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Aral Balkan

Elon Musk: “And now, I will literally piss in people’s faces…”

Mainstream media:

- Five health benefits of urine
- How to stay hydrated like Elon
- I was first in line, here’s how it felt
- Jack Dorsey also unzips his pants
- Swallow or spit, readers have their say

67 comments
Loukas Christodoulou

@aral Columnist Mike Winker, "what the anti-piss backlash gets wrong".

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@Loukas
@aral

"""
Three Reasons Why NoElonPiss Social Network Will Fail:
- no way to monetize without piss-based revenue stream
- benefits cannot trickle down as effectively
- site theme not yellow enough
"""

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@rysiek @Loukas @aral "piss-based revenue STREAM" 🤣

FediThing

@rysiek @Loukas @aral

Oh heck, your pun game is strong there! 😆 💪

StephaneHuart

@Loukas @aral Politico and the washington post: "How Musk pissing in people's faces is bad news for Biden"..

Musta Makkara

@aral
- Sam Altman - "Being peed on also makes you human, after all."

Mastodon Migration

@aral Very funny. What is really hard to understand is the almost complete absence of speculation that he might very well be absolutely deranged. People behave this way when they are having a psychotic breakdown or in late stage drug addiction. He is a horrible person, but the absence of concern for his mental state is weird in light of his most recent actions. This guy just torched $44 billion, and has delusions of his X company taking over the world. It's pretty nuts.

Loukas Christodoulou

@mastodonmigration @aral as Terry Pratchett pointed out, when you're rich and deranged you're just eccentric.

Mastodon Migration

@Loukas @aral Guess that's it. Look at Trump. But this feels different, more of a rapid decline.

Hobson Lane

@mastodonmigration
It just becomes publicly apparent quickly. Erratic behavior rewarded over a lifetime is a long slow decline that afflicts those whose lucky steak goes on too long. Within SpaceX he had to have a babysitter to prevent him from losing billions (Gwynne Shotwell). At Paypal and Tesla his competition was so sclerotic and monopolistic they left him a green field of opportunity. A deranged bluffer at poker looks like a genius if they keep winning... until they don't.
@Loukas @aral

Mastodon Migration

@hobs @Loukas @aral That makes sense. Though also perhaps starting to lose can hasten the unraveling.

Loukas Christodoulou

@mastodonmigration @hobs @aral I suspect that because he's from intergenerational wealth he has more cultural and social support structures around him than Kanye, so we won't ever see a similar total meltdown, but it does seem to be getting worse.

Mania Emma

@Loukas @mastodonmigration @hobs @aral fortunes usually collapse at the third generation…

Hobson Lane

@mastodonmigration
"They call this feeling the testosterone high, because when a man is successful in his endeavors, his body floods with this potent hormone. They warn against the effects of testosterone. Testosterone makes men too aggressive, they say, and aggressive men grasp for success and generate ever more testosterone the more successful they become. It is a nasty cycle."
_Neverness_ by David Zindell
Ch 6 "The Image of Man"
#bookstodon #SciFi #quote #psychology #hormones
@Loukas @aral

Artax

@mastodonmigration @Loukas @aral nobody remembers "pedo guy" or what? It's not recent.

HarriettMB.

@mastodonmigration @aral @Loukas His recent employee Linda has got the same infection. This is just a word salad. It’s the Emperor saying ‘I own the world and everything in it’

HarriettMB.

@aral @Loukas @mastodonmigration Utterly deranged. I wonder if these are her actual words and thoughts or a dictation by Musk.

Glen Turner

@harriettmb @aral @Loukas @mastodonmigration Translation: Twitter will add payments. Rather than have the usual staffing overhead it will use AI to control fraud.

The reality: payments are a solved problem everywhere but the USA. There's no way Twitter will shift the incumbents.

Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

@harriettmb @mastodonmigration @aral @Loukas who builds it, the 12 remaining developers in an office with unpaid lease?

RAK

@harriettmb @mastodonmigration @aral @Loukas: Since I started hearing about her, I've felt like she exhibited some of the more negative parts of the girlboss stereotype.

Nick

@harriettmb @mastodonmigration @aral @Loukas

I had Chat GPT prompt out x.com with meaningless corporate speak and I think her job could be replaced. "Welcome to a new horizon of digital exploration, brought to you exclusively by X.com - where the fabric of ingenuity weaves the tapestry of tomorrow. Our groundbreaking multi-dimensional interface leverages quantum-infused algorithms to spearhead revolutionary synergistic modalities in the cloud-based sphere."

Ipso Facto

@Loukas @mastodonmigration @aral Apparently no one beat the delusions of grandeur out of him when he was growing up.

MariaLiv

@mastodonmigration @aral Oh, I've been telling everyone that exact thing since Elon made the buy. My mother works with addicts and different psychological issues, and she thinks Elons behavior very much is the kind of behavior she has seen every day for more than 40 years in the field. The only difference is her patients doesn't have that much money, but the little they have, they burn.

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@mastodonmigration @aral oh no, people have been speculating about this for ages to varying degrees of seriousness, including me. (See: solarbird.dreamwidth.org/18611 - Speedrunning Howard Hughes)

But there's also serious talk about his Vitamin K consumption, and what people who do the amount of K he does have also been consuming, I was just listening to a podcast talking about this.

But I also think that the importance of his decision that he'd rather have a dead son than a live daughter factors into the specific _expression_ of all his batshittery - particularly in terms of how he's made Twitter into an alt-right/fascist disinformation and propaganda fountain. I think a lot of it goes right back to that.

