Seriously? That guy is putting meaning into words that he doesn't even know is there, making tons of references to turner diaries, despite saying this:

More than that, he's making a ton of leaps in logic that amount to what is indistinguishable from a conspiracy theory. In fact, I'd say it IS a conspiracy theory. Chief among them being his commentary about an Elon post that just has the word "yes" in response to a picture of a guy holding a gun saying "traiters then invaders" which somehow relates to turner diaries. As for me personally, until I actually looked at the movie poster it came from, I would have had no idea where it actually came from. I think this is the most plausible explanation he has come up with in that entire article:

Unlike you, I don't entertain conspiracy theories. He's awkward. As somebody with ASD, this is something I can personally relate to, and I've literally had people (on here, no less) take something I said to mean something completely different than the actual intent. In my case, it's likely the difference between the way I speak in person, compared with my writing style, which tend to be very different in tone due to a lack of vocalization, which I tend to rely on a lot while speaking. When watching Elon's interview earlier, I can see how much of what he said would come out differently if it was written rather than spoken.

As for your second article, I basically stopped reading right around here:

That page they linked to explicitly says it's a projection. A projection isn't something that has already happened like they're stating matter-of-factly here, which is what they're making it out to be. Is Elon's claim inaccurate? I don't know for certain, but probably. But what they're doing here goes well beyond that. Even the onesie-twosie's they cite don't look conclusive to me either, rather that the possibility exists to the point where in my mind, it amounts to a probability. Just like you, they have no moral high ground. /thread

I mentally left this behind until I noticed the the Economist posted the entire interview, which I listened to, so now I can respond in more detail...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Where does this "meltdown" happen? At worst I've seen a case where he trips over his words, part of which is due to the modern lack of the word 'thou' in our vocabulary, and other parts look like my own ASD symptoms. The conversation heats up a little in parts, but no more than you'd see in a typical debate, and it's mutual between both speakers. Beyond that, he seems calm and collected throughout the whole thing. I like the part where she was complaining about how he owns Starlink, how that's too much for one person to have control over (Note: without him, nothing like that would even exist right now, for more reason than one, including the lawsuits he had to defend) so he asks "What would you have me do differently?"

I was somewhat taking your word for it, but you just reminded me of why I take your two-bit "hate Elon no matter what" fruity little club with less than a pinch of salt.

Not the first time I've heard anybody say that about another person. Shit, your friends always call me a "class traitor" even though I never signed up to be in your club to begin with. Just the mere fact that I won't sign up for it is why you guys do that.

So I'm trying to find out where this actually happened, and I'm not seeing it. From what I can tell, it originates here:

https://x.com/DougJBalloon/sta...

And guess what? That's a satire account. Congratulations, you've been had.

As for this:

In the Economist interview, I don't see what's racist about it. He was describing the schism between western culture and other cultures. He's not the only one who notices that. You probably took that to mean "it's racist because it's eurocentric, meaning non-westerners are brown!" in which case, how typical, but also...ah...no. We see the exact same thing with Russians, who I've been paying the most attention to recently. As Sarah Paine said "western culture is like battery acid on other cultures" and as an example she spoke about the large differences between westerners and middle-east cultures on women's rights. To many of them, we're "backwards" on that topic. He then was talking about how this is turning into a flashpoint in Britain, saying a civil war would happen if things continue as they are. I personally don't think it will reach that point, but at the same time, he's not wrong either. This HAS been an issue there. How big of one? I don't know, but I've heard this even from the BBC.

Nor do I want to take the side that "the west is right, others are wrong" as most westerners seem to do without even realizing it. Shit, in western sci-fi, especially Star Trek (which I'm a fan of, by the way) what are obviously westernized alien cultures are always the most "advanced" and morally in the right.

Earlier I said you were eating rsilvergun's shit. Well, I was wrong there, you are in fact full of it already, so that should have been past tense. So congratulations, you're already worse than whatever it is you think about Elon.

The premise of both of these is false. Not only is the commentary about spacex false, (again, this is based on absolutely nothing) but your posts didn't even talk about that. In case you've already forgotten:

You said it yourself.

Everything you're saying here is consistent with what I've heard from him in the past, dating at least as far back as 2018, and realistically much earlier. What "decline", specifically?

You know why that is? Because this is just a variation of exactly the same shit he has been repeating for years. All you've done here is contribute to disinformation about SpaceX, and for what? Just to satisfy your insecurities? Everything I've said is warranted.

Only to foreign nationals. From your link:

It's still evidence because it was on his person, even if it doesn't have anything useful to the investigation. That's why a warrant is required. Besides, all he had to do was invoke his right to remain silent and ask for a lawyer. They wouldn't have ever extracted anything from it -- all of the vendors the police use have stated (in leaked documents) that they can't do anything with grapheneos no matter what state it's in. And if they can't, it's unlikely anybody else can, which is exactly why I use it.

Unless he was using biometrics and they could obtain both a warrant AND do everything legally necessary to compel him to unlock it within 18 hours, they wouldn't have gotten shit either way. After that, you can't use biometrics. The 5th amendment doesn't protect you from being compelled to identify yourself, which is what biometrics do. But it does protect you from having to reveal your PIN. This, by the way, is why you shouldn't use anything passive like face unlock. They could point it at your face to unlock it, they just can't search it until they get a warrant, so all they have to do is keep it active until then.

Either way, I've never heard of any case law that protects you from obstruction after you've already obstructed instead of remaining silent.

Nor was your reply relevant.

I don't use Twitter or go around googling everything Elon does. So yeah, I didn't. I'm not in your club, nor would I care to be.

