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Sordid 54 points 3 years ago

Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.

Did anyone else reading this bit immediately think of that other rich idiot that died in his ridiculous submarine?

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Sordid 37 points 3 years ago

Because that's what intelligence is. There's a very funny video floating around of a squirrel repeatedly trying to bury an acorn in a dog's fur and completely failing to understand why it's not working. Now sure, a squirrel is not the smartest animal in the world, but it does have some intelligence, and yet there it is just mindlessly reproducing a pattern in the wrong context. Maybe you're thinking that humans aren't like that, that we make decisions by actually thinking through our actions and their consequences instead of just repeating learned patterns. I put it to you that if that were the case, we wouldn't still be dealing with the same problems that have been plaguing us for millennia.

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Sordid 30 points 3 years ago

Wait, I thought he was just bullshitting his fans with that. He's actually serious? XD

Also, I don't understand what this has to do with bare metal construction of the Cybertruck and why that should present exceptional difficulties. DeLorean figured out how to make bare metal cars more than forty years ago, so it can't be that hard.

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Sordid 30 points 3 years ago

Yes, it's almost as if making a car with completely flat body panels is an idea so completely idiotic even John DeLorean wouldn't do it...

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Sordid 29 points 3 years ago

I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.

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Sordid 24 points 3 years ago

Sudden? No, not really. People have sucked at reading comprehension as far back as I can remember (which is some decades).

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Sordid 18 points 3 years ago

You can apply a matte finish yourself with a piece of fine sandpaper.

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Sordid 16 points 3 years ago

I do love the way old cars look, but in addition to the poor mileage, they're also deathtraps by modern safety standards.

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Sordid 15 points 3 years ago

Technically yes, but in practice any gains are going to be counteracted if not outweighed by the electromagnetic noise from the fan's motor. To avoid that interference and see any real improvement in your signal strength, you'd have to either use a fan with a shielded motor (the last such model went out of production in 1953, so good luck finding one) or a fan driven by an alternative power source such as a water wheel.

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Sordid 9 points 3 years ago

So in other words, they can afford to pay damages for it. Make them pay!

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Sordid 8 points 2 years ago

He didn't need it, he was pardoned immediately by his successor. Bush was never even prosecuted for his war crimes. The tweet is correct that no other president has needed immunity, but it's not because they didn't do crime. It's because the system has always been rotten, and these crooks have always covered each other's backs even across party lines.

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Sordid 8 points 3 years ago

Do you get more science or less if you use a baseball bat?

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Sordid 8 points 3 years ago

Who said anything about changing him? I just wanna have fun.

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Sordid 7 points 3 years ago

someone needs to do work to get anything

The issue isn't that someone needs to do work, it's that some people are forced to do more than their share of work so that other people can do less. There's a class of people who get money without having to lift a finger just for owning stuff (land, residential buildings, companies, etc.). When there are people who get money without having to earn it through work, that means there must be other people elsewhere in the system who are paid less than their work is worth. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it, because the owner class can simply refuse to pay them more, so the workers' choice is between being exploited or starving. The workers can't just go and find some land to claim as their own, it's all owned already.

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Sordid 7 points 3 years ago

Screws genuinely are better fasteners than nails, though...

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Sordid 5 points 3 years ago

As if I needed any more reasons to avoid their craptacular browser like the plague that it is.

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Sordid 5 points 3 years ago

Because a lot of people do use Photoshop for painting, and Adobe does recognize that and implement some painting tools into Photoshop.

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Sordid 4 points 3 years ago

Rejuvenating. It's the circle of life. The old have to die so that new life can spring from their corpses.

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Sordid 3 points 3 years ago

Initially, maybe, but I suspect they'll soon get over their infatuation with him, since I doubt he'll be able to hide the fact that he considers them beneath him. People only worship Trump from a distance.

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Sordid 2 points 3 years ago
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