EightBitBlood
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- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 days ago:
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 mush 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.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 days ago:
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:
- As evidenced by his near average of 100 tweets a day. Confirmed by AI. Which is close to 2 hours a day tweeting, not doing anything of value or skill.
- As also evidenced by his character in Path of Exile, one played in hardcore mode, with the best gear available, that would require nearly 10 hours a day of play to achieve.
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:
- As evidenced hy his 14 children with 4 different women.
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:
- Rocket a person to Mars
- Terraform and settle Mars
- Migrate to Mars.
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.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 days ago:
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.
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.
- Comment on With The Sims owners EA selling to Saudi Arabia, and InZOI owners Krafton going "AI First", there is room in the market for a very queer life simulator 2 weeks ago:
They reviewed our Indie game as “too woke” 6 days before I even had keys to send out. They literally don’t even play the games, just knee jerk to their audience 😂
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 3 weeks ago:
You do realize you were adding to that hell right? Just because you hate Mormons doesn’t mean you should be saying that publically 12 times in a day. Twitter is hell because racists are there doing the same, likely about Mormons just as much as Jews.
Just because you aren’t racist doesn’t mean the hate you are spreading needs to be spread. Hate Mormons on your own time, or hate the religion, not those practicing it.
But fuck Charlie Kirk. He’s one guy and his death unquestionable makes the world a better place. But he was a shit head by his own actions, and most Mormons I’ve met are just as gullible as anyone else getting taken advantage of by an organized religion.
Just saying, it’s hard to find places online, and even harder when you go in hot. Don’t go in hot. Maybe Bluesky would treat you better. Their starter packs actually are great ways to find niche communities. The surface level Bluesky is where most of those flurries are. Below that there’s actually quite a bit of righteously enjoyable counter culture. Just don’t go in hatin.
- Comment on eco-vengeance iconoclast 3 weeks ago:
As someone that’s still in AZ, you are correct on all counts. But forgot:
- They have the cutest babies who follow their parents marching in straight lines.
- STAY FAR FAR AWAY IF THEY HAVE THOSE CUTE BABIES
- Comment on We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! These are fantastic details, and I appreciate it! The correlation between having extra free time, and therefore having more time to see and report UFO’s is really practical. Great study.
Whats interesting is that result implies that there’s a fixed amount of UFO’s to be seen. If numbers go up or down according to the amount of time available in a population, it certainly implies there’s a fixed amount of UFO activity that we are or are not aware of depending on how often we’re looking. Granted, it’s likely this activity is explainable as false positives: drones in the sky, kites, etc have all been mistaken as UFO’s. So it could just be a fixed amount of human made things that are misidentified.
But the same result would occur if it wasn’t false positives. And that’s facinating. I would have assumed the amount being reported would stay relatively fixed, or just vary greatly regardless of income.
Thanks again!
- Comment on We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon 3 weeks ago:
This is an interesting take I’ve never heard. Can you better explain?
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 4 weeks ago:
Very true. They are still acting identically as if they were shutting down console production. The only difference between Dreamcast and Xbox is that Xbox is willing to lie to keep their shareholders oblivious.
Sega at least put their units on sale with honesty, yet Microsoft is acting like their Xboxes selling for 279 at Sam’s club is just a temporary thing.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 4 weeks ago:
Actually. It happened with Sega after the Dreamcast. Almost beat for beat:
Sega: We’re so going to make a cooler next Gen console. Sega: Yeah our games are leaving stores, but just you wait until we announce what’s NEXT! SEGA: J/K no more new consoles, Sega just makes games now.
Microsoft is likely going to turn Xbox into a brand the same way Sega was forced to.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 4 weeks ago:
It’s a contradiction to them having a successful next console. This is Sega + Dreamcast vibes all over again.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 5 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, there used to be a time when companies weren’t invading every part of your life with ads.
Ads were 6 minutes of garbage between TV, and between the pages of magazines and newspapers.
People would talk to each other on the phone. No ads. Mark their calanders to get together if they felt like it. No ads. Then actually meet up. Some ads.
Now, when you talk to anyone you know on Facebook? Ads. Any social media? Ads. Opening Google calander? Ads. Twitter? The person you’re talking to is an bot /ad. I don’t even have to be watching an actual TV show now to be served ads on my TV. Just turning it on gives me an ad.
