mrmanagerMusk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain.
randomaccount43543That is hilarious 🤣
I hope someone to graffiti “Los” in front of that “er”
GhostalmediaBest part is that the LEDs for “twit” now shine really bright at night.
but seriously, “L0Ser” on the X building would be funny
I think I read that they had permission from the city but the landlord themselves didn’t approve it.
GraniteI wonder why the landlord who has been stiffed repeatedly wouldn’t sign off. Hmm…
JusticeIs this the landlord and city that Musk is currently having his asshole drilled into for illegally (without permit and using unlicensed workers for commercial work) modifying a bunch of shit? I remember he asked some dude to add a toilet near his office. Not like to hire a plumber or get estimates or ideas and shit. Just like, “hey. Put a toilet here.” That was my favorite story and where I really went like “oooook duuuuude” uncontrollably out loud. I’ve had a fuckton of “trade” jobs like HVAC, electrical work (mostly related to the HVAC), did some industrial scale backup power generator installs/maintenance, did some plumbing stuff. Kinda touched all over and all around in the world of building and adding on shit. So when I heard about him modifying electrical circuits without a permit… ok. I can see that if you get the right dude who knows what to do but isn’t legally certified. Of course you shouldn’t do that, especially with a business and a place you don’t own, but I get it. Adding a fucking bathroom though is absolutely bonkers to ask a regular dude (not even a guy who considers himself “handy”) to do. Like I think with all the shit I’ve done over 15 years or so, yeah, I could add a bathroom somewhere. But it would probably suck ass. And I’m not an engineer nor have I dabbled at all. And adding a giant, heavy object filled with water, ventilation to suck your shit smells out, a sink, lighting and all that stuff is gonna obviously require some demolition and then doing the whole thing. It’s an insane job to ask of someone who isn’t presenting themselves as a professional in that field. If it was replacing a toilet or sink, ok, again, not correct but I get that. Building a full whole new shitter is insane. It just shows his complete detachment from reality too because I don’t think most “normal” people would even think to ask anyone BUT contractors/plumbers whatever to do such a job. Definitely not a personal assistant.
That man is repeatedly showing the world how stupid he actually is and how little he actually understands about running a company. He has never been in a situation like this where he wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of people playing babysitter and doing all the leg work to try to actually get his shit ideas to work. IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets, he really hadn’t thought any further than changing the logo and repeating the same lame idea he had 30 years ago.
ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)
Or all billionaires are scum who have written the laws and ensured that the fine for this is no more than an annoyance and removing the sign without a permit was a worthwhile risk and the right call to make.
This guy gets it.
I think "all billionaires are scum" is perhaps too harsh, but it's far closer to the truth than the views of society at large.
samus12345You cannot become a billionaire without being a scummy person.
starlingukRowling became a billionaire by writing popular books and selling the movie rights. She's a scummy person, obviously, but she didn't become rich by being one.
Yeah you definitely can become a billionaire without being a scummy person, but not through business. You need to be an artist or athlete.
Definitely not going to be a CEO without being a piece of shit. You need that lack of ethics to make it that high.
You could inherit it
Which means you’re born into a weird sociopathic upbringing. Very fee born into wealth see any issues with it and even then, it tends to be short lived. One of the Johnson and Johnson heirs put out a documentary, but not much after that.
Rowling became a billionaire
Google says her net worth is £820 million. Not a billoonarrr.
Most of the Harry Potter stories are stolen/copies of either existing young adult novels or existing mythology. There’s very little original material or concepts. All writers borrow from other writers, but Rowling is just barely better than a plagiarist.
redcalciumIIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets
Obviously Tweet -> Xeet 💩
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Let me xeet that
Using the sino-X, pronounced “Sh”
…pronounced Faaht.
Yeets and Re-Yeets
godlessABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)
Bill Gates is actually a very smart, and nowadays even pleasant, man.
He has not always be pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin
exscape"Nowadays even pleasant" clearly implies he wasn't always pleasant though.
It’s easy to act pleasant when you no longer have anything to gain from being awful
You say that, but look at the cadre of billionaires who no longer have anything to gain from being awful… but still are.
