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It is sad. Many people think money can buy happiness. Not having enough money certainly can bring unhappiness such as when there isn't enough to pay for food and the rent, but so long as the basics are taken care of it is another story.
There's a point at which all of your needs are met, and you can afford reasonable creature comforts, that money can bring happiness. Beyond that point, though, is a waste.
 

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Threshold one: food and shelter.

Two: long term planning and creature comforts.

Three: hookers and blow
 

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Buying a yacht will make you happy for exactly as long as it takes to start getting the maintenance bills in the mail
But that's the point of having the money, to take care of the maintenance bills. It's not just dealing with the cost of the yacht purchase.
 
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Lengthy and somewhat alarming article about Musk's power and influence:

Living in the world we live in, in which Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control, we are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official told me. “That sucks.”
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I said it then and I'll say it again. They should never have allowed private companies into space yet. This isn't going to be the only "oh shit" moment either.

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
 
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Elon Musk is still busy working on his PhD in megalomanical assholery: in a live stream from a Tesla car supposed to showcase the full service driving functions he entered Mark Zuckerberg's private address clearly visible and readable into the navigation system, saying "This is no doxxing, because anybody can find the address on the internet."

 

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Seems that TheXSocialMediaPlatformFormerlyKnownAsTwitter.com is still available.

Someone should do something appropriately ironic with it.... I'm not creative enough. :/
 
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This is, bar none, the funniest thing I’ve ever read.
Aww thanks... but in this case it's more of a 'quality' rather than 'quantity' deficiency. I can think of a lot of things to do with it, but none really have that maximal zing necessary to make it worth doing. I'm sure there's someone can come up with something much better. ;)

Most of my attempts at humor end up too cryptic, or self-defeating with special cases or excessive exposition. ;)
 

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Aww thanks... but in this case it's more of a 'quality' rather than 'quantity' deficiency. I can think of a lot of things to do with it, but none really have that maximal zing necessary to make it worth doing. I'm sure there's someone can come up with something much better. ;)

Most of my attempts at humor end up too cryptic, or self-defeating with special cases or excessive exposition. ;)
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If only I could mail that to my teenage self. Dad made me feel bad for all the time I spent on 'frivolous' creativity for its own sake projects, and it was criticism that haunted me for years. Didn't stop me from doing projects that took up so much time that my grades suffered... but those projects honed generalized technical, creative and project management skills that served me a lot better than his "Criticism for the sake of Criticism" aptitude did.
 

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When I was a child there was this thing about sending black people "back to" Africa.

How come Musk was never sent back? 🤔
Maybe he was - to here. I mean, dunno about his dad's side of the family, but his mom's side is from Canada and Pennsylvania.
 

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If only I could mail that to my teenage self. Dad made me feel bad for all the time I spent on 'frivolous' creativity for its own sake projects, and it was criticism that haunted me for years. Didn't stop me from doing projects that took up so much time that my grades suffered... but those projects honed generalized technical, creative and project management skills that served me a lot better than his "Criticism for the sake of Criticism" aptitude did.
Same, bro, same.

Still using your particle tutorials (updated with new parameters) as the skeleton of all new projects.
 

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