My father. I know I was at least a mild disappointment, not being the son he always wanted, but he never showed that to me and taught me a lot about how to be strong in the face of adversity. (Including how to use knives to defend myself.)

My mother, too, who was a refugee as a child whose entire family willed themselves into successes upon which my own life was built.

I respect journalism.

I just haven’t seen any in decades. I see instead servicing of narratives.

I think they mean “we’re not willing to tolerate male temper tantrums”.

Exactly! Far more subtle than a butterfly! (Those can get very noisy if you’re seated on a plastic chair.)

It’s very subtle, yes. My breathing might get a little irregular or I might get slightly flushed.

I learned a technique as a teen that involves crossing my legs in a particular angle and flexing/relaxing my thigh muscles.

Very good way to get through the day relaxed and mild.

Nope. I was already getting very cynical about journalists (specifically cynical about “free” in “free press”) when SARS-NCoV2 hit. The subsequent reportage convinced me that journalism was basically dead.

Your post sounds like you explaining his boots has an amazing flavour.

And your post sounds like all the IQ in your family went to your siblings. Now that we have exchanged the traditional personal insults, let’s get back to the actual topic at hand.

Why do you try to protect people like that from public outcry?

I’m not “protecting” him from anything. I’m explaining how money works at his levels; how he can seemingly lots of cash while actually having lots of debt. As long as his stock rises he can keep up with the leveraging and the banks don’t care. But, get this, by the very definition of what a “loan” is, it is not his money.

If you don’t believe me, look up what “loan” means in any number of a myriad of online dictionaries.

He bathes in blood money, and if one day it ends or he has to “pay back loans” or whatever, who cares?

Compassionate Fucking Buddha, can you not even begin to figure out why this information is useful? If it’s “his money” (FSVO “his”) it’s far harder to take him down than if it’s someone else’s money that has him leveraged up the wazoo. If all those billions were “his” he would be damned near unassailable. Since, however, they’re all debt he’s easier to attack and destroy!

THAT is why getting it right is important! This is not boot-licking, this is “how you fight the motherfucker”. Find a way to tank Tesla stock again and you’ve NAILED him.

I yet have to see a billionaire goung bankrupt.

Off the top of my head: Bernie Madoff, Eike Batista, Björgólfur Gudmundsson, Adolf Merckle, and Bill Hwang.

Maybe you’d see them if you opened your fucking eyes.

If you borrow $100 from me, money you have to pay back in 6 weeks at 2% interest (so $102) have you “made money”?

No. Indeed if you haven’t used that $100 to make more money than $102 in six weeks, you’ve lost money. If you just keep the money, you’re down $2. If you’ve spent any of it and it hasn’t had any kind of investment return, you’ve lost $2 plus whatever you’ve spent.

This is just very elementary … not even accounting. This is elementary book-keeping.

So Kaptain Ketamine has very little cash of his own. Everything he “owns” is leveraged to the hilt and when the value of the asset used to secure the loan drops below a specified point (that point defined in the loan contracts, but typically 2-4 times the value of the loan taken), the bank makes a margin call. They want repayment. NOW. And of course to repay it he has to sell stock. Which lowers the value of the stock. Which leads to more margin calls and more margin calls and more margin calls as he has to continue liquidation of his security until, basically, his stock tanks. And he’s still on the hook for remaining loans.

I’ve seen convincing estimates that say if Tesla stock falls to about $150-175 the margin calls start and his banks’ company tanks. His “personal wealth” is very much a fiction of paper and is subject to incredible and stunning collapse, something he was in danger of earlier in 2025 when his stock took that long slide before idiots propped it back up.

The techbrodude set is so fucking gross!

It’s … complicated.

They believe in God. They just call it “AI” and live in fear of it.

TESCREAL in general is a bundle of neuroses and contradictions balled up together into a toxic little mess.

Who here would have walked out too?

I wouldn’t have been in that gathering in the first place. Sadly not because of any ethical issue but rather because I’m not in those rarefied heights. 🤣

But I have to say it warms the cold cockles of my cynical heart to see sisters in competition with each other closing ranks to support one of their own.

In a social media video statement, Mr Nawat said: “If anyone feels bad, uncomfortable, or affected, I apologise to everyone. I especially apologised to the girls who were present, around 75 of them.”

Ah yes. The non-apology approach to apology. “I’m sorry you feel bad.” Fuck you, Mr. Nawat. No, on second thought, fuck off. Nobody should be touching you with anything even remotely sensual.

I’ve found religion.

The Butlerian Jihad.

What the fuck is he even saying?

Translation from TESCREAL to English: “I love huffing my own farts so much I stuck my head up my ass. Breathing an atmosphere of mostly methane hasn’t impacted my reasoning ability in the slightest. Let me ask my LLM what 2 + 2 is. 5. See? No problemo!”

They are all graduates of “Less Wrong”.

Look up TESCREAL and dig into the rabbit warren of stupidity and arrogance. It’s actually kind of amazing.

You mean Sam Altman?

So they should be angry with the people who lied to them, not the ones telling them the truth.