Twitter roundup: bankruptcy threat, top staff leave, Musk's payment system plans

[Avro Arrow]

Spank me, spank me, me too..., and me.....

I had thought that the lower age range given for residents of "Castle Anthrax", was 18. But no, it was 16. Great peril indeed.

I don't know what the laws are where you are but in Canada, 16 is the age of legal consent. In the middle ages, it was probably more like 14.

 

[wiyosaya]

And I agree with you. Trump did win the election, and he should be allowed to shout it from Twitter's rooftop until he runs out of Adderal and needs his diaper changed. Let's all get together and support Mike Lindell as well. We should start by each of us buying enough "My Pillows" to fill any spare rooms we might have.

It's a damned shame neither one of us owns a major corporation, we could spend double our advertising budget to bail poor Elon out.

I'm sure he'd be "ever so grateful"/

Musk is trying that approach. He made a twitter ad buy for Starlink. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/spacex-just-bought-a-big-ad-campaign-on-twitter-for-starlink.html

I guess hes borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Maybe he'll send Starlink/SpaceX to bankruptcy, too.

 

[wiyosaya]

Sure, but Musk is the richest of all. Who does he stick together with?

Hmmm - I wonder if Musk stands in front of a mirror chanting "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the Richest of them All?"

(Sorry, I couldn't resist )

 

[captaincranky]

I don't know what the laws are where you are but in Canada, 16 is the age of legal consent. In the middle ages, it was probably more like 14.

As it should be. Here in the more Puritanical US, it's 18. (That varies by state, see link at bottom.).We of course sell and dress teens younger than that to create sexual arousal, but it's on a look and buy from them, but hands off, basis.. Some people would call it "hypocritical", and they'd likely be correct.

As for the middle ages, I doubt there was such a thing as "age of consent'. In fact, John of England took a 13 year old bride named Isabella. In an age without electric lighting, John spent his late nights banging the pubescent teen, and slept til 10:00 AM, "burning daylight", as it were.
This is the same King John who was (ostensibly), dragged out of bed, taken to the plain of Runnymead, and forced to sign the Magna Carta, June 15, 1215 CE.

As a footnote, the career of Jerry Lee Lewis was cut short, when he married his 13 year old cousin. That was in the south, things either are, or were, quite different down there. Maybe our civil war wasn't just about slavery, but age of consent as well. And Jerry Lee's marriage (AFAIK) marriage was never subject to legal scrutiny.

Here in PA, once upon a time, the legal age for marriage was 18 for women, and 21 for men..!

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[captaincranky]

Musk is trying that approach. He made a twitter ad buy for Starlink.

I wonder how many rocket boosters the a**hole intends to sell by advertising on Twitter

 

[captaincranky]

Hmmm - I wonder if Musk stands in front of a mirror chanting "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the Richest of them All?"

(Sorry, I couldn't resist )

I'm sure that's the case. One has to wonder though, whether "the emperor has his new clothes on" while he's doing it.

(I couldn't pass that up either).

 

[wiyosaya]

I wonder how many rocket boosters the a**hole intends to sell by advertising on Twitter

It's gotta be rocket boosters or something else he's boosting.

 

[captaincranky]

It's gotta be rocket boosters or something else he's boosting.

You obviously mean, "himself".

 

[wiyosaya]

You obviously mean, "himself".

Well, I was thinking of a white powdery substance, or perhaps a green leafy substance though the term "boosting" generally applies only to the former.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Musk is trying that approach. He made a twitter ad buy for Starlink.

Well we knew THAT was inevitable.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Hmmm - I wonder if Musk stands in front of a mirror chanting "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the Richest of them All?"

(Sorry, I couldn't resist )

I actually think that it's a chemical compound that gives members of the weasel family their distinctive aroma.

 

[captaincranky]

Well, I was thinking of a white powdery substance, or perhaps a green leafy substance though the term "boosting" generally applies only to the former.

The DuPont corporation, (way, way, back in the day), used, "better living through chemistry", as their advertising slogan. Of course, it was pulled when it became a rampant joke in the hip culture of the 60's & 70's.

As you might have expected, I have some "mood music" to go along with the topic of drug abuse and an excess of wealth.:

 

[captaincranky]

I actually think that it's a chemical compound that gives members of the weasel family their distinctive aroma.

It may interest you to know, (however off topic it may be), that skunks have been removed from the weasel family, (Mustilidae), and placed into a family of their own, Mephiditae. (Latin for "foul odor").(**)

So, where do we place the great and powerful Muskster now? You make the call.

(**) I'm picturing a Roman orgy when somebody blurts out, "ew, who mephhed".