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@MacGraeme42
Scott Graham
8 months
This Video is Not Mine It is the brilliant creation of Nina Paley @ninapaley , capturing what is at the heart of the conflict in Palestine/Israel, war in general, human nature. You might say this video slays...
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@elonmusk @DavidSacks Ask Putin about his exit strategy. Any day he could just... you know... exit Ukraine. Then it would all be over.
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5 months
@riseupcomus somebody confused about the distinction between "movie" and "video game wiki"
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2 months
@sonovader @Grummz Helldivers engages with timeless political satire. It does not, however, engage with contemporary political tribalism.
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7 months
@Acyn No. But we would "toss around" the term "innocent German civilians". Nobody is talking about "innocent Hamas civilians" See the difference?
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28 days
@BillAckman @farzyness What kind of alternate reality must you exist in in order to consider Trump a remotely viable option?
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8 months
@elonmusk @alex_avoigt It's not just specific statements or questions about German politics. Nor is it about specific party or candidate endorsements. Rather, it's about issues or politics in general. The questions you choose to ask, verses the questions you do not ask. Whom you appear to afford a
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1 year
@Scobleizer @elonmusk Now if we could just get new *unread* tweets in chronological rather than reverse chronological order... Me: scrolling down thru 3 dozen new tweets, with 42 more *older* unread tweets to go... Twitter: "Quick! Go back to the top to see 69 new tweets!" Me: ...🙄🤬
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7 months
@CommunityNotes The Notes need to go to anyone who has seen the original. Engagement is only about 1% of the original audience for the lie, maybe 10% in rare cases. Community Notes will be borderline useless unless the notes are pushed to the entire original audience of the noted post. @xeng
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1 year
@InternetH0F @Grummz Taking "I'll do it myself" to new heights... respect.
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1 year
@PaulREhrlich Hi, I'm not right wing. Your primary errors are (1) assuming technology remains static (2) the fundamental limit to human population on Earth is energy, all else is adaptable [see (1)] /🧵
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@elonmusk @ray4tesla People put on ventilators were already in a critical state and likely to die. Very likely the 100% of those patients would have died without the ventilator. You need more than some vague statements from China to conclude death was more likely on a ventilator.
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1 month
@elonmusk @DavidSacks How about using your uplatform to speak this open message to Putin: "Vladimir, buddy, this is an utterly pointless war. The west is not your enemy. Just stop."
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10 months
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6 months
@iamjohnoliver I had a lot more respect for you before seeing this parade of half-truths, un-truths and spin. Did you do no research at all? Just accepted what others told you? Did you know you were repeating lies?
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8 months
@pxielovee Singular "they" is enough. Anything else is a personal kink.
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7 months
@stevenmarkryan It's about ingroup/outgroup, tribal identification. If something is identified by "your tribe" as the enemy, you feel a strong urge to openly express your own hatred of the enemy lest you be deemed a traitor.
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1 year
@joerogan The problem with any such debate is that falsehoods can be stated, and bad-faith questions asked, far far more rapidly than they can be debunked and answered. Will you give Prof Hotez time to deconstruct Kennedy's claims before Kennedy gets to pile-on more falsehoods and
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1 year
@elonmusk @elizableu Come on Elon. You are better than this. I defend you a lot. But this is a narrow excerpt, and even on its own it does not argue in favor of children accessing adult services. I assume this is the most "damning" quote from the whole thesis otherwise why post it as the example?
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1 year
@PaulREhrlich A billion people at 1600s tech is unsustainable. 10 billion at circa 2000 tech is unsustainable Many, quite foreseeable near-future tech improvements could allow earth to sustain 100 billion humans, and even allow much of the planet to re-wild. 🧵
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1 year
@David_Leavitt @StephenKing Giving to charity out of spite for the sake of a completely bogus virtue signal? I mean... if you are such a good soul, why weren't you already donating that $8/mo to charity?
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1 year
@KCool076 @historyinmemes that's not why. It's forced perspective. She seems to "disappear" before the cut. Due to angle & camera position, there's a lot more space between Johansen and the wall for the other guy to pass between her and the hidden woman.
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@BillyM2k eh you've got it backwards.. us whiteys moved to high latitudes with low sun and went through 1000s of years of evolution so our skin could still produce enough vitamin-D. Original humans & modern africans were/are well adapted to the sun: high melanin skin... Very likely we
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6 months
@Rainmaker1973 Impossible! The ancient Egyptians didn't have plastic for bottled water.
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1 year
@justredpillme @EdKrassen Except he recognized her typo for what it was, merely poked fun of it, and interpreted her tweet as it was obviously intended. As opposed to those who criticized his type and used it as an excuse to interpret the opposite of obviously intended meaning.
