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36 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Tell me what could go wrong with replacing all of the radars on airplanes and at the airports with cameras?

 

Why are you putting this evil on me Rickey Bobby?.

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2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

FML..... Cannot make a car drive safely on its own, but has the software for airplanes.

Elon Musk has pledged to deploy his "DOGE" cost-cutting squad inside the innards of America's air traffic control system, promising Wednesday to "make rapid safety upgrades" to the complex web of software, hardware, facilities and people that keep planes from crashing into each other.

"With the support of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system," Musk posted to his social media platform X. Musk's comment came shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that he'd spoken to DOGE and that the squad plans to "plug in" to the air traffic control system to help make unspecified upgrades to unknown systems.

Sure make upgrades while planes are in mid flight. What could go wrong?

I've done many an upgrade of enterprise level systems over the years, and no amount of prep can prevent inevitable fuckery. That's just how it is.

Why we always do it on a Friday night then spend the weekend fixing the fuckery.

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Posted
1 hour ago, We’reTexas said:

lol no it was the Screech tweet. seriously.

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1872312139945234507

Edit: Found it on Bluesky.

 

Ain’t that the truth.  My take on being a good parent is balance and adaptive thinking.  

A kiddo raised to be a robotic math god is likely to freeze up solving problems outside their narrowly focused upbringing or have severe emotional issues…look at someone like Tiger.  

Too much free range, “let the kid find their own spirit guide, man” fails to prepare them for being a productive member of society.  Of course, abandonment fuels 20-something’s with daddy issues and I’m sure half of the world approves of that.  

That being said, the focus on STEM in primary education is (and has been) awful for decades.  Math is the language of the universe and we do a shit job preparing our kids in public education.  

Now…what organization is trying to shut down the Dept of Education, whitewash history and gut public education for private Christian academy vouchers?

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Homercles said:

That being said, the focus on STEM in primary education is (and has been) awful for decades.  Math is the language of the universe and we do a shit job preparing our kids in public education.  

Eh, American engineers are as good as it gets when it comes to innovation.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Goredho said:

So now the sandy vagina is gone, this needs more attention.  Does anyone feel great about a billionaire crypto bro mucking around in the internals of the U.S. treasury?  That reputable financial news orgs are reporting concerns about damage to the U.S. dollar?   That there is no transparency or accountability to what is going on?

This is like fucking with the company checkbook when you think certain people should be fired. Like Milton in Office Space. It's just absolutely the wrong way to go about it.

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Posted
1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Eh, American engineers are as good as it gets when it comes to innovation.

No shit. This gets overlooked. Oh, we score xx% lower than Japan. Good. I don't want to be that society and we should not try to be.

My kiddo is STEM. She is also getting a journalism minor. You can do both.

Fuck Elon. Nothing in your posting, just fuck  him in general. Sideways with an unlubed dildo of consequence.

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Posted
2 hours ago, We’reTexas said:

lol no it was the Screech tweet. seriously.

I doubt it.  If that would disqualify him from a position that isn’t confirmed by Congress, why wouldn’t it disqualify him for being Governor of Ohio?

And if the DOGE bullshit went through confirmation in Congress, he would have been confirmed easily.

The more one reads into the Leon Youth’s background, the more clear it is that it’s not just grifting and protecting his companies from the feds, but wrecking everything.  

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I doubt it.  If that would disqualify him from a position that isn’t confirmed by Congress, why wouldn’t it disqualify him for being Governor of Ohio?

And if the DOGE bullshit went through confirmation in Congress, he would have been confirmed easily.

The more one reads into the Leon Youth’s background, the more clear it is that it’s not just grifting and protecting his companies from the feds, but wrecking everything.  

I think it is a combination of both. Started with protection, ended with wrecking. But no matter, always grifting.

He never forgave that dude in South Africa who pushed him down the steps.

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Posted (edited)
29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I doubt it.  If that would disqualify him from a position that isn’t confirmed by Congress, why wouldn’t it disqualify him for being Governor of Ohio?

And if the DOGE bullshit went through confirmation in Congress, he would have been confirmed easily.

The more one reads into the Leon Youth’s background, the more clear it is that it’s not just grifting and protecting his companies from the feds, but wrecking everything.  

No it literally was the Screech tweet. I’m not trying to be argumentative, just with most of this board being off twitter I think folks missed one of the funniest internet implosions in a while. 
 

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The decision came after Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announced that Lt. Gov. Jon Husted would fill the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President JD Vance. Mr. Ramaswamy was also a contender for the vacancy, and Mr. Trump recently told him that he would be a good fit.

 

It also followed Mr. Ramaswamy’s comments blaming an American culture that venerated “mediocrity over excellence” for top tech companies often hiring foreign-born engineers. People close to Mr. Trump said he was unhappy about Mr. Ramaswamy wading into the online debate over H-1B visas among conservatives, many of whom saw Mr. Ramaswamy’s comments as critical of American workers.