These ads are from organizations trying to spin you a narrative urging you to give them money. The strategies they use for this are fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Things like: “Don’t miss out on that Lububu!” “Make sure to book your tickets for the movie opening next week!” “Make sure to buy this pillow before liberals take it from you.”
People now believe these narratives simply because they’ve been shoved into every aspect of our lives via social media.
These ads, collectively, are not something that ever existed in any society to the amount they do now. So it’s absolutley no surprise that the “narrative” these ads are telling us is completely warping people’s minds.
People still think Fox News is news. Simply because that’s how it’s advertised.
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 month ago:
I dunno. Sounds like you like discussing things.
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 1 month ago:
You know it’s going to be a great and memorable platform to play games on when it’s catchy & cool name is 3/4 corpo IP 1/4 name.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 month ago:
The fact that Frank Frazetta is basically the most hetero man you could imagine IS proof that a maximum on the spectrum is nearly attainable.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 month ago:
Thank you so much for eloquently destroying the above comment’s pedantry. Reading your response was magical. Please don’t ever stop.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Not in law school 😂
But as an American, how is money coming from a political donation legally protected free speech?
Since I’m not a lawyer, and I assume you are, please walk me through how that concept, legally, makes more sense than a bullet coming from a gun being considered free speech in a “Prove me Wrong” tour about gun violence.
Honestly, no antogonization intended, I would earnestly love to hear an actual lawyers take on the differences between these two concepts.
Because from my perspective: both are genuinely poorly reasoned when it comes to the first amendment and free speech, yet one is actually legal.
Would love to know why that is.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Better still:
Mr Kirk was on his “Prove me Wrong” tour.
And the assassin chose to prove Mr Kirk wrong in a way words couldn’t.
But - If money can legally be protected as speech, what else should we consider protected under the first amendment?
If Mr Kirk was openly asking to be proven wrong, then couldn’t the assassins bullet be protected under free speech as a clear (but violent) answer to that question?
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
The blood shooting from Mr. Kirks neck alone was not good enough evidence to determine if the shooter hit what he was targeting. Great work FBI. At this rate, you’ll soon be able to confirm the shooter used a gun.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 month ago:
The same reason opiod companies paid doctors to promote their opiods: legitamacy.
- Opiods were marketed as a wonder-drug painkiller.
- Then a bunch of doctors got kickbacks for writing prescriptions for opiods.
- This made them seem popular, at least enough that a large majority of the US then started getting prescribed and asking for opiods.
Instead it created the opioid crisis that still has addicts suffering to this day.
- AI is being marketed as a wonder tool for film.
- A bunch of animation studios are getting kickbacks to use AI.
- The goal is to make AI seem legitamate and popular. The animation studios work will be used to hide how terrible the AI is at doing their job. However, their work, and any of it’s results, will likely be credited to the AI, not them. Which is why they’re being paid well. It’s the same as the kickback for the doctors.
Basically, the studio is being paid to pretend that the AI they use is as talented as them. It’s not, but they’re clearly getting paid to animate a movie that AI is already taking credit for.
At the end, Sam Altman will use the movie to promote the abilities of AI, when in reality AI can’t make that kind of movie without 30 million and an actual animation studio to do the work.
AI will seem more legitimate. People will use it more despite never getting the results advertised. Mission accomplished.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 month ago:
AHahahahaha 30 MILLION?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Holy shit they’re about to prove why it’s better and cheaper to pay humans to animate something than it is to pocket 30 mil while asking a computer to do it.
It is genuinely disgusting to read the budget of this AI movie is going to be 30 million.
With that much money and time, you can also just make a real animated movie with humans doing the drawing.
15 million alone is enough to employ a team of nearly 200 animators at a rate of 75k a year. Which leaves 15 million for marketing.
Let’s see what a team of 200 animators and the same budget can do in the same amount of time.
Fuck AI in its entirety if all it’s doing is taking jobs away from the skilled. All I see here is a grift to pay a team of C-suites the wages of hundreds of artists to find out they don’t know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground, even after asking Chat GPT.
I can’t wait to see this movie fail. I’ll bet money it’s not even completed by the end of this year. Fucking WASTE of money.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
If the world taxed them all only half their wealth (keeping them billionaires) and took the results and invested it in a trust, it could be generating 80 billion a year from only a 1% return. That’s enough to solve world hunger every year twice.
