Elon Musk's Newest Venture: Selling a $100 Perfume (cnn.com) 140
CNN reports:
Elon Musk's latest internet jest has taken the form of a perfume with an unsavory scent: "Burnt Hair.
" The tech mogul, entrepreneur and sometimes internet troll announced the launch of the product on Twitter on Tuesday, calling it "the finest fragrance on Earth." The perfume is apparently being sold on The Boring Company's website for $100 and will ship in the first quarter of 2023....
The product is the successor to other Musk memes, like the $500 flamethrowers he sold in 2018 or the Tesla-branded satin shorts he debuted as investors "shorted" the company in 2020....
Musk appears to be enjoying the media attention on his newest lark. He switched his Twitter bio to "Perfume Salesman" and claimed to have sold 20,000 bottles....
"Please buy my perfume, so I can buy Twitter," he wrote on Wednesday.
" The tech mogul, entrepreneur and sometimes internet troll announced the launch of the product on Twitter on Tuesday, calling it "the finest fragrance on Earth." The perfume is apparently being sold on The Boring Company's website for $100 and will ship in the first quarter of 2023....
The product is the successor to other Musk memes, like the $500 flamethrowers he sold in 2018 or the Tesla-branded satin shorts he debuted as investors "shorted" the company in 2020....
Musk appears to be enjoying the media attention on his newest lark. He switched his Twitter bio to "Perfume Salesman" and claimed to have sold 20,000 bottles....
"Please buy my perfume, so I can buy Twitter," he wrote on Wednesday.
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Elon Musk Newest Venture: Selling a $100 Perfume
The product is the successor to other Musk memes, like the $500 flamethrowers he sold in 2018
The perfume can be used as scented fuel for the flamethrower ... :-)
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Ok, is it time yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
Can we already call him a completely batshit insane looney or do we still have to wait?
Why is it looney to make money? (Score:2)
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It is looney because he's legit unwell in the head
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Can we already call him a completely batshit insane looney or do we still have to wait?
No you don't have to wait you can call him that now. I don't care.
I like the cars he makes, the home energy products he makes, and I wish I had gotten one of his bottles of Tequila. Everything he makes sells out quick so going by that there are a lot of people who agree with me.
Not interested in the perfume.
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I hope you bought his stupid fucking flamethrower thing
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No. I agree it is stupid and have little-to-no interest.
Re:Ok, is it time yet? (Score:5, Interesting)
Can we already call him a completely batshit insane looney or do we still have to wait?
No you don't have to wait you can call him that now. I don't care.
I like the cars he makes, the home energy products he makes, and I wish I had gotten one of his bottles of Tequila. Everything he makes sells out quick so going by that there are a lot of people who agree with me.
Not interested in the perfume.
The perfume thing is more of a stunt.
But it's an important question. Success is a mixture of luck and talent, people who are unsuccessful overemphasize the luck, while people are highly successful overestimate the talent.
If you keep thinking you're the smartest and most talented person in the room you start ignoring people, and your decision making starts to get erratic.
Is the Musk who helped make Tesla a success the same Musk who's leading Tesla now?
His personal life seems an unhealthy amount of chaos. Publicly criticizing gender identity when he had a transgender child (who later disassociated herself from him). Having multiple children with multiple women at the same time including relationships with subordinates. Giving one of the kids an unpronounceable name. etc, etc.
Then his "public policy" pronouncements like idiotic peace plans for Ukraine and Taiwan.
And his business ideas like buying Twitter on a whim, then spending months on a ridiculously feebly attempt to back out of the deal... before seemingly giving in entirely. Not to mention his robot that's not particularly advanced or useful.
And of course the fact that Tesla's customer base is largely progressives who care about the environment.... and he's now moving operations to Texas and cozying up with the alt-right.
Maybe he'll settle down and keep things running properly, but we might be watching the second coming of Howard Hughes [wikipedia.org].
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I agree with pretty much what you wrote but I'll push back on this:
And of course the fact that Tesla's customer base is largely progressives who care about the environment.... and he's now moving operations to Texas and cozying up with the alt-right.
This isn't right. The customers that put money down to wait for a Tesla car might, and generally are, concerned about the environment but that is a very loose correlation. Anyone with half a brain is worried about the environment, and if you look at polling the majority of people profess to be even when they vote for politicians that are behind poor environment policy.
Tesla owners generally want a superior car. My Model Y is comfortabl
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Is the Musk who helped make Tesla a success the same Musk who's leading Tesla now?