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Mr. Trump was not happy to be dragged into a high-profile fight, and people close to him were unhappy having to expend capital with allies on the issue. But unlike Mr. Musk, who has supported Mr. Trump to the tune of several hundred million dollars in donations, Mr. Ramaswamy is seen as a less essential presence in Mr. Trump’s new orbit.

There had also been some tension in recent weeks between Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramaswamy over their approaches to the government-efficiency project. The two have their own allies and lawyers who work with them, and Mr. Musk has sharply criticized Mr. Ramaswamy in private conversations.

 

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Posted
38 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

No it literally was the Screech tweet. I’m not trying to be argumentative, just with most of this board being off twitter I think folks missed one of the funniest internet implosions in a while. 

Well, either way, he's lucky.  Leon's money isn't going to keep buying him free reign (or rein) from Trump when he goes after Social Security and the DOD.

Posted
5 hours ago, Js1 said:

Flying is going to be terrifying 

my niece and her bf are flying here in about 3 weeks. if her plane crashes i will blame Musk and Trump and............

 

 

yeah, fuck you law enforcement watching this board 🖕

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i was literally going to post "one man's waste is another man's important fisheries health study" (iow, the shrimp on a treadmill) in response to ana earlier and lo and behold he posted about it himself and got his ass banned 😄

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Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

No shit. This gets overlooked. Oh, we score xx% lower than Japan. Good. I don't want to be that society and we should not try to be.

My kiddo is STEM. She is also getting a journalism minor. You can do both.

Fuck Elon. Nothing in your posting, just fuck  him in general. Sideways with an unlubed dildo of consequence.

I have a Japanese acquaintance who is envious of US innovation and creativity. He claims his society is quick to let outside the box thinkers know the expected way things get done.

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Posted
8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy who bowed out of working with DOGE to ostensibly run for Governor of Ohio, has an interesting name and an interesting skin tone for somebody who wants to run for Governor of Ohio from a certain party.

What if I told you that Vivek, for all of his bluster, had enough self-awareness that when he saw the teenagers and 20-something’s on Leon’s DOGE team that Leon planned to deploy inside the Treasury, etc. to try and take control of the United States’s governments finances, that Vivek knew that he needed to get the fuck out of DOGE.

He will never win the the race for Governor of Ohio and he knows it.  He’s all about raising his brand as much as possible, but he doesn’t seem like a True Believer in Musk’s efforts to destroy the country.

 

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Posted
11 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

FML..... Cannot make a car drive safely on its own, but has the software for airplanes.

Elon Musk has pledged to deploy his "DOGE" cost-cutting squad inside the innards of America's air traffic control system, promising Wednesday to "make rapid safety upgrades" to the complex web of software, hardware, facilities and people that keep planes from crashing into each other.

"With the support of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system," Musk posted to his social media platform X. Musk's comment came shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that he'd spoken to DOGE and that the squad plans to "plug in" to the air traffic control system to help make unspecified upgrades to unknown systems.

FML. I have international trips coming up in two fucking months.

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2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

FML. I have international trips coming up in two fucking months.

You will be fine. Remember, one vodka before you board and one after. Sleep like a baby and wake up across the pond. No more, cuz then thats drinking.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Homercles said:

Ain’t that the truth.  My take on being a good parent is balance and adaptive thinking.  

A kiddo raised to be a robotic math god is likely to freeze up solving problems outside their narrowly focused upbringing or have severe emotional issues…look at someone like Tiger.  

Too much free range, “let the kid find their own spirit guide, man” fails to prepare them for being a productive member of society.  Of course, abandonment fuels 20-something’s with daddy issues and I’m sure half of the world approves of that.  

That being said, the focus on STEM in primary education is (and has been) awful for decades.  Math is the language of the universe and we do a shit job preparing our kids in public education.  

Now…what organization is trying to shut down the Dept of Education, whitewash history and gut public education for private Christian academy vouchers?

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My sister (no pics) works in education.  She has an interesting counterpoint. Not saying i agree with her, but it definitely makes me think.  She says there was a big pivot several years back towards STEM.  Something had to come out and it was largely civics; kids don't get as many Social Studies as they used to.  Those kids are now young adults and voting.  Might be a connection there.  And maybe not.

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That screech tweet cracks me up, especially the “less chillin at the mall”… talk about exposing yourself as being out of touch with the utes. Not to mention how many parents today bemoan the lack of ‘real’ socialization in general. 

Posted
10 hours ago, royiv said:

@Guadaloopy Thoughts?

Since you asked… Got an OTA software upgrade to FSD (Supervised) 12.6.3 yesterday.   Did a drive to downtown Tulsa this morning and back through rush hour traffic, multiple construction zones and downtown streets - 33 mile round trip.  Zero disengagements or interventions.  Best performance I have ever seen from the system.  
 

As I am neither a pilot nor aerospace engineer, I have no frame of reference to form an opinion on how well the FSD camera-only model would translate to aircraft control.  Based on recent experience, I can only guess that the solution will be far more complex and take far longer than dumbass Elon says.  