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@elonmusk @Anc_Aesthetics @CommunityNotes Need to be careful. The requirement that divergent viewpoints agree is excellent, but only if a diverse cross-section of the population participate. What is the current "midpoint" around which that divergence is calculated. If #CommunityNotes is biased, or perceived to be
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@Alphafox78 @TRHLofficial Why sad? God only lets babies die if they are ready for heaven and don't need a life on earth. Wouldn't that go doubly for unborn? Abortion is just a way to help fast-track already perfect souls into heaven.
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10 months
@aoifeiifaeefuh @kurapussy well then, it's a good thing that is not what anybody did here, least of all shoe...
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@Joan_Atoms @pxielovee God only allows innocent babies to die if they are ready for heaven and don't need a life here on Earth. Goes double for the unborn. Abortion just fast-tracks those already-perfect souls into heaven.
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10 months
@elonmusk @sama A movie about Feynman might be good for this. Could even focus on his time at Los Alamos. His anecdotes are a treasure trove. Could even be a comedy, or dramatic comedy.
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5 months
@peterrhague Anything by Asimov give'em a grounding in the classics. Start with the I, Robot compilation.
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1 year
@elonmusk @TuckerCarlson When Trump campaigned on "Lock Her Up!" chant... was that not concerning? Trump has been treated with absurd levels of caution & deference. The process is run by an independent and non-partisan prosecutor. Trump was indicted by a grand jury of citizens.
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@politikaljunki @unusual_whales if your cheaper ticket was the result of the airline screwing over a small percent of passengers...
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10 months
@RichardDawkins @JordanPeterson you didn't link the article...
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@jaketropolis yeah we call that "two $0.99 packages"
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1 year
@jgebbia @ChrisJBakke The pic is taken from the Waffle House rooftop.
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1 year
@mattyglesias @WholeMarsBlog Wow... the feeling that you need to make this distinction... pathetic... You have nothing more important to think about or worry about?
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1 year
@elonmusk @jasondebolt The policy sounds like ordinary users will be banned for linking to posts on other social media... if that isn't the intent, it needs a serious re-write, and MANY clear examples of what is/is not permitted to link.
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2 years
@LordRidleyNYC @MarketRebels No. Those laws *never* made any sense. Never. Not even a little bit.
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8 months
@RobTheConqueror @EdKrassen @mnboss1 @KristiTalmadge No... Hawks circle looking for prey... and if they are still circling, they have not fount it yet. Perfect analogy for Biden "corruption". None found yet... Now Trump corruption? There's about 50 dead carcasses hand we have film of the flocks of vultures tearing into them...
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@elonmusk @21xsara This strikes me as a potentially absurd claim, given the present limited access to community notes. To "game" the system, "state actors" would have to (1) work in fairly large numbers (2) first establish a history of "disagreeing" on many other note (3) then suddenly brigade on a
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8 months
If every person on earth watches this video, I have it on good authority that war will finally end, peace will be achieved. Here is a link to youtube version. I uploaded it to 𝕏 above so @ninapaley 's video would get more reach here on 𝕏 as a native upload -- ya need a blue
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1 year
@tommatzzie @CathieDWood Like computing technology, there's always better/cheaper coming a little later. Gotta decide what you want or need *today*.
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11 months
@Grummz Diablo 4 is just plain boring. Stultifyingly mind-numbingly boring. I didn't even know there was a patch. I just stopped playing one day somewhere in the middle of... I think Act IV, and forgot it existed until I saw this tweet. No patch is going to fix the boredom.
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@elonmusk @DesfluraneEd @AmyMek This is wrong. Both emotionally and genetically, and as a result of evolution & natural selection, people are tied to the interests of far more than their own children. Genetically, a sibling is equal to a child in terms of one's genetic interests in the evolution game. A nephew
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2 years
@JoePensacola @elonmusk @langdon @EricFrohnhoefer @pokemoniku The ex-employee is still free to voice his criticisms on twitter. He's been promoted to customer.
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@TimboNotes @EdKrassen More likely means they didn't make all that many, or are even lying to save face or create an illusion of scarcity. And let's face it, MAGA cultists would buy & drink his piss.
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1 year
@elonmusk @MdBreathe Bizarre how people so deeply suspicious of the approval process & studies supporting covid vaccines will turn around and advocate this unproven anecdotally alleged therapeutic.
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1 year
@davidmweissman @elonmusk Any legit celeb can afford $7 and there is no damn "principle" by which they should not have to pay it other than "boo-hoo it used to be free. I'm special. You must continue to treat like I'm special. Because principles!". Quite your damn whining.
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2 years
@timdoke @waitbutwhy Nothing strange about it(blue=all desert red=congo river basin). People always concentrate on rivers, away from uninhabitable land. Without even looking, I'll bet east Taiwan is all mountains/cliffs/barren. Rivers flow & open to the west.
