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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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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

5 Bramillion is outright silly.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] GreeNRG 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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

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