Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway? - Elon

Elon has a wonderful ability to make use of other people to build his own image. I was a former fanboy in the 2010s but he&#x27;s so far off the deep end I won&#x27;t consider touching anything he has control over.<p>It was a disappointing turn from someone who could lead with vision to a billionaire troll that shows signs of what looks like depression to me. He&#x27;s slowly sliding off the deep end.

This is a joke that Elon wrote while using the bathroom this morning. There&#x27;s no reason to read too much into this and convert these comments into a philosophy course.

What a visionary. This whole gig is just going to be a series of random brainfarts and trolling isn’t it?

This has nothing to do with homeless.<p>Elon is saying the staff could be replaced by the homeless and it would be a better use of the office and money.<p>This is about putting the staff on notice a house cleaning is coming.

One of the world&#x27;s richest men using the homeless as a punchline.

Not sure how I would feel as a Twitter employee right now. Especially if I didn’t like Elon.

Someone suggested to think of him as a genius 15 year old and I can&#x27;t unsee it.

The man is clearly making a joke at the expense of liberal Bay Area tech workers, and you all are in here clutching your pearls and psychoanalyzing him. Lmao.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1513045405029711878" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1513045405029711878</a><p>He&#x27;s also suggesting that they rename Twitter to &quot;Titter&quot;

I can’t think of a twitter feed that deserves attention on HN less.

I can’t imagine the chaos among product org caused by Elon’s recent Tweeets. It’ll have thrown their planning completely off gear.

Housing first has failed SF. The homeless would just trash the place. Don’t get sucked down into this mire Elon.

Well, that was $3 billion well spent.

Actually this is not a bad idea, but the required conversion might be a bit expensive. A better idea IMO would be to convert the first floor to an open-access showering &#x2F; bathing &#x2F; clothes washing &#x2F; personal storage setup with attendants to cut down on people trying to use it as a heroin shooting gallery. Maybe put in a free veterinary clinic for those with homeless pets, hey maybe even a free medical clinic for humans too. Trying to set it up for people to sleep and live there, though, that would be a bit much.

One of the most forward-thinking prescient cultural predictions of the modern era just keeps becoming more and more true:<p><i>What we have is a glimpse of how these skirmishes will unfold in the future—all the rhetorical weaponry and siegecraft of an internet comment section brought to bear on our culture, not just at the fringes but at the center. What we&#x27;re seeing now is a rehearsal, where the mechanisms of a toxic and inhumane politics are being tested and improved. Tomorrow&#x27;s Lee Atwater will work through sock puppets on IRC. Tomorrow&#x27;s Sister Souljah will get shouted down with rape threats. Tomorrow&#x27;s Tipper Gore will make an inexplicably popular YouTube video. Tomorrow&#x27;s Willie Horton ad will be an image macro, tomorrow&#x27;s Borking a doxing, tomorrow&#x27;s Moral Majority a loose coalition of DoSers and robo-petitioners and scat-GIF trolls—all of them working feverishly in service of the old idea that nothing should ever really change.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadspin.com&#x2F;the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadspin.com&#x2F;the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-...</a>

This is just trolling. He doesn’t have any control over twitter, he’s just a regular shareholder. Sure he could maybe try and get on the board if he wanted to but the other major shareholders would have to be pretty dumb to allow that the way he’s behaving.

The rules are that you can either be influential or a troll. We just don’t have any way to deal with influential trolls.

The homeless problem was exacerbated by twitter employees being upset about the outdoor toilets near their office.

I think using unused office space is an exceptional idea. This will never happen at Twitter’s headquarters, but, Elon has a wonderful way of making everyone think about things differently. massively wealthy companies in Silicon Valley, yet a crisis of homelessness.

It’s becoming clear this is a man who got lucky too early and missed out on the maturing influences and experiences most people face.<p>Edit: Since I&#x27;m getting downvoted, here&#x27;s more supporting evidence, I guess: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1513045405029711878" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1513045405029711878</a>