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Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix. And Elon Musk has a reputation for fixing problems.

When Twitter shares are publicly traded again in a few years, Musk's purchase price of $44 billion will look like a bargain.

My prediction: In 5 years Twitter's market cap will exceed $150 billion.

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> Elon has a reputation for fixing problems.

Based on Tesla, he not only isn't good at fixing problems, he actively pushes forward broken products and processes to save his stock price.

Can you be more specific? There are plenty of satisfied customers.

Full Self Driving still regularly crashes into balloon children over-and-over again reliably, despite a huge amount of R&D since 2014 (8 years ago).

https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/14787661657237790...

Hitting the (fake) kid is SOOOOOO reliable, that Luminar used Tesla as their "crashes into dummy" car in CES 2022. IE: They're so confident that Tesla will hit that balloon child, they are using it for live in-person demos of their technology.

We just have a disagreement. I don't think that bugs in beta software means "he actively pushes forward broken products". It may still be wrong to inflict beta software on humans, but that is a separate ethical consideration.

That "beta software" costs $12,000 and has been around for 8 years and was promised to be "coast to coast full self driving" in 2015.

Yeah, I experience the same thing on YouTube. It's entertaining, so I'm not really complaining, but it's of course wasted money for an advertiser to try to sell me a subscription to a local streaming service or buy shampoo that I've never heard of.

It shouldn't be that hard to realize I'm only visiting a place and that they should keep serving me whatever ads I would see at home (or maybe tourist related stuff).

> Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix.

I like this feature. For a brief moment, I can't be marketed to.

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