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Wow. Crazy move by the real life Tony Stark.
Still needs some allies on the board to really clean house.
She stops, doesn’t wash her hands (which have small amounts of peanut on them) and changes the baby. In that process she renders Junior’s butt skin permeable and then slaps on some peanut residue. His immune system recognizes the peanut protein as an invader and makes antibodies. The next time Junior gets exposed, he’s allergic.
The employees can be internally weeded out. This can happen rather silently as well. And then they all wake up one day and Twitter is totally changed. That’s what I think is going to happen.
If you are a Libertarian or Conservative and against the stifling Liberal group-think POV shoved down our throats in every public space. Musk is one of our best and most powerful allies. The dude walks the walk.
He's PT Barnum that depends on government subsidies and lives off from the taxpayer. He's no libertarian.
richwicks saysHe's PT Barnum that depends on government subsidies and lives off from the taxpayer. He's no libertarian.
This is such an ignorant take. You might want to read up a bit more.
Tesla got the same Federal subsidies that every other US car maker was eligible for to make EV's.
Again - every US car maker is eligible for the EV subsidies that Tesla got.
Same deal with SPACEX but even at a much bigger scale. SPACEX hasn't gotten a fraction of US funding as the big Space/Defense contractors like Northrup Grumman or Boeing has gotten over the years. But SPACEX is already running circles around these big defense contractors at a fraction of the cost.
We have no idea what he gets, the government fucking lies about EVERYTHING if you haven't realized it yet.
richwicks saysWe have no idea what he gets, the government fucking lies about EVERYTHING if you haven't realized it yet.
You admit you don't really know if Musk depends on subsidies and the US taxpayer, but you are still willing to basically call Musk a grifter?
Must be a nice way to argue when you can simply say our entire reality is a lie and there are no verifiable truths?
I don’t think Musk is a “genius” but he does get things done. He basically revamped the US space program single handedly, made electric cars cool again, and is going to allow internet access from basically anywhere on the globe.
The other billionaires are basically trying to take away your gun rights, sell your personal info, and practicing eugenics on your kids. Musk ain’t that bad.
Goran_K saysI don’t think Musk is a “genius” but he does get things done. He basically revamped the US space program single handedly, made electric cars cool again, and is going to allow internet access from basically anywhere on the globe.
The other billionaires are basically trying to take away your gun rights, sell your personal info, and practicing eugenics on your kids. Musk ain’t that bad.
15 years ago Google did no evil, and we believed them. Takes a few years to see what is behind the mask.
I'd have to say in my opinion the space program is pretty pointless - we really don't do anything on the ISS, it's all just PR nonsense. Also Starlink has one problem it requires a TON of energy to run and speeds are comparable to a DOCSIS modem. Might be better to have an electrical drone plane flying constantly as a "satellite" - having it swapped out 3-4 times in a 24 hour period...
For all the people that say “but Musk should be saving Earth”. Sure, why don’t those people use their own money and resources and get right on that?
Well what’s the trouble in giving the guy a pass until he starts doing evil billionaire shit?
The long term benefits? Immeasurable. Musk may terraform Mars creating another livable biosphere friendly to human life. Earth is great. But one lunatic with a nuclear weapon, and this whole place becomes an irradiated waste land. Or maybe an asteroid wipes us out. Who knows?
Creating an alternative platform could be interesting, though several of these exist already. Twitter remains, by Elon’s own admission, the de facto public town square. Despite its severe censorship, it is still the only major digital public space where anonymous accounts can interact with celebrities, journalists and business titans (including Elon), where world leaders engage in spirited public diplomacy, and where dominant cultural and political narratives incubate and spread.
The most exciting possibility is therefore the most obvious one: Musk should simply buy a controlling stake in Twitter itself. He could certainly afford it. At $31 billion, Twitter’s market cap is less than 15 percent of Musk’s current net worth. Even if one regards Twitter stock as entirely worthless, Musk could theoretically buy a controlling stake in it and still be the world’s richest man by fifty billion dollars, and free speech would be restored to the “land of the free.”
