Elon Musk: in case you need to lose a boner fast

[GoodTaste]

Elon Musk tweeted just now: in case u need to lose a boner fast.

What does lose a boner mean?
I searched the word boner, and it returned with "a vulgar slang..." I am not sure since he talks about Bill Gates.
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[jutfrank]

boner = erection

The idea is that if you become so excited as to be engorged in the penis department, thinking about Bill Gates is a good way of getting rid of your erection!

 

[GoodTaste]

boner = erection

The idea is that if you become so excited as to be engorged in the penis department, thinking about Bill Gates is a good way of getting rid of your erection!

So Musk is rather rude to Gates. In my opinion Gates contributed more to humankind.

 

[probus]

Thinking about Elon Musk would work just as well in my opinion.

 

[jutfrank]

So Musk is rather rude to Gates. In my opinion Gates contributed more to humankind.

Yes, I agree—it seems very rude and uncalled-for.

I'm very glad to say that I don't use Twitter. I wonder if there is some kind of beef between Musk and Gates that I'm unaware of.

 

[Tarheel]

So Musk was rather rude to Gates. In my opinion, Gates has contributed more to humankind.

It's a joke.

 

[GoodTaste]

Yes, I agree—it seems very rude and uncalled-for.

I'm very glad to say that I don't use Twitter. I wonder if there is some kind of beef between Musk and Gates that I'm unaware of.

Musk explained it now: (from making fun of Gates for shorting Tesla while claiming to support climate change action).

OK. Does shorting mean "making less amounts of Tesla car"?

 

[SoothingDave]

No, shorting means betting that the price of a stock will go down.

You borrow stock from others with the promise to return at a certain date. If you are in a "short" position, you intend to use the value of the stock today for your own purposes, and then replace the stock at the future date. When you expect the stock to be worth less.

If I borrow 100 shares that cost $1 each, that gets me $100 when I sell them. If I borrow for one week, and next week the shares are $0.75, then it only costs me $75 to return the 100 shares to you.

I have made $25 plus whatever gain on the $100 I cashed out originally.

 

[Tarheel]

Gates was betting that the price of Tesla stock would go down. Did he win that bet?

 

[GoodTaste]

Gates was betting that the price of Tesla stock would go down. Did he win that bet?

Gates used to be a cool minded speaker, and Musk's childish vulgar manner already told us that he's the loser.

 

[Tarheel]

@GoodTaste I don't understand your answer. When somebody short sells a stock he is betting that the stock will go down in price. If the stock did, in fact, go down in price then Gates won that bet. That's what I was asking about.