Saying she needed more time is just admitting to not using the time she had well enough. Everyone can use more time. But you get what you’re given, and flagrantly ignoring how precious your time is until it’s all gone is just being bad at your job. No matter what your job is.
The Ken Starr report that lead to Clinton’s impeachment begs to differ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr_Report
Many of the details reveal highly personal information; many are sexually explicit…Because Starr’s office allegedly leaked portions to press about sexual details that were mentioned in his report, he was criticized for using the scandal as a political maneuver and was charged for violating legal ethics by presenting information irrelevant to an investigation as evidence of legal wrongdoing.
That report is ten times the size of the 9-11 report btw.
Reading the charges now is hilarious considering Trump is guilty of the same hundreds, possibly thousands of times over.
I am not white washing Bush in any way by pointing out the much more sever things Trump has done.
As an American, I completely agree you should work to limit the damage our country can do to the rest of the world. The people here no longer control it. It is controlled by billionaires, and the corrupt millionaires they purchased in our government. What our oligarchy has done to control social media to obtain election results can and has easily spread elsewhere.
It’s a problem we’re certainly working to fix from the inside. And certainly have enough guns to do so. But it’s going to take a bit.
Bush wasn’t bad enough to use them. But people starving to death after their SNAP benefits lapse unquestionably will.
Last time this happened, just before the great depression, the starving dragged our corrupt leaders and capitalists into the street and beat them mercilessly. We ended up getting FDR who enacted the new deal, and made our country have the economic boom it did as started by WW2.
What we have now is a bunch of greedy oligarchs that have re-captured thar economic strength for themselves and once again will be beaten mercilessly once people start starving again. One just recently got executed, and his murderer will likely go free due to police negligence, I should remind you
Not salt you are tasting, friend. That’s your own premature ejaculation from intentionally being an idiot.
So you can’t explain or define what genius is, yet judge anyone as an idiot who asks for that context?
Genius and brilliant are synonyms btw. Something pretty obvious.
So unless you want to explain the difference between those two terms, they mean the same thing.
Being pedantic about that doesn’t make you right. It very much implies the opposite. You just look like someone that ate billionaire PR bait, and forgot what reality tastes like.
You are not saving face by refusing to go into the details, you just look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Something you could easily disprove if you did. Because Geniuses can go into those details. Idiots can only pretend.
So makes sense why you look up to Musk so much. You can only pretend to be smart like him.
Maybe don’t be an onion then?
I reject your claim Musk is a genius.
Prove it to me.
You read two of his biographies, so you should know. (Unless those were both fanfiction he paid someone to write about him.)
Musk has indeed been in close proximity to several large companies and their origins.
But genius is not something achievable through osmosis.
What has he, as a person, done with any skill, to suggest he’s a genius? Aside from osmosis.
Let me drop some really basic logical observations your argument will need to overcome to be truthful:
He’s not a productive man:
There is no difference between this behaviour and a jobless NEET or internet troll. They get shit on for this bevavioir due to how unproductive it is.
It’s just as unproductive when Musk does it.
He’s not an accountable father:
This is literally the punchline of a Jeff Foxworthy “You might be a Redneck if…” Joke.
It’s just as unaccountable of Musk to have this many kids with this many people. He would need to spend a lot of time with each to raise them well, and instead he’s playing video games and tweeting almost all day.
Logically, if Musk actually wanted to go to Mars, it would be a 3 step process:
He’s focused on 1, and telling you it’s for the good of Humanity.
But if instead he focused on step 2, he would be fighting climate change right now while developing the tech needed to Terraform Mars, as they are the same tech. That’s what a genius would do.
Instead he’s trying to replace NASA with Space X because money.
He doesn’t use his money to improve society. He just uses it to improve himself while lying to you that it’s for the greater good.
It’s not. And it’s never been.
As evidenced by his Hyper loop being a lie to convince legislators in California to cancel plans for a high speed rail. Something California would now benefit from if not for his interference.
All Musk does with his money is use it to buy PR and good will so he can continue to be someone that uses Twitter and play games all day instead of being a good dad. That’s not genius. That’s greed and stupidity.
He could, even now, solve the world’s problems with his wealth. He literally asked for a plan to solve world hunger, and when presented with one that could have done it for like 8 Billion a year, he refused. Then purchased Twitter for 5 times that amount. Because he wanted to be popular.
Yet solving Wolrd hunger would make him worshipped by the people he fed. More popular than anyone. Families would praise his name. And communities would erect statues for him. This is something he certainly wants, yet his way of achieving that goal is to spend even more than 8 billion on PR to convince you he’s a genius.
That’s not very genius like behavior. It’s still just stupid and greedy.
Imagine, for a moment, you’re a Trillionaire. What would you do with that money? Solve the world’s problems? Help your family? Help your friends? That’s what 90% 9f people say when asked.
