If you want to punish Musk in a meaningful way, then once the fine has been paid in full, the countdown can start. Once the same amount of time that elapsed between Twitter’s first noncompliance and the fine’s check cleared, then Twitter should be allowed back online. There will always be money to pay fines but they’ll never get the time back. Other companies will take note.

Telemarketer.

I pay for Netflix. I pay for Comcast. I pay Netflix to pay Comcast to allow me to have what I pay Netflix for in the first place.

Musk isn’t hurt by the amount of money he’s fined, but it annoys him terribly that he can’t control the situation and that his usual tools for getting his way are useless. It is a pebble in his boot that he can’t bluster, cajole, or bribe his way out of the problem like usual.

As I understand it, here in Florida you can sell plasma and you can donate blood or platelets. Blood donation places are not allowed to pay you for donating, but they are allowed to give you gifts like a gift card or t-shirt. I donate frequently at OneBlood (I literally hit 20 gallons this past Saturday!) and them being hacked is sickening.

Buy a gun or two. Nothing in this country has more rights than a gun.

This shareholder says “Bye!” and I’ll buy more when the market is done panicking over his departure.

Depending on the opponent that’s all I need to hear.

Fuck votes. Let them buy their way out. Once a fair value for the property, infrastructure, and future revenue is determined that value becomes the baseline for negotiations and the auction can begin. Oregon loses some freeloaders, gains a windfall, and becomes even more blue.

If you’ve read “Six Days of War” then this will feel familiar. During that conflict Israel was worried that international outcry would require them to stop making territorial gains so they did all they could as fast as they could to lay claim before that bell rang.

Ah, thanks. I missed that. I guess I need to update my “all these brands are really all owned by XYZ” chart again.

I don’t usually want to open LinkedIn at all. I wonder if they paid MS for the shortcut?

When googling something, append -site:reddit.com

You have to read to the last paragraph to confirm what you already knew: he’s a republican.

from Florida - didn’t he even move his “home state” status there officially a couple years back?

He did. Probably for tax purposes. As a native, I would like the states to the north to quit sending us your racist grandparents!

I keep telling myself “I want an x-box” and the news keeps telling me “no you fucking don’t”.

It could balance the budget.

This is an easy test. If Reuters is lying, that means the Model 2 is still in development. Prove that Reuters is lying, Elon. you are uniquely positioned to be able to do that.

“There, we dealt with it. Can we pretend it didn’t happen and we’re the victims again? Surely further criticism of something we’ve resolved would be antisemitic.”

Each one of Trump’s business partners thinks “I’m not gonna get screwed by this guy!” and in the end each one of them does.