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Well, yesterday was a day of hilarity in the online space.

Elon Musk arrived at the Twitter headquarters carrying an actual literal sink.

He tweeted, let this sink in.

I got to say, like, the fact that Elon Musk is somewhere between an Atlas shrug character and a bond villain is really one of the great things about American economic life these days.

Here's what that video sounded and looked like. You can actually see Musk walking in.

He's going gonna say it's good? Laughing with everybody carrying in the sink, no one knows what's going on.

Pretty spectacular stuff.

He then tweeted out that he was meeting some wonderful people at Twitter,

and I can only hope that that means

that all the people he is not meeting, he is going to fire. The reason that it makes rather a large difference, whether Elon Musk comes in, there's some economic reasons why it will be good for Twitter, and then there are some actual reasons why it will be good for the United States of America on an economic level. One of the reasons it might be good for Twitter is because Twitter, as far as I'm aware, has never run a profit. I'm not aware that Twitter is actually a money-making machine. And you can see why a video was put out by one of the Twitter employees showing what a day in their life is like. And let me just say, it looks like a vacation spa. It looks like nobody does any work around there. and they all sit around playing foosball all day. Here is a video from one of the Twitter employees.

Not all that long Here is a video from one of the

Twitter employees. Not all that long ago. A day in the life of Twitter. My life as a Twitter

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