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by matwood 2y ago
> so they need to launch in the next 21 months. So right after FSD and Tesla robo-taxis?
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by matwood 2y ago
AL already got smacked with the NIH cuts. 15% indirect cost is ridiculously low and will basically shut down all research at big universities. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/trump-universities-.
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by matwood 2y ago
I fly a lot and the only time I've ever thought 'this is it' was one time taking off out of Denver International. The airport is out on the plains east of the city and is known for high winds. We were taking off and nose had
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by matwood 2y ago
> Why put lives on the line for political desires you know cannot be achieved by politicians who refuse to listen? If the US and Russia negotiate a treaty in Ukraine without Ukraine or the EUs agreement, we could end up in a situation wi
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by matwood 2y ago
For the record, I wouldn't consider myself liberal or conservative using the US definitions. Probably more down the middle. But, I am a never Trump person, but even then I had a 'wait and see' attitude when he was first elect
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by matwood 2y ago
We really are living in a world where we were always at war with Eurasia. Musk shouted loudly to his followers his views on free speech and why he wanted to buy Twitter. And now, it’s like it never happened. This isn’t like a bias news outl
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by matwood 2y ago
Stop carrying water for the world’s richest person. Musk has claimed multiple times he’s a free speech absolutist and bought Twitter to make it the free speech platform. I agree, it’s his platform and he can do what he wants within the law.
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by matwood 2y ago
“Free speech” disappeared almost immediately after the Twitter purchase. Along with all of Musks supporters changing from “we need free speech”, to “Musk owns the platform, he can do what he wants.” Pre-Musk Twitter was more about free spee
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by matwood 2y ago
> why don't they just get rid of the people that aren't performing? The other secret is that outside of really bad performers, no one really knows how well people are performing in a large company. And even if those people are
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by matwood 2y ago
> AI can program, but not engineer. I feel like that's what the OP said. People can focus on the engineering part and not memorizing syntax or function names. Too often I see people thinking in very binary terms, and we see it here
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by matwood 2y ago
Fair point. But I would argue if the goal is to really change minds then you have to remove little things that allow people to dismiss everything else you said. Low interest/intelligence supporters have probably been shown the rest of
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by matwood 2y ago
I agree with you, but I think it’s important to present facts as facts the best we can. There’s enough terrible things out there both Trump and Musk have said and done, there’s no need to have any shred of mischaracterization. https:/
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by matwood 2y ago
She was a fraud and deserved to be convicted. But, I also think she was over sentenced because she pulled one over on and embarrassed a bunch of rich guys.
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by matwood 2y ago
I think we're about the learn how effective the internet really is at remembering. Here is Rubio talking about how great USAID is not that long ago... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/vide
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by matwood 2y ago
> What's the point of this. "Who controls the past, controls the future."
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by matwood 2y ago
You have to have enemies to unite an army around.
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by matwood 2y ago
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia. This wholesale purge of data is an effort to rewrite history. Hopefully the Internet can mostly remember.
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by matwood 2y ago
There’s as much transparency in this process as there is free speech on Twitter - none. So much transparency happening... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-do...
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by matwood 2y ago
Getting poor people to fight amongst themselves and ignore the huge and growing wealth inequality is a common strategy.
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by matwood 2y ago
It's going to be hard to find much bloat in the federal workforce. The GSA pay scales are public, and they aren't exactly making anyone rich. The federal workforce has also remained in fairly steady range over the years while also
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by matwood 2y ago
So all the stories about funding freezes are make believe? Got it.
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by matwood 2y ago
So 211B in salaries? That's incredibly small on a ~7T budget, like 2-3%. Also it averages less than $100k per person. Seems like to me we're getting a great value out of the federal workforce. When will we see all the contracts th
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by matwood 2y ago
No need to do anything silly like regulations when he can just turn off the funding.
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by matwood 2y ago
And it’s a good lesson. The first hurdle for many (me included) was getting over the fact I’m going to repeat myself - a lot. And that’s ok. There’s a reason Coca-Cola still advertises. Repetition works. When telling someone the story, you
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by matwood 2y ago
I also do this as I refine any pitch. I tell it to everyone over and over, tweaking it slightly, refining, etc… One difference is I don’t think the polishing ever ends until it’s time to move on to something else.
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by matwood 2y ago
You're blaming the boneheaded decision of adding ads to a Jeep on DEI? JFC, get off of Twitter and Newsmax already.
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by matwood 2y ago
Of course it’s tainted. The whole thing will be ‘trust us.’ The only source of most of what has been claimed to be ‘found’ so far is Musk’s Twitter account. Journalists cross referenced his first claims and found they were BS, so Musk will
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by matwood 2y ago
> No, whether misguided or not they're doing this out of patriotism. They care about US citizens and US interests, and believe the deep state is hostile to both. This type of religious fervor following these two people is what conce
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by matwood 2y ago
An audit means transparency and accountability, neither of which we have here.
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by matwood 2y ago
> Yes, the people in power are taking legal actions to challenge inefficiency or waste, and if you disagree with the policies or the conduct of those in office, the established rules and courts are the means to bring about change. They a

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