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Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's on purpose. Just another slimy weird ass attempt to slow things down and muck up the system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Eh, I subscribe to the belief that Lonnie is a complete piece of shit. But I also think the way he runs his companies is completely incompetent. I could believe they just don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
[–] lurch 3 points 6 days ago

Lawyer: "You have to transfer the money into a Brasillian courts bank account."

Elon whispering: "How many millions are a brazillion?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How are his lawyers so incompetent they pay the wrong account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

He hired the ones that used to work for trump. You know the ones that forgot to request a jury trial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Everything is written in Brazilianese, it's an error everyone could have made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well why didn’t they also pay a Brazillion dollars if it’s so confusing?

5 Bramillion is outright silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I know it's nothing to him, but seeing Musk lose even 0.001% is good.