These combined with constant access to LLMs are basically the power glasses or specs from the book Accelerando by Charles Stross that the main character becomes so dependent on he becomes severely disoriented when they are stolen.
The United States actually possesses one of the most efficient, profitable, and advanced freight rail networks in the world with 140,000 miles of well maintained rail. Being optimized for freight the rails are designed for slower moving heavy cars instead of lighter fast moving passenger cars.
Giant chunks of it lack basic safety features like crossing gates; there are 4.6 derailments per day; it is considered normal to have trains slow down to near walking pace due to poor track maintenance; electrification is a rounding error; trains routinely sit idling in sidings for huge chunks of the day; railroads are unable to comply with the legally-mandated requirement to let on-time scheduled passenger trains have priority; and high-speed rail basically doesn't exist despite several corridors being the perfect scenario for it.
By any metric except $/ton/mile, US rail is a giant failure. The only reason it still exists is because the US got screwed over by geography and can't make use of waterways for over half the country. Want to ship grain out of Montana, or coal out of Wyoming? You have to use a train, no other option.
> I don't chitchat with defenders of same so I won't respond further.
And that's exactly why there's a thought bubble here. Also the first thing cult leaders tell you to stop doing.
The strategy is call them a Nazi enough and then wait for them to do something that looks like a Nazi salute. I mean it worked really well, to be fair. But of course it had to throw out all of the context that would suggest Elon is not, in fact, a Nazi sympathizer.
Also, I don't need an analyst to tell me how to use my brain.
No, it's appealing to their common sense. You have to set down a lot of logic to hold the idea that this man did a Nazi salute in a stadium full of people. HN just happens to be a microcosm of people willing to do that because of their sheer hatred of the man.
"You have to set down a lot of logic to hold the idea that this man did a Nazi salute in a stadium full of people"
No, I just have to WATCH HIM DO IT TWICE! As to why he would do it I would assume drugs as Musk's behavior during that period was so weird and destructive it seems he was actually close to getting fired from Tesla.
As far as hating Musk it is actually Musk that is a very hateful man. Just look at how cruel he was when he fired all those people from Twitter and the federal government.
The "stadium full of people" was a Trump rally ... a bunch of "very fine people" who welcomed it. And why would the fact that it was a stadium full of people of ANY sort matter? Musk was trolling ... he never denied that it was a Nazi salute, he just pulled a "leftists call everyone a Nazi" schtick, and now he's claiming that Hitler was a leftist socialist, a common far right "no, you" BS talking point. Mr. neo's grasp of "logic" and "common sense" (the knowledge base and thought process of know-nothings with average IQs) is very poor. And you know what sort of smug crank you're dealing with when they generalize from ONE person to "a thought bubble here", as if I somehow represent the entire HN membership.
Wow, that's just patently false. Like I said, you literally have to set aside so much to really believe this stuff.
"It was astonishing how insanely hard legacy media tried to cancel me for saying 'my heart goes out to you' and moving my hand from my heart to the audience. In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media."
> does this bozo not know about Musk's massive enabling and megaphoning of antisemites and their talking points on Twitter
By equivocating a lack of moderation to being a Nazi, you're basically throwing every anarchist into the Nazi bucket. Also, anyone marching down the street shouting for the destruction of Israel.
> It was astonishing how insanely hard legacy media tried to cancel me for saying 'my heart goes out to you' and moving my hand from my heart to the audience. In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media.
This is, of course, NOT a denial that he gave a Nazi salute but is a typically blatant Musk lie -- no one tried to cancel him for moving his hand from his heart to the audience. Not a single person said that it's a bad thing to move a hand from one's heart to an audience -- and his hand was not pointing to the audience. As I already noted,
> he just pulled a "leftists call everyone a Nazi" schtick
There is every reason to believe that he anticipated the reaction (which was far and wide, included numerous experts on Nazis, numerous members of the German and Jewish communities--with the notable exception of Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL) and had his response planned.
And the disingenuous intellectual dishonesty of
> By equivocating a lack of moderation to being a Nazi
When that user writes "suspiciously bot-like GOP-propaganda", he means "normal American citizens who democratically blew my party out of the last popular election", FYI.
I truly hate party politics and just want politicians cooperating to make the country run as well as possible for as many people as possible. But Republicans reliably cut taxes for the rich, dramatically grow the national deficit, and start stupid wars.
Security and freedom are mutually exclusive for the vast majority of non-technical people who will happily infect themselves over and over with malware.
So make it kid mode by default, and require technical expertise to unlock it. Stop making excuses for corpos stripping freedoms from everyone because tech illiterate people exist.
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