Yes, he's the same guy. But what's important to remember about life is that only some ends are possible. It's an apparent paradox that the universe is infinite and yet your choices are limited, and your feasible choices even moreso... but it all makes sense once you realize that the universe is mechanistic, and stuff only happens by stuff interacting with other stuff, none of it faster than C. Musk was in the right place at the right time to have the option to make Tesla a success primarily because, frankly
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and I wish I had gotten one of his bottles of Tequila.
You still can, just buy Nosotros tequila, Musk just put it in a lightning bolt shaped bottle and marked it up by a huge amount.
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I really don't like the fact that we give so few people so much power. The entire Ukraine war seems to have been caused by a sad old man named Vladimir Putin desperately trying to capture some Glory before he dies of bowel cancer.
That would be fine if he was trying to coach a little league team but he's sending tens of thousands off to die and kill while crashing the global economy.
We need to do something about the rise of fascism not just because fascists are bad, o
Re: So he just said he'll keep funding (Score:2)
Yeah sometimes I forget which account I'm posting from.
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I mean, he literally put together the company that made this.
I mean, that's not how anything works
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No, he's not insane.
He's running the equivalent of a fund me campaign for all the right wing wackos that hate Twitter.
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Elon's not crazy. He's a dick, but he's not nuts.
He is using a classic misdirection campaign. Pay no attention to what I'm doing over here (Twitter, for example) because I'm doing this crazy shit over here! And what crazy shit he's doing is always shifting. And because he knows he's got fanboys, he knows he can use them (completely cynically, I might add) for these stunts.
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Somebody please (Score:5, Insightful)
tax the billionaires until they are millionaires. We could be using this money for health care and getting the homeless back on track and fixing bridges. We don't need people like Musk, we need a society that functions.
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Look, I don't like Elon Musk any more than the next guy. But please, taxing people whose wealth is in company ownership is dumb. Tax cash hoardes, not value of companies. A company's value comes from the fact that other idiots want ownership of it. Other idiots want ownership of Elon Musk's companies because of the fact that he runs them. He wouldn't run Tesla or SpaceX if he didn't own a big piece of it. By "taxing" him, you would be forcing him to sell ownership of the companies he created, and other peop
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2. Any company whose value would collapse based on who owns it would have such horrible fundamentals that it probably should collapse, and no responsible institution managing pension funds or 401ks would have invested in it in the first place. They don't generally choose investments by picking which CEO has the sickest memes.
3. I don't know what world you live in, bu
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face it, no matter how much you hate the people that made it and have it better than you, no matter what the taxes on them will be nominally, they will keep being wealthy and you will keep being a little green jealous troll from the interwebs...
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I wouldn't care so much they're so damn greedy they won't even let me have a place to live and the healthcare I need to not be in the constant state of agony. There's absolutely no end to their greed. And they want people to suffer because they measure their quality of life not against the absolute quality of life that they have but against how
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>How about men in their prime ages, who choose not to work at all, there are at least 7,000,000 of them in the USA https://youtu.be/d43Z3GnTrqs [youtu.be] [youtu.be] don't they owe you something too, is it all about people who have more than you, that you are angry about?
Is there a difference between them and the billionaires who have extracted wealth from labour for as long as the Capitalist system has been around? I would say yes. They are not equivalent at all, and you can't start jumping off the deep end with
Re: Wait is it all paper money (Score:1)
Alright, tax them anytime they leverage/borrow money based on it. Forcing someone to sell something they conceived and brought into existence is wrong. I know I would not want shares in SpaceX and Tesla if Elon Musk was not driving the company. We would not have reusable rockets without SpaceX and Elon.
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Alright, tax them anytime they leverage/borrow money based on it. Forcing someone to sell something they conceived and brought into existence is wrong. I know I would not want shares in SpaceX and Tesla if Elon Musk was not driving the company. We would not have reusable rockets without SpaceX and Elon.
As you have just pointed out, they don't need to sell in order to raise money, they can borrow if they so desire. Thus, a wealth tax would not necessarily need to sell any of their ownership in their companies.
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Yeah, and this would keep down the wages for people in those industries, 'cause you know, as a society we collectively cannot afford to pay people a living wage and also have enough money to keep the top 0.1% happy. Good plan.
Or were you saying we should make the 0.1% dig the ditches? I doubt they would be very good at it...