Just like slashdot. The same place where you only post anonymously. The same place where I've watched people literally praise murderers like Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson, and I've never seen anybody (save for me) call it out. Yet you're sitting here complaining about much less in a place where it isn't even relevant.

If this is all true, which I'm not denying, it's pretty fucked. I don't go out of my way to read his social media comments. It doesn't do me any favors. It obviously does to you, but not me. But what does this have to do with SpaceX? Retardedsilvergun pulled shit out of his ass, but at least it had some relevance, even though it's still shit. That you ate.

No, they shouldn't. Art and artist are not one in the same. What he's doing with SpaceX, Tesla, and especially Neuralink, are incredible. I can state, unequivocally, that they wouldn't have happened without him, and he's the best person to keep them going. Period. What he does in his personal life has no relevance to that.

Practically every polymath in history that you'd care to name, and who provided major advancements, has a similar story. Pick any one you'd like. Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, and countless others. All have done things that would not survive today's cancel culture. The same cancel culture I've watched, right here on slashdot, wish bad outcomes on Neuralink patients just because hating Elon is much more important to them than patient outcomes. And you're sitting here trying to describe what's normal.

You think you have a moral high ground, but you don't. At all. None of your cancel culture does. I'd argue that you're much worse than anybody you set out to ruin. Cancel culture doesn't want justice, nor does it want what's best. It just wants to make a point, consequences be damned. If it held itself to the same standards that it holds its targets, it would have already cancelled itself a long time ago. This is probably why you're posting as AC -- good chance you're a victim of your own actions, and rather than learn from it, you want to keep doing it anyways. Insanity.

Hate Elon all you want. I couldn't care less. But you have no right to deny anybody else the benefits of what he's doing just because you're trying to make a point that you're even more of a petty asshole than he is. Only unlike him, you don't even have anything to show for it.

Imagine going into debt to get a College Degree to become an influencer . . . . . :|

As an influencer, your usefullness to society is right up there with overpaid Athletes
and people who know how to cry on cue. ( actors )

In addition, the odds of you making it into the big leagues where the real money exists
is about as likely as a lottery win.

But, go ahead, get your influencer degree.

As the old adage goes:

" A fool and his money are soon parted. "

" Despite finding no evidence of the crime on his digital devices, Canadian police arrested Klayme in 2020 on child sex abuse charges. He was convicted after a trial in 2023 and sentenced in 2024 to 18 months in prison. "

Without finding any actual evidence, how the hell was he arrested and CONVICTED via trial at all ?

What insanity that you can be arrested and jailed with absolutely zero evidence of a crime ?
( and, in this case, 100% proven that his arrest and conviction were without merit )

The only thing it didn't do is post an image of a middle finger on screen after it was done.

The folks who create the OS needs to rethink their approach of how they wipe user data from
the device vs going nuclear and wiping everything.

Why not put all user data into their own home directory ( see most other Operating Systems )
and securely wipe ONLY that directory upon entry of a duress code or bad pin entry X number
of times. Perhaps give the user the option to select / flag which sub-directories to purge and
which ones to keep. ( Eg: Purge all phone contacts, email, text messages and photos / videos,
keep everything else. )

The phone would still unlock with all the basic / default operations still available to it, but the users
private data would be beyond recovery and it won't be quite so obvious that anything happened at
all.

I really don't see how anyone can call these " pervert " glasses unless the person wearing
them is crawling around on the floor trying to do upskirt stuff . . . . .

Simply being filmed / photographed is pretty much the daily normal these days.
With or without your consent, it happens all the same.

Think about how much surveillance footage of you there is by simply leaving your home
and practically going anywhere. Literally everyone and their brother holds a smartphone
which has a camera in it. I can sit quite some distance away from you with any decent
zoom lens and photo / film you all day long without your knowledge.

How is it everyone seems to be bothered by the everyday Joe filming people with what are,
arguably, the ugliest glasses on Earth, when you're on more cameras than you can count by
the time you make it into work in the morning ?

Neither is rsilvergun pulling shit out of his ass, but you obviously gobbled it up anyway, which also isn't normal by the way.

Umm...ok...

Aside from the sentence that came right before what you quoted, he isn't even making any point, he just keeps repeating different (read: inconsistent) variations of this claim multiple times, hoping people will believe it. rsilvergun is a fascist. This is what fascists do to get buy-in, and you've already bought in. Besides, I know more than enough about SpaceX to confidently say that what he's saying literally can't happen. What he's asking for requires a level of bureaucracy that simply doesn't exist at SpaceX.

What are you even basing all of this on? He literally uses the same coffee bars as every other employee. In fact, I'd be more concerned that anybody in their right mind would allow you anywhere near the IT department. Given how incredibly bad your comments on the topic are, you're likely to manage to break something just by looking at it.

Not at all. You're effectively arguing that the current run is time lost; therefore, you didn't produce as fast. Except it isn't; you still got a product out the door, so it wasn't truly time wasted. While you're manufacturing, there's no rule that says you can't iterate on your design to change a future run. SpaceX counts on it, which is one reason (among many) why SpaceX keeps costs low, builds highly reliable components, and cranks them out quickly.

Like I said, you're applying this rule to ALL runs instead of just one particular run.

Case in point, the way Starship is mass-produced: There are multiple ships in the megabay at any particular moment, and they're pipelined out of it much like an assembly line. While one of them is being built, work on the next begins manufacture, except unlike an assembly line, the very next ship isn't produced in exactly the same way as the previous one. Compared to the previous ship in the pipe, the new one can be built at a lower cost, higher quality, and faster than the previous one.

Automation itself does exactly this -- by removing manual work from the process, you reduce the defect rate, do the work faster, and produce less waste. Quality, speed, and cost -- all potentially improved in the next run.