It’s a double entendre. Alleged is the censored word but its purposely censored in a way to make it read “aged” if you ignore the censored letters

Wait yall dont like it when the entire undercarriage of your car is corroded to shit after two winters because of the flying rock salt? Smdhing my head

Context for people from warmer climates who may not know what a salt truck is/does:

In colder climates where the roads freeze in the winter, cities de-ice the roads. This is sometimes done by spreading salt from big trucks all over the roads to melt the ice. You could refer to a salt truck as a de-icing truck or an ice melting truck and you’d be largely correct

Yeah, I was a defense contractor. I grew up periodically wondering if this was finally the deployment my dad wouldn’t come home from, and getting the chance to work in radar jamming to keep american aviators alive felt like a dream come true at first.

I am afraid to try to change the world again. I already know that I have the capability to change things in the world, I spent plenty of time doing it. I also know that I developed my values and morality while being raised as a white supremacist, and that I am gullible enough to be misled into doing evil. I dont remotely trust my own judgement on what would make the world a better place, and I trust anybody telling me what I should do even less. I’ve already had to see and smell the consequences of trusting other people who justify violence to me.

Appreciate it, but I stopped looking a long time ago. I was raised in a military family to be an attack dog for fascists, and i realized that everybody i ever looked up to or trusted would rather support fascism than accept even a mote of discomfort in their personal lives. I dont trust another soul in the world and honestly im not sure i have the capacity to; ive only ever experienced cynical monsters of human beings vying for dominance, and I got extremely good at that game. If there even is anything worth living for in this faustian existence, the weight of my sins is such that I don’t deserve to experience it

A weird combination of electric, radar, computer, and hardware test. I used to do technique development and operational testing for radar jamming equipment on a strategic bomber for the airforce. I tried going back to school for a bit, but I learned that academia is run by pathetic cowards who can and will build weapons for fascists in exchange for funding. I came to the conclusion that the only thing I was changing was how likely I was to have to see the piles of corpses I was helping create. Now im just not looking anymore. I still get a daily deluge of emails from war profiteers looking for somebody willing to be a principal engineer in shithole towns like Huntsville or Abilene

That’s where I’m at. I graduated college at 22, got an engineering job right out of college that put me in the top 0.5% of income earners for my age, then did that for 5 years. At no point was I even close to being able to afford a down-payment on even a shitty condo where I lived. Now im unemployed, smoke weed all day, and im basically waiting to either participate in a revolution or run out of money and die. I am strictly unwilling to participate in capitalism anymore, I’ve got enough blood on my hands for a lifetime and nothing to show for it other than than the experience needed to realize how much of what I grew up believing was nothing more than cynical propaganda.

I think thats just called crying alone in your room

You could try running tails on your laptop. Nothing guarantees resting privacy like removable boot media

Rule of thumb; if the job asks you to pay a dime for anything before you’ve gotten your first paycheck, it’s a scam. Even if they ask you to buy something and they’ll pay you back

Why not?

There is no intrinsic meaning to life, we are a random chemical reaction that is really, really good at propagating itself, and we’ve evolved to be so good at pattern recognition that we psychologically need to see patterns like meaning where none exist.

My response to that state of affairs is that I get to define the point of life for myself. Some days the point is to advance human knowledge. Some days it’s to protect people I care about. Some days it’s smoking enough weed to make a cloud visible from space. None of those have to sound even remotely reasonable to you because they are things that I’ve seen as the point of my life at various points in the past. Yours can be different, but I bet if you spend some time analyzing your values and what you believe in as a person you can probably identify a few things you find important enough to consider the point of life, even if only temporarily

I wouldn’t even give it that. Imo “intellectual capacity” is entirely a confidence thing. If you have the confidence to give an answer that may be incorrect, you have intellectual capacity. If you give an answer and it’s wrong, you’re learning. If doing that and being wrong over and over again a million times doesn’t discourage you, somebody is probably about to hand you a degree. “Intellectual capacity” is a fairy tale for the privileged to ensure they aren’t discouraged from pursuing an education, and a source of learned helplessness for most others.

My personal take is that iq is effectively meaningless. Measuring intelligence is a problem that is extremely hard, maybe even impossible given that what constitutes “intelligence” can be subjective. Some people ascribe value to it iq because it’s an extreme oversimplification of a problem they don’t want to think to hard about, and as a bonus it creates another hierarchy in which they can baselessly feel superior to others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity_as_a_measure_of_intelligence

has a pretty good summary of scholarly debate on that question.

TLDR: iq has an extremely narrow take on what “intelligence” means, and ignores the vast wealth of what people consider to be human intelligence. For that reason most scholars think it’s nonsense.

Because investor sentiment is the reason your claims are wrong. Of course you haven’t been talking about it; it dismantles your argument, and you’re here to win a debate rather than to have a conversation. I wouldn’t talk about either if I were in your position and trying to feel right on the internet.

“How he feels doesn’t matter. What matters is what he does” is flatly incorrect; how people feel plays a significant role in determining how they act and how they present themselves/their brand in public. These things go on to affect things like investor confidence, which goes on to effect stock market prices. These variables are all far too coupled to claim that any one matters but any other does not.

“A portfolio is just a stack of paper until you convert it back into cash”. Yeah, that’s kinda how all currency works. It’s just a stack of paper until you convert it into goods. Given the propensity of the rich to borrow against their net worth whenever they need liquid cash to acquire goods, losing net worth on the stock market is a very real financial loss in his case.

“Whether Elon understands this or not is irrelevant. The stock market’s mechanics don’t change based on his emotional reactions”

You may recognize those as your own words from the comment that I was responding to. I’m not moving goalposts or making strawman arguments, you are either choosing not to or failing to follow the thread of your own statements.

I’ll explain the link then. Investor sentiment often turns sour when there are scandals with the c-suite of companies. It’s also affected by the public statements and confidence of said c-suite. Currently elon is embroiled on one of the largest and most brand image damaging scandals in recent memory. Further, in his recent appearances he’s both looked and sounded like a slowly deflating basketball. This has both visibly affected investor confidence in his companies, and is evidence supporting my claim that he can’t handle seeing number go down. This is why your claim that “the stock markets don’t change based on his emotional reaction” is equivalent to saying that markets don’t respond to investor sentiment

So you’re telling me that stock markets don’t respond to investor sentiment, they respond to “basic facts”? Am I being trolled right now?

I don’t think that’s relevant in this case because I don’t think elon has the capacity to understand that. He’s a man that pays to cheat in online gacha games for clout; he is not emotionally built to handle seeing number get smaller and reacting rationally to that

Isn’t oligarchy a loan word from the French language? Or like, if not a loan word I’m sure it at least has French etymology

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