I find “space is just so unimaginably vast that there simply is no way for even highly advanced civilisations to even be aware of each other’s existence” much more likely and not especially scary
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Would it help if we called it Mirkwood instead?
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As my Grandparent’s1) neighbours2) like to say, s’gibt Badische und unsymbadische.
1) Neig’schmeckt, but fully integrated.
2) Holzwald. When I phone them the prefix is longer than the actual number. Used to be a party line not that long ago, too.
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Is that even possible?
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Absolutely. Attitude is key, though.
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You think? I think it was because he, like plenty of wealthy Saffers at that time, didn’t want to live in a South Africa free of Apartheid.
It’s the Peter Thiel way of thinking about politics that techbros exhibit when they talk about AI or aliens. They can’t imagine anyone isn’t like them and wouldn’t want to destroy and kill once they had the power to do so.
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South Africa wasn’t free of apartheid yet. Musk was born in 1971 and moved to Canada in 1989.
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Apartheid was ending. The negotiations had begun. Botha was out of the picture and de Klerk had already moved in 1989. It was falling like a house of cards and wealthy saffers were showing up around the place convinced that whatever happened the new country wouldn’t be for them.
I remember it.
I know who Elon is.
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Not mutually exclusive.
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I’d add “dead of ketamine overdose”.
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I think the version from the article works just fine:
The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn
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Swiped from @GagHalfrunt :
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Are there even any chargers there? Or do they have to trickle charge from a wall outlet? And is that even possible with a car made for the 110V market?
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I’m sure someone could kludge something together with a petrol or diesel powered generator, a power converter (not from Tosche station) and whatever electrical bits and bobs are needed, and make it fit in the yuuuge flatbed. No, wait, that’s where the mount for the light MG goes. Hmm…
Well, they can always tow it behind a lorry. As long as the front doesn’t fall off…
How about a really long extension cord that reaches to the next 110 V outlet?
This whole thing is so utterly ridiculous, but then that goes for the Cybertruck itself and more or less anything connected with it.
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That country has a population of at least 200 million known people living there
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