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But you're literally counting on the fact that it's unlikely that Elon Musk is going to want to force you to suck his dick in order to make it through the day. That's the American way. Out of sight out of mind we pretend
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The only way to do away with the ruling class is to do away with the ruling class. You can't have a part-time King. You can't have a queen who's only your queen when it's convenient for you. If you're going to put somebody in control of your life then that's it they're i
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You either tax the value of their stock holdings, or, you just decide that the richest people in the world don't have to help support the society that enabled them to become rich in the first place.
Or, we could just decide that each person should only contribute to helping society an equal amount, but I digress. Getting jealous of people solely on their financial accumulation is dumb. Why not get jealous of the fact that someone has a hot wife and you don't? Shouldn't that be taxable too? Why shouldn't we tax people on what makes people happy, not just money. If someone has more things that make them happy than you, why shouldn't they share it?
Re:Somebody please (Score:5, Informative)
And every year they cash out a few million to pay for their mansions, yachts and whatever
Nope. That would be a taxable transaction.
Instead, they take out loans using their shares as collateral. That is non-taxable, and the interest payments are tax-deductible.
you just decide that the richest people in the world don't have to help support the society
Elon Musk has developed EVs and solar panels. He cut the cost of space access a thousand-fold. StarLink has brought the Internet to remote corners of the world, including the front lines in Ukraine. He has done more than any other individual to address global warming. Do you really believe the government would spend his money more wisely?
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Elon Musk has very little actual cash. He is a billionaire because he has a large ownership stake in Tesla and in SpaceX. It's like forcing someone to sell a painting they created just because a lot of people would pay a lot of money to buy it. Elon Musk is a billionaire not because he has one billion dollars in cash somewhere. It's because people would pay a billion dollars to own a piece of SpaceX.
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We could be using this money for health care and getting the homeless back on track and fixing bridges
- imagine how much we could do if we not only taxed those who have money but also put people into work camps and made them work for the betterment of society, we could literally solve the unemployment crisis while solving all the other problems. People waste too much free time on arbitrary things, like resting, playing video games and such. We could solve all problems if only we could concentrate the work of all of these people into projects that the government could set up and run, all those traffic li
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Agree (Score:2)
>> We could be using this money for health
>> we need a society that functions.
Before pouring any money in your USA healthcare system, fix it first, so the same treatment does not cost 10-50x what it costs in Europe or similar.
Tax Rate (Score:2)
You can take all the money that the top 1% have - every last penny of cash, assets and investments, and it would fully fund the US government for, maybe, a year and a half.
The federal government's budget is so absolutely massive, it dwarfs any contribution the billionaire class could make by orders of magnitudes. For reference, to pay for the COVID relief handouts, the federal reserve doubled the money supply. That is, half of all the money floating around the US economy was created in the last two years, s
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tax the billionaires until they are millionaires.
So you are fine with millionaires "making enough" to become billionaires and then taking the money from the billionaires?
That is absurd. That tells me that you are just fine with the way things are now, it is just the redistribution, or lack of it, that you are having issues with.
I hope you are never in charge of engineering a society. I think each person, no matter how stupid, should be provided an environment that they can exist in without "licking the boots" of those "better" than them in society. What y
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and it reduced the chances of transmitting it.
Only in the sense, that they reduce the chance that you get sick.
If you got sick, vaccines do nothing about reducing transmission.
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and it reduced the chances of transmitting it.
Only in the sense, that they reduce the chance that you get sick.
That's almost how it works. *golf clap*
Except you're wrong. *womp womp*
The vaccine also decreases the severity and duration of the infection, which means it also reduces the chance of transmission.
Do you study hard to be this wrong, or does it come to you naturally?
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He also seems to forget there are two sides to transmission. It reduces your illness and length of said illness, but it also makes it less likely for each vaccinated person you come in contact with to catch it as well. Multiply these odds reductions over millions and millions of interactions and it makes a huge difference.
But I feel sad explaining this to GP post, as only a complete fucking imbecile doesn't understand this.
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It reduces your illness and length of said illness, but it also makes it less likely for each vaccinated person you come in contact with to catch it as well. Multiply these odds reductions over millions and millions of interactions and it makes a huge difference.
I all know this, dumb ass.
And that is what I actually wrote in my post.
All the reductins are based on the fact if you get it or not.
And that is the only thing the vaccine influences.
No idea why you can be so stupid to try to lecture me on MATH (or
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The vaccine also decreases the severity and duration of the infection, which means it also reduces the chance of transmission.
That is exactly what I said: golfclap
If you do not get it: you do not transmit it.
If you get it - regardless of vaccinated or not - you do transmit it.
More golf claps?
duration of the infection no, it does not. I have Covid now since 20 days ...
