Or put them closer together and generate all of the chlorine gas, H2, and O2 a girl could want!

I'm 90 percent sure he meant it ironically, or at least in an attempt to be a stupid edgelord. But it was still an unacceptable enough asshole thing to do that he deserves every bit of blowback he's gotten. Like trying to call a black person the N-word "ironically," no, you don't get a pass. You're just a different flavor of "bad person."

Everything the guy comes out with strikes me as "14 year old doing and saying edgy things to try to look cool to the upperclassmen."

The flamethrower was the first thing that gave me pause.

My moment was the Teslaquila.

If it were me I'd probably follow it up with "I meant it ironically" rather than complain about the left trying to cancel me.

Considering his support of far right German parties around the same time, it seems far more likely he was doing it to curry favour like he’s tried to do with Trump

See "stupid edgelord."

How is currying favor and badly attempting to dogwhile (turned out to be a full blown whistle that people somehow still didn't hear) being an edgelord? Being an edgelord is saying something 'wrong' to try to be badass. Elon is funding and supporting far right parties to try to enrich himself. These things are not the same lol

Given his immediate actions the next day were to make a bunch of puns about how he "did Nazi the backlash coming" on twitter? It's much harder to give him the benefit of the doubt

He's also retweeted Holocaust deniers. Could be a coincidence but that's would be enough for Elon to tweet "Someone should look into this".

Yeah, any single incident could be waived as just being an edgelord. But there are many.

That screenshot had the same effect on me.

Baffling choice.

Please don't attribute Musk's behavior to autism.

It's a disgusting and inaccurate smear against people on the autism spectrum.

I'm autistic and I still like musk

> The standard for holding a belief isn't "can you prove it is not so?", but "on the balance of evidence, is it likely to be so?".

IANAP, but I don't think everyone agrees with that framing. Epistemology is a big topic.

It would be funnier if they weren't both trying to destroy my country in various ways.

Seriously. It's heartening to see some kind of split, but depressing when you see it's just from Musk wanting to thump fundamentalism about tHe dEbT [0]. I guess Musk's excuse for being a true believer is that he was a newcomer to the Republican party? Republicans have been the more profligate spenders of "taxpayer money" for longer than I've been alive. Trump certainly slid right in to his new snake skin, I don't know why Musk couldn't.

But really on reflection I'm back to my original appraisal wondering if it's all just kayfabe with Musk trying to keep the so-called "Libertarian" contingent on board, with monetary inflation part of the destructionist plan just being a minor let down.

[0] Debt denominated in a currency we control is certainly indicative of something, but it isn't nearly as big of a deal as other countries losing confidence in the US. Ergo cutting scientific research, destroying academic institutions, and eliminating foreign policy outreach programs to "save money" actually makes our financial position worse.

> biographies of people in Rome (you can imagine what biography they get to make one day)

Honestly, I'm not sure to whom you're referring. Rome has had a lot of famous residents.

I could use that information. What are their titles/offices? Mind you, in a fiction context, any present-day day famous _concrete_ _real_ residents are not that useful.

> your life is for you

You may feel differently if/when you have children.

In several different ways at the same time. One moment, it's obvious your life is for your children; another, you're thinking in frustration that it should be for you, at least a bit.

Gets tricky to find a balance, but balance is needed, because your children learn from example; if you sacrifice 100% of your own self to them, they'll never learn how to live.

While I thank my parents for having invested so much of their lives in me, I do hope that they had the chance to do most of the things that they liked while bringing me up, and I surely hope they do that now that we're all grown up and independent (unfortunately, in my case, one parent is dead and the other doesn't really have the energy anymore... I wish she would just have fun and enjoy life, but it's easy to say when you're young and healthy).

One of my kids is grown up, the other is nearly so.

The thing I most liked doing in my life was bringing them up so I did the thing I most liked. It WAS fun and enjoying life.

Well, I have orbited the sun 55 times, 24 of them together with another person besides my life partner. I understand that some parameters in life were chosen by others (my name, place of birth etc. even my gender I could not choose myself), but many other decisions were, are and will be made by me and their consequences are sometimes quite different from what they were planned or expected. In any case, this is still my reality that I have to deal with - everything else is illusion or wishful thinking. The best I can do is to accept things and situations as they are, as happily as possible. This means that I can and perhaps even have to adapt within the scope of my possibilities in order to be as happy as possible.

Amazing doesn't necessarily mean welcome.

It's amazing in how effective it was, and the asymmetry of the destruction compared to cold-war assumptions.

My impression was that in high school, girls and boys had pretty distinct handwriting.

Not sure if that impression is accurate though, or if it's true of mathematical writing.

Yes, high school boys and girls have clearly distinct handwriting.

If you're just filling in bubbles on a scantron, then handwriting isn't very visible and each person can just write their own name on the scantron they're submitting as their own.