King_Ofroad

King_Ofroad t1_iuqiqg8 wrote

This article does a good job summing it up

He used Tesla and SpaceX stock to back his purchase. If Twitter loses money, he loses power at his companies.

Over the last couple years Twitter has operated at a major (read billions of dollars) loss.

Musk is almost certainly not smart enough to figure out a way to make Twitter operate at a profit and as it becomes more of a cesspit, advertisers (the only source of income) will continue to bail.

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King_Ofroad t1_itlxsom wrote

I remember seeing an episode of House where a kid (nearly?) died after buying a pair of jeans that "fell off the back of a truck" from someone's trunk sale. It turned out they'd been treated with some kind of toxic chemical and had been stolen on their way to be incinerated.

I don't know if that can actually happen but I always wash my jeans before wearing them now.

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