His chronic depression stems from (in part) self doubt, the fear of not being good enough or being stupid as well as online trolls.
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** he's the type of guy that eats his pain - so if he's openly talking about being depressed, it means he's been struggling with it for a while and finally decided to say something... Most likely because he feels like it's about to hit a breaking point.
The anger issues are buried even deeper... But it seems out.
*** When in doubt, go run and punch stuff.
* Lex's unconscious mind doesn't fully believe that status is actually an absolute abstract construct
^> because he's always trying to go for high profile "targets" and subtly rubbing it in his hater's faces which would be raising his status -> despite what he says, that's part of the goal
- it's true that it can be faked
-- power and status aren't always the same thing -> most guys think that all women want an alpha male --> some women just like intelligence and guys are more easy to "fool"
* George is right about men going for youth and beauty - maybe most guys are just threatened by smart females
** George is smug and cocky -- that can go either way
** George is wrong - there's been cases of people googling how to build a bomb to blow up a building and actually built a functional bomb with the capability of killing a few people depending on several circumstances
** George is absolutely smug AF - but the thing is, it would take more than 50 people to run a company such as Twitter... And ofc people having jobs is kind of important.... You could tell him to build his own since he has such a problem (and apparently doesn't like Jack) but he'd probably say that he would rather focus on his "passion" to save face for being wrong or go with something along the lines of he doesn't want to go through all of that because he knows better (I wouldn't put myself though that either but unlike George I know why)
Oh yeah no lol ... Yeah p sure I'm right
You can actually pinpoint all of the insecurities easily****
Smells like vulns
Extra extra extra side note:
George says he's always 2 years behind Tesla... Doesn't Elon have a habit of open sourcing things after a two year period... I think I heard him say that on a Twitter live or something somewhere.
It would make sense though.
The people who push for everything to be open source sometimes do that because they want to copy, mimic, and/or learn.
Ahh finally George admitted he wants to prove how much smarter he is than others... You can really see it in his face. His insecurities pertaining to his abilities.
Also... He's not as smart as he'd like to be and it shows. That's partially what the humor is for.
(Yeah I guess it really does take less than 24 hours to know the core of a person)
That was a nice moment of them dancing around their insecurities...
But the thing with Elon... Well it's true, the more hate someone gets the more likely they are to turn to the group that haters hate and that's full of yes men (which is the worst thing you can do)
But for Elon, he's caught between a rock and a hard place. Anonymous is going to drive him into the arms of qanon types and the Qanon types are going to gaslight the shit out of him and try to run him ragged.
All part of both sides secretly hoping for his downfall.
Meanwhile there's people in the middle like could you just not do some stupid shit? You're really fuckin stepping on my toes.
At least when some of us meddle or interfere with foreign and domestic elections it's for a good reason... (That extends to other techy rich dudes - but that's another story)
Perfect ending
No one fully understands the game and some people don't even know what winning looks like
The meaning of life... Or the purpose.... It's just a variable that you assign value to.
And like Einstein I personally believe that intelligence cannot be measured in the way that people are currently trying.
You can be fluent in a language and to a degree be intelligent because of your capacity to learn or you can be fluent in several languages but take thrice as long as the average person to learn and retain information. So the person that knows several languages might be perceived as the more intelligent one, but in fact the other is just uninterested, lazy or putting their energy into something else... For whatever reasons.
** close
Simply stating that he doesn't want to and it's above his pay grade is a way to be dismissive of his aggressive criticisms of something he cannot do himself
He didn't say because he knows better... It's just heavily implied.
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Not about that... But George has lied several times.
You can also hear it in his voice.
He likes being a troll for his own personal amusement.
** so much for lex holding out on using chatgpt to help him code