This will have very little effect on SF in the long-term 😂🤣 All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking X to whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses
So, to recap:
- we have a huge office that will eventually bring in another major company,
- the area keeps all of its best talent, and
- we get rid of the grifter that regularly refuses to pay their rent/lease, taxes, and insurance bills?
Hell yeah, of course this is a win.
whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses
Pretty sure he’s headed to Texas.
the king of back-assward states
Florida Man would like a word with you.
Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life. How they managed to be worse than the other Gulf states is baffling. Abbott and Paxton have managed to turn Texas into a raging dumpster fire. If Texas actually left the US, it probably wouldn’t even be able to get a membership in BRICS.
For those who were also curious about a source for the claim that “Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life”: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/13/10-states-worst-quality-of-life-america.html
Jeez, Texas losing to Mississippi is embarrassing considering that by any measure it’s a failed state. The Jackson water crisis alone should have them scrambling on par with Michigan post Flint.
To use an analogy, Mississippi will kick a puppy if it crosses its path Texas is outright looking for a puppy to kick.
I think you mean teXas 😂
They’re actually just moving people to their existing San Jose and Palo Alto offices, not even leaving California!
I can’t wait until it goes blue this November and 49% of the state collectively whines about it for 4+ years.
Don’t blueball me like that.
As a native Texan, this shit just keeps piling up and I cannot be more stoked. They’re so close to flipping our state.
At one point they were only keeping the desperate H-1B visa workers. I don’t know if that’s still the case, or how many of those workers are Asian or South Asian, but they might not want to move to whatever anti-woke place Musk wants to put X next.
He’ll fit right in.
I imagine most of whoever is left at Twitter is on a visa, so yeah, they probably will follow Musk wherever he says to go. The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.
Now, if Biden were to grant the power to protect re-employment to other companies for those on L visas, Musk is probably utterly fucked.
The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.
Musk is very anti-remote-work, so they have to do this anyway. Moving to Texas is only slightly less jarring than moving back to their home country which, in my experience, most people on visas visit regularly anyway.
Anyone hardcore enough to still be working at that dumpster fire is there for the long haul, they will follow Formerly Twitter in to the gates of hell, seemingly.
I’m guessing some of them (if on work visas) don’t have a lot of mobility. That doesn’t mean they will be as productive as someone else. Seeing colleagues go to other companies and being treated better on day one has a toll on worker morale.
All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking Xitter
At this point, for how he treated his employees, we can assume that most of the ones left are visa hostages that would be deported the day after being fired or incompetent people that faked their way to the spot and can’t find another job that pays the same. Or musk stans, but he fired even that simp that slept in the office floor in order to be more “productive”.
They are trapped and follow him everywhere
Depends on the visa, but usually you get a grace period to find another job. Not a walk in the park but no one is getting auto-deported either.
Its weird Peter Thiel hasn’t followed him. Both of them are just awful, you’d think they’d synergize
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Yeah, it’s not a big deal, but it shows or starts a trend.
Of? Companies leaving CA due to liberal laws? That’s kinda been CA’s thing since forever.
Another lemmy echo chamber… It’s pointless to show another kind of opinion. And I’m not far right or anything. I don’t even care about US politics.
An echo chamber for calling CA liberal? That’s just well documented reality my guy.
You don’t care about US politics, which means you probably don’t know much about them. So it very much seems like you’re speaking about something you don’t care or know about. Then when I, a person who does very much care about US politics, chimes in with insight you call it an echo chamber.
Honestly, it seems like you want to just say whatever you like and then rant and dismiss anyone who knows the topic and pushes back. Ironically, that sounds exactly like how an echo chamber works lol.
Another lemmy echo chamber… It’s pointless to show another kind of opinion.
Sounds like you maybe just have a habit of entering conversations on topics you don’t know much about (and in this case self-admittedly don’t even care about), so you get a lot of people who are more informed and do care expressing their disagreement with you?
Have you considered just not doing that?
An echo chamber of what, exactly? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make 🤷♂️
In his fantasies the libruls of San Francisco begged him to stay and he looked at them with a cool grin on his face and said “Let that sink in” as he came in his pants.