And Musk does none of that. Just plays games, shit posts on the internet, and convinces you through biographies and large well paid PR teams that he knows what he’s doing and should be worshipped.
His wealth, unquestionably, would be better used if it was in the hands of thousands instead of his. He wants you to think he deserves it, that he’s a genius. When the most casual look at his approaches to problems immediately reveals he’s not. He just a wad of unspent money that wants to use it to take credit for other people’s work instead of fixing the planet.
Time to prove why you think that makes him a genius.
I’ve worked for him by the way. He’s not a genius. He just has good PR to make you think he is.
Agreed. He certainly did. But expanding the executive branch to control congress to take over several Independant institutions like the FCC and SEC fits the literal definition of Tyranny as it changes the actual shape of our government, permanantly, by the whims of a single man.
Bush is bad. But he’s not Trump bad. After Bush there was still elections to win. After Trump there might not be. (if we are to take January 6th as an example of what happened last time he lost.)
It definitley has. But they’re only programmed to support the things they hear will help them while they are already being helped. So once the help stops coming, and they realized WHO stopped it from coming, the GOP will no longer be able to piss on their face while telling them it’s raining. They no longer have a house to protect them from that piss, let alone a job or Healthcare.
The reason the GOP won is because they’ve been using social media and cable news to create a false reality for the past 2 decades.
One where intelligence is bad, and everything America stood for is woke. In this reality democrats and liberals are the defacto bad guys keeping America from winning. Winning what? Whatever game this narrative designed to be played by two political teams. The war on drugs. The war on terror. The war on DEI. All bullshit. All to distract from the reality where those teams are all part of the same government forum designed to enact policy compromises.
GOP members in 2024 didn’t vote Harris simply because they never even heard from her.
Dems have failed to fight the growing false reality built against them. Not even daring to call Trump a bad name when he killed millions.
So the problem is simply that Dems have no accurate representation in this false reality. And it’s a reality that’s now consumed the world. Simple because algorithmic searching for information can be manipulated to present the results you want. So billionaires and their hedgefunds purchased the ways and means of every internet, telecom, media, and newspaper to make sure you never even know what’s real anymore. As whatever they want you to read about the world is the only thing their algorithms will provide you.
So we have farmers getting fucked by Trump while saying Biden and Harris did nothing. Despite Biden and Harris bending over backwards for them.
In this very thread we have someone telling me Biden was president in 2020. 5 years ago. Can’t remember president Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated.
This false reality is only enabled as long as the means of the people in it are being met. They no longer are. Trump made sure of it. Publically.
So now it’s really hard to lie to someone now they realize it’s not rain Trump is hitting them in the face with. Gotta have windows to get away with that.
He wasn’t. You’re completely and unquestionably wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.[a] (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.
This was less than 5 years ago my dude. Enough fingers on one hand to do the math working backwards.
You should, unquestionably, be able to remember Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated. Or injecting bleach into your skin instead of getting vaccinated.
Something that actually hurt and killed several people, and was tracked in reality. Something you clearly don’t participate in:
https://www.poison.med.wayne.edu/updates-content/kstytapp2qfstf0pkacdxmz943u1hs
From the year 2020, proving you wrong again:
Accidental poisonings as a result of Americans ingesting bleach or other household cleaners spiked over March and April, nearly doubling as President Trump suggested the chemicals could be useful in fighting coronavirus infections.
Dude. You aren’t even talking about Musk. You are entirely talking about what his well paid PR team has made you think of him.
The dude hasn’t done fuck of shit. Just used his money to help others build shit he never bothered to acquire the skills for. Reusable Rockets? That was Tom Mueller you should be thanking. Not the person writing his paycheck. That could be literally anyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller
Musk uses his money exclusively to get his name on things to take credit for other people’s work. Tesla, PayPal, Space X, now Twitter / X. All the same. Musk lacks any actual talent or work ethic. He just has money to attach his name to those that do, and money to pay PR teams to make his image appear as someone that has skills to create instead of wealth to take all the credit from those that do.
IF you want to respect someone that has enough wealth to solve almost all of the major problems in the world but uses it instead to purchase a social media platform to shit on others and warp elections, then you go right ahead. But don’t expect anyone else with a sense of reality to agree with you.
Trump killed over 1 million Americans through his completely fucked up and politicized Covid response.
Literally there’s more dead Americans from Covid than anywhwre else. AND we’re the 18th highest in deaths per capita despite being so very spread out.
Bush didn’t let everyone’s grandparents die in a pandemic then bail out his corpo friends with an unmonitored 1.7 trillion dollar blank check while the economy was failing.
