Re:New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
by UncleMeat on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:12AM
(#35096303)
"World's (almost) richest person consistently sets prices using 420 and 69 because weed and sex are funny" is just so dumb.
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Re:New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
by hungryforcodes on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:57PM
(#35099206)
...or FUNNY!
Re:New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
by leobg on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:10PM
(#35101898)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of his favorite books. The 420 is a reference to “42”being the answer to the meaning of life. Nothing to do with weed.
Re:New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
by taskforcegemini on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:37AM
(#35131540)
even if you had a source for Musk saying this, I'd doubt it would be the real reason. 420 is a reference to weed, not to "42" of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Re:New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
by leobg on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:07PM
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He made references to 42 long before 420 ever came up. Certainly long before the weed smoking Joe Rogan episode.
The 420 joke is a reference to his tweets trying to take Tesla private. 42 wasn’t in the right range as a target price. But 420 was. And since this tweet turned out a debacle, he now uses that number. It’s like 42 squared. Or rather, an order of magnitude better than 42.
If you don’t get the joke and rather want to believe he has some weird connection to the weed subculture, feel free.