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The vast majority of people when listening to the bbc or cnn or reading a nyt article see complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality. What you are

The vast majority of people when listening to the bbc or cnn or reading a nyt article see complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality. What you are witnessing Elon saying and doing look completely normal to those people.

sanderjd 4y ago
> The vast majority of people [citation needed] I know it's surprising from within our bubble of contrarianism, but no, actually the vast majority of people are very conventional and find the outlets you listed pretty conventional and ho hum, even if they disagree with some portion of the content. But not at all "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality". Here's the current top headline at NYT: "Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?"[0] Whatever you think about the answer to that question about inflation forecasts, that's just a boring newsy article. And that is what > 95% of the articles there are like. If you think most people find this sort of thing to be "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality" ... well you might need to look in a mirror. 0: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/economy/inflation-forecasts-historical-outlook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/economy/inflatio...
- monsecchris 4y ago
  None of them have anything about the biggest story of our time with these Twitter leaks on their front pages.
  - sanderjd 4y ago
    It is a story but not a big story. A private company did some very stupid things and made some bad and arbitrary moderation decisions years ago. Hilariously, the backdrop of the story is the same private company under new ownership also doing different very stupid things and making different bad and arbitrary moderation decisions. It's just not very surprising at this point that Twitter both was and is a very poorly run company.
    - monsecchris 4y ago
      > A private company did some very stupid things At the FBI and Whitehouse behest.
      - sanderjd 4y ago
        Why does it seem like everyone who is fired up about this is unaware of the timeline of who was president when?

sanderjd 4y ago

> The vast majority of people [citation needed] I know it's surprising from within our bubble of contrarianism, but no, actually the vast majority of people are very conventional and find the outlets you listed pretty conventional and ho hum, even if they disagree with some portion of the content. But not at all "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality". Here's the current top headline at NYT: "Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?"[0] Whatever you think about the answer to that question about inflation forecasts, that's just a boring newsy article. And that is what > 95% of the articles there are like. If you think most people find this sort of thing to be "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality" ... well you might need to look in a mirror. 0: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/economy/inflation-forecasts-historical-outlook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/economy/inflatio...

monsecchris 4y ago
None of them have anything about the biggest story of our time with these Twitter leaks on their front pages.
- sanderjd 4y ago
  It is a story but not a big story. A private company did some very stupid things and made some bad and arbitrary moderation decisions years ago. Hilariously, the backdrop of the story is the same private company under new ownership also doing different very stupid things and making different bad and arbitrary moderation decisions. It's just not very surprising at this point that Twitter both was and is a very poorly run company.
  - monsecchris 4y ago
    > A private company did some very stupid things At the FBI and Whitehouse behest.
    - sanderjd 4y ago
      Why does it seem like everyone who is fired up about this is unaware of the timeline of who was president when?