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I can imagine the exchange between Stephen King and his agent: > "Stephen, I'm trying to market your books, but the publishers aren't seeing any engagement on Twitter". > "Oh I left because I don't want t
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> Model X is one of the best selling electric cars in the US No, that car is essentially a failure and I'm amazed Tesla hasn't completely cut it from production. It sold 1,316 units in the US September. They were selling almos
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Agree. One perspective that I'm amazed hasn't become obvious to mainstream yet is that there are a growing number of private companies where are functionally extensions of the US government. Everyone knows about the US military-i
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I am amazed to find people cheering for Lula. Not that Bolsonaro is a good choice, but you really should read up on Lula. The US media reduces this as Left vs Right, but it's more like horribly corrupt, racist, opportunist with a thi
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It's fascinating to me how so many of these pieces have emerged. Normally this sort of admission comes after the fact. Decades later when everyone who was there is dead, we would learn that the British, Americans, and probably other N
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I would love to see some testing. For two weeks: ban every Blue checkmark. Evaluate. The next two weeks: ban every reporter. Evaluate. The next two weeks: ban every politician. Evaluate. The next two weeks: ban anyone without a Ukraine f
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> The way he got bored running Tesla and SpaceX for ~20 years? For all practical purposes, doesn't Shotwell run SpaceX and Elon just shows up to give "input", whenever the capital raise du-jour is necessary, and to do the
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I really like your industry/user-type approach. In the Fintweet community the wish list is probably something like: * Ban all spam bots * Ban all spam bots (it's that bad) * Ability to edit tweets * Maybe a slightly better to tack
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And many more have made an absolute fortune. Down more than 40% this YTD, even worst if you go from ATH to current prices. It's also been a trader's paradise given the volatility and occasional appearance of someone mysteriously
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> Starlink alone will make more money than twitter ever could. Is there anything other than aspirational thinking behind this statement? Musk himself has said it's a cash incinerator - and that's by Musk standards (read: used
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Exactly, we are witnessing supply destruction. It's worth considering that liquid natural gas is one of the most expensive (in both emissions and cost) to ship. It needs to be held in special LNG carrier ships that can keep it not onl
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See I would rather 1 scammer get away if it means 100 legitimate fund raisers get to keep operating. Canada's Trudeau showed the world what the nightmare scenario is: he single-handedly and with no evidence, decided that donating to a
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Tomorrow all charges get a referral to the Act Blue shared database with the FBI.
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I do the opposite. Paypal has no customer support and doesn't care about me or any other customer at all. But I can call American Express, be instantly connected to an agent who at least pretends to care, doesn't sound like they&
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The beauty of this (as far as US weaponization of law is concerned) is that yes, you are correct. But because there is functionally no customer service at Paypal, the Legal Department is customer service. So to even talk to Paypal about th
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"managed to randomly announce" is a very odd way of saying "the CEO committed securities fraud because bankruptcy was imminent and his entire net worth was sunk into the company".
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The whole Musk saga is basically a cautionary tale for regulators, and a classic American story of regulatory capture. The second something that's not autopilot was marketed as autopilot should have been an instant barrage from the FTC
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MBA is still the junior leagues. To learn to take one line and turn it into a whole page you have to go to law school. And even then, I would daresay that those are applied and therefore lesser . If you want to be able to expand one wo
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See I was hoping this was a series of interviews of Vice "journalists" and other mainstream media types. Silly me for not considering that serial propagandists, spreaders of lies, squelchers of truth, and arbiters of cancel cultu
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I suspect if you ask any of the "essential" workers, they would disagree. The divide that has been created between essential workers and the pyjama class is extreme. In some cases, pyjama classes were being paid to just stay home
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It's quite odd that these "civilized societies" then have to rely on importing the best and brightest young people from "uncivilized" societies to keep their "civilized society" from suffering a demographi
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You're missing that the worst thing that could happen to China is a Russian collapse. China wants Ukraine to end like Afghanistan: an embarrassing and gradual defeat of the US/West - leaving behind billions in cutting edge militar
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> When the real problem to address is that working conditions in science are, often, terrible and that our society punish people in many different ways for wanting to be scientists Part of that problem was that the tenuous professional e
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> Cork exploration is certantly less destructive than the high intensity water hungry olive and almond farms, the green houses in protected areas or the high end condos in the dunes that have been showing up through Alentejo. I'll c
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The more nefarious one to me was when Archive scrubbed all of Taylor Lorenz's tweets[1]. Lorenz claims to be a journalist. She is employed by Jeff Bezos's WaPo. Her tweets are a matter of public record, but because they reveal wh
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Not quite. That is the carbon cycle. We just came along and put some faces on paper so we could stop killing each other over whose fishermen get to catch crab. Then we called it capitalism and pretended that our economic systems transcend
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Do not worry, the WEF and UN will be diligently taking notes of this field test and by the time it's rolled out in your country this will be resolved. I cannot wait to have a social credit score! It is a wonderful idea and I am only d
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It's quite interesting to think that this problem persists today - with the modern popes of the modern religions of course.
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I agree, although I'm really curious about what the post-Zoomer generation does with VR. Our media and how we interact with it has only ever trended in one direction: higher bandwidth. The generation that grew up with oral tradition lo
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For starters, Americans are reading less and less (and I strongly suspect what they're most reading is utter trash [e.g. the political here-say/Trump fan fiction of the month]. The reason I bring those up is because they are terr

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