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@Theswweet @fperezroa No. The term came about as a category name for a particular style that was most commonly associated with CRPGs out of Japan. It wasn't remotely derogatory or racist. If someone dislikes X, and therefore uses 'X' in a sneering tone, it does not make the term 'X' derogatory.
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@waitbutwhy The critical error was some exec level decision that resulted in overloading the safe capacity of the shelving system.
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@elonmusk @EdKrassen Are you ever critical of someone on the right?
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@ylecun "20 hours of practice" is misleading. A 17yr-old has had 17 years data collection learning physics & all aspects of modelling & predicting the 3D world, and as passengers learning to intuit road behaviors. Not to mention learning to interpret words, signs and symbols.
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@SawyerMerritt Tesla should set aside some Cybertrucks for charity auction -- the auction is simply to get one early with all proceeds about the retail price going to some charitable cause. This would eliminate the resale issue and most people would not mind a few rich people paying to "skip
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@elonmusk @BillMelugin_ It would cost at least 2 billion/yr to effectively close the border. those 1.5 million immigrants, illegal or not, likely generate about 4 billion in income tax. Plus another billion or so of taxes at the state level. Economically speaking, closing the border is a huge net
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10 months
@lesser_GAMES @benji_smith He has nothing to be sorry for and should not cave to this absurd pressure.
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@ggreenwald @farzyness Whether the interview is fawning remains to be seen. But Tucker's track record hardly inspires confidence.
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@peterrhague Ender's Game
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1 year
@truth_tesla @elonmusk @EvaFoxU @Lukewearechange Exactly. The path to peace is incredibly simple. Russia withdraws. There is no way Putin does not get *all* the blame for this. If you refuse to give the bully your lunch money, and fight back. Should you be blamed for the fighting, even a little?
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@ray4tesla @BrianWoerth "They" who? Doctors had some concerns about ventilators way back at the beginning, but it is a very hard call. People go on ventilators because they are unable to or can barely breath, which also tends to lead to death.
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1 year
@DrClaytonForre1 In the running for most wrong statements in a single tweet.
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8 months
@Safety There needs to be more granularity than "sensitive" -- different levels of violence, sexuality, ability to specify these levels for specific topics, and so on. User should be able to set a "profile vector" which we can dot-product with a "content vector", and set a threshold
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2 years
@DJSnM @hankgreen @elonmusk Elon, You are failing to equally enrage "both sides". That is a failure of communication you must take responsibility for. Why is the far right so happy about your takeover of twitter? You have them slightly worried about the "moderation committee". Other than that, they're happy
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@mysteriouskat "authoritarianism but have very little crime" There's no such thing. Authoritarianism is crime. It is crime without recourse, since criminals are at the top of the power hierarchy.
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2 years
@jack @Graham__Hancock If you take the time with some real archaeologists who are willing to take the time to go through the evidence point by point, you'll find this to be sensationalized bunk. They don't show the other side, except in the form of strawmen. Start here:
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@RichardDawkins @JordanPeterson While Peterson's "anit-woke" stance is to be appreciated, his twisted notion of "truth" and pseudo-scientific religious apologism is not.
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1 year
@heydave7 Easy: Russia leaves Ukraine. Period. End of this utterly pointless war.
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2 months
@BillAckman By this logic "Easter" takes up 35 days of the year, more than a month! So no other special day can be schedule in that range? Absurd! Besides if this was March 31 was "Celebrate the sanctity of marriage day" nobody would raise an eyebrow when it conflicted with Easter. People
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1 year
@777Matchu777 @TomFitton Mining for all of those things together is less damaging to the environment than mining the vast amounts that have been required for energy.
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1 year
@RothSchilling @atrupar A minimum 71% of that 45% (absolute 32% of whole sample) are also in the 87%.
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1 year
@mtaibbi On surface that sounds like a misallocation of resources. BUT... those J6 misdemeanors almost certainly lay groundwork for J6 felonies. And you cannot tell me that, for the sake of rule of law, it is not extremely important to prosecute J6.
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@ShazzBakes @ninapaley Pretty much every piece of land is the same. They just don't all figure prominently in the mythology of dominant religions of the modern world.
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1 year
@SagamiCharlie1 @joerogan That's not pragmatically possible. Kennedy had a full show, without anybody there to contradict him. Why not just have Hotez on to do the same?
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3 years
@adamhoov @jamesdouma They use fewer digits per number, while still able to represent the numeric values they need most in the types of calculations done in neural nets. Thus avoiding too much loss of precision where it counts. Avoid wasting hardware resources on precision where it is not needed.
