I’m not so sure him not researching or even checking with experts speaks to his lack of interest. He destroyed key components of one of Twitter’s data centers a few years back - literally went in himself over a weekend and yanked out a bunch of cables before cancelling the lease, as I recall the story. Then a bunch of Twitter admins had to spend a good deal of time rebuilding crucial infrastructure with the systems they had left.

He’s shot his own foot this way before.

(Edit) It was worse than I thought - he hired people off the street to help load rented trucks with the servers after he just yanked them out. When someone mentioned that millions of people’s sensitive data was stored on them, they picked up some padlocks and set up a spreadsheet with the lock combinations… All so he could ship them to one of their other data centers, where it had already been explained to him that they couldn’t hook them back up!

Found this article: https://medium.com/@noahkingdavis/the-unbelievable-tale-of-when-elon-musk-personally-removed-servers-from-a-sacramento-data-center-2892f21b12c3

Might consider how you’re storing it, too - I used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. That also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!

“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”

The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.

We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.

Cut 1/3 up from the top or bottom?

(the apples! Cut the apples!)

Well, no. Just because we can survive without it doesn’t mean we don’t need it!

(Though honestly, your reaction was my first snarky thought too!)

Sure, natural is not at all the same as of worth. But it’s much easier to argue that trans people are natural (here, by drawing comparisons to other organisms) than to go after the opposing argument’s tactics.

It’s a much simpler, and more effective, argument to say “No, I am naturally this way” than it is to respond “And of what value is a natural thing?!”

Or I don’t actually get to update the version my company is using, is there a workaround?

No, but you can examine historical conditions with largely similar situations aside from the variable you’re studying. And you can do more limited experiments without emulating a national economy.

You can also look at “artificial” economies in games like EVE Online; I seem to recall a few economics papers coming from behavior seen there.

But why is that cupholder there?!

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This is what I’ve been calling it. Not as a pejorative term, just descriptive. It has no concept of truth or not-truth, it just tells good-sounding stories. It’s just bullshitting. It’s a bullshit engine.

Phone pictures commonly flip left and right. It’s actually his left fist.

…and the words are all backwards to express a left-handed reading preference!

…now I want to hear more about what kind of gremlins a dragon fights…

Nah. The current crop of US pickups is, I’ll agree; but there’s plenty of older pickups that are much more reasonably scaled. Not to mention non-American models.

Pretty much, yeah. Starts out seeming like she’s trying to stop a kid from a bad decision, then instead of a bunch of toys falling down or whatever, leopards ate their face. So like any good parent, she helps them start cleaning up from the consequences of their actions.

Or improving living conditions so people are comfortable having kids

It’s not the kid who didn’t wait…

Be careful about that - don’t want to let them claim them on insurance!

This, yeah. Heck, remember the Panama papers?