thinking4real

“As childish legislative stunts go, this one is certainly pathetic.”

The only writing more cringey than ars technica is it’s comments section.

“It could lead to new cancer treatments, better diagnostics tests, and more.”

I could be the richest man in the world. I could have 4 legs.

“everyone [should] use as little energy as possible.”

I wonder how many flights he’s taken this year. I wonder what his personal energy usage metrics are.

That would be a fun little side game - anyone who runs in the circles to decide energy cost/policy/etc has their metrics beside their face when they speak. Just for fun.

Your premise is fatally flawed.

People don’t organize organically in large groups. The media tends to lead them.

All this rule you have would do is make sure grassroots protesting isn’t permitted but when the elite run a media train on citizens minds then that will be ok.

It’s hilarious watching all the posters tell OP he’s mistaken about a life experience he had.

Hubris abound.

Go back to the biblical times. Egypt used to be a lush garden.

You’re making the mistake of looking at too small a data sample and assuming what came before.

Not rational at all, just parroting a narrative, sadly.

Nobody trusts them or anything else in the govt if they have a room temp iq.

What does my lack of trust do to the cia or fbi? They both still track my every move. The govt makes laws I despise.

We have no control.

“after urging fellow scientists to take action on climate change. At the American Geophysical Union meeting in December, just before speakers took the stage for a plenary session, my fellow climate scientist Peter Kalmus and I unfurled a banner that read “Out of the lab & into the streets.” In the few seconds before the banner was ripped from our hands, we implored our colleagues to use their leverage as scientists to wake the public up to the dying planet.”

Wow that’s cringey.

Let’s say whatever your ideology is is correct. You really think this juvenile form of attention seeking is how you’re going to sway PhD scientists and researchers to do what you want?

It’s an appeal to emotion in a scientific setting. Someone doing this is either a) socially under developed or b) narcissistic and seeking attention.

Not to mention “our dying planet” sounds like a pretty hard argument to justify rationally.

And I say this as someone who’s never the most up to speed on the social cues…

Curious how this will be spun to be the linchpin of Musk’s demise

Yes?

This title is an incredibly lazy attempt at clickbait

You’d have to balance it with how likely people are to quit out of frustration

I’m sure they’ve done the calculations and testing by now and the answer is no fail = more profit

I’ve never had this asked of me and I think it would really make me want to look for a new job if it was required

Also, this reminds me of the unpleasant experience in a very small grad program of being asked for anonymous feedback at the end of a semester

The 200 one seemed underwhelming. Sounded more like someone posting online trying to sound really smart

Elon has this magical ability to be hated for not truly being technical and taking all the credit for the engineers doing the real work, while simultaneously being the direct fault of anything in any of his companies that goes wrong

Honestly, they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise to teens at all

It’s pretty sick how we have this parasitic industry built around “how can we manipulate developing brains at all costs for our profit?”

What’s the benefit to our society? Mentally damaged youth turning to mentally damaged adults, carrying in a cycle devoid of meaning in life and perpetually addicted.

We don’t believe children should have full freedom because they are a danger to themselves. Yet we allow nearly totally unrestricted psychological manipulation cast onto them from billions/trillions of dollars worth of force.

I’m growing very cynical of the world and the people who are responsible for making it this way.

Simultaneously, you can see that in several of these cherry picked examples the coldest temps recorded during those times were quite close to the record cold as well.

If you look at the global maps, you can see that while some regions are extra warm, (eastern Europe and Russia being main ones), there are complimentary countries being extra cold.

We can also look to the US midwest which around Christmas faces winchill temps around -60F and had several feet of snowfall in just a couple weeks.

It really makes a person wonder why this topic can only ever go one direction. Why we can’t even examine the data that don’t wholesale support the narrative.

Yet with 80%+ (or so) of the population vaccinated, one would expect a drop in people dying from covid

At least - that’s what they said when it came out and they demanded everyone take it.

Plus with all the boosters, combined with the general trend of dwindling intensity of viruses in a population over time, one should expect this effect to be even more dramatic

Yet here we are, talking about covid like it’s April 2020. How it’s so devastating of a virus, like we’ve gained nothing in fighting it since then

Funny how literally any metric can be used to justify covid madness

“The vaccines are a success… but you need to take more vaccines to be protected”

Surely you can see that the goal posts have been shifted from the days of “the vaccine is our road back to normalcy” and similar mantras when they first were pushed?

It was originally touted as the solution. Many people who were silenced, fired, or worse, were silenced from objecting with the idea that “this isn’t a solution, I’d rather not”

And now we’re saying it was a rousing success, yet it isn’t enough at the same time…

The doublespeak is astounding

You know if you actually wanted to demo this you’d need a non blurry photo of the same image to prove it’s actually doing a good job

Because my non AI eyes are seeing a lot of little discrepancies in the “restored” photo that don’t seem like they should be there (edges of eyes, lips, etc)

And I think these little differences are going to be very off putting for someone expecting to see a new side of a loved one but getting something 2% off

Lol now you guys are literally just guessing about “how bad he had it” to justify the sociopathy

“The only red flag here is you. If your son is in college, he is likely to be at least 18 and therefore an adult in most countries.”

