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Freedom Farter Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 (edited) I see it as a simple battle between state power - which is to some extent collective, given Brazil's democracy - versus the private power of the world's wealthiest man and his company. To me this is Brazil exercising its national sovereignty. (STF is Brazil's supreme court). Edited August 30 by Freedom Farter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-x-could-face-ban-in-brazil-after-failure-to-appoint-legal-representative The ban is on. And for those who think they'll just use a VPN, like the girl in the post above. Quote Justice Moraes also summoned Apple and Google to “implement technological barriers to prevent the use of the X app by users of the iOS and Android systems” and to block the use of VPN applications. The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Nice to see that it is actually possible for governments to slap down billionaires and multinational corporations when it suits. Hopefully a trend that catches on, but I won't be holding my breath or anything. Musk is just particularly bull-headed and frankly this will suit the narrative of terrible oppression he's been trying to convince himself of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 (edited) On 22/07/2024 at 11:00, Melanius Mullarkey said: Keith starts and ends with the Strathisla Bakery. That bakery is f**king bogging, cheap as shit but just salty, stodgy shite. Boy I work with was raving about it, what a waste of money, didn't even give it to the mutt, salty, fatty pish Edited August 31 by HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 7 hours ago, carpetmonster said: A while back, there were a few folk suggesting that Musk was going to buy Twitter purely to kill it because he was butthurt. I've no doubt he is genuinely a fash eugenicist weirdo who considers himself ubermensch and would like to fly to Mars and leave the rest of us to die, but is that genuinely what's going on here? A loonball so wealthy that he can tank part of his own fortune just to stop people laughing at him? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, BFTD said: A while back, there were a few folk suggesting that Musk was going to buy Twitter purely to kill it because he was butthurt. I've no doubt he is genuinely a fash eugenicist weirdo who considers himself ubermensch and would like to fly to Mars and leave the rest of us to die, but is that genuinely what's going on here? A loonball so wealthy that he can tank part of his own fortune just to stop people laughing at him? I would give more credence to that theory if it weren't for the fact he didn't mean to buy Twitter. He threw out a share price offer not appreciating that it was legally binding, because he's arrogant and careless, and was tied to a price far higher than the company was worth. He tried hard to get out of it and only when forced to go through with the purchase did he start pretending he meant it all along. He's always had a love-hate relationship with Twitter because he desperately wants to be an alpha but we all know he's a reply guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BFTD Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 minute ago, GordonS said: I would give more credence to that theory if it weren't for the fact he didn't mean to buy Twitter. He threw out a share price offer not appreciating that it was legally binding, because he's arrogant and careless, and was tied to a price far higher than the company was worth. He tried hard to get out of it and only when forced to go through with the purchase did he start pretending he meant it all along. He's always had a love-hate relationship with Twitter because he desperately wants to be an alpha but we all know he's a reply guy. It's incredible to believe there was a time when his popular image was basically Tony Stark. It wasn't even very long ago. He seems to have spent the last decade actively trying to out himself to the world as a complete moron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, BFTD said: It's incredible to believe there was a time when his popular image was basically Tony Stark. It wasn't even very long ago. He seems to have spent the last decade actively trying to out himself to the world as a complete moron. I remember serious environmentalists saying just a few years ago that Elon Musk would save us all with his electric vehicles, battery technology and hyperloop. Only techbros say that now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_dog Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 5 hours ago, BFTD said: He seems to have spent the last decade actively trying to out himself to the world as a complete moron. He excels at it to be fair. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 7 hours ago, GordonS said: I remember serious environmentalists saying just a few years ago that Elon Musk would save us all with his electric vehicles, battery technology and hyperloop. Only techbros say that now. It ought to be obvious to most by now that he has no ability or interest in doing anything for the benefit of humanity. His idea is for us all to die from poverty/climate change and be replaced by the children of himself and a few thousand other weirdos who consider themselves genetically blessed due to the wealthy they've accrued. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, BFTD said: It ought to be obvious to most by now that he has no ability or interest in doing anything for the benefit of humanity. His idea is for us all to die from poverty/climate change and be replaced by the children of himself and a few thousand other weirdos who consider themselves genetically blessed due to the wealthy they've accrued. Kind of reminds me of a book by Ben Elton called "Stark". No spoilers, but I'd be quite happy if The "great and the good" ended up on the moon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 21 hours ago, GordonS said: I would give more credence to that theory if it weren't for the fact he didn't mean to buy Twitter. He threw out a share price offer not appreciating that it was legally binding, because he's arrogant and careless, and was tied to a price far higher than the company was worth. He tried hard to get out of it and only when forced to go through with the purchase did he start pretending he meant it all along. He's always had a love-hate relationship with Twitter because he desperately wants to be an alpha but we all know he's a reply guy. I think he could have got out of it by paying a billion dollar forfeit, but he thought that would make him look sub genius level so he went all in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 17 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said: Kind of reminds me of a book by Ben Elton called "Stark". No spoilers, but I'd be quite happy if The "great and the good" ended up on the moon. This isn't the first time that's been recommended to me, so I'm taking the plunge. Unfortunately, it seems like it hasn't been available on audiobook since the mid-Nineties, and even then it was only on cassette, so I'm buying a second-hand copy and I'll see if I've still got a tape player I can use to digitise it. Read by Adrian Edmondson too. Obviously the state of the planet was getting press in the Eighties, but it still takes an impressively cynical mind to have accurately predicated that the arseholes in charge would think, "can't be arsed doing anything about this, let's just strip as much wealth as possible out of Earth and f**k off somewhere else". 7 hours ago, welshbairn said: I think he could have got out of it by paying a billion dollar forfeit, but he thought that would make him look sub genius level so he went all in. Plus, it's where he lives his life, so it's probably worth the financial hit to have absolute control over the world he wishes he could exist in. Sad that, in his lifetime, they likely won't come up with a properly immersive VR world he could live in, where he's a genuinely hard-working self-made man with a son whose identity he could control with a slider. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 49 minutes ago, BFTD said: This isn't the first time that's been recommended to me, so I'm taking the plunge. Unfortunately, it seems like it hasn't been available on audiobook since the mid-Nineties, and even then it was only on cassette, so I'm buying a second-hand copy and I'll see if I've still got a tape player I can use to digitise it. Read by Adrian Edmondson too. Obviously the state of the planet was getting press in the Eighties, but it still takes an impressively cynical mind to have accurately predicated that the arseholes in charge would think, "can't be arsed doing anything about this, let's just strip as much wealth as possible out of Earth and f**k off somewhere else". Plus, it's where he lives his life, so it's probably worth the financial hit to have absolute control over the world he wishes he could exist in. Sad that, in his lifetime, they likely won't come up with a properly immersive VR world he could live in, where he's a genuinely hard-working self-made man with a son whose identity he could control with a slider. Its a great book, also foretold Tommeh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 "Good old Cumhead here, James" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 4 minutes ago, DrewDon said: "Good old Cumhead here, James" These c***s are born c***s. It’s the lower class c***s that aspire to be like these c***s that are the f**king c***s. c***s. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 2 hours ago, DrewDon said: "Good old Cumhead here, James" There's never a meteorite strike when you need one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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