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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the original commenter was who downvoted this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk, if you're doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn't need training or you weren't successfully trained.

It's an idiom, it's not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you're psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that's obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that's ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.

Ultimately, it's actually the same exact idea as "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," but in less politically correct terms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For the training, I'd argue that you're not trying to get different results.

Each time, the result is minor growth in whatever your goal is, be it strength, muscle mass, or endurance, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

think the meme has some grounds for truth. of course it was designed to be a dramatic speech for a scary character but it has some grounds to it: this may not be the truth but its how it feels. By doing the same thing over and over again and seeing no chance you go insane, and as such it feels like doing so is asking for insanity, thus the characters speech!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there's the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The legal term for not knowing the difference between right and wrong? I suppose that still applies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.

Musk is not a very smart man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Weren't legally obligated, that we know of. There could have been a fee paid at delivery of the deal being made, since that's how this firm and the firm that Musk hired to sue the old firm charge. They keep the billable hours down in order to keep the price low unless they win and then there is normally a "winning fee".

Without context it makes it seem that the payment was out of left field when it was business as usually, especially since Musk didn't want to actually go through with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's questionable whether they were or weren't. One would suspect a normal CEO of having evidence that they weren't legally obligated to if they sued, but this is Musk we are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Couldn't he have just started a blog, like a normal person?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I don't quite understand the rage against this guy, imo he's one of the more likeable and interesting billionaires in the world. At least he has visions and wants to change the world for the better, something you cannot say about Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

He suggested that Ukraine should surrender to Russia and give up their Land. His own daughter hates him so much that she expressed in court that she doesn't even want to inherit his money or be related to him in any shape or way. He cancelled the Tesla order of a blogger after the blogger said he was disappointed that Elon musk made a bunch of people wait for multiple hours without communicating anything. He is known as a bad boss that overworks his workers and pays then poorly. He has shown himself to be transphobic, ableistic, racist, ageist, hypocritical and a liar

I like that guy. Very likeable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

He's a vocal transphobe and all around nasty piece of work, and he doesn't want to change the world for the better - he wants to use that narrative to line his wallet for the better.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

He is an alt-right douche and it escapes me how him constantly being purposely antagonistic for fun lends to being "likeable". The abhorrent political views would be enough, but there's a lot more.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Reasons:

He is a petty person; he called one of the divers saving Thai children a pedo, tried to get a lawyer fired for successfully suing him, is suing the firm which forced him to buy Twitter

He fights unionization while tesla has safety and racism issues, and just look at spaceX on glassdoor

His securities fraud, plus dogecoin pump and dump

He dislikes mass-transit and blocks actually helpful transit ideas with Boring & Hyperloop

And ofc his management of Twitter leaves much to be desired

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He looks older in older pictures, creepy

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He is 100% more sane than you. 100 %.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

artificially selecting your kids to be all male is a sure sign of sanity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Tell that to John Peters

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty terrible trademark

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell that Apple.
Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

curious what the result of this case was, quick search didn't come with any updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Very hard to find updates indeed, this doesn't say much more but it's from 2015 https://itkey.media/apple-sues-polish-entrepreneur-over-ap-pl/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

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