to cases in Brazil?
Not a lawyer myself, but there are top notch firms all around. Brazilian society is very litigious, we are conditioned to take the notion of a written law very seriously*. We have a saying here mocking this way of thinking which could be translated to something like "Brazil will become a first world nation, we will pass a law to sort that out". Or "becoming a first world nation by force of a decree". We are that weird.

(I don't mean in the sense that nobody breaks the law. It's like the fact that if there is some law written somewhere, it has a power of its own, like law shapes reality, and not the other way around, as is the case in US, UK and a bunch of other countries where laws are derived from customs). We owe this bizarre way of thinking to our founding myths, all built around positivism.

As penalties for not paying up your lawyers. Well, anything up to asset seizure. Not paying your lawyer is very serious business here, specially very expensive ones, as is everywhere else. In X's case, I can see a law firm doing as the court did and going after Starlink money, for example.
 
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Not the most dramatic Musk headline, but it still strikes me as an Elon Antic™.

Elon Musk officially moves X headquarters from California to Texas

Not Austin, not Dallas....Bastrop. What could go wrong with moving a multi-billion dollar tech company to a town of 10,000 people?

I feel like this is just bad for everyone...it's likely going to do some real wreckage to the town of Bastrop and it will likely force people who live in San Francisco now to move to a town basically in the middle of nowhere. I wonder how much longer Texans are going to be happy about Bay Area tech companies moving to their area? I think Austinites have already tapped out...

As a Bay Area resident not in tech, I'll just say - you don't want them...trust me.
 
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A town small enough that he can buy it and rename to Xville, and set up worker homes to tie accommodation to your job and set rents, you say?
 
Ooof. I have spent a lot of time in Bastrop. Your assessment is accurate. Also, nobody wants to live in Bastrop. It's like being in a sauna.
Sounds like Musk is going to setup a personal datacentre there with his Teslagrid ...
Contract? No, you may live (may not leave) here, and you will recieve a daily ration of some slimy purple semi-fluid and just about enough water.
 
A town small enough that he can buy it and rename to Xville, and set up worker homes to tie accommodation to your job and set rents, you say?
So what Walt Disney originally wanted Epcot to be (his own little fiefdom where nobody can vote him out of office), minus the tourists traipsing through your house during the day to gawk at this season's kitchen appliances and lead-based interior paint colors. And instead of spending years building it from scratch, he can just pick up a pre-assembled one that's likely desperate enough to sell out.
 
Not the most dramatic Musk headline, but it still strikes me as an Elon Antic™.

Elon Musk officially moves X headquarters from California to Texas

Not Austin, not Dallas....Bastrop. What could go wrong with moving a multi-billion dollar tech company to a town of 10,000 people?

I feel like this is just bad for everyone...it's likely going to do some real wreckage to the town of Bastrop and it will likely force people who live in San Francisco now to move to a town basically in the middle of nowhere. I wonder how much longer Texans are going to be happy about Bay Area tech companies moving to their area? I think Austinites have already tapped out...

As a Bay Area resident not in tech, I'll just say - you don't want them...trust me.
Oh, that's already been happening for a long, long time.

Any time someone I know makes such a remark, I tell them to, "Blame our dumb ass governor, then. For all the "Don't California My Texas" crap, he's the one welcoming all the West Coast companies with open arms". The always interesting bits of this are, A) a lot of the employees move back eventually, B) many of the "dreaded" Californians are Republicans, & C) these mouth breathers who shout the loudest about "how full Texas is" are not originally from Texas, either.
 
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CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY SUES ELON MUSK FOR 15 MILLION DOLLARS

We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump's very stupid wall.

Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire⸺Elon Musk⸺snuck up on us from behind and completely 🤬ed that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.

How did this happen? Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his 🤬 all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value. We said, “Go 🤬 yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court.”

If we win, we’ll equally split the lawsuit's net proceeds among all 150,000 of our original subscribers, up to $100 each. While this isn’t enough to compensate our subscribers for the anguish they’ve suffered witnessing Elon Musk defile their once-verdant land⸺where wild horses galloped freely in the Texas moonlight⸺we think it’s a pretty good start.

Why do we need to do this? Even if Musk un-🤬s our land, that doesn’t un-🤬 the damage he’s done to our reputation.

150,000 people gave us their hard-earned money, and in exchange we vowed to protect this land from racist billionaires and their dumb vanity projects. They trusted us because:
Our longstanding reputation as a company that makes outrageous promises and actually keeps them is on the line! We promised we’d use every legal tool at our disposal to protect this land from bullies like Trump and Musk (who's spending millions to get Trump elected and also wants to build the stupid wall). If we don’t take action now, why would anyone ever trust us again?

With great vengeance and furious anger,

Cards Against Humanity

P.S. We will also accept Twitter.com as compensation.
 
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Not surprising at all. IIRC, residents were concerned last year in another part of Tx, when the Boring Company said it was going to discharge its wastewater in their nearby river.

Leon simply does not care & my guess is he'll cry about his "freedumb" being attacked if he comments on the case.
 
This needs investigating:

Unless it's a sabotage job, which let's face it, the Cybertruck is the worst automobile ever made, then Tesla is knowingly skirting sanctions.
 
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