Old habits die hard?
That is a good point. I think most of them are just plain awful people who enjoy causing negatively influencing the world, while others are only awful when it benefits them.
He is the best billionaire. That may not be a high bar, but it’s something. If Elon Musk decided to retire and cure Malaria like Bill did (or maybe even just get back to space exploration or autonomous driving as he was doing before his Twitter craze, hopefully without fucking other people over?) I wouldn’t mind him as much
Most of Bill’s philanthropy was due completely to Melinda.
I’m watching with interest what new things he does now that he’s on his own.
I’ll take a horrible billionaire investing in malaria research over a manchild billionaire obsessed with naming everything X.
You do realise it was Bill Gates who made the creators of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Vaccine make it paid and keep the methods of producing it hidden? Their original plan was to make the methods of production public, so that Governments could set up their own labs to produce more of it and save lives. There were many deaths that could have been prevented if it wasn’t for this terrible human being.
MikinaThis is actually hilarious. It didn’t occur to me that rebranding should also concern stuff like “tweets”, mostly because I’ve never used twitter, but I’m really looking forward to what he will come up with for those terms.
He has pretty much always been almost a caricature of a horrible boss.
GormadtOh man can you imagine how great this would be if they got hit with a 3 day eviction notice for damaging the property?
That would be so fucking funny
They haven’t been paying their rent anyways, so I’m not sure why they bothered to change the sign.
I’m curious why they haven’t been kicked out after not paying rent for so long. Why does the owner allow him to stay rent free?
There’s literally nobody who would replace them. The commercial real estate market in SF is in shamble. Offices go empty all the time at a discount.
Slight shame that the contractors didn't start from the end. It might have been funny if they had taken off the "er" instead.
My thoughts the same, though it should have been the “ter” to properly describe Musk.
Then again, having “twit” misspelled might have been even more on-point. Maybe they can just add the X and become Twit-X
sugarfree10 cars were broken into and 5 people were robbed while the police attended this matter. What a great deployment!
Seems like a good place to remind people that the police do not prevent break-ins, robberies, or muggings. They just show up after-the-fact and do little to nothing to get people's stuff back.
The only thing you can count on a cop doing after a robbery is trying to convince the victim there’s no point in filing a report.
Because they know they won’t solve it, and if there’s no report there officially isn’t a case to count against them as unsolved.
There’s also the off chance they arrest you or shoot your dog
Vendetta9076The dog shooting is mainly an ATF thing no?
donutsI’m sure Musk is personally responsibly those things. I also heard he failed to clean bathrooms in this building.
I’m getting not liking him, but this blind brainless hate it’s ridiculous.
Yes, Musk is responsible because it was his decision to change the name.
Well, if he decides on Sunday night that the logo will be changed on Monday morning and he’s not taking no for an answer, that leaves pretty little time and wiggle room for his employees to actually get permissions and stuff in time.
I genuinely don’t get why people hate-follow these guys. If I don’t like someone I block them and move on. The last thing I want to do is talk about them all day every day with my friends and pat eachother on the back for being so smart ourselves.
ᴄʜᴏᴋɪᴅᴀʀTo anyone interested about what’s really like to deal with this man, I highly recommend giving this a read: www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/…/elon-wyd
Man, I was strangely impressed with Tumblr these days until I scrolled two.posts down and it froze me out because I wasn’t signed in
Apathy TreeReally? It didn’t do that to me. I clicked continue reading and went pretty far down the comments.
I’ve never even been to tumbler before so I certainly wasn’t signed in :)
NaNUgh, I hate that. Twitter is worse, but those unclosable popups are a good way to make sure I never create an account on a site. I have no problem with the suggestion, but make it optional.
There are multiple stories like that from several people.
Apparently there were people at Tesla who were effectively employed to get fired when he was in one of his moods.
And if you read enough of the stories it all comes down to basically a single PA who kept him away from important things. And that person stopped working for him shortly before the public realized what an asshole he is.
That’s a great thought. Are there any insane people that recently haven’t been as loud as usual? Which “important” person had lowered thier IM A GENIUS decibel level and no one noticed? That PA could be the reason.