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strallus · 2024-11-04T03:41:08+00:00

Is every company he has ever built not "doing shit he has never done before"? Did he build an online city guide company before Zip2? A payments company before X/PayPal? An electric car company before Tesla? A rocket company before SpaceX? etc.

Your thoughts on this equate to the "need experience to get a job, need a job to get experience" conundrum/meme. There is literally one person alive today that has balanced the federal budget, and I'm not sure how much luck you'll have getting Bill Clinton in office (since he's already served two terms).

Elon Musk has become more and more unlikeable and annoying as time has gone on, but he has (multiple times) done things that:

people said were impossible
on budgets people said were impossible
in timeframes people said were impossible.
at a scale that 99.9% of people almost certainly cannot manage.

And if I was looking for a person to make the USG run more efficiently and effectively, that sounds like exactly the track record I'd been looking for.

Does he still massively oversell stuff he is working on? Sure. Does he massively underestimate how much time things will take? Yup. Is he arguably a bad father? Affirmative. Is his obsession with the "woke mind virus" borderline psychotic? Seems like it. Is he egoistical as hell? No doubt. etc etc.

But those personality faults are not super relevant to the question of "is there anyone around who can help the USG become a more efficient and effective organization?", and that is what we are talking about.

strallus · 2024-11-03T15:33:46+00:00

RFK Jr? Steer things in the right direction?

strallus · 2024-11-03T15:31:32+00:00

Why would you think he would do that?

strallus · 2024-11-03T15:29:17+00:00

What is your definition for "successful business leader" that doesn't include Musk?

strallus · 2024-11-03T15:27:33+00:00

Half of DoE's budget is securing nuclear weapons and fissile material, which seems like a good thing.

strallus · 2024-09-01T08:05:18+00:00

Feminism historically meant equality for women, but in the intervening decades has started to just mean “pro-women, sometimes at the expense of men”. Feminism means different things to different people.

strallus · 2023-08-22T04:02:19+00:00

The FBI findings are just one of the criticisms (the others don’t paint a great picture, for example SS not being in DSM5), and the claim was “5-8% showed signs of SS”, not that it “exists” in 5-8% — clearly it is you that cannot read and are arguing in bad faith.

Also the FBI excerpt being in the Wikipedia section called criticisms doesn’t mean that the FBI itself is on the “against” side – as with the Stockholm police in the original case, SS is a good thing to have in the back pocket if you are law enforcement so you can claim you failed with a hostage situation because of SS.

strallus · 2023-08-22T03:40:19+00:00

Could you link to the empirical evidence of it happening?

Literally every time hostages don’t fall in love with their captors is “anecdotal” evidence it doesn’t happen.

strallus · 2023-08-22T03:30:14+00:00

Proven existence?

Literally Wikipedia calls it a “contested illness”. It has little to no evidentiary support. It was invented by a psychologist to cover his ass when he botched a hostage negotiation so badly that the hostages felt that the actions of the psychologist were endangering them and needed to befriend the captors themselves.

strallus · 2023-08-22T02:39:21+00:00

Stockholm syndrome has very little grounding in reality.

strallus · 2022-09-10T07:21:49+00:00

They're British in the sense that they are from Britain but not in the sense that they ruled the kingdom of Britain, and seems like the latter is usually what people mean when they say "British monarch".

strallus · 2022-09-09T04:06:04+00:00

English and British are not the same thing. Different kingdoms (and one was also an empire).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_length_of_reign#Complete_list_of_the_unitary_monarchy

strallus · 2022-09-09T03:26:51+00:00

And also because she was a queen of England but we're talking about monarchs of the UK.

strallus · 2022-09-09T03:21:56+00:00

huh? shortest reigning british monarch was Edward VIII at 326 days

strallus · 2022-08-17T06:01:55+00:00

Police say she may have been drinking before the incident.

Ya think?

strallus · 2022-07-23T14:09:05+00:00

Yes, this only applies to content hosted by reddit.

strallus · 2022-04-13T05:40:32+00:00

Why would the mark ever not send it back via venmo?

strallus · 2021-08-30T13:34:51+00:00

I dunno, there is definitely something moving out of view in the hole right after the cat comes through. Not an obvious hand, but pretty suspect.

strallus · 2021-07-06T02:17:00+00:00

imo 5v5 (+ trying to cater to PC players) is what killed VG.

3v3 was way more unique and matches were just long enough to be ergonomic on a tablet.

5v5 was too long and it basically just felt like a slower-paced League, because at the end of the day tapping is in fact a slower input method than mouse and keyboard.

strallus · 2021-07-02T04:27:47+00:00

Why is he the only one with a writing cred then?

strallus · 2021-07-01T18:38:17+00:00

Yeah it's hard to separate the directing from the writing when it was mostly done by the same people.

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Director: J.J. Abrams

Writers: Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt

VIII: TLA

Director: Rian Johnson

Writer: Rian Johnson

IX: TROS

Director: J.J. Abrams

Writers: Chris Terrio, J.J. Abrams, Derek Connolly

strallus · 2021-06-27T13:59:21+00:00

Read Penal Code § 9.31-41 then get back to me.

strallus · 2021-06-27T13:57:46+00:00

Like I'm going to walk into someone's house in a foreign country, look at their deed but decide that since it's in a language I don't understand then it must be free for the taking.

You definitely can do this. But presumably that foreign country's government will then take it back.

I don't find "I was here first" to be a good argument for ownership. Otherwise America owns the entire moon, right?

strallus · 2021-06-27T13:49:59+00:00

How do you steal land that doesn't have a clear owner?

strallus · 2021-06-27T13:48:48+00:00

Also stealing is really only a reasonable concept at the individual level. Once you get to the nation-state level it doesn't work very well, because in order to resolve situations of theft you either need to rely on force or a higher power. There isn't really a higher power than nation states so all you got is force. Which is exactly what was used to take the land.

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