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the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

...and if you point out exactly how and why it's bogus, they'll insist you "don't understand the technology" and refuse to elaborate.

Absolute VANDALISM!

Wait, is the left side the AFTER photo?

I like how the two biggest pieces of evidence - the ME report and the claims her computer data showed ideation, are both contradicted by internal reports from each of their respective departments, with the former outright stating the final stabs were post-mortem.

Classic opportunity costs issue. Imagine how many more useful things all of that money, energy, water, time, and hardware could've gone towards.

made an attempt at porting @sirocyl.bsky.social 's legendary "I broke IKEA" cohost post to video so it can live on (because archive.org appears to have broken the embed in its capture, unfortunately)

Please, a monorail would at least have the PPHPD numbers to be functional! This is a far more egregious gadgetbahn.

I've found the CNN version of it, which has a lot of the high points as I recall... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70G...

I had someone the other week telling me that Argentina should have the Falklands because it's "fighting imperialism"... to let a country invade a sovereign nation (settled on an empty island) against their will entirely because "UK Bad tho".

Sometimes I describe his attitude as "Elon wants to save the world, but only if HE is the one to save it. "

Hyperloop was intentional to hamstring California HSR. The Boring Loop he still pretends is serious and definitely not to hamstring local cities from developing actual metro systems.

My response to people like that is generally some variation of "Yeah, and they didn't believe Stockton Rush either" But yeah, literally no aspect of TBC's proposal -even with their insane super-duper CGI version- made any sense.

I wonder how many people remember watching the original proposal, where YOUR car would be latched into a self-driving skateboard that would autonomously drive you over 100MPH to your destination, whereupon you'd be rapidly lifted to street level on an OSHA nightmare elevator.

Totally your right to not find it funny. But the point is that the intent here isn't mocking the living conditions of animals, it was just riffing on someone's post about human cannibalism not being scary anymore.

Someone made a joke/observation about cannibalism feeling less scary than it used to be and someone else links an anti-cannibalism product with a cutesy name you can just spray on to stop cannibalism.

I can explain the joke to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.

My favorite part of the Boring Company is the original CGI render promising the future of travel is now private on Youtube because it's so hilariously different from reality they don't want people watching it. "A mile of tunnel a week" from the company that struggled with a mile a year...

...and he announced he's running again. Because of course he did.