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[–] 220 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah, if he's buying them for his kids, chances are that he doesn't live there.

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  • [–] 164 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)
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    A small inconvenience for the parasite but this is the equivalent of slapping an ice cream cone out of this dweebs hand and I'm here for it.

    The more I think about it, guy should have just told customer service that one of his dozen kids got ahold of his credit card and to freeze any future orders lol. Lmao even.

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  • [–] 81 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    People still pretend that this man is actually intelligent. What he is is just really, really good at taking credit for other people's ideas and being very confidently incorrect.

    I hope someone uses the information above for good one day.

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  • [–] 148 points 4 weeks ago* (7 children)

    incognito69420@mail.grokbot.com what a fucking loser.

    I now guarantee he uses 69420 as his numeric identifier in everything. He’s exactly that type of infantile teenage douche.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Hey. Do NOT let Elon have the funny numbers. They're mine, you joyless dweeb! 69 420 1312 666 1337 5318008 <-- this is where I keep them, feel free to borrow a couple or share more

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  • [–] 70 points 4 weeks ago

    Fake!!!

    That order details page says he paid tax. 😆

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  • [–] 196 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

    Because what could possibly go wrong

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  • [–] 47 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Does this even appeal to anyone? "We can automate the only part of consumer capitalism that's any fun?" Seriously?

    Billionaires have so much money they literally can't spend it all. A bot could blow $100K on their behalf and they could laugh it off as a funny story.

    They've worked very hard to divorce their fate from the fate of the general public, that has worked, and it shows in ways they don't even perceive anymore. They don't have any reason to look for good deals. This is strictly an imaginary scenario for little people, from their point of view.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I mean... Shopping for parts and materials is usually my least favorite part of any project, conceptually not having to deal with that sounds great if I didn't have negative trust in the mechanism. If you find it fun, maybe we should team up!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I guess I would counter that the sort of project you have in mind isn't likely to be part of what I'd call "consumer capitalism." You're building something as opposed to buying that thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    It's more like I have to buy things so I can build/fix other things, and tbh kinda the main input I still require from "the system". Belts, bearings, seals, gaskets, relays, control boards, pumps, props, etc. Recent outboard motor refurb is a great example: a new one would be $5-8k, I spent ~$300 doing rings and bearings, new impeller, new seals everywhere, new zincs, new prop, fresh paint, new spark plugs. Still had to do a lot of shopping! Arguably more than the high roller who just buys a new motor, that's a low double digit number of parts vs one big thing

    Anyways it wasn't meant as an argument or some kind of rhetorical gotcha, more a long shot at making a new friend and not having to shop anymore lol. People have a lot of different ideas of fun, mine's closer to tearing something apart and seeing how it works than trying not to get ripped off while meeting material needs

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  • [–] 66 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    "Your computer has detected your credit card and is automatically purchasing items it thinks you need" was a very old Dilbert comic strip.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Pretty funny. I wonder which of his readers sent him that idea.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    People can make the best things while being absolutely horrid and morally bankrupt. Demeaning a bad person's abilities lowers our guard against predatory meritocrats and gives them cover.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    The comics weren't really that good. They just hit it right with a their target audience and that was because his readers would send Adams their stories. That's no secret. I honestly stopped reading them before he got political because it was getting repetitive and boring. I remember being done with him before he called fossils bullshit. There's only so many "Boss is Dumb" strips you can make before you're scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Not much when one has hundreds of billions.

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  • [–] 59 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    The most ridiculous part is expecting someone to ask AI to spend hundreds of dollars on their behalf with zero supervision. You have to truly be in the top .3% for that to be a consideration.

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  • [–] 41 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    So...a "fun" reminder about the wealth gap. If you're in the top 0.1% of wealth in the US, you're still closer to homeless than you are to the billionaire+ class.

    A source I found puts the top 0.1% at $64 million net worth (link) And the difference between 64 million and a billion is about a billion.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Maybe closer on the chart, but you can't pretend that the actual lived experiences between homelessness and $64 million in the bank aren't almost as different as they can possibly get.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    The lived experience is definitely very different. But if the wealthiest group was only worth hundreds of millions, we might be able to avoid having any homeless.

    I posted because people tend to have trouble internalizing just how big the wealth gap actually is. The brain can't really conceptualize how big a "million", "billion", or "trillion" actually is. It leads to a lot of misconceptions (another example, national budgets). I hope little nuggets like this will stick in people's brains to help them engage better with large numbers.

    Edit: here's more data on the wealth gap

    According to one source I found, there are 996 US billionaire+ that control $9.5 trillion. The bottom half controls $4.3 trillion.

