Re: One BEEELLION dollars

On 1/21/2025 7:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:09:57 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
 

On 20/01/2025 21:15, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

 

Well, I was going to say Elon Musk but the gif only says 1 billion
dollars which is too small for Elon to put any effort into it.

 

One billion you say, so about the same as he spent on paying people to
make him an uber gamer?

  <chuckle>
 That whole story* is just so sad and cringey, but then the same can be
said for the person it is about. Musk is just so desperate for
attention and validation. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't
so otherwise loathsome and willing to use his enormous advantages to
the detriment of others.
 The thing is, if he had just said, "hey, I'm a gamer; I'm pretty good"
he'd have been fine.** Apparently he had some (not a lot, but probably
better than average) skill at Quake, and I'm willing to believe he is
the same in a number of other games. But its his insistence that he's
always the best, always right is what keeps getting him into trouble.
 Hubris, Musk. Look it up.
 

Well, apparently Trump is 1 inch taller than Musk so I guess he does have to look up at least a little bit.
(And I found it funny that when I typed "Elon Muck" in the search engine by mistake it still went straight to "Elon Musk".)
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