@mastodonmigration @aral oh no, people have been speculating about this for ages to varying degrees of seriousness, including me. (See: solarbird.dreamwidth.org/18611 - Speedrunning Howard Hughes)

But there's also serious talk about his Vitamin K consumption, and what people who do the amount of K he does have also been consuming, I was just listening to a podcast talking about this.

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@mastodonmigration @aral I really think he did it on purpose. He bought Twitter just to destroy it

FediThing

@mastodonmigration @aral

No one intervened with Howard Hughes, and he was clearly detached from reality by the end:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H

(The preview link below this is wrong, by the way... The actual link goes to a specific paragraph.)

John van

@FediThing @mastodonmigration @aral Elon Musk has reminded me of Howard Hughes for a long time now ... 😅

Glitzersachen.de

@mastodonmigration @aral
I have no concern. The man is clearly completely off his rocker. I only feel concern for people, not for bodies inhabited by am alien mind parasite.
And that's an insult to aliens, actually.

AnneTheWriter

@mastodonmigration @aral

As a middle-aged woman, when I first heard he was trying to recapture a time from his younger days, my first thought was: "How old is #ElonMusk?"

Not remotely surprising to me, he is 52 years old. 🙄

#Elon is having a #MidLifeCrisis, if you ask me, and he's dragging everyone else down in the process.

Some guys buy classic cars or RVs, some guys have affairs with their secretaries. Musk tries to fix a previous business failure of his younger days, but ends up empowering Nazis and destroying a $44B investment instead.

Thank God my husband only tried rebuilding a classic car.

#TwitterX #XTwitter #X #Musk #TwitterLogo #TwitterMeltdown #TwitterFail #MidLife

@mastodonmigration @aral

As a middle-aged woman, when I first heard he was trying to recapture a time from his younger days, my first thought was: "How old is #ElonMusk?"

Not remotely surprising to me, he is 52 years old. 🙄

#Elon is having a #MidLifeCrisis, if you ask me, and he's dragging everyone else down in the process.

MimzyDub🇨🇦😻

@AnneTheWriter1 @mastodonmigration @aral I always forget he's about a year younger than me. Eew!! Why can't he just go find a new girlfriend or something like many other men? Oh, wait, no. That wouldn't be out of character for him.

UnHooked

@AnneTheWriter1 @mastodonmigration @aral there's a very valid reason Bill Gates has a Billion dollar short on Tesla. It's leveraged to the hilt and used to bank the Twitter purchase, and we know how well that's going

Ben Tasker

@aral Honestly, this.

If he got drunk one night and hacked his own leg off, certain portions of the media would be writing about how he's found a novel way to reduce weight and therefore reduce the fuel that his jet consumes.

DrAlexandraK

@aral
I think it's past time to cancel elon.

jus sayin

Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:

@aral we have come to the time were spam blockers should start to work their way on most mainstream media sites, around here I already filter out a few. The memetic incantations that spread the worship of people like musk are way more damaging to society than spam ever was.

MariaLiv

@aral “- Jack Dorsey also unzips his pants” Very funny indeed 😆

(But maybe that last point is just a tad gross... 😬)

Kiudecan

@aral
Perfectly encapsulated! 👌 Congrats on the wording

Pablo Martini

@aral how disgusting it's now Xi$$ in people's faces!

Jeroen Baert

@aral Hold your horses Jack Dorsey is now deep into retweeting JFK conspiracy theories from 30 years ago

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@aral Back in December, I posted this:

solarbird.dreamwidth.org/18611

speedrunning howard hughes

Elon Musk, sitting on a bare mattress in a Twitter overnight room, naked, surrounded by bottles of his own urine, pecking out bans with his long, long fingernails.

MyFairJulie

@aral

I think of Elon as rich Beavis and Butthead in a single person. Or rather Elon and Muskhead.

Preston MacDougall

@aral #FoxNews coverage:

“Just like the #SteeleDossier and the so-called #PissTape of #Trump in a #Moscow hotel, video of #ElonMusk pissing in people’s face is a liberal hoax. Let’s hear from a leading #AI expert who says it’s a #Soros -backed #ChatGPT creation…”

Kerri Levine

@aral

If I wasn't already following you this would be the reason to.

Outstanding post.

#Bravo

SaraSyd

@aral "The benefits of pineapple juice for Elon's piss taste."

A. Rivera

@aral Meanwhile, umbrella futures suddenly go up.

(That did make me laugh because it does sum up the media these days tripping over to butt kiss him).

Tim R Covell

@aral He's rich, so he must be smart, right? Because people get rich when they are smart and work hard (according to much of the media).

🌊Ann Morris🐕🍀🌎🌊🌊

@aral That loose screw everyone refers to in describing deranged people….
Elon’s isn’t loose. It’s completely missing.

Nicola 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌱

@aral I can see that right now some countries are facing #wildfires, and instead of talking about the action to take they are listing places you should not go to this summer.

The wildfires are a consequence of climate change and poor management of our forests.

OrlandoMan 🏳️‍🌈

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David Reinertson

@aral They seem to make satellites and cars just fine without him. A loss for public discourse, but a gain for manufacturing.

wonofone

@aral "Modern Health Pioneer and Watersports Champion"

Dave

@aral Surely that cannot be considered free speech. He's suggesting harm to self and others.

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