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Comparing X, which is one company (with a far reduced headcount and much smaller revenues compared to pre-Elon) in a tech hub city to an entire oil industry in an oil-rich state seems beyond hyperbolic.

oil is tech, in my analogy. You know what I meant. You can't possibly be that autistic.

Twitter already laid off 80-90% of staff. It was already almost all gone, from SF's perspective.

Saudi investment in diversified industries in SA and overseas is huge. For some worryingly huge. If you disliked former soviet oligarchs investing in property and football teams, the Saudis are there too.

It's also exploring tourism. Western women are welcome to sun-bake around pools in designated areas of KSA. It's only local women who are under stricter controls.

But their diversification efforts are pathetic. It's still like 80% of people being employed by the state. They will never find anything other than oil.

It was a skeleton crew of H-1Bs being held hostage in a building that Musk was refusing to pay rent for.

Party like it’s 2011 agian, before the dumb supes gave them a tax break not to move and it all went to crap.

Are you saying that Elon Musk is oily?

Rancid and greasy