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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><br><b>Cc:</b> Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…### Yeah, and that SNL appearance was cringe, too. Elon is aspy, no question about it…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…That's why I do support Elon, cringe and all…Rafal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, but none of that cringe business matters Rafal. It doesn’t matter if Elon is an asshole, doesn’t matter what kind of soda he drinks. This is a rush to save what I think is worth saving. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can see the value of Twitter’s continued existence in principle: huge audience, plenty of detractors, automated open moderation (so we can copy the moderation software and use it here) and so forth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In order to save that company it will take someone who has a lot of business talent and just does what he thinks needs to happen. Aspergers people can be that way: they understand the line of the song which goes “…ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself…”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Saving Twitter requires drastic action. It really does require an Aspy with hundreds of billions of dollars. How many of those do we have? Failing that, let’s start a GoFundMe, or better yet start a GoFundthehellouttaME because I will need a loooootta lotta money to buy that outfit. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moving the Twitter HQ out to Lodi seems like a good move, and one which I hope Elon makes: plenty of room out there, low priced real estate, plenty of current employees who will refuse to go, which means fewer layoffs. Each quitter is a saved job for someone else. Many of the quitters would likely be high-end salary types, which could save several jobs. For some of those employees (the ones who stay) that move would be a dream: the rank and file employees can own a home, something few could do in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Furthermore… Lodi could really use a high-value facelift.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>