Because israel controls wikipedia. Wake up sheeples. They say it clearly. Learn about hasbara. Google it hasbara influence on wikipedia.
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He should keep it and rename himself. It suits him more.
That man child has the emotions and humour of a little kid, I swear.
He's trying to distract from the probe into Tesla's range. It's working.
Wait, what?
There's a federal probe into Tesla lying about their vehicle range. He's throwing a fit and closing that it could cause great harm to the brand.
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Take Money.
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Re-Name to Dickipedia.
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Re-Name back to Wikipedia.
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Laugh about Musk.
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Profit.
bold of you to assume elon would pay up
Indicator 9,876,872,820,111 that that fucker has more money than anyone should ever have.
There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.
The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.
why do we allow this to happen?
Who is "we"?
What have you done to prevent it?
But I want to quietly pull the strings of society so everyone can have food and housing security, get rid of food deserts, and end Elon Musk personally. Like, with my hands. Give me a billion dollars
Tangential, but I've always wondered why in English 10^9 is one billion. 10^6 is one million. Twice as many zeroes should be one billion. Three times as many, one trillion, etc.
Only in English is this weird naming system used and originally only in American English. You can put it in the pile over there with the miles and pounds and other oddities.
Other languages have milliard between million and billion, billiard after billion etc.
Miles and pounds came to America from England, but miles were the common system at least as far back as the Romans.
Short form numbers are used throughout the English speaking world and are the international scientific standard.
Why is is that you think that your system of squaring makes more sense than the system of a new name for every third power of ten?
Long vs short counting system. Americans use the short system. As a European, long system makes so much more sense! Here's an interesting video about it: https://youtu.be/C-52AI_ojyQ?si=-TS4BYg-FT0SAeSo
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Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.
Sorry i wasn't in the loop when we decided to stop talking about the town clown. I guess I'll stop being an idiot now. Thanks for the advice.
We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I am so, so tired of this tedious man child.
All of the wrong people have money.
It’s the effects of capitalism. It’s pathocracy.
Or money turns them into all of the wrong people.
No. Assholes are assholes, and Elon is just an asshole with money.
Compare this man child to a billionaire like Yvon Chouinard, founder of the company Patagonia, and you'll understand that money doesn't change good people.
No such thing as a good billionaire. The only variance is how good they are at maintaining their public image.
Bullshit. They were born this way mainly because they were born rich.
Why? They're either born with the money or make the money, but either way the money has turned them into terrible people.
I'd be willing to take part in an experiment to confirm this hypothesis. I'll wait for delivery, each day until 3.
I'd argue that you have to be horrible already to have loads of money. Any reasonably good person would be using their excess wealth for a good cause rather than building ego rockets.
Money = power, and power corrupts. I'm sure there are some people who are horrible before they become wealthy, but I think money (and power) has a way of blunting peoples' empathy.
wikipedia foundation's financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
how's twitter doing lately, elon?
I'm starting to think this guy isn't very wise about spending his money.
Or just in general.
So he’s offering that money to name it after himself?
I’m not even clicking on that link, I never click on stuff with that turd’s name on the headline, just wanted to make the joke.
Don't think he needs that domain when he's already got:
FigurativelyHumongousButLiterallyTinyDick.com
Disappointed that it isn't real
Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂
He doesn't need to pay. Twitter is already worth less than the debt, if he continues to break that company apart there'll he no reason to even consider paying the debt off.
That’s not how debt works, he almost certainly pledged assets and a personal guarantee against it. This is known as collateral.
The banks take the collateral when you stop paying.
The way I understood it is that he didn't get a loan to buy the company, but had a bank itself buy Twitter as a loan, so Twitter itself is the collateral. That's what I did when I bought my apartment: a bank bought it from the constructor and let me live in it while slowly buying it from them over hundreds of installments. If I stopped paying the bank would kick me out and sell the apartment to someone else.
That isn’t quite right. If you stopped paying the bank would kick you out and sell the apartment to someone else, but if they get less than you owe them for it, they will also send you a bill for the remainder.
And then sue you to get that money.
Interestingly, if they get more than you owe them for it, they will cut you a check for the difference.
But you are actually wrong about how and what the order of operations is.
You are buying the house, the lender (bank) writes the check directly to the seller, and you sign a mortgage agreement for that much with the bank and they put a lien on your house. The bank does not own the house, you do. The bank owns a promissory note from you, backed by your personal wealth and credit and the value of the house (that they have a lien on).
In the case of Twitter, yes, Twitter itself is part of the collateral, but so was Elon musks personal wealth and Tesla shares.
The debt is a tax writeoff. The entire company is a tax writeoff for him and his clique.
This will allow them to gain billions more without spending a cent in taxes.