This is what makes me sad every day. I’d love to be so rich money is just water out of a faucet to me, but at that point why not just do good? Like, even in a selfish way? If you’re so fucking rich that you can change the fates of nations, why not do it just out of hubris and the desire to be put in the history books? "CaptainBlinky, who was known as a relentless capitalist, died having given his 200 billion dollars in wealth before he died to solve homelessness in the nation and will be known forever as the “homemaker.” Like, why would you NOT do some sh like that? It boggles.

I can’t believe I need to ask this, but… is that an actual quote?

LMAO! My friend, he’s just saying it so he can get the government to buy a bunch of robots so he can meet the Tesla pay agreement requirements and become a trillionaire. There are so many reasons what your fantasy can’t and won’t happen.

What is she, from Detroit?

Fuck yeah Tengger Cavalry all day!

NGL this sounds more like some manchild spewing his beliefs than some nefarious end of the world cult dude trying to manipulate the masses. I’m sorta relieved in a way.

Most people are simply mentioning how much of a piece of shit he was, and happy that he won’t be spewing his nonsense anymore

Imagine his surprise when all of these CEO’s voice their concerns about the fascist terrorist rhetoric.

I take your point, but if I ever got even into the 100 millions level, I’d be living on my private yacht, journeying the world, making friends and living it up. Hell even the 10 millions level would be enough for me. I can’t even bother to organize friend group things. Why would I want to rule the world? I was brought up with the power=responsibility ethos. And I hate responsibility.

Elon Musk is so bizarre. Bro, you won humaning. Just enjoy your global domination. Why are you trying to force the 4th Reich on us too? You won’t gain anything. As Arnold famously said, “get your ass to Mars” and leave us the fuck alone.

*it was a rhetorical question. Musk is barely human at this point.

They’re not domestic terrorists when they’re the ones in charge. They’re fascists.

My job. I have to answer emails in the field, I need GPS to get to job sites (they don’t sell ADC map books at 7-11 anymore). I need to take pictures and respond to texts. I don’t need these things but as a business owner I’d rather have the one smart box in my pocket than have to carry around the individual tools for reasons. Also, I carry a flip phone. It just happens to be an extremely smart flip phone (Razr)

Oh, and ParkMobile. I can pay for parking nationwide with my phone. And Audiobooks. and… well shit, I guess it doesn’t end really. Sudoku while I poo for example.

Oh, oh, and also… why would I want to get rid of my smart phone? You meantion getting sleep. I don’t use my phone in bed. Bed is for sleeping and sexy times. I don’t do social media (unless you include this which is really just the modern version of channel surfing with chat attachment.) Maybe it’s my age. I didn’t grow up with screens like kids these days so to me it’s just another tool. I’m responding to this on my PC not my phone.

I keep seeing “vibe coding.” WTF is vibe coding? ELI5

That’s the lie though. .99 of us would just pay the five bucks. They’ve been playing that game for like 200 years, we get it. It’s stupid. Yet for some reasons gas stations charge us $3.2999 like bro what