RedEye9 wrote on Apr 19, 2023, 13:29:Coalfax wrote on Apr 19, 2023, 13:21:But on a good note it forced Tesla to cut prices for the sixth time this year and done wonders for the stock, if you’re a short seller.
I am just really wondering why anyone would use this platform at all anymore. Its run as a useful and informative entity is gone and its a shell of its former self. Time to let it die like its owner appears to want it to do.Reuters #
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RedEye9 wrote on Apr 6, 2023, 15:56:Prez wrote on Apr 6, 2023, 14:09:His estimated net worth is 50 million.
When is the last time this very successful man actually *succeeded* at anything?
I'd love to be a failure like him and there is no one here that wouldn't.![]()
RedEye9 wrote on Mar 31, 2023, 10:24:1badmf wrote on Mar 31, 2023, 04:45:On the bright side, the check was cancelled before it could be cashed.
cuz for-profit education worked out so well at the university level. i don't even understand the right wing obsession with them theoretically, except that they're another chance from them to swindle the poor out of their money.
But using the classic far right “groomed” was a nice touch, us dim-libs would have gone with catfished. 😹
selection7 wrote on Feb 15, 2023, 22:12:
That second link is interesting, but after reading paragraph after paragraph, I still couldn't find the part where they explain how the "vehicle indefinitely" could be corrupt or actually end up back in the hands of those donating. Did I miss it? I see many, many paragraphs complaining that the money is tied up not actually doing good in the present, though.
Furthermore, the bit about the Heard-Depp trial seems to present evidence against the article's own position. I watched many, if not the majority of that trial's testimonies:
#1) The article very incorrectly states that Elon gave $5MM in Heard's name (in addition to $0.5MM). My mental alarm went off went I read that, because it's not remotely true (and is easily googlable). Only $0.5MM was given by Musk in Heard's name, and probably another $350k anonymously (the ACLU says they literally don't know the source). The difference between $750k and $5MM is a pretty egregious factual error to get wrong in an article that's trying to persuade us they know the facts better than us.
[Note that Heard, herself, gave away no more than 5% of her divorce settlement, keeping the rest for herself, even though she said publicly she'd give it all away. Johnny actually started the process of giving that divorce settlement money directly to the ACLU himself, but Heard's reps reprimanded Depp and said he should pay the money to Heard first—supposedly so Heard rather than Johnny would get the tax write-off, but of course there never was a tax write off because Heard never gave it away, which an ACLU lawyer sheepishly testified to in court. Also interesting is the article saying Depp's legal team "tried to undermine Heard's credibility", even though Heard steadfastly refused to admit on the stand that she never gave that money away, even years after she'd received the settlement and before Depp sued her for defamation in 2019. If you watched the trial, you'd know there was no "tried" to it—it was one of many things that led the jury to believe Heard's credibility was undermined (i.e., that she was a serial liar).]
#2) In the courtroom, neither the ACLU lawyer, nor any legal pundits on either side ever suggested the $500–750k Musk gave to the ACLU (through the investor donated fund) didn't actually go to the ACLU. We might debate whether the ACLU should be considered a non-profit charity, but we can't debate that it nevertheless is, and that Musk gave $500–750k to the ACLU through that fund.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 15, 2023, 16:40:
Well I can tell you that he does have to report the charities he gave to in his 1040. I have to. This filing is likely one for the SEC because of the stock transfer.
Fion wrote on Dec 14, 2022, 13:07:
Wonder if they'll kill off the main character again and then try to get us to sympathize with her killer.
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 8, 2022, 00:48:
"Elon Musk’s Bankers Consider Tesla Margin Loans to Cut Risky Twitter Debt"
The new margin loans would be backed by Tesla's stock to replace some of the high interest debt on Elons folly, his Twitter deal.
fujiJuice wrote on Dec 8, 2022, 09:41:
Looks like my kind of style.
Why is Edgar Allan Poe a character though? I feel like I am missing something, seems like an unnecessary distraction. I guess I have to watch it![]()
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 6, 2022, 13:09:cappy wrote on Dec 6, 2022, 13:01:There is no such thing as a good billionaire https://youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I Adam Conoverjdreyer wrote on Dec 5, 2022, 21:40:
Bernie Madoff's Lawyer to FTX's Bankman-Fried: "Shut Up!"
It's literally the worst thing you can do when under investigation: speak publicly about the case. IIRC, SBF's parents are both law professors, which makes it even more shocking. I do wonder if being part of that altruism movement played some motivation in the fraud, like he thought it might be justified if he used the money for good.
Sam Bankman-Fried has already said in multiple interviews that he was virtue signaling on all that and never believed in any of it.
Here he is collapsing the faith that Vox's altruism correspondent had once had in him\
jdreyer wrote on Dec 5, 2022, 21:40:
Bernie Madoff's Lawyer to FTX's Bankman-Fried: "Shut Up!"
It's literally the worst thing you can do when under investigation: speak publicly about the case. IIRC, SBF's parents are both law professors, which makes it even more shocking. I do wonder if being part of that altruism movement played some motivation in the fraud, like he thought it might be justified if he used the money for good.
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 5, 2022, 19:17:
SBF is SBFucked, to put it lightly.
Beamer wrote on Dec 3, 2022, 16:54:
Taibbi listed 5 deleted tweets. If you search them on the way back machine, they're almost exclusively Chinese language tweets showing revenge porn images of Hunter's junk.
So, as per usual, Republicans are obsessed with other people's genitals.