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quit job a year ago to procrastinate while trying to make stuff, so I can stop being poor... maybe
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.

I believe that the issue of 'wokeness' has been artificially manufactured, so we all fall for anti-woke leader one day.

actual waterfall > bath

No point, - cousin gonna do research and buy a bag of shit coins

Woops, I accidentally pressed follow all button on iris, so my feed is going to be global from now on? 😂

Yeah you don't need to know most of these concepts to code something cool, focus on making working spaghetti prototypes for hobby projects, and code quality will come naturally, hopefully :D

Is this real? Or it replaces the yellow circle with picture of moon like Samsung and Xiaomi? :O

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this is torture, can look but can't touch 💦💦💦💦💦

What can they do though? force 100% of nodes be OFAC compliant?