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LordMelkor
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I mean… for them to have gotten those roles at black rock indicate that they are pretty well qualified from a purely meritocratic standpoint, no?

“But Kennedy, too, has used his prominence to unnecessarily scare parents about the safety of vaccinations.

Kennedy’s case for this frightening assertion is that since 1989, two things occurred together: there has been a rise in neurologic and autoimmune diseases; and, we give children more vaccines. In the interviews I have listened to, he doesn’t take the argument much further than this, and I find it to be entirely lacking. It is low-quality causal reasoning, and is unpersuasive.”

This kind of ‘low-quality causal reasoning’ is not the kind of decision making entity we want to drive towards a position of power that is often presented with rapidly developing information or nebulous intelligence reports, where jumping to conclusions based on faulty reasoning can directly impact the lives of millions…

Wasn’t there reporting from 2013-14 suggesting that Tor had been compromised by the NSA?

How are you sharing from the PS5 to nostr?

If you want to spend as little as possible, and don’t mind tinkering a bit for good results, get a creality.

If you care about open source, but want good support, then go with Prusa.

If you want cutting edge features, and top notch print speed and don’t mind proprietary platforms go with Bambulab.

If you’re feeling adventurous and love building things, build a Voron.

iPhones actually let you default to this search engine in safari! I’m up to 21 trees 🌳

Is no one else bothered by the fact the piece of content that’s gotten the most zaps on nostr recently, is a sensationalist hot take? Nostr doesn’t seem to be solving the fundamental issue plaguing modern media, that sensationalism will drown out balanced content any day of the week.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Your post lacks objectivity. Elon Musk certainly a founder. He founded SpaceX. Also, Tesla has been profitable for a couple years now. While you’re right that he’s primarily a marketer and not an engineer, and he certainly shouldn’t be deified, you could have done that without the extraneous, erroneous, and biased commentary.

I love the idea of Nostr as a twitter alternative, but content discovery is so challenging… at least via Damus. Also, Twitter still has critical mass by a large margin of active experts in interesting subjects… e.g. AI, Medicine, Economics (non-crypto focused) ☹️

Not blocking user SSNs when their accounts got originally blocked, for example.

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https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/

Whats your defense against this?

For at least some of the points mentioned, their information is out-of-date/obsolete.