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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Teacher tells a kid to be careful of social media, but the kid’s favourite influencer tells the kid their teacher is lame and they shouldn’t listen to that. Who is the kid going to believe.

    Also we don’t let kids into bars until they’re of a certain age. Sure kids are going to still do shenanigans to get in and sometimes they might succeed, but it reduces children getting drunk at bars by significant amount. And even when kids are able to do something they’re prohibited from, they at least know it’s not a normal thing and might understand there’s danger in what they’re doing.


  • The key is “with human supervision”. Calling it Full Self Driving with “Supervised” in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there’s some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying “regulations” amirite?) leads people to think they don’t really need to supervise the driving of the car.

    Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there’s even greater confusion.

    People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren’t, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.







  • As we saw on October 7, the capacity for Hamas to commit genocide wasn’t limited by their intent, it’s only limited by their capability. If there were 1400 people in the villages on that day, there would be 1400 dead instead of 1200. If they had the capability of killing a million Jews they would.

    And you would make excuses for their actions because you’re a genocide apologist. The whataboutism started the day after Hamas massacred villages, and it came from the actual genocide apologists who were conditioned for more than a decade to look the other way on any horrible action committed by Hamas.





  • It’s very easy mix in radioactive materials with conventional explosives to make a dirty bomb… provided you have access to radioactive materials. You put nuclear reactors in cargo ships, anyone that can board and commandeer a cargo ship now has access to radioactive materials and therefore the capability building a dirty bomb.

    There’s an R^2 drop off as you travel away from the sun. Sure if you’re going to Saturn, solar isn’t going to work well. We already use nuclear batteries for those missions, but it’s some butt clenching with that because if the rocket goes boom instead of getting to space (which happens sometimes) it would spread some radioactive material around.

    But it’s going to be a long time before we’re building space stations beyond Mars (it’ll be a long time before we go beyond the Moon the way things are going) so it’s going to be solar power for most space things other than the odd probe we send to the outer planets.


  • AI is another dot com style bubble. How about we all just be quiet about that so billionaires blow a lot of hype driven investment dollars on green energy?

    Once the bubble bursts there will be a surplus of cheap green energy we can use for powering homes and EVs and such. Obviously there’s better ways to do this than scamming billionaires into a hype train, but global warming is a problem now and we can’t wait for our society to change to be able to address the problem in a rational way.

    So… sure… AI is the future! We need to build a lot of wind and solar power so we can have AI! We don’t need this for woke global warming reasons, no no no. We need this for $$$$$$AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ reasons! Increase shareholder value by making wind turbine and solar panels, you must do this because it’s illegal not to maximize shareholder value!!! Build wind and solar so you can someday fire all of your employees! For the shareholders!



  • I admit I’m a little surprised (but not shocked) about Musk. Not because I didn’t think he would do that, just because he called out that Trump was in the Epstein files that time. Like I know dude has done all kinds of fucked up rapist stuff, just figured he was doing that stuff outside of Epstein’s sphere.

    But not shocked, because how can you be these days? Just really idiotic for Musk called attention to the Epstein files when he was in them. The guy is an idiot, but you’d think even an idiot wouldn’t talk about anything to do with crimes they’re complicit in.

    But ketamine is a helluva drug I guess.


  • He definitely molested children… I don’t think was all that particular about age when he was in a “grab’em by the pussy” frame of mind. It’s all funny locker room talk until you think about how he bragged about buying beauty pageants so he could go into the dressing rooms, Miss Teen USA was one of the pageants he owned, he hung out with Epstein, he had teenage girls working in the spa at his hotel, at least one of which Epstein “stole” from him. Dude didn’t care about consent, and considered teenage girls to be property.

    Ha ha ha locker room talk!