Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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    • Scrof@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      314·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        9 months ago

        As much as I personally dislike Musk, Starship does not belong on that list. It is the largest and most powerful space vehicle humanity has ever launched successfully and landed! It is re-usable and can potentially carry up to 100 people or 300,000 lbs of cargo.

        Nothing like that has ever been done before, and the advancements in science that will follow humanities expansion into space cannot be overstated.

        • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          100 people are, like, 19,000 lbs. Why the weight difference between 100 people and just cargo? Because of life support systems?

          • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            1 ton per person for living quarters, supplies, etc. I’m not sure if life support is part of that, and also not sure how exactly they settled on 1 ton.

            SpaceX has stated that Starship, in its “baseline reuseable design”, will have a payload capacity of 100–150 t (220,000–331,000 lb)

            https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

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