Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Argent Stonecutter]

Douglas Adam's last "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" book featured a character named "Wonko the Sane".

Also known as John C. Lilly in this world.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A bid group led by Elon Musk is offering $97.4bn for buying the non-profit which controls OpenAI. This is an obstacle for Sam Altman to convert it into a for-profit business right now.

It seems Musk's wealth is increasing... a lot.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-openai-bid-4af12827

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Join Voight is a Musk fanboi.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The paradox of the Billionaires saying that Court Orders have no value, for without Court Orders there could not be Billionaires

11th February 2025 Those saying that Orders of the Court can be freely defied should be careful what they wish for * * Imagine a billionaire, and imagine then their billions being somehow, unlawful…

davidallengreen.com

 

[Erich Templar]

The paradox of the Billionaires saying that Court Orders have no value, for without Court Orders there could not be Billionaires

11th February 2025 Those saying that Orders of the Court can be freely defied should be careful what they wish for * * Imagine a billionaire, and imagine then their billions being somehow, unlawful…

davidallengreen.com

That article seems to ignore the 'one rule for the rich, one rule for the poor' concept that billionaires have been making hay with over the years.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

That article seems to ignore the 'one rule for the rich, one rule for the poor' concept that billionaires have been making hay with over the years.

I think it's one more example of the blind spot free-market libertarians have when it comes to the fact that successful markets can't exist, and never have existed, without a strong legal framework to support them.

Mind you, if and when a left-of-centre Democrat is ever expected as president they'll probably have some very useful precedents available courtesy of the current administration if they care to use them.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mind you, if and when a left-of-centre Democrat is ever expected as president they'll probably have some very useful precedents available courtesy of the current administration if they care to use them.

"Eliminate the penny? We're eliminating cash!"

 

[Noodles]

That article seems to ignore the 'one rule for the rich, one rule for the poor' concept that billionaires have been making hay with over the years.

 

[Grey Mars]

Douglas Adam's last "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" book featured a character named "Wonko the Sane". He lived outside the asylum. He named his house 'The Asylum' and had it built inside out. He lived in the little space 'outside' the walls, while the rest of the world was 'inside the asylum'.

I feel like that some days. As a child I was tested, and folks declared me one of those precosious 'Gifted Kids', I took 'gifted' kid special classes, sat in classes ahead of my year... I really wanted no part of any of it. I didn't feel smarter than anyone else... if I was clever, all I really did with it was develop absolutely shitty study habits and limp by as a 'B average' student.

I know I have a gift, but it's super narrow focus. I take simple systems and mash through all the possible combinations and permutations possible to find hidden things that 'work' nicely. It doesn't help in a lot of stuff. I'm rubbish at memorization. But I can spot patterns.

All of which is to say, that I really don't feel that smart. Other people master things faster than I do, or commit things to memory that I can't, others have the diligence and motivation to master things that I simply haven't got the energy to even think about trying.

And yet... it leaves me absolutely dumbfounded that anyone can fail to see exactly how full of dishonest bullshit Elon and the Felon are. I guess some can see it but embrace it because it serves their agenda... but the idea that there are people SO FUCKING STUPID that they can't even tell the lies from truth.. it give me pause.

I refuse to believe my social skills or or intuition are genius level, history knows I've certainly made some olympic level gaffs in the past... but come on... are people really that stupid that they can't see what's so blindingly obvious?!

He lied about being one of the best doom/diablo/path of exile players in the world, and got caught. He lied about a fuck of a lot of other stuff and gets called out on it constantly. And idiot maga-shitheads still want to trust him with their social security information? With the treasury payroll? Without oversight or accountability other than his word that he'll 'follow ethical guidelines'. He's a compulsive liar!

Why the holy screaming demons flying out of hell can't they see the problem?!

To quote Mugatu "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

Anyway, thanks you all for being outside the asylum with me, for as long as the barricades hold.

I've been in pretty much the same boat all my life. Oddly, I've also been thinking a lot about Wonko the Sane this year. Past the point of trying to fix or help all the others, time to just contain the inmates.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I've been in pretty much the same boat all my life. Oddly, I've also been thinking a lot about Wonko the Sane this year. Past the point of trying to fix or help all the others, time to just contain the inmates.

There's a bit in that book, where the main character and another are driving up the coast in a rental car to visit Wonko. I forget the exact wording but liked mine better: "The car only got two radio stations, both at the same time. But it was good rock and roll, so we listened to it anyway."

 

[Casey Pelous]

All of which is to say, that I really don't feel that smart. Other people master things faster than I do, or commit things to memory that I can't, others have the diligence and motivation to master things that I simply haven't got the energy to even think about trying.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

I think we've probably all seen The Particle Lab. It's sort of pointless to deny that you are a good deal "smarter (and more creative) than the average bear" in this crowd!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

I think we've probably all seen The Particle Lab. It's sort of pointless to deny that you are a good deal "smarter (and more creative) than the average bear" in this crowd!

I'm still using some of his shittiest old templates because they're so good.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I'm still using some of his shittiest old templates because they're so good.

I was a little starstruck when I saw him post on SLU!

I may or may not have once used a Jopsy template to build a rapid-fire random particle generator that would quickly fill a sim with god knows what sorts of glowing things and bog down most viewers to a crawl. If said generator existed, it might have been considered, by some, a nuisance, but a spectacularly pretty one.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I was a little starstruck when I saw him post on SLU!

I may or may not have once used a Jopsy template to build a rapid-fire random particle generator that would quickly fill a sim with god knows what sorts of glowing things and bog down most viewers to a crawl. If said generator existed, it might have been considered, by some, a nuisance, but a spectacularly pretty one.

I had the particle equivalent of a dozen firehoses strapped together projecting the max amount of large particles up into the sky... with the 'WIND' attribute enabled.

FPS would drop instantly, but the neat thing was, if I aimed the multi-cannon out over the corner of a sim, weird things happened. Wind in each sim is random/different, so the moment the particles hit the boundary and entered the two adjacent and one catty-corner sim, each part of the stream would drift in different directions... it was pretty trippy looking. =)

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

I think we've probably all seen The Particle Lab. It's sort of pointless to deny that you are a good deal "smarter (and more creative) than the average bear" in this crowd!

Yeah, that bit about 'simple systems and banging at them until I find useful combinations?' ... that really did help with particles. When I started playing with them (yeesh, 21 years ago now), there was nearly no documentation, all I could find was an absolutely janky sample script. It was like catnip to me. Twiddle twiddle... test, twiddle fiddle test... =D

 

[Ellie]

I need a spinning screwdriver emoji, please.

 

[Khamon]

Twenty-one years ago, Jupiter Maximus, where's my walkin' stick?

 

[Soen Eber]

Now we need a rotation lab

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Twenty-one years ago, Jupiter Maximus, where's my walkin' stick?

Twenty-one years ago, I was still making pizzas on Sims Online! Sheesh, where has all the time gone?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]