The Off Topic Topic

[Crazy_Ivan80]

It's just additional proof that musk needs to take less ketamine, take more therapy and follow his own advice... the small man.

[viper37]

German citizen detained at US border

Another horror story.

Seems like this is turning into East Germany quickly.

[Josquius]

Yep. Any consideration of visiting the US in the near future has sharply dropped with the main argument going from "well it would help make a point and keep some tourist money out of their hands..."  to "... They might personally ruin me"

It's just additional proof that musk needs to take less ketamine, take more therapy and follow his own advice... the small man.

I was just thinking of posting a poll, what's the main reason for hisdescent into insanity.
Coming to mind stuff I've heard includes....

The ket.
Lack of sleep.
The trans daughter.
General covid lockdown brain worms.
Naked opportunism and he doesn't believe any of it.
Deep seated Apartheid SA conservative beliefs that he kept masked when he had to.

[DGuller]

I think a large part of the explanation is more banal than any of this.  Smart people are used to knowing and understanding what most others don't, and unfortunately they learn to disregard most of the feedback they get on their thoughts from the outside world.  After all, in the beginning at least, they're often right and it's the world that's wrong.  Unfortunately, that almost inevitably leads to fatal levels of confirmation bias.

[crazy canuck]

What you have described is the opposite of a smart person.

[HVC]

He's always craved attention. Dude even lies about a damn video game to get praise and attention . He wants to live up to the myth people have about him. But he can't because he's no where near the myth so he flails about like and idiot grabbing any attention he can. I blame absentee parents.

[Valmy]

He's always craved attention. Dude even lies about a damn video game to get praise and attention . He wants to live up to the myth people have about him. But he can't because he's no where near the myth so he flails about like and idiot grabbing any attention he can. I blame absentee parents.

Maybe in one year, maybe even three months we are going to have one million robotaxis on the road!

Promised Elon Musk

in 2019.

[Josquius]

Had a phone contract scammer call me today.
I played along and acted like I believed everything then when they said they'd transfer me to the sales department and went off the line I hung up.
They called back. They asked for my details. I told them nonsense of course, including that my email address was Jim @ scam hunter. Com...
....
They took a while to click and then still tried to push the standard script

[Jacob]

Interesting article on the BBC website. Apparently non-violent protests are about twice as likely to be effective in enacting change as violent protests; and if a protests has active participants equal to or greater than 3.5% of the population, it always succeeds.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

[Oexmelin]

It's the famous Chenoweth research. It's a useful reminder that political change never happens through some form of global majoritarian movement (even though it is often later mythified this way), but it glosses over a lot of historical context in favor of number crunching - and then rules-making.

[HVC]

Interesting article on the BBC website. Apparently non-violent protests are about twice as likely to be effective in enacting change as violent protests; and if a protests has active participants equal to or greater than 3.5% of the population, it always succeeds.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Makes sense. If you annoy enough people, either through violence or inconvenience, they turn in you. Like those stop oil idiots.

[Josquius]

See also shady attempts to stir up trouble and if that fails just outright lies about peaceful protests being violent.

[Valmy]

Interesting article on the BBC website. Apparently non-violent protests are about twice as likely to be effective in enacting change as violent protests; and if a protests has active participants equal to or greater than 3.5% of the population, it always succeeds.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

The problem is people use those protests as cover to do violent or illegal acts and that tarnishes the whole thing. That seems to be how non-violent protests get undermined over here all the time.

[Valmy]

See also shady attempts to stir up trouble and if that fails just outright lies about peaceful protests being violent.

That to. Agent provocateurs and the whole thing.

[Valmy]

Ok folks I am taking off for the week on a cruise to Honduras and Mexico. Total media blackout. See you on the 23rd.

Probably a good thing. The current news is leading me to all kinds of bad emotional places.