There is no way this is a coincidence.

To me it appears to be a way to pay his lenders without liquidating or collateralizing more Tesla stock.

So he can use the funds he raised for xAI to pay out the lenders for the initial Twitter purchase? Otherwise the lenders are just getting xAI stock (all stock deal) which I assume is illiquid?

A stock ponzi scheme to keep him afloat? Soon he will start a new venture and use that venture to save the previous venture and so on. Maybe a robot clothing company because robots shouldn't be naked.

Next step is have SpaceX buy xai

this here is the most logical step

The debt goes to the merged company and so can be serviced or retired using the funds of the whole company.

It's so space can expand without increasing the Planck length

Ohh I think I understand. Thank you!

Very legal, very cool.

Elephants too.

It's easy to understand, though? Daily outrage and vilification porn. Highly addictive stuff, and people will equivocate and believe the most preposterous things you've ever heard in order to keep the outrage righteous and their pornographer of choice credible.

Yes but no.

Right after the 9/11 attacks, one of the TV channels here started sending Fox News during the night (previously they had no 24/7 programming).

This was the first chance I got to really watch US news for more than a few minutes at a time, and the experience was quite eye-opening.

From what I can gather, it's way worse these days.

Still, no, I just won't understand why anyone "in the land of the free" would vote for someone so blatantly against freedom.

They have no choice to believe that he is the one that promotes freedom, and his adversaries the opposite. Not believing that would mean their outrage is not righteous, which would make future supply worthless, and their brains will just not allow that.

Yes I'm really surprised and scared to see how much people actually like being consumed by anger and hate. We see the same in the Netherlands now since the radical right party came to power.

I've tried to 'disarm' this in some of my ex-friends with actual facts to show that they've been duped into many of their sources of anger. But it's like they don't want to know. Like you say, they want to hold on to it.

I don't see them anymore because I can't deal with that negativity.

Canadians don't use that.

They might start soon

BlueSky is the new up-and-comer. I am enjoying it, but I unfollow anyone that posts ragebait or political content (besides memes, some of those are pretty funny).

The soda is not consumed by the food stamp holder. It's used as a medium to convert the balance to cash.

95dB air-horn for 16 to 20 hours per day is not non-violent.

A quick search shows 120dB at 1m isn't abnormal for a truck air horn. A line of them from far enough away will decrease in level by 3dB per doubling of distance. 8 doublings would make it ~96dB at 256m.