The thread where we laugh at Trump supporters has at least one elderly, obese, senile conman fetishist come in nearly every day and spaz out because we're laughing at him and them. It seems every thread has something similar. It used to be a permabannable offense, too (I think technically it still is)
its called nepotism lol
I agree with this, the bias is so extreme that random twitter users who did barely anything (not exaggerating all they did was be annoying on twitter), have the "horrorcow" tag and they did literally nothing to earn it, it was purely ideologically motivated.
Very few people are actually in favor of free speech. It just means freedom to say whatever they want but not for their opponents. Elon was considered a free speech advocate until people started making fun of him on Xitter.
I've been a firm believer that all presidents are up for mocking. I remember back in the 2000s where you can mock Presidents and everyone just laughed.
Yeah and some people who say mildly disagreeable opinions except have lots of followers are labeled lolcows
Elon became the true reddit revolution, that is the funniest part tbh.
More than almost anything, the idea of one of these tech retards trying some harebrained scheme like this keeps me up at night. There are so many small, minute details of how nature works that we're still exploring and completely unsure of - I read some recent research about the influence of far infrared light on plant growth that was quite interesting and which experts are still exploring. This sort of thing has influence on all kinds of critical things like, I don't know, crop yields and basic nutrition. Sunlight is one of those baseline inputs that affects almost everything on Earth. Ocean currents, atmospheric patterns, plant communities, animal communities, phytoplankton - something as simple as tweaking overall light input, or even which wavelengths make it through, could upend any or all such system with completely unforeseeable consequences that could easily eclipse global warming in destructive potential.
One of my big issues with how politics has become so "mainstream" for lack of a better term is it's basically turned into yet another fandom. People don't really care about what their fandom produces, they'll just blindly defend it/attack whatever fandoms clash with it.
100% this.
It also requires someone principled, dignified, and matured... Pretty much anyone that isn't an autistic manchild that gets pissy that people make fun of his gaming track record or a guy who whines about SNL making fun of them.
Yeah, that's pretty much the truth. Unfortunately the vast majority of people just want Stalin but one that Gulags the people they dislike.
I would say it would require a massive interdisciplinary effort, just to really understand the system and where the waste is and how to improve the processes. We are talking about possibly the most complex bureaucracy on the world which not only has all citizens, aliens, corporations etc. in the USA as stake holders, but like a big chunk of the world as well.
Yeah, if you review or write up procedures, you start by understanding why things are being done the way they are. Talk to the people who wrote the instructions, talk to the workers who use them, see what is actually implemented and what only exists on paper, and why that is the case. Ask for suggestions from those who do the actual work, and keep going back to them to check what they think the effects of potential changes might be to find unintended side effects before things go live.
For me, this is the worst part of political fandoms because it really makes it impossible to have a conversation. I understand the "troll" mentality, and I'm sure I've been guilty of it before, probably on this very forum at that. But that sort of pettiness should be reserved for unimportant subjects. I don't want huge (or even small for that matter) government decisions being made "for the lulz."
It'd be better if governments still had control and oversight over these people, but at the point where these methods will be seriously considered (and they will be) my assumption is governments won't have much of a say in what billionaires want to do (even less than now) and even if, they'll be desperate and panicking and probably rubberstamp everything that just hints at promising relief. Nobody will be able to say at that point that nobody saw this coming though.
This is exactly what makes a country like the US so vulnerable to people like Musk. They know how to exploit it for their own purposes but the politicans in the west and on all sides have only themselves to blame. They've been enabling and encouraging this in their respective voter bases and populations for decades as a cheap tool to distract from systemic problems they could not or did not want to solve. They're literally reaping what they sew now. Worldwide.
kf had a massive influx of /pol/ (and similar sites) refugees in the last two years and it dropped the collective IQ of this website quite noticably. Be glad that they're mostly contained to A&N. I find it funny that many of them are instantly recognizable by pink join dates and anime avatars.
He keeps posting obviously insane stuff like this, but it doesn't stack even close to a half of a billion. Straight up bread and circuses for maga cattle.
Musk always had these megalomaniac tendencies about how his current gizmo of the now will save the world and whatnot. I remember the whole Boring company, Hyperloop nonsense. The media used to glaze him and amplify his stunts, like the Boring company flamethrower, shooting the Tesla Roadster into space etc. I think his attempt at staying a memelord and be a gamer is simply the same thing, but now the media is not playing along with him. In general he was the lord of the funkopop enjoying soyboys.
Call me a boomer, but discussing anything online is way harder now than it was 10-20 years ago. People actually could discuss things, even if they had opposing politics, religious views and whatnot. Sure, we had trolling and flame wars, but that's just human nature. Nowadays most discussions online are just trying to own the other side with maymays and getting upvotes from your side.
It is a pretty global issue, entertain the citizenry with meaningless drama, while draining them of their money and benefits. Classic divide and conquer with a helping of death of civic participation.
The gilded age is blushing with how corrupt we are now.
Trump Season 2 is the Star Trek Discovery of American presidencies.
In the context of an agency, I'd say it's the inefficient execution of a Congressionally authorized or Presidentially directed program. In the PEPFAR example, that might mean overpaying for HIV medications or unnecessary travel expenses. There are oversight mechanisms to reduce that kind of waste, inspectors general, GAO, and oversight committees, but government is very big and a lot can slip through the cracks before it's caught.