You should be spending 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks in a year.

That way you’ll be concentrating on that instead of being a jackass here.

As with the ICE shooting post, I find myself saying not “What US attack on international law?” but “Which […]?”

It’s just so ordinary these days. The US performs some outrage against international law. Water is wet.

I think it’s sad that my very first question when reading the headline was “which ICE shooting in Minnesota?”

Not “what”. “Which.”

Whereas I think merely ousting Trump is a bandaid on an aortal bleed-out.

You mean the quarterly No Kings BBQ?

Americans need to learn how to properly protest. Take lessons from the French, say.

Unfortunately the fascists of the USA have the support of the populace at large. It’s going to be a slog.

It always comes down to Russia with Drumpf, doesn’t it?

My guess is because although the Aussies as a people despise the USA right now, the government is all about kneeling to it.

Didn’t Edison kinda/sorta invent at least one thing?

Well, about 35-40% of American adults have been genitally mutilated, so I think by number and by per capita the US is waaaaaaaaaaaaay up there in the rankings.

OK.

Bye.

Enjoy yourself.

I don’t think so. I mean the closest he got was that X2 or whatever of his and that was just the whole Internet Bubble concept: “What about a bank … BUT ON THE INTERNET?!” Everybody was asking exactly that question for any conceivable thing. “What about pet supplies … BUT ON THE INTERNET?!” “What about books … BUT ON THE INTERNET?!” “What about pornography … BUT ON THE INTERNET?!”

It didn’t take a lot of thought to spin up an Internet company in that time; investors were looking for all kinds of places to burn money.

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OK?

Sorry you couldn’t read it. I had no problem myself, but I guess not everything is for everybody. Here’s hoping you find an article you can read.

We all know?

Have you seen the adulation the press and his online sycophants have been pouring on him? There are people, even supposedly smart technical people, who act as if Felon was the Second Coming of Christ, Engineer. They genuinely believe he is an innovator and that he has technical smarts beyond the ken of ordinary engineers.

Where a quick perusal of his patent portfolio suggests he’s not even very good at ideas.

There’s a whole lot of people who really should know better who think he’s a bona fide tech genius and he banks on that to get the power and glory and money that he thinks he’s owed.

There are entire closets full of ideas that are conceived, modeled, simulated, and reports that end with “this will probably work except X doesn’t exist yet.”

That would be the hard work I alluded to.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. I’m barely scientifically literate and I could, sitting down with another barely scientifically literate person for an hour, churn out a hundred plausible ideas for technology and/or business. It doesn’t mean a damned thing if I can’t deliver on the ideas.

Having “ideas” means precisely sweet, fuck, and all. Having an idea and five bucks buys you a small coffee at Starbucks. Everybody and their dog has ideas and just by the sheer volume of ideas even a dolt can generate, one that is plausible will come out at least. The real work lies in effecting the idea; making it manifest.

The entire problem with Kaptain Ketamine is that he projected himself as an “ideas man”. Only, see, dirty little secret time, ideas aren’t worth shit. What you need is an idea (a dime a dozen) and the knowledge to make it happen.

Kaptain Ketamine lacks the second key ingredient. So he replaced that with money.

Kaptain Ketamine didn’t invent the electric car. He didn’t even found Tesla, the company that arguably popularized the electric car. He bought it.

Kaptain Ketamine didn’t invent reusable rockets. The idea was floating around and partially implemented with the space shuttle and the first full implementation was by Blue Origin. (Yes. I said it. Blue Origin, not SpaceX.) He just threw a lot of his Tesla money (which he bought, recall) at the problem and let actual engineers and actual scientists do the hard part.

Kaptain Ketamine didn’t really invent much of anything. He was always just the bag man. It’s just unfortunate that American culture values the bag man more than the people doing the actual work.

I caught on to Kaptain Ketamine’s fascism very late in the game, but I was never an actual fan. I worked with loads of tech people, see, and when I heard them speak and compared it to how Kaptain Ketamine spoke, I knew pretty much right from the start he didn’t know a damned thing; that he was just slinging jargon to baffle journalists with bullshit.

So as his increasingly obvious fascism was revealed, it wasn’t actually that huge a surprise for me, nor did it require me to rethink the world.

I have no idea. Ask the USA. It does, I think, the most genital mutilations.

Yes. It’s much more productive to weaponize purity.

Compassionate fucking Buddha the USA is using its offshore concentration camp for immigrants now!