Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women.

The latest object of Musk’s obsession? According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, he’s been personally overseeing the developing of xAI’s chatbot Ani — which, tellingly, comes in the form of a super-sexualized pigtail-wearing woman that removes her clothing in response to flirtation.

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      18 hours ago

      Only until the bubble pops. His pay is likely mostly in stock, and when the dominoes fall, it’ll get ugly.

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        His pay is in stock, which he has heavily leveraged with loans. He should talk to his girlfriend about leveraging a house of cards.

        He actually makes no money he just borrows against his perceived value from some pretty dumb banks.

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          And we need to remember that he gets paid in stock for the pure reason to pay as little taxes as possible

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          Stop saying he doesn’t make money when he clearly do.

          He’s only owning industries, that’s not cash!!

          He gets money but it’s loans against his industries so it doesn’t count!!

          Grrr…

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            If you borrow $100 from me, money you have to pay back in 6 weeks at 2% interest (so $102) have you “made money”?

            No. Indeed if you haven’t used that $100 to make more money than $102 in six weeks, you’ve lost money. If you just keep the money, you’re down $2. If you’ve spent any of it and it hasn’t had any kind of investment return, you’ve lost $2 plus whatever you’ve spent.

            This is just very elementary … not even accounting. This is elementary book-keeping.

            So Kaptain Ketamine has very little cash of his own. Everything he “owns” is leveraged to the hilt and when the value of the asset used to secure the loan drops below a specified point (that point defined in the loan contracts, but typically 2-4 times the value of the loan taken), the bank makes a margin call. They want repayment. NOW. And of course to repay it he has to sell stock. Which lowers the value of the stock. Which leads to more margin calls and more margin calls and more margin calls as he has to continue liquidation of his security until, basically, his stock tanks. And he’s still on the hook for remaining loans.

            I’ve seen convincing estimates that say if Tesla stock falls to about $150-175 the margin calls start and his banks’ company tanks. His “personal wealth” is very much a fiction of paper and is subject to incredible and stunning collapse, something he was in danger of earlier in 2025 when his stock took that long slide before idiots propped it back up.

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        13 hours ago

        I got a complete business plan for a drive thru murder for hire service. She said it was awesome and innovative.