Pretty much. Trump is charismatic… But his brain is leaking out his nose and he wasn’t very smart to begin with. Elon is effectively dumber, because trump knows he’s in this to get his bread buttered - Elon might have more ram, but he doesn’t understand the difference between con and reality

No, he’s shown zero technical skills across his lifetime. He literally has no skill as a programmer or as an engineer

Have you ever seen a kid with a model car that can rattle off the horsepower and acceleration speed? That’s what Elon is. He doesn’t understand these things - he buys companies and learns the spec sheet because he’s a fanboy with too much money.

Elon couldn’t code his way out of a paper bag. He couldn’t put together a model rocket with instructions on the box. What he can do is memorize a bunch of statistics he doesn’t understand on a fundamental level

There’s a neat little concept called the keys to power. A totalitarian dictator doesn’t hold all the power power - they must share it with generals, officials, oligarchs, aristocracy - many people who extend their control. A president has even less, they need to spread it wider

If you lose the keys to power, your own power dwindles. Trump had the oligarchs, and the apparent head oligarch (Musk) has been ousted. What does that say to the other oligarchs? Most of them were threatened into compliance… If Musk breaks with Trump without consequences, his authority dwindles. If Musk gets deported or something, Trump’s value as an ally is depleted

LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do

Which makes sense, they’re not trained on our actions - they’re trained on our words

I think Musk is stupider than people realize. He’s a true believer in his grandpa’s technocracy movement (plus eugenics), and so he thought “if I was in control for just a few weeks everyone would realize they should just let me run the world”

Then, he got practically unlimited power, and everyone got mad at him. He seemed genuinely surprised that people weren’t praising him for his sacrifices (such as selflessly condemning hundreds of thousands of people to death)

Then he showed he was useless at buying elections, and the right dropped him

He followed Trump around for a while quietly, probably spending most of it in a k-hole. Then Trump officially broke up with him, even if he glazed Elon on the way out

Then the narcissism kicked back in. Maybe his “friends” rubbed it in, maybe his dad called him a disappointment who fumbled the chance of a lifetime, maybe the threat of legal ramifications made him bitch out - but whatever happened, Elon woke up one day and decided “it wasn’t my fault, Trump and Co fucked me”

I think Elon is actually concerned about the bill to some degree, because it does stretch our debt and spending to levels that could potentially pop the global economy. I think he does feel disrespected that his work at Doge is being rolled back and everyone is distancing themselves from him. I think he is upset that he spent all this money to buy the presidency, and got a bad ROI

But ultimately, Elon is a fucking idiot with a huge ego. He didn’t understand what game he was playing, and so when he lost he started blaming others

And it’s beautiful. Possibly the greatest crash out in history

Yes. He’s a fucking mess, they all are. The only happy ultra-wealthy are the ones who no one ever hears about, they live like normal people (except they have an endless bank account to fall back on). It takes mental illness to have enough money to live in luxury forever and keep chasing more just to compete with your peers

But as for Musk personally? He’s a true believer. He actually believes in his grandfather’s technocracy ideas… And the eugenics. Which is extra funny, because Musk’s dad treats Elon like a genetic dead end. He calls him out publicly on Twitter no less

Musk is actually that dumb. Fucker actually thought Trump brought him in to cut the budget, and that firing his own regulators was just a little job perk no one would notice. He honestly thinks he’s the anti-hero making the tough decisions for the future of humanity

Then let’s apply this post. Here’s your steps:

Tune the guitar. Tuna is an app that will make it help, there’s hundreds or physical tuners. This will take between 3 and 20 minutes

Look up tabs for a song. Wonderwall or zombies by the cranberries are very easy to learn

Do the finger positions and strum them. Focus on the transitions between fret positions. Do you for 10-20 minutes

Listen to the song, over and over. You can put it at half speed, but after you feel you know it in your bones start to play along. Focus on the strumming pattern and making the notes ring clear… It’ll be rough at first but keep at it. This could take 30 minutes to 4 hours, depending on your standards

And if this works, let me know. I’m self taught on the guitar with ADHD… My brother taught me the basics, and then I hyper focus on certain songs now and again. I’m not particularly good, but I can learn anything on any stringed instrument if I hyper focus on it

They’re not, they’re lawful evil. Everything they do, everything they support, every last word that comes out of that place is carefully sculpted to cause suffering. If it seems like it might be ok, or even good, dig deeper - it’s always horrible

But they’re the opposite of terrorists - they don’t disrupt order to meet political goals, they corrupt the law to bury the mass murder under layers of buracracy

They’ll stop THC beers from being an alternative at bars… Which didn’t seem like a good thing, but it is a thing

An iPod nano can’t play over USB, you need to use the aux port

Hard to sell secrets when you keep leaking them for free too

It’s probably related to our complete inability to keep secrets secret right now

Magnesium glycinate. Made every difference in the world for me - I still need my meds to perform at my best, but I can muddle through without them with magnesium and a good night of sleep

Yeah, it’s definitely a real thing, it’s fairly common even

But if you don’t have it, you don’t have it, so looking at bright lights isn’t going to help you sneeze

UNSC flash clones… They come out like the original, but quickly degrade due to the process

He streamed himself playing PoE2 on a plane, listening to his ex-wife’s music, as hundreds of people messaged him saying he’s going to die alone and he deserves it. He just sat there in silence

Oh, and he was repeatedly dying to the first boss and trying to block people one by one, but any actual gamer would know you can just hide the chat

I think this was after the Michigan supreme Court race failure. If he was anyone else that would have been the saddest shit, but I’d love to see if he can drill deeper than rock bottom

I mean… We’re in fascism times. If you have the power to do something, you can do many subtle things or one big one before they replace you

This would be a dumb hill to die on… As stupid and wasteful as it is, no one (should) actually die from it

No way. If anything, that kind of thing just supresses people from expressing themselves honestly in a way that might help them.

Real human connection and compassion might make a difference. A cookie cutter template message is (genuinely) a “we don’t want you to talk about this here” response

We aren’t beholden to advertisers, we don’t need this

Well I was probably streaming from my friend’s Plex server (pre enshitification), which was running on a NAS probably running some flavor of Linux under the hood, and it very well could have been TNG…

So maybe the scar on my thumb is the mark of a royal lemming?

I cut a good part of the way through my thumb opening a can of beans