Perhaps you would be right in the sense of: after 6 month of the last shot. No idea if it really would "normally" reduce the length of an infe
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Muskrat just tried to pull access to the internet from the Ukraine people. He backed down because of a combination of bad press and because I'm guessing department of defense pulled him aside and gave him a talking to. But in the meantime he caused a massive amount of chaos and confusion. One single man shouldn't be able to block an entire country from access to the internet but here we are. And as the owner of SpaceX he can absolutely do that to Ukraine.
He didn't block it, he just wanted to be paid for the service once they started attacking him for stupid twitter polls. With the tens of billions in aid and weapons being thrown around, $20m a month for starlink service is an easy spend, no reason he should foot the bill for people who tell him to "fuck off" and then backpedal when they find out there are consequences for treating their benefactors rudely.
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So which is it? Can we let billionaires have all the money and power because we can rely on them being philanthropists or are we going to have to pay them for every little thing we need to have a functioning civilization? It can't be both
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He didn't block it, he just wanted to be paid for the service once they started attacking him for stupid twitter polls.
No, that's not how it happened. SpaceX (not Elon directly) asked the Pentagon to help pay for it over a month ago. Somebody leaked that negotiation to CNN after the whole Twitter fiasco. Then some within the progressive mob said it was in retaliation, then the unwashed progressive masses somehow got the idea that Elon threatened to cut off Ukraine's access even though no such ultimatum was ever given, then Elon seems to have trolled them by playing into it as if he had.
No joke, that's how it actually happen
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>no reason he should foot the bill for people who tell him to "fuck off" and then backpedal when they find out there are consequences for treating their benefactors rudely.
You do know that was because of his suggestion that they just let Russia annex the regions they took so far during the war, don't you? What sort of response do you suppose would have been more appropriate for a people battling for their lives?
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To be fair, specifically around starlink, he said:
SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely
That actually sounds fair to me. Starlink was never designed to support military operations and is having to withstand attacks from Russia. It's a big bill every month, and he's asking for the US government to help pay the expenses from now on.
Nowhere do I see him trying "to pull access to the internet from the Ukraine people" as you state it. You'll need to provide evidence of your claim.
Separate to that, of course, are his comments around a peace settle
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Basically this would be the equivalent o
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Dude, you are a rotten piece of shit. You should be thanking him for conceiving off and creating Starlink. He could have easily sat back, like the US DoD and did nothing. Instead he helped Ukraine far more than any government, by providing them Starlink. If he did not exist Ukraine would be losing the war badly. I suggest you think logically and thank him for providing them Starlink free of charge. He did it as a kind gesture and your blind hatred cannot even thank him for that. You piece of shit.
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Did you forget the part where he suggested that Ukraine should just let Russia annex the territory they have taken so far during the war?
Sure Musk may have been a good Samaritan by letting Ukraine access Starlink at a discount rate (from what I understand, both Ukraine and the US are already paying part of the bill), but his suggestion is not a particularly good look.
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Muskrat just tried to pull access to the internet from the Ukraine people.
Dude stop reading fucking fark, that's not at all what happened. Nobody threatened anything. Back on September 8th, SpaceX asked the Pentagon -- not Ukraine -- to help fund Starlink. Yesterday, somebody leaked that discussion to CNN. It had fuck all to do with the Twitter crap this week because it was before all of that even happened.
You wonder why nobody takes your stupid communist ramblings seriously...Well, this is why. You don't research shit, you just repeat whatever crap you read from fark and other l
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That doesn't mean modern internet infrastructure is designed to withstand military attacks.
Yes, yes it totally does, because it's based on (essentially) the same technologies as it was before, and it's way more redundant now than it was then. Or at least, it's way better designed to do that than it was back when it was a military research project.
If you really wanted it to withstand modern warfare you'd have to use all fiber and shield the fuck out of all of the nodes. And hey, we're actually getting there. Network hardware is after all located in colos which tend to have mesh over the windows an
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Just to give you an idea, in the last month I've been to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Orlando. Los Angeles is the only city where the roads look like they're from Mad Max. The lines on the street are horribly faded, the road signs look like they servived a nuclear blast, and the roads are so poorly maintained that the asphalt has almost turned into gravel in some places. The local gangs seem to do a better job of maintaining their graffiti, and nobody even pays them for it. Florida keeps getting battered by hu
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Eau de Traitor (Score:1)
Channel Putler one more time, I dare you.
Attention Whore by Musk (Score:1)
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I'm guessing it's actually called "Elon's Musk."