The world doesn’t have a resource problem. It has a billionaire problem.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 2 months ago:
I spent a lot of time reading the time cube guys rants, and I’m like 90% sure they just never understood that if you rotate a cube enough on both axis it resembles a globe.
He just didn’t understand that the earth has multiple times zones because it’s a big old globe, instead of 4 timecube-zones, because he couldn’t understand how surface area stretches over a globe, just a cube.
Anyway, my two cents. Sometimes ranblinga are just a misunderstanding of basic scientific concepts.
Sorry 2D /3D OP, but you’re a great example too.
You want to claim 2D or 3D aren’t “real” when what you’re simply trying to say is that we, as humans, with limited and dull senses, are incapable of perceiving dimensions / universes that exist outside our own.
No shit.
That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For that, it requires tools that exist outside our perception, but are universally sound. Aka Math.
So yeah, we can prove other dimensions exist with math, but can’t perceive them because we’re meat.
That doesn’t mean math is bullshit, it means you need to read philosophy enough to understand our existence isn’t centered on human perception.
We’re monkeys that have harnessed self awareness to the point we can prove there’s a reality that exists outside our limited perception. But simply because that’s only doable through math, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It means your feeble human body is literally only capable of understanding extradimensionality because of the meat in your head, and it’s ability to comprehend math.
You are meat. But math is universal. You are limited in perceiving the universe to what your meat has given you. So doubt your meat, not the math.
It’s what the time cube guy should have done imo.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 months ago:
Practicing due diligence to make sure Wikipedia’s sources are legit isn’t difficult. You can check the sources listed on ever single Wikipedia entry yourself for bias. It’s not like they hide their sources. That alone is what makes it so valuable. Anyone trying to push a narrative can easily see it sourced as bullshit.
Kind of like how the article you linked is a worthless, factless, opinion piece about Wikipedia becoming “woke” due to the feelings of Larry Sanger being hurt. Nothing that article says is based on anything factual, and the only studies mentioned are wildly taken out of context.
Wikipedia let’s me do that analysis for myself, so I don’t get tricked into thinking an obvious piece of propaganda is real.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 months ago:
I’m a fan :) Not many multi-millionaires are out there making YouTube videos about wealth concentration being bad. But he is. And he’s very well spoken, highly intelligent, and knows what he’s talking about (at least 99% of the time). It’s refreshing to say the least. Here’s hoping he keeps gaining traction and a wider audience🤞 If anyone can get people to understand how to fix our system, it’s him.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 months ago:
My favorite paper published last year includes the following, now scientifically proven statements:
The preponderance of the evidence shows that rising income inequality slows economic growth [3], [4], [5], [6]. Recent analyses have shown that once one controls for wealth inequality the negative effect of income inequality on economic growth falls away as statistically insignificant, and that **it has in fact been wealth inequality that has been detrimental to growth, ** either in an inverse linear form or in the form of an inverse u-shape À la Kuznets [7], [8], [9], [10].
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S003801212400003X
So economically speaking, Econ math just proved that we need to eat the rich in order to improve anything.
From the same paper above:
From a policy perspective, the ongoing increase in the concentration of wealth is one of the main socio-economic failures of our time [1]. Not only is it likely to depress economic growth in some countries, as we measure here, it has fueled social unrest, political polarization, and populist nationalism… redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor may well be growth-enhancing in most countries
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 months ago:
The only thing funny about the Laffer curve is how little it now matters.
It was used to justify Reagnomics, which then immediately proved we weren’t nearly as high on the Laffer curve as we assumed. Because of this, we have concrete evidence that lowering taxes on the rich doesn’t increase government revenues.
Yet we’re still doing that 50 years later. Despite the only vaguely scientific thing behind it proving it doesn’t work decades ago.
Imagine being in a catholic family, reading the Bible, and always walking away thinking that Judas did the right thing (despite everything else the Bible says). That’s US economic policy for the last 50 years.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 months ago:
As an econ major with a BS, please don’t lump me in with the econ majors who went to business school for a BA. I like cool math, not venture capitalism cancer.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 months ago:
Interesting strategy! And thank you for describing it in detail as well! If I sounded condescending at all, it was certainly towards Microsoft 😉 But you’re right - that path is worth pursuing for that value proposition. It’s a safer path than others as well.
Agreed it’s almost destiny that the futon will be dueced. But at least this approach could make things interesting 🤘
