Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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The entire problem with Kaptain Ketamine is that he projected himself as an "ideas man". Only, see, dirty little secret time, ideas aren't worth shit. What you need is an idea (a dime a dozen) and the knowledge to make it happen.
Kaptain Ketamine lacks the second key ingredient. So he replaced that with money.
Kaptain Ketamine didn't invent the electric car. He didn't even found Tesla, the company that arguably popularized the electric car. He bought it.
Kaptain Ketamine didn't invent reusable rockets. The idea was floating around and partially implemented with the space shuttle and the first full implementation was by Blue Origin. (Yes. I said it. Blue Origin, not SpaceX.) He just threw a lot of his Tesla money (which he bought, recall) at the problem and let actual engineers and actual scientists do the hard part.
Kaptain Ketamine didn't really invent much of anything. He was always just the bag man. It's just unfortunate that American culture values the bag man more than the people doing the actual work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
There are entire closets full of ideas that are conceived, modeled, simulated, and reports that end with "this will probably work except X doesn't exist yet." A lot of the time X is a material, but it might be a bandwidth issue waiting on a modulation technique, or a more precise widget, or a social problem where the technique is valid but the side effects aren't "palatable".
NASA couldn't afford to risk the kind of failures SpaceX saw early on because of how it would affect their overall funding. SpaceX captured lots of high def video and telemetry and powered through the failures. I wish I knew what technology the world was waiting on, but since China has the vertical rocket reuse now and Japan is working on it we really are living in the future where it's commonplace.
That would be the hard work I alluded to.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. I'm barely scientifically literate and I could, sitting down with another barely scientifically literate person for an hour, churn out a hundred plausible ideas for technology and/or business. It doesn't mean a damned thing if I can't deliver on the ideas.
Having "ideas" means precisely sweet, fuck, and all. Having an idea and five bucks buys you a small coffee at Starbucks. Everybody and their dog has ideas and just by the sheer volume of ideas even a dolt can generate, one that is plausible will come out at least. The real work lies in effecting the idea; making it manifest.
i mean that is just the thing. we all know he did not invent the stuff but he seemed to be using his money in a relatively good direction for awhile.
We all know?
Have you seen the adulation the press and his online sycophants have been pouring on him? There are people, even supposedly smart technical people, who act as if Felon was the Second Coming of Christ, Engineer. They genuinely believe he is an innovator and that he has technical smarts beyond the ken of ordinary engineers.
Where a quick perusal of his patent portfolio suggests he's not even very good at ideas.
There's a whole lot of people who really should know better who think he's a bona fide tech genius and he banks on that to get the power and glory and money that he thinks he's owed.
Anyone like that is not normal to me. So I guess I meant all us normal people know. I honestly don't see much zeolatry around him but thats because I avoid it on the whole. Back when I thought he seemed to be doing good things I do remember the 5d chess people talking like hes some genius and tesla super fans could be like mac super fans. I pretty much did not want to hear anything more from him or his projects after the brain interface one.
has he ever had an original idea of his own?
I don't think so. I mean the closest he got was that X2 or whatever of his and that was just the whole Internet Bubble concept: "What about a bank ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" Everybody was asking exactly that question for any conceivable thing. "What about pet supplies ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" "What about books ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" "What about pornography ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!"
It didn't take a lot of thought to spin up an Internet company in that time; investors were looking for all kinds of places to burn money.