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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, this goes back to what I was saying.  One of the fundamental tools of engineering analysis is to make assumptions and ignore factors ("noise") that you know exist but hope don't affect the outcome.  Ordinarily, those assumptions and ignored factors are based on sound reasoning, that is something that you believe to be of such small relative magnitude that it can be successfully ignored, or that you have great difficulty analyzing/calculating so you hope you can ignore.  But you won't know until you see the outcome, then you go back and "adjust."  So, to an extent, "move fast and break things."

But when you're talking socio-economic-philosophical-political things, it's not as easy to do that and the assumptions and ignored factors often swallow correct answers whole and destroy good outcomes.  Plus, there's not as much reasoned basis for making assumptions and ignoring noise:  it winds up being dictated by personal biases, ie "feels."  Thus, extremism masquerading as logical thought.

This is not a completely binary thing, though.  What I'll call "left-brain thinking" (scientists, engineers) has value in the "right-brain" sphere, and vice-versa.  But these are the initial tendencies.

 

Maybe people should shut the fuck up and listen to each other.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mr Free Speech wants the WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE engineer Marko Elez's racist tweets fired.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-demands-firing-of-disgusting-and-cruel-wsj-reporter-who-uncovered-doge-employees-racist-tweets/

FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!  END CENSORSHIP!

These chucklefucks are just another authoritarian fascist regime.  They aren't even fucking original.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

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Posted
1 minute ago, SBR said:

Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

That's implying he knows what he's doing. I don't think he does. They let him concentrate on the real issues -- plastic straws, trans-people in women's sports, renaming the Gulf and Denali -- while the real deviants are pushing the important shit down our throats. One thing to count on with Trump is an emotional reaction if it starts to be perceived that he's not the one calling the shots or getting the credit that's due. That drives him insane.

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31 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...
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He certainly looks annoyed.
Posted
11 minutes ago, SBR said:

This is needed.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1887954247452336466

 

Trump directed Musk to audit the Pentagon.

Yes.  Absolutely.  Audit the Pentagon, go for it, good idea.

Assign the task to a psychopath oligarch who is indisputably beholden to/friendly with multiple hostile foreign powers, necessarily granting him access to literally the most sensitive military and security information our government has.....NO GOOD, TERRIBLE, VERY BAD IDEA.

Nobody is against the idea of scrubbing every nook and cranny of the government for spending waste/efficiency.  Nobody sane is in favor of delegating the task to Elon fucking Musk and a band of his sociopathic fucking INTERNS WHO BARELY FUCKING SHAVE.

The "who" of such things matters just as much as the "what."  Fuck.  That.  Shit.  I wouldn't trust Elon with my fucking library card number.

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, SBR said:

I'd imagine Elon is the most surveilled private citizen in the world. If he were credibly beholden to multiple hostile foreign powers (not just internet blowhard talk), then he would not be in his current position.  You would probably say I'm wrong because the system is so corrupt and rotten. I would say from my seat it looks like he is going after the most corrupt and rotten parts of our government, like this USAID crap. So I am on board with it. He needs to be watched closely, but I'm interested in what he can expose. It appears taxpayers have been getting looted for a while.

I guess you would like it better if it was from a news outlet you like? It doesn't change what was said.

You crammed an incredible amount of utter bullshit into a short post.  That's a feat.  Fuck off, not going to waste my time rebutting the absolutely irrational and unsupportable conclusory bullshit you posted.  Elon is a fucking evil sociopath, he has repeatedly done whatever China tells him to do/will give him advantage with respect to his businesses there, and he is "surveilled" by fucking who, exactly?  He IS the US government now, and his conflicts of interest (see post above) are staggering.  Zero vetting, just handed the keys to....everything.  If fucking George Soros was handed the keys to literally every piece of sensitive and secret intel we have, you and everyone else would (rightly) be screaming about it.  But Elon....he gets it all, with nary a peep of protest.

Fuck off.

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"I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, oh ok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all."

https://bsky.app/profile/iamragesparkle.bsky.social/post/3lbidcyttps2b

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I remember the first time I was asked to explain to my son the roles of three branches of government as well as the idea, and criticality, of separation of powers and oversight.  He was 4.  It was difficult but worth it.

This is not worth it.

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26 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

This AID crap. Yeah, feeding people is so fucking wrong. Who the fuck is this guy?

American farmers were also getting paid nearly $2B to feed these needy countries. They might be annoyed by this. 

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A Colorado Tesla dealership was vandalized after someone tried to set it on fire early Friday morning and left graffiti that was “offensive and hateful in nature,” Loveland police said.

Officers responded to the dealership near the intersection of U.S. 34 and U.S. 287 around 7 a.m. Friday and found someone had attempted arson and vandalized the building and some vehicles with graffiti, the department said in a news release.


Loveland police declined to release further information about the graffiti or say whether it was directed at a specific person or group, but CBS Colorado reported it included a spray-painted message, “Nazi cars,” on the building, an apparent reference to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Musk, the world’s richest man and adviser to President Donald Trump, has been involved in recent political controversies, including giving a straight-arm salute resembling the Nazi Sieg Heil on stage at a rally after Trump’s inauguration.

There were two similar incidents at the Tesla dealership on Jan. 29 and Sunday but of “lesser magnitude,” police officials said. The department is now working with the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the case.

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Posted
17 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


Let them fight it.

Farmer’s…fight? And then they’ll slap their asscheeks and point their fingers in the air before sticking them up a sheep’s ass.

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Posted
2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

If you honestly think these metaphors make any sense at all, you truly are an idiot. 

 

Your stunning display of intellect here is too tough to match.  So I’ll show myself to the door.  

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Farmer’s…fight? And then they’ll slap their asscheeks and point their fingers in the air before sticking them up a sheep’s ass.

Well then. I guess they’ve just got some finding out to do.
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Posted
1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

I remember the first time I was asked to explain to my son the roles of three branches of government as well as the idea, and criticality, of separation of powers and oversight.  He was 4.  It was difficult but worth it.

This is not worth it.


I’ve been doing my best to soft pedal to my kids what the election means for the country. 
 

But on the drive to school the other day my kindergartner asked me “dad, is it true when you said that people that can’t spell “cat” can vote”

 

😂

Posted
1 hour ago, SBR said:

Also, give me young autists to go through all this data quickly every day of the week.

Give me somebody who has been voting for more than four years, who went through puberty more than a decade ago and who has known the intimate touch of a woman or a man, who has been to countries other than the USA and/or their homeland, who has paid taxes for more than 2-3 years, and who did not go from chatting with their dipshit gamer friends online and posting racist shit online to questioning actual experts who have been in the real world and in their respective fields longer than these dipshits have been alive, and whose boss does not rely on close ties to Communist China for some of his businesses.

Finally, give me people who do not think putting all of the data of American citizens and government on the blockchain on the internet is a good solution to everything.

For all of the bitching about Trump, what Musk is doing has the potential to bring our economy and our country to its knees, and surprise, surprise, people like Musk won’t be too affected - at the end of the day, he’s got his private security forces and jets and has access to other countries. Of course, if our economy collapses, it’s going to fuck up a lot of others countries.

People like you are probably going to suffer a lot more than you think, and you don’t even realize.

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