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I am doing my best not to let it infuriate me

just got a 2% raise for a technical engineering position ELMOFIRE.GIF

Dunno 'bout y'all but I'm feeling bullish af rn ngl

who needs governments when you have digital consensus code

Financing $7k worth of unexpected vehicle repairs is not what I wanted to be doing with my money leading up the next halving 😢

For the OEM stuff too! I get wanting to mark up stuff but this seems gratuitously excessive

That... doesn't seem right 😩

Replying to Avatar Ryan

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I’ll never get the obsession with using shelves full of crap as studio set backgrounds. The main subject lighting causes them to cast nasty shadows. LED strips fixes this

Okay now that I understand how to use primal.net it's a terrific browser client!!

Replying to Avatar Gigi

#Bitcoin

Such a good indie movie

I have my equipment room hoodie just for long wiring projects 🥶

GM we're just going to have to build the world we want. We have a lot of work to do.

For some reason I haven’t felt as comfortable tweeting work stuff as I feel snorting about it on nostr. Can’t hurt to enjoy a little cable porn from time to time no? 🫣

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.

Part of me thinks the businesses he's collected (aside from Twitter) are all things he thinks will be useful on Mars. Air-tight tunneling, methane-fueled rockets, electric vehicles, and a global ISP business to help pay for all of it and pay for getting there.

Lighting scenic parts of TV sets

They are going all over various places in a television studio where various accent lighting is needed or to eliminate shadows cast by scenic set pieces like shelving