ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 67

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

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It's worth noting that the two companies most highly ranked by engineers coming out of school, as places they want to work, globally, are SpaceX and Tesla. And third place isn't even close. Once the immediate dust up settles, I expect he will have his pick of talent. Musk has so far played the twitter episode brilliantly. He fully aired all of the dirty laundry of the company before he completed the purchase, and sent the rats scurrying. When previous censorship related algorithm shenanigans come to light over the next few months, he will be in a place to say "wasn't me!"

As a character, Musk fascinates me, so I pay close attention. He has two personas. Most people only pick up on his impulsive, goofy, public facing persona. His other persona, which you only see if you are into technical discussions on starship and battery tear-downs and AI turning discrete points in space into smooth vectors, is highly analytical, zero bullsh!t, first principles, laser focused, organizational genius. I know of no other human alive whose will is so singularly gargantuan. I don't necessarily like his technocratic fantasies, and I'm truly split on whether he is to be trusted, but in terms of getting stuff done, you can't argue with the technical and organizational miracles behind two rockets landing simultaneously(!), while no other organization on earth is even close to re-usability. Ten years ago it was the wildest of sci-fi fantasies to think of rockets landing. The fact that this process is mundanely routine now absolutely boggles my mind.

As someone mentioned above, his first kid died of SIDS. This seemed to happen around the same time he was pondering the implications of peak oil, and what might be done about it. (His answer? Revolutionizing batteries). I suspect it was a very dark time for him. I think that experience probably had a more profound impact that most people realize. He seemed to throw himself maniacally into work following that. I think he may have looked into the darkness, and ran headlong in the other direction, as a means of distracting himself from the horrors of life.

Anyway, based on track record, I expect in two years time, Twitter will be a resounding success. Based on mainstream metrics of course. As a life-sucking addictive dopamine machine, it will be as terrible as it ever was. It does also seem strange to me that the liberty and privacy minded people who are rooting for his vision of twitter don't seem to notice that he intends for it to be a digital ID, more or less, for a person's true identity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Speak of the devil.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594552252865384450?s=20&t=cxGOSQ3aB8x6z9zaHi1zmw

Musk just tweeted about his firstborn. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard him bring it up before.

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