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Community note pointing out fake news once again 🫑 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 190 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Unfortunately, the rest of the tweet also isn't true.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    He has too much cash to die and his investors won't allow it at this time.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He has too much cash debt to die and his investors won't allow it at this time

    FTFY

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Debt is better than no money at all

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah, just ask Trump.

    Normal people subtract debt from available wealth, but if you have a billion dollars and three billion in debt, you in effect still have a billion dollars. The magic of late stage capitalism!

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    • [–] 166 points 2 years ago

    Don’t do that. Don’t get my hopes up like that.

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    [–] 110 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    We should spread new elon death rumors and make what happened more and more embarrassing with each telling.

    Edit: I love all of these already, lol

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I vote for him pissing his pants, slipping in a pool of his own piss, and then falling and smashing his head against that sink he was carrying in that picture back when he bought Twitter.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd start out with heart attack, then add in drug-induced, then overdose, then overdose and found in a puddle of his own urine, etc....

    Just progressively more as if more information keeps coming out.

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    • [–] 96 points 2 years ago

    Clearly incorrect as no one would be sad.

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The founder of nothing

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  • [–] 115 points 2 years ago* (2 children)
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    • [–] 54 points 2 years ago

    Do you find this helpful?

    …yes.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This stuff is back again? A year or two ago FB and the like was littered with spammers posting fake news that some celeb or other had died or met some tragedy to get people to click it. This stuff is annoying as heck, there’s plenty of spammers, but for some reason this particular brand seems very ubiquitous.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's because the sites refuse to police misinformation in any form. You want attention on that, you have to say something that someone in charge of that cares about. Falsely reporting their death is an easy, legal and fun way to make a content moderator or site owner or CEO pause and say "hey wait a minute"

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    • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yep he isnt dead, My source

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    • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Is he the founder of anything?

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Yes. Zip2 (as the money), SpaceX (as the money), Neuralink (as the money and the evil), the Boring Company (as the money and con ringleader)

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    Not sure what Zip2 does but basically he funded 3 companies that are his selfish shit, trying to abandon a dying planet for Mars, Neuralink to upload his mind to evade death, and Boring company for his Hyperloop shit to help sabotage highway rail project to keep Teslas cars to be sold which is where most of (almost all) his money comes from

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Zip2 is basically the yellowpages online. I think it's unfair to say he just funded that company. He basically started the initial project (GlobalLink) that turned into Zip2 after a rename that came with a bunch of funding.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, he fucking sucks at renaming companies.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Well that 3M funding round came from someone else, so he likely didn't have too much say in the rename. I believe he started Globallink with. 28k from emeralds he stole and pawned from his dad. Then he got another 100k later in the story of funding from his dad.

    But yeah... he isn't great at coming up with names... after that he started "x.com" which would later merge with another company that forced him to rename it to "Paypal"

    I think these details are all correct, but I am remembering from a Behind the Bastards podcasts and some articles I read. It's been a while so the specific amounts might be off a bit.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    for Mars

    Let's judge SpaceX for what they are actually doing, rather than a pipe dream the owner happens to have. The company did a lot of things that might be good or bad, but going to Mars is not one of them so it's not really a useful aspect to think about.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Where did I judge the company? Maybe read the comment properly and don't make up things to get upset about, I was talking about Musks motivation for funding these companies not what they do.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You don't even use punctuation correctly, which makes it hard to "read the comment properly". Moreover you don't explain that what you listed are the motivations for starting each company.

    funded β‰  founded

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago

    I used funded deliberately mate, I know the difference...

    for starting each company.

    you see I used funded because Musk rarely starts the company he just comes in with the money...

    Moreover you don’t explain that what you listed are the motivations for starting each company.

    I mean I literally wrote this

    basically he funded 3 companies that are his selfish shit, ...

    if that's not clear what I meant then I don't know what to tell you man, go retake English or something.

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    • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Investigators say they found Mr. Msuk face down in a bowl of SpaghettiOs.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Bet it was auto-erotic asphyxiation.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    He's my favorite zombie CEO and we're gonna ride dune buggies on mars because I said he was a cool dude on the 'net. We call it the 'net, me and Elon

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Fuck elmo as always. πŸ–•

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let’s pour one out in memory of our favourite frogfaced overfiend.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Is he really dead?

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