Prepare to deploy World's Smallest Violin Orchestra for Elon!

First up, he's being sued by upwards of $200,000,000 by former executives of Twitter. The former CEO, CFO, Chief Legal Officer, and General Counsel allege they are owed wages, health insurance premiums, etc. for unjust termination. Musk sacked them before they could resign when he took over, stating gross negligence, etc., then spent a year trying to get employees to prove said negligence and incompetence. They couldn't. Well, now they're back for blood, and they're likely to get it.

He's showing his true colors as an asshole billionaire: don't pay your bills. And he has multiple suits against him. I really hope they start getting some really nasty punitive damages that he begins feeling the hurt that he's putting on others, and that others flat-out stop doing business with him. Much like a certain former president.

The thing that's really going to hurt him in his defense for this suit is that he confided to his biographer that he did this on purpose, just to save money. That's definitely going to bite him in the butt in court.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/elon-musk-sued-by-former-twitter-ceo-over-refusal-to-pay-57m-severance/


In Tesla news, an eco-activism/terrorism group, for want of a better name, burned down a high-voltage electrical tower that powered the Tesla plant outside of Berlin, taking out its power and causing it to shut down an hour or so before the morning shift today. They were protesting the plant's excessive water pollution.

When the Muskbrat was stumping to open the factory, he said that it would internally process the waste so that the water discharge would be clean. Guess what! HE LIED! It's producing run-off six times higher of phosphorous and nitrogen than allowed, and the processing plant can't handle it! So much for properly handling it in-house. And the locals aren't happy.

Now he wants to expand the plant to produce a million cars annually, which will mean cutting down a lot of old-growth trees, and increasing waste output. You can imagine how popular that is with the locals.

Germany is pretty strict with its environmental laws, he's going to have to clean up his act. I don't approve of burning down power towers, but it definitely did bring attention to the pollution that Elon is putting out.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-accused-polluting-german-rivers-132031339.html

RIP: Rooster Teeth, digital content pioneer

Warner Brothers strikes again, killing lines in hopes of shrinking a massive debt load that doesn't seem to go away. Pity the thought of producing good content that people want to see hasn't occurred to them. This time the victim is Rooster Teeth, the creative geniuses that brought us Red Vs Blue and RWBY, among many other things. Red Vs Blue started up before we had the World Wide Web and was one of the first internet-based animated hits. It was bought up by Microsoft for a while and I believe later released from their grip.

While Rooster Teeth is being shut down and at least 150 people are losing their jobs, Warner is going to try to sell Red Vs Blue and other properties, so there may be some meat to be picked off them bones yet.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/rooster-teeth-shut-down-warner-bros-discovery-1234960682/