I don’t know about that 1000000 figure for civil servants, but the “downplaying Hitlers role” bit is givng him way too much credit.
With his constant retweets of white supremist conspiracy theories and positive comments on them, changing his thumbnail to Pepe the frog in armor and name to a white supremist dogwhistle title (as a totally hilarious dudebro joke), his famous salute, and declaring Hitler did nothing wrong, I don’t think we have to mince words. He is a filthy Neo Nazi.
Don’t know about the ketamine side-effects. But Elon does appear to be pretty nervous. Reports on Bluesky—which I’m not finding hard evidence for—are that the site won’t let you post the words “Luigi Mangione.” It’s censored.
Slate says that Reddit is censoring discussion of Mangione, too, but that would be more Sam Altman being nervous than Elon being nervous.
Wikipedia has:
I’ll keep looking for confirmation on the X story (but wouldn’t be surprised at all, given Elon’s recent paranoid postings, if he’s trying to memory-hole Mangione’s deed).
Heh, the only person I’ve known that was a heavy ketamine user said he talked to aliens when he was totally blitzed on it. Apparently he wasn’t alone.
ETA: a link to a Reddit thread asking " Anyone else seen/spoken to aliens in khole"
In the end, I stopped hanging out with him when started telling me I needed to educate myself about some aliens hanging out just past Saturn that were going to do something cataclysmic when I was pretty sure he wasn’t on ketamine (no, I’m not exaggerating). So, paranoid fantasies seem par for the course in my very limited experience.
Seen online:
Finance nerds will find this extremely interesting. There seem to be some monkeyshines happening in Tesla’s books.
(FT has a partial paywall. If you’ve clicked a link recently, this may be blocked. If you haven’t visited in a while, or ever, this should be accessible.)
I’m sure the SEC will launch an investigation.
Here’s a non-paywalled version that reproduces some of the more damning charts and statistics from the FT article.
From that article:
However, for those hoping for Tesla to get in hot water for cooking the books, I would remain careful. Not only could there be explanations for this, but with Trump and Musk kneecapping the SEC, repercussions are unlikely.
Musk’s jeopardy is more from the market fleeing his stock in fear of shady accounting than from the SEC (which would be true even if it weren’t Trump’s SEC, although to a lesser extent).
Musk is learning that the FO part of FAFO isn’t particularly pleasant.
For an honest answer, no. Ketamine has very few side effects. It is a very safe drug used widely in the third world because of its room temperature stability and ease of application. It is an “anaesthetic” in that you feel the pain but you don’t care.
I have used it recreationaly, though.
Disasociative psychedelics are not for everyone. Don’t try this at home, etc.
As safe as any drug that can cause addiction and kill you with an overdose at least.
Relatively speaking, though, you do have a point in that it’s less dangerous than many other drugs people may abuse. Overdose deaths are extremely miniscule in the US at least.
During July 2019–June 2023, a total of 228,668 drug overdose deaths were identified in 45 jurisdictions. Ketamine was detected in 912 (0.4%) overdose deaths, listed as involved in 440 (0.2%) deaths, and was the only substance involved in 24 (0.01%) deaths (Table). A majority of deaths with ketamine detected involved illegally manufactured fentanyls (IMFs) (58.7%), followed by methamphetamine (28.8%) and cocaine (27.2%). Overall, 82.4% of deaths involved either IMFs, methamphetamine, or cocaine. Approximately one third (34.8%) of decedents in whom ketamine was detected were aged 25–34 years, and approximately three quarters were males (71.3%) and non-Hispanic White persons (73.7%).
But as it points out, it’s not unusual for ketamine to be laced with other things that are more dangerous, so if you are obtaining it outside of a proper medical situation, that’s pretty risky.
I think it’s interesting that the two most talked-about drugs in today’s world are Ketamine, which won’t kill you, and Fentanyl, which almost certainly will.
A previous winner of the Uk version of drag race died from ketamine. It was just reported this week.
IIRC, wasn’t ketamine what did in Matthew Perry?
So Elon’s businesses are riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse? No wonder he’s so good* at finding them!
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*for uses of “good” that include “not providing any credible evidence of finding waste, fraud, or abuse at all.”
Yes.
Ketamine absolutely kills people, per the CDC report I posted.
Just not as much as other recreational drugs.
Fentanyl gets used in clinical/hospital settings with OD fatalities being relatively uncommon. It is dangerous stuff, but it is most certainly not iocaine powder.
God? It’s me Crow. If you could get Trump to say we’re invading Canada to stop them from helping the Mexicans bring iocaine, a drug very much like cocaine but worse, into our country I be very appreciative.