    If we pretend that 171,469,137 people are able to organize to the same degree as 996 people, and that those 171,469,137 people don't need to cover necessities with their wealth, the billionaire+ still have an outsized financial impact on politics and power structures.

    Sources:

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  • [–] 59 points 4 weeks ago

    Elon Musk is the personification of a moron’s hallucination of a genius.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    WHO CARES. This fuck can buy a new identical house every hour of every day for the rest of his greedy life and still be disgustingly rich on his deathbed. I genuinely don't think people comprehend how much money this sociopathic narcissist has.

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  • [–] 40 points 4 weeks ago

    Everyone in Austin knows where this house is. All his neighbors have beef with what he's done there and it's been in the news. I doubt he ever goes there based on what I've read.

    (Technically it's in Westlake, which is a wealthy, white suburb that incorporated itself decades ago to avoid being annexed by the city of Austin. A lot of "fiscal conservatives" there.)

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    This from the guy who wants people to scan their credit card into Grok to buy stuff online ...

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)
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    That's not his home address. But news about his home in the area has made it to the news in recent years due to a dispute he had with the city, and since it ended up going to public hearings there was a public notification requirement regarding the address.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Also interesting that the house across from edolf’s is covered in solar panels, while his own home has none.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I guarantee you he hasn't even looked at a utility bill since he bought the place.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago

    Not about the utility bills. He owns a solar company and is supposedly championing a shift green energy. Seems like he would make solar a priority, but hasn’t because he’s a massive fucking hypocrite.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    What is it with american houses and having like 20 different roof surfaces?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago

    I wouldn't be surprised the reason the address wasn't redacted is because he had AI make the post too.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Just a genius doing genius things…

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  • [–] 26 points 4 weeks ago*

    Honestly, people that rich don't need to be worrying about their home address being public. Hell, we all used to have the addresses of everyone in town delivered to our front door. It was called the White/Yellow pages.

    For people this rich, there's really no danger of their home address being public. Their homes have extensive security guards and tall fences. The address of someone like a twitch streamer getting doxed is a big deal. They're mostly just ordinary people that happen to have a very public job. If you're an average person without a security detail, having your address public means some rando could show up at your front door. For a billionaire, having your address leaked just gets added to the threat profile of your security team.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago* (19 children)

    Huh.. I had expected something more extravagant. Looks like a run of the mill McMansion. Probably not his only house, though!

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  • [–] 25 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    He has a shitload of kids with different women, all through artificial insemination.

    This is probably where some of his kids live.

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  • [–] 47 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    I think you meant to say "super insemination."

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Once you're already on the watchlist, there's nothing more to lose by further identifying yourself as an enemy of the state.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago

    It's okay, if we're all on the list, no one is.

    Artificial intelligence, Epstein files, greta thunberg for president, tan suit was best suit, praise Allah (I hope this one isn't offensive in context), Anduril was for killing fascists not making them.

    I think that should about cover it to get me on the lists with you.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    All of Austin is like this. It's really incredibly boring, very little to do (esp if you like natural beauty and the outdoors), and all has a mid tier feel. San Antonio at least has some neat architecture but Austin feels like one giant strip mall. I don't think I'd ever leave coastal northern California (even with absurd taxes that aren't actually used in a society improving way) but if I really wanted to avoid taxes at least parts of Nevada are close to the Sierras, or close to Zion.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    There's the Bat City Bike Club at least

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fair enough. There's also a nice history of cyber culture stuff in the 90s (FringeWare Review for example, though interesting to note Paco Nathan has long since relocated to Northern California). And obviously UT is a good school, I saw a great Ween show at Stubbs once, etc.

    I was just in Austin last week and every time I go there and then come home to Berkeley I'm reminded how much I love where I live. And esp with teenage daughters how I'd never live somewhere that doesn't respect their fundamental rights.

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  • UT has its flaws in bending the knee to the powers that be. They killed the "woke" programs like women's studies and cracked down on the ability to protest.

    Austin does have outdoorsy stuff to do. There's the greenway and the parks. I guess the nature is not very integrated into the urbanized areas. This is because the urban planning is ass, as is the case in much of the USA.

    As for rights, yeah. Fuck the butchers of Nueces and their modern successors.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    email address: incognito69420 hur hur hur. so fucking goddamn funny, edolf. the fact that he doesn’t smoke weed, but promotes 420 shit so that people will think he’s cool pretty much encapsulates his entire desperate need to be liked.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago

    Lmao, even he doesn't use Paypal for online transactions.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    It would be really wrong to send him dildos.

    So totally don't do it.

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