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Comment · 3 years ago
He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.
Comment · 3 years ago
He can regurg briefings, look again at what he says in anything you’re an expert in. E.g. software: he’s a total fraud.
Comment · 3 years ago
Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.
Comment · 3 years ago
>he knows what he is talking about when it comes to rockets

At a surface level. If you ever drill down on his shallow tech understanding, he sputters, kicks you out or flees.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Musk’s strengths have always been in building things

*Hyping things, pumping stock, raising $.

Comment · 3 years ago
Agree Win7 was the last usable. Ubuntu is great / fast but the UX feels like bad Mac clone, 5 years later.
Comment · 3 years ago
Or, he’s as incompetent as he looks.
Comment · 3 years ago
Returning escaped slaves was in the constitution itself (fugitive slave clause).

Founders’ intent is pretty irrelevant to today’s problems. They ran forced labor plantations, hadn’t mastered electricity or germ theory of disease, and the biggest city was ~30K people.

1 person = 1 vote, get rid of all the rural planter rigs.

Comment · 3 years ago
T•••• should've been arrested in the hours after the Capitol attack, like Brazil did with its coup attempt.
Comment · 3 years ago
"some sort of technically-illegal" is a funny way to describe a combined lawfare coup / violent coup attempt.
Comment · 3 years ago
States are artificial, national elections should be ranked choice, or at worst simple majority vote.

Electoral college was a sop to slavers and should be deleted. It doesn't empower small states, it empowers large states which happen to be swing states.

Comment · 3 years ago
One person should = one vote, absurd that Wyoming gets 70× the Senate influence with the population of Modesto.

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