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.

Elon landed a rocket and made EVs popular. He has results. The failures or delays don't diminish what has been already achieved. How to never fail? Just don't start anything new or ambitious.

Don't hate the player. Hate the game.

I think it was 30 years in the 1950s today there is more regulation, safety, bureaucracy so it increased to 40 years 😂

There is nothing horrible to use custodial wallet for small amounts. Does it make sense to pay $10 per month for hosting if your revenue is $0.5? It's all about optionality once WoS stops working the people can change in the address in a second. Also the people that will make their business on it and have higher revenue than they can afford better solution.

Replying to Avatar Hurvajs Rumcajs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GcfCenvzio

Interesting how many startups there are in fusion energy. Many different aproaches, very different budgets. Some of them only in low tens of milions of dollars. That's like a monkey jpeg or two, isn't it?

When bitcoiners funded fusion startup? Mining with fusion reactor anyone? Is a mining with fusion reactor owned by a bitcoin unfriendly attacker a threat we have to start considering and planning an answer to it?

Oh and there is even one start-up called Zap Energy.

Fusion is silly in a time when you can realistically build commercial fission in 8 years and we didn't even reach 1/1000th of what is possible with fission.

The future secrecy is a big deal. There is a chance the private key will leak. We don't use HW wallets for nostr. All your DMs will likely become public eventually

This is the way to fix surveillance capitalism

To the east is the worst. It took me like a month in Thailand to start waking up before noon 😂

Yeah, IMO the pubkeys it's a first web of trust implementation that has chance of going global. Something that PGP failed to do for 30 years. It's a big deal to have cryptographic identity. Currently no other way to exchange pubkeys in person or trust phonenumber or gmail or other centralized identities for insecure pubkey exchange

You can build on top of that anything which needs identity

Although not having the majority here might be unique advantage