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- Comment on Can I make a volcano? 9 months ago:
Besides the earthquake, there was also a literal rain of fire across the planet, like a blast furnace, that likely killed everything that wasn't underground or underwater.
- Comment on Can I make a volcano? 9 months ago:
Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.
https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 9 months ago:
Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.
I'm not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.
Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they're doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.
Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 9 months ago:
Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
replyWell, it is, if you're a Nazi.
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 10 months ago:
Making the pee more expensive, yes.
- Comment on Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. 10 months ago:
IIRC, the Soviets placed their primary artillery school and tank factories in Ukraine. As a percentage of the USSR's military base, the Ukrainians were well above average.
- Comment on Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. 10 months ago:
On the other hand, the Simpsons did a not-so-funny-now with this:
- Comment on Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. 10 months ago:
Remember that the USSR included not just Russians but Ukrainians.