8x Silicon Valley COO here with 20+ years of experience. The media is missing what Elon's doing & why it's genius. A quick 🧵 When you buy a company the 1st thing you want to do is wildly overpay (✔️). Then you fire 1/2 the staff at random, alienate those who stayed (✔️✔️), and then panic/flail (✔️). It should seem, to your employees and Wall St., that you made a huge mistake & regret it deeply. (✔️)

The average temperature on Mars is negative 80 degrees. Also there's no water. But I guess we should listen to you, since you invented the "tunnel."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1383280704042127363

The "let's go to Mars!" billionaire obsession is bananas. It's a giant carbon dioxide desert. There's no water. The atmosphere is thin. There's no food. Sometimes it briefly gets up to like 50 degrees at the equator and then drops to -100. It's a fucking wasteland! Help Earth!

The official position of the Republican party is that the President can do whatever he wants in the last few weeks of his Presidency without punishment. Murder people, steal money from the treasury, sell U.S. secrets to foreign governments. Oh well! Not enough time to convict! It's a process issue, you see. Was he guilty of the crimes? Sure. But they couldn't squeeze in the trial in time, so there's nothing they can do.

A few days ago, WME (the last holdout) agreed to a franchise agreement with the WGA. This concluded the union's action regarding our agencies and their business practices. A thread on what this means: From the beginning, our stance was simple and undeniable: you shouldn't own something (and thus want the cost of making it to be as low as possible) and also negotiate contracts for people to work on that thing.

So before they ban me, something I view as inevitable, wanted to share a super disturbing Ben Domenech story, from his house a few years ago. I've never been to his house, but my friend went. He said he rang the bell, and Domenech answered the door, like, "Oh hey."

Do you think he has a burner account already I would have a burner account already, if I were Trump

You have been conditioned, from birth, to think Thanksgiving food is good and important. You never had a vote. It's a religion, and you were indoctrinated. It's not fair, and it's not your fault. There is still time. Start over. Think about what you're eating. It's just not good. Your parents or relatives told you This Meal was more important than Other Meals. This Meal *matters,* for family reasons and America reasons and nebulous Other Reasons. It was a big deal! You had to dress up and your cousins came over and there was no school. It "Mattered."

Here's what the hell is going on right now, I think. A thread. FOX and AP called AZ on election night. Others didn't. Perhaps AP and FOX knew the whole picture, or maybe they jumped the gun. But it's causing a huge problem. 2/

*two months later*

How is it *my* fault that 338 Big Ten athletes have myocarditis?! We all decided to play as a group!

https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1306222359322472448

People are going to get sick and die because of this heroic stand to defend the God-given right to watch Wisconsin beat Illinois 18-10 in a mostly-empty stadium.

If you've decided to vote for Trump, okay, well, that's democracy. Just know there's a good chance he hates you. He hates the military (losers), he hates farmers (dirty), he hates immigrants (dirty/not white), he hates midwesterners (gross), he hates women (unless they're models) He hates people richer than him (how dare you) and people poorer than him (losers). He hates his kids (how dare they not be him?) except Ivanka (hot, would date). He hates Jews (weird clothes) and Mexicans (talk funny) and Africans (shithole countries).

I am 44 3/4 years old and for 44 5/8 of those years I have had conservative white middle-aged men chastise me for not appreciating Edmund Burke enough. I wonder why a born-rich boarding school kid who believed in the fundamental superiority of the wealthy and educated over the poor peasant class would appeal to Bret Stephens?

My father-in-law, Regis Philbin, passed away last weekend at the age of 88. A small thread in his memory. I've never really been able to articulate what his life and career meant. It's too huge. You can't wrap your arms around it. He literally holds the Guinness Book Record for most hours on TV. (Like 17,000, or something equally absurd.)

I know what people are going to say. But. Given that on a PK the keeper basically has to guess which side the PKer is going to and then do a coin-flip dive on contact, why not set up *one step* to either side before the kick, and basically tempt the PKer to go to the wide side? I understand that if the keeper does that, a decently-struck ball to the wide side will score every time, but as it is, 75% of PKs score. This way, the keeper would at least have a decent chance of knowing which side it's going to. I feel like it's worth trying.

Hard to tell which MRAP this is, but one article I read says 6 MPG, and a 50-80 gallon tank. Diesel in WV currently $2.39/gal. Call it $180 or so to fill up.

Here's a teacher in Moundsville who needs $240 for books for her kids: donorschoose.org/project/books-…

https://twitter.com/JBaker_WTOV/status/1273655533510242308

OK, we funded that one. Nice work. Here's a teacher in Moundsville who needs a freaking desk so her kids can do STEM work. It costs about two tanks of gas for that armored monstrosity the police do not need. Have at it. donorschoose.org/project/standi…

Here's the thing about the phrase "Fox News apologizes..."

https://twitter.com/OfficialMLK3/status/1269434549928427523

Apologizing is great! I'm all for it.

Here is something literally everyone can do to help: join #8CantWait. Urge your mayor to enact policies that can reduce police violence that results in death by up to 72%. It doesn't require an act of Congress -- just our voices. Go to 8cantwait.org and act. Now. The demands made by #8cantwait are data-driven, simple, and achievable. For example: Ban All Neck Restraints, like this one used by cops in Sarasota LONG AFTER the killing of George Floyd. cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/…

Here is a sitting U.S. Senator defending the gassing and forceful removal of peaceful protestors because of the possibility that at some point they might have become violent. Using this logic, any American citizen could be arrested or attacked at any moment by state forces. And here are several more sitting U.S. Senators -- Republicans, all, and this the self-designated keepers and protectors of personal liberty and freedom for all American citizens, cowardly claiming they didn't watch what happened or refusing to comment.

Fox News and the worst people on Twitter were pretty quickly all over the fire set at St. John’s church. They were pretty coordinated in their messaging. Also, for the record, burning churches is famously more of a “White Supremacist” move. Huh. St. John’s Church for the photo op, you say?

The Flynn thing is the latest in a long line of non-scandals that Republicans use to create chaos, throw dust in the eyes of voters, and wreak havoc on the basic concept of democracy.

Long angry thread: Remember the "Cash for Clunkers" program in 2009? It was part of a massive economic stimulus that Obama and a democratic congress devised to stimulate the economy, save the auto industry, and help the environment all at once. 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allow…

I love America. I love freedom. And that is why I'm going to reject the oppression and tyranny of my governor, leave my home, go to a crowded Buffalo Wild Wings, and inject Clorox into my eyeballs while my friend Doug shines a flashlight into my butthole to kill the virus.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1253448138813173760

Already getting a lot of pushback on this. But I love the goddamn Stars and Stripes, and that is why I have just eaten a pile of bleach wipes so the wipes can wipe my lungs and I can head off to the bowling alley with a clean bill of health.