Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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    Do you really want to ask anything out of someone who diverts a flight and drives to a random data center at 2 am on Dec 24 to take it apart with a pocket knife?

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      I mean, I’ve gotten drugs from sketchier people. And if we’re talking about stimulants, that’s almost an advertising point. “So good, it got Elon pulling up floorboards and crashing servers!” is a decent testament to how strong it is.

      Plus, if this was a serious conversation, the first thing I would do would be to test for purity and contaminants. Test kits are relatively cheap, and even if you’re open to getting baby powder spiked with bath salts in place of cocaine, it’s better to know what you’re getting into. Test your drugs, people!

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      Some poor engineers getting paged late at night:

      “WTF?! Why does the servers shutting down one after another? Do we have a rodent on the loose in Sacramento?”

      *Check CCTV*

      “What is that thing crawling under the floorboard?”

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        It was a Muskrat, very damaging to your companies infrastructure. Some even deem them a plague.

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        “Rodents. Release the halon gas.”

        “Wait no, thats Elon Musk!”

        “…”

        “Release the gas.”