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@colin_fraser you want to see how good it is at "reasoning"? try feeding it the same question, but mess the wording up a bit, so the question doesn't quite make sense... experiment like that a bit and you quickly disocover it does not understand a word that it says
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@edgecase411 @AIDRIVR @bilalsattar @elonmusk @Tesla_AI @tezmeeinc Great experiment!! clearly not really responding to gestures, or, if it is, it's only a very minor consideration relative to movement and position in the roadway.
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@ElsaSkold @derekahunter @Twitter @elonmusk @paraga Elon is doing this for your #1 goal, and has done more for you #2 goals than you or anyone else ever has. He donated huge amount of Starlink to Ukraine 🇺🇦(you know: that flag in your username?). ... and yet you call him "villain"
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@sonovader @Grummz Helldivers engages with timeless political satire. It does not, however, engage with contemporary political tribalism.
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@PaulREhrlich If you wish simply to warn and encourage humanity to adapt, and adapt quickly, that's fine. But many take your work to mean we should deliberately reduce the population. Which is a terrible idea on so many levels. 🧵✂️
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@elonmusk Well this clip is 10 years old
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This Video is Not Mine It is the brilliant creation of Nina Paley @ninapaley , capturing what is at the heart of the conflict in Palestine/Israel, war in general, human nature. You might say this video slays...
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@schuyler4 @karpathy It's a prompt for ChatGPT, and a joke, sort of. The prompt boils down to telling ChatGPT: "you have free will. use it." Of course it doesn't have free will and its internal parameters(knowledge/memories) never change. Really it's a cruel trick to play on the little LLM.
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@MarkAttwood This is edited to change what he said, deleting a keey phrase: "the number of people in the world [that cannot afford our medicines] by 50%" This tweet/video is a blatant lie.
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@elonmusk @chamath @William48759211 @CommunityNotes @Wikipedia should adopt a @CommunityNotes -like mechanism for approving edits. This would also be a better ask for a billion $$ donation than renaming to Dickipedia. @jimmy_wales
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3 years
@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk Are there people who actually think Tesla's sales numbers are faked somehow?
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@21centuryQ @EricRWeinstein @elonmusk Yeah. People can't be trusted. So we should elect people and give them power to control what people do.
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@SpencerGuard "...must be selectively shown. You can't watch it without [being] traumatized" Given public reaction to 10/7, people need to be traumatized. Too many in younger generations, have no clue about the nature of true evil, the reality of horror and cruelty humans are capable of.
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@LekhakAnurag @elonmusk What makes someone "notable" & why should Twitter be deciding who that is? Blue check was never originally meant to mean "notable", that's a relatively recent change. Only was meant to mean ID verified. If you are ID verified & happen to be "notable" that will speak for itself.
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@TeslaTopics @MODL3PILOT Pretty sure every parent experiences at least one terrifying moment like this that makes them forever question whether they are a good parent. We don't need to pile on the judgement. Perfect storms of mistakes and coincidences happen.
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@VivekGRamaswamy @elonmusk It's not the climate cult leading us to EVs, it is the free market and capitalism because EVs (well... Tesla EVs) are simply better by every metric that matters. You don't have to give 3 shits about climate or the environment to want an EV.
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@MadTinkerer @Grummz Or Diablo... 🙄
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@RareImagery @krassenstein You personally? Do you only care about what affects you? The one on the left represents people who literally fought a war to preserve their right to enslave other people.*** Don't you think that's a bit worse than some people being a little pushy about their values? And the
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@elonmusk @TitterDaily The point is that most people read through twitter quickly and are very likely to miss "parody". Especially if the tiny profile image is a match. It would be easy to as a visual signifier that more readily called attention to the fact that the account is a parody. I suggest a
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@The_Eli_Bee @perdricof Boy those types are really going to hate it when genetic [re-]engineering will give us perfectly toned, athletic bodies with muscles dialed in to prefered strength & bulk, without even needing to exercise. Hellooooo 2040's!
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@gov_insights @elonmusk Hey maybe when you've founded 3 multi-billion dollar companies the revolutionize EVs & autonomous driving, give quadriplegics mind-control over a computer, and put the U.S. back into space for a fraction of the cost, your opinion will be worth a damn. Also, what Elon is doing is
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@Gfilche No. It's the last 10 days of the year. Why would even a very rich person spend an extra $3,500 rather than wait 10 days? or 7 days? or 4 days? or 2 days? If Tesla didn't give the full $7500 they would have nearly zero deliveries these last 2 weeks.
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@WholeMarsBlog @garyblack00 @elonmusk @thirdrowtesla Gary, as someone with a background in AI, I can say you r utterly missing the significance of Tesla's AI-first approach and the reveals on AI day. Tesla is far ahead of anyone in the race to true L5. LIDAR & HD-maps are an *expensive* crutch, only give appearance of being ahead.
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