He hasn’t even managed to fly it past the Bahamas in one piece yet.
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The blue checkmarks™ are a nice touch. Heh.
Any person who knows what a double dorje is, how it is sacred, would find its presence on that table disturbing, if not also a profanation.
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CBS covers how Musk and DOGE are ruining national parks, and the people protesting against it:
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It struck me the other day, the following analogy, which I’m sure I’m not the first person to have thought of:
Owning a Tesla at this point is kind of like still being on Twitter. A lot of this population don’t see what the big deal is (and shame on them), but some subset is “stuck” on the platform since they have limited options – some Tesla drivers can’t financially justify ditching their curent car, or might be stuck in a lease; some Twitter users have some population they need to reach or just otherwise feel overly emotionally invested in the platform from the Before Times, or whatever…
And in this analogy? Cybertrucks are blue checks.
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I think this is very well put.
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Elno asked for a double DOGE and got that instead. Common mistake.
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Somehow, my initial impression whenever I see a Cybertruck always ends up making me think of the graphics from Another World.
(And then I have to remind myself that, even so, the car driven in the opening of the game still looks so much better than the cybertruck. There’s a resemblance with the tank that’s briefly driven in the game, though:
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Thinking about Musk and his penchant for transphobia, eugenics and sex determining IVF makes me wonder if he has some genetic condition that he doesn’t want to pass on. He needs to insure that his kids don’t inherit his X chromosome. And likely sees his daughter reflecting his own genetic problems rather than it just being a “woke mind virus”. He sees his own perceived deficiencies reflected in her - wrongly- of course.
He projects that he’s a perfect aryan specimen. But he’s realizes he’s not. Because he fathered a child who he sees as defective. And he’s 6’2” but his son (his trans daughter’s twin) is 5’4”. What’s a genetically advanced guy to do when his genes don’t reflect his ideal?
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Isn’t that the entire premise of the movie Gattaca? If he ever watched it, he took away the wrong message. Again.
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I just assumed it was shame from his incestuously dysfunctional family but this also makes sense.
Ask why a dysfunctional narcissist fears shame though and ugh… Going to be too many answers.
Dude is toxic af. Wasn’t there some good buddy of Stalin’s that was a known pedo. Musk gives me those kind of vibes. He really does. I don’t even see the point of saying it any less plainly than that.
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I think that may be part of it, but I suspect there’s something psychological to it as well. I think he’s aiming for a perfect mini-me to look up to him and idolize him, to see him the way he wants to be seen. The problem with that is, once a child gets old enough to notice and understand how he treats them and their mothers (in the little time he interacts with them at all), well, that’s not likely to happen. So he keeps trying.
I think maybe that’s part of why we’re seeing the one toddler with him so often, and not the rest of his brood; the kid’s at that unquestioning stage of life when he does what daddy does and says what daddy says. That pleases Musk’s ego, so yeah, he’s gonna make the kid his constant accessory, like a purse or a favorite hat. If or when the kid grows out of it, I expect he’d be discarded and ignored, or even mocked, like Vivian is.
If my guess is true, that’s incredibly shitty parenting, IMHO… but it’s consistent with my impression of him.
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And the cameras are best at things like seeing kids in the road, compared to other situations. (I think the video really downplays the issue and is overly generous to the Teslas, as if they had done something like dressed the dummies in outfits that blended with the road or visually broke up their shapes, it would have been a really stark difference between cameras and lidar.) I think it’s also a bit superfluous a video because the “are cameras worse than lidar” question was already well settled when that Tesla drove into the side of the semi truck because it couldn’t distinguish the white trailer from the horizon’s sky.
I always thought it was pretty stupid when Tesla dropped the idea of lidar in favor of just cameras, but I didn’t realize how stupid until I found out Musk himself had made the decision, arguing that humans manage to drive with just vision. The problem is, of course, that they don’t - they also use their human brains that are capable of recognizing what they’re looking at. (Though if I was the passenger in a car where the driver’s vision was as degraded as a Tesla’s cameras - colorblind, no depth perception, etc. - I’d not feel great about that either.)
Yeah, calling it a throwback to the '80s is generous, because it’s very much a '70s aesthetic - those early '80s concept and sci-fi movie cars were continuing it.
“Stunts: 4D Sports Driving”
Yeah, people talk about the Cybertruck being “PS1 graphics,” but it’s really some full-on late '80s unshaded polygons.
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I’m convinced the only reason Elon isn’t an incel is because he got rich, and people mistook that for being interesting/intelligent.* He’s still got that big incel energy, though.
*(Before the Musk cult started up and created this supergenius image of Musk that becames the basis for people’s relationships with him, until they get to know him well enough to realize that… he’s not that.)
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Contrary to the word’s original meaning and intention, the incel movement has been taken over by men who sometimes do have sexual partners but can’t find one who shows the complete submission they expect from females. I am not really sure how Musk is any different from them.
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Multiple researchers tell WIRED that they observed five distinct attacks of varying length against X’s infrastructure, the first beginning early Monday morning with the final burst on Monday afternoon.
The internet intelligence team at Cisco’s ThousandEyes tells WIRED in a statement, “During the disruptions, ThousandEyes observed network conditions that are characteristic of a DDoS attack, including significant traffic loss conditions which would have hindered users from reaching the application.”
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Yeah, the movement sense, he’s definitely an incel.
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