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bobsil1

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    Comment #35923637

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    Comment #35923051

    He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.

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    Comment #35920675

    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.

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    Comment #35920630

    Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?

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    Comment #35920598

    Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.

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    Comment #35920528

    >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.

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    Comment #35920487

    > Musk’s strengths have always been in building things *Hyping things, pumping stock, raising $.

  8. story
    How to block the doge icons on Twitter

    To block the banner doge, formatted as an AdGuard for Safari user rule: twitter.com##h1[role="heading"] To block the splash screen “loading…” doge: twitter.com##div[aria-label="Loa…

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    Comment #35420422

    Agree Win7 was the last usable. Ubuntu is great / fast but the UX feels like bad Mac clone, 5 years later.

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    Comment #35396118

    Or, he’s as incompetent as he looks.

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    Comment #35387045

    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’…

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    Comment #35385064

    T•••• should've been arrested in the hours after the Capitol attack, like Brazil did with its coup attempt.

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    Comment #35385054

    "some sort of technically-illegal" is a funny way to describe a combined lawfare coup / violent coup attempt.

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    Comment #35385043

    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 empowe…

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    Comment #35385024

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

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    Comment #35385014

    "nearly half" — T•••• controls ~a quarter of the GOP, which is ~a third of US voters, so < 10% of US electorate.

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    Comment #35384999

    Criminal impunity for political elites backstops their entire racket: laundering hard bribes into soft, insider trading and so on. They've blocked T•••• prosecution for things like…

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    Comment #35384979

    Yes. Dems were never going to, for example, indict Trump on selling US policy to the Saudis, that’s a key political-racket revenue source.

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    Comment #35384965

    The opposite — the US constitution is more like a slaver bill of rights, rife with plantation oligarch backdoors. The checks and balances are akin to NBA owners negotiating how not…

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    Comment #35295953

    Also lagging in ML, good point

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    Comment #35295279

    Has no CS background, studied material sci → consulting → Google PM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

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    Comment #35006149

    Prompt 2: It should not crash

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    Comment #34721230

    Windows getting into adware was like the raptor escaping the electrified fence

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    Comment #34721218

    “… with that salt pond stink”