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4 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Since you asked… Got an OTA software upgrade to FSD (Supervised) 12.6.3 yesterday.   Did a drive to downtown Tulsa this morning and back through rush hour traffic, multiple construction zones and downtown streets - 33 mile round trip.  Zero disengagements or interventions.  Best performance I have ever seen from the system.  

Downtown Tulsa? Hardly a good test or impressive stats when you're only seeing two or three other people /s

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https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-overdue-bills-texas-19454904.php

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Elon Musk’s rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX and its contractors are overdue on bills from builders and suppliers for work done in South and Central Texas. It’s led to dozens of outstanding liens since 2019. In total, Reuters reportsthat more than two dozen companies have filed 72 liens, 41 of which were filed this year, adding up to more than $2.5 million due in payments. SpaceX is valued at $180 billion.

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In some cases, the liens have succeeded in getting SpaceX to pay up but others remain outstanding. That could be the case since some liens are only effective when a property goes up for sale, as a transaction can’t go through until the charge is paid. 

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Brian Rozelle, an owner with Houston-based Hydroz Energy Services, told Reuters that if SpaceX called today, “I’d tell them to f--k off.” The business had cleared storm drains at a SpaceX facility, and after months of no payment on an approximately $19,000 bill, they filed a lien. SpaceX paid the bill a couple of weeks later. 

Hydroz Energy Services isn’t the only Texas business that got the run around from SpaceX. There are others such as CMC Construction Services and Osburn Contractors, and both small and big businesses alike have filed liens after not receiving the compensation they’re owed. 

 

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Posted
43 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Since you asked… Got an OTA software upgrade to FSD (Supervised) 12.6.3 yesterday.   Did a drive to downtown Tulsa this morning and back through rush hour traffic, multiple construction zones and downtown streets - 33 mile round trip.  Zero disengagements or interventions.  Best performance I have ever seen from the system.  
 

As I am neither a pilot nor aerospace engineer, I have no frame of reference to form an opinion on how well the FSD camera-only model would translate to aircraft control.  Based on recent experience, I can only guess that the solution will be far more complex and take far longer than dumbass Elon says.  

Sucks that it’s a swastikar

Posted
11 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I have a Japanese acquaintance who is envious of US innovation and creativity. He claims his society is quick to let outside the box thinkers know the expected way things get done.

What do we say here about speaking out?  "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."  

You know what they say in Japan?  "The nail that sticks out, gets hammered down."

There's all you need to know about that. 

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Posted
On 2/4/2025 at 10:25 AM, Frank Drebin said:

Elon can multitask.  $40 billion annually here.  $40 billion there.  It adds up to real money.  Nothing like the $200 billion we've handed over to Ukraine, $100 billion which disappeared like a fart in the wind.

 

We haven't given Ukraine any money. We have given them ammunition and other tangibles. Did 100 million of ammunition disappear like a fart in the wind? 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo

That was not surprising - they were saying some pretty violent stuff. I was getting that sub in my feed, not subscribed, but I visited once, and there were people posting violent shit that they’d like to do.  Now it’s possible that it was some Leon fanbois who posted it to get the sub shut down.  But there are plenty of other subs that are dissecting the DOGE stuff and digging into the backgrounds of his team.  A lot of other subs.

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Posted
7 hours ago, Parliament said:

My sister (no pics) works in education.  She has an interesting counterpoint. Not saying i agree with her, but it definitely makes me think.  She says there was a big pivot several years back towards STEM.  Something had to come out and it was largely civics; kids don't get as many Social Studies as they used to.  Those kids are now young adults and voting.  Might be a connection there.  And maybe not.

Absolutely.  Not to mention that critical thinking skills, especially those of the nonlinear kind, are not developed through STEM.  That comes from liberal arts.  Kids are getting little history, little civics, and almost no critical thinking development.  They're getting heaps of STEM thrown at them to the detriment of all else, and they're still not doing well collectively in STEM.  This country has never seen a problem it couldn't severely overcorrect for.  It's who we are.  STEM scores are looking bad relative to other countries?  Let's throw out and demonize everything else and only focus on that!   Girls are struggling in schools?  Let's make them inhospitable to boys!  We, as a nation, are incapable of nuance or balance.  We're exactly what our stereotype says we are: fat, loud, and dense. 

One great result of all of this is we've got a couple of generations, so far, whose leaders are those handful of linear-thinking STEM kids who rose to the top.  They can't communicate, can't think outside of a straight line, and unironically mistake "disruption" for creative thinking.    These are the folks venerated by youth in this country, and it's because we made them this way.

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Posted
23 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

huh, I don't see the numbers 200 billion in aid or 100 billion disappearing like a fart in the wind anywhere in that article. 

 

Are you still claiming the USA did not give "any" money to Ukraine?  That was your post.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

Well that was fast. 

 

Against Civil Rights, for eugenics, against miscegenation.

STOP CALLING THEM RACIST NAZIS!!!

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