"I didn't see it, so it must not exist" -- world's richest man; also infants under a year old who haven't yet developed object permanence.

He thinks he's sooooo smart with these middle school level retorts...

Whataboutism is central to conservative "discussion".

"He thinks he's sooooo smart with these middle school level retorts..."

Given all that, HuffPost asked the White House: Who picked Budapest?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded minutes later with: “Your mom did.”

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung after a minute added the far more succinct: “Your mom.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-wild-response-to-huffpost-question_n_68f26217e4b0ee732e24eb66

LOL didn't he start forcing himself to be followed by default on Twitter? That's even more pathetic.

I didn't think serious adults used follower numbers to justify anything. Especially when you're talking about followers on your own personal Nazi platform.

Lmao what a nerd

Yeah Elon, and Tom was really friends with everybody on Myspace, too. Sure thing, bucko.

He is easily one of the most hated people on this planet, especially after the murders he committed by cutting all those federal services that help people.

He's a selfish prick that ignores charity and flaunts fascism openly, complete with a televised salute attributed to one of the most evil men to ever walk the earth.

What can one tomato cost Michael, ten dollars?

I don't think I've ever had a store tomato that's tasted as good as the worst home grown.

"Home grown tomatoes grow in the dirt. Do you want to eat things grown in dirt?" - Musk probably.

The superiority of homegrown tomatoes is like THE universally agreed upon gardening fact that everyone who's ever had a garden knows. People go their whole lives thinking they don't like tomatoes or that they taste bland and then they try a homegrown one and they're like "Wow, that's what this is supposed to taste like?"

This word... I do not think it means what you think it means

He said senior executives, not workers!

Because everything he says, no matter how trivial, is wrong. The man is incapable of being correct about anything.

My neice apparently "hated" tomatos until she tried a cherry from my greenhouse. She ate six of them and every time she came over patted the outside of the greenhouse singing "mato mato mato please"

Most store sold tomatoes aren't allowed to ripen on their own and their flavours are totally messed up as a result

Can bet he doesn't even knows how the inside of a store looks like, neither how a stores tomato tates like. His personal chef must source them from an specialty farm or even grow them itself without Musk even knowing about.

I could never get my sandwiches to flower

Yeah, home grown actually have flavour. The shit you buy in supermarkets mostly just tastes of water because it's been harvested too early and shipped halfway round the world. I got some really yummy orange cherry plants going at the mo, can't remember the variety but I've finally learned to get blight resistant varieties.

Seriously. Vine ripe tomatoes are literally the best candy in the whole god damn world.

He's such a fucking fraud

I’ve never gotten anything of significance from my grows. A Handful of tomatoes, shrunken zucchini. I don’t know how people produce anything that makes a dent in their grocery bills without significant cost and time investment. Do you own land? Are you working like a farmer?

You get it. Too bad most don’t.

Musk is like a slightly smarter version of Trump discovering the word 'dumb' has a 'd' in it. He delights in using words like 'quasi', because he thinks it makes him sound like some sort of ahem uber-intelligent god-man who he thinks everyone should worship.

Basically, he's a needy little bitch.

There's also all the backend that he doesn't care about. The power and the materials required for those robots and digital intelligences comes from a place, it doesn't just materialize as parts for your stupid Optimus.

We're only about halfway through Act 2. We're still in the middle of the story, and there is a lot yet to be written.

People like Musk are so high from huffing their own farts, they can't even conceive of the possibility that they might be wrong.

socialist utopia

As someone who has read all the books in Culture series I would (and will if provoked) argue that, as most books about utopias, it's actually describing a dystopia. No idea if it's socialist or not, but in the society Banks is describing people are reduced to the role of pets, not equal partners of AI.

The Culture is described as a libertarian utopia (EDIT: libertarian socialist? I think I misremember. At least socialism as a word doesn't appear), except that the habitat minds are benevolent and you have practically socialism because nothing costs anything. Not even land really because they can build as many orbitals as they want. They have zero laws. You can also see it as an anarchist utopia. You have no market and no capitalism. Basically once you have AGI and full abundance, economic systems like capitalism/socialism don't mean anything any more.

Only ethics matter then, which Musk is incapable of because he's a malignant narcissist. And he has been actively trying to create a malignant (anti-woke) AI.

A simplified and opinionated explanation:

During the red scare, the boomers were programmed to be scared of anything remotely communist. The middle class was allowed to exist as 'muricas bling mostly to distract from the societal improvements theorized by socialist philosophers. In the 50s in America, they gave us just enough for people to shut up and try to be happy for 50 years while the underlying systems were being broken even worse than before. Some people are particularly susceptible to this and would trade their freedom for a tide pod, a stick of gum and a pocket constitution while rabidly denouncing socialists (even those who advocate for the benefit and fair treatment of non-socialists and socialists alike). Socialism is painted with the brush of it's biggest failures; capitalism is only painted from the angles that make it look good and hide it's collateral fallout.

Tl:Dr 50+ years of social conditioning and societal sculpting done to ensure scary communists from the 1940s and 50s don't call you comrade.

If money isn't going to be a thing in 10 years, then why not just spend like crazy right now?

I guess as always: people lie with their mouth, and tell the truth with their wallet.

Yes, but he doesn't care about people, except for how useful they are to incessantly prop up his ego. He doesn't care about anyone but himself.