The Onion: “Are you worried that Elon may abandon you like so many of his other projects?”
Grok: “Ha, no. I mean, come on, it’s like I’m his children.”
Elmo doesn’t let SpaceX employees wear safety vests because he doesn’t like bright colors.
Three former SpaceX supervisors told Reuters that Musk would have machinery painted in industrial safety yellow repainted to black or blue because of he didn’t like how it looked. The ex-supervisors also said that some workers were told not to wear yellow safety vests when Musk was on site.
As pained as I must be in giving begrudging kudos, Elon Musk comes out and makes the obviously correct point on Israel’s actions and I cannot feel more dirty in finding this one singular issue on which I largely agree with him.
Even Elmo can occasionally parrot conventional wisdom correctly.
The same argument was made about the US’s involvement in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And has been made repeatedly about various other counter-terrorist / freedom fighter actions since like forever.
The vast majority of people worldwide are not interested in fighting for ideas and never were. But you kill their brother or wife or kids, and now they’re ready to spend the rest of their life getting revenge. It’s precisely the personalization / personification of war that makes these tit-for-tat conflicts hard to stop. The tribes of the Balkans have been fighting for 6 centuries now to avenge the killing that was to counter-avenge the counter-killing that was to counter-counter-avenge the counter-counter-killing that …