These people definitely exist, and 1/3 of the time they find each other.

This is a wild story.

Analysis from 2018 here:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/05/22/elon-musks-compensation/

So when they gave him this, Tesla was worth about 60 Billion. They said if you ~10x the company, well give you what amounts to roughly 10% of the company in stock. Regardless of what part he played, or what stock price says about company value, at it’s height in 2021 Tesla was worth 1 trillion, overshooting the most ridiculous targets by almost 70% (the worth at that point would have been 17x what it was in 2018).

On the one hand, it’s just all so ridiculous that I don’t think anyone saw that actually happening, which is probably why they voted for it. On the other hand, I’m glad he lost it because the sooner Tesla != Musk the better and this feels like a decent wedge for driving that separation. I wonder if this means they have to adopt a revised compensation plan or something.

That’s just unfair. You’re completely discounting this list of excellent, well supported software products created by legacy car companies:

…

you don’t have to be rich to get a DWI in a RAM, just bad at math and quick to sign a loan.

He’s building that insane clock in the desert, does that count?

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

Elon Logic: One site, one SRE. Genius.

RACISTS

Never forget that these aren’t monsters. They are flesh and bone and shit humans who fucking bleed.

Sokath, his eyes covered. (Samsung has tons of phones and mics everywhere too) Does anyone actually use Bixby though?

Google, it’s pockets laden. (meh, they already have listening devices everywhere, two more won’t really make a difference)

essentially raw but seared on the outside.

Well, there’s “blue rare” too, but also those steak pics are all sharing the same half pixel between them.

He gets more cursed the taller he gets

If the world was fair, steaming turds would have started flopping out of his mouth as soon as he started talking.

ಠ_ಠ

RedHat: Any of these, but you’re paying a barista to make it.

Even Satoru Gogo would have trouble with this shit

Your assumption that an Ad must be to sell a thing is false.

IBM engages in brand campaigns to simply get their name out there as a company that can do anything you need.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-02-16-With-Lets-create,-IBM-Launches-Brand-Campaign-to-Accelerate-Innovation-with-Clients-and-Partners

You’d be amazed. They’ve directly or indirectly been contributors to open source pretty much since open source was a thing.

https://www.ibm.com/opensource/community-involvement/

Plus, you probably use several services that use IBM. Much like AWS, they aim to be a silent integral part of the infra and utilities of as many companies as possible. Lots of government involvement as well

When there’s a meeting and some higher up says “We need FOO to do BAR”, and the middle manager glances over at the tech lead to answer, they’re gonna say “I’ll see what $CURRENT_PROVIDER has to offer.” Then the middle manager will interject “Ah, and we’ll check $COMPETITOR[0] to see if we can save some cash”.

Those ads are aimed at making sure IBM is in the zeroeth index of the middle managers COMPETITOR array.

(Also making sure people who currently use IBM feel good about themselves)