it is better to have it sorted before than having the chaos ensued after. and with good result nonetheless, under the circumstances, what more could you wish for?
It is not. It is open source, there will be updates when there will be updates, they are not pressured by board of directors to release something that doesn't work.
I suggest checking the discord for more information, including endless stream of screenshots, to get an idea about state of the project.
"today" is before 2021, and it seems to be a carefully selected photo she uses when asked for autograph.
who would expect such photo with good lighting, make-up and possibly any amount of digital editing look better, than character who was supposed to be "old person in the wild", right?
xmpp is a protocol, it doesn't have interface. you may be thinking about some specific software using xmpp, in that case you have to say what software you are talking about.
ok, so that described strategy sounds almost like something that should be illegal. in fact it sounds very similarly to lot of stories that were happening here in central europe after fall of communism, when the state-owned companies were changing ownership and ending up in personal hands. lot of these stories did not end up well.
but no matter what, that strategy only covered part of the acquisition price, even according to these articles, so that is still not a reason for musk to intentionally drive the company into the ground.
yeah, guess what, this is not your average home mortgage :D it is more complicated, but short story is yes, musk paid with his own money and money backed by his other property.
and no matter what, it still doesn't explain this nonsense you said:
I think the point is to destroy it so he doesn’t have to pay back what he borrowed to buy it.
not sure where this absurd idea of yours comes from, but it is still nonsense. no matter where he borrowed the money from, he has to return them, even if he drowns the twitter in gasoline and then set it on fire.
On April 20, Musk disclosed that he had secured financing provided by a group of banks led by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, and BNP Paribas, for a potential tender offer to acquire the company.[27][28] The funding included $7 billion of senior secured bank loans; $6 billion in subordinated debt; $6.25 billion in bank loans to Musk personally, secured by $62.5 billion of his Tesla stock; $20 billion in cash equity from Musk, to be provided by sales of Tesla stock and other assets; and $7.1 billion in equity from 19 independent investors.[29][30][31]
well of course she is not going to convince someone whose source of living is being conservative propagandist...
the question is whether or not she had a chance to convince even 1% of normal conservative voters.