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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Yes, of course there're failures, this is an emerging technology that's the absolute cutting edge. It's still the best on the planet, and you're still demanding absolute perfection from a mere human.
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Cleanest Dirty Shirt in the Washing Machine is as good as it gets in real life. John Galt and Hank Rearden are fictional characters, they succeed only by author fiat. The things you're dismissing as snake oil are the best in the world. SpaceX? It's the best space launch in the world. The...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Yeah sure, add a bit more straw to that man, I totally said small businesses specifically had Pentagon connections. Yes but again, so does every other successful business in the US, that's how business works, and how it's always worked. Heck, even the railroads got, free, ten square miles of...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Every big business has that though. Whether it's banks getting free bailout money they pass to execs, manufacturers getting handed fat stacks of military contracts, or even small local LLCs having connections to the town's sheriff, mayor, and other city fathers, any successful business bigger...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    DeSantis has expressed his displeasure at The Twitter Board's Poison Pill action, and has indicated he's going to look at ways to hold them accountable for fiduciary irresponsibility.
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    It's come out that aside from Jack Dorsey, who openly disagrees with the rest of them, the entire board owns around 70 total shares, perhaps 0.12%, of Twitter... combined. This has raised a few red flags as none of them stand to actually lose if the company does.
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Even Jack Dorseys' now slamming the Twitter board for the poison pill.
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Twitter has struck back at Musk by adopting a "Poison Pill" policy. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html The board unanimously voted for it. In effect, the Poison Pill means that if any person (Namely Elon Musk of...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Aaand... Elon just made a bid to grab the whole enchilada and buy out Twitter entirely. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/14/tech/elon-musk-twitter-offer/index.html
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Pretty much as I said at the start, Musk wears too many hats already to add being on Twitter's board to them.
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    I feel like I need to point out the post by @MulhollandL0ver Clownfish TV keeps using and that was posted above are from a satire account. https://twitter.com/MulhollandL0ver I'm curious as well. A lot will depend on Twitter's own internal rules for decision making, and more on unknown factors...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Honestly, this really is a staggering development though. If Musk does change Twitter to be more open to free speech it's a gamechanger on the political and economic landscape. Of course we don't know exactly which way things are going to go, but this is the guy who was so hated by the left...
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    Technology Elon Musk: The Worlds Richest Man

    Elon Musk has bought a big chunk of Twitter. At 9.2%, he's now the largest single stakeholder in the company with almost four times more than Jack Dorsey. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/investing/elon-musk-twitter-stares-stake/index.html Turns out Musk wasn't bluffing when he said the...
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