Lol what?

Literally most people I know not from the us are either living with or strongly financially supported by their families. Often are buying their first home before their 30s

Americans were sold out and now they think 7 years before the brain fully developed a person should have picked themselves up by their bootstraps…

“On 12/15/98, at approximately 8:30 a.m., Mathis shot three victims in the head with a .45 caliber pistol at a known drug house in Fort Bend County, Texas. One of the victims, a 15-year-old Hispanic female survived the shooting, paralyzed from the chest down. Mathis reportedly turned the gun on two other intended victims, however, when he attempted to pull the trigger, the gun either misfired or had been jammed.”

“Yes, sir. I just want to say to all my supporters, family and friends; I love y'all and appreciate y'all. To the ones representing me today, thank you for everything. The system has failed me. This is a miscarriage of justice. There are people on death row that need help. I love my family. I love you too, Mom. I am alright. I asked the Lord to have mercy on me and I hope He has mercy on these people carrying out this mass slaughter. They have no respect for humanity. To Melanie, I never meant to hurt you. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am not asking for your forgiveness. All I have to worry about is God forgiving me. I hope you get better and for the doctors to continue to take care of you. Take care of my mother for me. To everybody, know that I love you and I am OK. Lord, have mercy on my soul. Lord, have mercy on my soul. Lord, have mercy on these peoples' soul. Life is not supposed to end this way. No more pain and frustration. When I knock at the gates, they will open up and let me in. To my mom and everybody, I love you. I can feel it right now. My life, my life.”

Interesting seeing the visualization someone else linked that “love” was the most common word.

This person used the word love 4 times, while simultaneously denying his responsibility and saying that it’s the rest of the world that’s bad.

With all the added stress, emotional difficulties, and all the work and resources needed to deal with this, it’s hardly a victory to just get back what was taken from you unjustly.

We just added something like 85,000 federal employees to shake down our citizens for more sheckes. Yet there’s nothing in place to come down on a mega corporation to pay what they owe? Instead you have to go toe to toe with their teams of highly paid lawyers?

This is modern America. It’s just an endless cycle of getting screwed over and celebrating when we lose because we could have lost so much more.

“Globalisation is still a thing, ish, but it's doomed. We thought the rest of the world (cough Russia, China and their rag-tag group of dictator allies) cared more about economic well-being than expansionism and petty grievances”

Why should the US all the way on the other side of the world be depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources?

We have military proxy states set up all around Russia and China. The US has been the dominant power in the world for around 100 years.

Not that I don’t benefit from it, but it seems willfully ignorant to act like it’s US good guy Russia/China bad guy. We’d do the same expansionist thing, as evidenced by Ukraine and Taiwan themselves…

“Do something of note, something that wows”

This is literally ignoring the setup for the problem that OP gave you.

Of course these things aren’t heard in mainstream discussions.

The media, and by extension the minds of majority of our citizens, are owned by the same corporate entities you mention.

They control language so that people will go along with their greed.

So if you’re a corp, you steer the discussions around your profit seeking avenues so people don’t even posses the language necessary ti discuss your demise.

People will never discuss the abstract idea that this whole “legal entities == people” thing is fucked, because they think they’re clever to talk about some vague future tax that will never be implemented because the corps own the politicians too.

People aren’t avoiding the elephant - they have been programmed to not realize the elephant is the problem.

All these cries about bail make no sense to me.

Even with his wealth and network, the guy is probably going to prison for many years. Before that he gets to live a little longer as a relatively free man.

So what?

Peoples brains seem to shut off and they just focus on this brief pre prison time like it’s some circumvention of justice.

We made all these laws and protectionary systems in the US. That drove up costs and so capitalists moved their businesses to other countries for cheaper labor and less regulation.

Another lesson how laws only apply to the non rich.

The ramblings of someone who’s low skill and low ambition usually

“Native Americans were as active in shaping their environments as anyone else. They built great and wealthy cities; they lived, for the most part, on farms”

“He closes with a provocative thesis: namely, that the present worldwide movement toward democracy owes not to Locke or Newtonian physics, but to Indians, “living, breathing role models of human liberty.””

Oh lord. Revisionists begetting revisionists.

I had a buddy in college who insisted that Natives were ‘almost as technologically advanced as europeans’ and if not for a few miscalculations in battle, would have effectively flung them off and advanced to a society beyond our wildest dreams.

Of course, he failed to respond when I mentioned that there were no modern weapons and the mystical technology he assumed to exist amounted to little more than what Europeans had had for tens of thousands of years.

It’s really sad how much hyperbole gets thrown into the revisionism of prehistoric civilizations. It’s not doing the descendants of these people any favors to make up fictitious reinventions of their technological advancements.