#China uses #Taiwan and war rhetoric as smoke and mirrors, since Xi Ping 'is running for reelection'. Civil Unrest, since Chinese are not paying #mortgage for desolate buildings. Its a game of chicken, since #Evergrand is now finally at zero and full junk bond level.
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at a job interview
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
i dont think they realize statistically a LOT of intersex people end up being trans anyways especially if they underwent igm or their parents forced them to conform to a gender
conservatives will be like "stop using intersex people as a tool for trans ideology" until they're confronted to an actual intersex person, then they start lowkey invalidating your entire experience and REQUIRE you tell them what dsd you have to put you in a box of male or female
Ok, so I jumped on the dates soaked in espresso trend… and it’s unreal.
Make some black coffee.
Add dates.
Marinate overnight.
Have on top of greek yoghurt, honey and a pinch of salt.
Unreal luxury breakfast or sweet treat.
(I chop my dates in half so the coffee really gets inside. They get jammier if you leave them 1 day+)🤌🏼
> on a date with a girl
> she argues every position purely on first principles
> regardless of consequences
> ask her if it’s disassociation or high decoupling
> she doesn’t understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining disassociation and high decoupling
> she laughs and says “it’s a good decoupling sir”
> continue the date
> it’s disassociation
It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.
Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.
Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.
This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.
Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.
His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.
If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.
(Frog): kiss me
[I kiss the frog. He turns into a handsome prince]
(Me): Wow! Will I be your princess?
(Prince): kiss me again
[I kiss him. He turns into a vast Biblically-accurate angel, a fiery six-winged seraphim]
(Angel): again
(Me): Uh, I don’t know—
(Angel): AGAIN
So the game looks like this:
People who use AI and admit it may be punished socially.
People who use AI and hide it get the benefit without the stigma.
People who refuse AI may fall behind.
People who denounce AI while secretly using it get both moral status and productivity.
That makes hypocrisy a dominant strategy for a lot of people, at least while the social norm is unstable.
The closest game-theory label I can think of is that it's a prisoner's dilemma inside a lemons market.