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I'll take a 5 sec delay over ads any fucking day of the week.

I appreciate you providing the actual tweet... but I have no idea how to translate it. The double/triple negative really throws me for a loop and I don't even know how to read this. I assume there's more that has Elon talking white pride somewhere else? Am I blind or naive in not seeing the problem in the post?

Edit: Oh, I see, the post BEFORE that one was saying asking people to "just come out and say 'Hilter was right'" if that's what they believed and this was a response by someone. Ouch.

I completely agree.

He nearly didn't leave. He almost had his cronies not certify the election and stay in power. He showed how weak our system of checks and balances truly is. He had his peeps storm the halls of congress to try and stop the "peaceful transfer of power". It is very fucking far from robust.

Look that's nice and all, but it's not going away and it's only going to get worse. The age of fake AI porn is only beginning. Full-on porn videos where you can take a couple of photos of someone and the AI will build a model of the person and insert them into the porn video is coming. Whether this is done for laughs, from embarrassment, or because it's sexy doesn't matter.

This genie is not going back in the bottle. This is only the tip of the iceberg. We are moving towards an age where you will be able to have virtual sex with anyone you want as long as you have a picture or video of them. VR sex and a porn game that can map someone into a character isn't that far away. It really doesn't harm anyone if we quit being such prudes.

If the thing you took away from the Trump presidency was that the American democratic system was robust, then you really weren't paying attention.

That seems like really low numbers. Ex-Twitter is (in theory) a multi-billion dollar company and Visa should be a "whale" of a client... $77.5k is nothing for advertising revenue. A drop in the expense budget. That's not even one software engineer. How does the company stay afloat if numbers look like that?

Sounds great in principle but the reality is that the problem is lobbying and money in politics, not politicians who stay in office too long. Term limits tend to give lobbyists more power because they can "guide" the new politicians more easily if a given percentage of them are always new. The problem is the money.

Yeah, isn't it like practicing? You're not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you're done you do it better... You know different than when you started.

This comment requires more detail. As far as I can tell the search bar is only useful for typing "cmd" and getting a command prompt window. I'm pretty sure that's all I ever use it for....

Windows search sucks balls so hard it boggles the mind how it can suck so bad. It's like they created the search bar for Windows XP and haven't updated it since. How can a company with so many smart people create something that shitty and never fix it?

So anyway, if I'm missing the toggle for "make windows search not suck", please fill me in.

Oh I know. But every time I try to go back and play counterstrike it bothers me that I can't aim down the sights and I really wish that was something they "fixed" in counterstrike 2.

After all this time, it bothers me way more than it should that you don't aim down the sights.

I'm pro-Ukraine, but I can understand someone not wanting their technology to be used for warfare. Saying "here's Starlink, it'll keep you connected even if Russia bombs your lines of communication" is different than saying "here's a technology you can strap to a bomb and guide it to it's destination."

Musk is an egotistical asshole, but there's validity for a company not wanting their technology, their communication pathways, to be used for killing people.

As an American I don't get this either. You want to cut on my child's penis the day after he's born?! The fuck? Who says yes to that?

The simple reason is that it depends on what in the floor can't actually handle the 2000 lbs. If it's a floor 1'x1' floor tile that will break, then Elon is right. If the loade limit is a beam that spans a larger distance, then he's totally wrong.

In places like a server room, you typically have a raised floor that supports tiles in the neighborhood of 1.5'-3 feet square. (The raised floor allows for all the cabling and air con to be run around the systems.) If you say that the floor can't support more than 2000lbs that typically means they can't guarantee enough of a safety margin and you run the risk of the object breaking through the floor. Musk's wheel argument is crap unless he can be sure each wheel is not on the same floor support area. (Which obviously he can't.)

However floors the spec will typically have some safety margin and that probably kept him from going through the floor. His logic, while not 100% wrong in the basic statement, lacked a deeper understanding of what was going on and certainly doesn't help the idea that he's a Tony Stark genius. It was a Dunning-Kruger level dumb statement to make.

If this statement was made in isolation I would give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he realized it was a stupid statement once he said it but he just didn't bother to correct himself. However he's made so many dumb and arrogant statements over the past few years, I assume it was just a dumb unsophisticated statement from someone who isn't that bright.

According to Elon musk, it's a feature, not a bug.

Yeah, I made the switch on Mobile when YouTube's ads started getting super annoying. Ad block is a killer app in my book.

There was a clause in the contract that said if he backed out he would have to pay $1 billion. Who knew that would actually have saved him way more to exercise that clause.