thesis: physical controls antithesis: touch screens synthesis: physical controls for the most important things, screens for information presentation & rare, complex configuration war crime: capacitive touch buttons, for which there will be tribunals

Why the Cybertruck flopped: Form follows function. Every decision made on the Cybertruck, engineering and aesthetics, sacrifices function in the name of form. The end result is a culmination of compromise upon compromise upon compromise.

When I get rich I won’t tell anyone, but there will be signs…

Starting to get deeply in the "you can just do things" mentality

PK cell moment DankPods

Oh shit I forgot to check if I had disabled the Windows disk encryption I hope I don't brick my laptop's W11 install

The legacy of DOGE is not that it failed. It's that it destroyed: 1. faith in real cost conscious governance 2. the careers of committed govt employees 3. scientific research and the biomedical breakthroughs that come with it 4. countless lives of the world's poorest

They just came in. Made a mess and died... Absolutely useless

It was an absolute failure, even ignoring the massive human cost it destroyed the faith for true open governance.

So while household debt is at an ATH, is this the narrative we should be pushing? Buy a new iPhone or it will cost the economy?

They're literally trying to court martial an astronaut now?!