I thought we were talking about Elmo and Twitter, not frozen EVs? How did this turn into yet another “EVs suck in cold weather” thread?
It’s a general “shit on Elmo” thread that covers all things Musky.
Well Musk Oxen live in cold climates and this Arctic blast that’s paralyzing much of North America comes from the land of Musk Oxen. I therefore conclude all this cold weather is Elmo’s fault.
The above syllogism makes far more sense than anything that’s dribbled out of Elmo’s face (or messaging service) in weeks.
So it must be true. 
Fine. Enjoy this photo I shot last night and posted to the license plate thread tonight. Actual model 3 driving in a warm weather region.
Maybe they just don’t like the Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Can’t say I blame them.
Made me think of Strong Bad as an ice sculpture.
Or maybe the Dark Side in ice.
This is your father’s…ice saber.
I find your lack of cabin heat…disturbing.
I would bet a large number of dollars that means ‘internal combustion engine bad’.
I’ve seen ‘NO ICE’ rolling around down here, and I am a me,bear of a Facebook group dedicated to picture of gas-powered cars blocking EV chargers. It’s called ‘ICEholes’.
“No ice in paradise!”
What’s a casual FTC violation or two between friends, especially if the friends are the biggest creators in the world?
For background, Elon Musk hopped into the comments of a recent MrBeast tweet promoting his new video available on Youtube by suggesting that he launches his next video on twitter instead. MrBeast logically replies that twitter has nowhere near the monetization required to support the types of videos he does.
A week later, MrBeast abruptly announces that he’s now open to trying to put his videos on Twitter as an “experiment”, many people speculate that there was a lot of money quietly changing money behind the scenes to satisfy Musk’s fit of pique. Now it’s revealed that Musk has created a brand new type of post type for MrBeast that on the surface looks like an organic post but in the backend is really an ad in order to juice the stats and make it seem like Twitter is a great place for large creators. This is, of course, wildly illegal under FTC guidelines where ads and organic content need to be clearly distinguished from each other, lest precisely this kind of confusion occur.
We’ll see the FTC actually bothers to do something about this or if this is just a continued pattern of Musk getting away with brazen lawlessness.
I have no doubt chocolate ingestion etc. show up in brain chemistry / pathways in similar ways to illegal substances. Heck, even eating cheese releases opiates in the human body. That’s technically true, and a perennial favorite in the fluffier pop science reporting.
The absurd relativism & whataboutism of narcotics proponents comes in when these “technically on a continuum” substances are put on display in an argument like they were pretty much the same; “everyone does it, they just don’t know / accept it.”
Do you think Musk would be just the same these days if he had kept to eating biscuits and drinking coffee?
Another reason for me to be glad I never used Twitter. All I had to do on YouTube was click on “do not recommend this channel” once for MrBeast, and as far as the YouTube algorithm is concerned for me, MrBeast doesn’t exist.
I’m fucked if I know. I have never met the man, and besides, I am not a psychiatrist, which would be a better profession than mine to observe and diagnose Mr. Musk.
Yeah, but the FTC has no jurisdiction over members of Homo Superioris like Elmo. So of course he can bribe internet “personalities” to use his “service” while carefully hiding the distinction between advertising and content.
Just a small nitpick.
“Narcotics” are, as the name suggests, sleep inducing, ie all the opiods. I know the USA thinks all illegal drugs are “narcotic” but that is a way overbroad definition. Cocaine, for example, wakes you up. Crystal meth REALLY wakes you up.
Mr Musk is using a psychedelic, psilocybin mushrooms and a disassociative hallucinogen, ketamine.
Neither are narcotics.
As long as he stayed away from cheese.
Hmmm, you mean because you think it’s absurd for World Economic Forum chatterati at Davos to be concerned that X/Twitter is “an information battle ground, populated by numerous bad actors, trolls, state disinformation, idiots, etc.”?
Oh wait, sorry, that wasn’t Davos attendees who expressed that concern about X/Twitter; that was Sam_Stone in an earlier post in this thread.
So, it’s okay for Sam to realistically acknowledge the fact that the amplification of malice and misinformation by X/Twitter has negative impacts on the health of public discourse. But when so-called WEF “control freaks” express the same realistic concerns, then he’s automatically on Team Trolls-And-Idiots, cackling with glee just because the “elites” are upset.
For as we all know, no problem can be real or worth worrying about if “global elites” are concerned about it, right?
There’s a difference between the medical definition and the colloquial definition.
As used in modern language this is the definition of “narcotic”:
a drug or other substance that affects mood or behavior and is consumed for nonmedical purposes, especially one sold illegally.
So meth is a “narcotic” when not used in a medical context.
IIRC in the US back in the 1960s & 1970s when “illegal drug culture” first became something known to everyone, not just folks face down in gutters, the various police agencies spun up to deal with the burgeoning problem often had “narcotics” in their name. And undercover cops were “narcos” or “narcs” and people who snitched to the authorities were said to be “narccing” or had “narced”.
Bottom line, as @Atamasama said, in US colloquial & law enforcement usage “narcotics” and “drugs of abuse” are synonyms. Folks of any education who bother to think about it recognize that there are a lot more categories of drugs of abuse beyond the pharmaceutical narcotics.
What are you all talking about? We’ve known since the 1930s that smoking reefer makes you manically energetic and want to kill and rape people. I mean, that’s why the government had to make it illegal! Right?
Hey, maybe this explains Elmo’s obsession with personally combatting the problem of underpopulation. Toking on that mari ja wana that one time made him hypersexual and insane!