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[-] Banichan@dormi.zone 175 points 1 month ago

Why do they keep using younger pictures of him for these articles? Why don't they show him the way he is right now?

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 171 points 1 month ago
[-] Wino@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 month ago

This was the first warning. We all saw him cosplay as a Matrix extra, and we did laugh at him, but we didn't bully this dork ass bitch enough.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

I don’t think bullying dorks who cosplay as their cyberpunk OC will help. Bully billionaires instead.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I think he could have got two birds stoned at once with this one.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

But if we bully dorks that means people will bully me as well :(

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Everytime I think I'm a little "out there", I remember THIS dork exists, which frees up my mind to do other things.

Like put on a mushroomhead XX logo painted jason mask, a diana ross wig, and flannel shirt so I could go to a Fiona Apple concert, mostly against my will, get up to the front of the stage and start waving my hand enthusiastically and yell "HI HIPPIE LADY!!! HELLO!!! HELLO HIPPIE LADY!!! HIIIIIII!!!!" as her bassist had to walk off stage from laughing too much, Fiona Apple looking annoyed, and 2000 people all glaring daggers at me. Luckily the crowd was 100% females besides me. So no violence towards my antics actually took place.

Times are crazy. Especially when I remember that story is like 20 years old.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Wait… You did this?

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That should be the header image for c/blunderyears

[-] irreticent@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

And if they're going to use a younger picture of him at least use the one from before he got the hair transplant:

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 137 points 1 month ago

This is entirely on Twitter. For your average person, sending a court-ordered fine to the wrong institution means it hasn’t been paid.

Plus, theres the fact that Musk is completely untrustworthy. After all the effort it’s taken to get Twitter to pay up, I wouldn’t restore their ability to earn income from Brazilians until the fine was secured thoroughly and correctly.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 48 points 1 month ago

The xitter lawyers claim that there was no bank account indicated anywhere so they "had to guess" and are demanding xitter to be unlock as they paid the fine.

In other words, either they're grossly incompetent and can't read, or they're playing malicious by trying to abuse some loophole or anything to ultimately not pay the fine

EDIT: For some clarification, there is no information publicly available as to where the lawyers sent the money to, only that it wasn't the account linked to this fine, and that the lawyers are demanding the service to be restored because they claim the fine was paid, but the correct account hasn't received the money, so the fine is not paid. Alexandre de Moraes has asked Caixa Economica Federal (one of the government banks and the only one that deals with this kind of thing) to "fix" this issue so the attorney's general office can analyse the process and decide on restoring xitter's service. Elon Musk, X and the law firm representing them in Brazil are in absolutely no position to contest, much less demand, anything from the supreme court or the attorney's general office. Their actions have shown time and time again that they have no intention to play fair and regularise the issues, and they'll try what they can to create instability, animosity and general distrust against Brazil's judicial system.

The information regarding payment details for fines is ALWAYS clearly detailed on every notice, there is 0 chance that they forgot to include it or they've made a mistake and added a different account.

The more I read into this the more it looks like the law firm is being malicious instead of stupid, they're trying all that they can to not pay this fine (on behalf of X & Co.) and also create instability/animosity against the supreme court, specially considering what Musk has done and been doing for this whole case.

[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

so they "had to guess"

Or they could ask 🤷‍♂️

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Or they could keep reading the notice(s) and check out all the clearly stated details on who, where and how to send the fine payment

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Guess when you're sending 5 million? Yeah right.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yup. Or Musk never expected to pay the fine, so his lawyers never bothered to research the bank where he owed the money.

I hope the government didn't let Musk leave the country until his fine was settled.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah but here's the thing, the details for payment of such things is always clearly disclosed on whichever notice they've received, and probably this was sent multiple times. Also the lawyers appointed by xitter are Brazilian, in a Brazilian firm, so they are familiar with how this works and the system is not dubious or misleading or confusing at all.

Like I've said, they're either grossly incompetent to a point that they can't read anything, or they're trying their "best" to avoid paying the fine but their best is comically pathetic at most.

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't trust Musk for anything!

Not for a million dollars, not for a Brazilian dollars, not even for a trillion dollars!

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 93 points 1 month ago

Keep in mind this is "X, the everything app". Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

Anyone who wants the internet to be like this... It's hard to describe adequately.

The idea makes me as angry as I was when I was a kid and first heard about the destruction of the library of Alexandria. It is a deep dark rage.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Why do one thing well when you can be bad at everything instead"

  • Leon Skum
[-] Senseless@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

PayPal is already shitty enough at it is, we don't need another crappy payment app.

[-] M0115732@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Did Musk e-transfer it himself? How could Xitter possibly mess this up?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago

Well, when you fire all the competent people solely so that you can brag about the number of people you fired…

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 month ago

Trump's government efficiency guy in action, folks!

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the guy I want to be running emergency management!

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 1 month ago

This is why you don't fire your local team in charge of local laws and regulations, Elon.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Brilliant.

No notes.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There’s those tiny regressive Republican 1950’s entitled white thumbs—

👍🏻”AYYYYYYYYYY!!!”👍🏻

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago

Why you gotta do Fonzie like that?

[-] Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago

"Sir, this is First National Total Landscaping"

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Twitter. Twitter twitter twitter.

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

Xitter. Xitter xitter xitter.

(pronounced shitter)

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Also

‘He took to Twitter and tweeted a tweet.’

Should now be

‘He took to Xitter and xat a xit.’

The X being pronounced ‘sh’ every time.

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[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wonder how much this will come back to hurt the company. Musk & co. want to play dumb games? Enjoy watching all the potential Xitter users in Brazil flock to Bluesky and other platforms while your site remains in the dark.

Xitter isn’t special. People will find ways to socialize online with or without it. And the longer people go without it, the more momentum other sites will gain. Whether this stalling is deliberate or unintented doesn’t matter, the fact is they’re only hurting their own bottom line when an entire country is disengaged from their platform.

In other words, keep it up, Elon. It’s fun to see some natural consequences arise from your stupid behavior.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

First time I saw a print of the headline I thought it was fake lmao.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

It's like an old kind of onion headline, before someone fucked with the timeline and realities got mixed up.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

On behalf of Banko del Tesoro Nacional de Veracruz Y Pavon Familia Santiago Amen de Guadalupe de Saltillo, gracias, muchisisimas gracias senior Musko!

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*muito obrigado

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 month ago

Look, I'm going to interpret this as Elon sending the money to a bank in sone other part of LatAm. Not only because Brazil's official language is Portuguese, but also because it's way funnier like this!

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[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Coming from Musk I still think he did it on purpose just to spite the judge.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I wonder if it would have been brilliant if it was "Elon Musk's X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Billion instead of $5.2 Million for the Fine to Charity Organization instead of Bank"

[-] fadhl3y@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Elon: Trump's efficiency tzar

[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If you want to punish Musk in a meaningful way, then once the fine has been paid in full, the countdown can start. Once the same amount of time that elapsed between Twitter's first noncompliance and the fine's check cleared, then Twitter should be allowed back online. There will always be money to pay fines but they'll never get the time back. Other companies will take note.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

So, there's a bank out there with some free money.

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[-] Juice260@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] grid11@lemy.nl 6 points 1 month ago

I wonder if that insane musking urgency is in any way related to baking up local elections that will take place there some time soon

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