I wasn’t ascribing any kind of genius level intellect to him mind you, but he does strike me as someone that is still capable. He’s gotten to the point where he doesn’t think he can do no wrong, and while i appreciate his hand in things like SpaceX, he can piss off.
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Someone needs to tell Musk that Jesus told his followers to give away all their money to the poor.
But I guess that the Bible is just another book that Musk doesn’t understand, like the Mars Trilogy, the Culture books…
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I’m just saying that at this point, the evidence suggests to me that what he’s got is money and he’s entirely outsourced the competence.
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At this point I’m not sure he even understands spreadsheets.
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Not surprising but its relatively common in Silicon Valley, i dont see that as a problem unique to him. Bezos and a few other company founders were known to be especially good at hiring very motivated talented people and then using them for all they were worth until they were burnt out, then moving onto the next batch of suckers. The main difference between them and Elon Musk is that he seems to really revel in the whole cult of personality thing.
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Same here.
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I don’t use Twitter but I do have an account, so when I see a tweet like Lilly’s here on BB I can go like it.
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they’ve gotten that one wrong as well
red = left and blue = right everywhere else in the world
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Interesting choice of emoji, Elon. Not sure it means what you think it means. 
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Actual red pills in real life
Most of the reactionaries would run away screaming if Morpheus offered it to them.
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At the time I perceived it as a metaphor for the Iran/Contra scandal
In 1987 people felt like they’d just woken up from a strange dream and everything was backwards
The double agent in The Matrix was even named Reagan
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Interesting choice of emoji, Elon. Not sure it means what you think it means.
Or maybe you didn’t understand what Elon meant?
Boiling things down to pop-culture memes and emojis leaves a whole lot of room for ambiguity, and in today’s hyper-polarized political climate, where “yer either with us or agin us”, the utter certainty with which people find “hidden messages” is… well, kind of amazing.
A rose is a rose is a rose, but as a symbol, a (red) rose has been used for dozens if not hundreds of things. None of those are what “red rose” actually means.
And “red pill” may symbolize an escape from illusion and return to ‘reality’, or it may symbolize an allegiance to current alt-right thinking, or it may be an in-joke about not combining DayQuil and NyQuil.
Those things are not what ‘red rose’ or ‘red pill’ mean. They’re what red pills and roses are (sometimes) used to metaphorically symbolize.
Metaphors are not meaning.
This has always confused me so much. In most of europe blue=conservatives red=socialists. I always get the colors wrong when reading about US politics.
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But how do I know if any of the words you use actually symbolise what they mean? For all I know you are telling me to make a bacon sandwich.
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Red used to mean Russian-aligned in the U.S. Now it means… scratches head… never mind.
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It’s not your fault, it’s the American corporate media’s fault, and the two parties’ for going along with it
I imagine elected Democrats don’t want to be connected to “Reds” in other countries and Republicans don’t want anybody talking about “blue bloods” too much
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When US TV networks went to color, they began using red/blue to color-code election-result maps. But in the interests of fairness, they alternated colors every presidential election cycle - Dem=Red/Rep=Blue in one cycle, then Dem=Blue/Rep=Red in the next.
But after the election where the notion of “red states” vs. “blue states” became a punditry meme, they locked the colors in place with Dem=Blue/Rep=Red and left them that way.
(Which, yes, contradicts much other traditional use, especially in Europe.)
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Words have linguistic meaning - a “rose” is " a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa , in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears."
The linguistic meaning is an inherent part of the word. (And yes, like all language, meanings are socially-agreed-upon constructs, not inherent properties of those glyphs)
Metaphoric symbolic associations - royalists or secret admirers or nonviolent underground societies of intellectuals, or rugby teams – are arbitrary.
They’re not what the word “rose” means.
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there is no spoon
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