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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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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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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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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.
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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."

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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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Posted
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
12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

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.

Elon Musk is clogging our big American toilet with his turd of ideas. Our country, much like a good toilet, is one of the greatest luxuries on earth and is not something to be fucked around with by amateurs without a shred of real world experience. It’s like a plumber coming into your house high as a kite and starting the job without turning off the water first.

Last week Elon moved into our house and started planning his next move—taking a massive pipe clogging shit in our collective toilet. He’ll say he’s doing it to flush the waste out of our bureaucratic pipes. Right now Elon’s putting his 25 year old inexperienced action figures on the window sill so they can cheer him on while he takes his subsequent shit down our American toilet. These minions are using AI to provide Elon with optimal seat positioning and splash trajectory so the toilet water doesn’t hit him in the vagina. What they don’t realize (which everyone else can see) is that this toilet is going to get clogged because Elon makes elephant turds and uses an ungodly amount of toilet paper. 

In the next few weeks we are going to start hearing rumblings of a potential incoming major system fuckup. It’s going to make everyone uneasy but we all know it’s coming. It’s similar to the feeling you get in the split second after you flush the toilet and realize holy shit the water is going UP instead of down inside the bowl. Normal people stop flushing and go look for the plunger, but not Elon. 

Elon and his boys are going to keep flushing the toilet over and over again to fix it, filling the bathroom floor with a layer of shit water. Now the entire country is fucked without a functional toilet and we’re all yearning for the days back when the biggest bathroom problem was people fighting each other in the stores for toilet paper. 

Thank you for hearing my ToileTalk

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Posted
6 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Elon Musk is clogging our big American toilet with his turd of ideas. Our country, much like a good toilet, is one of the greatest luxuries on earth and is not something to be fucked around with by amateurs without a shred of real world experience. It’s like a plumber coming into your house high as a kite and starting the job without turning off the water first.

Your analogy is accurate, except that Elon is the high-as-a-kite electrician coming to redo all of the plumbing in your house.  And he hates actual plumbers and everything they claim to know about plumbing.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I hate the discourse about Musk and his drug use. That some external product is the cause of his behavior and viewpoints. It's a copout. 

Elon is a sociopath. He has a personality disorder. 

Well, the point in that particular case being that a guy with Musk's recent, admitted drug history couldn't get a high-level security clearance.

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30 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Elon Musk is clogging our big American toilet with his turd of ideas. Our country, much like a good toilet, is one of the greatest luxuries on earth and is not something to be fucked around with by amateurs without a shred of real world experience. It’s like a plumber coming into your house high as a kite and starting the job without turning off the water first.

Last week Elon moved into our house and started planning his next move—taking a massive pipe clogging shit in our collective toilet. He’ll say he’s doing it to flush the waste out of our bureaucratic pipes. Right now Elon’s putting his 25 year old inexperienced action figures on the window sill so they can cheer him on while he takes his subsequent shit down our American toilet. These minions are using AI to provide Elon with optimal seat positioning and splash trajectory so the toilet water doesn’t hit him in the vagina. What they don’t realize (which everyone else can see) is that this toilet is going to get clogged because Elon makes elephant turds and uses an ungodly amount of toilet paper. 

In the next few weeks we are going to start hearing rumblings of a potential incoming major system fuckup. It’s going to make everyone uneasy but we all know it’s coming. It’s similar to the feeling you get in the split second after you flush the toilet and realize holy shit the water is going UP instead of down inside the bowl. Normal people stop flushing and go look for the plunger, but not Elon. 

Elon and his boys are going to keep flushing the toilet over and over again to fix it, filling the bathroom floor with a layer of shit water. Now the entire country is fucked without a functional toilet and we’re all yearning for the days back when the biggest bathroom problem was people fighting each other in the stores for toilet paper. 

Thank you for hearing my ToileTalk

So Elon is Cousin Eddie? I can see that.

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Posted

Every day I’m thinking less and less of someone who drives a Tesla. Yes I understand getting rid of it does nothing to financially hurt Elon. And may financially impact the car owner. However at some point you have to decide what is more important, your morals or a few dollars.

and from a practical standpoint the Tesla market may dry up soon. today could be a good day to sell a Tesla while there are buyers who are paying current market prices. In a year if not months, very few may want it.

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27 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

and from a practical standpoint the Tesla market may dry up soon. today could be a good day to sell a Tesla while there are buyers who are paying current market prices. In a year if not months, very few may want it.

I told my cousin this over the holidays - I asked him point-blank what Musk was doing that was going to make his Tesla hold its value (as much as a used car can) and make the Tesla brand as a whole worth more than it is now? I told him that if things keep going the way they are, used car lots will be full of Teslas and trade-in values will be really bad.  

