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      Part of me is kind of glad musk is drowning in this pet project. It means hopefully it will keep him and his fucking ego from fucking something up until it actually goes under.

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      It won’t. It’s far too valuable just for those purposes.

      I’d be amazed if it wasn’t getting dark money contributions to help it stay afloat. And Elon can always sell more Tesla stock.

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    Shame they aren’t piloting in the US, now they’ll probably figure out what a colossal mistake it is before it wrecks their company.

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    I wonder what those specific countries did to Elon. My experience is that most of his decisions are spite based.

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      NZ is usually used as a Guinea pig by tech companies, small population, English speaking, etc.

      However I think it might be that the Alll Blacks might face off the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup Final and Elon wants to minimise the shitposting on Twitter. /s

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      It’s very specific, isn’t it. Have you considered he may have just thrown three darts at a wall-sized map of the world?

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    So Elon is basically like the “public agent”guy but instead of raising offer, he lowers the demand.

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    Hahahahahaha. I never had a twitter account when it was free and not run by that sociopathic representation of the dunning kruger effect. I can’t imagine I’ll suddenly decide to pay money to get one.

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    Smart! Now he only needs every person in those countries to sign up and he’ll have have made his 44 billion back in… About 360 years!

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    So many people wouldn’t bother just because they don’t want their credit card info In their hands, even if it’s only a dollar.