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SlyPokerCat said:
Wow. So you wanted to meet up with someone you thought was female for drinks that isn't your wife? What would your wife think of that? That's not very Christian of you. Gotta watch out for that temptation!
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Nowhere in the bible are cat sex robots mentioned so both of you are safe.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Nowhere in the bible are cat sex robots mentioned so both of you are safe.
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No.

Leviticus 26:22
I will send cat sex robots against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

barfo
 
https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/x-holdings/

Elon Musk may combine Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter into new ‘super company’

Elon Musk may be laying the groundwork to combine Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter into a new super company.

As the world’s richest man continues his crusade to take over Twitter, Musk registered three new companies on Tuesday in the tax-friendly state of Delaware under variations of the name “X Holdings.”

The three new companies appear to be financial maneuvering as part of Musk’s Twitter bid.

The first company, X Holdings I Inc., lists Musk as president, treasurer and secretary and would be the parent company of Twitter if the billionaire’s bid succeeds, according to Bloomberg, which first spotted the fillings.

Another entity, X Holdings II Inc., would merge with Twitter as part of the acquisition, while X Holdings III LLC would be used to help fund the transaction, the outlet reported.........
 
I can't bring myself to stick with Twitter if Musk owns it (it's not like I'll be losing 100s of followers) - anybody used Mastodon? I tried to go to it and the page is down - obviously a flood of panicked Twitter users are trying to check it out.
 
barfo said:
No.

Leviticus 26:22
I will send cat sex robots against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

barfo
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That's just a modern translation. The original Hebrew is ambiguous between "cat sex robots" and "Kath's ex-rabbits" (which makes more sense in context, trust me).
 
ABM said:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twit...-elon-musk-former-sec-chairman-163756232.html

Twitter board gets an 'F' for dealing with Elon Musk: former SEC chairman

Twitter's board (TWTR) is doing a terrible job handling the Elon Musk situation, said former SEC chairman Harvey Pitt.

"I would give Twitter's board an F," Pitt said on Yahoo Finance Live. "I believe under the circumstances, they needed to check out whether this was a real bid. If it were a real bid, then they needed to do what was in the best interest of their shareholders. This is a price that hadn't been seen in quite some time. The number is at least a legitimate frame of reference and the board's unwillingness to treat it seriously strikes me as worthy of a poor grade."

The Tesla CEO, who has a 9.2% stake in Twitter, offered to buy the social media platform for $54.20 a share last week. Musk believes the platform should be less reliant on advertising sales and better police its content, among other initial ideas from the unpredictable visionary.

As to be expected, Twitter is hardly embracing Musk's arrival.

Soon after Musk's bid, Twitter said it along with its board of directors "will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Twitter stockholders."

Twitter has since enacted a poison pill to keep Musk from acquiring more of the company.

"We believe the latest development, if anything, is a major distraction for Twitter's management team and further casts doubt on Twitter's ability to achieve its aggressive FY23 mDAU and Revenue guidance (315 million mDAUs in Q4’23 and $7.5 billion plus in revenue for full year 2023), which we are fundamentally cautious about," warned Deutsche Bank analyst Benjamin Black.
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"Unpredictable visionary" is an interesting euphemism for "giant flaming douchebag".
 
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...pt-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43 billion offer

NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said.

Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board has met to recommend the transaction to Twitter shareholders, the sources said, adding it was still possible the deal could collapse at the last minute...........
 
https://www.axios.com/elon-musk-twitter-changes-45dfb4c3-ff60-455d-b976-fc78bab8530f.html


Twitter on Monday agreed to be acquired by Elon Musk for around $44 billion in cash. The news came just weeks after the tech mogul launched his unsolicited, take-it-or-leave-it offer.

State of play: Here's a look at everything Musk said he would want to change about the social media platform, from adding an edit button to limiting content moderation.

An edit button
  • Musk noted the social media platform's lack of an edit button back in a 2019 tweet: "Where’s the edit function when you really need it!?" he wrote.
  • At the TED2022 conference in April 2022, Musk said he wants Twitter to have an “edit” button and believes the problems critics raise can be resolved. “I think you only have the edit capability for a short period of time, and zero out all retweets and favorites” after an edit.
In April 2022, Musk polled his followers on whether they'd want an edit button. About 74% of more than 4.4 million respondents voted yes.

Worth noting: Twitter confirmed after the poll it is working on an edit button, adding, "No, we didn't get the idea from a poll."

Long-form tweets
Musk has also suggested allowing long-form tweets.

  • He commented on a long Twitter thread in April 2022: "My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is *way* overdue for long form tweets!"
Where it stands: Twitter has a 280 character limit. The company increased from a 140 characters in 2017.

Spam bots and authentication
Musk once called spam bots "the single most annoying problem" on Twitter. He tweeted in April 2022: "If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!"

  • He wrote in a reply to that tweet that Twitter would "authenticate all real humans" under his ownership.
Open-source algorithm
Musk has said he's concerned about bias being inherent to Twitter's algorithm — which he said he'd solve with an open-source algorithm.

  • In late March 2022, he tweeted, "I’m worried about de facto bias in 'the Twitter algorithm' having a major effect on public discourse. How do we know what’s really happening?"
  • Musk polled his followers on whether they'd support an open-source algorithm. About 83% of more than 1.1 million respondents said they would.
Be smart: An open-source algorithm would make publicly available the calculus which determines what appears on a person's Twitter feed.

Content moderation
Musk has outlined his free speech-first vision for Twitter. He said at the TED2022 conference he thinks Twitter should not regulate content beyond what is required by the laws of the countries it operates in.

  • "A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech," Musk said in a tweeted in January 2021.
Our thought bubble: It's easier to advocate broad policy change from the outside of a company like Twitter than to enact it from within. It's also worth remembering that Musk has been a mercurial tweeter, and his plans could easily change.
 


Or so he doesn't throw 44 billion down the drain
 
Twiiter will bust TRUTH Social.
 
Whats to stop the creater of Twitter from creating another competitive alternate to Twitter.
 
Chris Craig said:
Whats to stop the creater of Twitter from creating another competitive alternate to Twitter.
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The Twitter user base. With our current system the incumbent nearly always wins.

If Musk actually makes twitter worse (causing a large enough percentage of users to leave and stay gone) there may be a legitimate shot for another company to take the mantle... But if he doesn't it'll take a completely new perspective to replace it.

If he open sources, adds an edit button, allows long form tweets, and ends bots I don't, think there will be any mass exodus for quite some time.

And if it's truly open source so he can't even cheat I don't think it will ever happen.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
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She's absolutely right. However, I'm still hoping Musk does what he said he would with Twitter.

It's not like he has much time to mess with Twitter... Hopefully he just makes it follow US Law and leaves it be. Maybe pay the IFF to run it...
 
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