Evil either makes you age rapidly or you get crazy demonic eyes. George Lucas was onto something

2 years ago I thought I would’ve been joking, but watching the admin has me honestly believing it

Glad to help!

Slurs come about when enough people load up a word with hate to taint it in all contexts. It gains an implication of bigotry

It’s a real time process. They’re often “politically correct” or preferred terms at first, but over time they are loaded with additional meaning until new preferred terms are chosen and the cycle (usually) repeats

By using multiple redundant gyroscopes and a chip to adjust the thrust to each propeller hundreds of times a second. I hear the wimote has cheap accelerometers that can work, but once it catches on I’m sure people will make specialized boards for this

If only there was a way to have 4 or more sources of thrust to balance, giving you full control over your orientation…

I’m calling it the tetracopter. It’s my idea, no one steal it

Let’s keep it simple and sweet, everything musk does is a grift.

He finds smart people so sometimes things get built by accident, but he’s ultimately just a grifter

Like his flying car business… Instead of building a giant quad and making a real flying “car” (as many have done), he spent God knows how much to build an rc car that could never, ever, in any country, be allowed on the road

Not like it matters. That thing is a bomb on wheels. Even if that big rc car could still flip with a floppy human charging the center of gravity, you’d have to have a death wish to get inside that thing while it’s moving, let alone jumping

200lbs of highly compressed air right behind the passengers… If it popped, it would be like the Titan submersible, except after it turns you into red mist it would also release shrapnel

Well, I respect the honest desire to learn and I’m glad you understood the subtly that full creative freedom makes something “spiritually indie”

Have a good one

If you write a book and go to a publisher to print it, that’s independence. You wrote the book on entirely your own terms

If the publisher pays up front for a book, or pays you to edit a book to their standards, that’s not independent

Of course we shouldn’t let their narratives dictate our actions, but we should at least be aware of them and try to avoid playing into them. Know the enemy.

In this case I think you’re correct, but in general we’ve spent way too long letting them dictate the terms of engagement

They’re going to attack our people, whether we give them opportunities or not. I think we need to worry less about playing into them, instead we need to bulldoze through their attacks like the petty insults they are

But I’m this case I fully agree - we need to stop taking the bait when they demand we disavow this guy or that group. It’s a loaded question… If you refuse to “disavow”, it sounds to the low info voter like you tacitly support someone who sounds bad and scary. If you do, it implies there’s some relationship there that you’re betraying. You can’t answer loaded questions,

We need to do more like El-Sayed did… Turn it back on them as the stupid question it is…“I haven’t heard you disavow the Muslim brotherhood, why are you asking me? We all know why you’re asking me, come on, say it”

Fucking Cinema right there

We need to do more of that… When you’re asked a loaded question, the only answer is make them look stupid for asking.

Ask why some twitch streamer matters. Ask them how many hours a day they’re on twitch. Demand to go through the audience one by one and avow or disavow each person together. Pick some of Trump’s biggest mistakes and ask them to disavow his choices. Bring up his friendship with Epstein. Ask if they’d commit to impeaching Trump if a video of him with a child comes to light

We need to stop letting them control the narrative, and better yet, create our own

No, you’re upset that someone with good positions is being praised for qualities that shouldn’t matter instead of their policies

But those traits do matter - the fact that El-Sayed delivers his message in a way that inspires confidence in low information voters doesn’t take away from his positions. Instead, it empowers his positions. It enables positive change

This is what forward progress looks like. This is what winning looks like. It’s progressive policy in a pretty package. It’s good delivery of a good message

Nothing about that is a compromise

Yeah well… You can spend your time upset about how the world sucks, or you can look at it accurately so you can effectively do something to make it better

Politics is a dumb game, but it’s really important to play it well

Literally no, we can’t

Politicians have broken faith so many times that talking about policy doesn’t work. People will not simply vote for their self interest

A good candidate has to dress up their policies in presentation. They have to stand out in people’s minds in a way that inspires confidence with limited exposure

