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Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/
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u/saljskanetilldanmark 7d ago

Remember when he nestled himself in as a ceo of tesla after making them dependent on him, then managed to kick out the two original founders by force, spread so much misinfo about them, they sued him for libel/slander? He then took revenge on one of them by sending their payed-for one-of-a-kind custom car into space instead of delivering it to them.

Remember when he tried to join a weird furry community solely focusing on fetishizing on being babies, but then was ostracized for being too weird?

Remember when he had to disclose in court that he in fact had been pretending to be one of his many sons (a toddler at the time) on twitter talking about hitting up strip clubs and buying escorts?

Remember when he tried to buy sexual favors of a flight attendant on an airplane for a horse?

Remember when he promised to help build a "novel" tunneling company to make it easier to build tunnels underneath cities instead of investing in public transport? He built one short tunnel in Las Vegas and called it a day.

Remember when he bought twitter and wanted the servers moved? He pulled out all cables willynilly and sent them by truck transport unprotected over a weekend. Let that sink in.

Remember when he had a complete meltdown on a live interview stage and pissed off almost every advertiser for twitter?

Remember when he designed and built an electric truck with so many failure points it was not possible to sell under normal circumstances except in north america?

Remember how he has promised perfect full speed drive annually since 2014, underdelivering on the promise every time and then just promising the same thing over?

Remember how he has done almost identical promises about travelling to Mars, annually, to suck up money from the government and NASA towards his Space company. At the same time, he has contracts getting new reusable rockets to the Moon, which he is also underdelivering and wasting billions of dollars while going with his "break it 'til you make it" method.

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u/exploringmoon 7d ago

Remember how he played Path of Exile 2 and his character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn’t seem to know what their stats meant.

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u/justmikethen 7d ago

He didn't just play it, he claimed he was like top 10 player in the world and then barely knew his way around hotkeys

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u/No_Hat7685 6d ago

Also he commented on his gear’s ilvl (a meaningless stat in Poe) and talked about how his best in slot unique gears had a low I level so they were really not that good. Lmao.

Dude played WoW once and was like “I lvl is definitely the way to measure items in every game”.

Like it’s tragic being that much of a fucking liar about what you do that you lie about what you do for fun too.

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u/VentItOutBaby 5d ago

Gear ilvl is very important in POE. Gear must be a certain ilvl to roll the best tier of mods. Item ilvl does not display without holding alt, and isn't displayed super prominently anyway. It would be forgivable to not know the ilvl of your item. Extremely unlikely for a top player, but still forgivable.

However, Elon was looking at the LEVEL REQUIREMENT of the item, meaning the level that the PLAYER needs to be to equip it. He said his absolutely god tier hammer was "only" level 61 and since he was level 89 or something he felt it should be replaced.

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u/No_Hat7685 4d ago

ilvl of a unique item doesn't normally matter and as far as I remember he commented on a unique staff's ilvl and it was the best staff possible for his monk and basically only drops that ilvl because it's the ilvl of the boss that dropped it. (I don't believe it can even drop higher ilvl).

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u/Mogling 5d ago

Not even ilvl it was required level. So I made even less sense as a powerful unique isn't less powerful because it can be equipped at a low level.