“Turn around!” they begged him, as he strode slowly towards the desert sun, but he knew enough of Lot and of Orpheus, that it would only bring them ruin if he did. So heavy was his heart, that he glanced back with melancholy love, and thus the fair city of San Francisco turned to salt. He kept on walking into that desert sun, a heavy heart keeping him anchored to calls of vultures naysaying his poor sense of direction…
~Honestly good riddance to both. I have never seen more narcissists in my life than I have in SF.~
Rich people really seem to think that them just having shitloads of money in a location makes that place better. I’m a midwesterner and even I know San Francisco has serious issues from how in about a generation or two it went from a working class industrial and military city to home of several of the wealthiest companies and filled with enough upper working class people to skyrocket cost of living.
So to Elon, don’t bring X to my city either
And they are now bringing that problem to Texas. Along with a bunch of liberals.
Good. Texas is a big enough state it should be blue.
Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.
It’s funny, I just finished Atlas Shrugged and it’s crazy how Ayn Rand got it wrong about those who can “do” must also have the highest moral standards.
Reading some interviews with her and she does seem to think money makes right.
An extension of the Philosopher-King ideology
The fucking sink joke! Lol
Bye Nazi-toddler, don’t let our tolerance and diversity hit your ketamine addicted ass on its way out, you piece of human garbage.
He’s addicted to ketamine? I would’ve guessed cocaine
I believe the quote I read from someone who knows him was something like “He microdoses ketamine daily, and macrodoses at parties”
I wonder if he pisses his pants yet? He must have K bladder by now, unless there is some super rich people secret to avoid it.
Wow, because of your comment I’ve googled ketamine bladder and now I can’t consider K as a relatively safe drug anymore.
20 - 90 % of users got irreversible urinal tract ulceration and significantly reduced functional bladder capacity.
That study is really light on information. I’d love to see more useful data if anyone has seen it. Like 20% of people who ever tried it ended up with ulceration? I know that’s not what it’s implying but that’s preposterous. We get one guy who started having problems after 3 years of use. He used ketamine for another two years and ended up with serious issues. That’s crazy, but where was he on the scale of once a week to Matthew Perry?
I have no doubts that he frequently does that, as well as other controlled substances. But it’s okay for him to abuse drugs; he’s rich and powerful after all! Though it would be interesting to see his head under an MRI with T2 and see how many Olney’s lesions he has.
T2? As in the spin relaxation time?
Maybe they mean Terminator. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is working another job now, the economy is rough.
The spin-spin relaxation! I’m not a radiologist, but it’s my understanding that T2 weighted images are the best way to see lesions. And it’s believed that ketamine abuse gives brain lesions. I’d bet a couple bucks that his brain looks like Swiss cheese. (I’m not sure if I missed some reference or if the question was serious btw)
Yep, this is what I was asking. Thank you!
I’m pretty sure it’s both.
Well now when some rando on the internet told you otherwise, you know better :D
“small amount once every other week” - his words - doesn’t change anyone’s behaviour, nor does it cause outbursts like “they want to extort me with money? fuck them!”
so question is how much cocaine does he take in between.
funny how everyone on lemmy is so anti musk, except when it fits your narrative, then you suddenly trust his own words on a topic of which illegal drugs he abuses… because that is indeed something people are usually honest about ;)
Okay, how about others’ words?
Reports include direct accounts from Tesla board member Joe Gebbia, “where Musk took ketamine recreationally through a nasal spray bottle multiple times.”
Also-
In the winter of 2022, former Tesla board member and friend of Musk, Larry Ellison, pushed Musk to visit his private Hawaiian island for a dry out, according to WSJ sources. This seems to have been the worst period for Elon’s drug bender, as other friends encouraged him to take Ellison’s offer, or attend rehab.
None of this can be proof he doesn’t take other drugs.
Also, I appended the original comment after you replied.
He does take other drugs. But ketamine is apparently the big one.
And the thing you appended is about trusting Musk. I’m literally saying to go by the direct accounts of people who have been around him.
I hate that ketamine has to be catching so many strays lately… Don’t blame K for this idiot.
correction; as twitter prepares to be evicted for non payment of rent
This is the real story, they ain’t choosin shit. They’re being kicked the fuck out. Elon takin tips from DonOld T
Finally, NIMBYs everyone can get on board with
YIMBY
X is going to be driven into the ground
I’d love to see it fail completely. I’m hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.
You saw the investor list, right? There’s a LOT of people on there who miiiiight not consider direct financial profitability to be the point of their investment.
Top shareholders of Twitter include:
- Elon Musk (owns 78.7% of the company)
- Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%)
- Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison (3.0%)
WTF they really need to relocate the evil lair in a volcano
There’s also a bunch of Russian connections too
Musk himself is a Russian connection, remember he is friendly with Putin.
