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Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that's exposure or first symptoms). So, you're not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don't know why, and just bury it.

Raw catfood has infected some cats as well.

Thank you. It's just so f'ing baffling how many people still think the right approach to Trump is to underestimate, ignore, or otherwise write him off. We know what happens when we do that. This lesson has been taught to us time and time again and it's carried Trump to the White House twice.

lol yeah that's not happening.

The potential host country could decline not to host the President and that's about it. Countries can do that right now and I wouldn't blame him, although I doubt Trump will be traveling much.

You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into.

If you're looking at a guy's resume and it includes graduating from UPENN and getting admitted into Stanford, then launching/guiding/acquiring multiple successful companies and you're then concluding "nah this guy ain't smart" or "i'm not sure if he's smart" it's a position you reached not through logic/reason.

The author is taking a shot in the dark on Musk's IQ and what the author wants it to be. 110 is normie. Isaacson, a very respected biographer, claims Musk's SAT was 1400, which would have put him somewhere around ~93 percentile. I want to see proof of that score, but I'd guess Musk' IQ is around 125-130 and around 95-97 percentile.

Trying to boil Musk's success down simply to lying is vastly underestimating him and playing in his favor.

On top of what everyone else is saying, he was also highly competent and looked out for his friends.

Well, ya know, it's primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren't likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won't have to worry about the flu.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.

Consider the 2016 election and the dangers of writing someone off.

Initially, the GOP establishment wrote Trump off as a flash in the pan. He'd enjoy an upswing, probably do something really dumb, and either way voters would come to their senses ahead of primary voting.

By the time the GOP establishment realized how big a threat trump was, it was too late.

Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign was pushing for Trump as GOP nominee, assuming he'd be an easy opponent.

We know how that turned out.

Trump is not Musk, it's not a direct parallel, but it illustrates the dangers of underestimating someone.

Everyone deluding themselves into thinking Musk is an idiot (or 100 IQ) are creating conditions favorable to Musk.

(I wouldn't be surprised if Musk is of above average intelligence but not a true genius).

"what the fuck" are you confused about?

I appreciated his general thoughts on poverty, inequality, etc. I haven't studied them in depth so admittedly I'm mostly going off statements here and there and shallow news coverage.

The molestation/rape stuff though can't be overlooked. The problems there go much, much deeper than any one individual and is a rot in a massive and wealthy institution that holds a lot of sway over millions of people.

And there are lots of old dinosaur thoughts in the church, like the idea that all "unnatural" birth control is wrong.

I do think Francis was probably a step overall in the right direction, but it was a small step and I'm left thinking that much more radical reform is needed.

Eh, I don't know. Lincoln was well aware that he was walking into a massively complex situation with nothing short of the future of the country 100% on the line. He knew he was doing it at great personal risk, and I am sure on some level he knew it could (and ultimately, would) cost him his life.

Lincoln's life was cut short so ultimately we never got to see what the next phase of his life would look like, but he persevered in the face of the greatest struggle this nation has ever faced.

Trump and friends may well create as dangerous of a scenario as the civil war, especially if Thiel, Vance, and the other tech authoritarians achieve their goal of radically overhauling if not outright destroying the country.

that's a good point. Musk has pissed everyone in the government off. I imagine that many of those sympathetic to Musk in the regulatory and law enforcement agencies don't appreciate the ways in which he's inserted himself in this conflagration and his immensely heavy handed approaches.

I don't think that's how it works, but I am not a lawyer.

Initially, I reached the same conclusion, but by the sounds of it, once the trust expires it simply means that the kids can now sell the stocks or do whatever they want freely. I think they don't lose control of the stocks and if anything, they actually start to enjoy more control or at least freedom.

But again, I am not a lawyer.

To be fair, I doubt Trump understands the difference between Bangladesh and India.

Sigh. What a time line.

lmao I am underestimating no one. Guys... touch some grass.

Musks's technical knowledge is probably pretty mid. Musk sure as hell isn't designing the rockets.

Acknowledging that Musk isn't an idiot in no way devalues the work of the many, many intelligent people around him. Why you'd think that I'm taking anything away from anyone else is baffling. Literally baffling. How did you come to that conclusion?

The cease fire was primarily Biden's victory although really the war had reached a stage where there was a high chance it would have emerged without pressure.

The consistent pressure by the Biden administration also demonstrably forced Israel to show some restraint.

Estimates suggest roughly 50,000 Gazans died. An absolute tragedy but if Trump were in charge, I'd bet that it'll be much higher.

Europe's best bet IMO is to keep Ukraine in the fight so long as they want to continue. This way, Russia can't even think about attacking elsewhere. With the bought time, Europe also needs to beef up their own defenses.

It saddens me to say as an American, but the USA is no longer a reliable partner. And those American military bases on European soil would make me very nervous. They were historically used to protect Europe but could also be used to conquer, assuming the military backs Trump and attacks if ordered.

Biden was no doubt in Israel's camp. However, he was still a moderate in that camp pushing for restrain, humanitarian aid, etc.

Trump has essentially been encouraging Bibi to take off the gloves and pound Gaza.

I never played it but the Thomas the Train mod for skyrim is hilarious.