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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Still not a ton of details so I’m for sure not jumping to any conclusions, especially with how shitty Tesla’s are and their safety record…

    But, Trump Tower and a Cyber truck certainly is the perfect symbolic intersection of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. If one did want to make a symbolic statement about the two, I don’t know if I can think of a better intersection. Can you?

    Obviously it’s not proof of anything and Tesla’s fucking suck. But I at least can comprehend why the perfection of the symbolism is noteworthy to people.

    Edit: I see in a follow up comment buddy is linking it to New Orleans. I see no connection.





  • I think most of the problems we have in society are from isolating and ignoring these communities.

    Police think everyone is a crook. Doctors think everyone gets cancer. Mechanics think that every Nissan rogue will have its transmission fail at 100,000km.

    It’s a perception bias. If I wanna change the mechanics mind, I need to get him out of the shop, into the real world. Let them drive around some rogues who’s transmissions DO work.

    We basically provide the tools to sequester these communities and are surprised what crawls out of the petri dish.








  • The internet has always been a grand stage, though. We’re like 40 years into this reality at this point.

    I think people who came-of-age during Facebook missed that memo, though. It was standard, even explicitly recommended to never use your real name or post identifying information on the internet. Facebook kinda beat that out of people under the guise of “only people you know can access your content, so it’s ok”. People were trained into complacency, but that doesn’t mean the nature of the beast had ever changed.

    People maybe deluded themselves that posting on the internet was closer to walking their dog in their neighbourhood than it was to broadcasting live in front of international film crews, but they were (and always have been) dead wrong.