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Silicate Morporkian; head of the Breccia; semi-regular denizen of the pork futures warehouse; member of the Ankh Morpork Poster's Guild.
Not always swearing and cynical.
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Maybe worth pointing out that these were the people in charge of preventing us from dying a slow, miserable death from radiation poisoning and that Musk, the absolute idiot that he is, fired them? Supporting any Republican at this point is straight aiding and abetting the enemy.
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That’s not my experience, but I don’t interact much with the left. Just wanted to say that I agree with the sentiment above re Kristol but that it might be a distraction right now. Admittedly I don’t think I did a good job of communicating that.
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Yeah, I think there’s a case of that in Germany in the 30s. I wonder how that turned out. I’m sure young Adolf got punished in the next election.
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In this case, fighting never Trumpers before the fight against Trump is over. Whatever little they do to distract Trump or give the gullible masses an impression that fighting Trump is non-partisan, I take.
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Well, that or until such time SCOTUS comes up with Brain Worm Deferebce.
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I swear if you just go back in time switch the locks of Ivy and Stanford dorm rooms and don’t hand out the keys, you solve 99.9% of America’s problems.
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It’s incomprehensible to me how people can look at Wall Street and think “maybe they only manage to put on their pants before their shoes once every 3 attempts, but those people should really be in charge of things.”
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I mean, yeah. If you predict where it’ll hit I can get tickets early to beat the rush to the projected impact site. I expect it’ll be crowded there by the time the thing makes it here.
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More off-roading than most trucks get. Tracks with the target audience.
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Hey, if you think about it, a driveway is off the road and my car spends most of its time in the driveway.
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IDK, maybe it is for Panama. They must be thinking Trump won’t invade if they have a ton of deported people.
But seriously, WTF all around.
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Call it a study tour: “During the first year, the camp had a capacity of 5,000 prisoners. Initially the internees were primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi regime.‘
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There must be a middle ground between playing People’s Liberation Army of Judaea and handing Kristol the key to our club house. If he wants to fight Trump, I’d be happy to let him and then take on whoever is left standing. Principles don’t mean I have to step on my own dick.
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I don’t get it. They’re committing crimes while jeopardizing national security. Why are they not shot on sight?
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Valiant attempt at getting ratioed, but it lacks a certain credibility because nobody can be THAT stupid after what happened in the middle of last century, right? Right?
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It’s “Reason”. It’s what they do.
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She speedran corruption in the same way Elon speedran Path of Exile - started with an account somebody else already had levelled.
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I know it may be a malicious rumor, but can you confirm that he took Roberts' balls with him on the way out from that clerkship?
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I sometimes wonder whether genius coder Musk has ever used a computer. If you ever see unexpected behavior that pops counterintuitive values in a systematic way and your reaction is to assume malice instead of issues with how your code behaves, you won't survive long as a programmer.
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It also shows why much of the narrative around disruption is bullshit. People often plan ahead years and decades, getting an education, working their way up. If all of that can be undone on a whim, everything becomes transactional, and nobody will invest in becoming competent. This destroys value.
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I think that's a distinction without a difference. Historically, Christianity has always been a political tool from the pope granting colonies down to the village mayor's demonstrative church attendance.
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The one thing he did that makes sense and he messed it up.
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Bullshit. That's not a rookie mistake. My high school kid who's interested in security issues wouldn't say something that insanely stupid. This is either deliberate or Hegseth has severe brain trauma.
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I don't think his belief or lack thereof is all that relevant.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca
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Not sure he even understands the concept of fun. But then again, he got rich by lying to financial markets and actual grifting looks like way too much work for him. I just go with malice.
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I also got some culture wars BS about all the kids getting gender reassignment surgery during recess. The common denominator is that everything is about perceptions pushed through social media.
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Republicans do two things: culture wars and fucking up the economy. If rationality was to be had on the latter, they wouldn’t win a single vote.
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It’s kind of weird to focus on signs at local stores compared to the influence of social media, but the conclusion tracks. What doesn’t track is the reflexive: we’re hammered on culture war bullshit, so let’s make a rational economic argument.
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This is an exceedingly odd piece. It diagnoses the issue correctly. Many Latino men are gullible and easy to manipulate through resentment. I get the backwash of sexism and racism that is targeted at Latinos on Facebook and other sites all the way from the South American side of the family.
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Well, never forget that the Party of Fiscal Responsibility (TM) is also the Party of National Security (TM).
But seriously, on current outlook, Luxembourg's marine would probably do quite OK against Russia.
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Also, you notice how all of these are capable of being filled with dead dino slurry when needed? Like, when people are patrolling the charging/gas stations with guns and the power may have been cut because of a coup?
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Assuming that the places where these are in use even have charging stations or electrical power available when needed.
I wouldn't get into an armored vehicle that can't be refueled out of a jerry can somewhere out of sight, if needed.
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Sorry, all of this is weapons-grade bullshit. Is there any track record of viable use of EVs for armored vehicles? Additional weight will affect range, and I don't think it use cases where the armor does any work are the ones where you want to look for a charging station to stand around for hours.
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I'll start caring deeply about property damage, once I'm done caring about the actual damage to people's lives perpetrated by Musk and his cronies.
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Counterpoint: yes, you can. We're watching him do it right now.
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If I make a statement intended to be accepted as the truth, and I have no evidence suggesting it might be true, then I'd be called a liar - and rightly so.
Why is the WaPo not doing that with the lies of Musk and Trump?
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I think we need a general theory of how humans suck at valuing prevented loss. It's similar when competent politicians spend resources to prevent bad things and then are accused of waste when their interventions work, and bad things don't materialize.
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Whether that's because people know it's a shit car is a separate question. Seeing the pervasiveness of memes suggests it's a factor. But there's also the part where it looks shit, the people driving it are assholes, and everybody hates them.
None of this gives potential buyers what they want.
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So is there an addressable market for shit, overpriced trucks? There certainly is. It's the market for trucks.
Can Musk address the market? For the amount of money Elon charges, people want a return to be paid in their neighbor's envy. The Cybertruck can't deliver that.
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Not sure I follow, but all Teslas have been meme cars that sold based on the hype Elon was able to drum up. As cars go, they are all bad, both re quality and design. But then again, that describes much of the truck market and suburban dads shell out insane amounts for those, too.
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Almost half of the ones who still identify as Democrats, that is.
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Translation: people pissed off with the rightward move of Democrats stop identifying as Democrats, thus leaving mostly iditos identifying as Democrats.
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In related news, Ford CEO does not understand the linear passage of time.
This was Trump's platform. Telling us now doesn't do anything. The most charitable explanation is that he wants the rest of the chaos and tries to mitigate the bits that hurt him.
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The vehicle is too expensive in a country where the gullible regularly go into financial ruin to buy trucks they don't need?
That's a straight lie. The car isn't too expensive. It's just bad and ugly.
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@ianbetteridge.com Any views?