Ugh, I feel the same. I know the top 1% of the world or whatever emits tons and tons more CO2 per year than the other 99%, but I didn’t know it was this bad. That plane is flying multiple times per day. Sure Musk is probably not in it all the time, but that doesn’t matter.

Private jets should be banned all together, let’s see how quickly they suddenly find out the internet exists.

You shouldn’t really feel guilty about anything like that. Asking hundreds of millions to billions of people to drastically change their lives and practice austerity is insane while billionaires do whatever they want and corporations push legislation that makes it harder to conserve. Our meager efforts won’t matter much if the biggest offenders go pollute wantonly.

Individual’s biggest efforts are pushing for legislation and politicians who will curb corporate abuses. Everything is a drop in a bucket that’s already overflowing.

Others close to him use the jet as well, but I imagine it’s still heavily Elon

Dude takes a 22 minute flight. My god how small do you need to feel to boost your ego to do that instead of video.

This follows classic maritime law: You don’t have to pay taxes if you live in the air. That is what my lawyer Chareth Cutestory said. I have the best lawyers

Do your bosses (and their bosses) support work-from-home? They know how, but it’s about control for these people.

The profile is “elonjet . net” (without the space) on bluesky.

Since Threads is federated, it should be accessible from there.

I think it’s mostly aboit the massive carbon footprint of a private jet and Elon has a rep for really short frequent flights.

I honestly don’t think he was TRYING to do anything but shitpost. It didn’t look like a well thought out plan, it looked like an idiot talking out of his ass and realizing that his memes were also crimes.

He could had pulled out of the bid as well me thinks. Between presenting a bid and closing the deal there should be **due diligence **.

This is what I understand Mr Musk failed to do, after that it would have been nearly impt to cancel the deal.

He wasn’t trying to short Twitter. He was trying to pump and dump. Though the dumping probably would have been done more tactfully than the standard pump and dump. Musk getting publicity for holding the stock helps to keep the value up. Tesla’s been inflated forever, and he thought he could do the same with Twitter.

Yes, the primary reason he bought Twitter is that he screwed up during his pump and dump scheme. There are several reasons he was looking at Twitter in particular, including the jet tracking, how much he loves Twitter anyway, his hate for being told what he can and can not post, etc. I also suspect he’s lost most of the people who will tell him the truth and is now surrounded by right-wing grifters (for politics and aiming his money, they’re smart enough to not try to take the money directly). All these reasons were part of why the pump and dump was plausible as something else, and why it was Twitter that it happened to. Probably not even Musk knows how much of the intent to buy was legit (though not for 44b) and how much of it was the pump and dump.

He had a scheme; I don’t know that I’d call it grand.

I thought it was more than emails, it was all communication around it?

Really wish he’d kept fighting do we’d see that.

Yeah $50k isn’t even that much to Musk, what an idiot.

It re-enforces the idea that he is a “genius” who is playing “4D Chess” and that he “has a plan” and not that he’s a fucking drug addled freak who is making decisions based on his emotional state at the time.

There was no plan, there’s never a plan. Rich people just play this game where, because they have enough money to insulate themselves from their bad decisions, they pretend that “this was always their plan.”

Pretty much Musk:

But you forget the best part. The tracker still exists and everyone still knows where his fucking jet is flying to because that shit is public information by air navigation regulation. There’s still bots that regularly posts the MuskJet location both in Twitter and Mastodon. So he spent all that money and still failed.

Makes you wonder what the og twitters guys are doing now besides drinking mai tais on the beach

That’s his entire business model. Just look at starship, hyper loop, solar roofs and Tesla semi. Overblown Tesla stock bubble too. All complete vaporware, but he profits greatly from the hype alone. He belongs in prison as he is a classic conman.

So is racking up debt in shell companies and claiming bankruptcy on them but it didn’t stop Trump either.

When has that stopped billionaire dummasses?

People who control the organs of communication usually end up writing the laws, even if it’s at arm’s length.

I think the deal was so good for Twitter that it may have been illegal for them not to sell to Musk because their job is to maximize profits or value for the shareholders or whatever. As a publicly traded company, not doing the deal would be choosing to not maximize profits.

Now in hindsight the idiot is killing current stock value, but that still has nothing to do with the shareholders who had stock when Twitter was sold. Those shareholders were thrilled to sell all their stock well above market price. Corporate ethics.

I’d go for Swiffer.

She would keep the pay to play mentality though, as that’s how she got her start after all

snap snap snap and dance fool

I just did the math myself before seeing your comment and you’re right that math is fucked lmao.

Maybe it’s to provide food security just for those who don’t already have it

That the costs scale down the more massive the production. If you’re in the industrialized world, the money you pay for food is almost all profit. Not the cost of agriculture, not the cost of harvesting and packaging, not freight time, maintenance and fuel, not logistics and accounting. Profit.

Most of our money spent is bribes goes in the pocket of each of the capitalists along the way taking their bit of rent.

There are eight billion people on earth, so it’s even cheaper. Internet access is one of those things that requires infrastructure that gets cheaper per user as it scales up. At a global level, yes, internet should be ridiculously cheap per capita.

The cost we pay here in the US is mostly profit for the oligopolies that control the last mile. Licensing fees because they control access via legal obstruction. If I were to create a community server, it could be much cheaper as a non-profit cooperative, but for the cost defending from litigation from the established chains.

In other words, cost of the internet is inflated by force, not because internet access is expensive to construct and maintain.

Becase it’s false and the math severely wrong.

How is he visionary, exactly?