They should do it, just to empty Elon’s pockets. I’m sure he’d try to weasel out of it like the Twitter deal. Would be entertaining to watch.

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    Step 1. Rename to “Dickipedia” and prominently feature Musk’s face on the splash page

    Step 2. Collect $1 billion

    Step 3. Change it back

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        Did he specify one Earth year though? ‘Cause Mercury completes a trip around the Sun in less than three months. If we include exoplanets we could get it down to less than a day.

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    “It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!” tweeted Musk. "So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … "

    Elon Musk went fully Pointy-Haired Boss and proudly demonstrated that he doesn’t know neither the technical requirements for running one of the most popular websites in the world, nor the financial costs associated with it.

    But he did it already and we knew that already.

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    Those wvo say they should accept seems to have forget the world hunger episode. He would give the billion to his own fundation.

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    And again - no matter how much money he might have so what the reality might be, whenever I visualize Musk posting to used-to-be-twitter, I see him as a greasy teenager in cum-stained sweatpants, hunched over an off-the-shelf desktop PC on a rickety desk in a room with fake wood paneling and green shag carpet in a trashy suburban tract house, furiously tapping away at a grimy keyboard and giggling to himself.