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   Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 19:56:14 JST Ever Beedle

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   RT All Bot just reposted this on the 2-year anniversary. Twitter's Musk saga was fun, 10/10 would relive
   
   RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/23b3035a-ff18-4e1c-a428-b8d9b310bb7e

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 19:56:13 JST iced depresso

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     @dave that last one i still gig people about at times.
     
     like how the UN and Elon said world hunger could be solved with X billion and then the USA literally set three times that on fire in forever wars for no reason
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 21:58:12 JST iced depresso

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     @dave so we could have solved world hunger 60 times but instead gave israel some shit instead
     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this.
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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 21:58:13 JST Ever Beedle

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     @icedquinn I just checked, it was $6 billion, but the media was partially to blame by claiming it would solve world hunger when the bureaucrat never actually said that. The original tweet (it was a tweet, not a report) read "The world is in trouble and you are too busy with your wealth. 42M people might die. $6B could save them"

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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 21:58:14 JST Ever Beedle

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     @icedquinn It wasn't even really "the UN" as I recall, it was just a claim put out by some bureaucrat. Musk publicly called him out on twitter (the bureaucrat also had an account), saying that if the bureaucrat could substantiate the claim with details for how whatever the amount was would actually solve it, Musk would immediately sell the amount of stock needed and provide the cash to fund it.

     As you can guess, no detailed plan was ever provided. It was a laughably small amount relative to the scale of the world hunger problem as I recall, waaay less than the USA already provides in foreign aid every year.