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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    The Via Appia is not equivalent to your home town roads -- it's the equivalent of a modern interstate freeway. The Romans could not even remotely afford to build roads of this level as anything but the most critical arteries.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    It should also be noted that the aqueducts required extensive regular maintenance in order to remain functional as aqueducts; what remains to this day are pretty much just the non-functional skeletons. The famous Pont du Gard in southern France is one of *the* best-preserved of all Roman...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    That's a pretty slanted comparison -- modern roads endure vastly heavier duty cycles from vastly heavier vehicles than Roman roads did, and the famous Roman roads which survived so well were not "humble" at all; they are segments of the viae publicae, the high roads. These roads were very...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Commercial leases are generally fixed term, and just as with residential leases, a fixed term lease cannot be unilaterally terminated at will by either party. It's not "woke", it's straight contract law and as capitalist/conservative as it gets.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Twitter has nonpayment of rent lawsuits against it not only in Boulder (this one), but also reportedly in London, New York, San Francisco, and several other cities. Musk has made it pretty openly clear that he doesn't feel morally/ethically bound to continue business contracts estalished by...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    No, Australia would have inherent jurisdiction over all Twitter operations based in Australia and/or services involving Australian citizens. International jurisdiction can get very messy, as the laws don’t really reflect the decentralized nature of the Web.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    No it's not. Cherico posted about the lawyers, but I then pointed out it wasn't just the lawyers but part of a larger trend of Musk cutting Twitter expenses by just not paying. He's not actually treating the legal team any differently than dozens of subcontractors and business arrangements...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    How is, for example, the landlords that actually own the buildings that Twitter's offices lease and occupy in any way "fighting against a takeover"? Or the business jet rental company they happen to use?
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    I fail to see how business services -- not even "partner" businesses that had anything to do with Twitter content per se -- who had nothing to do with any of Twitter's decisions "deserve" to be screwed over.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Musk has apparently been extremely aggressive in slashing Twitter expenses by refusing to pay for a lot of things where he thinks they won't actually call his bluff and/or he can argue contract technicalities.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Nope. Elon later stated that he is specifically never, ever unbanning Alex Jones regardless of any amnesty.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    In my case it's more because I'm known to generally be one of the minority of liberals on this forum, so certain members basically replace what I actually say with "liberal strawman of the day", and/or assume anything I say that isn't "liberal strawman" is some sort of bad faith sneakyness.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Pro-gun, pro-nuclear power, and pro-draft is "the left-wing position in every single discussion?" Curious.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    No way. Attempted battery, much less child endangerment, is a comical overstretch that no court would countenance. Remember, the anti-abortion group Operational Rescue wasn't even charged when they passed actual tactical intelligence to the point of detailed breakdowns of a targeted doctor's...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    I will point out that when I got doxxed here on this very forum, several posters aggressively defended it by claiming that compiling public or semi-public information isn't technically doxxing. I don't believe Jack Sweeney has ever claimed to be a professional journalist, only that what he's...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    This is an empty gesture -- the "Trust and Safety Team" was an advisory board which had no actual decision making power and thus, cannot reasonably be held accountable for anything Twitter's previous m anagement did or did not do. It appears that Musk eliminated them largely because he sees his...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    As far as Musk's politics go, I think people too easily overlook that he's not only not American, but not truly a Westerner at all. He was born and raised entirely in the upper class of apartheid era South Africa, spending all of his formative years there before moving to Canada to exploit his...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    Dude, no. That's a fake/parody video -- there is absolutely no confirmed "Tesla Model Pi" phone. What Musk actually said was that he'd make an alternative phone if Apple and Google banned Twitter from their app stores, something that was posed to him as a hypothetical by a rando podcaster.
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    I would point out here that Elon's argument directly implies that for reasons inexplicable to anyone, Twitter's onsite cafeteria operation was not making food to order, but rather was making meals for every rostered worker every day even though they were not scheduled to be there, nor were they...
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    Musk actually buys Twitter.

    By that argument, companies having health insurance is an oppressive opportunity cost for employees who aren't sick.
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