Your fatality rate number is off by more than a factor of 100. Please get more accurate information before you share any more falsehoods. Your dissemination of this falsehood encourages people to behave irresponsibly and it can result in very real deaths.
Most of the power to fight this lies at the individual personal responsibility level. As almost all power is.
14 times 400,000 is 5,600,000.
Believe it or not the majority of humans are completely unable to anticipate exponential growth, no matter how much you train them. It's not ignorance. Their brains simply will not perform the function.
The consistent theme I find with rumors of McConnell intentions is that they are almost never true. The reporters always report "insiders told us" which is likely true, but never say "these insiders are 0 for 12 on McConnell predictions."
In France I think "President's Mistress" is an official position with an office and staff and budget and residence. Or once was.
If I recall correctly, Clinton's lie was the Lawyer's Omission. He asked for a definition of "sexual relations" in the context of the question. They defined the term "sexual relations" in the question in such a way that their activities were not specifically included. Being a lawyer he told the literal narrow truth, but the answer was misleading in the common usage. It has become lore to presume his guilt.
These days the Lawyer's Omission has become the standard way to address issues in the press and congress when they don't outright lie. Feigning ignorance is also popular, as is a disastrously poor recollection bordering on senility.
3. Undermining faith in elections as we kick off the race to the midterms.
Prosecuting the election crime can be left to DOJ and the states. It's enough to focus on the insurrection.
They were seconds and inches away from taking legislators hostage.
Considering a joint session of Congress is supposedly a national security event of the highest order and that's supposed to be the most secured site on the planet, that is too close. Your complaint is that they failed to overthrow the US government and that proves there was never a plot. That doesn't follow. And it in no way acknowledges the publicly available evidence.
Pro sedition or anti-sedition.
I agree it needs a full and thorough investigation. Pelosi should hold it until McConnell is minority leader so he can't pull some trick like preventing evidence and limiting witnesses to an exposition resistant format. Like last time.
This needs a deep exposition so America can know the Republicans are literally in on a seditious plot to overthrow the US government and not just unaware. We need zero deniability.
It was never about Tesla. The SEC is going after his ass because of SpaceX being a threat to the political class that's in bed with all those government contractors (his competitors).
There is a constituency of businesses disrupted by Musk who don't mind using social engineering to attack all things Musk and pollute the mindspace with their propaganda, or buying Congressmen to oppose his efforts. As we learned from the Manafort drama, such work has highly paid experts eager to receive that deposit into their offshore accounts.
But this is Musk's game too. He has skills in this regard or such FUD would have killed his prospects already years ago. He's taking on Boeing, Ford, GM, Fossil fuels (Saudi, BP, Exxon), nuclear power, etc. And all the nations with launch business (Russia, China, India, etc). His enemies list is pretty much the Fortune 500 and every country on Earth. If he goes missing the police are going to have a harder time finding non-suspects than suspects.
And he's fine with that. It's all going to plan. He knew when he set out to save his species from extinction that his works were not going to be popular, or they would not be necessary. We are more 100x more predisposed to extinction than the dinosaurs were, as they made it 100 million years and we seem unlikely to crack the million years mark.
What's remarkable to me is how much he seems to be enjoying making fools of them all. Stoking their ire and poking the bear as if building a self sustaining colony on another planet was insufficiently challenging and he wanted to inspire the opposition to step up their game.
I don't know why he has a problem with the short sellers. A short sale is a gamble that his stock will go down, which cannot possibly exist unless there is a counter party willing to take the other side of that bet and put their money on his stock going up. Many people who believe he cannot possibly fail buy stock in his companies and then rent out their shares to his naysayers and use the money they earn in that way to buy more shares. The long and short interest in Musk stocks is a self-reinforcing commitment to volatility against a predictable trend. Long and short sellers are gambling on whether they can predict the direction of motion and attracted because he is generating a lot of motion (volatility). They are drawn like moths to his flame for no other reason than that he is succeeding in being disruptive and controversial - which are primary goals of his. It's probably an ego thing he hasn't considered: for every stupid person willing to offer their money to bet against him there is a smart person willing to take that bet, and so there is balance in the bets that moves money from the stupid to the smart and he is the conveyor belt.
Hubris is a sin and he's guilty it. I can hope there is no human living who can make him do penance for this sin because that would be the end of Mankind. If he fails to deliver an interplanetary human species there will be no other, more capable human to repeat the attempt. And that means that eventually the last of my offsprings' heirs will die without issue, my genome will become dust as yours will, all the history struggles art and works of Men throughout all time will come to nought as the passage of time erases all evidence that we ever did exist.
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I work at Apple Park. It's the worst office environment I've ever had the misfortune to have inflicted upon me. Working in that gilded shithole has me looking elsewhere for work now, and I've been at Apple for many a year.
It's form over function, it's the fact that everyone has the noise-cancelling earphones (the good Bose ones, not the crappy Beats ones) and it's the complete lack of respect that is implied. My dog has a larger kennel (not that he uses it in CA weather very much) than I have desk-space.
Yes.
It seems to me that US people (I only say the US because that's where I live, I don't know if it's as common elsewhere) seem to think Brits are nice people, and you can get away with shit around them. Brits are *not* especially nice. Brits are *polite*, there is a huge difference. The velvet glove conceals an iron fist, and it's generally easier to be polite back than to piss them off overmuch.
I imagine his questioning will be somewhat more
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