No one forgot Bush. Trump is the concentrated malignant greed at the heart of how Bush got elected. He is magnitudes worse of a leader in every measurable and conceivable way. He corrupted the GOP from one that publically hated him into one that literally worships him as a king. He literally killed the GOP by converting them to his own MAGA religion, and they let him. So he’s now killing millions through starvation with the death of USAID and SNAP benefits while demolishing the Whitehouse and extorting American corporations for the money to do so.
Bush was no where near this level of fucking insanity.
MAGA is now the face of the GOP. So the GOP is never coming back.
The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.
Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.
Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.
No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.
There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.
Thank you for the clarification. This phrasing of yours:
While that is idealy true, the reality of maintaining an ecyclopedia is not always so black and white.
Is almost identical in nature to every bad faith argument used in the last two decades to dismantle public infrastructure in America.
Namely, you say Wikipedia’s goal of factual clarity is an ideal that doesn’t exist, and then go on to amplify a small problem (factual disagreement) as the reason it’s “not always so black and white.”
While your point is about encyclopedias in general, that seems buried by your choice of how to phrase that point.
No offense intended by me pointing this out. As you did absolutely clarify at the end of your statement that people should still use Wikipedia.
It’s just that the phrasing you used is almost identical to MAGA and how they talk about Wikipedia being woke. I can go on Twitter right now and find several bots talking about how Wikipedia isn’t an ideal source of information using the same language and argument you just did.
I appreciate the clarity you provided on what kind of decisions the editors of Wikipedia have to make, but I feel there’s likely a better way to phrase it that makes Wikipedia seem stronger rather than weaker because of it.
No offense, but your examples of Wikipedia’s “Grey area” absolutley pales in comparison to an entire grokipedia that presents absolutely no counter points whatsoever.
If the choice is between:
Or
Then the choice is very much black or white in deciding which is better to use.
I’m a millennial. In my 40’s. My first job was working at a video rental store that no longer exists. When I was working there, they raised the minimum wage to 7.25 an hour. And in my entire adult working life since, that rate has not increased, now going on 20 years.
The fact that over 30% of the states in this country STILL only pay that same minimum wage is abhorrent. No one in those states has made a dime in 20 years, they have only had their purchasing power decrease as inflation outpaced their pay.
An entire generation of Americans worked the best 20 years of their entire adult lives just to lose money from doing it if it happened in those states.
If you’ve ever been to NY or Jersey you’d realize this is like 15% of the people you pass in the street. Strong chin, olive skin, good health, dark hair, Italian background. Guy looks like half the people in any gym in Brooklyn.
Eye brows are different between the two images. Could just be grooming. Shoulders appear to be different widths, but that could just be a jacket.
But the point is, both look like a young health Italian guy from NY. The differences between the images are more than enough to cast doubt. While there is a resemblance, it’s not even close enough to consider guilt due to all the discrepancies that appear when you look closer. The suspect could legitamately be a different person.
I am by no means an expert, but there has been a significant amount of studies done on the estrogen in our water levels increasing:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2854760/
Detection of estrogens in the environment has raised concerns in recent years because of the potential of these compounds to affect both wildlife and humans. " The incomplete removal by publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) of excreted endogenous estrogens and prescribed estrogens leads to their introduction into surface waters and potentially into drinking water sources that rely on surface water. Estrogens, specifically estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), and ethinyl estradiol (EE2), have been detected in numerous studies of wastewater influents and effluents. (Several links to the studies of the levels of estrogen in waste water are then provided after this quote).
This study in 2009 concluded that kids are exposed to more estrogen in milk and food than water, so it shouldn’t be a problem to worry about. However, at least imo, it never looked at overall levels of estrogen intake increasing from all combined sources as water has certainly added to it at least marginally.
So that’s all to say, I’m not 100% behind this being all true, just that there’s actually quite a bit of valid scientific studies that have proven there’s now more estrogen in our drinking and waste water that seems to be at least corolated to our medical use of it.
So! It’s actually kinda crazy how accurate your professor might be. Because progesterone, the chemical in birth control, does indeed break down into estrogen under the right circumstances. The components of broken down progesterone pass through the body via urine, enter the water system, and - this is the important part - is far too small and difficult to be collected or filtered out of the water.
So people taking birth control have absolutley added an insane amount of estrogen to the water supply. And most tap water now does have low levels of estrogen in it because people have been taking birth control for 60+ years.
In that same time, the average age of puberty has continued to fall.
So, it sounds a bit wild, but that theory is far more feasible than most realize.
Trumps literally on deaths door and is the #1 suspect in what’s likely the largest conspiracy in US history involving child traffickers and their political protectors.
He’s been in US politics the last 10 years.
He’s run his course. And no one is left to replace him.
He’s also killed millions with his Covid policy. Millions more with USAID defunding. And now likely even more with SNAP and ACA cuts.
He also likely won by cheating, not by popularity.
He’s just about cooked from every angle imaginable and is not long for this world.