Elon Musk

I've said it before, but the rhetoric around homelessness in this country is getting genocidal

Without context, it looks like that Garry Tan guy (whoever he is) is supportive of treatment programs/shelters which on the face of it seems reasonable?

I assume the issue (on a quick google) is that people just want tent cities obliterated but there's no other option for the homeless, despite Tan's suggestions?

I’m basically to: Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

xp His "solution" probably comes down to bootstraps and tough love.

DS9 prophetic

I’m basically to: Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

I've said it before, but the rhetoric around homelessness in this country is getting genocidal

Huge trigger for the disgust reflex in right-wing rhetoric. The dehumanization in the way they talk about homeless people is as bad as it is about trans people, and it really does sound like some Rwanda radio/Goebbels kind of shit.

And as always they don't want to "solve" homelessness, they just don't want to see it.

They want to be able to characterize it as a problem for liberal cities, caused by liberal policies.

Does unhoused-ness even need to be solved? If so, why?

"Solved" might not be the best way to think of it, but people who are homeless need to be attended to. Most of them are in one kind of crisis or another — economic, most often, and also mental health and addiction etc. They're people who have for the most part fallen through every safety net. So yeah they need help, and housing is mostly the best place to start.

I know a guy who is probably the closest you could come to a real happy hobo type. He's real-deal hippie troubadour who writes poetry and busks on his acoustic guitar. He spent decades basically migrating back and forth from Tennessee to Florida, going south in the winters and for the most part living outside the whole time. He was a really experienced camper, he lived on what he made busking, and he says that he just really loved the life. But then he got older, everything got harder, being cold and wet was worse than it used to be, and so forth. He decided to get on the list for public housing when he was in his late '60s. He eventually got a little apartment. He still busks downtown and can't possibly have much money to get by on, but at least he's got a bed. Everybody likes to have a bed.

Speaking as someone with firsthand dealings with Garry Tan, he is absolutely terrible, he is a libertarian cryptodouche who thinks local politics can be solved by recalling school board members, the DA, the police commissioner, the board of supes, etc. Absolute racist trash.

lmao wrecked

Elon Musk getting booed at VALORANT Champs and the crowd starts chanting "bring back Twitter" lmao pic.twitter.com/lDoWse78YV

— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) August 26, 2023

"This crowd is funny."

Was that a crowd watching people play a video game?

I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.

I mean, watching eSports is no different than every fat fuck who watches football, so.

So it is a crowd watching people play video games

A friend of mine (former boss at Roadrunner Records) runs an esports empire (including the biggest gaming center in the southern hemisphere, apparently) in Australia. BIG money in video games, and watching other people play them.

fp'ed for fatshaming

Cute. Reminds me of that Fred Savage movie.

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lookin good very nice truck sir

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idk that back plate looks around 11 microns off to me

idk, i heard that it was an 11 micron measurement that made Grimes leave him

I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 6:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

esports at least in the u.s. (korea is probably more stable just due to the history there) it kind of a financial house of cards, it's really been decimated recently

just showing receipts cuz this is ilx

i dunno if it's joy div as much as it's

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cold metal
when I start my van
cold metal
in my garbage can

I repeat, how is that a 'truck'

its very big has a flatbed 4wd high clearance etc

tho it does have a unibody which is anti truck, elon was claiming it was going to have a unique "exoskeleton" construction but that like many things he says turned out to be a lie

Esports is quite one of those things I cannot wrap my mind around

idk I'll watch people try to speedrun Mario 64 for an hour so I kinda get it

yeah i’m just deeply not a video games person— my main interactions have been with either the first two Mario games for Gameboy (the original) and Mariokart for N64. I like playing the latter but the whole thing— watching other people play video games— feels so abject and horrible to me, even in theory.

i mean, i like foosball way more than esports, but i don’t care about either, really.

I’m more fascinated by whether esports are easy to rig for gambling, because that seems like the real money?

Does that cybertruck have duck tape holding two panels together?

kinda looks like it! maybe that's an optional extra

gotta pay your monthly fee or else Elon will sneak into your garage at night and rip the duct tape off

Tryna figure out who thinks that looks ok. Like it looks neither next level or quality. Like some kind of joke i just don’t get.

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lol

hope it's flex tape at least

they look like they're always gonna be kinda grubby

I think DeLorean clear-coated the stainless just for this reason

This car is never going to production

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— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 11, 2023

In repsonse to...

Oh come the fuck on https://t.co/tdkwY6VINK

— Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerRIP) July 11, 2023

This car is never going to production

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, August 30, 2023 7:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i wonder if those big stainless steel panels will even meet the gov standards as far as crumpling in a crash and so forth, regardless pretty sure the shape with those sharp corners isnt compliant

how dare you question innovation

you know it was the last thing i wanted to do

The thing is, that stupid truck think is so totally Homer's dream car, but that is so otm and on the nose that we're all just wishing there is a better comparison, but no, that truck is akin to one of the (fictional) dumbest things of all time, but real life.

Such a dolt. His existence is embarrassing on a global scale, a species scale.

Meanwhile, Rivian just rolled out their dual-motor truck today. Overall a better alternative to the quadmotor Rivians and certainly far more useful than Elon's dumb truck.