But in practice, it’s not that easy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to imagine a project more dangerous and difficult than restoring free speech to a major tech platform like Twitter. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine a more worthwhile project. Restoring genuine free speech would do more for patriotic Americans than the GOP taking back the White House in 2024, and it would pose a greater threat to the ruling Regime than anything Russia, China, or Iran might plausibly do.
Free speech online is what enabled the Trump revolution in 2016. If the Internet had been as free in 2020 as it was four years before, Trump would have cruised to reelection. Massive censorship and suppression are the tools needed to prop up Covid tyranny, the Ukraine war fever, and the idea that Lia Thomas is a “woman.” America’s decrepit and illegitimate ruling class intuitively understand this: Absolute freedom of speech, or even the speech norms that prevailed a mere decade ago, would instantly cause the American regime as we know it to crumble.
I agree. I don't see any good reason to object to Musk yet.
Mars is probably a mistake. There’s nothing there we can’t get elsewhere, there’s hardly any atmosphere, little water, and the soil is extensively contaminated with heavy metals and chromium. You can’t grow anything in it fit for human consumption. So you’d have to import all your soil and that would be prohibitively expensive. Mars is a trap. The next steps should be to establish a Moon base and start mining local asteroids for mineral, carbon, and water.
Shaman saysMars is probably a mistake. There’s nothing there we can’t get elsewhere, there’s hardly any atmosphere, little water, and the soil is extensively contaminated with heavy metals and chromium. You can’t grow anything in it fit for human consumption. So you’d have to import all your soil and that would be prohibitively expensive. Mars is a trap. The next steps should be to establish a Moon base and start mining local asteroids for mineral, carbon, and water.
Yeah - but if he was just targeting the moon or local asteroids, Musk would have no incentive to invent a massive interplanetary rocket like he is making with Starship.
Having such a big massive goal of Mars is driving innovation like I haven't seen in my entire lifetime.
Many asteroids are heavily water ice, others full of Precious Metals.
AmericanKulak saysMany asteroids are heavily water ice, others full of Precious Metals.
I always hear claims like this, but I have never seen any scientific data to support it.
Asteroids are mainly big balls of dust, that are loosely held together by a gravitational field. Why it's said "oh, they are filled with X" I have no idea. They are probably all light elements but who knows? I know it's speculated that gold is largely from asteroid bombardment, but that might be complete BS as well. The idea is that because it's so dense, that all the gold that was here when the Earth formed is in the core. Well, wouldn't uranium and lead be as well then?
Musk will also have a seat at the board and is looking forward to making "significant improvements" at Twitter.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/elon-musk-to-join-twitters-board-of-directors.html?source=patrick.net
He should move fast and the first thing he should get done is reinstating Trump and all of the doctors who questioned COVID policies.
I bet Musk is about to find out that 1/2 of twitter are government propagandists and PR trolls. I bet he has no idea how the company is funded either. If he reforms Twitter, it will crater because I think over 50% of the users, are fake and if there's a crackdown on that, the company will shrivel.
Like it or not. Twitter drives alot of the narrative and public discussion. So we need to reform or nuke it and can't just ignore it.
Musk is the perfect person for this mission as he is crazy smart, not woke and has enough F-U money to make this happen.
I always hear claims like this, but I have never seen any scientific data to support it.
it's just an over-priced electric car, which gets government subsidies and electric cars may not be a very good idea at all and he's just displacing NASA and defense contractors, but we really don't know what the actual budget is, or how much is really being spent.
it's just an over-priced electric car, which gets government subsidies
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Hopefully he uses this leverage to clean house of all the Commies and Groomers that run this site.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-04/musk-takes-9-2-stake-in-twitter-after-questioning-platform?source=patrick.net