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San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave (www.siliconrepublic.com)

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[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 325 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This will have very little effect on SF in the long-term 😂🤣 All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they're not going to follow fucking X to whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

So, to recap:

we have a huge office that will eventually bring in another major company,
the area keeps all of its best talent, and
we get rid of the grifter that regularly refuses to pay their rent/lease, taxes, and insurance bills?

Hell yeah, of course this is a win.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 128 points 2 months ago

whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

Pretty sure he's headed to Texas.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago

the king of back-assward states

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Florida Man would like a word with you.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago

Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life. How they managed to be worse than the other Gulf states is baffling. Abbott and Paxton have managed to turn Texas into a raging dumpster fire. If Texas actually left the US, it probably wouldn't even be able to get a membership in BRICS.

[-] mazelado@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

For those who were also curious about a source for the claim that “Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life”: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/13/10-states-worst-quality-of-life-america.html

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[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

I think you mean teXas 😂

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

I imagine most of whoever is left at Twitter is on a visa, so yeah, they probably will follow Musk wherever he says to go. The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they've probably built over the years and move back to their old country.

Now, if Biden were to grant the power to protect re-employment to other companies for those on L visas, Musk is probably utterly fucked.

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[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 19 points 2 months ago

Anyone hardcore enough to still be working at that dumpster fire is there for the long haul, they will follow Formerly Twitter in to the gates of hell, seemingly.

[-] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I’m guessing some of them (if on work visas) don’t have a lot of mobility. That doesn’t mean they will be as productive as someone else. Seeing colleagues go to other companies and being treated better on day one has a toll on worker morale.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they're not going to follow fucking Xitter

At this point, for how he treated his employees, we can assume that most of the ones left are visa hostages that would be deported the day after being fired or incompetent people that faked their way to the spot and can't find another job that pays the same. Or musk stans, but he fired even that simp that slept in the office floor in order to be more "productive".

They are trapped and follow him everywhere

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[+] haunte@leminal.space 155 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Turn around!" they begged him, as he strode slowly towards the desert sun, but he knew enough of Lot and of Orpheus, that it would only bring them ruin if he did. So heavy was his heart, that he glanced back with melancholy love, and thus the fair city of San Francisco turned to salt. He kept on walking into that desert sun, a heavy heart keeping him anchored to calls of vultures naysaying his poor sense of direction....

~Honestly good riddance to both. I have never seen more narcissists in my life than I have in SF.~

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Rich people really seem to think that them just having shitloads of money in a location makes that place better. I’m a midwesterner and even I know San Francisco has serious issues from how in about a generation or two it went from a working class industrial and military city to home of several of the wealthiest companies and filled with enough upper working class people to skyrocket cost of living.

So to Elon, don’t bring X to my city either

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.

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[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.ml 133 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bye Nazi-toddler, don’t let our tolerance and diversity hit your ketamine addicted ass on its way out, you piece of human garbage.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

He’s addicted to ketamine? I would’ve guessed cocaine

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I believe the quote I read from someone who knows him was something like "He microdoses ketamine daily, and macrodoses at parties"

I wonder if he pisses his pants yet? He must have K bladder by now, unless there is some super rich people secret to avoid it.

[-] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wow, because of your comment I've googled ketamine bladder and now I can't consider K as a relatively safe drug anymore.

20 - 90 % of users got irreversible urinal tract ulceration and significantly reduced functional bladder capacity.

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[-] kungen@feddit.nu 14 points 2 months ago

I have no doubts that he frequently does that, as well as other controlled substances. But it's okay for him to abuse drugs; he's rich and powerful after all! Though it would be interesting to see his head under an MRI with T2 and see how many Olney's lesions he has.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 118 points 2 months ago

correction; as twitter prepares to be evicted for non payment of rent

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is the real story, they ain't choosin shit. They're being kicked the fuck out. Elon takin tips from DonOld T

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago

Finally, NIMBYs everyone can get on board with

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 69 points 2 months ago

it is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments

Is it though? He talks like he still runs PayPal. All Twitter sells is adverts, blue ticks and hate.

[-] hroderic@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

"It's impossible to operate in San Francisco, they expect you to pay your rent "

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.

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[-] vxx@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He wants to turn twitter into Wechat, which is used for paying basically everything in China. In San Francisco you can't just get rich by funneling money, you have to pay taxes on it.

You would still get rich but he wants it all for himself and doesn't want to pay his debt to the United States.

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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 69 points 2 months ago

X is going to be driven into the ground

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 95 points 2 months ago

I'd love to see it fail completely. I'm hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 months ago

You saw the investor list, right? There’s a LOT of people on there who miiiiight not consider direct financial profitability to be the point of their investment.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Top shareholders of Twitter include:

Elon Musk (owns 78.7% of the company)
Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%)
Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison (3.0%)

WTF they really need to relocate the evil lair in a volcano

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

Good for San Francisco.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

Billions of dollars and that's the beard.

[-] brandon@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago

This is the first beard I've ever seen make someone's chin look weaker.

[-] Baggins@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago

Beard? It looks like he hasn't washed for a week.

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

Didn't Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

Don't be Texas, don't be Texas....

* checks Google *

FUCK!

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

it literally could not be anywhere else. Texas is a safe-space for oligarchs and bigots. That's why Elon and Joe Rogan and all these other asshats left CA for TX.

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[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago

He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago

Hey Texas? Ya got room for one more scumbag?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Considering how many Bay Area tech workers with zero morals leave cali for Texas purely for lower taxes and how Texas loves that, I’m sure they do

[-] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 23 points 2 months ago

Although i hate hearing about him, i do like seeing his face and body rapidly deteriorating.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I would be happy if all tech left the city. It used to be a hipster village of social non challants and detected alternative social movements. A shining, hairy, culty, body odor having, punk rock city on a hill.

The tech takeover ruined the city and contributed directly to the epidemic levels of homelessness seen because it made the city effectively so expensive non millionaires can't survive there. Most long time san Francisco families ended up moving out.

Take all the rest of tech with you please Mr. Musk. Make San Francisco an affordable city again.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 17 points 2 months ago

It's too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Running from Brazil, running from SF, does he only knows how to run?

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

how many of their engineers are willing to relocate from san francisco to texas

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