It was his first car, so it'll be painful, but his wife mentioned he's been looking at other EVs.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Every day I’m thinking less and less of someone who drives a Tesla. Yes I understand getting rid of it does nothing to financially hurt Elon. And may financially impact the car owner. However at some point you have to decide what is more important, your morals or a few dollars.

and from a practical standpoint the Tesla market may dry up soon. today could be a good day to sell a Tesla while there are buyers who are paying current market prices. In a year if not months, very few may want it.

Though it may not be much, selling your tesla does hurt elon at least a little.   Those thinking to buy a new tesla may buy a used one instead.  Also, one of Elons selling points for tesla has always been resale value. As more people flood the market with used teslas, that resale market goes to shit.  Maybe they buy some other ev instead. 

Granted, it still hurts the seller more, but at this point you either sell now or hold until the battery fails.

Posted
4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, the point in that particular case being that a guy with Musk's recent, admitted drug history couldn't get a high-level security clearance.

I have a new hire that has been jumping through all of the federal clearance hoops for the last month. He is new to the Gov space so isn't familiar with all of the magnifier up your ass type shit. Earlier this morning he told me he knew it would be invasive but was still surprised by all the background information they are digging up.

Then you have ketamine Elon and his merry band of racist male sugar babies running rampant through the U.S. government's data without any background checks.

What a world.

 

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16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

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They keep on confirming they don’t know shit about how the government works.  Which is to be expected of a bunch of 19-25 year-olds

 

if they watched the west wing 

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Seems a bit dodgy and claims they only have read-only access, but why do they need read-only access to such sensitive data, and with read-only they can still copy everything and try to dump it into their circle-jerk blockchain.  I do like the bit about the IRS and others still using COBOL.

We shouldn't even be having this discussion.  These dweebs shouldn't be anywhere near having just read-only credentials.

 

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31 minutes ago, F250 said:

I have a new hire that has been jumping through all of the federal clearance hoops for the last month. He is new to the Gov space so isn't familiar with all of the magnifier up your ass type shit. Earlier this morning he told me he knew it would be invasive but was still surprised by all the background information they are digging up.

Then you have ketamine Elon and his merry band of racist male sugar babies running rampant through the U.S. government's data without any background checks.

What a world.

 

 

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(Bloomberg) -- Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.

“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” said a June 2022 message from an executive of the firm, Path Network, which was seen by Bloomberg News. “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.”

 
A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine's brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”

Afterward, Coristine wrote that he’d retained access to the cybersecurity company’s computers, though he said he hadn’t taken advantage of it.

“I had access to every single machine,” he wrote on Discord in late 2022, weeks after he was dismissed from Path Network, according to messages seen by Bloomberg. Posting under the name “Rivage,” which six people who know him said was his alias, Coristine said he could have wiped Path’s customer-supporting servers if he’d wished. He added, "I never exploited it because it's just not me."

His comments, made in a Discord server focused on another competitor company, worried executives at Path Network, who believed there was no legitimate reason for a former employee to access their machines, according to a person familiar with the incident. The person asked not to be named, citing the sensitivity of the matter.

 

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37 minutes ago, F250 said:

I have a new hire that has been jumping through all of the federal clearance hoops for the last month. He is new to the Gov space so isn't familiar with all of the magnifier up your ass type shit. Earlier this morning he told me he knew it would be invasive but was still surprised by all the background information they are digging up.

Then you have ketamine Elon and his merry band of racist male sugar babies running rampant through the U.S. government's data without any background checks.

What a world.

 

Yep, redoing mine. It is fun.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

 

So fucked up. We actually do deep dive on potential hires and shit like this would have been flagged. I mean I am talking about commercial hires never mind potential fed staff.

Musk either knew about this and didn't give a fuck or they are a complete shit show.

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37 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Seems a bit dodgy and claims they only have read-only access, but why do they need read-only access to such sensitive data, and with read-only they can still copy everything and try to dump it into their circle-jerk blockchain.  I do like the bit about the IRS and others still using COBOL.

We shouldn't even be having this discussion.  These dweebs shouldn't be anywhere near having just read-only credentials.

 

What am I missing?   These kids have admin/write access.  Despite this guys lies. 

Posted
12 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Other times, they'll say "yeah, we thought of that too, back in 1998, and ran the numbers -- here's why it doesn't work," or "that sounds good, but it fails to account for factor Z, which makes it fall apart," and they're right.

This is perfectly laid out in The Bottle Deposit episodes of Seinfeld. 

Posted
41 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

What am I missing?   These kids have admin/write access.  Despite this guys lies. 

He's claiming they don't, but nobody can actually verify it - just have to take his word.

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