I think that’s right. Of course, the standard was for people who have a shred of conscience…

Nobody with a shred of a conscience wants to work for a boss who does Nazi salutes in public.

That’s why Musk loves H1B visas, because you can treat them like slaves and it’s very hard for them to take an ethical stand.

“There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne

Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.

The language used is super interesting. “Defying Elon Musk”

Defying. A terrifying word, yet appropriate.

Musk has no position in the Wisconsin state government. He’s not a constituent. You shouldn’t be able to “defy” him because he has no position of authority.

Yet they used the word “defying” and it’s terrifyingly the correct word.

When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I’d have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn’t have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can’t see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn’t fit those categories.

From that experience, it didn’t feel like they would “take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously.” How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn’t even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.

You’re right, but I suspect most people wouldn’t see it that way with regards to Tesla. Depending on the terms of his current compensation package, I suspect it would be better for him financially if he just stepped down and held onto the stock.

But he’s such a narcissist that he’d never do that.

Tesla could solve most of their problems by firing Musk. Any other public company whose CEO makes a very public Nazi salute would fire that CEO.

Yes, he’d still be a large shareholder, but I think simply getting him out of the company would give a lot of people the sense that he faced some personal consequences for his actions, and that any companies who deal with Musk will also face consequences.

The effect that Musk mentioned was, “you can’t really get work done,” which feels less like “Google search” and more like “personal experience.” And I said that “it seems to me like he’s probably abused it at some point,” which feels like the right sort of certainty for this sort of conclusion from that evidence.

I wasn’t surprised when reading the rest of the comments in this comment section that somebody mentioned that he’s been known to use ketamine recreationally.

Hot Tub Time Machine 3 practically writes itself.

Last year, Musk told CNN’s Don Lemon that he has a ketamine prescription and uses the drug roughly every other week to help with depression symptoms. When Lemon asked if Musk ever abused ketamine, Musk replied, “I don’t think so. If you use too much ketamine you can’t really get work done,” then said that investors in his companies should want him to keep up his drug regimen.

I’m not completely sure what the criteria is for “abusing” ketamine, but since Musk seems to know what happens when you use too much ketamine, it seems to me like he’s probably abused it at some point.

In America, shots get fired into people’s homes on a daily basis. That sort of thing doesn’t usually make even statewide news.

We should worry about fixing those other problems before worrying about some rich prick. If the rich person is so concerned about their safety, why don’t they just hire some private security?

I don’t see any reason why this is being treated as news.

The 14th Amendment states that people exactly like Trump have a “disability” that prevents them from holding office, which can be removed by congress. It also states that congress has the power to enforce it. The criteria for this disability is listed in the amendment.

The moment that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court swore in Donald Trump as President, while Congress refused to enforce the Constitution, all three branches of our Federal government conspired to overthrow the US Constitution.

If we don’t even follow the Constitution, then we are truly a lawless country.

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and then immediately started trying to save money by literally just turning off services to see what breaks.

That actually wouldn’t have been the stupidest idea if he had done it in a test environment rather than production, or even if Twitter was a small website that didn’t mind downtime. But he did it in production on a huge site that people relied on being up, so it actually was the stupidest idea.

And now he’s bringing the same stupidest energy to government. No investigation. No calculation. Just a toddler who has been put in front of a lot of switches.

I’m guessing you’re basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven’t seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

If you read into the article, it states

The annual CPJ report, which represents a snapshot of journalists jailed for their work as of Dec. 1, 2024, found 361 journalists behind bars around the world. That’s the second-highest number that CPJ has documented since it started keeping track in 1992.

So, in case anybody was wondering, yes, this is referring to journalists who were “jailed for their work,” and not just journalists who are in jail for whatever reason. I know you might have thought that was obvious, but I think it’s important to point these things out for other cases where the reporting might be more misleading.

It says they use publicly exposed or leaked IAM keys with RW permission to do this, in case anybody is interested in how they get in.

This is what happens when politicians pander instead of listening to science.

I didn’t read the full article, but here are a couple of points from the part I read.

There is a movement called “harm reduction” that has been effective at fighting drug related deaths. (Last Week Tonight did a good piece on it.) The idea is that first, you try to make sure drug users aren’t harmed. So, drug testing strips and clean needles are provided. There may be safe injection locations where people can go to inject themselves. And obviously, they don’t get in trouble with police for doing this.

Only once you do your best to ensure their safety do you need to start helping them to kick the habit.

Texas has basically done the opposite and even fentanyl testing strips are classified as drug paraphernalia. And if you give someone fentanyl and they die, you can be charged with murder. So people in Texas are even afraid to call an ambulance when someone is overdosing.

The article asserts that these harmful policies are why Texas has a drug related death rate that remains high when the same statistic has been falling elsewhere in America.

You didn’t actually explain what the October Surprise Theory was. According to your link:

The 1980 October Surprise theory refers to an allegation that representatives of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iranian leaders to delay the release of American hostages until after the election between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, the incumbent.

That doesn’t rule out a ring.