vaultdweller013
@vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
Nah the 70s Jeep trucks are fucken peak and that’s not even getting into the OG Willie’s Jeep.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
If you are ever at threat go to this person they have neither shame nor fear and would do unspeakable things if to thine foes if they like you.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
Hey don’t lump those of us with old Jeeps on with the modern profligates, we can actually maintain our shit buckets.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
Technically I’m blaming the Franks, but they are just proto-French so it is still counts. Like referring to the Picts as Scots.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
I blame the French, before them damned near every Germanic society had a broadly democratic tribal or clan based system. Then the French combined that with Roman autocratic systems and somehow created an early version of Divine right of kings and a form of proto absolutism. Yes I am glossing over a tonne of shit but compare the French estates to the clusterfuck that was the Holy Roman Diet and it’s like comparing a member of the English Royal guard to a Somalian pirate.
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 1 week ago:
Praise be to shrimp Jesus.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 weeks ago:
Being gay is a choice, just like my fucking cars check engine light is a choice. Why are you on motherfucker I have done so much fucking maintenance yet you defy me!
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
Either way it’s era inappropriate by about two thousand years, I thought it’d be funnier if he was holding a calzone.
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
Diogenes: Behold a burrito! Holding a calzone
- Comment on Say thanks 3 weeks ago:
Eyeliner was used extensively by Babylonian warriors, sounds pretty gay to me.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 4 weeks ago:
Sure but they’re also stupid meaning five minutes after they will realize why income tax was adopted. Tariffs were becoming inefficient by the time of the civil war let alone now.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
And this boys, girls, and the Eldritch entity in my cupboard is why the humanities are so important, if you want other examples go watch the Behind the Bastards episodes on the Zizians.
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? 5 weeks ago:
Counterpoint it’s not theft if you’re related and they clearly weren’t using it. Also it’s not theft if they stole something first, looking at you Japan stealing our swear words you fucking cock sucking bastards.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Yep the idea of terrorism bad is honestly kinda overly simple. Can it be bad sure especially if you don’t have a specific target but we’ll the IRA, American Revolutionaries, and Zapatistas have shown that there is a good way to go about it. The term of the day is damage minimization.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
It’s solid and has been my main hat since I got it, helps cover my ears a bit too so they don’t get burned. The sun is a deadly laser
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 1 month ago:
So there are multiple factors with his rise, which I’ll try to list as coherently as possible but my autistic logic doesn’t want to accept the irrationallity of a lot of it so if it seems scattered that’s why.
So an easy point to start is that I think he was way more functional in the late 90s and early 2000s, looking at what little there is of him he seems a bit more rounded with less random incoherentcy. He seems less impulsive and generally more deliberate, not to say he was great since he still has rich dipshits failson energy but he wasn’t the mess he is today.
Secondly I think he has a specific nact for getting money from rich folks, I suspect he learned what made rich folks interested in investing in things growing up. This social intelligence made him great at getting his foot in combine that with him being a decent hype man and ya have an easy way to get money. Theres a story of him shoving a standard computer into a big fancy box then showing it to investors which is rather clever and a good bit of showmanship.
Then theres some incredible luck first PayPal buys his company and he gets a shit tonne of share, then he gets paid to fuck off because he was a liability to PayPal. Then he invests into Tesla really fucking early on and gets a controlling share, then electric cars pop off and oh look Tesla is right fucking there. He got really lucky with the previous points only amplifying his luck.
To summarize musk had the perfect mix of luck, charisma, and just enough intelligence to capitalize on it. But here’s the thing the Elon Musk of today ain’t the one of 2001 hell it ain’t even the one of 2012, he has fried his brain on his own ego and ketamine. Also the very traits that made him successful are the very traits now making folks wish for his death or have outright disappeared.
His showmanship lead him to outright lying to the public which folks remembered. His charisma failed because he forgot how to read a room. His luck may have given him power but now folks may actually kill him. His worst traits like his thrill seeking have taken him from ripping a super car in half to ripping a government in half.
Musk of 2001 was lucky and vaguely intelligent, Musk of 2025 is just lucky and who knows how long that’ll last
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
I also have a 1960s wire field phone that they would use in Vietnam. I am still trying to figure out how to get it working with an Aux jack.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
You can definitely get plenty of Mil spec shit, just not what you really expect. My hat is a Swedish army cap worn by some dude named Alber Kempf in Tunisia circa 1991.
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 1 month ago:
We have a lot of land in the US that is a pain in the ass to get to, would be harder to set up but I could see some spiteful folks setting up something in the remote asshole of the mountain ranges. Would also be a lot harder to follow them if they pissed off as well.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 1 month ago:
I know you jest but I will note that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence, if you say something abhorrent enough and I decide that you in fact are a threat that deserves to be gutted then I am in my right to take said action and face said consequences myself.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
Elden Ring better classified as an action RPG, to use an analog its more akin to PnP dungeon crawlers in how it approaches its RPG elements. While say Baldurs Gate 3 is closer to an extended campaign PnP game. They are both RPGs but that’s such a broad grouping so as to be meaningful, an atlatl and a welding torch are both tools but there’s no meaningful overlap.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
Only usable for federal highways, shit could still be banned by the DMVs or equivalents which would basically be a death knell for it.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
It is and if he loses that wealth I’m pretty sure he is getting kicked to the street. He has no other skills that aren’t readily available by folks who aren’t utterly unstable drug addled dipshits.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 1 month ago:
It’s what happens when you scorch glass without shattering it
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Not directly, but plenty of models are basically trying to get work from rich coomers and what not. On the more extreme levels it gets pretty fucking horrific, if ya want to know how bad it can get look up Instagram models who whore travel to the UAE or Dubai. Mind you you’ll probably want to turn Arabia into glass.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Well that and the fact that some of us define better in such ways that others think may be worse. For example there was a trend some years back where Instagram models were damaging Joshua trees, I am of the complete and unshakable opinion that their blood shouldve water a new Joshua tree and their corpse reduced to mulch for said tree. I aint got nothing against whoring oneself out after all money is money but hurting the Joshua trees is a worthy of death.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
I know enough old English and some old Norse, I think I could get a Danish bureaucrat to want to kill themselves. I also approve.
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 2 months ago:
I didnt notice it till your comment but Musks spiral of stupidity lines up with him losing positive social influence. Motherfucker has nothing to fill the void so he is instead chasing higher and higher positions to try to scratch that itch, it matches up pretty well when you use his early publicity stunts as the start, the purchase of Twitter as a midpoint, and now as the current high and your probably right he cant get too much more influence meaning he is probably not far from trying to shoot someone. Lets hope he goes for Trump as a target cause at least then nobody of worth will get hurt.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
If it was part of a trend of Redneck shit mobiles itd be respectable but stupid, the fact that they are built out of a factory and not Bubba’d out of scrap metal and random parts in a garage makes them thoroughly stupid and infinitely trashy.
