I think what Musk is referring to is something he’s touched on before, which is basically enlisting a class of indentured servants who would have sponsors pay their way to Mars, and then they’d work off the “loan” by providing a reliable pool of low end workers for Mars.

Yes, exactly. But his argument was that he would RATHER see the government impose censorious restrictions on speech THAN have private social media platforms govern their own speech through moderation.

Take a look at literally anything Glenn Greenwald has published in the last year or two. Just recently he shared an article (written by someone else) which asked the question (repeated by Greenwald in his sharing) “ARE ANTI WOKE UNION LEADERS TURNING PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE LABOR MOVEMENT?!” while subsequent tweets…

The idea that Twitter, Facebook et al were just providing a space for people to discuss their views was solely to protect them from being responsible for the content users created. But even that has a limit, based on the things I said. Nobody wants to see beheading videos on their Facebook feed, nobody wants to see…

All these Twitter alternatives fail because they become echo chambers that ultimately realize the necessity of moderation, so they never take off. Because Twitter lets them do the one thing they really want to do on social media - trigger the libs.

Every social media platform that touts itself as being “free speech absolutist” finds out very quickly that without moderation, your platform quickly devolves into the place where the absolute worst people take over and flood the platform with disgusting views that turn your average user away. Nobody wants to be “the…

Every single social media platform that touts itself as being a home for “free speech absolutists” learns very quickly that it becomes nothing but a haven of Nazis and racists (or worse) and it turns out people who aren’t Nazis and racists don’t want to share social media platforms where that type of content is…

The minute Musk buys Twitter is the minute I delete my account.

I don’t think the article is using “party” to mean celebration, but rather “party” as in a group at a restaurant (ie. “party of 3").

Once again the review and the grade seem to be at odds with each other. This review is practically glowing with pretty much zero knocks about the movie, and yet...B+.

Ed should just do what Olivia Rodrigo does when people call out her lifting chunks of other, recently released songs. Just say “whoopsie doodle!” and retroactively give writing credit.

Your comment is getting buried but you’re right. Broward County and Pompano Beach is north of Miami-Dade county and SIGNIFICANTLY north of what people usually consider “Miami” as in the city.

I remember I was flying with my family, I think into Utah, and as the plane was just about to land, I mean literally I was waiting for the wheels to touch, we could not have been more than 30 feet off the ground, suddenly the engines start roaring and the plane lifts back up again.

Did Fallon try to show her his bored monkey jpeg?

yeah, I mostly agree with this assessment. The show kept trying to pull Elizabeth back to this person who naively still believes in the “science” behind what she’s doing.

yeah, I think the point made in the series is that they WEREN’T scandals because the news cycle shifted on an almost daily basis, so what would normally be a career ending scandal was just another tweet from the president.

I understand the sentiment, but this attitude (while difficult to avoid given the state of things) plays right into the hands of the people and corporations doing the polluting. The nihilism over being unable to really affect individual change serves no other purpose than to excuse the largest polluters and…

There’s an amazing bit of acting from Seyfriend that legitimately stunned me in the last episode.

She’s just the best.

A lot of people are quick to blame drugs, but every new piece of information that comes out relating to Miller just brings back memories of when I worked at a mental health center years back.