btavshanjian.bsky.social
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Plenty of people in SF hate Elon
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More than anything else, Elon Musk is anti-worker. He genuinely wants employees to be terrified and miserable
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I’m surprised they haven’t explicitly advocated for bringing back the old class structure (eg you do what your parents did, largely)
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I’m always amazed at how none of these people seem to have any experience with empirical scientific disciplines, these all seem shaped for the social sciences
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I think it’s a terrible idea. But I do think it’s sort of an unavoidable consequence of folks on the right who have come to only fear violence from the further right.
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I wasn’t born in it (cosmopolitan anyway), but it was the first place that felt like home, so same.
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They’re concerned white men don’t have adequate advancement opportunities
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Elon is the Theranos of people. There have been warning signs for a long time, but only people familiar with personalities like him noticed
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It was an incredibly evocative article. But I feel she didn’t quite capture the weirdness of his neurodivergence
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Yeah, this is basically like saying Britain should surrender to Hitler to save lives (which was actually an argument nazi sympathizers made at the time!)
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Well, you can at least be confident whatever trouble she gets into will be consensual? That’s lethal snark to an adolescent ego
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I think they’re doing a lot of damage with the smug assholery. The smug comments make better opposition sound bites
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I miss when conservatives were wealthy mainline Protestants
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I’ve said for many, many years that in a sane America I would be a Republican of the Rockefeller Republican type (I mean, I’m an over educated Episcopalian). But America has not been sane for as long as I have been an adult, so I’m a center/center-left democrat.
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Section dates from 1986 but not sure if paragraph 2 dates from then
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See here www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Cite is 10 U.S. Code § 152 if anyone is interested
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Hey guys, I know quality control isn’t a thing anymore in the trump era, but the article doesn’t match your comment
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It’s less excusable for smith, who has repeatedly down the ability to do sophisticated research
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Wait, is he saying the January 6 folks were bad? I thought Trump said they’re heroes?
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Why would a billionaire do that? Well, back in the day we used to have religion and ethics that would champion generosity as a virtue of a great human being. I guess those ethics have disappeared?
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The generous interpretation would be an American or an uneducated British GenZer wrote the headline. But probably not
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I mean, it’s just a particularly ironic headline for a British publication…
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I’ve always wondered why the UK never held elections while being bombed by Germany
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youtu.be/m-TkOtUR-J0?...
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This measles health benefits thing is really impressive. Normally with this pro-disease woo I can at least find someone making the argument on internet. Not so here. Really fringe position even for crazy people
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Maybe he’ll target the dudes in the NY office that were so worked up about Hillary’s emails first
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I wonder about the overlap on people who believe both
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People of this status aren’t used to thinking in a pessimistic way, so it takes awhile for events to pile up for them to recognize as a threat
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It’s because it’s happening so fast. I wonder what’s going to happen once eg the effects of the layoffs start showing up in economic statistics
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Well the good news is that Musk probably laid off some engineers that can help them get started
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Doesn’t this seem like a basic piece of info one would clarify by reporting before publishing a piece?
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So we should post this outside every government agency so they know to ignore his orders, right?
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“Politically minded democrats” doesn’t even mean elected officials
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This is a function of overpaid university administrators who have come to focus on dollars rather than impact of the university
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A big part of the brainrot in the legal profession is that so many judges/attorneys are only familiar with legal inquiry and not order forms of intellectual inquiry like experimental
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They want it to with standalone on the quest headsets without a computer link, so of course it sucks
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Even as simple as kids needing dads!
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Lawyers, executives at major companies…
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I also wonder how much of this is due to lack of fear of leftist violence, because this statement swings both ways
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It’s what they did with the 2nd amendment and that worked somehow…
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You have to actually…do some of those things? Which seems like it’s the problem?