Imagine... (Score:2)
Imagine the conversation that led to the burnt hair perfume
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I'm imagining something involving a 4-foot bong.
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What?
$300b / 8b = $37.5 each
There, you can sleep better at night now.
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Donald Trump 2.0 (Score:5, Insightful)
No idea (Score:2)
Eau de Burnt LiPo (Score:1)
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Next up? (Score:2)
Will he go with champagne and steaks next? Maybe a university?
Burned his brand. (Score:2)
Mr. Musk's behavior in recent years has likely deeply impacted his ability to sell products using his namesake. I wouldn't be surprised if these miniature fundraising ventures no longer work for him as hoped.
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I think you're overestimating some people's intelligence. Just because people you know have gotten tired of constantly smelling Musk doesn't mean his libertarian fanbase has done. The same kind of people who secretly believe South Africa got what it deserved (and banked with Blood of Apartheid on purpose) are still big, big Elon fans. Don't forget about prosperity theology, it is a dominant force.
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Libertarians are a small minority but you are correct that there are people who like what they see. I have doubts that this small group be enough to enable his fundraising but only time will tell. Also, he's no preacher, so I don't think prosperity theology is going to help him in the least.
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Also, he's no preacher, so I don't think prosperity theology is going to help him in the least.
Dude, engage brain before responding.
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I'm not sure what you mean.
per wikipedia:
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith)[A] is a religious belief among some Protestant Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth.[1] Material and especially financial success is seen as a sign of divine favor.
Musk isn't any of those, so what cause do you have for insulting me?
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Prosperity theologists, which includes probably 99% of the people who claim to be Christian (if they're not giving away their wealth to the poor, they are not following the [alleged] teachings of Jesus) believe that if you are successful it's because God loves you. This is again directly contrary to the central message of the central figure in the Christian mythology, but people are greedy so it's easy to sell them greed.
This logic is not limited to people who identify as religious. It's not really theology
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How does any of that help Musk?
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You haven't noticed that Elon Musk is prosperous?
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I am specifically asking how prosperity theology would help him sell a product because you implied that it would. If you have a point then please state it plainly and do not lead me on any further. If not then you are off-topic and this conversation is over.
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But I thought.... (Score:2)
But I thought his latest venture was telling democracies they should surrender to autocracy.
Missed opportunity, Elon (Score:5, Funny)
It smells like gas (Score:2)
yes
Musk Musk (Score:2)
Musk Craves Publicity, even Bad Publicity (Score:2)
Goop 2.0? (Score:2)
"This candle smells like my Musk."
He's playing your nerves (Score:2)
And you're happily ringing...
Re:world's richest man (Score:4, Funny)
Someone told me I should try cocaine because it amplifies your personality.
And I said "But what if you're an asshole?"
Replace "cocaine" with "150 Billion dollars" and you have Elon Musk.
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Bill Cosby, "Himself", 1983
about 7 minutes in
https://youtu.be/iPRQFB2Kbj8?t... [youtu.be]
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Mod parent funnier. Best of the crop.
However I was looking for a joke along the lines of "I won't buy it, but I'll pay money to NOT smell like him."
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Elon has already announced his next business venture: "Elon Musk Shit-In-A-Box"
IIt comes with a certificate of authenticity, gift-wrapped with a bow, and free delivery too. Yours for $500.
He's already received 35,000 pre-orders, so time is running out. Order your "Elon Musk Shit-In-A-Box" today!
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Re: I hate Elon (Score:2)
There are a lot of people richer than me. I don't automatically hate them. I hate Elon because he proposed a centrist take on Ukraine and Taiwan as well as business practices of Tesla.
Re:I hate Elon (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd imagine millions of people hate him because he promoted some stupid dog-themed cryptocurrency on Twitter, and then pulled the rug on those kids and Elon fanboys who invested in it by basically calling it a scam on national TV.
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Two words turn Americans into Commies (Score:1)
by NewID_of_Ami.One ( 9578152 )
A bit funny that u just mention Elon's name and suddenly half the Americans turn full commies spewing the exact same arguments that all of Putin & Xi's predecessors used to make.
Elon, is that you? That handle is almost as good as your kid's name.
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A bit funny that u just mention Elon's name and suddenly half the Americans turn full commies spewing the exact same arguments that all of Putin & Xi's predecessors used to make.
Last I heard, Musk was speaking out on Putin's side.
.. why do these come out only when Elon is brought up and not say Apple or MS or Google ?
Actually, they do.