I suspect real reason is that he’s unwilling to sell enough Tesla stock to finance the acquisition (since that would hurt the stock price) and he’s unable to secure a loan against that stock because his would-be financiers understand “buying Twitter is a stupid idea that you’re basically guaranteed to lose money on,…

The whole concept of a “play-to-earn” video game is deeply upsetting to me. Like I get that modern predatory game design wants you to form a habit of coming back to whatever eternal game (not saying I like this but there are games I do this for), but when you literally make it “work” instead of “play” you’ve crossed a…

It should be obvious that “difference of opinion” is a thing that has limits. Like if I argue “we should hunt down, kill, and eat Playstation President Jim Ryan” and he thinks that sounds unconscionable, what we have is not a “difference of opinion” I am just acting like a maniac in this case.

Room temperature is at least 65 degrees?  I’m not sure my kitchen is ever that warm with the oven off in the winter.

It’s ultimately just the same thing as any other speculative asset someone buys with the intent of selling it for more later.  If I buy a piece of art for $n and when I turn around to sell it and the best I can get is $n/2, then it’s not like the money went anywhere, it’s just the asset became worth less.

This is the same principle by which I can pay for my groceries with gold bars. The grocery store does not take gold bars, but I can probably find someone who will go through effort to turn those gold bars into useful money and will consider their profit worth for their time getting groceries for me.

I confess if I’m going to get blitzed on something that is sneakily potent, I’d much rather do it in a sphere where “there’s fruit in this” is apparent, since fruit is at least a thing I know I should be eating.

If they’re going to do another Mass Effect game set in the milky way, I’d really prefer it be set a significant amount of time after Mass Effect 3, so much so that Shepard would have died of natural causes anyway, and people are kind of iffy about some of the specifics about them.

“Named for the sister of Apollo” should be a gimmee no matter what the rest of the question is. Apollo only had one sister, his twin. Athena is a half-sister, and Aphrodite is either his great aunt or a half-sister depending on whether you ask Hesiod or Homer.

But what if they tried adding slurp juice?

I don’t even want to be around anymore, but I’m glad ITYSL is going to be.

I haven’t seen a Marvel thing since Infinity War.  Should I just fully rule out buying a ticket to see this?  Should Disney have given up on me as a customer?

But what if they give their apes slurp juice?

I usually tell service workers to “have a good one” since that seems pleasant and maximally ambiguous.

Crypto “Currencies” aren’t money- they are speculative assets. Bitcoin, like Pokemon cards, are a thing that you can buy for a certain price right now and you can then resell it for a different price later.

It seems like the Post Office is basically ideal for an electric fleet since the hours used/distance traveled for postal jeeps is almost entirely predictable.

Does this mean I need to stock up on replacement bulbs for my lava lamp collection?

I drink water as a nervous habit, so some days I’m closer to 4 gallons than 1.

Twitter has always been ungovernable, run by bad people, and has failed to do anything effectively on purpose (including “make money.”)  Elon Musk is an insecure narcissist and a deeply stupid person, but Jack Dorsey was a bad person who wanted bad things and he was probably better at getting things done.

So Elon Musk is a bad person who wants bad things, but so was Jack Dorsey.  The difference between the two appears to be “Jack Dorsey is actually an effective person” whereas Musk is just a buffoon.