That’s true, but I’d imagine running a site like twitter actively costs money. If advertisers aren’t paying, who is? Do they go to their investors and ask for money? For how long could Elon personally afford to run Twitter with all of its development costs?
Hopefully he beats Spez
It would be hilarious to see Musk beat up spez.
I think it would awesome if it failed so much, Musk was forced to sell. Then, it explodes in popularity
That would be incredible.
Day one it would be the most popular site on the internet.
Then I guess all the Nazis will go back to stormfront.
They’re walking right into new TX regs for social media. I’m already off the platform but any platform that stops me to upload my driver’s license then I’m done with it.
Going to be?
What benefit does musk get from killing twitter? He’s getting something out of it.
No, he is legit this bad at managing a company.
Thats the sad part. The guy essentially kickstarted the mass adoption of EVs, and the affordable space launch market, both of which I’m totally on board with.
If he was 40% less psychotic, megalomaniac, and Nazi, things would be OK.
After the string of bad decisions he’s already made with this company, what makes you think he’s able to make good choices now? He has an echo-chamber where nobody can tell him to GTFO and that’s literally the only thing he’s ever getting out of it. It’s kinda like if someone paid an obscene amount of money for a junker car, then paid 10x that amount to put vanity plates on it.
Yeah, controlling the town square. It’s worth him sinking money into it if he can get favorable tax laws passed as a result.
Election interference all over the world is a great value for his russian, chinese and arabian masters
it is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments
Is it though? He talks like he still runs PayPal. All Twitter sells is adverts, blue ticks and hate.
"It’s impossible to operate in San Francisco, they expect you to pay your rent "
Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.
Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.
“Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)
“But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”
As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.
Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.
He wants to turn twitter into Wechat, which is used for paying basically everything in China. In San Francisco you can’t just get rich by funneling money, you have to pay taxes on it.
You would still get rich but he wants it all for himself and doesn’t want to pay his debt to the United States.
debtfair share, you mean. His billions of debt that have about a billion of interest per year is another story.
Good for San Francisco.
Billions of dollars and that’s the beard.
This is the first beard I’ve ever seen make someone’s chin look weaker.
Beard? It looks like he hasn’t washed for a week.
Didn’t Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?
I’d like to see the answer to this
- X’s San Francisco landlord dismisses lawsuit claiming unpaid rent (reuters, March 2024)
“The owner of Elon Musk’s X Corp headquarters in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit that accused the social media platform of missing monthly rent payments totaling millions of dollars.”
thnx!
He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.
He really is the DJ Khaled of technology
Damn, this is fucking spot on. I’ll be Musk wouldn’t make it to the end on Hot Wings either.
Don’t be Texas, don’t be Texas…
* checks Google *
FUCK!
it literally could not be anywhere else. Texas is a safe-space for oligarchs and bigots. That’s why Elon and Joe Rogan and all these other asshats left CA for TX.
Texas, where woke goes to die.
Blexus!?
Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!
Texas, where woke goes to die.
Blexus!?
Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!
Weeps in despair in South Carolina
Young people need to register and vote. If they did, SC would be blue reliably.
All but 2 states honestly…
I agree. I just have no idea how to motivate folks to do that. Hence the despair.
This might not be the answer, but it is important. This is one of the last videos Beau did before he retired and his wife is taking over. It is still one of my favorite channels, but keep this in mind especially for the next several months, and beyond if things don’t go our way.
Hey Texas? Ya got room for one more scumbag?
Considering how many Bay Area tech workers with zero morals leave cali for Texas purely for lower taxes and how Texas loves that, I’m sure they do
Although i hate hearing about him, i do like seeing his face and body rapidly deteriorating.
It’s not deteriorating, it’s just entering its final cybertruck form
And that’s after he spends a ton of money to get it fixed. If he weren’t rich, he’d be bald by now, for example.
Ya, he identifies as a non-bald man. He had gender affirming care to make sure his hair is there and full.
I would be happy if all tech left the city. It used to be a hipster village of social non challants and detected alternative social movements. A shining, hairy, culty, body odor having, punk rock city on a hill.
The tech takeover ruined the city and contributed directly to the epidemic levels of homelessness seen because it made the city effectively so expensive non millionaires can’t survive there. Most long time san Francisco families ended up moving out.
Take all the rest of tech with you please Mr. Musk. Make San Francisco an affordable city again.
It’s too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.
