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    https://twitter.com/PantheonBooks/status/1059433629795926024 Looks like the @PantheonBooks account was compromised. Pantheon Books is a biggie, a divi
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    • #230223

      The “Verified” tag is misunderstood by too many people. May as well have that feature removed.

    • #230281

      Well, Mr. Musk has been behaving rater oddly of late, but this is probably a bit too out there, even for him. Alternatively, a better explanation is that “there is one born every minute”, as P.T. Barnum famously never said.

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      • #230287

        Well, Mr. Musk has been behaving rater oddly of late

        Hmm..the subject being someone who sends their car into orbit to get a parking space (pun intended)

        Keep IT Lean, Clean and Mean!
        • #230528

          Actually, I believe Mr. Musk is a fan of the movie Heavy Metal.  The car-in-space thing is at the beginning of that movie.

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    • #230459

      While quite a few starve and struggle to survive, spoiled brads watch soap operas and post nonsense on the Internet.

    • #230468

      What if someone posted something on Twitter…

      …and no one cared?

      -Noel

    • #230612

      Musk really did send me those bitcoins. Sadly enough, just after I saved the data I got an 1809 upgrade pushed which deleted them. So yeah…

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