What is gender but a bucket of traits and behaviors we group into a social role. It’s ultimately a mental shortcut - if people see certain traits or behavior, people assume other associated traits and behaviors

The way that people are engaging with the gender presentation of a candidate is really important in politics (and pretty much nothing else)

I mean, he’s failed all his life. Now he’s obsessed with getting his name on things, but it’s probably all going to immediately be stripped off

It’s not legal consequences, but every time he gets ahead he’s faced with failure. He’s a deeply unhappy old man who will die as a footnote to the forces that allowed him to take power

Sure, but realistically billionaires as a community are the reason they are like they are. They’re a group that only really socializes with other billionaires and lives their lives between home and 300 something hotels, resorts, and compounds across the world

The real reason none of them ever break the mold and do something meaningfully good for humanity is each other - their whole social sphere is full of “peers” locked in a twisted game of comparison with each other

Interestingly enough, there’s actually some billionaires who live like actual people. They secretly live like normal people with the security of an endless safety net

There’s a lot more to it than that… It’s a complicated situation primarily motivated by a lust for power and profit, but there’s layers and layers to it. There’s many involved interests and much to learn about how and why horrible things are happening

It’s easy to point to a war criminal and just label them as evil, but then you learn nothing useful

No one is evil in their own story, and by understanding the motivations and methods of great acts of evil you can understand where to apply pressure to stop it, as well as recognizing these same patterns elsewhere before it ends in another example of the worst crime against humanity

Why don’t billionaires turn a slice of the world into a paradise, where they can live as a universally beloved hero and still live the most decadent live money can buy?

Why don’t they leave $5k tips everywhere they go, since they’d never run out? Why don’t they invest their money to singlehandedly fund the development of wonderous new technologies?

Billionaires don’t spend their money. They beg, borrow, die. They live not as people, but as avatars of their own dragon hoards. They not like us

Honestly, I doubt it, they’re incredibly beholden to the insurance companies themselves. Plus medical malpractice insurance, which they can lose if they break the terms and breaks their protection for every patient they’ve ever treated

Private practice was also gutted by the Obamacare hand outs to the insurance companies. They literally spend more time dealing with insurance requirements than actually seeing the patients. So on top of all that, they’re also restricted by the healthcare groups that employ the majority of them

They know the system is broken. The really conservative ones think it’s simply how it has to be, but honestly they’re also put through a ridiculous system themselves to even get a license to practice, let alone keep it.

The main exception is the doctors who work for the insurance companies. They’re essentially forced to break their oath just to keep their job, I don’t know how they live with themselves

I’d buy a mountain and build a nature retreat so friends and family could visit. I’d probably only spend a million or two on it, after the land and off grid infrastructure I’d build it myself, making cabins and gazebos over time. I’d curate the land to be full of fruit bearing trees and make animal friends

Then I’d make more friends and invite people to stay. I’d look for damaged people and offer them a refuge from the world for as long as they want

I’d probably buy a significant amount of silver, yuan, and euros as insurance. The rest I’d hand over to a financial advisor after taking time to find someone I can trust, then I’d try to never think about money again

I’d spend most of my time enjoying a life surrounded by nature and friends who are free to live without worries. Travel occasionally to meet new friends and see more of the world, but mostly I’d just be happy to live freely

There’s a deeper level to it. Israel, especially netanyahu over his long career, created the entire situation. And they did it directly and intentionally

Palestine used to be governed by the PLA. Hamas are hardliners - their founding goal was to turn the region against Israel and drive out the Israeli people. Hardliners are the least effective form of any movement

Israel held elections for Palestinians, giving them an official group to negotiate with, as well as some legal recognition that allows them to collect funds

As soon as Hamas won a single election, they stopped holding elections and the PLA leaders were assassinated soon after

Not to mention the on again off again attacks… Israel would build them infrastructure like hospitals and desalinization plants, then blow them up

There’s a lot to say on the topic, so I’ll end it with a fact that really puts things in contrast…

Before October 11, the average age in Gaza was under 18, and it isn’t like their population numbers were booming