And apparently had no insurance because “He was too smart to crash”? He did eventually sell it at a profit, of course
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If he was slightly less idiotic he could have just claimed he didn’t get insurance because he was too wealthy to need it; in the long run it makes more financial sense to only buy insurance against potential costs you couldn’t afford to cover on your own.
But of course he wasn’t a billionaire yet, so the cost of wrecking a $1 Million sports car (not to mention the potential cost of damages paid to the victims of any accident he caused) would have been more than enough to make him hurt back then.
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Once again I have to ask why anyone ever thought this guy was some kind of genius.
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I think it’s the 21st-century version of the Divine Right of Kings. Humans tell each other elaborate myths to explain why some bastards have all the wealth and power because the truth is both depressing and infuriating.
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Are you sure that his last words weren’t “hold my beer
?”
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I am assuming that McLarens have better cup holders than Teslas and therefore it was not necessary
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Well one thing Elon was able to do is to make url shorteners (and the scammy nonsense that came with it) popular on twitter again 
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It still doesn’t look like they’re catching Mastodon usernames when they’re in the location field.
It will also take action against users who try to get around this policy by cloaking URLs to other platforms or “spelling out “dot” for social media platforms that use ‘.’ in the names to avoid URL creation, or sharing screenshots of your handle on a prohibited social media platform.
Every successful platform’s users should treat the service like a web crawler looking for email addresses to sell to junk mailers, right?
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too true.
there’s also an element maybe of seeing the extent of white male privilege and people knowing - even if they’ll never be as rich as him - they can tie their prospects to that privilege and hope to do decently well
kind of like nft trading. a pyramid scheme that if you believe hard enough, if you convince others too, then you’ll “win”
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I see Truth Social on that little list, but not Gab or Parler.
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We seem to be witnessing a resurgence of the older, federated internets and i am all in for it, who knew a handful of giant tech companies each sharing screenshots from each other would be a terrible idea! There seems to be a lot of hand wringing about what can possibly replace twitter, but… maybe nothing should? We don’t want a single point of failure when a billionaire toddler buys it because someone hurt his fee-fees.
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So when is Elon’s account getting suspended? Y’know since he “doxxed” an entire stadium full of people.
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Friend just suggested Melon Husk.
Not bad.
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Those who can - step right up!
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Why? He’s not going to do it, unless he’s already planned to all along.
I’m starting to feel like he bought twitter to shut it down because he was forced to and wants to send a message. Even after he’s done with it, he’ll still be zottarich, and just the second richest person on the planet.
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Feel free to vote no.
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No thanks. I’m not into supporting twitter anymore by being on it.
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Thanks for sharing.
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