Elon Musk buying Twitter

[DFBrews]

Gab has been asking for a couple billion from Elon to make it the defacto free speech platform for months but has been ignored.
Truth social launch was terrible and soured the user base. DWAC suffered greatly after the decision not to merge losing 2/3rds of market value since the beginning of march.

A billionaire with a wild hair up his ass to buy a global social media platform is unrealistic without serious scrutiny from many areas.
He doesn?t care about the free speech unless it benefits him. He has verifiably censored media about his products more than once.

Elons business endeavors thrive with media attention. If he keeps his name in the headlines it?s free marketing.

Shout out to the volatility he provides. I have made solid
Moneys this week with Tesla earnings calls yesterday followed buy puts today and both calls and puts on twitter this week.

[Circuits]

Ol' Musk put together a buyout bid at $46.5B with backing, pledging 33.5B of his own money, and threatening to put the question directly to the Twitter shareholders if the board balks again.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Once again, even our understanding of physics permit the apparent violation of C it exclusively when you are dealing with spacetime compression/expansion. The early universe inflated well in excess of C in relation to a fixed reference point. So in other words, if we imagine two fixed, imaginary objects in the early universe, they were spreading apart faster than even C - often by large margins. But, all the while, they were not breaking light speed. It is important to understand that the distances between objects can be changed/dilated/expanded in spacetime which does not run afoul of the constant itself. It is akin to saying we can get from NYC to India in six hours. Not by incredible speed, but instead by shortening the distance by going through the earth. Likewise if the earth is inflating, the distances between us and India increase. If the earth inflates fast enough, that distance increases faster than light speed, but neither India or NYC has moved. This is also how something can make impossible movements (right angle turns for instance) without destructing. If you aren't moving through spacetime, but instead moving spacetime, your movement is minimal while your apparent movement is substantial.

These physics are well understood by scientists on earth. And there is some progress towards the theoretical warp bubbles here (spacetime manipulation like I described), they are just, so far, on a microscopic level. So we do understand it, it is not currently possible for us purely from a technological perspective. If we don't wipe ourselves out, there is a 99% chance it will be, someday.

What you're describing is what I said about different reference frames but there is no known physics that allows you to travel faster than light in the local reference frame. It violates the General Theory of Relativity which has survived more experiments than just any theory in the history of physics.

[00tec]

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Astrophysics isn't what I read into with the title

[00tec]

Sounds like the board accepted the deal

[Scanker19]

Sounds like the board accepted the deal

Which by default means they declined my offer…

[brutal]

Twitterverse meltdown in 3, 2, 1...

Seen on twitter, "I'm quitting twitter!" is the new "If Trump wins, I'm moving to Canada!"

IOW, they'll all be back online in a week screeching the same garbage.

[RblDiver]

I hear Twitter has an office in Boulder. If I could stand Boulder, I'd love to just go and "bird" watch. Of course, I can't, so I won't.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Elon moves fast. I was thinking he'd let the stock price melt down for another week before solidifying the acquisition. I was still contemplating jumping in and buying some shares for immediate profit when the news came out and price skyrocketed.

[FoxtArt]

Dang. Should've bought Twitter. Just was busy.

And Elon is smart...

You could put 60 billion into some purported "free speech platform" and you'd be wasting about 59.5 billion of your investment.

Just because you can build something doesn't mean you can get anyone to use it. Buy out what they use, and you solve problem #1. Then, you can address #2 with users that remain, and maybe #3 bring new users back.

It is akin to trying to build a "new windows operating system" to compete with Microsoft. It would be REALLY stupid to invest 50 billion into that. They could make something that works perfectly and still only capture 10% or less of market share, because people keep using what they already know.

Buy out Microsoft though, then rebuild it, and you have a viable chance to be the industry leader with your vision with OS going forward. Same/Same.