<![CDATA[Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4.]]>Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4.

In which Elon leaves government (as if) and goes back to sleeping on his factory floor because that's all he's good for.

Also, In which employees are annoyed Musk is back to the job site and disrupting their work.

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Part 1 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110687620064016032

Part 2 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111655979095126124

Part 3 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113438252884671201

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/84cedf8c-3dca-4687-8a00-93cb6cfcbfe7/elon-musk-thread-part-4.RSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 15:09:50 GMTMon, 26 May 2025 12:14:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:25:55 GMT]]>@jmcrookston They so deserve each other.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116493644934622204https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116493644934622204Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:25:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:20:52 GMT]]>AHAHAHAH

_Your questions are designed to trick me’: combative Musk grilled over battle with Sam Altman
Lawyers for world’s richest person try to paint him as humanitarian as judge cuts off his long-winded replies_
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit

OH MAN LET HIM BRING HIS MOM UP ON THE STAND WITH HIM. COME ON THIS IS UNFAIR 🤣

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116491029873899433https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116491029873899433Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:20:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:13:47 GMT]]>"Tech billionaire Elon Nusk has accused defence lawyers of asking him trick questions on the third day of his lawsuit against OpenAI"

I'm dying. 🤣

I'm dead.

I bought a Tesla and tried the self-driving mode and now I'm dead. I'm that dead. 🤣

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116491002022087296https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116491002022087296Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:13:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:07:32 GMT]]>BBC reported today that Elon Musk complained that the _other side's lawyers_ asked him trick questions while he was on the stand in his case against Altman.

What.

🤣

How anyone can hold even a single share of Tesla is beyond me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116490977466326711https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116490977466326711Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:49:57 GMT]]>_Dylan Carter, 'The Voice' alum, died after his Tesla veered 'off the road'
Dylan Carter, a former "The Voice" contestant, died at 24 after striking a curb and a utility pole before his Tesla overturned._
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2026/04/28/dylan-carter-death-the-voice-car-accident-details/89836207007/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116488313067453168https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116488313067453168Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:49:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:18:54 GMT]]>"518,428
Preventable child deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die"."

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Geek tragedy

Look upon their works and despair.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116471204073932863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116471204073932863Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:18:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:28:02 GMT]]>I have all these leftover Dutch shell companies lying around the house, so it is nice to see a use for them. Reuse and recycle, you know.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437973880816140https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437973880816140Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:28:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:26:44 GMT]]>Unsurprisingly Uber does the same thing and avoids taxes using dozens of shell companies.

Any rational actor would take full advantage of these tax loopholes, unfortunately.

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'Champions League of tax avoidance:' Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on nearly $6 billion in revenue, report says

Uber claimed a $4.5 billion global operating loss in 2019 for tax purposes, despite bringing in $5.8 billion, an Australian research group found.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437968781453020https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437968781453020Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:26:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:22:07 GMT]]>And at the same time that Tesla makes record profits by not paying any taxes, it also makes absolutely trash automobiles.

_It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto_
https://fuelarc.com/news-and-features/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437242861223584https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437242861223584Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:22:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:53:26 GMT]]>Finally, all these tax shenanigans are just straight up making Elon Musk rich. That's it. It's just more con man bullshit because all of these savings pump the stock price which goes straight in his pocket for the most part.

He's just a boy-faced con man. And a racist Nazi of course.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437130046974032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437130046974032Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:53:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:50:06 GMT]]>...

However, note that even if Tesla had to pay taxes in the United States on this $18 billion of profits it would have paid $400 million of taxes. (Ref https://economictimes.com/news/international/business/elon-musk-scorned-shady-loopholes-yet-offshore-tax-tricks-likely-saved-tesla-hundreds-of-millions/articleshow/130389082.cms. By the way, I have no idea how it would be such a small number!)

If an individual made $18 billion of income they would have to pay roughly half of it - $9 billion - as taxes.

So there's something else gravely wrong with this situation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437116969024006https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437116969024006Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:50:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:58 GMT]]>Tesla makes large profits in the United States. It then pays huge costs to a partnership domiciled in the Netherlands which isn't real. So Tesla pays zero United States tax.

It also pays little tax in the Netherlands, too. Tax data is confidential there, so we won't know how that works.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437002406884887https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116437002406884887Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:33:22 GMT]]>_Father and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree, lawsuit says_
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-self-driving-deaths-lawsuit-musk-b2951558.html

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116378540608568599https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116378540608568599Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:33:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:51 GMT]]>Is anyone even listening to this racist nutter any more?

You couldn't pay me to take one of his cars.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116276263077961014https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116276263077961014Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:24 GMT]]>So the man who showed up to the White House with a black eye and claimed that he asked his son to punch him in the face is now going to manufacture computer chips. 🤡

"Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk claims Terafab is the next step towards harnessing the power of the sun and creating a "galactic civilization."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116276261354134830https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/116276261354134830Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:51:16 GMT]]>Where's moral hazard when Elon Musk (con man and idiot) gets himself voted a one trillion dollar pay package.

Oh and racist. I forgot the racism.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115506851116924207https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115506851116924207Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:51:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:58:33 GMT]]>If this guy could be a bigger dirt bag, I don't know how.

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South African-born Elon Musk says he's "doing a quiet trial" of president Donald Trump's dubious "gold card" immigration program.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115164309991366719https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115164309991366719Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:58:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:43:18 GMT]]>So if Tesla hits 8 trillion market cap Elon Musk is being given a pay package that will make him worth a trillion dollars.

If anyone is still oblivious that this is a con, nothing will save them. 😄

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115163070373920733https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/115163070373920733Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:43:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:31:18 GMT]]>Ketamine Karen rolled out a pornographic AI anime companion and also landed grifting defence contracts because hey it's 2025 and humanity had a good run.

_Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract_
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/grok-pornographic-anime-companion-department-of-defense-1235385034/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114985604091906838https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114985604091906838Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:31:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:04:02 GMT]]>_Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says_

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114955061968001555https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114955061968001555Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:04:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:29:11 GMT]]>"Braking for no reason caused just as much distress. “Our car just stopped on the highway. That was terrifying,” a Tesla driver wrote. Another complained, “Frequent phantom braking on two-lane highways. Makes the autopilot almost unusable.” Some report their car “jumped lanes unexpectedly”, causing them to hit a concrete barrier, or veered into oncoming traffic."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801334748509445https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801334748509445Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:28:48 GMT]]>"Some escaped with a scare; others ended up in ditches, crashing into walls or colliding with oncoming vehicles. “After dropping my son off in his school parking lot, as I go to make a right-hand exit it lurches forward suddenly,” one complaint read. Another said, “My autopilot failed/malfunctioned this morning (car didn’t brake) and I almost rear-ended somebody at 65mph.” A third reported, “Today, while my wife was driving with our baby in the car, it suddenly accelerated out of nowhere.” "

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801333246807443https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801333246807443Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:28:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:26:59 GMT]]>"Tesla released a statement to the press saying the company was “deeply saddened” by the incident, adding, “We are working to gather all the facts in this case and are fully cooperating with local authorities.”

To this day, Meier still doesn’t know why her husband died."

Doesn't sound like full co-operation to me.

Tesla lies and hides everything.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801326131667786https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmcrookston/statuses/114801326131667786Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:26:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4. on Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:26:18 GMT]]>"The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing"

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‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?

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